302 verses

Gen 6: 11

(NIV)
Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence.
(ESV)
Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence.

Gen 6: 12

(NIV)
God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.
(ESV)
And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

Gen 6: 13

(NIV)
So God said to Noah, ‘I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
(ESV)
And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Gen 6: 17

(NIV)
I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.
(ESV)
For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.

Gen 9: 11

(NIV)
I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.’

(ESV)
I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

Gen 9: 15

(NIV)
I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
(ESV)
I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.

Gen 13: 10

(NIV)
Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan towards Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
(ESV)
And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

Gen 15: 9

(NIV)
So the Lord said to him, ‘Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.’

(ESV)
He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”

Gen 15: 10

(NIV)
Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half.
(ESV)
And he brought him all these, cut them in half, and laid each half over against the other. But he did not cut the birds in half.

Gen 18: 4

(NIV)
Let a little water be brought, and then you may all wash your feet and rest under this tree.
(ESV)
Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree,

Gen 18: 5

(NIV)
Let me get you something to eat, so you can be refreshed and then go on your way – now that you have come to your servant.’

‘Very well,’ they answered, ‘do as you say.’

(ESV)
while I bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on— since you have come to your servant.” So they said, “Do as you have said.”

Gen 18: 28

(NIV)
what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?’

‘If I find forty-five there,’ he said, ‘I will not destroy it.’

(ESV)
Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?” And he said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

Gen 18: 31

(NIV)
Abraham said, ‘Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there?’

He said, ‘For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it.’

(ESV)
He said, “Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord. Suppose twenty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of twenty I will not destroy it.”

Gen 18: 32

(NIV)
Then he said, ‘May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?’

He answered, ‘For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.’

(ESV)
Then he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of ten I will not destroy it.”

Gen 19: 13

(NIV)
because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.’

(ESV)
For we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has become great before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.”

Gen 19: 14

(NIV)
So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters. He said, ‘Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!’ But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

(ESV)
So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, Up! Get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.

Gen 19: 29

(NIV)
So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.

(ESV)
So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.

Gen 21: 25

(NIV)
Then Abraham complained to Abimelek about a well of water that Abimelek’s servants had seized.
(ESV)
When Abraham reproved Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized,

Gen 27: 9

(NIV)
go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it.
(ESV)
Go to the flock and bring me two good young goats, so that I may prepare from them delicious food for your father, such as he loves.

Gen 27: 13

(NIV)
His mother said to him, ‘My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me.’

(ESV)
His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, bring them to me.”

Gen 27: 45

(NIV)
When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, I’ll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?’

(ESV)
until your brother’s anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send and bring you from there. Why should I be bereft of you both in one day?”

Gen 30: 33

(NIV)
And my honesty will testify for me in the future, whenever you check on the wages you have paid me. Any goat in my possession that is not speckled or spotted, or any lamb that is not dark-coloured, will be considered stolen.’

(ESV)
So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come to look into my wages with you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, shall be counted stolen.”

Gen 31: 19

(NIV)
When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household gods.
(ESV)
Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father’s household gods.

Gen 31: 20

(NIV)
Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him he was running away.
(ESV)
And Jacob tricked Laban the Aramean, by not telling him that he intended to flee.

Gen 31: 26

(NIV)
Then Laban said to Jacob, ‘What have you done? You’ve deceived me, and you’ve carried off my daughters like captives in war.
(ESV)
And Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have tricked me and driven away my daughters like captives of the sword?

Gen 31: 27

(NIV)
Why did you run off secretly and deceive me? Why didn’t you tell me, so that I could send you away with joy and singing to the music of tambourines and harps?
(ESV)
Why did you flee secretly and trick me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre?

Gen 31: 30

(NIV)
Now you have gone off because you longed to return to your father’s household. But why did you steal my gods?’

(ESV)
And now you have gone away because you longed greatly for your father’s house, but why did you steal my gods?”

Gen 31: 31

(NIV)
Jacob answered Laban, ‘I was afraid, because I thought you would take your daughters away from me by force.
(ESV)
Jacob answered and said to Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.

Gen 31: 32

(NIV)
But if you find anyone who has your gods, that person shall not live. In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself whether there is anything of yours here with me; and if so, take it.’ Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the gods.

(ESV)
Anyone with whom you find your gods shall not live. In the presence of our kinsmen point out what I have that is yours, and take it.” Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

Gen 31: 39

(NIV)
I did not bring you animals torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for whatever was stolen by day or night.
(ESV)
What was torn by wild beasts I did not bring to you. I bore the loss of it myself. From my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

Gen 38: 9

(NIV)
But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to avoid providing offspring for his brother.
(ESV)
But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. So whenever he went in to his brother’s wife he would waste the semen on the ground, so as not to give offspring to his brother.

Gen 40: 15

(NIV)
I was forcibly carried off from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing to deserve being put in a dungeon.’

(ESV)
For I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit.”

Gen 42: 16

(NIV)
Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are telling the truth. If you are not, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!’
(ESV)
Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, while you remain confined, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you. Or else, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies.”

