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He shall not eat an animal which has died or is torn by beasts to become unclean by it; I am Jehovah.


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They shall therefore keep My charge, so that they do not bring sin upon themselves because of it and die by it because they profane it; I am Jehovah who sanctifies them.


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No stranger may eat any holy thing; a sojourner with a priest or a hired servant shall not eat any holy thing.


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But if a priest acquires anyone through a purchase with his money, that one may eat of it; and those who are born in his house may eat of his food.


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And if a priest's daughter is married to a stranger, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.


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But if a priest's daughter becomes a widow or divorced and has no child, and she returns to her father's house as in her youth, she may eat of her father's food; but no stranger may eat of it.


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And if a man eats the holy thing in ignorance, then he shall add one-fifth of its value to it and shall give the holy thing to the priest.


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And so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt when they eat their holy things; for I am Jehovah who sanctifies them.


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Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, When anyone of the house of Israel or of the sojourners in Israel who presents his offering, whether it is any of their vows or any of their freewill offerings which they p


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It shall be a male without blemish from the cattle, from the sheep, or from the goats, for you to be accepted.


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And whoever presents a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah to make a special vow or for a freewill offering, from the herd or from the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish in it.


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You shall not present these to Jehovah:anything blind or injured or maimed or having a suppuration or eczema or scale; nor shall you make an offering by fire from them on the altar to Jehovah.


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An ox or a lamb that has anything superfluous or lacking in its parts, that you may offer for a freewill offering; but it shall not be accepted for a vow.


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And anything with its testicles bruised or crushed or broken or cut, you shall not present to Jehovah; you shall not do this in your land.


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And from the hand of a foreigner you shall not present the food of your God from any of these, because their corruption is in them. There is a blemish in them; they shall not be accepted for you.


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When an ox or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother; and from the eighth day and onward it shall be accepted for the offering of an offering by fire to Jehovah.


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And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Jehovah, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.


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And you shall not profane My holy name, but I will be sanctified among the children of Israel; I am Jehovah who sanctifies you,


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Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, As to the appointed feasts of Jehovah, which you shall proclaim as holy convocations, these are My appointed feasts.


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Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day there is a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work; it is a Sabbath to Jehovah in all your dwelling places.


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These are the appointed feasts of Jehovah, even the holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at their appointed time:


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And on the fifteenth day of this month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to Jehovah; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.


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But you shall present an offering by fire to Jehovah seven days. On the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no work of labor.


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Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you come into the land which I am giving you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest;


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And he shall wave the sheaf before Jehovah for your acceptance; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.


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And on the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb a year old without blemish as a burnt offering to Jehovah.


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And its meal offering shall be two- tenths of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering by fire to Jehovah for a satisfying fragrance. And its drink offering shall be of wine, a fourth of a hin.


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And you shall eat no bread or parched grain or fresh ears until that same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.


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And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath; from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering there shall be seven complete Sabbaths.


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You shall count fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall present a new meal offering to Jehovah.


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You shall bring out of your dwelling places two loaves as a wave offering; they shall be of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as firstfruits to Jehovah.


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And you shall present with the bread seven lambs, a year old without blemish, and one bull of the herd and two rams; they shall be a burnt offering to Jehovah with their meal offering and their drink offerings, an offering by fire for a satisfying fragran


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And you shall offer one male goat for a sin offering and two male lambs, a year old, for a sacrifice of peace offerings.


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And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before Jehovah with the two lambs; they shall be holy to Jehovah for the priest.


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And you shall make a proclamation on that same day; you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no work of labor. It shall be a perpetual statute in all your dwelling places throughout your generations.


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And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not completely reap the corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleaning of your harvest; you shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner; I am Jehovah your God.


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Speak to the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a complete rest, a memorial proclaimed by the blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.


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And on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Expiation; you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall afflict your souls and present an offering by fire to Jehovah.


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And you shall do no work on that same day, because it is a Day of Expiation, to make expiation on your behalf before Jehovah your God.


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If there is any person who does not afflict himself on that same day, he shall be cut off from his people.


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You shall do no work. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.


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It shall be to you a Sabbath of complete rest, and you shall afflict your souls; on the ninth day of the month in the evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.


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Speak to the children of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to Jehovah.


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Seven days you shall present an offering by fire to Jehovah. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall present an offering by fire to Jehovah. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no work of labor.


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These are the appointed feasts of Jehovah, which you shall proclaim as holy convocations, to present an offering by fire to Jehovah, burnt offerings and meal offerings, sacrifices of peace offerings, and drink offerings, each on its own day,


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Besides the Sabbaths of Jehovah and besides your gifts and besides all your vows and besides all your freewill offerings which you give to Jehovah.


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Then on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall keep the feast of Jehovah seven days; on the first day shall be a complete rest, and on the eighth day shall be a complete rest.


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And on the first day you shall take for yourselves the product of stately trees, branches of palm trees and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God for seven days.


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And you shall keep it as a feast to Jehovah seven days in the year. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month.


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So that your descendants may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; I am Jehovah your God.


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Command the children of Israel to bring to you pure oil of beaten olives for the light, to make the lamps burn continually.


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Outside the veil of the testimony in the Tent of Meeting Aaron shall set it in order from evening to morning before Jehovah continually. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations.


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And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.


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And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, so that it may be a memorial for the bread, an offering by fire to Jehovah.


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Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before Jehovah continually; it is an everlasting covenant for the children of Israel.


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And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, for it is most holy to him of Jehovah's offerings by fire, a perpetual statute.


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Now the son of an Israelite woman, who was also the son of an Egyptian man, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a certain Israelite struggled together in the camp.


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And the son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name and cursed, and they brought him to Moses. (Now his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)


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Bring forth the one who has cursed outside the camp; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the assembly stone him.


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And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, Anyone who curses his God shall bear his sin.


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And the one who blasphemes the name of Jehovah shall surely be put to death; all the assembly shall surely stone him. The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.


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And anyone who causes a blemish in his fellow countryman, as he has done, so shall it be done to him:


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A fracture for a fracture, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; just as he has caused a blemish in a man, so it will be inflicted on him.


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And one who kills a beast shall make restitution for it, but one who kills a human being shall be put to death.


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And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and they brought forth the one who had cursed outside the camp and stoned him with stones. So the children of Israel did just as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you come into the land which I am giving you, the land shall observe a Sabbath to Jehovah.


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Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its produce;


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But in the seventh year the land shall have a Sabbath of complete rest, a Sabbath to Jehovah; you shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard.


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The aftergrowth of your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your unpruned vine you shall not gather; the land shall have a year of complete rest.


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And the Sabbath produce of the land shall be for food for you; for you and for your male slaves and for your female slaves, and for your hired servant and for your stranger, who sojourns with you,


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And you shall count off seven Sabbaths of years to yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of seven Sabbaths of years, that is, forty-nine years.


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Then you shall sound aloud the ram's horn in the seventh month on the tenth day of the month; on the Day of Expiation you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.


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And you shall sanctify the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family.


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The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; you shall not sow nor reap its aftergrowth nor gather from its unpruned vines.


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And if you sell anything to your fellow countryman or buy from the hand of your fellow countryman, you shall not wrong one another.


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According to the number of years after the jubilee you shall buy from your fellow countryman; according to the number of crop years remaining he shall sell to you.


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According to the extent of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the fewness of the years you shall diminish its price; for it is the number of crop years that he sells to you.


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Thus you shall observe My statutes, and you shall keep My ordinances and observe them, so that you dwell securely in the land.


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And if you should say, What shall we eat the seventh year if we do not sow or gather in our produce?


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Then I will command My blessing for you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth produce for three years.


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When you sow in the eighth year you will eat of the old produce until the ninth year; until its produce comes in, you shall eat the old produce.


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And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, because the land is Mine; for with Me you are strangers and sojourners.


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If your brother becomes poor and sells some of his possession, then his redeemer, the nearest relative, shall come and redeem what his brother has sold.


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But if a man does not have anyone to redeem it, but he obtains the means and finds it sufficient to redeem it,


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Then let him calculate the years since its sale and restore the excess to the man to whom he sold it, and return to his possession.


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But if he has not found sufficient means to restore it for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of the one who has purchased it until the year of jubilee; and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return to his possession.


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And if anyone sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it until the end of a year from its sale; for a full year he shall have the right of redemption.


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But if it is not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall pass in perpetuity to the one who purchased it throughout his generations; it shall not go out in the jubilee.


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But the houses of the villages which have no wall all around them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country; they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.


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As for the cities of the Levites, that is, the houses of the cities of their possession, the Levites shall have the permanent right of redemption.


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And what can be redeemed from the Levites, that is, a house that was sold in a city of his possession, shall go out in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.


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And if your brother becomes poor, and he is unable to support himself as he lives beside you, then you shall support him, like a stranger and a sojourner, so that he may live beside you.


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Do not take any interest or gain from him, but fear your God, so that your brother may live beside you.


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I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, to be your God.


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And if your brother beside you becomes poor, and he sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave.


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He shall be beside you as a hired servant, as a sojourner; he shall serve beside you until the year of jubilee.


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Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and return to his own family, and he shall return to the possession of his forefathers.


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For they are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves are sold.


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And as for your male slaves and female slaves whom you may have, they shall come from the nations that are around you; from them you may buy male slaves and female slaves.


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Moreover from the children of the strangers who sojourn among you, from them you may buy, and from their families who are with you, which they have begotten in your land; they also may be your possession.


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And you shall make them an inheritance for your children after you, to receive as a possession; you may use them as permanent slaves. But you shall not rule over your brothers the children of Israel, one over another, with severity.


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And if a stranger or sojourner with you can afford it, and your brother beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with you, or to the descendants of the stranger's family;


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Or his uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him, or any of his close relatives of his family may redeem him; or if he can afford it, he may redeem himself.


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And he shall reckon with the one who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years. The time he shall be with him shall be calculated like the time of a


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If there are still many years, in proportion to them he shall give back the amount for his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.


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And if there are only a few years remaining until the year of jubilee, so he shall reckon with him. In proportion to his years he shall give back the amount for his redemption.


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Like a servant hired year by year he shall be with him; he shall not rule with severity over him in your sight.


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And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he and his children with him.


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For the children of Israel are My servants; they are My servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; I am Jehovah your God.


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You shall not make for yourselves idols, nor shall you raise up for yourselves a graven image or a pillar, nor shall you place a stone figure in your land to bow down to it; for I am Jehovah your God.


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Then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will yield their fruit.


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Indeed your threshing will overtake the vintage, and the vintage will overtake the sowing time. Thus you will eat your bread until satisfaction and dwell securely in your land.


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And I will give you peace in the land, so that you will lie down and no one will make you afraid; and I will cause wild beasts to cease out of the land, and no sword will pass through your land.


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And five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand; and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.


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And I will turn My face toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.


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I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you should not be their slaves; and I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk upright.


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And if you reject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so that you will not do all My commandments, so as to break My covenant;


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I also will do this to you:I will appoint sudden terror over you, even consumption and fever, that will cause the eyes to fail and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.


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And I will set My face against you, and you will be struck down before your enemies; and those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.


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And if after these things you will not listen to Me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.


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And I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze,


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And your strength will be spent in vain, for your land will not yield its produce, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit.


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And if you walk contrary to Me and will not listen to Me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.


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And I will send wild animals among you, which will bereave you of your children and destroy your cattle and make you few in number, so that your roads will be deserted.


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And I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; and when you gather together within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.


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When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; and they will return your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.


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Then I will walk contrary to you in wrath; and I will chastise you, I Myself, seven times for your sins.


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And I will destroy your high places and cut down your altars to the sun and heap up your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols, and My soul will abhor you.


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And I will make your cities a waste and will make your holy places desolate, and I will not smell the savor of your satisfying fragrances.


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You however I will scatter among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you; and your land will become a desolation, and your cities will become a waste.


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Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths during all the days of desolation while you are in your enemies' land; then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.


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During all the days of desolation it will have the rest, which it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling upon it.


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And as for those who remain among you, I will send faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they will flee as one flees from the sword; and they will fall though no one pursues.


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And they will stumble over one another, as if fleeing before the sword, though no one pursues; and you will not be able to stand before your enemies.


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And those who are remaining among you will rot away because of their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they will rot away with them.


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But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also that they walked contrary to Me,


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So that I also walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and then they accept the punishment of their iniquity;


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Then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also My covenant with Isaac and also My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.


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For the land will be abandoned by them and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it is desolate without them. And they will accept the punishment of their iniquity because, even because, they rejected My ordinances, and their soul abhorred My statutes.


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And yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and to break My covenant with them; for I am Jehovah their God.


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But I will for their sakes remember the covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations so that I might be their God; I am Jehovah.


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These are the statutes and ordinances and laws which Jehovah made between Himself and the children of Israel at Mount Sinai through Moses.


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Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When a man makes a special vow, the persons shall be for Jehovah according to your valuation.


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If your valuation is for the male from twenty years old even to sixty years old, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver according to the shekel of the sanctuary.


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And if it is for one aged from five years old even to twenty years old, then your valuation for the male shall be twenty shekels and for the female ten shekels.


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And if it is for one aged from a month old even to five years old, then your valuation for the male shall be five shekels of silver, and for the female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.


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And if it is for one aged from sixty years old and upward, if it is for a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.


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But if it is for him who is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the means of the one who vowed, the priest shall value him.


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And if it is for an animal which may be presented to Jehovah as an offering, anything which may be given to Jehovah shall be holy.


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He may not exchange it or substitute it, either a good one for a bad one or a bad one for a good one; but if he does indeed substitute animal for animal, then both it and its substitute shall be holy.


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And if his vow is for any unclean animal, which may not be presented as an offering to Jehovah, then he shall set the animal before the priest,


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And the priest shall value it, whether it is good or bad; as you the priest value it, so it shall be.


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And if anyone consecrates his house to be holy to Jehovah, then the priest shall value it, whether it is good or bad; just as the priest values it, so it shall stand.


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And if the one who consecrated it redeems his house, then he shall add one-fifth of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall become his.


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And if a man consecrates to Jehovah part of a field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed needed for it:a homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver.


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But if he consecrates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall calculate the money for him according to the years which remain until the year of jubilee, and it shall be deducted from your valuation.


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And if the one who consecrated the field ever redeems it, then he shall add one-fifth of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall be assured to him.


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


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But the field, when it goes out in the jubilee, shall be holy to Jehovah as a devoted field; its possession shall be the priest's.


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And if he consecrates to Jehovah a field which he has bought that is not part of the field of his possession,


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Then the priest shall calculate for him the amount of your valuation until the year of jubilee, and on that day he shall give your valuation as holy to Jehovah.


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In the year of jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom he bought it, even to the one to whom the possession of the land belongs.


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And every valuation of yours shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary:The shekel shall be twenty gerahs.


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However no one shall consecrate the firstborn among animals, which as a firstborn belongs to Jehovah; whether it is an ox or a sheep, it is Jehovah's.


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But if it is consecrated from among unclean animals, then he shall ransom it according to your valuation and shall add to it one-fifth of it. And if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.


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Nevertheless anything which someone devotes to Jehovah out of all that he has, whether a human or an animal or a field of his possession, it shall not be sold or redeemed. Every devoted thing is most holy to Jehovah.


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No human beings who are devoted to destruction shall be ransomed; they shall surely be put to death.


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And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is Jehovah's; it is holy to Jehovah.


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And all the tithe of the herd or the flock, whatever passes under the shepherd's rod, the tenth one shall be holy to Jehovah.


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He shall not search whether it is good or bad, nor shall he substitute it; but if he does substitute it at all, then both it and that for which it is substituted shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.


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Then Jehovah spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day 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 children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, every male, head by head.


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From twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go forth for military service in Israel, you and Aaron shall number them by their companies.


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From the children of Joseph:from Ephraim:Elishama the son of Ammihud; from Manasseh:Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.


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These are the ones who were called from the assembly, the leaders of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.


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And on the first day of the second month they gathered all the assembly together; and they registered themselves by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names from twenty years old and upward, head by head.


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And the children of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth for military ser


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From the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' households, those who were numbered of them, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth fo


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From the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth for military service;


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From the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth for military service;


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From the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth for military service;


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From the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth for military service;


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From the children of Joseph:from the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth for military service;


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And from the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth for military service;


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From the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth for military service;


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From the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth for military service;


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From the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth for military service;


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From the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth for military service;


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These were the ones who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, with the leaders of Israel, twelve men, each one for his fathers' household.


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So all who were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' households, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth for military service in Israel,


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Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, nor shall you take the sum of them among the children of Israel;


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But you, appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony and over all its furnishings and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they shall minister to it and shall encamp around the tabernacle.


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And when the tabernacle sets out, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle encamps, the Levites shall set it up. But the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.


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And the children of Israel shall encamp, each one by his own camp and each one by his own standard, according to their companies.


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But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there be no wrath upon the assembly of the children of Israel. And the Levites shall keep the charge of the Tabernacle of the Testimony.


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The children of Israel shall encamp each by his own standard with the ensigns of their fathers' households; they shall encamp facing the Tent of Meeting on every side.


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And those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their companies; and the leader of the children of Judah:Nahshon the son of Amminadab;


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And those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar; and the leader of the children of Issachar:Nethanel the son of Zuar;


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All who were numbered of the camp of Judah:one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their companies. They shall set out first.


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On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their companies; and the leader of the children of Reuben:Elizur the son of Shedeur;


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And those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon; and the leader of the children of Simeon:Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai;


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All who were numbered of the camp of Reuben:one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty, according to their companies. And they shall set out second.


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Then the Tent of Meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps; as they encamp, so shall they set out, every man in his place, by their standards.


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On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their companies; and the leader of the children of Ephraim:Elishama the son of Ammihud;


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And next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh; and the leader of the children of Manasseh:Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur;


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All who were numbered of the camp of Ephraim:one hundred eight thousand one hundred, according to their companies. And they shall set out third.


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On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan according to their companies; and the leader of the children of Dan:Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai;


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And those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher; and the leader of the children of Asher:Pagiel the son of Ochran;


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All who were numbered of the camp of Dan:one hundred fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set out last by their standards.


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These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' households. All who were numbered in the camps according to their companies were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.


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Thus did the children of Israel do. According to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards and so they set out, every one by their families, according to their fathers' households.


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Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time when Jehovah spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.


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These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whose hands were filled to serve as priests.


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But Nadab and Abihu died before Jehovah when they offered strange fire before Jehovah 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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And they shall keep his charge and the charge of the whole assembly before the Tent of Meeting to do the service of the tabernacle.


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And they shall keep all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting and the charge of the children of Israel to do the service of the tabernacle.


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


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And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood; but the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.


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As for Me, I have now taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the children of Israel. So the Levites shall be Mine.


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For all the firstborn are Mine; on the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified to Myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast. They shall be Mine; I am Jehovah.


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Number the children of Levi by their fathers' households, by their families; every male from a month old and upward you shall number.


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And the sons of Merari according to their families:Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' households.


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Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites and the family of the Shimeites; these are the families of the Gershonites.


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Those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those who were numbered of them were seven thousand five hundred.


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And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting shall be the tabernacle and the tent, its covering and the screen for the entrance of the Tent of Meeting,


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And the hangings of the court, and the screen for the entrance of the court, which is around the tabernacle and around the altar, and its cords for all its service.


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And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites and the family of the Izharites and the family of the Hebronites and the family of the Uzzielites; these are the families of the Kohathites.


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According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.


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And the leader of the father's household of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.


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And their charge shall be the Ark and the table and the lampstand and the altars and the utensils of the sanctuary with which they minister and the screen and all its service.


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And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be leader of the leaders of the Levites and have the oversight of those who keep the charge of the sanctuary.


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Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites; these are the families of Merari.


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And those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward:six thousand two hundred.


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And the leader of the father's household of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They shall encamp on the side of the tabernacle to the north.


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And the appointed charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle and its bars and its pillars and its sockets and all its equipment and all the service pertaining to it,


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And those who encamp before the tabernacle to the east, before the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger who comes near sha


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All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of Jehovah, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward were twenty-two thousand.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Number all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.


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And you shall take the Levites for Me - I am Jehovah - instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the cattle of the children of Israel.


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And all the firstborn males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those who were numbered of them were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.


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Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be Mine; I am Jehovah.


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And for the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel over and above the number of the Levites,


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You shall take five shekels apiece per head; according to the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them. (The shekel is twenty gerahs.)


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And you shall give the money, by which the excess number of them is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.


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


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From the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, a thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels according to the shekel of the sanctuary.


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


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Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers' households,


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From thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, all who enter into the service to perform the skilled work in the Tent of Meeting.


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When the camp sets out, Aaron and his sons shall go in, and they shall take down the veil of the screen and cover the Ark of the Testimony with it,


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And they shall put on it a covering of porpoise skin, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue strands, and shall put in its poles.


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And over the table of the bread of the Presence they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the plates and the spoons and the bowls and the pitchers of the drink offering; and the continual bread shall be on it.


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And they shall spread over them a scarlet cloth, and cover it with a covering of porpoise skin, and shall put in its poles.


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And they shall take a blue cloth, and cover the lampstand of the light and its lamps and its tongs and its firepans and all its oil vessels with which they minister to it.


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And they shall put it and all its utensils within a covering of porpoise skin, and shall put it on the carrying frame.


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


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And they shall take all the utensils of ministry with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, and cover them with a covering of porpoise skin, and shall put them on the carrying frame.


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And they shall put upon it all its utensils with which they minister upon it, the firepans, the forks, and the shovels, and the basins - all the utensils of the altar; and they shall spread over it a covering of porpoise skin, and 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, whenever the camp sets out, then the sons of Kohath shall come to carry them; but they shall not touch the holy things, or they will die. These thin


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And the oversight of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be the oil for the light and the fragrant incense and the continual meal offering and the anointing oil, the oversight of all the tabernacle and all that is in it, the sanctuary and its furnis


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But do this to them that they may live and not die when they approach the most holy things:Aaron and his sons shall go in and assign each one of them to his service and to his burden;


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From thirty years old and upward to fifty years old you shall number them, everyone who enters to carry out the service to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.


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They shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the Tent of Meeting, its covering, and the covering of porpoise skin that is on top of it, and the screen for the entrance of the Tent of Meeting,


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And the hangings of the court, and the screen for the entrance of the gate of the court, which is around the tabernacle and around the altar, and their cords, and all the equipment for their service; and whatever is to be done with them, so shall they do.


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All the service of the sons of the Gershonites shall be at the command of Aaron and his sons, in all their burden and in all their service; and you shall assign to them the charge of all they are to carry.


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This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the Tent of Meeting, and their charge shall be under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.


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From thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old you shall number them, everyone who enters into the service to do the work of the Tent of Meeting.


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And this is the charge of what they are to carry, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting:the boards of the tabernacle and its bars and its pillars and its sockets,


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And the pillars around the court and their sockets and their pegs and their cords, with all their equipment and with all their service; and you shall assign by name the equipment they have been charged to carry.


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This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.


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And Moses and Aaron and the leaders of the assembly numbered the sons of the Kohathites by their families and by their fathers' households,


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From thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service for work in the Tent of Meeting.


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These are those who were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Jehovah through Moses.


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And those who were numbered of the sons of Gershon by their families and by their fathers' households,


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From thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service for work in the Tent of Meeting,


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Even those who were numbered of them, by their families, by their fathers' households were two thousand six hundred thirty.


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These were those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, everyone who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Jehovah.


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And those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by their fathers' households,


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These were those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Jehovah through Moses.


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All those who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the leaders of Israel numbered, by their families and by their fathers' households,


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From thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered to do the work of service and the work of bearing burdens in the Tent of Meeting,


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According to the commandment of Jehovah through Moses they were numbered, everyone according to his service and according to his burden; thus they were numbered by him, just as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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Command the children of Israel that they send out of the camp every leper and everyone that has a discharge and everyone who is unclean because of a dead person.


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You shall send out both male and female; you shall send them outside the camp so that they will not defile their camp, where I dwell in their midst.


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And the children of Israel did so and sent them outside the camp; just as Jehovah had spoken to Moses, so the children of Israel did.


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Speak to the children of Israel, When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to act unfaithfully toward Jehovah, and that person realizes his guilt,


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Then they shall confess their sin which they have committed, and he shall make restitution according to its principal for his wrong and add to it one-fifth of it and give it to the one whom he has wronged.


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But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution which is made for the wrong goes to Jehovah for the priest, in addition to the ram of the expiation, by which expiation is made for him.


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And every heave offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present to the priest, shall be his.


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Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, If any man's wife goes astray and acts unfaithfully toward him,


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And a man lies with her and has sexual relations, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her since she was not caught in the act;


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And a spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she has defiled herself; or if a spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she has not defiled herself;


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Then the man shall bring his wife to the priest and bring her offering for her, a tenth of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil upon it nor put frankincense on it; for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of remembrance, bringing in


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And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and the priest shall 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 shall set the woman before Jehovah and let the hair of the woman's head go loose and put the meal offering of remembrance in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy, and in the hand of the priest shall be the water of bitterness t


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And the priest shall make her take an oath and shall say to the woman, If no man has lain with you and if you have not gone astray to uncleanness while under the authority of your husband, be immune to this water of bitterness that brings the curse.


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But if you have gone astray while under the authority of your husband and if you have defiled yourself, and a man besides your husband has lain with you -


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Then the priest shall make the woman take an oath with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say to the woman - Jehovah make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Jehovah makes your thigh waste away and your womb swell;


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And this water that brings the curse shall go into your bowels and make your womb swell and your thigh waste away. And the woman shall say, Amen, Amen.


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And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall wash them off into the water of bitterness.


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And he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings the curse; and the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.


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And the priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand, and he shall wave the meal offering before Jehovah and bring it to the altar.


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And the priest shall take a handful of the meal offering as its memorial portion and burn it upon the altar, and afterward he shall 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 acted unfaithfully to her husband, the water that brings the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her womb will swell, and her thigh will waste away; and the wom


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But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, then she will be immune and able to conceive seed.


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This is the law of jealousy when a wife, while under the authority of her husband, goes astray and defiles herself,


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Or when the spirit of jealousy comes upon a man, and he is jealous of his wife. He shall set the woman before Jehovah, and the priest shall apply to her all this law.


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Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazarite, to separate himself to Jehovah,


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He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar of wine or vinegar of strong drink, nor shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh or dried grapes.


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All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grape vine, from the seeds even to the skin.


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All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall pass over his head. He shall be holy until the days are fulfilled for which he separated himself to Jehovah; he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.


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He shall not make himself unclean for his father or for his mother, for his brother or for his sister, when they die, because his separation to God is upon his head.


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And if anyone dies very suddenly beside him so that he defiles the head of his separation, then he shall shave his head on the day he becomes clean; on the seventh day shall he shave it.


