And now if you will indeed hear My voice, and keep My covenant, you shall be to Me a peculiar people above all nations; for the whole earth is Mine.

And you shall be to Me a royal priesthood and a holy nation. These words shall you speak to the children of Israel.

And you shall keep and do them: for this is your wisdom and understanding before all nations, as many as shall hear all these ordinances; and they shall say, Behold, this great nation [is] a wise and understanding people.

You are the children of the Lord your God: you shall not make any baldness between you eyes for the dead.

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord your God has chosen you to be a peculiar people to Himself of all the nations on the face of the earth.

It is actually heard that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even named among the Gentiles--that a man has his father's wife!

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole batch?

Yet I certainly did not mean with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world!

For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?

And it was so, that everyone who saw it said, [Such a day] as this has not happened nor has been seen from the day of the going up of the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt until this day: take counsel concerning it, and speak.

And the chiefs took of their provisions, and asked not the [counsel of] the Lord.

[This translation omits this verse.]

War is carried on with wise counsel, and aid is supplied to the heart of a counselor.

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it shall be given to him.