The man said,

‘This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called “woman”,
for she was taken out of man.’

Then the man said,

“This at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man.”

On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.

On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark,

On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them, as God told him.

Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him.

Abraham and his son Ishmael were both circumcised on that very day.

That very day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised.

Then Laban said to him, ‘You are my own flesh and blood.’

After Jacob had stayed with him for a whole month,

and Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh!” And he stayed with him a month.

‘Issachar is a scrawny donkey
lying down among the sheepfolds.

“Issachar is a strong donkey,
crouching between the sheepfolds.

And Joseph made the Israelites swear an oath and said, ‘God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.’

Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”

‘Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.

And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever.

At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the Lord’s divisions left Egypt.

At the end of 430 years, on that very day, all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.

‘It must be eaten inside the house; take none of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones.

It shall be eaten in one house; you shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, and you shall not break any of its bones.

And on that very day the Lord brought the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions.

And on that very day the Lord brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the Israelites swear an oath. He had said, ‘God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up with you from this place.’

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones with you from here.”

and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli, as bright blue as the sky.

and they saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness.

You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain, until the very day you bring this offering to your God. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.

And you shall eat neither bread nor grain parched or fresh until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly and not do any ordinary work. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.

And you shall make a proclamation on the same day. You shall hold a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work. It is a statute forever in all your dwelling places throughout your generations.

Do not do any work on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the Lord your God.

And you shall not do any work on that very day, for it is a Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God.

Those who do not deny themselves on that day must be cut off from their people.

For whoever is not afflicted on that very day shall be cut off from his people.

I will destroy from among their people anyone who does any work on that day.

And whoever does any work on that very day, that person I will destroy from among his people.

They must not leave any of it till morning or break any of its bones. When they celebrate the Passover, they must follow all the regulations.

They shall leave none of it until the morning nor break any of its bones; according to all the statute for the Passover they shall keep it.

‘Anyone out in the open who touches someone who has been killed with a sword or someone who has died a natural death, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.

Whoever in the open field touches someone who was killed with a sword or who died naturally, or touches a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water and sprinkle the tent and all the furnishings and the people who were there. He must also sprinkle anyone who has touched a human bone or a grave or anyone who has been killed or anyone who has died a natural death.

Then a clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the persons who were there and on whoever touched the bone, or the slain or the dead or the grave.

‘God brought them out of Egypt;
they have the strength of a wild ox.
They devour hostile nations
and break their bones in pieces;
with their arrows they pierce them.

God brings him out of Egypt
and is for him like the horns of the wild ox;
he shall eat up the nations, his adversaries,
and shall break their bones in pieces
and pierce them through with his arrows.

On that same day the Lord told Moses,

That very day the Lord spoke to Moses,

The day after the Passover, that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land: unleavened bread and roasted grain.

And the day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain.

At sunset Joshua gave the order and they took them down from the poles and threw them into the cave where they had been hiding. At the mouth of the cave they placed large rocks, which are there to this day.

But at the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves, and they set large stones against the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.

And Joseph’s bones, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the tract of land that Jacob bought for a hundred pieces of silver from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem. This became the inheritance of Joseph’s descendants.

As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.

‘Ask all the citizens of Shechem, “Which is better for you: to have all seventy of Jerub-Baal’s sons rule over you, or just one man?” Remember, I am your flesh and blood.’

“Say in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”

When he reached home, he took a knife and cut up his concubine, limb by limb, into twelve parts and sent them into all the areas of Israel.

And when he entered his house, he took a knife, and taking hold of his concubine he divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the territory of Israel.

Then they took their bones and buried them under a tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.

And they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh and fasted seven days.

All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, ‘We are your own flesh and blood.

Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Behold, we are your bone and flesh.

You are my relatives, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to bring back the king?”

You are my brothers; you are my bone and my flesh. Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?’

And say to Amasa, “Are you not my own flesh and blood? May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if you are not the commander of my army for life in place of Joab.”’

