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When he drove the man out, he placed on the eastern side of the orchard in Eden angelic sentries who used the flame of a whirling sword to guard the way to the tree of life.

Verse ConceptsBefore The FloodGuardsGuardiansSwordsEdenCherubim, Description ofSeeking LifeMetaphorical TreesFire From God's ServantsGod's SwordTree Of LifeAngelic GuardianshipGardensCherubimDirectionautonomyclosure

Shem and Japheth took the garment and placed it on their shoulders. Then they walked in backwards and covered up their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so they did not see their father's nakedness.

Verse ConceptsShouldersCoveringCovering The BodySonsClothing OthersOuter GarmentsBackwardsNot Seeing PeopleDads

and the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon all the way to Gerar as far as Gaza, and all the way to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

Verse ConceptsSodom And Gomorrah

Their dwelling place was from Mesha all the way to Sephar in the eastern hills.

Lot looked up and saw the whole region of the Jordan. He noticed that all of it was well-watered (before the Lord obliterated Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, all the way to Zoar.

Verse ConceptsGarden Of Eden, TheHorticultureYielding To TemptationDestruction Of Cities

that I will take nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal. That way you can never say, 'It is I who made Abram rich.'

Verse ConceptsMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinShoesCords

And let me get a bit of food so that you may refresh yourselves since you have passed by your servant's home. After that you may be on your way." "All right," they replied, "you may do as you say."

Verse ConceptsBread, As FoodServanthood, In Life Of BelieversPeople Refreshed

When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom. (Now Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way.)

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Testing And VictoryGoing TogetherSetting Out

The Lord went on his way when he had finished speaking to Abraham. Then Abraham returned home.

Verse ConceptsCommunion With God, Examples OfLast WordsIndividuals going home

He said, "Here, my lords, please turn aside to your servant's house. Stay the night and wash your feet. Then you can be on your way early in the morning." "No," they replied, "we'll spend the night in the town square."

Verse ConceptsFoot washingGuestsMorningServanthood, In SocietySalutationsHospitalityFeet WashingTravellersCity SquaresClean FeetThose Who Rose EarlyCare Of FeetStaying Temporarily

"Out of our way!" they cried, and "This man came to live here as a foreigner, and now he dares to judge us! We'll do more harm to you than to them!" They kept pressing in on Lot until they were close enough to break down the door.

Verse ConceptsSeductionThreateningsSojourningPressingBroken ThingsSuffering From ForeignersWorse

Later the older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere nearby to have sexual relations with us, according to the way of all the world.

Verse ConceptsAbsence Of SexFirstborn DaughtersNo One AvailableUnpremeditatedFather And Daughter Relationships

I will say to a young woman, 'Please lower your jar so I may drink.' May the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac reply, 'Drink, and I'll give your camels water too.' In this way I will know that you have been faithful to my master."

Verse ConceptsDrinksWater ContainersRequesting FoodMan Providing WaterSeeking A SignGod Appointing OthersGiving In Marriage

Now, if you will show faithful love to my master, tell me. But if not, tell me as well, so that I may go on my way."

Verse ConceptsChanging DirectionGiving InformationTurning To Right And Left

So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, accompanied by her female attendant, with Abraham's servant and his men.

Verse ConceptsBetrothalMarriage, Customs ConcerningMarriage, The BrideNamed SistersPeople Sending People

His descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which runs next to Egypt all the way to Asshur. They settled away from all their relatives.

Verse ConceptsOpposite Sides

Go to the flock and get me two of the best young goats. I'll prepare them in a tasty way for your father, just the way he loves them.

Verse ConceptsGoatsAnimals, Types OfSavourinessTwo AnimalsLoving Other Things

So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother. She prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it.

Verse ConceptsSavourinessLoving Other Things

So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Verse ConceptsJacob, Life And Character Of

After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me on my way so that I can go home to my own country.

Verse ConceptsReturning to their landPeople Sending People

In this way God has snatched away your father's livestock and given them to me.

Verse ConceptsGifts Of GodOther Gifts Of GodTaking Animals

So Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him.

Verse ConceptsMeeting GodAngels Going At God's Bidding

Then Esau said, "Let's be on our way! I will go in front of you."

Verse ConceptsIn Front

So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

Verse ConceptsBurials, Places OfDyingDeath Of A ChildDeath Of A Mother

So she removed her widow's clothes and covered herself with a veil. She wrapped herself and sat at the entrance to Enaim which is on the way to Timnah. (She did this because she saw that she had not been given to Shelah as a wife, even though he had now grown up.)

