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Lexicon :: Strong's H2320 - ḥōḏeš

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חֹדֶשׁ
Transliteration
ḥōḏeš
Pronunciation
kho'-desh
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 613b

Strong’s Definitions

חֹדֶשׁ chôdesh, kho'-desh; from H2318; the new moon; by implication, a month:—month(-ly), new moon.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 276x

The KJV translates Strong's H2320 in the following manner: month (254x), new moon (20x), monthly (1x), another (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 276x
The KJV translates Strong's H2320 in the following manner: month (254x), new moon (20x), monthly (1x), another (1x).

  1. the new moon, month, monthly

    1. the first day of the month

    2. the lunar month

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חֹדֶשׁ chôdesh, kho'-desh; from H2318; the new moon; by implication, a month:—month(-ly), new moon.
STRONGS H2320: Abbreviations
I. חֹ֫דֶשׁ 282 noun masculineGenesis 7:11 (feminine MT Genesis 38:24 but masculine Sam Di) (newness), new moon, month (on formation compare LgBN 144; on usage, names, etc., Muss-ArnJBL 1892, 72 ff., 160 ff.) — ח׳ absolute Genesis 7:11 +; construct (rare) Genesis 29:14 +; suffix חָדְשׁוֺ Numbers 28:14 + 2 times; חָדְשָׁהּ Hosea 2:13; Jeremiah 2:24; plural חֳדָשִׁים Genesis 38:24 +; construct חָדְשֵׁי Exodus 12:2 + 2 times; suffix חֳדָשָׁיו Job 14:5 + 2 times; חָדְשֵׁיכֶם Isaiah 1:14; Numbers 28:11; חָדְשֵׁכֶם Numbers 10:10; —
†1. new moon = day, time, of new moon, as religious festival 1 Samuel 20:5, 18, 24, 27, 34 (Dr); compare יאֹכְלֵם ח׳ Hosea 5:7 a new moon shall devour them, Hi St VB, but on text see We; usually || שַׁבָּת Amos 8:5; 2 Kings 4:23; Isaiah 1:13 (+ קְרֹא מִקְרָא), מִדֵּי חֹדֶשׁ בְּחָדְשׁוֺ Isaiah 66:23, Ezekiel 46:1, 6 (both יוֺם הַח׳), 1 Chronicles 23:31; 2 Chronicles 2:3; 2 Chronicles 8:13; 31:3; Nehemiah 10:34 (all + מוֺעֵד), Hosea 2:13; Ezekiel 45:17 (both + חג, מועד); || מוֺעֵד alone Isaiah 1:14; Ezekiel 3:5; || יוֺם חַגֵּנוּ Psalm 81:4; (compare ראֹשׁ הַח׳ Numbers 10:10; Numbers 28:11; on religious observance of new moon compare DiLv p. 578 f BenzArchäol. § 69); as time of augury in Babylon (astrological prognostication) Isaiah 47:13.
2. month (as beginning with new moon, lunar month; compare BenzArchäol. § 30, but then, without reference to day of beginning);
†a. as measure of time during which Genesis 38:24 (J), Numbers 11:20, 21 (JE), Numbers 9:22 (P), Judges 11:37, 38, 39; Judges 20:47; 1 Samuel 6:1; 1 Samuel 27:7; 2 Samuel 2:11; 2 Samuel 5:5; 2 Samuel 6:11; 2 Samuel 24:8, 13 = 1 Chronicles 21:12; Amos 4:7; 1 Kings 4:7; 1 Kings 5:7; 1 Kings 5:28 (3 times in verse); 1 Kings 11:16; 2 Kings 15:8; 2 Kings 23:31; 2 Kings 24:8; Ezekiel 39:12, 14; 1 Chronicles 3:4; 1 Chronicles 13:14; 2 Chronicles 36:2, 9; Esther 2:12 (3 times in verse). In 1 Samuel 10:27b read probably כְּמֵחֹדֶשׁ for MT כמחרישׁ, and join to 1 Samuel 11:1, so Greek Version of the LXX We Dr (compare Genesis 38:24); in combinations, יָמִים ח׳ a month (of) time (compare יֶרַח ימים Deuteronomy 21:1; 2 Kings 15:13) Genesis 29:14 (J), Numbers 11:20, 26 (JE), ימים ארבעה ח׳ Judges 19:2; of age מִסְפַּר־ח׳ number of his months =length of his life Job 14:5; Job 21:21; compare especially בֶּןחֿ׳ Leviticus 27:6; Numbers 3:15, 22, 28, 34, 39, 40, 43; Numbers 18:16; Numbers 26:22 (all P). †
b. calendar months,
† (1) with names הָאָבִיב ח׳ Exodus 13:4; Exodus 23:15; Exodus 34:18 (twice in verse) (all J E; = 1st month Exodus 12:2 P), Deuteronomy 16:11; זִו ח׳ 1 Kings 6:1 (= 2nd mo. ib.; = יֶרַח זִו 1 Kings 6:37); compare 1 Kings 8:2 (הַשְּׁבִיעִי הַח׳ = יֶרַךְ הָאֵתָנִים), 1 Kings 6:38 (הַשְּׁמִינִי הַח׳ = יֶרַח בּוּל); in the post-exilic books occur Babylonian names (see the several words): — נִיסָן ח׳ Nehemiah 2:1; Esther 3:7 (= 1st mo. Esther 3:7); סִיוָן ח׳ Esther 8:9 = 3rd mo.; כִּסְלֵו ח׳ Zechariah 7:1; Nehemiah 1:1 (= 9th mo. Zechariah 7:1); טֵבֵ֑ת ח׳ Esther 2:16 = 10th mo.; שְׁבָט ח׳ Zechariah 1:7 = 11th mo.; אֲדָר ח׳ Esther 3:7, 13; Esther 8:12; Esther 9:1 in all = 12th mo., Esther 9:15, 17, 19, 21; (compare also אֱלוּל Nehemiah 6:15, without ח׳ or יֶרַךְ; this was 6th mo.; see further SchrCOT Nehemiah 1:1 Benzl.c.). †
(2) merely numbered (chiefly P and late) e.g. הַשֵּׁנִי בַּח׳ Genesis 7:11, compare Genesis 8:4, 5, 14; Leviticus 16:29; Numbers 1:1, 18 (all P) + often P; Deuteronomy 1:3 (P), 1 Kings 12:32; 1 Kings 12:33; 1 Kings 25:1; 1 Kings 25:3; 1 Kings 25:8; 1 Kings 25:25; 1 Kings 25:27; Jeremiah 1:3 + 11 times Jeremiah; Ezekiel 24:1; Ezekiel 32:1; Haggai 1:1, 15; Zechariah 1:1; Zechariah 7:1, 13; 1 Chronicles 12:15, compare entire list 1 Chronicles 27:2-15; 2 Chronicles 3:2 + 12 times 2 Chronicles; Ezra 3:1 + 10 times Ezra; Nehemiah 7:72; Nehemiah 8:2, 14; Esther 3:12; note especially הַזֶּה לָכֶם ראֹשׁ חָדָשִׁ֑ים רִאשׁוֺן הוּא לָכֶם הַח׳ Exodus 12:2 (P), as implying that the 1st mo. was formerly not in the spring; observe also usage of omitting ח׳, e.g. בָּרִאשׁוֺן = הָר׳ בַּח׳ Genesis 8:13, compare Genesis 8:5; so commonly in Ezekiel: — Ezekiel 1:1; Ezekiel 8:1; Ezekiel 20:1; Ezekiel 29:1, 17; Ezekiel 30:20; Ezekiel 31:1; Ezekiel 33:21; Ezekiel 45:18, 21, 25 + Ezekiel 26:1; Ezekiel 32:17; Ezekiel 45:20 Co; (ח׳ sometimes expressed, see Ezekiel 24:1; Ezekiel 32:1 above; on like usage with יום see יום).
(3) special phrases and usages are: — † עֹלַת חֹדֶשׁ בְּחָדְשׁוֺ לְחָדְשֵׁי שָׁנָה Numbers 28:14 (P; compare יום, and Isaiah 66:23 above 1); מִיּוֺם לְיוֺם וּמֵחֹדֶשׁ לְחֹדֶשׁ Esther 3:7 from day to day and from month to month; חָדְשָׁהּ Jeremiah 2:24 of wild she-ass's mating time.†
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

