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Lexicon :: Strong's H5647 - ʿāḇaḏ

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עָבַד
Transliteration
ʿāḇaḏ
Pronunciation
aw-bad'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1553

Strong’s Definitions

עָבַד ʻâbad, aw-bad'; a primitive root; to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.:—× be, keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel, do, dress, ear, execute, husbandman, keep, labour(-ing man, bring to pass, (cause to, make to) serve(-ing, self), (be, become) servant(-s), do (use) service, till(-er), transgress (from margin), (set a) work, be wrought, worshipper,


KJV Translation Count — Total: 290x

The KJV translates Strong's H5647 in the following manner: serve (227x), do (15x), till (9x), servant (5x), work (5x), worshippers (5x), service (4x), dress (2x), labour (2x), ear (2x), miscellaneous (14x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 290x
The KJV translates Strong's H5647 in the following manner: serve (227x), do (15x), till (9x), servant (5x), work (5x), worshippers (5x), service (4x), dress (2x), labour (2x), ear (2x), miscellaneous (14x).
  1. to work, serve

    1. (Qal)

      1. to labour, work, do work

      2. to work for another, serve another by labour

      3. to serve as subjects

      4. to serve (God)

      5. to serve (with Levitical service)

    2. (Niphal)

      1. to be worked, be tilled (of land)

      2. to make oneself a servant

    3. (Pual) to be worked

    4. (Hiphil)

