Have him stand in front of Eleazar the priest and the whole community, and there before them all proclaim him as your successor.

He will depend on Eleazar the priest, who will learn my will by using the Urim and Thummim. In this way Eleazar will direct Joshua and the whole community of Israel in all their affairs."

As the LORD had commanded, Moses put his hands on Joshua's head and proclaimed him as his successor.

And to Solomon he said, "My son, I charge you to acknowledge your father's God and to serve him with an undivided heart and a willing mind. He knows all our thoughts and desires. If you go to him, he will accept you; but if you turn away from him, he will abandon you forever.

You must realize that the LORD has chosen you to build his holy Temple. Now do it---and do it with determination."

King David said to his son Solomon, "Be confident and determined. Start the work and don't let anything stop you. The LORD God, whom I serve, will be with you. He will not abandon you, but he will stay with you until you finish the work to be done on his Temple.

In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the holy angels I solemnly call upon you to obey these instructions without showing any prejudice or favor to anyone in anything you do.

Before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who firmly professed his faith before Pontius Pilate, I command you

Remind your people of this, and give them a solemn warning in God's presence not to fight over words. It does no good, but only ruins the people who listen.

My child, when you stop learning, you will soon neglect what you already know.

Jesus said to them, "Take care; be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

How is it that you don't understand that I was not talking to you about bread? Guard yourselves from the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

Then the disciples understood that he was not warning them to guard themselves from the yeast used in bread but from the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

As thousands of people crowded together, so that they were stepping on each other, Jesus said first to his disciples, "Be on guard against the yeast of the Pharisees---I mean their hypocrisy.

Whatever is covered up will be uncovered, and every secret will be made known.

And he went on to say to them all, "Watch out and guard yourselves from every kind of greed; because your true life is not made up of the things you own, no matter how rich you may be."

From the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month to the evening of the twenty-first day, you must not eat any bread made with yeast.

(SEE 12:19)

None of the grain offerings which you present to the LORD may be made with yeast; you must never use yeast or honey in food offered to the LORD.

It is not right for you to be proud! You know the saying, "A little bit of yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise."

Let us celebrate our Passover, then, not with bread having the old yeast of sin and wickedness, but with the bread that has no yeast, the bread of purity and truth.

Some Pharisees and some members of Herod's party were sent to Jesus to trap him with questions.

The Pharisees went off and made a plan to trap Jesus with questions.

Tell us, then, what do you think? Is it against our Law to pay taxes to the Roman Emperor, or not?"