Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.

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Jeremiah 35:10
We have only dwelt in tents, and have obeyed and have done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
Genesis 25:27
When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, but Jacob was a peaceful man, living in tents.
Leviticus 23:42
You shall live in booths for seven days; all the native-born in Israel shall live in booths,
Nehemiah 8:14
They found written in the law how the Lord had commanded through Moses that the sons of Israel should live in booths during the feast of the seventh month.
Ephesians 5:18
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise;
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.

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Genesis 36:7
For their property had become too great for them to live together, and the land where they sojourned could not sustain them because of their livestock.
Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
1 Chronicles 16:19
When they were only a few in number,
Very few, and strangers in it,
Psalm 105:12
When they were only a few men in number,
Very few, and strangers in it.
Ephesians 6:2
Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise),

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Jeremiah 35:9
nor to build ourselves houses to dwell in; and we do not have vineyard or field or seed.