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Lexicon :: Strong's H4639 - maʿăśê

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מַעֲשֶׂה
Transliteration
maʿăśê
Pronunciation
mah-as-eh'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1708a

Strong’s Definitions

מַעֲשֶׂה maʻăseh, mah-as-eh'; from H6213; an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property:—act, art, bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, × well, (handy-, needle-, net-) work(ing, -manship), wrought.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 235x

The KJV translates Strong's H4639 in the following manner: work (189x), needlework (with H7551) (5x), acts (4x), labour (4x), doing (4x), art (3x), deed (3x), miscellaneous (23x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 235x
The KJV translates Strong's H4639 in the following manner: work (189x), needlework (with H7551) (5x), acts (4x), labour (4x), doing (4x), art (3x), deed (3x), miscellaneous (23x).

  1. deed, work

    1. deed, thing done, act

    2. work, labour

    3. business, pursuit

    4. undertaking, enterprise

    5. achievement

    6. deeds, works (of deliverance and judgment)

    7. work, thing made

    8. work (of God)

    9. product

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מַעֲשֶׂה maʻăseh, mah-as-eh'; from H6213; an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property:—act, art, bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, × well, (handy-, needle-, net-) work(ing, -manship), wrought.
STRONGS H4639: Abbreviations
מַעֲשֶׂה 233 noun masculineGenesis 20:9 deed, work; — absolute מ׳ Genesis 44:15 +, construct מַעֲשֵׂה Isaiah 5:12 +; suffix מַעֲשֵׂהוּ Judges 13:12 +, etc.; plural מַעֲשִׂים Genesis 20:9 +; construct מַעֲשֵׂי Jeremiah 1:16 +; suffix מַעֲשָׂיו 1 Samuel 19:4 (or singular, so Dr) +, etc.; — often accusative of congnate meaning with verb with עשׂה; —
1. a.
(1) deed, thing done by man Numbers 16:28 (JE), 1 Kings 13:11; Isaiah 26:12; — 1 Samuel 20:19 is obscure;
(2) implic. evil Genesis 44:15(J), Exodus 23:24 (E), Nehemiah 6:14 + 8 times, + sg. Coll. doings(s) Micah 6:16 Leveticus 18:3 (twice in verse) (H), 2 Chronicles 17:4, יְדֵיהֶם מ׳ Lamentations 3:64 Haggai 2:14 Job 33:17 (reading מִמַּעֲשֵׂהוּ Greek Version of the LXX Di Siegf Bu). Ezekiel 16:30 (behaviour); explic. הָרָעִים מַעֲשֵׂינוּ Ezra 9:13 compare Ecclesiastes 4:3 Ecclesiastes 8:11 Ecclesiastes 8:14, מַעֲשֵׂיאָוֶן Isaiah 59:6; specifically of idolatrous practices, יְדֵיכֶם מ׳ following Deuteronomy 31:29 Jeremiah 25:6 Jeremiah 25:7 Jeremiah 32:30, pl. Jeremiah 44:8, compare following 1 Kings 16:7 2 Kings 22:17 = 2 Chronicles 34:25;
(3) implic. right, praisworthy 1 Samuel 19:4 2 Kings 23:19 Jonah 3:10 Proverbs 31:31; of duty in general יַעֲשׂוּן אֲשֶׁר הַמּ׳ Exodus 18:20 (E) =what they are to do; explic. Ecclesiastes 4:4 Ecclesiastes 8:14
(4) as basis of judgment (good or bad) Isaiah 66:18 Psalm 33:15 Ecclesiastes 12:14, יְדֵיהֶם מ׳ Jeremiah 25:14.
b.
(1) work, labour, husbandry Exodus 23:16 (E), Genesis 5:29 (J), Judges 19:16, יְדֵיכֶם מ׳ Haggai 2:17; enforced labour of Israel in Egypt Exodus 5:5 Exodus 5:13 (J); in general Exodus 23:12 (E); also of product of labour Exodus 23:16, compare Isaiah 65:22 Ecclesiastes 5:5; הַמּ׳ יְמֵי שֵׁשֶׁת Ezekiel 46:1 the six working-says; of religious work, הָא׳ בֵּ׳ת עֲבֹדַת מ׳ 1 Chronicles 23:28, compare מ׳ 2 Chronicles 31:21;
