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Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch.
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This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.
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Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
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But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.
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So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
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so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.” Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
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Then she said, “Here is Bilhah, my servant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I too can build a family through her.”
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Jacob Returns to Bethel
Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.”
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Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.”
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If you make an altar of stones for me, do not build it with dressed stones, for you will defile it if you use a tool on it.
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The Altar of Burnt Offering
“Build an altar of acacia wood, three cubits high; it is to be square, five cubits long and five cubits wide.
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Balaam’s First Message
Balaam said, “Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
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Balaam said, “Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
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Then they came up to him and said, “We would like to build pens here for our livestock and cities for our women and children.
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Build cities for your women and children, and pens for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”
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But your assistant, Joshua son of Nun, will enter it. Encourage him, because he will lead Israel to inherit it.
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But commission Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he will lead this people across and will cause them to inherit the land that you will see.”
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When the Lord your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you—a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build,
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Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down,
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Worshiping Other Gods
Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole beside the altar you build to the Lord your God,
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However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls.
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When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof.
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his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, take off one of his sandals, spit in his face and say, “This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother’s family line.”
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Build there an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones. Do not use any iron tool on them.
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Build the altar of the Lord your God with fieldstones and offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God.