# BIBLE

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If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, the LORD your God,


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then the LORD will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary plagues, plagues severe and lasting, and long lasting calamity.


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And He will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they will adhere to you.


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Every sickness also and every plague that is not recorded in the book of this law, the LORD will bring upon you, until you are destroyed.


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Whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, you will be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God.


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And as the LORD took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the LORD will be glad in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you. And you will be torn off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.


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And the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve other gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.


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And among these nations you will find no respite, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and a languishing soul.


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Your life will hang in doubt before you. Night and day you will be in fear and have no assurance of your life.


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In the morning you will say, 'If only it were evening!' and at evening you will say, 'If only it were morning!' because of the fear that your heart will feel, and the sights that your eyes will see.


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And the LORD will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that you would never make again; and there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer."


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These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant that he had made with them at Horeb.


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And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: "You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land,


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the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.


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But to this day the LORD has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.


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I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet.


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You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.


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And when you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us to battle, but we defeated them.


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We took their land and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites.


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Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.


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You are standing today all of you before the LORD your God: the heads of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,


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your children, your wives, and the sojourner who is in your camp, from the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water,


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so that you may enter into the sworn covenant of the LORD your God, which the LORD your God is making with you today,


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that he may establish you today as his people, and that He may be your God, as He promised you, and as He promised to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.


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It is not with you alone that I am making this sworn covenant,


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but with whoever is standing here with us today before the LORD our God, and with whoever is not here with us today.


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You know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed.


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And you have seen their detestable things, their idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were among them.


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Beware otherwise there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware otherwise there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit,


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one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, praises himself in his heart, saying, 'I will have peace, as I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.' , to add the drunken with the thirsty.


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The LORD will not be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the LORD and His jealousy will be angry against that man, and the curses written in this book will settle upon him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.


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And the LORD will separate him out from all the tribes of Israel for misery, in accordance with all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.


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And the next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, will say, when they see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses with which the LORD has made it sick,


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the whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and wrath,


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all the nations will say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land? What caused the burning of this great anger?'


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Then people will say, 'It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt,


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and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not given to them.


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Therefore the anger of the LORD was grieved by this land, bringing upon it all the curses written in this book,


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and the LORD uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as they are this day.'


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The hidden things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.


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And when all these things happen to you, the blessing and the curse, which I have given to you, and you recall them among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,


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and return to the LORD your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul,


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then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you, and He will gather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you.


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If you are cast out to the end of the heavens, the LORD your God will gather you from there, and He will take you from there.


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And the LORD your God will bring you into the land that your fathers possessed, that you may possess it. And He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers.


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And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.


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And the LORD your God will put all these curses on your foes and enemies who persecuted you.


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And you will again obey the voice of the LORD and keep all his commandments that I command you today.


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The LORD your God will make you greatly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground. For the LORD will again take delight in prospering you, as He took delight in your fathers,


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when you obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, when you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.


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For this commandment that I command you today is not too hard for you, neither is it far off.


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It is not in heaven, that you should say, 'Who will ascend to heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?'


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Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, 'Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?'


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But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it.


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See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil.


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If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you today, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you will live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.


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But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them,


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I declare to you today, that you will certainly perish. You will not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess.


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I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,


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loving the LORD your God, obeying His voice and follow close to Him, for He is your life and longevity, that you may dwell in the land that the LORD promised to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them."


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So Moses continued to speak these words to all Israel.


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And he said to them, "I am 120 years old today. I am no longer able to go out and come in. The LORD has said to me, 'You will not go over this Jordan.'


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The LORD your God Himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you will drive them out, and Joshua will go over before you, as the LORD has said.


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And the LORD will do to them as He did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when He destroyed them.


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And the LORD will give them over to you, and you will do to them according to the whole commandment that I have commanded you.


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Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be terrified of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you."


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Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him before all Israel, "Be strong and courageous, for you will go with this people into the land that the LORD has promised to their fathers to give them, and you will put them in possession of it.


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It is the LORD who goes before you. He will be with you; He will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be discouraged."


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Then Moses wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.


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And Moses commanded them, "At the end of every seven years, at the set time in the year of release, at the Feast of Booths,


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when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God at the place that he will choose, you will read this law before all Israel in their hearing.


