He also instructed the second, the third and all the others who followed the herds: “You are to say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.

But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with the others, because he was afraid that harm might come to him.

After burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, together with his brothers and all the others who had gone with him to bury his father.

but Moses alone is to approach the Lord; the others must not come near. And the people may not come up with him.”

And he has given both him and Oholiab son of Ahisamak, of the tribe of Dan, the ability to teach others.

Then he is to take off these clothes and put on others, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a place that is ceremonially clean.

The ancestral tribe of the Levites, however, was not counted along with the others.

The Lord said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men that lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hands. Let all the others go home.”

So Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites home but kept the three hundred, who took over the provisions and trumpets of the others. Now the camp of Midian lay below him in the valley.

That is why to this day neither the priests of Dagon nor any others who enter Dagon’s temple at Ashdod step on the threshold.

Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.

They ran and brought him out, and as he stood among the people he was a head taller than any of the others.

There were also five others: Hashubah, Ohel, Berekiah, Hasadiah and Jushab-Hesed.

and many others fell slain, because the battle was God’s. And they occupied the land until the exile.

Others were assigned to take care of the furnishings and all the other articles of the sanctuary, as well as the special flour and wine, and the olive oil, incense and spices.

Others Join David at Hebron

These are the numbers of the men armed for battle who came to David at Hebron to turn Saul’s kingdom over to him, as the Lord had said:

a third of you at the royal palace and a third at the Foundation Gate, and all the others are to be in the courtyards of the temple of the Lord.

No one is to enter the temple of the Lord except the priests and Levites on duty; they may enter because they are consecrated, but all the others are to observe the Lord’s command not to enter.

So the Lord saved Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib king of Assyria and from the hand of all others. He took care of them on every side.

But many of the older priests and Levites and family heads, who had seen the former temple, wept aloud when they saw the foundation of this temple being laid, while many others shouted for joy.

I set out during the night with a few others. I had not told anyone what my God had put in my heart to do for Jerusalem. There were no mounts with me except the one I was riding on.

The officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, because as yet I had said nothing to the Jews or the priests or nobles or officials or any others who would be doing the work.

Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards and our homes to get grain during the famine.”

Still others were saying, “We have had to borrow money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.

Although we are of the same flesh and blood as our fellow Jews and though our children are as good as theirs, yet we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but we are powerless, because our fields and our vineyards belong to others.”