[1232] Do not do this to the Lord your God, for whatever the Lord abhors, whatever He hates, they do to their gods: they burn their sons and their daughters in the fire of their gods.

[1233] Smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, and put to its curse all that is in it, and smite its cattle with the edge of the sword;

[1234] Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord God, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy abominations and all thy abominations, I will depreciate thee, and my eye shall not have mercy on thee, neither will I have mercy on thee.

[1235] They set their threshold at My threshold, and the doors of their doors beside My faiths, so that one wall was between Me and them, and they defiled My holy name with the abominations they had done, and therefore I destroyed them in My wrath.

[1236] You who lie on couches of ivory, and bask in your beds, eat the best rams of the flock, and the calves of the fat pasture...

[1237] Is this not the one from which my lord drinks, and he divinates with it? You did it badly.

[1238] And Samuel said to the cook, "Give me the portion which I have given you, and of which I have told you, 'Keep it with you.' And the cook took the shoulder, and what was with him, and laid it before Saul. And [Samuel] said, "This is what is left, put it before you, and eat: for this time it has been reserved for you, when I called the people." And Saul dined with Samuel that day.

[1239] [And Jacob said:] "Whosoever thou shalt find thy gods, he shall not live; In the presence of our relatives, find out what I have, and take it for yourself. [But he didn't learn anything from him.] Jacob did not know that Rachel [his wife] had stolen them.

[1240] And Jacob tore his garments, and put sackcloth on his loins, and wept for his son many days.

[1241] And when the days of mourning for him were past, Joseph said to Pharaoh's courtiers, saying, "If I have found favor in your eyes, then say to Pharaoh thus: ...

[1242] And he commanded them, and said to them, "I am added to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite...

[1243] Behold, you have plotted evil against me; but God turned it into good, in order to do what it is now: to preserve the life of a great number of people;

[1244] He sent a man before them: Joseph was sold as a slave.

[1245] King Demetrius to Lasthenes the father to rejoice.