Esau said, “I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?”
You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God. What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts?
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.’
They said to God, ‘Depart from us,’ and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’
For every breach of trust, whether it is for an ox, for a donkey, for a sheep, for a cloak, or for any kind of lost thing, of which one says, ‘This is it,’ the case of both parties shall come before God. The one whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.
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