¹⁴ Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you.

¹⁶ But if your servant says to you, “I do not want to leave you,” because he loves you and your family and is well off with you,

⁶⁷ “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.^(A)

²¹ So I find this law at work:^(A) Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

² With his wife’s full knowledge he kept back part of the money for himself,^(A) but brought the rest and put it at the apostles’ feet.^(B)

¹⁵ Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body.

¹⁶ And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body.

³ So she went out, entered a field and began to glean behind the harvesters.^(A) As it turned out, she was working in a field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelek.^(B)

²² The other events of Abijah’s reign, what he did and what he said, are written in the annotations of the prophet Iddo.