⁶ “Do you intend to stay here while your brothers go across and do all the fighting?” Moses asked the men of Gad and Reuben.

⁵ or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.

⁴ Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.

¹¹ Uriah replied, “The Ark and the armies of Israel and Judah are living in tents,^[a] and Joab and my master’s men are camping in the open fields. How could I go home to wine and dine and sleep with my wife? I swear that I would never do such a thing.”