OT.filter - bes tou:

bes@Genesis:3:4 @ but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

bes@Genesis:20:4 @ But Abimelech had not touched her, and he said, Lord, wilt thou destroy an ignorantly sinning and just nation?

bes@Genesis:20:6 @ And God said to him in sleep, Yea, I knew that thou didst this with a pure heart, and I spared thee, so that thou shouldest not sin against me, therefore I suffered thee not to touch her.

bes@Genesis:26:11 @ And Abimelech charged all his people, saying Every man that touches this man and his wife shall be liable to death.

bes@Genesis:32:25 @ And he saw that he prevailed not against him; and he touched the broad part of his thigh, and the broad part of Jacob’s thigh was benumbed in his wrestling with him.

bes@Genesis:32:32 @ Therefore the children of Israel will by no means eat of the sinew which was benumbed, which is on the broad part of the thigh, until this day, because the angel touched the broad part of the thigh of Jacob— even the sinew which was benumbed.

bes@Exodus:12:22 @ And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and having dipped it into some of the blood that is by the door, ye shall touch the lintel, and shall put it upon both door-posts, even of the blood which is by the door; but ye shall not go out every one from the door of his house till the morning.

bes@Exodus:19:12 @ And thou shalt separate the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves that ye go not up into the mountain, nor touch any part of it: every one that touches the mountain shall surely die.

bes@Exodus:19:13 @ A hand shall not touch it, for every one that touches shall be stoned with stones or shot through with a dart, whether beast or whether man, it shall not live: when the voices and trumpets and cloud depart from off the mountain, they shall come up on the mountain.

bes@Exodus:29:37 @ Seven days shalt thou purify the altar and sanctify it; and the altar shall be most holy, every one that touches the altar shall be hallowed.

bes@Exodus:30:29 @ And thou shalt sanctify them, and they shall be most holy: every one that touches them shall be hallowed.

bes@Leviticus:5:2 @ That soul which shall touch any unclean thing, or carcase, or that which is unclean being taken of beasts, or the dead bodies of abominable reptiles which are unclean, or carcases of unclean cattle,

bes@Leviticus:5:3 @ or should touch the uncleanness of a man, or whatever kind, which he may touch and be defiled by, and it should have escaped him, but afterwards he should know, —then he shall have transgressed.

bes@Leviticus:6:18 @ Every male of the priests shall eat it: it is a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations of the burnt-offerings of the Lord; whosoever shall touch them shall be hallowed.

bes@Leviticus:6:27 @ Every one that touches the flesh of it shall be holy, and on whosesoever garment any of its blood shall have been sprinkled, whosoever (note:)Gr. shall have been sprinkled upon it(:note) shall have it sprinkled, shall be washed in the holy place.

bes@Leviticus:7:9 @ And whatsoever flesh shall have touched any unclean thing, it shall not be eaten, it shall be consumed with fire; every one that is clean shall eat the flesh.

bes@Leviticus:7:11 @ And whatsoever soul shall touch any unclean thing, either of the uncleanness of a man, or of unclean quadrupeds, or any unclean (note:)Gr. abomination(:note) abominable thing, and shall eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace-offering, which is the Lord’s, that soul shall perish from his people.

bes@Leviticus:11:8 @ Ye shall not eat of their flesh, and ye shall not touch their (note:)i. e. especially of such as died of themselves(:note) carcases; these are unclean to you.

bes@Leviticus:11:24 @ And by these ye shall be defiled; every one that touches their carcases shall be unclean till the evening.

bes@Leviticus:11:26 @ And whichever among the beasts divides the hoof and makes claws, and does not chew the cud, shall be unclean to you; every one that touches their dead bodies shall be unclean till evening.

bes@Leviticus:11:27 @ And every one among all the wild beasts that moves upon its fore feet, which goes on all four, (note:)Gr. they are unclean(:note) is unclean to you; every one that touches their dead bodies shall be unclean till evening.

bes@Leviticus:11:31 @ These are unclean to you of all the reptiles which are on the earth; every one who touches their carcases shall be unclean till evening.

