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SPECIAL NAMES
22. Aaron: Exodus 4:14
23. Abraham: Genesis 17:5
24. Adam: Genesis 1:26
25. Benjamin: Genesis 35:24
26. Dan: Genesis 30:6 27. Dina: Genesis 30:21
28. Eve/Chava: Genesis 3:20 29. Isaac: Genesis 17:19
Jacob: Genesis 25:26
Joseph: Genesis 30:24
Joshua: Exodus 17:9
Leah: Genesis 29:16
Miriam: Exodus 15:20 35. Moses: Exodus 15:21
Noah: Genesis 5:29 37. Rachel: Genesis 29:6 38. Rebecca: Genesis 22:23
39. Reuben: Genesis 29:32
40. Sarah: Genesis 17:15
41. Tamar: Genesis 38:6
CAREER VERSES
42. Accountant: Exodus 38:24, All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary – the elevation offering of gold came to 29 talents and 730 shekels by the sanctuary weight.
43. Accountant: Exodus 39:25-26, The silver of those of the community who were recorded came to 100 talents and 1775 shekels by the sanctuary weight; a half-shekel a head, half a shekel by the sanctuary weight, for each one who was entered in the records, from the age of twenty years up, 603,550 men.
44. Artists: Exodus 31:3-5, I have endowed him (Bezalel) with a divine spirit of skill, ability, and knowledge in every kind of craft to make
designs for work in gold, silver, and copper, to cut stones for setting and to carve wood – to work in every kind of craft.
45. Artists: Exodus 39:15, On the breastplate they made braided chains of corded work in pure gold.
46. Artists: Exodus 39:22, The robe for the ephod was made of woven work, of pure blue.
47. Artists: Exodus 39:27, They made tunics of fine linen, of woven work, for Aaron and his sons.
48. Banking: Deuteronomy 23:20, You shall not deduct interest from loans to your countrymen, whether in money or food or anything else that can be deducted as interest.
49. Banking: Deuteronomy 24:10-11, When you make a loan of any sort to your countryman, you must not enter his house to seize his pledge. You must remain outside, while the man to who you made the loan brings the pledge out to you.
50. Banking: Deuteronomy 24:12-13, If he is a needy man, you shall not go to sleep in his pledge; you must return the pledge to him at sundown, that he may sleep in his cloth and bless you; and it will be to your merit before the L-rd your G-d.
51. Building, Labor: Genesis 3:19, By the sweat of your brow shall you get bread to eat, until you return to the ground.
52. Building, Labor: Exodus 35:10, And let all among you who are skilled come and make all that the L-rd has commanded.
53. Building, Labor: Deuteronomy 24:14-15, You shall not abuse a needy and destitute laborer, whether a fellow countryman or a stranger in one of the communities of your land. You must pay him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets, for he is needy and urgently depends on it; else he will cry to the L-rd against you and you will incur guilt.
54. Business: Leviticus 19:3-5, You shall not falsify measures of length, weight, or capacity.
55. Business: Leviticus 19:36, You shall have an honest balance, honest weights, an honest ephab, and an honest hin.
56. Business: Deuteronomy 25:15, You must have completely honest weight and completely honest measurements.
57. Cooking, Cooks, Food: Exodus 23:19, You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.
58. Cooking, Cooks, Food: Exodus 34:26, You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.
59. Cooking, Cooks, Food: Numbers 15:19-20, (baking) As you eat of the bread of the land, you shall set some aside as a gift to the L-rd as the first yield of your baking, you shall set aside a loaf as a gift; you shall set it aside as a gift like the gift from the threshing floor.
60. Cooking, Cooks, Food: Numbers 15:21, (baking) You shall make a gift to the L-rd from the first yield of your baking throughout the ages.
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Cooking, Cooks, Food: Deuteronomy12:23, But make sure that you do not partake of the blood, for the blood is the life, and you must not consume the life with the flesh.
62. Cooking, Cooks, Food: Deuteronomy 28:3, Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
63. Dance: Exodus 15:20, Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her in dance, with timbrels. – SOLD
64. Dermatologist: Leviticus 13:9, When a person has a scaly affection, it shall be reported to the priest.
65. Dermatologist: Deuteronomy 24:8-9, In cases of a skin affection be most careful to do exactly as the Levitical priests instruct you. Take care to do as I have commanded them. Remember what the L-rd your G-d did to Miriam on the journey after you left Egypt.
66. Doctors, Healing, Recovery: Exodus 23:20, I am sending an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that have made ready.
