23 occurrences

'Distance' in the Bible

And she went some distance away, about an arrow flight, and seating herself on the earth, she gave way to bitter weeping, saying, Let me not see the death of my child.

So they went on from Beth-el; and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, the pains of birth came on Rachel and she had a hard time.

And as for me, when I came from Paddan, death overtook Rachel on the way, when we were still some distance from Ephrath; and I put her to rest there on the road to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem.

And his sister took her place at a distance to see what would become of him.

And he said to Moses, Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, and Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the chiefs of Israel; and give me worship from a distance.

Now it was Moses' way to put up the Tent of meeting outside the tent-circle, at some distance away; giving it the name of The Tent of meeting. And everyone desiring to make his prayer to the Lord went to the Tent of meeting outside the tent-circle.

Stretching from the wall of the towns a distance of a thousand cubits all round.

Then your responsible men and your judges are to come out, and give orders for the distance from the dead body to the towns round about it to be measured;

Then David went over to the other side, and took his place on the top of a mountain some distance away, with a great space between them;

With outstretched wings five cubits wide; the distance from the edge of one wing to the edge of the other was ten cubits.

And he said to him, Go in peace. And he went from him some distance.

Am I only a God who is near, says the Lord, and not a God at a distance?

But Peter went after him at a distance, to the house of the high priest, and went in and took his seat with the servants, to see the end.

And a number of women were there, watching from a distance, who had come with Jesus from Galilee, waiting on his needs.

And seeing a fig-tree in the distance with leaves, he went to see if by chance it had anything on it: and when he came to it, he saw nothing but leaves, for it was not the time for the fruit.

And Peter had come after him at a distance, even into the house of the high priest; and he was seated with the captains, warming himself in the light of the fire.

And there were women watching from a distance: among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary, the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome,

Or while the other is still a great distance away, he sends representatives requesting conditions of peace.

And when he went into a certain small town he came across ten men who were lepers, and they, keeping themselves at a distance,

And they made him a prisoner and took him away to the house of the high priest. But Peter went after them at a distance.

And all his friends and the women who came with him from Galilee, were waiting at a distance, watching these things.

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