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Lexicon :: Strong's H996 - bayin

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בַּיִן
Transliteration
bayin
Pronunciation
bane
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Part of Speech
masculine substantive (always used as a preposition)
Root Word (Etymology)
(sometimes in the pl. masc. or fem.) properly, the constructive form of an otherwise unused noun from בִּין (H995)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 239a

Strong’s Definitions

בֵּין bêyn, bane; (sometimes in the plural masculine or feminine); properly, the constructive form of an otherwise unused noun from H995; a distinction; but used only as a preposition, between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or:—among, asunder, at, between (-twixt...and), + from (the widest), × in, out of, whether (it be...or), within.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x

The KJV translates Strong's H996 in the following manner: between, betwixt, asunder, within, between, out of, from.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x
The KJV translates Strong's H996 in the following manner: between, betwixt, asunder, within, between, out of, from.

  1. between, among, in the midst of (with other preps), from between

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בֵּין bêyn, bane; (sometimes in the plural masculine or feminine); properly, the constructive form of an otherwise unused noun from H995; a distinction; but used only as a preposition, between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or:—among, asunder, at, between (-twixt...and), + from (the widest), × in, out of, whether (it be...or), within.
STRONGS H996: Abbreviations
[בַּ֫יִן] substantive properly interval, space between (bdb010701 id.) — construct בֵּין onceIsaiah 44:4 (Baer) בֵּן, בֵּינִי, בֵּֽינְךָ, בֵינֵךְ, בֵּינוֺ (בֵּינָיו † Joshua 3:4; Joshua 8:11 Qr); with plural suffix in plural form בֵּינֵינוּ (בֵּנֵינוּ), etc.; also בֵּינוֺת † Ezekiel 10:2 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 10:6 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 10:7 (twice in verse) (+ Ezekiel 1:13 Greek Version of the LXX Hi Ew etc. for דְּמוּת), בֵּינוֺתֵינוּ † Genesis 26:28; Joshua 22:34; Judges 11:10, בֵּינוֺתָם † Genesis 42:23; 2 Samuel 21:7; Jeremiah 25:16; dual בֵּנַיִם (see below); —
1. always (except dual) as preposition in the interval of, between (so Aramaic בֵּין, & plural בֵּינֵי, bdb010702, bdb010703; bdb010704), as Genesis 15:17 בֵּין הַגְּזָרִים between the pieces, Exodus 13:9 and elsewhere בֵּין עֵינֶיךָ between thy eyes (see עַיִן), Isaiah 22:11 and elsewhere between the two walls (see חוֺמָה), Job 24:11; Job 30:7; Job 40:30 [Job 41:6] part him between merchants; rather more generally among Hosea 13:15; Songs 2:2, 3; Ezekiel 19:2; Ezekiel 31:3; Job 34:37; less exactly within Proverbs 26:13 a lion is בֵּין הָֽרְחֹבוֺת within the board places (compare Proverbs 23:13 בְּתוֺךְ): once with a singular (unusual) Daniel 8:16 בֵּין אוּלַי between the Ulai, i.e. between its banks. When the space separating two distinct objects is to be indicated, this is done...
