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20 “When the Lord your God expands your territory as he has promised, and you have the urge to eat meat, you may freely eat meat whenever you want.

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“And if the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he swore to your ancestors, and gives you all the land he promised them,

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24 Wherever you set foot, that land will be yours. Your frontiers will stretch from the wilderness in the south to Lebanon in the north, and from the Euphrates River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 11:24 Hebrew to the western sea.

24 I will drive out the other nations ahead of you and expand your territory, so no one will covet and conquer your land while you appear before the Lord your God three times each year.

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14 Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the earth! They will spread out in all directions—to the west and the east, to the north and the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.

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For he satisfies the thirsty
    and fills the hungry with good things.

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10 He was the one who prayed to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and expand my territory! Please be with me in all that I do, and keep me from all trouble and pain!” And God granted him his request.

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15 “But you may butcher your animals and eat their meat in any town whenever you want. You may freely eat the animals with which the Lord your God blesses you. All of you, whether ceremonially clean or unclean, may eat that meat, just as you now eat gazelle and deer.

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31 And I will fix your boundaries from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea,[a] and from the eastern wilderness to the Euphrates River.[b] I will hand over to you the people now living in the land, and you will drive them out ahead of you.

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Footnotes

  1. 23:31a Hebrew from the sea of reeds to the sea of the Philistines.
  2. 23:31b Hebrew from the wilderness to the river.

18 So the Lord made a covenant with Abram that day and said, “I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt[a] to the great Euphrates River— 19 the land now occupied by the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”

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Footnotes

  1. 15:18 Hebrew the river of Egypt, referring either to an eastern branch of the Nile River or to the Brook of Egypt in the Sinai (see Num 34:5).

God knows how much I love you and long for you with the tender compassion of Christ Jesus.

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14 And they will pray for you with deep affection because of the overflowing grace God has given to you.

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174 O Lord, I have longed for your rescue,
    and your instructions are my delight.

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40 I long to obey your commandments!
    Renew my life with your goodness.

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20 I am always overwhelmed
    with a desire for your regulations.

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I long, yes, I faint with longing
    to enter the courts of the Lord.
With my whole being, body and soul,
    I will shout joyfully to the living God.

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Psalm 63

A psalm of David, regarding a time when David was in the wilderness of Judah.

O God, you are my God;
    I earnestly search for you.
My soul thirsts for you;
    my whole body longs for you
in this parched and weary land
    where there is no water.

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15 David remarked longingly to his men, “Oh, how I would love some of that good water from the well by the gate in Bethlehem.”

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39 And King David,[a] now reconciled to Amnon’s death, longed to be reunited with his son Absalom.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 13:39a Dead Sea Scrolls and Greek version read And the spirit of the king.
  2. 13:39b Or no longer felt a need to go out after Absalom.

34 So that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah (which means “graves of gluttony”) because there they buried the people who had craved meat from Egypt.

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20 You will eat it for a whole month until you gag and are sick of it. For you have rejected the Lord, who is here among you, and you have whined to him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?”’”

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Then the foreign rabble who were traveling with the Israelites began to crave the good things of Egypt. And the people of Israel also began to complain. “Oh, for some meat!” they exclaimed.

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30 I can understand your feeling that you must go, and your intense longing for your father’s home. But why have you stolen my gods?”

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26 I am sending him because he has been longing to see you, and he was very distressed that you heard he was ill.

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