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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 72 times in 65 verses in 'Deu' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Deu 1:1–Deu 31:30)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:1 - These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel H3478 on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:3 - And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, H3478 according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:38

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:38 - But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel H3478 to inherit it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:12 - The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel H3478 did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:18 - And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, H3478 all that are meet for the war.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:1 - Now therefore hearken, O Israel, H3478 unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:44

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:44 - And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel: H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:45

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:45 - These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, H3478 after they came forth out of Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:46

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:46 - On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel H3478 smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:1 - And Moses called all Israel, H3478 and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, H3478 the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:3 - Hear therefore, O Israel, H3478 and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:4 - Hear, O Israel: H3478 The LORD our God is one LORD:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:1 - Hear, O Israel: H3478 Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:6 - And the children of Israel H3478 took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:12 - And now, Israel, H3478 what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:6 - And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel: H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:11 - And all Israel H3478 shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:4 - And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel: H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:12 - And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:20 - That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:1 - The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: H3478 they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:6 - And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, H3478 where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:13 - Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, H3478 that it may go well with thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:3 - And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, H3478 ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:8 - Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, H3478 whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's H3478 charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:21 - And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel H3478 shall hear, and fear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:19 - And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: H3478 and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:21 - Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, H3478 to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:22 - If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:17 - There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, H3478 nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:7 - If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, H3478 and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:6 - And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:7 - And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, H3478 he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:10 - And his name shall be called in Israel, H3478 The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:15 - Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, H3478 and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:1 - And Moses with the elders of Israel H3478 commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:9 - And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, H3478 saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; H3478 this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:14 - And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel H3478 with a loud voice,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:1 - These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel H3478 in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:2 - And Moses called unto all Israel, H3478 and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:10 - Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel, H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:21 - And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, H3478 according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:1 - And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:7 - And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, H3478 Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:9 - And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:11 - When all Israel H3478 is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel H3478 in their hearing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:19 - Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: H3478 put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:22 - Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:23 - And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel H3478 into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:30 - And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel H3478 the words of this song, until they were ended.

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