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Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If [you want what is on] the left, then I will go right; if [you want what is on] the right, I will go left."

Verse ConceptsPeople PartingTurning To Right And Left

Abram replied to Sarai, “Here, your slave is in your hands; do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai mistreated her so much that she ran away from her.

Verse ConceptsAbuse Of Authority, Examples OfMastersOppression, Nature OfSuffering, Causes OfEmployers, Bad ExamplesGiven Into One's HandsLeaving People Alonemistress

that I must go down and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests. If not, I want to know."

Verse ConceptsGod Seeing The WickedInvestigatingOutcry

Perhaps there may want five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city on account of the five? And he said, If I shall find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.

Verse ConceptsFive PeopleFortiesNumbers Of Righteous PeopleShortage Other Than Food

Look, I’ve got two daughters who haven’t had sexual relations with a man. I’ll bring them out to you, and you can do whatever you want to them. However, don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the protection of my roof.”

Verse ConceptsdaughtersRooftopVirginTwo WomenLeaving People AloneNever Giving UpFather And Daughter RelationshipsProtecting Your FamilyFathers And Daughters

Abimelech said, “Look, my land is before you. Settle wherever you want.”

Verse ConceptsLiving In The Land

"What if the woman doesn't want to come back with me to this land?" the servant asked. "Shouldn't I have your son go to the land from which you came?"

Verse ConceptsReturning to the oldPeople Unwilling

When she had done so, she said, "I'll draw water for your camels too, until they have drunk as much as they want."

Verse ConceptsDrawing WaterMan Providing Water

When food was served, he said, "I will not eat until I have said what I want to say." "Tell us," Laban said.

Verse ConceptsDinnerGiving InformationThose Who Provided A Meal

But I said to my master, 'What if the woman does not want to go with me?'

Verse ConceptsPeople Unwilling

Then they said, "We'll call the girl and find out what she wants to do."

Verse ConceptsAsking

So they called Rebekah and asked her, "Do you want to go with this man?" "I will go," she replied.

Verse ConceptsPeople Willing

But the children struggled inside her, and she said, "If it is going to be like this, I'm not so sure I want to be pregnant!" So she asked the Lord,

Verse ConceptsBabies In The WombGrinding PeopleWhy Does This Happen?Fighting One AnotherstruggleLife StrugglesFamily ConflictStrugglesHaving A Baby

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am deeply depressed because of these daughters of Heth. If Jacob were to marry one of these daughters of Heth who live in this land, I would want to die!"

Verse ConceptsHope, Results Of Its AbsenceMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningWearinessWeariness Of Life

But Leah replied to her, “Isn’t it enough that you have taken my husband? Now you also want to take my son’s mandrakes?”

“Well,” Rachel said, “you can sleep with him tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”

Verse ConceptsMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenTaking Other PeopleUnimportant Things

He added, "Just name your wages -- I'll pay whatever you want."

Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"

Verse ConceptsHomeLove, And The WorldRight DesiresRobbing Gods

You are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For he thought, “I want to appease Esau with the gift that is going ahead of me. After that, I can face him, and perhaps he will forgive me.”

Live with us anywhere you want. Live, trade, and grow rich in it."

Verse ConceptsTradeLiving In The LandProperty

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Live as a widow in your father's house until Shelah my son grows up." For he thought, "I don't want him to die like his brothers." So Tamar went and lived in her father's house.

Verse ConceptsSinglenessGrowing UpDaughters In LawPossibility Of DeathActual WidowsWaiting Till Marriage

He turned aside to her along the road and said, "Come on! I want to have sex with you." (He did not realize it was his daughter-in-law.) She asked, "What will you give me in exchange for having sex with you?"

Verse ConceptsDaughters In LawNot Recognising PeopleWages Of A Prostitute

Then he asked, "What pledge do you want me to give you?"

Verse ConceptsSealsStaffConceptionCords

but afterward seven years of famine and hunger will come, and [there will be such desperate need that] all the great abundance [of the previous years] will be forgotten in the land of Egypt [as if it never happened], and famine and destitution will ravage and destroy the land.

Verse ConceptsForgetting ThingsBad Luck

Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything happens to me!”

Verse ConceptsPeople OpposedIndividuals Passing AwayBereavement

But the men were afraid when they were brought to Joseph's house. They said, "We are being brought in because of the money that was returned in our sacks last time. He wants to capture us, make us slaves, and take our donkeys!"

Verse ConceptsIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyLoss Of DonkeysWhy People Did ThingsFear Of Individuals

For how can I go up to my father if the boy is not with me? {I do not want to see} the misery which will find my father."

Verse ConceptsNot With People

There I will provide for you and sustain you, so that you and your household and all that are yours may not become impoverished, for there are still five years of famine to come.”’

