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Lexicon :: Strong's H3627 - kᵊlî

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כְּלִי
Transliteration
kᵊlî
Pronunciation
kel-ee'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 982g

Strong’s Definitions

כְּלִי kᵉlîy, kel-ee'; from H3615; something prepared, i.e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon):—armour(-bearer), artillery, bag, carriage, furnish, furniture, instrument, jewel, that is made of, × one from another, that which pertaineth, pot, psaltery, sack, stuff, thing, tool, vessel, ware, weapon, whatsoever.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 325x

The KJV translates Strong's H3627 in the following manner: vessel (166x), instrument (39x), weapon (21x), jewel (21x), armourbearer (with H5375) (18x), stuff (14x), thing (11x), armour (10x), furniture (7x), carriage (3x), bag (2x), miscellaneous (13x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 325x
The KJV translates Strong's H3627 in the following manner: vessel (166x), instrument (39x), weapon (21x), jewel (21x), armourbearer (with H5375) (18x), stuff (14x), thing (11x), armour (10x), furniture (7x), carriage (3x), bag (2x), miscellaneous (13x).

  1. article, vessel, implement, utensil

    1. article, object (general)

    2. utensil, implement, apparatus, vessel

      1. implement (of hunting or war)

      2. implement (of music)

      3. implement, tool (of labour)

      4. equipment, yoke (of oxen)

      5. utensils, furniture

    3. vessel, receptacle (general)

