OK, here we go. I've listed some key Bible verses in which the word "evil" is used to mean something other than ethically wrong.
Genesis 37:2 writes:
These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their
evil report.
Genesis 44:34 writes:
For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the
evil that shall come on my father.
Genesis 47:9 writes:
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and
evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Numbers 20:5 writes:
And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this
evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.
Deuteronomy 7:15 writes:
And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the
evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
Deuteronomy 17:1 writes:
Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any
evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy 31:17 writes:
Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many
evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these
evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?
All from the King James Version.
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