'Says' in the Bible

Go near and listen to everything the Lord our God says. Then you can tell us everything the Lord our God tells you; we will listen and obey.’

and that sign or wonder he has promised you comes about, but he says, ‘Let us follow other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us worship them,’

But if your slave says to you, ‘I don’t want to leave you,’ because he loves you and your family, and is well off with you,

The elders of his city will summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, ‘I don’t want to marry her,’