      1. to compel to labour or work, cause to labour, cause to serve

      2. to cause to serve as subjects

    5. (Hophal) to be led or enticed to serve

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עָבַד ʻâbad, aw-bad'; a primitive root; to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.:—× be, keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel, do, dress, ear, execute, husbandman, keep, labour(-ing man, bring to pass, (cause to, make to) serve(-ing, self), (be, become) servant(-s), do (use) service, till(-er), transgress (from margin), (set a) work, be wrought, worshipper,
STRONGS H5647: Abbreviations
עָבַד 290 verb work, serve (Old Aramaic עבד do make, especially Nabataean, Palmyrene (often), Lzb331 f. Cook86, so Targum עֲבַד, Syriac bdb071201 (very often); but also Old Aramaic Phoenician עבד slave, vassal (and in many proper names), Targum עַבְדָּא, Syriac bdb071202 id.; Assyrian abdu, id. (rare); Late Hebrew עָבַד serve, performs acts of worship (with accusative of congnate meaning with verb), and derivatives; Arabic bdb071203 worship, obey (God); compare WeSkizzen iii. 165; Heid. 141, II. enslave; bdb071204 slave, worshiper; Sabean עבד id. DHMSüdar. Alt. p. 18; GerberVerb. Denom. 14 ff. thinks be slave, serve (Qal) and enslave (Hiph.) are denominative, compare also NöZMG xl (1886), 741); —
Qal272 Perfect 3rd person masculine singular ע׳ Ezekiel 29:18 +; suffix עֲבָדוֺ Malachi 3:18 +; 3rd person masculine plural עָֽבְדוּ Deuteronomy 7:4; עָבָ֑דוּ Numbers 4:26, + 64 times Perfect; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יַעֲבֹד Genesis 25:23 +; suffix יַעַבְדֵ֫נִי Exodus 4:23; יַעַבְדֶ֫נּוּ Psalm 22:31; 2 Kings 10:18; 3rd person masculine plural יַעַבְדוּ Deuteronomy 12:30 +; יַעֲבֹ֑דוּ Genesis 15:14 (Dr§ 103) Job 36:11; 2nd person masculine plural תַּעַבְדוּן Exodus 3:12, תַּעֲבֹד֑וּן Joshua 24:15, + 99 times Imperfect; (תָּעָבְדֵם, נָֽעָבְדֵם see Hoph.); Imperative עֲבֹד 1 Samuel 26:19; suffix עָבְדֵהוּ 1 Chronicles 28:9; עִבְדוּ Exodus 5:18 + 15 times; עֲבֹ֑דוּ Ezekiel 20:39; suffix עִבְדֻהוּ 1 Samuel 7:3; Infinitive construct עֲבֹד Malachi 3:14 +; עֲבָדֿ Jeremiah 34:9, 10; suffix עָבְדוֺ Jeremiah 27:6 +, etc.; Participle עֹבֵד Genesis 4:2 +; plural עֹבְדִים Numbers 18:21 +; construct עֹבְדֵי Psalm 97:7 +; suffix עֹבְדָיו 2 Kings 10:19; עֹבְדֵיהֶם Zechariah 2:13; —
†1. labour, work, do work: absolute Exodus 20:9 = Exodus 34:21 = Deuteronomy 5:13 (4th word); Exodus 5:18 (E) Ecclesiastes 5:11; with accusative of thing, till the ground Genesis 2:5; Genesis 3:23; Genesis 4:2, 12 (J), 2 Samuel 9:10; Isaiah 30:24; Jeremiah 27:11; Zechariah 13:5; Proverbs 12:11; Proverbs 28:19 object omitted Deuteronomy 15:19; Ezekiel 48:19; vineyard Deuteronomy 28:39; garden Genesis 2:16 (J); עֹבְרֵי פִשְׁתִּים Isaiah 19:9 workers in flax; עֹבְדֵ(יׅ הָעִיר Ezekiel 48:18, 19 labourers of the city; עֲבֹדָתוֺ ע׳ Isaiah 28:21 work his work (only here of God, || עשׂה מַעֲשֵׂהוּ); עבדה על ע׳ Ezekiel 29:18 serve a military service against.
†2. work for another, serve him by labour: absolute Exodus 21:2 (E); with accusative pers Genesis 29:15; Genesis 31:6; Exodus 21:6 (E) Deuteronomy 15:12, 18; Malachi 3:17; Jeremiah 34:14, king his people 1 Kings 12:7; subject animals Jeremiah 27:6; Job 39:9; with accusative of person and thing Genesis 30:26 (twice in verse); Genesis 30:29 (J); with לְ person 2 Samuel 16:19; עִם Genesis 29:25, 30 (E) Leviticus 25:40 (P); עִמָּדִי Genesis 29:27 (E); לִפְנֵי 2 Samuel 16:19 (twice in verse); with בְּ of price Genesis 29:18, 20, 25; Genesis 31:41 (E) Hosea 12:13; Ezekiel 29:20; with בְּ personwork by means of another, use him as slave, Exodus 1:14; Leviticus 25:39, 46 (P) Jeremiah 22:13; Jeremiah 25:14; Jeremiah 27:7; Jeremiah 30:8; Jeremiah 34:9, 10.
3. serve as subjects: usually with accusative, their own chiefs or kings Judges 9:28 (twice in verse); Judges 9:38; 1 Samuel 11:1; 1 Kings 5:1 +; other kings, by tribute Psalm 18:44 = 2 Samuel 22:44; Jeremiah 27:7; Jeremiah 28:14; 2 Kings 25:24 +, other nations 2 Samuel 10:19; Jeremiah 40:9; Zechariah 2:13 +, kings other kings 2 Kings 18:7 +, with לְ, 1 Samuel 4:9 (twice in verse); מַס עֹבֵד Genesis 49:15 (J) Joshua 16:10; 1 Kings 9:21 (see מַס); † with בְּ person, work with, i.e. use as subjects, impose tribute upon, Jeremiah 25:14; Jeremiah 27:7; Jeremiah 30:8; Ezekiel 34:27.
4. serve God:
