al H5921

עַל (al) means “upon” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

עַל Hebrew · H5921 5,771 tagged occurrences in 4,490 verses

Pronunciation guide: al Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H5921A

עַל · al · upon

prep 1) upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against 1a) upon, on the ground of, on the basis of, on account of, because of, therefore, on behalf of, for the sake of, for, with, in spite of, notwithstanding, concerning, in the matter of, as regards 1b) above, beyond, over (of excess) 1c) above, over (of elevation or pre-eminence) 1d) upon, to, over to, unto, in addition to, together with, with (of addition) 1e) over (of suspension or extension) 1f) by, adjoining, next, at, over, around (of contiguity or proximity) 1g) down upon, upon, on, from, up upon, up to, towards, over towards, to, against (with verbs of motion) 1h) to (as a dative)

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TBESH · H5921B

[כִּי] עַל [כֵּן] · [ki] al [ken] · as

conj forasmuch as, because that, because, notwithstanding, although

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

properly, the same as H5920 (עַל) used as a preposition (in the singular or plural often with prefix, or as conjunction with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications

KJV glosses: above, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, [idiom] as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, [idiom] both and, by (reason of), [idiom] had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of, (from) (off), (up-) on, over, than, through(-out), to, touching, [idiom] with.

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How translators render H5921

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
on	762
over	289
against	210
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to	197
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therefore	74
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above	45
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into	32
it on	32
vvv	31
about	30
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concerning	27
that is why	26
near	25
over you	25
beside	24
according to	23
along	23
from me	23
on him	22
against it	21
you	21
was in charge of	20
him	19
for him	18
upon him	18
for you	17
them	17
and against	16
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so	16
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on you	15
to you	15
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was over	15
around	13
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me	13
why	13
against us	12
facedown	12
men in	12
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us	12
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as	11
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in command	4
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it pleases	4
of you	4
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past	4
this is why	4
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across	3
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for it	3
from them	3
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high above	3
i am against	3
i am against you	3
in front of	3
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it into	3
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next to it	3
nor	3
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my	2
nearby	2
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than	2
the city	2
their	2
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a high	1
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above you	1
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at you in scorn	1
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back upon	1
be entrusted	1
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being responsible for	1
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but fully	1
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by me	1
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company	1
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for battle against her	1
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for themselves	1
for this	1
for your honor	1
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from fighting against	1
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from her shoulder	1
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from my people	1
from us	1
from which	1
from your neck	1
from yourselves	1
grieving for	1
had	1
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hagar by	1
has aroused	1
he has received money from	1
he has veiled	1
he will reign on	1
he wrote on	1
her husband	1
here because of	1
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his own	1
his presence	1
his purpose for me	1
in addition to them	1
in addition to these	1
in charge	1
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in me	1
in mourning for	1
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is rewarded for his ways	1
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it across	1
it against	1
it for	1
kindly to them	1
led	1
let me supply	1
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like	1
loaded with	1
long as you live in	1
longed for	1
look on you	1
looms over	1
lying	1
lying on	1
manned	1
may be before	1
may you have	1
moreover	1
must wear the robe	1
my people	1
myself	1
near amasa	1
now	1
now tamar was wearing	1
of all	1
of him	1
of him instead	1
of his	1
of its value	1
of its value to it	1
of me	1
of the gatekeepers	1
of the value	1
of them	1
of your body	1
off my people	1
oil into	1
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on account	1
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on the altar	1
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over the boy again	1
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over you and said	1
part of	1
pot on	1
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reaches to	1
regard	1
regulating	1
rest on	1
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ring	1
sackcloth around	1
saul	1
shall extend	1
sheba	1
since	1
so by	1
some	1
songs	1
standing above them	1
standing on	1
still in	1
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supporting	1
tenderly to	1
that	1
that are on it	1
that has come upon you	1
that is on them	1
that spirit on	1
that spirit on them	1
that they	1
that was in	1
that you have in	1
the envoys	1
the envoys gladly	1
the load	1
the lord	1
the nursing child	1
the oil on	1
the ropes off	1
the space above	1
the steward	1
their bodies by	1
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themselves to	1
then along with	1
there on	1
these officers were in charge of	1
they	1
they turn against	1
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they were responsible for	1
they will attack	1
they will attack us	1
things against	1
this happened because	1
this to	1
though	1
to ahaz	1
to assist	1
to be in charge of	1
to fall into	1
to fight	1
to himself	1
to his people	1
to meet	1
to mount it on	1
to my sorrow	1
to reach	1
to that city	1
to the city	1
to the fire	1
to your	1
to your yoke	1
toward them	1
toward us	1
turned against them	1
turned away from her	1
turns on	1
unanswered	1
up	1
up on	1
upon elisha	1
upon himself	1
upon myself	1
upon yourself	1
upon yourselves	1
was above	1
was beside	1
was lifted up toward	1
was on moses	1
was over them	1
was placed	1
was reclining	1
was under	1
was upon	1
was upon us	1
we are closely	1
we will go against it	1
were above	1
were arranged	1
were assigned to	1
were at	1
were beside	1
were over	1
were responsible for	1
were still covering	1
what you have in	1
when	1
wherever	1
while those facing	1
who supervised	1
who was at	1
will be next to it	1
will be over you	1
will be set against	1
will come against	1
will grow even	1
will he	1
will remain on	1
will turn to	1
with achish	1
with her	1
with me	1
with rehoboam	1
within	1
word throughout	1
written in	1
yet	1
yet he watches over	1
you are wearing	1
you at	1
you concerning	1
you for	1
you in	1
you over	1
you to	1
you would	1
your bags to	1
your doom	1
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your responsibility	1
yourself in	1
yourselves above	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
beside	3
upon	3
above	2
against	2
by	2
in	2
according to	1
after	1
against them touching	1
among	1
and	1
and from	1
as	1
because	1
beyond the time	1
both	1
by reason of	1
for	1
for through	1
from	1
from off	1
from out	1
him according	1
him of	1
how long	1
in that	1
near	1
of them had the charge of	1
off	1
on	1
out	1
over	1
over us	1
than	1
than they	1
them out of	1
thereof from	1
throughout	1
to	1
to him concerning	1
with	1

