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Lexicon :: Strong's H259 - 'eḥāḏ

Aa
אֶחָד
Transliteration
'eḥāḏ
Pronunciation
ekh-awd'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
A numeral from אָחַד (H258)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 61

Strong’s Definitions

אֶחָד ʼechâd, ekh-awd'; a numeral from H258; properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first:—a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-) ly, each (one), eleven, every, few, first, highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,

KJV Translation Count — Total: 952x

The KJV translates Strong's H259 in the following manner: one (687x), first (36x), another (35x), other (30x), any (18x), once (13x), eleven (with H6240) (13x), every (10x), certain (9x), an (7x), some (7x), miscellaneous (87x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 952x
The KJV translates Strong's H259 in the following manner: one (687x), first (36x), another (35x), other (30x), any (18x), once (13x), eleven (with H6240) (13x), every (10x), certain (9x), an (7x), some (7x), miscellaneous (87x).

  1. one (number)

    1. one (number)

    2. each, every

    3. a certain

    4. an (indefinite article)

    5. only, once, once for all

    6. one...another, the one...the other, one after another, one by one

    7. first

    8. eleven (in combination), eleventh (ordinal)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֶחָד ʼechâd, ekh-awd'; a numeral from H258; properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first:—a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-) ly, each (one), eleven, every, few, first, highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,
STRONGS H259: Abbreviations
אֶחָד 962 adjective number one (Phoenician אחד, Sabean id., compare DHMZMG 1876, 707, Arabic أَحَدً, Ethiopic አሐዱ፡ Aramaic חַד, dfo; on Assyrian edu, aḫadu, compare DlW No. 139) — absoluteא׳ Genesis 1:5 —אַחַ֫ד Genesis 21:15 +; so even before preposition 1 Samuel 9:3 and elsewhere see Dr; feminine absolute אַחַ֫ת Genesis 2:21 +; אֶחָ֑ת † Genesis 11:1 +; construct אַחַ֫ת Deuteronomy 13:13 +; plural masculine אֲחָדִים Genesis 11:1 + 4:t.; חַד Ezekiel 33:30 strike out Co compare Greek Version of the LXX; —
1. one Genesis 1:9; Genesis 27:38, 45; Exodus 12:49; Joshua 23:10; 1 Samuel 1:24; 2 Samuel 12:3 +, Zechariah 14:9; Malachi 2:10; Job 31:15 +, so also (emphatic) 2 Samuel 17:3 for MT אֲשֶׁר Greek Version of the LXX We Dr; one or two לֹא לְיוֺם אֶחָד וְלֹא לִשְׁנַיִם Ezra 10:13; as substantive followed by מִן Genesis 2:21; Leviticus 4:2, 13; Isaiah 34:16 +; הָא׳ Genesis 19:9; Genesis 42:13, 32; 2 Kings 6:3, 5 +; one and the same Genesis 40:5; Job 31:15; plural דְּבָרִים אֲחָדִים Genesis 11:1 compare Ezekiel 37:17 (absolute), but see Co;＝few, a few יָמִים א׳ ‴ Genesis 27:44; Genesis 29:20; Daniel 11:20; כְּאִישׁ אֶחָד as one man, together Judges 20:8; 1 Samuel 11:7; also כְּאֶחָד late＝Aramaic כַּחֲדָא † Ezra 2:64 (= Nehemiah 7:66) Ezra 3:9; Ezra 6:20; Ecclesiastes 11:6; see especially Isaiah 65:25 (|| earlier יַחְדֶּו Isaiah 11:6, 7).
