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These
are the words which Moses said to all Israel on the far side of Jordan, in
the waste land in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran on the one side,
and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab on the other. |
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It
is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to
Kadesh-barnea. |
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Now
in the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses gave to
the children of Israel all the orders which the Lord had given him for
them; |
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After
he had overcome Sihon, king of the Amorites, ruling in Heshbon, and Og, king
of Bashan, ruling in Ashtaroth, at Edrei: |
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1:5 |
On
the far side of Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses gave the people this law,
saying, |
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1:6 |
The
Lord our God said to us in Horeb, You have been long enough in this
mountain: |
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1:7 |
Make
a move now, and go on your way into the hill-country of the Amorites and the
places near it, in the Arabah and the hill-country and in the lowlands and in
the South and by the seaside, all the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as
far as the great river, the river Euphrates. |
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1:8 |
See,
all the land is before you: go in and take for yourselves the land which the
Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their
seed after them. |
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1:9 |
At
that time I said to you, I am not able to undertake the care of you by
myself; |
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1:10 |
The
Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of
heaven in number. |
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1:11 |
May
the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times greater in
number than you are, and give you his blessing as he has said! |
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1:12 |
How
is it possible for me by myself to be responsible for you, and undertake the
weight of all your troubles and your arguments? |
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1:13 |
Take
for yourselves men who are wise, far-seeing, and respected among you, from
your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. |
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1:14 |
And
you made answer and said to me, It is good for us to do as you say. |
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1:15 |
So
I took the heads of your tribes, wise men and respected, and made them rulers
over you, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds and captains of
fifties and captains of tens, and overseers of your tribes. |
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1:16 |
And
at that time I gave orders to your judges, saying, Let all questions between
your brothers come before you for hearing, and give decisions uprightly
between a man and his brother or one from another nation who is with him. |
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1:17 |
In
judging, do not let a man's position have any weight with you; give hearing
equally to small and great; have no fear of any man, for it is God who is
judge: and any cause in which you are not able to give a decision, you are to
put before me and I will give it a hearing. |
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1:18 |
And
at that time I gave you all the orders which you were to do. |
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1:19 |
Then
we went on from Horeb, through all that great and cruel waste which you saw,
on our way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as the Lord gave us orders;
and we came to Kadesh-barnea. |
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1:20 |
And
I said to you, You have come to the hill-country of the Amorites, which the
Lord our God is giving us. |
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1:21 |
See
now, the Lord your God has put the land into your hands: go up and take it,
as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has said to you; have no fear and do
not be troubled. |
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1:22 |
And
you came near to me, every one of you, and said, Let us send men before us to
go through the land with care and give us an account of the way we are to go
and the towns to which we will come. |
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1:23 |
And
what you said seemed good to me, and I took twelve men from among you, one
from every tribe; |
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1:24 |
And
they went up into the hill-country and came to the valley of Eshcol, and saw
what was there. |
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1:25 |
And
taking in their hands some of the fruit of the land, they came down again to
us, and gave us their account, saying, It is a good land which the Lord our
God is giving us. |
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1:26 |
But
going against the order of the Lord your God, you would not go up: |
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1:27 |
And
you made an angry outcry in your tents, and said, In his hate for us the Lord
has taken us out of the land of Egypt, to give us up into the hands of the
Amorites for our destruction. |
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1:28 |
Where
are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts feeble with fear by
saying, The people are greater and taller than we are, and the towns are
great and walled up to heaven; and more than this, we have seen the sons of
the Anakim there. |
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1:29 |
Then I
said to you, Have no fear of them. |
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1:30 |
The
Lord your God who goes before you will be fighting for you, and will do such
wonders as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; |
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1:31 |
And
in the waste land, where you have seen how the Lord was supporting you, as a
man does his son, in all your journeying till you came to this place. |
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But for all
this, you had no faith in the Lord your God, |
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1:33 |
Who
goes before you on your way, looking for a place where you may put up your
tents, in fire by night, lighting up the way you are to go, and in a cloud by
day. |
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1:34 |
And
the Lord, hearing your words, was angry, and said with an oath, |
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Truly,
not one of this evil generation will see that good land which I said I would
give to your fathers, |
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But
only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, he will see it; and to him and to his
children I will give the land over which his feet have gone, because he has
been True to the Lord with all his heart. |
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And,
in addition, the Lord was angry with me because of you, saying, You yourself
will not go into it: |
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1:38 |
Joshua,
the son of Nun, your servant, he will go into the land: say to him that he is
to be strong, for he will be Israel's guide into their heritage. |
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And
your little ones, who, you said, would come into strange hands, your
children, who now have no knowledge of good or evil, they will go into that
land, and to them I will give it and it will be theirs. |
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1:40 |
But
as for you, go back, journeying into the waste land by the way of the Red
Sea. |
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Then
you said to me, We have done evil against the Lord, we will go up to the
attack, as the Lord our God has given us orders. And arming yourselves every
one, you made ready to go up without care into the hill-country. |
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And
the Lord said to me, Say to them, Do not go up to the attack; for I am not
among you, and you will be overcome by those who are against you. |
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1:43 |
This
I said to you, but you gave no attention and went against the orders of the
Lord, and in your pride went up into the hill-country. |
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1:44 |
And
the Amorites who were in the hill-country came out against you and put you to
flight, rushing after you like bees, and overcame you in Seir, driving you
even as far as Hormah. |
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1:45 |
And
you came back, weeping before the Lord; but the Lord gave no attention to
your cries and did not give ear to you. |
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So you were kept
waiting in Kadesh for a long time. |
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2:1 |
Then
we went back, journeying into the waste land by the way to the Red Sea, as
the Lord had said to me: and we were a long time going round Mount Seir. |
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2:2 |
And the Lord said to
me, |
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2:3 |
You
have been journeying round this mountain long enough: now go to the
north; |
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2:4 |
And
give the people orders, saying, You are about to go through the land of your
brothers, the children of Esau, who are living in Seir; and they will have
fear of you; so take care what you do: |
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2:5 |
Make
no attack on them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even space
enough for a man's foot: because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for his
heritage. |
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2:6 |
You
may get food for your needs from them for a price, and water for
drinking. |
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2:7 |
For
the blessing of the Lord your God has been on you in all the work of your
hands: he has knowledge of your wanderings through this great waste: these
forty years the Lord your God has been with you, and you have been short of
nothing. |
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2:8 |
So
we went on past our brothers, the children of Esau, living in Seir, by the
road through the Arabah, from Elath and Ezion-geber. And turning, we went by
the road through the waste land of Moab. |
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2:9 |
And
the Lord said to me, Make no attack on Moab and do not go to war with them,
for I will not give you any of his land: because I have given Ar to the
children of Lot for their heritage. |
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2:10 |
(In
the past the Emim were living there; a great people, equal in numbers to the
Anakim and as tall; |
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2:11 |
They
are numbered among the Rephaim, like the Anakim; but are named Emim by the
Moabites. |
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2:12 |
And
the Horites in earlier times were living in Seir, but the children of Esau
took their place; they sent destruction on them and took their land for
themselves, as Israel did to the land of his heritage which the Lord gave
them.) |
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2:13 |
Get
up now, and go over the stream Zered. So we went over the stream Zered. |
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2:14 |
Thirty-eight
years had gone by from the time when we came away from Kadesh-barnea till we
went over the stream Zered; by that time all the generation of the men of war
among us were dead, as the Lord had said. |
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2:15 |
For
the hand of the Lord was against them, working their destruction, till all
were dead. |
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2:16 |
So
when death had overtaken all the men of war among the people, |
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2:17 |
The
word of the Lord came to me, saying, |
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2:18 |
You are
about to go by Ar, the limit of the country of Moab; |
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2:19 |
And
when you come near the land of the children of Ammon, give them no cause of
trouble and do not make war on them, for I will not give you any of the land
of the children of Ammon for your heritage: because I have given it to the
children of Lot. |
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(That
land is said to have been a land of the Rephaim, for Rephaim had been living
there in earlier times, but they were named Zamzummim by the Ammonites; |
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They
were a great people, tall as the Anakim, and equal to them in number; but the
Lord sent destruction on them and the children of Ammon took their place,
living in their land; |
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2:22 |
As
he did for the children of Esau living in Seir, when he sent destruction on
the Horites before them, and they took their land where they are living to
this day: |
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And
the Avvim, living in the small towns as far as Gaza, came to destruction by
the hands of the Caphtorim who came out from Caphtor and took their
land.) |
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2:24 |
Get
up now, and go on your journey, crossing over the valley of the Arnon: see, I
have given into your hands Sihon, the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and all his
land: go forward to make it yours, and make war on him, |
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2:25 |
From
now on I will put the fear of you in all peoples under heaven, who, hearing
of you, will be shaking with fear and grief of heart because of you. |
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2:26 |
Then
from the waste land of Kedemoth I sent representatives to Sihon, king of
Heshbon, with words of peace, saying, |
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2:27 |
Let
me go through your land: I will keep to the highway, not turning to the right
or to the left; |
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2:28 |
Let
me have food, at a price, for my needs, and water for drinking: only let me
go through on foot; |
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2:29 |
As
the children of Esau did for me in Seir and the Moabites in Ar; till I have
gone over Jordan into the land which the Lord our God is giving us. |
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But
Sihon, king of Heshbon, would not let us go through; for the Lord your God
made his spirit hard and his heart strong, so that he might give him up into
your hands as at this day. |
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And
the Lord said to me, See, from now on I have given Sihon and his land into
your hands: go forward now to take his land and make it yours. |
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Then
Sihon came out against us with all his people, to make an attack on us at
Jahaz. |
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And
the Lord our God gave him into our hands; and we overcame him and his sons
and all his people. |
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2:34 |
At
that time we took all his towns, and gave them over to complete destruction,
together with men, women, and children; we had no mercy on any: |
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2:35 |
Only
the cattle we took for ourselves, with the goods from the towns we had
taken. |
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2:36 |
From
Aroer on the edge of the valley of the Arnon and from the town in the valley
as far as Gilead, no town was strong enough to keep us out; the Lord our God
gave them all into our hands: |
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But
you did not go near the land of the children of Ammon, that is, all the side
of the river Jabbok or the towns of the hill-country, wherever the Lord our
God had said we were not to go. |
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3:1 |
Then
turning we took the road to Bashan: and Og, king of Bashan, came out against
us with all his people, and made an attack on us at Edrei. |
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And
the Lord said to me, Have no fear of him: for I have given him and all his
people and his land into your hands; do to him as you did to Sihon, king of
the Amorites, who was ruling in Heshbon. |
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So
the Lord our God gave up Og, king of Bashan, and all his people into our
hands; and we overcame him so completely that all his people came to their
end in the fight. |
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At
that time we took all his towns; there was not one town of the sixty towns,
all the country of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which we did not
take. |
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All
these towns had high walls round them with doors and locks; and in addition
we took a great number of unwalled towns. |
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And
we put them to the curse, every town together with men, women, and
children. |
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But
we took for ourselves all the cattle and the stored wealth of the towns. |
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3:8 |
At
that time we took their land from the two kings of the Amorites on the far
side of Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon; |
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(By
the Sidonians, Hermon is named Sirion, and by the Amorites Shenir;) |
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3:10 |
All
the towns of the table-land and all Gilead and Bashan as far as Salecah and
Edrei, towns of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. |
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(For
Og, king of Bashan, was the last of all the Rephaim; his bed was made of
iron; is it not in Rabbah, in the land of the children of Ammon? It was nine
cubits long and four cubits wide, measured by the common cubit.) |
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And
this land which we took at that time, from Aroer by the valley of the Arnon,
and half the hill-country of Gilead with its towns, I gave to the Reubenites
and the Gadites. |
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The
rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, all the land of Argob,
together with Bashan, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (This land is
named the land of the Rephaim. |
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Jair,
the son of Manasseh, took all the land of Argob, as far as the country of the
Geshurites and the Maacathites, naming it, Bashan, Havvoth-Jair after
himself, as it is to this day.) |
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And Gilead I gave
to Machir. |
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And
the land from Gilead to the valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the
valley as a limit, as far as the river Jabbok which is the limit of the
country of the children of Ammon, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites; |
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As
well as the Arabah, with the river Jordan as their limit, from Chinnereth to
the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah to the east. |
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At
that time I gave you orders, saying, The Lord has given you this land for
your heritage: all the men of war are to go over armed before your brothers
the children of Israel. |
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But
your wives and your little ones and your cattle (for it is clear that you
have much cattle) may go on living in the towns I have given you; |
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Till
the Lord has given rest to your brothers as to you, and till they have taken
for themselves the land which the Lord your God is giving them on the other
side of Jordan: then you may go back, every man of you, to the heritage which
I have given you. |
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And
I gave orders to Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen what the
Lord your God has done to these two kings: so will the Lord do to all the
kingdoms into which you come. |
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Have
no fear of them, for the Lord your God will be fighting for you. |
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And at that
time I made request to the Lord, saying, |
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O
Lord God, you have now for the first time let your servant see your great
power and the strength of your hand; for what god is there in heaven or on
earth able to do such great works and such acts of power? |
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Let
me go over, O Lord, and see the good land on the other side of Jordan, and
that fair mountain country, even Lebanon. |
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But
the Lord was angry with me because of you and would not give ear to my
prayer; and the Lord said to me, Let it be enough, say no more about this
thing. |
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Go
up to the top of Pisgah, and turning your eyes to the west and the north, to
the south and the east, see the land with your eyes: for you are not to go
over Jordan. |
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But
give my orders to Joshua, comforting him and making him strong; for he is to
go over Jordan at the head of this people, and he will give them this land
which you will see for their heritage. |
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So we were
waiting in the valley facing Beth-peor. |
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And
now give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I am teaching
you, and do them; so that life may be yours, and you may go in and take for
yourselves the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you. |
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Make
no addition to the orders which I give you, and take nothing from them, but
keep the orders of the Lord your God which I give you. |
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Your
eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for destruction came
from the Lord on all those among you who went after Baal-peor. |
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But
you who kept faith with the Lord are living, every one of you, today. |
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I
have been teaching you laws and decisions, as I was ordered to do by the Lord
my God, so that you might keep them in the land to which you are going to
take it for your heritage. |
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So
keep these laws and do them; for so will your wisdom and good sense be clear
in the eyes of the peoples, who hearing all these laws will say, Truly, this
great nation is a wise and far-seeing people. |
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For
what great nation has a god so near to them as the Lord our God is, whenever
we are turned to him in prayer? |
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And
what great nation has laws and decisions so right as all this law which I put
before you today? |
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Only
take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear that the things which your
eyes have seen go from your memory and from your heart all the days of your
life; but let the knowledge of them be given to your children and to your
children's children; |
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That
day when you were waiting before the Lord your God in Horeb, and the Lord
said to me, Make all the people come together, so that hearing my words they
