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Lexicon :: Strong's H6680 - ṣāvâ

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צָוָה
Transliteration
ṣāvâ
Pronunciation
tsaw-vaw'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1887

Strong’s Definitions

צָוָה tsâvâh, tsaw-vaw'; a primitive root; (intensively) to constitute, enjoin:—appoint, (for-) bid, (give a) charge, (give a, give in, send with) command(-er, -ment), send a messenger, put, (set) in order.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 494x

The KJV translates Strong's H6680 in the following manner: command (430x), charge (39x), commandment (9x), appoint (5x), bade (3x), order (3x), commander (1x), miscellaneous (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 494x
The KJV translates Strong's H6680 in the following manner: command (430x), charge (39x), commandment (9x), appoint (5x), bade (3x), order (3x), commander (1x), miscellaneous (4x).

  1. to command, charge, give orders, lay charge, give charge to, order

    1. (Piel)

      1. to lay charge upon

      2. to give charge to, give command to

      3. to give charge unto

      4. to give charge over, appoint

      5. to give charge, command

      6. to charge, command

      7. to charge, commission

      8. to command, appoint, ordain (of divine act)

    2. (Pual) to be commanded

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
צָוָה tsâvâh, tsaw-vaw'; a primitive root; (intensively) to constitute, enjoin:—appoint, (for-) bid, (give a) charge, (give a, give in, send with) command(-er, -ment), send a messenger, put, (set) in order.
STRONGS H6680: Abbreviations
[צָוָה] 485 verb
Pi. lay charge (upon), give charge (to), charge, command, order (BaZMG xii (1887), 641 Gerber124op. Arabic bdb084504 combine, II. enjoin, IV. charge; bdb084505 injunction, command; Thes compare Syriac bdb084506, heap up (stones), bdb084507, stone-heap, Arabic bdb084508 guide-stone, compare Schulth57; Gerber makes Hebrew verb denominative from מִצְוָה but verb is much earlier); — Perfect 3rd person masculine singular צִוָּה Genesis 6:22 +; suffix צִוַּנִי Deuteronomy 4:5 +; צִוְּךָ Deuteronomy 4:23 +; צִוָּהוּ Genesis 7:5 +, etc.; 1st person singular צִוִּיתִי Exodus 29:35 + 29 times, צִוֵּיתִי Leviticus 8:31 + 4 times, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יְצַוֶּה Genesis 18:19 + 8 times; יְצַו Deuteronomy 28:8; וַיְצַו Genesis 2:16 +; suffix וִיצַוְּךָ 1 Chronicles 22:12, etc.; 1st person singular וָאֲצִוֶּה Ezra 8:17 Qr (> Kt ואוצאה); 3rd person masculine plural וַיְצַזּוּ Genesis 50:16 +, etc.; Infinitive construct צַוֹּת 2 Samuel 18:5 +, etc.; Imperative masculine singular צַוֵּה Joshua 4:16 + 2 times; צַו Leviticus 6:2 + 9 times; masculine plural צַוּוּ Joshua 1:11; Joshua 4:3; Participle מְצַוֶּה Numbers 32:23 +; construct מְצַוֵּה Isaiah 55:4, etc.; feminine מְצַוָּה Genesis 27:8; —
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a. lay charge upon, with עַל person, Genesis 2:16 (J) Genesis 28:6 (P) 1 Kings 2:43; 1 Kings 11:11; Amos 2:12; Jeremiah 35:6 + 6 times; עַל of thing, עַל הֶעָבִים אֲצַוֶּה מֵהַמְטִיר Isaiah 5:6, compare Job 36:32, עַלתָֿגָב צ׳ 2 Chronicles 7:13.
b. give charge to, command to with לְ person Exodus 1:22 (E) 1 Samuel 20:29; 1 Chronicles 22:17; Isaiah 13:3; Jeremiah 32:23; Psalm 105:8 לָנוּ משֶׁה תּוֺרָה צ׳ Deuteronomy 33:4, compare Nehemiah 9:14; צַו לְבֵיתֶ֑ךָ 2 Kings 20:1 give charge to thy household (in preparation for death) = Isaiah 38:1 (compare Late Hebrew, B.Bath.151b, צַוָּאָה 'verbal will' Id147a).
c. give charge uno, with אֶל person Exodus 16:34 (P), 1 Kings 11:10; וַיְצַו אֶלכֵּֿיתוֺ 2 Samuel 17:23 (compare b.).
d. give charge over, appoint, with accusative of person + עַל of thing, Nehemiah 7:2; 1 Chronicles 22:12, (לִהְיוֺת) נָנִיד עַל צ׳ appoint one (to be) ruler over 2 Samuel 6:21; 1 Kings 1:35; with לנגיד 1 Samuel 13:14; 1 Samuel 25:30; שׁפטים על 2 Samuel 7:11 = 1 Chronicles 17:10; with infinitive (no על), לִרְעוֺת עמי 2 Samuel 7:7 = 1 Chronicles 17:6; וְצִוִּיתָה אֹתוֺ לְעֵינֵיהֶם Numbers 27:19 (P) and thou shalt install him in their sight, compare Numbers 27:23 (P).