2.＝each, every Exodus 36:30; Numbers 7:3, 85; Numbers 28:21; 1 Kings 4:7; 2 Kings 15:20 +; also repeated, distributive sense Numbers 7:11; Numbers 13:2; Numbers 17:21; Joshua 3:12; Joshua 4:2, 4.
3.＝a certain 1 Samuel 1:1; 2 Samuel 18:10; 2 Kings 4:1; Esther 3:8 — 2 Samuel 17:9 see Dr 1 Samuel 1:1; hence
4.＝indefinite article 1 Samuel 6:7; 1 Samuel 24:15; 1 Samuel 26:20 (but strike out Greek Version of the LXX We Dr) 1 Kings 19:4, 5 +.
5. only 1 Kings 4:19; & (feminine) once 2 Kings 6:10; Psalm 62:12; Psalm 89:36 (once for all); אַחַת לְשָׁלוֺשׁ שָׁנִים 2 Chronicles 9:21, בַּשָּׁנָה א׳ Leviticus 16:34 compare Job 40:5, אֶחָ֑ת אֶחָ֑ת Joshua 6:3, 11 compare Joshua 6:14, בְּאַחַת Numbers 10:4; Job 33:14; at once בְּאֶחָ֑ת Proverbs 28:18 compare וְאִנָּקְמֶה נְקַם־אַחַת Judges 16:28. **Num 10:4 בְּאַחַת is rather 'in one (of the trumpets)'; Job 33:14 it＝in one way; Proverbs 28:18 read probably with Syriac Version Lag Dy Bi בַּשָּׁ֑חַת; Judges 16:28 is rather 'vengeance for one of my two eyes' (see GFM). Jeremiah 10:8 בְּאַחַת probably＝in one, altogether. אחד.
6. one... another, the one... the other א׳⬩⬩⬩א׳ Exodus 17:12; Exodus 18:3, 4; Amos 4:7; 2 Samuel 12:1; Jeremiah 24:2; 2 Chronicles 3:17; Nehemiah 4:11 +; 2 Samuel 14:6 read הָאֶחָד אֶת־אָחִיו for האחד את־האחד Greek Version of the LXX We Dr; one after another, one by one, לְאַחַד אֶחָד Isaiah 27:12 compare Ecclesiastes 7:27.
7. as ordinal, first (mostly P & late) Genesis 1:5 (P) Genesis 2:11 (J) Exodus 39:10 (P); absolute Job 42:14, Ezekiel 10:14 especially of first day of month Exodus 40:2 (P) Ezra 3:6; Ezra 10:16, 17; Nehemiah 8:2; Haggai 1:1; first year, שְׁנַת אַחַת 2 Chronicles 36:22; Ezra 1:1; Daniel 1:21; Daniel 9:1, 2; Daniel 11:1 compare first (day, יוֺם omitted) Genesis 8:5, 13 בְּאֶחָד לַחֹדֶשׁ; so Exodus 40:17; Leviticus 23:24; Numbers 1:18; Numbers 29:1; Numbers 33:38 (all P) Deuteronomy 1:3; 2 Chronicles 29:17; Ezra 7:9 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 26:1; Ezekiel 29:17; Ezekiel 31:1; Ezekiel 32:1; Ezekiel 45:18.
8. in combination,
a. אַחַד עָשָׂר eleven (compare עָשָׂר, עַשְׁתֵּי) Genesis 32:23; Genesis 37:9 (JE) Deuteronomy 1:2; so אַחַת־עֶשְׂרֵה Joshua 15:51 (P) 2 Kings 23:36; 2 Kings 24:18; 2 Chronicles 36:5, 11; Jeremiah 52:1 (precedes noun, except Joshua 15:51; as ordinal, eleventh אַחַת עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה Ezekiel 30:20; Ezekiel 31:1 compare 1 Kings 6:38; 2 Kings 9:29;
b. with other numerals, as cardinal אֶחָד וְאַרְבָּעִים אֶלֶף וַחֲמֵשׁ מֵאוֺת Numbers 1:41; compare Numbers 2:16, 28; Numbers 31:34, 39 (all P; א׳ precedes other numeral); but אַרְבָּיִם וְאַחַת שָׁנָה (א׳ following) 1 Kings 14:21; 1 Kings 15:10; 2 Kings 14:23; 2 Chronicles 12:13 compare 2 Kings 22:1 2 Chronicles 34:1; 2 Kings 24:18＝Jeremiah 52:1 2 Chronicles 36:11; Joshua 12:24 (D) Isaiah 30:17; Ezra 2:26＝Nehemiah 7:30 compare Nehemiah 7:37; Daniel 10:13; as ordinal בְּאַחַת וְשֵׁשׁ מֵאוֺת שָׁנָה Genesis 8:13 (P) Exodus 12:18 (P), 1 Chronicles 24:17; 1 Chronicles 25:28; 2 Chronicles 16:13 (א׳ preceding); but 1 Kings 16:23; Haggai 2:1 (א׳ following).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:5; 1:5; 1:9; 2:11; 2:21; 2:21; 8:5; 8:13; 8:13; 11:1; 11:1; 11:1; 19:9; 21:15; 27:38; 27:44; 27:45; 29:20; 32:23; 37:9; 40:5; 42:13; 42:32

