Genesis 35:18
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18 As her soul was departing, for she was dying, she named him Ben-oni,[a] but his father called him Benjamin.[b]
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Acts 7:59
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59 While they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”(A)
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Luke 23:46
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46 Then Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.” Having said this, he breathed his last.(A)
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1 Chronicles 4:9
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9 Jabez was honored more than his brothers, and his mother named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”(A)
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Luke 12:20
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20 But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’(A)
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Lamentations 2:12
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12 They cry to their mothers,
“Where is bread and wine?”
as they faint like the wounded
in the streets of the city,
as their life is poured out
on their mothers’ bosoms.(A)
Psalm 80:17
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17 But let your hand be upon the one at your right hand,
the one whom you made strong for yourself.(A)
Psalm 16:10
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10 For you do not give me up to Sheol
or let your faithful one see the Pit.(A)
1 Samuel 4:20-21
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20 As she was about to die, the women attending her said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you have borne a son.” But she did not answer or give heed.(A) 21 She named the child Ichabod, meaning, “The glory has departed from Israel,” because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
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Exodus 12:7
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7 They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.
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Genesis 44:27-31
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27 Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons; 28 one left me, and I said, Surely he has been torn to pieces, and I have never seen him since.(A) 29 If you take this one also from me and harm comes to him, you will bring down my gray hairs in sorrow to Sheol.’(B) 30 Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the boy’s life, 31 when he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.
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Genesis 43:14
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14 may God Almighty[a] grant you mercy before the man, so that he may send back your other brother and Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”(A)
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- 43.14 Traditional rendering of Heb El Shaddai
Genesis 42:38
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38 But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If harm should come to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”(A)
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Genesis 42:4
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4 But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he feared that harm might come to him.(A)
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Genesis 30:1
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30 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister, and she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!”(A)
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