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20 “When the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised you, and you say, ‘I am going to eat some meat,’ because you wish to eat meat, you may eat meat whenever you have the desire.(A)

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“If the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he swore to your ancestors—and he will give you all the land that he promised your ancestors to give you,

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24 Every place on which you set foot shall be yours; your territory shall extend from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River, the River Euphrates, to the Western Sea.(A)

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24 For I will cast out nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one shall covet your land when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.

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14 and your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and all the families of the earth shall be blessed[a] in you and in your offspring.(A)

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  1. 28.14 Or shall bless themselves

For he satisfies the thirsty,
    and the hungry he fills with good things.(A)

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10 Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory and that your hand might be with me and that you would keep me from hurt and harm!” And God granted what he asked.

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15 “Yet whenever you desire you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, according to the blessing that the Lord your God has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as they would of gazelle or deer.(A)

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31 I will set your borders from the Red Sea[a] to the sea of the Philistines and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will hand over to you the inhabitants of the land, and you shall drive them out before you.(A)

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  1. 23.31 Or Sea of Reeds

18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates,(A) 19 the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”

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For God is my witness, how I long for all of you with the tender affection of Christ Jesus.(A)

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14 while they long for you and pray for you because of the surpassing grace of God that he has given you.

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174 I long for your salvation, O Lord,
    and your law is my delight.

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40 See, I have longed for your precepts;
    in your righteousness be gracious to me.[a](A)

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  1. 119.40 Q ms: MT give me life

20 My soul is consumed with longing
    for your ordinances at all times.(A)

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My soul longs, indeed it faints,
    for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and my flesh sing for joy
    to the living God.(A)

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Psalm 63

Comfort and Assurance in God’s Presence

A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah.

O God, you are my God; I seek you;
    my soul thirsts for you;
my flesh faints for you,
    as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.(A)

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15 David said longingly, “Oh, that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate!”

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39 And the heart of[a] the king went out, yearning for Absalom, for he was now consoled over the death of Amnon.(A)

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  1. 13.39 Q ms Gk: MT And David

34 So that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah,[a] because there they buried the people who had the craving.(A)

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  1. 11.34 That is, graves of craving

20 but for a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you—because you have rejected the Lord who is among you and have wailed before him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?” ’ ”

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The camp followers with them had a strong craving, and the Israelites also wept again and said, “If only we had meat to eat!(A)

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30 Even though you had to go because you longed greatly for your father’s house, why did you steal my gods?”(A)

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26 for he has been longing for[a] all of you and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill.

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  1. 2.26 Other ancient authorities read longing to see