    4. vessels (boats) of paper-reed

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
כְּלִי kᵉlîy, kel-ee'; from H3615; something prepared, i.e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon):—armour(-bearer), artillery, bag, carriage, furnish, furniture, instrument, jewel, that is made of, × one from another, that which pertaineth, pot, psaltery, sack, stuff, thing, tool, vessel, ware, weapon, whatsoever.
STRONGS H3627: Abbreviations
כְּלִי 324 noun masculineHosea 8:8 article, utensil, vessel (Late Hebrew id.; according to Thes from כלה = conficere, like German Zeug fromzeugen; properly therefore anything finished, made, produced; according to BaZMG 1887, 605 from meaning enclose, contain; he finds plural of כְּלִי in כלאי M-I23 (compare כלאים)) — כ׳ absolute Jeremiah 18:4 +; הַכֶּ֑לִי 1 Samuel 17:49; 1 Samuel 21:6; construct כְּלִי Hosea 13:15 +; suffix כֶּלְיְךָ Deuteronomy 23:25; plural כֵּלִים Exodus 22:6 +; construct כְּלֵי Genesis 24:53 +; suffix כֵּלַי Genesis 31:37 + 2 times; כֵּלֶיךָ Genesis 27:3; Ezekiel 12:4; כֵּלֵינוּ 1 Samuel 9:7; כְּלֵיכֶם Genesis 43:11 +; כְּלֵיהֶם Joshua 7:11 +; —
1. in general, article, object, made of any material, thing, especially thing of value זָהָב כ׳ 1 Samuel 6:8, 15 (images of mice, etc.), personal or household property Genesis 31:37 (twice in verse) (E; Genesis 31:37b כֹּל כְּלֵיבֵֿיתֶ֑ךָ), Genesis 45:20 (E), כְּלֵי בֵיתֿ טוֺבִיָּהוּ Nehemiah 13:18; Joshua 7:11 (JE), כֶּסֶף אוֺ כֵּלִים Exodus 22:6 (E) money or articles (property), כְּלִי־פָּ֑ז Job 28:17 (apparently collective); things carried, plural = stuff, load, baggage (impedimenta) 1 Samuel 17:22 (twice in verse), apparently = baggage-train 1 Samuel 10:22; 1 Samuel 25:13; 1 Samuel 30:24; Isaiah 10:28; (compare Genesis 31:37 above); כְּלֵי גוֺלָה things of exile, i.e. the most necessary articles, such as exiles may take, Jeremiah 46:19; Ezekiel 12:3, 4b; Ezekiel 12:7b, compare Ezekiel 12:4a, Ezekiel 12:7a; = ornaments or jewels Genesis 24:53 (J; זָהָב כֶסֶף וכ׳ כ׳, probably = ornaments), זהב כסף וכ׳ כ׳ also Exodus 3:22; Exodus 11:2; Exodus 12:35 (all E); Isaiah 61:10; Exodus 35:22; Numbers 31:50, כְּלֵי מַעֲשֶׂה Numbers 31:51 (all P), כְּלִי יְקָר Proverbs 20:15 (in figurative), תִפְאַרְתֵּךְ כ׳ Ezekiel 16:17, 39; Ezekiel 23:26 (all in figure); כְּלֵי נְחשֶׁת as merchandise Ezekiel 27:13; כֵּלִים as cargo of ship Jonah 1:5; כסף וזהב וּכְלֵי נְחשֶׁת וּבַרְזֶל Joshua 6:19, 24 (J E; spoil of war); of any household article (on which one sits) Leviticus 15:4, 6, 22, 23, 26 (all P); of skin Numbers 31:20, or wood Numbers 31:20 (P); כְּלִי חֶמְדָּה Nahum 2:10 precious thing, so Hosea 13:15 (figurative), Jeremiah 25:34 (simile), 2 Chronicles 32:27; Daniel 11:8, כלי חֲמֻדוֺת 2 Chronicles 20:25 (apparently = ornaments); also כְּלִי אֵיןחֵֿפֶץ בּוֺ Jeremiah 22:28 (figurative of Coniah, || עֶצֶב נִבְזֶה נָפוּץ), Hosea 8:8 (simile; compare Jeremiah 48:38 below); † specifically of garments (one's 'things'): כְּלִיגֶֿבֶר Deuteronomy 22:5 (|| שִׂמְלַת אִשָּׁה), so כְּלִיֿ עוֺר Leviticus 13:49 (compare מְלֶאכֶת עוֺר Leviticus 13:48), Leviticus 13:52; Leviticus 13:53; Leviticus 13:57; Leviticus 13:58; Leviticus 13:59 (all P).
2. utensil, implement, apparatus:
†a. implement of hunting and (especially) war, = weapon Genesis 27:3 (J), 1 Samuel 20:40; 1 Samuel 21:9 (גַּם חַרְבִּי וְגַם כֵּלַי), 1 Kings 11:8 2 Chronicles 23:7; 1 Kings 11:11; Isaiah 54:16, 17; Jeremiah 22:7; probably also Numbers 35:32, כְּלִי בַּרְזֶל Numbers 35:16, כְּלִי עֵץיָֿד Numbers 35:18 (all P); כְּלֵי חָמָם Genesis 49:5 (poem); כְּלִי מַשְׁחֵתוֺ Ezekiel 9:1, מַפָּצוֹ כ׳ Ezekiel 9:2; figurative of God's weapons כְּלֵימָֿוֶת Psalm 7:14 (|| חִצָּיו); זַעְמוֺ כ׳ Isaiah 13:5; Jeremiah 50:25; of entire equipment of warrior, armour or armament offensive and defensive 1 Samuel 17:54 (compare 1 Samuel 17:5ff.), 1 Samuel 21:6 (twice in verse) (see DrSm 139. 