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PARTITION, THE MIDDLE WALL OF

par-tish'-un, par-tish'-un (to mesotoichon tou phragmou (Ephesians 2:14)):

1. The Barrier in the Temple

What Paul here asserts is that Christ is our peace, the peace of both Jewish and Gentile believers. He has made them both to be one in Himself, and has broken down the middle wall of partition which divided them from one another. Then the apostle regards Jew and Gentile as two, who by a fresh act of creation in Christ are made into one new man. In the former of these similes he refers to an actual wall in the temple at Jerusalem, beyond which no one was allowed to pass unless he were a Jew, the balustrade or barrier which marked the limit up to which a Gentile might advance but no farther. Curiously, this middle wall of partition had a great deal to do with Paul's arrest and imprisonment, for the multitude of the Jews became infuriated, not merely because of their general hostility to him as an apostle of Christ and a preacher of the gospel for the world, but specially because it was erroneously supposed that he had brought Trophimus the Ephesian past this barrier into the temple (Acts 21:29), and that he had in this manner profaned the temple (Acts 24:6), or, as it is put in Acts 21:28, he had `brought Greeks into the temple and polluted this holy place.' In the assault which they thereupon made on Paul they violently seized and dragged him out of the temple-dragged him outside the balustrade. The Levites at once shut the gates, to prevent the possibility of any further profanation, and Paul would have been torn in pieces, had not the Roman commander and his soldiers forcibly prevented.

2. Herod's Temple; Its Divisions; the Courts:

In building the temple Herod the Great had enclosed a large area to form the various courts. The temple itself consisted of the two divisions, the Holy Place, entered by the priests every day, and the Holy of Holies into which the high priest entered alone once every year. Immediately outside the temple there was the Court of the Priests, and in it was placed the great altar of burnt offering. Outside of this again was the Court of the Sons of Israel, and beyond this the Court of the Women. The site of the temple itself and the space occupied by the various courts already mentioned formed a raised plateau or platform. "From it you descended at various points down 5 steps and through gates in a lofty wall, to find yourself overlooking another large court-the outer court to which Gentiles, who desired to see something of the glories of the temple and to offer gifts and sacrifices to the God of the Jews, were freely admitted. Farther in than this court they were forbidden, on pain of death, to go. The actual boundary line was not the high wall with its gates, but a low stone barrier about 5 ft. in height, which ran round at the bottom of 14 more steps" (J. Armitage Robinson, D.D., Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians, 59; see also Edersheim, The Temple, Its Ministry and Services as They Were at the Time of Jesus Christ, 46).

The middle wall of partition was called Coregh, and was built of marble beautifully ornamented.

3. The Court of the Gentiles:

The Court of the Gentiles formed the lowest and the outermost enclosure of all the courts of the sanctuary. It was paved with the finest variegated marble. Its name signified that it was open to all, Jews or Gentiles alike. It was very large, and is said by Jewish tradition to have formed a square of 750 ft. It was in this court that the oxen and sheep and the doves for the sacrifices were sold as in a market. It was in this court too that there were the tables of the money-changers, which Christ Himself overthrew when He drove out the sheep and oxen and them that bought and sold in His Father's house. The multitudes assembling in this court must have been very great, especially on occasions such as the Passover and Pentecost and at the other great feasts, and the din of voices must oftentimes have been most disturbing. As already seen, beyond this court no Gentile might go.

See TEMPLE.

In the year 1871, while excavations were being made on the site of the temple by the Palestine Exploration Fund, M. Clermont-Ganneau discovered one of the pillars which Josephus describes as having been erected upon the very barrier or middle wall of partition, to which Paul refers. This pillar is now preserved in the Museum at Constantinople and is inscribed with a Greek inscription in capital or uncial letters, which is translated as follows:

NO MAN OF ANOTHER NATION

TO ENTER WITHIN THE FENCE AND

ENCLOSURE ROUND THE TEMPLE,

AND WHOEVER IS CAUGHT WILL

HAVE HIMSELF TO BLAME THAT

HIS DEATH ENSUES

While Paul was writing the Epistle to the Ephesians at Rome, this barrier in the temple at Jerusalem was still standing, yet the chained prisoner of Jesus Christ was not afraid to write that Christ had broken down the middle wall of partition, and had thus admitted Gentiles who were far off, strangers and foreigners, to all the privileges of access to God in ancient times possessed by Israel alone; that separation between Jew and Gentile was done away with forever in Christ.

