Jonah got up to flee to Tarshish from the Lord’s presence. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. He paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the Lord’s presence.
The captain approached him and said, ‘What are you doing sound asleep? Get up! Call to your god. , Maybe this god will consider us, and we won’t perish.’
I say, ‘I won’t mention him or speak any longer in his name.’ But his message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones. I become tired of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
The angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, ‘I brought you out of Egypt and led you into the land I had promised to your ancestors. I also said: I will never break my covenant with you.
the angel who has redeemed me from all harm – may he bless these boys. And may they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they grow to be numerous within the land.
but he went on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. He said, ‘I have had enough! Lord, take my life, for I’m no better than my ancestors.’
The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from my native land, who spoke to me and swore to me, “I will give this land to your offspring” , #– #he will send his angel before you, and you can take a wife for my son from there.
Then the Lord’s anger burned against Moses, and he said, ‘Isn’t Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, he is on his way now to meet you. He will rejoice when he sees you.
Let them gather all the excess food during these good years that are coming. Under Pharaoh’s authority, store the grain in the cities, so they may preserve it as food.
