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Lexicon :: Strong's H4714 - miṣrayim

Aa
מִצְרַיִם
Transliteration
miṣrayim
Pronunciation
mits-rah'-yim
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Part of Speech
adjective, proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1235

Strong’s Definitions

מִצְרַיִם Mitsrayim, mits-rah'-yim; dual of H4693; Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt:—Egypt, Egyptians, Mizraim.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 681x

The KJV translates Strong's H4714 in the following manner: Egypt (586x), Egyptian (90x), Mizraim (4x), Egyptians (with H1121) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 681x
The KJV translates Strong's H4714 in the following manner: Egypt (586x), Egyptian (90x), Mizraim (4x), Egyptians (with H1121) (1x).
proper locative noun

  1. Egypt = "land of the Copts"

    1. a country at the northeastern section of Africa, adjacent to Palestine, and through which the Nile flows

      adjective

  2. Egyptians = "double straits"

    1. the inhabitants or natives of Egypt

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מִצְרַיִם Mitsrayim, mits-rah'-yim; dual of H4693; Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt:—Egypt, Egyptians, Mizraim.
STRONGS H4714: Abbreviations
מִצְרַ֫יִם 681 proper name, of a territory and people, feminineExodus 10:7, masculineExodus 12:33, masculine pluralGenesis 41:55 etc. (see below 2), Egypt, Egyptians (Phoenician מצרם; Assyrian Mǔṣŭr(u), Muṣru, Miṣir, DlPar 308 SchrCOT Glossary KGF 246 ff., Tel Amarna Mišrî, WklTA 39 * BezBM 152, and Mašrî Wkll. c.; Arabic bdb059503 Cairo, Egypt (Spiro): Minean Miṣru HomA and A. (1892), 125; see EbÄgM 71 ff.; Greek Version of the LXX Αιγυπτος; — derivatives and form dubious; יִַ֯ם usually regarded as dual term. (Upper and Lower Egypt? compare DiGenesis 10:6), but as locative ending EMeyGeschichte. I, § 42 BaNB p. 319 R. 5; JenZA iv (1889), 268 ff. thinks מִצְרַיִם absolute formed by analogy of מַיִם, שָׁמַיִם from Miṣrî (compare Tel Amarna); see further Wklinfra, near the end); — מ׳ Genesis 13:1 +; מִצְרָ֑יִם Genesis 37:36 +; מִצְרַיְמָה Genesis 12:10 + 12 times, מִצְרָ֑יְמָה Genesis 12:11 + 14 times; —
1.
a. of land, Egypt Genesis 13:1 + 500 times, +, in all periods, including אֶרֶץ מ׳ Genesis 13:10 + approximately + 220 times (of course feminine, Genesis 47:6, 13); אַדְמַת מ׳ the soil of Egypt † Genesis 47:20, 26; מֵימֵי מ׳ † Exodus 7:19; Exodus 8:2; נְהַר מ׳ † Genesis 15:18; יְאֹר מ׳ † Amos 8:8; Amos 9:5; יְאֹרֵי מ׳ † Isaiah 7:18 (compare מָצוֺר); שִׁיחוֺר מ׳ † 1 Chronicles 13:5; לְשׁוֺן יָםמֿ׳ † Isaiah 11:15; נַחַל מ׳ Joshua 15:4 + 6 times (see these various words); land as productive Genesis 45:20; Genesis 49:23, compare שֵׁשׁ בְּרִקְמָה מִמּ׳ Ezekiel 27:7, אֵטוּן מ׳ Proverbs 7:16; often || בּוּשׁ, especially in prophets and poetry Isaiah 20:3, 4, 5; Isaiah 45:14; Ezekiel 30:4, 9 +; || אַשּׁוּר Hosea 11:11; Hosea 12:1; Isaiah 7:18; Jeremiah 2:18 +; including Upper Egypt (פַּתְרוֹם), as well as Lower, Jeremiah 44:1, compare Ezekiel 29:10; Ezekiel 30:6; apparently distinguished from Upper Egypt Isaiah 11:11, and possibly also Jeremiah 44:15 (compare Gf Gie Buhl SS CheHpt Isaiah); but פתרוס etc. in these verses somewhat dubious (compare B. Du Gie).
b. combinations are:
(1) מ׳ as limit of motion: מצרימ(ה)יָרַד Genesis 43:15; Joshua 24:4 + with + 12 times; מ׳ בּוֹא + with + 26 times, בְמ׳ בוא † Isaiah 19:23, לְמ׳ בוא † Jeremiah 44:218; מ׳ מ׳שׁוּב Hoshea 8:3 + 9 times, אֶל־מ׳ שׁוּב † Hoshea 11:5, שׁוּב מ׳ לְאַרְצוֹ † Jeremiah 37:7; מ׳ בָּרַח † 1 Kings 11:40; מ׳ שָׁלַח † Jeremiah 26:22; so (+אֶל־) Jeremiah 26:22. In Jeremiah 42:16b read בְּמ׳ with Gie.
(2) מ׳ as point of departure (הֶעֱלָה) מ׳ מִן־(אִרץ) עָלָה Genesis 13:1 + with + 43 times; יָצָא (הוֹצִיא) מ׳ מִן־(ארץ) Exodus 12:39 + with + 96 times; מִמּ׳ פָּדָה † 2 Samuel 7:23 (but de. Gei Urschr. 288 We Dr Kit Bu) = 1 Chronicles 17:21; מִמּ׳ בּוֹא † 2 Chronicles 12:3; 2 Chronicles 20:10; מִמּ׳ שׁוּב † Jeremiah 44:28; 2 Chronicles 10:2; מִמּ׳ אָתָה † Psalm 68:32; מִמּ׳ † קָרָא † Hoshea 11:1.
2. of people:
a. in table of nations, personified as second son of Ham † Genesis 10:6 = 1 Chronicles 1:8, compare Genesis 10:13 = 1 Chronicles 1:11.
b. = Egypt (as a people), Egyptians Genesis 41:56 + approximately + 134 times, including use = Egyptian Kingdom, empire, i.e. land and people as political power; so with verb feminine singular אָֽבְדָה מ׳ Exodus 10:7, compare Hosea 9:6; Joel 4:19 and (pronoun feminine singular) Ezekiel 30:18; with verb masculine singular Exodus 12:33; Exodus 14:25; Isaiah 19:16, 23, 25; Jeremiah 46:8; often with verb masculine plural Genesis 41:55; Isaiah 19:21, 23 + 22 times; בִּנֵי מ׳ Ezekiel 16:26; בְּתוּלַת בַּת מ׳ Jeremiah 46:11, compare Jeremiah 46:19; Jeremiah 46:24. — In 1 Kings 10:28 2 Chronicles 1:16, 17; 2 Kings 7:6 WklAlttest. Unters. 171 f. thinks of Assyrian Muṣri in North Syria. (On מִצְרַיִם as often = Muṣri in North Arabia see WklAltor. Unters. i. 24 ff., ii. 195, iii. 289; iv. 337 f; MVG 1898, 1.4).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

