Job 2:12-13
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And when they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him. And they raised their voices and wept, and they e tore their robes and sprinkled f dust on their heads toward heaven.
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And they sat with him on the ground g seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.
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Cross References
Genesis 37:29
When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he tore his clothes
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Cross References
Joshua 7:6
Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put dust on their heads.
Nehemiah 9:1
Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the people of Israel were assembled with fasting and in sackcloth, and with earth on their heads.
Lamentations 2:10
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth; the young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
Ezekiel 27:30
And shout aloud over you and cry out bitterly. They cast dust on their heads and wallow in ashes.
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Cross References
Ezekiel 3:15
And I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, who were dwelling by the Chebar canal, and I sat where they were dwelling. And I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.
Genesis 50:10
When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
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