'Though' in the Bible

They were also regarded as Rephaim, like the Anakim, though the Moabites called them Emim.

This too used to be regarded as the land of the Rephaim. The Rephaim lived there previously, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummim,

But among the ones that chew the cud or have divided hooves, you are not to eat these:the camel, the hare, and the hyrax,though they chew the cud, they do not have hooves—they are unclean for you;

and the pig, though it has hooves, it does not chew the cud—it is unclean for you.You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses.

Eat it within your gates; both the unclean person and the clean may eat it, as though it were a gazelle or deer.

Though these nations you are about to drive out listen to fortune-tellers and diviners, the Lord your God has not permitted you to do this.

Because you didn’t serve the Lord your God with joy and a cheerful heart, even though you had an abundance of everything,

Though you were as numerous as the stars of the sky, you will be left with only a few people, because you did not obey the Lord your God.

When someone hears the words of this oath, he may consider himself exempt, thinking, ‘I will have peace even though I follow my own stubborn heart.’ This will lead to the destruction of the well-watered land as well as the dry land.

Let Reuben live and not diethough his people become few.