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He went on his journeys from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

Verse ConceptsNomadsParticular Journeys

When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

Verse ConceptsSkillViolenceWarfare, Strategies InAbraham, Testing And VictoryBodyguardsThree To Four HundredThree Hundred And AboveBorn In One's HouseOvercoming Adversitytraining

As for the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the sons of Ammon to this day.

Verse ConceptsRelationships To This DayFathers And Daughters

It came about, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out through a window, and saw, and behold, Isaac was caressing his wife Rebekah.

Verse ConceptsLooking Through WindowsAfter A Long TimeSportshugs

Then Isaac dug again the wells of water which had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham; and he gave them the same names which his father had given them.

Verse ConceptsStopping WellsPeople Naming ThingsTimes Of People

They said, “We see plainly that the Lord has been with you; so we said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you,

Verse ConceptsGod With Specific People

He called the name of that place Bethel; however, previously the name of the city had been Luz.

Verse ConceptsHouse Of GodPeople Naming Things

Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” And he stayed with him a month.

Verse ConceptsBonesBodyOne MonthSame Bone And Fleshspace

and said to them, “I see your father’s attitude, that it is not friendly toward me as formerly, but the God of my father has been with me.

Verse ConceptsGod With Specific PeopleWorseChange

He said, ‘Lift up now your eyes and see that all the male goats which are mating are striped, speckled, and mottled; for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.

Verse ConceptsGod Seeing Their AfflictionBlemished CreaturesBlack And WhiteGod Sending His Son

These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flocks.

Verse ConceptsPregnancyRams20 To 30 YearsMiscarrying Animals

These twenty years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, and you changed my wages ten times.

Verse ConceptsdowryCovetousness, Example OfDishonesty, Examples OfThe Number FourteenTen TimesSix YearsTen To Fourteen Years20 To 30 YearsChangeServing Individuals

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had not been for me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, so He rendered judgment last night.”

Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersFear Of God, Examples OfGod Seeing Their AfflictionEmpty HandedGod For UsGod Sending His SonI Am SufferingThose Who ToiledGod Requite Them!

Please take my gift which has been brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me and because I have plenty.” Thus he urged him and he took it.

Verse ConceptsAffluenceBlessed By God

Now it came about on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword and came upon the city unawares, and killed every male.

Verse ConceptsThe Third Day Of The WeekExterminationDeath Of All MalesPhysical PainTwo SonsPleasurablenessMassacres

and let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.”

Verse ConceptsDistressGod AnsweredGod Has Been With YouGod With Specific People

Then he examined it and said, “It is my son’s tunic. A wild beast has devoured him; Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”

Verse ConceptsPeople Torn To PiecesFine ClothesAnimals Eating PeopleWild Animals Devouring

So she removed her widow’s garments and covered herself with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gateway of Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah had grown up, and she had not been given to him as a wife.

Verse ConceptsClothing, Kinds OfGrowing UpClothing OneselfPeople Stripping OffSitting In The GatewaydisguisesUsing RoadsDistinctive ClothingGiving In Marriage

He asked the men of her place, saying, “Where is the temple prostitute who was by the road at Enaim?” But they said, “There has been no temple prostitute here.”

Verse ConceptsWhere Are People?whores

So he returned to Judah, and said, “I did not find her; and furthermore, the men of the place said, ‘There has been no temple prostitute here.’”

Verse ConceptsNowhere To Be Found

Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an Egyptian officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the bodyguard, bought him from the Ishmaelites, who had taken him down there.

Verse ConceptsCaptainsRankTradeAnger Of Man, UnrighteousGod's Mercy, Example Of

Then Pharaoh named Joseph Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, as his wife. And Joseph went forth over the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningChanged NamesPeople Renaming PeopleAuthority Delegated To People

When the seven years of plenty which had been in the land of Egypt came to an end,

Verse ConceptsPlenty In EgyptNo Foodcats

Then he said to his brothers, “My money has been returned, and behold, it is even in my sack.” And their hearts sank, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”

Verse ConceptsHeart, HumanHuman EmotionIndividuals TremblingWhat Does God Do?Indeterminate Sums Of MoneyOther Sad People

So Judah said, “What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? And how can we justify ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants; behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and the one in whose possession the cup has been found.”

Verse ConceptsBeing Found OutAcquitting The Just

But he said, “Far be it from me to do this. The man in whose possession the cup has been found, he shall be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”

Verse ConceptsBeing Found OutExemptFar Be It!

For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.

Verse ConceptsTwo YearsFive YearsTilling The SoilNot Reaping What You SowIdentity

and the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock; and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’

Verse ConceptsShepherds, As Occupations

you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’ that you may live in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is loathsome to the Egyptians.”

Verse ConceptsAbominationsWork From YouthThose Who Kept StockHating PeoplesStock Keeping

So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty; few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, nor have they attained the years that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourning.”

Verse ConceptsAge, Span Of LifePhysical LifePilgrimagePilgrims, Examples OfFamily Problems

But your offspring that have been born after them shall be yours; they shall be called by the names of their brothers in their inheritance.

