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Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, neither will I detest them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am the LORD their God. 


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But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD." 


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These are the statutes and rules and laws that the LORD made between Himself and the sons of Israel through Moses on Mount Sinai. 


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"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, If anyone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the valuation of persons, 


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then the valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old will be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary. 


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If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, the valuation will be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 


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If the person is from a month old up to five years old, the valuation will be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female the valuation will be three shekels of silver. 


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And if the person is sixty years old or over, then the valuation for a male will be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 


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And if someone is too poor to pay the valuation, then he will be made to stand before the priest, and the priest will value him; the priest will value him according to what the vower can afford. 


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If the vow is an animal that may be offered as an offering to the LORD, all of it that he gives to the LORD is holy. 


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He will not exchange it or make a substitute for it, good for bad, or bad for good; and if he does in fact substitute one animal for another, then both it and the substitute will be holy. 


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And if it is any unclean animal that may not be offered as an offering to the LORD, then he will stand the animal before the priest, 


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When a man dedicates his house as a holy gift to the LORD, the priest will value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it will stand. 


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And if the donor wishes to redeem his house, he will add a fifth to the valuation price, and it will be his. 


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If a man dedicates to the LORD part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation will be in proportion to its seed. A homer of barley seed will be valued at fifty shekels of silver. 


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but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest will calculate the price according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction will be made from the valuation. 


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And if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he will add a fifth to its valuation price, and it will remain his. 


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But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it will not be redeemed anymore. 


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But the field, when it is released in the jubilee, will be a holy gift to the LORD, like a field that has been devoted. The priest will be in possession of it. 


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then the priest will calculate the amount of the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man will give the valuation on that day as a holy gift to the LORD. 


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In the year of jubilee the field will return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession. 


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Every valuation will be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs will make a shekel. 


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But a firstborn of animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the LORD, no man may dedicate; whether ox or sheep, it is the LORD's. 


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And if it is an unclean animal, then he will buy it back at the valuation, and add a fifth to it; or, if it is not redeemed, it will be sold at the valuation. 


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But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the LORD, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, will be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the LORD. 


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No one devoted, who is to be devoted for destruction from mankind, will be ransomed; he will surely be put to death. 


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Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the LORD's; it is holy to the LORD. 


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And every tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that pass under the herdsman's staff, will be holy to the LORD. 


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One will not differentiate between good or bad, neither will he make a substitute for it; and if he does substitute for it, then both it and the substitute will be holy; it will not be redeemed." 


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The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of assembly, on the first of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 


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"Take the sum of all the assembly of the sons of Israel, by tribe, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, by their head. 


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From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war, you and Aaron will count them, by company. 


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And these are the names of the men who will stand with you. From Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur; 


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from the sons of Joseph, from Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud, and from Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur; 


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These were the ones chosen from the assembly, the chiefs of their tribes, the heads of the families of Israel. 


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and they gathered the whole assembly together and on the first of the second month, and they registered themselves by tribes, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names from twenty years old and upward, by their head, 


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The sons of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war: 


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Of the sons of Simeon, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, those of them who were counted, according to the number of names, by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war: 


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Of the sons of Gad, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war: 


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Of the sons of Judah, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 


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Of the sons of Issachar, their generations, by their tribes, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 


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Of the sons of Zebulun, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 


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Of the sons of Joseph, namely, of the people of Ephraim, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 


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Of the sons of Manasseh, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 


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Of the sons of Benjamin, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 


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Of the sons of Dan, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 


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Of the sons of Asher, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 


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Of the sons of Naphtali, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 


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These are those who were counted, whom Moses and Aaron counted with the help of the chiefs of Israel, twelve men, each representing his fathers' house. 


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So all those counted of the sons of Israel, by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war in Israel, 


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"Only the tribe of Levi you will not count, and you will not take a sum of them among the sons of Israel. 


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But appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They are to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings, and they will take care of it and will camp around the tabernacle. 


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When the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites will take it down, and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites will set it up. And if any stranger comes near, he will be put to death. 


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The sons of Israel will pitch their tents by their companies, each man in his own camp and each man by his own standard. 


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But the Levites will camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that there may be no strife in the assembly of the sons of Israel. And the Levites will keep guard over the tabernacle of the testimony." 


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"Every man of the children of Israel will camp each by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers' houses. They will camp facing the tabernacle of assembly on every side. 


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Those to camp on the east side toward the sunrise will be of the standard of the camp of Judah by their companies, the chief of the sons of Judah being Nahshon the son of Amminadab, 


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Those to camp next to him will be the tribe of Issachar, the chief of the sons of Issachar being Nethanel the son of Zuar, 


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All those counted of the camp of Judah, by their companies, were 185 families and 1,400. They will set out first. 


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On the south side will be the standard of the camp of Reuben by their companies, the chief of the sons of Reuben being Elizur the son of Shedeur, 


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And those to camp next to him will be the tribe of Simeon, the chief of the sons of Simeon being Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, 


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All those counted of the camp of Reuben, by their companies, were 150 families and 1,450. They will set out second. 


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Then the tabernacle of assembly will set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps; as they camp, so will they set out, each in position, by their standard. 


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On the west side will be the standard of the camp of Ephraim by their companies, the chief of the sons of Ephraim being Elishama the son of Ammihud, 


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And next to him will be the tribe of Manasseh, the chief of the sons of Manasseh being Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, 


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All those counted of the camp of Ephraim, by their companies, were 107 families and 1,100. They will set out third. 


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On the north side will be the standard of the camp of Dan by their companies, the chief of the people of Dan being Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, 


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And those to camp next to him will be the tribe of Asher, the chief of the sons of Asher being Pagiel the son of Ochran, 


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All those counted of the camp of Dan were 156 families 1,600. They will set out last, by their standard." 


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These are the sons of Israel as counted by their fathers' houses. All those counted in the camps by their companies were 598 families and 5,550. 


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Thus did the sons of Israel. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so they camped by their standards, and so they set out, each one in his tribe, according to his fathers' house. 


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These are the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time when the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai. 


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These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to serve as priests. 


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But Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD when they offered profane fire before the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests in the presence of Aaron their father. 


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They will keep watch over him and watch over all the assembly before the tabernacle of assembly, as they serve at the tabernacle. 


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They will watch all the furnishings of the tabernacle of assembly, and keep watch over the sons of Israel as they serve at the tabernacle. 


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And you will give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they are wholly given to him from among the sons of Israel. 


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And you will appoint Aaron and his sons, and they will attend to their priesthood. But if any stranger comes near, he will be put to death." 


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"Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the sons of Israel instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the sons of Israel. The Levites will be mine, 


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for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I dedicated for My own all the firstborn in Israel, both of man and of beast. They will be mine: I am the LORD." 


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"count the sons of Levi, by fathers' houses and by tribe; every male from a month old and upward you will count." 


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And the sons of Merari by their tribes: Mahli and Mushi. These are the tribes of the Levites, by their fathers' houses. 


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To Gershon belonged the tribe of the Libnites and the tribe of the Shimeites; these were the tribes of the Gershonites. 


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Their sum according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward was 7 families and 500. 


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And the duty of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of assembly included the tabernacle, the tent with its covering, the screen for the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly, 


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the hangings of the court, the screen for the door of the court that is around the tabernacle and the altar, and its cords, all the service connected with these. 


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To Kohath belonged the tribe of the Amramites and the tribe of the Izharites and the tribe of the Hebronites and the tribe of the Uzzielites; these are the tribes of the Kohathites. 


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According to the sum of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were 8 families and 600, keeping watch over the sanctuary. 


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And their duty involved the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which the priests serve, and the screen; all the service connected with these. 


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And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest was to be chief over the chiefs of the Levites, and to have oversight of those who kept guard over the sanctuary. 


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To Merari belonged the tribe of the Mahlites and the tribe of the Mushites: these are the tribes of Merari. 


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Their sum according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward was 6 families and 200. 


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And the chief of the fathers' house of the tribes of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They were to camp on the north side of the tabernacle. 


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And the appointed duty of the sons of Merari included the frames of the tabernacle, the bars, the pillars, the bases, and all their accessories; all the service connected with these; 


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Those who were to camp before the tabernacle on the east, before the tabernacle of assembly toward the sunrise, were Moses and Aaron and his sons, watching the sanctuary itself, to protect the sons of Israel. And any stranger who came near was to be put to death. 


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All those counted among the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron counted at the commandment of the LORD, by tribes, all the males from a month old and upward, were 21 families and 1,000. 


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And the LORD said to Moses, "Count all the firstborn males of the sons of Israel, from a month old and upward, taking the number of their names. 


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And you will take the Levites for me, I am the LORD, instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the cattle of the sons of Israel." 


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And all the firstborn males, according to the number of names, from a month old and upward as counted were 21 families and 1,273. 


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"Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle. The Levites will be mine: I am the LORD. 


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And as the redemption price for the 273 of the firstborn of the sons of Israel, over and above the number of the male Levites, 


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you will take five shekels per head; you will take them according to the shekel of the sanctuary, the shekel of twenty gerahs, 


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So Moses took the redemption money from those who were over and above those redeemed by the Levites. 


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From the firstborn of the sons of Israel he took the money, 1,365 shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary. 


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And Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses. 


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"Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their tribes and their fathers' houses, 


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from thirty years old up to fifty years old, all who can be on duty, to do the work in the tabernacle of assembly. 


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When the camp is to set out, Aaron and his sons will go in and take down the veil of the screen and cover the ark of the testimony with it. 


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Then they will put on it a covering of goatskin and spread on top of that an all blue cloth, and will put in its poles. 


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And over the table of the showbread they will spread a cloth of blue and put on it the plates, the dishes for incense, the bowls, and the cups for the drink offering; the perpetual bread also will be on it. 


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Then they will spread over them a cloth of scarlet and cover the same with a covering of goatskin, and will put in its poles. 


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And they will take a cloth of blue and cover the lampstand for the light, with its lamps, its tongs, its trays, and all the vessels for oil with which which they serve it. 


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And they will put it with all its utensils in a covering of goatskin and put it on the carrying frame. 


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And over the golden altar they will spread a cloth of blue and cover it with a covering of goatskin, and will put in its poles. 


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And they will take all the vessels of the service that are used in the sanctuary and put them in a cloth of blue and cover them with a covering of goatskin and put them on the carrying frame. 


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And they will put on it all the utensils of the altar, with which they serve around it, the fire pans, the forks, the shovels, and the basins, all the utensils of the altar; and they will spread on it a covering of goatskin, and will put in its poles. 


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And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as the camp sets out, after that the sons of Kohath will come to carry these, but they must not touch the holy things, or they die. These are the things of the tabernacle of assembly that the sons of Kohath are to carry. 


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And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest will have charge of the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the perpetual food offering, and the anointing oil, with the oversight of the whole tabernacle and all that is in it, of the sanctuary and its vessels." 


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but prepare them, that they may live and not die when they approach the most holy things: Aaron and his sons will go in and appoint them each to his task and to his burden, 


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From thirty years old up to fifty years old, you will count them, all who can come to do duty, to do service in the tabernacle of assembly. 


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they will carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the tabernacle of assembly with its covering and the covering of goatskin that is on top of it and the screen for the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly 


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and the hangings of the court and the screen for the entrance of the gate of the court that is around the tabernacle and the altar, and their cords and all the equipment for their service. And they will do all that needs to be done with regard to them. 


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All the service of the sons of the Gershonites will be at the command of Aaron and his sons, in all that they are to carry and in all that they have to do. And you will assign to their charge all that they are to carry. 


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This is the service of the tribes of the sons of the Gershonites in the tabernacle of assembly, and their duty is to be under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. 


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From thirty years old up to fifty years old, you will count them, everyone who can come on duty, to do the service of the tabernacle of assembly. 


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And this is what they are charged to carry, as the whole of their service in the tabernacle of assembly: the frames of the tabernacle, with its bars, pillars, and bases, 


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and the pillars around the court with their bases, pegs, and cords, with all their equipment and all their accessories. And you will list by name the objects that they are required to carry. 


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This is the service of the tribes of the sons of Merari, the whole of their service in the tabernacle of assembly, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest." 


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And Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the congregation counted the sons of the Kohathites, by their tribes and their fathers' houses, 


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from thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who could come on duty, for service in the tabernacle of assembly; 


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This was the count of the tribes of the Kohathites, all who served in the tabernacle of assembly, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses. 


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from thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who could come on duty for service in the tabernacle of assembly,


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This was the count of the tribes of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the tabernacle of assembly, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of the LORD. 


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from thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who could come on duty, for service in the tabernacle of assembly, 


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This was the count of the tribes of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses. 


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All those who were counted of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of Israel counted, by their tribes and their fathers' houses, 


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from thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who could come to do the service of ministry and the service of bearing burdens in the tabernacle of assembly, 


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According to the commandment of the LORD through Moses they were counted, each one with his task of serving or carrying. Thus they were counted by him, as the LORD commanded Moses. 


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"Command the sons of Israel that they remove from the camp everyone who is leprous or has a discharge and everyone who is unclean through contact with the dead. 


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You will remove both male and female, setting them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell." 


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And the sons of Israel did so, and removed them outside the camp; as the LORD said to Moses, so the sons of Israel accomplished it. 


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"Speak to the sons of Israel, When a man or woman commits any of the sins that people commit by breaking faith with the LORD, and that person realizes his guilt, 


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he will confess his sin that he has committed. And he will make full restitution for his wrong, adding a fifth to it and giving it to him to whom he did the wrong. 


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But if the man has no next of kin to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution for wrong will go to the LORD for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement with which atonement is made for him. 


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And every contribution, all the holy donations of the sons of Israel, which they bring to the priest, will be his. 


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if a man lies with her sexually, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, since she was not taken in the act, 


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and if the spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife who has defiled herself, or if the spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not defiled herself, 


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then the man will bring his wife to the priest and bring the offering required of her, a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He will pour no oil on it and put no frankincense on it, for it is a food offering of jealousy, a food offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance. 


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And the priest will take holy water in an earthenware vessel and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water. 


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And the priest will set the woman before the LORD and unbind the hair of the woman's head and place in her hands the food offering of remembrance, which is the food offering of jealousy. And in his hand the priest will have the water of bitterness that brings the curse. 


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Then the priest will make her take an oath, saying, 'If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness while you were under your husband's authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings the curse. 


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But if you have gone astray, though you are under your husband's authority, and if you have defiled yourself, and some man other than your husband has lain with you, 


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then let the priest make the woman take the oath of the curse, and say to the woman, 'the LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD makes your thigh fall away and your belly swell. 


