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When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.
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Moab Seduces Israel
While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women,
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The Israelites captured the Midianite women and children and took all the Midianite herds, flocks and goods as plunder.
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“Have you allowed all the women to live?” he asked them.
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and 32,000 women who had never slept with a man.
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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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But we will arm ourselves for battle and go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them to their place. Meanwhile our women and children will live in fortified cities, for protection from the inhabitants of the land.
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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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At that time we took all his towns and completely destroyed them—men, women and children. We left no survivors.
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We completely destroyed them, as we had done with Sihon king of Heshbon, destroying every city—men, women and children.
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You will be blessed more than any other people; none of your men or women will be childless, nor will any of your livestock be without young.
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Freeing Servants
If any of your people—Hebrew men or women—sell themselves to you and serve you six years, in the seventh year you must let them go free.
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As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the Lord your God gives you from your enemies.
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A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor a man wear women’s clothing, for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this.
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Assemble the people—men, women and children, and the foreigners residing in your towns—so they can listen and learn to fear the Lord your God and follow carefully all the words of this law.
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In the street the sword will make them childless; in their homes terror will reign. The young men and young women will perish, the infants and those with gray hair.
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They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.
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Twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai.
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There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua did not read to the whole assembly of Israel, including the women and children, and the foreigners who lived among them.
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“Most blessed of women be Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, most blessed of tent-dwelling women.
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So all the men cut branches and followed Abimelek. They piled them against the stronghold and set it on fire with the people still inside. So all the people in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women, also died.
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Inside the city, however, was a strong tower, to which all the men and women—all the people of the city—had fled. They had locked themselves in and climbed up on the tower roof.
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that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.
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He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He gave his daughters away in marriage to those outside his clan, and for his sons he brought in thirty young women as wives from outside his clan. Ibzan led Israel seven years.
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Now the temple was crowded with men and women; all the rulers of the Philistines were there, and on the roof were about three thousand men and women watching Samson perform.
