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Genesis 31:16

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For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
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    9Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

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    10Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;

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Genesis 31:16

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

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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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taken

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1. Received, accepted, or chosen. 2. Seized or captured. 3. Carried or laid hold of.

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father

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Sense 1: A male parent or begetter. Sense 2: An ancestor, forefather, founder, source, originator, chief, elder, or one bearing paternal authority and care. Sense 3: God as Father, including the Father of Jesus Christ and of those described as his children.

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children

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Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.

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whatsoever

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Whatever, anything that, or every thing of the kind or within the condition and scope stated.

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15Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.

16For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

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17¶ Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;

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