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And Jehovah said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And Jehovah appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should smite him.

Verse ConceptsAbel and CainBlood, as symbol of guiltDeath penaltyRevenge, And RetaliationSanctity Of LifeSevenfoldRestraints From KillingMarks On PeopleDeath Penalty For KillingMan AvengingRevenge

Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Verse ConceptsConfusion, Examples OfScattering The PeoplesLanguages SeparatedLanguage

why saidst thou, She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

Verse ConceptsMisrepresentationReinstating PeopleTransferring WivesRelationship Troubles

Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

Verse ConceptsHasteImpotence Of GodSmall ThingsHurrying Others On

And God said unto him in the dream, Yea, I know that in the integrity of thy heart thou has done this, and I also withheld thee from sinning against me. Therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.

Verse ConceptsTouchAbsence Of SexNot TouchingPlea Of InnocenceDirect Communication Through Dreams

Now therefore restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live. And if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

Verse ConceptsMediatorAbraham, The Friend Of GodKept Alive By MenDeath As PunishmentReinstating PeoplePraying For SinnersNamed Prophets Of The LordHusband And WifeGiving Back

Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.

Verse ConceptsKindnessNegotiationPolitical Alliances, By OathsSojourningFalse WaysPeople Bound By OathsSwearing

My lord, hearken unto me. A piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that betwixt me and thee? Bury therefore thy dead.

Verse ConceptsReal EstateUnimportant Things

And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage . For I am faint. Therefore was his name called Edom.

Verse ConceptsYielding To TemptationRequesting FoodRed BodiesPeople With Apt Names

And he called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.

Verse ConceptsSwearing OathsGiven Names To This DayPeople Naming Things

Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.

Verse ConceptsBow And Arrows, Uses OfArrows, Uses OfHuntingQuiversArchers, MenArrowsDeergames

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.

Verse ConceptsPay Attention To People!

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. And arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran.

Verse ConceptsPay Attention To People!

And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? Tell me, what shall thy wages be?

Verse ConceptsBeing FairNegotiationServants, Working Conditions OfWagesFree Of Charge

And she conceived again, and bare a son: and said, Because Jehovah hath heard that I am hated, he hath therefore given me this'son also. And she called his name Simeon.

Verse ConceptsGod Paid Attention To MeHating IndividualsPeople With Apt Names

And she conceived again, and bare a son. And said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have borne him three sons. Therefore was his name called Levi.

Verse ConceptsThree ChildrenPeople With Apt Names

And she conceived again, and bare a son. And she said, This time will I praise Jehovah. Therefore she called his name Judah. And she left off bearing.

Verse ConceptsCessationShowing Forth His PraisePeople With Apt Nameschildbearing

And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.

Verse ConceptsGod VindicatesGod Paid Attention To MePeople With Apt Namesvindication

And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken away my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to-night for thy son's mandrakes.

Verse ConceptsMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenTaking Other PeopleUnimportant Things

And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed:

Verse ConceptsThings As Witnesses

Therefore the children of Israel eat not the sinew of the hip which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip.

Verse ConceptsWeakness, PhysicalThighsTouching To HarmForbidden FoodStatutes To This Daymuscles

And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him a house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

Verse ConceptsBuild, LiterallyBooths

These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for, behold, the land is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.

Verse ConceptsMoney, Stewardship OfLiving In The LandMen Of Peace

Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, And evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.

Verse ConceptsAnimals Eating PeopleWild Animals DevouringAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleUnfulfilled Word

And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, Wherefore hast thou made a breach for thyself? Therefore his name was called Perez.

Verse ConceptsThe Act Of OpeningOpening The WombPeople With Apt Names

Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsDiscretionAuthority Delegated To People

And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

Verse ConceptsGuilty ConsciencesGuilt, Human Aspects OfAfflicted Saints, Examples OfFound GuiltyPeople Without MercyWhy It HappenedHuman Awareness Of Guilt

And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore also, behold, his blood is required.

Verse ConceptsBlood, as symbol of guiltJudgement On MurderersWronging Other Peopleaccounting

Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;

Verse ConceptsNowhere To Be FoundThose Who Loved

Now therefore, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.

Verse ConceptsVicarious SubstitutionHalf brothers

And they said unto Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land are we come; for there is no pasture for thy servants flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.

Verse ConceptsSojourningNo FoodLiving In The Land

My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

Verse ConceptsNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenThe Cave Of Machpelah

Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

Verse ConceptsKindnessKind WordsPeople Providingprovidingreassurance

Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses.