bes@Leviticus:11:36 @ Only if the water be of fountains of water, or a pool, or confluence of water, it shall be clean; but he that touches their carcases shall be unclean.

bes@Leviticus:11:39 @ And if one of the cattle die, which it is lawful for you to eat, he that touches their carcases shall be unclean till evening.

bes@Leviticus:12:4 @ And for thirty-three days she shall continue in her unclean blood; she shall touch nothing holy, and shall not enter the sanctuary, until the days of her purification be fulfilled.

bes@Leviticus:15:5 @ And the man who shall touch his bed, shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean till evening.

bes@Leviticus:15:7 @ And he that touches the skin of him that has the issue, shall wash his garments and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean till evening.

bes@Leviticus:15:10 @ And every one that touches whatsoever shall have been under him shall be unclean until evening; and he that takes them up shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean until evening.

bes@Leviticus:15:11 @ And whomsoever he that has the issue shall touch, if he have not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until evening.

bes@Leviticus:15:12 @ And the earthen vessel which he that has the issue shall happen to touch, shall be broken; and a wooden vessel shall be washed with water, and shall be clean.

bes@Leviticus:15:19 @ And the woman whosoever shall have an issue of blood, when her issue shall be in her body, shall be seven days in her separation; every one that touches her shall be unclean until evening.

bes@Leviticus:15:21 @ And whosoever shall touch her bed shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until evening.

bes@Leviticus:15:22 @ and every one that touches any vessel on which she shall sit, shall wash his garments and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean until evening.

bes@Leviticus:15:23 @ And whether it be while she is on her bed, or on a seat which she may happen to sit upon when he touches her, he shall be unclean till evening.

bes@Leviticus:15:27 @ Every one that touches it shall be unclean; and he shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean till evening.

bes@Leviticus:22:4 @ And the man of the seed of Aaron the priest, if he should have leprosy or issue of the reins, shall not eat of the holy things, until he be cleansed; and he that touches any uncleanness of a dead body, or the man whose seed of copulation shall have gone out from him,

bes@Leviticus:22:5 @ or whosoever shall touch any unclean reptile, which will defile him, or who shall touch a man, whereby he shall defile him according to all his uncleanness:

bes@Leviticus:22:6 @ whatsoever soul shall touch them shall be unclean until evening; he shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his body in water,

bes@Numbers:1:51 @ And in removing the tabernacle, the Levites shall take it down, and in pitching the tabernacle they shall set it up: and let the stranger that advances to touch it die.

bes@Numbers:3:10 @ And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons over the tabernacle of witness; and they shall keep their charge of priesthood, and all things belonging to the altar, and within the veil; and the stranger that touches them shall die.

bes@Numbers:3:38 @ They that encamp before the tabernacle of witness on the east shall be Moses and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charges of the sanctuary according to the charges of the children of Israel; and the stranger that touches them, shall die.

bes@Numbers:4:15 @ And Aaron and his sons shall finish covering the holy things, and all the holy vessels, when the camp begins to move; and afterwards the sons of Caath shall go in to take up the furniture; but shall not touch the holy things, lest they die: these shall the sons of Caath bear in the tabernacle of witness.

bes@Numbers:16:26 @ And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Separate yourselves from the tents of these stubborn men, and touch nothing that belongs to them, lest ye be consumed with them in all their sin.

bes@Numbers:17:13 @ Every one that touches the tabernacle of the Lord, dies: shall we die utterly?

bes@Numbers:19:11 @ He that touches the dead body of any man, shall be unclean seven days.

bes@Numbers:19:13 @ Every one that touches the carcase of the person of a man, if he should have died, and the other not have been purified, has defiled the tabernacle of the Lord: that soul shall be cut off from Israel, because the water of sprinkling has not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.

bes@Numbers:19:16 @ And every one who shall touch a man slain by violence, or a corpse, or human bone, or sepulchre, shall be unclean seven days.

bes@Numbers:19:18 @ And a clean man shall take hyssop, and dip it into the water, and sprinkle it upon the house, and the furniture, and all the souls that are therein, and upon him that touched the human bone, or the slain man, or the corpse, or the tomb.

