¹⁶ To Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated."

⁵ Better is open rebuke Than hidden love.

⁵ Didn't he tell me, 'She is my sister?' She, even she herself said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands have I done this."

⁶⁵ She said to the servant, "Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?" The servant said, "It is my master." She took her veil, and covered herself.

¹⁹ As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

⁶ So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, "What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your gods! Maybe the gods will notice us, so that we won't perish."

¹² As an ear-ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, So is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.

¹ Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, But he who hates reproof is stupid.

⁸ Don't reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

⁹ Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

³ Joab said, Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as they are: but, my lord the king, aren't they all my lord's servants? why does my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?

⁴ Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

⁵ Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew sword: and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew sword.

⁶ But he didn't count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king's word was abominable to Joab.

¹¹ Abimelech charged all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."