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עַם (am) means “people” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

עַם Hebrew · H5971 1,868 tagged occurrences in 1,655 verses

Pronunciation guide: am Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H5971A

עַם · am · people

: people/nation 1) nation, people 1a) people, nation 1b) persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men

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TBESH · H5971B

עַם · am · kinsman

kinsman, kindred

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TBESH · H5971G

עַם · am · Ammi

A man living at the time of United Monarchy, only mentioned at Sng.6.12 § kinsman, kindred

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TBESH · H5971H

עַם · am · People's (Gate)

§ kinsman, kindred

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TBESH · H5971I

עַם · am · (Ibleam)-am

Combined with yiv.le.am (יִבְלְעָם "Ibleam" H2991) § kinsman, kindred

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TBESH · H5971J

עַם · am · Amaw

This name means nation, people

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TBESH · H5971K

עַם · am · people: soldiers

: soldiers/army 1) nation, people 1a) people, nation 1b) persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men

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TBESH · H5971L

עַם · am · people: creatures

: creatures 1) nation, people 1a) people, nation 1b) persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H6004 (עָמַם); a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock

KJV glosses: folk, men, nation, people.

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How translators render H5971

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
the people	395
people	179
my people	96
of the people	67
your people	67
his people	62
the peoples	45
of my people	43
and the people	36
the troops	35
peoples	30
a people	29
the nations	26
them	18
for the people	17
and his people	15
so the people	15
and your people	13
army	13
but the people	13
of the peoples	13
of his people	12
to the people	12
among the people	11
from his people	11
nations	11
of the nations	11
of the troops	11
of your people	11
his troops	10
then the people	9
among the nations	8
and the troops	8
from the people	8
let my people	8
are the people	6
they	6
to his people	6
to my people	6
and the peoples	5
her people	5
o my people	5
of peoples	5
our people	5
that the people	5
the men	5
their people	5
to your people	5
when the people	5
you people	5
are my people	4
for my people	4
his men	4
let the people	4
men	4
the army	4
vvv	4
against his people	3
among his people	3
among the peoples	3
and his troops	3
and my people	3
are a people	3
as a people	3
but my people	3
for his people	3
from a people	3
his own people	3
it to the people	3
nation	3
o people	3
o peoples	3
of people	3
of them	3
the others	3
these people	3
this people	3
to the nations	3
troops	3
against your people	2
among my people	2
among the troops	2
among your people	2
an army	2
and among their people	2
and for his people	2
and for the people	2
and his army	2
and his men	2
and of your people	2
are creatures	2
are your people	2
as do your people	2
for the peoples	2
for your people	2
from the nations	2
is like your people	2
its people	2
let the peoples	2
my people are	2
of the others	2
on the people	2
over my people	2
people of yours	2
so they	2
solomon sent the people	2
those	2
to a people	2
to let the people	2
a multitude	1
a nation	1
against my people	1
against the people	1
along with his people	1
among your own people	1
and	1
and a people	1
and all your people	1
and an army	1
and by the people	1
and have caused my people	1
and if my people	1
and its people	1
and led my people	1
and my people are	1
and our people	1
and people	1
and peoples	1
and the lives of my people	1
and the lord made his people	1
and the nations	1
and the rest of the people	1
and their people	1
and they	1
and those people	1
and troops	1
and when the people	1
and when they	1
are those	1
army appears	1
as a nation	1
as do the peoples	1
as the people	1
as the peoples	1
as they	1
before the people	1
bound the troops	1
but the followers	1
but the troops	1
by the people	1
came with your people	1
concerning the people	1
do my people	1
do the people	1
each people	1
elses	1
following	1
for the army	1
for when the people	1
for your people are like those	1
from his own people	1
had bound the people	1
had placed the troops	1
has a people	1
he brought forth his people	1
he led out his people	1
his army	1
his troops however	1
i brought my people	1
in his people	1
in my people	1
is a people	1
is his people	1
is with your own people	1
is your people	1
israels troops	1
led the people	1
let the nations	1
like people	1
like the nations	1
may peoples	1
multitude	1
my fellow townspeople	1
my own people	1
my troops	1
nevertheless the people	1
now the troops	1
now when the people	1
of any people	1
of each	1
of every people	1
of its peoples	1
of my men	1
of nations	1
of our people	1
of the men	1
of the neighboring peoples	1
of the soldiers	1
of those	1
of troops	1
offered by the people	1
on his people	1
or anyone	1
or her people	1
own	1
people for me	1
people here	1
people up	1
population	1
remain upon your people	1
send the people	1
sent the people	1
so a people	1
so davids army	1
so gideon brought the men	1
so my people	1
so that a people	1
so the forces	1
soldiers	1
than those	1
that is why the people	1
that your people	1
the other nations	1
the other people	1
the other peoples	1