67. Doctors, Healing, Recovery: Numbers 12:13, So Moses cried out to the L-rd, say ing, “O G-d, pray heal her!”
68. Doctors, Healing, Recovery: Numbers 21:9, Moses made a copper serpent and mounted it on a standard; and when anyone was bitten by a serpent, he would look at the copper serpent and recover.
69. Jeweler: Exodus 23:22, Men and women, all whose hearts moved them, all who would make an elevation offering of gold to the L-rd, came bringing brooches, earrings, rings and pendants – gold objects of all kinds.
70. Judge, Justice, Law: Genesis 20:16, And to Sarah he said, “I herewith give your brother a thousand pieces of silver; this will serve you as vindication before all who are with you, and you are cleared before everyone.”
71. Judge, Justice, Law: Exodus 23:2-3, You shall neither side with the mighty to do wrong – you shall not give perverse testimony in a dispute so as to pervert it in favor of the mighty, nor shall you show deference to a poor man in his dispute
72. Judge, Justice, Law: Exodus 23:8, Do not take bribes, for bribes blind the clear-sighted and upset the pleas of those who are in the right.
73. Judge, Justice, Law: Leviticus 19-15, You shall not render an unfair decision. Do not favor the poor or show deference to the rich; judge your kinsmen fairly.
74. Judge, Justice, Law: Numbers 35:30, If anyone kills a person, the manslayer may be executed only on the evidence of witnesses; the testimony of a single witness against a person shall not suffice for a sentence of death.
75. Judge, Justice, Law: Deuteronomy1:17, You shall not be partial in judgment; hear out low and high alike. Fear no man, for judgment is G-d’s. And, any matter that is too difficult for you, you shall bring to me and I will hear it.
76. Judge, Justice, Law: Deuteronomy12:28, Be careful to heed all these commandments that I enjoin upon you; thus it will go well with you and with your descendants after you forever, for you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the L-rd your G-d.
77. Judge, Justice, Law: Deuteronomy16:18, You shall appoint magistrates and officials for your tribes, in all the settlements that the L-rd Your G-d is giving you, and they shall govern the people with due-justice.
78. Judge, Justice, Law: Deuteronomy16:19, You shall not judge unfairly: you shall show no partiality; you shall not take bribes, for bribes blind the eyes of the discerning and upset the plea of the just.
79. Mathematician: Numbers 26:2, Take a census of the whole Israelite community from the age of twenty years up, by their ancestral houses, all Israelites able to bear arms.
80. Military: Deuteronomy 20:2, Before you join battle, the priest shall come forward and address the troops.
81. Military: Deuteronomy 20:3, He shall say to them, “Hear, 0 Israel! You are about to join battle with your enemy. Let not your courage falter. Do not be in fear, or in panic, or in dread at them.
82. Military: Deuteronomy 20:4, For it is the L-rd your G-d who marches with you to do battle for you against your enemy, to bring you victory.
83. Occupational Therapy/Speech Therapist: Exodus 4:10-11, But Moses said to the L-rd, “Please, O L-rd, I have never been a man of words, either in times past or now that You have spoken to Your servant I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.” And the L-rd said to him, “Who gives man speech? Who makes him dumb or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, the L-rd?”
84. Teachers, Education, Learning: Exodus 13:8, And you shall explain to your son on that day, “It is because of what the L-rd did for me when I went free from Egypt.”
85. Teachers, Education, Learning: Deuteronomy11:19, And teach them to your children – reciting them when you stay at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up.
INSPIRATIONAL VERSES
86. Genesis 1:27 And G-d created man in G-d’s image, in the image of Elohim G-d created him; male and female G-d created them.
87. Genesis 12:2 …and you shall be a blessing.
88. Exodus 3:8 …on to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
89. Exodus 15: 11 Who is like You, 0 L-rd, among the celestials? Who is like You, majestic in holiness, Awe some in splendor, working wonders? – SOLD
90. Exodus 24:7 Then he took the record of the covenant and read it aloud to the people. And they said, “All that the L-rd has spoken we will faithfully do!”
91. Leviticus 19:14 (Honoring the Deaf and Blind) You shall not insult the deaf, or place a stumbling block before the blind…
92. Deuteronomy 28:6 Blessed shall you be in your comings and blessed shall you be in your goings.
93. Deuteronomy 30:19 …therefore, choose life
LIFE CYCLES
94. Aging: Leviticus 19:32, You shall rise before the aged and show deference to the old.
95. Birth: Genesis 30:22, Now G-d remembered Rachel; G-d heeded her and opened her womb.
Grandchildren: Genesis 48:20, So he (Jacob) blessed them that day, saying “By you shall Israel invoke blessings, saying, G-d, make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.”