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May this water that brings the curse pass into your bowels and make your belly swell and your thigh fall away.' And the woman will say, 'Amen, Amen.' 


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And he will make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings the curse, and the water that brings the curse will enter into her and cause bitter pain. 


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And the priest will take the grain offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand and will wave the grain offering before the LORD and bring it to the altar. 


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And the priest will take a handful of the food offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, and afterward will make the woman drink the water. 


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And when he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and has dealt treacherously with her husband, the water that brings the curse will enter into her and cause bitter pain, and her belly will swell, and her thigh will fall away, and the woman will become a curse among her people. 


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But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, then she will be free and will bear children. 


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This is the law in cases of jealousy, when a wife, though under her husband's authority, goes astray and defiles herself, 


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or when the spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife. Then he will set the woman before the LORD, and the priest will carry out for her all this law. 


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"Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to dedicate himself to the LORD, 


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he will abstain himself from wine and strong drink. He will drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and will not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried. 


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All the days of his dedication he will eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, not even the seeds or the skins. 


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All the days of his vow of dedication, no razor will touch his head. Until the time is completed for which he dedicates himself to the LORD, he will be holy. He will let the locks of hair of his head grow long. 


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Not even for his father or for his mother, for brother or sister, if they die, will he make himself unclean, because his dedication to God is on his head. 


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And if any man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his dedicated head, then he will shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he will shave it. 


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On the eighth day he will bring two turtledoves or two pigeons to the priest to the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly, 


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and the priest will offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead body. And he will dedicate his head that same day 


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and dedicate himself to the LORD for the days of his dedication and bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering. But the previous period will be void, because his dedication was defiled. 


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And this is the law for the Nazirite, when the time of his dedication has been completed: he will be brought to the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly, 


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and he will bring his gift to the LORD, one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish as a sin offering, and one ram without blemish as a peace offering, 


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and a basket of unleavened bread, loaves of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and their food offering and their drink offerings. 


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and he will offer the ram as a sacrifice of peace offering to the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest will offer also its food offering and its drink offering. 


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And the Nazirite will shave his dedicated head at the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly and will take the hair from his dedicated head and put it on the fire that is under the sacrifice of the peace offering. 


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And the priest will take the shoulder of the ram, when it is boiled, and one unleavened loaf out of the basket and one unleavened wafer, and will put them on the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaved the hair of his dedication, 


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and the priest will wave them for a wave offering before the LORD. They are a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed. And after that the Nazirite may drink wine. 


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"This is the law of the Nazirite. But if he vows an offering to the LORD above his Nazirite vow, as he can afford, in exact accordance with the vow that he takes, then he will do in addition to the law of the Nazirite." 


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"Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, Thus you will bless the sons of Israel: you will say to them, 


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On the day when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle and had anointed and dedicated it with all its furnishings and had anointed and dedicated the altar with all its utensils, 


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the chiefs of Israel, heads of their fathers' houses, who were the chiefs of the tribes, who were over those who were counted, approached 


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and put their offerings before the LORD, six wagons and twelve oxen, a wagon for every two of the chiefs, and for each one an ox. They presented them before the tabernacle. 


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"Accept these from them, that they may be used in the service of the tabernacle of assembly, and give them to the Levites, to each man according to his service." 


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And four wagons and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. 


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But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because they were charged with the service of the holy things that had to be carried on the shoulder. 


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And the chiefs offered offerings for the dedication of the altar on the day it was anointed; and the chiefs offered their offering before the altar. 


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And the LORD said to Moses, "They will offer their offerings, one chief each day, for the dedication of the altar." 


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And his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering; 


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and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab. 


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He offered for his offering one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering; 


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and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar. 


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his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering; 


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and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon. 


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and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur. 


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and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. 


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and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel. 


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and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud. 


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and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. 


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and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni. 


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and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. 


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and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran. 


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and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan. 


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This was the dedication offering for the altar on the day when it was anointed, from the chiefs of Israel: twelve silver plates, twelve silver basins, twelve golden dishes, 


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each silver plate weighing 130 shekels and each basin 70, all the silver of the vessels 2,400 shekels according to the shekel of the sanctuary, 


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the twelve golden dishes, full of incense, weighing 10 shekels apiece according to the shekel of the sanctuary, all the gold of the dishes being 120 shekels; 


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all the cattle for the burnt offering twelve bulls, twelve rams, twelve male lambs a year old, with their grain offering; and twelve male goats for a sin offering; 


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and all the cattle for the sacrifice of peace offerings twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the male lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication offering for the altar after it was anointed. 


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And when Moses went into the tabernacle of assembly to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim; and it spoke to him. 


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"Speak to Aaron and say to him, When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps will give light in front of the lampstand." 


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And this was the design of the lampstand, hammered gold. From its base to its flowers, it was hammered according to the pattern that the LORD had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand. 


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Therefore you will prepare them to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of purification upon them, and have them shave over all their body, and wash their clothes and cleanse themselves. 


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Then let them take a bull from the herd and its food offering of fine flour mixed with oil, and you will take another bull from the herd for a sin offering. 


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And you will bring the Levites before the tabernacle of assembly and assemble the whole congregation of the sons of Israel. 


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When you bring the Levites before the LORD, the sons of Israel will lay their hands on the Levites, 


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and Aaron will offer the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the sons of Israel, that they may do the service of the LORD. 


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Then the Levites will lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you will offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to the LORD to make atonement for the Levites. 


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And you will set the Levites before Aaron and his sons, and will offer them as a wave offering to the LORD. 


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Therefore you will separate the Levites from among the sons of Israel, and the Levites will be Mine. 


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And after that the Levites will go in to serve at the tabernacle of assembly, when you have cleansed them and offered them as a wave offering. 


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For they are wholly given to me from among the sons of Israel. Instead of all who open the womb, the firstborn of all the sons of Israel, I have taken them for Myself. 


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For all the firstborn among the sons of Israel are Mine, both of man and of beast. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I dedicated them for Myself, 


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And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the sons of Israel, to do the service for the sons of Israel at the tabernacle of assembly and to make atonement for the sons of Israel, that there will be no plague among the sons of Israel when the sons of Israel come near the sanctuary." 


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This Moses and Aaron did and all the congregation of the sons of Israel to the Levites. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, the sons of Israel did to them. 


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And the Levites purified themselves from sin and washed their clothes, and Aaron offered them as a wave offering before the LORD, and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them. 


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And after that the Levites went in to do their service in the tabernacle of assembly before Aaron and his sons; as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they prepared them. 


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"This applies to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward, they will come to do duty in the service of the tabernacle of assembly. 


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They attend for their brothers in the tabernacle of assembly by keeping guard, but they will do no labour. Thus will you appoint the Levites in assigning their duties." 


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And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 


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On the fourteenth day of this month, at dusk, you will keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its rules you will observe it." 


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And they observed the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at dusk, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel prepared it. 


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And there were certain men who were unclean through touching a dead body, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day. 


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And those men said to him, "We are unclean through touching a dead body. Why are we kept from bringing the LORD's offering at its appointed time among the sons of Israel?" 


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"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, If any one of you or of your descendants is unclean through touching a dead body, or is on a long journey, he will still keep the Passover to the LORD. 


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In the second month on the fourteenth day at dusk they will observe it. They will eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 


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They will leave none of it until the morning, nor break any of its bones; according to all the statute for the Passover they will observe it. 


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But if anyone who is clean and is not on a journey fails to keep the Passover, that person will be cut off from his people because he did not bring the LORD's offering at its appointed time; that man will bear his sin. 


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And if a stranger sojourns among you and would keep the Passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule, so will he do. You will have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native." 


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On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony. And at dusk it was over the tabernacle like the appearance of fire until dawn. 


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And whenever the cloud lifted from over the tent, after that the sons of Israel set out, and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the sons of Israel camped. 


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At the command of the LORD the sons of Israel set out, and at the command of the LORD they camped. As long as the cloud rested over the tabernacle, they remained in camp. 


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Even when the cloud continued over the tabernacle a long time, the sons of Israel kept the charge of the LORD and did not set out. 


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Sometimes the cloud was for  a long time over the tabernacle, and according to the command of the LORD they remained in camp; then according to the command of the LORD they set out. 


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And sometimes the cloud remained from dusk until dawn. And when the cloud lifted in the morning, they set out, or if it continued for a day and a night, when the cloud lifted they set out. 


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Whether it was two days, or a month, or a longer time, that the cloud continued over the tabernacle, abiding there, the sons of Israel remained in camp and did not set out, but when it lifted they set out. 


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At the command of the LORD they camped, and at the command of the LORD they set out. They kept the charge of the LORD, at the command of the LORD by Moses. 


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"Make two silver trumpets. Of hammered work you will make them, and you will use them for summoning the assembly and for breaking camp. 


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And when both are blown, all the assembly will gather themselves to you at the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly. 


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But if they blow only one, then the chiefs, the heads of the tribes of Israel, will gather themselves to you. 


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And when you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that are on the south side will set out. An alarm is to be blown whenever they are to set out. 


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But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you will blow a long blast, but you will not sound an alarm. 


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And the sons of Aaron, the priests,will blow the trumpets. The trumpets will be to you for a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations. 


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And when you go to war in your land against the enemy who distresses you, then you will sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the LORD your God, and you will be safe from your enemies. 


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On the day of your joyfulness also, and at your appointed feasts and at the beginnings of your months, you will blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings. They will be a reminder of you before your God: I am the LORD your God." 


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In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud lifted from over the tabernacle of the testimony, 


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and the sons of Israel set out by stages from the wilderness of Sinai. And the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran. 


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The standard of the camp of the sons of Judah set out first by their companies, and over their company was Nahshon the son of Amminadab. 


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And when the tabernacle was taken down, the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who carried the tabernacle, set out. 


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And the standard of the camp of Reuben set out by their companies, and over their company was Elizur the son of Shedeur. 


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Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy things, and the tabernacle was set up before their arrival. 


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And the standard of the camp of the sons of Ephraim set out by their companies, and over their company was Elishama the son of Ammihud. 


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Then the standard of the camp of the sons of Dan, acting as the rear guard of all the camps, set out by their companies, and over their company was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. 


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And Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us, and we will do good to you, for the LORD has promised good to Israel." 


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And he said, "Please do not leave us, for you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you will serve as eyes for us. 


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So they set out from the mount of the LORD three days' journey. And the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting place for them. 


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And whenever the ark set out, Moses said, "Arise, O LORD, and let your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate you flee before you." 


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And the people complained and when the LORD heard it He was displeased, His anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp. 


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Now the mixed multitude that was among them had a strong craving. And the sons of Israel also wept again and said, "Who will give us meat to eat! 


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We remember the fish we ate in Egypt for no cost, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. 


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The people went about and gathered it and ground it in mills or beat it in mortars and boiled it in pots and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like the taste of cakes fresh oil. 


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Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent. And the anger of the LORD blazed greatly, and Moses was displeased. 


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Moses said to the LORD, "Why have you punished your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that you lay the burden of all these people on me? 


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Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child,' to the land that you swore to give their fathers? 


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Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me and say, 'Give us meat, that we may eat.' 


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If you will treat me like this, destroy me, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my misery." 


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Then the LORD said to Moses, "Assemble for Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them, and bring them to the tabernacle of assembly, and let them take their stand there with you. 


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And I will come down and talk with you there. And I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them, and they will bear the burden of the people with you, so that you may not bear it yourself alone. 


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And say to the people, 'Cleanse yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying, "Who will give us meat to eat? For it was better for us in Egypt." Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat. 


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but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils and becomes disgusting to you, because you have rejected the LORD who is among you and have wept before him, saying, "Why did we come out of Egypt?"'" 


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But Moses said, "The people among whom I am number six hundred families on foot, and you have said, 'I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month!' 


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Will flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, and be enough for them? Or will all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, and be enough for them?" 


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And the LORD said to Moses, "Is the LORD's hand insufficient? Now you will see if My word will come true for you or not." 


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So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD. And he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the tabernacle. 


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Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. And as soon as the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied. But they did not continue doing so. 


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Now two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other named Medad, and the Spirit rested on them. They were among those counted, but they had not gone out to the tabernacle, and so they prophesied in the camp. 


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And Joshua the son of Nun, the assistant of Moses from his youth, said, "My lord Moses, stop them." 


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But Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the LORD's people were prophets, that the LORD would put His Spirit on them!" 


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Then a wind from the LORD sprang up, and it brought quail from the sea and let them fall around the camp, about a day's journey on this side and a day's journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the face of the ground. 


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And the people rose all that day and all night and all the next day, and gathered the quail. Those who gathered the least gathered ten homers. And they spread them out for themselves all around the camp. 


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While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck down the people with a very great plague. 


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Therefore the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had the craving. 


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Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had taken, for he had married a Cushite woman. 


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And they said, "Has the LORD indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?" And the LORD heard it. 


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And suddenly the LORD said to Moses and to Aaron and Miriam, "Come out, you three, to the tabernacle of assembly." And the three of them went. 


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And the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tabernacle and called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward. 


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And he said, "Hear My words: If there is a prophet among you, I the LORD make Myself known to him in a vision; I will speak with him in a dream. 


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With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the LORD. Why then are you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses?" 


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When the cloud removed from over the tabernacle, behold, Miriam was leprous, like snow. And Aaron turned toward Miriam, and behold, she was leprous. 


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And Aaron said to Moses, "Oh, my lord, do not punish us because we have been foolish and have sinned. 


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Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother's womb." 


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But the LORD said to Moses, "If her father had but spit in her face, would she not be ashamed seven days? Have her shut outside the camp seven days, and after that she may be received again." 


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So Miriam was shut outside the camp seven days, and the people did not set out on the march till Miriam was received again. 


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"Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you will send a man, every one a chief among them." 


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So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the LORD, all of them men who were heads of the sons of Israel. 


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These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua. 


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Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, "Go up into the Negeb and go up into the hills, 


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and see what the land is, and whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many, 


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and whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad, and whether the cities that they dwell in are camps or fortresses, 


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and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there are trees in it or not. Be of good courage and bring some of the fruit of the land." Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes. 


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They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, were children of Anak. Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt. 


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And they came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them; also some pomegranates and figs. 


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That place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster that the sons of Israel cut down from there. 


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And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the assembly of the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the assembly, and showed them the fruit of the land. 


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And they told him, "We came to the land to which you sent us. Indeed it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. 


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However, the people who dwell in the land are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large. And also we saw the children of Anak there. 


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The Amalekite dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hills. And the Canaanite dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan." 