may go in fear of me all the days of their life on earth and give this
teaching to their children. |
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And
you came near, waiting at the foot of the mountain; and flames of fire went
up from the mountain to the heart of heaven, with dark clouds, and all was
black as night. |
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And
the voice of the Lord came to you out of the fire: the sound of his words
came to your ears but you saw no form; there was nothing but a voice. |
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4:13 |
And
he gave you his agreement with you, the ten rules which you were to keep,
which he put in writing on the two stones of the law. |
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4:14 |
And
the Lord gave me orders at that time to make clear to you these laws and
decisions, so that you might do them in the land to which you are going, and
which is to be your heritage. |
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So
keep watch on yourselves with care; for you saw no form of any sort on the
day when the voice of the Lord came to you in Horeb out of the heart of the
fire: |
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So
that you may not be turned to evil ways and make for yourselves an image in
the form of any living thing, male or female, |
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Or any beast
of the earth, or winged bird of the air, |
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Or
of anything which goes flat on the earth, or any fish in the water under the
earth. |
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And
when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and
the stars, all the army of heaven, do not let yourselves be moved to give
them worship, or become the servants of what the Lord has given equally to
all peoples under heaven. |
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But
the Lord has taken you out of the flaming fire, out of Egypt, to be to him
the people of his heritage, as you are today. |
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And
the Lord was angry with me because of you, and made an oath that I was not to
go over Jordan into the good land which the Lord is giving you for your
heritage: |
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But
death is to come to me in this land, I may not go over Jordan: but you will
go over and take that good land for your heritage. |
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Take
care that you do not let the agreement of the Lord your God, which he has
made with you, go out of your mind, or make for yourselves images of any
sort, against the orders which the Lord your God has given you. |
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For
the Lord your God is an all-burning fire, and he will not let the honour
which is his be given to any other. |
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If,
when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a
long time in the land, you are turned to evil ways, and make an image of any
sort, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, moving him to wrath: |
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May
heaven and earth be my witnesses against you today, that destruction will
quickly overtake you, cutting you off from that land which you are going over
Jordan to take; your days will not be long in that land, but you will come to
a complete end. |
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And
the Lord will send you wandering among the peoples; only a small band of you
will be kept from death among the nations where the Lord will send you. |
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There
you will be the servants of gods, made by men's hands, of wood and stone,
having no power of seeing or hearing or taking food or smelling. |
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But
if in those lands you are turned again to the Lord your God, searching for
him with all your heart and soul, he will not keep himself from you. |
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When
you are in trouble and all these things have come on you, if, in the future,
you are turned again to the Lord your God, and give ear to his voice: |
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Because
the Lord your God is a God of mercy, he will not take away his help from you
or let destruction overtake you, or be False to the agreement which he made
by an oath with your fathers. |
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Give
thought now to the days which are past, before your time, from the day when
God first gave life to man on the earth, and searching from one end of heaven
to the other, see if such a great thing as this has ever been, or if anything
like it has been talked of in story. |
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Has
any people ever gone on living after hearing the voice of God out of the
heart of the fire as you did? |
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Has
God ever before taken a nation for himself from out of another nation, by
punishments and signs and wonders, by war and by a strong hand and a
stretched-out arm and great acts of wonder and fear, as the Lord your God did
for you in Egypt, before your very eyes? |
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All
this he let you see, so that you might be certain that the Lord is God and
there is no other. |
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Out
of heaven itself his voice came to you, teaching you; and on earth he let you
see his great fire; and his words came to your ears out of the heart of the
fire. |
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And
because of his love for your fathers, he took their seed and made it his, and
he himself, present among you, took you out of Egypt by his great power; |
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Driving
out before you nations greater and stronger than you, to take you into their
land and give it to you for your heritage, as at this day. |
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So
today be certain, and keep the knowledge deep in your hearts, that the Lord
is God, in heaven on high and here on earth; there is no other God. |
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Then
keep his laws and his orders which I give you today, so that it may be well
for you and for your children after you, and that your lives may be long in
the land which the Lord your God is giving you for ever. |
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Then
Moses had three towns marked out on the far side of Jordan looking to the
east; |
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To
which anyone causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through
hate, might go in flight; so that in one of these towns he might be kept from
death: |
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The
names of the towns were Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, for the
Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for
Manasseh. |
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This
is the law which Moses put before the children of Israel: |
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These
are the rules and the laws and the decisions which Moses gave to the children
of Israel after they came out of Egypt; |
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On
the far side of Jordan, in the valley facing Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon,
king of the Amorites, who was ruling in Heshbon, whom Moses and the children
of Israel overcame after they had come out of Egypt: |
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And
they took his land for a heritage, and the land of Og, king of Bashan, the
two kings of the Amorites, whose lands were on the other side of Jordan to
the east; |
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From
Aroer on the edge of the valley of the Arnon as far as Mount Sion, which is
Hermon, |
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And
all the Arabah on the far side of Jordan to the east, as far as the sea of
the Arabah under the slopes of Pisgah. |
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And
Moses sent for all Israel, and said to them, Give ear, O Israel, to the laws
and the decisions which I give you today, and give attention to them so that
you may keep and do them. |
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The Lord our
God made an agreement with us in Horeb. |
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The
Lord did not make this agreement with our fathers but with us, who are all
living and present here today. |
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The
word of the Lord came to you face to face on the mountain, out of the heart
of the fire, |
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(I
was between the Lord and you at that time, to make clear to you the word of
the Lord: because, through fear of the fire, you did not go up the mountain;)
saying, |
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I
am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the
prison-house. |
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You are to
have no other gods but me. |
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You
may not make for yourselves an image in the form of anything in heaven or on
earth or in the waters under the earth: |
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You
may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the
Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will
send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the
third and fourth generation of my haters; |
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And
I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for
me and keep my laws. |
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You
are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose;
whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged
as a sinner by the Lord. |
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Keep
the Sabbath day as a holy day, as you have been ordered by the Lord your
God. |
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On six days do all
your work: |
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But
the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day do no work,
you or your son or your daughter, or your man-servant or your woman-servant,
or your ox or your ass or any of your cattle, or the man from a strange
country who is living among you; so that your man-servant and your
woman-servant may have rest as well as you. |
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And
keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord
your God took you out of that land by his strong hand and his stretched-out
arm: for this reason the Lord has given you orders to keep the Sabbath day. |
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Give
honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord
your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the
land which the Lord your God is giving you. |
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Do not
put anyone to death without cause. |
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Do not
be False to the married relation. |
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Do not take
the property of another. |
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Do
not give False witness against your neighbour; |
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Or
let your desire be turned to your neighbour's wife, or his house or his field
or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything
which is your neighbour's. |
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These
words the Lord said to all of you together on the mountain, out of the heart
of the fire, out of the cloud and the dark, with a great voice: and he said
no more; he put them in writing on the two stones of the law and gave them to
me. |
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And
after hearing the voice which came out of the dark while the mountain was
burning with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your chiefs came to
me, |
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And
said, The Lord has let us see his glory and his power, and his voice has come
to us out of the fire: today we have seen that a man may go on living even
after hearing the voice of God. |
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Why
then is death to be our fate? For if the voice of the Lord our God comes to
us any more, death will overtake us, and we will be burned up in this great
fire. |
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For
what man is there in all the earth, who, hearing the voice of the living God
as we have, out of the heart of the fire, has been kept from death? |
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Do
you go near: and after hearing everything which the Lord our God has to say,
give us an account of all he has said to you, and we will give ear, and do
it. |
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Then
the Lord, hearing your words to me, said to me, The words which this people
have said to you have come to my ears: what they have said is well said. |
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If
only they had such a heart in them at all times, so that they might go in
fear of me and keep my orders and that it might be well for them and for
their children for ever! |
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Now say
to them, Go back to your tents. |
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But
as for you, keep your place here by me, and I will give you all the orders
and the laws and the decisions which you are to make clear to them, so that
they may do them in the land which I am giving them for their heritage. |
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Take
care, then, to do whatever the Lord your God has given you orders to do; let
there be no turning away to the right hand or to the left. |
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Go
on walking in the way ordered for you by the Lord your God, so that life may
be yours and it may be well for you, and your days may be long in the land of
your heritage. |
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Now
these are the orders and the laws and the decisions which the Lord your God
gave me for your teaching, so that you might do them in the land of your
heritage to which you are going: |
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So
that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and
his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the
days of your life; and so that your life may be long. |
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So
give ear, O Israel, and take care to do this; so that it may be well for you,
and you may be greatly increased, as the Lord the God of your fathers has
given you his word, in a land flowing with milk and honey. |
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Give
ear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord: |
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And
the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart and with all your soul
and with all your strength. |
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Keep
these words, which I say to you this day, deep in your hearts; |
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Teaching
them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in
your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get
up. |
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Let
them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow; |
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Have
them lettered on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your
towns. |
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And
when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to
your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you;
with great and fair towns which were not of your building; |
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And
houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water
which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your
planting; and you have taken food and are full; |
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Then
take care that you keep your hearts True to the Lord, who took you out of the
land of Egypt, out of the prison-house. |
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Let
the fear of the Lord your God be in your hearts, and be his servants, taking
your oaths by his name. |
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Do
not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about you; |
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6:15 |
For
the Lord your God who is with you is a God who will not let his honour be
given to another; or the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you,
causing your destruction from the face of the earth. |
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Do
not put the Lord your God to the test as you did in Massah. |
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Keep
with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which
he has given you; |
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6:18 |
And
do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may
be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land
from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers, |
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To send
out from before you all those who are against you. |
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And
when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for these rules
and laws and decisions which the Lord our God has given you? |
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Then
you will say to your son, We were servants under Pharaoh's yoke in Egypt; and
the Lord took us out of Egypt with a strong hand: |
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And
the Lord did great signs and wonders against Egypt, and against Pharaoh and
all his house, before our eyes: |
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And
he took us out from that place, guiding us here to give us this land, as he
said in his oath to our fathers. |
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And
the Lord gave us orders to keep all these laws, in the fear of the Lord our
God, so that it might be well for us for ever, and that he might keep us from
death, as he has done to this day. |
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And
it will be our righteousness if we take care to keep all this order before
the Lord our God as he has given it to us. |
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When
the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be
your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the
Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the
Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you; |
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And
when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them,
give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have
no mercy on them: |
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Do
not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to
their sons, or take their daughters for your sons. |
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For
through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods:
and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you
quickly. |
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But
this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and
their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned
with fire. |
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For
you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God
to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the
earth. |
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The
Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more
in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the
nations: |
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But
because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers,
the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the
prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. |
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Be
certain, then, that the Lord your God is God; whose faith and mercy are
unchanging, who keeps his word through a thousand generations to those who
have love for him and keep his laws; |
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Rewarding
his haters to their face with destruction; he will have no mercy on his
hater, but will give him open punishment. |
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So
keep the orders and the laws and the decisions which I give you today and do
them. |
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And
it will be, that if you give attention to these decisions and keep and do
them, then the Lord will keep his agreement with you and his mercy, as he
said in his oath to your fathers. |
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And
he will give you his love, blessing you and increasing you: he will send his
blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain
and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your
flock, in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give
you. |
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You
will have greater blessings than any other people: no male or female among
you or among your cattle will be without offspring. |
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And
the Lord will take away from you all disease, and will not put on you any of
the evil diseases of Egypt which you have seen, but will put them on your
haters. |
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And
you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives
into your hands; have no pity on them, and do not give worship to their gods;
for that will be a cause of sin to you. |
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If
you say in your hearts, These nations are greater in number than we are: how
are we to take their land from them? |
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Have
no fear of them, but keep well in mind what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh
and to all Egypt; |
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The
great punishments which your eyes saw, and the signs and the wonders and the
strong hand and the stretched-out arm, by which the Lord your God took you
out: so will the Lord your God do to all the peoples who are the cause of
your fears. |
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And
the Lord will send a hornet among them, till all the rest who have kept
themselves safe from you in secret places have been cut off. |
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Have
no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, a great God greatly to be
feared. |
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The
Lord your God will send out the nations before you little by little; they are
not to be rooted out quickly, for fear that the beasts of the field may be
increased overmuch against you. |
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But
the Lord your God will give them up into your hands, overpowering them till
their destruction is complete. |
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He
will give their kings into your hands, and you will put their names out of
existence under heaven; there is not one of them who will not give way before
you, till their destruction is complete. |
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The
images of their gods are to be burned with fire: have no desire for the gold
and silver on them, and do not take it for yourselves, for it will be a
danger to you: it is a thing disgusting to the Lord your God: |
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And
you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed
with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and
hate, for it is a cursed thing. |
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8:1 |
Take
