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Lexicon :: Strong's H3478 - yiśrā'ēl

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יִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration
yiśrā'ēl
Pronunciation
yis-raw-ale'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

יִשְׂרָאֵל Yisrâʼêl, yis-raw-ale'; from H8280 and H410; he will rule as God; Jisraël, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity:—Israel.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2,505x

The KJV translates Strong's H3478 in the following manner: Israel (2,489x), Israelites (16x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2,505x
The KJV translates Strong's H3478 in the following manner: Israel (2,489x), Israelites (16x).

  1. Israel = "God prevails"

    1. the second name for Jacob given to him by God after his wrestling with the angel at Peniel

    2. the name of the descendants and the nation of the descendants of Jacob

      1. the name of the nation until the death of Solomon and the split

      2. the name used and given to the northern kingdom consisting of the 10 tribes under Jeroboam; the southern kingdom was known as Judah

      3. the name of the nation after the return from exile

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יִשְׂרָאֵל Yisrâʼêl, yis-raw-ale'; from H8280 and H410; he will rule as God; Jisraël, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity:—Israel.
STRONGS H3478: Abbreviations
יִשְׂרָאֵל 2507 proper name, masculine and of a people Israel (Ēl persisteth, persevereth (or jussive Let Ēl persist) [usually contendeth (NesEg.60 ff.) or Let Ēl contend (GrayProp. N. 218), but see DrHast. DB JACOB 530]; on vocalization see LagBN 131 f. Kit 1 Chronicles 4:16 (Hpt); MI5, + 5 times ישראל; in Egyptian Y-si-r-'l SteindZAW xvi (1896), 331, compare BreastedBib. World ix (1897), 62 ff. PatonSyr. and Pal. 134; Assyrian Sir-'-lai (= יִשְׂרְאֵלִי) SchrKG 356 ff., 364; COT Genesis 36:31; 1 Kings 16:29. — On a possibly relation of יִשׂ׳ to proper name שָׂרַי, שָׂרָה see RSK 257, 2nd ed. 34; — compare שְׂרָיָה(וּ); — Ισραηλ:
1. proper name, masculine. second name of Jacob Genesis 32:29 + 28 times Genesis (JE), Exodus 32:13 (JE), Hosea 12:13; Judges 18:29; Exodus 6:14; Numbers 1:20; Numbers 26:5 (all P), 2 Kings 17:34; 1 Chronicles 1:34 + 8 times Chronicles, Psalm 105:23; בֵּית יִשׂ׳ Ruth 4:11; בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ (literal) Genesis 42:5 + 3 times E, + 2 times P + Exodus 1:7 (P; transition to wider use), 1 Kings 18:31; 1 Chronicles 2:1 +; = 12 tribes Exodus 28:9 + 7 times P; אֱלֹהֵי אַבְרָהָם יִצְחָק וְיִשׂ׳ 1 Kings 18:36; 1 Chronicles 29:18; 2 Chronicles 30:6.
2. proper name, of a people (usually masculineJudges 11:17 f but feminine 1 Samuel 17:21; 2 Samuel 24:9 [not || 1 Chronicles 21:5], compare Dron the passage AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 57 f.): name of Hebrew nation; usually derived from 1, but יִשׂ׳ more common in early usage than בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ (see בֵּן):
a.