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But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, "Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it." 


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Then the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we." 


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So they brought to the sons of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, "The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are men of stature. 


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And there we saw the tyrants, the sons of Anak, of the giants, and we were in our own sight like grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight." 


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And all the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole assembly said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness! 


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Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?" 


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Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the multitude of the sons of Israel. 


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And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes 


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and said to all the multitude of the sons of Israel, "The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land. 


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If the LORD favors us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey. 


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Only do not rebel against the LORD. And do not fear the people of the land, for they are food for us. Their protection is removed from them, and the LORD is with us; do not fear them." 


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Then all the congregation said to stone them with stones. But the glory of the LORD appeared at the tabernacle of assembly to all the sons of Israel. 


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And the LORD said to Moses, "How long will this people scorn Me? And how long will they not believe in Me, in spite of all the signs that I have performed among them? 


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I will strike them with the plague and dispossess them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they." 


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But Moses said to the LORD, "Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for You raised up this people in Your strength from among them, 


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and they will tell the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, O LORD, are within this people. For You, O LORD, are seen face to face, and Your cloud stands over them and You go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night. 


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'It is because the LORD did not have power to bring this people into the land that He swore to give to them therefore He has slain them in the wilderness.' 


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'The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the sons, to the third and the fourth generation.' 


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Please pardon the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of Your steadfast love, just as You have forgiven this people, from Egypt until now." 


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for of the men who have seen My glory and My signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed My voice, 


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they will not see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who scorned Me will see it. 


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But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his seed will possess it. 


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Now, since the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valleys, turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Sea of Reeds." 


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"How long will this wicked assembly grumble against Me? I have heard the grumblings of the sons of Israel, which they complain against Me. 


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your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness, and of all your number counted in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against Me, 


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not one will come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. 


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But your children, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they will know the land that you have rejected. 


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And your children will be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and will suffer for your adultery, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness. 


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According to the amount of time in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you will bear your iniquity forty years, and you will know My enmity.' 


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I, the LORD, have spoken. Surely this will I do to all this wicked assembly who are gathered together against Me: in this wilderness they will come to a full end, and there they will die." 


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And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the assembly grumble against Him, who came with a bad report about the land, 


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Of those men who went to spy out the land, only Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive. 


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And they rose up early in the dawn and went up to the heights of the hills, saying, "Here we are. We will go up to the place that the LORD has promised, for we have sinned." 


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But Moses said, "Why now are you transgressing the command of the LORD, when that will not prosper? 


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For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are facing you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from following the LORD, the LORD will not be with you." 


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But they presumed to go up to the heights of the hills, although neither the ark of the covenant of the LORD nor Moses departed out of the camp. 


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Then the Amalekite and the Canaanite who lived in that hill country came down and defeated them and beat them down, even to Hormah. 


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"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving you, 


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and you offer to the LORD from the herd or from the flock a food offering or a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or at your appointed feasts, to make a pleasing aroma to the LORD, 


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then he who brings his offering will offer to the LORD a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil; 


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and you will offer with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, a fourth of a hin of wine for the drink offering for each lamb. 


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Or for a ram, you will offer for a food offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil. 


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And when you offer a son of the heard as a burnt offering or sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or for peace offerings to the LORD, 


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then one will offer with the son of the herd a grain offering of three tenths part of fine flour, mixed with half a hin of oil. 


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And you will offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 


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Every native will do these things in this way, in offering a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 


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And if a stranger is sojourning with you, or anyone is living among you for generations, and he wishes to offer a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD, he will do as you do. 


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For the assembly, there will be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you, a statute forever throughout your generations. You and the sojourner will be alike before the LORD. 


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Of the first of your dough you will present a loaf as a gift; like a gift from the threshing floor, you will present it. 


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all that the LORD has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the LORD gave commandment, and onward for your generations, 


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then if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the assembly, all the assembly will offer one bull from the herd for a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its food offering and its drink offering, according to the rule, and one kid goat for a sin offering. 


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And the priest will make atonement for all the assembly of the sons of Israel, and they will be forgiven, because it was a mistake, and they have given their offering, a food offering to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD for their mistake. 


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And all the assembly of the sons of Israel will be forgiven, and the stranger who sojourns among them, because the whole population was involved in the mistake. 


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And the priest will make atonement before the LORD for the person who makes a mistake, when he goes astray, to make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven. 


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You will have one law for him who goes astray, for him who is native among the sons of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them. 


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But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, and reviles the LORD, that person will be cut off from among his people. 


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Because he has scorned the word of the LORD and has broken His commandment, that person will be utterly cut off; his iniquity will be on him." 


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While the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day. 


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And the LORD said to Moses, "The man will be put to death; all the assembly will stone him with stones outside the camp." 


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And all the assembly took him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, as the LORD commanded Moses. 


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"Speak to the sons of Israel, and tell them to make tassels on the corners of their clothes throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel of each corner. 


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And it will be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the LORD, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, when you may commit adultery. 


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I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the LORD your God." 


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Now Korah the son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men. 


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And they rose up against Moses, with a number of the sons of Israel, 250 chiefs of the multitude, chosen from the assembly, men of authority. 


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They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, "You have gone too far! For all in the assembly are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is with them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?" 


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and he said to Korah and all his multitude, "In the morning the LORD will show who is His, and who is holy, and will bring him near to Him. The one whom He chooses He will bring near to Him. 


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put fire in them and put incense on them before the LORD tomorrow, and the man whom the LORD chooses will be the holy one. You have gone too far, sons of Levi!" 


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is it but a small thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the assembly of Israel, to bring you near to Himself, to do service in the tabernacle of the LORD and to stand before the assembly to minister to them, 


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and that He has brought you near Him, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? And would you seek the priesthood also? 


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Therefore it is against the LORD that you and all your company have gathered together. What is Aaron that you complain of him?" 


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Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also make yourself a ruler over us? 


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Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us possession of fields and vineyards. Will you pierce the eyes of these men? We will not come up." 


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And Moses was very angry and said to the LORD, "Do not respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, and I have not harmed one of them." 


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And Moses said to Korah, "Be present, you and all your multitude, before the LORD, you and they, and Aaron, tomorrow. 


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And let every one of you take his censer and put incense on it, and every one of you bring before the LORD his censer, 250 censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer." 


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So every man took his censer and put fire in them and laid incense on them and stood at the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly with Moses and Aaron. 


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Then Korah assembled all the multitude against them at the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly. And the glory of the LORD appeared to all the assembly. 


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And they fell on their faces and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, will one man sin, and will you be angry with all the multitude?" 


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And he spoke to the assembly, saying, "Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, or you will be consumed with all their sins." 


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So they got away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. And Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the door of their tents, together with their wives, their sons, and their children. 


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And Moses said, "By this you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, and that it has not been of my own thinking. 


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If these die a natural death as all men die, and if they are visited by the fate of all mankind, then the LORD has not sent me. 


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But if the LORD creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the grave, then you will know that these men have scorned the LORD." 


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And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men who belonged to Korah and all their goods. 


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So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into the grave, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly. 


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And all Israel who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, "Or the earth will swallow us up!" 


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"Tell Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers out of the blaze. Then scatter the fire far and wide, for they have become holy. 


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As for the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they offered them before the LORD, and they became holy. Thus they will be a sign to the sons of Israel." 


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So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned had offered, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar, 


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to be a reminder to the sons of Israel, so that no outsider, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, should draw near to burn incense before the LORD, or he will become like Korah and his company, as the LORD said to him through Moses. 


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But on the next day all the assembly of the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron, saying, "You have killed the people of the LORD." 


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And when the assembly had gathered against Moses and against Aaron, they turned toward the tabernacle of assembly. And behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared. 


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"Get away from the midst of this assembly, that I may consume them in a instant." And they fell on their faces. 


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And Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, and put fire on it from off the altar and lay incense on it and carry it quickly to the assembly and make atonement for them, for anger has gone out from the LORD; the plague has begun." 


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So Aaron took it as Moses said and ran into the midst of the assembly. And behold, the plague had already begun among the people. And he put on the incense and made atonement for the people. 


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And Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly, when the plague was stopped.


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"Speak to the sons of Israel, and get from them staffs, one for each fathers' house, from all their chiefs according to their fathers' houses, twelve staffs. Write each man's name on his staff, 


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and write Aaron's name on the staff of Levi. For there will be one staff for the head of each fathers' house. 


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Then you will deposit them in the tabernacle of assembly before the testimony, where I meet with you. 


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And the staff of the man whom I choose will sprout. Thus I will make to cease from Me the complaining of the sons of Israel, which they grumble against you." 


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Moses spoke to the sons of Israel. And all their chiefs gave him staffs, one for each chief, according to their fathers' houses, twelve staffs. And the staff of Aaron was among their staffs. 


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On the next day Moses went into the tabernacle of the testimony, and behold, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted and put forth buds and produced blossoms, and it bore ripe almonds. 


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Then Moses took all the staffs from before the LORD to all the sons of Israel. And they looked, and each man took his staff. 


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And the LORD said to Moses, "Put back the staff of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebels, that you may make an end of their complaining against Me, or they die." 


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Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of the LORD, will die. Are we all to perish?" 


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So the LORD said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your father's house with you will accept iniquity connected with the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you will accept the iniquity connected with your priesthood. 


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And with you bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may join you and serve you while you and your sons with you are before the tabernacle of the testimony. 


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They will keep guard over you and over the whole tabernacle, but will not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary or to the altar or they and you die. 


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They will join you and keep guard over the tabernacle of assembly for all the service of the tabernacle, and no stranger will come near you. 


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And you will keep guard over the sanctuary and over the altar, that there may never again be anger on the sons of Israel. 


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And behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the sons of Israel. They are a gift to you, given to the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of assembly. 


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And you and your sons with you will guard your priesthood for all that concerns the altar and that is within the veil; and you will serve. I give your priesthood as a gift, and any stranger who comes near will be put to death." 


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Then the LORD spoke to Aaron, "Behold, I have given you charge of the gifts made to me, all the dedicated things of the sons of Israel. I have given them to you as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual due. 


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This will be yours of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, every food offering of theirs and every sin offering of theirs and every guilt offering of theirs, which they render to me, will be most holy to you and to your sons. 


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This also is yours: the contribution of their gift, all the wave offerings of the sons of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it. 


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All the best of the oil and all the best of the wine and of the grain, the firstfruits of what they give to the LORD, I give to you. 


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The first ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the LORD, will be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it. 


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Everything that opens the womb of all flesh, whether man or beast, which they offer to the LORD, will be yours. Nevertheless, the firstborn of man you will redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals you will redeem. 


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And their redemption price, at a month old you will redeem them, you will fix at five shekels in silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs. 


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But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you will not redeem; they are holy. You will sprinkle their blood on the altar and will burn their fat as a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 


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All the holy gifts that the sons of Israel present to the LORD I give to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. It is a covenant of salt forever before the LORD for you and for your seed with you." 


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And the LORD said to Aaron, "You will have no inheritance in their land, neither will you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the sons of Israel. 


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To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service that they do, their service in the tabernacle of assembly, 


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But the Levites will do the service of the tabernacle of assembly, and they will bear their iniquity. It will be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the sons of Israel they will have no inheritance. 


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For the tithe of the sons of Israel, which they present as a gift to the LORD, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said of them that they will have no inheritance among the sons of Israel." 


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"Moreover, you will speak and say to the Levites, 'When you take from the sons of Israel the tithe that I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you will present a gift from it to the LORD, a tithe of the tithe. 


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And your gift will be counted to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress. 


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So you will also present a gift to the LORD from all your tithes, which you receive from the sons of Israel. And from it you will give the LORD's gift to Aaron the priest. 


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Out of all the gifts to you, you will present every gift due to the LORD; from each its best part is to be dedicated.' 


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Therefore you will say to them, 'When you have offered from it the best of it, then the rest will be counted to the Levites as produce of the threshing floor, and as produce of the winepress. 


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And you may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the tabernacle of assembly. 


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And you will accept no sin by reason of it, when you have contributed the best of it. But you will not profane the holy things of the sons of Israel, or you die.'" 


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"This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: Tell the sons of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, and on which a yoke has not been set. 


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And you will give it to Eleazar the priest, and it will be taken outside the camp and slaughtered before him. 


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And Eleazar the priest will take some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of its blood toward the front of the tabernacle of assembly seven times. 


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And the heifer will be burned in his sight. Its skin, its flesh, and its blood, with its dung, will be burned. 


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And the priest will take cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn, and throw them into the fire burning the heifer. 


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Then the priest will wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp. But the priest will be unclean until evening. 


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The one who burns the heifer will wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water and will be unclean until evening. 


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And a man who is clean will gather up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place. And they will be kept for the assembly of the sons of Israel for the water of impurity; it is a sin offering. 


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And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer will wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. And this will be a perpetual statute for the sons of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them. 


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He will cleanse himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so be clean. But if he does not cleanse himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not become clean. 


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Whoever touches a dead person, the body of anyone who has died, and does not cleanse himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD, and that person will be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not thrown on him, he will be unclean. His uncleanness is still with him. 


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This is the law when someone dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent will be unclean seven days. 


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Whoever in the open field touches someone who was killed with a sword or who died naturally, or touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean seven days. 


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For the unclean they will take some ashes of the burnt sin offering, and fresh water will be added in a vessel. 


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Then a clean person will take hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the persons who were there and on whoever touched the bone, or the slain or the dead or the grave. 


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And the clean person will sprinkle it on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day. Thus on the seventh day he will cleanse him, and he will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and at evening he will be clean. 


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If the man who is unclean does not cleanse himself, that person will be cut off from the midst of the assembly, since he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. Because the water for impurity has not been thrown on him, he is unclean. 


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And it will be a statute forever for them. The one who sprinkles the water for impurity will wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water for impurity will be unclean until evening. 


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And whatever the unclean person touches will be unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening." 


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And the sons of Israel, the whole assembly, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh. And Miriam died there and was buried there. 


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Now there was no water for the assembly. And they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. 


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And the people quarreled with Moses and said, "Would that we had perished when our brothers perished before the LORD! 


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Why have you led the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, that we should die here, both us and our cattle? 


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And why have you caused us come up out of Egypt to bring us to this evil place? It is no place for grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, and there is no water to drink." 


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Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly and fell on their faces. And the glory of the LORD appeared to them, 


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"Take the staff, and assemble the multitude, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water. So you will bring water out of the rock for them and give drink to the assembly and their cattle." 


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Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels: will we bring water for you out of this rock?" 


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And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice, and water came out mightly, and the assembly drank, and their livestock. 