care to keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may have life
and be increased and go in and take as a heritage the land which the Lord, by
his oath to your fathers, undertook to give you. |
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8:2 |
And
keep in mind the way by which the Lord your God has taken you through the
waste land these forty years, so that he might make low your pride and put
you to the test, to see what was in your heart and if you would keep his
orders or not. |
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And
he made low your pride and let you be without food and gave you manna for
your food, a thing new to you, which your fathers never saw; so that he might
make it clear to you that bread is not man's only need, but his life is in
every word which comes out of the mouth of the Lord. |
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Through
all these forty years your clothing did not get old or your feet become
tired. |
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Keep
in mind this thought, that as a son is trained by his father, so you have
been trained by the Lord your God. |
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Then
keep the orders of the Lord your God, fearing him and walking in his
ways. |
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8:7 |
For
the Lord your God is guiding you into a good land, a land of water-springs,
of fountains, and deep streams flowing out from the valleys and the
hills; |
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A
land of grain and vines and fig-trees and fair fruits; a land of oil-giving
olive-trees and honey; |
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Where
there will be bread for you in full measure and you will be in need of
nothing; a land where the very stones are iron and from whose hills you may
get copper. |
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8:10 |
And
you will have food enough and be full, praising the Lord your God for the
good land he has given you. |
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8:11 |
Then
take care that you are not turned away from the Lord your God and from
keeping his orders and decisions and laws which I give you this day: |
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8:12 |
And
when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for
yourselves and are living in them; |
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And
when your herds and your flocks are increased, and your stores of silver and
gold, and you have wealth of every sort; |
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8:14 |
Take
care that your hearts are not lifted up in pride, giving no thought to the
Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the
prison-house; |
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8:15 |
Who
was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were
poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come
out of the hard rock for you; |
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8:16 |
Who
gave you manna for your food in the waste land, a food which your fathers had
never seen; so that your pride might be broken and your hearts tested for
your good in the end; |
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Say
not then, in your hearts, My power and the strength of my hands have got me
this wealth. |
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8:18 |
But
keep in mind the Lord your God: for it is he who gives you the power to get
wealth, so that he may give effect to the agreement which he made by his oath
with your fathers, as at this day. |
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8:19 |
And
it is certain that if at any time you are turned away from the Lord your God,
and go after other gods, to be their servants and to give them worship,
destruction will overtake you. |
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8:20 |
Like
the nations which the Lord is cutting off before you, so you will be cut off;
because you would not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God. |
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9:1 |
Give
ear, O Israel: today you are to go over Jordan, to take the heritage of
nations greater and stronger than yourselves, and towns of great size with
walls as high as heaven; |
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9:2 |
A
people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, of whom you have knowledge and
of whom it has been said, All are forced to give way before the sons of
Anak. |
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9:3 |
Be
certain then today that it is the Lord your God who goes over before you like
an all-burning fire; he will send destruction on them, crushing them before
you; and you will send them in flight, putting an end to them quickly, as the
Lord has said. |
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And
after the Lord has sent them in flight from before you, say not in your
heart, Because of my righteousness the Lord has given me this land; when it
is because of their evil-doing that the Lord is driving these nations out
before you. |
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9:5 |
Not
for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to
take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your
God is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to
your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. |
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Be
certain then that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land as a
reward for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people. |
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9:7 |
Keep
well in mind how you made the Lord your God angry in the waste land; from the
day when you went out of Egypt till you came to this place, you have gone
against the orders of the Lord. |
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9:8 |
Again
in Horeb you made the Lord angry, and in his wrath he would have put an end
to you. |
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9:9 |
When
I had gone up into the mountain to be given the stones on which was recorded
the agreement which the Lord made with you, I was on the mountain for forty
days and forty nights without taking food or drinking water. |
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9:10 |
And
the Lord gave me the two stones with writing on them done by the finger of
God: on them were recorded all the words which the Lord said to you on the
mountain out of the heart of the fire, on the day of the great meeting. |
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9:11 |
Then
at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me those stones, the
stones of the agreement. |
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And
the Lord said to me, Get up now, and go down quickly from this place; for the
people you have taken out of Egypt have given themselves over to evil; they
have quickly been turned from the way in which I gave them orders to go; they
have made themselves a metal image. |
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And
then the Lord said to me, I have seen that this people is stiff-necked: |
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Let
me send destruction on them till their very name is cut off; and I will make
of you a nation greater and stronger than they. |
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So
turning round I came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning
with fire; and the two stones of the agreement were in my hands. |
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And
I saw that you had done evil against the Lord, and had made for yourselves a
metal image of a young ox: you had quickly been turned from the way in which
the Lord had given you orders to go. |
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9:17 |
And
I let the stones go from my hands, and they were broken before your
eyes. |
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9:18 |
And
I went down on my face before the Lord, as at the first, for forty days and
forty nights, without taking food or drinking water, because of all your sin,
in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord and moving him to wrath. |
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9:19 |
For
I was full of fear because of the wrath of the Lord which was burning against
you, with your destruction in view. But again the Lord's ear was open to my
prayer. |
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9:20 |
And
the Lord, in his wrath, would have put Aaron to death: and I made prayer for
Aaron at the same time. |
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9:21 |
And
I took your sin, the image which you had made, and put it in the fire and had
it hammered and crushed very small till it was only dust: and the dust I put
in the stream flowing down from the mountain. |
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9:22 |
Again
at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you made the Lord
angry. |
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9:23 |
And
when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and take the land
which I have given you; you went against the orders of the Lord your God, and
had no faith in him, and would not give ear to his voice. |
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9:24 |
From
the day when I first had knowledge of you, you have gone against the word of
the Lord. |
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9:25 |
So
I went down on my face in prayer before the Lord for forty days and forty
nights as I did at first; because the Lord had said that he would put an end
to you. |
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9:26 |
And
I made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord God, do not send destruction on
your people and your heritage, to whom, by your great power, you have given
salvation, whom you have taken out of Egypt by the strength of your hand. |
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9:27 |
Keep
in mind your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, not looking at the hard
heart of this people, or their evil-doing and their sin: |
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Or
it may be said in the land from which you have taken them, Because the Lord
was not able to take them into the land which he said he would give them, and
because of his hate for them, he has taken them out to put them to death in
the waste land. |
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But
still they are your people and your heritage, whom you took out by your great
power and by your stretched-out arm. |
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10:1 |
At
that time the Lord said to me, Make two other stones, cut like the first two,
and come up to me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood. |
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10:2 |
And
I will put on the stones the words which were on the first stones which were
broken by you, and you are to put them into the ark. |
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10:3 |
So
I made an ark of hard wood, and had two stones cut like the others, and went
up the mountain with the stones in my hands. |
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10:4 |
And
he put on the stones, as in the first writing, the ten rules which the Lord
gave you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the great meeting: and
the Lord gave the stones to me. |
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10:5 |
And
turning round I came down from the mountain and put the stones in the ark
which I had made; and there they are as the Lord gave me orders. |
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10:6 |
(And
the children of Israel went on from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah: there
death came to Aaron and he was put to rest in the earth; and Eleazar, his
son, took his place as priest. |
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10:7 |
From
there they went on to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of
streams of water. |
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10:8 |
At
that time the Lord had the tribe of Levi marked out to take up the ark of the
Lord's agreement, to be before the Lord and to do his work and to give
blessings in his name, to this day. |
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10:9 |
For
this reason Levi has no part or heritage for himself among his brothers: the
Lord is his heritage, as the Lord your God said to him.) |
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10:10 |
And
I was in the mountain, as at the first time, for forty days and forty nights;
and again the ears of the Lord were open to my prayer, and he did not send
destruction on you. |
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10:11 |
Then
the Lord said to me, Get up and go on your journey before the people, so that
they may go in and take the land which I said in my oath to their fathers
that I would give them. |
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10:12 |
And
now, Israel, what would the Lord your God have you do, but to go in the fear
of the Lord your God, walking in all his ways and loving him and doing his
pleasure with all your heart and all your soul, |
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10:13 |
Doing
the orders of the Lord and keeping his laws which I give you this day for
your good? |
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10:14 |
The
Lord your God is ruler of heaven, of the heaven of heavens, and of the earth
with everything in it. |
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10:15 |
But
the Lord had delight in your fathers and love for them, marking out for
himself their seed after them, even you, from all peoples, as at this
day. |
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10:16 |
Let
your circumcision be of the heart, and put away your pride. |
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10:17 |
For
the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, strong in
power and greatly to be feared, who has no respect for any man's position and
takes no rewards: |
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10:18 |
Judging
uprightly in the cause of the widow and of the child who has no father, and
giving food and clothing in his mercy to the man from a strange country. |
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10:19 |
So
be kind to the man from a strange country who is living among you, for you
yourselves were living in a strange country in the land of Egypt. |
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10:20 |
Let
the fear of the Lord your God be before you, give him worship and be True to
him at all times, taking your oaths in his name. |
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10:21 |
He
is your God, the God of your praise, your God who has done for you all these
works of power which your eyes have seen. |
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10:22 |
Your
fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the Lord your God
has made you like the stars of heaven in number. |
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11:1 |
So
have love for the Lord your God, and give him worship, and keep his laws and
his decisions and his orders at all times. |
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11:2 |
And
be certain in your minds this day; for these words are not said to your
children, who have had no experience of the training of the Lord your God,
and who have not seen his great power or his strong hand and his
stretched-out arm, |
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11:3 |
Or
his signs and wonders which he did in Egypt, to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and
all his land; |
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11:4 |
And
what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and their war-carriages;
how he made the waters of the Red Sea come up over them when they went after
you, and how the Lord put an end to them even to this day; |
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11:5 |
And
what he did for you in the waste land, till you came to this place; |
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11:6 |
And
what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; when
they went down into the open mouth of the earth, with their families and
their tents and every living thing which was theirs, before the eyes of all
Israel: |
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11:7 |
But
your eyes have seen all the great works of the Lord which he has done. |
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11:8 |
So
keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may be strong, and go
in and take the land which is to be your heritage; |
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11:9 |
And
that your days may be long in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your
fathers and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and
honey. |
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11:10 |
For
the land where you are going is not like the land of Egypt from which you
have come, where you put in your seeds, watering them with your foot, like a
planted garden: |
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11:11 |
But
the land where you are going is a land of hills and valleys, drinking in the
rain of heaven: |
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11:12 |
A
land cared for by the Lord your God: the eyes of the Lord your God are on it
at all times from one end of the year to the other. |
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11:13 |
And
it will be that if you truly give ear to the orders which I put before you
this day, loving the Lord your God and worshipping him with all your heart
and all your soul, |
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11:14 |
Then
I will send rain on your land at the right time, the early rains and the late
rains, so that you may get in your grain and your wine and your oil. |
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11:15 |
And
I will give grass in your fields for your cattle, so that you may have food
in full measure. |
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11:16 |
But
take care that your hearts are not turned to False ways so that you become
servants and worshippers of other gods; |
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11:17 |
For
if you do so, the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, and the
heaven will be shut up so that there is no rain and the land will give no
fruit; and in a very little time you will be cut off from the good land which
the Lord is giving you. |
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11:18 |
So
keep these words deep in your heart and in your soul, and have them fixed on
your hand for a sign and marked on your brow; |
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11:19 |
Teaching
them to your children, and talking of them when you are at rest in your house
or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up: |
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11:20 |
Writing
them on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns: |
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11:21 |
So
that your days, and the days of your children, may be long in the land which
the Lord by his oath to your fathers said he would give them, like the days
of the eternal heavens. |
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11:22 |
For
if you take care to keep all the orders which I give you, and to do them;
loving the Lord your God and walking in all his ways and being True to
him: |
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11:23 |
Then
the Lord will send these nations in flight before you, and you will take the
lands of nations greater and stronger than yourselves. |
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11:24 |
Every
place where you put your foot will be yours: from the waste land and Lebanon,
from the river, the river Euphrates as far as the Great Sea, will be the
limits of your land. |
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11:25 |
All
people will give way before you: for the Lord your God will put the fear of
you on all the land through which you go, as he has said. |
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11:26 |
Today
I put before you a blessing and a curse: |
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11:27 |
The
blessing if you give ear to the orders of the Lord your God, which I give you
this day: |
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11:28 |
And
the curse if you do not give ear to the orders of the Lord your God, but let
yourselves be turned from the way which I have put before you this day, and
go after other gods which are not yours. |
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11:29 |
And
when the Lord your God has taken you into the land of your heritage, you are
to put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. |
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11:30 |
Are
they not on the other side of Jordan, looking west, in the land of the
Canaanites living in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, by the holy tree of
Moreh? |
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For
you are about to go over Jordan to take the heritage which the Lord your God
is giving you, and it will be your resting-place. |
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11:32 |
And
you are to take care to keep all the laws and the decisions which I put
before you today. |
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12:1 |
These
are the laws and the decisions which you are to keep with care in the land
which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to be your heritage
all the days of your life on earth. |
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12:2 |
You
are to give up to the curse all those places where the nations, whom you are
driving out, gave worship to their gods, on the high mountains and the hills
and under every green tree: |
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Their
altars and their pillars are to be broken down, and their holy trees burned
with fire, and the images of their gods cut down; you are to take away their
names out of that place. |
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Do not so to the
Lord your God. |
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12:5 |
But
let your hearts be turned to the place which will be marked out by the Lord
your God, among your tribes, to put his name there; |
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And
there you are to take your burned offerings and other offerings, and the
tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up to the Lord, and
the offerings of your oaths, and those which you give freely from the impulse
of your hearts, and the first births among your herds and your flocks; |
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12:7 |
There
you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with
joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you
his blessing. |
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12:8 |
You
are not to do things then in the way in which we now do them here, every man
as it seems right to him: |
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12:9 |
For
you have not come to the rest and the heritage which the Lord your God is
giving you. |
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12:10 |
But
when you have gone over Jordan and are living in the land which the Lord your
God is giving you as your heritage, and when he has given you rest from all
those on every side who are fighting against you, and you are living there
safely; |
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12:11 |
Then
there will be a place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place
for his name, and there you will take all the things which I give you orders
to take: your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of
your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up, and the offerings of your
oaths which you make to the Lord; |
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12:12 |
And
you will be glad before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your
daughters, and your men-servants and your women-servants, and the Levite who
