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Lexicon :: Strong's H3915 - layil

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לַיִל
Transliteration
layil
Pronunciation
lah'-yil
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as לוּל (H3883)
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TWOT Reference: 1111

Strong’s Definitions

לַיִל layil, lah'-yil; or (Isaiah 21:11) לֵיל lêyl; also לַיְלָה laylâh; from the same as H3883; properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity:—(mid-)night (season).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 233x

The KJV translates Strong's H3915 in the following manner: night (205x), nights (15x), midnight (with H2677) (4x), season (3x), midnight (with H2676) (2x), night (with H1121) (2x), midnight (1x), midnight (with H8432) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 233x
The KJV translates Strong's H3915 in the following manner: night (205x), nights (15x), midnight (with H2677) (4x), season (3x), midnight (with H2676) (2x), night (with H1121) (2x), midnight (1x), midnight (with H8432) (1x).

  1. night

    1. night (as opposed to day)

    2. of gloom, protective shadow (fig.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
לַיִל layil, lah'-yil; or (Isaiah 21:11) לֵיל lêyl; also לַיְלָה laylâh; from the same as H3883; properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity:—(mid-)night (season).
STRONGS H3915: Abbreviations
לַ֫יְלָה, לַ֫יִל 242 noun masculineGenesis 40:5 night (Late Hebrew id.; MI15 (ב)ללה; Aramaic [H3916 לֵילָא], bdb053806, bdb053807; Arabic bdb053808, bdb053809; Ethiopic bdb053810all = night; Assyrian lîlâtu, evening DlHWB; meaning of √ dubious; form probably לילי, and ending הָ֯ radical, and not ה locative, NöM 127 DlProl. 128 Ges§ 90, 2. with R. Köii. p. 57, R. 1); — absolute לַ֫יְלָה Genesis 19:33 + 214 times + 2 times Qr. (see below); לָ֑יְלָה Genesis 1:5 + 3 times; לַ֫יִל Isaiah 16:3 + Proverbs 31:18; Lamentations 2:19 Kt (Qr לַיְלָה); לֵיל Isaiah 15:1 (twice in verse); Isaiah 21:1; construct לֵיל Exodus 12:42; Isaiah 30:29; plural absolute לֵילוֺת 1 Samuel 30:12 + 4 times; construct id., Isaiah 21:8 + 5 times; —
1. literally night, opposed to day, Genesis 8:22 (J), Deuteronomy 1:33 + very often (see יוֺם); alternation of day and night divinely ordained Genesis 1:5 (P), Jeremiah 33:20 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 33:25 +; מִיּוֺם עַדלֿ׳ Isaiah 38:12, 18 i.e. within one whole day; as close of day, עַדלֿ׳ 2 Chronicles 35:14; as time of sacred (לֵיל) חָג Isaiah 30:29; of suffering and weeping לֵילוֺת עָמָל Job 7:3, compare Psalm 6:7; Psalm 77:3 etc.; of pious desires, prayer, praise, meditation, etc (sometimes || by day) Isaiah 26:9; Job 35:10; Psalm 1:2; Psalm 22:3; Psalm 42:9; Psalm 77:7; Psalm 88:2; Psalm 92:3; Psalm 119:5 (twice in verse), compare Psalm 16:7; Psalm 17:8; of night-service in Temple Psalm 134:1; of sudden assault, or destruction, Isaiah 15:1; Jeremiah 6:5; Obadiah 5; Job 27:20; Job 34:20, 25; Job 36:20; divided into watches Psalm 90:4; לֵיל שִׁמֻּרִים Exodus 12:42 see below שׁמר; with number, denoting duration of time, †forty