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Lexicon :: Strong's H2351 - ḥûṣ

Aa
חוּץ
Transliteration
ḥûṣ
Pronunciation
khoots
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
(both forms fem. in the pl.) from an unused root meaning to sever
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 627a

Strong’s Definitions

חוּץ chûwts, khoots; or (shortened) חֻץ chuts; (both forms feminine in the plural) from an unused root meaning to sever; properly, separate by a wall, i.e. outside, outdoors:—abroad, field, forth, highway, more, out(-side, -ward), street, without.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 164x

The KJV translates Strong's H2351 in the following manner: without (70x), street (44x), abroad (21x), out (17x), outside (2x), fields (2x), forth (2x), highways (1x), Kirjathhuzoth (with H7155) (1x), more (1x), out of (1x), outward (1x), utter (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 164x
The KJV translates Strong's H2351 in the following manner: without (70x), street (44x), abroad (21x), out (17x), outside (2x), fields (2x), forth (2x), highways (1x), Kirjathhuzoth (with H7155) (1x), more (1x), out of (1x), outward (1x), utter (1x).

  1. outside, outward, street, the outside

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חוּץ chûwts, khoots; or (shortened) חֻץ chuts; (both forms feminine in the plural) from an unused root meaning to sever; properly, separate by a wall, i.e. outside, outdoors:—abroad, field, forth, highway, more, out(-side, -ward), street, without.
STRONGS H2351: Abbreviations
חוּץ noun [masculine] the outside, sometimes, especially in plural, specifically a street, never with suffix in singular, with ָ  ה locative ח֫וּצָה, חֻ֫צָה, plural חוּצוֺת, חֻצוֺת, with suffix חוּצֹתָיו etc., Isaiah 15:3 etc.; —
1. the outside, of a house, tent, city, camp, etc., often used, especially with prepositions, to express the adverb idea of outside, abroad (Aramaic synonym, except in sense 2a, is בַּר, rfb):
a. as accusative after verb of motion Deuteronomy 23:13 יָצָא חוּץ to go forth outside (that is, a camp), Deuteronomy 23:14 (as adverb accusative) בְּשִׁבְתְּךָ חוּץ outside, הוֺצִיא הַחוּץ to bring forth outside (a house or chamber) Judges 19:25; 2 Samuel 13:18 compare Nehemiah 13:8; Judges 12:9b בָּנוֺת הֵבִיא לְבָנָיו מִןהַֿחוּץ from outside, from abroad, 2 Kings 4:3 שַׁאֲלִילָֿךְ כֵּלִים מִןהַֿחוּץ from outside (opposed to בַּבַּיִת 2 Kings 4:2); as genitive Leviticus 18:9 מוֺלֶדֶת חוּץ one born abroad (i.e. by another father or mother, of a half-sister: opposed to מוֺלֶדֶת בַּיִת) Ezekiel 47:2 (twice in verse). With ָ  ה locative חוּצָה, after a verb of motion Exodus 12:46 מִןהַֿבַּיִת ֗֗֗ חוּצָה, Proverbs 5:16; 2 Chronicles 29:16, 33:15 חוּצָה לָעִיר outside of the city, Numbers 35:4 מִקִּיר הָעִיר וָחוּצָה from the wall of the city and outwards; = on the outside, without 1 Kings 6:6; Isaiah 33:7 צָֽעֲקוּ חוּצָה cry without, 2 Chronicles 24:8: so הַחוּצָה Genesis 15:5 וַיּוֺצֵא אֹתוֺ הח׳ and brought him outside, Genesis 19:17; Genesis 24:29; Joshua 2:19 +, 1 Kings 8:8 לֹא יֵרָאוּ הַחוּצָה were not seen towards the outside, Deuteronomy 25:5 לֹא תִהְיֶה אֵשֶׁת הַמֵּת הַחוּצָה לְאִישׁ זָר i.e. shall not be married into another family, compare Judges 12:9a.
