Leviticus 26:11

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“And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.”

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BSBPD

“And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`And I have given My tabernacle in your midst, and My soul doth not loathe you;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Leviticus 26:11 — 20 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 25:8And they are to make a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.
  2. Exodus 29:45Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God.
  3. Leviticus 20:23You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.
  4. Deuteronomy 32:19When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.
  5. Joshua 22:19If indeed the land of your inheritance is unclean, then cross over to the land of the LORD’s possession, where the LORD’s tabernacle stands, and take possession of it among us. But do not rebel against the LORD or against us by building for yourselves an altar other than the altar of the LORD our God.
  6. Joshua 22:31Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest said to the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh, “Today we know that the LORD is among us, because you have not committed this breach of faith against Him. Consequently, you have delivered the Israelites from the hand of the LORD.”
  7. 1 Kings 8:13I have indeed built You an exalted house, a place for You to dwell forever.”
  8. 1 Kings 8:27But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
  9. Psalms 76:2His tent is in Salem, His dwelling place in Zion.
  10. Psalms 78:59On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.
  11. Psalms 78:68But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.
  12. Psalms 106:40So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.
  13. Psalms 132:13For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:
  14. Jeremiah 14:21For the sake of Your name do not despise us; do not disgrace Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.
  15. Lamentations 2:7The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.
  16. Ezekiel 37:26And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary among them forever.
  17. Ezekiel 37:28Then the nations will know that I the LORD sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is among them forever.’”
  18. Zechariah 11:8And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.
  19. Ephesians 2:22And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.
  20. Revelation 21:3And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.

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