a. with accusative י׳, Exodus 3:12; Exodus 4:23; Exodus 7:16; Exodus 7:26 (JE), Psalm 22:31; Job 21:15; Malachi 3:14 +; with accusative of person and thing Exodus 10:26 (E); accusative of person omitted, Jeremiah 2:20 (read אֶעֱבוֺד Kt), עבד זבח ומנחה Isaiah 19:21 serve with peace-offering and grain-offering; עבד עֲבֹדָה Exodus 13:5 (of מַצֹּת).
b. other gods, with accusative א׳Deuteronomy 7:16; Deuteronomy 12:2, 30†; אלהים אחרים Deuteronomy 7:4; Deuteronomy 8:19; Deuteronomy 11:16; Deuteronomy 13:7; Deuteronomy 13:14; Deuteronomy 17:3; Deuteronomy 28:14, 36, 64; Deuteronomy 29:25; Deuteronomy 30:17; Deuteronomy 31:20; Joshua 23:16; Joshua 24:2, 16; Judges 2:10; Judges 10:13; 1 Samuel 8:8; 1 Samuel 26:19; 1 Kings 9:6, 9; 2 Kings 17:35; 2 Chronicles 7:19, 22; Jeremiah 11:10; Jeremiah 13:10; Jeremiah 16:11, 13; Jeremiah 22:9; Jeremiah 25:6; Jeremiah 35:15 (all D and Jeremiah); אֱלֹהֵי הַגּוֺיִם Deuteronomy 29:17; זָרִים Jeremiah 5:19; † כל צבא השׁמים Deuteronomy 4:19; 2 Kings 21:3; 2 Chronicles 33:3; Jeremiah 8:2; הבעל(יםׅ Judges 2:11; Judges 3:7; Judges 10:6; Judges 10:10; 1 Samuel 12:10; 1 Kings 16:31; 1 Kings 22:54; 2 Kings 10:18 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 10:19 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 10:21, 22, 23 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 17:16; † אלהי נֵכָר Joshua 24:20; Jeremiah 5:19; † (הַ)גִּלּוּלִים 2 Kings 17:12; 2 Kings 21:21 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 20:39; † האשׁרים 2 Chronicles 24:18; עצבים Psalm 106:36; † פםיל(ים) 2 Chronicles 33:22; 2 Kings 17:41; פסל 2Ki 97:7; with לְ, † לבעל Judges 2:13; † לאלהים אחרים Jeremiah 44:3.
5. serve י׳ with Levitical service (all P; compare RSSem i. 69): with accusative עבד עֲבֹדָה (see עֲבֹדָה) Numbers 3:7, 8; Numbers 4:23, 30, 47; Numbers 7:5; Numbers 8:11, 19, 22, 26; Numbers 16:9; Numbers 18:6, 21, 23; Joshua 22:27; accusative omitted Numbers 4:24, 26, 37, 41; Numbers 8:15 (but SAM Greek Version of the LXX עבדה), Numbers 8:25; Numbers 18:7.
†Niph. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular נֶעְבָּ֑ד Ecclesiastes 5:8; 2nd person masculine plural נֶעֱבַדְתֶּם Ezekiel 36:9; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יֵעָבֵד Deuteronomy 21:4; 3rd person feminine singular תֵּעָבֵד Ezekiel 36:34; —
1. be tilled, of land Deuteronomy 21:4; Ezekiel 36:9, 34.
2. Ecclesiastes 5:8 מֶלֶךְ לְשָׂדֶה נֶעְבָּ֑ד dubious: a king for (devoted to) the cultivated field (Hi); a king that maketh himself servant to the field (devoted to agriculture), Desee Commentaries, especially De.
Pual Perfect 3rd person masculine singular עֻבַּד Deuteronomy 21:3; Isaiah 14:3; passive of Qal, with בְּ impersonal Deuteronomy 21:3 of a calf with which it has not been worked; hard service with which it was worked with captives Isaiah 14:3.
Hiph. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular הֶעֱבִיד Ezekiel 29:18; 2nd person masculine singular suffix הֶעֱבַדְתַּ֫נִי Isaiah 43:24, הֶעֱבַדְתִּיךָ Isaiah 43:23, וְהַעֲבַדְתִּיךָ Jeremiah 17:4; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular וַיַּעֲבֵד 2 Chronicles 34:33; 3rd person masculine plural יַעֲבִדוּ Exodus 1:13; Infinitive construct הַעֲבִיד 2 Chronicles 2:17; Participle plural מַעֲבִדִים Exodus 6:15; —
1. compel to labour as slaves Exodus 1:13; Exodus 6:5 (P) 2 Chron 2:17, + Genesis 47:21 (reading הֶעֱבִיד לַעֲבָדִים), 2 Samuel 12:31 (reading וְהֶעֱבִיד + בְּ at; on both these see עבר Hiph. near the end); cause to serve, of army's service against, with accusative + (על)אל Ezekiel 29:18; cause to labour, weary, with בְּ of means Isaiah 43:23, 24 (perhaps play on meanings 2, 3).
2. make to serve as subjects, with 2 accusative Jeremiah 17:4, + Jeremiah 15:14 (read וְהַעֲבַרְתִּיךָ see עבר Hiph. near the end).
3. cause to serve God 2 Chronicles 34:33.
Hoph. Imperfect 2nd person masculine singular suffix תָּֽעָבְדֵם Exodus 20:5 = Deuteronomy 5:9; Exodus 23:24; 1st person plural suffix נָֽצָבְדֵם Deuteronomy 13:3 (Köi. 259 Sta§ 549 g Thes; < NesMarg. 12 f. Qal anomalously pointed (compare WAG. ed. 2, i, 62 n. FlKl. Schr. i. 98); Ges§ 60 R. 1 Dr Qal falsely pointed as Hoph.); — be led or enticed to serve other gods Exodus 20:5 = Deuteronomy 5:9; Exodus 23:24; Deuteronomy 13:8.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H5648.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:5; 2:16; 3:23; 4:2; 4:2; 4:12; 15:14; 25:23; 29:15; 29:18; 29:20; 29:25; 29:25; 29:27; 29:30; 30:26; 30:29; 31:6; 31:41; 47:21; 49:15

