112 occurrences

'May' in the Bible

Indeed, may the Lord, the God of your ancestors, make you a thousand times more numerous than you are now, blessing you just as he said he would!

Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersA Thousand PeopleGod Multipling PeopleMay God Bless!AbundanceBlessings From GodBlessing OthersBlessings And ProsperityGiving Back

You may purchase food to eat and water to drink from them.

Verse ConceptsBuying FoodMoney Blessings

But your wives, children, and livestock (of which I know you have many) may remain in the cities I have given you.

Verse ConceptsOther WivesRules About Young People

You must fight until the Lord gives your countrymen victory as he did you and they take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving them on the other side of the Jordan River. Then each of you may return to his own territory that I have given you."

Verse ConceptsNot going home directlyTime Of Peace

Do not add a thing to what I command you nor subtract from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I am delivering to you.

Verse ConceptsAdding to the BibleCommands, in OTRespect, For God's CharacterRevelation, In NtWord Of GodAdditionsAdding To GodSubtracting From God

Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the Lord your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.

Verse ConceptsTemporal Blessingsethics, and graceBlessings, To AbrahamOld Age, Attainment OfHow To Live LongEternal PossessionResults Of Keeping The CommandmentsKeep The Commandments!

but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. On that day you must not do any work, you, your son, your daughter, your male slave, your female slave, your ox, your donkey, any other animal, or the foreigner who lives with you, so that your male and female slaves, like yourself, may have rest.

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyWork, And RestStrangersThe Seventh Day Of The WeekForeigners Included In The LawDay 7No Work On Feast DaysRegulations For Men And Women

If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.

Verse ConceptsFear Of The LordPenitentReceptive HeartsFear God!Keep The Commandments!

Walk just as he has commanded you so that you may live, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land you are going to possess.

Verse ConceptsTemporal BlessingsGod's WaysOld Age, Attainment OfOrthodoxy, In OtWalkingHow To Live LongLife Through Keeping The LawLong LifeObedience

Now these are the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that the Lord your God instructed me to teach you so that you may carry them out in the land where you are headed

Verse ConceptsMind, Of Godstatuescommandments

and that you may so revere the Lord your God that you will keep all his statutes and commandments that I am giving you -- you, your children, and your grandchildren -- all your lives, to prolong your days.

Verse ConceptsFutureFear Of The LordHow To Live Longstatues

Pay attention, Israel, and be careful to do this so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in number -- as the Lord, God of your ancestors, said to you, you will have a land flowing with milk and honey.

Verse ConceptsFoodLand, Spiritual Aspects OfMilkGod Multipling PeopleMilk And Honey

Do whatever is proper and good before the Lord so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he promised your ancestors,

Verse ConceptsOaths, DivineDoing RightDoing The Right ThingDoing Your Best

and that you may drive out all your enemies just as the Lord said.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahThe Lord Will Drive Them Out

The Lord commanded us to obey all these statutes and to revere him so that it may always go well for us and he may preserve us, as he has to this day.

Verse ConceptsReverence, And BlessingFear Of God, Results OfSustaining ProvidenceReverence To GodBlessings Of ObedienceFear God!Keep The Commandments!Survivalpreservation

You must keep carefully all these commandments I am giving you today so that you may live, increase in number, and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTGod Multipling PeopleLife Through Keeping The LawKeep The Commandments!

a land where you may eat food in plenty and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper.

Verse ConceptsEarth, Description OfBrass

Then he said to me, "Get up, set out leading the people so they may go and possess the land I promised to give to their ancestors."

Verse ConceptsGuidance, From Godly PeopleGod Gave The Land

Now pay attention to all the commandments I am giving you today, so that you may be strong enough to enter and possess the land where you are headed,

Verse ConceptsKeep The Commandments!

and that you may enjoy long life in the land the Lord promised to give to your ancestors and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Verse ConceptsHow To Live LongGod Gave The LandMilk And Honey

then he promises, "I will send rain for your land in its season, the autumn and the spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine, and olive oil.

Verse ConceptsBinding cornWater IrrigationOilRainProvisionsGod Sending RainReapingLatenessspringtime

so that your days and those of your descendants may be extended in the land which the Lord promised to give to your ancestors, like the days of heaven itself.

