tenor <GEN43 -7> And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, [Is] your father yet alive? have ye [another] brother? and we told him according to the {tenor} of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, 
Bring your brother down?
tenor <EXO34 -27> And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the {tenor} of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

 
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