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And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not believe in Me, to uphold Me as holy in the eyes of the sons of Israel, therefore you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them." 


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These are the waters of Meribah, where the sons of Israel quarreled with the LORD, and through them He showed Himself holy. 


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Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom: "Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the hardship that we have met: 


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how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. And the Egyptians dealt harshly with us and our fathers. 


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And when we cried to the LORD, he heard our voice and sent an angel and got us out of Egypt. And here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory. 


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Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or vineyard, or drink water from a well. We will go along the King's Highway. We will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your territory." 


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And the sons of Israel said to him, "We will go up by the highway, and if we drink of your water, I and my livestock, then I will pay for it. Let me only pass through on foot, nothing more." 


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But he said, "You will not pass through." And Edom came out against them with a many troops and with a strong force. 


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"Let Aaron be gathered to his people, for he will not enter the land that I have given to the sons of Israel, because you rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah. 


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And strip Aaron of his clothes and put them on Eleazar his son. And Aaron will be gathered to his people and will die there." 


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And Moses stripped Aaron of his clothes and put them on Eleazar his son. And Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain. 


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And when all the assembly saw that Aaron had perished, all the house of Israel wept for Aaron thirty days. 


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And King Arad the Canaanite, who lived in the south, heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive. 


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And Israel gave a vow to the LORD and said, "If you will indeed give this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities." 


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And the LORD heard the voice of Israel and gave over the Canaanites, and they utterly destroyed them and their cities; So the name of the place was called Hormah. 


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From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Sea of Reeds, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became discouraged on the way. 


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And the people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we are disgusted by this light bread." 


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Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many sons of Israel died. 


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And the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD, that he remove the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people. 


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And the LORD said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, will live." 


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So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he could look at the bronze serpent and live. 


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And they set out from Oboth and camped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness that is opposite Moab, toward the sunrise. 


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From there they set out and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that extends from the border of the Amorite, for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorite. 


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Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD, "Waheb in Suphah, and the stream of Arnon, 


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And from there they continued to Beer; that is the well of which the LORD said to Moses, "Gather the people together, so that I may give them water." 


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the well that the rulers made, that the nobles of the people dug, with the scepter and with their staffs." And from the wilderness they went on to Mattanah, 


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and from Bamoth to the valley lying in the region of Moab by the top of Pisgah that looks down on the desert. 


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"Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into field or vineyard. We will not drink the water of a well. We will go by the King's Highway until we have passed through your territory." 


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But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his territory. He gathered all his people together and went out against Israel to the wilderness and came to Jahaz and battled against Israel. 


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And Israel defeated him with the edge of the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the Ammonite, for the border of the Ammonite was strong. 


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And Israel took all these cities, and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorite, in Heshbon, and in all its villages. 


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For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorite, who had battled against the former king of Moab and taken all his land out of his hand, as far as the Arnon. 


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Therefore the ballad singers say, "Come to Heshbon, let it be built; let the city of Sihon be established. 


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For fire came out from Heshbon, flame from the city of Sihon. It devoured Ar of Moab, and swallowed the heights of the Arnon. 


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Woe to you, O Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons fugitives, and his daughters captives, to an Amorite king, Sihon. 


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So we overthrew them; Heshbon, as far as Dibon, perished; and we laid waste as far as Nophah; fire spread as far as Medeba." 


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And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its villages and drove our the Amorite who were there. 


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Then they turned and went up by the way to Bashan. And Og the king of Bashan came out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. 


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But the LORD said to Moses, "Do not fear him, for I have given him into your hand, and all his people, and his land. And you will do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorite, who lived at Heshbon." 


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So they struck him and his sons and all his people, until he had no survivor left. And they occupied his land. 


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And Moab greatly feared the people, because they were many. Moab was distressed because of the sons of Israel. 


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And Moab said to the elders of Midian, "This multitude will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field." So Balak the son of Zippor, who was king of Moab at that time, 


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sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor at Pethor, which is near the River in the land of the people of Amaw, to call him, saying, "Behold, a troop come out of Egypt. They cover the face of the earth, and they are dwelling next to me. 


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Come now, curse this people for me, since they are too powerful for me. Perhaps I will be able to defeat them and drive them from the land, for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed." 


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So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the fees for the seer in their hand. And they came to Balaam and gave him Balak's message. 


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And he said to them, "Stay here tonight, and I will bring back word to you, as the LORD speaks to me." So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam. 


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'Behold, a troop has come out of Egypt, and it covers the face of the earth. Now come, curse them for me. Perhaps I will be able to battle them and drive them out.'" 


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God said to Balaam, "You will not go with them. You will not curse the people, for they are blessed." 


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So Balaam rose in the morning and said to the princes of Balak, "Go to your own land, for the LORD has refused to let me go with you." 


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And they came to Balaam and said to him, "Thus says Balak the son of Zippor: 'Let nothing keep you from coming to me, 


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for I will greatly honor you, and whatever you say to me I will do. Come, curse this people for me.'" 


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But Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, "Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the command of the LORD my God to do less or more. 


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And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, "If the men have come to invite you, rise, go with them; but only do what I tell you." 


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But God's anger was kindled because he went, and the angel of the LORD took his stand in the way as his opponent. Now he was riding on the donkey, and his two servants were with him. 


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And the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road, with a drawn sword in his hand. And the donkey turned aside out of the road and went into the field. And Balaam beat the donkey, to turn her into the road. 


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Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, with a wall on either side. 


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And when the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she pushed against the wall and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall. So he beat her again. 


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Then the angel of the LORD went ahead and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right or to the left. 


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When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she lay down under Balaam. And Balaam's anger was kindled, and he beat the donkey with his staff. 


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Then the LORD opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you, that you have beaten me these three times?" 


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And Balaam said to the donkey, "Because you have made a fool of me. I wish I had a sword in my hand, for then I would kill you." 


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And the donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Is it my custom to treat you this way?" And he said, "No." 


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Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, with his drawn sword in his hand. And he bowed down and fell on his face. 


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And the angel of the LORD said to him, "Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to oppose you because your way is disobedient before me. 


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The donkey saw me and turned aside before me these three times. If she had not turned aside from me, doubtless by now I would have killed you and let her live." 


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Then Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, "I have sinned, for I did not know that you stood in the road against me. Now therefore, if it is evil in Your eyes, I will turn back." 


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And the angel of the LORD said to Balaam, "Go with the men, but speak only the word that I command you." So Balaam went on with the rulers of Balak. 


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When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him at the city of Moab, on the border formed by the Arnon, at the furtherest border. 


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And Balak said to Balaam, "Did I not send to you to invite you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to truly honor you?" 


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Balaam said to Balak, "Behold, I have come to you! Have I now the ability of my own to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that I must speak." 


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And in the morning Balak took Balaam and led him up to Bamoth-baal, and from there he saw the border of the people. 


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And Balaam said to Balak, "Build here for me seven altars, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams." 


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And Balaam said to Balak, "Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet me, and whatever he shows me I will tell you." And he went to a bare place, 


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and God met Balaam. And Balaam said to him, "I have arranged the seven altars and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram." 


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And he returned to him, and behold, he and all the rulers of Moab were standing beside his burnt offering. 


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And Balaam took up his proverb and said, "From Aram Balak has led me, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains: 'Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, have scorn for Israel!' 


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For from the top of the crags I see him, from the hills I behold him; behold, a people dwelling alone, and not regarded as among the nations! 


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Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, and let my posterity be like his!" 


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And Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have done nothing but bless them." 


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And Balak said to him, "Please come with me to another place, from which you may see them. You will see only a fraction of them and will not see them all. Then curse them for me from there." 


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And he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. 


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And the LORD met Balaam and put words in his mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and this you will say." 


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And he came to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the rulers of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, "What has the LORD spoken?" 


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God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said it, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it? 


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He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob, nor has He seen trouble in Israel. The LORD their God is with them, and the rejoicing of a king is among them. 


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For there is no spell against Jacob, no divination against Israel; now it will be said of Jacob and Israel, 'See what has God done!' 


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Behold, the people will rise as a lioness and as a lion it lifts itself; it does not lie down until it has devoured the prey and drunk the blood of the slain." 


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And Balak said to Balaam, "Come now, I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there." 


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And Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me here seven altars and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams." 


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When Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not go, as at other times, to look for omens, but set his direction toward the wilderness. 


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And Balaam lifted up his eyes and saw Israel camping by their tribes. And the Spirit of God came on him, 


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the sayings of him who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, yet with open eyes: 


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They are spread out like valleys, like gardens beside a river, like aloes that the LORD has planted, like cedar trees beside the waters. 


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Water will flow from his buckets, and his seed will be in many waters; his king will be higher than Agag, and his kingdom will be magnified. 


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God brings him out of Egypt and is with him like the strength of the wild ox; he will devour the nations, his adversaries, and will break their bones in pieces and pierce them through with his arrows. 


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He crouched, he lay down like a lion and like a lioness; who will stir him up? Blessed are those who bless you, and cursed are those who curse you." 


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And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he pounded his hands together. And Balak said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them three times. 


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Therefore now flee to your home. I said, 'I desired honor you,' but the LORD has denied you this honor." 


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'If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I would not be able to go beyond the word of the LORD, to do either good or bad of my own will. What the LORD says, that will I say'? 


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And now, behold, I am going to my people. Come, I will advise you what this people will do to your people in the latter days." 


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He who hears the words of God, and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, yet with open eyes: 


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I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near: a star comes out of Jacob, and a scepter will rise out of Israel; it will crush the forehead of Moab and subdue all the sons of Sheth. 


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Edom will be a possession; Seir also, his enemies, will be a possession. Israel is doing valiantly. 


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Then he looked on Amalek and took up his proverb and said, "Amalek was the first among the nations, but its posterity is utter destruction." 


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And he looked on the Kenite, and took up his proverb and said, "Your dwelling place is enduring, and your nest is set in the rock. 


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But ships will come from Kittim and will afflict Asshur and Eber; and he also will come to lasting destruction." 


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They invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods. 


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And the LORD said to Moses, "Take all the rulers of the people and hang them in the sun before the LORD, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel." 


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And Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each one of you kill those of the men who have joined themselves to Baal of Peor." 


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And behold, one of the sons of Israel came and presented a Midianite woman to his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole assembly of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping in the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly. 


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When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the assembly and took a spear in his hand 


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and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on the sons of Israel was stopped. 


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"Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My anger from the sons of Israel, in that he was zealous for My sake among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in My jealousy. 


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and it will be to him and to his descendants after him the covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was zealous for his God and atoned for the sons of Israel.'" 


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The name of the slain man of Israel, who was killed with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, ruler of a father's house belonging to the Simeonites. 


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And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, who was the head of a father's house in Midian. 


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for they have distressed you with their deceit, with which they defrauded you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the ruler of Midian, their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague on account of Peor." 


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"Take a sum of all the assembly of the sons of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' houses, all in Israel who are able to go to war." 


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And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, 


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"Take a sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward," as the LORD commanded Moses. The sons of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt were: 


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Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the tribe of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the tribe of the Palluites; 


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The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are the Dathan and Abiram, chosen from the assembly, who quarreled against Moses and Aaron in the company of Korah, when they quarreled against the LORD 


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and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured 250 men, and they became a sign. 


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The sons of Simeon according to their tribes: of Nemuel, the tribe of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the tribe of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the tribe of the Jachinites; 


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The sons of Gad according to their tribes: of Zephon, the tribe of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the tribe of the Haggites; of Shuni, the tribe of the Shunites; 


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And the sons of Judah according to their tribes were: of Shelah, the tribe of the Shelanites; of Perez, the tribe of the Perezites; of Zerah, the tribe of the Zerahites. 


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And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the tribe of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the tribe of the Hamulites. 


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The sons of Issachar according to their tribes: of Tola, the tribe of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the tribe of the Punites; 


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The sons of Zebulun, according to their tribes: of Sered, the tribe of the Seredites; of Elon, the tribe of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the tribe of the Jahleelites. 


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The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the tribe of the Machirites; and Machir was the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the tribe of the Gileadites. 


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These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the tribe of the Iezerites; of Helek, the tribe of the Helekites; 


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Now Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters. And the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 


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These are the sons of Ephraim according to their tribes: of Shuthelah, the tribe of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the tribe of the Becherites; of Tahan, the tribe of the Tahanites. 


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These are the tribes of the sons of Ephraim as they were counted, 32 families and 500. These are the sons of Joseph according to their tribes. 


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The sons of Benjamin according to their tribes: of Bela, the tribe of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the tribe of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the tribe of the Ahiramites; 


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And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the tribe of the Ardites; of Naaman, the tribe of the Naamites. 


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These are the sons of Benjamin according to their tribes, and those counted were 45 families and 600. 


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These are the sons of Dan according to their tribes: of Shuham, the tribe of the Shuhamites. These are the tribes of Dan according to their tribes. 


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The sons of Asher according to their tribes: of Imnah, the tribe of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the tribe of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the tribe of the Beriites. 


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Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the tribe of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the tribe of the Malchielites. 


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The sons of Naphtali according to their tribes: of Jahzeel, the tribe of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the tribe of the Gunites; 


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These are the tribes of Naphtali according to their tribes, and those counted were 45 families and 400. 


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To a larger you will give a large inheritance, and to a smaller you will give a small inheritance; every tribe will be given its inheritance in proportion to its number. 


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But the land will be divided by lot. They will inherit according to the names of the tribes of their fathers. 


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This was the count of the Levites according to their tribes: of Gershon, the tribe of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the tribe of the Kohathites; of Merari, the tribe of the Merarites. 


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These are the tribes of Levi: the tribe of the Libnites, the tribe of the Hebronites, the tribe of the Mahlites, the tribe of the Mushites, the tribe of the Korahites. And Kohath was the father of Amram. 


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The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. And she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses and Miriam their sister. 


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And those counted were 22 families and 1,000, every male from a month old and upward. For they were not counted among the sons of Israel, because there was no inheritance given to them among the sons of Israel. 


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These were those counted by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who counted the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. 


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But among these there was not one of those counted by Moses and Aaron the priest, who had counted the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. 


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For the LORD had said of them, "They will die in the wilderness." Not one of them was left, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. 


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Then drew near the daughters of Zelophehad the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, from the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph. The names of his daughters were: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 


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And they stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the rulers and all the assembly, at the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly, saying, 


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"Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah, but died for his own sin. And he had no sons. 


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Why would the name of our father be taken away from his tribe because he had no son? Give to us a possession among our father's brothers." 


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"The daughters of Zelophehad speak justly. You will give them possession of an inheritance among their father's brothers and transfer the inheritance of their father to them. 


