God said, “Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night. They will mark events, sacred seasons, days, and years.

For Aaron’s sons, you should also make tunics, sashes, and turbans to mark their honor and dignity.

Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put marks on yourselves; I am the Lord.

Say to the Israelites: On the first day of the seventh month, you will have a special rest, a holy occasion marked by a trumpet signal.

This will be your northern border: From the Mediterranean Sea you will mark out your boundary to Mount Hor.

From Mount Hor you will mark out your boundary to Lebo-hamath. The limit of the border will be Zedad.

You will mark out your eastern border from Hazar-enan to Shepham.

Mark out the roads to them and divide the regions of the land the Lord your God is apportioning to you into three parts. These cities are the places to which a person who has killed can escape.

So he changed the way he acted with them, pretending to be insane while he was with them. He scratched marks on the doors of the city gates and let spit run down his chin.

Ben-hadad said to the king, “I will return the towns that my father took from your father. Furthermore, you can set up markets for yourself in Damascus just as my father did in Samaria.” The king replied, “On the basis of this covenant, I will let you go.” So he made a covenant with Ben-hadad and set him free.

“If you ever return safely,” Micaiah replied, “then the Lord wasn’t speaking through me.” Then he added, “Mark my words, every last one of you!”

You tie up my feet and restrict all actions; you stamp marks on the bottom of my feet.

I was there when he established the heavens, when he marked out the horizon on the deep sea,

when he set a limit for the sea, so the water couldn’t go beyond his command, when he marked out the earth’s foundations.

Don’t remove an ancient boundary marker that your ancestors established.

Don’t remove an ancient boundary marker; don’t invade the fields of orphans,

over the mighty waters. The grain of Shihor, the Nile’s harvest, was her income; she was the marketplace of nations.

A carpenter stretches out a string, marks it out with a stylus, fashions it with carving tools, and marks it with a compass. He makes it into a human form, like a splendid human, to live in a temple.

Rather, this is what I required of them: Obey me so that I may become your God and you may become my people. Follow the path I mark out for you so that it may go well with you.

And if they say, “Go where?” tell them, This is what the Lord proclaims: Those marked for death—to death, those marked for war—to war, those marked for famine—to famine, and those marked for exile—to exile.

The Lord proclaims: Mark this man as childless; he will not prosper during his lifetime. None of his children will sit on David’s throne and rule again in Judah.

Set up markers, put up signs; think about the road you have traveled, the path you have taken. Return, virgin Israel; return to these towns of yours.

He will come and ravage the land of Egypt: those marked for disaster, to disaster, and those marked for exile, to exile. and those marked for war, to war.

Go through the city, through Jerusalem, and mark the foreheads of those who sigh and groan because of all the detestable practices that have been conducted in it.

Kill them all, old men, young men and women, babies and mothers. Only don’t touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary. So they began with the men, the elders in front of the temple.