is with you in your house, because he has no part or heritage among you. |
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12:13 |
Take
care that you do not make your burned offerings in any place you see: |
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12:14 |
But
in the place marked out by the Lord in one of your tribes, there let your
burned offerings be offered, and there do what I have given you orders to
do. |
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12:15 |
Only
you may put to death animals, such as the gazelle or the roe, for your food
in any of your towns, at the desire of your soul, in keeping with the
blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you: the unclean and the
clean may take of it. |
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12:16 |
But
you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth
like water. |
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12:17 |
In
your towns you are not to take as food the tenth part of your grain, or of
your wine or your oil, or the first births of your herds or of your flocks,
or anything offered under an oath, or freely offered to the Lord, or given as
a lifted offering; |
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12:18 |
But
they will be your food before the Lord your God in the place of his
selection, where you may make a feast of them, with your son and your
daughter, and your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is
living with you: and you will have joy before the Lord your God in everything
to which you put your hand. |
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12:19 |
See
that you do not give up caring for the Levite as long as you are living in
your land. |
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12:20 |
When
the Lord your God makes wide the limit of your land, as he has said, and you
say, I will take flesh for my food, because you have a desire for it; then
you may take whatever flesh you have a desire for. |
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If
the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name
is far away from you, then take from your herds and from your flocks which
the Lord has given you, as I have said, and have a meal of it in the towns
where you may be living. |
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12:22 |
It
will be your food, like the gazelle and the roe; the unclean and the clean
may take of it. |
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12:23 |
But
see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and
you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh. |
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12:24 |
Do
not take it for food but let it be drained out on the earth like water. |
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12:25 |
Do
not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children
after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord. |
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12:26 |
But
the holy things which you have, and the offerings of your oaths, you are to
take to the place which will be marked out by the Lord: |
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12:27 |
Offering
the flesh and the blood of your burned offerings on the altar of the Lord
your God; and the blood of your offerings is to be drained out on the altar
of the Lord your God, and the flesh will be your food. |
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12:28 |
Take
note of all these orders I am giving you and give attention to them, so that
it may be well for you and for your children after you for ever, while you do
what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God. |
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12:29 |
When
the people of the land where you are going have been cut off before you by
the Lord your God, and you have taken their land and are living in it; |
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12:30 |
After
their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do
not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to
their gods? I will do as they did. |
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Do
not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord
and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their
sons and daughters in the fire to their gods. |
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You
are to keep with care all the words I give you, making no addition to them
and taking nothing from them. |
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13:1 |
If
ever you have among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams and he gives you a
sign or a wonder, |
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And
the sign or the wonder takes place, and he says to you, Let us go after other
gods, which are strange to you, and give them worship; |
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Then
give no attention to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams: for
the Lord your God is testing you, to see if all the love of your heart and
soul is given to him. |
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But
keep on in the ways of the Lord your God, fearing him and keeping his orders
and hearing his voice, worshipping him and being True to him. |
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And
that prophet or that dreamer of dreams is to be put to death; for his words
were said with the purpose of turning you away from the Lord your God, who
took you out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house;
and of forcing you out of the way in which the Lord your God has given you
orders to go. So you are to put away the evil from among you. |
13:6 |
If
your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the
wife of your heart, or the friend who is as dear to you as your life, working
on you secretly says to you, Let us go and give worship to other gods,
strange to you and to your fathers; |
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Gods
of the peoples round about you, near or far, from one end of the earth to the
other; |
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Do
not be guided by him or give attention to him; have no pity on him or mercy,
and give him no cover; |
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But
put him to death without question; let your hand be the first stretched out
against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people. |
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Let
him be stoned with stones till he is dead; because it was his purpose to make
you False to the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of
the prison-house. |
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And
all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and no one will again do
such evil as this among you. |
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And
if word comes to you, in one of the towns which the Lord your God is giving
you for your resting-place, |
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That
good-for-nothing persons have gone out from among you, turning the people of
their town from the right way and saying, Let us go and give worship to other
gods, of whom you have no knowledge; |
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Then
let a full search be made, and let questions be put with care; and if it is
True and certain that such a disgusting thing has been done among you; |
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Then
take up arms against the people of that town and give it up to the curse,
with all its cattle and everything in it. |
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And
take all the goods into the middle of its open space, burning the town and
all its property with fire as an offering to the Lord your God; it is to be a
waste for ever; there is to be no more building there. |
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13:17 |
Keep
not a thing of what is cursed for yourselves: so the Lord may be turned away
from the heat of his wrath, and have mercy on you, and give you increase as
he said in his oath to your fathers: |
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So
long as you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep all his
orders which I give you today, and do what is right in the eyes of the Lord
your God. |
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14:1 |
You
are the children of the Lord your God: you are not to make cuts on your
bodies or take off the hair on your brows in honour of the dead; |
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14:2 |
For
you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has taken you to be
his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth. |
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No
disgusting thing may be your food. |
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14:4 |
These
are the beasts which you may have for food: the ox, the sheep, and the
goat; |
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14:5 |
The
hart, the gazelle, and the roe, the mountain goat and the pygarg and the
antelope and the mountain sheep. |
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Any
beast which has a division in the horn of its foot and whose food comes back
into its mouth to be crushed again, may be used for food. |
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But
even among these, there are some which may not be used for food: such as the
camel, the hare, and the coney, which are unclean to you, because, though
their food comes back, the horn of their feet is not parted in two. |
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And
the pig is unclean to you, because though it has a division in the horn of
its foot, its food does not come back; their flesh may not be used for food
or their dead bodies touched by you. |
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And
of the things living in the waters, you may take all those who have wings for
swimming with and skins formed of thin plates. |
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But
any which have no skin-plates or wings for swimming, you may not take; they
are unclean for you. |
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All clean
birds may be used for food. |
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But
these birds you may not take: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the
ospray; |
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14:13 |
The
falcon and the kite, and birds of that sort; |
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14:14 |
Every
raven, and all birds of that sort; |
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And
the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk and birds of that sort; |
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The little owl
and the great owl and the water-hen; |
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And the pelican
and the vulture and the cormorant; |
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The
stork and the heron and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat. |
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Every
winged thing which goes flat on the earth is unclean to you and may not be
used as food. |
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But all clean
birds you may take. |
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14:21 |
You
may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from
another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a
price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the
Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk. |
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14:22 |
Put
on one side a tenth of all the increase of your seed, produced year by
year. |
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And
make a feast before the Lord your God, in the place which is to be marked
out, where his name will be for ever, of the tenth part of your grain and
your wine and your oil, and the first births of your herds and your flocks;
so that you may have the fear of the Lord your God in your hearts at all
times. |
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And
if the way is so long that you are not able to take these things to the place
marked out by the Lord your God for his name, when he has given you his
blessing, because it is far away from you; |
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Then
let these things be exchanged for money, and, taking the money in your hand,
go to the place marked out by the Lord your God for himself; |
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And
with the money get whatever you have a desire for, oxen or sheep or wine or
strong drink, whatever your soul's desire may be: and make a feast there
before the Lord your God, and be glad, you and all your house; |
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And
give a thought to the Levite who is living among you, for he has no part or
heritage in the land. |
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At
the end of every three years take a tenth part of all your increase for that
year, and put it in store inside your walls: |
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And
the Levite, because he has no part or heritage in the land, and the man from
a strange country, and the child who has no father, and the widow, who are
living among you, will come and take food and have enough; and so the
blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do. |
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15:1 |
At
the end of every seven years there is to be a general forgiveness of
debt. |
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This
is how it is to be done: every creditor is to give up his right to whatever
he has let his neighbour have; he is not to make his neighbour, his
countryman, give it back; because a general forgiveness has been ordered by
the Lord. |
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A
man of another nation may be forced to make payment of his debt, but if your
brother has anything of yours, let it go; |
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But
there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will certainly give you his
blessing in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your
heritage; |
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15:5 |
If
only you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to keep
all these orders which I give you today. |
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For
the Lord your God will give you his blessing as he has said: you will let
other nations have the use of your money, but you will not make use of
theirs; you will be rulers over a number of nations, but they will not be
your rulers. |
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If
in any of your towns in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, there
is a poor man, one of your countrymen, do not let your heart be hard or your
hand shut to him; |
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But
let your hand be open to give him the use of whatever he is in need of. |
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And
see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to
yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking
coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an
outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you. |
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But
it is right for you to give to him, without grief of heart: for because of
this, the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all your work and on
everything to which you put your hand. |
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For
there will never be a time when there are no poor in the land; and so I give
orders to you, Let your hand be open to your countrymen, to those who are
poor and in need in your land. |
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15:12 |
If
one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a
price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go
free. |
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And
when you make him free, do not let him go away with nothing in his
hands: |
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But
give him freely from your flock and from your grain and your wine: in the
measure of the wealth which the Lord your God has given you, you are to give
to him. |
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And
keep in mind that you yourself were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the
Lord your God made you free: so I give you this order today. |
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But
if he says to you, I have no desire to go away from you; because you and your
family are dear to him and he is happy with you; |
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Then
take a sharp-pointed instrument, driving it through his ear into the door,
and he will be your servant for ever. And you may do the same for your
servant-girl. |
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Let
it not seem hard to you that you have to send him away free; for he has been
working for you for six years, which is twice the regular time for a servant:
and the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do. |
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15:19 |
All
the first males to come to birth in your herd and your flock are to be holy
to the Lord your God: the first birth of your ox is not to be used for work,
the wool of your first lamb is not to be cut. |
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But
year by year you and all your house are to take a meal of it before the Lord,
in the place of his selection. |
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But
if it has any mark on it, if it is blind or has damaged legs, or if there is
anything wrong with it, it may not be offered to the Lord your God. |
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It
may be used for food in your houses: the unclean and the clean may take of
it, as of the gazelle and the roe. |
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Only
do not take its blood for food, but let it be drained out on the earth like
water. |
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16:1 |
Take
note of the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God: for in
the month of Abib the Lord your God took you out of Egypt by night. |
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The
Passover offering, from your flock or your herd, is to be given to the Lord
your God in the place marked out by him as the resting-place of his
name. |
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Take
no leavened bread with it; for seven days let your food be unleavened bread,
that is, the bread of sorrow; for you came out of the land of Egypt quickly:
so the memory of that day, when you came out of the land of Egypt, will be
with you all your life. |
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For
seven days let no leaven be used through all your land; and nothing of the
flesh which is put to death in the evening of the first day is to be kept
through the night till morning. |
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The
Passover offering is not to be put to death in any of the towns which the
Lord your God gives you: |
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But
in the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place of his
name, there you are to put the Passover to death in the evening, at sundown,
at that time of the year when you came out of Egypt. |
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It
is to be cooked and taken as food in the place marked out by the Lord: and in
the morning you are to go back to your tents. |
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For
six days let your food be unleavened bread; and on the seventh day there is
to be a holy meeting to the Lord your God; no work is to be done. |
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Let
seven weeks be numbered from the first day when the grain is cut. |
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16:10 |
Then
keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God, with an offering freely given
to him from the wealth he has given you: |
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16:11 |
Then
you are to be glad before the Lord your God, you and your son and your
daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is with
you, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and
the widow, who are living among you, in the place marked out by the Lord your
God as a resting-place for his name. |
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And
you will keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt: and you
will take care to keep all these laws. |
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16:13 |
You
are to keep the feast of tents for seven days after you have got in all your
grain and made your wine: |
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16:14 |
You
are to keep the feast with joy, you and your son and your daughter, your
man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite, and the man from a
strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are
living among you. |
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Keep
the feast to the Lord your God for seven days, in the place marked out by the
Lord: because the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all the produce of
your land and all the work of your hands, and you will have nothing but joy. |
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Three
times in the year let all your males come before the Lord your God in the
place named by him; at the feast of unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, and
the feast of tents: and they are not to come before the Lord with nothing in
their hands; |
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Every
man is to give as he is able, in the measure of the blessing which the Lord
your God has given you. |
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16:18 |
You
are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God
gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the
people in righteousness. |
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You
are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take
rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions
of the upright false. |
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Let
righteousness be your guide, so that you may have life, and take for your
heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you. |
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Let
no holy tree of any sort be planted by the altar of the Lord your God which
you will make. |
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16:22 |
You
are not to put up stone pillars, for they are hated by the Lord your
God. |
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17:1 |
No
ox or sheep which has a mark on it or is damaged in any way may be offered to
the Lord your God: for that is disgusting to the Lord your God. |
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If
there is any man or woman among you, in any of the towns which the Lord your
God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, sinning
against his agreement, |
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By
becoming a servant of other gods and worshipping them or the sun or the moon
or all the stars of heaven, against my orders; |
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If
word of this comes to your ears, then let this thing be looked into with
care, and if there is no doubt that it is true, and such evil has been done
in Israel; |
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Then
you are to take the man or woman who has done the evil to the public place of
your town, and they are to be stoned with stones till they are dead. |
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On
the word of two or three witnesses, a man may be given the punishment of
death; but he is not to be put to death on the word of one witness. |
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The
hands of the witnesses will be the first to put him to death, and after them
the hands of all the people. So you are to put away the evil from among