4. The Throwing Down of the Barrier:

If Paul wrote the Epistle to the Ephesians in 60 or 61 A.D., then the actual barrier of stone remained in its position in the Court of the Gentiles not more than some 10 years, for it was thrown down in the burning of the temple by the Roman army. And out of those ruins a fragment has been excavated in our own day, containing the very inscription threatening death to the Gentileintruder, and reminding us that it is only in Christ Jesus that we now draw nigh unto God, and that we are thus one body in Christ, one new man. Christ has broken down the middle wall of partition, for He, in His own person, is our peace.

John Rutherfurd

MIDDLE WALL

See PARTITION.

Greek

3319. mesos -- middle, in the midst
... middle, in the midst. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: mesos Phonetic
Spelling: (mes'-os) Short Definition: middle, in the middle Definition: middle ...
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3322. mesoo -- to be in the middle
... to be in the middle. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: mesoo Phonetic Spelling:
(mes-o'-o) Short Definition: I am in the middle Definition: I am in the ...
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3320. mesotoichon -- a middle wall
... a middle wall. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: mesotoichon Phonetic
Spelling: (mes-ot'-oy-khon) Short Definition: a middle wall, partition wall ...
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3403. mimnesko -- to remind, remember
... The high level of (self) involvement and interest motivating this remembering
accounts for why it is always in the Greek middle voice.]. ...
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2064. erchomai -- to come, go
... Middle voice of a primary verb (used only in the present and imperfect tenses, the
others being supplied by a kindred (middle voice) eleuthomai el-yoo'-thom ...
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3321. mesouranema -- the zenith, mid-heaven
... the zenith, mid-heaven. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: mesouranema
Phonetic Spelling: (mes-oo-ran'-ay-mah) Short Definition: the middle of heaven ...
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3713. orego -- to stretch out, to reach after, to yearn for
... 3713 ("aspire, stretch towards") is always in the Greek middle voice meaning,
"stretching ." This emphasizes the of the subject, focusing on what the object ...
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2400. idou -- look, behold
... Cognate: 2400 (a demonstrative particle, used chiefly in the for ; "properly, the
imperative, the aorist middle of , to see," , ) - which especially calls ...
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3700. optanomai -- to appear
... A (middle voice) prolonged form of the primary (middle voice) optomai (op'-tom-ahee);
which is used for it in certain tenses; and both as alternate of horao ...
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709. aristao -- to breakfast, hence to take a meal
... Cognate: 709 -- to eat breakfast or lunch -- the "noon" meal eaten roughly in the
middle of the day; to eat 1173 ("supper"), ie before the main meal, usually ...
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Strong's Hebrew

8484. tikon -- middle
tikon or tikon. 8483, 8484. tikon or tikon. 8485 . middle. Transliteration:
tikon or tikon Phonetic Spelling: (tee-kone') Short Definition: middle. ...
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1459. gav -- midst, middle
... 1458, 1459. gav. 1460 . midst, middle. Transliteration: gav Phonetic Spelling:
(gav) Short Definition: midst. Word Origin (Aramaic ...
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4276. machatsith -- half, middle
... 4275, 4276. machatsith. 4277 . half, middle. Transliteration: machatsith
Phonetic Spelling: (makh-ats-eeth') Short Definition: half. ...
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2676. chatsoth -- division, middle
... division, middle. Transliteration: chatsoth Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-tsoth') Short
Definition: midnight. ... From chatsah; the middle (of the night) -- mid(-night). ...
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1460b. gev -- midst, middle
... midst, middle. Transliteration: gev Short Definition: community. Word Origin of
foreign origin Definition midst, middle NASB Word Usage community (1). ...
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2677. chatsi -- half
... Word Origin from chatsah Definition half NASB Word Usage half (76), half-tribe
(1), half-tribe* (32), halfway (2), middle (6), midnight* (3), midst (2), two ...
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8432. tavek -- midst
... NASB Word Usage along (3), among (135), among* (1), between (2), center (10), high
(1), home (2), inside (9), interior (1), internally (1), middle (32), middle ...
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2872. tabbur -- highest part, center
... middle, midst. From an unused root meaning to pile up; properly, accumulated; ie
(by implication) a summit -- middle, midst. 2871, 2872. tabbur. 2873 . ...
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380. ishon -- the pupil (of the eye)
... Word Origin from ish Definition the pupil (of the eye) NASB Word Usage apple (2),
middle (1), pupil (1), time (1). apple of the eye, black, obscure. ...
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3709. kaph -- hollow or flat of the hand, palm, sole (of the foot) ...
... together* (2). branch, foot, handful hollow, middle, palm, paw, power, sole,.
From kaphaph; the hollow hand or palm (so of the paw ...
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Library

