11 occurrences

'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

So that the children of Israel may take to the Lord, to the door of the Tent of meeting and to the priest, the offerings which they have put to death in the open country, and that they may make their peace-offerings to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsSacrifices At The Doorway

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

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

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

But houses in small unwalled towns will be the same as property in the country; they may be got back, and they will go back to their owners in the year of Jubilee.

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

Bible Theasaurus

Commonwealth (2 instances)
Country (613 instances)
Nation (326 instances)

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