'Unless' in the Bible
Then He said to Jacob, “Let Me go, for it is daybreak.”But Jacob said, “I will not let You go unless You bless me.”
This is how you will be tested: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you will not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.
But Judah said to him, “The man specifically warned us: ‘You will not see me again unless your brother is with you.’
But if you will not send him, we will not go, for the man said to us, ‘You will not see me again unless your brother is with you.’”
We told him, ‘We cannot go down unless our younger brother goes with us. So if our younger brother isn’t with us, we cannot see the man.’
“However, I know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go, unless he is forced by a strong hand.
How will it be known that I and Your people have found favor in Your sight unless You go with us? I and Your people will be distinguished by this from all the other people on the face of the earth.”
the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until evening and is not to eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body with water.
How could one man pursue a thousand,or two put ten thousand to flight,unless their Rock had sold them,unless the Lord had given them up?
unless, when we enter the land, you tie this scarlet cord to the window through which you let us down. Bring your father, mother, brothers, and all your father’s family into your house.
This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs and run from their enemies, because they have been set apart for destruction. I will no longer be with you unless you remove from you what is set apart.
Naomi said, “My daughter, wait until you find out how things go, for he won’t rest unless he resolves this today.”
David replied, “Good, I will make a covenant with you. However, there’s one thing I require of you: Do not appear before me unless you bring Saul’s daughter Michal here when you come to see me.”
Then she saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Hurry, don’t slow the pace for me unless I tell you.”
She would go in the evening, and in the morning she would return to a second harem under the supervision of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch in charge of the concubines. She never went to the king again, unless he desired her and summoned her by name.
A Solomonic song of ascents.Unless the Lord builds a house,its builders labor over it in vain;unless the Lord watches over a city,the watchman stays alert in vain.
For they can’t sleepunless they have done what is evil;they are robbed of sleepunless they make someone stumble.
מ MemWho is there who speaks and it happens,unless the Lord has ordained it?
unless You have completely rejected usand are intensely angry with us.
Then these men said, “We will never find any charge against this Daniel unless we find something against him concerning the law of his God.”
Does a lion roar in the forestwhen it has no prey?Does a young lion growl from its lairunless it has captured something?