About the Middle of the Treatise.
... IV."Epistle to Dionysius Bishop of Rome. About the Middle of the Treatise.
15. If, from the fact that there are three hypostases ...
/.../dionysius/the works of dionysius/about the middle of the.htm

It was Near the Middle Hour of the Night. ...
... CHAPTER 8 It was near the middle hour of the night.� It was near the middle
hour of the night. Many, just out of banquet-hall, theatre ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bacheller/vergilius/chapter 8 it was near.htm

The Middle Ages.
... THE CHOSEN PEOPLE. LESSON XXXI. THE MIDDLE AGES. "Surely the isles shall
wait for Me.""Isaiah, ix.9. It is not easy to make out ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/yonge/the chosen people/lesson xxxi the middle ages.htm

Caphar Hananiah. The Middle of Galilee.
... Chapters 61-70 Chapter 61 Caphar Hananiah. The Middle of Galilee. It seems also
to be called 'Caphar Hanan': hence "R. Jacob of Caphar Hanan." ...
/.../lightfoot/from the talmud and hebraica/chapter 61 caphar hananiah the.htm

The Middle Colonies: the Jerseys, Delaware, and Pennsylvania --The ...
... A HISTORY OF AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY. CHAPTER IX. THE MIDDLE COLONIES: THE JERSEYS,
DELAWARE, AND PENNSYLVANIA"THE QUAKER COLONIZATION"GEORGIA. ...
/.../bacon/a history of american christianity/chapter ix the middle colonies .htm

Now this Middle Way Has Neither Scripture nor Sense in It...
... Address 29: Now this middle way has neither scripture nor sense in it�
Now this middle way has neither scripture nor sense in ...
/.../address 29 0 0 now this middle.htm

Appendix --The Pharaohs of the Ancient and Middle Empires
... APPENDIX"THE PHARAOHS OF THE ANCIENT AND MIDDLE EMPIRES. (Dynasties I.-XIV.).
The lists of the Pharaohs of the Memphite period appear ...
/.../appendixthe pharaohs of the ancient.htm

The Church of the Middle Ages
... CHAPTER X The Church of the Middle Ages. AD900-AD1500 [Sidenote: Foundation ... See.
Section 2. Some account of the Popes of the Middle Ages. A ...
/.../blunt/a key to the knowledge of church history/chapter x the church of.htm

Concerning Lordships and Powers and Authorities, and Concerning ...
... CAPUT VIII. Concerning Lordships and Powers and Authorities, and concerning
their middle Hierarchy. Section I. Let us now pass to ...
/.../dionysius/on the heavenly hierarchy/caput viii concerning lordships and.htm

Which is the First Order of the Heavenly Beings? which the Middle? ...
... DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE ON THE HEAVENLY HIERARCHY. CAPUT VI. Which is the first
Order of the Heavenly Beings? which the middle? and which the last? ...
/.../dionysius/on the heavenly hierarchy/caput vi which is the.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age.

2. (a.) Intermediate; intervening.

3. (n.) The point or part equally distant from the extremities or exterior limits, as of a line, a surface, or a solid; an intervening point or part in space, time, or order of series; the midst; central portion

4. (n.) The waist.