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Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law,


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and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess."


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And the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, the days approach when you must die. Call Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may commission him." And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.


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And the LORD appeared in the tent in a plume of clouds. And the plume of clouds stood over the entrance of the tent.


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And the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rebel and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake Me and break my covenant that I have made with them.


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Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and look away from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, 'Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not with us?'


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And I will surely look away in that day because of all the evil that they have done, because they have turned to other gods.


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Now therefore write this song and teach it to the people of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for Me against the people of Israel.


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For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I promised to give to their fathers, and they have eaten and are full and grown fat, they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise me and break my covenant.


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And when many evils and troubles have come upon them, this song will confront them as a witness, for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their offspring. For I know what they are inclined to do even today, before I have brought them into the land that I promised to give them."


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So Moses wrote this song the same day and taught it to the sons of Israel.


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And the LORD commissioned Joshua the son of Nun and said, "Be strong and courageous, for you will bring the sons of Israel into the land that I promised to give them. I will be with you."


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When Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book to the very end,


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Moses commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD,


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Take this Book of the Law and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.


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For I know how rebellious and stubborn you are. Behold, even today while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against the LORD. How much more after my death!


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Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears and call heaven and earth to witness against them.


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For I know that after my death you will surely act corruptly and turn aside from the way that I have commanded you. And in the days to come evil will befall you, because you will do what is evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger through the work of your hands."


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Then Moses spoke the words of this song until they were finished, in the ears of all the assembly of Israel:


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"Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak.  And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.


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May my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, like gentle rain upon the tender sprout, and like showers upon the herb.


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For I will proclaim the name of the LORD; ascribe greatness to our God!


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The Rock, His work is perfect, for all His ways are just.  A God of truth and without evil, just and upright is he.


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They are corrupted; they are blemished and not His sons; they are a crooked and twisted generation.


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Do you this way repay the LORD, O  foolish and unwise people? Is He not your father, who created you?  He made you and established you?


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Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.


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When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when He separated the sons of Adam, He set up the bounds of the peoples, according to the number of the sons of Israel.


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But the LORD's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage.


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He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; He encircled him and cared for him, He kept him as the apple of His eye.


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Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, lifting them, bearing them on its wings,


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the LORD alone guided him, no foreign god was with him.


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He made him ride on the high places of the land, and he ate the produce of the field, and He suckled him with honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock.


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Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan and goats, with the very finest of the wheat,  and you drank the pure blood of the grape.


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But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made him and despised the Rock of his salvation.


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They provoked Him to jealousy with strange gods; with idols they provoked Him to anger.


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They sacrificed to demons that were not God, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come recently, whom your fathers had never dreaded.


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You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you, and you forgot the God that formed you.


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The LORD saw it and despised them, because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters.


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And he said, 'I will look away from them; I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, sons in whom there is no faithfulness.


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They have made me jealous with what is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.


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For a fire is kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth and its produce, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.


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'And I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend my arrows on them;


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they will be wasted with hunger, and devoured by fever and poisonous destruction; I will send the teeth of beasts against them, with the venom of things that crawl in the dust.


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The sword outside, and terror inside, for young man and virgin alike, the nursing child with the man of old age.


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I would have said, "I will cut them to pieces; I will wipe them from human memory,"


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had I not feared provocation by the enemy, otherwise their adversaries should misunderstand, otherwise they should say, "Our hand is triumphant, it was not the LORD who did all this."'


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For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.


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If they were wise, they would understand this; they would consider their later end!


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How could one have chased a thousand, and two have put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had surrendered them, and the LORD had delivered them up?


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For their rock is not as our Rock; even our enemies themselves being judges.


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For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are fruits of poison; their clusters are bitter;


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their wine is the poison of serpents and the cruel venom of asps.


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'Is this not laid up in store with me, sealed up among My treasuries?


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Vengeance and retribution belong to Me; in due time their foot will slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the future comes swiftly.'


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For the LORD will bring justice to His people; and have compassion on His servants, when He sees that their power is gone, and only the imprisoned and abandoned remain.


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Then He will say, 'Where are their gods, the rock in which they trusted?


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Who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you; let them be your protection!


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'See now that I, even I, am He, and there is no god beside Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of My hand.