(2) business, pursuit, Genesis 46:33 Genesis 47:3 (J), Judges 13:12 1 Samuel 25:2 Isaiah 54:16; in general, occupation Isaiah 29:15 Ecclesiastes 2:4 Ecclesiasted 2:11 Ecclesiastes 3:17 Ecclesiastes 3:22 Ecclesiastes 8:9 Ecclesiastes 9:7 Ecclesiastes 9:10;
(3) undertaking, enterprise, Isaiah 19:14 Isaiah 19:15 Deuteronomy 15:10; יָדֶ֑ךָ מ׳ Deuteronomy 2:7 + 5 times Deuteronomy, 2 Chronicles 32:30 Job 1:10 Psalm 28:4, יָדֵינוּ מ׳ Psalm 90:17 (twice in verse);
(4) achievement Jeremiah 48:7; Esther 10:2;
(5) in weakened sense, מַעֲשֶׂךָ Proverbs 16:3 thine affairs; nearly=occurrences Ecclesiastes 1:14 (plural), Ecclesiastes 2:17 Ecclesiastes 8:17 (following).
c. deed(s), work(s) of י׳, especially in deliverance and in judgment, Judges 2:7, 10; Joshua 24:31 (D), Psalm 33:4 + 21 times, + יָדָיו מ׳ etc. Isaiah 5:12; Psalm 28:5; Psalm 92:5 + 4 times; הָאֱלֹהִים מ׳ in general Ecclesiastes 7:13; Ecclesiastes 8:17; Ecclesiastes 11:5; compare Ecclesiastes 3:11.
2. a.
(1) work, thing made, by man, אֹפֶה מ׳ Genesis 40:17 (E) baker’s work; יוֹצֵר יְדֵי מ׳ Lamentations 4:2; often of furnishings of the tabernacle, חשֵׁב מ׳ Exodus 26:1 + 7 times, רֹקֵם מ׳ Exodus 26:36 + 5 times, אֹרֵג מ׳ Exodus 28:32 + 2 times, חָרָשׁ מ׳ Exodus 28:11, compare אָמּן יְדֵי מ׳ Songs 7:2; of holy oil, etc. רֹקֵחַ מ׳ Exodus 30:25 + 2 times (insert רֹקֵחַ perhaps also 2 Chronicles 16:14); hence מ׳=work of art Isaiah 3:24 (of coiffure), compare מ׳ כְּלִי Numbers 31:51; following noun of material, pattern, etc., צִזִּים מ׳ Numbers 31:20 (i.e. goats' hair), see also Exodus 27:4; Exodus 28:14 +; in temple, שְׂבָכָה מ׳ 1 Kings 7:17, מ׳ שׁוּשַׁן 1 Kings 7:19, etc., צַעֲצֻעִים מ׳ 2 Chronicles 3:10, compare הַחֲבִתִּים מ׳ 1 Chronicles 9:31 the work of (consisting in) breadwafers; =materials of (prepared for) הָעוֹלָה 2 Chronicles 4:6; in theoph. הַסַּפִּיר לִבְנַת מ׳ Exodus 24:10 (J); מ׳ of ships 2 Chronicles 20:37; in general Isaiah 29:16; Exodus 27:16, 18 = thy manufactures, wares; מַעֲשַׂי Psalm 45:2=my verses (ποίημα poem);
(2) workmanship Ezekiel 1:16 (twice in verse) (Ezekiel 1:16a del. Co Toy) I Kings 7:8 Exodus 18:8 + 11 times.
(3) אָדָם יְדֵי מ׳ of idols (contemptuously) Deuteronomy 4:28 2 Kings 19:18=Isaiah 37:19=2 Chronicles 32:19, Psalm 115:4 Psalm 135:15, compare Isaiah 2:8 (יָדָיו מ׳), Hosea 14:4 Micah 5:12 Jeremiah 1:16; so (יְדֵי) מ׳ חָרָשׁ Deuteronomy 27:15 Jeremiah 10:3 Jeremiah 10:9, compare Hosea 13:2; חֲכָמִים מ׳ Jeremiah 10:9; תַּעְתֻּעִים מ׳ Jeremiah 10:15 Jeremiah 51:18; apparently also מַעֲשֵׂהֶם Isaiah 41:29 compare Isaiah 57:12 Ezekiel 6:6; יָדָיו מ׳ of altars Isaiah 17:8.
b. work (made by) God Exodus 32:16 (E); especially (poetry and late), of created things, Psalm 103:22; Psalm 104:24 + 4 times Psalms; אֶצְבְּעֹתֶיךָ מ׳ Psalm 8:4, יָרֶיךָ מ׳ Psalm 102:26 (both of heavens), compare Psalm 19:2 (heavenly bodies), Psalm 8:7 (animals); of man Job 14:15; Job 34:19, compare לָדַעַת כָּלאַֿנְשֵׁי מַעֲשֵׂהוּ Job 37:7 (but read probably אנשׁים Vulgate Ol Di and others); of nation Isaiah 19:25; Isaiah 60:21; Isaiah 64:7; of weights Proverbs 16:11 (but read perhaps הַמֶּלֶךְ) for י׳ Gr Toy).
c. product of olive-tree, זַיִת מ׳ Habakkuk 3:17; figurative product of righteousness Isaiah 32:17.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

