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Numbers 9:8–9

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And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you.
¶ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
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  1. Numbers 27:5Rank 1 from verse 8
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    5And Moses brought their cause before the Lord.

  2. Psalms 85:8Rank 2 from verse 8
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    8I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.

  3. 1 Corinthians 11:23Rank 3 from verse 8
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    23For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:

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    4For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

  5. 2 Chronicles 20:17Rank 5 from verse 8
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    17Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the Lord with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the Lord will be with you.

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Numbers 9:8

COMBINED MEANING

stand

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Sense 1: To be upright, rise, stop, remain, endure, take or keep a position, be established, withstand, or present oneself before another. Sense 2: A fixed position or state of stopping, as in ‘at a stand’.

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still

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Sense 1: Continuing without interruption, or remaining as before. Sense 2: Quiet, silent, or without motion. Sense 3: Even yet or nevertheless. Sense 4: To make quiet or cause to cease.

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hear

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Sense 1: To perceive sound or spoken words. Sense 2: To receive or learn by report. Sense 3: To listen to, regard, or heed. Sense 4: To attend favourably to a request.

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command

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Sense 1: To order or direct with authority. Sense 2: An authoritative order, charge, or commandment.

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you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

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Numbers 9:9

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spake

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The past tense of speak: uttered or expressed words, addressed someone, or communicated a matter in words.

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9:6¶ And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:

9:7And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the Lord in his appointed season among the children of Israel?

9:8And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you.

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9:9¶ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

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9:10Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the Lord.

9:11The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

9:12They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.

9:13But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the Lord in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

9:14And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the Lord; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.

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