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TWOT Reference: 1124
Strong's Number H3947 matches the Hebrew לָקַח (lāqaḥ),
which occurs 45 times in 43 verses in 'Deu'
in the WLC Hebrew.
“So I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and respected men, and set them over you as leaders: commanders for thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens, and officers for your tribes.
“The plan seemed good to me, so I selected twelve men from among you, one man for each tribe.
“They took some of the fruit from the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us back a report: ‘The land the LORD our God is giving us is good.’
“We captured all his cities at that time. There wasn’t a city that we didn’t take from them: sixty cities, the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
“At that time we took the land from the two Amorite kings across the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon,
“Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took over the entire region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He called Bashan by his own name, Jair’s Villages,[fn] as it is today.
“But the LORD selected you and brought you out of Egypt’s iron furnace to be a people for his inheritance, as you are today.
“Or has a god attempted to go and take a nation as his own out of another nation, by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, by great terrors, as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
“You must not intermarry with them, and you must not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
“Burn up the carved images of their gods. Don’t covet the silver and gold on the images and take it for yourself, or else you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the LORD your God.
“When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I did not eat food or drink water.
“I took the sinful calf you had made and burned it. I crushed it, thoroughly grinding it to powder as fine as dust, and threw its dust into the stream that came down from the mountain.
“For the LORD your God is the God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awe-inspiring God, showing no partiality and taking no bribe.
“take an awl and pierce through his ear into the door, and he will become your slave for life. Also treat your female slave the same way.
“Do not deny justice or show partiality to anyone. Do not accept a bribe, for it blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
“the elders of his city are to send for him, take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood and he will die.
“Has any man become engaged to a woman and not married her? Let him leave and return home. Otherwise he may die in battle and another man marry her.’
“The elders of the city nearest to the victim are to get a young cow that has not been yoked or used for work.
“if you see a beautiful woman among the captives, desire her, and want to take her as your wife,
“If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, do not take the mother along with the young.
“You may take the young for yourself, but be sure to let the mother go free, so that you may prosper and live long.
“and accuses her of shameful conduct, and gives her a bad name, saying, ‘I married this woman and was intimate with her, but I didn’t find any evidence of her virginity,’
“the young woman’s father and mother will take the evidence of her virginity and bring it to the city elders at the city gate.
“A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not violate his father’s marriage bed.[fn]
“If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, he may write her a divorce certificate, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.
“and the second man hates her, writes her a divorce certificate, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house or if he dies,
“the first husband who sent her away may not marry her again after she has been defiled, because that would be detestable to the LORD. You must not bring guilt on the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
“When a man takes a bride, he must not go out with the army or be liable for any duty. He is free to stay at home for one year, so that he can bring joy to the wife he has married.
“When you reap the harvest in your field, and you forget a sheaf in the field, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
“When brothers live on the same property[fn] and one of them dies without a son, the wife of the dead man may not marry a stranger outside the family. Her brother-in-law is to take her as his wife, have sexual relations with her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law for her.
“But if the man doesn’t want to marry his sister-in-law, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, ‘My brother-in-law refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He isn’t willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.’
“The elders of his city will summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, ‘I don’t want to marry her,’
“take some of the first of all the land’s produce that you harvest from the land the LORD your God is giving you and put it in a basket. Then go to the place where the LORD your God chooses to have his name dwell.
“Then the priest will take the basket from you and place it before the altar of the LORD your God.
“‘The one who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person is cursed.’
And all the people will say, ‘Amen! ’
“We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh.
“Even if your exiles are at the farthest horizon, he will gather you and bring you back from there.
“It is not in heaven so that you have to ask, ‘Who will go up to heaven, get it for us, and proclaim it to us so that we may follow it? ’
“And it is not across the sea so that you have to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea, get it for us, and proclaim it to us so that we may follow it? ’
“Take this book of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God so that it may remain there as a witness against you.
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