5:29; 20:9; 20:9; 40:17; 44:15; 44:15; 46:33; 47:3

Exodus

5:5; 5:13; 18:8; 18:20; 23:12; 23:16; 23:16; 23:24; 24:10; 26:1; 26:36; 27:4; 27:16; 27:18; 28:11; 28:14; 28:32; 30:25; 32:16

Numbers

16:28; 31:20; 31:51

Deuteronomy

2:7; 4:28; 15:10; 27:15; 31:29

Joshua

24:31

Judges

2:7; 2:10; 13:12; 13:12; 19:16

1 Samuel

19:4; 19:4; 20:19; 25:2

1 Kings

7:8; 7:17; 7:19; 13:11; 16:7

2 Kings

19:18; 22:17; 23:19

1 Chronicles

9:31; 23:28

2 Chronicles

3:10; 4:6; 16:14; 17:4; 20:37; 31:21; 32:19; 32:30; 34:25

Ezra

9:13

Nehemiah

6:14

Esther

10:2

Job

1:10; 14:15; 33:17; 34:19; 37:7

Psalms

8:4; 8:7; 19:2; 28:4; 28:5; 33:4; 33:15; 45:2; 90:17; 92:5; 102:26; 103:22; 104:24; 115:4; 135:15

Proverbs

16:3; 16:11; 31:31

Ecclesiastes

1:14; 2:4; 2:17; 3:11; 3:17; 3:22; 4:3; 4:4; 5:5; 7:13; 8:9; 8:11; 8:14; 8:14; 8:17; 8:17; 9:7; 9:10; 11:5; 12:14

Song of Songs

7:2

Isaiah

2:8; 3:24; 5:12; 5:12; 17:8; 19:14; 19:15; 19:25; 26:12; 29:15; 29:16; 32:17; 37:19; 41:29; 54:16; 57:12; 59:6; 60:21; 64:7; 65:22; 66:18