e. give one charge, command (often עַל concerning), Genesis 12:20 (J), Numbers 8:22 (P), 2 Samuel 14:8; 2 Samuel 18:5; Jeremiah 7:22; Jeremiah 39:11; Isaiah 45:12 (AV RV Che RyKau; > Ges Ew Di Du and others as d.), Isaiah 10:6 (others against), Nahum 1:14 (others id.); with לְ Numbers 9:8; Numbers 32:38 (P), Psalm 91:11; Lamentations 1:17; Esther 3:2; with אֶל Isaiah 23:11; Jeremiah 47:7.
2. charge, command:
a. with accusative of person + thing, often, especially of the law: Deuteronomic phrases are אשׁר אנכי מצוךָ Exodus 34:11 (J), Deuteronomy 4:40; Deuteronomy 6:2, 6 + 18 times Deuteronomy, compare Deuteronomy 15:15; אשׁר אנכי מצוה אתכם Deuteronomy 4:2 (twice in verse) + 9 times Deuteronomy; הַדֶּרֶךְ אשׁר צ׳ Deuteronomy 13:6; Deuteronomy 13:6; Exodus 32:8 (E) Deuteronomy 5:30; Deuteronomy 9:12, 16; Deuteronomy 11:28; Deuteronomy 31:29.
b. with accusative of person + object clause, e.g., Infinitive Genesis 50:2+; ו consecutive Perfect Genesis 18:19 (J), Numbers 35:2 (P); ו consecutive Imperfect 2 Samuel 4:12; 1 Kings 2:46; weak ו with Imperfect Exodus 27:20 (P) Joshua 4:16; Imperative Joshua 1:9; 1 Samuel 18:22.
c. accusative of person, accusative of thing omitted, Exodus 18:23 (E) Genesis 49:33 (P) +; object given after לֵאמֹר Genesis 26:11; Genesis 32:15, 20; Leviticus 6:2 +; וַיּאֹמֶר etc., Genesis 28:1; Genesis 49:29 +.
d. accusative of thing, accusative of person omitted, לעולם בריתוֺ צ׳ Psalm 111:9; וֶה הַדָּבָר י׳ אֲשֶׁר צ׳, Exodus 16:16, 32; Exodus 35:4; Leviticus 8:5; Leviticus 9:6; Leviticus 17:2; Numbers 30:2; Numbers 36:6 (P); object clause, Leviticus 8:34 (P), Leviticus 13:54 (P); Genesis 42:25 (E), 1 Kings 5:20; Judges 4:6.
e. absolute Genesis 50:16 (E), Lamentations 3:37.
3. charge, command, accusative of person in phrase כַּאֲשֶׁר צ׳ Exodus 23:15 (E) Genesis 7:9 (P) +; ככל אשׁר צ׳ Genesis 7:5 (J) Exodus 29:35 (P) +; משֶׁה י׳ כאשׁר צ׳ Exodus 12:28, 50; Exodus 39:1, 5 + 37 times P; משׁה י׳ ככל אשׁר צ׳ Exodus 39:32, 42 + 5 times P; לכל אשׁר צ׳ Joshua 1:18; Joshua 22:2; Jeremiah 35:8; accusative of person omitted כאשׁר צ׳ Exodus 7:10; Numbers 32:25 (P) +; ככל אשׁר צ׳ 2 Kings 11:9 2 Chronicles 23:8 +; לכל אשׁר צ׳ Exodus 36:1 (P).
†4. charge, with command to others, commission,
a. accusative of person +אֶל person (sometimes + accusative of thing) Exodus 6:13; Exodus 25:22; Leviticus 27:34 (P) Deuteronomy 1:3; Jeremiah 27:4; Esther 4:10; accusative of person omitted Genesis 50:16 (E) Esther 3:12; Esther 8:9.
b. בְּיַד of agent, + אֶל, Numbers 15:23; Numbers 36:13 (P); אֶל omitted Leviticus 8:36 (P), Ezra 9:11; Nehemiah 8:14.
c. accusative of person + עַל for אֶל Ezra 8:17; 1 Chronicles 22:13; Malachi 3:22; Esther 4:5.
d. with accusative of thing, כִּרְכָתִי לְ וצ׳ Leviticus 25:21 (P) and I will command my blessing to you, with אִתְּךָ Deuteronomy 28:8, compare Psalm 133:3; חסדוֺ צ׳ Psalm 42:9, בֹּקֶר Job 38:12, נָחָשׁ, חֶרֶב Amos 9:3, 4.
† 5. command, appoint, ordain, of divine act: in creation Isaiah 45:12; Psalm 33:9; Psalm 148:5, providence 2 Samuel 17:4; Amos 6:11; Amos 9:9; Job 37:12; Psalm 78:23; Isaiah 34:16, redemption Psalm 7:7; Psalm 44:5; Psalm 68:29; Psalm 71:3; so of idol Isaiah 48:5 (|| עשׂה).
†Pu. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular צֻוָּה Numbers 3:16; Numbers 36:2; 2nd person masculine singular צֻוֵּיתָה Genesis 45:19, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יְצֻוֶּה Exodus 34:34; — be commanded, i.e. receive command, subject person, Genesis 45:19 (E), with בְּ by whom Numbers 36:2 (P); אשׁר צ׳ Exodus 34:34 (P), כִּיכֵֿן צ׳ Leviticus 8:35; Leviticus 10:13 (P), כאשׁר צ׳ Numbers 3:16 (P) Ezekiel 12:7; Ezekiel 24:18; Ezekiel 37:7.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:16; 2:16; 6:22; 7:5; 7:5; 7:9; 12:20; 18:19; 18:19; 26:11; 27:8; 28:1; 28:6; 32:15; 32:20; 42:25; 45:19; 45:19; 49:29; 49:33; 50:2; 50:16; 50:16; 50:16