293), 1 Samuel 31:9, 10 = 1 Chronicles 10:9, 10; hence נשֵֹׁא כֵלִים (כֵּלָיוׅ armour—weapon-bearer Judges 9:54; 1 Samuel 14:1, 6, 7, 12 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 14:13 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 14:14, 17; 1 Samuel 16:21; 1 Samuel 31:4 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 31:5, 6 = 1 Chronicles 10:4 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 10:5, 2 Samuel 18:15; 2 Samuel 23:37 = 1 Chronicles 11:39; figurative וְכֵלַי כֵּלָיו רָעִים Isaiah 32:7 and a knave, his weapons (i.e. devices, Che 'machinations') are evil; more precisely כְּלֵי מִלְחָמָה Judges 18:11, 16, 17; 1 Samuel 8:12; 2 Samuel 1:27; Deuteronomy 1:41; Jeremiah 21:4; Jeremiah 50:20 (figurative), Ezekiel 32:27; 1 Chronicles 12:34 [1 Chronicles 12:33] (van d. H 1 Chronicles 12:33 [1 Chronicles 12:32]); כְּלֵי צְבָא מִלְחָמָה 1 Chronicles 12:38 [1 Chronicles 12:37] (van d. H 1 Chronicles 12:37); כְּלֵי קְרָב Ecclesiastes 9:18; בֵּית כֵּלָיו 2 Kings 20:13 = Isaiah 39:2 is perhaps armoury; כ׳ Ezekiel 40:42 is sacrificial knife.
†b. instrument of music כְּלֵי (הַ)שִּׁיר Amos 6:5; 1 Chronicles 15:16; 1 Chronicles 16:42; 2 Chronicles 5:13; 7:6; 23:13; 34:12; כְּלֵי דָוִיד 2 Chronicles 29:26, 27, שִֿׁיר דָּוִיד כ׳ Nehemiah 12:36; כְּלִי נֶבֶל Psalm 71:22, נְבָלִים כ׳ 1 Chronicles 16:5; כֵּלִים alone 1 Chronicles 23:5, compare Numbers 31:6 (P; כְּלֵי הַקֹּדֶשׁ); — for בִּכְלֵי עֹז (ליהוהׅ 2 Chronicles 30:21 read בְּכָלעֹֿז (KauAT, compare Be).
†c. implement of labour, tool בַרְזֶל כ׳ 1 Kings 6:7, or of one's calling, pursuit קַחלְֿךָ כְּלִי רֹעֶה אֱוִלִי Zechariah 11:15 (otherwise 1 Samuel 17:40, see 3).
†d. equipment of oxen (yoke, etc.) 2 Samuel 24:22; 1 Kings 19:21.
†e. כְּלֵי רִכְכּוֺ 1 Samuel 8:22 his chariot-equipments.
f. as general term for utensils and furniture of Solomon's palace 1 Kings 10:21 2 Chronicles 9:20; especially (very often) of tabernacle Exodus 25:9, 39; Exodus 27:3 + — 1 Kings 7:45, 47, 48; 2 Kings 12:14 +; of both palace and temple Jeremiah 27:18, 19, 21; combinations are כְּלֵי הַמִּשְׁכָּן Exodus 27:19, הַמִּזְבֵּחַ כ׳ Exodus 38:3, יהוה כ׳ Isaiah 52:11, בֵית י׳ כ׳ Jeremiah 27:16; Jeremiah 28:3, 6; Ezra 1:7, כְּלֵי חֶמְדַּת בֵּית י׳ 2 Chronicles 36:10, בֵית כ׳ אֱלֹהִים 2 Chronicles 28:24 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 36:18; Nehemiah 13:9; Daniel 1:2, הַמִּקְדָּשׁ כ׳ Nehemiah 10:40; הַשָּׁרֵת כ׳ Numbers 4:12 utensil of ministry, עֲבֹדָתָם כ׳ Numbers 4:26; 1 Chronicles 9:28; 1 Chronicles 28:14 (twice in verse), עֲבוֺדַת בֵּית י׳ כ׳ 1 Chronicles 28:13, מִשְׁמֶרֶת מַשָּׂאָם כ׳ Numbers 4:32; also הַקֹּדֶשׁ כ׳ 1 Kings 8:4; 1 Chronicles 9:29; of appliances of idol-workship 2 Kings 23:4.
3. vessel, receptacle, of various materials and for various purposes Genesis 43:11 (J); 1 Samuel 9:7; Deuteronomy 23:25; = sack Genesis 42:25 (E; שַׂק in || clause, compare אַמְתַּחַת Genesis 42:27); כְּלִי הָרֹעִים shepherd's bag or wallet 1 Samuel 17:40, compare 1 Samuel 17:49; חֶרֶשׂ כ׳ Jeremiah 32:14 is earthen-ware receptacle for deed of sale; for liquids 1 Kings 17:10; 2 Kings 4:3 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 4:4, 6 (3 times in verse), מַשְׁקֶה כ׳ 1 Kings 10:21 2 Chronicles 9:20, כְּלֵי שַׁמְנָהּ Numbers 4:9, compare Numbers 4:10; וְלֹא הוּרַק מִכְּלִי אֶלכֶּֿ֑לִי Jeremiah 48:11 (figurative), compare Jeremiah 48:12 (|| נְבָלִים); for cooking Leviticus 6:21 (חֶרֶשׂ כ׳), Leviticus 6:21 (נְחשֶׁת כ׳); see also (הַ)יּוֺצֵר 2 Samuel 17:28; Jeremiah 19:11 (simile), Psalm 2:9 (simile), לַצֹּרֵף כֶּ֑לִי Proverbs 25:4; כ׳ פָתוּחַ Numbers 19:15 an open (uncovered) vessel. טָהוֺר כ׳ Isaiah 66:20 a clean vessel; figurative of Eliakim's relatives כְּלֵי הַקָּטָ֑ן מִכְּלֵי הָאַגָּנוֺת וְעַד כָּלכְּֿלֵי הַנְּבָלִים Isaiah 22:24 the vessels of smallness (DaSynt. § 32, R. 5), from the basin-vessels to all the pitcher-vessels.
4. specifically כְּלֵיגֹֿמֶא Isaiah 18:2 vessels (boats) of paper-reed.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