7:11; 7:11; 7:11; 8:4; 8:5; 8:5; 8:13; 8:14; 29:14; 29:14; 38:24; 38:24; 38:24; 38:24

Exodus

12:2; 12:2; 12:2; 13:4; 23:15; 34:18

Leviticus

16:29; 27:6

Numbers

1:1; 1:18; 3:15; 3:22; 3:28; 3:34; 3:39; 3:40; 3:43; 9:22; 10:10; 10:10; 11:20; 11:20; 11:21; 11:26; 18:16; 26:22; 28:11; 28:11; 28:14; 28:14

Deuteronomy

1:3; 16:11; 21:1

Judges

11:37; 11:38; 11:39; 19:2; 20:47

1 Samuel

6:1; 10:27; 11:1; 20:5; 20:18; 20:24; 20:27; 20:34; 27:7

2 Samuel

2:11; 5:5; 6:11; 24:8; 24:13

1 Kings

4:7; 5:7; 6:1; 6:37; 6:38; 8:2; 11:16; 12:32; 12:33

2 Kings

4:23; 15:8; 15:13; 23:31; 24:8

1 Chronicles

3:4; 12:15; 13:14; 21:12; 23:31; 27:2; 27:3; 27:4; 27:5; 27:6; 27:7; 27:8; 27:9; 27:10; 27:11; 27:12; 27:13; 27:14; 27:15