Exodus

1:22; 6:13; 7:10; 12:28; 12:50; 16:16; 16:32; 16:34; 18:23; 23:15; 25:22; 27:20; 29:35; 29:35; 32:8; 34:11; 34:34; 34:34; 35:4; 36:1; 39:1; 39:5; 39:32; 39:42

Leviticus

6:2; 6:2; 8:5; 8:31; 8:34; 8:35; 8:36; 9:6; 10:13; 13:54; 17:2; 25:21; 27:34

Numbers

3:16; 3:16; 8:22; 9:8; 15:23; 27:19; 27:23; 30:2; 32:23; 32:25; 32:38; 35:2; 36:2; 36:2; 36:6; 36:13

Deuteronomy

1:3; 4:2; 4:5; 4:23; 4:40; 5:30; 6:2; 6:6; 9:12; 9:16; 11:28; 13:6; 13:6; 15:15; 28:8; 28:8; 31:29; 33:4

Joshua

1:9; 1:11; 1:18; 4:3; 4:16; 4:16; 22:2

Judges

4:6

1 Samuel

13:14; 18:22; 20:29; 25:30

2 Samuel

4:12; 6:21; 7:7; 7:11; 14:8; 17:4; 17:23; 18:5; 18:5

1 Kings

1:35; 2:43; 2:46; 11:10; 11:11

2 Kings

11:9; 20:1

1 Chronicles

17:6; 17:10; 22:12; 22:12; 22:13; 22:17

2 Chronicles

7:13; 23:8

Ezra

8:17; 8:17; 9:11

Nehemiah

7:2; 8:14; 9:14

Esther

3:2; 3:12; 4:5; 4:10; 8:9

Job

36:32; 37:12; 38:12

Psalms

7:7; 33:9; 42:9; 44:5; 68:29; 71:3; 78:23; 91:11; 105:8; 111:9; 133:3; 148:5

Isaiah

5:6; 10:6; 13:3; 23:11; 34:16; 38:1; 45:12; 45:12; 48:5; 55:4

Jeremiah

7:22; 27:4; 32:23; 35:6; 35:8; 39:11; 47:7

Lamentations

1:17; 3:37

Ezekiel

12:7; 24:18; 37:7

Amos

2:12; 6:11; 9:3; 9:4; 9:9

Nahum

1:14

H6680

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Strong's Number H6680 matches the Hebrew צָוָה (ṣāvâ),
which occurs 48 times in 45 verses in 'Num' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:19 - just as the LORD had commanded Moses. So Moses recorded their names in the wilderness of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:54

