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Dog Scripture - Job 30:1

But now [they that are] younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock....

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Milk in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Children's food everywhere (1 Peter 2:2; 1 Corinthians 3:2; Hebrews 5:12). In the East a leading element in men's diet also. "A land flowing with milk" symbolizes abundance (Exodus 3:8; Deuteronomy 6:3). Chalab, "milk," means "fairness, fresh milk"; chemah is "milk coagulated", and is translated in KJV "butter"; rather leben, an Eastern prepa...

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Butter Scripture - Isaiah 7:15

Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good....

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Milk Scripture - Deuteronomy 14:21

Ye shall not eat [of] any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that [is] in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk....

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Death Scripture - Ruth 2:11

And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and [how] thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore....

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Divorce in Easton's Bible Dictionary

The dissolution of the marriage tie was regulated by the Mosaic law (Deut. 24:1-4). The Jews, after the Captivity, were reguired to dismiss the foreign women they had married contrary to the law (Ezra 10:11-19). Christ limited the permission of divorce to the single case of adultery. It seems that it was not uncommon for the Jews at that ...

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Divorce Scripture - Matthew 19:7

They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?...

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Dog Scripture - 1 Kings 21:19

And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine....

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Butter in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Heb. hemah), curdled milk (Gen. 18:8; Judg. 5:25; 2 Sam. 17:29), or butter in the form of the skim of hot milk or cream, called by the Arabs kaimak, a semi-fluid (Job 20:17; 29:6; Deut. 32:14). The words of Prov. 30:33 have been rendered by some "the pressure [not churning] of milk bringeth forth cheese."...

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Death in Naves Topical Bible

Miscellaneous Subjects Called GIVING UP THE GHOST Ge 25:8; 35:29; La 1:19; Ac 5:10 KING OF TERRORS Job 18:14 A CHANGE Job 14:14 GOING TO THY FATHERS Ge 15:15; 25:8; 35:29 PUTTING OFF THIS TABERNACLE 2Pe 1:14 REQUIRING THE SOUL Lu 12:20 GOING THE WAY WHENCE THERE IS NO RETURN Job 16:22 BEING GATHERED TO OUR PEOPLE Ge 49:33 GOING DOW...

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