Thematic Bible: Commands


Thematic Bible



Now announce to the people that both men and women should ask their neighbors for silver and gold jewelry.”

Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month they must each select an animal of the flock according to their fathers’ households, one animal per household.

“Command the Israelites to give cities out of their hereditary property for the Levites to live in and pastureland around the cities.

In addition the Lord said to him, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, his hand was diseased, white as snow.

“Go and tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go from his land.”

So the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron: Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over their rivers, canals, ponds, and all their water reservoirs—and they will become blood. There will be blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in wooden and stone containers.”

The Lord then said to Moses, “Tell Aaron: Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, canals, and ponds, and cause the frogs to come up onto the land of Egypt.”

Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of furnace soot, and Moses is to throw it toward heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.

The Lord then said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt and the locusts will come up over it and eat every plant in the land, everything that the hail left.”

“Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of every male one by one.

March around the city with all the men of war, circling the city one time. Do this for six days.











Then Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid; go and do as you have said. But first make me a small loaf from it and bring it out to me. Afterward, you may make some for yourself and your son,

Then he said, “Go and borrow empty containers from everyone—from all your neighbors. Do not get just a few.

She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go sell the oil and pay your debt; you and your sons can live on the rest.”

Then he said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Dig ditch after ditch in this wadi.’

Then Elisha sent him a messenger, who said, “Go wash seven times in the Jordan and your flesh will be restored and you will be clean.”

Eli responded, “Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant the petition you’ve requested from Him.”


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