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:54 - So the Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:33 - But as the LORD had commanded, the Levites were not included in this registration.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:34 - So the people of Israel did everything as the LORD had commanded Moses. Each clan and family set up camp and marched under their banners exactly as the LORD had instructed them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:16 - So Moses listed them, just as the LORD had commanded.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:42

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:42 - So Moses counted the firstborn sons of the people of Israel, just as the LORD had commanded.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:51

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:51 - And Moses gave the silver for the redemption to Aaron and his sons, just as the LORD had commanded.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:49

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:49 - When their names were recorded, as the LORD had commanded through Moses, each man was assigned his task and told what to carry.
And so the registration was completed, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:2 - “Command the people of Israel to remove from the camp anyone who has a skin disease[fn] or a discharge, or who has become ceremonially unclean by touching a dead person.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:3 - So Aaron did this. He set up the seven lamps so they reflected their light forward, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:20 - So Moses, Aaron, and the whole community of Israel dedicated the Levites, carefully following all the LORD’s instructions to Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:22 - After that the Levites went into the Tabernacle to perform their duties, assisting Aaron and his sons. So they carried out all the commands that the LORD gave Moses concerning the Levites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5 - in the wilderness of Sinai as twilight fell on the fourteenth day of the month. And they celebrated the festival there, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:8 - Moses answered, “Wait here until I have received instructions for you from the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:23 - And suppose your descendants in the future fail to do everything the LORD has commanded through Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:36 - So the whole community took the man outside the camp and stoned him to death, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:11 - So Moses did as the LORD commanded him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:2 - “Here is another legal requirement commanded by the LORD: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer, a perfect animal that has no defects and has never been yoked to a plow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:9 - So Moses did as he was told. He took the staff from the place where it was kept before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:27 - So Moses did as the LORD commanded. The three of them went up Mount Hor together as the whole community watched.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:4 - “List all the men of Israel twenty years old and older, just as the LORD commanded Moses.”
This is the record of all the descendants of Israel who came out of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:11 - But if his father has no brothers, give his inheritance to the nearest relative in his clan. This is a legal requirement for the people of Israel, just as the LORD commanded Moses.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:19 - Present him to Eleazar the priest before the whole community, and publicly commission him to lead the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:22 - So Moses did as the LORD commanded. He presented Joshua to Eleazar the priest and the whole community.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:23 - Moses laid his hands on him and commissioned him to lead the people, just as the LORD had commanded through Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:2 - “Give these instructions to the people of Israel: The offerings you present as special gifts are a pleasing aroma to me; they are my food. See to it that they are brought at the appointed times and offered according to my instructions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:40

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:40 - [fn]So Moses gave all of these instructions to the people of Israel as the LORD had commanded him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:1 - [fn]Then Moses summoned the leaders of the tribes of Israel and told them, “This is what the LORD has commanded:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:16 - These are the regulations the LORD gave Moses concerning relationships between a man and his wife, and between a father and a young daughter who still lives at home.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:7 - They attacked Midian as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed all the men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:21 - Then Eleazar the priest said to the men who were in the battle, “The LORD has given Moses this legal requirement:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:31 - So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:41 - Moses gave all the LORD’s share to Eleazar the priest, just as the LORD had directed him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47 - From the half-share given to the people, Moses took one of every fifty prisoners and animals and gave them to the Levites, who maintained the LORD’s Tabernacle. All this was done as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:25 - Then the men of Gad and Reuben replied, “We, your servants, will follow your instructions exactly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:28 - So Moses gave orders to Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders of the clans of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:2 - “Give these instructions to the Israelites: When you come into the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your special possession, these will be the boundaries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:13 - Then Moses told the Israelites, “This territory is the homeland you are to divide among yourselves by sacred lot. The LORD has commanded that the land be divided among the nine and a half remaining tribes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:29 - These are the men the LORD has appointed to divide the grants of land in Canaan among the Israelites.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2 - “Command the people of Israel to give to the Levites from their property certain towns to live in, along with the surrounding pasturelands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:2 - They said, “Sir, the LORD instructed you to divide the land by sacred lot among the people of Israel. You were told by the LORD to give the grant of land owned by our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:5 - So Moses gave the Israelites this command from the LORD: “The claim of the men of the tribe of Joseph is legitimate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:6 - This is what the LORD commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: Let them marry anyone they like, as long as it is within their own ancestral tribe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:10 - The daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:13 - These are the commands and regulations that the LORD gave to the people of Israel through Moses while they were camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River across from Jericho.
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