'Live' in the Bible

Do this for them so that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy objects: Aaron and his sons are to go in and assign each man his task and transportation duty.

See what the land is like, and whether the people who live there are strong or weak, few or many.

Is the land they live in good or bad? Are the cities they live in encampments or fortifications?

The Amalekites are living in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan.”

Yet as surely as I live and as the whole earth is filled with the Lord’s glory,

Tell them: As surely as I live,” this is the Lord’s declaration, “I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.

The donkey saw Me and turned away from Me these three times. If she had not turned away from Me, I would have killed you by now and let her live.”

Once more he proclaimed his poem:Ah, who can live when God does this?

“Have you let every female live?” he asked them.

But if you don’t drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become thorns in your eyes and in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you will live.

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

The cities will be for them to live in, and their pasturelands will be for their herds, flocks, and all their other animals.

The assembly is to protect the one who kills someone from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge he fled to, and he must live there until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.

for the one who killed a person was supposed to live in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may the one who has killed a person return to the land he possesses.

These instructions will be a statutory ordinance for you throughout your generations wherever you live.

Neither should you accept a ransom for the person who flees to his city of refuge, allowing him to return and live in the land before the death of the high priest.

Do not make the land unclean where you live and where I reside; for I, Yahweh, reside among the Israelites.”