Turn: Heb. Make to pass, Numbers 15:39; Joshua 7:21; 2 Samuel 11:2; Job 31:1; Proverbs 4:25, Proverbs 23:5; Isaiah 33:15; Matthew 5:28; 1 John 2:16
quicken: Psalms 119:25, Psalms 119:40
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Psalms 119:37
Psalms 119:37
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