18 occurrences in 13 translations

'Country' in the Bible

And shaking it seven times over the man who is to be made clean, he will say that he is clean and will let the living bird go free into the open country.

Verse ConceptsSprinklingSprinkling BloodSeven TimesDiseasecleansing

But he will let the living bird go out of the town into the open country; so he will take away sin from the house and it will be clean.

Verse ConceptsOutside The CityPriests Atoning

And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TimeDay Of AtonementNew Year, TheOrdinancesWork, And RestStrangersAfflicting Your SoulMonth 7Foreigners Included In The LawNo Work On Feast DaysHumbling Oneself

This is so the Israelites will bring to the Lord the sacrifices they have been offering in the open country. They are to bring them to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting and offer them as fellowship sacrifices to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsSacrifices At The Doorway

And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean.

Verse ConceptsRitual WashingWaterAnimals Torn To PiecesCorpses Of AnimalsClean ClothesUnclean Until EveningForbidden Foodnatural Death

You may not take your sister, the daughter of your father or of your mother, wherever her birth took place, among you or in another country.

Verse ConceptsSistersForbidden Sexual RelationshipsNakedness UncoveredSiblingsSame Sex MarriageFather And Daughter RelationshipsFathers And Daughters

(For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;)

Verse ConceptsPolluting The Land

And do not take all the grapes from your vine-garden, or the fruit dropped on the earth; let the poor man, and the man from another country, have these: I am the Lord your God.

Verse ConceptsGrapesOppression, God's Attitude ToPoverty, Remedies ForRightsVineyardStrangersGleaningLoving ForeignersThe Lord Is GodLaws About AgricultureAliens

And if a man from another country is living in your land with you, do not make life hard for him;

Verse ConceptsForeignersLaw, OtAliens, Believers DutySojourningStrangers in israelImmigrantsAliens

“Say to the Israelites: Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death; the people of the country are to stone him.

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyPunishment, Legal Aspects OfStonesIdolatry, Wicked Practices OfAliens, Believers DutyStrangersInstructions About StoningDeath Penalty For Heresy

But if the people of the country look the other way when that man gives any of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death,

Verse ConceptsBlindness, Symbolic

And when you get in the grain from your land, do not let all the grain at the edges of the field be cut, and do not take up the grain which has been dropped in the field; let that be for the poor, and for the man from another country: I am the Lord your God.

Verse ConceptsGleaningForeignersethics, socialHarvestLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityPoverty, Remedies ForSowing And ReapingAliens, Believers DutyCapitalismStrangersLoving ForeignersThe Lord Is GodLaws About AgricultureEconomicsThe poorStrangers in israelImmigrantsAliensFarmingFeeding The Poor

Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God.

Verse ConceptsGentiles, In OtForeignersAliens, Believers DutyStrangersForeigners Included In The LawThe Lord Is GodStrangers in israelAliens

And the Sabbath of the land will give food for you and your man-servant and your woman-servant and those working for payment, and for those of another country who are living among you;

Verse ConceptsHiringStrangers

So in all the country that you possess, you are to provide for the redemption of the land [in the Year of Jubilee].

Verse Conceptsredeemed

But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.

Verse ConceptsVillagesThe CountrysideReversion Of Things

And if your brother becomes poor and is not able to make a living, then you are to keep him with you, helping him as you would a man from another country who is living among you.

Verse ConceptsLiberalityethics, socialGenerosity, HumanGenerosity, Used TowardsLove To Others Shown InStrangersPoor PeopleLoving Foreigners

I'll send wild beasts against you from the open country to deprive you of your children, destroy your cattle, and decrease your number so that your roads become desolate.

Verse ConceptsBeastsNumbers ReducingAnimals Killing

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Commonwealth (2 instances)
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Nation (326 instances)

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