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And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting,


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And the priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make expiation for him because he sinned by reason of the dead person. And he shall sanctify his head that same day.


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And he shall separate to Jehovah the days of his separation and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering, but the former days shall be void because his separation was defiled.


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Now this is the law of the Nazarite when the days of his separation are fulfilled:He shall be brought to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.


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And he shall present his offering to Jehovah:one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and one female lamb a year old without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for a peace offering,


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And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their meal offering and their drink offerings.


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And the priest shall present them before Jehovah, and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.


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And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall also offer its meal offering and its drink offering.


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And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and take the hair of the head of his separation and put it on the fire that is under the sacrifice of peace offerings.


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And the priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram and one unleavened cake out of the basket and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them into the hands of the Nazarite after he has shaved the head of his separation;


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And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Jehovah. It is holy for the priest, together with the breast of the wave offering and thigh of the heave offering. And afterward the Nazarite may drink wine.


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This is the law of the Nazarite who vows, that is, of his offering to Jehovah for his separation, in addition to what he can afford; according to his vow which he vows, so he must do according to the law of his separation.


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Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, Thus you shall bless the children of Israel; you shall say to them,


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And on the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it and all its furnishings and the altar and all its utensils, and had anointed them and sanctified them,


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The leaders of Israel, the heads of their fathers' households (they were the leaders of the tribes, who were over those who had been numbered), presented their offering.


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And they brought their offering before Jehovah:six covered wagons and twelve oxen, a wagon for every two of the leaders and an ox for each one; and they presented them before the tabernacle.


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Take these from them, that they may be used in doing the service of the Tent of Meeting; and you shall give them to the Levites, to each 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 the service of the sanctuary belonged to them; they bore this upon their shoulder.


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And the leaders presented offerings for the dedication of the altar in the day that it was anointed; that is, the leaders presented their offering before the altar.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, They shall present their offering, one leader each day, for the dedication of the altar.


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And he who presented his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah.


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And his offering was one silver plate; its weight was one hundred thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering;


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


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He presented as his offering one silver plate; its weight was one hundred thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering;


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And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, 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; its weight was one hundred thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering;


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


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This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the leaders of Israel:twelve silver plates, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden spoons;


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Each silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels was two thousand four hundred shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary;


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The twelve golden spoons, full of incense, weighing ten shekels each, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the spoons was one hundred twenty shekels;


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All the livestock for the burnt offering:twelve bulls, twelve rams, twelve male lambs a year old and their meal offering; and twelve males of the goats for a sin offering;


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


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And when Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with Him, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the expiation cover that was upon the Ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim; and he 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 Aaron did so; he set up its lamps to give light in front of the lampstand, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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Now this was the workmanship of the lampstand, beaten work of gold. From its base to its flowers it was beaten work; according to the pattern which Jehovah had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.


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And thus you shall do to them to cleanse them:Sprinkle the water of purification upon them, and let them pass a razor over all their flesh and wash their clothes and cleanse themselves.


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Then let them take a bull of the herd and its meal offering, fine flour mingled with oil; and a second bull of the herd you shall take for a sin offering.


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And you shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting, and gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel.


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And you shall present the Levites before Jehovah, and the children of Israel shall lay their hands upon the Levites.


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And Aaron shall offer the Levites before Jehovah as a wave offering from the children of Israel, that they may do the service of Jehovah.


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And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to Jehovah to make expiation for the Levites.


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


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Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be Mine.


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Then after this the Levites may go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting. So you shall cleanse them and offer them as a wave offering.


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For they are wholly given to Me from among the children of Israel; I have taken them for Myself instead of everyone who opens the womb, the firstborn of all the children of Israel.


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For all the firstborn among the children of Israel are Mine, both human and animal. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for Myself.


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And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make expiation for the children of Israel, that there may be no plague among the


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Thus did Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly of the children of Israel do to the Levites; according to all that Jehovah had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them.


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


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And after this the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before Aaron and before his sons; as Jehovah had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.


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This is what applies to the Levites:From twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to perform the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting.


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And from the age of fifty years they shall retire from the service in the work and shall serve no more.


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But they may minister to their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to keep the charge, but they themselves shall do no service. Thus you shall do with the Levites concerning their charges.


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Then Jehovah 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 twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and according to all its ordinances you shall keep it.


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And they kept the passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.


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And there were certain men who were unclean through contact with a dead person, so that they could not keep the passover on that day; so they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.


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And those men said to him, Although we are unclean through contact with a dead person, why must we be kept from presenting the offering of Jehovah at its appointed time among the children of Israel?


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Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Any one of you or your descendants who becomes unclean through contact with a dead person or is on a distant journey shall still keep the passover to Jehovah.


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In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.


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They shall not leave any of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it; according to every statute of the passover they shall keep it.


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But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, yet refrains from keeping the passover, that person shall be cut off from his people, because he did not present Jehovah's offering at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin.


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And if a stranger sojourns with you and keeps the passover to Jehovah; according to the statute of the passover and according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native born in the land.


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And on the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the Tent of the Testimony; and in the evening it was like the appearance of fire over the tabernacle until morning.


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And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tent, then after that the children of Israel set out; and in the place where the cloud settled, there the children of Israel encamped.


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At the commandment of Jehovah the children of Israel set out, and at the commandment of Jehovah they encamped; as long as the cloud settled upon the tabernacle, they remained encamped.


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Even when the cloud extended its time over the tabernacle for many days, the children of Israel kept the charge of Jehovah and did not set out.


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If sometimes the cloud was upon the tabernacle a few days, according to the commandment of Jehovah they remained encamped; then at the commandment of Jehovah they set out.


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If sometimes the cloud remained from evening until morning, when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they set out; or if it remained in the daytime and at night, when the cloud was taken up, they set out.


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Whether it was two days or a month or a longer time that the cloud extended its time over the tabernacle and settled above it, the children of Israel remained encamped and did not set out; but when it was taken up, they set out.


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At the commandment of Jehovah they encamped, and at the commandment of Jehovah they set out. They kept the charge of Jehovah according to the commandment of Jehovah through Moses.


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Make yourself two trumpets of silver; of beaten work you shall make them; and you shall use them for summoning the assembly and for the setting out of the camps.


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And when they blow them, all the assembly shall gather themselves to you at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.


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But if they blow only one, then the leaders, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.


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And when you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that are encamped on the south side shall set out. They shall blow an alarm for them to set out.


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But when the congregation is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.


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And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and this shall be for you a perpetual statute throughout your generations.


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And when you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, so that you may be remembered before Jehovah your God and be saved from your enemies.


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Also on your days of rejoicing and at your appointed feasts and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be a reminder on your behalf before you


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Now it was in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the Tabernacle of the Testimony.


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And the children of Israel set out on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai. Then the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran.


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And the standard of the camp of the children of Judah set out first according to their companies; and over the entire company was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.


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


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And the standard of the camp of Reuben set out according to their companies; and over the entire company was Elizur the son of Shedeur.


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And the Kohathites, who carried the holy things, set out; and the tabernacle was set up before their arrival.


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And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set out according to their companies; and over the entire company was Elishama the son of Ammihud.


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And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rear guard of all the camps, set out according to their companies; and over the entire company was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.


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This was the order in which the children of Israel set out according to their companies, when they set out.


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


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So Moses said, Please do not leave us, for you know where we can encamp in the wilderness, and you will be eyes for us.


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So they set out from the mountain of Jehovah three days' journey, with the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah setting out before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting place for them.


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And when the Ark set out, Moses said, Rise up, O Jehovah, and let Your enemies be scattered; And let those who hate You flee before You.


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And when it came to rest, he said, Return, O Jehovah, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.


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And the people became like those who murmur about their misfortune in the ears of Jehovah; and when Jehovah heard it, His anger was kindled, and the fire of Jehovah burned among them and consumed some at the outskirts of the camp.


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And the mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again and said, Who shall give us meat to eat?


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We remember the fish which we used to eat in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic;


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The people went about and gathered it and ground it between two millstones or beat it in a mortar; then they boiled it in pots and made cakes of it; and its taste was like the taste of cakes baked in oil.


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And Moses heard the people weeping family by families, each at the entrance of his tent; and the anger of Jehovah was kindled greatly, and Moses was displeased.


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And Moses said to Jehovah, Why have You treated Your servant badly, and why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have put the burden of all this people upon me?


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Did I conceive all this people? Or did I bring them forth, so that You should say to me, Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries the nursing child, to the land which You swore to give to their fathers?


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From where should I get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me, saying, Give us meat, so that we may eat!


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And if this is the way You deal with me, please kill me at once - if I have found favor in Your sight - and do not let me see my wretchedness.


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So Jehovah said to Moses, Gather to Me seventy, each one from the elders of Israel, whom you know are the elders of the people and their officers, and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, and have them stand there with you.


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Then I will come down and talk with you there, and I will take of the Spirit who is upon you and will put Him upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you do not bear it alone.


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And you shall say to the people, Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of Jehovah, saying, Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt. Therefore Jehovah will give you meat, and you shal


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But a whole month, until it comes out from your nostrils, and becomes loathsome to you, because you have rejected Jehovah who is among you, and have wept before Him, saying, Why did we ever come out of Egypt?


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But Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand on foot; and You have said, I will give them meat so that they may eat a whole month.


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Will flocks and herds be slain for them, to satisfy them? Or will all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to satisfy them?


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Has Jehovah's hand become short? Now you will see whether My word will come to pass for you or not.


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So Moses went out and told the people the words of Jehovah, and he gathered seventy, each one from the elders of the people, and set them around the tent.


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And Jehovah came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and He took of the Spirit who was upon him, and put Him upon the seventy elders. And when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, but they did not do so again.


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But two men had remained in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad. And the Spirit rested upon them. (Now they were among those who were registered, but they had not gone out to the tent.) And they prophesied in the camp.


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And Joshua the son of Nun, the attendant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered and said, My lord Moses, restrain them!


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But Moses said to him, Are you jealous for my sake? Oh that all Jehovah's people were prophets, that Jehovah would put His Spirit upon them!


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And a wind went forth from Jehovah and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall beside the camp, about a day's journey on this side and a day's journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the earth.


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And the people rose up all that day and all the night and all the next day, and they gathered the quail. He who gathered 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 chewed, the anger of Jehovah was kindled against the people, and Jehovah struck the people with a very severe plague.


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And the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.


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And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married (for he had married a Cushite woman).


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And they said, Has Jehovah indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not also spoken through us? And Jehovah heard it.


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And suddenly Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron and to Miriam, You three come out to the Tent of Meeting. So the three of them came out.


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Then Jehovah came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent, and called Aaron and Miriam. And when they had both come forward,


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He said, Hear now My words:If there is a prophet among you, I, Jehovah, will make Myself known to him in a vision, I will speak with him in a dream.


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With him I speak face to face, even openly, and not in riddles; And he beholds the form of Jehovah. Why then were you not afraid to speak against My servant, against Moses?


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And when the cloud had departed from over the tent; there Miriam was, leprous, as white as snow. And Aaron turned toward Miriam, and there she was, leprous.


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And Aaron said to Moses, Oh, my lord, please do not lay this sin upon us that we have so foolishly committed.


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Please do not let her be like one dead, whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, If her father had just spat in her face, would she not bear her shame seven days? Let her be shut up outside the camp seven days, and after that she may be brought in again.


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So Miriam was shut up outside the camp seven days, and the people did not set out until Miriam had been brought in again.


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Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; one man from each of their fathers' tribes you shall send, every one a leader among them.


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So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Jehovah, all of them leading men among the children of Israel.


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These are 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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And when Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he said to them, Go up this way into the Negev, and go up into the hill country;


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And see what the land is like; and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;


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And whether the land in which they dwell is good or bad; and whether the cities that they live in are like camps or with fortifications;


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And whether the land is fat or lean; whether there are trees in it or not. Therefore strengthen yourselves and bring some of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first ripe grapes.


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So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, near the entrance of Hamath.


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And when they had gone up through the Negev, they came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)


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


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


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And they proceeded to come to Moses and to Aaron and to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them and to the whole assembly, and showed them the fruit of the land.


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


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However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large; and we also saw the descendants of Anak there.


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The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negev, and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites dwell in the hill country, and the Canaanites 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 possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.


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But the men who went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.


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And they brought to the children of Israel an evil report of the land which they had spied out, saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great size.


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And there we saw the Nephilim (the descendants of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.


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And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and the whole assembly said to them, If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!


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And why does Jehovah bring us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?


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Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before the whole congregation of the assembly of the children of Israel.


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


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And they spoke to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, saying, The land through which we passed to spy out is an exceedingly good land.


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If Jehovah is pleased with us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.


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Only do not rebel against Jehovah, nor should you fear the people of the land, for they are our bread. Their protection has been removed from them, and Jehovah is with us; do not fear them.


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But the whole assembly said to stone them with stones. Then the glory of Jehovah appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, How long will this people despise Me? And how long will they not believe in Me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them?


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I will strike them with pestilence and disposses them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they.


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But Moses said to Jehovah, Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your might You brought up this people from their midst,


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And they will tell the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, Jehovah, are in the midst of this people; for You, O Jehovah, are seen eye to eye, and Your cloud stands over them, and You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pill


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Now if You put this people to death as one man, then the nations that have heard the report about You will speak, saying,


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Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which He swore to give them, He has therefore slaughtered them in the wilderness.


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Jehovah is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generations.


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Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of Your lovingkindness, just as You have forgiven this people from Egypt even until now.


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None of those men who have seen My glory and My signs, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tried Me these ten times and have not listened to My voice,


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Shall see the land which I swore to give to their fathers, nor shall any of those who despised Me see it.


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Only My servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit and has fully followed Me, will I bring into the land which he entered; and his descendants shall take possession of it.


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Now since the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valleys, turn tomorrow, and set out into the wilderness by the way that leads to the Red Sea.


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How long shall I bear with this evil assembly, which murmurs against Me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they are making against Me.


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Your corpses shall fall in this wilderness, and none of you who were numbered, according to the number you counted from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against Me,


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Shall come into the land, in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.


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But your little ones, whom you said would become plunder, I will bring in, and they will know the land which you have rejected.


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And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and they shall suffer for your unfaithfulness until your corpses have been consumed in the wilderness.


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According to the number of the days which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for every day, you shall bear your iniquities, forty years; and you shall know My displeasure.


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I, Jehovah, have spoken; surely I will do this to all this evil assembly who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.


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And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made the whole assembly to murmur against him by bringing up an evil report against the land,


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


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And they rose up early in the morning to go up to the top of the mountain, saying, Here we are; now we will go up to the place which Jehovah has spoken of, for we have sinned.


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But Moses said, Why now do you continue to transgress the commandment of Jehovah? This will not succeed.


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For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword. Because you have turned back from following Jehovah, therefore Jehovah will not be with you.


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But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain, even though neither the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah nor Moses had departed out of the midst of the camp.


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Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who dwelt in that hill country came down and struck them and beat them back as far as Hormah.


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


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And you make an offering by fire to Jehovah, a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to make a special vow or as a freewill offering or at your appointed feasts, to make a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah, from the herd or from the flock,


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The one who presents his offering shall present to Jehovah a meal offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin of oil.


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And you shall prepare wine for the drink offering, a fourth of a hin, with the burnt offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.


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Or for a ram you shall prepare as a meal offering two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mingled with a third of a hin of oil;


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And for the drink offering you shall present a third of a hin of wine, a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah.


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And when you prepare a herd animal for a burnt offering or for a sacrifice, to make a special vow or for peace offerings to Jehovah,


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Then you shall offer with the herd animal a meal offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mingled with half a hin of oil;


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And you shall present for the drink offering half a hin of wine, an offering by fire, a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah.


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All who are native shall do these things in this way, in presenting an offering by fire, a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah.


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And if a stranger sojourns with you, or one who may be among you throughout your generations, and he wants to make an offering by fire, a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah; just as you do, so he shall do.


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For the congregation there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you, a perpetual statute throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the sojourner be before Jehovah.


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Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land into which I am bringing you,


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From the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a heave offering; as the heave offering of the threshing floor, so shall you offer it up.


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From the first of your dough you shall give to Jehovah a heave offering throughout your generations.


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And if you sin unintentionally and do not observe all these commandments which Jehovah has spoken to Moses,


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That is, everything that Jehovah has commanded you through Moses, from the day that Jehovah gave commandment and onward throughout your generations,


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Then, if it was done unintentionally, without the knowledge of the assembly, the whole assembly shall offer one bull of the herd for a burnt offering, for a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah, with its meal offering and its drink offering, according to the o


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And the priest shall make expiation for the whole assembly of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was unintentional, and they have brought their offering, an offering by fire to Jehovah, and their sin offering before Jehovah for the


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And the whole assembly of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger who sojourns among them; for all the people were involved unintentionally.


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And if one person sins unintentionally, then he shall present a female goat a year old for a sin offering.


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And the priest shall make expiation before Jehovah for the person who sinned unintentionally, when he sins unintentionally, to make expiation for him; and he shall be forgiven.


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You shall have one law for the one who does anything unintentionally, for one who is a native among the children 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 a native or a sojourner, that one reviles Jehovah; and that person shall be cut off from among his people.


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Because he has despised the word of Jehovah and has broken His commandment, that person shall be completely cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.


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Now while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, The man shall surely be put to death; the whole assembly shall stone him with stones outside the camp.


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So the whole assembly brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, just as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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Speak to the children of Israel and tell them to make for themselves fringes on the borders of their garments throughout their generations and to put on the fringe of each border a cord of blue.


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And it shall be a fringe for you, so that when you see it you will remember all the commandments of Jehovah and do them; so that you do not seek after your own heart and your own eyes, according to which you committed fornication.


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I am Jehovah your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God; I am Jehovah your God.


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


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And rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty leaders of the assembly, who were summoned to the meeting, well-known men.


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And they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take too much upon yourselves, for all the assembly are holy, every one of them, and Jehovah is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the congregati


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And he spoke to Korah and to all his company, saying, In the morning Jehovah will make known who is His and who is holy, and will bring him near to Himself; even the one whom He will choose He will bring near to Himself.


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And put fire in them, and put incense on them before Jehovah tomorrow; and the man whom Jehovah chooses, he shall be holy. It is you who take too much upon yourselves, O sons of Levi!


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Is it a small thing for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the assembly of Israel to bring you near to Himself to do the service of the tabernacle of Jehovah and to stand before the assembly to minister to them?


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


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Therefore you and all your company are gathered together against Jehovah; but Aaron, what is he that you murmur against him?


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Then Moses sent word to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab; but they said, We will not come up!


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Is it not enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to have us die in the wilderness, but must you also exercise leadership over us?


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Indeed, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor have you given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up!


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Then Moses became very angry and said to Jehovah, Do not regard their offering. I have not taken a single donkey from them, nor have I done harm to any of them.


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And Moses said to Korah, You and all your company be present before Jehovah, both you and they along with Aaron, tomorrow.


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And let each of you take his censer and put incense on them, and each of you present his censer before Jehovah, two hundred fifty censers; you also and Aaron shall each present his censer.


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So each took his censer and put fire on them and laid incense on them, and they stood at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting with Moses and Aaron.


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Thus Korah gathered the whole assembly against them at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of Jehovah appeared to the whole assembly.


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But they fell on their faces and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, will one man sin and You be angry with the whole assembly?


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And he spoke to the assembly, saying, Depart now from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing which belongs to them, or you will be swept away with all their sins.


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So they got away from around the dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the entrance of their tents, with their wives and their children and their little ones.


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And Moses said, By this you shall know that Jehovah has sent me to do all these works, for it is not of myself.


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If these people die as all human beings die, or if what befalls all human beings befalls them, then Jehovah has not sent me.


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But if Jehovah brings about a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they descend alive into Sheol, then you will understand that these men have despised Jehovah.


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So the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, along with their households and everyone who belonged to Korah and all their possessions.


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So they and all that belonged to them descended alive into Sheol; and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the congregation.


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And all Israel who were around them fled at their outcry, for they said, The earth may swallow us up too!


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Tell Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take the censers up out of the burning and scatter the fire about; for they are holy.


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The censers of those who have sinned against their own lives, let them be made into beaten plates for a covering of the altar, for they presented them before Jehovah and they became holy. So they shall be a sign to the children of Israel.


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And Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers which those who were burned had offered; and they beat them out as a covering of the altar,


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As a reminder to the children of Israel that no stranger who is not of the seed of Aaron may come near to burn incense before Jehovah, so that he does not become like Korah and his company, just as Jehovah had spoken to him through Moses.


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But on the next day the whole assembly of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have caused the people of Jehovah to die.


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But when the assembly gathered against Moses and against Aaron, they looked toward the Tent of Meeting, and there the cloud was, covering it; and the glory of Jehovah appeared.


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Get away from the midst of this assembly that I might consume them in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.


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And Moses said to Aaron, Take the censer and put fire on it from the altar, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the assembly, and make expiation for them. For wrath has gone forth from Jehovah; the plague has begun.


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


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Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died on account of Korah.


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Speak to the children of Israel, and take from them rods, one for each father's house, twelve rods from all their leaders according to their fathers' houses; you shall write everyone's name upon his rod.


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And you shall write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi, for there shall be one rod for the head of each of their fathers' houses.


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And the rod of the man whom I choose shall bud, and I will put a stop to the murmurings of the children of Israel against Me, which they murmur against you.


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So Moses spoke to the children of Israel. And every one of their leaders gave him a rod, one rod for each leader according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods, with the rod of Aaron among their rods.


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And on the next day Moses went into the Tent of the Testimony, and there was the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi:it had budded; it even put forth buds and produced blossoms and bore ripe almonds.


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And Moses brought out all the rods from before Jehovah to all the children of Israel, and they looked; and each one took his rod.


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Then Jehovah said to Moses, Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony to be kept as a sign against the rebels, so that you may put an end to their murmurings against Me, and they not die.


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Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of Jehovah, dies. Are we to completely die out?


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Then Jehovah said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father's household with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.


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And your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring near with you, so that they may be joined to you and minister to you, while you and your sons with you are before the Tent of the Testimony.


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And they shall keep your charge and the charge of all the tent, but they shall not come near to the furnishings of the sanctuary and to the altar, so that they do not die, neither they nor you.


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And they shall be joined to you and keep the charge of the Tent of Meeting for all the service of the tent, but a stranger shall not come near to you.


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And you shall keep the charge of the sanctuary and the charge of the altar, so that there may be no more wrath upon the children of Israel.


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And I Myself have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel. They are a gift to you, given to Jehovah, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting.


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But you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for everything concerning the altar and within the veil, and you shall carry out your service. I give you the priesthood as a service of gift, but the unauthorized person who comes near shall


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Then Jehovah spoke to Aaron, And I Myself have given you charge of My heave offerings, even all the holy things of the children of Israel; I have given them to you because of the anointing, and to your sons, as a perpetual statute.


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This shall be yours of the most holy things, kept from the fire. Every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs and every sin offering of theirs and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to Me, shall be most holy for you


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This also is yours, the heave offering of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the children of Israel. I have given them to you and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a perpetual statute; 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 new wine and of the grain, their firstfruits that they give to Jehovah, I have given to you.


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The firstfruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to Jehovah, shall be yours; everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.


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Everything that opens the womb of all flesh, which they present to Jehovah, whether human or animal, shall be yours; nevertheless the firstborn of human beings you shall surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals you shall redeem.


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And those who are to be redeemed from a month old you shall redeem, according to your estimation, for five shekels of 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 shall not redeem; they are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood upon the altar and burn their fat as an offering by fire for a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah.


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But their flesh shall be yours; like the breast of the wave offering and like the right thigh, it shall be yours.


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All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to Jehovah, I have given to you and to your sons and your daughters with you, as a perpetual statute. It is a covenant of salt forever before Jehovah for you and for your desce


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And Jehovah said to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in their land, nor shall you have any portion among them; I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.


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And to the children of Levi I have now given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance in return for their service which they carry out, the service of the Tent of Meeting.


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From now on the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, so that they do not incur sin and die.


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But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations. And among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.


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For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a heave offering to Jehovah, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance; therefore I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.


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Moreover you shall speak to the Levites and say to them, When you take from the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you shall offer up a heave offering from it for Jehovah, a tithe of the tithe.


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And your heave offering shall be reckoned to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor and the fullness of the wine press.


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Thus you shall also offer a heave offering to Jehovah from all your tithes, which you receive from the children of Israel; and from it you shall give Jehovah's heave offering to Aaron the priest.


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Out of all your gifts you shall offer every heave offering of Jehovah, from all the best of it, the sanctified portion of it from them.


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Therefore you shall say to them, When you heave from it the best of it, then it shall be reckoned to the Levites as though it were the produce of the threshing floor and the produce of the wine press.


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And you may eat it in every place, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting.


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And you shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it the best of it. But you shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, so that you do not die.


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This is the statute of the law which Jehovah has commanded, saying, Tell the children of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which is no blemish and upon which a yoke has never come.


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And you shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring it outside the camp, and one shall slaughter it in his presence.


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And Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and sprinkle its blood toward the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times.


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


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And the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet strands, and cast them into the midst of the burning of the heifer.


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Then the priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp; but the priest shall be unclean until the evening.


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And he who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.


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And a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and place them outside the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the assembly of the children of Israel as water for impurity; it is a sin offering.


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And he who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. And it shall be a perpetual statute to the children of Israel and to the stranger who sojourns among them.


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He shall purify himself with it on the third day and on the seventh day, and then he shall be clean; but if he does not purify himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he shall not be clean.


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Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a human being who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of Jehovah; and that person shall be cut off from Israel. Because the water for impurity was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unc


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


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And whoever in the open field touches one who has been slain with a sword or a dead body or a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.


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And for the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering, and running water shall be added to them in a vessel;


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And a clean person shall 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, or on the one who touched the bone or the one slain or the one who died or the grave.


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And the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day, and on the seventh day he shall purify him. And he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and shall be clean in the evening.


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But the man who shall be unclean and does not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the congregation, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Jehovah; the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.


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So it shall be a perpetual statute for them. And he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.


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And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the person who touches it shall be unclean until evening.


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Then the children of Israel, the whole assembly, came to the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed at Kadesh; and Miriam died there and was buried there.


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


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And the people contended with Moses and spoke, saying, If only we had expired when our brothers expired before Jehovah!


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Why then have you brought the congregation of Jehovah into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die there?


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Why then did you bring us up out of Egypt, to bring us to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, and there is not even water to drink.


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And Moses and Aaron went from before the congregation to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting and fell upon their faces, and the glory of Jehovah appeared to them.


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Take the rod, and gather the assembly, you and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, so that it yields its water. Thus you shall bring forth water for them out of the rock and give the assembly and their livestock a drink.


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And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said to them, Listen now, you rebels:Shall we bring forth water for you out of this rock?


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Then Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his rod twice; and abundant water came forth, and the assembly and their livestock drank.