Verses containing H5921

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Deuteronomy 16:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences
You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.
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Deuteronomy 17:6 · BSB · 2 occurrences
On the testimony of two or three witnesses a man shall be put to death, but he shall not be executed on the testimony of a lone witness.
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Deuteronomy 17:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You must abide by the verdict they give you at the place the LORD will choose. Be careful to do everything they instruct you,
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Deuteronomy 17:11 · BSB · 2 occurrences
according to the terms of law they give and the verdict they proclaim. Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from the decision they declare to you.
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Deuteronomy 17:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”
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Deuteronomy 17:15 · BSB · 3 occurrences
you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your brothers.
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Deuteronomy 17:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences
When he is seated on his royal throne, he must write for himself a copy of this instruction on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.
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Deuteronomy 17:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then his heart will not be exalted above his countrymen, and he will not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or to the left, in order that he and his sons may reign many years over his kingdom in Israel.
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Deuteronomy 18:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They shall eat equal portions, even though he has received money from the sale of his father’s estate.
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Deuteronomy 19:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is why I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.
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Deuteronomy 19:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you today, loving the LORD your God and walking in His ways at all times, then you are to add three more cities to these three.
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Deuteronomy 19:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Thus innocent blood will not be shed in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.
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Deuteronomy 19:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If, however, a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait, attacks him and kills him, and then flees to one of these cities,
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Deuteronomy 19:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You must show him no pity. You are to purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, that it may go well with you.
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Deuteronomy 19:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences
A lone witness is not sufficient to establish any wrongdoing or sin against a man, regardless of what offense he may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.
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Deuteronomy 20:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When you go out to war against your enemies and see horses, chariots, and an army larger than yours, do not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, is with you.
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Deuteronomy 20:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
saying to them, “Hear, O Israel, today you are going into battle with your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not be alarmed or terrified because of them.
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Deuteronomy 20:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When you approach a city to fight against it, you are to make an offer of peace.
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Deuteronomy 20:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But if they refuse to make peace with you and wage war against you, lay siege to that city.
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Deuteronomy 20:19 · BSB · 2 occurrences
When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?
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Deuteronomy 20:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce fruit. Use them to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.
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Deuteronomy 21:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to serve Him and pronounce blessings in His name and to give a ruling in every dispute and case of assault.
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Deuteronomy 21:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then all the elders of the city nearest the victim shall wash their hands by the stream over the heifer whose neck has been broken,
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Deuteronomy 21:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hand and you take them captive,
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Deuteronomy 21:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and put aside the clothing of her captivity. After she has lived in your house a full month and mourned her father and mother, you may have relations with her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
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Deuteronomy 21:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
when that man assigns his inheritance to his sons he must not appoint the son of the beloved wife as the firstborn over the son of the unloved wife.
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Deuteronomy 21:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,
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Deuteronomy 21:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
you must not leave the body on the tree overnight, but you must be sure to bury him that day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
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Deuteronomy 22:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A woman must not wear men’s clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD your God.
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Deuteronomy 22:6 · BSB · 4 occurrences
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, you must not take the mother along with the young.
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Deuteronomy 22:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You are to make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.
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Deuteronomy 22:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and he then accuses her of shameful conduct and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman and had relations with her, but I discovered she was not a virgin.”
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Deuteronomy 22:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They are also to fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given a virgin of Israel a bad name. And she shall remain his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.
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Deuteronomy 22:24 · BSB · 2 occurrences
you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you must purge the evil from among you.
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Deuteronomy 22:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Do nothing to the young woman, because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.
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Deuteronomy 23:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences
For they did not meet you with food and water on your way out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to curse you.
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Source alternate reference: 23.5
Deuteronomy 23:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every wicked thing.
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Source alternate reference: 23.10
Deuteronomy 23:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And you must have a digging tool in your equipment so that when you relieve yourself you can dig a hole and cover up your excrement.
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Source alternate reference: 23.14
Deuteronomy 23:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land that you are entering to possess.
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Source alternate reference: 23.21
Deuteronomy 23:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.
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Source alternate reference: 23.26
Deuteronomy 24:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If a man is newly married, he must not be sent to war or be pressed into any duty. For one year he is free to stay at home and bring joy to the wife he has married.
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Deuteronomy 24:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences
You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
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Deuteronomy 24:16 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.
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Deuteronomy 24:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from that place. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.
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Deuteronomy 24:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.
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Deuteronomy 25:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.
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Deuteronomy 25:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her.
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Deuteronomy 25:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
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Deuteronomy 25:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal, spit in his face, and declare, “This is what is done to the man who will not maintain his brother’s line.”
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Deuteronomy 25:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
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