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Lexicon :: Strong's H8033 - šām

Aa
שָׁם
Transliteration
šām
Pronunciation
shawm
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Part of Speech
adverb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive particle [rather from the relative pronoun, אֲשֶׁר (H834)]; there (transferring to time) then
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2404

Strong’s Definitions

שָׁם shâm, shawm; a primitive particle (rather from the relative pronoun, H834); there (transferring to time) then; often thither, or thence:—in it, thence, there (-in, of, out), thither, whither.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x

The KJV translates Strong's H8033 in the following manner: there, therein, thither, whither, in it, thence, thereout.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x
The KJV translates Strong's H8033 in the following manner: there, therein, thither, whither, in it, thence, thereout.

  1. there, thither

    1. there

    2. thither (after verbs of motion)

    3. from there, thence

    4. then (as an adverb of time)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׁם shâm, shawm; a primitive particle (rather from the relative pronoun, H834); there (transferring to time) then; often thither, or thence:—in it, thence, there (-in, of, out), thither, whither.
STRONGS H8033: Abbreviations
שָׁם adverb there, thither (Arabic bdb102701 there, compare bdb102702 then; Biblical Aramaic תַּמָּה, Egyptian Aramaic תמה S-CPap. A 4, J 6, Targum תַּמָּן (with demonstrative n, compare אֱדַיִן beside אֲזַי), Syriac bdb102703; ZenjHad. 8 (Cooke159) שם); —
1.
a. there Genesis 2:8, Genesis 2:12; Genesis 11:2, Genesis 11:7, Genesis 11:31 + often; placed early in sentence for emphasis, Micah 4:10 שָׁם תִּנָּצֵ֑לִי, Nahum 3:15; Ezekiel 32:22, Ezekiel 32:24; Psalm 104:26 +, וְשָׁם ֗֗֗ Genesis 41:12; Exodus 15:27; Numbers 13:22, Numbers 13:33 +, שָׁם ֗֗֗ וְשָׁם Exodus 15:25; Deuteronomy 12:14; Isaiah 27:10; Job 3:17 +, וְהִנֵּה שָׁם ֗֗֗ Genesis 29:2, כִּי שָׁם ֗֗֗ Genesis 11:9; Genesis 21:31; Genesis 35:7; 2 Samuel 1:21; 2 Samuel 15:21 +, אַךְ שָׁם ֗֗֗ Isaiah 34:14, Isaiah 34:15, גַּם שָׁם ֗֗֗ Isaiah 23:12; Isaiah 57:7; Psalm 139:10; resuming a preceding 'where,' Job 39:30 בַּאֲשֶׁר חֲלָלִים שָׁם הוּא, Judges 5:27; Jeremiah 22:12; Ecclesiastes 11:3, compare Ecclesiastes 1:7. Repeated, שָׁם ֗֗֗ שָׁם here... there Isaiah 28:10, Isaiah 28:13. In poetry, pointing to a spot in which a scene is localized vividly in the imagination, Psalm 14:5 שׁם פחדו פחד there feared they a fear! Psalm 36:13 [Psalm 36:12], compare Psalm 48:7 [Psalm 48:6]; Psalm 66:6; Psalm 132:17; Hosea 6:7; Zephaniah 1:14. — Habakkuk 3:4 read probably (We Now) שָׂם the flashes at his side made he the hiding of his power; Ecclesiastes 3:17 שָׁם = with God, in the Divine plan or scheme: but read perhaps שָׂם Hi De and others
b. preceded by the rel., אֲשֶׁר שָׁם where, Genesis 2:11; Exodus 20:21; 1 Samuel 9:10 +, usually with one or more words between, Genesis 13:3, Genesis 13:14; Genesis 19:27; Exodus 29:42; 2 Samuel 11:16; 2 Kings 23:27 + often; after בַּאֲשֶׁר, בַּאֲשֶׁר הוּא שָׁם Genesis 21:17. With אשׁר omitted (the relative being indicated by construct, Ges§ 130 c, d) Ezekiel 39:11 מְקוֺם שָׁם קֶבֶר בְּיִשְׂר׳ a place where a grave (may be) in Israel, but Greek Version of the LXX Targum Co Or and others read שֵׁם a place of renown.
