While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

Isaac’s Birth Foretold

The Lord appeared to Abraham near the great oak trees of Mamre while he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

He then brought butter and milk and the calf that he had prepared and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree while they ate.

And while he lingered, the men took hold of his and his wife’s hands, along with the hands of his two daughters, the Lord being merciful to him, and brought him out and set him outside the city.

But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living, he sent them away from his son Isaac eastward to the east country.

So the boys grew. Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a calm man, living in tents.

While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she kept them.

While she was giving birth, one put out his hand, and the midwife took and tied on his hand a scarlet thread, saying, “This one came out first.”

The daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river while her maidens walked along by the river’s side, and when she saw the container among the reeds, she sent her maid, and she retrieved it.

The Lord shall fight for you, while you hold your peace.”

So Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal place when the morning appeared, while the Egyptians fled against it, so the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why are you sitting by yourself while all the people stand around you from morning until evening?”

If a man gives his neighbor a donkey, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast to keep for him, and it dies, or is injured, or is driven away while no one sees it,

While My glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft of the rock and will cover you with My hand while I pass by.

Moses’ Radiant Face

When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of testimony in the hands of Moses, when he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him.

Moreover, he who goes into the house while it is closed off shall be unclean until the evening.

And you shall not have a woman as a rival wife, who is the sister of your other wife, for this is to expose her nakedness while her sister, your other wife, is still alive.

You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, nor shall you stand by while the life of your neighbor is in danger: I am the Lord.

Say to them: Whoever from your offspring through your generations approaches the holy things, which the children of Israel have dedicated to the Lord, while he has uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from My presence: I am the Lord.

Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

But the land shall be abandoned by them, and enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They shall make amends for their iniquity, because they despised My judgments and because they abhorred My statutes.

While the meat was between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the Lord burned against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great slaughter.

The Sabbath-Breaker Executed

While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man who gathered sticks on the Sabbath day.

He said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offerings while I meet the Lord over there.”

Edom will be a possession, and Seir, a possession of its enemies, while Israel does valiantly.