Then she gave birth to a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.”

Verse ConceptsSojourningReckoned As ForeignersPeople With Apt Names

Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I am indeed concerned about you and what has been done to you in Egypt.

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersWatchfulness, DivineAssembling LeadersGod AppearingGod Paid Attention To ThemThe Elders GatheredThe Elderly

Then Moses said to the Lord, “Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither recently nor in time past, nor since You have spoken to Your servant; for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”

Verse ConceptsExcusesEloquenceMoses, Significance OfMutenessHumility, Examples OfSelf AbasementSpeech ImpedimentsNervousnessSpeech

For if by now I had put forth My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, you would then have been cut off from the earth.

Verse ConceptsGod KillingGod Will Kill The Peoples

Behold, about this time tomorrow, I will send a very heavy hail, such as has not been seen in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

Verse ConceptsGod's Action TomorrowFoundations Of NationsUnique Things

So there was hail, and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very severe, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

Verse ConceptsFireStormsUnique Things

Make supplication to the Lord, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail; and I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”

Verse ConceptsPray For UsPraying For SinnersMore Than Enough

The locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and settled in all the territory of Egypt; they were very numerous. There had never been so many locusts, nor would there be so many again.

Verse ConceptsInvasionsUnique CreaturesMany Creatures

Moreover, there shall be a great cry in all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been before and such as shall never be again.

Verse ConceptsUnique Events

It is to be eaten in a single house; you are not to bring forth any of the flesh outside of the house, nor are you to break any bone of it.

Verse ConceptsPassover lambBonesGospel, Confirmation OfPassoverBodies Of AnimalsNo Bones BrokenOutside The HouseMessianic Prophecies

Is this not the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

Verse ConceptsDying In The WildernessPossibility Of DeathLeave Us AloneServing GroupsDying In The Desert slaveryNot Being Alone

The angel of God, who had been going before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them.

Verse ConceptsAngel of the LordGuardiansDivine ManifestationsHeaven And AngelsAngels Helping UsThe Angel Of GodObelisksGod Going BeforeCamping During The ExodusAngelic Guardianshipmovement

and her two sons, of whom one was named Gershom, for Moses said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.”

Verse ConceptsReckoned As ForeignersTwo SonsPeople With Apt Names

If, however, an ox was previously in the habit of goring and its owner has been warned, yet he does not confine it and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned and its owner also shall be put to death.

Verse ConceptsHabitsPunishment, Legal Aspects OfStriking To DeathAnimals KillingDeath Penalty For ViolenceInstructions About StoningRules About Killing AnimalsUnpremeditated

If it is all torn to pieces, let him bring it as evidence; he shall not make restitution for what has been torn to pieces.

Verse ConceptsDuties To NeighboursAnimals Torn To Pieces

Then you shall erect the tabernacle according to its plan which you have been shown in the mountain.

Verse ConceptsPlansDivine PlansDesignPatterns

Then Moses said, “Dedicate yourselves today to the Lord—for every man has been against his son and against his brother—in order that He may bestow a blessing upon you today.”

Verse ConceptsSanctification, Nature And BasisConsecrationGod Appointing OthersMay God Bless!

Then God said, “Behold, I am going to make a covenant. Before all your people I will perform miracles which have not been produced in all the earth nor among any of the nations; and all the people among whom you live will see the working of the Lord, for it is a fearful thing that I am going to perform with you.

Verse ConceptsMiracles, Nature OfMission, Of IsraelNationalismAweMiracles Showing God's PowerLooking At God's WorksCovenant Made At SinaiGod Is To Be FearedWorking For The Lordcovenant

But whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with Him, he would take off the veil until he came out; and whenever he came out and spoke to the sons of Israel what he had been commanded,

Verse ConceptsPeople Stripping OffAddressing SomeoneConversation

Now if your offering is a grain offering made in a pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.

Verse ConceptsFlourOil On SacrificesPots For Cooking And EatingMeat offeringscooking

Likewise, every grain offering that is baked in the oven and everything prepared in a pan or on a griddle shall belong to the priest who presents it.

Verse ConceptsBakingOvensPriests Possessingcooking

The Lord has commanded to do as has been done this day, to make atonement on your behalf.

Verse ConceptsGod Atoning

At the doorway of the tent of meeting, moreover, you shall remain day and night for seven days and keep the charge of the Lord, so that you will not die, for so I have been commanded.”

Verse ConceptsSeven DaysPresented At The DoorwayDeath As Punishment

You shall eat it, moreover, in a holy place, because it is your due and your sons’ due out of the Lord’s offerings by fire; for thus I have been commanded.