2. thither, after verbs of motion ( = שָׁ֫מָּה, see 3), H8033Deuteronomy 1:37 לֹא תָבאֹ שָׁם, Judges 19:15; Judges 21:10; 1 Samuel 2:14; 1 Samuel 9:6 and elsewhere; אֲשֶׁר ֗֗֗ שָׁם whither, 1 Kings 18:10; 1 Kings 21:18; 2 Kings 1:4,2 Kings 1:6, 2 Kings 1:16; Isaiah 20:6, more often in Jeremiah, Ezekiel, as Jeremiah 8:3; Jeremiah 22:27; Jeremiah 23:3,Jeremiah 23:8; Jeremiah 45:5 +, Ezekiel 4:13; Ezekiel 12:16; Ezekiel 36:20, Ezekiel 36:22 +; so שֶׁשָּׁם Psalm 122:4.
3. with ה locative, שָׁ֫מָּה (shắmmāh):
a. after verbs of motion, thither, Genesis 19:20 לָנוּס שָׁ֫מָּה to flee thither, Genesis 19:22; Genesis 20:13; Genesis 24:6; Genesis 29:3; Deuteronomy 1:38 + often; = into it, therein (of a basket, pit, etc.), Exodus 16:33 וְתֶןשָֿׁ֫מָּה מְלֹא הָעֹמֶר, Exodus 21:33 וְנָפַל שָׁמָּה, Exodus 30:18; Judges 8:25; 2 Kings 12:10; pregnantly, after a verb implying motion, as to bury, Genesis 23:13 וְאֶקְבְּרָה אֶתמֵֿתִי שָׁ֫מָּה, Genesis 25:10; Genesis 49:31; Genesis 50:5 (all P), נוֺעַד to meet Exodus 29:42, Exodus 29:43; Exodus 30:6, Exodus 30:36; Numbers 17:19 [Numbers 17:4] (all P), Joshua 2:16; Joshua 7:3; Jeremiah 13:7; Joel 4:7 [Joel 3:7], perhaps Songs 8:5 (? c).
b. אֲשֶׁר ֗֗֗ שָׁ֫מָּה whither Genesis 20:13; Numbers 33:54; Deuteronomy 4:5 ,Deuteronomy 4:14 + often; where 2 Kings 23:8; 1 Chronicles 4:41.
c. more rarely, i. q. שָׁם there, Genesis 43:30 וַיֵּבְךְ שָׁ֫מָּה, Joshua 2:1; Judges 16:27; 2 Kings 4:11; 2 Kings 9:16; Hosea 2:17 [Hosea 2:15]; Isaiah 22:18; Isaiah 34:15; Isaiah 65:9; Jeremiah 18:2; Jeremiah 27:22; Ezekiel 23:3; Ezekiel 32:29, Ezekiel 32:30 (Ezekiel 32:22; Ezekiel 32:24; Ezekiel 32:26 שָׁם), [H3074 Ezekiel 48:35] שָׁ֫מָּה י׳, Psalm 76:4 [Psalm 76:3]; Psalm 122:5; Ecclesiastes 3:16.
4. מִשָּׁם from there, thence:
a. often after verbs of departing, taking, etc., Genesis 2:10; Genesis 11:8, Genesis 11:9; Genesis 12:8; Genesis 18:16; Genesis 24:7; Genesis 42:2, etc., Numbers 13:23; Numbers 21:12; Numbers 22:41 וַיַּרְא מִשָּׁם, Deuteronomy 4:29 וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם, Deuteronomy 30:4; Jeremiah 37:12; Hosea 2:17 [Hosea 2:15]; Amos 9:2, Amos 9:3, Amos 9:4; Job 39:29 +. Peculiarly, Genesis 49:24 מִשָּׁם רֹעֶה אֶבֶן יִשְׂר׳ Ges De RVm from there [from heaven], (from) the Shepherd (י׳), the Stone (Rock) of Israel, Ew Di Sta from there (where is) the Shepherd of (רֹעֵה) the (Bethel-)stone of Israel; but both forced: text dubious; Gunk by the name (מִשֵּׁם; so Syriac Version) of the Shepherd, etc. (as Ew Di).
b. אֲשֶׁר ֗֗֗ מִשָּׁם whence Genesis 24:5; Numbers 23:13 +.
c. expressing origin, Genesis 3:23 the ground אֲשֶׁר לֻקַּח מִשָּׁם, Genesis 10:14 whence (= from whom) came forth the Philistines, Judges 19:18 מִשָּׁם אָנֹכִי, 1 Samuel 10:12 אִישׁ מִשָּׁם, Isaiah 65:20.
d. of the mass, from which something is taken or made, Genesis 27:9; Genesis 30:32 (of צאֹן), Leviticus 2:2 וְקָמַץ מִשָּׁם זגו׳ (from the meal, etc., of a מנחה), 1 Kings 17:13 אַךְ עֲשִׁי לִי מִשָּׁם עֻגָה קְטַנָּה i.e. from the meal and oil, 2 Kings 7:2, 2 Kings 7:19 וּמִשָּׁם לֹא תאֵֹֽֽֽכל׃, Ezekiel 5:3.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H8536.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:8; 2:10; 2:11; 2:12; 3:23; 10:14; 11:2; 11:7; 11:8; 11:9; 11:9; 11:31; 12:8; 13:3; 13:14; 18:16; 19:20; 19:22; 19:27; 20:13; 20:13; 21:17; 21:31; 23:13; 24:5; 24:6; 24:7; 25:10; 27:9; 29:2; 29:3; 30:32; 35:7; 41:12; 42:2; 43:30; 49:24; 49:31; 50:5