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And Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron, Because you did not believe in Me, to sanctify Me in the sight of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.


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These are the waters of Meribah, where the children of Israel contended with Jehovah, and He was sanctified among them.


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Now Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom:Thus says your brother Israel, You know all the hardship that has befallen us;


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How our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians ill-treated us and our fathers;


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And when we cried to Jehovah, He heard our voice and sent an Angel and brought us forth out of Egypt; and now we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your border.


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Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard, nor will we drink water from any well; we will go along the King's Highway, not turning aside to the right or to the left, until we pass through your territory.


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But Edom said to him, You shall not pass through my territory, or else I will come out against you with the sword.


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Then the children of Israel said to him, We will go up by the highway, and if I and my livestock drink some of your water, then I will pay its price. Allow me only this one thing, to pass through on foot.


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However he said, You shall not pass through. And Edom came out against him with a large number of people and with a mighty hand.


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Aaron shall be gathered to his people, for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against My word at the waters of Meribah.


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And strip Aaron of his garments and put them upon Eleazar his son; so Aaron will be gathered to his people, and will die there.


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So Moses did just as Jehovah had commanded, and they went up Mount Hor in the sight of the whole assembly.


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


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


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And when the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the Negev, 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 made a vow to Jehovah and said, If You will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.


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And Jehovah listened to the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites, and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. Thus the name of the place was called Hormah.


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Then they journeyed from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the people became impatient 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 there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread.


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


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And the people came to Moses and said, We have sinned, because we have spoken against Jehovah and against you; pray to Jehovah, that He may take away the serpents from us. So Moses prayed for the people.


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Then Jehovah said to Moses, Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.


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And Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on the pole; and if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.


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And they journeyed from Oboth and encamped at Iye-abarim in the wilderness which faces Moab toward the sunrise.


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From there they journeyed and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.


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Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of Jehovah, Waheb in Suphah, And the valleys of the Arnon,


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And the slope of the valleys That inclines toward the seat of Ar And leans toward the border of Moab.


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And from there they journeyed to Beer; that is the well where Jehovah said to Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.


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The well, which the leaders sank, Which the nobles of the people dug, With the scepter, with their staffs. And from the wilderness they journeyed to Mattanah;


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And from Bamoth to the valley that is in the land of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down upon the desert.


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Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into field or into vineyard; we will not drink water from any 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. And Sihon gathered all his people together and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and he came to Jahaz and fought against Israel.


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


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And Israel took all these cities, and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all her villages.


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For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought 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 those who speak in proverbs say, Come to Heshbon; let it be built, And let the city of Sihon be established.


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For fire has gone forth from Heshbon, A flame from the city of Sihon; It has consumed Ar of Moab, And swallowed up the high places of the Arnon.


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Woe to you, O Moab! You have perished, O people of Chemosh; He has given his sons as fugitives, And his daughters have gone into captivity, To an Amorite king, Sihon.


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We have shot at them; Heshbon is ruined as far as Dibon, And we have laid waste as far as Nophah, Fire spreads as far as Medeba.


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And Moses sent some to spy out Jazer. And they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.


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And they turned and went up on the way that leads to Bashan; and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, for battle at Edrei.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Do not fear him, for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hand; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon the king of the Amorites, who was dwelling at Heshbon.


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So they struck him and his sons and all his people until there was no remnant left to him, and they possessed his land.


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And the children of Israel journeyed and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.


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And Moab was very afraid of the people because they were many, and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.


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


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And he sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, There is a people here who have come out from Egypt; now they cover the surface of the land and have settle


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Now, therefore, please come; curse this people for me, since they are mightier than I. Perhaps I may be able to strike them and drive them out of the land, for I know that whomever you bless is blessed and whomever you curse is cursed.


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So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with fees for divination in their hand, and they came to Balaam and spoke to him the words of Balak.


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And he said to them, Spend tonight here, and I will bring back word to you as Jehovah speaks to me. And the rulers of Moab stayed with Balaam.


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There is a people who came out of Egypt, and they cover the surface of the land. Now come; curse them for me; perhaps I will be able to fight against them and drive them out.


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And God said to Balaam, You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.


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So Balaam rose up in the morning and said to the rulers from Balak, Go to your land, for Jehovah 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, Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me,


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For I will indeed honor you greatly; and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore; curse this people for me.


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And Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, Even if Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the word of Jehovah my God, to do less or more.


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Now you therefore please stay here tonight also, so that I may know what more Jehovah might speak to me.


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And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, Since the men have come to call you, rise up; go with them, but only what I speak to you shall you do.


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And God's anger was kindled because he was going, and the Angel of Jehovah took His stand in the way as an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.


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And when the donkey saw the Angel of Jehovah standing in the way with His drawn sword in His hand, the donkey turned aside out of the way and went into the field. And Balaam struck the donkey to turn her back into the way.


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Then the Angel of Jehovah stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, with a wall on this side and a wall on that side.


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And when the donkey saw the Angel of Jehovah, she pressed herself against the wall and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall. So he struck her again.


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And the Angel of Jehovah went further 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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And when the donkey saw the Angel of Jehovah, she lay down under Balaam. Then Balaam's anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey with his staff.


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And Jehovah opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?


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And Balaam said to the donkey, Because you have mocked me! If I had a sword in my hand, I would have killed you by now.


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And the donkey said to Balaam, Am I not your donkey on which you have ridden all your life to this day? Have I ever been accustomed to do so to you? And he said, No.


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Then Jehovah opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the Angel of Jehovah standing in the way with His drawn sword in His hand, and he bowed his head and fell on his face.


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And the Angel of Jehovah said to him, Why have you struck your donkey these three times? I am here, having come out as an adversary, because your way was unrestrained before Me.


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And the donkey saw Me and turned aside before Me these three times. If she had not turned aside from Me, I would surely have killed you just now and let her live.


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And Balaam said to the Angel of Jehovah, I have sinned, for I did not know that You were standing in the way against me. Now then, if it displeases You, I will turn back.


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And the Angel of Jehovah said to Balaam, Go with the men; but you shall speak only the word that I shall speak to you. So Balaam went with the rulers from Balak.


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And when Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him at the city of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, at the farthest point of the border.


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And Balak said to Balaam, Did I not send word urgently to you to call you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not indeed able to honor you?


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And Balaam said to Balak, Here I am; I have come to you now. Am I able to speak anything at all? The word that God puts in my mouth, that I shall speak.


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


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Then Balaam said to Balak, Build me seven altars here, and have seven bulls and seven rams ready for me here.


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And Balak did just as Balaam had spoken. And Balak and Balaam offered up a bull and a ram on each altar.


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And Balaam said to Balak, Stand near your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps Jehovah will come to meet me; and whatever He shows me I will tell you. And he went to a bare height.


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And God met Balaam, and he said to Him, I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on each altar.


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When he returned to him, there he was, standing beside his burnt offering, he and all the rulers of Moab.


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And he took up his parable and said, From Aram Balak brought me, The king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me; And come, denounce Israel!


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For from the top of the rocks I see him, And from the hills I behold him. Here is a people who live alone And do not reckon themselves 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 latter end be like theirs!


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And Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, but now you have altogether blessed them.


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And Balak said to him, Come now with me to another place from which you may see them. You will see only the outside edge of them and not see them all; then curse them for me from there.


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


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And Jehovah met Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said, Return to Balak, and you shall speak this.


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


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God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not establish it?


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He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob, Nor has He seen trouble in Israel; Jehovah their God is with them, And the shout of a king is among them.


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Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, Nor is there any divination against Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob And of Israel, What has God wrought!


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See, a people rises up like a lioness, And like a lion they lift themselves up. They shall not lie down until they eat the prey And drink the blood of the slain.


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But Balaam answered and said to Balak, Did I not tell you, saying, All that Jehovah speaks, that I must do?


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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 me seven altars here, and have seven bulls and seven rams ready for me here.


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And when Balaam saw that it pleased Jehovah to bless Israel, he did not go as at the other times to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.


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And Balaam lifted up his eyes and saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes, and the Spirit of God came upon him.


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And he took up his parable and said, Balaam the son of Beor declares, And the man whose eye is opened declares;


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He declares, he who hears the words of God, Who sees the vision of the All-sufficient One, Falling down, but having his eyes uncovered:


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Like valleys they are spread forth, Like gardens beside a river, Like aloes which Jehovah has planted, Like cedars beside water.


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Water shall flow from his buckets, And his seed shall be in many waters, And his king shall be higher than Agag, And his kingdom shall be exalted.


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God is the One who brought him forth out of Egypt; He has as it were the horns of the wild ox. He shall eat up the nations, his adversaries, And shall break their bones in pieces, And shatter them with his arrows.


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He couches; he lies down like a lion And like a lioness; who will rouse him up? Blessed is everyone who blesses you, And cursed is everyone who curses you.


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Then Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together. And Balak said to Balaam, I called you to curse my enemies, but now you have altogether blessed them these three times.


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Therefore now flee to your place! I said I would greatly honor you, but now Jehovah has kept you away from honor.


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Even if Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the word of Jehovah, to do either good or bad from my own heart? What Jehovah speaks, that I will speak.


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And now therefore, I am going to my people. Come, let me give you counsel as to what this people will do to your people in the last days.


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He declares, he who hears the words of God And obtains the knowledge of the Most High, Who sees the vision of the All-sufficient One, Falling down, but having his eyes uncovered:


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I see Him, but not now; I behold Him, but not near. There shall come forth a Star out of Jacob, And a Scepter shall rise out of Israel, And He shall crush the corners of Moab, And break down all the sons of Sheth.


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And Edom shall be dispossessed, Seir, His enemies, shall also be dispossessed; While Israel does valiantly.


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And he looked on Amalek and took up his parable and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, But his latter end shall come to destruction.


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And he looked on the Kenites and took up his parable and said, Strong is your dwelling place, And your nest is set in the rock.


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But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim, And they shall afflict Asshur and shall afflict Eber; And he also shall come to destruction.


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For 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 Jehovah said to Moses, Take all the leaders of the people and hang them up to Jehovah before the sun, so that the fierce anger of Jehovah may turn away from Israel.


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And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Each of you slay his men who have joined themselves to Baal-peor.


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Just then one of the children of Israel came and brought a Midianite woman to his brothers in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole assembly of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.


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And when Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the assembly, and took a spear in his hand,


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And went after the man of Israel into the tent and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her stomach. So the plague among the children of Israel was stopped.


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Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with My jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the children of Israel in My jealousy.


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And it shall be to him and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made expiation for the children of Israel.


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Now the name of the slain man of Israel, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, a leader of a father's household among the Simeonites.


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


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For they have harassed you with their deception with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.


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Take the sum of the whole assembly of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' households, all who are able to go forth for military service in Israel.


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


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Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward, as Jehovah commanded Moses. Now the children of Israel, who came forth out of the land of Egypt were:


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


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These are the families of the Reubenites, and those who were numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty.


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And the sons of Eliab:Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram. These are the Dathan and Abiram, who were called by the assembly, who contended against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they contended against Jehovah;


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And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, when the fire consumed two hundred fifty men; and they became a sign.


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


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


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These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were numbered of them, forty thousand five hundred.


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


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


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These are the families of Judah according to those who were numbered of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred.


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The sons of Issachar according to their families:of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites;


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These are the families of Issachar according to those who were numbered of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred.


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


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These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those who were numbered of them, sixty thousand five hundred.


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The sons of Manasseh:of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir begat Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.


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These are the sons of Gilead:of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the family 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 and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.


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These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred.


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


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These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were numbered of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph according to their families.


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


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


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These are the sons of Benjamin according to their families; and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand six hundred.


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These are the sons of Dan according to their families:of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan according to their families.


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All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were numbered of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.


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The sons of Asher according to their families:of Imnah, the family of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the family of the Berites.


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From the sons of Beriah:of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.


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These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those who were numbered of them, fifty-three thousand four hundred.


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The sons of Naphtali according to their families:of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;


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These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand four hundred.


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These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred one thousand seven hundred thirty.


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You shall increase the larger group's inheritance, and you shall reduce the smaller group's inheritance. Each shall be given their inheritance according to those who were numbered of them.


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But the land shall be apportioned by lot; they shall inherit it according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.


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According to the lot their inheritance shall be apportioned among the larger and the smaller groups.


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And these are those who were numbered of the Levites according to their families:of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.


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These are the families of Levi:the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. And Kohath begot Amram.


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And 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 their sister Miriam.


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And those who were numbered of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward, for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because no inheritance was given to them among the children of Israel.


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These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children 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 numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.


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For Jehovah had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And not one of them was left, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.


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Then the daughters of Zelophehad the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph came near. And these are the names of his daughters:Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah and Tirz


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And they stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the leaders and the whole assembly at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, saying,


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Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against Jehovah in the company of Korah; but he died in his own sin, and he had no sons.


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Why should our father's name be taken away from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession among our father's brothers.


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The daughters of Zelophehad speak rightly. You shall surely give them the possession of an inheritance among their father's brothers; and you shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.


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And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a man dies and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.


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And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his relative nearest to him among his family, and he shall possess it. And it shall be a statute of judgment for the children of Israel, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Go up to this mountain of the Abarim and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.


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And when you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, just as Aaron your brother was gathered,


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Because you rebelled against My word in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the assembly, and failed to sanctify Me at the waters before their eyes. (These are the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin.)


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Who will go out before them and who will come in before them, and who will lead them out and who will bring them in; so that the assembly of Jehovah will not be like sheep which have no shepherd.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand upon him;


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And set him before Eleazar the priest and before the whole assembly, and give him a charge in their sight.


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And you shall put some of your honor upon him, so that the whole assembly of the children of Israel may obey him.


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And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, and he shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Jehovah. At his word shall they go out and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the children of Israel with him, even the whole assemb


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And Moses did as Jehovah commanded him, and he took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest and before the whole assembly.


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Command the children of Israel and say to them, My offering, My food for My offerings by fire of a satisfying fragrance to Me, you shall be careful to present to Me at its appointed time.


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And you shall say to them, This is the offering by fire which you shall present to Jehovah:two male lambs a year old without blemish each day as a continual burnt offering.


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Also a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with the fourth of a hin of beaten oil.


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It is a continual burnt offering, which was set up on Mount Sinai for a satisfying fragrance, an offering by fire to Jehovah.


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And its drink offering shall be the fourth of a hin for the one lamb; in the sanctuary you shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to Jehovah.


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And the other lamb you shall offer at twilight; you shall offer it with the meal offering and its drink offering as in the morning, an offering by fire, a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah.


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And on the Sabbath day two male lambs a year old without blemish, and two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil, and its drink offering -


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This is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.


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And at the beginnings of your months you shall present a burnt offering to Jehovah:two bulls of the herd and one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;


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And three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil, for each bull; and two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil, for the one ram;


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And a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering for each lamb for a burnt offering, a satisfying fragrance, an offering by fire to Jehovah.


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And their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, and a third of a hin for the ram, and a fourth of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of each month throughout the months of the year.


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Also one male goat for a sin offering to Jehovah shall be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.


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And on the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast; seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten.


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But you shall present an offering by fire, a burnt offering to Jehovah:two bulls of the herd and one ram and seven male lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish for you;


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And you shall offer their meal offering of fine flour mingled with oil:three-tenths of an ephah for a bull and two-tenths for a ram;


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You shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.


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In this way you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering by fire, a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah; it shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.


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Also in the day of the firstfruits, when you present a new meal offering to Jehovah on your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no work of labor;


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But you shall present a burnt offering for a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah:two bulls of the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old;


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And their meal offering of fine flour mingled with oil:three-tenths of an ephah for each bull, two-tenths for one ram,


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Besides the continual burnt offering and its meal offering, you shall offer them (they shall be without blemish for you) and their drink offerings.


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Now in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no work of labor. It is a day of blowing of trumpets for you.


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And you shall offer a burnt offering for a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah:one bull of the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;


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And their meal offering of fine flour mingled 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 meal offering, and the continual burnt offering and its meal offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a satisfying fragrance, an offering by fire to Jehovah.


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And on the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall afflict your souls; you shall not do any work.


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And you shall present a burnt offering to Jehovah for a satisfying fragrance:one bull of the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish for you;


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And their meal offering of fine flour mingled with oil:three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the one ram,


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One male goat as a sin offering; besides the sin offering of expiation and the continual burnt offering and its meal offering, and their drink offerings.


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And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no work of labor, and you shall hold a feast to Jehovah seven days.


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And you shall present a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah:thirteen bulls of the herd, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish;


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And their meal offering of fine flour mingled with oil:three-tenths of an ephah for each bull of the thirteen bulls, two-tenths of an ephah for each ram of the two rams,


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And one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.


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And on the second day:twelve bulls of the herd, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish;


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And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;


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And one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering and its meal offering, and their drink offerings.


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And one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering and its meal offering and its drink offering.


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Their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;


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And one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offerings.


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But you shall present a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah:one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;


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Their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs by their number according to the ordinance;


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These you shall offer to Jehovah in your appointed feasts, besides your vows and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings and for your meal offerings and for your drink offerings and for your peace offerings.


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And Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, This is what Jehovah has commanded:


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When a man vows a vow to Jehovah or swears an oath to bind himself by pledge, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.


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But when a woman vows a vow to Jehovah or binds herself by pledge in her father's house in her youth,


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And her father hears of her vow or her pledge by which she has bound herself, and her father is silent with respect to her; then all her vows will stand, and any pledge by which she has bound herself will stand.


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But if her father disallows her on the day he hears, none of her vows or of her pledges by which she has bound herself will stand; and Jehovah will forgive her because her father disallowed her.


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And if she gets married, while her vows are upon her or the rash utterance of her lips by which she has bound herself,


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And her husband hears of it and is silent with respect to her on the day he hears it, then her vows will stand and her pledges by which she has bound herself will stand.


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But if, on the day her husband hears of it, he disallows her, then he makes void her vow which is upon her and the rash utterance of her lips by which she has bound herself; and Jehovah will forgive her.


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But the vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, everything by which she has bound herself, will stand against her.


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And her husband heard of it and was silent with respect to her and did not disallow her, then all her vows will stand and any pledge by which she has bound herself will stand.


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But if her husband made them null and void on the day he heard of it, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning the pledging of herself will not stand; her husband has made them void, and Jehovah will forgive her.


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As for every vow and every binding oath to afflict herself, her husband may establish it or her husband may make it void.


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But if her husband is completely silent with respect to her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows or all her pledges which are upon her; he has established them because he was silent with respect to her on the day he heard it.


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But if he makes them null and void some time after he has heard of it, then he shall bear her iniquity.


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These are the statutes which Jehovah commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, and between a father and his daughter while in her youth in her father's house.


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Thoroughly avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites; afterward you will be gathered to your people.


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And Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm men from among you for the war, that they may come upon Midian to execute Jehovah's vengeance on Midian.


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So out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand for each tribe were committed, twelve thousand armed for war.


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


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And they killed the kings of Midian in addition to the others slain among them:Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian; also Balaam the son of Beor they slew with the sword.


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And the children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones, and all their cattle and all their livestock and all their goods they plundered.


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And they brought the captives and the booty and the spoil to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the assembly of the children of Israel, to the camp in the plains of Moab, which was beside the Jordan at Jericho.


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And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the assembly went out to meet them outside the camp.


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And Moses became angry with the officers of the company, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from service in the war.


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It was these who caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to act unfaithfully against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, so that the plague came upon the assembly of Jehovah.


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


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But all the little ones among the women, who have not known a male by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.


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And you, encamp outside the camp seven days, everyone who has killed any person and everyone who has touched any slain; purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.


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And you shall purify for yourselves every garment and every article of skin and everything made of goats' hair and every article of wood.


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And Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone to the battle, This is the statute of the law which Jehovah has commanded Moses:


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Everything that can go into the fire, you shall pass through the fire, and it will become clean; but it shall be purified with the water for impurity; and everything that cannot go into the fire you shall pass through the water.


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And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and afterward you may come into the camp.


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You and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers' households of the assembly, take the sum of the booty that was captured, both of man and of beast,


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And levy a tribute to Jehovah from the men of war who went out to battle:one living thing out of five hundred, of the persons and of the cattle and of the donkeys and of the flock;


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And of the children of Israel's half, you shall take one seized out of fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, from all the beasts, and give them to the Levites, who keep the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah.


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Now the booty that was left from the spoil which the men of war took was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,


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And the half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep.


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And Moses gave the tribute, Jehovah's heave offering, to Eleazar the priest, just as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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Now Moses took from the children of Israel's half, one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them to the Levites, who kept the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah, just as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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And the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, approached Moses.


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And they said to Moses, Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our charge, and not a man is missing from us;


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And we have presented Jehovah's offering, what every man has obtained, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings and pendants, to make expiation for our souls before Jehovah.


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And all the gold of the heave offering which they offered up to Jehovah, from the captains of thousands and from the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.


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So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting as a memorial for the children of Israel before Jehovah.


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Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great abundance of livestock. And when they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that the place was indeed a place for livestock,


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The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the leaders of the assembly, saying,


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The land which Jehovah struck before the assembly of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.


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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 make us cross over the Jordan.


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And Moses said to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brothers go to war, while you stay here?


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Now why would you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from crossing over into the land which Jehovah has given them?


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When they went up to the valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel from going into the land which Jehovah had given them.


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Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not fully followed Me;


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Except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, because they have fully followed Jehovah.


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And Jehovah's anger was kindled against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation which had done evil in the sight of Jehovah was consumed.


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And now you have risen up in your fathers' place, a brood of sinful men, to further increase the burning anger of Jehovah toward Israel.


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For if you turn away from following Him, He will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy this entire people.


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And they came near to him and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock and cities for our little ones;


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But we ourselves will be armed and ready to go before the children of Israel until we have brought them to their place, while our little ones dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.


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We will not return to our houses until each one of the children of Israel has inherited his inheritance.


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For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and further on, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.


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And Moses said to them, If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves before Jehovah for war,


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And all of your armed men will cross over the Jordan before Jehovah until He has driven out His enemies from before Him,


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And the land is subdued before Jehovah, then afterward you shall return and be free of obligation toward Jehovah and toward Israel; and this land shall be yours for a possession before Jehovah.


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But if you will not do so, then you have sinned against Jehovah; and know that your sin will find you out.


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Build for yourselves cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do what has proceeded out of your mouth.


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And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, Your servants will do as my lord commands.


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Our little ones, our wives, our livestock, and all our cattle will be there in the cities of Gilead;


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But your servants will cross over, everyone who is armed for war before Jehovah to battle, as my lord says.


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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 children of Israel.


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And Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben cross over the Jordan with you, everyone who is armed to battle before Jehovah, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead as a possession.


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But if they do not cross over armed with you, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.


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And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As Jehovah has said to your servants, so will we do.


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We will cross over armed before Jehovah into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance will remain with us beyond the Jordan.


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And Moses gave to them, to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon the king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og the king of Bashan, the land according to its cities with


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


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And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.


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These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went forth out of the land of Egypt by their companies under the direction of Moses and Aaron.


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And Moses wrote down the places that they went out from for their journeys according to the commandment of Jehovah; and these are their stages according to the places they went out from.


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Now they journeyed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians,


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While the Egyptians were burying those whom Jehovah had struck down among them, all their firstborn; on their gods Jehovah also executed judgments.


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And they journeyed from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which faces Baal-zephon; and they encamped before Migdol.


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And they journeyed from Pi-hahiroth and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and they went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham and encamped at Marah.


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And they journeyed from Marah and came to Elim. And in Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there.


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And they journeyed from Alush and encamped at Rephidim, and there was no water for the people to drink there.


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


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And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who was dwelling in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.


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And they journeyed from the mountains of the Abarim and encamped in the plains of Moab beside the Jordan at Jericho.


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And they encamped beside the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel- shittim in the plains of Moab.


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


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You shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and you shall destroy all their figured stones and destroy all their molten images and demolish all their high places;


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And you shall take possession of the land and dwell in it, for to you I have given the land to possess it.


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And you shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the larger you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give a smaller inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to anyone, that shall be his. You shall inherit according


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But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those whom you let remain of them will become as splinters in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will trouble you in the land in which you are dwelling.


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Command the children of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan according to its borders.


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And your southern section shall be from the wilderness of Zin along the side of Edom, and your southern border shall begin from the end of the Salt Sea on the east.


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And your border shall turn about south to the ascent of Akrabbim and pass on to Zin, and it shall go out to the south of Kadesh-barnea, even going out to Hazar-addar; then it shall pass on to Azmon.


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And for the western border you shall have the Great Sea and its coast; this shall be your western border.


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And this shall be your northern border:From the Great Sea you shall mark out a line for yourselves to Mount Hor.


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From Mount Hor you shall mark out a line to the entrance of Hamath; and the border shall go out to Zedad;


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And the border shall go out to Ziphron, and it shall go out to Hazar-enan. This shall be your northern border.


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And the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down and reach the slope on the east of the Sea of Chinnereth;


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And the border shall go down to the Jordan, and it shall go out to the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to its borders all around.


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And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which Jehovah has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe.


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For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their fathers' households and the tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers' households and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance.


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The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.


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


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For the children of Joseph:For the tribe of the children of Manasseh, a leader, Hanniel the son of Ephod.


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These are those whom Jehovah commanded to divide the inheritance to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.


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Command the children of Israel to give to the Levites some of the inheritance of their possession, cities to dwell in; and you shall give to the Levites pasture lands around their cities.


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And the cities shall be for them to dwell in, and their pasture lands shall be for their cattle and for their livestock and for all their animals.


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And the pasture lands of the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be from the city wall and outward, a thousand cubits all around.


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And you shall measure from the outside of 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, with the city in the center. This shall b


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And the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to; and besides them you shall give forty-two cities.


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All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, them and their pasture lands.


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And concerning the cities which you shall give from the possession of the children of Israel, from the larger tribe you shall take a larger number, and from the smaller tribe you shall take a smaller number; each one, according to its inheritance which th


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Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,


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Then you shall designate for yourselves cities to be your cities of refuge, so that the manslayer who kills any person unintentionally may flee there.


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And the cities shall be for you as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer may not die unless he stands before the assembly for judgment.


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You shall give three cities across the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.


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For the children of Israel and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, these six cities shall be for refuge, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.


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But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.


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And if he struck him with a stone in hand, by which one could die, and he did die, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.


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Or if he struck him with a wooden object in hand, by which one could die, and he did die, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.


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The avenger of blood himself shall put the murderer to death; when he encounters him, he shall put him to death.


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Or in enmity struck him with his hand, and he died, the one who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he encounters him.


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Or came upon him with any stone, by which someone could die, without seeing him and dropped it upon him, and he died, when he was not his enemy and did not seek his harm,


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Then the assembly shall judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.