Jeremiah

1:16; 1:16; 10:3; 10:9; 10:9; 10:15; 25:6; 25:7; 25:14; 32:30; 44:8; 48:7; 51:18

Lamentations

3:64; 4:2

Ezekiel

1:16; 1:16; 6:6; 16:30; 46:1

Hosea

13:2; 14:4

Jonah

3:10

Micah

5:12; 6:16

Habakkuk

3:17

Haggai

2:14; 2:17

H4639

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4639 matches the Hebrew מַעֲשֶׂה (maʿăśê),
which occurs 235 times in 221 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 5 (Gen 5:29–Deu 3:24)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:29 - and called his name Noah, saying, “Out of the ground that the LORD has cursed, this one shall bring us relief[fn] from our work and from the painful toil of our hands.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:9 - Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:17 - and in the uppermost basket there were all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating it out of the basket on my head.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:15 - Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that a man like me can indeed practice divination?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:33 - When Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘What is your occupation?’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:3 - Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” And they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, as our fathers were.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:4 - But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people away from their work? Get back to your burdens.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:13 - The taskmasters were urgent, saying, “Complete your work, your daily task each day, as when there was straw.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:20 - and you shall warn them about the statutes and the laws, and make them know the way in which they must walk and what they must do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:12 - “Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:16 - You shall keep the Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:24 - you shall not bow down to their gods nor serve them, nor do as they do, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:10 - and they saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:1 - “Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns; you shall make them with cherubim skillfully worked into them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:31 - “And you shall make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. It shall be made with cherubim skillfully worked into it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:36

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:36 - “You shall make a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:4 - You shall also make for it a grating, a network of bronze, and on the net you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:16 - For the gate of the court there shall be a screen twenty cubits long, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework. It shall have four pillars and with them four bases.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 28:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:6 - “And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and of fine twined linen, skillfully worked.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 28:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:8 - And the skillfully woven band on it shall be made like it and be of one piece with it, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:11 - As a jeweler engraves signets, so shall you engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel. You shall enclose them in settings of gold filigree.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:14 - and two chains of pure gold, twisted like cords; and you shall attach the corded chains to the settings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 28:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:15 - “You shall make a breastpiece of judgment, in skilled work. In the style of the ephod you shall make it—of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen shall you make it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:22 - You shall make for the breastpiece twisted chains like cords, of pure gold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:32 - It shall have an opening for the head in the middle of it, with a woven binding around the opening, like the opening in a garment,[fn] so that it may not tear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 28:39

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:39 - “You shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash embroidered with needlework.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:25 - And you shall make of these a sacred anointing oil blended as by the perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:35 - and make an incense blended as by the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:16 - The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:10 - And he said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:8 - And all the craftsmen among the workmen made the tabernacle with ten curtains. They were made of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns, with cherubim skillfully worked.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:35 - He made the veil of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen; with cherubim skillfully worked into it he made it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:37 - He also made a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 37:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:29 - He made the holy anointing oil also, and the pure fragrant incense, blended as by the perfumer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:4 - And he made for the altar a grating, a network of bronze, under its ledge, extending halfway down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:18 - And the screen for the gate of the court was embroidered with needlework in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. It was twenty cubits long and five cubits high in its breadth, corresponding to the hangings of the court.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:3 - And they hammered out gold leaf, and he cut it into threads to work into the blue and purple and the scarlet yarns, and into the fine twined linen, in skilled design.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:5 - And the skillfully woven band on it was of one piece with it and made like it, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:8 - He made the breastpiece, in skilled work, in the style of the ephod, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:15 - And they made on the breastpiece twisted chains like cords, of pure gold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:22 - He also made the robe of the ephod woven all of blue,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:27 - They also made the coats, woven of fine linen, for Aaron and his sons,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:29 - and the sash of fine twined linen and of blue and purple and scarlet yarns, embroidered with needlework, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:3 - You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:4 - And this was the workmanship of the lampstand, hammered work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was hammered work; according to the pattern that the LORD had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:28 - And Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, and that it has not been of my own accord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:20 - You shall purify every garment, every article of skin, all work of goats’ hair, and every article of wood.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:51 - And Moses and Eleazar the priest received from them the gold, all crafted articles.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:7 - For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.”’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:24 - ‘O Lord GOD, you have only begun to show your servant your greatness and your mighty hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as yours?

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