Quotes about Camps

Experiments show that even three-year-olds have the intuition that rewards should be proportional to contributions, in places as different as Japanese cities and the camps of Turkana nomads in Kenya. Obviously, it does happen that people take more than their share-but that is universally considered exploitative, and people are eager to avoid or shun individuals who do that.

In great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels.

In the middle of the camps, the Tent of Meeting is to travel with the camp of the Levites. They are to set out in the order they encamped, each in his own place under his standard.

These are the Israelites, numbered according to their families. The total of those counted in the camps, by their divisions, was 603,550.

“Make two trumpets of hammered silver to be used for calling the congregation and for having the camps set out.

When you sound short blasts, the camps that lie on the east side are to set out.

When you sound the short blasts a second time, the camps that lie on the south side are to set out. The blasts are to signal them to set out.

Is the land where they live good or bad? Are the cities where they dwell open camps or fortifications?

your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—

And the Hebrews who had previously gone up into the surrounding camps of the Philistines now went over to the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.

When the Israelites returned from their pursuit of the Philistines, they plundered their camps.

Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides.