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And he promised her with an oath, “Whatever you ask I will give you, up to half my kingdom.”

But he answered, “You give them something to eat.” They said to him, “That would take more than half a year’s wages! Are we to go and spend that much on bread and give it to them to eat?”

I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land.

In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead.

But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.”

Philip answered him, “It would take more than half a year’s wages to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!”

So Paul stayed in Corinth for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God.

Elijah was a human being, even as we are. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.

1 When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

For three and a half days some from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial.

But after the three and a half days the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them.

The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent’s reach.

Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half.

Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he splashed against the altar.

10 “Have them make an ark of acacia wood — two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.

“Make an atonement cover of pure gold — two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

23 “Make a table of acacia wood — two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high.

As for the additional length of the tent curtains, the half curtain that is left over is to hang down at the rear of the tabernacle.

Each frame is to be ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide,

Each one who crosses over to those already counted is to give a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the Lord.

The rich are not to give more than a half shekel and the poor are not to give less when you make the offering to the Lord to atone for your lives.

“Take the following fine spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half as much (that is, 250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant calamus,

Each frame was ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide,

1 Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood — two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.

He made the atonement cover of pure gold — two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

10 They made the table of acacia wood — two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high.

one beka per person, that is, half a shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone who had crossed over to those counted, twenty years old or more, a total of 603,550 men.

“This is the offering Aaron and his sons are to bring to the Lord on the day he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of the finest flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening.

Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother’s womb with its flesh half eaten away.”

bring with the bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with half a hin of olive oil,

and also bring half a hin of wine as a drink offering. This will be a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the Lord.

With each bull there is to be a drink offering of half a hin of wine; with the ram, a third of a hin; and with each lamb, a quarter of a hin. This is the monthly burnt offering to be made at each new moon during the year.

Take this tribute from their half share and give it to Eleazar the priest as the Lord’s part.

From the Israelites’ half, select one out of every fifty, whether people, cattle, donkeys, sheep or other animals. Give them to the Levites, who are responsible for the care of the Lord’s tabernacle.”

The half share of those who fought in the battle was: 337,500 sheep,

The half belonging to the Israelites, which Moses set apart from that of the fighting men —

the community’s half — was 337,500 sheep,

From the Israelites’ half, Moses selected one out of every fifty people and animals, as the Lord commanded him, and gave them to the Levites, who were responsible for the care of the Lord’s tabernacle.

12 Of the land that we took over at that time, I gave the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory north of Aroer by the Arnon Gorge, including half the hill country of Gilead, together with its towns.

All the Israelites, with their elders, officials and judges, were standing on both sides of the ark of the covenant of the Lord, facing the Levitical priests who carried it. Both the foreigners living among them and the native-born were there. Half of the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord had formerly commanded when he gave instructions to bless the people of Israel.

Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon. He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge — from the middle of the gorge — to the Jabbok River, which is the border of the Ammonites. This included half of Gilead.

He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salekah, all of Bashan to the border of the people of Geshur and Maakah, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

and divide it as an inheritance among the nine tribes and half of the tribe of Manasseh.”

8 The other half of Manasseh, the Reubenites and the Gadites had received the inheritance that Moses had given them east of the Jordan, as he, the servant of the Lord, had assigned it to them.

The territory of Jazer, all the towns of Gilead and half the Ammonite country as far as Aroer, near Rabbah;

This is what Moses had given to the half-tribe of Manasseh, that is, to half the family of the descendants of Manasseh, according to its clans:

half of Gilead, and Ashtaroth and Edrei (the royal cities of Og in Bashan). This was for the descendants of Makir son of Manasseh — for half of the sons of Makir, according to their clans.

The rest of Kohath’s descendants were allotted ten towns from the clans of the tribes of Ephraim, Dan and half of Manasseh.

From half the tribe of Manasseh they received Taanach and Gath Rimmon, together with their pasturelands — two towns.

(To the half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given land in Bashan, and to the other half of the tribe Joshua gave land on the west side of the Jordan along with their fellow Israelites.) When Joshua sent them home, he blessed them,