TBESH · H9025
נוּ · mu · our
Personal possessive pronoun - suffix for nouns, adjectives and passive participles: 1st person plural
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נוּ (mu) means “our” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: mu STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
נוּ · mu · our
Personal possessive pronoun - suffix for nouns, adjectives and passive participles: 1st person plural
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Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
Read word by wordAnd 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.”
Read word by wordOne day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.
Read word by wordCome, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.”
Read word by wordThe next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”
Read word by word“Listen to us, sir. You are God’s chosen one among us. Bury your dead in the finest of our tombs. None of us will withhold his tomb for burying your dead.”
Read word by wordAnd they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”
Read word by wordLaban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.
Read word by wordNow Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our father’s expense.”
Read word by wordAnd Rachel and Leah replied, “Do we have any portion or inheritance left in our father’s house?
Read word by wordAre we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly squandered what was paid for us.
Read word by wordSurely all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you.”
Read word by wordIf you find your gods with anyone here, he shall not live! In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself if anything is yours, and take it back.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.
Read word by wordYou have searched all my goods! Have you found anything that belongs to you? Put it here before my brothers and yours, that they may judge between the two of us.
Read word by wordIntermarry with us; give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves.
Read word by word“We cannot do such a thing,” they said. “To give our sister to an uncircumcised man would be a disgrace to us.
Read word by wordThen we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We will dwell among you and become one people.
Read word by wordBut if you will not agree to be circumcised, then we will take our sister and go.”
Read word by word“These men are at peace with us. Let them live and trade in our land; indeed, it is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters in marriage and give our daughters to them.
Read word by wordBut they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”
Read word by wordThen Judah said to his brothers, “What profit will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?
Read word by wordCome, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him; for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And they agreed.
Read word by wordNow a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams and he interpreted them for us individually.
Read word by wordWe are all sons of one man. Your servants are honest men, not spies.”
Read word by wordBut they answered, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”
Read word by wordThen they said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”
Read word by wordWe are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.’
Read word by wordIf you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.
Read word by wordThey replied, “The man questioned us in detail about ourselves and our family: ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ And we answered him accordingly. How could we possibly know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother here’?”
Read word by wordAnd Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die—neither we, nor you, nor our children.
Read word by wordBut the brothers were frightened that they had been taken to Joseph’s house. “We have been brought here because of the silver that was returned in our bags the first time,” they said. “They intend to overpower us and take us as slaves, along with our donkeys.”
Read word by wordBut when we came to the place we lodged for the night, we opened our sacks and, behold, each of us found his silver in the mouth of his sack! It was the full amount of our silver, and we have brought it back with us.
Read word by wordWe have brought additional silver with us to buy food. We do not know who put our silver in our sacks.”
Read word by word“Your servant our father is well,” they answered. “He is still alive.” And they bowed down to honor him.
Read word by wordWe even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found in the mouths of our sacks. Why would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?
Read word by wordThen our father said, ‘Go back and buy us some food.’
Read word by wordBut we answered, ‘We cannot go down there unless our younger brother goes with us. So if our younger brother is not with us, we cannot see the man.’
Read word by wordsees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.
Read word by wordyou are to say, ‘Your servants have raised livestock ever since our youth—both we and our fathers.’ Then you will be allowed to settle in the land of Goshen, since all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.”
Read word by word“What is your occupation?” Pharaoh asked Joseph’s brothers. “Your servants are shepherds,” they replied, “both we and our fathers.”
Read word by wordWhen 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.
Read word by wordWhy 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.”
Read word by wordThe elders of Israel will listen to what you say, and you must go with them to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’
Read word by word“The God of the Hebrews has met with us,” they answered. “Please let us go on a three-day journey into the wilderness to sacrifice to the LORD our God, or He may strike us with plagues or with the sword.”
Read word by wordBut require of them the same quota of bricks as before; do not reduce it. For they are lazy; that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’
Read word by word“May the LORD look upon you and judge you,” the foremen said, “for you have made us a stench before Pharaoh and his officials; you have placed in their hand a sword to kill us!”
Read word by word“Tomorrow,” Pharaoh answered. “May it be as you say,” Moses replied, “so that you may know that there is no one like the LORD our God.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 8.6
But Moses replied, “It would not be right to do that, because the sacrifices we offer to the LORD our God would be detestable to the Egyptians. If we offer sacrifices that are detestable before the Egyptians, will they not stone us?
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 8.22
We must make a three-day journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as He commands us.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 8.23
“We will go with our young and old,” Moses replied. “We will go with our sons and daughters, and with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the LORD.”
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