Thesaurus

Middle (169 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one
thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in ...
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Middle-most (2 Occurrences)
Middle-most. Middlemost, Middle-most. Midheaven . Multi-Version
Concordance Middle-most (2 Occurrences). Ezekiel 42:5 ...
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Midnight (14 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The middle of the night; twelve o'clock
at night. 2. (a.) Being in, or characteristic of, the ...
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Center (30 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body,
or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place. ...
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Partition (4 Occurrences)
... PARTITION, THE MIDDLE WALL OF. ... He has made them both to be one in Himself, and has
broken down the middle wall of partition which divided them from one another. ...
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Mean (93 Occurrences)
... 9. (a.) Occupying a middle position; middle; being about midway between extremes.
10. (a.) Intermediate in excellence of any kind. 11. ...
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Gorge (19 Occurrences)
... Deuteronomy 3:16 To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to
the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and the border of it, even ...
/g/gorge.htm - 12k

Electrum (3 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 1:27 And I saw it coloured like electrum, with the look of fire in it and
round it, going up from what seemed to be the middle of his body; and going ...
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Midday (11 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The middle part of the day; noon. 2. (a.)
of or pertaining to noon; meridional; as, the midday sun. Int. ...
/m/midday.htm - 10k

Medium (4 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body
or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean. ...
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Bible Concordance

Middle (169 Occurrences)

Matthew 14:24 But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, distressed by the waves, for the wind was contrary.
(WEB BBE DBY)

Matthew 18:2 And he took a little child, and put him in the middle of them,
(BBE)

Matthew 25:6 But in the middle of the night there is a cry, The husband comes! Go out to him.
(BBE DBY YLT)

Mark 6:47 And by evening, the boat was in the middle of the sea, and he by himself on the land.
(BBE NAS NIV)

Mark 9:36 And he took a little child, and put him in the middle of them; and taking him in his arms, he said to them,
(BBE)

Mark 13:35 So you are to keep watch: because you are not certain when the master of the house is coming, in the evening, or in the middle of the night, or at the cock's cry, or in the morning;
(BBE)

Mark 14:60 And the high priest got up in the middle of them, and said to Jesus, Do you say nothing in answer? what is it which these say against you?
(BBE)

Luke 4:35 And Jesus said to him, Be quiet, and come out of him. And when the evil spirit had put him down on the earth in the middle of them, he came out of him, having done him no damage.
(BBE)

Luke 5:19 And because of the mass of people, there was no way to get him in; so they went up on the top of the house and let him down through the roof, on his bed, into the middle in front of Jesus.
(BBE NAS NIV)

Luke 6:8 But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man who had the withered hand, "Rise up, and stand in the middle." He arose and stood.
(WEB WEY BBE)

Luke 11:5 And He said to them, "Which of you shall have a friend and shall go to him in the middle of the night and say, "'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread;
(WEY BBE)

Luke 21:21 Then let those who are in Judaea go in flight to the mountains; and those who are in the middle of the town go out; and let not those who are in the country come in.
(BBE)

Luke 22:55 When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard, and had sat down together, Peter sat among them.
(WEB WEY BBE NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 23:45 The sun was darkened, and the curtain of the Sanctuary was torn down the middle,
(WEY)

John 7:14 Now in the middle of the feast Jesus went up to the Temple and was teaching.
(BBE DBY YLT RSV)

John 8:9 They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.
(WEB)

John 19:18 where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the middle.
(WEB WEY BBE DBY NIV)

John 20:26 And after eight days, his disciples were again in the house and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were shut, Jesus came, and taking his place in the middle of them, he said, May peace be with you!
(BBE)

Acts 1:18 this one, indeed, then, purchased a field out of the reward of unrighteousness, and falling headlong, burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed forth,
(See NAS RSV)

Acts 4:7 When they had stood them in the middle of them, they inquired, "By what power, or in what name, have you done this?"
(WEB)

Acts 7:30 "But at the end of forty years there appeared to him in the Desert of Mount Sinai an angel in the middle of a flame of fire in a bush.
(WEY)

Acts 14:14 But the Apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it; and tearing their clothes they rushed out into the middle of the crowd, exclaiming, "Sirs, why are you doing all this?
(WEY)

Acts 16:25 But about the middle of the night, Paul and Silas were making prayers and songs to God in the hearing of the prisoners;
(BBE)

Acts 17:22 Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
(WEB RSV)

Acts 20:7 And on the first day of the week, when we had come together for the holy meal, Paul gave them a talk, for it was his purpose to go away on the day after; and he went on talking till after the middle of the night.
(BBE)

Acts 22:6 And it came about that while I was on my journey, coming near to Damascus, about the middle of the day, suddenly I saw a great light from heaven shining round me.
(BBE)

Acts 26:13 In the middle of the day, on the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining round me and those who were journeying with me.
(BBE)