Verse ConceptsAbuse Of Authority, Examples OfOppression, Nature OfStoringSuffering, Causes OfSuffering, HardshipSuffering, Nature OfTaskmastersStores Of FoodForced Labour

And the number of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish aught thereof: for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

Verse ConceptsOppression, Examples OfNumbers ReducingNo Reduction

But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and sacrifice to Jehovah.

Verse Conceptshumor

Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the number of bricks.

Now therefore send, hasten in thy cattle and all that thou hast in the field; for every man and beast that shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.

Verse ConceptsHow Death Is InevitableBoth Men And Animals Killed

Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and entreat Jehovah your God, that he may take away from me this death only.

Verse ConceptsNot DyingDeath PreventedForgive One AnotherPray For UsPraying For SinnersForgiveness

And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance for ever.

Verse ConceptsGenerationsLaw, OtNew Year, TheOrdinancesRegulations For PassoverEarthly ArmiesGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptThe Law Given To Israel

Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.

Verse ConceptsOrdinancesEvery Year

and it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that Jehovah slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both the first-born of man, and the first-born of beast: therefore I sacrifice to Jehovah all that openeth the womb, being males; but all the first-born of my sons I redeem.

Verse ConceptsStubbornness, Consequences OfDeath Of The FirstbornGod KillingMale AnimalsBoth Men And Animals KilledHindering God's WorkGod Killed The PeoplesRegulating Sacrifices

And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.

Verse ConceptsPoisonBitter WaterPeople Naming ThingsBitterness

See, for that Jehovah hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesDouble PortionsThe Sixth Day Of The WeekTwo DaysMotionlessnessStaying PutDay 6Gifts Of GodOther Gifts Of God

Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be mine own possession from among all peoples: for all the earth is mine:

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To GodPeople Of God, In OtReward, DivineSecurityTreasureCautionObedience To GodJews As God's Chosen PeopleResponsibility, Of Natural WorldAll Things Belong To GodRoyal Priesthood

And ye shall be holy men unto me: therefore ye shall not eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.

Verse ConceptsAnimals, religious role ofdogsPeople Of God, In OtAnimals, Types OfAnimals Torn To PiecesA Holy NationForbidden FoodPets

Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that profaneth it shall surely be put to death; for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentSabbath, In OtGoldsmithsHoly TimesSabbath ObservedThose To Be Cut Off From IsraelLack Of Holiness

now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.

Verse ConceptsGod Will Be AngryIsrael Hardened

And Jehovah said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people; if I go up into the midst of thee for one moment, I shall consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.

Verse ConceptsNecksCharacter Of WickedCosmeticsPeople Stripping OffGod Might Kill His Peoplejewelry

Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found favor in thy sight, show me now thy ways, that I may know thee, to the end that I may find favor in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.

Verse ConceptsKnowing God's WaysNationalism

For I am Jehovah your God: sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that moveth upon the earth.

Verse ConceptsGod, The LordLaw, OtSexual Sin, Nature OfSin, And God's CharacterUnclean SpiritsPeople Polluting ThemselvesThe Lord Is GodBe Holy For I Am Holy

For I am Jehovah that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Acts Of In OtClaimsI Am The LordBe Holy For I Am HolyI Will Be Their GodGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.

Verse ConceptsForbidden Food

For as to the life of all flesh, the blood thereof is all one with the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh; for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.

Verse ConceptsPeople Consuming BloodForbidden FoodThose To Be Cut Off From IsraelBlood

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and mine ordinances; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsI Am The LordLife Through Keeping The LawWorks Of The LawBlessings Of Obedience

And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out her inhabitants.

Verse ConceptsRetributionSin, Effects OfPolluting The LandDefilementovereating

Ye therefore shall keep my statutes and mine ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the home-born, nor the stranger that sojourneth among you;

Verse ConceptsForeignersAliens, Believers DutyStrangersForeigners Included In The LawKeep The Commandments!Aliensextraterrestrials

Therefore shall ye keep my charge, that ye practise not any of these abominable customs, which were practised before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am Jehovah your God.

Verse ConceptsCustomPurity, Moral And SpiritualThe Lord Is GodHating Uncleanness

Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all mine ordinances, and do them; that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, vomit you not out.

Verse ConceptsKeep The Commandments!Eviction

And ye shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

Verse ConceptsCustomAbhorConformityExamples, Badevil, warnings againstMannersPollutionsEvil AssociationsNot Imitating EvilGod Hating People

Ye shall therefore make a distinction between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by bird, or by anything wherewith the ground teemeth, which I have separated from you as unclean.

Verse ConceptsDefilement, Ceremonial CausesMan DifferentiatingClean And UncleanAnimals Having A Soul

They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God; for the offerings of Jehovah made by fire, the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.

