Genesis 31:48 BSB — MannaFest

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13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
לָבָ֔ן	la.Van	Laban	H3837 →
הַגַּ֨ל	ha.Gal	the heap	H1530 →
הַזֶּ֥ה	ha.Zeh	<the> this	H2088 →
עֵ֛ד	'ed	[is] a witness	H5707 →
בֵּינִ֥י	bei.Ni	between me	H996 →
וּבֵינְךָ֖	u.vei.ne.Kha	and between you	H996 →
הַיּ֑וֹם	hai.Yom	this day	H3117 →
עַל־	'al-	there-	H5921 →
כֵּ֥ן	ken	-fore	H3651 →
קָרָֽא־	ka.ra'-	he called	H7121 →
שְׁמ֖וֹ	she.Mo	name its	H8034 →
גַּלְעֵֽד׃	gal.'Ed	Galeed	H1567 →

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
Joshua 24:27
And Joshua said to all the people, “You see this stone. It will be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words the LORD has spoken to us, and it will…
leads to
- Luke 19:40
  “I tell you,” He answered, “if they remain silent, the very stones will cry out.”
- Joshua 22:34
  So the Reubenites and Gadites named the altar Witness, for they said, “It is a witness between us that the LORD is God.”
- Deuteronomy 31:26
  “Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, so that it may remain there as a witness against you.
- Matthew 10:33
  But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father in heaven.
Through
Deuteronomy 2:36
From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God…
leads to
- Joshua 13:9
  The area from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, the whole plateau of Medeba as far as Dibon,
- Deuteronomy 3:12
  So at that time we took possession of this land. To the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the land beyond Aroer along the Arnon Valley, and half the hill country of Gilead, along with…
- Deuteronomy 4:48
  extending from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Siyon (that is, Hermon),
Through
Deuteronomy 3:16
and to the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead to the Arnon Valley (the middle of the valley was the border) and up to the Jabbok River, the border of the…
leads to
- Numbers 21:24
  And Israel put him to the sword and took possession of his land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok—but only up to the border of the Ammonites, because it was fortified.

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.

Joshua 22:27Rather, let it be a witness between us and you and the generations to come, that we will worship the LORD in His presence with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and peace offerings.’ Then in the future, your descendants cannot say to ours, ‘You have no share in the LORD!’Joshua 24:27And Joshua said to all the people, “You see this stone. It will be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words the LORD has spoken to us, and it will be a witness against you if you ever deny your God.”Genesis 31:44Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between you and me.”Genesis 31:52This mound is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not go past this mound to harm you, and you will not go past this mound and pillar to harm me.Deuteronomy 3:16and to the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead to the Arnon Valley (the middle of the valley was the border) and up to the Jabbok River, the border of the Ammonites.Deuteronomy 2:36From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.Joshua 13:8–9The other half of Manasseh, along with the Reubenites and Gadites, had received the inheritance Moses had given them beyond the Jordan to the east, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had assigned to them:Genesis 31:23So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.1 Samuel 24:21So now, swear to me by the LORD that you will not cut off my descendants or wipe out my name from my father’s house.”Judges 10:3Tola was followed by Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.James 5:3Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure in the last days.

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