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Lexicon :: Strong's H5159 - naḥălâ

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נַחֲלָה
Transliteration
naḥălâ
Pronunciation
nakh-al-aw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From נָחַל (H5157) (in its usual sense)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1342a

Strong’s Definitions

נַחֲלָה nachălâh, nakh-al-aw'; from H5157 (in its usual sense); properly, something inherited, i.e. (abstractly) occupancy, or (concretely) an heirloom; generally an estate, patrimony or portion:—heritage, to inherit, inheritance, possession. Compare H5158.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 222x

The KJV translates Strong's H5159 in the following manner: inheritance (192x), heritage (27x), inherit (2x), possession (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 222x
The KJV translates Strong's H5159 in the following manner: inheritance (192x), heritage (27x), inherit (2x), possession (1x).

  1. possession, property, inheritance, heritage

    1. property

    2. portion, share

    3. inheritance, portion

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נַחֲלָה nachălâh, nakh-al-aw'; from H5157 (in its usual sense); properly, something inherited, i.e. (abstractly) occupancy, or (concretely) an heirloom; generally an estate, patrimony or portion:—heritage, to inherit, inheritance, possession. Compare H5158.
STRONGS H5159: Abbreviations
נַחֲלָה 224 noun feminine possession, property, inheritance (originally gift; Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew); — נ׳ Numbers 18:23 +; נַחֲלָת Psalm 16:6 (Ges§ 90g), read נַחֲלָתִי Ew SS We Köii. 1, 425; construct נַחֲלַת Joshua 13:23; suffix נַחֲלָתִי Ruth 4:6; נַחֲלַתְכֶם Psalm 105:11; plural נְחָלוֺת Isaiah 49:8, נְחָלֹת Joshua 19:51;
1. property:
a. in Canaan given by י׳ to Israel, נחלת ישׂראל Judges 20:6; יעקב נ׳ Isaiah 58:14, especially † אֲשֶׁר נֹתֵן לְךָ נַחֲלָה Deuteronomy 4:21; Deuteronomy 15:4; Deuteronomy 19:10; Deuteronomy 20:16; Deuteronomy 21:28; Deuteronomy 24:4; Deuteronomy 25:19; Deuteronomy 26:1 (all D); הנחלה אשׁר הנחלתי את עמי Jeremiah 12:14.
b. distributive among tribes: לְ נתן נ׳ Numbers 16:14; Numbers 36:2; Joshua 14:3 (restore לְ), Joshua 17:4, 14; Joshua 19:49 (all P); לְ נתן לנ׳ Deuteronomy 29:7; Joshua 11:23; Joshua 14:13 (all D2); נָָֽחֲלוּ נחלה Joshua 17:6(J); תֵּחָלֵק בּנ׳ Numbers 26:53, 56 (P); נפל בּנחלה Numbers 34:2 (P), Judges 18:1; Ezekiel 47:22; הפיל בנ׳ Joshua 13:6; Joshua 23:4 (D2), Ezekiel 45:1; Ezekiel 47:22, also Ezekiel 47:22 (Co reads ב for מ).
c. nations as possession of the people, Psalm 111:6; of the king Psalm 2:8.
d. Levites have no property in the land Numbers 18:23, 24; Deuteronomy 10:9; Deuteronomy 12:12; their possession is י׳ Numbers 18:20 (P); הוּא נחלתו י׳ Deuteronomy 10:9; Deuteronomy 18:2; Joshua 13:14, 33 (all D); the tithes Numbers 18:21, 24, 26 (P).
e. † י׳ takes Israel as his property, 1 Samuel 10:1; 1 Kings 8:53; 2 Kings 21:14; Isaiah 19:25; Micah 7:18; Psalm 33:12; Psalm 68:10; Psalm 106:5; עם נחלה Deuteronomy 4:20 (D2); עַמְּךָ וְנַחֲלָֽתְךָ Deuteronomy 9:26, 29 (D), 1 Kings 8:51; || עַם Isaiah 47:6; Joel 2:17; Joel 4:2; Micah 7:14; Psalm 28:9; Psalm 78:62; Psalm 78:71; Psalm 94:5; Psalm 94:14; Psalm 106:40; נחלת י׳ 1 Samuel 26:19; 2 Samuel 20:19; 2 Samuel 21:3; אלהים נ׳ 2 Samuel 14:16; יעקב חבל נ׳ Deuteronomy 32:9; שׁבט נ׳ Jeremiah 10:16 = Jeremiah 51:19, Psalm 74:2; שׁבטי נ׳ Isaiah 63:17; also, the holy mountain Exodus 15:17 (song), temple Jeremiah 12:7; Psalm 79:1, land Jeremiah 2:7; Jeremiah 12:8, 9; Jeremiah 16:18; Jeremiah 50:11.
† 2. portion, share:
a. assigned by God, Isaiah 54:17; Psalm 37:18; Psalm 127:3; elsewhere || חֵלֶק Job 20:29; Job 27:13; Job 31:2.
b. by choice, || חֵלֶק, לנו בבן ישׁי לא נ׳ 2 Samuel 20:1 we have no share in the son of Jesse = 1 Kings 12:16 2 Chronicles 10:16.
3. inheritance (45 times) חֵלֶק וְנַחֲלָה בְּבֵית אָבִּינוּ Genesis 31:14 (E) portion or inheritance in the house of our father; לְ העביר נ׳ Numbers 27:7, 8 (P) cause the inheritance to pass unto; לְ נתן נ׳ Numbers 27:9, 10, 11 (P), Job 42:15; נחלת אבות Numbers 36:3, 8; 1 Kings 21:3, 4; Proverbs 19:14; לבניו תהיה נ׳ Ezekiel 46:16.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

