³⁶ And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, answering the king, said, So be it: and may the Lord, the God of my lord the king, say so.

¹⁵ Cursed is the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to the Lord, the work of man's hands, and puts it up in secret. And let all the people say, So be it.

¹⁶ Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it.

¹⁷ Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's landmark from its place. And let all the people say, So be it.

¹⁸ Cursed is he by whom the blind are turned out of the way. And let all the people say, So be it.

¹⁹ Cursed is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause of a man from a strange land, or of one without a father, or of a widow. And let all the people say, So be it.

²⁰ Cursed is he who has sex relations with his father's wife, for he has put shame on his father. And let all the people say, So be it.

²¹ Cursed is he who has sex relations with any sort of beast. And let all the people say, So be it.

²² Cursed is he who has sex relations with his sister, the daughter of his father or of his mother. And let all the people say, So be it.

²³ Cursed is he who has sex relations with his mother-in-law. And let all the people say, So be it.

²⁴ Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's life secretly. And let all the people say, So be it.

²⁵ Cursed is he who for a reward puts to death one who has done no wrong. And let all the people say, So be it.

²⁶ Cursed is he who does not take this law to heart to do it. And let all the people say, So be it.

²⁰ Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.

¹³ And let us not be put to the test, but keep us safe from the Evil One.

⁶ The prophet Jeremiah said, So be it: may the Lord do so: may the Lord give effect to the words which you have said, and let the vessels of the Lord's house, and all the people who have been taken away, come back from Babylon to this place.

⁵ So that I may give effect to the oath which I made to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey as at this day. And I said in answer, So be it, O Lord.

²⁶ He will say to me, You are my father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.

²⁰ I have made discovery of David my servant; I have put my holy oil on his head.

¹⁹ Praise to the glory of his noble name for ever; let all the earth be full of his glory. So be it, So be it.

¹ <A Psalm. Of David. When he was in the waste land of Judah.> O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;

² The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour; my God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

²⁷ And now you have been pleased to give your blessing to the family of your servant, so that it may go on for ever before you; you, O Lord, have given your blessing, and a blessing will be on it for ever.

²⁹ And though a man has taken up arms against you, putting your life in danger, still the soul of my lord will be kept safe among the band of the living with the Lord your God; and the souls of those who are against you he will send violently away from him, like stones from a bag.

¹⁶ For if you give a blessing with the spirit, how will the man who has no knowledge say, So be it, after your prayer, seeing that he has not taken in what you are saying?