Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—”

Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to ourselves, and we will dwell with you and become one people.

Only on this condition will the men agree to dwell with us to become one people—when every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised.

Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. Then we will say that a fierce animal has devoured him, and we will see what will become of his dreams.”

I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you.

or if he touches human uncleanness, of whatever sort the uncleanness may be with which one becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it, and realizes his guilt;

And the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord, and he shall be forgiven for any of the things that one may do and thereby become guilty.”

If a man has no one to redeem it and then himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it,

Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”

But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have rejected.

And as for your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there. And to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.

“If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother,

Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open; they go out and do not return to them.

They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.

I have been forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.

They have all fallen away; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.

The light of Israel will become a fire, and his Holy One a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day.

And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed. When men give it to one who can read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot, for it is sealed.”

The least one shall become a clan, and the smallest one a mighty nation; I am the Lord; in its time I will hasten it.

We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from his evil; all of them have become like Sodom to me, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”

Her cities have become a horror, a land of drought and a desert, a land in which no one dwells, and through which no son of man passes.

And join them one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.

This is the exultant city that lived securely, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one else.” What a desolation she has become, a lair for wild beasts! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.