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Exodus 24:1–4

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AND he said unto Moses, Come up unto the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.
And Moses alone shall come near the Lord: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
¶ And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the Lord hath said will we do.
And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
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From verse 1

  1. Numbers 11:16Rank 1 from verse 1
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    16¶ And the Lord said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.

  2. Exodus 6:23Rank 2 from verse 1
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    23And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

  3. Leviticus 10:1–2Rank 3 from verse 1
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    1AND Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not.

    2And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.

  4. Exodus 19:24Rank 4 from verse 1
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    24And the Lord said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the Lord, lest he break forth upon them.

  5. Exodus 28:1Rank 5 from verse 1
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    1AND take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.

  6. 1 Chronicles 6:3Rank 6 from verse 1
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    3And the children of Amram; Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons also of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

  7. Exodus 1:5Rank 7 from verse 1
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    5And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.

  8. Exodus 19:20Rank 8 from verse 1
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    20And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.

  9. Exodus 19:9Rank 9 from verse 1
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    9And the Lord said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the Lord.

  10. Exodus 20:21Rank 10 from verse 1
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    21And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

  11. Exodus 24:15Rank 11 from verse 1
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    15And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.

  12. Exodus 24:9Rank 12 from verse 1
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    9¶ Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:

  13. Exodus 3:5Rank 13 from verse 1
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    5And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

  14. Exodus 34:2Rank 14 from verse 1
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    2And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.

  15. Ezekiel 8:11Rank 15 from verse 1
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    11And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.

  16. Luke 10:1Rank 16 from verse 1
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    1AFTER these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.

  17. Luke 10:17Rank 17 from verse 1
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    17¶ And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.

  18. Numbers 11:24–25Rank 18 from verse 1
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    24¶ And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the Lord, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle.

    25And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.

From verse 2

  1. Exodus 24:13Rank 1 from verse 2
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    13And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.

  2. Exodus 24:15Rank 2 from verse 2
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    15And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.

  3. Exodus 24:18Rank 3 from verse 2
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    18And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

  4. Hebrews 10:21–22Rank 4 from verse 2
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    21And having an high priest over the house of God;

    22Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

  5. Hebrews 9:24Rank 5 from verse 2
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    24For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

  6. Jeremiah 30:21Rank 6 from verse 2
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    21And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the Lord.

  7. Jeremiah 49:19Rank 7 from verse 2
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    19Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

  8. Numbers 16:5Rank 8 from verse 2
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    5And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow the Lord will shew who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him.

  9. Exodus 20:21Rank 9 from verse 2
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    21And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

From verse 3

  1. Exodus 19:8Rank 1 from verse 3
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    8And all the people answered together, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord.

  2. Exodus 24:7Rank 2 from verse 3
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    7And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient.

  3. Joshua 24:22Rank 3 from verse 3
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    22And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the Lord, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.

  4. Deuteronomy 5:1Rank 4 from verse 3
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    1AND Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.

  5. Deuteronomy 6:1Rank 5 from verse 3
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    1NOW these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:

  6. Deuteronomy 4:1Rank 6 from verse 3
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    1NOW therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you.

  7. Deuteronomy 4:45Rank 7 from verse 3
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    45These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,

  8. Deuteronomy 4:5Rank 8 from verse 3
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    5Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.

  9. Deuteronomy 5:27–28Rank 9 from verse 3
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    27Go thou near, and hear all that the Lord our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that the Lord our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.

    28And the Lord heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and the Lord said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken.

  10. Deuteronomy 11:1Rank 10 from verse 3
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    1THEREFORE thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.

  11. Deuteronomy 5:31Rank 11 from verse 3
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    31But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.

  12. Exodus 21:1–23Rank 12 from verse 3
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    1NOW these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

    2If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

    3If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.

    4If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.

    5And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

    6Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.

    7¶ And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

    8If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

    9And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

    10If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

    11And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

    12¶ He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

    13And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.

    14But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

    15¶ And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

    16¶ And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

    17¶ And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

    18¶ And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:

    19If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.

    20¶ And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.

    21Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.

    22¶ If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

    23And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

  13. Galatians 3:19–20Rank 13 from verse 3
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    19Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

    20Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.

From verse 4

  1. Deuteronomy 31:9Rank 1 from verse 4
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    9¶ And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and unto all the elders of Israel.

  2. Genesis 28:18Rank 2 from verse 4
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    18And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.

  3. Galatians 2:9Rank 3 from verse 4
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    9And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.

  4. Joshua 4:8–9Rank 4 from verse 4
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    8And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the Lord spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.

    9And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.

  5. Luke 22:30Rank 5 from verse 4
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    30That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

  6. Revelation 21:14Rank 6 from verse 4
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    14And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

  7. 1 Kings 11:30Rank 7 from verse 4
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    30And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:

  8. Exodus 20:24–26Rank 8 from verse 4
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    24¶ An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.

    25And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

    26Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

  9. Exodus 28:21Rank 9 from verse 4
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    21And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.

  10. Ezra 6:17Rank 10 from verse 4
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    17And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.

  11. Genesis 28:22Rank 11 from verse 4
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    22And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.

  12. Genesis 31:45Rank 12 from verse 4
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    45And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

  13. Joshua 24:26–27Rank 13 from verse 4
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    26¶ And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the Lord.

    27And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the Lord which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.

  14. Joshua 4:2–3Rank 14 from verse 4
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    2Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

    3And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests’ feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night.

  15. Leviticus 24:5Rank 15 from verse 4
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    5¶ And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.

  16. Numbers 17:2Rank 16 from verse 4
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    2Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write thou every man’s name upon his rod.

  17. Joshua 4:20Rank 17 from verse 4
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    20And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.

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Exodus 24:1

COMBINED MEANING

thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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Israel

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The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called.

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ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

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afar

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Sense 1: At or from a great distance. Sense 2: Figuratively, remote, estranged, or absent.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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Exodus 24:2

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alone

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1. Without others, company, or help; by oneself. 2. Only or solely. 3. In "let ... alone," to leave undisturbed or refrain from interfering with.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

nigh

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Near or close in place, time, relationship, kinship, condition, access, or degree; approaching, drawing close, at hand, or almost.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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neither

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1. Also not; nor, introducing or joining a further negative statement or prohibition. 2. Not either, or none, of the alternatives named, commonly in a neither ... nor construction.

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people

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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.

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DEFINED WORDS

Exodus 24:3

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told

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Past-tense or past-participial form of tell (to say, relate, inform, count, or make known).

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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people

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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.

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words

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Spoken or written expressions, sayings, statements, messages, commands, promises, reports, or units of meaningful speech.

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answered

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of answer, meaning to reply, respond, or give account.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

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Exodus 24:4

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wrote

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Set down, recorded, composed, or communicated in writing; the past tense of write.

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words

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Spoken or written expressions, sayings, statements, messages, commands, promises, reports, or units of meaningful speech.

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rose

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1. A flowering plant or its flower. 2. Arose or stood up.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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morning

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Sense 1: The beginning or early part of the day, including hours before daylight. Sense 2: The dawn or a beginning compared with dawn.

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builded

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of build, meaning to construct, rest or depend on as a foundation.

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tribes

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Bodies of people descended from common ancestors, especially the divisions of Israel.

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COMBINED MEANING

Israel

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The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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24:1AND he said unto Moses, Come up unto the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.

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24:2And Moses alone shall come near the Lord: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.

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24:3¶ And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the Lord hath said will we do.

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24:4And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

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24:5And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the Lord.

24:6And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

24:7And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient.

24:8And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.

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