'Work' in the Bible
returned to Joshua. "Not all of the people need to go up," they reported. "Only about two or three thousand men should attack Ai. Since they are so few, don't make all of the army work hard up there."
And all Israel, those who were Israelites by birth, as well as the men from other lands living with them, and their responsible men and their overseers and judges, took their places round the ark, in front of the priests, the Levites, whose work it was to take up the ark of the Lord's agreement; half of them were stationed in front of Mount Gerizim and half in front of Mount Ebal, in agreement with the orders for the blessing of the children of Israel which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had given.
They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
And the Canaanites who were living in Gezer were not forced out; but the Canaanites have been living among Ephraim, to this day, as servants, doing forced work.
Later on, when the Israelis had become strong, they forced the Canaanites to work for them, but they never did expel them completely.
And we said, Let us now set to work to build an altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice,
And I gave you a land on which you had done no work, and towns not of your building, and you are now living in them; and your food comes from vine-gardens and olive-gardens not of your planting.
And Israel serveth Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who prolonged days after Joshua, and who knew all the work of Jehovah which He did to Israel.
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Related Words
- Work's (1 instance in 3 translations)
- Worked (226 instances in 11 translations)
- Worker (74 instances in 13 translations)
- Worker's (9 instances in 4 translations)
- Workers (121 instances in 13 translations)
- Workest (2 instances in 2 translations)
- Worketh (50 instances in 4 translations)
- Workfellow (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Working (270 instances in 13 translations)
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- Workings (6 instances in 5 translations)
- Workload (1 instance in 2 translations)
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- Workman's (1 instance in 4 translations)
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