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And you will speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'If a man dies and has no son, then you will transfer his inheritance to his daughter. 


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And if his father has no brothers, then you will give his inheritance to the nearest kinsman of his tribe, and he will possess it. And it will be for the sons of Israel a statute and rule, as the LORD commands Moses.'" 


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The LORD said to Moses, "Go up into this mountain of Abarim and see the land that I have given to the sons of Israel. 


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When you have seen it, you also will be taken away to your people, as your brother Aaron was taken, 


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because you rebelled against My word in the wilderness of Zin when the assembled rebelled, failing to uphold Me as holy at the waters before their eyes." These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin. 


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who will go out before them and come in before them, who will lead them out and bring them in, that the assembly of the LORD may not be as sheep that have no shepherd." 


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So the LORD said to Moses, "Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him. 


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Have him stand before Eleazar the priest and all the assembly, and you will commission him in their sight. 


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You will bestow on him some of your authority, that all the assembly of the sons of Israel may obey. 


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And he will stand before Eleazar the priest, who will inquire for him according to the judgment of the Urim before the LORD. At his word they will go out, and at his word they will come in, both he and all the sons of Israel with him, the whole assembly." 


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And Moses did as the LORD commanded him. He took Joshua and had him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole assembly, 


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"Command the sons of Israel and say to them, 'My offering, My food for My food offerings, My pleasing aroma, you will be sure to offer to Me at its appointed time.' 


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And you will say to them, This is the food offering that you will offer to the LORD: two male lambs a year old without blemish, daily as a burnt offering. 


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also a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a food offering, mixed with a quarter of a hin of beaten oil. 


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It is a daily burnt offering, which was ordained at Mount Sinai for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD. 


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Its drink offering will be a quarter of a hin for each lamb. In the sanctuary you will pour out a drink offering of strong drink to the LORD. 


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The other lamb you will offer at dusk. Like the food offering of the dawn, and like its drink offering, you will offer it as a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 


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On the Sabbath day, two male lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a food offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering: 


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this is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, besides the daily burnt offering and its drink offering. 


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At the beginnings of your months, you will offer a burnt offering to the LORD: two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish; 


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also three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a food offering, mixed with oil, for each bull, and two tenths of fine flour for a food offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram; 


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and a tenth of fine flour mixed with oil as a food offering for every lamb; for a burnt offering with a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD. 


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Their drink offerings will be half a hin of wine for a bull, a third of a hin for a ram, and a quarter of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering every month throughout the months of the year. 


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Also one male goat for a sin offering to the LORD; it will be offered besides the daily burnt offering and its drink offering. 


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but offer a food offering, a burnt offering to the LORD: two bulls from the herd, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; see that they are without blemish; 


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also their food offering of fine flour mixed with oil; three tenths of an ephah will you offer for a bull, and two tenths for a ram; 


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In the same way you will offer daily, for seven days, the food of a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD. It will be offered besides the daily burnt offering and its drink offering. 


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On the day of the firstfruits, when you offer a food offering of new grain to the LORD at your Feast of Weeks, you will have a holy convocation. You will not do any ordinary work, 


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but offer a burnt offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD: two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old; 


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also their food offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for each bull, two tenths for one ram, 


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Besides the daily burnt offering and its food offering, you will offer them and their drink offering. See that they are without blemish. 


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On the first day of the seventh month you will have a holy convocation. You will not do any ordinary work. It is a day for you to blow the trumpets, 


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and you will offer a burnt offering, for a pleasing aroma to the LORD: one bull from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish; 


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also their food offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for the bull, two tenths for the ram, 


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besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and its food offering, and the daily burnt offering and its food offering, and their drink offering, according to the rule for them, for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD. 


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On the tenth day of this seventh month you will have a holy convocation and humble yourselves. You will do no work, 


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but you will offer a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma: one bull from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old: see that they are without blemish. 


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And their food offering will be of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for the bull, two tenths for the one ram, 


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also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the sin offering of atonement, and the daily burnt offering and its food offering, and their drink offerings. 


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On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you will have a holy convocation. You will not do any ordinary work, and you will keep a feast to the LORD seven days. 


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And you will offer a burnt offering, a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD, thirteen bulls from the herd, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; they will be without blemish; 


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and their food offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for each of the thirteen bulls, two tenths for each of the two rams, 


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also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the daily burnt offering, its food offering and its drink offering. 


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On the second day twelve bulls from the herd, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish, 


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with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to the ordinance;


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also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the daily burnt offering and its food offering, and their drink offerings. 


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with the food offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to the ordinance; 


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also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the daily burnt offering and its food offering and its drink offering. 


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with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to the ordinance; 


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also one male goat for a sin offering; besides the daily burnt offering and its food offering and its drink offering. 


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with the food offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to the ordinance;


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also one male goat for a sin offering; besides the daily burnt offering, its food offering, and its drink offerings. 


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also one male goat for a sin offering; besides the daily burnt offering, its food offering, and its drink offering. 


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but you will offer a burnt offering, a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish, 


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and the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, according to the ordinance; 


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These you will offer to the LORD at your appointed feasts, in addition to your vow offerings and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your food offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings." 


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Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the sons of Israel, saying, "This is what the LORD has commanded. 


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If a man promises a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to commit himself by a pledge, he will not break his word. He will do according to all that he has spoken. 


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If a woman promises a vow to the LORD and commit herself by a pledge, while within her father's house in her youth, 


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and her father hears of her vow and of her pledge by which she has committed herself and says nothing to her, then all her vows will stand, and every pledge by which she has bound herself will stand. 


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But if her father prohibited her on the day that he hears of it, no vow of hers or pledge by which she has committed herself will stand. And the LORD will forgive her, because her father prohibited her. 


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If she marries a husband, while under her vows or any rash sayings of her lips by which she has committed herself, 


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and her husband hears of it and says nothing to her on the day that he hears, then her vows will stand, and her pledges by which she has committed herself will stand. 


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But if, on the day that her husband comes to hear of it, he prohibits her, then he makes void her vow that was on her, and the rash sayings of her lips by which she committed herself. And the LORD will forgive her. 


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But any vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, anything by which she has committed herself, will remain with her. 


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and her husband heard of it and said nothing to her and did not prohibit her, then all her vows will stand, and every pledge by which she committed herself will stand. 


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But if her husband makes them null and void on the day that he hears them, then whatever sayings concerning her vows or concerning her pledge of herself will not stand. Her husband has made them void, and the LORD will forgive her. 


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Any vow and any binding oath to humble herself, her husband may establish, or her husband may make void. 


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But if her husband says nothing to her from time to time, then he establishes all her vows or all her pledges that are upon her. He has established them, because he said nothing to her at the time that he heard them. 


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These are the statutes that the LORD commanded Moses about a man and his wife and about a father and his daughter while she is in her youth within her father's house. 


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"Execute the vengeance of the sons of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you will be gathered to your people." 


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So Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm men from among you for war, that they may go against Midian to execute the LORD's vengeance on Midian. 


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So there were committed, out of the multitudes of Israel, a troop from each tribe, twelve troops armed for war. 


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And Moses sent them to the war, a troop from each tribe, together with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for sounding in his hand. 


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They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. And they also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword. 


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And the sons of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their children, and they took as plunder all their cattle, their flocks, and all their goods. 


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Then they took the captives and the plunder and the spoil to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the assembly of the sons of Israel, at the camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. 


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Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the chiefs of the assembly went to meet them outside the camp. 


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And Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, who had come from service in the war. 


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Behold, these, on Balaam's advice, caused the sons of Israel to transgress against the LORD in the incident of Peor, and so the plague came among the assembly of the LORD. 


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Now therefore, kill every male among the children, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. 


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Encamp outside the camp seven days. Whoever of you has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, cleanse yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day. 


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You will cleanse all clothing, every article of skin, all work of goats' hair, and every article of wood." 


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Then Eleazar the priest said to the men in the army who had gone to battle: "This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded Moses: 


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everything that can stand the fire, you will pass through the fire, and it will be clean. However, it will also be purified with the water for impurity. And whatever cannot stand the fire, you will pass through the water. 


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You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you will be clean. And afterward you may come into the camp." 


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"Take the sum of the plunder that was taken, both of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers' houses of the assembly, 


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and divide the plunder into two parts between the warriors who went out to battle and all the assembly. 


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And take a tribute for the LORD from the men of war who went out to battle, one out of five hundred, of the people and of the oxen and of the donkeys and of the flocks. 


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And from the sons of Israel's half you will take one drawn out of every fifty, of the people, of the oxen, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the cattle, and give them to the Levites who keep guard over the tabernacle of the LORD." 


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And Moses gave the tribute, which was the gift for the LORD, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses. 


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From the sons of Israel's half, which Moses separated from that of the men who had served in the army, 


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from the sons of Israel's half Moses took one of every 50, both of persons and of beasts, and gave them to the Levites who kept guard over the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses. 


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Then the leaders who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, came near to Moses 


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and said to Moses, "Your servants have counted the men of war who are under our command, and there is not a man missing from us. 


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And we bring the LORD's offering, what each man found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and beads, to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD." 


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And all the gold of the gift that they presented to the LORD, from the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, was 16,750 shekels. 


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And Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and took it into the tabernacle of assembly, as a memorial for the sons of Israel before the LORD. 


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Now the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had a very large number of flocks. And they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and behold, the country was a place for flocks. 


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So the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the assembly, 


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the land that the LORD punished before the assembly of Israel, is a land for flocks, and your servants have flocks." 


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And they said, "If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Do not bring us over the Jordan." 


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But Moses said to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, "Will your brothers go to the battle while you remain here? 


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Why will you discourage the hearts of the sons of Israel from going over into the land that the LORD has given them? 


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For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the hearts of the sons of Israel from going into the land that the LORD had given them. 


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'Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, will see the land that I pledged to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not fully followed me, 


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none except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have fully followed the LORD.' 


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And the LORD's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was gone. 


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And behold, you have risen in your fathers' place, a multiple of sinful men, to add to the fierce anger of the LORD against Israel! 


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For if you turn away from following him, he will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will punish all this people." 


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Then they came near to him and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our flocks, and cities for our children, 


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but we will take up arms, ready to go before the sons of Israel, until we have taken them to their place. And our children will live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land. 


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For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our possession has come to us on this side of the Jordan to the east." 


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So Moses said to them, "If you will do this, if you will take up arms to go before the LORD for the battle, 


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and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before the LORD, until he has driven out his enemies from before him 


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and the land is subdued before the LORD; then after that you will return and be free of obligation to the LORD and to Israel, and this land will be your possession before the LORD. 


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But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD, and be sure your sin will find you out. 


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And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben said to Moses, "Your servants will do as my lord commands. 


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but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for battle, before the LORD to battle, as my lord orders." 


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So Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the sons of Israel. 


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And Moses said to them, "If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben, every man who is armed to battle before the LORD, will pass with you over the Jordan and the land will be subdued before you, then you will give them the land of Gilead for a possession. 


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However, if they will not pass over with you armed, they will have possessions among you in the land of Canaan." 


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And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answered, "What the LORD has said to your servants, we will do. 


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We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritances will remain with us beyond the Jordan." 


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And Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorite and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land and its cities with their territories, the cities of the land throughout the country. 


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Nebo, and Baal-meon, their names were changed, and Sibmah. And they gave other names to the cities that they built. 


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And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and captured it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were there. 


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These are the stations of the sons of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt by their companies under the leadership of Moses and Aaron. 


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Moses wrote down their starting places, as they journeyed, by command of the LORD, and these are their stations according to their starting places. 


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They set out from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the day after the Passover, the sons of Israel went out triumphantly in the sight of all the Egyptians, 


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while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck among them. On their gods also the LORD executed judgments. 


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And they set out from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which is east of Baal-zephon, and they camped before Migdol. 


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And they set out from before Hahiroth and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and they went a three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah. 


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And they set out from Marah and came to Elim; at Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there. 


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And they set out from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink. 


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And Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor at the command of the LORD and died there, in the fortieth year after the sons of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month. 


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And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the sons of Israel. 


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And they set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho; 


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"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 


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then you will drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their engraved images and destroy all their cast images and demolish all their high places. 


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And you will take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given the land to you to occupy it. 


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You will inherit the land by lot according to your tribes. To a large tribe you will give a large possession, and to a small tribe you will give a small possession. Wherever the lot falls for anyone, that will be his. According to the tribes of your fathers you will inherit. 


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But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain will be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they will trouble you in the land where you dwell. 


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"Command the sons of Israel, and say to them, When you enter the land of Canaan, this is the land that will fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan as defined by its borders, 


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your south side will be from the wilderness of Zin alongside Edom, and your southern border will run from the end of the Salt Sea on the east. 


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And your border will turn south of the ascent of Akrabbim, and cross to Zin, and its limit will be south of Kadesh-barnea. Then it will go on to Hazar-addar, and pass along to Azmon. 


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For the western border, you will have the Great Sea and its coast. This will be your western border. 


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Then the border will extend to Ziphron, and its limit will be at Hazar-enan. This will be your northern border. 


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And the border will go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain. And the border will go down and reach to the shoulder of the Sea of Chinnereth on the east. 


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And the border will go down to the Jordan, and its limit will be at the Salt Sea. This will be your land as defined by its borders all around." 


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Moses commanded the sons of Israel, saying, "This is the land that you will inherit by lot, which the LORD has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half tribe. 


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For the tribe of the sons of Reuben by fathers' houses and the tribe of the sons of Gad by their fathers' houses have received their inheritance, and also the half tribe of Manasseh. 


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The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, toward the sunrise." 


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"These are the names of the men who will divide the land to you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun. 


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These are the men whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance for the sons of Israel in the land of Canaan." 


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"Command the sons of Israel to give to the Levites some of the inheritance of their possession as cities for them to dwell in. And you will give to the Levites pasture lands around the cities. 


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The cities will be theirs to dwell in, and their pasture lands will be for their cattle and for their flocks and for all their beasts. 


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The pasture lands of the cities, which you will give to the Levites, will reach from the wall of the city outward a thousand cubits all around. 


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And you will measure, outside the city, on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This will belong to them as pasture land for their cities. 


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The cities that you give to the Levites will be the six cities of refuge, where you will permit the manslayer to flee, and in addition to them you will give forty-two cities. 


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And as for the cities that you will give from the possession of the sons of Israel, from the larger tribes you will take many, and from the smaller tribes you will take few; each, in proportion to the possessions that it inherits, will give of its cities to the Levites." 


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then you will select cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person without intent may flee there. 


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The cities will be for you a refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the assembly for judgment. 


