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H0977בָּחַרba.char
to choosePart of speech: Hebrew Verb
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It is to be cooked and taken as food in the place marked out by the Lord: and in the morning you are to go back to your tents.
יִבְחַ֛ר yiv.Char “he will choose”
Then you are to be glad before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is with you, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are livi
יִבְחַר֙ yiv.Char “he will choose”
Keep the feast to the Lord your God for seven days, in the place marked out by the Lord: because the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all the produce of your land and all the work of your hands, and you will have nothing but joy.
יִבְחַ֣ר yiv.Char “he will choose”
Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord your God in the place named by him; at the feast of unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, and the feast of tents: and they are not to come before the Lord with nothing in their hands;
יִבְחָ֔ר yiv.Char “he will choose”
If you are not able to give a decision as to who is responsible for a death, or who is right in a cause, or who gave the first blow in a fight, and there is a division of opinion about it in your town: then go to the place marked out by the Lord your God
יִבְחַ֛ר yiv.Char “he will choose”
And you are to be guided by the decision they give in the place named by the Lord, and do whatever they say:
יִבְחַ֣ר yiv.Char “he will choose”
Then see that you take as your king the man named by the Lord your God: let your king be one of your countrymen, not a man of another nation who is not one of yourselves.
יִבְחַ֛ר yiv.Char “he will choose”
For he, and his sons after him for ever, have been marked out by the Lord your God from all your tribes, to do the work of priests in the name of the Lord.
בָּחַ֛ר ba.Char “he has chosen”
And if a Levite, moved by a strong desire, comes from any town in all Israel where he is living to the place marked out by the Lord;
יִבְחַ֥ר yiv.Char “he will choose”
Then the priests, the sons of Levi, are to come near; for they have been marked out by the Lord your God to be his servants and to give blessings in the name of the Lord; and by their decision every argument and every blow is to be judged:
בָּחַ֞ר ba.Char “he has chosen”
Let him go on living among you in whatever place is most pleasing to him: do not be hard on him.
יִבְחַ֛ר yiv.Char “he will choose”
You are to take a part of the first-fruits of the earth, which you get from the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and put it in a basket, and go to the place marked out by the Lord your God, as the resting-place of his name.
יִבְחַר֙ yiv.Char “he will choose”
Let heaven and earth be my witnesses against you this day that I have put before you life and death, a blessing and a curse: so take life for yourselves and for your seed:
וּבָֽחַרְתָּ֙ (בָֽחַרְתָּ֙) va.char.Ta “you will choose”
When all Israel has come before the Lord your God in the place named by him, let a reading be given of this law in the hearing of all Israel.
יִבְחָ֑ר yiv.Char “he will choose”
So Joshua and the fighting-men got ready to go up against Ai; and Joshua took thirty thousand men of war, and sent them out by night.
וַיִּבְחַ֣ר (יִּבְחַ֣ר) i.yiv.Char “he chose”
And that day Joshua made them servants, cutting wood and getting water for the people and for the altar of the Lord, in the place marked out by him, to this day.
יִבְחָֽר׃ yiv.Char “he will choose”
And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my ho
בַּחֲר֨וּ ba.cha.Ru “choose”
And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have made the decision to be the servants of the Lord. And they said, We are witnesses.
בְּחַרְתֶּ֥ם be.char.Tem “you have chosen”
They had no one to make arms, there were no more armed men in the towns; was there a body-cover or a spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?
יִבְחַר֙ yiv.Char “it chose”
Go, send up your cry for help to the gods of your selection; let them be your saviours in the time of your trouble.
בְּחַרְתֶּ֖ם be.char.Tem “you have chosen”
And the children of Benjamin who came that day from the towns were twenty-six thousand men armed with swords, in addition to the people of Gibeah, numbering seven hundred of the best fighting-men,
בָּחֽוּר׃ ba.Chur “chosen”
Who were left-handed, able to send a stone at a hair without error.
בָּח֔וּר ba.Chur “chosen”
And they came in front of Gibeah, ten thousand of the best men in all Israel, and the fighting became more violent; but the children of Benjamin were not conscious that evil was coming on them.
בָּחוּר֙ ba.Chur “chosen”
Did I take him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest and to go up to my altar to make the smoke of the offerings go up and to take up the ephod? Did I give to your father's family all the offerings made by fire by the children of Israel?
וּבָחֹ֣ר (בָחֹ֣ר) va.Chor “I chose”
Then you will be crying out because of your king whom you have taken for yourselves; but the Lord will not give you an answer in that day.
בְּחַרְתֶּ֖ם be.char.Tem “you have chosen”