24:53; 24:53; 27:3; 27:3; 31:37; 31:37; 31:37; 31:37; 42:25; 42:27; 43:11; 43:11; 45:20; 49:5

Exodus

3:22; 11:2; 12:35; 22:6; 22:6; 25:9; 25:39; 27:3; 27:19; 35:22; 38:3

Leviticus

6:21; 6:21; 13:48; 13:49; 13:52; 13:53; 13:57; 13:58; 13:59; 15:4; 15:6; 15:22; 15:23; 15:26

Numbers

4:9; 4:10; 4:12; 4:26; 4:32; 19:15; 31:6; 31:20; 31:20; 31:50; 31:51; 35:16; 35:18; 35:32

Deuteronomy

1:41; 22:5; 23:25; 23:25

Joshua

6:19; 6:24; 7:11; 7:11

Judges

9:54; 18:11; 18:16; 18:17

1 Samuel

6:8; 6:15; 8:12; 8:22; 9:7; 9:7; 10:22; 14:1; 14:6; 14:7; 14:12; 14:13; 14:14; 14:17; 16:21; 17:5; 17:22; 17:40; 17:40; 17:49; 17:49; 17:54; 20:40; 21:6; 21:6; 21:9; 25:13; 30:24; 31:4; 31:5; 31:6; 31:9; 31:10

2 Samuel

1:27; 17:28; 18:15; 23:37; 24:22

1 Kings

6:7; 7:45; 7:47; 7:48; 8:4; 10:21; 10:21; 11:8; 11:11; 17:10; 19:21

2 Kings

4:3; 4:4; 4:6; 12:14; 20:13; 23:4

1 Chronicles

9:28; 9:29; 10:4; 10:5; 10:9; 10:10; 11:39; 12:32; 12:33; 12:37; 12:37; 15:16; 16:5; 16:42; 23:5; 28:13; 28:14

2 Chronicles

5:13; 7:6; 9:20; 9:20; 20:25; 23:7; 23:13; 28:24; 29:26; 29:27; 30:21; 32:27; 34:12; 36:10; 36:18