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You will give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities in the land of Canaan, to be cities of refuge. 


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These six cities will be for refuge for the sons of Israel, and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, that anyone who kills any person without unwittingly may flee there. 


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But if he struck him down with an iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer will be put to death. 


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And if he struck him down with a stone tool that could cause death, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer will be put to death. 


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Or if he struck him down with a wooden tool that could cause death, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer will be put to death. 


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The avenger of blood will himself put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he will put him to death. 


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or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died, then he who struck the blow will be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood will put the murderer to death when he meets him. 


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or used a stone that could cause death, and without seeing him, so that he died, though he was not his enemy and not seek his harm, 


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then the assembly will judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules. 


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And the assembly will rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the assembly will restore him to his city of refuge to which he had fled, and he will live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil. 


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But if the manslayer will at any time go beyond the boundaries of his city of refuge to which he fled, 


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and the avenger of blood finds him outside the boundaries of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the manslayer, he will not be guilty of blood. 


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For he must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest, but after the death of the high priest the manslayer may return to the land of his possession. 


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And these things will be for a statute and rule for you throughout your generations in all your dwelling places. 


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If anyone kills a person, the murderer will be put to death on the evidence of witnesses. But no person will be put to death on the testimony of one witness. 


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Moreover, you will accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he will be put to death. 


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And you will accept no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the high priest. 


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You will not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it. 


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You will not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, for I the LORD dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel." 


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The heads of the fathers' houses of the families of the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, son of Manasseh, from the tribes of the sons of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the rulers, the heads of the fathers' houses of the sons of Israel. 


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They said, "The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the sons of Israel, and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. 


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But if they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the sons of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance. 


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And when the jubilee of the sons of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry, and their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers." 


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And Moses commanded the sons of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, "The tribe of the sons of Joseph speak right. 


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This is what the LORD commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, 'Let them marry whom they think best, only they will marry within the family of the tribe of their father. 


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The inheritance of the sons of Israel will not be transferred from one tribe to another, for every one of the sons of Israel will hold on to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. 


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And every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the sons of Israel will be wife to one of the families of the tribe of her father, so that every one of the sons of Israel may possess the inheritance of his fathers. 


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So no inheritance will be transferred from one tribe to another, for each of the tribes of the sons of Israel will hold on to its own inheritance.'" 


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for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to sons of their father's brothers. 


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They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in that of their father's tribe. 


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These are the commandments and the laws that the LORD commanded through Moses to the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. 


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These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab. 


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In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the sons of Israel according to all that the LORD had given him in commandment to them, 


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after he had defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth and in Edrei. 


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Turn and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland and in the Negeb and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. 


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Behold, I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.' 


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The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as numerous as the stars of heaven. 


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May the LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you! 


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Choose for your tribes wise, understanding, and experienced men, and I will appoint them as your heads.' 


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So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, and set them as heads over you, commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, commanders of tens, and officers, throughout your tribes. 


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And I charged your judges at that time, 'Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him. 


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You will not be partial in judgment. You will hear the small and the great alike. You will not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you will bring to me, and I will hear it.' 


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Then we set out from Horeb and went through all that great and terrifying wilderness that you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us. And we came to Kadesh-barnea. 


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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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Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not fear or be troubled.' 


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Then all of you came near me and said, 'Let us send men before us, that they may explore the land for us and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up and the cities into which we will come.' 


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And they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied it out. 


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And they took in their hands some of the fruit of the land and brought it down to us, and brought us word again and said, 'It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.' 


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And you murmured in your tents and said, 'Because the LORD hated us He has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. 


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Where are we going? Our brothers have discouraged our hearts, saying, "The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there."' 


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The LORD your God who goes before you will Himself battle for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, 


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and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.' 


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who went before you in the way to seek you out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night and in the cloud by day, to show you by what way you should go. 


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'Not one of these men of this evil generation will see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers, 


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except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land on which he has trodden, because he has wholly followed the LORD!' 


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Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he will enter. Encourage him, for he will cause Israel to inherit it. 


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And as for your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, they will go in there. And to them I will give it, and they will possess it. 


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Then you answered me, 'We have sinned against the LORD. We ourselves will go up and fight, just as the LORD our God commanded us.' And when each one of you had buckled on his weapons of war, you were ready to go up into the hill country. 


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And the LORD said to me, 'Say to them, Do not go up or fight, for I am not in your midst, otherwise you be defeated before your enemies.' 


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So I spoke to you, and you would not listen; but you rebelled against the command of the LORD and in your pride went up into the hill country. 


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Then the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do and struck you in Seir as far as Hormah. 


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And you returned and wept before the LORD, but the LORD did not listen to your voice or give ear to you. 


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Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness in the direction of the Sea of Reeds, as the LORD told me. And for many days we traveled around Mount Seir. 


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and command the people, "You are about to pass through the territory of your brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. So be very cautious. 


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Do not contend with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession. 


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You will purchase food from them for money, that you may eat, and you will also buy water of them for money, that you may drink. 


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For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing."' 


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So we went on, away from our brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road from Elath and Ezion-geber. "And we turned and went in the direction of the wilderness of Moab. 


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And the LORD said to me, 'Do not harass Moab or contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the people of Lot for a possession.' 


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The Horites also lived in Seir formerly, but the people of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their place, as Israel did to the land of their possession, which the LORD gave to them.


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And the time from our leaving Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until the entire generation, that is, the men of war, had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them. 


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For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from the camp, until they were consumed. 


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And when you approach the territory of the people of Ammon, do not assault them or anger them, for I will not give you any of the land of the people of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot for a possession.' 


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It is also counted as a land of Rephaim. Rephaim formerly lived there--but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,


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a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim; but the LORD destroyed them before the Ammonites, and they dispossessed them and settled in their place, 


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as he did for the people of Esau, who live in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites before them and they dispossessed them and settled in their place even to this day. 


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As for the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and settled in their place. 


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'Rise up, set out on your journey and go over the Valley of the Arnon. Behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession, and contend with him in battle. 


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DThis day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole heaven, who will hear the report of you and will tremble and be in anguish because of you.' 


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So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon the king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying, 


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'Let me pass through your land. I will go only by the road; I will turn aside neither to the right nor to the left. 


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You will sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink. Only let me pass through on foot, 


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as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I go over the Jordan into the land that the LORD our God is giving to us.' 


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But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as he is this day. 


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And the LORD said to me, 'Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to take possession, that you may occupy his land.' 


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And we captured all his cities at that time and completely destroyed every city, men, women, and children. We left no survivors. 


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Only the livestock we took as spoil for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities that we captured. 


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From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. The LORD our God gave all into our hands. 


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Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not draw near, that is, to all the banks of the river Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, whatever the LORD our God had forbidden us. 


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Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan. And Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. 


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But the LORD said to me, 'Do not fear him, for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hand. And you will do to him as you did to Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.' 


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So the LORD our God gave into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people, and we attacked him until no one was left remaining with him.  


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And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city that we did not take from them, sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 


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All of these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, in addition very many unwalled villages. 


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And we completely destroyed them, as we did to Sihon the king of Heshbon, destroying every city, men, women, and children. 


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So we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the Valley of the Arnon to Mount ,


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all the cities of the tableland and all Gilead and all Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 


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For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit. 


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When we took possession of this land at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory beginning at Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities. 


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The rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, that is, all the region of Argob, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh.  All that portion of Bashan is called the land of Rephaim. 


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Jair the Manassite took all the region of Argob, that is, Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called the villages after his own name, Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day. 


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and to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the Valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a border, as far over as the river Jabbok, the border of the Ammonites; 


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the Arabah also, with the Jordan as the border, from Chinnereth as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east. 


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And I commanded you at that time, saying, 'The LORD your God has given you this land to possess. All your men of valor will cross over armed before your brothers, the sons of Israel. 


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Only your wives, your little ones, and your livestock, I know that you have much livestock, they will remain in the cities that I have given you, 


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until the LORD gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also occupy the land that the LORD your God gives them beyond the Jordan. Then each of you may return to his possession which I have given you.' 


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And I commanded Joshua at that time, 'Your eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings. So will the LORD do to all the kingdoms into which you are crossing. 


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'O Lord GOD, you have only begun to show your servant your greatness and your mighty hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as yours? 


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Please let me go over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, that good hill country and Lebanon.' 


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But the LORD was angry with me because of you and would not listen to me. And the LORD said to me, 'Enough from you; do not speak to me of this topic again. 


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Go up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward, and look at it with your eyes, for you will not go over this Jordan. 


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But command Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he will go over at the head of this people, and he will put them in possession of the land that you will see.' 


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And now, Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you. 


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You will not add to the word that I command you, or take from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I give you. 


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Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all the men who followed the Baal of Peor. 


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Behold, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 


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Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.' 


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For what great nation is there that has a God so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him? 


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And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all these laws that I set before you today? 


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Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, otherwise you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and otherwise they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children,


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remember the day that you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, 'Gather the people to Me, that I may let them hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.' 


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And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while the mountain burned with fire to the center of heaven, wrapped in darkness, cloud, and gloom. 


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Then the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of words, but saw no form; there was only a voice. 


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And he declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to perform, that is, His covenant, and He wrote them on two tablets of stone. 


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And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules, that you might do them in the land that you are going over to possess. 


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Therefore guard yourselves very carefully. Since you saw no form on the day that the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire, 


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beware otherwise you act corruptly by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 


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the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air, 


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the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth. 


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And beware otherwise you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the LORD your God has given to all the peoples under the whole heaven. 


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But the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of His own inheritance, as you are this day. 


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Furthermore, the LORD was angry with me because of you, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordan, and that I would not enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance. 


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For I must die in this land; I must not go over the Jordan. But you will go over and take possession of that good land. 


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Take care, otherwise you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make a carved image, the shape of anything that the LORD your God has forbidden you. 


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When you father sons and children of children, and have grown old in the land, if you act corruptly by making a carved image in the shape of anything, and by doing what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, so as to provoke Him to anger, 


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I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed. 


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And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you. 


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And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, that neither see, or hear, or eat, or smell. 


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But if you will seek the LORD your God and you will find Him, if you search after Him with all your heart and with all your soul. 


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When you are in trials, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to the LORD your God and obey His voice. 


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For the LORD your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that He swore to them. 


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For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of. 


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Did any people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live? 


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Or has God ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 


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Out of heaven He let you hear His voice, that He might discipline you. And on earth He let you see His great fire, and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire. 


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And because He loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them and brought you out of Egypt with His own presence, by His great power, 


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driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day, 


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know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. 


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Therefore you will keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time." 


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that the manslayer might flee there, anyone who kills his neighbor unwittenly, without being at enmity with him in time past; he may flee to one of these cities and save his life: 


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Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland for the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites. 


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These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the rules, which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel when they came out of Egypt, 


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beyond the Jordan in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel defeated when they came out of Egypt. 


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And they took possession of his land and the land of Og, the king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who lived to the east beyond the Jordan; 


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from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, as far as Mount Sirion, which is Hermon, 


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together with all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah. 


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And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you will learn them and be careful to do them. 


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Not with our fathers did the LORD make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today. 


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while I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD. For you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up to the mountain. He said: 


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You will not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water below the land. 


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You will not bow down to them or serve them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who despise me, 


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You will not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. 


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but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you will not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. 


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You will remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. 


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Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. 


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And you will not covet your neighbor's wife. And you will not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's' 


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These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly at the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and He added no more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me. 


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And as soon as you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders. 


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And you said, 'Behold, the LORD our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire. This day we have seen God speak with man, and the man still lives. 


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Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, we will die. 


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For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire as we have, and has still lived? 


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Go near and hear all that the LORD our God will say and speak to us all that the LORD our God will speak to you, and we will hear and do it.' 


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"And the LORD heard your words, when you spoke to me. And the LORD said to me, 'I have heard the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They are right in all that they have spoken. 


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If only that they had such a mind as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants forever! 


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But you, stand here by Me, and I will tell you the whole commandment and the statutes and the rules that you will teach them, that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess. 


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You will be careful therefore to do as the LORD your God has commanded you. You will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 


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You will walk totally in the ways that the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you will possess."


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"Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess, 


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that you may fear the LORD your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long. 


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Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. 


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You will love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 


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You will teach them diligently to your children, and will talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 


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And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, with great and good cities that you did not build, 


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and houses full of good things that you did not furnish, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant, and when you eat and are full, 


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then take care otherwise you forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 


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for the LORD your God in your midst is a jealous God, otherwise the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth. 


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You will diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you. 


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And you will do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may go well with you, and that you may go in and take possession of the good land that the LORD promised to give to your fathers 


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When your son asks you in time to come, 'What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the LORD our God has commanded you?' 


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then you will say to your son, 'We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt. And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 


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And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and terrible, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and all his household, before our eyes. 


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And He brought us out from there, that He might bring us in and give us the land that He promised to give to our fathers. 


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And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that He might preserve us alive, as we are this day. 


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And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us.' 


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When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves, 


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and when the LORD your God gives them over to you, you will crush them, completely destroy them.. You will make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. 


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You will not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, 


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for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD would be kindled against you, and He could destroy you quickly. 


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But this is how will you deal with them: you will break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and chop down their Asherim and burn their carved images with fire. 


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For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 


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It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 


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but it is because the LORD loves you and is keeping the oath that he promised to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 


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Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love Him and keep His commandments, to a thousand generations, 


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And He repays those who despise Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slow to repay him who hates Him. He will repay him to his face. 


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You will therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today. 


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And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that he promised to your fathers. 


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He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he promised to your fathers to give you. 


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You will be blessed above all peoples. There will not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock. 


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And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will He inflict on you, but He will lay them on all who hate you. 


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And you will destroy all the peoples that the LORD your God will give over to you. Your eye will not pity them, neither will you serve their gods, for that would be a trap to you. 


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you will not be afraid of them but you will remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt, 


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the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the LORD your God brought you out. So will the LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. 


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Moreover, the LORD your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed. 


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The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You will not make an end of them at once, otherwise the wild beasts grow too numerous for you. 


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But the LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed. 


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And he will give their kings into your hand, and you will make their name perish from under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them. 


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The carved images of their gods you will burn with fire. You will not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, otherwise you be trapped by it, for it is an abomination to the LORD your God. 


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And you will not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destruction like it. You will utterly detest and abhor it, for it is to be destroyed.


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The whole commandment that I gibe to you today you will be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the LORD promised to give to your fathers. 


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And you will remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that He might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. 


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And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. 


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For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills, 


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a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, 


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a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper. 


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And you will eat and be full, and you will bless the LORD your God for the good land He has given you. 