(1) undivided kingdom; יִשׂ׳ Genesis 47:27 (J), Genesis 49:7 (poem in J) + 108 times J E, Deuteronomy 1:1; Deuteronomy 18:6; Deuteronomy 33:10 (poem) + 76 times D, Genesis 34:7; Exodus 12:15 + 42 times P; Judges 5:2, 7 (twice in verse) + 104 times Judges; often 1 and 2 Samuel; 1 Kings 1-12; כָּליִֿשׂ׳ of whole people 2 Samuel 8:15 +, of whole army 2 Samuel 11:1 +, opposed to Judah 2 Samuel 2:9 + (so also later).
(2) יִשׂ׳ = Northern tribes, distinguished from Judah, even before disruption, 2 Samuel 2:9, compare 2 Samuel 2:10; 2 Samuel 3:10; 2 Samuel 4:1; 2 Samuel 5:5; 2 Samuel 12:7; 2 Samuel 20:1; 1 Kings 1:35; 1 Kings 4:20; 1 Kings 5:5 +; so at disruption 1 Kings 12:16 (3 times in verse); 1 Kings 12:18, 19; then usually of Northern kingdom, till its fall, 1 Kings 12:28; 1Ki 24:7; 1Ki 24:10 + very often Kings, Amos 1:1; Amos 2:6; Amos 3:14 +, Hosea 1:5; Hosea 4:15 (twice in verse); Hosea 5:3 (twice in verse); Hosea 5:5 +, Micah 1:13, etc.
(3) יִשׂ׳ of Southern kingdom, Judah, rarely before fall of Samaria Isaiah 1:3; Isaiah 8:18; Micah 1:14, 15, so בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ 1 Kings 12:17; after fall of Samaria, יִשׂ׳ (less often בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳) occurs of entire people, in reference to past or future 2 Kings 21:8; 2 Kings 23:22; Isaiah 17:9; Psalm 103:7; Jeremiah 2:3; Jeremiah 50:17, 19 +; יִשׂ׳ also = Judah Jeremiah 2:14, 31; Jeremiah 4:1 +, Ezekiel 13:2, 4, 16; Ezekiel 14:1, 7, 9 +, Isaiah 40:27; Isaiah 41:8; Isaiah 42:24 +, Ezra 2:59 = Nehemiah 7:61; Ezra 2:70; Ezra 3:11 +, Nehemiah 10:34; Nehemiah 10:3 +, Psalm 14:7 (twice in verse) = Psalm 53:7 [Psalm 53:6] (twice in verse), Psalm 147:2; Psalm 149:2 +, etc.
(4) usage in Chronicles: יִשׂ׳ of whole people 1 Chronicles 2:7 + 110 times, of Northern kingdom 2 Chronicles 11:1 + 16 times, of Judah 2 Chronicles 12:6; 19:8 + 9 times
(5) יִשׂ׳ personified as עֶבֶד י׳, Isaiah 44:1, 21; Isaiah 49:3.
b. בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳,
(1) of undivided people Exodus 1:12 (J), Exodus 3:9 (E) + 72 times J E, Deuteronomy 3:18; Deuteronomy 10:6 + 25 times D, Genesis 32:33 [Genesis 32:32] + 327 times P; Judges 1:1 + 60 times Judges; seldom 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 Kings 1-12; in 1 Kings 13—2 Kings 25 passive in reference to older history (rarely otherwise).
(2) seldom of Northern kingdom Amos 2:11 + 9 times Amos, Hosea; 2 Chronicles 13:12 + 7 times Chronicles.
(3) of Judah (late) Ezekiel 2:3; Nehemiah 1:6 (twice in verse); Ezra 3:1; Joel 4:16 +, 2 Chronicles 31:5.
c. בֵּית יִשׂ׳ Exodus 16:31; Exodus 40:38 + 142 times (see בַּיִת 5d (δ); + 81 times Ezekiel, where = Judah; see especially Exodus 37:16); שְׁנֵי בָֽתֵּי יִשׂ׳ Isaiah 8:14.
d. other phrases, see sub אִישׁ, אֶרֶץ, בַּת, בְּתוּלָה, גְּבוּל, הַר, כִּסֵּא, מֶלֶךְ, (נטה) מַטֶּה, (יעד) עֵדָה, עַם, שֵׁבֶט; also (in epithet of י׳) below אָבִיר, אוֺר, אֱלֹחִים, I. גָּוֺאל, מֶלֶךְ, מִקְוֶה (I. קוה), I. צוּר (V. צור), קָדוֺשׁ, I. רָעָה 1d (3).
†e. יִשׂ׳ = the laity, opposed to priests, etc. (late): Ezra 10:25; Nehemiah 11:3; 1 Chronicles 9:2; כָּליִֿשׂ׳ Ezra 2:70; Ezra 10:5; הָעָם יִשׂ׳ Ezra 9:1; בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ Nehemiah 10:40, compare שְׁאָר יִשׂ׳ Nehemiah 11:20.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H3479.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