b. with prepositions:
a. † אלהֿחוץ towards the outside Ezekiel 41:9, † Ezekiel 34:21 pleonastic אלהֿחוצה.
b. בחוץ Genesis 9:22 outside (opposed to בְּתוֺךְ אָהֳלֹה Genesis 9:21), Genesis 24:31 לָמָּה תַעֲמֹד בַּחוץ, Deuteronomy 24:11; Exodus 21:19 אם יקום והתהלך בחוץ (after leaving a sick couch), 2 Kings 10:24; Psalm 31:12; Ezekiel 7:15 (opposed to מִבַּיִת), Hosea 7:1 +.
c. † לחוץ Psalm 41:7 יצא לחוץ; = on the outside Ezekiel 41:17; Ezekiel 42:7, לַחוּצָה 2 Chronicles 32:5 towards the outside.
d. מִחוּץ on (מִן 3c) the outside Ezekiel 40:19; Ezekiel 46:2, מִבַיִת וּמִחוּץ within and without (of an ark, building, etc.) Genesis 6:14; Exodus 25:11 = Exodus 37:2; 1 Kings 7:9; Deuteronomy 32:25 מחוץ תְּשַׁכֶּלחֶֿרֶב (opposed to יּמֵחֲדָרִים אֵימָה), Lamentations 1:20 (compare Ezekiel 7:15 above b); so מֵהַחוּץ † Ezekiel 41:25. מִחוּץ לְ on the outside of, Genesis 19:16 וַיַּנִּיחֵהוּ מִחוּץ לָעִיר, Genesis 24:11; Exodus 26:35; Exodus 37:7 (twice in verse); Leviticus 8:17; Leviticus 14:8; Numbers 35:5; Joshua 6:23; Jeremiah 21:4 +, even after a verb of motion 1 Kings 21:13 וַיּוֺצִיאוּהוּ מִחוּץ לְעִיר, 2 Kings 23:6, though in this case אל מחוץל is more common, Leviticus 4:12, 21 אל מחוץ למחנה, Leviticus 6:4; Leviticus 10:4; Leviticus 14:40, 41 + often P, Deuteronomy 23:11.
e. † מִחוּצָה Ezekiel 40:40 on the outside, מִחוּצָה לְ Ezekiel 40:44.
f. (late) † חוּץ מִן outside of, Ecclesiastes 2:25 who can eat, and who enjoy, חוּץ מִמֶּנִּיִ outside of me, i.e. except me? (but read rather, with Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version De Now and others, חוּץ מִמֶּנּוּ apart from, without him, i.e. God). (So Late Hebrew חוּץ מִן except, without, see DeEcclesiastes 2:25. compare The Aramaic synonym בַּר מִן except Exodus 20:3 Targum; apart from, without Isaiah 36:10 Targum; Syriac Nem rfbl id.)
2. Of a definite locality, namely
a. that which is outside the houses of a town, i.e. a street Isaiah 51:23 כַּחוּץ לַעֹבְרִים, Jeremiah 37:21 חוּץ הָאֹפִים the Bakers' street, Proverbs 1:20 כַּחוּץ, (|| כָּֽרְחֹבוֺת : so Proverbs 7:12; Proverbs 22:13; Jeremiah 9:20); often in plural, as חוּצֹת אַשְׁקְלוֹן the streets of Ashkelon 2 Samuel 1:20, ירושׁלם ח׳ Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 7:17, 34 — Jeremiah; 1 Kings 20:34 וְחֻצוֺת תָּשִׂיםלְֿךָ בְּדַמֶּשֶׂק and streets (i.e. bazaars) shalt thou make thee in D., as my father made in Samaria (a concession involving the right of trading), Amos 5:16; Isaiah 15:3; Isaiah 24:11 (as scene of mourning), Isaiah 5:25; Jeremiah 51:4; Ezekiel 11:6; Ezekiel 28:23 (as filled with corpses of slain), בְּראֹשׁ כָּלחֿוּצוֺת i.e. in conspicuous places, Nahum 3:10; Lamentations 2:19; Lamentations 4:1; Isaiah 51:20, טִיט חוּצוֺת mire of streets Zechariah 10:5 (trampled on by warriors), in simile, of foes trodden under foot, Psalm 18:43; Micah 7:10 (so כְּחֹמֶר ח׳ Isaiah 10:6), metaphor of cheapness and abundance Zechariah 9:3.
b. more generally, that which is outside enclosed cities, the open country, Job 18:17 וְלאֹ עַל־פְּנֵי־חוּץ לוֹ שֵׁם (see De), compare Proverbs 24:27; in the plural Job 5:10 חוּצוֺת פְּנֵי עַל מַיִם וְשֹׁלֵח, Proverbs 8:26; Psalm 144:13 (as place where flocks abound).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