10:6; 10:6; 10:13; 12:10; 12:11; 13:1; 13:1; 13:1; 13:10; 15:18; 37:36; 41:55; 41:55; 41:56; 43:15; 45:20; 47:6; 47:13; 47:20; 47:26; 49:23

Exodus

7:19; 8:2; 10:7; 10:7; 12:33; 12:33; 12:39; 14:25

Joshua

15:4; 24:4

2 Samuel

7:23

1 Kings

10:28; 11:40

2 Kings

7:6

1 Chronicles

1:8; 1:11; 13:5; 17:21

2 Chronicles

1:16; 1:17; 10:2; 12:3; 20:10

Psalms

68:32

Proverbs

7:16

Isaiah

7:18; 7:18; 11:11; 11:15; 19:16; 19:21; 19:23; 19:23; 19:23; 19:25; 20:3; 20:4; 20:5; 45:14

Jeremiah

2:18; 26:22; 26:22; 37:7; 42:16; 44:1; 44:15; 44:28; 46:8; 46:11; 46:19; 46:24

Ezekiel

16:26; 27:7; 29:10; 30:4; 30:6; 30:9; 30:18

Hosea

9:6; 11:11; 12:1

Amos

8:8; 9:5

H4714

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Strong's Number H4714 matches the Hebrew מִצְרַיִם (miṣrayim),
which occurs 639 times in 573 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 10 / 12 (Jer 26:22–Eze 20:9)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:22 - And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, H4714 namely, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt. H4714

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:23 - And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, H4714 and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:32 - Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; H4714 which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:20 - Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, H4714 even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast made thee a name, as at this day;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:21 - And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt H4714 with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:13 - Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, H4714 out of the house of bondmen, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:5 - Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: H4714 and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:7 - Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt H4714 into their own land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:17 - And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt, H4714

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:14 - Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, H4714 where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:15 - And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye remnant of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, H4714 and go to sojourn there;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:16 - Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, H4714 and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; H4714 and there ye shall die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:17 - So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt H4714 to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18 - For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: H4714 and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:19 - The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go ye not into Egypt: H4714 know certainly that I have admonished you this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:2 - Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt H4714 to sojourn there:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:7 - So they came into the land of Egypt: H4714 for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:11 - And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, H4714 and deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for captivity to captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:12 - And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; H4714 and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, H4714 as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:13 - He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; H4714 and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians H4714 shall he burn with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:1 - The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, H4714 which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:8 - In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, H4714 whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12 - And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt H4714 to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; H4714 they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:13 - For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, H4714 as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:14 - So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt H4714 to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:15 - Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, H4714 in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:24 - Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the land of Egypt: H4714

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:26 - Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; H4714 Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, H4714 saying, The Lord GOD liveth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:27 - Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt H4714 shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:28 - Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt H4714 into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt H4714 to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:30 - Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt H4714 into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:2 - Against Egypt, H4714 against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, H4714 which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:8 - Egypt H4714 riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:11 - Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: H4714 in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:13 - The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt. H4714

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:14 - Declare ye in Egypt, H4714 and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:17 - They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt H4714 is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:19 - O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, H4714 furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:20 - Egypt H4714 is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:24 - The daughter of Egypt H4714 shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:25 - The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, H4714 with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:6 - We have given the hand to the Egyptians, H4714 and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:26 - Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians H4714 thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:15 - But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, H4714 that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:4 - The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt. H4714

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:5 - And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, H4714 when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:6 - In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt H4714 into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:7 - Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: H4714 I am the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:8 - But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: H4714 then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. H4714

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:9 - But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt. H4714

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