Verse ConceptsPoverty, Causes OfFive YearsPeople ProvidingAvoiding Poverty

Judah is a young lion
my son, you return from the kill.
He crouches; he lies down like a lion
or a lioness—who dares to rouse him?

Verse ConceptsHuntingLions, Figurative Use OfLionsYoung AnimalVigourCrouchingLike Creatures

When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "What if Joseph bears a grudge and wants to repay us in full for all the harm we did to him?"

Verse ConceptsGrudgesResentment, Against PeopleResponseRepaying Evil For EvilNamed People Angry With Others

And Pharaoh said, "Look, the people of the land [are] now many, and you want to stop them from their {forced labor}."

Verse ConceptsMany In Israel

No! Go now, you who are men, [without your families] and serve the Lord, if that is what you want.” So Moses and Aaron were driven from Pharaoh’s presence.

Verse Conceptsdriving outMen WorshippingWorshipping God

The LORD made Pharaoh's heart stubborn, and he did not want to let them go.

Verse ConceptsGod Hardening People

And when an alien dwells with you and he wants to prepare [the] Passover for Yahweh, every male belonging to him must be circumcised, and then he may come near to prepare it, and he will be as the native of the land, but any uncircumcised [man] may not eat it.

Verse ConceptsForeignersExclusivenessUncircumcisionForeigners Permitted At The FeastsCircumcisionStrangers in israelAliens

And he said to them, "This is what Yahweh has said. Tomorrow [is] a rest period, a holy Sabbath for Yahweh. Bake what you [want to] bake, and boil what you [want to] boil. Put aside all the surplus for yourselves for safekeeping until the morning."

Verse ConceptsCooking, MethodsLaw, Ten CommandmentsSabbaths InstitutedResttomorrowcooking

“But if the slave declares: ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I do not want to leave as a free man,’

Verse ConceptsEmployeesPeople Freeing SlavesWivesslaveryservanthood

“If you see the donkey of someone who hates you lying helpless under its load, and you want to refrain from helping it, you must help with it.

Verse Conceptsevil, believers' responses toResponsibility, For God's WorldAnimal RightsHeavy BurdensPeople HelpingLoving Your Enemies

And if he indeed wants to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth of it onto your proper value.

Verse ConceptsRedemption, In Everyday LifeFractions, One Fifth

If the one who consecrates his house should wish to redeem it, then he shall add one-fifth of your valuation price to it, so that it may be his.

If he does not redeem the field, but has sold it to another man, it may no longer be redeemed.

Verse ConceptsNot Redeemed

If a man wishes to redeem any part of his tithe, he shall add one-fifth to it.

Verse ConceptsRedemptionTithes And OfferingValueGiving Backredeemed

Then said those men unto him, We, are unclean by a dead person, - wherefore should we become of less esteem for want of offering the oblation of Yahweh in its appointed season, in the midst of the sons of Israel?

Verse ConceptsRules About Corpses

“If a foreigner resides with you and wants to observe the Passover to the Lord, he is to do so according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to apply the same statute to both the foreign resident and the native of the land.”

Verse ConceptsGentiles, In OtOrdinancesPassoverAliens, Believers DutyStrangersForeigners Permitted At The FeastsForeigners Included In The Law

But he replied to him, “I don’t want to go. Instead, I will go to my own land and my relatives.”

Verse ConceptsLove, And The WorldReturning to their landPeople Unwilling

If this is how you treat me, please kill me right now, if I've found favor in your eyes, because I don't want to keep staring at all of this misery!"

Verse ConceptsHope, Results Of Its AbsenceUniversality Of DeathDepression, SymptomsUnwise PrayersApproval To Kill Oneself

From Jehovah's want of ability to bring in this people unto the land which He hath sworn to them -- He doth slaughter them in the wilderness.

Verse ConceptsImpotence Of GodDying In The WildernessGod KillingGod Killed His People

When a foreigner resides with you or someone else is among you and wants to prepare a fire offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, he is to do exactly as you do throughout your generations.

Verse ConceptsSmellsAromasAltarsForeigners Permitted At The FeastsForeigners Included In The LawRefreshing God

Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of the land that flows with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness? Now do you want to make yourself a prince over us?

Verse ConceptsPossibility Of DeathPlenty In EgyptLording ItMilk And HoneyUnimportant Things

Balaam said to him, “Look, I have come to you, but can I say anything I want? I must speak only the message God puts in my mouth.”

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyMouthsOraclesOracles Of BalaamSpeaking The Word God Gives

Then they approached him and said, “We want to build sheepfolds here for our livestock and cities for our dependents.