days and forty nights Genesis 7:4, 12; Exodus 24:18; Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 9:9, 11, 18, 25; Deuteronomy 10:10; 1 Kings 19:8; three days and three nights (שְׁלשָׁה לֵילוֺת) 1 Samuel 30:12; Jonah 2:1; seven days and seven nights (שִׁבְעַת לֵילוֺת) Job 2:13†; חֲלוֺם הַלּ׳ † Genesis 20:3; Genesis 31:24 (both E), 1 Kings 3:5; מַרְאֹת הַלּ׳ Genesis 46:2 (E); חֶזְיוֺן ל׳ Job 20:8; Job 33:15, חֶזְיֹנוֺת ל׳ Job 4:13, חֲלוֺם חֲזוֺן ל׳ Isaiah 29:7 (compare Micah 3:6 below) †; בִּןלֿ׳ Jonah 4:10 (twice in verse) see בֵּן 8. Chiefly in adverbial phrase: — בַּחֲצִי הַלּ׳ at midnight Exodus 12:29 + (see חֲצִי, חָצוֺת), compare בְּתוֺךְ הַלּ׳ 1 Kings 3:20, בְּאִישׁוֺן ל׳ Proverbs 7:9; הַזֶּה בַּלּ׳ Exodus 12:8, 12 on this night (P; the night of which one is speaking); הַהוּא בַּלּ׳ on that night Genesis 19:35 (J) + often, (P only Numbers 14:1); הוּא בַּל׳ Genesis 19:33; Genesis 30:16; so הַלּ׳ alone 1 Samuel 14:34, but strike out Greek Version of the LXX We Kit, compare Dr; Klo Bu read ליהוה; הַלּ׳ to-night Genesis 19:5, 34; Genesis 30:15 (all J), Numbers 22:8, 19 (E), Joshua 2:2; Joshua 4:3 (both J E), 2 Samuel 17:1, 16; 2 Samuel 19:8; Ruth 1:12; Ruth 3:2, 13, opposed to מָחָר tomorrow 1 Samuel 19:11; הַלּ׳ = this night just past, last night 1 Samuel 15:16 (compare Dr); כָּלהַֿלּ׳ all night Hosea 7:6 (opposed to בֹּקֶר), Exodus 14:20, 21 (J), Numbers 11:32; Joshua 10:9 (both J E), Judges 16:2 (twice in verse); Judges 19:25; 1 Samuel 15:11; 1 Samuel 31:12; 2 Samuel 2:29, 32; 2 Samuel 4:7; opposed to כלהֿיום ההוא (of continuous action) 1 Samuel 19:24; 1 Samuel 28:20; Isaiah 62:6, opposed to יומם Psalm 78:14; בְּכָללֿ׳ Psalm 6:7 every night (probably); compare כָּלהַֿלֵּילוֺת Isaiah 21:8 all the nights (opposed to יוֺמָם); especially לַיְלָה by night Numbers 22:20 (E) Joshua 8:3 (JE), Deuteronomy 16:1; Numbers 9:16 (P) + 51 times; of these Genesis 14:15 and Exodus 13:21, 22 (J) + 25 times opposed to יוֺמָם, covering all the time; otherwise Judges 6:27 (opposed to יוֺמָם); לַיְלָה וָיוֺם night and day 1 Kings 8:29; Isaiah 27:3; Esther 4:16; less often לֵילוֺת Psalm 16:17; הַלּ׳ by night 2 Kings 25:4 (ל׳ in || Jeremiah 52:7), Zechariah 1:8; Nehemiah 4:16 (opposed to הַיּוֺם); בַּלּ׳ id., Jeremiah 6:5 + 18 times (chiefly late; often opposed to בַּיּוֺם, יוֺמָם, etc.); בַּלֵּילוֺת Psalm 92:3 (opposed to בַּבֹּקֶר, Psalm 134:1; Songs 3:1, 8; בְּלַיְלָה Nehemiah 9:19 (opposed to בְּיוֺמָם); בְּלֵיל Isaiah 15:1 (twice in verse) כַּל׳ as at night Job 5:14 (opposed to צָהֳרָ֑יִם).
2. figurative שִׁיתִי כַּלַיִל צִלֵּךְ Isaiah 16:8 simile of shadow of Zion as protection; more often in gloomy sense, of avenging calamity without divine guidance or comfort לַיְלָה מֵחָזוֺן Micah 3:6; personal distress Job 35:10; judgment perhaps also Job 36:20 (Ew De Di Da; night of death Bu; 'unintelligible' Siegf); מַהמִּֿלַּיְלָה מַהמִּֿלֵּיל Isaiah 21:11 i.e. what hour of the night of calamity is it? compare Isaiah 21:12 (opposed to בֹּקֶר).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:5; 1:5; 7:4; 7:12; 8:22; 14:15; 19:5; 19:33; 19:33; 19:34; 19:35; 20:3; 30:15; 30:16; 31:24; 40:5; 46:2

