25 "Thus says the Lord: 'If My covenant is not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth, 26 then I will cast away the descendants of Jacob and David My servant, so that I will not take any of his descendants to be rulers over the descend...
Women’s caste-status depended on their fathers and spouses: they ‘lost’ their caste if they married someone from another caste. This is the reason why Caraka insists that not only should the wet-nurse belong to the same caste by birth, but that she should not have married a man ...
12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for Iama stranger with thee,anda sojourner, as all my fatherswere. 13O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. ...
4 And there I saw the first fathers and the righteous who from the beginning 71dwell in that place. And it came to be after this, that my spirit was translated and it ascended into the shamayim: and I saw the qodesh sons of Elohim. They were stepping on flames of fire: their ...