And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me and more also, if you are not commander of my army from now on in place of Joab.’”

he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the citizens of Jabesh Gilead. (They had stolen their bodies from the public square at Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hung them after they struck Saul down on Gilboa.)

David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, on the day the Philistines killed Saul on Gilboa.

David brought the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from there, and the bones of those who had been killed and exposed were gathered up.

And he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan; and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged.

They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish, at Zela in Benjamin, and did everything the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer on behalf of the land.

And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father. And they did all that the king commanded. And after that God responded to the plea for the land.

By the word of the Lord he cried out against the altar: ‘Altar, altar! This is what the Lord says: “A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who make offerings here, and human bones will be burned on you.”’

And the man cried against the altar by the word of the Lord and said, “O altar, altar, thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who make offerings on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.’”

After burying him, he said to his sons, ‘When I die, bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.

And after he had buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.

They quickly took their cloaks and spread them under him on the bare steps. Then they blew the trumpet and shouted, ‘Jehu is king!’

Then in haste every man of them took his garment and put it under him on the bare steps, and they blew the trumpet and proclaimed, “Jehu is king.”

Once while some Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders; so they threw the man’s body into Elisha’s tomb. When the body touched Elisha’s bones, the man came to life and stood up on his feet.

And as a man was being buried, behold, a marauding band was seen and the man was thrown into the grave of Elisha, and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and stood on his feet.

Josiah smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles and covered the sites with human bones.

And he broke in pieces the pillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their places with the bones of men.

Then Josiah looked around, and when he saw the tombs that were there on the hillside, he had the bones removed from them and burned on the altar to defile it, in accordance with the word of the Lord proclaimed by the man of God who foretold these things.

And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mount. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar and defiled it, according to the word of the Lord that the man of God proclaimed, who had predicted these things.

‘Leave it alone,’ he said. ‘Don’t let anyone disturb his bones.’ So they spared his bones and those of the prophet who had come from Samaria.

And he said, “Let him be; let no man move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.

Josiah slaughtered all the priests of those high places on the altars and burned human bones on them. Then he went back to Jerusalem.

And he sacrificed all the priests of the high places who were there, on the altars, and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

all their valiant men went and took the bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. Then they buried their bones under the great tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.

all the valiant men arose and took away the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh. And they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days.

All Israel came together to David at Hebron and said, ‘We are your own flesh and blood.

Then all Israel gathered together to David at Hebron and said, “Behold, we are your bone and flesh.

He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and so he purged Judah and Jerusalem.

He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

But now stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.’

But stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.”

fear and trembling seized me
and made all my bones shake.

dread came upon me, and trembling,
which made all my bones shake.

so that I prefer strangling and death,
rather than this body of mine.

so that I would choose strangling
and death rather than my bones.

clothe me with skin and flesh
and knit me together with bones and sinews?

You clothed me with skin and flesh,
and knit me together with bones and sinews.

I am nothing but skin and bones;
I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.

My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh,
and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

The youthful vigour that fills his bones
will lie with him in the dust.

His bones are full of his youthful vigor,
but it will lie down with him in the dust.

One person dies in full vigour,
completely secure and at ease,

One dies in his full vigor,
being wholly at ease and secure,

well nourished in body,
bones rich with marrow.

his pails full of milk
and the marrow of his bones moist.

Night pierces my bones;
my gnawing pains never rest.

The night racks my bones,
and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.

My skin grows black and peels;
my body burns with fever.

My skin turns black and falls from me,
and my bones burn with heat.

then let my arm fall from the shoulder,
let it be broken off at the joint.

then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder,
and let my arm be broken from its socket.

‘Or someone may be chastened on a bed of pain
with constant distress in their bones,

“Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed
and with continual strife in his bones,

Their flesh wastes away to nothing,
and their bones, once hidden, now stick out.

His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen,
and his bones that were not seen stick out.

Its bones are tubes of bronze,
its limbs like rods of iron.

His bones are tubes of bronze,
his limbs like bars of iron.