And Joshua answered them, If thou
be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down (ברא) for
thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim
be too narrow for thee (Josh 17:15)
But the mountain shall be thine;
for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down (ברא): and the outgoings of it
shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron
chariots, and though they be strong. (Josh 17:18)
Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice
and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest
thy sons above me, to make (ברא) yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the
offerings of Israel my people? (1 Sam 2:29)
Also, thou son of man, appoint
thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall
come forth out of one land: and choose (ברא) thou a place, choose (ברא) it at
the head of the way to the city. (Ezek 21:19 [Hebrew: v. 24])
And the company shall stone them
with stones, and dispatch (ברא) them with their swords; they shall slay their
sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. (Ezek 23:47)
With respect to 1 Sam 2:29, consider the following note:
The reading of the Hebrew text of
1 Samuel 2:29 has been challenged and other readings proposed, but it is
interesting that the verb here appears just before mē-rē'shīt (“from the
beginning of”), rendered “with the chiefest” in KJV, i.e., the same word that
appears as be-rē'shīt (“in the beginning of”) in Genesis 1:1 with the
root br'. (John A. Tvedtnes, “Chapter 9: Creatio Ex Nihilo,” in Joseph
Smith and the Ancient World [unpublished])