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And the assembly shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the assembly shall return him to his city of refuge to which he had fled; and he shall dwell in it until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy


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But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the boundary of his city of refuge to which he has fled,


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And the avenger of blood finds him outside the boundary of his city of refuge and the avenger of blood slays the manslayer, he shall not have guilt for blood,


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Because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest; but after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return to the land of his possession.


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And these things shall be for a statute of judgment to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.


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Whoever kills a person, the murderer shall be slain upon the testimony of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify against any person so that he die.


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Moreover you shall not take a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death.


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And you shall not take a ransom for one who has fled to his city of refuge, so that he may return to live in the land before the death of the high priest.


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Thus you shall not pollute the land in which you are, for blood pollutes the land. And no expiation 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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And you shall not defile the land in which you are dwelling, in the midst of which I tabernacle; for I Jehovah tabernacle in the midst of the children of Israel.


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And the heads of the fathers' households of the family of the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the leaders, the heads of the fathers' house holds of


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And they said, Jehovah commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel, and my lord was commanded by Jehovah to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.


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But if they are married to one of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; so it will be t


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And when the jubilee of the children of Israel takes place, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; so their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.


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Then Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of Jehovah, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks correctly.


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This is what Jehovah commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them be married to whom they think best; only into the family of the tribe of their father they shall marry.


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So an inheritance of the children of Israel shall not go around from tribe to tribe, for each one of the children of Israel shall cling 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 children of Israel shall marry into one of the family of the tribe of her father, so that each one of the children of Israel may possess the inheritance of his fathers.


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So an inheritance shall not go around from one tribe to another tribe, for each one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall cling to his own inheritance.


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That is, Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah and Noah, the daughters of Zelophedad, got married to their uncles' sons.


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They married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.


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These are the commandments and the ordinances which Jehovah commanded through Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.


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These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel across the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.


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And in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that Jehovah had commanded him for them,


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After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt in Ashtaroth and in Edrei.


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Turn and set out, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland, and in the Negev and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites and Lebanon, as far as the great rive


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See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which Jehovah swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to them and to their seed after them.


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Jehovah, the God of your fathers, add to you a thousandfold ones like you and bless you as He has promised you!


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Choose for yourselves men who are wise and prudent and well-attested, according to your tribes, and I will make them your leaders.


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So I took the leaders of your tribes, men who were wise and well-attested, and I made them leaders over you, captains over thousands and captains over hundreds and captains over fifties and captains over tens and officials for your tribes.


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And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the sojourner with him.


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You shall not respect persons in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not fear the face of man, for judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me; and I will hear it.


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And we set out from Horeb, and we went through all that great and awesome wilderness, which you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Jehovah 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 Jehovah our God is giving us.


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See, Jehovah your God has set the land before you; go up, possess it, as Jehovah the God of your fathers has spoken to you. Do not fear, neither be dismayed.


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Then all of you came near to me and said, Let us send men before us that they may search out the land for us and bring back to us word concerning the way by which we should go up and the cities into which we should go.


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And they turned and went up into the hill country, and they came to the Valley of Eshcol; and they spied out the and.


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And in their hands they took some of the fruit of the land, and they brought it down to us. And they brought word back to us and said, It is a good land which Jehovah our God is giving us.


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And you murmured in your tents and said, Because Jehovah hates us, He has brought us out from the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites in order to destroy us.


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Where shall we go up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are big and fortified up to heaven; and furthermore we have seen the children of the Anakim there.


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Jehovah your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you according to all that He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,


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And in the wilderness, where you have seen that Jehovah your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in 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 out for you a place for you to camp, in the fire by night to show you by which way you should go and in the cloud by day.


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Not one of these men, this evil generation, shall by any means see the good land which I have sworn to give to your fathers,


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Except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it. And to him I will give the land on which he has trodden, and to his children, because he has fully followed Jehovah.


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Joshua the son of Nun, who attends to you, he shall enter there. Strengthen him, for it is he who will cause Israel to inherit it.


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Moreover your little ones, who you said would be prey, and your children, who this day do not know good and evil, they shall enter there. And to them I will give it, and they will possess it.


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Then you answered and said to me, We have sinned against Jehovah; we ourselves will go up and fight according to all that Jehovah our God has commanded us. And you girded yourselves, every man with his weapons of war, and thought it a light thing to go up


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And Jehovah said to me, Say to them, You shall not go up and fight, for I am not among you, so that you are not struck down before your enemies.


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So I spoke to you, but you did not listen; rather, you rebelled against the word of Jehovah and went up presumptuously to the hill country.


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And the Amorites who dwell in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do; and they beat you back in Seir as far as Hormah.


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And you returned and wept before Jehovah; but Jehovah did not listen to your voice nor give ear to you.


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And we turned and set out for the wilderness by the way that leads to the Red Sea, as Jehovah spoke to me; and we circled Mount Seir for many days.


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And command the people, saying, You are about to pass through the territory of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Take careful heed to yourselves therefore;


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Do not engage them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even as much as a footstep; for I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.


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You shall buy food from them with money, that you may eat; and you shall also obtain water from them with money, that you may drink.


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For Jehovah your God has blessed you in all your doings; He knows your journeying through this great wilderness. These forty years Jehovah your God has been with you; you have not lacked a thing.


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So we passed on from our brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, away from the way of the Arabah, away from Elath and from Ezion-geber; and we turned and passed on by the way that leads to the wilderness of Moab.


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And Jehovah said to me, Do not harass Moab, nor engage them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession; for to the children of Lot I have given Ar as a possession.


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The Horites also dwelt in Seir before that, but the children of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them; and they dwelt there in their place, as Israel did with the land of their possession, which Jehovah gave to them.)


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And the time that we spent in going from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah had sworn to them.


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Moreover the hand of Jehovah was against them to purge them from the midst of the camp until they were consumed.


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And when you come near to the children of Ammon, do not harass them, nor engage them, for I will not give any of the land of the children of Ammon to you as a possession; for I have given it to the children of Lot as a possession.


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(It was also considered a land of Rephaim; Rephaim formerly dwelt in it. But the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,


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A people great and numerous and as tall as the Anakim. Yet Jehovah destroyed them from before them, and they dispossessed them and dwelt there in their place;


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As He did for the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them. And they dispossessed them and have dwelt there in their place to this day.


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And the Avvim, who dwell in the villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and dwelt there in their place.)


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Rise up; set out and cross over the valley of the Arnon. See, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, the king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to possess it, and engage him in battle.


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Today I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the peoples under all heaven, who will hear the report of you and will tremble and quake because of you.


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Then 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. Only on the road I will go; I will not turn to the right or to the left.


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You will sell me food for money, that I may eat; and you will give me water for money, that I may drink; only let me pass through on foot -


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As the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites, who dwell in Ar, did for me - until I cross over the Jordan into the land which Jehovah our God is giving us.


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But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass through his land, for Jehovah your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate for the purpose of delivering him into your hand, as he is today.


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And Jehovah said to me, See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his land up before you. Begin to possess it that you may occupy his land.


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And we captured all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every city - men, women, and children; we left no survivors.


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From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and from the city which is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a town too high for us; Jehovah our God delivered them all up before us.


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But you did not go near the land of the children of Ammon, all along the river Jabbok, nor the cities of the hill country, nor any place that Jehovah our God commanded us not to.


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Then we turned and went up on the way that leads to Bashan; and Og the king of Bashan came out to meet us, he and all his people, for battle at Edrei.


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But Jehovah said to me, Do not fear him, for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hand; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon the king of the Amorites, who was dwelling in Heshbon.


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And Jehovah our God also gave Og the king of Bashan, as well as all his people, into our hand; and we slew them until there was no survivor left.


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And we captured all his cities at that time; there was not a town that we did not take from them:sixty cities, all the 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, besides a great many rural villages.


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And we utterly destroyed them as we had done to Sihon the king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every city - men, women, and children.


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So at that time we took the land from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were across the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon


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All the cities of the Plateau and all Gilead and all Bashan, as far as Salcah 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. His bedstead, a bedstead of iron, is indeed now in Rabbah of the children of Ammon. Its length is nine cubits and its width four cubits, according to the cubit of a man.)


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So we possessed this land at that time. From Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead and its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites.


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And the rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh, all the region of Argob. (All that portion of Bashan is called the land of the Rephaim.


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Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites; and he called it, that is, Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.)


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And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave the region from Gilead even as far as the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley being the border, as far as the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;


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And the Arabah, with the Jordan as a border, from Chinnereth even as far as the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah on the east.


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And I charged you at that time, saying, Jehovah your God has given you this land that you may possess it; all the men of valor shall cross over armed before your brothers, the children of Israel.


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Only your wives and your little ones and your livestock - I know that you have vast livestock - shall remain in your cities, which I have given you,


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Until Jehovah gives rest to your brothers as He has to you, and they also possess the land which Jehovah your God is giving them across the Jordan, and you return, each man to his possession which I have given you.


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And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Yours are the eyes that have seen all that Jehovah your God has done to these two kings; so will Jehovah your God do to all the kingdoms into which you are about to cross over.


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O Lord Jehovah, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your mighty hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do things like what You have done and things like Your mighty deeds?


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Let me please cross over and see the good land that is across the Jordan, this fine hill country and Lebanon.


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But Jehovah was infuriated with me on your account and did not listen to me. And Jehovah said to me, Enough! Speak no more to Me about this matter.


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Go up to the top of Pisgah; and lift up your eyes to the west and to the north and to the south and to the east; and see it with your eyes, for you shall not cross over this Jordan.


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But charge Joshua, and strengthen and encourage him, for it is he who will cross over before this people and cause them to inherit the land which you will see.


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And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which I am teaching you to do, in order that you may live and go in and possess the land which Jehovah, the God of your fathers, is giving you.


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You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I am commanding you.


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Yours are the eyes that have seen that which Jehovah has done in Baal-peor; for all the men who went after Baal-peor, Jehovah your God has destroyed from your midst.


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See, I have taught you statutes and judgments, as Jehovah my God commanded me, so that you would do them within the land which you are going in to possess.


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Keep and do them therefore; for this will be your wisdom and prudence in the sight of the peoples who hear all these statutes and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and prudent people.


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For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as Jehovah our God is whenever we call upon Him?


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And what great nation is there that has statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law which I am setting before you today?


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But be careful and guard your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life; rather, make them known to your children and to your grandchildren.


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And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain; and the mountain was burning with fire up into the heart of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and deep darkness there .


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And Jehovah spoke to you from the midst of the fire. The sound of words could you hear, but no form could you see; there was only a voice.


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And He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to do, ten words; and He wrote them upon two tablets of stone.


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And Jehovah commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments for you to do in the land which you are about to cross over into to possess.


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So take careful heed to your souls, for you did not see any form at all on the day when Jehovah spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire,


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So that you do not spoil yourselves and make for yourselves an idol, a form of any image, a figure of male or female,


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A figure of anything that crawls on the ground, a figure of any fish that is in the water under the earth;


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And take heed that, when you lift up your eyes to the sky and see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you are not drawn away in worship to them and that you do not serve them, which Jehovah your God has assigned to all the peoples


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But Jehovah has taken you and brought you forth from the iron furnace, from Egypt, that you would be to Him a people for His inheritance, as you are this day.


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But Jehovah was angry with me on your account and swore that I would not cross over the Jordan and that I would not enter the good land which Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance.


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For I am to die in this land; I am not to cross over the Jordan. But you are crossing over and you will possess this good land.


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Take heed to yourselves that you do not forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which He has made with you, and make for yourselves an idol, the form of anything, which Jehovah your God has forbidden you to make .


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When you have brought forth children and grandchildren and have languished in the land, and you have spoiled yourselves by making an idol, the form of anything, and have done that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah your God so as to anger Him;


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I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that surely you will soon perish from off the land into which you are crossing over the Jordan to possess; you will not extend your days upon it, but you will be utterly destroyed.


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And Jehovah will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations to which Jehovah will drive you.


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And there you will serve gods which are the work of human hands, mere wood and stone, which do not see nor hear nor eat nor smell.


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And from there you will seek Jehovah your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and with all your soul.


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When you are in distress and all these things happen to you, when you are in the last days, you will return to Jehovah your God and listen to His voice.


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For Jehovah your God is a compassionate God; He will not fail you nor let you perish nor forget the covenant with your fathers which He swore to them.


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For ask now regarding the former days, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, Has anything as great as this ever happened, or has anything like this ever been heard of?


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Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and lived?


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Has God ever ventured to go and take to Himself a nation from the midst of another nation by trials, by signs and wonders, and by war and a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, like all that Jehovah your God did for you in Egypt befo


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You were shown these things that you might know that it is Jehovah who is God; there is no other besides Him.


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From heaven He let you hear His voice that He might discipline you, and upon the earth He showed you His great fire, and His words you heard from the midst of the fire.


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And because He loved your fathers, He chose their seed after them and brought you out by His presence, by His great power, from Egypt,


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Driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and give you their land as an inheritance, as it is today.


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Know therefore today and bring it to heart that Jehovah is God in heaven above and upon the earth below; there is no other.


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Therefore keep His statutes and His commandments, which I am commanding you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, so that you may extend your days upon the land which Jehovah your God is giving you forever.


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That the manslayer might flee there, who slays his neighbor without intent and did not hate him previously, and in fleeing to one of these cities he might live:


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Bezer in the wilderness, in the land of the Plateau, belonging to the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, belonging to the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, belonging to the Manassites.


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These are the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments which Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they had gone out from Egypt,


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Across the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel slew when they had gone out from Egypt.


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And they possessed his land and the land of Og the king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were across the Jordan toward the rising of the sun,


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From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even unto Mount Sirion, that is, Hermon,


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And all the Arabah across the Jordan on the east even to the sea of the Arabah at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah.


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And Moses called all Israel and said to them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the judgments which I am speaking in your hearing today, and learn them and keep them, so that you may do them.


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I was standing between Jehovah and you at that time to declare to you the word of Jehovah, for you were afraid because of the fire and did not go up to the mountain - saying,


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You shall not make for yourself an idol, the form of anything that is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water beneath the earth.


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You shall not bow down to them, and you shall not serve them; for I, Jehovah your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,


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But the seventh day is a Sabbath to Jehovah your God; you shall not do any work, you nor your son nor your daughter nor your male servant nor your female servant nor your ox nor your donkey nor any of your cattle nor the sojourner with you who is within y


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And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and that Jehovah your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; hence, Jehovah your God commanded you to hold the Sabbath day.


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Honor your father and your mother, as Jehovah your God has commanded you, that your days may be extended and that it may be well with you upon the land which Jehovah your God is giving you.


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Neither shall you desire your neighbor's wife, nor shall you covet your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant or his female servant, his ox or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.


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These words Jehovah spoke to all your congregation on the mountain from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness, with a great voice; and He added no more. And He wrote them upon two tablets of stone and gave them to me.


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And when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain burned with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders,


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And said, Jehovah our God has just shown us His glory and His greatness, and His voice we have heard from the midst of the fire; today we have seen that God speaks with man and yet he lives.


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Therefore why should we die now? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of Jehovah our God any longer, we will die.


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For who is there among all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and has lived?


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You go near and hear all that Jehovah our God says; then you will speak to us all that Jehovah our God speaks to you, and we will hear and do.


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And Jehovah heard the sound of your words while you spoke to me; and Jehovah said to me, I have heard the sound of the words of this people which they have spoken to you; they have done well in all that they have spoken.


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Oh that this heart of theirs would be in them always to fear Me and keep all My commandments so that it may go well with them and with their children forever!


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But you, stand here by Me that I may speak to you the whole commandment, and the statutes and the judgments, which you will teach them to do in the land which I am giving them to possess.


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Keep them therefore so that you may do them, even as Jehovah your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right or to the left.


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You shall walk in all the way that Jehovah your God has commanded you, so that you may live and that it may go well with you and that you may extend your days in the land which you will possess.


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Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the judgments, which Jehovah your God has commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land into which you are crossing over to possess;


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That you may fear Jehovah your God and keep all His statutes and His commandments, which I am commanding you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life; and that your days may be extended.


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Therefore hear, O Israel, and be certain to do it, that it may go well with you and that you may be greatly increased, in a land flowing with milk and honey, even as Jehovah, the God of your fathers, promised you.


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And you shall love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.


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And you shall repeat them to your children, and speak about them when you sit in your house and when you journey on the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up;


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And when Jehovah your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you great and fine cities that you did not build,


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And houses full of every good thing that you did not fill, and hewn cisterns that you did not hew, vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant, and you have eaten and are satisfied;


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Be careful that you do not forget Jehovah who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the slave house.


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It is Jehovah your God whom you shall fear, and Him whom you shall serve; and it is by His name only that you shall swear.


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For Jehovah your God is a jealous God in the midst of you. Otherwise the anger of Jehovah your God will be kindled against you, and He will destroy you from off the face of the earth.


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You shall diligently keep the commandments of Jehovah your God and His testimonies and His statutes, which He has commanded you.


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And you shall do that which is right and good in the sight of Jehovah so that it may go well with you and you may enter and possess the good land, concerning which Jehovah swore to your fathers


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When your son asks you in the future, saying, What is the significance of the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments that Jehovah our God commanded you?


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Then you will say to your son, We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt, and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.


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And Jehovah put forth before our eyes great and grievous signs and wonders in Egypt against Pharaoh and all his house.


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Then He brought us out from there in order to bring us in, that He might give us the land which He swore to our fathers.


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And Jehovah commanded us to do all these statutes so that we would fear Jehovah our God for our good always and He would preserve us alive, as we are this day.


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And it will be righteousness to us if we are certain to do all this commandment before Jehovah our God, as He commanded us.


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When Jehovah your God brings you into the land which you are about to enter to possess, and clears away many nations from before you - the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, the Jebusites, seven nations m


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And Jehovah your God delivers them up before you and you defeat them, you shall utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, nor shall you show them any favor.


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And you shall not make marriage alliances with them:Your daughters you shall not give to their sons, and their daughters you shall not take for your sons;


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For they will draw your sons away from following after Me to serve other gods, and the anger of Jehovah will burn against you and He will quickly destroy you.


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But you shall deal with them in this way:Their altars you shall tear down, their pillars you shall shatter, their Asherahs you shall hew down, and their idols you shall burn with fire.


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For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God; it is you whom Jehovah your God has chosen from among all the peoples which are upon the face of the earth to be a people for His personal treasure.


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It was not because you were more numerous than all the peoples that Jehovah has set His affection on you and has chosen you, for you were the fewest of all the peoples;


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Rather, because Jehovah loved you and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, Jehovah has brought you out with a mighty hand and ransomed you from the slave house, from the hand of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt.


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Know therefore that it is Jehovah your God who is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and lovingkindness to the thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments,


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But repays directly those who hate Him by destroying them. He will not be slow toward him who hates Him; He will repay him directly.


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Therefore you shall keep the commandment, and the statutes and the judgments, which I am commanding you today to do.


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And it will be that because you listen to these judgments, and keep them and do them, Jehovah your God will keep with you the covenant and the lovingkindness which He swore to your fathers.


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And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your fresh oil, the offspring of your cattle and the young of your flock, on the land which He sw


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You will be more blessed than all other peoples; there will not be any barren male or female among you or among your animals.


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And Jehovah will remove every sickness from you, and none of the evil illnesses of Egypt, which you know about, will He put upon you; but He will give them to all who hate you.


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And you shall devour all the peoples which Jehovah your God is giving you; your eye shall not pity them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.


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You shall not be afraid of them; you must remember what Jehovah your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt,


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The great trials that your eyes saw, and the signs and the wonders, and the mighty hand and the outstretched arm with which Jehovah your God brought you out; so will Jehovah your God do to all the peoples whom you are afraid of.


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Furthermore, Jehovah your God will send the hornet among them until those who are left and those who hide themselves from you are destroyed.


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And Jehovah your God will clear away these nations from before you little by little; you shall not devour all of them immediately, lest the beasts of the field multiply against you.


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But Jehovah your God will deliver them up before you and rout them utterly until they are destroyed.


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And He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall destroy their name from under heaven; no man will be able to stand against you until you destroy them.


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The idols of their gods you shall burn with fire; you shall not desire the silver or gold upon them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be ensnared by it; for it is an abomination to Jehovah your God.


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And you shall not bring an abomination into your house, lest you become a cursed thing like it; you shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, for it is a cursed thing.


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The whole commandment which I am commanding you today, you shall keep and do, so that you may live and multiply, and enter and possess the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers.


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And you shall remember all the way that Jehovah your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness in order to humble you and test 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 go hungry and fed you the manna, which you had never known nor your fathers had ever known, so that He might make you know that man lives not by bread alone, but that man lives by everything that proceeds out from the mouth


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Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Jehovah your God was disciplining you;


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For Jehovah your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of waterbrooks, of springs and of fountains, flowing forth in valleys and in mountains;


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A land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees with oil and of honey;


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A land in which you will eat bread without scarcity; you will not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and from whose mountains you can mine copper.


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And you shall eat and be satisfied, and you shall bless Jehovah your God for the good land which He has given you.


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Be careful lest you forget Jehovah your God by not keeping His commandments and His judgments and His statutes, which I am commanding you today;


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And your herd and your flock have multiplied, and your silver and your gold have multiplied, and all that you have has multiplied,


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Your heart be lifted up and you forget Jehovah your God, Him who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the slave house;


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Who led you through the great and awesome wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water; who brought forth water for you out of flint rock;


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Who fed you manna in the wilderness, which your fathers had never known, that He might humble you and that He might test you in order to do good for you in the end;


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But you shall remember Jehovah your God, for it is He who gives you strength to gain wealth, so that He may establish His covenant, which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.


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And if you forget Jehovah your God at all and go after other gods and serve them and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.


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Like the nations which Jehovah is about to destroy before your face, so you will perish, because you would not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God.


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Hear, O Israel! You are about to cross over the Jordan this day in order to enter in and dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, cities that are big and fortified up to heaven,


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A people great and tall, the children of the Anakim, whom you know about and of whom you have heard it said, Who can stand before the children of Anak?


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Know therefore today that Jehovah your God is the One crossing over before you as a consuming fire; it is He who will destroy them, and it is He who will subdue them before you, so that you may dispossess them and destroy them quickly, as Jehovah has said


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Do not say in your heart when Jehovah your God drives them out from before you, Because of my righteousness, Jehovah has brought me in to possess this land. Rather, it is because of the wickedness of these nations that Jehovah is about to dispossess them


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It is not because of your righteousness nor because of the uprightness of your heart that you are entering in to possess their land, but Jehovah your God is about to dispossess them from before you because of the wickedness of these nations and so that Je


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Know therefore that it is not because of your righteousness that Jehovah your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.


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Remember; do not forget that you made Jehovah your God furious in the wilderness; from the day that you came forth from the land of Egypt up until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Jehovah.


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And especially at Horeb you made Jehovah furious, and Jehovah was angry enough with you to destroy you.


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When I went up to the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the Tablets of the Covenant which Jehovah made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I did not eat food nor drink water.


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And Jehovah gave me the two tablets of stone, written with the finger of God; and on them was what was according to all the words which Jehovah had spoken with you on the mountain from 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, Jehovah gave me the two tablets of stone, the Tablets of the Covenant.


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Then Jehovah said to me, Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people, whom you have brought out of Egypt, have spoiled themselves; they have turned aside quickly from the way that I commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten image.


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Then Jehovah spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and indeed they are a stiff-necked people.


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Let Me alone that I may destroy them and blot their name out from under heaven, and I will make of you a nation mightier and more numerous 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 saw that you had indeed sinned against Jehovah your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf; you had turned aside quickly from the way that Jehovah had commanded you.


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And I took hold of the two tablets and cast them out of my two hands and shattered them before your eyes.


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Then I threw myself down before Jehovah as at the beginning, forty days and forty nights; I did not eat food nor drink water, because of all your sin which you had sinned by doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah so as to anger Him.


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For I was afraid of the anger and the burning wrath with which Jehovah was angry enough against you to destroy you. But Jehovah listened to me in that instance as well.


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And Jehovah was very angry with Aaron, enough to destroy him. But I prayed also for Aaron at that time.


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Then I took your sin that you had made, the calf, and I burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it thoroughly until it was as fine as dust; and I cast the dust of it into the brook that came down from the mountain.


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And when Jehovah sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you, you rebelled at the word of Jehovah your God and did not believe Him and did not listen to His voice.


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So I threw myself down before Jehovah for the forty days and the forty nights; I threw myself down thus, for Jehovah had said He would destroy you.


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And I prayed to Jehovah and said, O Lord Jehovah, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance, whom You have ransomed with 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 and at their wickedness and at their sin;


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Lest the inhabitants of the land from which You have brought us out say, Because Jehovah was not able to bring them into the land which He promised them and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.


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But they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You have brought out with Your great strength and with Your outstretched arm.


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At that time Jehovah said to me, Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first ones, and come up to Me on the mountain; and make yourself an ark of wood.


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And I will write upon the tablets the words which were on the first tablets, which you shattered; and you shall place 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 ones; and I went up to the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.


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And He wrote upon the tablets as He had done the first writing, the ten words, which Jehovah spoke to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and Jehovah gave them to me.


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Then I turned and came down from the mountain, and I placed the tablets in the ark that I had made. And there they have been, as Jehovah commanded me.


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(And the children of Israel set out from Beeroth Bene-jaakan for Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazer his son served as priest in his place.


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At that time Jehovah separated the tribe of Levi to bear the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah, to stand before Jehovah to minister to Him and bless in His name until this day.


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Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; Jehovah is his inheritance, as Jehovah your God promised him.)


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And I stayed on the mountain, as I had the first time, forty days and forty nights. And Jehovah listened to me in that instance as well; Jehovah would not destroy you.


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And Jehovah said to me, Arise, take up the journey before the people so that they may enter and possess the land which I have sworn to their fathers to give them.


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And now, O Israel, what does Jehovah your God ask of you except that you fear Jehovah your God so that you would walk in all His ways and love Him and serve Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul;


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So that you would keep the commandments of Jehovah and His statutes, which I am commanding you today, for your good.


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Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens belong to Jehovah your God, the earth and all that is in it.


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But on your fathers Jehovah set His affection to love them and to choose their seed after them, that is, you above all the peoples, as it is this day.


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For it is Jehovah your God who is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who does not regard persons and does not take bribes;


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He executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and He loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.


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You shall fear Jehovah your God; Him shall you serve and to Him shall you hold fast and by His name shall you swear.


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He is your praise and He is your God, who has done these great and awesome things for you, which your eyes have seen.


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Your fathers went down into Egypt as seventy souls; and now Jehovah your God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.


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Therefore you shall love Jehovah your God and keep His charge and His statutes and His judgments and His commandments always.


