If you mistreat my daughters or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one else is with us, realize that God is witness to your actions."

He caused them to hate his people, and to mistreat his servants.

The Lord says, "Do what is just and right. Deliver those who have been robbed from those who oppress them. Do not exploit or mistreat foreigners who live in your land, children who have no fathers, or widows. Do not kill innocent people in this land.

He gave them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field.

He told them, "It was because of your little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; nothing will be impossible for you."

It is like a mustard seed that when sown in the ground, even though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the ground --

bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.

It is like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the wild birds nested in its branches."

So the Lord replied, "If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this black mulberry tree, 'Be pulled out by the roots and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

But God spoke as follows: 'Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.

When both the Gentiles and the Jews (together with their rulers) made an attempt to mistreat them and stone them,