31:14

Exodus

15:17

Numbers

16:14; 18:20; 18:21; 18:23; 18:23; 18:24; 18:24; 18:26; 26:53; 26:56; 27:7; 27:8; 27:9; 27:10; 27:11; 34:2; 36:2; 36:3; 36:8

Deuteronomy

4:20; 4:21; 9:26; 9:29; 10:9; 10:9; 12:12; 15:4; 18:2; 19:10; 20:16; 24:4; 25:19; 26:1; 29:7; 32:9

Joshua

11:23; 13:6; 13:14; 13:23; 13:33; 14:3; 14:13; 17:4; 17:6; 17:14; 19:49; 19:51; 23:4

Judges

18:1; 20:6

Ruth

4:6

1 Samuel

10:1; 26:19

2 Samuel

14:16; 20:1; 20:19; 21:3

1 Kings

8:51; 8:53; 12:16; 21:3; 21:4

2 Kings

21:14

2 Chronicles

10:16

Job

20:29; 27:13; 31:2; 42:15

Psalms

2:8; 16:6; 28:9; 33:12; 37:18; 68:10; 74:2; 78:62; 78:71; 79:1; 94:5; 94:14; 105:11; 106:5; 106:40; 111:6; 127:3

Proverbs

19:14

Isaiah

19:25; 47:6; 49:8; 54:17; 58:14; 63:17

Jeremiah

2:7; 10:16; 12:7; 12:8; 12:9; 12:14; 16:18; 50:11; 51:19

Ezekiel

45:1; 46:16; 47:22; 47:22; 47:22

Joel

2:17

Micah

7:14; 7:18

H5159

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Strong's Number H5159 matches the Hebrew נַחֲלָה (naḥălâ),
which occurs 222 times in 191 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 31:14–Deu 20:16)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:14 - Then Rachel and Leah said to him, “Do we still have any portion or inheritance H5159 in our father’s house?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:6 - “But your kin that [fn]have been born after them shall be yours; they shall be called by the [fn]names of their brothers in their inheritance H5159.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:17 -

“You will bring them and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance H5159,

The place, O Yahweh, which You have made for You to inhabit,

The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:14 - “Indeed, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor have you given us an inheritance H5159 of fields and vineyards. Would you [fn]put out the eyes of [fn]these men? We will not come up!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:20 - Then Yahweh said to Aaron, “You shall have no inheritance in their land nor own any portion among them; I am your portion and your inheritance H5159 among the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:21 -

“Now to the sons of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance H5159, in return for their service which they perform, the service of the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:23 - “Only the Levites shall perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the sons of Israel they shall have no inheritance H5159.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:24 - “For the tithe of the sons of Israel, which they raise up as a contribution offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance H5159; therefore I have said concerning them, ‘They shall have no inheritance H5159 among the sons of Israel.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:26 - “Moreover, you shall speak to the Levites and say to them, ‘When you take from the sons of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance H5159, then you shall raise up a contribution offering from it to Yahweh, a tithe of the tithe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:53

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:53 - “[fn]Among these the land shall be divided for an inheritance H5159 according to the number of names.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:54

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:54 - “To the larger group you shall increase their inheritance H5159, and to the smaller group you shall diminish their inheritance H5159; each shall be given their inheritance H5159 according to those who were numbered of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:56

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:56 - “According to the selection by lot, their inheritance H5159 shall be divided between the larger and the smaller groups.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:62