bes@Numbers:19:21 @ And it shall be to you a perpetual statute; and he that sprinkles the water of sprinkling shall wash his garments; and he that touches the water of sprinkling shall be unclean until evening.

bes@Numbers:19:22 @ And whatsoever the unclean man shall touch shall be unclean, and the soul that touches it shall be unclean till evening.

bes@Numbers:31:19 @ And ye shall encamp outside the great camp seven days; every one who has slain and who touches a (note:)i. e. of a slain man(:note) dead body, Or, shall purify himself shall be purified on the third day, and ye and your captivity shall purify yourselves on the seventh day.

bes@Deuteronomy:14:8 @ And as for the swine, because he divides the hoof, and makes claws of the hoof, yet he chews not the cud, he is unclean to you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, ye shall not touch their dead bodies.

bes@Joshua:9:19 @ And the princes said to all the congregation: We have sworn to them by the Lord God of Israel, and now we shall not be able to touch them.

bes@Joshua:12:2 @ Seon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Esebon, ruling from Arnon, which is in the valley, (note:)Another reading is epi tou ceilouv, on the slope or edge(:note) on the side of the valley, and half of Galaad as far as Jaboc, the borders of the children of Ammon.

bes@Judges:4:11 @ And Chaber the Kenite had removed from Caina, from the sons of Jobab the father-in-law of Moses, and pitched his tent by the oak of the covetous ones, which is near Kedes.

bes@Judges:6:21 @ And the angel of the Lord stretched out the end of the rod that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened bread; and fire came up out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened bread, and the angel of the Lord vanished from his sight.

bes@Judges:9:37 @ And Gaal continued to speak and said, Behold, a people comes down (note:)Or, by the sea; A double rendering, perhaps to Mem, the first kata yalassan—second, apo tou ecomena(:note) westward from the part bordering on the middle of the land, and another company comes by Alex. translates the words "the way of the oak of the seers" the way of Helon Maonenim.

bes@Judges:16:9 @ And the (note:)Gr. ambush, singular(:note) liers in wait remained with her in the chamber; and she said to him, the Philistines are upon thee, Sampson: and he broke the cords as if any one should break a thread of tow when it has Gr. smelt touched the fire, and his strength was not known.

bes@Ruth:2:9 @ Let thine eyes be on the field where my men shall reap, and thou shalt go after them: behold, I have charged the young men not to touch thee: and when you shalt thirst, then thou shalt go to the vessels, and drink of that which the young men shall have drawn.

bes@1Samuel:6:9 @ And ye shall see, if it shall go the way of its coasts along by Baethsamys, he has brought upon us this great affliction; and if not, then shall we know that his hand has not touched us, but this is a chance which has happened to us.

bes@1Samuel:10:26 @ And Saul departed to his house to Gabaa; and there went with Saul mighty men whose hearts God had touched.

bes@1Samuel:26:11 @ The Lord forbid it me that I should lift up my hand against the anointed of the Lord: and now take, I pray thee, the spear from his bolster, and the pitcher of water, and let us return (note:)kay eautouv; q. d. ehez nous(:note) home.

bes@2Samuel:13:39 @ And king David ceased to go out after Abessalom, for he was comforted concerning Amnon, touching his death.

bes@2Samuel:14:10 @ And the king said, Who was it that spoke to thee? thou shalt even bring him to me, and one shall not touch (note:)q. d. they son(:note) him any more.

bes@1Kings:6:6 @ The under side was five cubits broad, and the middle part six, and the third was seven cubits broad; for he formed an interval to the house round about without the house, that they might not touch the walls of the house.

bes@1Kings:6:27 @ And both the cherubs were in the midst of the innermost part of the house; and they spread out their wings, and one wing touched the wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings in the midst of the house touched each other.

bes@1Kings:8:59 @ And let these words, (note:)Gr. as(:note) which I have prayed before the Lord our God, be Gr. approaching near to the Lord our God day and night, to maintain the cause of thy servant, and the cause of thy people Israel Gr. a thing, or word of a day in a day of a year; But Alex. reads hmera autou, which agrees with the Hebrews. for ever.