6:14; 9:21; 9:22; 15:5; 19:16; 19:17; 24:11; 24:29; 24:31

Exodus

12:46; 20:3; 21:19; 25:11; 26:35; 37:2; 37:7

Leviticus

4:12; 4:21; 6:4; 8:17; 10:4; 14:8; 14:40; 14:41; 18:9

Numbers

35:4; 35:5

Deuteronomy

23:11; 23:13; 23:14; 24:11; 25:5; 32:25

Joshua

2:19; 6:23

Judges

12:9; 12:9; 19:25

2 Samuel

1:20; 13:18

1 Kings

6:6; 7:9; 8:8; 20:34; 21:13

2 Kings

4:2; 4:3; 10:24; 23:6

2 Chronicles

24:8; 29:16; 32:5; 33:15

Nehemiah

13:8

Job

5:10; 18:17

Psalms

18:43; 31:12; 41:7; 144:13

Proverbs

1:20; 5:16; 7:12; 8:26; 22:13; 24:27

Ecclesiastes

2:25; 2:25

Isaiah

5:25; 10:6; 15:3; 15:3; 24:11; 33:7; 36:10; 51:20; 51:23

Jeremiah

5:1; 7:17; 7:34; 9:20; 21:4; 37:21; 51:4

Lamentations

1:20; 2:19; 4:1

Ezekiel

7:15; 7:15; 11:6; 28:23; 34:21; 40:19; 40:40; 40:44; 41:9; 41:17; 41:25; 42:7; 46:2; 47:2