you. |
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If
you are not able to give a decision as to who is responsible for a death, or
who is right in a cause, or who gave the first blow in a fight, and there is
a division of opinion about it in your town: then go to the place marked out
by the Lord your God; |
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And
come before the priests, the Levites, or before him who is judge at the time:
and they will go into the question and give you a decision: |
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And
you are to be guided by the decision they give in the place named by the
Lord, and do whatever they say: |
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Acting
in agreement with their teaching and the decision they give: not turning to
one side or the other from the word they have given you. |
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And
any man who, in his pride, will not give ear to the priest whose place is
there before the Lord your God, or to the judge, is to be put to death: you
are to put away the evil from Israel. |
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And
all the people, hearing of it, will be full of fear and put away their
pride. |
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17:14 |
When
you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and have
taken it for a heritage and are living in it, if it is your desire to have a
king over you, like the other nations round about you; |
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Then
see that you take as your king the man named by the Lord your God: let your
king be one of your countrymen, not a man of another nation who is not one of
yourselves. |
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And
he is not to get together a great army of horses for himself, or make the
people go back to Egypt to get horses for him: because the Lord has said, You
will never again go back that way. |
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And
he is not to have a great number of wives, for fear that his heart may be
turned away; or great wealth of silver and gold. |
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And
when he has taken his place on the seat of his kingdom, he is to make in a
book a copy of this law, from that which the priests, the Levites, have in
their care: |
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And
it is to be with him for his reading all the days of his life, so that he may
be trained in the fear of the Lord his God to keep and do all the words of
this teaching and these laws: |
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So
that his heart may not be lifted up over his countrymen, and he may not be
turned away from the orders, to one side or the other: but that his life and
the lives of his children may be long in his kingdom in Israel. |
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18:1 |
The
priests, the Levites, that is, all the tribe of Levi, will have no part or
heritage with Israel: their food and their heritage will be the offerings of
the Lord made by fire. |
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And
they will have no heritage among their countrymen: the Lord is their
heritage, as he has said to them. |
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18:3 |
And
this is to be the priests' right: those who make an offering of a sheep or an
ox are to give to the priest the top part of the leg and the two sides of the
head and the stomach. |
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And
in addition you are to give him the first of your grain and wine and oil, and
the first wool cut from your sheep. |
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For
he, and his sons after him for ever, have been marked out by the Lord your
God from all your tribes, to do the work of priests in the name of the
Lord. |
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And
if a Levite, moved by a strong desire, comes from any town in all Israel
where he is living to the place marked out by the Lord; |
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Then
he will do the work of a priest in the name of the Lord his God, with all his
brothers the Levites who are there before the Lord. |
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18:8 |
His
food will be the same as theirs, in addition to what has come to him as the
price of his property. |
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18:9 |
When
you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not
take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations. |
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18:10 |
Let
there not be seen among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter go
through the fire, or anyone using secret arts, or a maker of strange sounds,
or a reader of signs, or any wonder-worker, |
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18:11 |
Or
anyone using secret force on people, or putting questions to a spirit, or
having secret knowledge, or going to the dead for directions. |
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For
all who do such things are disgusting to the Lord; and because of these
disgusting things the Lord your God is driving them out before you. |
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You are to
be upright in heart before the Lord your God. |
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18:14 |
For
these nations, whose land you are taking, give attention to readers of signs
and to those using secret arts: but the Lord your God will not let you do
so. |
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18:15 |
The
Lord your God will give you a prophet from among your people, like me; you
will give ear to him; |
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18:16 |
In
answer to the request you made to the Lord your God in Horeb on the day of
the great meeting, when you said, Let not the voice of the Lord my God come
to my ears again, and let me not see this great fire any more, or death will
overtake me. |
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Then the
Lord said to me, What they have said is well said. |
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18:18 |
I
will give them a prophet from among themselves, like you, and I will put my
words in his mouth, and he will say to them whatever I give him orders to
say. |
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And
whoever does not give ear to my words which he will say in my name, will be
responsible to me. |
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18:20 |
But
the prophet who takes it on himself to say words in my name which I have not
given him orders to say, or who says anything in the name of other gods, will
come to his death. |
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18:21 |
And
if you say in your hearts, How are we to be certain that the word does not
come from the Lord? |
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18:22 |
When
a prophet makes a statement in the name of the Lord, if what he says does not
take place and his words do not come true, then his word is not the word of
the Lord: the words of the prophet were said in the pride of his heart, and
you are to have no fear of him. |
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19:1 |
When
the nations, whose land the Lord your God is giving you, have been cut off by
him, and you have taken their place and are living in their towns and in
their houses; |
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19:2 |
You
are to have three towns marked out in the land which the Lord your God is
giving you for your heritage. |
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19:3 |
You
are to make ready a way, and see that the land which the Lord your God is
giving you for your heritage, is marked out into three parts, to which any
taker of life may go in flight. |
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This
is to be the rule for anyone who goes in flight there, after causing the
death of his neighbour in error and not through hate; |
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For
example, if a man goes into the woods with his neighbour for the purpose of
cutting down trees, and when he takes his axe to give a blow to the tree, the
head of the axe comes off, and falling on to his neighbour gives him a wound
causing his death; then the man may go in flight to one of these towns and be
safe: |
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For
if not, he who has the right of punishment may go running after the taker of
life in the heat of his wrath, and overtake him because the way is long, and
give him a death-blow; though it is not right for him to be put to death
because he was not moved by hate. |
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19:7 |
And
so I am ordering you to see that three towns are marked out for this
purpose. |
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19:8 |
And
if the Lord your God makes wide the limits of your land, as he said in his
oath to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he undertook to give
to your fathers; |
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19:9 |
If
you keep and do all these orders which I give you today, loving the Lord your
God and walking ever in his ways; then let three more towns, in addition to
these three, be marked out for you: |
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19:10 |
So
that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your
heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be
responsible. |
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But
if any man has hate for his neighbour, and waiting for him secretly makes an
attack on him and gives him a blow causing his death, and then goes in flight
to one of these towns; |
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19:12 |
The
responsible men of his town are to send and take him, and give him up to the
one who has the right of punishment to be put to death. |
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19:13 |
Have
no pity on him, so that Israel may be clear from the crime of putting a man
to death without cause, and it will be well for you. |
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19:14 |
Your
neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place by the men of old times, is
not to be moved or taken away in the land of your heritage which the Lord
your God is giving you. |
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19:15 |
One
witness may not make a statement against a man in relation to any sin or
wrongdoing which he has done: on the word of two or three witnesses a
question is to be judged. |
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If
a False witness makes a statement against a man, saying that he has done
wrong, |
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19:17 |
Then
the two men, between whom the argument has taken place, are to come before
the Lord, before the priests and judges who are then in power; |
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And
the judges will have the question looked into with care: and if the witness
is seen to be False and to have made a False statement against his
brother, |
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Then
do to him what it was his purpose to do to his brother: and so put away the
evil from among you. |
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And
the rest of the people, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and never again
do such evil among you. |
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19:21 |
Have
no pity; let life be given for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for
hand, foot for foot. |
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20:1 |
When
you go out to war against other nations, and come face to face with horses
and war-carriages and armies greater in number than yourselves, have no fear
of them: for the Lord your God is with you, who took you up out of the land
of Egypt. |
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20:2 |
And
when you are on the point of attacking, let the priest come forward and say
to the people, |
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20:3 |
Give
ear, O Israel: today you are going forward to the fight; let your heart be
strong; do not let uncontrolled fear overcome you because of those who are
against you; |
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For
the Lord your God goes with you, fighting for you to give you salvation from
those who are against you. |
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And
let the overseers say to the people, If there is any man who has made for
himself a new house and has not gone into it, let him go back to his house,
so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not take his
house for himself. |
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Or
if any man has made a vine-garden without taking the first-fruits of it, let
him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight,
another may not be the first to make use of the fruit. |
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Or
if any man is newly married and has had no sex relations with his wife, let
him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight,
another man may not take her. |
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And
let the overseers go on to say to the people, If there is any man whose heart
is feeble with fear, let him go back to his house before he makes the hearts
of his countrymen feeble. |
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Then,
after saying these words to the people, let the overseers put captains over
the army. |
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20:10 |
When
you come to a town, before attacking it, make an offer of peace. |
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20:11 |
And
if it gives you back an answer of peace, opening its doors to you, then all
the people in it may be put to forced work as your servants. |
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If
however it will not make peace with you, but war, then let it be shut in on
all sides: |
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20:13 |
And
when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, let every male in it be
put to death without mercy. |
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But
the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all
its wealth, you may take for yourselves: the wealth of your haters, which the
Lord your God has given you, will be your food. |
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20:15 |
So
you are to do to all the towns far away, which are not the towns of these
nations. |
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20:16 |
But
in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for
your heritage, let no living thing be kept from death: |
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20:17 |
Give
them up to the curse; the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite,
the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has given you orders: |
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So
that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things
which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your
God. |
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20:19 |
If
in war a town is shut in by your armies for a long time, do not let its trees
be cut down and made waste; for their fruit will be your food; are the trees
of the countryside men for you to take up arms against them? |
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20:20 |
Only
those trees which you are certain are not used for food may be cut down and
put to destruction: and you are to make walls of attack against the town till
it is taken. |
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21:1 |
If,
in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you come across the dead
body of a man in the open country, and you have no idea who has put him to
death: |
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Then
your responsible men and your judges are to come out, and give orders for the
distance from the dead body to the towns round about it to be measured; |
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21:3 |
And
whichever town is nearest to the body, the responsible men of that town are
to take from the herd a young cow which has never been used for work or put
under the yoke; |
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21:4 |
And
they are to take the cow into a valley where there is flowing water, and
which is not ploughed or planted, and there the neck of the cow is to be
broken: |
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21:5 |
Then
the priests, the sons of Levi, are to come near; for they have been marked
out by the Lord your God to be his servants and to give blessings in the name
of the Lord; and by their decision every argument and every blow is to be
judged: |
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21:6 |
And
all the responsible men of that town which is nearest to the dead man,
washing their hands over the cow whose neck was broken in the valley, |
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21:7 |
Will
say, This death is not the work of our hands and our eyes have not seen
it. |
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21:8 |
Have
mercy, O Lord, on your people Israel whom you have made free, and take away
from your people the crime of a death without cause. Then they will no longer
be responsible for the man's death. |
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21:9 |
So
you will take away the crime of a death without cause from among you, when
you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord. |
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21:10 |
When
you go out to war against other nations, and the Lord your God gives them up
into your hands and you take them as prisoners; |
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21:11 |
If
among the prisoners you see a beautiful woman and it is your desire to make
her your wife; |
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21:12 |
Then
take her back to your house; and let her hair and her nails be cut; |
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21:13 |
And
let her take off the dress in which she was made prisoner and go on living in
your house and weeping for her father and mother for a full month: and after
that you may go in to her and be her husband and she will be your wife. |
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21:14 |
But
if you have no delight in her, you are to let her go wherever she will; you
may not take a price for her as if she was your property, for you have made
use of her for your pleasure. |
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21:15 |
If
a man has two wives, one greatly loved and the other hated, and the two of
them have had children by him; and if the first son is the child of the hated
wife: |
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21:16 |
Then
when he gives his property to his sons for their heritage, he is not to put
the son of his loved one in the place of the first son, the son of the hated
wife: |
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21:17 |
But
he is to give his first son his birthright, and twice as great a part of his
property: for he is the first-fruits of his strength and the right of the
first son is his. |
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21:18 |
If
a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention
to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though
they give him punishment: |
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21:19 |
Then
let his father and mother take him to the responsible men of the town, to the
public place; |
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21:20 |
And
say to them, This son of ours is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, he will not
give attention to us; he gives himself up to pleasure and strong drink. |
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21:21 |
Then
he is to be stoned to death by all the men of the town: so you are to put
away the evil from among you; and all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of
fear. |
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21:22 |
If
a man does a crime for which the punishment is death, and he is put to death
by hanging him on a tree; |
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21:23 |
Do
not let his body be on the tree all night, but put it to rest in the earth
the same day; for the man who undergoes hanging is cursed by God; so do not
make unclean the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your
heritage. |
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22:1 |
If
you see your brother's ox or his sheep wandering, do not go by without
helping, but take them back to your brother. |
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22:2 |
If
their owner is not near, or if you are not certain who he is, then take the
beast to your house and keep it till its owner comes in search of it, and
then you are to give it back to him. |
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22:3 |
Do
the same with his ass or his robe or anything which has gone from your
brother's keeping and which you have come across: do not keep it to
yourself. |
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22:4 |
If
you see your brother's ox or his ass falling down on the road, do not go by
without giving him help in lifting it up again. |
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22:5 |
It
is not right for a woman to be dressed in man's clothing, or for a man to put
on a woman's robe: whoever does such things is disgusting to the Lord your
God. |
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22:6 |
If
by chance you see a place which a bird has made for itself in a tree or on
the earth, with young ones or eggs, and the mother bird seated on the young
ones or on the eggs, do not take the mother bird with the young: |
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22:7 |
See
that you let the mother bird go, but the young ones you may take; so it will
be well for you and your life will be long. |
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22:8 |
If
you are building a house, make a railing for the roof, so that the blood of
any man falling from it will not come on your house. |
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22:9 |
Do
not have your vine-garden planted with two sorts of seed: or all of it may
become a loss, the seed you have put in as well as the increase. |
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22:10 |
Do
not do your ploughing with an ox and an ass yoked together. |
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22:11 |
Do
not have clothing made of two sorts of thread, wool and linen together. |
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22:12 |
On
the four edges of your robe, with which your body is covered, put ornaments
of twisted threads. |
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22:13 |
If
any man takes a wife, and having had connection with her, has no delight in
her, |
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And
says evil things about her and gives her a bad name, saying, I took this
woman, and when I had connection with her it was clear to me that she was not
a virgin: |
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22:15 |
Then
let the girl's father and mother put before the responsible men of the town,
in the public place, signs that the girl was a virgin: |
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And
let the girl's father say to the responsible men, I gave my daughter to this
man for his wife, but he has no love for her; |
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And
now he has put shame on her, saying that she is not a virgin; but here is the
sign that she is a virgin. Then they are to put her clothing before the
responsible men of the town. |
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Then
the responsible men of the town are to give the man his punishment; |
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22:19 |
They
will take from him a hundred shekels of silver, which are to be given to the
father of the girl, because he has given an evil name to a virgin of Israel:
