²⁴ She went out, and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?" She said, "The head of John the Baptizer."

⁸ Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

⁹ Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good kids of the goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.

¹⁰ You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death."

¹¹ Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

⁸ She, being prompted by her mother, said, "Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptizer."

² and say, What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs.

³ She brought up one of her cubs: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

³ A stone is heavy, And sand is a burden; But a fool's provocation is heavier than both.

⁴ Wrath is cruel, And anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?

¹⁴ The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy, To kill those who are upright in the way.

¹² The wicked plots against the just, And gnashes at him with his teeth.

² When evil-doers came at me to eat up my flesh, Even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

³¹ If the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'

³ He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.

⁴ He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did the house of Ahab; for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

¹² When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

¹³ There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.