32:29; 32:32; 34:7; 36:31; 42:5; 47:27; 49:7

Exodus

1:7; 1:12; 3:9; 6:14; 12:15; 16:31; 28:9; 32:13; 37:16; 40:38

Numbers

1:20; 26:5

Deuteronomy

1:1; 3:18; 10:6; 18:6; 33:10

Judges

1:1; 5:2; 5:7; 11:17; 18:29

Ruth

4:11

1 Samuel

17:21

2 Samuel

2:9; 2:9; 2:10; 3:10; 4:1; 5:5; 8:15; 11:1; 12:7; 20:1; 24:9

1 Kings

1:35; 4:20; 5:5; 12:16; 12:17; 12:18; 12:19; 12:28; 16:29; 18:31; 18:36

2 Kings

17:34; 21:8; 23:22

1 Chronicles

1:34; 2:1; 2:7; 4:16; 9:2; 21:5; 29:18

2 Chronicles

11:1; 12:6; 13:12; 19:8; 30:6; 31:5

Ezra

2:59; 2:70; 2:70; 3:1; 3:11; 9:1; 10:5; 10:25

Nehemiah

1:6; 7:61; 10:3; 10:34; 11:3; 11:20

Psalms

14:7; 53:6; 103:7; 105:23; 147:2; 149:2

Isaiah

1:3; 8:14; 8:18; 17:9; 40:27; 41:8; 42:24; 44:1; 44:21; 49:3

Jeremiah

2:3; 2:14; 2:31; 4:1; 50:17; 50:19

Ezekiel

2:3; 13:2; 13:4; 13:16; 14:1; 14:7; 14:9

Hosea

1:5; 4:15; 5:3; 5:5; 12:13

Amos

1:1; 2:6; 2:11; 3:14

Micah

1:13; 1:14; 1:15

H3478

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Strong's Number H3478 matches the Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל (yiśrā'ēl),
which occurs 237 times in 209 verses in 'Num' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 5 (Num 1:2–Num 9:7)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:2 - Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, H3478 after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:3 - From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: H3478 thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:16 - These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:20 - And the children of Reuben, Israel's H3478 eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:44

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:44 - These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, H3478 being twelve men: each one was for the house of his fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:45

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:45 - So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, H3478 by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel; H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:49

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:49 - Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel: H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:52

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:52 - And the children of Israel H3478 shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:53

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:53 - But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: H3478 and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:54

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:54 - And the children of Israel H3478 did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:2 - Every man of the children of Israel H3478 shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:32 - These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel H3478 by the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:33 - But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; H3478 as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:34 - And the children of Israel H3478 did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:8 - And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, H3478 to do the service of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:9 - And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:12 - And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel H3478 instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: H3478 therefore the Levites shall be mine;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:13 - Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, H3478 both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:38 - But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; H3478 and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:40

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:40 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the males of the children of Israel H3478 from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:41 - And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; H3478 and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:42

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:42 - And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:45

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:45 - Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, H3478 and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:46

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:46 - And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of Israel, H3478 which are more than the Levites;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:50 - Of the firstborn of the children of Israel H3478 took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:46

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:46 - All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel H3478 numbered, after their families, and after the house of their fathers,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:2 - Command the children of Israel, H3478 that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:4 - And the children of Israel H3478 did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:6 - Speak unto the children of Israel, H3478 When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:9 - And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, H3478 which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:12 - Speak unto the children of Israel, H3478 and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:2 - Speak unto the children of Israel, H3478 and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the LORD:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:23 - Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, H3478 saying unto them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:27 - And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; H3478 and I will bless them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:2 - That the princes of Israel, H3478 heads of the house of their fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and were over them that were numbered, offered:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:84

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:84 - This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: H3478 twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:6 - Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, H3478 and cleanse them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:9 - And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel H3478 together:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:10 - And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the children of Israel H3478 shall put their hands upon the Levites:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:11 - And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for an offering of the children of Israel, H3478 that they may execute the service of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:14 - Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: H3478 and the Levites shall be mine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:16 - For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; H3478 instead of such as open every womb, even instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel, H3478 have I taken them unto me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:17 - For all the firstborn of the children of Israel H3478 are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:18 - And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:19 - And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, H3478 to do the service of the children of Israel H3478 in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: H3478 that there be no plague among the children of Israel, H3478 when the children of Israel H3478 come nigh unto the sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:20 - And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, H3478 did to the Levites according unto all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel H3478 unto them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:2 - Let the children of Israel H3478 also keep the passover at his appointed season.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:4 - And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, H3478 that they should keep the passover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5 - And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:7 - And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel? H3478

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