¹¹ Now leave at once and go home!^(A) I said I would reward you handsomely,^(B) but the Lord has kept you from being rewarded.”

²⁶ What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?

⁷ that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked.

⁸ Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. ⁹ “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.”

⁹ Then Harbona,^(A) one of the eunuchs attending the king, said, “A pole reaching to a height of fifty cubits^[a](B) stands by Haman’s house. He had it set up for Mordecai, who spoke up to help the king.”

The king said, “Impale him on it!”^(C)

¹¹ Haman boasted^(A) to them about his vast wealth, his many sons,^(B) and all the ways the king had honored him and how he had elevated him above the other nobles and officials.

The Festival of Weeks^(A)

⁹ Count off seven weeks^(B) from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain.^(C)

²⁹ Balaam said, “Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.” ³⁰ Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.^(A)

² Balak did as Balaam said, and the two of them offered a bull and a ram on each altar.^(A)

³ Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your offering while I go aside. Perhaps the Lord will come to meet with me.^(B) Whatever he reveals to me I will tell you.” Then he went off to a barren height.