a. most commonly by repeating בין, as Genesis 13:3 בֵּין בֵּיתְאֵל וּבֵין הָעָ֑י literally in the interval of Bethel, and in the interval of `Ai, i.e. between Bethel and `Ai, Genesis 16:14; Genesis 17:7; Genesis 31:50, 51 —
b. more rarely by בֵּין ֗֗֗ לְ, Genesis 1:6 dividing בֵּין מַיִם לָמָ֑יִם literally in the interval of waters with reference to waters, i.e. between the waters and the waters,Leviticus 20:25; Leviticus 27:33; Deuteronomy 17:8 (3 times in verse); 2 Samuel 19:36; 1 Kings 3:9; Ezekiel 41:18; Ezekiel 42:20; Ezekiel 44:23 (twice in verse); Jonah 4:11; Malachi 3:18 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 14:10.
c. by בֵּין ֗֗֗ וּלְ † Joel 2:17.
d. by בֵּין ֗֗֗ לְבֵין † Isaiah 59:2. בֵּין is used not only of actual locality, but also with verbs of dividing (figurative) Genesis 1:14; Leviticus 10:10, and of judging, knowing, teaching, etc., if the idea of distinguishing be involved, as Genesis 16:5; 2 Samuel 19:36 הַאֵדַע בֵּין טוֺב לְרָע can I discern between good and evil? 1 Kings 3:9; Jonah 4:11; Genesis 31:49 (watch between), Judges 11:10 (hear), Joshua 22:27 (witness), Isaiah 2:4 and he shall judge (arbitrate) between the nations, Isaiah 5:3; Leviticus 27:33; Ezekiel 44:23; Malachi 3:18; 2 Chronicles 14:10 (see RV); and in other metaphoric applications, as of a covenant or sign between two contracting parties, Genesis 9:12, 15; Exodus 31:13 +; or an oath Genesis 26:28; 2 Samuel 21:7; enmity or strife Genesis 3:15; Genesis 13:7; Deuteronomy 25:1; Proverbs 6:19; peace 1 Kings 5:26 [1 Kings 5:12]; good-will Proverbs 14:9. — It is used of time in the phrase of P בֵּין הָעַרְבַּיִם (see below עֶרֶב), & Nehemiah 5:18 בֵּין עֲשֶׂרֶת יָמִים during the interval of ten days, i.e. every ten days (unusual).
With other prepositions: —
a. † אֶלבֵּֿין, after a verb implying motion, in between, in among Ezekiel 31:10, 14. So אֶלבֵּֿינוֺת לְ † ib. Ezekiel 10:2.
b. † בְּבֵן Isaiah 44:4 in the midst of, amongst (Greek Version of the LXX Ew Di Che כְּבֵין מַיִם חָצִיר).
c. † עַלבֵּֿין nearly as אֶלבֵּֿין Ezekiel 19:11
d. † מִבֵּין from between: Genesis 49:10 nor the ruler's staff מִבֵּין רַגְלָיו from between his feet (where, as the king sits in state, he holds it), Exodus 25:22 from between the cherubim (so Numbers 7:89), Hosea 2:4; Zechariah 6:1; Zechariah 9:7; Deuteronomy 28:57 the after-birth הַיּוֺצֵת מִבֵּין רַגְלֶיהָ that cometh forth from between her feet, i.e. from her womb (compare Il. 19. 10 πεσεῖν μετὰ ποσσὶ γυναικός) Repeated 2 Kings 16:14 to specify the two objects from between which a thing is moved. Ezekiel 47:18 is difficult and uncertain: see Commentaries. Less precisely from, the midst of: Numbers 17:2 מִבֵּין הַשְּׂרֵפָה out of the midst of the burning, Psalm 104:12 מִבֵּין עֳפָאִים from amongst the branches they utter their song, Jeremiah 48:45 and a flame מִבֵּין סִיחוֺן from the midst of Sihon (Sihon representing his people: but expression is singular; read perhaps מִבֵּית ס׳, compare Numbers 21:28 מִקִּרְיַת ס׳ : || in both passages מֵחֶשְׁבּוֺן), Ezekiel 37:21.
e. † מִבֵּינוֺת לְ from between Ezekiel 10:2, 6 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 10:7.
†2. Dual בֵּנַ֫יִם space between two armies (= Greek μεταίχμιον), [H1143 1 Samuel 17:4, 23] אִישׁ הַבֵּנַיִם man of the μεταίχμιον, i.e. champion (of Goliath).

