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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 - God made the animals of the eretz after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:5 - No plant of the field was yet in the eretz, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the eretz. There was not a man to till the ground,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:6 - but a mist went up from the eretz, and watered the whole surface of the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:7 - The LORD God formed man from the 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 - Out of the ground the LORD God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also 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 - Out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:17 - To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:19 - By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:23 - Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of `Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:2 - Again she gave birth, to Kayin's brother Hevel. Hevel was a keeper of sheep, but Kayin was a tiller of the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:3 - As time passed, it happened that Kayin brought an offering to the LORD from the fruit of the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:10 - The LORD said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:11 - Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:12 - From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the eretz."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:14 - Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the eretz. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 5:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:29 - and he named him Noach, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:1 - It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:7 - The LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:20 - Of the birds after their kind, of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:4 - In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the eretz for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:8 - Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:23 - Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, cattle, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the eretz. Only Noach was left, and those who were with him in the teivah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:8 - He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the surface of the ground,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:13

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 Box Gen 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:21 - The LORD smelled the sweet savor. The LORD said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:2 - The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the eretz, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:20 - Noach began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:3 - I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. In you will all of the families of the eretz be blessed."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:25 - He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:14 - Your seed will be as the dust of the eretz, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the eretz be blessed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:15 - Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:18 - When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of cattle are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:19 - Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Par`oh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won't be desolate."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:20 - So Yosef bought all the land of Mitzrayim for Par`oh, for the Mitzrim sold every man his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Par`oh's.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:22 - Only he didn't buy the land of the Kohanim, for the Kohanim had a portion from Par`oh, and ate their portion which Par`oh gave them. That is why they didn't sell their land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:23 - Then Yosef said to the people, "Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Par`oh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:26 - Yosef made it a statute concerning the land of Mitzrayim to this day, that Par`oh should have the fifth. Only the land of the Kohanim alone didn't become Par`oh's.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:5 - He said, "Don't come close. Take off your sandals from off your feet, for the place you are standing on is holy ground."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:21 - Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you, and on your servants, and on your people, and into your houses: and the houses of the Mitzrim shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:6 - Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Mitzrim; as neither your fathers nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the eretz to this day.'" He turned, and went out from Par`oh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:12 - "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:24 - You shall make an altar of eretz for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace-offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:19 - The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. "You shall 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 Mitzrim speak, saying, 'He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the eretz?' Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:16 - For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn't it in that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the eretz?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:26 - You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:24 - But I have said to you, "You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey." I am the LORD your God, who has separated you from the peoples.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:25 - "'You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and you shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you.

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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 you should tell me, Carry them in your bosom, as a nursing-father carries the sucking child, to the land which you swore to their fathers?

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:3 - Now the man Moshe was very humble, above all the men who were on the surface of the eretz.

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