not only his best chariots, six hundred in number, but all that were to be found in Egypt, and all the captains of his army.
If anyone damages field or vineyard by letting some beast of his feed on another man’s property, he must make good the estimated loss out of the best crop in his own field or vineyard.
Provide thyself with spices, a stone of the best and choicest✻ myrrh, and half a stone of cinnamon, and half a stone of scented cane,
And Moses answered, Do not leave us; thou canst tell us where best to encamp; we look to thee for guidance.
Come with us, and the best of all the Lord gives us shall be thine.
Do they bring me the best of their oil, their wine, their corn, or any other kind of first-fruits? It is thine;
And the part of your tithe which you set aside as an offering to the Lord must be the best part, the choice part.
When you have offered all that is best and richest, you will have paid your dues, as surely as if they came from threshing-floor and wine-press of your own;
You must not incur guilt by keeping the best and the richest for yourselves;✻ for such misuse of the offerings which the sons of Israel make, death is the penalty.
Whereupon you all preferred a request to me that men should be sent out to view the land, and bring back word how best to approach it, what cities you should first assail;
Now we are at thy mercy; do what seems best, do what seems right to thee.
Choose out three men from each tribe, and let me send them to make a circuit of the country; they shall report to me what territory best suits the numbers of this tribe or that.
They were to send the word round in Sichem, Which is best, to have seventy masters over you, all Jerobaal’s sons, or one? He was, after all, their own flesh and blood.
then, when tomorrow’s sun rises, fall upon the city, and when he and his men come out to meet thee, engage them as best thou canst.
(This was in the old days of Israel before the monarchy, when men lived by the best light they had.)
And each son of Israel went back to the dwelling-place of his own clan, his own family. This was in the days before any king ruled in Israel, when men lived by the best light they had.
That is best, daughter, said her mother-in-law, that thou shouldst go out to glean with those maidens of his; in some other field they might say thee nay.
Wash thee, and anoint thee, and put on thy best array, and so go down to the threshing-floor. He will not have finished eating and drinking; do not let him see thee,
and at the end of them the Philistines summoned their priests and diviners. What are we to do with the ark of the Lord? they said. How best can we send it back whence it came? And their answer was,
All the best of your lands and vineyards and olive-yards he will take away, and entrust to his own bailiffs;