the others to destruction	1
the people have	1
the people in it	1
the people of shechem	1
the people on	1
the peoples representative	1
the soldiers	1
the troops out to battle	1
the workers	1
their	1
their troops	1
then all the people	1
then his people	1
then i will let your people	1
then my people	1
then the troops	1
then you my people	1
they are my people	1
they have led my people	1
they were a people	1
this peoples	1
though the troops	1
to every people	1
to foreigners	1
to lead my people	1
to let my people	1
to one of my people	1
to the creatures	1
to the troops	1
to them	1
was a people	1
we are his people	1
what the people	1
when her people	1
when my people	1
when people	1
when peoples	1
when the troops	1
when they	1
when you have brought the people	1
when your people	1
whether its people	1
who lead my people	1
why have his people	1
will be my people	1
will make my people	1
with his people	1
with his troops	1
with the nations	1
with the people	1
with the peoples	1
with the troops	1
yet my people	1
you among the peoples	1
your merchants	1
your own people	1
your troops	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
the people	194
of the people	164
and the people	108
and all the people	105
people	103
my people	55
of my people	52
his people	44
unto the people	43
thy people	40
all the people	29
this people	29
for the people	28
among the people	21
unto all the people	21
of thy people	20
a people	19
of all the people	17
of his people	17
to the people	15
of this people	13
unto his people	13
and his people	10
from the people	10
over my people	9
so the people	9
that the people	9
and to all the people	8
but the people	8
over the people	8
and my people	7
for my people	7
o my people	7
of people	7
and all his people	6
and they shall be my people	6
and thy people	6
and when the people	6
from his people	6
let my people	6
to all the people	6
to this people	6
unto thy people	6
with the people	6
behold the people	5
then the people	5
against the people	4
all ye people	4
among his people	4
and of thy people	4
from among his people	4
let the people	4
their people	4
unto a people	4
unto my people	4
unto this people	4
against his people	3
against thy people	3
all his people	3
all this people	3
among all nations	3
among all people	3
among thy people	3
and for the people	3
and this people	3
and upon thy people	3
and ye shall be my people	3
as thy people	3
but my people	3
for all people	3
for all the people	3
for his people	3
for thy people	3
he and all the people	3
him and the people	3
not my people	3
of a people	3
that all the people	3
that my people	3
to a people	3
to his people	3
to my people	3
unto all people	3
upon this people	3
with all the people	3
also and the people	2
among all the people	2
among my people	2
among you of all his people	2
and among all the people	2
and from his people	2
and it came to pass when the people	2
and of all the people	2
and people	2
and upon the people	2
as this people	2
because the people	2
behold a people	2
but all the people	2
for a people	2
for our people	2
had let the people	2
her people	2
him and his people	2
if thy people	2
let all the people	2
like thy people	2
me this people	2
not thou for this people	2
not unto the people	2
now in the presence of all his people	2
o people	2
of all people	2
of every people	2
of the nations	2
on the people	2
out of the people	2
over his people	2
so all the people	2
so that the people	2
than any of the people	2
themselves from the people	2
then all the people	2
therefore my people	2
therefore the people	2
thou the people	2
to be over my people	2
to thee for that all people	2
to thy people	2
upon my people	2
upon thy people	2
us he and all his people	2
when all the people	2
when the people	2
with him and all the people	2
ye people	2
ye the people	2
above all people	1
above all the people	1
above the people	1
after the manner of the nations	1
against my people	1
against this people	1
all her people	1
all people	1
all thy people	1
alone and of the people	1
also neither would he let the people	1
also thine own people	1
ammi	1
among all his people	1
among all this people	1
among the nations	1
among this people	1
and against the people	1
and all people	1
and all this people	1
and among the people	1
and as for the people	1
and behold the people	1
and caused my people	1
and for all the people	1
and for thy people	1
and from a people	1
and from thy people	1
and had caused my people	1
and hast made my people	1
and he did not let the people	1
and her people	1
and how the people	1
and i and all the people	1
and i and my people	1
and i will let the people	1
and if the people	1
and if thy people	1
and it came to pass when all the people	1
and it shall be as with the people	1
and let all the people	1
and nations	1
and none else and my people	1
and of what people	1
and on all the people	1
and on all thy people	1
and shall be my people	1
and so it fell out unto him for the people	1
and there shall be like people	1
and to all this people	1
and to his people	1
and to the people	1
and unto this people	1
and upon all the people	1
and when all the people	1
and when this people	1
and would to god this people	1
as people	1
at the people	1
because my people	1
because of his people	1
before all the people	1
before all thy people	1
before this people	1
behold o my people	1
behold there is a people	1
behold thy people	1
between him and between all the people	1
between my people	1
both on thee and upon thy people	1
both thou and this people	1
but made his own people	1
but not for himself and the people	1
but not on thy people	1