Exodus

1:13; 1:13; 1:14; 3:12; 3:12; 4:23; 4:23; 5:18; 5:18; 6:5; 6:15; 7:16; 10:26; 13:5; 20:5; 20:5; 20:9; 21:2; 21:6; 23:24; 23:24; 34:21

Leviticus

25:39; 25:40; 25:46

Numbers

3:7; 3:8; 4:23; 4:24; 4:26; 4:26; 4:30; 4:37; 4:41; 4:47; 7:5; 8:11; 8:15; 8:19; 8:22; 8:25; 8:26; 16:9; 18:6; 18:7; 18:21; 18:21; 18:23

Deuteronomy

4:19; 5:9; 5:9; 5:13; 7:4; 7:4; 7:16; 8:19; 11:16; 12:2; 12:30; 12:30; 13:3; 13:7; 13:8; 13:14; 15:12; 15:18; 15:19; 17:3; 21:3; 21:3; 21:4; 21:4; 28:14; 28:36; 28:39; 28:64; 29:17; 29:25; 30:17; 31:20

Joshua

16:10; 22:27; 23:16; 24:2; 24:15; 24:16; 24:20

Judges

2:10; 2:11; 2:13; 3:7; 9:28; 9:38; 10:6; 10:10; 10:13

1 Samuel

4:9; 7:3; 8:8; 11:1; 12:10; 26:19; 26:19

2 Samuel

9:10; 10:19; 12:31; 16:19; 16:19; 22:44

1 Kings

5:1; 9:6; 9:9; 9:21; 12:7; 16:31

2 Kings

10:18; 10:18; 10:19; 10:19; 10:21; 10:22; 10:23; 17:12; 17:16; 17:35; 17:41; 18:7; 21:3; 21:21; 25:24

1 Chronicles

28:9

2 Chronicles

2:17; 2:17; 7:19; 7:22; 24:18; 33:3; 33:22; 34:33; 34:33

Job

21:15; 36:11; 39:9

Psalms

18:44; 22:31; 22:31; 97:7; 106:36

Proverbs

12:11; 28:19

Ecclesiastes

5:8; 5:8; 5:11

Isaiah

14:3; 14:3; 19:9; 19:21; 28:21; 30:24; 43:23; 43:23; 43:24; 43:24

Jeremiah

2:20; 5:19; 5:19; 8:2; 11:10; 13:10; 15:14; 16:11; 16:13; 17:4; 17:4; 22:9; 22:13; 25:6; 25:14; 25:14; 27:6; 27:6; 27:7; 27:7; 27:7; 27:11; 28:14; 30:8; 30:8; 34:9; 34:9; 34:10; 34:10; 34:14; 35:15; 40:9; 44:3

