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Numbers 11:1–2

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AND when the people complained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.
And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the Lord, the fire was quenched.
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From verse 1

  1. Numbers 21:5Rank 1 from verse 1
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    5And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

  2. 2 Kings 1:12Rank 2 from verse 1
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    12And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.

  3. Numbers 16:35Rank 3 from verse 1
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    35And there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

  4. Exodus 16:9Rank 4 from verse 1
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    9¶ And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the Lord: for he hath heard your murmurings.

  5. 1 Corinthians 10:10Rank 5 from verse 1
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    10Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

  6. Leviticus 10:2Rank 6 from verse 1
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    2And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.

  7. 2 Samuel 11:27Rank 7 from verse 1
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    27And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.

  8. Deuteronomy 32:22Rank 8 from verse 1
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    22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

  9. Deuteronomy 9:22Rank 9 from verse 1
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    22And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the Lord to wrath.

  10. Exodus 16:2–3Rank 10 from verse 1
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    2And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:

    3And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

  11. Exodus 16:7Rank 11 from verse 1
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    7And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the Lord; for that he heareth your murmurings against the Lord: and what are we, that ye murmur against us?

  12. Exodus 17:2–3Rank 12 from verse 1
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    2Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the Lord?

    3And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

  13. Isaiah 30:33Rank 13 from verse 1
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    33For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

  14. Job 1:16Rank 14 from verse 1
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    16While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

  15. Jude 1:16Rank 15 from verse 1
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    16These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.

  16. Numbers 20:2–5Rank 16 from verse 1
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    2And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.

    3And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord!

    4And why have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?

    5And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.

  17. Psalms 106:18Rank 17 from verse 1
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    18And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

  18. Psalms 78:21Rank 18 from verse 1
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    21Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;

  19. Exodus 15:23–24Rank 19 from verse 1
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    23¶ And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.

    24And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

  20. Genesis 38:10Rank 20 from verse 1
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    10And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also.

  21. Isaiah 33:14Rank 21 from verse 1
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    14The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?

  22. Numbers 10:33Rank 22 from verse 1
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    33¶ And they departed from the mount of the Lord three days’ journey: and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them in the three days’ journey, to search out a resting place for them.

  23. Deuteronomy 25:18Rank 23 from verse 1
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    18How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.

  24. Hebrews 12:29Rank 24 from verse 1
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    29For our God is a consuming fire.

  25. James 5:4Rank 25 from verse 1
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    4Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

  26. Lamentations 3:39Rank 26 from verse 1
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    39Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

  27. Mark 9:43–49Rank 27 from verse 1
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    43And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:

    44Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

    45And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:

    46Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

    47And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:

    48Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

    49For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.

  28. Nahum 1:5Rank 28 from verse 1
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    5The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.

From verse 2

  1. Numbers 21:7Rank 1 from verse 2
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    7¶ Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

  2. James 5:16Rank 2 from verse 2
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    16Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

  3. Numbers 16:45–48Rank 3 from verse 2
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    45Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.

    46¶ And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the Lord; the plague is begun.

    47And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.

    48And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

  4. 1 John 2:1–2Rank 4 from verse 2
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    1MY little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

    2And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

  5. 1 John 5:16Rank 5 from verse 2
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    16If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.

  6. Acts 8:24Rank 6 from verse 2
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    24Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me.

  7. Amos 7:2–6Rank 7 from verse 2
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    2And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord God, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

    3The Lord repented for this: It shall not be, saith the Lord.

    4¶ Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord God called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.

    5Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

    6The Lord repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord God.

  8. Deuteronomy 9:19–20Rank 8 from verse 2
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    19For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the Lord was wroth against you to destroy you. But the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also.

    20And the Lord was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.

  9. Exodus 32:10–14Rank 9 from verse 2
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    10Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.

    11And Moses besought the Lord his God, and said, Lord, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?

    12Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.

    13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.

    14And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

  10. Exodus 32:31–32Rank 10 from verse 2
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    31And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.

    32Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin-; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

  11. Exodus 34:9Rank 11 from verse 2
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    9And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.

  12. Genesis 18:23–33Rank 12 from verse 2
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    23¶ And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

    24Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

    25That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

    26And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

    27And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:

    28Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.

    29And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty’s sake.

    30And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.

    31And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake.

    32And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.

    33And the Lord went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.

  13. Hebrews 7:26Rank 13 from verse 2
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    26For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

  14. Isaiah 37:4Rank 14 from verse 2
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    4It may be the Lord thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.

  15. Jeremiah 15:1Rank 15 from verse 2
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    1THEN said the Lord unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

  16. Jeremiah 37:3Rank 16 from verse 2
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    3And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the Lord our God for us.

  17. Jeremiah 42:2Rank 17 from verse 2
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    2And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the Lord thy God, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us:)

  18. Numbers 14:13–20Rank 18 from verse 2
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    13¶ And Moses said unto the Lord, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)

    14And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou Lord art among this people, that thou Lord art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.

    15¶ Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

    16Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

    17And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

    18The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

    19Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.

    20And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word:

  19. Psalms 106:23Rank 19 from verse 2
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    23Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

  20. Psalms 78:34–35Rank 20 from verse 2
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    34When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God.

    35And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.

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Numbers 11:1

COMBINED MEANING

people

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

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displeased

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of displease, meaning to give offense, cause displeasure, or make angry.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

heard

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Sense 1: Perceived by the ear. Sense 2: Received or learned by report. Sense 3: Listened to, regarded, or heeded. Sense 4: Favourably attended to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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anger

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Sense 1: Strong displeasure or indignation. Sense 2: As a verb, to provoke to such displeasure.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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kindled

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Sense 1: Set on fire, ignited, caused to burn, or made hot. Sense 2: Figuratively, aroused, stirred, or inflamed, especially of anger or wrath.

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

COMBINED MEANING

fire

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Burning flame and heat that gives light, consumes, purifies, or destroys.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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consumed

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of consume. Sense 1: To destroy, use up, or bring to an end. Sense 2: To waste away or be exhausted.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

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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uttermost

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Farthest, outermost, remotest, last, fullest, or most complete extent, degree, part, or limit.

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parts

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Sense 1: Portions or divisions of a whole. Sense 2: Divides, separates, departs, or assigns shares.

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camp

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1. A place where a people, host, or army is lodged or encamped, especially in tents; by extension, the people or host there. 2. To encamp, lodge, or take position.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Numbers 11:2

COMBINED MEANING

people

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

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cried

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1. Called out, shouted, proclaimed, warned, wailed, or otherwise uttered, often loudly. 2. Appealed, prayed, complained, or called for help, justice, or attention.

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

COMBINED MEANING

fire

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Burning flame and heat that gives light, consumes, purifies, or destroys.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

quenched

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Extinguished, put out, subdued, suppressed, or deprived of force.

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

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11:1AND when the people complained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.

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11:2And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the Lord, the fire was quenched.

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11:3And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the Lord burnt among them.

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