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

When his master heard his wife say, "This is the way your slave treated me," he became furious.

Verse ConceptsPrisonersTelling What People DidNamed People Angry With Others

This food should be held in storage for the land in preparation for the seven years of famine that will occur throughout the land of Egypt. In this way the land will survive the famine."

Verse ConceptsFrugality

You will be tested in this way: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you will not depart from this place unless your youngest brother comes here.

Verse ConceptsThe Youngest Child

One of you must go and get your brother, while the rest of you remain in prison. In this way your words may be tested to see if you are telling the truth. If not, then, as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!"

Verse ConceptsPrisonersSpyingPeople Sending People

They replied, "The man questioned us thoroughly about ourselves and our family, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?' So we answered him in this way. How could we possibly know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down'?"

Verse ConceptsAsking Particular QuestionsAnswering PeopleNot Knowing The FutureLiving On

Then he sent his brothers on their way and they left. He said to them, "As you travel don't be overcome with fear."

Verse ConceptsFamilies, Nature OfSiblings

But as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, Rachel died -- to my sorrow -- in the land of Canaan. It happened along the way, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there on the way to Ephrath" (that is, Bethlehem).

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Experience OfUnhappiness

He looked this way and that and saw that no one was there, and then he attacked the Egyptian and concealed the body in the sand.

Verse ConceptsSandInadequate BurialsUnseenLooking And SeeingSand And Gravel

Now on the way, at a place where they stopped for the night, the Lord met Moses and sought to kill him.

Verse ConceptsInnsOpposition, To Sin And EvilMeeting GodGod KillingStaying TemporarilyGod Killing Individuals

The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh, "Why are you treating your servants this way?

Verse ConceptsAskingWhy Do You Do This?

When Pharaoh released the people, God did not lead them by the way to the land of the Philistines, although that was nearby, for God said, "Lest the people change their minds and return to Egypt when they experience war."

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Causes OfPeople Changing Their MindsReturning to the oldPrinciples Of WarMind BattlesStress And Hard Times

So God brought the people around by the way of the desert to the Red Sea, and the Israelites went up from the land of Egypt prepared for battle.

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalComing To The Red SeaGod Led Them Through The WildernessEarthly Armies

Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt for Israel's sake, and all the hardship that had come on them along the way, and how the Lord had delivered them.

Verse ConceptsTravelling With GodSuffering, HardshipHard TasksTelling Of GodWhy God Did Things

warn them of the statutes and the laws, and make known to them the way in which they must walk and the work they must do.

Verse ConceptsGod's WaysMoses, Significance OfScripture TeachingLearning The Right WayThe Law ProclaimedWalking In God's WaySocial dutiesDecision Making

Then Moses sent his father-in-law on his way, and so Jethro went to his own land.

Verse ConceptsReturning to their landDispensations

The Lord said to Moses, "Go down and solemnly warn the people, lest they force their way through to the Lord to look, and many of them perish.

Verse ConceptsSeeing GodDeath Due To God's Presence

The Lord said to him, "Go, get down, and come up, and Aaron with you, but do not let the priests and the people force their way through to come up to the Lord, lest he break through against them."

Verse ConceptsAaron, PrivilegesGoing Up MountainsMan Going DownBreaking Forth

If you afflict them in any way and they cry to me, I will surely hear their cry,

Verse ConceptsAnswered PromisesCries Of Distress To GodGod Pays AttentionHurtvulnerability

You are to make loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in one set, and in the same way you are to make loops in the outer edge of the end curtain in the second set.

Verse ConceptsClothBlue Cords

with two projections per frame parallel one to another. You are to make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.

Verse ConceptsTwo Parts Of ConstructionsTenons And Bars

"You are to make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it the way a seal is engraved: "Holiness to the Lord."

Verse ConceptsSealsToolsPlatesengraving

They have quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them -- they have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said, 'These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt.'"

Verse ConceptsBowingRenunciationWhat Is Not GodBringing Israel Out Of EgyptOthers Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptWork Soon DoneWorshipping Material Things

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, and I might destroy you on the way."

Verse ConceptsFoodStubbornness, Consequences OfTent Of MeetingObstinacy Against GodGod Might Kill His PeopleMilk And HoneyRich Food

The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, the way a person speaks to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his servant, Joshua son of Nun, a young man, did not leave the tent.