Gen 44: 8

(NIV)
We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found inside the mouths of our sacks. So why would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?
(ESV)
Behold, the money that we found in the mouths of our sacks we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. How then could we steal silver or gold from your lord’s house?

Gen 48: 9

(NIV)
‘They are the sons God has given me here,’ Joseph said to his father.

Then Israel said, ‘Bring them to me so that I may bless them.’

(ESV)
Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” And he said, “Bring them to me, please, that I may bless them.”

Exod 8: 24

(NIV)
And the Lord did this. Dense swarms of flies poured into Pharaoh’s palace and into the houses of his officials; throughout Egypt the land was ruined by the flies.

(ESV)
And the Lord did so. There came great swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh and into his servantshouses. Throughout all the land of Egypt the land was ruined by the swarms of flies.

Exod 12: 23

(NIV)
When the Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the door-frame and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.

(ESV)
For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.

Exod 18: 12

(NIV)
Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and other sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses’ father-in-law in the presence of God.

(ESV)
And Jethro, Mosesfather-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God; and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Mosesfather-in-law before God.

Exod 20: 15

(NIV)
‘You shall not steal.
(ESV)
“You shall not steal.

Exod 21: 16

(NIV)
‘Anyone who kidnaps someone is to be put to death, whether the victim has been sold or is still in the kidnapper’s possession.

(ESV)
“Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death.

Exod 21: 26

(NIV)
‘An owner who hits a male or female slave in the eye and destroys it must let the slave go free to compensate for the eye.
(ESV)
When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free because of his eye.

Exod 22: 1

(NIV)
‘Whoever steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it must pay back five head of cattle for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.

(ESV)
If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall repay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

Exod 22: 7

(NIV)
‘If anyone gives a neighbour silver or goods for safekeeping and they are stolen from the neighbour’s house, the thief, if caught, must pay back double.
(ESV)
If a man gives to his neighbor money or goods to keep safe, and it is stolen from the man’s house, then, if the thief is found, he shall pay double.

Exod 22: 12

(NIV)
But if the animal was stolen from the neighbour, restitution must be made to the owner.
(ESV)
But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner.

Exod 27: 20

(NIV)
‘Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning.
(ESV)
You shall command the people of Israel that they bring to you pure beaten olive oil for the light, that a lamp may regularly be set up to burn.

Exod 32: 7

(NIV)
Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt.
(ESV)
And the Lord said to Moses, Go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.

Lev 6: 4

(NIV)
when they sin in any of these ways and realise their guilt, they must return what they have stolen or taken by extortion, or what was entrusted to them, or the lost property they found,
(ESV)
if he has sinned and has realized his guilt and will restore what he took by robbery or what he got by oppression or the deposit that was committed to him or the lost thing that he found

Lev 9: 5

(NIV)
They took the things Moses commanded to the front of the tent of meeting, and the entire assembly came near and stood before the Lord.
(ESV)
And they brought what Moses commanded in front of the tent of meeting, and all the congregation drew near and stood before the Lord.

Lev 19: 11

(NIV)
‘“Do not steal.

‘“Do not lie.

‘“Do not deceive one another.

(ESV)
“You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another.

Lev 19: 13

(NIV)
‘“Do not defraud or rob your neighbour.

‘“Do not hold back the wages of a hired worker overnight.

(ESV)
“You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired worker shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

Lev 19: 27

(NIV)
‘“Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.

(ESV)
You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard.

Lev 24: 2

(NIV)
‘Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning continually.
(ESV)
Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil from beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning regularly.

Num 11: 16

(NIV)
The Lord said to Moses: ‘Bring me seventy of Israel’s elders who are known to you as leaders and officials among the people. Make them come to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with you.
(ESV)
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Gather for me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you.

Num 13: 20

(NIV)
How is the soil? Is it fertile or poor? Are there trees in it or not? Do your best to bring back some of the fruit of the land.’ (It was the season for the first ripe grapes.)

(ESV)
and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there are trees in it or not. Be of good courage and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes.

Num 19: 2

(NIV)
‘This is a requirement of the law that the Lord has commanded: tell the Israelites to bring you a red heifer without defect or blemish and that has never been under a yoke.
(ESV)
“This is the statute of the law that the Lord has commanded: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, and on which a yoke has never come.

Num 32: 15

(NIV)
If you turn away from following him, he will again leave all this people in the wilderness, and you will be the cause of their destruction.’

(ESV)
For if you turn away from following him, he will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all this people.”

Deut 4: 16

(NIV)
so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman,
(ESV)
beware lest you act corruptly by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

Deut 4: 25

(NIV)
After you have had children and grandchildren and have lived in the land a long time – if you then become corrupt and make any kind of idol, doing evil in the eyes of the Lord your God and arousing his anger,
(ESV)
When you father children and children’s children, and have grown old in the land, if you act corruptly by making a carved image in the form of anything, and by doing what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, so as to provoke him to anger,

Deut 4: 31

(NIV)
For the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your ancestors, which he confirmed to them by oath.

(ESV)
For the Lord your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.

Deut 5: 19

(NIV)
‘You shall not steal.
(ESV)
“‘And you shall not steal.

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