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¹⁷His excellence is like that of a first-born bull. His horns are like the horns of a rhinoceros; he shall brandish these against the Gentiles, even to the ends of the earth. These are the multitudes of Ephraim, and these the thousands of Manasseh.”

²²God has led him away from Egypt; his strength is like that of the rhinoceros.

²²Save me from the mouth of the lion, and my humility from the horns of the single-horned beast.

⁷And the single-horned beasts will descend with them, and the bulls along with the mighty. Their land will be inebriated by blood, and their ground by the fat of their lazy ones.

⁹Will the rhinoceros be willing to serve you, and will he remain in your stall?

²¹Then you will accept the sacrifice of justice, oblations, and holocausts. Then they will lay calves upon your altar.

⁸Away from Egypt, God has led him, whose strength is like the rhinoceros. They shall devour the nations that are his enemies, and break their bones, and pierce them with arrows.

¹In that day, the Lord will visit, with his harsh and great and strong sword, against Leviathan, the barred serpent, and against Leviathan, the twisted serpent, and he will slay the whale that is in the sea.

¹³Many calves have surrounded me; fat bulls have besieged me.

¹¹And my horn will be exalted like that of the single-horned beast, and my old age will be exalted in fruitful mercy.

¹⁴You have broken the heads of the serpent. You have given him as food for the people of the Ethiopians.

⁶And it will break them into pieces, like a calf of Lebanon, and in the same way as the beloved son of the single-horned beast.

¹After many days, the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go and show yourself to Ahab, so that I may grant rain upon the face of the earth.” ²Therefore, Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. For there was a severe famine in Samaria. ³And Ahab called Obadiah, the manager of his household. Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly. ⁴For when Jezebel was killing the prophets of the Lord, he took one hundred prophets, and concealed them, fifty and fifty, in caves. And he fed them with bread and water. ⁵Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go into the land, to all fountains of water, and to all the valleys, for perhaps we will be able to find plants, and save the horses and mules, so that the beasts of burden may not perish entirely.” ⁶And they divided the regions among themselves, so that they might travel through them. Ahab went one way alone, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

⁶The wolf will dwell with the lamb; and the leopard will lie down with the kid; the calf and the lion and the sheep will abide together; and a little boy will drive them. ⁷The calf and the bear will feed together; their young ones will rest together. And the lion will eat straw like the ox. ⁸And a breastfeeding infant will play above the lair of the asp. And a child who has been weaned will thrust his hand into the den of the king snake. ⁹They will not harm, and they will not kill, on all my holy mountain. For the earth has been filled with the knowledge of the Lord, like the waters covering the sea.

⁵But he himself was wounded because of our iniquities. He was bruised because of our wickedness. The discipline of our peace was upon him. And by his wounds, we are healed.

²⁸You shall not cut your flesh for the dead, and you shall not make other figures or marks on yourself. I am the Lord.