bes@1Kings:19:5 @ And he lay down and slept there under a tree; and behold, some one touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat.

bes@1Kings:19:7 @ And the angel of the Lord returned again, and touched him, and said to him, Arise, and eat, for the journey is far from thee.

bes@2Kings:13:21 @ And it came to pass as they were burying a man, that behold, they saw a band of men, and they cast the man into the grave of Elisaie: and as soon as he touched the bones of Elisaie, he revived and stood up on his feet.

bes@2Kings:15:5 @ And the Lord (note:)Gr. touched(:note) plagued the king, and he was made leprous leprous till the day of his death; and he reigned in The Gr. is from tyvpxh a separate house. And Joatham the king’s son was over the household, judging the people of the land.

bes@1Chronicles:15:15 @ And the sons of the Levites took the ark of God, (as Moses commanded by the word of God according to the scripture) (note:)Or, upon themselves, ef eautouv(:note) upon their shoulders with staves.

bes@1Chronicles:16:22 @ saying, Touch not my anointed ones, and deal not wrongfully with my prophets.

bes@2Chronicles:3:11 @ And the wings of the cherubs were twenty cubits in length: and one wing of five cubits touched the wall of the house: and the other wing of five cubits touched the wing of the other cherub.

bes@2Chronicles:25:19 @ Thou hast said, Behold, I have smitten Idumea, and thy (note:)Gr. heavy(:note) stout heart exalts thee: now stay at home; for why dost thou implicate thyself in mischief, that thou shouldest fall, and Juda with thee.

bes@Job:1:11 @ But put forth thine hand, and touch all that he has: verily he will bless thee to thy face.

bes@Job:1:12 @ Then the Lord said to the devil, Behold, I give into thine hand all that he has, but touch not himself. So the devil went out from the presence of the Lord.

bes@Job:1:19 @ suddenly a great wind came on from the desert, and (note:)Gr. touched(:note) caught the four corners of the house, and the house fell upon thy children, and they are dead; and I have escaped alone, and am come to tell thee.

bes@Job:2:5 @ Nay, but put forth thine hand, and touch his bones and his (note:)Gr. plural(:note) flesh: verily he will bless thee to thy face.

bes@Job:4:5 @ Yet now that pain has come upon thee, and touched thee, thou art troubled.

bes@Job:5:19 @ Six time he shall deliver thee out of distresses: and in the seventh harm shall not touch thee.

bes@Job:19:21 @ Pity me, pity me, O friends; for it is the hand of the Lord that has touched me.

bes@Job:31:7 @ if my foot has turned aside out of the way, or if mine heart has followed mine eye, and if too I have touched gifts with my hands;

bes@Psalms:104:32 @ who looks upon the earth, and makes it tremble; who touches the mountains, and they smoke.

bes@Psalms:105:15 @ saying, Touch not my anointed ones; and do my prophets no harm.

bes@Psalms:119:36 @ Incline mine heart to thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.

bes@Psalms:144:5 @ O Lord, bow thy heavens, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

bes@Proverbs:6:29 @ So is he that goes in to a married woman; he shall not be held guiltless, neither any one that touches her.

bes@Proverbs:14:14 @ A (note:)Lit. bold-hearted(:note) stout-hearted man shall be filled with his own ways; and a good man with his own thoughts.

bes@Proverbs:21:4 @ A high-minded man is stout-hearted in his pride; and the lamp of the wicked is sin.

bes@Ecclesiastes:10:10 @ If the axe-head should fall off, then the man troubles his countenance, and he must put forth more strength: and in that case skill is of no advantage to a man. (note:)Alex. for tw andri ou reads tou andreiou; Wisdom is the advantage of an energetic man(:note)

bes@Isaiah:6:7 @ and he touched my mouth, and said, Behold, this has touched thy lips, and will take away thine iniquities, and will purge off thy sins.

bes@Isaiah:28:8 @ A curse shall devour this counsel, for this is their counsel for the sake of covetousness.

