“I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

“Or if I send wild beasts through that country and they leave it childless and it becomes desolate so that no one can pass through it because of the beasts,

“Or if I bring a sword against that country and say, ‘Let the sword pass throughout the land,’ and I kill its people and their animals,

“‘Then I passed by and saw you kicking about in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, “Live!”

“‘Later I passed by, and when I looked at you and saw that you were old enough for love, I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your naked body. I gave you my solemn oath and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Sovereign Lord, and you became mine.

“‘But you trusted in your beauty and used your fame to become a prostitute. You lavished your favors on anyone who passed by and your beauty became his.

At every street corner you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty, spreading your legs with increasing promiscuity to anyone who passed by.

I will take note of you as you pass under my rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

The foot of neither man nor beast will pass through it; no one will live there for forty years.

The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through it.

In front of the rooms was an inner passageway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.

with a passageway in front of them. These were like the rooms on the north; they had the same length and width, with similar exits and dimensions. Similar to the doorways on the north

were the doorways of the rooms on the south. There was a doorway at the beginning of the passageway that was parallel to the corresponding wall extending eastward, by which one enters the rooms.

“‘In the first month on the fourteenth day you are to observe the Passover, a festival lasting seven days, during which you shall eat bread made without yeast.

They must not sell or exchange any of it. This is the best of the land and must not pass into other hands, because it is holy to the Lord.