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Lexicon :: Strong's H127 - 'ăḏāmâ

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אֲדָמָה
Transliteration
'ăḏāmâ
Pronunciation
ad-aw-maw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 25b

Strong’s Definitions

אֲדָמָה ʼădâmâh, ad-aw-maw'; from H119; soil (from its general redness):—country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 225x

The KJV translates Strong's H127 in the following manner: land(s) (125x), earth (53x), ground (43x), country (1x), husbandman (2x), husbandry (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 225x
The KJV translates Strong's H127 in the following manner: land(s) (125x), earth (53x), ground (43x), country (1x), husbandman (2x), husbandry (1x).

  1. ground, land

    1. ground (as general, tilled, yielding sustenance)

    2. piece of ground, a specific plot of land

    3. earth substance (for building or constructing)

    4. ground as earth's visible surface

    5. land, territory, country

    6. whole inhabited earth

    7. city in Naphtali

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֲדָמָה ʼădâmâh, ad-aw-maw'; from H119; soil (from its general redness):—country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.
STRONGS H127: Abbreviations
אֲדָמָה 224 noun feminine ground, land (as tilled, German bebaut ? DlPr 105, but Fleisch. (MerxArchiv 1, 236 f) compare Arabic ادَهَة, skin, as smoothly covering & close-fitting; √ דם compare Arabic دَمَّ smear (spread over surface); compare also NöZMG 1886, 737) — א׳ Genesis 1:25 +; construct אַדְמַת Genesis 47:20 +; suffix אַדְמָתִי Job 31:38 + 2 times etc.; plural אֲדָמוֺת Psalm 49:12 —
1. ground (as tilled, yielding sustenance) Genesis 2:5, 9; Genesis 3:17, 23; Genesis 4:2, 3, 12; Genesis 5:29; Genesis 8:21; Genesis 19:25; Genesis 47:23; Exodus 34:26 (all J); Exodus 23:19 (E) Deuteronomy 7:13; Deuteronomy 11:17; Deuteronomy 26:2, 10, 15; Deuteronomy 28:4, 11, 18, 33, 42, 51; Deuteronomy 30:9; 2 Samuel 9:10; Isaiah 1:7; Isaiah 28:24; Isaiah 30:23 (twice in verse); Isaiah 30:24; Jeremiah 7:20; Jeremiah 14:4; Jeremiah 25:33; Haggai 1:11; Malachi 3:11; Psalm 83:11; Psalm 105:35; Proverbs 12:11; Proverbs 28:19; 1 Chronicles 27:26; Nehemiah 10:36; Nehemiah 10:38 compare figurative Job 5:6 (|| עפר); personified Job 31:38; Joel 1:10; also אִישׁ הָא׳ Genesis 9:20 (J) tiller, husbandman; meton. אֹהֵב א׳ 2 Chronicles 26:10 i.e. lover of husbandry (or do these point to earlier meaning tillage ? compare DlPr 105) אִישׁ עֹבֵד א׳ Zechariah 13:5.
†2. piece of ground, landed property Genesis 47:18, 19 (3 times in verse); Genesis 47:20, 22 (twice in verse); Genesis 47:23, 26 (all J) Psalm 49:12 (plural)