בֵּית feminine of בַּיִן, בֵּין (NöM 194 f.; Syriac bdb010801 often, PS470) preposition between Ezekiel 41:9b (to be joined with Ezekiel 41:10; see RVm), unless indeed a mere error for בֵּין (which Ezekiel often uses); also Proverbs 8:2 accusative to Greek Version of the LXX (ἀνὰ μέσον) Targum Vulgate Hi Ew§217 g; and Job 8:17 according to Greek Version of the LXX Ew Di1 (Di2undecided).

See related Aramaic BDB entry H997.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:6; 1:14; 3:15; 9:12; 9:15; 13:3; 13:7; 15:17; 16:5; 16:14; 17:7; 26:28; 26:28; 31:49; 31:50; 31:51; 42:23; 49:10

Exodus

13:9; 25:22; 31:13

Leviticus

10:10; 20:25; 27:33; 27:33

Numbers

7:89; 17:2; 21:28

Deuteronomy

17:8; 25:1; 28:57

Joshua

3:4; 8:11; 22:27; 22:34

Judges

11:10; 11:10

2 Samuel

19:36; 19:36; 21:7; 21:7

1 Kings

3:9; 3:9; 5:12

2 Kings

16:14

2 Chronicles

14:10; 14:10

Nehemiah

5:18

Job

8:17; 24:11; 30:7; 34:37; 41:6

Psalms

104:12

Proverbs

6:19; 8:2; 14:9; 23:13; 26:13

Song of Songs

2:2; 2:3

Isaiah

2:4; 5:3; 22:11; 44:4; 44:4; 59:2

Jeremiah

25:16; 48:45

Ezekiel

1:13; 10:2; 10:2; 10:2; 10:6; 10:6; 10:7; 10:7; 19:2; 19:11; 31:3; 31:10; 31:14; 37:21; 41:9; 41:10; 41:18; 42:20; 44:23; 44:23; 47:18

Daniel

8:16

Hosea

2:4; 13:15

Joel

2:17

Jonah

4:11; 4:11

Zechariah

6:1; 9:7

Malachi

3:18; 3:18

H996

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Strong's Number H996 matches the Hebrew בַּיִן (bayin),
which occurs 408 times in 248 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 5 (Gen 1:4–Exo 25:22)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:4 - And God saw the light that it was good, and God divided between the light [fn]and the darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:6 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water, and let it be a division between water and water, and it was so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:7 - And God made the firmament, and God divided between the water which was under the firmament and the water which was above the firmament.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:14 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven [fn]to give light upon the earth, to divide between day and night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:18 - and to regulate day and night, and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:15 - And I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed, he shall [fn]watch against thy head, and thou shalt [fn]watch against his heel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:12 - And the Lord God said to Noe, This is the sign of the covenant which I set between me and you, and between every living creature which is with you for perpetual generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:13 - I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of covenant between me and the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:15 - And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you, and between every living soul in all flesh, and there shall no longer be water for a deluge, so as to blot out all flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:16 - And my bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look to remember the everlasting covenant between me and the earth, and between every living soul in all flesh, which is upon the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:17 - And God said to Noe, This is the sign of the covenant, which I have made between me [fn]and all flesh, which is upon the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:12 - and Dase between Ninevi and Chalach: this is the great city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:3 - And he went to the place whence he came, into the wilderness as far as Bæthel, as far as the place where his tent was before, between Bæthel and Aggai,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:7 - And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle, and the herdmen of Lot's cattle, and the Chananites and the Pherezites then inhabited the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:8 - And Abram said to Lot, Let there not be a strife between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen, for we are [fn]brethren.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:17 - And when the sun was about to set, there was a flame, and behold a smoking furnace and lamps of fire, which passed between these divided pieces.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:5 - And Sara said to Abram, I am injured by thee; I gave my handmaid into thy bosom, and when I saw that she was with child, I was dishonoured before her. The Lord judge between me and thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:14 - Therefore she called the well, The well of him whom I have openly seen; behold it is between Cades and Barad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:2 - And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and I will multiply thee exceedingly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:7 - And I will establish my covenant between thee and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be thy God, and the God of thy seed after thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:10 - And this is the covenant which thou shalt fully keep between me and you, and between thy seed after thee for their generations; every male of you shall be circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:11 - And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between me and you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:1 - And Abraam removed thence to the southern country, and dwelt between Cades and Sur, and sojourned in Gerara.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:15 - Nay, my lord, I have heard indeed, the land is worth four hundred silver didrachms, but what can this be between me and thee? nay, do thou bury thy dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:28 - And they said, We have surely seen that the Lord was with thee, and we said, Let there be an oath between us and thee, and we will make a covenant with thee,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:36 - And he set a distance of a three days' journey between them [fn]and Jacob. And Jacob tended the cattle of Laban that were left behind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:37