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And realize today that I am speaking not with your sons, who do not know and who have not seen the discipline of Jehovah your God, His greatness, His mighty hand and His outstretched arm;


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And His signs and works, which He did in the midst of Egypt against Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and against all his land;


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And what He did to Egypt's forces, to their horses and to their chariots, when He caused the water of the Red Sea to flow over them while they were pursuing you; and Jehovah made them perish to this day;


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And what He did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up and their households and their tents and all their substance that went with them, from the midst of all Israel.


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Therefore you shall keep the whole commandment which I am commanding you today so that you may be strong and that you may go in and possess the land into which you are crossing over to possess,


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And so that you may extend your days upon the ground which Jehovah swore to your fathers, to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.


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For the land which you are entering in to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you came forth, where you used to sow your seed and water by foot as in a vegetable garden.


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But the land into which you are crossing over to possess is a land of mountains and valleys; by virtue of heaven's rain, it drinks in water.


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It is a land which Jehovah your God cares for; always the eyes of Jehovah your God are upon it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.


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And if you are certain to listen to my commandments, which I am commanding you today, to love Jehovah your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,


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I will give rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the late rain, so that you may gather your grain and your new wine and your fresh oil.


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Be careful lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and bow down to them,


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And the anger of Jehovah burn against you and He shut up heaven, so that there is no rain and the earth does not yield its produce and you perish quickly from off the good land which Jehovah is giving you.


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Therefore you shall lay these words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and you shall bind them on your hand as a sign, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes;


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And you shall teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit in your house and when you journey on the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up;


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That your days may be multiplied, as well as the days of your children, upon the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the days of heaven are above the earth.


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For if you are certain to keep all this commandment which I am commanding you to do, to love Jehovah your God, to walk in all His ways and hold fast to Him,


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Jehovah will dispossess all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.


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Every place on which the sole of your foot treads will be yours; from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the farmost sea will be your territory.


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No man will be able to stand against you; Jehovah your God will put the dread and fear of you upon all the land on which you tread, as He has spoken to you.


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The blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I am commanding you today;


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And the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Jehovah your God and you turn aside from the way which I am commanding you today, to go after other gods whom you have not known.


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And when Jehovah your God brings you into the land which you are entering to possess, you shall put the blessing upon Mount Gerizim and the curse upon Mount Ebal.


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Indeed they are across the Jordan beyond the western road in the land of the Canaanites, who dwell in the Arabah before Gilgal beside the terebinths of Moreh.


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For you are about to cross over the Jordan to enter and possess the land which Jehovah your God is giving you; and you will possess it and dwell in it.


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These are the statutes and the judgments that you shall be certain to do in the land which Jehovah, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.


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You shall completely destroy all the places where the nations whom you will dispossess have served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every flourishing tree.


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And you shall tear down their altars and crush their pillars; and their Asherahs you shall burn with fire, and the idols of their gods you shall cut down; and you shall destroy their name from that place.


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But to the place which Jehovah your God will choose out of all your tribes to put His name, to His habitation, shall you seek, and there shall you go.


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And there you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices and your tithes and the heave offering of your hand and your vows and your freewill offerings and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock;


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And there you shall eat before Jehovah your God, and you and your households shall rejoice in all your undertakings, in which Jehovah your God has blessed you.


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You shall not do according to all that we do here today, each man doing all that is right in his own eyes;


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For until now you have not come to the rest and to the inheritance that Jehovah your God is giving you.


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But when you cross over the Jordan and dwell in the land which Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance, and when He gives you rest from all your enemies surrounding you so that you dwell securely;


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Then to the place where Jehovah your God will choose to cause His name to dwell, there you shall bring all that I am commanding you, your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the heave offering of your hand and all your choice vows which y


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And you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God, you and your sons and daughters, and your male servants and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.


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But in the place which Jehovah will choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer up your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I am commanding you.


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Yet you may slaughter and eat meat within all your gates, in all that your soul desires, according to the blessing of Jehovah your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat it, as the gazelle and the deer.


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You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or of your new wine or of your fresh oil, nor the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, or any of your vows which you vow or of your freewill offerings or of the heave offering of your hand;


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But you shall eat them before Jehovah your God in the place which Jehovah your God will choose, you and your son and daughter, and your male servant and female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God


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When Jehovah your God enlarges your territory, as He has promised you, and you say, I will eat meat, because your soul desires to eat meat, you may eat meat according to all that your soul desires.


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If the place where Jehovah your God will choose to put His name is too far away from you, you may slaughter from your herd and from your flock, which Jehovah has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates according to all that y


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Indeed, as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you may eat it; the unclean and the clean may eat it alike.


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But make sure that you do not eat the blood; for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.


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You shall not eat it, so that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of Jehovah.


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But you shall take your holy things which you have and your vows, and go to the place which Jehovah will choose;


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And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of Jehovah your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of Jehovah your God, and you shall eat the flesh.


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Keep and listen to all these words which I am commanding you so that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, for you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of Jehovah your God.


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When Jehovah your God cuts off the nations before you, which you are entering to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,


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Be careful that you are not ensnared in following them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not seek after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods, so that I also may do likewise?


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You shall not do so for Jehovah your God, for every abomination to Jehovah, which He hates, they have done to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burned with fire to their gods.


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The whole thing that I am commanding you, you shall be certain to do; you shall not add to it, nor shall you take away from it.


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And the sign or the wonder occurs, about which he spoke to you, saying, Let us go after other gods whom you have not known, and let us serve them;


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You shall not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams; for Jehovah your God is testing you in order to know whether you love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.


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You shall follow Jehovah your God; and you shall fear Him, keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and hold fast to Him.


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But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has advocated apostasy from Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and ransomed you from the slave house, in order to force you out of the way in which Jehova


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If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is like your own soul to you entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods (which neither you nor your fathers have known,


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Of the gods of the peoples who are surrounding you, those who are near you or those who are far from you, from one end of the earth to the other);


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You shall not yield to him nor listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him; neither shall you spare him nor conceal him;


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But you must slay him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people.


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And you shall stone him with stones so that he dies, because he sought to force you away from Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the slave house.


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And all Israel will hear and will fear and will never do anything like this evil thing in your midst again.


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If you hear in one of your cities, which Jehovah your God is giving you to dwell in, someone saying that


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Some worthless men have gone out from your midst and have forced the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods (which you have not known);


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Then you shall investigate and examine carefully and inquire thoroughly. And if indeed the thing is true and certain - this abomination has been done in your midst -


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You must slay the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it and all that is in it and its animals with the edge of the sword.


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And all its spoil you shall gather at the middle of its open square, and you shall burn the city and all its spoil with fire wholly to Jehovah your God. And it shall be a mound only forever; it shall not be built again.


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And nothing of what has been cursed shall cling to your hand, in order that Jehovah may turn from His burning anger and show you tenderness and be compassionate to you and multiply you as He swore to your fathers,


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When you listen to the voice of Jehovah your God and keep all His commandments, which I am commanding you today, and do what is right in the sight of Jehovah your God.


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You are the children of Jehovah your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the dead.


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For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God, and Jehovah has chosen you to be a people for His personal treasure, from among all the peoples which are upon the face of the earth.


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And every animal that has a divided hoof, that is, has its hoof split in two, and that chews the cud among the animals, that you may eat.


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However, these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud or of those that have a cleft hoof:the camel, the hare, and the hyrax; because although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof; they are unclean to you.


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And the pig, because although it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud; it is unclean to you. You shall not eat of their flesh, nor shall you touch their carcasses.


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You shall not eat any carcass; to the sojourner who is within your gates you may give it that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.


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And you shall eat before Jehovah your God, in the place where He will choose to cause His name to dwell, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your fresh oil and the firstborn of your herd and flock, that you may learn to fear Jehovah your God


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But if the way is so far away from you that you are not able to carry your tithe, because the place where Jehovah your God will choose to set His name is too far away from you when Jehovah your God has blessed you,


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Then you shall exchange it for money and bind up the money in your hand, and you shall go to the place which Jehovah your God will choose.


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And you shall exchange the money for anything that your soul desires, for oxen, for sheep, for wine, for strong drink, or for anything that your soul would like; and you and your household shall eat there before Jehovah your God and rejoice.


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But you shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.


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At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your produce for that year and lay it within your gates;


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And the Levite shall come - for he has no portion nor inheritance with you - as well as the sojourner and the orphan and the widow who are within your gates; and they shall eat and be satisfied, so that Jehovah your God may bless you in all the work of yo


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And this is the manner of the release:Every creditor shall release from his hand that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it from his neighbor or his brother, for Jehovah's release has been proclaimed.


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From the foreigner you may exact the debt; but whatever of yours your brother has, your hand shall release.


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However, there shall not be any needy among you (for Jehovah will surely bless you in the land which Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess),


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But only if you carefully listen to the voice of Jehovah your God and are certain to do all this commandment which I am commanding you today.


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For Jehovah your God will bless you as He has 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 there is a needy one amidst your brothers within any of your gates in your land, which Jehovah your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart and you shall not close up your hand from your needy brother;


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Be careful that there is not within your heart a base thought like this:The seventh year, the year of release, is near; and your eye be evil against your needy brother and you do not give him anything, and he cry against you to Jehovah, and it become sin


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You must give to him, and your heart shall not be displeased when you give to him; for on account of this matter Jehovah your God will bless you in all your work and in all your undertakings.


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For the needy will not cease being in the land; therefore I am commanding you, saying, You must open your hand to your brother, to the poor one with you and to the needy one with you in your land.


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If your brother, a Hebrew man or woman, is sold to you, he shall serve you six years; but in the seventh year you shall set him free.


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You must supply him richly from your flock and from your threshing floor and from your winepress; as Jehovah your God has blessed you, so shall you give to him.


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And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and that Jehovah your God ransomed you; therefore I am commanding you this thing today.


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And if he says to you, I will not go forth from you, because he loves you and your household, for it goes well with him to be with you;


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Then you shall take an awl and run it through his ear and into the door, and he shall be your servant forever; and thus also shall you do to your female servant.


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You shall not view it as a hardship when you set him free; for he served you for six years, saving you double the wages of a hired hand, and Jehovah your God will bless you in all that you do.


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All firstborn males that are brought forth in your herd and in your flock you shall sanctify to Jehovah your God; you shall not do work with your firstborn ox, nor shall you shear your firstborn sheep.


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You and your household shall eat it before Jehovah your God year by year in the place which Jehovah will choose.


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And if there is a blemish in it, lameness or blindness, any serious blemish, you shall not sacrifice it to Jehovah your God.


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You shall eat it within your gates; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as the gazelle and the deer.


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Observe the month of Abib, and hold the Passover to Jehovah your God; for in the month of Abib Jehovah your God brought you out of Egypt by night.


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And you shall sacrifice the passover to Jehovah your God, from the flock and from the herd, in the place where Jehovah will choose to cause His name to dwell.


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You shall not eat anything leavened with it; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, that is, the bread of affliction (for in alarmed haste you came out of the land of Egypt); in order that you may remember the day of your coming out of the lan


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And leaven shall not be seen with you in all your territory for seven days, nor shall any of the flesh which you sacrifice in the evening on the first day remain until morning.


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Rather, in the place where Jehovah your God will choose to cause His name to dwell, you shall sacrifice the passover in the evening, as the sun sets, at the time that you came out of Egypt.


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And you shall cook and eat it in the place which Jehovah your God will choose, and you shall turn in the morning and go to your tents.


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Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. And on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to Jehovah your God; you shall not do any work.


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You shall count off for yourself seven weeks. You shall begin to count the seven weeks from the time that you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain.


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And you shall hold the Feast of Weeks to Jehovah your God according to the sufficiency of the freewill offering of your hand, which you will give, as Jehovah your God blesses you.


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And you and your son and daughter, and your male servant and female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates and the sojourner and the orphan and the widow who are in your midst shall rejoice before Jehovah your God in the place where Jehovah your


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You shall hold the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days after your ingathering from your threshing floor and your winepress.


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And you and your son and daughter, and your male servant and female servant, and the Levite and the sojourner and the orphan and the widow who are within your gates shall rejoice in your feast.


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You shall keep the feast to Jehovah your God for seven days in the place which Jehovah will choose, for Jehovah your God will bless you in all your produce and in all your undertakings; therefore you shall be nothing but joyful.


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Three times a year all your males shall appear before Jehovah your God in the place which He will choose:at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles. And they shall not appear before Jehovah empty-handed;


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Each man shall give as he is able to give, according to the blessing of Jehovah your God, which He has given you.


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You shall appoint for yourself judges and officers in all your cities which Jehovah your God is giving you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.


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You shall not distort justice; you shall not respect persons, nor shall you take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.


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Righteousness, and only righteousness, shall you pursue, in order that you may live and possess the land which Jehovah your God is giving you.


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You shall not plant for yourself an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Jehovah your God, which you will make for yourself;


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You shall not sacrifice to Jehovah your God any ox or sheep in which there is a blemish, anything seriously wrong, for that is an abomination to Jehovah your God.


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If there is found in your midst, within any of your gates which Jehovah your God is giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the sight of Jehovah your God by transgressing His covenant,


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And has gone and served other gods, and bowed down to them, that is, to the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded you to do;


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And it is told to you and you hear of it; then you shall investigate thoroughly. And if indeed the thing is true and certain - this abomination has been done in Israel -


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Then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil thing, to your gates, that very man or woman, and you shall stone them with stones so that they die.


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At the word of two witnesses or three witnesses shall he who is to die be put to death; he shall not be put to death at the word of only one witness.


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The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. Thus you shall utterly remove the evil from your midst.


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If a case is too complicated for you to judge between one kind of homicide and another, or between one kind of civil suit and another, or between one kind of assault and another, being disputed cases within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to th


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And you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is presiding in those days and investigate the matter; and they shall declare to you the sentence of judgment.


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And you shall do according to the word of the sentence that they declare to you from that place which Jehovah will choose; and you shall be certain to do according to all that they instruct you.


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You shall do according to the word of the instruction with which they instruct you and according to the judgment which they speak to you; you shall not turn aside to the right or to the left from the sentence that they declare to you.


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And the man who acts presumptuously by not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Jehovah your God, or to the judge, that man shall die. Thus you shall utterly remove the evil from Israel.


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When you enter the land which Jehovah your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it, and you say, I will set a king over me like all the nations which surround me;


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You must set a king over you whom Jehovah your God will choose; from among your brothers you shall set a king over you; you may not put a foreigner, who is not your brother, over you.


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However, he shall not amass horses to himself, and he shall not turn the people back to Egypt so that he may amass horses, since Jehovah has said to you, You shall never again return that way.


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And he shall not amass wives to himself, so that his heart does not turn aside; nor shall he amass silver and gold to himself in great amounts.


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And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write out for himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the Levitical priests.


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And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, in order that he may learn to fear Jehovah his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes and doing them,


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So that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers and he may not turn aside from the commandment to the right or to the left; that he and his sons may extend their days over their kingdom in the midst of Israel.


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The Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel; they shall eat Jehovah's offerings by fire and His inheritance.


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Thus they shall have no inheritance in the midst of their brothers; Jehovah is their inheritance, as He has promised them.


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And this shall be the priests' rightful due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep:They shall give the priest the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the stomach.


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You shall give him the first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your fresh oil, and the first shearing of your sheep;


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For Jehovah your God has chosen him and his sons out of all your tribes to stand and minister in Jehovah's name always.


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And if a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he sojourns, and comes according to all his soul's desire to the place which Jehovah will choose,


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He shall minister in the name of Jehovah his God, like all his brothers, the Levites, who stand there before Jehovah.


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When you enter the land which Jehovah your God is giving you, you shall not learn to do things according to the abominations of those nations.


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There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through fire; anyone who performs divination, practices soothsaying, or interprets omens; or anyone who employs sorcery


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Or casts spells; or anyone who consults a spirit of the dead or a familiar spirit or inquires of the dead;


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For everyone who does these things is an abomination to Jehovah; and on account of these abominations Jehovah your God is dispossessing them from before you.


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For these nations whom you are dispossessing listen to those who practice soothsaying and to those who perform divination, but Jehovah your God has not allowed you to do so.


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A Prophet will Jehovah your God raise up for you from your midst, from among your brothers, like me; you shall listen to Him.


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This is according to all that you asked of Jehovah your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear any more of the voice of Jehovah my God, and let me not see this great fire any longer, lest I die.


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A Prophet will I raise up for them from the midst of their brothers like you; 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 the man who will not listen to My words which He will speak in My name, I Myself will require it from him.


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But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name, which I did not command him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.


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When a prophet speaks in the name of Jehovah and the thing does not happen nor come about, that is the thing which Jehovah has not spoken. The prophet has spoken presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.


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When Jehovah your God cuts off the nations whose land Jehovah your God is giving you and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,


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You shall set apart three cities for yourself in the midst of your land, which Jehovah your God is giving you to possess.


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You shall survey the distances for yourself and divide into three parts the territory of your land, which Jehovah your God will give you as an inheritance, so that every manslayer may flee there.


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And this shall be the case of the manslayer who flees there and lives:He who slays his neighbor without intent and did not hate him previously -


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As when a man goes with his neighbor into the forest to cut wood, and his hand goes to cut the tree with an axe, and the iron axehead slips off the handle and hits his neighbor so that he dies - he shall flee to one of these cities and live;


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Lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart rages, and he overtake him because the distance is long and slay him; though he is not worthy of death, for he did not hate him previously.


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And if Jehovah your God enlarges your territory, as He swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land which He promised to give to your fathers;


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If you are certain to do all this commandment which I am commanding you today, to love Jehovah your God and to walk in His ways always; then you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three,


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That innocent blood may not be shed in the midst of your land, which Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance, and guilt for blood be upon you.


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But if a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him, and he rises up against him and slays him so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities;


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Then the elders of his city shall send men and take him from there and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, so that he may die.


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Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall remove the guilt of innocent blood from Israel that it may go well with you.


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You shall not move your neighbor's boundary marker, which your ancestors have set, in your inheritance, which you will inherit in the land which Jehovah your God is giving you to possess.


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One witness only shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity or for any sin which he has committed; at the word of two witnesses or at the word of three witnesses shall a matter be established.


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The two men who have the dispute shall stand before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges who are serving in those days.


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And the judges shall investigate thoroughly; and if indeed the witness is a false witness, if he has testified falsely against his brother,


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You shall do to him as he intended to do to his brother. Thus you shall utterly remove the evil from your midst.


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And those who remain will hear and will fear and will never again do anything like this evil thing in your midst.


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And your eye shall not pity:a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot.


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When you go forth into battle against your enemies, and you see horse and chariot, a people more numerous than you, you shall not fear them; for Jehovah your God is with you, He who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.


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And he shall say to them, Hear, O Israel! You are drawing near to the battle against your enemies today. Do not let your heart fail; do not be afraid nor alarmed nor terrified of them.


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And the officers shall speak to the people, saying, Is there any man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.


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Is there any man who has planted a vineyard and has not partaken of it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man partake of it.


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Is there any man who has gotten engaged to a woman and has not taken her to himself? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her to himself.


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And the officers shall speak further to the people and say, Is there any man who is afraid and whose heart fails? Let him go and return to his house, so that the heart of his brothers does not melt like his heart.


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And when the officers have finished speaking to the people, they shall appoint commanders of the armies at the head of the people.


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And if it responds with peace to you and opens its gates to you, all the people found within it shall become your forced labor; and they shall serve you.


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But if it does not make peace with you, but rather engages in battle with you, you shall besiege it.


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And when Jehovah your God delivers it into your hand, you shall slay every male in it with the edge of the sword.


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But the women and the little ones and the beasts and all that is in the city, that is, all its spoil, you shall take as your plunder; and you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which Jehovah your God has given you.


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Thus shall you do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not among the cities of these nations.


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But of the cities of these peoples which Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not allow anything that breathes to live;


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But you must utterly destroy them:the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, just as Jehovah your God has commanded you,


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So that they do not teach you to do according to all their abominations which they do for their gods and you sin against Jehovah your God.


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When you besiege a city for many days, battling against it to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down. For is the tree of the field a man, that it should be besieged b


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However, a tree that you know is not a tree for food, you shall destroy and cut down, so that you may build a siegework against the city, which engages you in battle, until it falls.


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If a slain man is found lying in the field in the land which Jehovah your God is giving you to possess, it not being known who slew him,


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Then your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance to the cities that surround the slain man.


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And the city that is nearest the slain man, that is, the elders of that city, shall take a heifer of the herd which has not been worked and has not drawn the yoke;


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And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a river valley that flows continually, which has not been plowed or sown, and break the neck of the heifer there in the river valley.


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And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall draw near; for Jehovah your God has chosen them to minister to Him and to bless in the name of Jehovah, and by their word shall every dispute and every assault be settled.


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And all the elders of that city that is nearest the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the river valley.


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Cover Your people Israel, whom You have ransomed, O Jehovah, and do not set the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of Your people Israel. And the guilt of the blood shall be covered from them.


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Thus you shall utterly remove the guilt of the innocent blood from your midst, for you do what is right in the sight of Jehovah.


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When you go out to fight against your enemies and Jehovah your God delivers them into your hands and you take them captive,


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And you see a beautiful woman among the captives and desire her and would take her to yourself as a wife;


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And take her clothes of captivity away from her. And she shall dwell in your house and mourn her father and mother for a full month. And afterward you shall go in unto her and be her husband, and she shall be a wife to you.


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And if after a time you do not delight in her, you shall let her go wherever she wishes. But you must not sell her for money; you shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.


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If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other despised, and both the beloved and the despised have borne him sons; and if the firstborn son is of the despised woman;


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Then in the day when he gives what he has to his sons as his inheritance, he may not make the son of the beloved woman the firstborn instead of the son of the despised one, who is the firstborn.


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But he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the despised woman, giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.


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If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, one who does not listen to the voice of his father nor to the voice of his mother; and though they chastise him, he does not listen to them;


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Then his father and mother shall seize him and bring him forth to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place.


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And they shall say to the elders of his city, This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not listen to our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.


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Then all the men of his city shall stone him with stones so that he dies. Thus you shall utterly remove the evil from your midst, and all Israel will hear and will fear.


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And if in a man there is a sin, a cause worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree;


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His corpse shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you must bury him on that day. For he who is hanged is accursed of God, and you shall not defile your land, which Jehovah your God gives you as an inheritance.


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You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep straying and neglect them; you must return them to your brother.


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And if your brother is not nearby you, or if you do not know who he is, you shall bring it to your house. And it shall be with you until your brother demands it; then you shall return it to him.


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And thus shall you do with his donkey; and thus shall you do with his clothing; and thus shall you do with any of your brother's lost things, which he has lost and you have found. You may not neglect them.


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You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen by the way and neglect them; you must lift them up with him.


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A woman shall not put on a man's belongings, nor shall a man wear a woman's garment; for everyone who does these things is an abomination to Jehovah your God.


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If you happen to come upon a bird's nest in the way, in any tree or on the ground, and in it are young birds or eggs, and the mother sitting upon the young birds or upon the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.


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You must let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may go well with you and that you may extend your days.


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When you build a new house, you shall make a low wall around the edge of your roof so that you do not put the guilt of blood on your house if someone falls from it.


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You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the full produce, the seed which you sow, be forfeited to the sanctuary, as well as the increase of the vineyard.


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And charges her with shameful deeds and spreads an evil report about her, and says, I took this woman, and when I drew near to her, I did not find her to be a virgin;


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Then the girl's father and her mother shall take and bring forth the evidence of the girl's virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.


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And the girl's father shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, but he despised her;


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And now he charges her with shameful deeds, saying, I did not find your daughter to be a virgin. But this is the evidence of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.


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And they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give it to the girl's father, for he spread an evil report against a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife; he may not send her away all his days.


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They shall bring the girl out to the entrance of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones so that she dies; for she has done folly in Israel by committing fornication in her father's house. Thus you shall utterly remove the


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If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, both of them shall die, the man who was lying with the woman and the woman. Thus you shall utterly remove the evil from Israel.


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You shall bring both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them with stones so that they die, the girl because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he humbled his neighbor's wife. Thus you shall utterly remove the evil from your m


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But if the man finds the engaged girl in the field, and the man overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who was lying with her shall die.


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But to the girl you shall not do anything; there is no sin worthy of death with the girl; for as it is when a man rises up against his neighbor and slays him, so is this matter.


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If a man finds a girl who is a virgin and is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found;


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The man who was lying with her shall give fifty shekels of silver to the girl's father. And she shall be his wife, because he humbled her; he may not send her away all his days.


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A man shall not take his father's wife, so that he does not uncover the skirt of his father's garment.


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He who has been wounded in the testicles or has the male organ cut off shall not enter the congregation of Jehovah.


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An illegitimate child shall not enter the congregation of Jehovah; even to the tenth generation, no descendant of his shall enter the congregation of Jehovah.


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An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter the congregation of Jehovah; even to the tenth generation, no descendant of theirs shall enter the congregation of Jehovah forever;


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Because they did not come to meet you with bread and water in the way when you were coming out of Egypt, and because they hired Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia against you, to curse you.


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But Jehovah your God would not listen to Balaam, and Jehovah your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, for Jehovah your God loved you.


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You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, for you were a sojourner in his land.


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The children of the third generation who have been begotten of them may enter the congregation of Jehovah.


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If there is among you a man who becomes unclean because of an accident in the night, he shall go outside the camp; he shall not enter into the midst of the camp.


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But when evening approaches, he shall bathe in water; and when the sun goes down, he shall enter into the midst of the camp.


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And you shall have a spade among your tools, and when you relieve yourself outside the camp, you shall dig with it and turn to cover your excrement.


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For Jehovah your God walks in the midst of your camp to rescue you and deliver up your enemies before you; therefore your camp shall be holy, and He must not see any indecent thing among you, lest He turn back from going after you.


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He shall dwell with you, even in your midst, in the place which he chooses among your towns, wherever he pleases; you shall not oppress him.


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There shall not be a cult prostitute among the daughters of Israel, nor shall there be a cult prostitute among the sons of Israel.


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You shall not bring the payment for a harlot or the price for a dog into the house of Jehovah your God for any vow, for both of them are an abomination to Jehovah your God.


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You shall not make your brother pay interest, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything on which one pays interest.


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You may make a foreigner pay interest; but you shall not make your brother pay interest, in order that Jehovah your God may bless you in all your undertakings upon the land which you are entering to possess.


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When you vow a vow to Jehovah your God, you shall not delay in paying it; for Jehovah your God would certainly require it of you, and it will become sin in you.


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What proceeds out of your lips you shall keep and do, as you have vowed to Jehovah your God voluntarily, which you have promised with your mouth.


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When you enter your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat grapes as your soul desires, until you are satisfied; but you shall not put any into a vessel of yours.


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When you go into your neighbor's standing grain, you may pluck some ears with your hand; but you shall not wield a sickle upon your neighbor's standing grain.