bes@Jeremiah:1:9 @ And the Lord stretched forth his hand to me, and touched my mouth: and the Lord said to me, Behold, I have put my words into thy mouth.

bes@Jeremiah:12:14 @ For thus saith the Lord, concerning all the evil neighbours that touch mine inheritance, which I have divided to my people Israel; Behold, I will draw them away from their land, and I will cast out Juda from the midst of them.

bes@Jeremiah:22:17 @ Behold, thine eyes are not good, nor thine heart, but they go after thy covetousness, and after the innocent blood to shed it, and after acts of injustice and slaughter, to commit them.

bes@Jeremiah:31:9 @ Set marks upon Moab, for she shall be (note:)Or, kindled; q. d. with carbuncle(:note) touched with a plague-spot, and all her cities shall become desolate; whence shall there be an inhabitant for her?

bes@Lamentations:4:14 @ NUN. her watchmen staggered in the streets, they were defiled with blood in their weakness, they touched their raiment with it.

bes@Lamentations:4:15 @ SAMECH. Depart ye from the unclean ones: call ye them: depart, depart, touch them not: for they are on fire, yea, they stagger: say ye among the nations, They shall no more sojourn there.

bes@Ezekiel:8:10 @ So I went in and looked; and beheld vain abominations, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon (note:)Alex. autou(:note) them round about.

bes@Ezekiel:17:10 @ And, behold, it thrives: shall it prosper? shall it not wither as soon as the east wind touches it? it shall be withered together with the growth of its shoots.

bes@Ezekiel:41:6 @ And the sides were twice ninety, side against side; and there was a space in the wall of the house at the sides round about, that they should be for them that take hold of them to see, that they should not at all touch the walls of the house.

bes@Ezekiel:41:25 @ And there was carved work upon them, and cherubs on the doors of the temple, and palm-trees according to the carving of the (note:)Gr. plural(:note) sanctuary; and there were stout planks in front of the porch without.

bes@Ezekiel:42:14 @ None shall go in thither except the priests, and they shall not go forth of the holy place into the outer court, that they that draw nigh to me may be continually holy, and may not touch their garments in which they minister, with defilement, for they are holy; and they shall put on other garments whenever they come in contact with the people.

bes@Daniel:1:15 @ And at the end of the ten days their countenances appeared fairer and stouter in flesh, than the children that fed at the king’s table.

bes@Daniel:8:5 @ And I was considering, and, behold, a (note:)Gr. he-goat of the goats(:note) he-goat came from the south-west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the earth: and the goat had a Alex. notable horn horn between his eyes.

bes@Daniel:8:18 @ And while he spoke with me, I fell upon my face to the earth: and he touched me, and set me on my feet.

bes@Daniel:9:21 @ yea, while I was yet speaking in prayer, behold the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, came flying, and he touched me about the hour of the evening sacrifice.

bes@Daniel:10:10 @ And, behold, a hand touched me, and it raised me on my knees.

bes@Daniel:10:16 @ And, behold, as it were the likeness of a son of man touched my lips; and I opened my mouth, and spoke, and said to him that stood before me, O my lord, at the sight of thee my bowels were turned within me, and I had no strength.

bes@Daniel:10:18 @ And there touched me again as it were the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me,

bes@Amos:6:5 @ who (note:)Alex. epikrotountev, «applauding’(:note) excel in the sound of musical instruments; they have regarded them as abiding, not as fleeting pleasures;

bes@Habakkuk:2:9 @ Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evils.

bes@Haggai:2:13 @ If a man should take holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and the skirt of his garment should touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be (note:)Gr. sanctified(:note) holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

bes@Haggai:2:14 @ And Aggaeus said, If a defiled person who is unclean by reason of a dead body, touch any of these, shall it be defiled? And the priests answered and said, It shall be defiled.

bes@Zechariah:2:8 @ For thus saith the Lord Almighty; After the glory has he sent me to the nations that spoiled you: for he that touches you is as one that touches the apple of his eye.

bes@Jdt:8:11 @ And they came unto her, and she said unto them, Hear me now, O ye governors of the inhabitants of Bethulia: for your words that ye have spoken before the people this day are not right, touching this oath which ye made and pronounced between God and you, and have promised to deliver the city to our enemies, unless within these days the Lord turn to help you.

