“Did God tell you not to eat fruit from any tree in the garden?”

[To Barak] “Come, I will show you the man you’re looking for.”

“It was the woman you put here with me. She gave me some of the fruit, and I ate it.”

“Skin for skin! A man will give all he has for his own life.”

“Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink. Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat the royal food, and treat your servants in accordance with what you see.”

“They asked the grape vine, “Will you be our king?” But the grape vine replied, “My wine brings cheer to people and gods. I won’t stop making wine, just to have my branches wave above the other trees.”

“So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. “

“The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.”

“What they are building—even a fox climbing up on it would break down their wall of stones!”

“Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.”

Now, Lord, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.”