¹⁷ for I will surely do you great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do; come, curse this people for me.”^(A)

¹¹ Now be off with you! Go home! I said, ‘I will reward you richly,’ but the Lord has denied you any reward.”^(A)

²⁶ For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?

⁷ so much that he promised on oath to grant her whatever she might ask.

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

⁹ Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, “Look, the very pole that Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king,^[a] stands at Haman’s house, fifty cubits high.” And the king said, “Hang him on that.”^(A)

¹¹ and Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his sons, all the promotions with which the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and the ministers of the king.^(A)

The Festival of Weeks Reviewed

⁹ “You shall count seven weeks; begin to count the seven weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain.^(A)

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

² Balak did as Balaam had said and offered^[a] a bull and a ram on each altar.^{(A) 3} Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your burnt offerings while I go aside. Perhaps the Lord will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.” And he went to a bare height.^(B)