Verse ConceptsFace Of GodMoses, Significance OfPrayer, As A Response To GodTent Of MeetingTentsCommunion With God, Examples OfDivine FriendshipStaying PutBeing Face To Face With GodGod SpeakingFriendship And Trust

Now if I have found favor in your sight, show me your way, that I may know you, that I may continue to find favor in your sight. And see that this nation is your people."

Verse ConceptsKnowing God's WaysNationalism

with two projections per frame parallel one to another. He made all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.

Verse ConceptsTwo Parts Of Constructions

"In this way Aaron is to enter into the sanctuary -- with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

Verse ConceptsBurnt offeringDay Of AtonementHigh Priest, In OtEntering The TabernacleSacrificing Cattle

If, however, he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free in the jubilee year, he and his children with him,

Verse ConceptsYearsPeople Freeing Slaves

So the Israelites did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses; that is the way they camped under their standards, and that is the way they traveled, each with his clan and family.

Verse ConceptsFlagsCamping During The Exodus

"Tell Aaron and his sons, 'This is the way you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them:

Verse ConceptsBlessingSons Being A Blessing

They may assist their colleagues in the tent of meeting, to attend to needs, but they must do no work. This is the way you must establish the Levites regarding their duties."

Verse ConceptsGroups Helping

This is the way it used to be continually: The cloud would cover it by day, and there was a fiery appearance by night.

(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites were living in the valleys.) Tomorrow, turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea."

Verse ConceptsValleysComing To The Red SeaGod Led Them Through The Wilderness

"'Every native-born person must do these things in this way to present an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsClosing UpRefreshing God

If a resident foreigner is living with you -- or whoever is among you in future generations -- and prepares an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, he must do it the same way you are to do it.

Verse ConceptsSmellsAromasAltarsForeigners Permitted At The FeastsForeigners Included In The LawRefreshing God

Then they traveled from Mount Hor by the road to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom, but the people became impatient along the way.

Verse ConceptsImpatienceComing To The Red SeaFalling

Then the angel of the Lord went farther, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right or to the left.

Verse ConceptsNarrow ThingsNo RoomTurning To Right And Left

The donkey said to Balaam, "Am not I your donkey that you have ridden ever since I was yours until this day? Have I ever attempted to treat you this way?" And he said, "No."

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyRiding DonkeysPeople Possessing Other Things

Then the Lord opened Balaam's eyes, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way with his sword drawn in his hand; so he bowed his head and threw himself down with his face to the ground.

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyBowingProstrationReceiving SightSeeing AngelsGod's Sword

So now, go back where you came from! I said that I would greatly honor you; but now the Lord has stood in the way of your honor."

Verse ConceptsReward, HumanGod HinderingNo Reward

Balaam got up and departed and returned to his home, and Balak also went his way.

Verse ConceptsReturning to their land

But if her husband clearly nullifies them when he hears them, then whatever she says by way of vows or obligations will not stand. Her husband has made them void, and the Lord will release her from them.

Verse ConceptsGod Will Forgive

In this way the inheritance of the Israelites will not be transferred from tribe to tribe. But every one of the Israelites must retain the ancestral heritage.

Verse ConceptsReal Estate

Now it is ordinarily an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea by way of Mount Seir.

Verse ConceptsRoadsTen Or More Days

Then we left Horeb and passed through all that immense, forbidding wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the Lord our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.

Verse ConceptsMonotony

the one who was constantly going before you to find places for you to set up camp. He appeared by fire at night and cloud by day, to show you the way you ought to go.

Verse ConceptsGuardiansJourneyDivine ManifestationsGod Going BeforeGod Appearing In FireLearning The Right WayCamping During The Exodus

Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way, and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad, will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.

Verse ConceptsLack Of DiscernmentImmaturityInexperienceAge Of AccountabilityKnowing Right And WrongRules About Young PeopleThose Who Were IgnorantBabies Going To Heaven

But as for you, turn back and head for the desert by the way to the Red Sea."

Verse ConceptsComing To The Red SeaGod Led Them Through The WildernessDirection

Then we turned and set out toward the desert land on the way to the Red Sea just as the Lord told me to do, detouring around Mount Seir for a long time.

Verse ConceptsComing To The Red SeaGod Led Them Through The WildernessStaying A Long TimeFalling

All along the way I, the Lord your God, have blessed your every effort. I have been attentive to your travels through this great wasteland. These forty years I have been with you; you have lacked for nothing.'"

Verse ConceptsLackDesertsGod, The ProviderJourneyThe Number FortyWatchfulness, DivineDivine SuppliesanniversariesGod, All knowing40 To 50 YearsPlenty In The WildernessGod Has Been With YouBlessings From Godwandering

So we turned away from our relatives the descendants of Esau, the inhabitants of Seir, turning from the desert route, from Elat and Ezion Geber, and traveling the way of the Moab wastelands.