but that they may be my people	1
but this people	1
but when the people	1
by all this people	1
by all thy people	1
caused the people	1
concerning all the people	1
concerning the people	1
else if thou wilt not let my people	1
even all the people	1
every people	1
folk	1
for among my people	1
for as yet the people	1
for he was above all the people	1
for himself and for all the people	1
for himself and for the people	1
for it shall be upon my people	1
for me and for the people	1
for this people	1
for though thy people	1
for thyself and for the people	1
for unto this people	1
for you and the people	1
from a people	1
from all people	1
from all the people	1
from among the people	1
from hence for thy people	1
from me and from my people	1
from my people	1
from this people	1
he also shall become a people	1
he and all his people	1
he and his people	1
he and the people	1
he hath made his people	1
he the people	1
hence thou and the people	1
him and all his people	1
him for her people	1
him lo the people	1
him shall the people	1
him the people	1
him unto his people	1
himself among the people	1
himself to the people	1
his own people	1
how long will this people	1
i and my people	1
i and thy people	1
i pray you all people	1
i unto the people	1
if my people	1
if the people	1
if this people	1
in his people	1
in my people	1
in number than any people	1
in the presence of the people	1
in thine own people	1
in which my people	1
is this people	1
it all the people	1
lest peradventure the people	1
let people	1
letting the people	1
like unto thee o people	1
likewise the people	1
make his people	1
make not all the people	1
me among my people	1
me from his people	1
me let my people	1
me that this people	1
me the people	1
mine own people	1
nation	1
neither had the people	1
neither shall the people	1
nevertheless the people	1
none like him among all the people	1
nor her people	1
nor the people	1
not a man among all the people	1
not a people	1
not for this people	1
not lest the people	1
not of thy people	1
not this the people	1
not thy people	1
not unto them the people	1
of all this people	1
of any of the people	1
of each	1
of her people	1
of his own people	1
of the folk	1
of the peoples	1
of thee upon the nations	1
of their people	1
of these people	1
off from his people	1
on his people	1
only the people	1
or against this people	1
or among all my people	1
or of all thy people	1
out of all the people	1
out of it that the people	1
out of the nations	1
over a people	1
over them o my people	1
over this people	1
shall a nation	1
shall all my people	1
shall be upon my people	1
should not a people	1
so none of the people	1
so that all the people	1
so we thy people	1
such a thing against the people	1
that he shall not let the people	1
that i and thy people	1
that it be not a people	1
that make my people	1
that they might be unto me for a people	1
that thy people	1
the cause of his people	1
the nations	1
the peoples	1
thee among all people	1
thee among the people	1
thee and thy people	1
thee but thou makest this people	1
thee from all the nations	1
thee unto this people	1
thee what this people	1
their own people	1
them among the people	1
them and all the people	1
them and cause my people	1
them and the people	1
them and they shall be my people	1
them but this people	1
them from among all the people	1
them he and all his people	1
them not lest my people	1
them seeing all the people	1
them so shall they be my people	1
themselves with the people	1
then shall the people	1
then were the people	1
therefore his people	1
therefore shall the people	1
thereof and against the people	1
thereof and all the people	1
thereof and to every people	1
thereof and unto every people	1
thereof for the people	1
thine own people	1
this thy people	1
thither of the people	1
thou and all the people	1
thou and all this people	1
thou and the people	1
thou and thy people	1
thou not what this people	1
thou thyself against my people	1
thou thyself alone and all the people	1
thou unto the people	1
through the people	1
till the people	1
till thy people	1
to all my people	1
to be unto him a people	1
to cause my people	1
to himself nor cause the people	1
to his own people	1
to let my people	1
to let the people	1
to me and the people	1
to our own people	1
to thee the people	1
to thyself thy people	1
toward the people	1
toward this people	1
until all the people	1
unto all his people	1
unto all nations	1
unto all this people	1
unto her people	1
unto him all people	1
unto him let not all the people	1
unto himself above all people	1
unto himself above all the nations	1
unto me above all people	1
unto me and all the people	1
unto me my people	1
unto thee as the people	1
unto them i and my people	1
unto them the people	1
upon all people	1
upon the people	1
upon thee and upon thy people	1
upon them because of the people	1
us all the people	1
us and our people	1
us not and our people	1
when her people	1
when my people	1
when people	1
when thy people	1
where the people	1
wherefore the people	1
which i have caused my people	1
which is not of thy people	1
which the men of	1
whom this people	1
with his people	1
with my people	1
with thee be thou for the people	1
with thee unto thy people	1
with them there for my people	1
with this people	1
with you and my people	1
ye my people	1
yea all the people	1
yet my people	1
you above all people	1
you among the nations	1
you from the people	1
you his people	1
you so shall ye be my people	1
you to me for a people	1
yourselves among the people	1
yourselves from the people	1
yourselves o ye people	1