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Take care otherwise you forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I give to you today, 


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and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied, 


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then your heart be swelled up, and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, 


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who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock, 


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who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end. 


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Beware otherwise you say in your heart, 'My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.' 


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You will remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may confirm His covenant that he promised to your fathers, as it is this day. 


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And if you forget the LORD your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly warn you today that you will surely perish. 


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Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so will you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God. 


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Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves, cities great and fortified up to heaven, 


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a people great and tall, the sons of the giants, whom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, 'Who can stand before the sons of Anak?' 


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Know therefore today that He who goes over before you as a consuming fire is the LORD your God. He will destroy them and subdue them before you. So you will drive them out and make them perish quickly, as the LORD has promised you. 


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Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out before you, 'It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,' instead it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you. 


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Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that He may confirm the word that the LORD promised to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 


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Know, therefore, that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people. 


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Recall and do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD. 


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Even at Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was so angry with you that He was ready to destroy you. 


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When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water. 


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And the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words that the LORD had spoken with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. 


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And at the end of forty days and forty nights the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. 


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Then the LORD said to me, 'Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly. They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them; they have made themselves a metal image.' 


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Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.' 


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So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. 


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And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God. You had made yourselves a golden calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you. 


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So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes. 


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Then I lay prostrate before the LORD as before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger. 


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For I was afraid of the anger and hot wrath that the LORD bore against you, so that he was ready to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me that time also. 


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And the LORD was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him. And I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. 


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Then I took the sinful thing, the calf that you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. And I threw the dust of it into the brook that ran down from the mountain. 


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And when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, 'Go up and take possession of the land that I have given you,' then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God and did not believe Him or obey His voice. 


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So I lay prostrate before the LORD for these forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He could destroy you. 


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And I prayed to the LORD, 'O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people and Your heritage, whom You have redeemed through your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 


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Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not look at the stubbornness of this people, or their wickedness or their sin, 


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otherwise the nation from which you brought us will say, "Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land that He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness." 


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For they are your people and your heritage, whom you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.' 


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At that time the LORD said to me, 'Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mountain and make an ark of wood. 


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And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you broke, and you will put them in the ark.' 


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So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand. 


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And He wrote on the tablets, in the same writing as before, the Ten Commandments that the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. And the LORD gave them to me. 


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Then I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the ark that I had made. And there they are, as the LORD commanded me." 


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The sons of Israel journeyed from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried. And his son Eleazar ministered as priest in his place. 


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From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with brooks of water. 


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At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD to stand before the LORD to minister to him and to bless in his name, until today. 


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Therefore Levi has no portion or inheritance with his brothers. The LORD is his inheritance, as the LORD your God said to him.


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I myself stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights, and the LORD listened to me that time also. The LORD would not destroy you. 


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And the LORD said to me, 'Arise, go on your journey at the head of the people, so that they may go in and possess the land, which I promised to their fathers to give them.' 


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"And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 


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and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD, which I am commanding you today for your welfare? 


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Behold, to the LORD your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it. 


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Only, the LORD has delighted in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their offspring after them, on you out of all the peoples, as it is today. 


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For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, He who is not partial and takes no bribe. 


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He provides justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing. 


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You will revere the LORD your God. You will serve Him and follow close to Him, and by His name you will swear. 


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He is your praise. He is your God, who has done for you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen. 


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Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven. 


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You will therefore love the LORD your God and keep His charge, His statutes, his rules, and His commandments always. 


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And be aware today, since I am not speaking to your children who have not known or seen it, consider the discipline of the LORD your God, His greatness, His mighty hand and His outstretched arm, 


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and what He did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots, how He made the water of the Sea of Reeds to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD has destroyed them to this day, 


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and what He did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, before all Israel. 


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You will therefore keep the whole commandment that I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and take possession of the land that you are going over to possess, 


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and that you may live long in the land that the LORD promised to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey. 


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For the land that you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated it, like a garden of vegetables. 


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But the land that you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven, 


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a land that the LORD your God cares for. The eyes of the LORD your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. 


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And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, to love the LORD your God, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, 


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He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil. 


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Take care otherwise your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them; 


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then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and He will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and you will perish quickly off the good land that the LORD is giving you. 


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You will therefore store up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you will hold them as a sign on your hand, and they will be as frontlets before your eyes. 


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You will teach them to your sons, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 


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that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD promised to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth. 


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For if you will be careful to do all this commandment that I command you to do, loving the LORD your God, walking in all His ways, and following close to Him, 


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then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will destroy nations greater and mightier than yourselves. 


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Every place on which the sole of your foot steps will be yours. Your territory will be from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea. 


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No one will be able to stand against you. The LORD your God will lay the fear of you and the terror of you on all the land that you will step, as he promised you. 


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and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known. 


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And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, you will proclaim the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. 


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Are they not beyond the Jordan, west of the road, toward the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oak of Moreh? 


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For you are to cross over the Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving you. And when you possess it and live in it, 


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These are the statutes and rules that you will be careful to do in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the time that you live on the earth. 


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You will surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you will dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. 


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You will tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire. You will chop down the carved images of their gods and destroy their name from that place. 


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But you will seek the place that the LORD your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there. There you will go, 


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and there you will bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you provide, your vow offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock. 


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And there you will eat before the LORD your God, and you will rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the LORD your God has blessed you. 


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You will not do according to all that we are doing here today, everyone doing whatever is right in his own eyes, 


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for you have not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you. 


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But when you go over the Jordan and live in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies around, so that you live in safety, 


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then to the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make His name dwell there, there you will bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you provide, and all your finest vow offerings that you vow to the LORD. 


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And you will rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male servants and your female servants, and the Levite that is within your towns, since he has no portion or inheritance with you. 


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but at the place that the LORD will choose in one of your tribes, there you will offer your burnt offerings, and there you will do all that I am commanding you. 


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However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the deer. 


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You may not eat within your towns the tithe of your grain or of your wine or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, or any of your vow offerings that you vow, or your freewill offerings or the contribution that you provide, 


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but you will eat them before the LORD your God in the place that the LORD your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your towns. And you will rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you undertake. 


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When the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised you, and you say, 'I will eat meat,' because you crave meat, you may eat meat whenever you desire. 


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If the place that the LORD your God will choose to put his name there is too far from you, then you may kill any of your herd or your flock, which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat within your towns whenever you desire. 


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Just as the gazelle or the deer is eaten, so you may eat of it. The unclean and the clean alike may eat of it. 


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Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you will not eat the life with the flesh. 


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You will not eat it, that all may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD. 


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But the holy things that are due from you, and your vow offerings, you will take, and you will go to the place that the LORD will choose, 


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and offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God. The blood of your sacrifices will be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, but the flesh you may eat. 


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Be careful to obey all these words that I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God. 


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When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to possess them, and you take their place and dwell in their land, 


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take care that you be not entrapped into following them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods? That I also may do the likewise.' 


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You will not worship the LORD your God in their way, for every abominable thing that the LORD hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods. 


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and the sign or wonder that he tells you happens, and if he says, 'Let us go after other gods,' which you have not known, 'and let us serve them,' 


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you will not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of visions. For the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 


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You will follow after the LORD your God and revere him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you will serve him and follow close to him. 


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But that prophet or that dreamer of visions will be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to draw you out of the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to follow. That you will purge the evil from your midst. 


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If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which neither you nor your fathers have known, 


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some of the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other, 


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you will not yield to him or listen to him, nor will you look on him with pity, nor will you spare him, nor will you conceal him. 


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But you will kill him. Your hand will be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. 


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You will stone him to death with stones, because he tried to draw you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 


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that certain worthless fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which you have not known, 


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then you will investigate and examine and ask skilfully. And behold, if it be right and sure that such an abomination has been done among you, 


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you will surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, destroying it completely, all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword. 


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You will gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square and burn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. It will be a ruin forever. It will not be built again. 


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None of the cursed things be in to your hand, that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of His anger and show you mercy and have compassion on you and multiply you, as He swore to your fathers, 


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if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, keeping all his commandments that I am commanding you today, and do what is right in the sight of the LORD your God. 


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You are the sons of the LORD your God. You will not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead. 


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For you are a people holy to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a special nation to Him, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 


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Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, from these animals you may eat. 


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Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cloven you will not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof and are unclean for you. 


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And the pig, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. Their flesh you will not eat, and their carcasses you will not touch. 


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You will not eat anything that has died naturally. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. You will not boil a young goat in its mother's milk. 


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And before the LORD your God, in the place that he will choose, to make His name dwell there, you will eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, that you may learn to revere the LORD your God always. 


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And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, when the LORD your God blesses you, because the place is too far from you, which the LORD your God chooses, to set his name there, 


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then you will turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and go to the place that the LORD your God chooses 


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and spend the money for whatever you desire--oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And you will eat there before the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household. 


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And you will not neglect the Levite who is within your towns, for he has no portion or inheritance with you. 


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At the end of every three years you will bring out all the tithe of your produce in the same year and lay it up within your towns. 


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And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, will come and eat and be filled, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the labor of your hands that you provide. 


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And this is the manner of the release: every creditor will release what he has lent to his neighbor. He will not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the LORD's release has been proclaimed. 


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Of a foreigner you may exact it, but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand will release. 


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But there will be no poor among you; for the LORD will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, 


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only if you will strictly obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all this commandment that I command you today. 


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For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow, and you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you. 


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If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the LORD your God is giving you, you will not harden your heart or close your hand against your poor brother, 


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Take care lest there be an evil thought in your heart and you say, 'The seventh year, the year of release is near,' and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the LORD against you, and you be guilty of sin. 


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You will give to him freely, and your heart will not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you do. 


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For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, 'You will open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.' 


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If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, he will serve you six years, and in the seventh year you will let him go free from you. 


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You will furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress. As the LORD your God has blessed you, you will give to him. 


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You will remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today. 


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But if he says to you, 'I will not go out from you,' because he loves you and your household, since he is well-off with you, 


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then you will take an awl, and put it through his ear into the door, and he will be your slave forever. And to your female slave you will do the same. 


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It will not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for at half the cost of a hired servant he has served you six years. So the LORD your God will bless you in all that you do. 


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All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and flock you will dedicate to the LORD your God. You will do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock. 


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You will eat it, you and your household, before the LORD your God year by year at the place that the LORD will choose. 


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But if it has any blemish, if it is lame or blind or has any serious blemish whatever, you will not sacrifice it to the LORD your God. 


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You will eat it within your towns. The unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as though it were a gazelle or a deer. 


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Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night. 


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And you will offer the Passover sacrifice to the LORD your God, from the flock or the herd, at the place that the LORD will choose, to make His name dwell there. 


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You will eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you will eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste, that all the time of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt. 


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No leaven will be seen with you in all your territory for seven days, nor will any of the flesh that you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain all night until morning. 


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You will not offer the Passover sacrifice within any of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, 


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but at the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make His name dwell in it, there you will offer the Passover sacrifice, in the evening at sunset, at the time you came out of Egypt. 


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And you will cook it and eat it at the place that the LORD your God will choose. And in the morning you will turn and go to your tents. 


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For six days you will eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there will be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God. You will do no work on it. 


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You will count seven weeks. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain. 


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Then you will keep the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you will give as the LORD your God blesses you. 


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And you will rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make His name dwell there. 


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You will remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you will be careful to observe these statutes. 


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You will keep the Feast of Booths seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress. 


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You will rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns. 


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For seven days you will keep the feast to the LORD your God at the place that the LORD will choose, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be very joyful. 


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Three times a year all your males will appear before the LORD your God at the place that he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths. They will not appear before the LORD empty-handed. 


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Every man will give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that He has given you. 


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You will appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they will judge the people with righteous judgment. 


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You will not pervert justice. You will not show partiality, and you will not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous. 


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Justice, and only justice, you will follow, that you may live and inherit the land that the LORD your God is giving you. 


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You will not plant any tree as an Asherah beside the altar of the LORD your God that you will make. 


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You will not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep in which is a blemish, any defect whatever, for that is disgusting to the LORD your God. 


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If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, in breaking his covenant, 


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and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the things of heaven, which I have forbidden, 


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and it is told you and you hear of it, then you will investigate sincerely, and if it is true and established that such an disgusting thing has been done in Israel, 


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then you will bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this disgusting thing, and you will stone that man or woman to death with stones. 


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On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses the one who is to die will be put to death; a person will not be put to death on the evidence of one witness. 


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The hand of the witnesses will be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. That you will purge the evil from your midst. 


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If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you will arise and go up to the place that the LORD your God will choose. 


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And you will come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you will consult them, and they will declare to you the judgment. 


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Then you will do according to what they tell you from that place that the LORD will choose. And you will be careful to do according to all that they direct you. 


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According to the instructions that they give you, and according to the judgment which they declare to you, you will do. You will not turn aside from the verdict that they declare to you, either to the right hand or to the left. 


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The man that acts proudly and will not listen to the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man will die. That you will purge the evil from Israel. 


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When you come to the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, 'I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,' 


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you may indeed set a king over you whom the LORD your God will choose. One from among your brothers you will set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. 


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Only he must not obtain many horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the LORD has said to you, 'You will never return that way again.' 


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And he will not take many wives for himself, otherwise his heart turn away, nor will he take for himself excessive silver and gold. 


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And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he will write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests. 


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And it will be with him, and he will read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to reverence the LORD his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them, 


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that his thoughts may not be exalted over his brothers, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left, so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel. 


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The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, will have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They will eat the LORD's food offerings as their inheritance. 


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They will have no inheritance among their brothers; the LORD is their inheritance, as he promised them. 


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And this will be the priests' provision from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep: they will give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach. 


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The firstfruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep, you will give him. 


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For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for all time. 


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And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, where he lives, and he may come when he desires, to the place that the LORD will choose, 


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and ministers in the name of the LORD his God, like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the LORD, 


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then he may have equal portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his father's belongings. 


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When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you will not learn to follow the detestable practices of those nations. 


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There will not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer 


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for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these abominations the LORD your God is driving them out before you. 


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for these nations, which you are about to drive out, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do this. 


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The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers, it is to him you will listen,


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just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, 'Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God or see this great fire any more, otherwise I die.' 


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I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he will speak to them all that I command him. 


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And whoever will not listen to my words that he will speak in my name, I myself will demand it of him. 


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But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet will die.' 


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when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the word does not happen or come true, that is a word that the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it with pride. You need not be afraid of him. 


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When the LORD your God destroys the nations whose land the LORD your God is giving you, and you drive them out and dwell in their cities and in their houses, 


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you will set apart three cities for yourselves in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess. 


