'Instead' in the Bible
Then they said to one another, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." (They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)
But look, the word of the Lord came to him: "This man will not be your heir, but instead a son who comes from your own body will be your heir."
No longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham because I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.
Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram caught in the bushes by its horns. So he went over and got the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
You must go instead to my country and to my relatives to find a wife for my son Isaac."
My father may touch me! Then he'll think I'm mocking him and I'll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing."
With her dying breath, she named him Ben-Oni. But his father called him Benjamin instead.
"So now, please let your servant remain as my lord's slave instead of the boy. As for the boy, let him go back with his brothers.
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