'Suppose' in the Bible

Suppose a prophet or one who foretells by dreams should appear among you and show you a sign or wonder,

Suppose your own full brother, your son, your daughter, your beloved wife, or your closest friend should seduce you secretly and encourage you to go and serve other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have previously known,

Suppose you should hear in one of your cities, which the Lord your God is giving you as a place to live, that

Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you -- in one of your villages that the Lord your God is giving you -- who sins before the Lord your God and breaks his covenant

Suppose a Levite comes by his own free will from one of your villages, from any part of Israel where he is living, to the place the Lord chooses

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.

However, suppose a person hates someone else and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, and then flees to one of these cities.

Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, and they both bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.

Suppose a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and then rejects her,

Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and overpowers and rapes her and they are discovered.