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When a man takes a woman and marries her, if she does not find favor in his sight, because he has found some indecency in her; and he writes her a bill of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her away from his house;


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And the latter husband despises her and writes her a bill of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her away from his house; or if the latter husband, who has taken her as his wife, dies;


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Then the former husband, who sent her away, may not return to take her again to be his wife after she has been defiled. For that is an abomination before Jehovah, and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Jehovah your God is giving you as an inherita


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When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out with the army, nor shall he be charged with any duty; he shall be free at home for one year, and he shall make his wife happy, whom he has taken.


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One shall not take a handmill or an upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes the livelihood as a pledge.


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If a man is found kidnapping someone from among his brothers of the children of Israel, and deals with him as a slave or sells him; then that kidnapper shall die. Thus you shall utterly remove the evil from your midst.


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Be careful in a case of leprosy to carefully keep and do all that the Levitical priests instruct you; as I commanded them, so shall you be certain to do.


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You must return his pledge to him when the sun goes down, so that he may sleep in his mantle and bless you; and it will be righteousness to you before Jehovah your God.


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You shall not oppress a poor and needy hired servant among your brothers or among the sojourners with you, who are in your land within your gates.


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On the day he earns it, you shall give him his wages, and the sun shall not go down upon it (for he is poor and his life depends on it); lest he cry against you to Jehovah and it become sin in you.


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Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers; every man shall be put to death for his own sin.


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You shall not distort justice due a sojourner or an orphan, nor shall you take a widow's garment as a pledge.


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But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt and that Jehovah your God ransomed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.


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When you reap your harvest in your field and you forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not turn back to gather it; it shall be for the sojourner, the orphan, and the widow, in order that Jehovah your God may bless you in all your undertakings.


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When you beat down the fruit of your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs afterward; it shall be for the sojourner, the orphan, and the widow.


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When you cut the grapes from your vineyard, you shall not glean afterward; it shall be for the sojourner, the orphan, and the widow.


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And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.


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If there is a dispute between men, and they approach the court, and the judges judge them, they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.


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And if the wicked man is worthy of beating, the judge shall make him lie down and have him beaten before him as is sufficient for his wickedness, by number.


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Forty blows he may give him; he shall not exceed, lest, in exceeding, he beat him beyond these with many blows and your brother be degraded before your eyes.


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If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and he has no son, the wife of the deceased man shall not become the wife of a stranger outside the family; her husband's brother shall go in unto her and take her as his wife, and he shall do the duty of


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And the firstborn whom she bears shall assume the name of his deceased brother, so that his name is not blotted out of Israel.


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And if the man does not desire to take his brother's wife, his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up a name in Israel to his brother; he is not willing to do the duty of a husband's brother


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Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him. And if he persists and says, I do not desire to take her;


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Then his brother's wife shall draw near to him in the sight of the elders and remove his sandal from off his foot, and she shall spit in his face and respond and say, Thus shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.


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When two men fight together, a man and his brother, and the wife of the one comes near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him, and she puts forth her hand and takes hold of his private parts;


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A full and righteous weight you shall have, and a full and righteous measure you shall have, in order that your days may be extended upon the land which Jehovah your God is giving you.


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For everyone who does these things, everyone who does unrighteousness, is an abomination to Jehovah your God.


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That he met you on the way and struck you at the rear, struck all those who were worn out at your rear, when you were faint and weary; and he did not fear God.


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Therefore when Jehovah your God gives you rest from all your enemies surrounding you, in the land which Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget.


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And when you enter the land which Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you possess it and dwell in it,


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You shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground which you shall bring from your land, which Jehovah your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place where Jehovah your God will choose to cause His name to dwell.


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And you shall go to the priest who is serving in those days and say to him, I declare to Jehovah your God today that I have entered the land which Jehovah swore to our fathers to give us.


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And the priest shall take the basket from your hand and place it before the altar of Jehovah your God.


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And you shall respond and say before Jehovah your God, A perishing Aramaean was my father; and he went down to Egypt and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a great and mighty and numerous nation.


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But we cried out to Jehovah, the God of our fathers, and Jehovah heard our voice, and saw our affliction and our labor and our oppression.


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And Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and by great terror and by signs and wonders.


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And now I have just brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which You, O Jehovah, have given me. And you shall place it before Jehovah your God and bow down before Jehovah your God.


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And you and the Levite and the sojourner in your midst shall rejoice in all the good which Jehovah your God has given to you and to your household.


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When you have finished giving all the tithes of your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you shall give it to the Levite, the sojourner, the orphan, and the widow, that they may eat within your gates and be satisfied.


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And you shall say before Jehovah your God, I have removed what is holy from out of my house, and I have also given it to the Levite and the sojourner, to the orphan and the widow, according to Your whole commandment, which You have commanded me; I have no


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I have not eaten any of it in my sorrow, nor have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor have I given any of it to the dead. I have listened to the voice of Jehovah 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 which You have given us, as You swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.


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This day Jehovah your God is commanding you to do these statutes and judgments; therefore you shall keep them and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.


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It is Jehovah whom you have today declared to be your God and that you will walk in His ways and keep His statutes and His commandments and His judgments, and will listen to His voice.


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And it is Jehovah who has today declared you to be a people for His personal treasure, even as He promised you; and that you will keep all His commandments;


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And that He will set you high above all the nations which He has made, for praise and for a name and for honor; and that you will be a holy people to Jehovah your God, as He has spoken.


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And Moses, with the elders of Israel, commanded the people, saying, Keep the whole commandment which I am commanding you today.


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And in the day when you cross over the Jordan into the land which Jehovah your God is giving you, you shall erect for yourself large stones; and you shall coat them with plaster.


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And you shall write upon them all the words of this law when you cross over, in order that you may enter the land which Jehovah your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Jehovah, the God of your fathers, promised to you.


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And when you cross over the Jordan, you shall erect these stones, concerning which I am commanding you today, on Mount Ebal; and you shall coat them with plaster.


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And you shall build there an altar to Jehovah your God, an altar of stones; you shall not use an iron tool upon them;


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With unhewn stones you shall build the altar of Jehovah your God. Then you shall offer up burnt offerings upon it to Jehovah your God;


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And you shall sacrifice peace offerings and eat there, and you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God.


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And Moses, with the Levitical priests, spoke to all Israel, saying, Be silent and hear, O Israel; this day you have become the people of Jehovah your God.


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Therefore you shall listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, and do His commandments and His statutes, which I am commanding you today.


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These shall stand upon Mount Gerizim to bless the people when you cross over the Jordan:Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Joseph and Benjamin;


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And these shall stand upon Mount Ebal for cursing:Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.


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Cursed is the man who makes an idol or a molten image, an abomination to Jehovah, the work of the craftsman's hands, and puts it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.


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Cursed is he who distorts justice due a sojourner, an orphan, or a widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.


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Cursed is he who lies with his father's wife, for he uncovers the skirt of his father's garment. And all the people shall say, Amen.


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Cursed is he who lies with his sister, his father's daughter or his mother's daughter. And all the people shall say, Amen.


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Cursed is he who takes payment to slay someone of innocent blood. And all the people shall say, Amen.


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Cursed is he who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them. And all the people shall say, Amen.


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And if you listen diligently to the voice of Jehovah your God and are certain to do all His commandments, which I am commanding you today, Jehovah 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 listen to the voice of Jehovah your God.


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Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your animals, the offspring of your cattle and the young of your flock.


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Jehovah will cause your enemies, who rise up against you, to be struck down before you; on one road they will come out against you, but on seven roads they will flee before you.


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Jehovah will command the blessing upon you in your storehouses and in all your undertakings; and He will bless you in the land which Jehovah your God is giving you.


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Jehovah will establish you as a holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of Jehovah 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 Jehovah's name, and they will be afraid of you.


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And Jehovah will give you an excess of prosperity in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your animals and in the fruit of your ground, upon the ground which Jehovah swore to your fathers to give you.


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Jehovah will open up to you His good treasury, the heavens, to give rain for your land in its season and to bless all your undertakings. And you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.


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And Jehovah will make you the head and not the tail, and you will tend only upward, and you will not tend downward, if you will listen to the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I am commanding you today to keep and to do.


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And you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I am commanding you today, to the right or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.


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But if you do not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God and are not certain to do all His commandments and His statutes, which I am commanding you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you.


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Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the offspring of your cattle and the young of your flock.


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Jehovah will send to you cursing, discomfiture, and rebuke in all your undertakings which you do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your practices through which you have abandoned Me.


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Jehovah will make a plague cling to you until He has consumed you from off the land which you are entering to possess.


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Jehovah will strike you with consuming disease and fever and inflammation, and with burning heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; and these will pursue you until you perish.


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Jehovah will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it will come down upon you until you are destroyed.


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Jehovah will cause you to be struck down before your enemies; on one road you will go out against them, but on seven roads you will flee before them. And you will be a source of shuddering to all the kingdoms of the earth.


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And your corpse will become food for all the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth; and no one will frighten them away.


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Jehovah will strike you with the boils of Egypt, tumors, scabs, and itching, of which you cannot be healed.


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And you will be groping at noonday just as the blind man gropes in darkness; and you will not succeed in your ventures, but will only be oppressed and plundered always; and no one will save you.


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You will get engaged to a woman, 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 partake of it.


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Your ox will be slaughtered in your sight, but you will not eat of it; your donkey will be torn away from before you, but it will not be returned to you; your sheep will be given to your enemies, but no one will rescue them for you.


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Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while your eyes look on and fail from longing after them all the day, but you will be powerless.


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A people whom you have not known will eat the fruit of your ground and all your hard-earned produce, and you will be only oppressed and crushed always.


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Jehovah will strike you on the knees and legs with terrible boils, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.


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Jehovah will bring you and your king, whom you will have set over you, to a nation which you and your fathers have not known; and there you will serve other gods, mere wood and stone.


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And you will become a source of horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples to whom Jehovah will drive you.


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You will put out much seed in the field, but you will harvest little; for the locust will consume it.


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You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will not drink the wine nor gather the grapes; for the worm will devour them.


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You will have olive trees in all your territory, but you will not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives will drop off.


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You will beget sons and daughters, but they will not remain with you; for they will go into captivity.


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The sojourner who is in your midst will rise above you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower.


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And all these curses will come upon you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes, which He commanded you;


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Because you did not serve Jehovah your God with rejoicing and gladness of heart on account of the abundance of all things,


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You will serve your enemies, whom Jehovah will send out against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.


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Jehovah will bring against you a nation from far away, from the end of the earth, like the eagle that swoops down, a nation whose tongue you will not understand,


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A nation of fierce countenance, who will not regard an old man's person nor show favor to the young man.


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And they will eat the fruit of your animals and the fruit of your ground until you are destroyed; they will not leave for you grain, new wine, or fresh oil, the offspring of your cattle or the young of your flock, until they cause you to perish.


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And they will besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land; and they will besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which Jehovah 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 Jehovah your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.


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The man who is delicately bred and luxurious among you, he will begrudge his brother, the wife of his bosom, and the remnant of his children whom he has left,


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Not giving to one of them any of the flesh of his children whom he will eat; because nothing is left with him in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you in all your towns.


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The delicately bred and luxurious woman among you, who does not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground because of her luxuriousness and delicacy, she will begrudge the husband of her bosom and her son and daughter


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The child who comes forth from her and her children whom she will bear; for she will eat them secretly for lack of all things in the siege and distress with which your enemy will distress you in your towns.


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


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Jehovah will make your plagues and the plagues of your seed extraordinary, great and persistent plagues, and malignant and persistent sicknesses.


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And He will put upon you again all the illnesses of Egypt, which you were afraid of, and they will cling to you.


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Also, every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, Jehovah will raise up upon you until you are destroyed.


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And you will be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven in multitude; for you did not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God.


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And as Jehovah exulted over you to do you good and to multiply you, so will Jehovah exult over you to make you perish and to destroy you; and you will be torn off the land which you are entering to possess.


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And Jehovah will scatter you among all the peoples, from one end of the earth to the other; and there you will serve other gods whom you and your fathers have not known, mere wood and stone.


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And among those nations you will have no rest, nor will there be a resting place for the sole of your foot; but Jehovah will give you there a quivering heart and eyes failing with longing and a languishing soul.


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And your life will be hung in suspense before you, and you will dread night and day; and you will have no assurance of your life.


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In the morning you will say, Oh, that it were evening! and in the evening you will say, Oh, that it were morning! because of your heart's dread with which you will dread and because of the sight before your eyes which you will see.


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And Jehovah will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way concerning which I said to you, You shall never again see it. And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies, as male slaves and as female slaves, but no one will buy you.


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These are the words of the covenant which Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant that He made with them at Horeb.


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


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But Jehovah has not given you a heart to understand and eyes to see and ears to hear until this day.


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And I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothing did not wear out from upon you, nor did your sandal wear out from upon your foot;


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You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you might know that I am Jehovah 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 to meet us in battle, and we slew them;


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And we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.


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


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You are standing today, all of you, before Jehovah your God, your leaders of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, every man of Israel,


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Your little ones, your wives, and the sojourner with you, who is in the midst of your camp, from the man who chops your wood to the man who draws your water,


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In order to enter into a covenant with Jehovah your God and into His oath, which Jehovah your God is making with you today,


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So that He may establish you today as His people and that He may be your God, even as He has spoken to you and even as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.


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But I make it with him who is here today standing with us before Jehovah our God and with him who is not here with us today.


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For you know that we dwelt in the land of Egypt and that we passed through the midst of the nations whom you passed through,


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And you saw their detestable images and their idols, mere wood and stone, silver and gold, which were with them.


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Beware that there is not among you any man or woman or family or tribe whose heart turns away, even today, from Jehovah our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations; that there is not among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood;


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And that when he hears the words of this oath, he blesses himself in his heart, saying, I will have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart; to the ruin of the moist with the dry.


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Jehovah will not be willing to pardon him; but rather the anger of Jehovah and His jealousy will fume against that man, and all the oath that is written in this book will settle on him, and Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven.


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And Jehovah will separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel according to all the oaths of the covenant written in this book of the law.


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And the following generation, your children who will rise up after you and the foreigner who will come from a distant land, will say, when they see the plagues of that land and its diseases with which Jehovah has made it sick;


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And that all its land is sulphur and salt, a burning waste; that it is not sown, nor does it sprout, nor does any vegetation come up in it; that it is like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in His anger and bu


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Indeed all the nations will say, Why has Jehovah done this to this land? Why the burning of this great anger?


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And they will say, It is because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out from the land of Egypt;


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And they went and served other gods and bowed down to them, gods whom they had not known and He had not allotted to them.


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And the anger of Jehovah burned against this land, bringing upon it all the curses written in this book;


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And Jehovah plucked them off their land in anger and in burning wrath and in great indignation, and sent them to another land, as they are this day.


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


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And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you; and you bring them to heart while among the nations to whom Jehovah your God will drive you;


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And you and your children return to Jehovah your God and listen to His voice, according to all that I am commanding you today, with all your heart and with all your soul;


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Then Jehovah your God will turn your captivity and be compassionate to you, and He will turn and gather you from all the peoples among whom Jehovah your God has scattered you.


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If any of you have been driven out to the ends of heaven, from there will Jehovah your God gather you and from there will He take you.


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And Jehovah your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you will possess it; and He will do good for you and will multiply you more than He did your fathers.


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


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And Jehovah your God will put all these oaths upon your enemies and upon them who hate you and who have persecuted you.


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And you will turn and listen to the voice of Jehovah, and you will do all His commandments, which I am commanding you today.


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And Jehovah your God will give you an excess of prosperity in all your undertakings, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your animals and in the fruit of your ground, for Jehovah will again exult over you for good as He exulted over your fathers


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If you listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes written in this book of the law; if you turn back to Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.


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For this commandment which I am commanding you today, it is not too difficult for you, nor is it distant.


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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 to make us hear it and do it?


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Nor is it across the sea that you should say, Who will go across the sea for us and bring it to us to make us hear it and do it?


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If you obey the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I am commanding you today, to love Jehovah your God and walk in His ways and keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, then you will live and multiply, and Jehovah your God will bless


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But if your heart turns and you do not listen, but rather you are drawn away in worship to other gods and serve them,


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I declare to you today that you shall surely perish; your days will not be extended upon the land into which you are crossing over the Jordan to go and possess.


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I call heaven and earth to witness against you today:I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life that you and your seed may live,


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In loving Jehovah your God by listening to His voice and holding fast to Him; for He is your life and the length of your days, that you may dwell upon the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.


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He said to them, I am a hundred and twenty years old today; I can no longer go out and come in, and Jehovah has said to me, You shall not cross over this Jordan.


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It is Jehovah your God who is crossing over before you; it is He who will destroy these nations from before you, and you will dispossess them. Joshua is the one who is crossing over before you, as Jehovah has spoken.


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And Jehovah will do to them even 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 Jehovah will deliver them up before you, and you will do to them according to the whole commandment, which I have commanded you.


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Be strong and take courage; do not fear, neither be terrified of them, for it is Jehovah your God who goes with you; He will not fail you nor forsake you.


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And Moses called Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and take courage, for you will go with this people into the land which Jehovah swore to their fathers to give them; and you will cause them to inherit it.


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But it is Jehovah who is going before you. He will be with you; He will not fail you nor forsake you. Do not fear, neither be dismayed.


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And Moses wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who bear the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah, and to all the elders of Israel.


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And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time of the year of release, at the Feast of Tabernacles,


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When all Israel comes to appear before Jehovah your God in the place which He will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.


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Gather the people, the men, the women, and the little ones, and the sojourner with you, who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear Jehovah your God and be certain to do all the words of this law,


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And that their children, who have not known these things, may hear and learn to fear Jehovah your God all the days that you live upon the land into which you are crossing over the Jordan to possess.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Now your days draw near for you to die. Call Joshua and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting that I may charge him. So Moses went with Joshua, and they presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.


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And Jehovah appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud; and the pillar of cloud stood over the entrance of the tent.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, You are now about to lie down with your fathers; and this people will rise up and go as harlots after the strange gods of the land, into the midst of which they are entering; and they will forsake Me and break My covenant which


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And My anger will burn against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide My face from them; and they will be devoured, and many evils and troubles will befall them, so that they will say in that day, Is it not because our God is not in our midst


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And I will surely hide My face in that day because of all the evil which they have done, for they turned to other gods.


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And now write for yourselves this song and teach it to the children of Israel; put it in their mouth that I may have this song as a witness against the children of Israel.


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For I will bring them into the land which I swore to their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, and they will eat and become satisfied and grow fat, and 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 befall them, this song will respond as a witness before them, because it will not be forgotten in the mouth of their seed; for I know their intention, which they are making even today before I bring them into the land whic


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And He charged Joshua the son of Nun and said, Be strong and take courage, for you will bring the children of Israel into the land which I have sworn to them; and I will be with you.


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Take this book of the law and place it at the side of the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah your God, that it may be there as a witness against you.


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For I know your rebelliousness and your stiff neck:See, while I am yet here alive with you today, you have been rebelling against Jehovah; so how much more after my death!


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


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For I know that after my death you will utterly spoil yourselves and turn away from the way that I have commanded you; and evil will come upon you in the last days, for you will do what is evil in the sight of Jehovah so as to provoke Him to anger by your


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And Moses spoke in the hearing of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song until they were completed.


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Let my teaching drop like the rain; Let my speech distill like the dew, Like raindrops upon tender grass, And like abundant showers upon herbage.


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The Rock - perfect is His work, For all His ways are justice:A God of faithfulness and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He.


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Corruptly have they dealt with Him - their blemish is not His sons - A twisted and crooked generation are they.


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Do you repay Jehovah with this, Foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father who bought you? Was it not He who made you and established you?


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Remember the days of long ago; Consider the years of generation upon generation; Ask your father, and he will inform you; Your elders, and they will tell you.


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When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, When He divided the sons of man, He set the borders of the peoples According to the number of Israel's children.


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He found him in a land of wilderness, And in a howling desert waste; He encircled him, cared for him with all attention; He guarded him like the pupil of His eye.


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As the eagle rouses his nest, Hovers over his young, Spreads his wings, takes them, And bears them up upon his pinions;


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He made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he ate the produce of the field; And He made him suck honey out of a crag, And oil out of flint rock:


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Curd of cows and milk of sheep, With fat of lambs, And rams, the offspring of Bashan, and goats, With the choicest wheat; And the blood of the grape you drank as fermenting wine.


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But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked - You have become fat, you have grown thick, you have gorged yourself - And forsook God, who made him, And treated the Rock of his salvation disdainfully.


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They sacrificed to demons, to those who were no god, To gods they did not know, To new ones who had recently come up, Before whom your fathers had not shuddered.


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And He said, I will hide My face from them; I will see what their latter end will be. For they are a generation of perversions, Children in whom is no faithfulness.


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They have made Me jealous with a non-God; They have provoked Me to anger with their vanities. Hence I will make them jealous with a non-people; With a foolish nation I will provoke them to anger.


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For a fire is kindled in My anger And burns unto nethermost Sheol. And it devours the earth and its produce And sets ablaze the foundations of the mountains.


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They shall be sucked up by famine, And eaten up by fire bolt And bitter destruction; And I will send the teeth of beasts against them, With the venom of those that crawl in the dust.


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The sword shall bereave outside, And inside, terror; Taking both the young man and the virgin, The suckling with the gray-haired man.


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Except I dreaded the vexation from the enemy; Lest their adversaries misjudge; Lest they say, Our hand is exalted, And it is not Jehovah who has wrought all this.


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If they had been wise, they would have comprehended this, They would have perceived their latter end.


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How shall one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Were it not that their Rock sold them, And Jehovah delivered them up?


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For their vine is from Sodom's vine, And from Gomorrah's fields; Their grapes are the grapes of poison; Clusters of bitterness have they.


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Vengeance is Mine and so is retribution, For the time when their foot slips; Because the day of their calamity has drawn near, And the things destined to happen to them hasten.


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For Jehovah will execute judgment for His people, And He will have compassion on His servants, When He sees that their support is gone, And that neither fettered nor free 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 a shelter over you.


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See now that I, I am He, And there is no god with Me. It is I who kill, and I make alive; I wound, and it is I who heal; And there is no one who can deliver from My hand.


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If I sharpen My flashing sword, And My hand takes hold of judgment, I will repay My adversaries with vengeance, And those who hate Me will I recompense.


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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 of the captives, The flesh of the long-haired leaders of the enemy.


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Shout joyously, you nations, for His people, Because He will avenge the blood of His servants, And He will repay His adversaries with vengeance And will cover the guilt of His land and of His people.


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


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And he said to them, Set your heart on all these words which I am testifying to you today. You shall command them to your children that they may be certain to do all the words of this law.


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For it is not a matter too vain for you, because it is your life; and by this matter you will extend your days upon the land into which you are crossing over the Jordan to possess.


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Go up to this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, which faces Jericho, and see the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel as a possession;


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And die in the mountain to which you are going up, and be gathered to your people, just as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people;


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Because you were unfaithful to Me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you did not sanctify Me among the children of Israel.


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But from a distance you shall see the land, yet you shall not go there into the land which I am giving to the children of Israel.


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And this is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the children of Israel before his death.


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And he said, Jehovah came from Sinai, And He dawned upon them from Seir; He shined forth from Mount Paran, And He approached from the myriads of holy ones; From His right hand a fiery law went out to them.


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Indeed, He loves the people. All His saints were in Your hand, And they sat down at Your feet; Everyone receives of Your words.


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And He was King in Jeshurun, When the heads of the people gathered themselves, The tribes of Israel together.


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And this is the blessing concerning Judah; and he said, Hear, O Jehovah, the voice of Judah, And bring him to his people. With his hands he contended for them; And may You be a help against his adversaries.


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And concerning Levi he said, May Your Thummim and Urim be with Your faithful man, Whom You tested at Massah, With whom You contended at the waters of Meribah -


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He who said of his father and mother, I do not regard him; And his brothers he did not acknowledge, And his children he did not recognize; For they have kept Your speaking And have guarded Your covenant.


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They shall show Jacob Your judgments, And Israel Your law; They shall put incense before Your nostrils And whole burnt offerings upon Your altar.


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Bless, O Jehovah, his might, And the work of his hands accept; Wound thoroughly the loins of those who rise up against him And of those who hate him, that they may not rise up again.


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Concerning Benjamin he said, The beloved of Jehovah shall dwell securely beside Him; Jehovah shall cover over him all the day, And He shall dwell between his shoulders.


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And concerning Joseph he said, May his land be blessed of Jehovah With the choicest things of heaven, with the dew And with the deep waters that couch beneath;


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With the choicest things of the earth, and the fullness thereof, And the favor of Him who dwelt in the thornbush. May they come upon the head of Joseph, And upon the top of the head of him who is separated among his brothers.


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Like his firstborn ox, he has majesty; And his horns are the horns of the wild ox; With them he shall drive peoples To the ends of the earth together. Those are the ten thousands of Ephraim; And those the thousands of Manasseh.


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And concerning Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, for your going forth, And Issachar, for your tents!


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They shall call peoples to the mountain; There they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness; For they shall suck the abundance of the seas And the hidden treasures of the sand.


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And concerning Gad he said, Blessed be He who enlarges Gad. He dwells as a lioness, And tears off the arm, yea, even the top of the head.


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And he provided the first part for himself, For there the portion of a lawgiver is reserved; And he came with the heads of the people; He executed the righteousness of Jehovah And His judgments with Israel.


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And concerning Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favor, And full of the blessing of Jehovah:Possess the sea and the south.


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And concerning Asher he said, Blessed be Asher above the sons. May he be the one favored of his brothers, And the one dipping his foot in oil.


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There is no one like the God of Jeshurun, Who rides through the heavens as your help And in His majesty through the skies.


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The God of old is your habitation, And underneath are eternal arms. And He drove out the enemy before you And said, Destroy!


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So Israel dwelt securely, The fountain of Jacob in solitude, On a land of grain and new wine; And the heavens over him drop their dew.


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Happy are you, O Israel; who is like you? A people saved by Jehovah, The shield of your help And He who is the sword of your majesty! So your enemies shall come cringing to you, And you shall 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 faces Jericho. And Jehovah showed him all the land:Gilead as far as Dan;


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And all of Naphtali; and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh; and all the land of Judah as far as the sea beyond it;


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And the Negev; and the Plain, that is, the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.


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And Jehovah said to him, This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, To your seed I will give it. I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you will not go over there.


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And He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor; but no man knows his burial site to this day.


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And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eye was not dim, nor had his freshness left him.


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And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab for thirty days; thus, the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were completed.


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And Joshua the son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands upon him; and the children of Israel listened to him and did as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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


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And for all the mighty power and for all the great terror which Moses did in the sight of all Israel.


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After the death of Moses the servant of Jehovah, Jehovah spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' attendant, saying,


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Moses My servant is dead; now then arise, and cross over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land which I am giving to them, to the children of Israel.


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From the wilderness and this Lebanon even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun will be your territory.