bes@Jdt:11:13 @ And are resolved to spend the firstfruits of the the tenths of wine and oil, which they had sanctified, and reserved for the priests that serve in Jerusalem before the face of our God; the which things it is not lawful for any of the people so much as to touch with their hands.

bes@Wis:3:1 @ But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them.

bes@Wis:10:11 @ In the covetousness of such as oppressed him she stood by him, and made him rich.

bes@Wis:18:16 @ And brought thine unfeigned commandment as a sharp sword, and standing up filled all things with death; and it touched the heaven, but it stood upon the earth.

bes@Wis:18:20 @ Yea, the tasting of death touched the righteous also, and there was a destruction of the multitude in the wilderness: but the wrath endured not long.

bes@Tob:6:7 @ And he said unto him, Touching the heart and the liver, if a devil or an evil spirit trouble any, we must make a smoke thereof before the man or the woman, and the party shall be no more vexed.

bes@Tob:12:7 @ It is good to keep close the secret of a king, but it is honourable to reveal the works of God. Do that which is good, and no evil shall touch you.

bes@Sir:10:9 @ Why is earth and ashes proud? There is not a more wicked thing than a covetous man: for such an one setteth his own soul to sale; because while he liveth he casteth away his bowels.

bes@Sir:13:1 @ He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith; and he that hath fellowship with a proud man shall be like unto him.

bes@Sir:14:4 @ He that gathereth by defrauding his own soul gathereth for others, that shall spend his goods riotously.

bes@Sir:14:9 @ A covetous man’s eye is not satisfied with his portion; and the iniquity of the wicked drieth up his soul.

bes@Sir:31:25 @ He that washeth himself after the touching of a dead body, if he touch it again, what availeth his washing?

bes@Sir:37:11 @ Neither consult with a woman touching her of whom she is jealous; neither with a coward in matters of war; nor with a merchant concerning exchange; nor with a buyer of selling; nor with an envious man of thankfulness; nor with an unmerciful man touching kindness; nor with the slothful for any work; nor with an hireling for a year of finishing work; nor with an idle servant of much business: hearken not unto these in any matter of counsel.

bes@1Macc:8:31 @ And as touching the evils that Demetrius doeth to the Jews, we have written unto him, saying, Wherefore thou made thy yoke heavy upon our friends and confederates the Jews?

bes@2Macc:4:50 @ And so through the covetousness of them that were of power Menelaus remained still in authority, increasing in malice, and being a great traitor to the citizens.

bes@2Macc:9:15 @ And as touching the Jews, whom he had judged not worthy so much as to be buried, but to be cast out with their children to be devoured of the fowls and wild beasts, he would make them all equals to the citizens of Athens:

bes@2Macc:10:20 @ Now they that were with Simon, being led with covetousness, were persuaded for money through certain of those that were in the castle, and took seventy thousand drachms, and let some of them escape.

bes@2Macc:11:36 @ But touching such things as he judged to be referred to the king, after ye have advised thereof, send one forthwith, that we may declare as it is convenient for you: for we are now going to Antioch.

bes@2Macc:13:26 @ Lysias went up to the judgement seat, said as much as could be in defence of the cause, persuaded, pacified, made them well affected, returned to Antioch. Thus it went touching the king’s coming and departing.

bes@AddDaniel:1:26 @ And made the midst of the furnace as it had been a moist whistling wind, so that the fire touched them not at all, neither hurt nor troubled them.

bes@4Macc:10:4 @ Now then, whatever instrument of vengeance ye have, apply it to my body, for ye are not able to touch, even if ye wish it, my soul.

bes@4Macc:17:1 @ And some of the spearbearers said, that when she herself was about to be seized for the purpose of being put to death, she threw herself upon the pile, rather than they should touch her person.

bes@1Esd:4:28 @ And now do ye not believe me? is not the king great in his power? do not all regions fear to touch him?

bes@1Esd:8:53 @ And again we besought our Lord as touching these things, and found him favourable unto us.