Verse ConceptsBuild, LiterallySheepfoldsStock Keeping

a land in which you shall eat bread without want. You shall not lack any thing in it. It is a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.

Verse ConceptsEarth, Description OfBrass

lest the land say from which Thou hast brought us out, Because of Jehovah's want of ability to bring them in unto the land of which He hath spoken to them, and because of His hating them, He brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness;

Verse ConceptsImpotence Of GodDying In The WildernessGod Hating PeopleGod Might Kill His People

“But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the Lord your God has given you. Those who are clean or unclean may eat it, as they would a gazelle or deer,

Verse ConceptsKilling Domesticated AnimalsClean And UncleanDeer Etc.Animals Having A SoulDeerEating Meat

"When Yahweh your God enlarges your territory [just] as he has {promised} to you, and you say 'I want to eat [some] meat,' {because you want it}, {whenever you desire} you may eat meat.

Verse ConceptsFood DefinedEating Meat

If the place where Yahweh your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, you may slaughter any of your herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.

Verse ConceptsFar From HereA Place For God's Name

{take care} so that you are not ensnared {into imitating them} after their being destroyed from {before you}, and so that you not enquire concerning their gods, {saying}, 'How did these nations serve their gods, and [thus] {I myself} want to do also.'

Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionParticipation, In SinImitatingEvil AssociationsNot Imitating EvilAsking Particular QuestionsEvil TrappingDo Not Have Other gods

You may spend the money on anything you want: cattle, sheep, wine, beer, or anything you desire. You are to feast there in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice with your family.

Verse ConceptsAlcoholdrinkingFamilies, Nature OfAlcohol ConsumptionGetting WineStrong DrinkEating Drinking And RejoicingAlcoholic BeveragesAlcoholicsTithes And OfferingCelebrationMoney BlessingsSaving Moneybeeralcoholismfriendliness

but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wants.

Verse ConceptsNeedCreditorsInterestSaints, Care For The PoorAlmsgivingAltruismCharity

And then [if] it will happen [that] he says to you, '{I do not want to go out} from you,' because he loves you and your family, because it is good for him [to be] with you;

Verse ConceptsPeople Freeing SlavesFamily LoveLove And Family

“When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, take possession of it, live in it, and say, ‘I will set a king over me like all the nations around me,’

Verse ConceptsLike The Nations

When a Levite leaves one of your towns where he lives in Israel and wants to go to the place the Lord chooses,

[This is] {according to all that you asked} from Yahweh your God at Horeb, on the day of the assembly, {saying}, '{I do not want again to hear} the voice of Yahweh my God, [and] I do not want to see again this great fire, so that I may not die!'

Verse ConceptsAskingDeath Due To God's PresenceFire Emanating From GodRefusing To HearUnhearing

But if they {do not accept your terms of peace} and they want to make war with you, then you shall lay siege against it.

Verse ConceptsCitySiegesThe Nations Attacked

and you see among the captives a woman beautiful in appearance, and you become attached to her and you want to take her as wife,

Verse ConceptsBeautifulMarriage AllowedWomen's BeautyWifewomanBeautiful Women

And then if you do not take delight in her, then you shall let her go {to do whatever she wants}, but you shall not treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.

Verse Conceptsdivorce, amongst believersAvoid Divorce

Let him live among you wherever he wants within your gates. Do not mistreat him.

Verse ConceptsTroubling Groups Of People

“When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you want until you are full, but you must not put any in your container.

Verse ConceptsFraudCovenant breakersBaskets, Uses OfGrapesVineyard

But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s [widowed] wife, then she shall go up to the gate [of the city, where court is held] to the elders, and say, ‘My brother-in-law refuses to continue his brother’s name in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband’s brother.’

Verse ConceptsOld Age, Attitudes ToTownComing To GatesPeople UnwillingBrothers in lawMarriage Between Man And Woman

Then the elders of his city will summon him and speak to him. And if he stands firm and says, ‘I do not want to marry her,’

Verse ConceptsPeople Unwilling

Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

Verse ConceptsIronNakednessNaked In PovertyIron ObjectsFamine Coming From GodGroups Of SlavesEnemieshunger

And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.

Verse ConceptsCannibalismActing In SecretBirth

"I said, 'I want to cut them in pieces. I want to make people forget they ever existed.

Verse ConceptsOblivionPeople Cut In PiecesForgetting Peopleremembrance

“Neither,” He replied. “I have now come as commander of the Lord’s army.”

Then Joshua bowed with his face to the ground in worship and asked Him, “What does my Lord want to say to His servant?”

Verse ConceptsGesturesAttitudes, in prayerProstrationGod As A WarriorDivinityServant LeadershipResolving Conflictarmyreverence

When she came [to him] she urged him to ask her father for a field. So she dismounted from the donkey, and Caleb said to her, "{What do you want}?"