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No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, I will be with you; I will not fail you nor forsake you.


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Be strong and take courage, for you will cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give to them.


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Only be strong and very courageous, being certain to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you. Do not turn away from it to the right or to the left, that you may have success wherever you go.


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This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall muse upon it day and night so that you may be certain to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous and then you will have success.


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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and take courage; do not be afraid or dismayed. For Jehovah your God is with you wherever you go.


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Go through the midst of the camp, and command the people, saying, Prepare provisions for yourselves, for in three days you are to cross this Jordan to enter and possess the land which Jehovah your God is giving you to possess.


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Remember the word which Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, saying, Jehovah your God has given you rest and will give you this land.


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Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall remain in the land which Moses has given you beyond the Jordan; but you yourselves shall cross over in battle array before your brothers, all the mighty men of valor; and you shall help them,


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Until Jehovah gives rest to your brothers as He has to you, and they also possess the land which Jehovah your God is giving them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession, and you will possess that which Moses the servant of Jehovah has given


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And they answered Joshua, saying, All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.


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As in all things we listened to Moses, so we will listen to you. Only may Jehovah your God be with you, as He was with Moses.


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Any man who rebels against your command or does not listen to your words in all that you command him, let him be put to death. Only be strong and take courage.


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Then Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent out from Shittim two men as spies, saying, Go, view the land, especially Jericho. And they went and entered the house of a woman who was a harlot, whose name was Rahab; and they lay down there.


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And the king of Jericho was told, saying, There are some men who have now come here tonight from the children of Israel to search out the land.


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Then the king of Jericho sent word to Rahab, saying, Bring out the men who have come to you and who entered your house, for they have come to search out all the land.


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And the woman took the two men and hid them. And she said, Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from.


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And when it was time to shut the gate at dark, the men went out; I do not know where the men have gone. Pursue quickly after them, for you can overtake them.


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But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among stalks of flax that she had laid out on the roof.


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So the men pursued after them on the way toward the Jordan as far as the fords. And as soon as those who pursued after them went out, the gate was shut.


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And she said to the men, I know that Jehovah has given you the land, and that the dread of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt before you.


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For we have heard how Jehovah dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed.


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When we heard, our hearts melted; and there no longer remained any spirit in any man because of you; for Jehovah your God, He is God in heaven above and upon earth beneath.


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So now, swear to me by Jehovah, I beg you, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father's house; and give me some token of trust,


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That you will preserve my father and my mother and my brothers and my sisters and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.


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And the men said to her, Our life for yours! If you do not utter anything of this matter concerning us, then when Jehovah gives the land to us, we will deal kindly and faithfully with you.


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Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was on the wall of the city and she dwelt on the wall.


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And she said to them, Go to the mountain, so that your pursuers do not come upon you; and hide yourselves there for three days, until your pursuers return; then afterward you can go on your way.


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Unless, when we enter the land, you tie this line of scarlet thread in the window through which you let us down, and gather your father and your mother and your brothers and all your father's house to you in your house.


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And anyone who goes forth from the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be upon his own head, and we will be innocent. And whoever is with you in the house, his blood will be upon our heads if a hand should come upon him.


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But if you utter anything of this matter concerning us, we will be released from this oath to you that you made us swear.


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And she said, According to your words, so shall it be. Then she sent them away, and they left. And she tied the scarlet line in the window.


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And they left and came to the mountain, and they remained there for three days, until their pursuers returned. And although their pursuers searched the entire way, they could not find them.


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Then the two men returned and came down from the mountain, and they crossed over and came to Joshua the son of Nun. And they related to him all that had happened to them.


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And they said to Joshua, Jehovah has indeed given all the land into our hand; moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt before us.


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Then Joshua rose early in the morning; and they set out from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel; and they stayed there overnight, before they crossed over.


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And they commanded the people, saying, When you see the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah your God and the Levitical priests bearing it, you shall set out from your place and go after it.


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But there shall be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits by measure. Do not come near it, so that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way before.


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And Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow Jehovah will do wondrous things in your midst.


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Then Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, Take up the Ark of the Covenant, and cross over before the people. And they took up the Ark of the Covenant and went before the people.


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And Jehovah said to Joshua, On this day I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, I will be with you.


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And you shall command the priests who carry the Ark of the Covenant, saying, When you come to the edge of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.


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And Joshua said, By this you will know that the living God is in your midst, and that He will most certainly dispossess before you the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Hivites and the Perizzites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Jebusites.


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The Ark of the Covenant of the Lord of all the earth is now crossing over before you into the Jordan.


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And when the soles of the feet of the priests who carry the Ark of Jehovah, the Lord of all the earth, come to rest in the waters of the Jordan; the waters of the Jordan, the waters that flow down from upstream, will be cut off, and they will stand in a h


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And so it happened that when the people set out from their tents to cross over the Jordan, the priests who carried the Ark of the Covenant were before the people.


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And when those who carried the Ark came to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who carried the Ark dipped into the edge of the water (now the Jordan overflowed all its banks throughout all the days of the harvest),


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The waters that flowed down from upstream stood and rose up in a heap a great distance away, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that flowed down toward the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the people crossed


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And the priests who carried the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah stood firmly on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan while all Israel was crossing over on dry ground, until all the nation had completely crossed over the Jordan.


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And command them, saying, Take up for yourselves from here out of the middle of the Jordan, from the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones; and bring them over with you, and lay them down in the place where you lodge tonight.


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So Joshua called the twelve men whom he had appointed from among the children of Israel, one man from each tribe.


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And Joshua said to them, Pass on before the Ark of Jehovah your God into the middle of the Jordan, and every one of you lift up one stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel,


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That this may be a sign among you. When your children ask in time to come, saying, What do these stones mean to you?


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You shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah; when it crossed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. Thus these stones will be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever.


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And the children of Israel did as Joshua commanded and took up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, as Jehovah told Joshua to do, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel. And they brought them over with them to the place wh


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Then Joshua erected twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who carried the Ark of the Covenant had stood; and they are there to this day.


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And the priests who carried the Ark stood in the middle of the Jordan until everything was completed that Jehovah had commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua. And the people hurried and crossed over.


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And when all the people had completely crossed over, the Ark of Jehovah with the priests crossed over before the people.


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And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over in battle array before the children of Israel, as Moses had told them to do;


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About forty thousand equipped for war crossed over before Jehovah into the plains of Jericho for battle.


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On that day Jehovah magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they revered him as they had revered Moses all the days of his life.


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And when the priests who carried the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah came up out from the middle of the Jordan, when the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up onto the dry land, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and went over all its ban


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And the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they camped in Gilgal, at the eastern edge of Jericho.


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And he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What do these stones mean?


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For Jehovah your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you crossed over, as Jehovah your God did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we crossed over;


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That all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of Jehovah, that it is mighty; that you may fear Jehovah your God always.


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Now when all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard that Jehovah had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the children of Israel until they crossed over, their h


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At that time Jehovah said to Joshua, Make knives of flint, and circumcise again the children of Israel a second time.


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And this is the reason Joshua circumcised them:All the people who came out of Egypt who were males, all the men of war, died in the wilderness on the way, after they had come out of Egypt.


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Although all the people who came out were circumcised, all the people who were born in the wilderness on the way, after the others had come out of Egypt, had not been circumcised.


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For the children of Israel went for forty years through the wilderness until all the nation, the men of war who had come out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not listen to the voice of Jehovah, they to whom Jehovah swore that they would not see t


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And their children, whom He had raised up in place of them, these Joshua circumcised; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on the way.


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And when they had finished circumcising the whole nation, they remained in their place at the camp until they recovered.


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Then Jehovah said to Joshua, Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. So the name of that place has been called Gilgal to this day.


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And the children of Israel camped in Gilgal; and they held the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening on the plains of Jericho.


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And on the day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain.


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And the manna ceased on that day, when they ate of the produce of the land; and there was no longer manna for the children of Israel, but they ate of the yield of the land of Canaan that year.


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Now once, when Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked; and behold, there was a man standing opposite him, and His sword was drawn in His hand. And Joshua went to Him and said to Him, Are You for us or for our adversaries?


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And He said, Neither, but as the Captain of Jehovah's army have I now come. Then Joshua fell to the ground upon his face and worshipped. And he said to Him, What does my Lord speak to His servant?


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And the Captain of Jehovah's army said to Joshua, Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy. And Joshua did so.


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Now Jericho was shut up so tight because of the children of Israel that no one went out and no one went in.


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And Jehovah said to Joshua, See, I have given Jericho and its king and the mighty men of valor into your hand.


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And you shall circle the city, all the men of valor, going around the city one time. Thus shall you do for six days.


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And seven priests shall carry seven trumpets of rams' horns before the Ark. Then on the seventh day you shall circle the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.


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And when they give off the blast of the ram's horn and you hear the trumpet sound, all the people shall shout with a great shout. And the wall of the city will fall down flat, and the people shall go up, each straight ahead.


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So Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, Take up the Ark of the Covenant, and let seven priests carry seven trumpets of rams' horns before the Ark of Jehovah.


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And he said to the people, Pass on and circle the city, and let the armed men pass on before the Ark of Jehovah.


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Then when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams' horns before Jehovah passed on and blew the trumpets; and the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah went after them.


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And the armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets; and the rearguard went after the Ark, the trumpets continually blowing.


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And Joshua commanded the people, saying, You shall not shout, nor let your voice be heard, nor let a word go forth from your mouth, until the day I say to you, Shout! Then you shall shout.


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So he had the Ark of Jehovah circle the city, going around it one time. And they came into the camp and lodged in the camp.


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And the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams' horns went before the Ark of Jehovah, continually blowing the trumpets; and the armed men went before them, and the rearguard went after the Ark of Jehovah, the trumpets continually blowing.


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And they circled the city on the second day one time and returned to the camp. This they did for six days.


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Then on the seventh day they rose early, at the break of dawn, and circled the city in the same manner seven times. Only on that day did they circle the city seven times.


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And at the seventh time the priests blew the trumpets, and Joshua said to the people, Shout! For Jehovah has given you the city.


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And the city shall be devoted to Jehovah for destruction, it and all that is in it. Only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all who are with her in her house, because she hid the messengers we sent.


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But as for you, keep yourselves from what has been devoted to destruction, lest you devote yourselves to destruction by taking of what has been devoted and you make the camp of Israel something devoted to destruction and bring trouble to it.


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But all the silver and the gold and the vessels of bronze and iron, these are holy to Jehovah; they shall come into the treasury of Jehovah.


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So the people shouted and the trumpets were blown; and when the people heard the trumpet sound, the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat. And the people went up into the city, each straight ahead, and they captured the city.


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And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city with the edge of the sword:both men and women, young and old, and oxen and sheep and donkeys.


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And Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, Go to the house of the harlot, and bring out from there the woman and all that belongs to her, as you swore to her.


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And the young men who had been spies went and brought out Rahab and her father and her mother and her brothers and all that belonged to her; all her family they brought out and set outside the camp of Israel.


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And they burned the city with fire and all that was in it; but the silver and the gold and the vessels of bronze and iron, they put in the treasury of the house of Jehovah.


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And Joshua preserved Rahab the harlot and her father's house and all that belonged to her, and she has dwelt within Israel to this day; for she hid the messengers whom Joshua had sent to spy out Jericho.


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Then at that time Joshua charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man before Jehovah who rises up to rebuild this city Jericho! At the cost of his firstborn son shall he lay its foundation, and at the cost of his youngest son shall he set up


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But the children of Israel acted unfaithfully in that which was devoted to destruction, for Achan the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of that which was devoted to destruction; and the anger of Jehovah was kind


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Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth-aven, east of Bethel; and he spoke to them, saying, Go up and spy out the land. So the men went up and spied out Ai.


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And they returned to Joshua and said to him, Not all the people need go up; let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Do not make all the people labor there, for the enemies are few.


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And the men of Ai struck some of them, about thirty-six men; and they pursued them from before the gate unto Shebarim and struck them on the slope. And the heart of the people melted and became like water.


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And Joshua rent his clothes and fell to the ground upon his face before the Ark of Jehovah until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust upon their heads.


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And Joshua said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! Why have You brought this people over the Jordan at all? To give us over into the hand of the Amorites and cause us to perish? If only we had been content to dwell across the Jordan!


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For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and they will surround us and cut off our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great name?


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Israel has sinned. Indeed they have trespassed My covenant, which I commanded them; indeed they have taken of that which was devoted to destruction; indeed they have stolen; indeed they have been deceptive; indeed they have put it among their goods.


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Thus the children of Israel are not able to stand before their enemies; they turn their backs before their enemies, for they have become something devoted to destruction. I will not be with you anymore unless you destroy that which was devoted to destruct


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Rise up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow; for thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, There is something devoted to destruction among you, O Israel; you will not be able to stand before your enemies until you remove that which


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Therefore in the morning you shall be brought near by your tribes; and the tribe which Jehovah takes shall draw near family by family; and the family which Jehovah takes shall draw near house by house; and the house which Jehovah takes shall draw near war


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And he who is taken with that which was devoted to destruction shall be burned with fire, he and all that belongs to him, because he has trespassed the covenant of Jehovah and because he has committed folly in Israel.


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So Joshua rose early in the morning and brought Israel near by their tribes, and the tribe of Judah was taken.


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And he brought the family of Judah near, and the family of the Zerahites was taken. And he brought the family of the Zerahites near warrior by warrior, and Zabdi was taken.


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And he brought the house of Zabdi near warrior by warrior, and Achan the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.


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And Joshua said to Achan, My son, give glory to Jehovah the God of Israel, and make confession to Him. And tell me what you have done; do not hide anything from me.


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Then Achan answered Joshua and said, It is true; I have sinned against Jehovah the God of Israel; and this is what I did:


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When I saw among the spoil a beautiful mantle of Shinar and two hundred shekels of silver and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. And now they are hidden in the earth in my tent, with the silver under it.


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And Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent. And there it was, hidden in his tent, with the silver under it.


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And they took the things from within the tent and brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel, and spread them out before Jehovah.


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Then Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan the son of Zerah and the silver and the mantle and the wedge of gold, and his sons and his daughters and his oxen and his donkeys and his sheep and his tent and all that he had; and they brought them up to th


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And Joshua said, Why have you troubled us? Jehovah will trouble you this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire when they had stoned them with stones.


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Then they erected over him a great heap of stones, which is there to this day; and Jehovah turned from the fierceness of His anger. Therefore the name of that place is called the Valley of Achor to this day.


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Then Jehovah said to Joshua, Do not be afraid or dismayed. Take all the people of war with you, and rise and go up to Ai. See, I have given the king of Ai and his people and his city and his land into your hand.


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And you shall do to Ai and to its king as you did to Jericho and to its king; except its spoil and its cattle you shall take for your plunder. Set an ambush for the city behind it.


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So Joshua rose up with all the people of war to go up to Ai. And Joshua chose thirty thousand men, mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.


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And he commanded them, saying, See, you shall lie in ambush for the city behind the city. Do not go very far from the city, and all of you be ready.


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And I and all the people who are with me will draw near to the city. Then when they come forth to meet us, as it was the first time, we will flee before them.


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And they will come out after us until we have drawn them out from the city, for they will say, They are fleeing before us as they did the first time. Thus we will flee before them.


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Then you shall rise up from the ambush and take possession of the city, for Jehovah your God will give it into your hand.


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And when you capture the city, you shall set the city on fire. You shall do according to the word of Jehovah. See, I have commanded you.


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Then Joshua sent them forth; and they went to the place of ambush, and they stayed between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. And Joshua spent that night among the people.


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And Joshua rose early in the morning and mustered the people; and he and the elders of Israel went up before the people to Ai.


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And all the people of war who were with him went up and drew near and came before the city. And they camped to the north of Ai, so that the valley was between them and Ai.


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Now he had taken about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.


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So they set the people, the whole camp, which was north of the city, and the rearguard to the west of the city. And Joshua went into the valley that night.


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Now when the king of Ai saw this, the men of the city hurried and rose up early and went to meet Israel in battle, he and all his people, at the assigned place, facing the Arabah; for he did not know that there was an ambush set for him behind the city.


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And Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten before them, and they fled by the way of the wilderness.


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Then all the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them; and they pursued after Joshua and thus were drawn out of the city.


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And not a man was left in Ai or in Bethel who did not go forth after Israel, but they abandoned the city, leaving it open, and pursued after Israel.


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Then Jehovah said to Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand. And Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.


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And the ambush rose up quickly from their place and ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and they entered the city and captured it; and they hurried and set the city on fire.


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And when the men of Ai turned to see behind them, they looked, and there it was - the smoke of the city going up to heaven; and they had no way to flee this way or that way when the people who had fled into the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.


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When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that the smoke of the city was rising, they turned and slew the men of Ai.


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And the others came out from the city to meet them, so that they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side and some on that side. And they struck them, so that no one was left to survive or escape.


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And when Israel had finished slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness where they had pursued them, and all of them had fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge


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And all those who fell that day, both of men and of women, were twelve thousand, all the people of Ai.


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And Joshua did not withdraw his hand with which he stretched out the javelin until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.


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Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for themselves as plunder, according to the word of Jehovah, which He commanded Joshua.


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And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening time. And when the sun set, Joshua commanded, and they took his corpse down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the city gate, and they erected over him a great heap of stones, which is there


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As Moses the servant of Jehovah had commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of unhewn stones upon which no one had lifted up an iron tool. And they offered upon it burnt offerings to Jehovah, and they s


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And there he wrote upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.


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And all Israel and their elders and their officers and their judges stood on either side of the Ark in front of the Levitical priests who carried the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah, both sojourner and native alike:half of them in front of Mount Gerizim a


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And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that was written in the book of the law.


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There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua did not read before all the congregation of Israel and the women and the little ones and the sojourners who went among them.


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And when all the kings who were across the Jordan in the hill country and in the lowland and on all the shore of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, heard of this,


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And so they too acted craftily. And they went out as though they were envoys; and they took old sacks upon their donkeys, and old torn up and bound up wineskins,


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And old patched sandals on their feet, and old garments upon themselves; and all the bread of their provisions was dry and had become moldy.


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And they went to Joshua at the camp of Gilgal and said to him and to the men of Israel, From a faraway land we have come; now therefore make a covenant with us.


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And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Perhaps you dwell among us. How then can we make a covenant with you?


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And they said to Joshua, We will be your servants. And Joshua said to them, Who are you, and where are you coming from?


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And they said to him, From a very far land your servants have come because of the name of Jehovah your God, for we have heard reports of Him and all that He did in Egypt


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And all that He did to the two kings of the Amorites who were across the Jordan, to Sihon the king of Heshbon and to Og the king of Bashan, who was in Ashtaroth.


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So our elders and all the inhabitants of our land spoke to us, saying, Take provisions in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them; and you shall say to them, We will be your servants; make then a covenant with us.


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This bread of ours was hot when we took it for our provisions from our houses on the day we went forth to come to you; and here it now is:it is dry and has become moldy.


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And these wineskins, which we filled, were new; and here they are:they are torn up. And these clothes and sandals of ours have become old because of the very long journey.


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And Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them to let them live, and the leaders of the assembly swore an oath to them.


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Then at the end of three days, after they had made the covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors and that they dwelt among them.


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And the children of Israel set out and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon and Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.


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And the children of Israel did not strike them, for the leaders of the assembly had sworn to them by Jehovah the God of Israel; and all the assembly murmured against the leaders.


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Then all the leaders said to all the assembly, We have sworn to them by Jehovah the God of Israel; therefore now we cannot touch them.


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This we will do with them and let them live, so that wrath does not come upon us because of the oath that we swore to them.


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And the leaders said to them, Let them live. So they became woodcutters and drawers of water for all the assembly, as the leaders had said concerning them.


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Then Joshua called for them and spoke to them, saying, Why have you deceived us, saying, We are very far from you; when you dwell among us?


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Now therefore you shall be cursed; and there shall never fail to be slaves from among you, woodcutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.


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And they answered Joshua and said, Because it had been told to your servants for certain that Jehovah your God had commanded Moses His servant to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you. Therefore we were very


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And he did so to them and delivered them from the hand of the children of Israel, and they did not slay them.


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And that day Joshua made them woodcutters and drawers of water for the assembly and for the altar of Jehovah, as they are to this day, in the place that He would choose.


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And when Adoni-zedek the king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had taken Ai and had utterly destroyed it (as he had done to Jericho and its king, so did he do to Ai and its king), and that the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among


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They were very afraid, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai and all its men were mighty men.


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So Adoni-zedek the king of Jerusalem sent word to Hoham the king of Hebron and Piram the king of Jarmuth and Japhia the king of Lachish and Debir the king of Eglon, saying,


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Come up to me and help me, and let us strike Gibeon; for they have made peace with Joshua and the children of Israel.


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Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered together and went up, they and all their camps; and they camped against Gibeon and fought agains


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And the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, Do not let your hand fail your servants. Come up to us quickly; and save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites who inhabit the hill country are gathered against us.


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So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him and all the mighty men of valor.


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And Jehovah said to Joshua, Do not be afraid of them, for I have given them into your hand. No man among them will stand before you.


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And Jehovah threw them into a panic before Israel, and He struck them with a great stroke at Gibeon; and He pursued them on the way toward the ascent of Beth-horon; and He struck them as far as Azekah and Makkedah.


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And while they fled from before Israel, when they were on the descent of Beth-horon, Jehovah sent large stones upon them from heaven as far as Azekah, and they died. There were more who died because of the hailstones than the children of Israel slew with


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Then Joshua spoke to Jehovah on the day when Jehovah delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, be still over Gibeon; And you, Moon, over the valley of Aijalon!


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And the sun was still, And the moon stayed, Until the nation avenged themselves of their enemies. Is it not written in the book of Jashar? And the sun stayed in the middle of the heavens, and it did not hurry to set for about a whole day.


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And there was never a day like that day, before it or after it, when Jehovah listened to the voice of a man; for Jehovah fought for Israel.


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And Joshua said, Roll large stones over the mouth of the cave, and station men by it in order to keep them.


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But you, do not stay here; pursue after your enemies, and attack them from behind. Do not allow them to go to their cities, for Jehovah your God has given them into your hand.


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And when Joshua and the children of Israel finished striking them with a very great stroke until they were consumed, though there were some survivors of them who survived and went into the fortified cities,


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All the people returned to the camp, to Joshua at Makkedah, in peace. No one spoke against any of the children of Israel.


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And they did so; and they brought those kings out of the cave to him:the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.


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And when they brought out those five kings to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel; and he said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, Come near; put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near and put their feet upo


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And Joshua said to them, Do not be afraid or dismayed; be strong and take courage, for thus will Jehovah do to all your enemies against whom you fight.


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And Joshua struck them after that and put them to death, and he hung them on five trees; and they hung upon the trees until evening.


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And when the sun set, Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden; and they put large stones over the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.


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And Joshua captured Makkedah on that day, and he struck it and its king with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed them and every soul that was in it; he left no survivors. And he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.


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And Jehovah delivered it also with its king into the hand of Israel. And he struck it with the edge of the sword, as well as every soul that was in it; he left no survivors in it. And he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.


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Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Libnah to Lachish, and he camped against it and fought against it.


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And Jehovah delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, and he captured it on the second day and struck it with the edge of the sword as well as every soul that was in it, just as he had done to Libnah.


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Then Horam the king of Gezer came up to help Lachish, and Joshua struck him and his people, so that he left him no survivor.


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Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Lachish to Eglon, and they camped against it and fought against it.


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And they captured it on that day and struck it with the edge of the sword; and every soul that was in it he utterly destroyed on that day, just as he had done to Lachish.


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And they captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword as well as its king and all its cities and every soul that was in it. He left no survivor, just as he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it and every soul that was in it.


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And he captured it and its king and all its cities; and they struck them with the edge of the sword and utterly destroyed every soul that was in it; he left no survivor. As he had done to Hebron, and as he had done to Libnah and its king, so he did to Deb


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Thus Joshua struck the whole land:the hill country and the Negev and the lowland and the slopes and all their kings; he left no survivor but utterly destroyed everything that breathed, as Jehovah the God of Israel had commanded.


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And Joshua struck them from Kadesh-barnea even unto Gaza, and all the land of Goshen even unto Gibeon.


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Now all these kings and their lands Joshua took at one time, for Jehovah the God of Israel fought for Israel.


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And when Jabin the king of Hazor heard of this, he sent word to Jobab the king of Madon and to the king of Shimron and to the king of Achshaph


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And to the kings who were on the north in the hill country and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth and in the lowland and in the highland of Dor on the west;


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To the Canaanites on the east and on the west; and the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill country; and the Hivites under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.


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And they went out, they and all their camps with them, a people as great as the sand on the seashore in number, and very many horses and chariots.


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And all these kings met together, and they came and camped together at the waters of Merom to fight with Israel.


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Then Jehovah said to Joshua, Do not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow at this time I will deliver all of them up slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.


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So Joshua and all the people of war with him went against them at the waters of Merom suddenly, and they fell on them.


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And Jehovah delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them and pursued them to Great Sidon and to Misrephoth-maim and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward. And they struck them until no survivor was left to them.


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So Joshua did to them according to what Jehovah had spoken to him; he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.


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Then Joshua returned at that time and took Hazor, and he struck its king with the sword; for Hazor had formerly been the head of all these kingdoms.


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And they struck every soul that was in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it ; nothing that breathed was left. And he burned Hazor with fire.


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And all the cities of these kings with all their kings, Joshua took; and he struck them with the edge of the sword and utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of Jehovah had commanded.


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However as for all the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them except Hazor alone; Joshua burned it.


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And all the spoil of these cities and the cattle, the children of Israel took as their plunder; but they struck every man with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them; they left nothing that breathed.


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As Jehovah had commanded Moses His servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and so Joshua did; he left nothing undone of all that Jehovah had commanded Moses.


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So Joshua took all that land, the hill country and all the Negev and all the land of Goshen and the lowland and the Arabah and the hill country of Israel and its lowland;


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From Mount Halak, which goes up to Seir, unto Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon. And he took all their kings and struck them and put them to death.


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There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon; they took all in battle.


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For it was of Jehovah to harden their heart to meet Israel in battle so that He might utterly destroy them and that they might not receive mercy but be destroyed as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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And Joshua went at that time and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah and all the hill country of Israel; Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.


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None of the Anakim were left in the land of the children of Israel; only in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod did some remain.


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So Joshua took the whole land according to all that Jehovah had spoken to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land had rest from war.


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Now these are the kings of the land whom the children of Israel struck and whose land they possessed across the Jordan toward the rising of the sun from the river Arnon to Mount Hermon and all the eastern Arabah:


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Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the river Arnon, and from the city in the middle of the river valley, that is, half of Gilead even unto the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammo


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And the eastern Arabah unto the Sea of Chinneroth, even unto the eastern side of the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, toward Beth-jeshimoth, that is, southward to the foot of the slopes of Pisgah;


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And the territory of Og the king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who dwelt in Ashtaroth and Edrei,


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And ruled over Mount Hermon and Salecah and all Bashan to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, that is, half of Gilead, to the border of Sihon the king of Heshbon.