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For I lift up my hand to heaven and proclaim, I live forever!


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If I sharpen My flashing sword and My hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on My enemies and will repay those who hate Me.


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I will make My arrows drunk with blood, and My sword will devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the hairy scalp of the enemy.'


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Rejoice, O nations, of His people; for He will avenge the blood of His servants, and will render vengeance to His foes, and will have mercy on His land and His people. "


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Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.


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And when Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel,


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he said to them, "Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your sons, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law.


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For it is not empty words for you, but your very life, and by this word you will live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess."


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"Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel for a possession.


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And die on the mountain which you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people,


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because you broke faith with Me in the midst of the people of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, and because you did not treat Me as holy before the sons of Israel.


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For you will see the land before you, but you will not go there, into the land that I am giving to the sons of Israel."


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This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the people of Israel before his death.


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He said, "The LORD came from Sinai and dawned from Seir upon us; He shone forth from Mount Paran; He came from the myriads of holy ones. From His right went a fiery law for them.


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Yes, He loved His people, all His holy ones were in His hand; and they sit down at Your feet. Everyone will receive of Your words.


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Moses commanded us a law, as a possession for the assembly of Jacob.


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And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered.


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"Let Reuben live, and not die, but let his men be few."


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And this he said of Judah: "Hear, O LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him in to his people. With your hands sufficient for him, and be a help against his adversaries."


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And of Levi he said, Let Your Thummim and Your Urim be with Your holy one whom You proved at Massah; You strove with him at the Waters of Strife,


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who said to his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; and he has not acknowledged his brothers, nor knew his own son, for they have observed Your Word and kept Your covenant.


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They will teach Jacob your rules and Israel your law; they will put incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.


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Bless, O LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands; smite the loins of his adversaries, of those who hate him, that they rise not again."


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Of Benjamin he said, "The beloved of the LORD dwells in safety beside Him. The High God covers him all day long, and he dwells between His shoulders."


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And of Joseph he said, "Blessed by the LORD be his land, with the precious gifts of heaven above, and of the deep that crouches beneath,


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with the choicest fruits of the sun and the rich yield of the seasons,


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with the finest produce of the ancient mountains and the abundance of the everlasting hills,


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with the best gifts of the earth and its fullness and the favor of Him who dwelt in the bush. May these rest on the head of Joseph, on the top of the head of him who was separate from his brothers.


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His glory is like the first-born of his bull, and his horns are the horns of a wild bull; with them he will push the people together, to the ends of the earth; they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh."


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And of Zebulun he said, "Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out, and Issachar, in your tents.


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They will call the people to the mountain; there they offer right sacrifices; for they will draw from the abundance of the seas and the hidden treasures in the sand."


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And of Gad he said, "Blessed be he who enlarges Gad! Gad crouches like a lion; he tears off arm and scalp.


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He chose the best of the land for himself, for there a lawgiver portion was reserved; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and His judgments for Israel."


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And of Dan he said, "Dan is a lion's cub that leaps from Bashan."


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And of Naphtali he said, "O Naphtali, satisfied with favor, and full of the blessing of the LORD, possess the lake and the south."


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And of Asher he said, "Asher will be blessed with sons, let him be pleasing to his brothers, and let him dip his foot in oil.


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Your bars will be iron and bronze, and as your days, so will your strength be.


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There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, through the skies in His majesty.


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The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And He will drive out the enemy before you and will say, Destroy!


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And Israel will dwell in safety alone; the fountain of Jacob in a land of grain and wine; and his heavens will drop down dew.


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Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD, the shield of your help, and the sword of your majesty! Your enemies will be found liars before you, and you will tread upon their high places."


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Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And the LORD showed him all the land, Gilead, to Dan,


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all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea,


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the Negeb, and the plain of the Valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, to Zoar.


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And the LORD said to him, "This is the land of which I promised to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, I will give it to your offspring. I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not go over there."


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So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD,


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and he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor; but no one knows the place of his burial to this day.


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Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated.


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And the sons of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.


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And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. So the sons of Israel obeyed him and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.


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And never since has a prophet like Moses arisen in Israel, whom the LORD knew face to face,


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in all the signs and the wonders which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,


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and for all the mighty power and all the great and terrifying things that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.