97. Great Grandchildren: Genesis 50:23, Joseph lived to see children of the third generation of Ephraim.
98. Home: Deuteronomy 20:5, Then the officials shall address the troops, as follows: “Is there anyone who has built a new house but has not dedicated it? Let him go back to his home, lest he die in battle and another dedicate it.
99. Love: Genesis 29:20, So Jacob served seven years for Rachel and they seemed to him but a few days because of this love for her.
100. Love: Leviticus 19:18, You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against your countrymen. Love your fellow as yourself; I am the L-rd.
101. Love: Deuteronomy 6:5, You shall love the L-rd your G-d with all your heart with all your soul and with all your might.
102. Marriage: Deuteronomy 24:5, When a man has taken a bride, he shall not go out with the army or be assigned to it for any purpose; he shall be exempt one year for the sake of his household, to give happiness to the woman he has married.
103. Marriage: Genesis 4:1, Hence a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, so that they become one flesh.
104. Parenthood: Leviticus 19:3, You shall each revere his mother and his father.
MEMORIAL VERSES
105. In Memory of Loved Ones: Genesis 23:2, (Death of Sarah) Sarah died in Kiriath-arba – now Hebron – in the land of Canaan and Abraham proceeded to mourn for Sarah and to bewail her.
106. In Memory of Loved Ones: Genesis 25:8, (Death of Abraham) And Abraham breathed his last, dying at a good ripe age, old and contented; and he was gathered to his kin.
107. In Memory of Loved Ones: Genesis 35:28-29, (Death of Isaac) Isaac was a hundred and eighty years old when he breathed his last and died. He was gathered to his kin in ripe old age; and he was buried by his sons Esau and Jacob.
108. In Memory of Loved Ones: Genesis 49:33, (Death of Jacob) When Jacob finished his instructions to his sons, he drew his feet into the bed and, breathing his last, he was gathered to his people.
109. In Memory of Loved Ones: Numbers 33:39, (Death of Aaron) Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.
110. In Memory of Loved Ones: Deuteronomy 34:5-8, (Death of Moses) So Moses the servant of the L-rd died there, in the land of Moab, at the command of the L-rd. G-d buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, near Beth-peor; and no one knows his burial place to this day. Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eyes were undimmed and his vigor unabated. And the Israelites bewailed Moses in the steppes of Moab for thirty days.
111. In Memory of Those Lost in the Holocaust: Deuteronomy 25:17, Remember what Amalek did to you on your journey, after you left Egypt.
112. In Memory of Those Lost in the Holocaust: Deuteronomy 25:19, Therefore, when the L-rd your G-d grants you safety from all your enemies around you, in the land that the L-rd your G-d is giving -you as a hereditary portion, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.
VERSES FOR ISRAEL
113. The People: Genesis 15:5, G-d took him outside and said, “Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And G-d added, “So shall your offspring be.”
114. The People: Exodus 3:7, And the L-rd continued, “I have marked well the plight of My people in Egypt and have heeded their outcry because of their taskmaster; yes, I am mindful of their suffering.”
115. The People: Deuteronomy 6:3, Obey, O Israel, willingly and faithfully, that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, as the L-rd, the G-d of your ancestors, spoke to you.
116. The Land: Genesis 15:18, On that day the L-rd made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I assign this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates.”
117. The Land: Genesis 17:8, I assign the land you sojourn in to you and your offspring to come, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting holding. I will be their G-d.”
118. The Land: Genesis 48:4, And G-d said to me, “I will make you fertile and numerous, making of you a community of people and I will assign this land to your offspring to come for an everlasting possession.”
119. The Land: Exodus 3:8, I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians and to bring them out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the region of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
120. The Land: Numbers 34:2, Instruct the Israelite people and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall to you as your position, the land of Canaan with its various boundaries…
121. The Land: Deuteronomy 8:7, For the L-rd your G-d is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams and springs and fountains issuing from plain and hill.
122. The Land: Deuteronomy 8:8, …a land of wheat and barley, of vines, figs, and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey.
123. The Land: Deuteronomy 8:9, ...a land where you may eat food without stint, where you lack nothing, a land whose rocks are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper.
VERSES FOR PEACE
124. Genesis 13:8 Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no strife between you and me, between my herdsmen and yours, for we are kinsmen.”
125. Numbers 6:26 The L-rd bestow G-d’s favor upon you and grant you peace.
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