But if it is bad in your eyes to serve Yahweh, choose for yourselves today whom you want to serve, whether it is the gods that your ancestors served beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you [are] living; but as for me and my household, we will serve Yahweh."

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Of The WillAge, Glories OfFamily, Worship InChoicesdoubt, results ofFamilies, Examples OfGood Decision Making ExamplesIntentionsHeads Of The FamilyChoosingFaithful, Choose To RemainZeal, ReligiousLife's PurposeEmployers, Good ExamplesChoosing God's WayBehold Me!Encouraged To Serve Foreign godsServing One's Own GodsBeyond The EuphratesServingServing God

When she came to Othniel, she persuaded him to [allow her to] ask her father [Caleb] for a field. Then she [rode up to Caleb and] dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?”

Verse ConceptsDismounting

"I want this blessing from you," she replied. "Since you've given me land in the Negev, give me water springs, too." So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs.

Then Gideon told God, "Don't let yourself be angry with me! I want to ask you once again: please let me make a test with the fleece just once more. Cause it to be dry only on the fleece, but let there be dew all around on the ground."

Verse ConceptsAskingTestingLet Not God Be AngryTestsexamsgideon

"Tell all the leaders of Shechem this: 'Why would you want to have seventy men, all Jerub-Baal's sons, ruling over you, when you can have just one ruler? Recall that I am your own flesh and blood.'"

Verse ConceptsBodySeventySame Bone And FleshSeventies

The thornbush said to the trees, 'If you really want to choose me as your king, then come along, find safety under my branches! Otherwise may fire blaze from the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!'

Verse ConceptsCedarShadowsBramblesBurning PlantsPerforming The Truth

So then Yahweh, the God of Israel, has driven out the Amorites from before his people Israel, and you want to possess it?

Verse ConceptsThe Lord Drove Them Out

The Angel of the Lord said to him, “If I stay, I won’t eat your food. But if you want to prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the Lord.” For Manoah did not know He was the Angel of the Lord.

But his father and mother said to him, “Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines for a wife?”

But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, because I want her.”

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, physicalBad Decision Making ExamplesMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningUncircumcisionInfatuationIntermarriageLeaving Parents For Spouse

But if you can't explain it to me, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing." And they said to him, "Propose your riddle, we want to hear it."

Verse ConceptsThirty

After a while, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a {young goat}. He said, "I want to go to my wife's private room." But her father would not allow him to enter.

Verse ConceptsHarvestVisitingWheatSexual Union Intended

Samson said to them, "If you want to behave like this, [I swear] I will not rest unless I have taken revenge on you."

Verse ConceptsCessationMan AvengingRevenge

And the priest said to them, "Go in peace. Yahweh [is] in front of you on the journey you want to go on."

Verse ConceptsGoing In PeacePeace

When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.

Verse ConceptsGiven Into One's Handsland

The five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their kinsmen, "Do you realize that inside these houses are an ephod, some personal idols, a carved image, and a metal image? Decide now what you want to do."

Verse ConceptsFive People

He said, "You stole my gods that I made, as well as this priest, and then went away. What do I have left? How can you have the audacity to say to me, 'What do you want?'"

Verse ConceptsWhat Is The Matter?Robbing GodsUnnamed Priests

But the man did not want to stay another night. He left and traveled as far as Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). He had with him a pair of saddled donkeys and his concubine.

Verse ConceptsPeople Unwilling

Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing.

Verse ConceptsBread, As FoodMangersWineFeeding Animals

And the old man said, Peace be with thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street.

Verse ConceptsSalutationsHospitalityTravellersCity Squareswelcome

Here, let me bring out my virgin daughter and the man’s concubine now. Use them and do whatever you want to them. But don’t do this horrible thing to this man.”

Verse ConceptsdaughtersGirlsVirginAbusemistressharassmentvirginity

And they said to her, "[No,] we want to return with you to your people."

Verse ConceptsGoing Together

And Naomi said, "Return, my daughters. {Why do you still want to go with me}? [Are there] sons {in my womb} that may be husbands for you?

Verse ConceptsAbortionGoing TogetherConceptionWaiting Till Marriage

surely you would not want to wait until they were old enough to marry! Surely you would not remain unmarried all that time! No, my daughters, you must not return with me. For my intense suffering is too much for you to bear. For the Lord is afflicting me!"

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodGrowing UpPeople WaitingNot MarryingWaiting Till Marriage

{Stay tonight,} and in the morning, if he wants to redeem you, good; but if he is not willing to redeem, {then as Yahweh lives,} I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning."

Verse ConceptsSexual Chastity Examples Of