she will go on being his wife, he may never put her away all his life. |
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But
if what he has said is true, and she is seen to be not a virgin, |
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Then
they are to make the girl come to the door of her father's house and she will
be stoned to death by the men of the town, because she has done evil and put
shame on Israel, by acting as a loose woman in her father's house: so you are
to put away evil from among you. |
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22:22 |
If
a man is taken in the act of going in to a married woman, the two of them,
the man as well as the woman, are to be put to death: so you are to put away
the evil from Israel. |
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If
a young virgin has given her word to be married to a man, and another man
meeting her in the town, has connection with her; |
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Then
you are to take the two of them to the doorway of the town, and have them
stoned to death; the young virgin, because she gave no cry for help, though
it was in the town, and the man, because he has put shame on his neighbour's
wife: so you are to put away evil from among you. |
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But
if the man, meeting such a virgin in the open country, takes her by force,
then only the man is to be put to death; |
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Nothing
is to be done to the virgin, because there is no cause of death in her: it is
the same as if a man made an attack on his neighbour and put him to
death: |
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For
he came across her in the open country, and there was no one to come to the
help of the virgin in answer to her cry. |
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22:28 |
If
a man sees a young virgin, who has not given her word to be married to
anyone, and he takes her by force and has connection with her, and discovery
is made of it; |
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Then
the man will have to give the virgin's father fifty shekels of silver and
make her his wife, because he has put shame on her; he may never put her away
all his life. |
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A
man may not take his father's wife or have sex relations with a woman who is
his father's. |
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23:1 |
No
man whose private parts have been wounded or cut off may come into the
meeting of the Lord's people. |
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23:2 |
One
whose father and mother are not married may not come into the meeting of the
Lord's people, or any of his family to the tenth generation. |
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No
Ammonite or Moabite or any of their people to the tenth generation may come
into the meeting of the Lord's people: |
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Because
they gave you no bread or water on your way, when you came out of Egypt: and
they got Balaam, the son of Peor, from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to put curses
on you. |
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But
the Lord your God would not give ear to Balaam, but let the curse be changed
into a blessing to you, because of his love for you. |
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Do nothing for
their peace or well-being for ever. |
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But
have no hate for an Edomite, because he is your brother, or for an Egyptian,
for you were living in his land. |
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Their
children in the third generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's
people. |
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23:9 |
When
you go out to war and put your tents in position, keep from every evil
thing. |
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23:10 |
If
any man among you becomes unclean through anything which has taken place in
the night, he is to go out from the tent-circle and keep outside it: |
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But
when evening comes near, let him take a bath: and after sundown he may come
back to the tents. |
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23:12 |
Let
there be a place outside the tent-circle to which you may go; |
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And
have among your arms a spade; and when you have been to that place, let that
which comes from you be covered up with earth: |
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For
the Lord your God is walking among your tents, to keep you safe and to give
up into your hands those who are fighting against you; then let your tents be
holy, so that he may see no unclean thing among you, and be turned away from
you. |
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23:15 |
Do
not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master
and come to you: |
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23:16 |
Let
him go on living among you in whatever place is most pleasing to him: do not
be hard on him. |
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23:17 |
No
daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a loose woman for a strange
god, and no son of Israel is to give himself to a man. |
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23:18 |
Do
not take into the house of the Lord your God, as an offering for an oath, the
price of a loose woman or the money given to one used for sex purposes in the
worship of the gods: for these two things are disgusting to the Lord your
God. |
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23:19 |
Do
not take interest from an Israelite on anything, money or food or any other
goods, which you let him have: |
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23:20 |
From
men of other nations you may take interest, but not from an Israelite: so
that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on everything to which you put
your hand, in the land which you are about to take as your heritage. |
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23:21 |
When
you take an oath to the Lord, do not be slow to give effect to it: for
without doubt the Lord your God will make you responsible, and will put it to
your account as sin. |
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23:22 |
But
if you take no oath, there will be no sin. |
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23:23 |
Whatever
your lips have said, see that you do it; for you gave your word freely to the
Lord your God. |
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23:24 |
When
you go into your neighbour's vine-garden, you may take of his grapes at your
pleasure, but you may not take them away in your vessel. |
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When
you go into your neighbour's field, you may take the heads of grain with your
hand; but you may not put your blade to his grain. |
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24:1 |
If
a man takes a wife, and after they are married she is unpleasing to him
because of some bad quality in her, let him give her a statement in writing
and send her away from his house. |
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24:2 |
And
when she has gone away from him, she may become another man's wife. |
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24:3 |
And
if the second husband has no love for her and, giving her a statement in
writing, sends her away; or if death comes to the second husband to whom she
was married; |
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24:4 |
Her
first husband, who had sent her away, may not take her back after she has
been wife to another; for that is disgusting to the Lord: and you are not to
be a cause of sin in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your
heritage. |
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24:5 |
A
newly married man will not have to go out with the army or undertake any
business, but may be free for one year, living in his house for the comfort
of his wife. |
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24:6 |
No
one is to take, on account of a debt, the stones with which grain is crushed:
for in doing so he takes a man's living. |
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24:7 |
If
a man takes by force one of his countrymen, the children of Israel, using him
as his property or getting a price for him, that thief is to be put to death:
so you are to put away evil from among you. |
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24:8 |
In
connection with the leper's disease, take care to keep and do every detail of
the teaching of the priests, the Levites: as I gave them orders, so you are
to do. |
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24:9 |
Keep
in mind what the Lord your God did to Miriam on the way, when you came out of
Egypt. |
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24:10 |
If
you let your brother have the use of anything which is yours, do not go into
his house and take anything of his as a sign of his debt; |
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24:11 |
But keep
outside till he comes out and gives it to you. |
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24:12 |
If he is a
poor man, do not keep his property all night; |
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24:13 |
But
be certain to give it back to him when the sun goes down, so that he may have
his clothing for sleeping in, and will give you his blessing: and this will
be put to your account as righteousness before the Lord your God. |
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24:14 |
Do
not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your
countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land. |
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24:15 |
Give
him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor
and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the
ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you. |
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24:16 |
Fathers
are not to be put to death for their children or children for their fathers:
every man is to be put to death for the sin which he himself has done. |
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24:17 |
Be
upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who
has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt: |
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24:18 |
But
keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your
God made you free: for this is why I give you orders to do this. |
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24:19 |
When
you get in the grain from your field, if some of the grain has been dropped
by chance in the field, do not go back and get it, but let it be for the man
from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow: so that the
blessing of the Lord your God may be on all the work of your hands. |
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24:20 |
When
you are shaking the fruit from your olive-trees, do not go over the branches
a second time: let some be for the man from a strange land, the child without
a father, and the widow. |
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24:21 |
When
you are pulling the grapes from your vines, do not take up those which have
been dropped; let them be for the man from a strange land, the child without
a father, and the widow. |
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24:22 |
Keep
in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt: for this is why I give
you orders to do this. |
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25:1 |
If
there is an argument between men and they go to law with one another, let the
judges give their decision for the upright, and against the wrongdoer. |
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25:2 |
And
if the wrongdoer is to undergo punishment by whipping, the judge will give
orders for him to go down on his face and be whipped before him, the number
of the blows being in relation to his crime. |
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25:3 |
He
may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are given, your brother may
be shamed before you. |
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25:4 |
Do
not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. |
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25:5 |
If
brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the
wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man:
let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is
right for a brother-in-law to do. |
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25:6 |
Then
the first male child she has will take the rights of the brother who is dead,
so that his name may not come to an end in Israel. |
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25:7 |
But
if the man says he will not take his brother's wife, then let the wife go to
the responsible men of the town, and say, My husband's brother will not keep
his brother's name living in Israel; he will not do what it is right for a
husband's brother to do. |
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25:8 |
Then
the responsible men of the town will send for the man, and have talk with
him: and if he still says, I will not take her; |
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25:9 |
Then
his brother's wife is to come to him, before the responsible men of the town,
and take his shoe off his foot, and put shame on him, and say, So let it be
done to the man who will not take care of his brother's name. |
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25:10 |
And
his family will be named in Israel, The house of him whose shoe has been
taken off. |
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25:11 |
If
two men are fighting, and the wife of one of them, coming to the help of her
husband, takes the other by the private parts; |
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25:12 |
Her
hand is to be cut off; have no pity on her. |
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25:13 |
Do
not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small; |
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25:14 |
Or in your
house different measures, a great and a small. |
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25:15 |
But
have a True weight and a True measure: so that your life may be long in the
land which the Lord your God is giving you. |
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25:16 |
For
all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to
the Lord your God. |
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25:17 |
Keep in
mind what Amalek did to you on your way from Egypt; |
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25:18 |
How,
meeting you on the way, he made an attack on you when you were tired and
without strength, cutting off all the feeble ones at the end of your line;
and the fear of God was not in him. |
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25:19 |
So
when the Lord your God has given you rest from all who are against you on
every side, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your
heritage, see to it that the memory of Amalek is cut off from the earth; keep
this in mind. |
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26:1 |
Now
when you have come into the land which the Lord is giving you for your
heritage, and you have made it yours and are living in it; |
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26:2 |
You
are to take a part of the first-fruits of the earth, which you get from the
land which the Lord your God is giving you, and put it in a basket, and go to
the place marked out by the Lord your God, as the resting-place of his name. |
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26:3 |
And
you are to come to him who is priest at that time, and say to him, I give
witness today before the Lord your God, that I have come into the land which
the Lord made an oath to our fathers to give us. |
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26:4 |
Then
the priest will take the basket from your hand and put it down in front of
the altar of the Lord your God. |
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26:5 |
And
these are the words which you will say before the Lord your God: My father
was a wandering Aramaean, and he went down with a small number of people into
Egypt; there he became a great and strong nation: |
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26:6 |
And
the Egyptians were cruel to us, crushing us under a hard yoke: |
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26:7 |
And
our cry went up to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord's ear was
open to the voice of our cry, and his eyes took note of our grief and the
crushing weight of our work: |
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26:8 |
And
the Lord took us out of Egypt with a strong hand and a stretched-out arm,
with works of power and signs and wonders: |
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26:9 |
And
he has been our guide to this place, and has given us this land, a land
flowing with milk and honey. |
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26:10 |
So
now, I have come here with the first of the fruits of the earth which you, O
Lord, have given me. Then you will put it down before the Lord your God and
give him worship: |
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26:11 |
And
you will have joy in every good thing which the Lord your God has given to
you and to your family; and the Levite, and the man from a strange land who
is with you, will take part in your joy. |
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26:12 |
When
you have taken out a tenth from the tenth of all your produce in the third
year, which is the year when this has to be done, give it to the Levite, and
the man from a strange land, and the child without a father, and the widow,
so that they may have food in your towns and be full; |
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26:13 |
And
say before the Lord your God, I have taken all the holy things out of my
house and have given them to the Levite, and the man from a strange land, and
him who has no father, and the widow, as you have given me orders: I have
kept in mind all your orders, in nothing have I gone against them: |
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26:14 |
No
part of these things has been used for food in a time of weeping, or put away
when I was unclean, or given for the dead: I have given ear to the voice of
the Lord my God, and have done all you have given me orders to do. |
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26:15 |
So,
looking down from your holy place in heaven, send your blessing on your
people Israel and on the land which you have given us, as you said in your
oath to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey. |
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26:16 |
Today
the Lord your God gives you orders to keep all these laws and decisions: so
then keep and do them with all your heart and all your soul. |
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26:17 |
Today
you have given witness that the Lord is your God, and that you will go in his
ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions and give ear to his
voice: |
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26:18 |
And
the Lord has made it clear this day that you are a special people to him, as
he gave you his word; and that you are to keep all his orders; |
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26:19 |
And
that he will make you high over all the nations he has made, in praise, in
name, and in honour, and that you are to be a holy people to the Lord your
God as he has said. |
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27:1 |
Then
Moses and the responsible men of Israel gave the people these orders: Keep
all the orders which I have given you this day; |
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27:2 |
And
on the day when you go over Jordan into the land which the Lord your God is
giving you, put up great stones, coating them with building-paste, |
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27:3 |
And
writing on them all the words of this law, after you have gone over; so that
you may take the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you, a land
flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has said. |
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27:4 |
And
when you have gone over Jordan, you are to put up these stones, as I have
said to you today, in Mount Ebal, and have them coated with
building-paste. |
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27:5 |
There
you are to make an altar to the Lord your God, of stones on which no iron
instrument has been used. |
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27:6 |
You
are to make the altar of the Lord your God of uncut stones; offering on it
burned offerings to the Lord your God: |
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27:7 |
And
you are to make your peace-offerings, feasting there with joy before the Lord
your God. |
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27:8 |
And
put on the stones all the words of this law, writing them very clearly. |
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27:9 |
Then
Moses and the priests, the Levites, said to all Israel, Be quiet and give
ear, O Israel; today you have become the people of the Lord your God. |
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27:10 |
For
this cause you are to give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and do his
orders and his laws which I give you this day. |
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27:11 |
That
same day Moses said to the people, |
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27:12 |
These
are to take their places on Mount Gerizim for blessing the people when you
have gone over Jordan: Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Joseph and
Benjamin; |
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27:13 |
And
these are to be on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and
Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. |
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27:14 |
Then
the Levites are to say in a loud voice to all the men of Israel, |
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27:15 |
Cursed
is the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to the
Lord, the work of man's hands, and puts it up in secret. And let all the
people say, So be it. |
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27:16 |
Cursed
is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the
people say, So be it. |
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27:17 |
Cursed
is he who takes his neighbour's landmark from its place. And let all the
people say, So be it. |
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27:18 |
Cursed
is he by whom the blind are turned out of the way. And let all the people
say, So be it. |
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27:19 |
Cursed
is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause of a man from a strange land,
or of one without a father, or of a widow. And let all the people say, So be
it. |
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27:20 |
Cursed
is he who has sex relations with his father's wife, for he has put shame on
his father. And let all the people say, So be it. |
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27:21 |
Cursed
is he who has sex relations with any sort of beast. And let all the people
say, So be it. |
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27:22 |
Cursed
is he who has sex relations with his sister, the daughter of his father or of
his mother. And let all the people say, So be it. |
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27:23 |
Cursed
is he who has sex relations with his mother-in-law. And let all the people
say, So be it. |
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27:24 |
Cursed
is he who takes his neighbour's life secretly. And let all the people say, So
be it. |
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27:25 |
Cursed
is he who for a reward puts to death one who has done no wrong. And let all