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:37 - and that thou hast searched all the furniture of my house? what hast thou found of all the furniture of thine house? set it here between thy relations and my relations, and let them decide between us two.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:44

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:44 - Now then come, let me make a covenant, both I and thou, and it shall be for a witness between me and thee; and he said to him, Behold, there is no one with us; behold, God is witness between me and thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:48

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:48 - And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and the pillar, which I have set between me and thee; this heap witnesses, and this pillar witnesses; therefore its name was called, the Heap witnesses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:49

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:49 - And the vision of which he said—Let God look to it between me and thee, because we are about to depart from each other,—

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:50

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:50 - If thou shalt humble my daughters, if thou shouldest take wives in addition to my daughters, see, there is no one with us looking on. God is witness between me and thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:53

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:53 - The God of Abraam and the God of Nachor judge between us; and Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:16 - (LXX 32:17) And he gave them to his servants each drove apart; and he said to his servants, Go on before me, and put a space between drove and drove.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:23 - But they knew not that Joseph [fn]understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:10 - A ruler shall not fail from Juda, nor a prince from his [fn]loins, until there come the things stored up for him; and he is the expectation of nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:14 - Issachar has desired that which is good; resting between the inheritances.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:23 - (LXX 8:19) And I will put a difference between my people and thy people, and on the morrow shall this be on the land. And the Lord did thus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:4 - And I will make a marvellous distinction in that time between the cattle of the Egyptians, and the cattle of the children of Israel: [fn]nothing shall die of all that is of the children's of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:7 - But among all the children of Israel shall not a dog snarl with his tongue, either at man or beast; that thou mayest know how wide a distinction the Lord will make between the Egyptians and Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:6 - And it shall be kept by you till the fourteenth of this month, and all the multitude of the congregation of the children of Israel shall kill it toward evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:9 - And it shall be to thee a sign upon thy hand and a memorial before thine eyes, that the law of the Lord may be in thy mouth, for with a strong hand the Lord God brought thee out of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:16 - And it shall be for a sign upon thy hand, and immovable before thine eyes, for with a strong hand the Lord brought thee out of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:2 - Speak to the children of Israel, and let them turn and encamp before the village, between Magdol and the sea, opposite Beel-sepphon: before them shalt thou encamp by the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:20 - And it went between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel, and stood; and there was darkness and blackness; and the night passed, and they came not near to one another during the whole night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:1 - And they departed from Ælim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Ælim and Sina; and on the fifteenth day, in the second month after their departure from the land of Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:12 - I have heard the murmuring of the children of Israel: speak to them, saying, Towards evening ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be satisfied with bread; and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:16 - For whenever there is a dispute among them, and they come to me, I give judgment upon each, and I teach them the ordinances of God and his law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:11 - (LXX 22:10) an oath of God shall be between both, each swearing that he has surely not at all been guilty in the matter of his neighbour's deposit; and so his master shall [fn]hold him guiltless, and he shall not make compensation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:22 - And I will make myself known to thee from thence, and I will speak to thee above the propitiatory between the two cherubs, which are upon the ark of testimony, even in all things which I shall charge thee concerning the children of Israel.

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