Verses containing H5971

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Genesis 11:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.
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Genesis 14:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He retrieved all the goods, as well as his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the rest of the people.
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Genesis 17:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”
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Genesis 17:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will descend from her.”
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Genesis 19:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Before they had gone to bed, all the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, surrounded the house.
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Genesis 23:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites.
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Genesis 23:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“No, my lord. Listen to me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. I give it to you in the presence of my people. Bury your dead.”
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Genesis 23:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Again Abraham bowed down before the people of the land
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Genesis 23:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and said to Ephron in their presence, “If you will please listen to me, I will pay you the price of the field. Accept it from me, so that I may bury my dead there.”
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Genesis 25:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.
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Genesis 25:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Ishmael lived a total of 137 years. Then he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.
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Genesis 26:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“What is this you have done to us?” asked Abimelech. “One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”
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Genesis 26:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever harms this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
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Genesis 27:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.”
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Genesis 28:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.
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Genesis 32:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels.
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Source alternate reference: 32.8
Genesis 33:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Let me leave some of my people with you,” Esau said. But Jacob replied, “Why do that? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”
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Genesis 34:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We will dwell among you and become one people.
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Genesis 34:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But only on this condition will the men agree to dwell with us and be one people: if all our men are circumcised as they are.
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Genesis 35:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.
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Genesis 35:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
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Genesis 41:40 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You shall be in charge of my house, and all my people are to obey your commands. Only with regard to the throne will I be greater than you.”
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Genesis 41:55 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When extreme hunger came to all the land of Egypt and the people cried out to Pharaoh for food, he told all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”
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Genesis 42:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Joseph was the ruler of the land; he was the one who sold grain to all its people. So when his brothers arrived, they bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.
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Genesis 47:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and Joseph reduced the people to servitude from one end of Egypt to the other.
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Genesis 47:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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 48:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and told me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you; I will make you a multitude of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.’
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Genesis 48:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But his father refused. “I know, my son, I know!” he said. “He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great; nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.”
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Genesis 49:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.
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Genesis 49:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Dan shall provide justice for his people as one of the tribes of Israel.
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Genesis 49:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Jacob instructed them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.
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Genesis 49:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Jacob had finished instructing his sons, he pulled his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and he was gathered to his people.
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Genesis 50:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.
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Exodus 1:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences
“Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become too numerous and too powerful for us.
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Exodus 1:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and became even more numerous.
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Exodus 1:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.”
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Exodus 3:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.
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Exodus 3:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore, go! I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring My people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
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Exodus 3:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“I will surely be with you,” God said, “and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, all of you will worship God on this mountain.”
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Exodus 3:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And I will grant this people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that when you leave, you will not go away empty-handed.
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Exodus 4:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He will speak to the people for you. He will be your spokesman, and it will be as if you were God to him.
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Exodus 4:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.
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Exodus 4:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and Aaron relayed everything the LORD had said to Moses. And Moses performed the signs before the people,
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Exodus 4:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped.
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Exodus 5:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
After that, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.’”
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Exodus 5:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you draw the people away from their work? Get back to your labor!”
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Exodus 5:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Pharaoh also said, “Look, the people of the land are now numerous, and you would be stopping them from their labor.”
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Exodus 5:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
That same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen:
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Exodus 5:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.
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Exodus 5:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So the taskmasters and foremen of the people went out and said to them, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I am no longer giving you straw.
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