†3. earth as material substance; of which man is made Genesis 2:7 (עָפָד מִן־הָא׳); so animals Genesis 2:19 (מִן־הָא׳); altar Exodus 20:24; earthen vessels חַרְשֵׂי א׳ Isaiah 45:9; on head, sign of woe 1 Samuel 4:12; 2 Samuel 1:2; 2 Samuel 15:32; of contrition Nehemiah 9:1 (compare אֵפֶר, עָפָר; מַעֲבֵה הָא׳ 1 Kings 7:46 compare 2 Chronicles 4:17 (firmness of earth, firm earth, clay-ground, for casting-moulds; or clay-moulds (Berthau) ? or is this n.pr. ? Klo proposes בַּמְּעָרָה הָאֲדֻמָּה in the red cave); mule-loads of 2 Kings 5:17; in it lie the dead מִיְּשֵׁנֵי אַדְמַתעָֿפָר Daniel 12:2 compare Genesis 3:19, 23; Psalm 146:4.
4. ground as earth's visible surface; רֶמֶס הָא׳ Genesis 1:25; Genesis 6:20 (both P) Hosea 2:20 compare Genesis 7:8; Genesis 9:2 (J ?) Leviticus 20:25 (P) Deuteronomy 4:18; Ezekiel 38:20; also Genesis 4:10 (J) Isaiah 24:21; Amos 3:5; Zephaniah 1:2, 3; as wet with dew 2 Samuel 17:12; rain 1 Kings 17:14; 1 Kings 18:1; compare personified אֶת־פִּיהָ הָא'פָּֽצְתָה Numbers 16:30 (P) (|| ארץ Numbers 16:32), see Numbers 16:31; of particular place, spot קֹדֶשׁ א׳ Exodus 3:5 especially as abode of man Genesis 4:11; Exodus 10:6; Deuteronomy 4:10, 40; Deuteronomy 12:1; 1 Samuel 20:31; 2 Samuel 14:7; often הָא'פְּנֵי Genesis 2:6; Genesis 4:14; Genesis 6:1, 7; Genesis 7:4, 23; Genesis 8:8, 13; Exodus 32:12; Exodus 33:16; Numbers 12:3; Deuteronomy 6:15; Deuteronomy 7:6 (all J, D) 1 Samuel 20:15 + 9 times
5. land, territory, country (= ארץ) Genesis 47:19 (J) Leviticus 20:24 (J ? — || ארץ) construct before proper name מִצְרַיִם א׳ Genesis 47:20, 26; יְהוּדָה א׳ Isaiah 19:17; יִשְׂרָאֵל א׳ Ezekiel 11:17 + 16 times Ezekiel; especially of land as promised or given by י׳ to his people = Canaan Genesis 28:15; Exodus 20:12; Numbers 11:12; Numbers 32:11 (all J ?) Deuteronomy 5:16 + 16 times Deuteronomy, Joshua; 1 Kings 8:34, 40 +; Jeremiah 16:15; Jeremiah 24:10; Jeremiah 25:5; Jeremiah 35:15; Ezekiel 28:25; 2 Chronicles 6:25, 31; 7:20; 33:8; compare also Deuteronomy 12:19; Deuteronomy 21:23; Deuteronomy 29:27; 2 Kings 17:23; Isaiah 6:11; Isaiah 7:16; Isaiah 14:1 +, Ezekiel 34:13, 27 +, Nehemiah 9:25; (שְׁמֵנָה א׳), — in all with + 41 times; + Joel 2:21 (personified); הַקֹּדֶשׁ א׳ Zechariah 2:16 (compare below 4 above); hence also as Yahweh's land Deuteronomy 32:43; Isaiah 14:2; Zechariah 9:16; 2 Chronicles 7:20.
†6. whole earth, inhabited earth (seldom; compare also מְּנֵי הָא׳ below 4 above) Genesis 12:3; Genesis 28:14 (both J compare אֶרֶץ Genesis 18:18; Genesis 22:18; Genesis 26:4) Deuteronomy 14:2; Amos 3:2; Isaiah 24:21.
†7. proper name, of a location city in Naphtali (as built compare אָדָם 4 ? = ed-Dâme ?) west of L. Gennes. Joshua 19:36 see Di.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:25; 1:25; 2:5; 2:6; 2:7; 2:9; 2:19; 3:17; 3:19; 3:23; 3:23; 4:2; 4:3; 4:10; 4:11; 4:12; 4:14; 5:29; 6:1; 6:7; 6:20; 7:4; 7:8; 7:23; 8:8; 8:13; 8:21; 9:2; 9:20; 12:3; 18:18; 19:25; 22:18; 26:4; 28:14; 28:15; 47:18; 47:19; 47:19; 47:20; 47:20; 47:20; 47:22; 47:23; 47:23; 47:26; 47:26