Ezekiel

20:39; 20:39; 29:18; 29:18; 29:18; 29:18; 29:20; 34:27; 36:9; 36:9; 36:34; 36:34; 48:18; 48:19; 48:19

Hosea

12:13

Zechariah

2:13; 2:13; 13:5

Malachi

3:14; 3:14; 3:17; 3:18

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5647 matches the Hebrew עָבַד (ʿāḇaḏ),
which occurs 289 times in 262 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 6 (Gen 2:5–Exo 23:33)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:5 - before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:15 - Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:23 - therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:2 - Then she bore again, this time his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:12 - “When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. A fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:4 - Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:13 - Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:14 - “And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:23 - And the LORD said to her:

“Two nations are in your womb,
Two peoples shall be separated from your body;
One people shall be stronger than the other,
And the older shall serve the younger.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:29 - Let peoples serve you,
And nations bow down to you.
Be master over your brethren,
And let your mother’s sons bow down to you.
Cursed be everyone who curses you,
And blessed be those who bless you!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:40 - By your sword you shall live,
And you shall serve your brother;
And it shall come to pass, when you become restless,
That you shall break his yoke from your neck.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:15 - Then Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what should your wages be?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:18 - Now Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:20 - So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed only a few days to him because of the love he had for her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:25 - So it came to pass in the morning, that behold, it was Leah. And he said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Was it not for Rachel that I served you? Why then have you deceived me?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:27 - “Fulfill her week, and we will give you this one also for the service which you will serve with me still another seven years.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:30 - Then Jacob also went in to Rachel, and he also loved Rachel more than Leah. And he served with Laban still another seven years.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:26 - “Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service which I have done for you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:29 - So Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock has been with me.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:6 - “And you know that with all my might I have served your father.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:41 - “Thus I have been in your house twenty years; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:15 - He saw that rest was good,
And that the land was pleasant;
He bowed his shoulder to bear a burden,
And became a band of slaves.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:13 - So the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:14 - And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage—in mortar, in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. All their service in which they made them serve was with rigor.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:12 - So He said, “I will certainly be with you. And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:23 - “So I say to you, let My son go that he may serve Me. But if you refuse to let him go, indeed I will kill your son, your firstborn.” ’ ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:18 - “Therefore go now and work; for no straw shall be given you, yet you shall deliver the quota of bricks.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:5 - “And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:16 - “And you shall say to him, ‘The LORD God of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me in the wilderness”; but indeed, until now you would not hear!
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:1 - And the LORD spoke to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD: “Let My people go, that they may serve Me.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:20 - And the LORD said to Moses, “Rise early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh as he comes out to the water. Then say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD: “Let My people go, that they may serve Me.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:1 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and tell him, ‘Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews: “Let My people go, that they may serve Me.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:13 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Rise early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews: “Let My people go, that they may serve Me,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:3 - So Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may serve Me.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:7 - Then Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God. Do you not yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:8 - So Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve the LORD your God. Who are the ones that are going?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:11 - “Not so! Go now, you who are men, and serve the LORD, for that is what you desired.” And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:24 - Then Pharaoh called to Moses and said, “Go, serve the LORD; only let your flocks and your herds be kept back. Let your little ones also go with you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:26 - “Our livestock also shall go with us; not a hoof shall be left behind. For we must take some of them to serve the LORD our God, and even we do not know with what we must serve the LORD until we arrive there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:31 - Then he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise, go out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel. And go, serve the LORD as you have said.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:5 - “And it shall be, when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:5 - Now it was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled, and the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people; and they said, “Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:12 - Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:5 - you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:9 - Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:2 - “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years; and in the seventh he shall go out free and pay nothing.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:6 - “then his master shall bring him to the judges. He shall also bring him to the door, or to the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:24 - “You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works; but you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:25 - “So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:33 - “They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

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