Exodus

15:25; 15:27; 16:33; 20:21; 21:33; 29:42; 29:42; 29:43; 30:6; 30:18; 30:36

Leviticus

2:2

Numbers

13:22; 13:23; 13:33; 17:4; 21:12; 22:41; 23:13; 33:54

Deuteronomy

1:37; 1:38; 4:5; 4:14; 4:29; 12:14; 30:4

Joshua

2:1; 2:16; 7:3

Judges

5:27; 8:25; 16:27; 19:15; 19:18; 21:10

1 Samuel

2:14; 9:6; 9:10; 10:12

2 Samuel

1:21; 11:16; 15:21

1 Kings

17:13; 18:10; 21:18

2 Kings

1:4; 1:6; 1:16; 4:11; 7:2; 7:19; 9:16; 12:10; 23:8; 23:27

1 Chronicles

4:41

Job

3:17; 39:29; 39:30

Psalms

14:5; 36:12; 48:6; 66:6; 76:3; 104:26; 122:4; 122:5; 132:17; 139:10

Ecclesiastes

1:7; 3:16; 3:17; 11:3

Song of Songs

8:5

Isaiah

20:6; 22:18; 23:12; 27:10; 28:10; 28:13; 34:14; 34:15; 34:15; 57:7; 65:9; 65:20

Jeremiah

8:3; 13:7; 18:2; 22:12; 22:27; 23:3; 23:8; 27:22; 37:12; 45:5

Ezekiel

4:13; 5:3; 12:16; 23:3; 32:22; 32:22; 32:24; 32:24; 32:26; 32:29; 32:30; 36:20; 36:22; 39:11

Hosea

2:15; 2:15; 2:17; 6:7

Joel

3:7

Amos

9:2; 9:3; 9:4

Micah

4:10

Nahum

3:15

Habakkuk

3:4

Zephaniah

1:14

H8033

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8033 matches the Hebrew שָׁם (šām),
which occurs 835 times in 732 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 15 (Gen 28:2–Exo 21:13)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:2 - Instead, go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your grandfather Bethuel, and marry one of your uncle Laban’s daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:6 - Esau knew that his father, Isaac, had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to find a wife, and that he had warned Jacob, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:11 - At sundown he arrived at a good place to set up camp and stopped there for the night. Jacob found a stone to rest his head against and lay down to sleep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2 - He saw a well in the distance. Three flocks of sheep and goats lay in an open field beside it, waiting to be watered. But a heavy stone covered the mouth of the well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:3 - It was the custom there to wait for all the flocks to arrive before removing the stone and watering the animals. Afterward the stone would be placed back over the mouth of the well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:32 - Let me inspect your flocks today and remove all the sheep and goats that are speckled or spotted, along with all the black sheep. Give these to me as my wages.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:13 - I am the God who appeared to you at Bethel,[fn] the place where you anointed the pillar of stone and made your vow to me. Now get ready and leave this country and return to the land of your birth.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:46