Exodus

12:18; 12:49; 17:12; 18:3; 18:4; 36:30; 39:10; 40:2; 40:17

Leviticus

4:2; 4:13; 16:34; 23:24

Numbers

1:18; 1:41; 2:16; 2:28; 7:3; 7:11; 7:85; 10:4; 10:4; 13:2; 28:21; 29:1; 31:34; 31:39; 33:38

Deuteronomy

1:2; 1:3; 13:13

Joshua

3:12; 4:2; 4:4; 6:3; 6:11; 6:14; 12:24; 15:51; 15:51; 23:10

Judges

16:28; 16:28; 20:8

1 Samuel

1:1; 1:1; 1:24; 6:7; 9:3; 11:7; 24:15; 26:20

2 Samuel

12:1; 12:3; 14:6; 17:3; 17:9; 18:10

1 Kings

4:7; 4:19; 6:38; 14:21; 15:10; 16:23; 19:4; 19:5

2 Kings

4:1; 6:3; 6:5; 6:10; 9:29; 14:23; 15:20; 22:1; 23:36; 24:18; 24:18

1 Chronicles

24:17; 25:28

2 Chronicles

3:17; 9:21; 12:13; 16:13; 29:17; 34:1; 36:5; 36:11; 36:11; 36:22

Ezra

1:1; 2:26; 2:64; 3:6; 3:9; 6:20; 7:9; 10:13; 10:16; 10:17

Nehemiah

4:11; 7:30; 7:37; 7:66; 8:2

Esther

3:8

Job

31:15; 31:15; 33:14; 33:14; 40:5; 42:14

Psalms

62:12; 89:36

Proverbs

28:18; 28:18

Ecclesiastes

7:27; 11:6

Isaiah

11:6; 11:7; 27:12; 30:17; 34:16; 65:25

Jeremiah

10:8; 24:2; 52:1; 52:1

Ezekiel

10:14; 26:1; 29:17; 30:20; 31:1; 31:1; 32:1; 33:30; 37:17; 45:18

Daniel

1:21; 9:1; 9:2; 10:13; 11:1; 11:20

Amos

4:7

Haggai

1:1; 2:1

Zechariah

14:9

Malachi

2:10

H259

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Strong's Number H259 matches the Hebrew אֶחָד ('eḥāḏ),
which occurs 976 times in 739 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 15 (Gen 1:5–Exo 12:18)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:5 - Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:9 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:11 - The name of the first is Pishon, which goes round about all the land of Havilah where there is gold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:21 - And the Lord God sent a deep sleep on the man, and took one of the bones from his side while he was sleeping, joining up the flesh again in its place:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:24 - For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:22 - And the Lord God said, Now the man has become like one of us, having knowledge of good and evil; and now if he puts out his hand and takes of the fruit of the tree of life, he will go on living for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:19 - And Lamech had two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:5 - And still the waters went on falling, till on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:13 - And in the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters were dry on the earth: and Noah took the cover off the ark and saw that the face of the earth was dry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:25 - And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his time the peoples of the earth became separate; and his brother's name was Joktan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:1 - And all the earth had one language and one tongue.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:6 - And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:9 - And they said, Give way there. This one man, they said, came here from a strange country, and will he now be our judge? now we will do worse to you than to them; and pushing violently against Lot, they came near to get the door broken in.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:15 - And when all the water in the skin was used up, she put the child down under a tree.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:2 - And he said to him, Take your son, your dearly loved only son Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and give him as a burned offering on one of the mountains of which I will give you knowledge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:10 - Then Abimelech said, What have you done to us? one of the people might well have had connection with your wife, and the sin would have been ours.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:38

