²⁴ And she, having gone forth, said to her mother, `What shall I ask for myself?' and she said, `The head of John the Baptist;'

⁸ `And now, my son, hearken to my voice, to that which I am commanding thee:

⁹ Go, I pray thee, unto the flock, and take for me from thence two good kids of the goats, and I make them tasteful things for thy father, `such' as he hath loved;

¹⁰ and thou hast taken in to thy father, and he hath eaten, so that his soul doth bless thee before his death.

¹¹ And Jacob saith unto Rebekah his mother, `Lo, Esau my brother `is' a hairy man, and I a smooth man,

⁸ And she having been instigated by her mother -- `Give me (says she) here upon a plate the head of John the Baptist;

² and thou hast said: What `is' thy mother? -- a lioness, Among lions she hath crouched down, In the midst of young lions she hath multiplied her whelps.

³ And she bringeth up one of her whelps, A young lion it hath been, And it learneth to tear prey, man it hath devoured.

³ A stone `is' heavy, and the sand `is' heavy, And the anger of a fool Is heavier than they both.

⁴ Fury `is' fierce, and anger `is' overflowing, And who standeth before jealousy?

¹⁴ A sword have the wicked opened, And they have trodden their bow, To cause to fall the poor and needy, To slaughter the upright of the way.

¹² The wicked is devising against the righteous, And gnashing against him his teeth.

² When evil doers come near to me to eat my flesh, My adversaries and mine enemies to me, They have stumbled and fallen.

³¹ If not -- say ye, O men of my tent, `O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.'

³ he also hath walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother hath been his counsellor to do wickedly.

⁴ And he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, like the house of Ahab, for they have been his counsellors, after the death of his father, for destruction to him.

¹² And day having come, certain of the Jews having made a concourse, did anathematize themselves, saying neither to eat nor to drink till they may kill Paul;

¹³ and they were more than forty who made this conspiracy by oath,