Ezra

1:7

Nehemiah

12:36; 13:9; 13:18

Job

28:17

Psalms

2:9; 7:14; 71:22

Proverbs

20:15; 25:4

Ecclesiastes

9:18

Isaiah

10:28; 13:5; 18:2; 22:24; 32:7; 39:2; 52:11; 54:16; 54:17; 61:10; 66:20

Jeremiah

18:4; 19:11; 21:4; 22:7; 22:28; 25:34; 27:16; 27:18; 27:19; 27:21; 28:3; 28:6; 32:14; 46:19; 48:11; 48:12; 48:38; 50:20; 50:25

Ezekiel

9:1; 9:2; 12:3; 12:4; 12:4; 12:4; 12:7; 12:7; 16:17; 16:39; 23:26; 27:13; 32:27; 40:42

Daniel

1:2; 11:8

Hosea

8:8; 8:8; 13:15; 13:15

Amos

6:5

Jonah

1:5

Nahum

2:10

Zechariah

11:15

H3627

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Strong's Number H3627 matches the Hebrew כְּלִי (kᵊlî),
which occurs 31 times in 26 verses in 'Num' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:50 - But thou, appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all its vessels; and they shall serve it, and round about the tabernacle shall they encamp;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:8

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:31 - And their charge was the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the utensils of the sanctuary with which they ministered, and the curtain, and all that belongs to its service.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:36 - And the charge of the sons of Merari consisted in the oversight of the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its bases, and all its furniture, and all that belongs to its service,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:9 - And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff-trays, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they perform its service;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:10 - and they shall put it and all the utensils thereof within a covering of badgers' skin, and shall put it upon a pole.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:12 - And they shall take all the instruments of service, wherewith they serve in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers' skin, and shall put them upon a pole.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:14 - and they shall put upon it all the utensils thereof, wherewith they perform service about it: the firepans, the forks, and the shovels, and the bowls, -- all the utensils of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers' skin, and put its staves to it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:15 - And when Aaron and his sons have ended covering the sanctuary, and all the utensils of the sanctuary, when the camp setteth forward, then afterwards the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it; but they shall not touch the holy things, lest they die. This is what the sons of Kohath have to carry in the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:16 - And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall have the oversight of the oil for the light, and the fragrant incense, and the continual oblation, and the anointing oil, -- the oversight of the whole tabernacle, and of all that is therein, over the sanctuary, and over its furniture.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:26 - and the hangings of the court, and the curtain of the entrance, of the gate of the court, which surroundeth the tabernacle and the altar, and the cords thereof, and all the instruments of their service; and all that is to be done for these things shall they perform.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:32 - and the pillars of the court round about, and their bases, and their pegs, and their cords, all their instruments, according to all their service; and by name ye shall number to them the materials which are their charge to carry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:17 - And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and the priest shall take of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle, and put it into the water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:1 - And it came to pass on the day that Moses had completed the setting up of the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and hallowed it, and all the furniture thereof, and the altar and all its utensils, and had anointed them, and hallowed them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:85

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:85 - each silver dish of a hundred and thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy: all the silver of the vessels was two thousand four hundred shekels according to the shekel of the sanctuary;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:3 - And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of the whole tent: only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they may not die, and you as well as they.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:15 - And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, shall be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:17 - And they shall take for the unclean of the ashes of the purification-offering that hath been burned, and shall put running water thereon in a vessel;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:18 - and a clean man shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and upon all the utensils, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that hath touched the bone, or the one slain, or the dead person, or the grave;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:6 - And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand by the tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, and the holy instruments, even the alarm-trumpets in his hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:20 - And every garment, and every vessel of skin, and all work of goat's hair, and every utensil of wood shall ye purify.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:50 - So we present the offering of Jehovah, that which each one hath found, jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:51

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:51 - And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, all manner of wrought jewels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:16 - And if he have smitten him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall certainly be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:18 - Or if he have smitten him with an instrument of wood, in the hand, wherewith one may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall certainly be put to death;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:22 - But if he have thrust at him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him anything unintentionally,
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