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You will measure the distances and divide into three parts the area of the land that the LORD your God gives you as a possession, so that any manslayer can flee to them. 


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This is the provision for the manslayer, who by fleeing there may save his life. If anyone kills his neighbor unwittingly without having hated him in the past,


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as when someone goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies, he may flee to one of these cities and live, 


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otherwise the avenger of blood in hot anger pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him fatally, though the man did not deserve to die, since he had not hated his neighbor in the past. 


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And if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land that he promised to give to your fathers, 


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provided you are careful to keep all this commandment, which I command you today, by loving the LORD your God and by walking ever in his ways, then you will add three other cities to these three, 


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otherwise innocent blood be shed in your land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance, and so the guilt of bloodshed be upon you. 


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But if anyone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and attacks him and strikes him fatally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities, 


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then the elders of his city will send and take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die. 


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Your look will not show pity him, but you will purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may be well with you. 


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You will not move your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set, in the inheritance that you will hold in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess. 


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A single witness will not suffice against a person for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed. Only on the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses will a sentence be established. 


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then both parties to the dispute will appear before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days. 


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The judges will investigate sincerely, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely, 


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then you will do to him as he had desired to do to his brother. That you will purge the evil from your midst. 


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Your will not look on them with compassion. It will be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. 


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When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you will not be frightened of them, for the LORD your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. 


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and will say to them, 'Hear, O Israel, today you are drawing near to battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint. Do not fear or panic or be terrified of them, 


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for the LORD your God is He who goes with you to battle for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.' 


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Then the officers will speak to the people, saying, 'Is there any man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go back to his house, otherwise he die in the battle and another man dedicate it. 


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And is there any man who has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed its fruit? Let him go back to his house, otherwise he die in the battle and another man enjoy its fruit. 


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And is there any man who has betrothed a wife and has not taken her? Let him go back to his house, otherwise he die in the battle and another man take her.' 


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And the officers will speak further to the people, and say, 'Is there any man who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go back to his house, lest he make the heart of his fellows melt like his own.' 


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And when the officers have finished speaking to the people, then commanders will be appointed at the head of the people. 


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And if it responds to you peaceably and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it will do forced labor for you and will serve you. 


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but the women and the little ones, the livestock, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you will take as plunder for yourselves. And you will enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you. 


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This you will do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here. 


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But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance, you will save alive nothing that breathes, 


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but you will totally destroy them, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the LORD your God has commanded, 


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that they may not teach you to do according to all their detestable practices that they have done for their gods, and that you sin against the LORD your God. 


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When you besiege a city for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you will not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them. You may eat from them, but you will not cut them down. Are the trees in the field human, that they would be besieged by you? 


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Only the trees that you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down, that you may build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls. 


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If in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess someone is found slain, lying in the open country, and it is not known who killed him, 


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then your elders and your judges will come out, and they will measure the distance to the surrounding cities. 


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And the elders of the city that is nearest to the slain man will take a heifer that has never been worked and that has not pulled in a yoke. 


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And the elders of that city will bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and will break the heifer's neck there in the valley. 


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Then the priests, the sons of Levi, will come forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to minister to Him and to bless in the name of the LORD, and by their word every dispute and every assault will be settled. 


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And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man will wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley, 


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Accept atonement, O LORD, for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and do not set the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel, so that their blood guilt be atoned for.' 


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That you will purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD. 


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When you go out to battle against your enemies, and the LORD your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive, 


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And she will take off the clothes in which she was captured and will remain in your house and lament her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she will be your wife. 


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But if you have no desire for her, you will let her go where she wants. But you will not sell her for money, nor will you treat her as a slave, since you have humiliated her. 


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If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him children, and if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved, 


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then on the day when he assigns his possessions as an inheritance to his sons, he may not treat the son of the loved as the firstborn in preference to the son of the unloved, who is the firstborn, 


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but he will acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the firstfruits of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his. 


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If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, 


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then his father and his mother will take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, 


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and they will say to the elders of his city, 'This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.' 


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Then all the men of the city will stone him to death with stones. That you will purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel will hear, and fear. 


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And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, 


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his body will not remain all night on the tree, but you will bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God. You will not defile your land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance. 


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You will not see your brother's ox or his sheep going astray and ignore them. You will take them back to your brother. 


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And if he does not live near you and you do not know who he is, you will bring it home to your house, and it will stay with you until your brother seeks it. Then you will return it to him. 


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And you will do the same with his donkey or with his garment, or with anything lost of your brother's, which he loses and you find; you will not ignore it. 


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You will not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way and ignore them. You will help him to lift them up again. 


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A woman will not wear a man's garment, nor will a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD your God. 


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If you come across a bird's nest in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you will not take the mother with the young. 


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You will let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long. 


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When you build a new house, you will make a guard rail for your roof, that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house, if anyone should fall from it. 


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You will not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, otherwise the whole yield be forfeited, the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard. 


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and accuses her of misconduct and brings a bad name upon her, saying, 'I took this woman, and when I came near her, I did not find in her evidence of virginity,' 


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then the father of the young woman and her mother will take and bring out the evidence of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate. 


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And the father of the young woman will say to the elders, 'I gave my daughter to this man to marry, and he hates her; 


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and behold, he has accused her of misconduct, saying, "I did not find in your daughter evidence of virginity." And yet this is the evidence of my daughter's virginity.' And they will spread the cloak before the elders of the city. 


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and they will fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a wrong name upon a virgin of Israel. And she will be his wife. He may not divorce her all his days. 


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then they will bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city will stone her to death with stones, because she has done a vile thing in Israel by whoring in her father's house. That you will purge the evil from your midst. 


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If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them will die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. That you will purge the evil from Israel. 


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then you will bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you will stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife. That you will purge the evil from your midst. 


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But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her will die. 


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But you will do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no offense punishable by death. For this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor, 


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because he met her in the open country, and though the betrothed young woman cried for help there was no one to rescue her. 


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If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found, 


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then the man who lay with her will give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she will be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days. 


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No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off will enter the assembly of the LORD. 


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No one born of a forbidden union may enter the assembly of the LORD. Even to the tenth generation, none of his descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD. 


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No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of the LORD. Even to the tenth generation, none of them may enter the assembly of the LORD forever, 


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because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you. 


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But the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam; instead the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loved you. 


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You will not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. You will not despise an Egyptian, because you were a sojourner in his land. 


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If any man among you becomes unclean because of an accident at night,  then he will go outside the camp. He will not come inside the camp, 


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but when evening comes, he will bathe himself in water, and as the sun sets, he may come inside the camp. 


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And you will have a tool with your staff, and when you sit down outside, you will dig a hole with it and turn back and cover up your excrement. 


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Because the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy, so that He may not see anything disgraceful among you and turn away from you. 


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He will dwell with you, in your midst, in the place that he will choose within one of your towns, wherever it suits him. You will not wrong him. 


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None of the daughters of Israel will be a cult prostitute, and none of the sons of Israel will be a cult prostitute. 


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You will not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a dog into the house of the LORD your God in payment for any vow, for both of these are detestable to the LORD your God. 


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You will not charge interest on loans to your brother, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest. 


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You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 


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If you make a vow to the LORD your God, you will not delay paying it, for the LORD your God will  certainly require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin. 


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You will be careful to do what you have spoken, for you have voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God what you have promised with your mouth. 


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If you go into your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, as many as you wish, but you will not put any in your bag. 


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If you go into your neighbor's standing grain, you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you will not put a sickle to your neighbor's standing grain. 


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When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house, 


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and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife, 


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then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is detestable before the LORD. And you will not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance. 


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When a man is newly married, he will not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He will be free at home one year to be happy with his wife that he has taken. 


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No one will take in pledge the lower or the upper millstone, for that would be taking a life in pledge. 


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If a man is found stealing one of his brothers of the sons of Israel, and if he treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief will die. That you will purge the evil from your midst. 


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Take care, in a case of leprous disease, to be very careful to do according to all that the Levitical priests will direct you. As I commanded them, so you will be very careful to do. 


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When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you will not go into his house to collect his pledge. 


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You will restore to him the pledge as the sun sets, that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you. And it will be right for you before the LORD your God. 


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You will not defraud a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns. 


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You will give him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets, for he is poor and counts on it, otherwise he cry against you to the LORD, and you be guilty of sin. 


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Fathers will not be put to death because of their children, nor will children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one will be put to death for his own sin. 


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You will not pervert justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow's garment in pledge, 


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but you will remember that you were a slave in Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you from there; this I command you to do. 


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When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you will not go back to get it. It will be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. 


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When you beat your olive trees, you will not go over them again. It will be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow. 


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When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you will not strip it afterward. It will be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow. 


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If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty, 


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then if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge will cause him to lie down and be beaten before him with a number of stripes in proportion to his offense. 


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Forty stripes may be given him, but not more, otherwise, if one would go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother would be degraded in your sight. 


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If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man will not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband's brother will go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of the husband's brother to her. 


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And the first son whom she bears will succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel. 


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And if the man does not desire to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife will go up to the gate to the elders and say, 'My husband's brother refuses to continue his brother's name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of the husband's brother to me.' 


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Then the elders of his city will call him and speak to him, and if he persists, saying, 'I do not want to take her,' 


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then his brother's wife will go up to him in the presence of the elders and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face. And she will answer and say, 'So will it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.' 


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And the name of his house will be called out in Israel, 'The house of him who had his sandal pulled off.' 


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When men fight with one another and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts, 


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A full and fair weight you will have, a full and fair measure you will have, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. 


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how he attacked you on the way when you were tired and weary, and cut off those trailing, those who were lagging behind you, and he did not fear God. 


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Therefore when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies around you, in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, you will blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you will not forget. 


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When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and dwell there, 


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you will take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you will put it in a basket, and you will go to the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make His name to dwell there. 


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And you will go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, 'I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come into the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.' 


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Then the priest will take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God. 


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And you will make shout before the LORD your God, 'A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and abundant. 


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Then we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our misery, our toil, and our distress. 


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And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with mighty fearful deeds, with signs and wonders. 


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And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, O LORD, have given me.' And you will set it down before the LORD your God and worship before the LORD your God. 


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And you will rejoice in all the good that the LORD your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you. 


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When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce in the third year, which is the year of tithing, giving it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your towns and be filled, 


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then you will say before the LORD your God, 'I have removed the sacred portion out of my house, and moreover, I have given it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all your commandment that you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your laws, nor have I forgotten them. 


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I have not eaten of the tithe while I was mourning, or removed any of it while I was unclean, or offered any of it to the dead. I have obeyed the voice of the LORD my God. I have done according to all that You have commanded me. 


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Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel and the ground that you have given us, as you promised to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.' 


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This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and rules. You will therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul. 


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You have declared today that the LORD is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey His voice. 


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And the LORD has declared today that you are a people for His special possession, as He has promised you, and that you are to keep all His commandments, 


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and that He will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that He has made, and that you will be a people holy to the LORD your God, as He promised." 


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Now Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, "Keep the whole commandment that I command you today. 


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And on the day you cross over the Jordan to the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you will set up large stones and plaster them with plaster. 


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And you will write on them all the words of this law, when you cross over to enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you. 


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And when you have crossed over the Jordan, you will set up these stones, concerning which I command you today, on Mount Ebal, and you will plaster them with plaster. 


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And there you will build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You will use no iron tool on them; 


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you will build an altar to the LORD your God of uncut stones. And you will offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God, 


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and you will sacrifice peace offerings and will eat there, and you will rejoice before the LORD your God. 


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Then Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel, "Keep silence and hear, O Israel: this day you have become the people of the LORD your God. 


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You will therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God, keeping his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today." 


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"When you have crossed over the Jordan, these will stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin. 


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'Cursed be the man who makes a carved or cast metal image, detestable to the LORD, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.' And all the people will answer and say, 'Amen.' 


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'Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.' And all the people will say, 'Amen.' 


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'Cursed be anyone who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's nakedness.' And all the people will say, 'Amen.' 


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'Cursed be anyone who lies with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.' And all the people will say, 'Amen.' 


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'Cursed be anyone who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.' And all the people will say, 'Amen.' 


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And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. 


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And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the LORD your God. 


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Blessed will be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. 


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The LORD will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They will come out against you one way and vanish before you seven ways. 


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The LORD will command the blessing on you in your barns and in all that you do. And He will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. 


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The LORD will establish you as a people holy to Himself, as He has promised to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways. 


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And all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will be afraid of you. 


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And the LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground, within the land that the LORD promised to your fathers to give you. 


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The LORD will open to you His good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. 


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And the LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you will only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today, being careful to do them, 


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and if you do not turn aside from any of the words that I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. 


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But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD your God or be careful to do all His commandments and His statutes that I command you today, then all these curses will come upon you and overtake you. 


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Cursed will be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the that which comes from your herds and the young of your flock. 


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The LORD will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken Me. 


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The LORD will make the pestilence join to you until He has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 


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The LORD will strike you with infectious disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought and with blight and with mildew. They will pursue you until you perish. 


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The LORD will make the rain of your land be dust and ashes. It will come down on you from the heavens until you are destroyed. 


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The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will go out one way against them and vanish seven ways before them. And you will be a trouble before all the kingdoms of the earth. 


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And your dead body will be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away. 


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The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed. 


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and you will grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways. And you will be defrauded and robbed continually, and there will be no one to help you. 


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You will betroth a wife, but another man will ravish her. You will build a house, but you will not dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not enjoy its fruit. 


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Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be seized before your face, but will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, but there will be no one to help you. 


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Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes look on and not find them all day long, but you will be helpless. 


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A nation that you have not known will eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you will be defrauded and broken continually, 


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The LORD will strike you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head. 


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The LORD will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you will serve other gods of wood and stone. 


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And you will become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the LORD will lead you away. 


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You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm will eat them. 


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You will have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off. 


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The sojourner who is among you will rise higher and higher above you, and you will come down lower and lower. 


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All these curses will come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and his statutes that He commanded you. 


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Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, 


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therefore you will serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you. 


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The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand, 


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It will eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also will not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish. 


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They will attack you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they will attack you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you. 


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And you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the anguish with which your enemies will distress you. 


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The man who is the most tender and refined among you will look wickedly at his brother, to the wife he embraces, and to the last of the children whom he has left, 


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so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, in the siege and in the anguish with which your enemy will distress you in all your towns. 


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The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, look wickedly at the husband she embraces, to her son and to her daughter, 


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her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, in the siege and in the anguish with which your enemy will distress you in your towns. 


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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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. 


