Please forgive their sin; but if you won't, then remove my name from the book in which you have written the names of your people."

it is not to remain there overnight. It must be buried the same day, because a dead body hanging on a post brings God's curse on the land. Bury the body, so that you will not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

The city and everything in it must be totally destroyed as an offering to the LORD. Only the prostitute Rahab and her household will be spared, because she hid our spies.

But you are not to take anything that is to be destroyed; if you do, you will bring trouble and destruction on the Israelite camp.

The Israelites were weak with hunger that day, because Saul, with a solemn oath, had given the order: "A curse be on anyone who eats any food today before I take revenge on my enemies." So nobody had eaten anything all day.

Saul said to him, "May God strike me dead if you are not put to death!"

But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel that is different from the one we preached to you, may he be condemned to hell!

Those who depend on obeying the Law live under a curse. For the scripture says, "Whoever does not always obey everything that is written in the book of the Law is under God's curse!"

But by becoming a curse for us Christ has redeemed us from the curse that the Law brings; for the scripture says, "Anyone who is hanged on a tree is under God's curse."

I ask, then: Did God reject his own people? Certainly not! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.

Laban said, "Yes, indeed, you are my own flesh and blood." Jacob stayed there a whole month.

How can I endure it if this disaster comes on my people, and my own relatives are killed?"

"When Moses was forty years old, he decided to find out how his fellow Israelites were being treated.

(He thought that his own people would understand that God was going to use him to set them free, but they did not understand.)

"My fellow Israelites, descendants of Abraham, and all Gentiles here who worship God: it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent!