Lexicon :: Strong's G1911 - epiballō

So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to come over the man, and he slept. God took one of his ribs and closed the flesh at that place.

Then he said, “Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”

After some time his master’s wife looked longingly at Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”

“I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you back. Joseph will close your eyes when you die.”[fn]

But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger, and crossing his hands, put his left on Manasseh’s head, although Manasseh was the firstborn.

When Joseph saw that his father had placed his right hand on Ephraim’s head, he thought it was a mistake[fn] and took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s.

“But require the same quota of bricks from them as they were making before; do not reduce it. For they are slackers ​— ​that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’

“Pharaoh will not listen to you, but I will put my hand into Egypt and bring the military divisions of my people the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.

“If you make a stone altar for me, do not build it out of cut stones. If you use your chisel on it, you will defile it.

“When men get in a fight and hit a pregnant woman so that her children are born prematurely but there is no injury, the one who hit her must be fined as the woman’s husband demands from him, and he must pay according to judicial assessment.

“If instead a ransom is demanded of him, he can pay a redemption price for his life in the full amount demanded from him.

Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu each took his own firepan, put fire in it, placed incense on it, and presented unauthorized fire before the LORD, which he had not commanded them to do.

“You are to keep my statutes. Do not crossbreed two different kinds of your livestock, sow your fields with two kinds of seed, or put on a garment made of two kinds of material.

“They are to place over this a covering made of fine leather,[fn] spread a solid blue cloth on top, and insert its poles.

“and place all the equipment on it that they use in serving: the firepans, meat forks, shovels, and basins ​— ​all the equipment of the altar. They are to spread a covering made of fine leather over it and insert its poles.[fn]

A wind sent by the LORD came up and blew quail in from the sea; it dropped them all around the camp. They were flying three feet[fn] off[fn] the ground for about a day’s journey in every direction.

Each man took his firepan, placed fire in it, put incense on it, and stood at the entrance to the tent of meeting along with Moses and Aaron.

Then Moses told Aaron, “Take your firepan, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the community and make atonement for them, because wrath has come from the LORD; the plague has begun.”

“This is the legal statute that the LORD has commanded: Instruct the Israelites to bring you an unblemished red cow that has no defect and has never been yoked.

“You will eat there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice with your household in everything you do,[fn] because the LORD your God has blessed you.

“You are to eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God chooses ​— ​you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, and the Levite who is within your city gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in everything you do,

“Give to him, and don’t have a stingy heart[fn] when you give, and because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you do.[fn]

“When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it in order to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can get food from them. Do not cut them down. Are trees of the field human, to come under siege by you?

“Be careful to do whatever comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed what you promised to the LORD your God.

“When a man takes a bride, he must not go out with the army or be liable for any duty. He is free to stay at home for one year, so that he can bring joy to the wife he has married.

“Build an altar of stones there to the LORD your God ​— ​do not use any iron tool on them.

“The LORD will grant you a blessing on your barns and on everything you do;[fn] he will bless you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

“The LORD will send against you curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything you do until you are destroyed and quickly perish, because of the wickedness of your actions in abandoning me.

Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell facedown to the ground before the ark of the LORD until evening, as did the elders of Israel; they all put dust on their heads.

just as Moses the LORD’s servant had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of uncut stones on which no iron tool has been used. Then they offered burnt offerings to the LORD and sacrificed fellowship offerings on it.

The man replied to Joab, “Even if I had the weight of a thousand pieces of silver[fn] in my hand, I would not raise my hand against the king’s son. For we heard the king command you, Abishai, and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for me.’[fn]

But at this time tomorrow I will send my servants to you,[fn] and they will search your palace and your servants’ houses. They will lay their hands on and take away whatever is precious to you.’ ”

The king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and fined the land seventy-five hundred pounds[fn] of silver and seventy-five pounds[fn] of gold.

They found the written report of how Mordecai had informed on Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs who guarded the entrance, when they planned to assassinate King Ahasuerus.

All of you have seen this for yourselves,

why do you keep up this empty talk?

“I would quickly subdue their enemies

and turn my hand against their foes.”

The first to state his case seems right

until another comes and cross-examines him.

A wise king separates out the wicked

and drives the threshing wheel over them.

and put a knife to your throat

if you have a big[fn] appetite;

Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against his people.

He raised his hand against them and struck them;

the mountains quaked,

and their corpses were like garbage in the streets.

In all this, his anger has not turned away,

and his hand is still raised to strike.

An infant will play beside the cobra’s pit,

and a toddler will put his hand into a snake’s den.

But they will swoop down

on the Philistine flank to the west.

Together they will plunder the people of the east.

They will extend their power over Edom and Moab,

and the Ammonites will be their subjects.

On that day Egypt will be like women and will tremble with fear because of the threatening hand of the LORD of Armies when he raises it against them.

He will spread out his arms in the middle of it,

as a swimmer spreads out his arms to swim.

His pride will be brought low,

along with the trickery of his hands.

Eagle owls[fn] and herons[fn] will possess it,

and long-eared owls and ravens will dwell there.

The LORD will stretch out a measuring line

and a plumb line over her

for her destruction and chaos.

He has cast the lot for them;

his hand allotted their portion with a measuring line.

They will possess it forever;

they will dwell in it from generation to generation.