Deuteronomy 27:25 BSB

Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אָרוּר֙	'a.Rur	[is] cursed	H779 →
לֹקֵ֣חַ	lo.Ke.ach	[one who] takes	H3947 →
שֹׁ֔חַד	Sho.chad	a bribe	H7810 →
לְהַכּ֥וֹת	le.ha.Kot	to strike down	H5221 →
נֶ֖פֶשׁ	Ne.fesh	a person of	H5315 →
דָּ֣ם	dam	blood	H1818 →
נָקִ֑י	na.Ki	innocent	H5355 →
וְאָמַ֥ר	ve.'a.Mar	and it will say	H559 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
הָעָ֖ם	ha.'Am	the people	H5971 →
אָמֵֽן׃ ס	'a.Men	amen	H543 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Deuteronomy 10:17
For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe.
leads to
- Acts 10:34
  Then Peter began to speak: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism,
- Romans 2:11
  For God does not show favoritism.
- Daniel 2:47
  The king said to Daniel, “Your God is truly the God of gods and Lord of kings, the Revealer of Mysteries, since you were able to reveal this mystery.”
- Galatians 2:6
  But as for the highly esteemed—whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism—those leaders added nothing to me.
- Nehemiah 9:32
  So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders,…
Through
Psalms 15:5
who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.
leads to
- Exodus 22:25
  If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.
- Deuteronomy 16:19
  Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
- Ezekiel 22:12
  In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Proverbs 6:17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,Exodus 23:7Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent or the just, for I will not acquit the guilty.Psalms 15:5who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.Deuteronomy 10:17For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe.Exodus 23:7–8Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent or the just, for I will not acquit the guilty.Ezekiel 22:12In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.Deuteronomy 16:19Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.Matthew 27:3–4When Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was filled with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.Acts 1:18(Now with the reward for his wickedness Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong and burst open in the middle, and all his intestines spilled out.Ezekiel 22:12–13In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.Proverbs 1:11–29If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,Micah 7:2–3The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.Matthew 26:15and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you?” And they set out for him thirty pieces of silver.Micah 3:10–11who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.Judges 9:24in order that the crime against the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come to justice and their blood be avenged on their brother Abimelech and on the leaders of Shechem, who had helped him murder his brothers.

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