Verse ConceptsCripplesHoliness Of MinistersIrreverenceMinisters, Should BeProfaning God's NameMaking People Holy

Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I Jehovah, who sanctify you, am holy.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTRitual LawBe Holy For I Am Holy

They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it: I am Jehovah who sanctifieth them.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesRitual LawSin BearerStewardshipDeath Due To God's PresenceI Am The LordMaking People Holy

And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow, and ye shall eat flesh; for ye have wept in the ears of Jehovah, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore Jehovah will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.

Verse ConceptsMaking People HolyEating Meat

Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

Verse ConceptsImpotence Of GodDying In The WildernessGod KillingGod Killed His People

For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned back from following Jehovah, therefore Jehovah will not be with you.

Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands forKilled With The Sword

Therefore thou and all thy company are gathered together against Jehovah: and Aaron, what is he that ye murmur against him?

Verse ConceptsAaron, Life EventsGrumbling At PeopleOther Unimportant PeopleComplaining

even the censers of these sinners against their own lives; and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before Jehovah; therefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsSetting Up The Bronze AltarThings As Signs

For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a heave-offering unto Jehovah, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

Verse ConceptsAnimal Sacrifices, Heave OfferingFood For Priests DefinedNo Earthly InheritanceThe Tithe For LevitesTithes And Offering

Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye heave the best thereof from it, then it shall be reckoned unto the Levites as the increase of the threshing-floor, and as the increase of the wine-press.

And Jehovah said unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed not in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.

Verse Conceptsdoubt, results ofHonorMoses, Life OfTrust, Lack OfUnbelief, Examples OfSkepticismDoubting GodDishonoring GodUnbelief Toward God

Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyInvitationsSorcery And MagicCursing IsraelPeople Blessing

for I will promote thee unto very great honor, and whatsoever thou sayest unto me I will do: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyCursing Israel

Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what Jehovah will speak unto me more.

And Balaam said unto the angel of Jehovah, I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again.

Verse ConceptsAcknowledge, SinIndividuals going homeIgnorant Of FactsWe Have Sinned

Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honor; but, lo, Jehovah hath kept thee back from honor.

Verse ConceptsReward, HumanGod HinderingNo Reward

Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

Verse ConceptsInfantsDeath Of All MalesMan And Womanteenager

And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the border of your brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore;

Verse ConceptsFearing Other People

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, that shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

Verse ConceptsNationalismUnderstandingWisdom, Human NatureDealing With The NationsGod's Word Gives WisdomKeep The Commandments!Discernmentwise

Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of form on the day that Jehovah spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire.

Verse ConceptsWatchfulness, Of BelieversGod Appearing In FireNot Seeing God

And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;

Verse ConceptsPeople Of God, In OtGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptGod's Love For IsraelDadsFathers Love

Know therefore this day, and lay it to thy heart, that Jehovah he is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath; there is none else.

Verse ConceptsGod, Present EverywhereGod, Sovereignty OfGod, Uniqueness OfOrthodoxy, In OtNo Other Is GodThe Lord Is GodThe Lord [Yahweh] Is God

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God brought thee out thence by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore Jehovah thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfGod, As RedeemerHand Of GodHolidayRememberingCaptivity, Of IsraelAbusive ParentsArm Of GodGod's HandGroups Of SlavesKeeping The SabbathGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of Jehovah our God any more, then we shall die.

Verse ConceptsDeath Due To God's PresenceFire Emanating From Godrisk

Ye shall observe to do therefore as Jehovah your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

Verse ConceptsOrthodoxy, In OtMoving ForwardNot Turning Aside

Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as Jehovah, the God of thy fathers, hath promised unto thee, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

Verse ConceptsFoodLand, Spiritual Aspects OfMilkGod Multipling PeopleMilk And Honey

Thou shalt therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command thee this day, to do them.

Verse ConceptsPresent, TheKeep The Commandments!

Know therefore this day, that Jehovah thy God is he who goeth over before thee as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before thee: so shalt thou drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as Jehovah hath spoken unto thee.

Verse ConceptsBattlesAssurance in the life of faithGod DestroyingCrossing Into The Promised Landtoughness

Know therefore, that Jehovah thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.

Verse ConceptsUnderstandingObstinacy Against GodStiffnecked PeopleNecksSelf Will

Therefore thou shalt love Jehovah thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, alway.

Verse ConceptsAdoration, Of GodCommitment, to GodOrthodoxy, In OtLove Towards God, Nature OfLove For GodThe Need To Love GodKeep The Commandments!improvement