Acts 27:21 When they had been long without food, Paul stood up in the middle of them, and said, "Sirs, you should have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete, and have gotten this injury and loss.
(WEB)

Acts 27:27 But when the fourteenth day came, while we were going here and there in the Adriatic sea, about the middle of the night the sailors had an idea that they were getting near land;
(BBE DBY YLT)

Ephesians 2:14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition,
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)

Revelation 1:13 And in the middle of them one like a son of man, clothed with a robe down to his feet, and with a band of gold round his breasts.
(BBE NAS)

Revelation 2:1 To the angel of the church in Ephesus say: These things says he who has the seven stars in his right hand, who is walking in the middle of the seven gold lights:
(BBE)

Revelation 4:6 And before the high seat there was, as it seemed, a clear sea of glass; and in the middle of the high seat, and round about it, four beasts full of eyes round about.
(BBE)

Revelation 5:6 And I saw in the middle of the high seat and of the four beasts, and in the middle of the rulers, a Lamb in his place, which seemed as if it had been put to death, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.
(BBE)

Revelation 6:6 And a voice came to my ears, from the middle of the four beasts, saying, A measure of grain for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny: and see that you do no damage to the oil and the wine.
(BBE)

Revelation 8:13 And there came to my ears the cry of an eagle in flight in the middle of heaven, saying with a great voice, Trouble, trouble, trouble, to all on the earth, because of the other voices of the horns of the three angels, whose sounding is still to come.
(BBE)

Revelation 22:2 in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
(WEB BBE NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 1:6 God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."
(WEB)

Genesis 2:9 Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
(WEB BBE NIV)

Genesis 3:3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said,'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
(WEB BBE NAS NIV)

Genesis 6:16 You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.
(See NIV)

Genesis 15:10 He brought him all of these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn't divide the birds.
(WEB)

Genesis 18:1 Now the Lord came to him by the holy tree of Mamre, when he was seated in the doorway of his tent in the middle of the day;
(BBE)

Genesis 19:29 It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
(WEB)

Genesis 23:10 Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,
(WEB)

Genesis 29:7 He said, "Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them."
(WEB)

Genesis 43:16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin, he said to his chief servant, Take these men into my house, and make ready a meal, for they will take food with me in the middle of the day.
(BBE)

Genesis 43:25 And they got ready the things for Joseph before he came in the middle of the day: for word was given to them that they were to have a meal there.
(BBE)

Exodus 11:4 And Moses said, This is what the Lord says: About the middle of the night I will go out through Egypt:
(BBE)

Exodus 12:29 And in the middle of the night the Lord sent death on every first male child in the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power to the child of the prisoner in the prison; and the first births of all the cattle.
(BBE)

Exodus 14:23 Then the Egyptians went after them into the middle of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses and his war-carriages and his horsemen.
(BBE)

Exodus 14:27 And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, at dawn the sea came flowing back, meeting the Egyptians in their flight, and the Lord sent destruction on the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.
(BBE)

Exodus 14:28 And the waters came back, covering the war-carriages and the horsemen and all the army of Pharaoh which went after them into the middle of the sea; not one of them was to be seen.
(BBE)

Exodus 26:28 The middle bar in the midst of the boards shall pass through from end to end.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 27:5 and thou shalt put it under the ledge of the altar beneath, and the net shall be to the very middle of the altar.
(DBY YLT)

Exodus 28:32 With a hole at the top, in the middle of it; the hole is to be edged with a band to make it strong like the hole in the coat of a fighting-man, so that it may not be broken open.
(BBE NAS)

Exodus 28:42 And you are to make them linen trousers, covering their bodies from the middle to the knee;
(BBE)

Exodus 36:33 He made the middle bar to pass through in the midst of the boards from the one end to the other.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 38:4 And he made for the altar a grating of network of copper under its ledge from beneath, to the very middle of it.
(DBY)

Exodus 39:23 With a hole at the top in the middle, like the hole in the coat of a fighting-man, edged with a band to make it strong.
(BBE DBY)

Numbers 2:17 Then the Tent of meeting is to go forward, with the tents of the Levites, in the middle of the armies; in the same order as their tents are placed, they are to go forward, every man under his flag.
(BBE NIV)

