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If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it. This shall be a statute and ordinance for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.’ ”

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth—

It shall be that the elders of the city which is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn’t been worked with and which has not drawn in the yoke.

All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.

If your brother isn’t near to you, or if you don’t know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother comes looking for it, and you shall restore it to him.

But the word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.

They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they didn’t know, to new gods that came up recently, which your fathers didn’t dread.

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”

At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.

Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by Yahweh, who has not abandoned his kindness to the living and to the dead.” Naomi said to her, “The man is a close relative to us, one of our near kinsmen.”

Now it is true that I am a near kinsman. However, there is a kinsman nearer than I.

All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “Because the king is a close relative to us. Why then are you angry about this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king’s cost? Or has he given us any gift?”

If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day requires;

Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money.”

Moreover those who were near to them, as far as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali, brought bread on donkeys, on camels, on mules, and on oxen: supplies of flour, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, wine, oil, cattle, and sheep in abundance; for there was joy in Israel.

“If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;

Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the rooms of the house of our God, being allied to Tobiah,

and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom),

Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both near and far,

They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.

My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is no one to help.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

We give thanks to you, God. We give thanks, for your Name is near. Men tell about your wondrous works.

Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.

You are near, Yahweh. All your commandments are truth.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

He has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints, even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise Yah!

Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster. A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.

Wail, for Yahweh’s day is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Wolves will cry in their fortresses, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.

Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.”

He who justifies me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.

My righteousness is near. My salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples. The islands will wait for me, and they will trust my arm.