His father Isaac answered him, “Your dwelling will be away from the earth’s richness, away from the dew of heaven above.

In your unfailing love you will lead the people you have redeemed. In your strength you will guide them to your holy dwelling.

You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of your inheritance— the place, Lord, you made for your dwelling, the sanctuary, Lord, your hands established.

“Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them.

Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God.

They will know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them out of Egypt so that I might dwell among them. I am the Lord their God.

Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”

“‘You must keep the Israelites separate from things that make them unclean, so they will not die in their uncleanness for defiling my dwelling place, which is among them.’”

I will put my dwelling place among you, and I will not abhor you.

Send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.”

“How beautiful are your tents, Jacob, your dwelling places, Israel!

Balaam’s Sixth Message

Then he saw the Kenites and spoke his message: “Your dwelling place is secure, your nest is set in a rock;

Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell, for I, the Lord, dwell among the Israelites.’”

But you are to seek the place the Lord your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his Name there for his dwelling. To that place you must go;

Then to the place the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name—there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice possessions you have vowed to the Lord.

Eat the tithe of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always.

Sacrifice as the Passover to the Lord your God an animal from your flock or herd at the place the Lord will choose as a dwelling for his Name.

except in the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name. There you must sacrifice the Passover in the evening, when the sun goes down, on the anniversary of your departure from Egypt.

And rejoice before the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites in your towns, and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows living among you.

take some of the firstfruits of all that you produce from the soil of the land the Lord your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name

Look down from heaven, your holy dwelling place, and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us as you promised on oath to our ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey.”

So Israel will live in safety; Jacob will dwell secure in a land of grain and new wine, where the heavens drop dew.

“Most blessed of women be Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, most blessed of tent-dwelling women.

Why do you scorn my sacrifice and offering that I prescribed for my dwelling? Why do you honor your sons more than me by fattening yourselves on the choice parts of every offering made by my people Israel?’

and you will see distress in my dwelling. Although good will be done to Israel, no one in your family line will ever reach old age.