Exodus

3:5; 10:6; 20:12; 20:24; 23:19; 32:12; 33:16; 34:26

Leviticus

20:24; 20:25

Numbers

11:12; 12:3; 16:30; 16:31; 16:32; 32:11

Deuteronomy

4:10; 4:18; 4:40; 5:16; 6:15; 7:6; 7:13; 11:17; 12:1; 12:19; 14:2; 21:23; 26:2; 26:10; 26:15; 28:4; 28:11; 28:18; 28:33; 28:42; 28:51; 29:27; 30:9; 32:43

Joshua

19:36

1 Samuel

4:12; 20:15; 20:31

2 Samuel

1:2; 9:10; 14:7; 15:32; 17:12

1 Kings

7:46; 8:34; 8:40; 17:14; 18:1

2 Kings

5:17; 17:23

1 Chronicles

27:26

2 Chronicles

4:17; 6:25; 6:31; 7:20; 7:20; 26:10; 33:8

Nehemiah

9:1; 9:25; 10:36; 10:38

Job

5:6; 31:38; 31:38

Psalms

49:12; 49:12; 83:11; 105:35; 146:4

Proverbs

12:11; 28:19

Isaiah

1:7; 6:11; 7:16; 14:1; 14:2; 19:17; 24:21; 24:21; 28:24; 30:23; 30:24; 45:9

Jeremiah

7:20; 14:4; 16:15; 24:10; 25:5; 25:33; 35:15

Ezekiel

11:17; 28:25; 34:13; 34:27; 38:20

Daniel

12:2

Hosea

2:20

Joel

1:10; 2:21

Amos

3:2; 3:5

Zephaniah

1:2; 1:3

Haggai

1:11

Zechariah

9:16; 13:5

Malachi

3:11

H127

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H127 matches the Hebrew אֲדָמָה ('ăḏāmâ),
which occurs 225 times in 211 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 5 (Gen 1:25–Num 12:3)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:25 - And God made the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground after its kind. And God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:5 - and every shrub of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew; for Jehovah Elohim had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:6 - But a mist went up from the earth, and moistened the whole surface of the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:7 - And Jehovah Elohim formed Man, dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and Man became a living soul.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:9 - And out of the ground Jehovah Elohim made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; and the tree of life, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:19 - And out of the ground Jehovah Elohim had formed every animal of the field and all fowl of the heavens, and brought them to Man, to see what he would call them; and whatever Man called each living soul, that was its name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:17 - And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:19 - In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:23 - Therefore Jehovah Elohim sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:2 - And she further bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, but Cain was a husbandman.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:3 - And in process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering to Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:10 - And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:11 - And now be thou cursed from the ground, which hath opened its mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:12 - When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield thee its strength; a wanderer and fugitive shalt thou be on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:14 - Behold, thou hast driven me this day from the face of the ground, and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a wanderer and fugitive on the earth; and it will come to pass, that every one who finds me will slay me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 5:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:29 - And he called his name Noah, saying, This one shall comfort us concerning our work and concerning the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah has cursed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:1 - And it came to pass when mankind began to multiply on the earth, and daughters were born to them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:7 - And Jehovah said, I will destroy Man, whom I have created, from the earth -- from man to cattle, to creeping things, and to fowl of the heavens; for I repent that I have made them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:20 - Of fowl after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of each shall go in to thee, to keep them alive.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:4 - For in yet seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living being which I have made will I destroy from the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:8 - Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowl, and of everything that creeps on the ground,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:23 - And every living being was destroyed that was on the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and fowl of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth. And Noah alone remained, and what was with him in the ark.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:8 - And he sent out the dove from him, to see if the waters had become low on the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:13 - And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:21 - And Jehovah smelled the sweet odour. And Jehovah said in his heart, I will no more henceforth curse the ground on account of Man, for the thought of Man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will no more smite every living thing, as I have done.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:2 - And let the fear of you and the dread of you be upon every animal of the earth, and upon all fowl of the heavens: upon all that moveth on the ground; and upon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they delivered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:20 - And Noah began to be a husbandman, and planted a vineyard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:3 - And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee; and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:25 - and overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew upon the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:14 - And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:15 - And behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places to which thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee until I have done what I have spoken to thee of.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:18 - And that year ended; and they came to him the second year, and said to him, We will not hide it from my lord that since our money is come to an end, and the herds of cattle are in the possession of my lord, nothing is left before my lord but our bodies and our land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:19 - Why should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be bondmen to Pharaoh; and give seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:20 - And Joseph bought all the soil of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them; and the land became Pharaoh's.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:22 - Only the land of the priests he did not buy; for the priests had an assigned portion from Pharaoh, and ate their assigned portion which Pharaoh had given them; so they did not sell their land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:23 - And Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and sow the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:26 - And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt to this day, that the fifth should be for Pharaoh, except the land of the priests: theirs alone did not become Pharaoh's.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:5 - And he said, Draw not nigh hither: loose thy sandals from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:21 - For, if thou do not let my people go, behold, I will send dog-flies upon thee, and upon thy bondmen, and upon thy people, and into thy houses; and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of dog-flies, and also the ground on which they are.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:6 - and they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy bondmen, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned and went out from Pharaoh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:12 - Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:24 - An altar of earth shalt thou make unto me, and shalt sacrifice on it thy burnt-offerings, and thy peace-offerings, thy sheep and thine oxen: in all places where I shall make my name to be remembered, I will come unto thee, and bless thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:19 - The first of the first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:12 - Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, For misfortune he has brought them out, to slay them on the mountains, and to annihilate them from the face of the earth? Turn from the heat of thine anger, and repent of this evil against thy people!

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:16 - And how shall it be known then that I have found grace in thine eyes -- I and thy people? Is it not by thy going with us? so shall we be distinguished, I and thy people, from every people that is on the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:26 - -- The first of the first-fruits of thy land shalt thou bring into the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:24 - And I have said unto you, Ye shall possess their land, and I will give it unto you for a possession; a land flowing with milk and honey: I am Jehovah your God, who have separated you from the peoples.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:25 - And ye shall make a separation between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean, and ye shall not make yourselves an abomination by beast, or by fowl, or by anything that creepeth on the ground which I have separated for you, declaring it as unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:12 - Have I conceived all this people, have I brought them forth, that thou sayest to me, Carry them in thy bosom, as the nursing-father beareth the suckling, unto the land which thou didst swear unto their fathers?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:3 - But the man Moses was very meek, above all men that were upon the face of the earth.

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