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:38 - And Esau said to his father, Is that the only blessing you have, my father? give a blessing to me, even me! And Esau was overcome with weeping.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:44

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:44 - And be there with him for a little time, till your brother's wrath is turned away;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:45

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:45 - Till the memory of what you have done to him is past and he is no longer angry: then I will send word for you to come back; are the two of you to be taken from me in one day?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:20 - And Jacob did seven years' work for Rachel; and because of his love for her it seemed to him only a very little time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:8 - And said, If Esau, meeting one group, makes an attack on them, the others will get away safely.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:22 - And in the night he got up, and taking with him his two wives and the two servant-women and his eleven children, he went over the river Jabbok.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:13 - But Jacob said, My lord may see that the children are only small, and there are young ones in my flocks and herds: one day's over-driving will be the destruction of all the flock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:16 - Then we will give our daughters to you and take your daughters to us and go on living with you as one people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:22 - But these men will make an agreement with us to go on living with us and to become one people, only on the condition that every male among us undergoes circumcision as they have done.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:9 - Then he had another dream, and gave his brothers an account of it, saying, I have had another dream: the sun and the moon and eleven stars gave honour to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:20 - Let us now put him to death and put his body into one of these holes, and we will say, An evil beast has put him to death: then we will see what becomes of his dreams.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:5 - And these two had a dream on the same night; the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker of the king of Egypt, who were in prison, the two of them had dreams with a special sense.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:5 - But he went to sleep again and had a second dream, in which he saw seven heads of grain, full and good, all on one stem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:11 - And we had a dream on the same night, the two of us, and the dreams had a special sense.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:22 - And again in a dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, coming up on one stem:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:25 - Then Joseph said, These two dreams have the same sense: God has made clear to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:26 - The seven fat cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years: the two have the same sense.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:11 - We are all one man's sons, we are true men; we have not come with any secret purpose.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:13 - Then they said, We your servants are twelve brothers, sons of one man in the land of Canaan; the youngest of us is now with our father, and one is dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:16 - Send one of your number to get your brother, and the rest of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are true; if not, by the life of Pharaoh, your purpose is certainly secret.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:19 - If you are true men, let one of you be kept in prison, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:27 - Now at their night's resting-place one of them, opening his bag to give his ass some food, saw his money in the mouth of the bag.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:32 - We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is dead, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:33 - And the ruler of the land said, In this way I may be certain that you are true men; let one of you be kept here with me, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:28 - The one went away from me, and I said, Truly he has come to a violent death; and from that time I have not seen him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:22 - And I have given you more than your brothers, even Shechem as your heritage, which I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:16 - Dan will be the judge of his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:15 - And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew women who gave help at the time of childbirth (the name of the one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah),

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:31 - And the Lord did as Moses said, and took away the cloud of flies from Pharaoh and from his servants and from his people; not one was to be seen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:6 - And on the day after, the Lord did as he had said, causing the death of all the cattle of Egypt, but there was no loss of any of the cattle of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:7 - And Pharaoh sent and got word that there was no loss of any of the cattle of Israel. But the heart of Pharaoh was hard and he did not let the people go.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19 - And the Lord sent a very strong west wind, which took up the locusts, driving them into the Red Sea; not one locust was to be seen in any part of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:1 - And the Lord said to Moses, I will send one more punishment on Pharaoh and on Egypt; after that he will let you go; and when he does let you go, he will not keep one of you back, but will send you out by force.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:18 - In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day, let your food be unleavened bread till the evening of the twenty-first day of the month.

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