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:46 - Then he told his family members, “Gather some stones.” So they gathered stones and piled them in a heap. Then Jacob and Laban sat down beside the pile of stones to eat a covenant meal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:13 - Jacob stayed where he was for the night. Then he selected these gifts from his possessions to present to his brother, Esau:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:29 - “Please tell me your name,” Jacob said.
“Why do you want to know my name?” the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:19 - Jacob bought the plot of land where he camped from the family of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for 100 pieces of silver.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:20 - And there he built an altar and named it El-Elohe-Israel.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:1 - Then God said to Jacob, “Get ready and move to Bethel and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother, Esau.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:3 - We are now going to Bethel, where I will build an altar to the God who answered my prayers when I was in distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:7 - Jacob built an altar there and named the place El-bethel (which means “God of Bethel”), because God had appeared to him there when he was fleeing from his brother, Esau.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:15 - And Jacob named the place Bethel (which means “house of God”), because God had spoken to him there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:27 - So Jacob returned to his father, Isaac, in Mamre, which is near Kiriath-arba (now called Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had both lived as foreigners.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:2 - There he saw a Canaanite woman, the daughter of Shua, and he married her. When he slept with her,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:1 - When Joseph was taken to Egypt by the Ishmaelite traders, he was purchased by Potiphar, an Egyptian officer. Potiphar was captain of the guard for Pharaoh, the king of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:11 - One day, however, no one else was around when he went in to do his work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:20 - So he took Joseph and threw him into the prison where the king’s prisoners were held, and there he remained.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:22 - Before long, the warden put Joseph in charge of all the other prisoners and over everything that happened in the prison.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:3 - and he put them in the prison where Joseph was, in the palace of the captain of the guard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:12 - There was a young Hebrew man with us in the prison who was a slave of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams, and he told us what each of our dreams meant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:2 - I have heard there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy enough grain to keep us alive. Otherwise we’ll die.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:26 - So the brothers loaded their donkeys with the grain and headed for home.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:25 - They were told they would be eating there, so they prepared their gifts for Joseph’s arrival at noon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:30 - Then Joseph hurried from the room because he was overcome with emotion for his brother. He went into his private room, where he broke down and wept.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:14 - Joseph was still in his palace when Judah and his brothers arrived, and they fell to the ground before him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:11 - I will take care of you there, for there are still five years of famine ahead of us. Otherwise you, your household, and all your animals will starve.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:3 - “I am God,[fn] the God of your father,” the voice said. “Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make your family into a great nation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:7 - “Long ago, as I was returning from Paddan-aram, Rachel died in the land of Canaan. We were still on the way, some distance from Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). So with great sorrow I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:24 - But his bow remained taut,
and his arms were strengthened
by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob,
by the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:31 - There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried. There Isaac and his wife, Rebekah, are buried. And there I buried Leah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:5 - Tell him that my father made me swear an oath. He said to me, ‘Listen, I am about to die. Take my body back to the land of Canaan, and bury me in the tomb I prepared for myself.’ So please allow me to go and bury my father. After his burial, I will return without delay.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:10 - When they arrived at the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan River, they held a very great and solemn memorial service, with a seven-day period of mourning for Joseph’s father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:22 - But this time I will spare the region of Goshen, where my people live. No flies will be found there. Then you will know that I am the LORD and that I am present even in the heart of your land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:26 - The only place without hail was the region of Goshen, where the people of Israel lived.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:26 - All our livestock must go with us, too; not a hoof can be left behind. We must choose our sacrifices for the LORD our God from among these animals. And we won’t know how we are to worship the LORD until we get there.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:13 - But the blood on your doorposts will serve as a sign, marking the houses where you are staying. When I see the blood, I will pass over you. This plague of death will not touch you when I strike the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:30 - Pharaoh and all his officials and all the people of Egypt woke up during the night, and loud wailing was heard throughout the land of Egypt. There was not a single house where someone had not died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:25 - So Moses cried out to the LORD for help, and the LORD showed him a piece of wood. Moses threw it into the water, and this made the water good to drink.
It was there at Marah that the LORD set before them the following decree as a standard to test their faithfulness to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:27 - After leaving Marah, the Israelites traveled on to the oasis of Elim, where they found twelve springs and seventy palm trees. They camped there beside the water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:33 - Moses said to Aaron, “Get a jar and fill it with two quarts of manna. Then put it in a sacred place before the LORD to preserve it for all future generations.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:3 - But tormented by thirst, they continued to argue with Moses. “Why did you bring us out of Egypt? Are you trying to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:6 - I will stand before you on the rock at Mount Sinai.[fn] Strike the rock, and water will come gushing out. Then the people will be able to drink.” So Moses struck the rock as he was told, and water gushed out as the elders looked on.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:5 - Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, now came to visit Moses in the wilderness. He brought Moses’ wife and two sons with him, and they arrived while Moses and the people were camped near the mountain of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:2 - After breaking camp at Rephidim, they came to the wilderness of Sinai and set up camp there at the base of Mount Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:21 - As the people stood in the distance, Moses approached the dark cloud where God was.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:13 - But if it was simply an accident permitted by God, I will appoint a place of refuge where the slayer can run for safety.

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