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Then they said, “Come, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top will reach to heaven, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
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So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
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If you will make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones, for if you use your tool on it, you will have polluted it.
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And Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me seven altars, and prepare for me seven oxen and seven rams.”
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Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me seven altars, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”
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They approached him and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock and cities for our children.
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Build for yourselves cities for your children and folds for your sheep, and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.”
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Then it shall be when the Lord your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you great and fine cities, which you did not build,
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However, you may destroy and cut down only the trees which you know are not fruit trees, so that you may build siege engines against the city that makes war with you until it falls.
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When you build a new house, you must make a guard rail for your roof so that you bring no blood guilt on your house, should anyone fall from there.
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then his brother’s wife must come to him in the presence of the elders and remove his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face, and answer and say, “So shall it be done to that man who will not build up his brother’s house.”
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There you must build an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones. You must not use any iron tool on them.
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You must build the altar of the Lord your God with whole stones, and you must offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God.
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You will be engaged to a woman and another man shall rape her. You will build a house, but you will not dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not gather its grapes.
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“The whole congregation of the Lord says, ‘What is this trespass you have committed against the God of Israel? Today you have turned from following the Lord by building yourselves an altar to rebel against Him!
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If indeed your own land is unclean, then cross over to the land of the Lord where the tabernacle of the Lord stands and take land among us. Yet do not rebel against the Lord or rebel against us by building an altar other than the altar of the Lord our God.
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“So we said to each other, ‘Let us build this altar, not for burnt offering or sacrifice,
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“God forbid that we should rebel against the Lord by turning from following the Lord today by building an altar for burnt offerings, grain offerings, and sacrifices other than the altar of the Lord God that stands before His tabernacle!”
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I gave you a land for which you did not work, and cities that you did not build. You live in them, and you are eating from the produce of vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.
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Then build an altar to the Lord your God on top of this stronghold in an orderly way. Take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah pole that you will cut down.”
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And I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest; what is in My heart and in My soul he will do it. And I will build him a sure house, and it will walk before My anointed forever.
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Go and say to My servant David: Thus says the Lord: Do you intend to build a house for Me in which I will dwell?
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He will build a house for My name, and I will establish his royal throne forever.
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“For You, O Lord of Hosts, God of Israel, have revealed a word to Your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore, Your servant has found the courage to pray this prayer to You.
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David Builds an Altar
Gad came to David that day and said to him, “Go up and erect an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”