Verse ConceptsHighway

Get up, make your way across Wadi Arnon. Look! I have already delivered over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Go ahead! Take it! Engage him in war!

Verse ConceptsRiver ArnonFighting EnemiesThose God Gave Into Their HandsBattle

From Aroer, which is at the edge of Wadi Arnon (it is the city in the wadi), all the way to Gilead there was not a town able to resist us -- the Lord our God gave them all to us.

Verse ConceptsCities Under AttackArnonThose God Gave Into Their Hands

To the Reubenites and Gadites I allocated the territory extending from Gilead as far as Wadi Arnon (the exact middle of the wadi was a boundary) all the way to the Wadi Jabbok, the Ammonite border.

Verse ConceptsRivers And Streams

You must not make use of the name of the Lord your God for worthless purposes, for the Lord will not exonerate anyone who abuses his name that way.

Verse ConceptsBad Languageethics, personalGod, The LordLaw, Ten CommandmentsOaths, HumanRespect, For God's CharacterSpeech, Negative Aspects OfCursingProfaning God's NameMisusing God's Name

you must say to them, "We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt in a powerful way.

Verse ConceptsempiresOppression, God's Attitude ToGod's HandGroups Of SlavesGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

And he said to me, "Get up, go down at once from here because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have sinned! They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them and have made for themselves a cast metal image."

Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands forSin, Nature OfMan Going Down

When I looked, you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God and had cast for yourselves a metal calf; you had quickly turned aside from the way he had commanded you!

Verse ConceptsGolden CalvesGod's People Sinning

and the curse if you pay no attention to his commandments and turn from the way I am setting before you today to pursue other gods you have not known.

Verse ConceptsGod's WaysDisobedience, To GodUnknown GodsThe Curse Of The LawDifferent GodsPenalties For Serving Other GodsObeying Goddisobediencecursesobeying

You must not worship the Lord your God the way they worship.

Verse ConceptsNot Imitating EvilWorshiping God

You must not worship the Lord your God the way they do! For everything that is abhorrent to him, everything he hates, they have done when worshiping their gods. They even burn up their sons and daughters before their gods!

Verse ConceptsAbominationsChild sacrificeHatredSacrifice, In OtSanctity Of LifeIdolatry, Wicked Practices OfPagan PracticesAbominations, Idolatry IsAbominations, PracticesHuman SacrificesAbominations, To GodGod Hating Things

As for that prophet or dreamer, he must be executed because he encouraged rebellion against the Lord your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, redeeming you from that place of slavery, and because he has tried to entice you from the way the Lord your God has commanded you to go. In this way you must purge out evil from within.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerBad InfluenceGod's WaysPurity, Moral And SpiritualRebellion, Against GodSatan, Agents OfSatan, As DeceiverMisleading DreamsFalse Prophets DenouncedGroups Of SlavesWalking In God's WayDeath Penalty For HeresyGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptDreams And False Prophets

The witnesses must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

Verse ConceptsBeing Firstevil, warnings againstBanishmentPurity, Moral And SpiritualWitnesses, LegalFirst To Act

Moreover, he must not accumulate horses for himself or allow the people to return to Egypt to do so, for the Lord has said you must never again return that way.

Verse ConceptsHorsesKings, Duties OfNeverPeople not returningAcquiring Horses

and then you are careful to observe all these commandments I am giving you today (namely, to love the Lord your God and to always walk in his ways), then you must add three more cities to these three.

Verse ConceptsThree CitiesWalking In The Ways Of GodIf You Keep The CommandmentsThe Need To Love God

you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentSin, God's Judgment OnEquality Of Punishment

so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship their gods, causing you to sin against the Lord your God.

Verse ConceptsMisteachingEncouraged To Serve Foreign gods

Then all the men of his city must stone him to death. In this way you will purge out wickedness from among you, and all Israel will hear about it and be afraid.

Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstBanishmentPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSelf WillChildren, UngratefulFear Is DueInstructions About Stoning

the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father's house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father's house. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

Verse ConceptsdisgraceBanishmentPunishment, Legal Aspects OfDeath Penalty For Sexual SinInstructions About StoningsexDeath Of A MotherDeath Of A FatherSex Before MarriageFamily DeathFather And Daughter RelationshipsFathers And Daughtersmistresspremaritalwhoresvirginity