²⁴ And she went out and said to her mother, What is my request to be? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.

⁸ Now, my son, do what I say.

⁹ Go to the flock and get me two fat young goats; and I will make of them a meal to your father's taste:

¹⁰ And you will take it to him, so that he may have a good meal and give you his blessing before his death.

¹¹ And Jacob said to Rebekah, his mother, But Esau my brother is covered with hair, while I am smooth:

⁸ And she, at her mother's suggestion, said, Give me here on a plate the head of John the Baptist.

² What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.

³ And one of her little ones came to growth under her care, and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.

³ A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.

⁴ Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?

¹⁴ The evil-doers have taken out their swords, their bows are bent; for crushing the poor, and to put to death those who are upright in their ways.

¹² The sinner has evil designs against the upright, lifting up the voice of wrath against him.

² When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.

³¹ If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?

³ He went in the ways of the family of Ahab, for his mother was his teacher in evil-doing.

⁴ And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as the family of Ahab did; for after the death of his father they were his guides to his destruction.

¹² And when it was day, the Jews came together and put themselves under an oath that they would take no food or drink till they had put Paul to death.

¹³ And more than forty of them took this oath.