Verse ConceptsHow To Live LongEternal PossessionGod Gave The LandThe Earthland

for you may do so only in the place the Lord chooses in one of your tribal areas -- there you may do everything I am commanding you.

On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the Lord your God blesses you in all your villages. Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.

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

Only in the presence of the Lord your God may you eat these, in the place he chooses. This applies to you, your son, your daughter, your male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages. In that place you will rejoice before the Lord your God in all the output of your labor.

Verse ConceptsEating Before GodEating Drinking And Rejoicing

When the Lord your God extends your borders as he said he would do and you say, "I want to eat meat just as I please," you may do so as you wish.

Verse ConceptsFood DefinedEating Meat

If the place he chooses to locate his name is too far for you, you may slaughter any of your herd and flock he has given you just as I have stipulated; you may eat them in your villages just as you wish.

Verse ConceptsFar From HereA Place For God's Name

Like you eat the gazelle or ibex, so you may eat these; the ritually impure and pure alike may eat them.

Verse ConceptsClean And UncleanDeer Etc.Deer

You must not eat it so that it may go well with you and your children after you; you will be doing what is right in the Lord's sight.

Verse ConceptsPeople Consuming BloodPersonal GoodForbidden Food

Pay careful attention to all these things I am commanding you so that it may always go well with you and your children after you when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.

Verse ConceptsTemporal BlessingsPersonal GoodObeying God

These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

Verse ConceptsGoatsOxenDeerPetsEating Meat

You may eat any animal that has hooves divided into two parts and that chews the cud.

Verse ConceptsCleft HoofsClean And UncleanClean AnimalsDeer

However, you may not eat the following animals among those that chew the cud or those that have divided hooves: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger. (Although they chew the cud, they do not have divided hooves and are therefore ritually impure to you).

Verse ConceptsBadgersAnimals, Types OfUnclean SpiritsRock BadgerUnclean Animals

Also the pig is ritually impure to you; though it has divided hooves, it does not chew the cud. You may not eat their meat or even touch their remains.

Verse ConceptsTouchPigsTouching Unclean ThingsUnclean SpiritsEating Forbidden FoodUnclean Animalspork

These you may eat from among water creatures: anything with fins and scales you may eat,

but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you.

Verse ConceptsUnclean SpiritsUnclean AnimalsFish

All ritually clean birds you may eat.

Verse ConceptsClean Food

These are the ones you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,

Verse ConceptsEaglesVultures

and any winged thing on the ground are impure to you -- they may not be eaten.

Verse ConceptsInsectsClean And Uncleanbugs

You may eat any clean bird.

You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the Lord your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

Verse ConceptsForeignersFindingMilkRitual LawEcologyStrangersYoung AnimalAnimal MothersDeath Of CreaturesCorpses Of AnimalsLaws Restricting ForeignersForbidden Foodnatural Deathpork

In the presence of the Lord your God you must eat from the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the place he chooses to locate his name, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always.

Verse ConceptsLearningFirstbornChoicesGrainReverence, And ObedienceSacred PlacesThe Fear Of The LordTithes And Offeringfriendliness

you may convert the tithe into money, secure the money, and travel to the place the Lord your God chooses for himself.

Verse ConceptsIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyFinancesTithes And OfferingChanging YourselfGiving BackMoney Blessingsdistancefriendliness

Then you may spend the money however you wish for cattle, sheep, wine, beer, or whatever you desire. You and your household may eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and enjoy it.

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

Then the Levites (because they have no allotment or inheritance with you), the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows of your villages may come and eat their fill so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work you do.

Verse ConceptsPoverty, Attitudes TowardsSatisfactionSaints, Care For The PoorWidows, Should BeLoving ForeignersGod Will BlessNo Earthly InheritancePeople Helping Orphansfriendliness

You may exact payment from a foreigner, but whatever your fellow Israelite owes you, you must remit.

Verse ConceptsForeignersLaws Restricting ForeignersDebt

If they have any kind of blemish -- lameness, blindness, or anything else -- you may not offer them as a sacrifice to the Lord your God.

Verse ConceptsCripplesAnimals, religious role ofBlemishImperfection, And God's PurposesLamenessBlemished Creatures

You may eat it in your villages, whether you are ritually impure or clean, just as you would eat a gazelle or an ibex.