Numbers 35:5 The measure of this space of land is to be two thousand cubits outside the town on the east, and two thousand cubits on the south and on the west and on the north, the town being in the middle. This space will be the outskirts of their towns.
(BBE RSV)

Deuteronomy 3:16 To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and the border of it, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 11:6 and what He did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living substance that followed them, in the midst of all Israel;
(See NIV)

Deuteronomy 13:16 And take all the goods into the middle of its open space, burning the town and all its property with fire as an offering to the Lord your God; it is to be a waste for ever; there is to be no more building there.
(BBE NAS NIV)

Joshua 3:17 The priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan; and all Israel passed over on dry ground, until all the nation had passed completely over the Jordan.
(WEB BBE NAS NIV)

Joshua 4:3 and command them, saying,'Take from out of the middle of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the lodging place, where you will lodge tonight.'"
(WEB BBE NAS NIV)

Joshua 4:5 Joshua said to them, "Pass over before the ark of Yahweh your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you pick up a stone and put it on your shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel;
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Joshua 4:8 The children of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the middle of the Jordan, as Yahweh spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
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Joshua 4:9 Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day.
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Joshua 4:10 For the priests who bore the ark stood in the middle of the Jordan, until everything was finished that Yahweh commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua; and the people hurried and passed over.
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Joshua 4:18 It happened, when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh had come up out of the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up to the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks, as before.
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Joshua 7:21 When I saw among the spoil a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it."
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Joshua 7:23 They took them from the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel. They laid them down before Yahweh.
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Joshua 8:22 And the other came forth out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side; and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
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Joshua 10:13 And the sun was at rest and the moon kept its place till the nation had given punishment to their attackers. (Is it not recorded in the book of Jashar?) So the sun kept its place in the middle of the heavens, and was waiting, and did not go down, for the space of a day.
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Joshua 12:2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;
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Joshua 13:9 from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon;
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Joshua 13:16 Their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;
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Joshua 19:1 And the second heritage came out for the tribe of Simeon by their families; and their heritage was in the middle of the heritage of the children of Judah.
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Judges 7:19 So Gideon, and the hundred men who were with him, came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
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Judges 9:37 Gaal spoke again and said, "Behold, people are coming down by the middle of the land, and one company comes by the way of the oak of Meonenim."
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Judges 9:51 But in the middle of the town there was a strong tower, to which all the men and women of the town went in flight and, shutting themselves in, went up to the roof of the tower.
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Judges 15:4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between every two tails.
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Judges 16:3 And Samson was there till the middle of the night; then he got up, and took a grip on the doors of the town, pulling them up, together with their two supports and their locks, and put them on his back and took them up to the top of the hill in front of Hebron.
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Judges 16:29 Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and leaned on them, the one with his right hand, and the other with his left.
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Judges 19:8 Then early on the morning of the fifth day he got up to go away; but the girl's father said, Keep up your strength; so the two of them had a meal, and the man and his woman and his servant did not go till after the middle of the day.
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Ruth 3:8 Now in the middle of the night, the man awaking from his sleep in fear, and lifting himself up, saw a woman stretched at his feet.
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1 Samuel 25:29 Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
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2 Samuel 3:27 And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there in the groin, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
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2 Samuel 4:5 And Rechab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, went out and came to the house of Ish-bosheth in the heat of the day, when he was resting in the middle of the day. Now the woman who kept the door was cleaning grain, and sleep overcame her.
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2 Samuel 4:6 And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him in the groin; and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
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2 Samuel 10:4 So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
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2 Samuel 20:12 And Amasa was stretched out in a pool of blood in the middle of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people were stopping, he took Amasa out of the highway and put him in a field, with a cloth over him, when he saw that everyone who went by came to a stop.
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2 Samuel 23:12 But he kept his place in the middle of the bit of land, and kept back their attack and overcame the Philistines: and the Lord gave a great salvation.
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2 Samuel 23:20 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he smote the two altar-hearths of Moab; he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow;
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2 Samuel 24:5 They passed over the Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad, and to Jazer:
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1 Kings 3:20 And she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was sleeping; and she took it in her arms and put her dead child in my arms.
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1 Kings 6:6 The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house all around, that the beams should not have hold in the walls of the house.
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1 Kings 6:8 The door for the middle side chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle story, and out of the middle into the third.
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