the people say, So be it. |
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27:26 |
Cursed
is he who does not take this law to heart to do it. And let all the people
say, So be it. |
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28:1 |
Now
if you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep with care all
these orders which I have given you today, then the Lord your God will put
you high over all the nations of the earth: |
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28:2 |
And
all these blessings will come on you and overtake you, if your ears are open
to the voice of the Lord your God. |
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28:3 |
A
blessing will be on you in the town, and a blessing in the field. |
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28:4 |
A
blessing will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on
the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herd, and the young of your
flock. |
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28:5 |
A
blessing will be on your basket and on your bread-basin. |
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28:6 |
A
blessing will be on your coming in and on your going out. |
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28:7 |
By
the power of the Lord, those who take arms against you will be overcome
before you: they will come out against you one way, and will go in flight
from you seven ways. |
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28:8 |
The
Lord will send his blessing on your store-houses and on everything to which
you put your hand: his blessing will be on you in the land which the Lord
your God is giving you. |
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28:9 |
The
Lord will keep you as a people holy to himself, as he has said to you in his
oath, if you keep the orders of the Lord your God and go on walking in his
ways. |
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28:10 |
And
all the peoples of the earth will see that the name of the Lord is on you,
and they will go in fear of you. |
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28:11 |
And
the Lord will make you fertile in every good thing, in the fruit of your
body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your fields, in the land
which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, said he would give you. |
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28:12 |
Opening
his store-house in heaven, the Lord will send rain on your land at the right
time, blessing all the work of your hands: other nations will make use of
your wealth, and you will have no need of theirs. |
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28:13 |
The
Lord will make you the head and not the tail; and you will ever have the
highest place, if you give ear to the orders of the Lord your God which I
give you today, to keep and to do them; |
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28:14 |
Not
turning away from any of the orders which I give you today, to the right hand
or to the left, or going after any other gods to give them worship. |
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28:15 |
But
if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to do
all his orders and his laws which I give you today, then all these curses
will come on you and overtake you: |
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28:16 |
You will be
cursed in the town and cursed in the field. |
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28:17 |
A curse will
be on your basket and on your bread-basin. |
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28:18 |
A
curse will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on
the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock. |
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28:19 |
You
will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out. |
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28:20 |
The
Lord will send on you cursing and trouble and punishment in everything to
which you put your hand, till sudden destruction overtakes you; because of
your evil ways in which you have been False to me. |
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28:21 |
The
Lord will send disease after disease on you, till you have been cut off by
death from the land to which you are going. |
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28:22 |
The
Lord will send wasting disease, and burning pain, and flaming heat against
you, keeping back the rain till your land is waste and dead; so will it be
till your destruction is complete. |
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And
the heaven over your heads will be brass, and the earth under you hard as
iron. |
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28:24 |
The
Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust, sending it down on you
from heaven till your destruction is complete. |
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28:25 |
The
Lord will let you be overcome by your haters: you will go out against them
one way, and you will go in flight before them seven ways: you will be the
cause of fear among all the kingdoms of the earth. |
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28:26 |
Your
bodies will be meat for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth;
there will be no one to send them away. |
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28:27 |
The
Lord will send on you the disease of Egypt, and other sorts of skin diseases
which nothing will make well. |
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28:28 |
He
will make your minds diseased, and your eyes blind, and your hearts wasted
with fear: |
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28:29 |
You
will go feeling your way when the sun is high, like a blind man for whom all
is dark, and nothing will go well for you: you will be crushed and made poor
for ever, and you will have no saviour. |
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28:30 |
You
will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which
your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a
vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it. |
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28:31 |
Your
ox will be put to death before your eyes, but its flesh will not be your
food: your ass will be violently taken away before your face, and will not be
given back to you: your sheep will be given to your haters, and there will be
no saviour for you. |
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28:32 |
Your
sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will
be wasted away with looking and weeping for them all the day: and you will
have no power to do anything. |
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28:33 |
The
fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation
which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down
and kept under for ever: |
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28:34 |
So
that the things which your eyes have to see will send you out of your
minds. |
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28:35 |
The
Lord will send a skin disease, attacking your knees and your legs, bursting
out from your feet to the top of your head, so that nothing will make you
well. |
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28:36 |
And
you, and the king whom you have put over you, will the Lord take away to a
nation strange to you and to your fathers; there you will be servants to
other gods of wood and stone. |
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28:37 |
And
you will become a wonder and a name of shame among all the nations where the
Lord will take you. |
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28:38 |
You
will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust
will get it. |
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28:39 |
You
will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes
from them; for they will be food for worms. |
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28:40 |
Your
land will be full of olive-trees, but there will be no oil for the comfort of
your body; for your olive-tree will give no fruit. |
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28:41 |
You
will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours; for they will go
away prisoners into a strange land. |
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28:42 |
All
your trees and the fruit of your land will be the locust's. |
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28:43 |
The
man from a strange land who is living among you will be lifted up higher and
higher over you, while you go down lower and lower. |
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He
will let you have his wealth at interest, and will have no need of yours: he
will be the head and you the tail. |
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And
all these curses will come after you and overtake you, till your destruction
is complete; because you did not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God,
or keep his laws and his orders which he gave you: |
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These
things will come on you and on your seed, to be a sign and a wonder for
ever; |
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28:47 |
Because
you did not give honour to the Lord your God, worshipping him gladly, with
joy in your hearts on account of all your wealth of good things; |
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For
this cause you will become servants to those whom the Lord your God will send
against you, without food and drink and clothing, and in need of all things:
and he will put a yoke of iron on your neck till he has put an end to you. |
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28:49 |
The
Lord will send a nation against you from the farthest ends of the earth,
coming with the flight of an eagle; a nation whose language is strange to
you; |
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28:50 |
A
hard-faced nation, who will have no respect for the old or mercy for the
young: |
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He
will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to
you: he will let you have nothing of your grain or wine or oil or any of the
increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, till he has made your
destruction complete. |
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Your
towns will be shut in by his armies, till your high walls, in which you put
your faith, have come down: his armies will be round your towns, through all
your land which the Lord your God has given you. |
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And
your food will be the fruit of your body, the flesh of the sons and daughters
which the Lord your God has given you; because of your bitter need and the
cruel grip of your haters. |
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That
man among you who is soft and used to comfort will be hard and cruel to his
brother, and to his dear wife, and to of those his children who are still
living; |
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And
will not give to any of them the flesh of his children which will be his food
because he has no other; in the cruel grip of your haters on all your
towns. |
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The
most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot
on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to
her son and to her daughter; |
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And
to her baby newly come to birth, and to the children of her body; for having
no other food, she will make a meal of them secretly, because of her bitter
need and the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns. |
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28:58 |
If
you will not take care to do all the words of this law, recorded in this
book, honouring that name of glory and of fear, THE LORD YOUR GOD; |
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28:59 |
Then
the Lord your God will make your punishment, and the punishment of your seed,
a thing to be wondered at; great punishments and cruel diseases stretching on
through long years. |
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28:60 |
He
will send on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which were a cause of fear
to you, and they will take you in their grip. |
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And
all the diseases and the pains not recorded in the book of this law will the
Lord send on you till your destruction is complete. |
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28:62 |
And
you will become a very small band, though your numbers were like the stars of
heaven; because you did not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God. |
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And
as the Lord took delight in doing you good and increasing you, so the Lord
will take pleasure in cutting you off and causing your destruction, and you
will be uprooted from the land which you are about to take as your heritage. |
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And
the Lord will send you wandering among all peoples, from one end of the earth
to the other: there you will be servants to other gods, of wood and stone,
gods of which you and your fathers had no knowledge. |
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And
even among these nations there will be no peace for you, and no rest for your
feet: but the Lord will give you there a shaking heart and wasting eyes and
weariness of soul: |
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28:66 |
Your
very life will be hanging in doubt before you, and day and night will be dark
with fears, and nothing in life will be certain: |
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In
the morning you will say, If only it was evening! And at evening you will
say, If only morning would come! Because of the fear in your hearts and the
things which your eyes will see. |
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And
the Lord will take you back to Egypt again in ships, by the way of which I
said to you, You will never see it again: there you will be offering
yourselves as men-servants and women-servants to your haters for a price, and
no man will take you. |
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These
are the words of the agreement which Moses was ordered by the Lord to make
with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the agreement
which he made with them in Horeb. |
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29:2 |
And
Moses said in the hearing of all Israel, You have seen all the Lord did
before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and
all his land; |
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29:3 |
The
great tests which your eyes saw, and the signs and wonders: |
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But
even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or
seeing eyes or hearing ears. |
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29:5 |
For
forty years I have been your guide through the waste land: your clothing has
not become old on your backs, or your shoes on your feet. |
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29:6 |
You
have had no bread, or wine, or strong drink: so that you might see that I am
the Lord your God. |
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When
you came to this place, Sihon, king of Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, came
out to make war against us and we overcame them: |
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And
we took their land and gave it to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the
half-tribe of Manasseh, for their heritage. |
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29:9 |
So
keep the words of this agreement and do them, so that it may be well for you
in everything you do. |
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You
have come here today, all of you, before the Lord your God; the heads of your
tribes, the overseers, and those who are in authority over you, with all the
men of Israel, |
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And
your little ones, your wives, and the men of other lands who are with you in
your tents, down to the wood-cutter and the servant who gets water for
you: |
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29:12 |
With
the purpose of taking part in the agreement of the Lord your God, and his
oath which he makes with you today: |
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And
so that he may make you his people today, and be your God, as he has said to
you, and as he made an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. |
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And
not with you only do I make this agreement and this oath; |
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But
with everyone who is here with us today before the Lord our God, as well as
with those who are not here: |
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(For
you have in mind how we were living in the land of Egypt; and how we came
through all the nations which were on your way; |
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And
you have seen their disgusting doings, and the images of wood and stone and
silver and gold which were among them:) |
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So
that there may not be among you any man or woman or family or tribe whose
heart is turned away from the Lord our God today, to go after other gods and
give them worship; or any root among you whose fruit is poison and bitter
sorrow; |
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If
such a man, hearing the words of this oath, takes comfort in the thought that
he will have peace even if he goes on in the pride of his heart, taking
whatever chance may give him: |
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The
Lord will have no mercy on him, but the wrath of the Lord will be burning
against that man, and all the curses recorded in this book will be waiting
for him, and the Lord will take away his name completely from the earth. |
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He
will be marked out by the Lord, from all the tribes of Israel, for an evil
fate, in keeping with all the curses of the agreement recorded in this book
of the law. |
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And
future generations, your children coming after you, and travellers from far
countries, will say, when they see the punishments of that land and the
diseases which the Lord has sent on it; |
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And
that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or
clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on
which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath: |
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Truly
all the nations will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land? what is the
reason for this great and burning wrath? |
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Then
men will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord, the God of
their fathers, which he made with them when he took them out of the land of
Egypt: |
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And
they went after other gods and gave them worship, gods who were strange to
them, and whom he had not given them: |
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And
so the wrath of the Lord was moved against this land, to send on it all the
curse recorded in this book: |
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Rooting
them out of their land, in the heat of his wrath and passion, and driving
them out into another land, as at this day. |
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The
secret things are the Lord our God's: but the things which have been made
clear are ours and our children's for ever, so that we may do all the words
of this law. |
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Now
when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse which I
have put before you, if the thought of them comes back to your minds, when
you are living among the nations where the Lord your God has sent you, |
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And
your hearts are turned again to the Lord your God, and you give ear to his
word which I give you today, you and your children, with all your heart and
with all your soul: |
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Then
the Lord will have pity on you, changing your fate, and taking you back again
from among all the nations where you have been forced to go. |
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Even
if those who have been forced out are living in the farthest part of heaven,
the Lord your God will go in search of you, and take you back; |
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Placing
you again in the land of your fathers as your heritage; and he will do you
good, increasing you till you are more in number than your fathers were. |
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And
the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the
heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may
have life. |
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And
the Lord your God will put all these curses on those who are against you, and
on your haters who put a cruel yoke on you. |
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And
you will again give ear to the voice of the Lord, and do all his orders which
I have given you today. |
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And
the Lord your God will make you fertile in all good things, blessing the work
of your hands, and the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and
the fruit of your land: for the Lord will have joy in you, as he had in your
fathers: |
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If
you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, keeping his orders and his
laws which are recorded in this book of the law, and turning to the Lord your
God with all your heart and with all your soul. |
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For
these orders which I have given you today are not strange and secret, and are
not far away. |
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They
are not in heaven, for you to say, Who will go up to heaven for us and give
us knowledge of them so that we may do them? |
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And
they are not across the sea, for you to say, Who will go over the sea for us
and give us news of them so that we may do them? |
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But
the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may
do it. |
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See,
I have put before you today, life and good, and death and evil; |
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In
giving you orders today to have love for the Lord your God, to go in his ways
and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions, so that you may have life
and be increased, and that the blessing of the Lord your God may be with you
in the land where you are going, the land of your heritage. |
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But
if your heart is turned away and your ear is shut, and you go after those who
would make you servants and worshippers of other gods: |
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I
give witness against you this day that destruction will certainly be your
fate, and your days will be cut short in the land where you are going, the
land of your heritage on the other side of Jordan. |
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Let
heaven and earth be my witnesses against you this day that I have put before
you life and death, a blessing and a curse: so take life for yourselves and
for your seed: |
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In
loving the Lord your God, hearing his voice and being True to him: for he is
your life and by him will your days be long: so that you may go on living in
the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob. |
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31:1 |
So
Moses said all these things to Israel. |
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31:2 |