Hosea

7:1

Amos

5:16

Micah

7:10

Nahum

3:10

Zechariah

9:3; 10:5

H2351

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Strong's Number H2351 matches the Hebrew חוּץ (ḥûṣ),
which occurs 164 times in 158 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 4 (Num 31:19–Pro 24:27)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:19 - And all of you who have killed anyone or touched a dead body must stay outside the camp for seven days. You must purify yourselves and your captives on the third and seventh days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:4 - The pastureland assigned to the Levites around these towns will extend 1,500 feet[fn] from the town walls in every direction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:5 - Measure off 3,000 feet[fn] outside the town walls in every direction—east, south, west, north—with the town at the center. This area will serve as the larger pastureland for the towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:27 - and the avenger finds him outside the city and kills him, it will not be considered murder.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:10 - “Any man who becomes ceremonially defiled because of a nocturnal emission must leave the camp and stay away all day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:12 - “You must have a designated area outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:13 - Each of you must have a spade as part of your equipment. Whenever you relieve yourself, dig a hole with the spade and cover the excrement.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:11 - You must wait outside while he goes in and brings it out to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:5 - “If two brothers are living together on the same property and one of them dies without a son, his widow may not be married to anyone from outside the family. Instead, her husband’s brother should marry her and have intercourse with her to fulfill the duties of a brother-in-law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:25 - Outside, the sword will bring death,
and inside, terror will strike
both young men and young women,
both infants and the aged.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:19 - If they go out into the street and are killed, it will not be our fault. But if anyone lays a hand on people inside this house, we will accept the responsibility for their death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:23 - The men who had been spies went in and brought out Rahab, her father, mother, brothers, and all the other relatives who were with her. They moved her whole family to a safe place near the camp of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:9 - He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He sent his daughters to marry men outside his clan, and he brought in thirty young women from outside his clan to marry his sons. Ibzan judged Israel for seven years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:25 - But they wouldn’t listen to him. So the Levite took hold of his concubine and pushed her out the door. The men of the town abused her all night, taking turns raping her until morning. Finally, at dawn they let her go.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:26 - At daybreak the next morning, Samuel called to Saul, “Get up! It’s time you were on your way.” So Saul got ready, and he and Samuel left the house together.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:20 - Don’t announce the news in Gath,
don’t proclaim it in the streets of Ashkelon,
or the daughters of the Philistines will rejoice
and the pagans will laugh in triumph.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:17 - He shouted for his servant and demanded, “Throw this woman out, and lock the door behind her!”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:18 - So the servant put her out and locked the door behind her. She was wearing a long, beautiful robe,[fn] as was the custom in those days for the king’s virgin daughters.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:43 - I ground them as fine as the dust of the earth;
I trampled them[fn] in the gutter like dirt.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:6 - The complex was three stories high, the bottom floor being 7½ feet wide, the second floor 9 feet wide, and the top floor 10½ feet wide.[fn] The rooms were connected to the walls of the Temple by beams resting on ledges built out from the wall. So the beams were not inserted into the walls themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:9 - From foundation to eaves, all these buildings were built from huge blocks of high-quality stone, cut with saws and trimmed to exact measure on all sides.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:8 - These poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Temple’s main room—the Holy Place—but not from the outside. They are still there to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:34 - Ben-hadad told him, “I will give back the towns my father took from your father, and you may establish places of trade in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.”
Then Ahab said, “I will release you under these conditions.” So they made a new treaty, and Ben-hadad was set free.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:13 - Then the two scoundrels came and sat down across from him. And they accused Naboth before all the people, saying, “He cursed God and the king.” So he was dragged outside the town and stoned to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:3 - And Elisha said, “Borrow as many empty jars as you can from your friends and neighbors.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:24 - So they were all inside the temple to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty of his men outside the building and had warned them, “If you let anyone escape, you will pay for it with your own life.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:4 - Then the king instructed Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second rank and the Temple gatekeepers to remove from the LORD’s Temple all the articles that were used to worship Baal, Asherah, and all the powers of the heavens. The king had all these things burned outside Jerusalem on the terraces of the Kidron Valley, and he carried the ashes away to Bethel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:6 - The king removed the Asherah pole from the LORD’s Temple and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it. Then he ground the ashes of the pole to dust and threw the dust over the graves of the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:9 - These poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Temple’s main room—the Holy Place[fn]—but not from the outside. They are still there to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:8 - So now the king ordered a chest to be made and set outside the gate leading to the Temple of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:16 - The priests went into the sanctuary of the Temple of the LORD to cleanse it, and they took out to the Temple courtyard all the defiled things they found. From there the Levites carted it all out to the Kidron Valley.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:3 - he consulted with his officials and military advisers, and they decided to stop the flow of the springs outside the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:5 - Then Hezekiah worked hard at repairing all the broken sections of the wall, erecting towers, and constructing a second wall outside the first. He also reinforced the supporting terraces[fn] in the City of David and manufactured large numbers of weapons and shields.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:15 - Manasseh also removed the foreign gods and the idol from the LORD’s Temple. He tore down all the altars he had built on the hill where the Temple stood and all the altars that were in Jerusalem, and he dumped them outside the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:13 - Then they added, “This isn’t something that can be done in a day or two, for many of us are involved in this extremely sinful affair. And this is the rainy season, so we cannot stay out here much longer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:8 - I became very upset and threw all of Tobiah’s belongings out of the room.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:20 - The merchants and tradesmen with a variety of wares camped outside Jerusalem once or twice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:10 - He gives rain for the earth
and water for the fields.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:17 - All memory of their existence will fade from the earth,
no one will remember their names.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:32 - I have never turned away a stranger
but have opened my doors to everyone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:42 - I ground them as fine as dust in the wind.
I swept them into the gutter like dirt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:11 - I am scorned by all my enemies
and despised by my neighbors—
even my friends are afraid to come near me.
When they see me on the street,
they run the other way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:6 - They visit me as if they were my friends,
but all the while they gather gossip,
and when they leave, they spread it everywhere.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:13 - May our barns be filled
with crops of every kind.
May the flocks in our fields multiply by the thousands,
even tens of thousands,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:20 - Wisdom shouts in the streets.
She cries out in the public square.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:16 - Why spill the water of your springs in the streets,
having sex with just anyone?[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:12 - She is often in the streets and markets,
soliciting at every corner.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:26 - before he had made the earth and fields
and the first handfuls of soil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:13 - The lazy person claims, “There’s a lion out there!
If I go outside, I might be killed!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:27 - Do your planning and prepare your fields
before building your house.

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