H3588A–כִּי–ki

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.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

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;

וְכִֽי־ (כִֽי) khi- “if”

When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations.

כִּ֤י ki “if”

For all who do such things are disgusting to the Lord; and because of these disgusting things the Lord your God is driving them out before you.

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

For these nations, whose land you are taking, give attention to readers of signs and to those using secret arts: but the Lord your God will not let you do so.

כִּ֣י׀ ki “for”

And if you say in your hearts, How are we to be certain that the word does not come from the Lord?

וְכִ֥י (כִ֥י) Khi “if”

When the nations, whose land the Lord your God is giving you, have been cut off by him, and you have taken their place and are living in their towns and in their houses;

כִּֽי־ ki- “if”

For if not, he who has the right of punishment may go running after the taker of life in the heat of his wrath, and overtake him because the way is long, and give him a death-blow; though it is not right for him to be put to death because he was not move

כִּי־ ki- “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”כִּ֠י ki “for”

If you keep and do all these orders which I give you today, loving the Lord your God and walking ever in his ways; then let three more towns, in addition to these three, be marked out for you:

כִּֽי־ ki- “if”

But if any man has hate for his neighbour, and waiting for him secretly makes an attack on him and gives him a blow causing his death, and then goes in flight to one of these towns;

וְכִֽי־ (כִֽי) khi- “if”

If a false witness makes a statement against a man, saying that he has done wrong,

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

When you go out to war against other nations, and come face to face with horses and war-carriages and armies greater in number than yourselves, have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, who took you up out of the land of Egypt.

כִּֽי־ ki- “if”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For the Lord your God goes with you, fighting for you to give you salvation from those who are against you.

כִּ֚י ki “for”

When you come to a town, before attacking it, make an offer of peace.

כִּֽי־ ki- “if”

Give them up to the curse; the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has given you orders:

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

If in war a town is shut in by your armies for a long time, do not let its trees be cut down and made waste; for their fruit will be your food; are the trees of the countryside men for you to take up arms against them?

כִּֽי־ ki- “if”כִּ֚י ki “for”כִּ֤י ki “for”

Only those trees which you are certain are not used for food may be cut down and put to destruction: and you are to make walls of attack against the town till it is taken.

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

If, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you come across the dead body of a man in the open country, and you have no idea who has put him to death:

כִּי־ ki- “if”

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:

כִּ֣י ki “for”

So you will take away the crime of a death without cause from among you, when you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

When you go out to war against other nations, and the Lord your God gives them up into your hands and you take them as prisoners;

כִּֽי־ ki- “if”

If a man has two wives, one greatly loved and the other hated, and the two of them have had children by him; and if the first son is the child of the hated wife:

כִּֽי־ ki- “if”

But he is to give his first son his birthright, and twice as great a part of his property: for he is the first-fruits of his strength and the right of the first son is his.

כִּי֩ ki “that”כִּי־ ki- “for”

If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:

כִּֽי־ ki- “if”

If a man does a crime for which the punishment is death, and he is put to death by hanging him on a tree;

וְכִֽי־ (כִֽי) khi- “if”