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- Genesis 1:25
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God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that crawls upon the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
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- Genesis 2:5
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Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted, for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
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- Genesis 2:6
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But springs welled up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
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- Genesis 2:7
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Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
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- Genesis 2:9
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Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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- Genesis 2:19
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And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
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- Genesis 3:17
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And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
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- Genesis 3:19
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By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
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- Genesis 3:23
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Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
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- Genesis 4:2
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Later she gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.
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- Genesis 4:3
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So in the course of time, Cain brought some of the fruit of the soil as an offering to the LORD,
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- Genesis 4:10
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“What have you done?” replied the LORD. “The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.
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- Genesis 4:11
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Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
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- Genesis 4:12
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When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”
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- Genesis 4:14
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Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
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- Genesis 5:29
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And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.”
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- Genesis 6:1
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Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,
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- Genesis 6:7
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So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”
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- Genesis 6:20
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Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.
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- Genesis 7:4
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For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
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- Genesis 7:8
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The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
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- Genesis 7:23
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And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.
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- Genesis 8:8
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Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.
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- Genesis 8:13
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In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
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- Genesis 8:21
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When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.
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- Genesis 9:2
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The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.
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- Genesis 9:20
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Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.
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- Genesis 12:3
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I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”
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- Genesis 19:25
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Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.
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- Genesis 28:14
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Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.
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- Genesis 28:15
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Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
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- Genesis 47:18
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When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.
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- Genesis 47:19
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Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Purchase us and our land in exchange for food. Then we, along with our land, will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”
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- Genesis 47:20
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So Joseph acquired for Pharaoh all the land in Egypt; the Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields because the famine was so severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh’s,
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- Genesis 47:22
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However, he did not acquire the priests’ portion of the land, for it had been given to them by Pharaoh. They ate the rations that Pharaoh supplied; so they did not sell their land.
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- Genesis 47:23
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Then Joseph said to the people, “Now that I have acquired you and your land for Pharaoh this day, here is seed for you to sow in the land.
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- Genesis 47:26
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So Joseph established a law that a fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh, and it is in effect in the land of Egypt to this day. Only the priests’ land does not belong to Pharaoh.
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- Exodus 3:5
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“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”
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- Exodus 8:21
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But if you will not let My people go, I will send swarms of flies upon you and your officials and your people and your houses. The houses of the Egyptians and even the ground where they stand will be full of flies.
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- Exodus 10:6
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They will fill your houses and the houses of all your officials and every Egyptian—something neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since the day they came into this land.’” Then Moses turned and left Pharaoh’s presence.
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- Exodus 20:12
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Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
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- Exodus 20:24
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You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.
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- Exodus 23:19
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Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
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- Exodus 32:12
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Why should the Egyptians declare, ‘He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce anger and relent from doing harm to Your people.
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- Exodus 33:16
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For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?”
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- Exodus 34:26
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Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
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- Leviticus 20:24
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But I have told you that you will inherit their land, since I will give it to you as an inheritance—a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the peoples.
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- Leviticus 20:25
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You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.
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- Numbers 11:12
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Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant,’ to the land that You swore to give their fathers?
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- Numbers 12:3
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Now Moses was a very humble man, more so than any man on the face of the earth.
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