smoking: Exodus 3:2-3; Deuteronomy 4:20; Judges 6:21, Judges 13:20; 1 Chronicles 21:26; Isaiah 62:1; Jeremiah 11:4
a burning lamp: Heb. a lamp of fire, 2 Samuel 22:9
passed: Jeremiah 34:18-19
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Genesis 15:17
Genesis 15:17
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