Exodus

12:8; 12:12; 12:29; 12:42; 12:42; 13:21; 13:22; 14:20; 14:21; 24:18; 34:28

Numbers

9:16; 11:32; 14:1; 22:8; 22:19; 22:20

Deuteronomy

1:33; 9:9; 9:11; 9:18; 9:25; 10:10; 16:1

Joshua

2:2; 4:3; 8:3; 10:9

Judges

6:27; 16:2; 19:25

Ruth

1:12; 3:2; 3:13

1 Samuel

14:34; 15:11; 15:16; 19:11; 19:24; 28:20; 30:12; 30:12; 31:12

2 Samuel

2:29; 2:32; 4:7; 17:1; 17:16; 19:8

1 Kings

3:5; 3:20; 8:29; 19:8

2 Kings

25:4

2 Chronicles

35:14

Nehemiah

4:16; 9:19

Esther

4:16

Job

2:13; 4:13; 5:14; 7:3; 20:8; 27:20; 33:15; 34:20; 34:25; 35:10; 35:10; 36:20; 36:20

Psalms

1:2; 6:7; 6:7; 16:7; 17:8; 22:3; 42:9; 77:3; 77:7; 78:14; 88:2; 90:4; 92:3; 92:3; 119:5; 134:1; 134:1

Proverbs

7:9; 31:18

Song of Songs

3:1; 3:8

Isaiah

15:1; 15:1; 15:1; 16:3; 16:8; 21:1; 21:8; 21:8; 21:11; 21:12; 26:9; 27:3; 29:7; 30:29; 30:29; 38:12; 38:18; 62:6

Jeremiah

6:5; 6:5; 33:20; 33:25; 52:7

Lamentations

2:19

Hosea

7:6

Obadiah

1:5

Jonah

2:1; 4:10

Micah

3:6; 3:6

Zechariah

1:8

H3915

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Strong's Number H3915 matches the Hebrew לַיִל (layil),
which occurs 235 times in 223 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 5 (Gen 1:5–Num 22:19)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:5 - And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening, and there was morning -- the first day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:14 - And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:16 - And God made the two great lights, the great light to rule the day, and the small light to rule the night, -- and the stars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:18 - and to rule during the day and during the night, and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:4 - For in yet seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living being which I have made will I destroy from the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:12 - And the pour of rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:22 - Henceforth, all the days of the earth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:15 - And he divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and smote them, and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is to the left of Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:5 - And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men that have come in to thee to-night? bring them out to us that we may know them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:33 - And they gave their father wine to drink that night. And the first-born went in, and lay with her father, and he did not know of her lying down, nor of her rising.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:34 - And it came to pass on the next day that the first-born said to the younger, Lo, I lay last night with my father: let us give him wine to drink to-night also, and go thou in, lie with him, that we may preserve seed alive of our father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:35 - And they gave their father wine to drink that night also. And the younger arose, and lay with him; and he did not know of her lying down, nor of her rising.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:3 - But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, because of the woman that thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:24 - And Jehovah appeared to him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:15 - And she said to her, Is it too little that thou hast taken my husband, that thou wilt take my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to-night for thy son's mandrakes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:16 - And when Jacob came from the fields in the evening, Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in to me, for indeed I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:24 - And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said to him, Take care thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:39

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:39 - What was torn I have not brought to thee; I had to bear the loss of it: of my hand hast thou required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:40 - Thus it was with me: in the day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:13 - And he lodged there that night; and took of what came to his hand a gift for Esau his brother --

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:21 - And the gift went over before him; and he himself lodged that night in the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:22 - And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:5 - And they dreamed a dream, both of them in one night, each his dream, each according to the interpretation of his dream, the cup-bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were imprisoned in the tower-house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:11 - And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each according to the interpretation of his dream.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:2 - And God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night and said, Jacob, Jacob! And he said, Here am I.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:13 - And Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and Jehovah brought an east wind on the land all that day and all that night. When it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:4 - And Moses said, Thus saith Jehovah: About midnight I will go out into the midst of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:8 - And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs shall they eat it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:12 - And I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:29 - And it came to pass that at midnight Jehovah smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:30 - And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his bondmen, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house in which there was not one dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:31 - And he called Moses and Aaron in the night, and said, Rise up, go away from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve Jehovah, as ye have said.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:42

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:42 - It is a night of observance to Jehovah, because of their being brought out from the land of Egypt: that same night is an observance to Jehovah for all the children of Israel in their generations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:21 - And Jehovah went before their face by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them in the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; so that they could go day and night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:22 - The pillar of the cloud did not remove from before the people by day, nor the pillar of fire by night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:20 - And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and was a cloud and darkness, and lit up the night; and the one did not come near the other all the night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:21 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and Jehovah made the sea go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:18 - And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and ascended the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:28 - -- And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread, and drank no water. -- And he wrote on the tables the words of the covenant, the ten words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:38 - For the cloud of Jehovah was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, before the eyes of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:9 - Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt-offering; this, the burnt-offering, shall be on the hearth on the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:35 - And ye shall abide at the entrance of the tent of meeting day and night seven days, and keep the charge of Jehovah, that ye die not; for so I am commanded.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:16 - So it was continually: the cloud covered it, and at night it was as the appearance of fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:21 - And if it were so that the cloud was there from the evening until the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed; or a day and a night, and the cloud was taken up, they journeyed;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:9 - And when the dew fell upon the camp by night, the manna fell upon it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:32 - And the people rose up all that day, and the whole night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered little gathered ten homers; and they spread them abroad for themselves round about the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:1 - And the whole assembly lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:14 - and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that thou, Jehovah, art in the midst of this people, that thou, Jehovah, lettest thyself be seen eye to eye, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:8 - And he said to them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, according as Jehovah shall speak unto me. And the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:19 - And now, I pray you, abide ye also here this night, and I shall know what Jehovah will say to me further.

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