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:62 - And those who were numbered of them were 23,000, every male from a month old and upward, for they were not numbered among the sons of Israel since no inheritance H5159 was given to them among the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:7 - “The daughters of Zelophehad are right in their statements. You shall surely give them a possession for an inheritance H5159 among their father’s brothers, and you shall have the inheritance H5159 of their father pass on to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:8 - “Further, you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If a man dies and has no son, then you shall have his inheritance H5159 pass on to his daughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:9 - ‘And if he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance H5159 to his brothers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:10 - ‘And if he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance H5159 to his father’s brothers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:11 - ‘And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance H5159 to his blood relative in his own family, and he shall possess it; and it shall be a statutory judgment to the sons of Israel, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:18 - “We will not return to our homes until every one of the sons of Israel has possessed his inheritance H5159.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:19 - “For we will not have an inheritance with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond because our inheritance H5159 has fallen to us on this side of the Jordan east.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:32 - “We ourselves will cross over armed in the presence of Yahweh into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance H5159 shall remain with us across the Jordan.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:54

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:54 - ‘And you shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the larger you shall give a larger inheritance H5159, and to the smaller you shall give a smaller inheritance H5159. Wherever the lot falls to anyone, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:2 - “Command the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you enter the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall to you as an inheritance H5159, even the land of Canaan according to its borders.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:14 - “For the tribe of the sons of Reuben have received theirs according to their fathers’ households, and the tribe of the sons of Gad according to their fathers’ households, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance H5159.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:15 - “The two and a half tribes have received their inheritance H5159 across the Jordan opposite Jericho to the east toward the sunrise.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2 - “Command the sons of Israel that they give to the Levites from the inheritance H5159 of their possession cities to live in; and you shall give to the Levites pasture lands around the cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:8 - “Now as for the cities which you shall give from the possession of the sons of Israel, you shall take more from the larger, and you shall take less from the smaller; each shall give some of his cities to the Levites in proportion to his possession H5159 which he inherits.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:2 - and they said, “Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land by lot to the sons of Israel as an inheritance H5159, and my lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance H5159 of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:3 - “But if they [fn]marry one of the sons of the other tribes of the sons of Israel, their inheritance H5159 will be withdrawn from the inheritance H5159 of our fathers and will be added to the inheritance H5159 of the tribe to which they belong; thus it will be withdrawn from our allotted inheritance H5159.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:4 - “And when the jubilee of the sons of Israel [fn]comes, then their inheritance H5159 will be added to the inheritance H5159 of the tribe to which they belong; so their inheritance H5159 will be withdrawn from the inheritance H5159 of the tribe of our fathers.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:7 - “Thus no inheritance H5159 of the sons of Israel shall [fn]be transferred from tribe to tribe, for the sons of Israel shall each [fn]hold to the inheritance H5159 of the tribe of his fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:8 - “And every daughter who comes into possession of an inheritance H5159 of any tribe of the sons of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, so that the sons of Israel each may possess the inheritance H5159 of his fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:9 - “Thus no inheritance H5159 shall [fn]be transferred from one tribe to another tribe, for the tribes of the sons of Israel shall each [fn]hold to his own inheritance H5159.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:12 - They married those from the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance H5159 [fn]remained with the tribe of the family of their father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:20 - “But Yahweh has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be a people for His own inheritance H5159, as today.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:21 -

“Now Yahweh was angry with me on your account and swore that I would not cross the Jordan, and that I would not enter the good land which Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance H5159.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:38

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:38 - dispossessing before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and to give you their land for an inheritance H5159, as it is today.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:26 - “And I prayed to Yahweh and said, ‘O Lord Yahweh, do not destroy Your people, even Your inheritance H5159, whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a strong hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:29 - ‘Yet they are Your people, even Your inheritance H5159, whom You have brought out by Your great power and Your outstretched arm.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:9 - Therefore, Levi does not have a portion or inheritance H5159 with his brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance H5159, just as Yahweh your God spoke to him.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:9 - for you have not as yet come to the resting place and the inheritance H5159 which Yahweh your God is giving you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:12 - “And you shall be glad before Yahweh your God, you and your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance H5159 with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:27 - “Also you shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion or inheritance H5159 among you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:29 - “And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance H5159 among you, and the sojourner, the [fn]orphan, and the widow who are within your gates, shall come and eat and be satisfied, in order that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:4 - “However, there will be no needy one among you, since Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance H5159 to possess,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:1 -

“The Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance H5159 with Israel; they shall eat of the offerings to Yahweh by fire and of His inheritance H5159.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:2 - “And they shall have no inheritance H5159 among their brothers; Yahweh is their inheritance H5159, as He [fn]promised them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:10 - “So innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land which Yahweh your God gives you as an inheritance H5159, and bloodguiltiness be on you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:14 -

“You shall not move your neighbor’s boundary mark, which the ancestors have set, in your inheritance H5159 which you will inherit in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to [fn]possess.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:16 - “Only in the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance H5159, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes.

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