Verse ConceptsClean And UncleanDeer Etc.Deer

You may not sacrifice the Passover in just any of your villages that the Lord your God is giving you,

Verse ConceptsTown

You must cook and eat it in the place the Lord your God chooses; you may return the next morning to your tents.

Verse Conceptscooking

You must pursue justice alone so that you may live and inherit the land the Lord your God is giving you.

Verse Conceptsethics, incentives towardsJustice

The person who pays no attention to the priest currently serving the Lord your God there, or to the verdict -- that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.

Verse Conceptsethics, socialDeath penaltyHigh Priest, In OtIrreverenceJudgesMinistry, Nature OfSin, Nature OfStubbornnessAnarchyDeath Penalty For Violence

you must select without fail a king whom the Lord your God chooses. From among your fellow citizens you must appoint a king -- you may not designate a foreigner who is not one of your fellow Israelites.

Verse ConceptsForeignersStrangersLaws Restricting ForeignersStrangers in israel

It must be with him constantly and he must read it as long as he lives, so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and observe all the words of this law and these statutes and carry them out.

Verse ConceptsLearningStudentsKings, How They Should ActReading The ScripturesFear God!Keep The Commandments!Reading The Bible

The Levitical priests -- indeed, the entire tribe of Levi -- will have no allotment or inheritance with Israel; they may eat the burnt offerings of the Lord and of his inheritance.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityPriests, Institution In Ot TimesNo Earthly InheritancePriestly InheritancePermitted To Eat Offeringspriests

He must eat the same share they do, despite any profits he may gain from the sale of his family's inheritance.

Verse ConceptsEquality In PaymentDividing FoodPermitted To Eat Offerings

Suppose he goes with someone else to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose from the handle and strikes his fellow worker so hard that he dies. The person responsible may then flee to one of these cities to save himself.

Verse ConceptsForestsToolsWoodCarpentry ToolsFelling TreesSharp ToolsIron Objects

You must not pity him, but purge out the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

Verse ConceptsShow No Mercypity

A single witness may not testify against another person for any trespass or sin that he commits. A matter may be legally established only on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Verse ConceptsAgreements, LegalConfirmationThree WitnessesdisagreementsMurderProof, As EvidenceRightsWitnesses, LegalOnly One PersonNot AloneTwo Or ThreeGuiltWitnessingBeing Singletestimonytestifyingaccusations

Moreover, the officers are to say to the troops, "Who among you has built a new house and not dedicated it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else dedicate it.

Verse ConceptsBattlesAgriculture, RestrictionsPossibility Of DeathDedicationMoving To A New Place

Or who among you has planted a vineyard and not benefited from it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else benefit from it.

Verse ConceptsBattlesEnjoyment, Material ThingsHappinessVineyardPlanting VineyardsCultivationPossibility Of Death

Or who among you has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her."

Verse ConceptsBattlesBetrothalMarriage, Customs ConcerningSinglenessEngagementPossibility Of DeathMarriage Between Man And Woman

In addition, the officers are to say to the troops, "Who among you is afraid and fainthearted? He may go home so that he will not make his fellow soldier's heart as fearful as his own."

Verse ConceptsBattlesCowardiceBad AttitudeFaintingFaint HeartednessFear Of EnemiesFear And WorryBeing Scared

However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city -- all its plunder -- you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the Lord your God has given you.

Verse ConceptsSpoils Of WarRules About BootyFamily Conflict

If you besiege a city for a long time while attempting to capture it, you must not chop down its trees, for you may eat fruit from them and should not cut them down. A tree in the field is not human that you should besiege it!

Verse ConceptsRespect, For EnvironmentEcological ConcernsFortsTreesFelling TreesSharp ToolsHarming Trees

However, you may chop down any tree you know is not suitable for food, and you may use it to build siege works against the city that is making war with you until that city falls.

Verse ConceptsBuild, LiterallyFelling TreesHarming Trees

discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, and stay in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may have sexual relations with her and become her husband and she your wife.

Verse ConceptsMonthOne MonthMourning DeathDistinctive Clothing

You must be sure to let the mother go, but you may take the young for yourself. Do this so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life.

Verse ConceptsAnimal LifeHow To Live Long

They will fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman's father, for the man who made the accusation ruined the reputation of an Israelite virgin. She will then become his wife and he may never divorce her as long as he lives.