2 Chronicles

2:3; 3:2; 8:13; 31:3; 36:2; 36:9

Ezra

3:1

Nehemiah

1:1; 1:1; 2:1; 6:15; 7:72; 8:2; 8:14; 10:34

Esther

2:12; 2:16; 3:7; 3:7; 3:7; 3:7; 3:12; 3:13; 8:9; 8:12; 9:1; 9:15; 9:17; 9:19; 9:21

Job

14:5; 14:5; 21:21

Psalms

81:4

Isaiah

1:13; 1:14; 1:14; 47:13; 66:23; 66:23

Jeremiah

1:3; 2:24; 2:24

Ezekiel

1:1; 3:5; 8:1; 20:1; 24:1; 24:1; 26:1; 29:1; 29:17; 30:20; 31:1; 32:1; 32:1; 32:17; 33:21; 39:12; 39:14; 45:17; 45:18; 45:20; 45:21; 45:25; 46:1; 46:6

Hosea

2:13; 2:13; 5:7

Amos

4:7; 8:5

Haggai

1:1; 1:15

Zechariah

1:1; 1:7; 7:1; 7:1; 7:1; 7:13

H2320

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Strong's Number H2320 matches the Hebrew חֹדֶשׁ (ḥōḏeš),
which occurs 283 times in 224 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 5 (Gen 7:11–Num 20:1)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:11 - In the six hundredth year of Noach's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:4 - The teivah rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:5 - The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:13 - It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the eretz. Noach removed the covering of the teivah, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:14 - In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the eretz was dry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:14 - Lavan said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. He lived with him for a month.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:24 - It happened about three months later, that it was told Yehudah, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." Yehudah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt."

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:2 - "This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:3 - Speak to all the congregation of Yisra'el, saying, 'On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:6 - and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Yisra'el shall kill it at evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:18 - In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat matzah, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:4 - This day you go forth in the month Aviv.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:5 - It shall be, when the LORD shall bring you into the land of the Kana`ani, and the Hittite, and the Amori, and the Hivvi, and the Yevusi, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:1 - They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Mitzrayim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:1 - In the third month after the children of Yisra'el had gone forth out of the land of Mitzrayim, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:15 - You shall observe the feast of matzah. Seven days you shall eat matzah, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Aviv (for in it you came out from Mitzrayim), and no one shall appear before me empty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:18 - "You shall keep the feast of matzah. Seven days you shall eat matzah, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Aviv; for in the month Aviv you came out from Mitzrayim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:2 - "On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tent of the Tent of Meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:17 - It happened in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tent was raised up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:29 - "It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no manner of work, the native-born, or the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:5 - In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is the LORD's Pesach.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:6 - On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of matzah to the LORD. Seven days you shall eat matzah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:24 - "Speak to the children of Yisra'el, saying, 'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest to you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:27 - "However on the tenth day of this seventh month is Yom Kippur: it shall be a holy convocation to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:32 - It shall be a Shabbat of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Shabbat."

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:34 - "Speak to the children of Yisra'el, and say, 'On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of booths for seven days to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:39 - "'So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:41 - You shall keep it a feast to the LORD seven days in the year: it is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:9 - Then shall you send abroad the loud shofar on the tenth day of the seventh month; in Yom Kippur shall you send abroad the shofar throughout all your land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:6 - If it be from a month old even to five years old, then your estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female your estimation shall be three shekels of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:1 - The LORD spoke to Moshe in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Mitzrayim, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:18 - They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:15 - "Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shall you number."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:22 - Those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those who were numbered of them were seven thousand five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:28 - According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:34 - Those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:39 - All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moshe and Aharon numbered at the mitzvah of the LORD, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:40

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:40 - The LORD said to Moshe, "Number all the firstborn males of the children of Yisra'el from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:43

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:43 - All the firstborn males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those who were numbered of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:1 - The LORD spoke to Moshe in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Mitzrayim, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:3 - On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season-- according to all its statutes, and according to all its ordinances, you shall keep it."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5 - They kept the Pesach in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that the LORD commanded Moshe, so the children of Yisra'el did.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:11 - In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with matzah and bitter herbs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:22 - Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Yisra'el remained encamped, and didn't travel; but when it was taken up, they traveled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:10 - Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:11 - It happened in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tent of the testimony.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:20 - but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome to you; because that you have rejected the LORD who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Mitzrayim?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:21 - Moshe said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and you have said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:16 - Those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old shall you redeem, according to your estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary (the same is twenty gerahs).

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:1 - The children of Yisra'el, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Tzin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miryam died there, and was buried there.

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