If your father notices that I am not at the table, tell him that I begged your permission to hurry home to Bethlehem, since it's the time for the annual sacrifice there for my whole family.

Also on joyful occasions---at your New Moon Festivals and your other religious festivals---you are to blow the trumpets when you present your burnt offerings and your fellowship offerings. Then I will help you. I am the LORD your God."

Present a burnt offering to the LORD at the beginning of each month: two young bulls, one ram, seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.

"Why do you have to go today?" her husband asked. "It's neither a Sabbath nor a New Moon Festival." "Never mind," she answered.

Blow the trumpet for the festival, when the moon is new and when the moon is full.

So let no one make rules about what you eat or drink or about holy days or the New Moon Festival or the Sabbath.

The day after tomorrow your absence will be noticed even more; so go to the place where you hid yourself the other time, and hide behind the pile of stones there.

and so he told him, "My father is trying to kill you. Please be careful tomorrow morning; hide in some secret place and stay there.

If it were an enemy making fun of me, I could endure it; if it were an opponent boasting over me, I could hide myself from him.

Sensible people will see trouble coming and avoid it, but an unthinking person will walk right into it and regret it later.

Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and left the Temple.

At once the believers sent Paul away to the coast; but both Silas and Timothy stayed in Berea.