Verse ConceptsCoinageAvoid DivorceFine As Penalty

The man who has raped her must pay her father fifty shekels of silver and she must become his wife because he has violated her; he may never divorce her as long as he lives.

Verse ConceptsAvoid DivorceMarriage Between Man And WomanSex Before Marriagemarraigepremaritalvirginity

A man with crushed or severed genitals may not enter the assembly of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsCrushingeunuchsMutilationMale Genitalsmanhoodcrushescutting

A person of illegitimate birth may not enter the assembly of the Lord; to the tenth generation no one related to him may do so.

Verse ConceptsIllegitimate ChildrenDescendants ofSex Before MarriageInfidelitySexual Purityinterracialmatrimonypremarital

An Ammonite or Moabite may not enter the assembly of the Lord; to the tenth generation none of their descendants shall ever do so,

Verse ConceptsInhospitalityAmmonitesLaws Restricting Foreigners

Children of the third generation born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsKidsinterracial

If there is someone among you who is impure because of some nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp; he may not reenter it immediately.

Verse ConceptsOutside The CampSemen

When evening arrives he must wash himself with water and then at sunset he may reenter the camp.

Indeed, he may live among you in any place he chooses, in whichever of your villages he prefers; you must not oppress him.

Verse ConceptsTroubling Groups Of People

You may lend with interest to a foreigner, but not to your fellow Israelite; if you keep this command the Lord your God will bless you in all you undertake in the land you are about to enter to possess.

Verse ConceptsBankruptcyForeignersInterestStrangersLaws Restricting Foreigners

When you enter the vineyard of your neighbor you may eat as many grapes as you please, but you must not take away any in a container.

Verse ConceptsFraudCovenant breakersBaskets, Uses OfGrapesVineyard

When you go into the ripe grain fields of your neighbor you may pluck off the kernels with your hand, but you must not use a sickle on your neighbor's ripe grain.

Verse ConceptsCornPoverty, Remedies ForSickles

If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something offensive in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.

Verse ConceptsAdultery and Divorcedivorce, in OTdivorce, amongst believersWritingDomestic ViolenceBills Of DivorceDivorce PermittedTroubling IndividualsSecond MarriageMarriage Between Man And WomanInfidelity

When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you may not go into his house to claim what he is offering as security.

Verse Conceptslent

If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering.

Verse Conceptsethics, social

You must by all means return to him at sunset the item he gave you as security so that he may sleep in his outer garment and bless you for it; it will be considered a just deed by the Lord your God.

Verse ConceptsCloaksThe SunSunsetslent

Whenever you reap your harvest in your field and leave some unraked grain there, you must not return to get it; it should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow so that the Lord your God may bless all the work you do.

Verse ConceptsForeignersBinding cornBereaved, Care ForGrainOrphansSowing And ReapingWidowsAutumnAliensSuccess And Hard Work

The judge may sentence him to forty blows, but no more. If he is struck with more than these, you might view your fellow Israelite with contempt.

Verse ConceptsBeatingsWhipsForties

then his sister-in-law must approach him in view of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. She will then respond, "Thus may it be done to any man who does not maintain his brother's family line!"

Verse ConceptsFacesSpittingSaliva

You must have an accurate and correct stone weight and an accurate and correct measuring container, so that your life may be extended in the land the Lord your God is about to give you.

Verse ConceptsJust WeightsAccuracyHow To Live Longweightmeasurement

When you finish tithing all your income in the third year (the year of tithing), you must give it to the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows so that they may eat to their satisfaction in your villages.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of PossessionsCropsForeignersethics, socialBereaved, Care ForSatisfactionWidowsAliensTithes And Offering

And today the Lord has declared you to be his special people (as he already promised you) so you may keep all his commandments.

Verse ConceptsMonogamyPeople Of God, In OtTreasureSpiritual Adoption

Then you must inscribe on them all the words of this law when you cross over, so that you may enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, said to you.

Verse ConceptsLand, Spiritual Aspects OfMilk And Honey

"Therefore, keep the terms of this covenant and obey them so that you may be successful in everything you do.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To GodChallengesSecrets To SuccessPeace, Divine In OtThe Righteous Prospercovenant

so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the Lord your God is making with you today.

Verse ConceptsSealsLater Covenants With God

It is not in heaven, as though one must say, "Who will go up to heaven to get it for us and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?"

Verse ConceptsClimbingGoing To Heaven

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