Then
he said to them, I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able
to go out and come in: and the Lord has said to me, You are not to go over
Jordan. |
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The
Lord your God, he will go over before you; he will send destruction on all
those nations, and you will take their land as your heritage: and Joshua will
go over at your head as the Lord has said. |
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The
Lord will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites,
and to their land, whom he put to destruction. |
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31:5 |
The
Lord will give them up into your hands, and you are to do to them as I have
given you orders. |
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31:6 |
Be
strong and take heart, and have no fear of them: for it is the Lord your God
who is going with you; he will not take away his help from you. |
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Then
Moses sent for Joshua, and before the eyes of all Israel said to him, Be
strong and take heart: for you are to go with this people into the land which
the Lord, by his oath to their fathers, has given them; by your help they
will take it for their heritage. |
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It
is the Lord who goes before you; he will be with you, he will not take away
his help from you or give you up: so have no fear. |
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Then
Moses put all this law in writing, and gave it to the priests, the sons of
Levi, who take up the ark of the Lord's agreement, and to all the responsible
men of Israel. |
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And
Moses said to them, At the end of every seven years, at the time fixed for
the ending of debts, at the feast of tents, |
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When
all Israel has come before the Lord your God in the place named by him, let a
reading be given of this law in the hearing of all Israel. |
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Make
all the people come together, men and women and children, and anyone from
another country who is with you, so that hearing they may become wise in the
fear of the Lord your God, and take care to do all the words of this law; |
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And
so that your children, to whom it is new, may give ear and be trained in the
fear of the Lord your God, while you are living in the land which you are
going over Jordan to take for your heritage. |
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At
that time the Lord said to Moses, The day of your death is near: send for
Joshua, and come to the Tent of meeting so that I may give him his orders. So
Moses and Joshua went to the Tent of meeting. |
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And
the Lord was seen in the Tent in a pillar of cloud resting by the door of the
Tent. |
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And
the Lord said to Moses, Now you are going to rest with your fathers; and this
people will be False to me, uniting themselves to the strange gods of the
land where they are going; they will be turned away from me and will not keep
the agreement I have made with them. |
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In
that day my wrath will be moved against them, and I will be turned away from
them, veiling my face from them, and destruction will overtake them, and
unnumbered evils and troubles will come on them; so that in that day they
will say, Have not these evils come on us because our God is not with
us? |
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Truly,
my face will be turned away from them in that day, because of all the evil
they have done in going after other gods. |
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Make
then this song for yourselves, teaching it to the children of Israel: put it
in their mouths, so that this song may be a witness for me against the
children of Israel. |
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For
when I have taken them into the land named in my oath to their fathers, a
land flowing with milk and honey, and they have made themselves full of food
and are fat, then they will be turned to other gods and will give them
worship, no longer honouring me or keeping my agreement. |
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Then
when evils and troubles without number have overtaken them, this song will be
a witness to them, for the words of it will be clear in the memories of their
children: for I see the thoughts which are moving in their hearts even now,
before I have taken them into the land of my oath. |
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So
that same day Moses made this song, teaching it to the children of
Israel. |
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Then
he gave orders to Joshua, the son of Nun, saying to him, Be strong and take
heart: for you are to go at the head of the children of Israel into the land
which I made an oath to give them; and I will be with you. |
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Now
after writing all the words of this law in a book till the record of them was
complete, |
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Moses
said to the Levites who were responsible for taking up the ark of the Lord's
agreement, |
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Take
this book of the law and put it by the ark of the Lord's agreement, so that
it may be a witness against you. |
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31:27 |
For
I have knowledge of your hard and uncontrolled hearts: even now, while I am
still living, you will not be ruled by the Lord; how much less after my
death? |
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Get
together before me all those who are in authority in your tribes, and your
overseers, so that I may say these things in their hearing, and make heaven
and earth my witnesses against them. |
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For
I am certain that after my death you will give yourselves up to sin,
wandering from the way which I have given you; and evil will overtake you in
the end, because you will do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to
wrath by the work of your hands. |
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Then
in the hearing of all the meeting of Israel, Moses said the words of this
song, to the end. |
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32:1 |
Give
ear, O heavens, to my voice; let the earth take note of the words of my
mouth: |
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My
teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain
on the young grass and showers on the garden plants: |
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For
I will give honour to the name of the Lord: let our God be named great. |
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He
is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God
without evil who keeps faith, True and upright is he. |
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They
have become false, they are not his children, the mark of sin is on them;
they are an evil and hard-hearted generation. |
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32:6 |
Is
this your answer to the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? Is he not your
father who has given you life? He has made you and given you your place. |
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Keep
in mind the days of the past, give thought to the years of generations gone
by: go to your father and he will make it clear to you, to the old men and
they will give you the story. |
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When
the Most High gave the nations their heritage, separating into groups the
children of men, he had the limits of the peoples marked out, keeping in mind
the number of the children of Israel. |
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For
the Lord's wealth is his people; Jacob is the land of his heritage. |
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He
came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his
arms round him and caring for him, he kept him as the light of his eye. |
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As
an eagle, teaching her young to make their flight, with her wings
outstretched over them, takes them up on her strong feathers: |
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So the
Lord only was his guide, no other god was with him. |
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He
put him on the high places of the earth, his food was the increase of the
field; honey he gave him out of the rock and oil out of the hard rock; |
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Butter
from his cows and milk from his sheep, with fat of lambs and sheep of Bashan,
and goats, and the heart of the grain; and for your drink, wine from the
blood of the grape. |
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But
Jeshurun became fat and would not be controlled: you have become fat, you are
thick and full of food: then he was untrue to the God who made him, giving no
honour to the Rock of his salvation. |
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The
honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by their disgusting ways he
was moved to wrath. |
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32:17 |
They
made offerings to evil spirits which were not God, to gods who were strange
to them, which had newly come up, not feared by your fathers. |
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32:18 |
You
have no thought for the Rock, your father, you have no memory of the God who
gave you birth. |
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32:19 |
And
the Lord saw with disgust the evil-doing of his sons and daughters. |
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And
he said, My face will be veiled from them, I will see what their end will be:
for they are an uncontrolled generation, children in whom is no faith. |
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They
have given my honour to that which is not God, moving me to wrath with their
False worship: I will give their honour to those who are not a people, moving
them to wrath by a foolish nation, |
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For
my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld,
burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the
mountains. |
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32:23 |
I
will send a rain of troubles on them, my arrows will be showered on
them. |
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32:24 |
They
will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter
destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of
the worms of the dust. |
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32:25 |
Outside
they will be cut off by the sword, and in the inner rooms by fear; death will
take the young man and the virgin, the baby at the breast and the grey-haired
man. |
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32:26 |
I
said I would send them wandering far away, I would make all memory of them go
from the minds of men: |
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32:27 |
But
for the fear that their haters, uplifted in their pride, might say, Our hand
is strong, the Lord has not done all this. |
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32:28 |
For
they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them. |
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32:29 |
If
only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give
thought to their future! |
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32:30 |
How
would it be possible for one to overcome a thousand, and two to send ten
thousand in flight, if their rock had not let them go, if the Lord had not
given them up? |
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32:31 |
For
their rock is not like our Rock, even our haters themselves being
judges. |
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32:32 |
For
their vine is the vine of Sodom, from the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes
are the grapes of evil, and the berries are bitter: |
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32:33 |
Their
wine is the poison of dragons, the cruel poison of snakes. |
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32:34 |
Is not
this among my secrets, kept safe in my store-house? |
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32:35 |
Punishment
is mine and reward, at the time of the slipping of their feet: for the day of
their downfall is near, sudden will be their fate. |
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32:36 |
For
the Lord will be judge of his people, he will have pity for his servants;
when he sees that their power is gone, there is no one, shut up or free. |
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32:37 |
And
he will say, Where are their gods, the rock in which they put their
faith? |
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32:38 |
Who
took the fat of their offerings, and the wine of their drink offering? Let
them now come to your help, let them be your salvation. |
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32:39 |
See
now, I myself am he; there is no other god but me: giver of death and life,
wounding and making well: and no one has power to make you free from my
hand. |
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32:40 |
For
lifting up my hand to heaven I say, By my unending life, |
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32:41 |
If
I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I
will give punishment to those who are against me, and their right reward to
my haters. |
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32:42 |
I
will make my arrows red with blood, my sword will be feasting on flesh, with
the blood of the dead and the prisoners, of the long-haired heads of my
haters. |
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32:43 |
Be
glad, O you his people, over the nations; for he will take payment for the
blood of his servants, and will give punishment to his haters, and take away
the sin of his land, for his people. |
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32:44 |
So
Moses said all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and
Hoshea, the son of Nun. |
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32:45 |
And
after saying all this to the people, |
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Moses
said to them, Let the words which I have said to you today go deep into your
hearts, and give orders to your children to do every word of this law. |
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32:47 |
And
this is no small thing for you, but it is your life, and through this you may
make your days long in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for
your heritage. |
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32:48 |
That same
day the Lord said to Moses, |
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32:49 |
Go
up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo in the land of Moab opposite
Jericho; there you may see the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the
children of Israel for their heritage: |
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32:50 |
And
let death come to you on the mountain where you are going, and be put to rest
with your people; as death came to Aaron, your brother, on Mount Hor, where
he was put to rest with his people: |
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32:51 |
Because
of your sin against me before the children of Israel at the waters of
Meribath Kadesh in the waste land of Zin; because you did not keep my name
holy among the children of Israel. |
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32:52 |
So
you will see the land before you, but you will not go into the land which I
am giving to the children of Israel. |
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33:1 |
Now
this is the blessing which Moses, the man of God, gave to the children of
Israel before his death. |
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33:2 |
He
said, The Lord came from Sinai, dawning on them from Seir; shining out from
Mount Paran, coming from Meribath Kadesh: from his right hand went flames of
fire: his wrath made waste the peoples. |
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33:3 |
All
his holy ones are at his hand; they go at his feet; they are lifted up on his
wings. |
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33:4 |
Moses gave
us a law, a heritage for the people of Jacob. |
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33:5 |
And
there was a king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of
Israel came together. |
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33:6 |
Let
life not death be Reuben's, let not the number of his men be small. |
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33:7 |
And
this is the blessing of Judah: he said, Give ear, O Lord, to the voice of
Judah and make him one with his people: let your hands take up his cause, and
be his help against his attackers. |
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33:8 |
And
of Levi he said, Give your Thummim to Levi and let the Urim be with your
loved one, whom you put to the test at Massah, with whom you were angry at
the waters of Meribah; |
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33:9 |
Who
said of his father, Who is he? and of his mother, I have not seen her; he
kept himself separate from his brothers and had no knowledge of his children:
for they have given ear to your word and kept your agreement. |
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33:10 |
They
will be the teachers of your decisions to Jacob and of your law to Israel:
the burning of perfumes before you will be their right, and the ordering of
burned offerings on your altar. |
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33:11 |
Let
your blessing, O Lord, be on his substance, may the work of his hands be
pleasing to you: may those who take up arms against him and all who have hate
for him, be wounded through the heart, never to be lifted up again. |
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And
of Benjamin he said, Benjamin is the loved one of the Lord, he will be kept
safe at all times; he will be covered by the Most High, resting between his
arms. |
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33:13 |
And
of Joseph he said, Let the blessing of the Lord be on his land; for the good
things of heaven on high, and the deep waters flowing under the earth, |
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33:14 |
And
the good things of the fruits of the sun, and the good things of the growth
of the moons, |
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33:15 |
And
the chief things of the oldest mountains, and the good things of the eternal
hills, |
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33:16 |
The
good things of the earth and all its wealth, the good pleasure of him who was
seen in the burning tree: may they come on the head of Joseph, on the head of
him who was prince among his brothers. |
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He
is a young ox, glory is his; his horns are the horns of the mountain ox, with
which all peoples will be wounded, even to the ends of the earth: they are
the ten thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh. |
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And
of Zebulun he said, Be glad, Zebulun, in your going out; and, Issachar, in
your tents. |
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33:19 |
They
will send out the word for the people to come to the mountain, taking there
the offerings of righteousness: for the store of the seas will be theirs, and
the secret wealth of the sand. |
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Of
Gad he said, A blessing be on him who makes wide the limits of Gad: he takes
his rest like a she-lion, taking for himself the arm and the crown of the
head. |
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33:21 |
He
kept for himself the first part, for his was the ruler's right: he put in
force the righteousness of the Lord, and his decisions for Israel. |
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33:22 |
And
of Dan he said, Dan is a young lion, springing out from Bashan. |
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33:23 |
And
of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, made glad with grace and full of the
blessing of the Lord: the sea and its fishes will be his. |
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And
of Asher he said, Let Asher have the blessing of children; may he be pleasing
to his brothers, and let his foot be wet with oil. |
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33:25 |
Your
shoes will be iron and brass; and as your days, so may your work be. |
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33:26 |
No
other is like the God of Jeshurun, coming on the heavens to your help, and
letting his glory be seen in the skies. |
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33:27 |
The
God of your fathers is your safe resting-place, and under you are his eternal
arms: driving out the forces of your haters from before you, he said, Let
destruction overtake them. |
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33:28 |
And
Israel is living in peace, the fountain of Jacob by himself, in a land of
grain and wine, with dew dropping from the heavens. |
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33:29 |
Happy
are you, O Israel: who is like you, a people whose saviour is the Lord, whose
help is your cover, whose sword is your strength! All those who are against
you will put themselves under your rule, and your feet will be planted on
their high places. |
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And
Moses went up from the table-lands of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of
Pisgah which is facing Jericho. And the Lord let him see all the land, the
land of Gilead as far as Dan; |
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And
all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah,
as far as the Great Sea of the west; |
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And
the South, and the circle of the valley of Jericho, the town of palm-trees,
as far as Zoar. |
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And
the Lord said to him, This is the land about which I made an oath to Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, saying, I will give it to your seed: now I have let you see
it with your eyes, but you will not go in there. |
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34:5 |
So
death came to Moses, the servant of the Lord, there in the land of Moab, as
the Lord had said. |
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34:6 |
And
the Lord put him to rest in the valley in the land of Moab opposite
Beth-peor: but no man has knowledge of his resting-place to this day. |
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34:7 |
And
Moses at his death was a hundred and twenty years old: his eye had not become
clouded, or his natural force become feeble. |
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34:8 |
For
thirty days the children of Israel were weeping for Moses in the table-lands
of Moab, till the days of weeping and sorrow for Moses were ended. |
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34:9 |
And
Joshua, the son of Nun, was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had put
his hands on him: and the children of Israel gave ear to him, and did as the
Lord had given orders to Moses. |
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34:10 |
There
has never been another prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord had
knowledge of face to face; |
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34:11 |
In
all the signs and wonders which the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt,
to Pharaoh and to all his servants and all his land; |
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34:12 |
And
in all the acts of power and fear which Moses did before the eyes of all
Israel. |
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