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“6:5And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6:6And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart; 6:7and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.”
― JPS Tanakh
― JPS Tanakh
“Happy are all they that wait for Him.”
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― JPS Tanakh
“it is a rebellious people, Lying children, Children that refuse to hear the teaching of the LORD;”
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― JPS Tanakh
“26:10Let favour be shown to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness;”
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― JPS Tanakh
“22Thus said the LORD: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom; Let not the strong man glory in his strength; Let not the rich man glory in his riches. 23But only in this should one glory: In his earnest devotion to Me.”
― Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures: The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text
― Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures: The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text
“11:26And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband. 11:27And when the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.”
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― JPS Tanakh
“11:2And it came to pass at eventide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house; and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. 11:3And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said: ‘Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”
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― JPS Tanakh
“5:4David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. 5:5In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah. 5:6And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke unto David, saying: ‘Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hitherâ€�; thinking: ‘David cannot come in hither.â€� 5:7Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.”
― JPS Tanakh
― JPS Tanakh
“2:24But Joab and Abishai pursued after Abner; and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lieth before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon. 2:25And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill.”
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― JPS Tanakh
“19:22As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain base fellows, beset the house round about, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying: ‘Bring forth the man that came into thy house, that we may know him.”
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― JPS Tanakh
“22:11And the children of Israel heard say: ‘Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in the forefront of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that pertaineth to the children of Israel.â€� 22:12And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against them to war.”
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― JPS Tanakh
“20:9These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person through error might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.”
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― JPS Tanakh
“17:12Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites were resolved to dwell in that land.”
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― JPS Tanakh
“17:11And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth-shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns, even the three regions.”
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― JPS Tanakh
“6:16And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the horns, that Joshua said unto the people: ‘Shout; for the LORD hath given you the city. 6:17And the city shall be devoted, even it and all that is therein, to the LORD; only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.”
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― JPS Tanakh
“2:16And she said unto them: ‘Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers light upon you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned; and afterward may ye go your way.”
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― JPS Tanakh
“2:1And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two spies secretly, saying: ‘Go view the land, and Jericho.â€� And they went, and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab, and lay there.”
― JPS Tanakh
― JPS Tanakh
“26:5And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God: ‘A wandering Aramean was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous. 26:6And the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage.”
― JPS Tanakh
― JPS Tanakh
“24:16The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers; every man shall be put to death for his own sin. 24:17Thou shalt not pervert the justice due to the stranger, or to the fatherless; nor take the widow’s raiment to pledge. 24:18But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence; therefore I command thee to do this thing.”
― JPS Tanakh
― JPS Tanakh
“23:20Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother: interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of any thing that is lent upon interest. 23:21Unto a foreigner thou mayest lend upon interest; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon interest; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou puttest thy hand unto, in the land whither thou goest in to possess it.”
― JPS Tanakh
― JPS Tanakh
“20:7And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.â€� 20:8And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say: ‘What man is there that is fearful and faint- hearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren’s heart melt as his heart.”
― JPS Tanakh
― JPS Tanakh
“10:16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.”
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― JPS Tanakh
“and hew down their Asherim,”
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― JPS Tanakh
“34:16And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 34:17’These are the names of the men that shall take possession of the land for you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun. 34:18And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to take possession of the land. 34:19And these are the names of the men: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 34:20And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud. 34:21Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon. 34:22And of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli. 34:23Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod; 34:24and of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.”
― JPS Tanakh
― JPS Tanakh
“Though firm be thy dwelling-place, And though thy nest be set in the rock;”
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― JPS Tanakh
“4:4This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting, about the most holy things: 4:5when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall go in, and his sons, and they shall take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the testimony with it; 4:6and shall put thereon a covering of sealskin, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall set the staves thereof.”
― JPS Tanakh
― JPS Tanakh
“37:1And Bezalel made the ark of acacia-wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it. 37:2And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about. 37:3And he cast for it four rings of gold, in the four feet thereof: even two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. 37:4And he made staves of acacia-wood, and overlaid them with gold. 37:5And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark. 37:6And he made an ark-cover of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. 37:7And he made two cherubim of gold: of beaten work made he them, at the two ends of the ark-cover: 37:8one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end; of one piece with the ark-cover made he the cherubim at the two ends thereof. 37:9And the cherubim spread out their wings on high, screening the ark-cover with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the ark-cover were the faces of the cherubim.”
― JPS Tanakh
― JPS Tanakh
“18:25And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. 18:26And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves. 18:27And Moses let his father-in-law depart; and he went his way into his own land.”
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― JPS Tanakh
“2:22And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said: ‘I have been aa stranger in a strange land.”
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― JPS Tanakh
“2:3And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river’s brink. 2:4And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.”
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― JPS Tanakh