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• He ordered them to occupy the mountain passes, the only means of access to Judaea, for there it would be easy for them to halt an attacking force, the narrowness of the approach not allowing men to advance more than two abreast. (Judith 4, 7)

• For we have been handed over, my people and I, to destruction, slaughter and annihilation; had we merely been sold as slaves and servant-girls, I should not have said anything; but in the present case, it will be beyond the persecutor's means to make good the loss that the king is about to sustain.' (Esther 7, 4)

• They cut off all means of escape seizing the chance to destroy me, and no one stops them. (Job 30, 13)

• By these means, he sustains the peoples, giving them plenty to eat. (Job 36, 31)

• Iron means no more to him than straw, nor bronze than rotten wood. (Job 41, 19)

• Be not like a horse or a mule; that does not understand bridle or bit; if you advance to master them, there is no means of bringing them near. (Psalms 32, 9)

• Stay quiet before Yahweh, wait longingly for him, do not get heated over someone who is making a fortune, succeeding by devious means. (Psalms 37, 7)

• How blessed are those you instruct, Yahweh, whom you teach by means of your law, (Psalms 94, 12)

• This is what it means to me, observing your precepts. (Psalms 119, 56)

• 'In consequence of which, the people, aware of Simon's loyalty and of the glory which he was determined to win for his nation, have made him their ethnarch and high priest, for all his services and for the integrity and loyalty which he has shown towards his nation, and for having by every means sought to enhance his people's power; (1 Maccabees 14, 35)

• Nehemiah and his people termed this stuff "nephtar", which means "purification", but it is commonly called "naphta". (2 Maccabees 1, 36)

• (Fear of Yahweh means hatred of evil.) I hate pride and arrogance, wicked behaviour and a lying mouth. (Proverbs 8, 13)