Verse ConceptsAnimal Sacrifices, Meal Offering

The breast of the wave offering, however, and the thigh of the offering you may eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you; for they have been given as your due and your sons’ due out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the sons of Israel.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersFellowship OfferingWave OfferingsAnimal Sacrifices, Heave OfferingSwingingThighs Of AnimalsPermitted To Eat Offerings

But Moses searched carefully for the goat of the sin offering, and behold, it had been burned up! So he was angry with Aaron’s surviving sons Eleazar and Ithamar, saying,

Verse ConceptsAnger, HumanAnger, Justified ExamplesBurning SacrificesSeeking For Concrete ThingsNamed People Angry With Others

Behold, since its blood had not been brought inside, into the sanctuary, you should certainly have eaten it in the sanctuary, just as I commanded.”

But Aaron spoke to Moses, “Behold, this very day they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before the Lord. When things like these happened to me, if I had eaten a sin offering today, would it have been good in the sight of the Lord?”

Verse ConceptsFood For Priests Defined

After the article with the mark has been washed, the priest shall again look, and if the mark has not changed its appearance, even though the mark has not spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire, whether an eating away has produced bareness on the top or on the front of it.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingUnclean Things

“Then if the priest looks, and if the mark has faded after it has been washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment or out of the leather, whether from the warp or from the woof;

Verse ConceptsCordsAnimal Skinsmold

and the priest shall go out to the outside of the camp. Thus the priest shall look, and if the infection of leprosy has been healed in the leper,

Verse ConceptsQuarantiningOutside The CampInspectingHealing Lepers

“If, however, the mark breaks out again in the house after he has torn out the stones and scraped the house, and after it has been replastered,

Verse Conceptsmold

“If, on the other hand, the priest comes in and makes an inspection and the mark has not indeed spread in the house after the house has been replastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean because the mark has not reappeared.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingInspectingmold

and whoever sits on the thing on which the man with the discharge has been sitting, shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

Verse ConceptsSeatsBedsUnclean Until Evening

(for the men of the land who have been before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled);

Verse ConceptsPolluting The Land

so that the land will not spew you out, should you defile it, as it has spewed out the nation which has been before you.

Verse ConceptsPurity, Moral And SpiritualRetributionDefilementSame Sex Marriage

Thus you are to keep My charge, that you do not practice any of the abominable customs which have been practiced before you, so as not to defile yourselves with them; I am the Lord your God.’”

Verse ConceptsCustomPurity, Moral And SpiritualThe Lord Is GodHating Uncleanness

Now if a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave acquired for another man, but who has in no way been redeemed nor given her freedom, there shall be punishment; they shall not, however, be put to death, because she was not free.

Verse ConceptsBeatingsEngagementServants Of PeopleLaws Of Sexual UnionAdulteryDeath Penalty For Sexual Sin

‘The priest who is the highest among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been consecrated to wear the garments, shall not uncover his head nor tear his clothes;

Verse ConceptsHigh Priest, In OtRankConsecrationBare HeadsAnointing PriestsPriests GarmentsNot Tearing ClothesAccompaniments Of MourningRivers

then he shall have redemption right after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him,

Verse ConceptsRedemptionredeemed

I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the soul to pine away; also, you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up.

Verse ConceptsEyes, Affected BydiseasesdisabilitiesVisionPunishment Of the WickedFeverThreateningsSowing In VainEyes HarmedUseless LabourFear Will ComeDepressionSpilling Your Seed On The Groundterrorism

No one who may have been set apart among men shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

Verse ConceptsDebaucheryRansomJudicial PunishmentNot Redeemed

So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,

So Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord, just as he had been commanded.

and a man has intercourse with her and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and she is undetected, although she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act,

Verse ConceptsIgnorant Of Facts

When he has made her drink the water, then it shall come about, if she has defiled herself and has been unfaithful to her husband, that the water which brings a curse will go into her and cause bitterness, and her abdomen will swell and her thigh will waste away, and the woman will become a curse among her people.

Verse ConceptsThighsRepulsive FoodBad WaterBitter WaterSwellingBitternessInfidelityHurt And Betrayaladultry

The priest shall take the ram’s shoulder when it has been boiled, and one unleavened cake out of the basket and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his dedicated hair.

Verse ConceptsCakesShouldersWafersAnimal Sacrifices, Wave Offering

They shall leave none of it until morning, nor break a bone of it; according to all the statute of the Passover they shall observe it.

Verse ConceptsPassover lambLord's SupperOrdinancesRemaining OfferingsNo Bones Broken

So Moses said to the Lord, “Why have You been so hard on Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid the burden of all this people on me?

Verse ConceptsHeavy BurdensNot Pleasing God

But two men had remained in the camp; the name of one was Eldad and the name of the other Medad. And the Spirit rested upon them (now they were among those who had been registered, but had not gone out to the tent), and they prophesied in the camp.

Verse ConceptsTwo Other Men

So the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had been greedy.

Verse ConceptsBurying placesGreed

Only do not rebel against the Lord; and do not fear the people of the land, for they will be our prey. Their protection has been removed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them.”

Verse ConceptsImmanuelRebellion, Against GodRebellion Against God, Nature OfGod With YouEasy For PeopleUnguardedDo Not Fear MenRebellion against GodProtection From EnemiesRemoving People From Your Life