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Moses the servant of Jehovah and the children of Israel struck them. And Moses the servant of Jehovah gave this land as a possession to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.


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And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel struck across the Jordan on the west, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon unto Mount Halak, which goes up to Seir; and Joshua gave this land to the tribes of Israel as a possess


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The land that is in the hill country and in the lowland and in the Arabah and on the slopes and in the wilderness and in the Negev - the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites; the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.


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Now Joshua was old and advanced in age; and Jehovah said to him, You are old and advanced in age, and very much of the land remains to be possessed.


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From the Shihor, which is before Egypt, unto the border of Ekron on the north (this is considered to be Canaanite), with five lords of the Philistines:the Gazite and the Ashdodite, the Ashkelonite, the Gittite, and the Ekronite; and that of the Avvim


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In the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah, which belongs to the Sidonians, unto Aphek at the border of the Amorites;


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And the land of the Gebalites and all Lebanon toward the rising of the sun, from Baal-gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath;


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All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, all the Sidonians. I Myself will drive them out before the children of Israel; nevertheless allot it to Israel as an inheritance as I have commanded you.


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With them the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave to them across the Jordan on the east, as Moses the servant of Jehovah gave to them:


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From Aroer, which is on the edge of the river Arnon, and from the city, which is in the middle of the river valley, and all the tableland from Medeba to Dibon;


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And all the cities of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon;


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And Gilead with the territory of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon and all Bashan unto Salecah;


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All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); and Moses struck them and dispossessed them.


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Yet the children of Israel did not dispossess the Geshurites and the Maacathites, but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day.


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However to the tribe of Levi he did not give an inheritance; the offerings of Jehovah the God of Israel by fire are their inheritance, as He had spoken to him.


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And for them the border was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the river Arnon, and from the city, which is in the middle of the river valley, and all the tableland by Medeba;


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That is, all the cities of the tableland and all the kingdom of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon and whom Moses struck with the leaders of Midian:Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon who inhabited the land.


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And Balaam the son of Beor, who practiced divination, the children of Israel slew with the sword with those of them who were already slain.


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And the border of the children of Reuben was the Jordan and its border. This is the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities with their villages.


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And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad, according to their families.


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And for them the border was Jazer and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon to Aroer, which is before Rabbah;


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And in the valley Beth-haram and Beth-nimrah and Succoth and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon the king of Heshbon; the Jordan and its border to the end of the Sea of Chinnereth, across the Jordan on the east.


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This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities with their villages.


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And Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh; and it was for the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families.


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And their border was from Mahanaim and all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og the king of Bashan, and all the tent villages of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities;


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And half of Gilead, and Ashtaroth and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, for half of the children of Machir, according to their families.


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These are what Moses gave as inheritances in the plains of Moab across the Jordan at Jericho to the east.


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But to the tribe of Levi Moses did not give an inheritance; Jehovah the God of Israel is their inheritance, as He had spoken to them.


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And these are what the children of Israel received as inheritances in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel gave to them as inheritances,


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By the lot of their inheritance, as Jehovah commanded through Moses for the nine tribes and the half-tribe.


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For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe across the Jordan; but to the Levites he did not give an inheritance among them.


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For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and they gave no portion to the Levites in the land, but only cities to dwell in with their pasture lands for their cattle and their substance.


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Then the children of Judah approached Joshua in Gilgal; and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, You know the word that Jehovah spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh- barnea.


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I was forty years old when Moses the servant of Jehovah sent me out from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land; and I returned such a word to him as was genuinely upon my heart.


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However my brothers who went up with me made the people's heart melt, but I fully followed Jehovah my God.


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And Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land on which your foot has trodden will be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, for you have fully followed Jehovah my God.


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And now, look, Jehovah has kept me alive, as He said, for these forty-five years, since the time Jehovah spoke this word to Moses while Israel walked through the wilderness. And now, look, today I am eighty-five years old.


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Today I am still as strong as I was on the day Moses sent me out; as my strength was then, so my strength is now, for battle and for going out and coming in.


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Now therefore give me this hill country, of which Jehovah spoke on that day, for you heard on that day that the Anakim were there with great fortified cities. It may be that Jehovah will be with me, and I will dispossess them, as Jehovah said.


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Therefore Hebron has become the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day because he fully followed Jehovah the God of Israel.


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And the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba. (This Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.) And the land had rest from war.


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And the lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families was unto the border of Edom, to the wilderness of Zin at the south; this was the southern extreme.


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And their southern border was from the end of the Salt Sea, from the tongue- shaped peninsula that faces south;


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And it went southward to the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed on to Zin, and went up south of Kadesh-barnea, and passed on to Hezron, and went up to Addar, and went around Karka,


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And passed on to Azmon, and went out to the brook of Egypt; and the end of the border was at the sea. This shall be your southern border.


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And the eastern border was the Salt Sea to the end of the Jordan. And the border on the northern side was from the tongue of the sea at the end of the Jordan.


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And the border went up to Beth- hoglah, and passed on to the north of Beth-arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben;


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And the border went up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, and turned northward toward Gilgal, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim, which is south of the river valley; and the border passed on to the waters of En-shemesh; and its end was at En-rogel;


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Then the border went up by the Valley of Ben-hinnom to the south of the Jebusite slope (this is Jerusalem); and the border went to the top of the mountain that is before the Valley of Hinnom on the west, which is the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim


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And the border turned from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah and went to the cities of Mount Ephron; then the border turned toward Baalah (this is Kiriath-jearim);


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And the border went around west of Baalah to Mount Seir, and passed by the northern slope of Mount Jearim (this is Chesalon), and went down to Beth- shemesh, and passed on to Timnah;


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And the border went to the slope of Ekron northward; and the border turned toward Shikkeron, and passed by Mount Baalah, and went to Jabneel; and the end of the border was at the sea.


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And the western border was the Great Sea and its border. This is the border of the children of Judah all around according to their families.


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And to Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a portion in the midst of the children of Judah according to the commandment of Jehovah to Joshua, that is, Kiriath-arba (Arba was the father of Anak); this is Hebron.


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And Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak from there:Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, the children of Anak.


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And he went up from there to the inhabitants of Debir. (Now the name of Debir was formerly Kiriath-sepher.)


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And Caleb said, Whoever strikes Kiriath-sepher and takes it, I will give to him Achsah my daughter as wife.


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Then Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's brother, took it; and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.


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And when she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she alighted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, What do you want?


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And she said, Give me a blessing, for you have given me land in the Negev; give me also springs of water. So he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.


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And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the border of Edom on the south were Kabzeel and Eder and Jagur


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Ashdod, with its towns and its villages; Gaza, with its towns and its villages, unto the brook of Egypt and the Great Sea and its border.


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But as for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not dispossess them; thus the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah in Jerusalem to this day.


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And the lot for the children of Joseph went from the Jordan at Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, to the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel,


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And went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Lower Beth-horon and to Gezer; and its end was the sea.


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And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus:The border for their inheritance on the east was from Ataroth-addar to Upper Beth-horon;


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And the border went to the sea. On the north was Michmethath, and the border went around eastward to Taanath- shiloh, and passed by it to the east of Janoah,


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From Tappuah the border went westward to the brook of Kanah; and its end was the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families,


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Together with the cities that were set apart for the children of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.


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Yet they did not dispossess the Canaanites who dwelt in Gezer, but the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim to this day and have become forced labor.


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And this was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was Joseph's firstborn. To Machir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, Gilead and Bashan had been given, since he was a man of war.


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Therefore the lot was for the rest of the children of Manasseh according to their families:for the children of Abiezer and for the children of Helek and for the children of Asriel and for the children of Shechem and for the children of Hepher and for the


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But Zelophehad the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters. And these are the names of his daughters:Mahlah and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.


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And they came before Eleazar the priest and before Joshua the son of Nun and before the leaders, saying, Jehovah commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers. Therefore he gave them an inheritance among their father's brothers according to


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And ten portions fell to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is across the Jordan,


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Because the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance among his sons. And the land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the children of Manasseh.


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And the border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethath, which was opposite Shechem; and the border went south to the inhabitants of En-tappuah.


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The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but Tappuah, on the border of Manasseh, belonged to the children of Ephraim.


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And the border went down to the brook of Kanah. These cities to the south of the brook belonged to Ephraim, among the cities of Manasseh; and the border of Manasseh was to the north of the brook, and its end was the sea.


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To the south was Ephraim's, and to the north was Manasseh's, and the sea was his border. And they touched Asher on the north and Issachar on the east.


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And to Manasseh there belonged in Issachar and Asher, Beth-shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabita


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Yet the children of Manasseh could not dispossess these cities, but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in this land.


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And when the children of Israel became strong, they made the Canaanites forced labor; but they did not utterly dispossess them.


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Then the children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, Why have you given me an inheritance of only one lot and one portion, although I am still a numerous people, whom Jehovah has thus far blessed?


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And Joshua said to them, If you are a numerous people, go up to the forest, and cut out land there for yourself in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim; since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.


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And the children of Joseph said, The hill country is not enough for us; and all the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both those of Beth-shean and its towns and those in the Valley of Jezreel.


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And Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, saying, You are a numerous people, and you have great strength; you shall not have one lot only,


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But the hill country shall be yours. Though it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and its end will be yours; for you shall dispossess the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron and though they are strong.


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And the whole assembly of the children of Israel gathered together at Shiloh, and they set up the Tent of Meeting there; and the land was subdued before them.


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And among the children of Israel there remained seven tribes whose inheritance had not been divided to them.


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And Joshua said to the children of Israel, How long will you be slack about going to take possession of the land that Jehovah, the God of your fathers, has given you?


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Appoint three men for each tribe, and I will send them out. And they shall rise up and go through the land, and write a description of it with a view to its being their inheritance; and they shall come to me.


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And they shall divide it into seven portions:Judah shall stay at his border on the south, and the house of Joseph shall stay at their border on the north.


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And you shall describe the land in seven portions and bring the description here to me, then I will cast lots for you here before Jehovah our God.


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But the Levites shall have no portion among you, for the priesthood of Jehovah is their inheritance. And Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh received their inheritance across the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of Jehovah had given to t


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And the men rose up and went; and Joshua commanded those who went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it; then return to me, and I will cast lots for you before Jehovah here in Shiloh.


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So the men went, and they passed through the land and described it by cities into seven portions in a book. Then they came to Joshua at the camp at Shiloh.


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And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Jehovah. And there Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions.


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And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came out, according to their families. And the border of their lot went between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.


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And their border on the northern side was from the Jordan, and the border went up alongside Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward, and its end was at the wilderness of Beth-aven.


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And from there the border passed to Luz, on the southern side of Luz (this is Bethel); and the border went down to Ataroth-addar, at the mountain which is south of Lower Beth-horon.


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And the border turned from there and went around the west side southward, from the mountain that is to the south of Beth-horon; and its end was at Kiriath- baal (this is Kiriath-jearim), a city of the children of Judah. This was the west side.


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The south side was from the limit of Kiriath-jearim, and the border went from the west and went to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah;


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And the border went down to the limit of the mountain that is before the Valley of Ben-hinnom, which is north of the valley of the Rephaim; and it went down into the Valley of Hinnom, to the southern side of the Jebusite slope, and went down to En-rogel,


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And turned north, and went to En- shemesh, and went to Geliloth, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim; and it went down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben;


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And the border passed by the northern side of Beth-hoglah, and the end of the border was at the northern tongue of the Salt Sea at the south end of the Jordan. This was the southern border.


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And the Jordan borders it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families, according to its borders all around.


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And the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho and Beth-hoglah and Emek-keziz


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And Zelah, Haeleph, and that of the Jebusite (this is Jerusalem), Gibeath, Kiriath:fourteen cities with their villages. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.


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And the second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of the children of Simeon, according to their families. And their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Judah.


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And all the villages which were around these cities as far as Baalath-beer, that is, Ramah of the Negev. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.


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Out of the portion of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon because the portion of the children of Judah was too large for them; thus the children of Simeon received an inheritance in the midst of their inheritance.


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And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families. And the border of their inheritance was as far as Sarid;


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And their border went up to the west, even to Maralah, and reached Dabbesheth; and it reached the brook that is before Jokneam.


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And it turned from Sarid eastward toward the rising of the sun to the border of Chisloth-tabor, and went to Daberath and up to Japhia;


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And from there it passed eastward toward the rising of the sun to Gath- hepher, to Eth-kazin, and went to Rimmon, where it turned to Neah;


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This was the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.


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And the border reached Tabor and Shahazumah and Beth-shemesh; and the end of their border was at the Jordan:sixteen cities with their villages.


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This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities with their villages.


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And it turned toward the rising of the sun to Beth-dagon, and reached Zebulun and the valley of Iphtahel northward to Beth-emek and Neiel, and went to Cabul on the north


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And the border turned to Ramah and as far as the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah; and its end was at the sea at the region of Achzib;


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This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.


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For the children of Naphtali the sixth lot came out, for the children of Naphtali according to their families.


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And their border was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, and Adami- nekeb and Jabneel unto Lakkum; and its end was the Jordan;


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And the border turned westward to Aznoth-tabor, and went from there to Hukkok, and reached Zebulun on the south, and reached Asher on the west and Judah at the Jordan toward the rising of the sun;


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This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities with their villages.


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When the territory of the children of Dan was lost to them, the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem; and they took it and struck it with the edge of the sword; and they took possession of it and inhabited it; and they called Leshem Dan, acco


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This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.


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So they finished distributing the land as inheritances according to its borders. And the children of Israel gave Joshua the son of Nun an inheritance in the midst of them;


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According to the commandment of Jehovah they gave him the city that he asked for, that is, Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim. And he built up the city and dwelt in it.


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These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel gave as inheritances by lot in Shiloh before Jehovah at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. So they


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Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Designate the cities of refuge, concerning which I spoke to you through Moses,


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So that the manslayer who kills a person by mistake and unwittingly may flee there. And they will be to you as a refuge from the avenger of blood.


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And he shall flee to one of these cities and stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city. And they shall take him into the city to themselves and give him a place; and he shall dwell among the


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And if the avenger of blood pursues after him, they shall not deliver the manslayer into his hand, for he struck his neighbor unwittingly and had not hated him previously.


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And he shall dwell in that city until he can stand before the assembly for a judgment, until the death of the high priest who is at that time; then the manslayer shall return and enter into his own city and into his own house, into the city from which he


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And they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and Kiriath-arba (this is Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.


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And across the Jordan at Jericho, to the east, they designated Bezer in the wilderness on the plain out of the tribe of Reuben and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.


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These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel and for the sojourner who sojourned among them, so that anyone who killed a person by mistake might flee there and not die at the hand of the avenger of blood until he stood before the assembl


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Then the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites approached Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel,


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And they spoke to them in Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, Jehovah commanded through Moses that we be given cities to dwell in with their pasture lands for our cattle.


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So the children of Israel gave the Levites, according to the commandment of Jehovah, these cities with their pasture lands out of their inheritance:


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And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites. And to the children of Aaron the priest who were of the Levites there went by lot thirteen cities out of the tribe of Judah and out of the tribe of the Simeonites and out of the tribe of Benjamin.


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And to the rest of the children of Kohath there went by lot ten cities out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim and out of the tribe of Dan and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh.


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And to the children of Gershon there went by lot thirteen cities out of the families of the tribe of Issachar and out of the tribe of Asher and out of the tribe of Naphtali and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.


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To the children of Merari according to their families there went twelve cities out of the tribe of Reuben and out of the tribe of Gad and out of the tribe of Zebulun.


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So the children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their pasture lands, as Jehovah had commanded through Moses.


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And out of the tribe of the children of Judah and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon they gave these cities, which are here mentioned by name;


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And they went to the children of Aaron, one of the families of the Kohathites, of the children of Levi; for the first lot was theirs.


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And they gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba was the father of Anak), which is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with its pasture lands around it.


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But the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.


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And to the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the manslayer; and Libnah with its pasture lands


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And Ain with its pasture lands and Juttah with its pasture lands and Beth- shemesh with its pasture lands:nine cities out of those two tribes.


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All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.


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And as for the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites who remained of the children of Kohath, the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim were given.


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And they gave them Shechem with its pasture lands in the hill country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the manslayer; and Gezer with its pasture lands


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And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh:Taanach with its pasture lands and Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands:two cities.


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All the cities for the families of the children of Kohath who remained were ten, with their pasture lands.


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And to the children of Gershon, one of the families of the Levites, they gave, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the manslayer; and Be- eshterah with its pasture lands:two cities.


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And out of the tribe of Naphtali:Kedesh in Galilee with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the manslayer; and Hammoth-dor with its pasture lands and Kartan with its pasture lands:three cities.


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All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities, with their pasture lands.


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And to the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, they gave, Jokneam with its pasture lands and Kartah with its pasture lands,


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And out of the tribe of Gad:Ramoth in Gilead with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the manslayer; and Mahanaim with its pasture lands,


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These were all the cities for the children of Merari according to their families, which remained of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities.


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All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities with their pasture lands.


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So Jehovah gave Israel all the land that He had sworn to give to their fathers, and they possessed it and dwelt in it.


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And Jehovah gave them rest all around, according to all that He had sworn to their fathers. And no one among all their enemies could stand before them; Jehovah delivered all their enemies into their hand.


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Not a word failed of all the good things that Jehovah had spoken to the house of Israel; all came to pass.


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And he said to them, You have kept all that Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, and you have listened to my voice in all that I have commanded you.


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You have not forsaken your brothers these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of Jehovah your God.


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And now Jehovah your God has given your brothers rest as He promised them. And now turn and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Jehovah gave you across the Jordan.


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However be very careful to perform the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, to love Jehovah your God and to walk in all His ways and to keep His commandments and to cling to Him and to serve Him with all your heart and


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Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given an inheritance in Bashan, and to the other half of it Joshua gave an inheritance with their brothers across the Jordan on the west. Furthermore, when Joshua sent them away to their tents and blessed th


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He spoke to them, saying, Return with many riches to your tents and with very many cattle, with silver and with gold and with bronze and with iron and with very much clothing; divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.


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So the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh went; and they departed from among the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which was in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which


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And when they came into the region of the Jordan that is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an altar there at the Jordan, an altar great in appearance.


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And the children of Israel heard the report, which said, Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar out in front of the land of Canaan, in the region of the Jordan, on the side of the children of


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And when the children of Israel heard this, all the assembly of the children of Israel gathered together at Shiloh to go up in battle against them.


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And the children of Israel sent Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh in the land of Gilead,


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And with him ten leaders, one leader each to a fathers' house of all the tribes of Israel; and they were each the head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel.


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And they went to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh in the land of Gilead and spoke to them, saying,


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Thus says all the assembly of Jehovah, What is this trespass that you have committed against the God of Israel in turning this day from following after Jehovah by building yourselves an altar to rebel against Jehovah this day?


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Was the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves unto this day, though there was a plague upon the assembly of Jehovah,


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That you have turned this day from following after Jehovah? And now, if you rebel against Jehovah this day, tomorrow He will be angry with the whole assembly of Israel.


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But if the land of your possession is unclean, cross over into the land of the possession of Jehovah, where Jehovah's tabernacle dwells, and take a possession in the midst of us. But do not rebel against Jehovah, nor rebel against us, by building yourselv


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Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the matter of the devoted thing? But there was wrath upon the whole assembly of Israel, and that one man did not perish alone for his iniquity.


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Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered and said to the heads of the thousands of Israel,


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The Mighty One, God Jehovah; the Mighty One, God Jehovah; He knows, and may Israel itself know, whether it was in rebellion, or whether it was in trespass against Jehovah - may You not save us today -


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That we built an altar for ourselves to turn away from following after Jehovah; or if we did so to offer burnt offerings and meal offerings upon it or to make sacrifices of peace offerings upon it, may Jehovah Himself require it.


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But truly we have done this for a reason and out of a concern that in the future your children might speak to our children, saying, What have you to do with Jehovah the God of Israel?


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For Jehovah has made the Jordan a border between us and you, O children of Reuben and children of Gad. You have no portion in Jehovah. Thus your children would cause our children to cease fearing Jehovah.


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Therefore we said, Let us now take action to build the altar, though not for burnt offering or for sacrifice;


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But it will be a witness between us and between you, and between our generations after us, that we may do the service of Jehovah before Him with our burnt offerings and our sacrifices and our peace offerings, and that your children may not say in the futu


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And we said, When they say this to us and to our generations in the future, we will say, Look at the copy of the altar of Jehovah that our fathers made, though not for burnt offering or for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you.


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Far be it from us that we would rebel against Jehovah and turn away today from following after Jehovah by building an altar for burnt offering, for meal offering, or for sacrifice, besides the altar of Jehovah our God, which is before His tabernacle!


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And when Phinehas the priest and the leaders of the assembly and the heads of the thousands of Israel who were with him heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it seemed good in their sight.


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And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh, Today we know that Jehovah is in the midst of us, because you have not committed this trespass against Jehovah. Now you have de


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So Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest and the leaders returned from the children of Reuben and the children of Gad, from the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel; and they brought back word to them.


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And the matter seemed good in the sight of the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God and never spoke again of going up in battle against them to destroy the land in which the children of Reuben and the children of Gad dwelt.


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And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad named the altar; for, they said, it is a witness between us that Jehovah is God.


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And many days after Jehovah had given Israel rest from all their enemies around them and Joshua was old and advanced in age,


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Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and their heads and their judges and their officers; and he said to them, I am old and advanced in age;


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And you have seen all that Jehovah your God has done to all these nations because of you, for it was Jehovah your God who fought for you.


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See, I have allotted to you all these nations that remain as an inheritance for your tribes, as well as all the nations that I cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun.


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And Jehovah your God, He will thrust them out before you and dispossess them out of your sight; and you will possess their land, as Jehovah your God spoke to you.


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Therefore be very strong to keep and do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, not turning away from it to the right or to the left,


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And not going unto these nations, these that remain with you; neither shall you make mention of the names of their gods, nor cause anyone to swear by them, nor serve them, nor bow down to them;


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For Jehovah has dispossessed great and strong nations because of you; but as for you, no one has stood before you to this day.


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One man of you chases a thousand, for it is Jehovah your God who fights for you, as He has spoken to you.


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But if you do indeed turn back and cling to the remainder of these nations, these that remain with you, and marry into them, and go among them and they among you;


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Know for certain that Jehovah your God will no longer dispossess these nations out of your sight, but they will become a snare and a trap to you, and a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that Jehovah your G


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And now today I am going the way of all the earth; and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not a word has failed of all the good things that Jehovah your God spoke concerning you. All has come to pass for you; not one word of it has fai


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But just as all the good things that Jehovah your God spoke concerning you have come upon you, so will Jehovah cause all the evil things to come upon you, until He has destroyed you from this good land that Jehovah your God has given you.


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When you transgress the covenant of Jehovah your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down to them, the anger of Jehovah will burn against you, and you will perish quickly from the good land that He has given you.


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Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem; and he called for the elders of Israel and for their heads and for their judges and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.


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And Joshua said to all the people, Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt across the River long ago, Terah the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor; and they served other gods.


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And I took your father Abraham from across the River and brought him throughout all the land of Canaan; and I multiplied his seed and gave him Isaac.


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And I gave Jacob and Esau to Isaac. And I gave Mount Seir to Esau, that he might possess it; but Jacob and his sons went down into Egypt.


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And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt by what I did in the midst of it; and afterward I brought you out.


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And I brought your fathers out from Egypt, and you came to the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and with horsemen unto the Red Sea.


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And when they cried out to Jehovah, He put deep darkness between you and the Egyptians; and He brought the sea upon them and covered them. And your eyes saw what I did to Egypt. And you dwelt in the wilderness for many days.


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And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, who dwelt beyond the Jordan, and they fought with you. And I gave them into your hand, and you possessed their land; and I destroyed them before you.


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Then Balak the son of Zippor, the king of Moab, rose up and fought against Israel; and he sent men and called for Balaam the son of Beor to curse you.


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But I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he altogether blessed you, and I delivered you out of his hand.


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And you crossed over the Jordan and came to Jericho; and the lords of Jericho fought against you:the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I gave them into your hand.


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And I sent the hornet before you, and it drove them out from before you, that is, the two kings of the Amorites; it was not by your sword or by your bow.


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And I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities which you did not build, and you dwell in them; you eat of vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant.


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Now therefore fear Jehovah, and serve Him in sincerity and faithfulness; and put away the gods whom your fathers served across the River and in Egypt, and serve Jehovah.


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And if it seems wrong in your sight to serve Jehovah, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve, either the gods from across the River, whom your fathers served, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we wi


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And the people answered and said, Far be it from us that we would forsake Jehovah to serve other gods;


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For Jehovah our God is the One who brought us and our fathers out from the land of Egypt, from the slave house, and who did those great signs in our sight and preserved us in all the way that we went and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed


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And Jehovah drove out all the peoples from before us, that is, the Amorites who inhabit the land. We also will serve Jehovah, for He is our God.


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Then Joshua said to the people, You are not able to serve Jehovah, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgression or your sins.


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If you forsake Jehovah and serve foreign gods, He will turn and do you harm and consume you after He has done good to you.


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Then Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Jehovah on your own, to serve Him. And they said, We are witnesses.


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Now therefore put away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your hearts to Jehovah the God of Israel.


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So Joshua made a covenant for the people that day, and he made a statute and an ordinance for them in Shechem.


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And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and he took a great stone and erected it there under the terebinth that was at the sanctuary of Jehovah.


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And Joshua said to all the people, This stone here shall be as a witness against us; for it has heard all the words of Jehovah, which He has spoken to us; and it shall be as a witness against you, lest you act deceptively against your God.


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And after these things Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, died at the age of one hundred and ten years.


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And they buried him in the territory of his inheritance, in Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.


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And Israel served Jehovah throughout all the days of Joshua and throughout all the days of the elders whose days extended after Joshua's and who knew all the work of Jehovah that He had done for Israel.


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And Joseph's bones, which the children of Israel had brought up from Egypt, were buried in Shechem, in the portion of the field that Jacob had bought from the children of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money; and it became the inheri


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And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which had been given to him in the hill country of Ephraim.


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And after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel inquired of Jehovah, saying, Who will go up first for us against the Canaanites, in order to fight against them?


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And Judah said to Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, and we will fight against the Canaanites; and I will go also with you into your lot. And Simeon went with him.


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So Judah went up, and Jehovah gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand; and they struck ten thousand of their men in Bezek.


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And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek and fought with him; and they struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.


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And Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him and caught him, and they cut off his thumbs and his big toes.


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And Adoni-bezek said, Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off gleaned scraps under my table. As I have done, so God has repaid me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.


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And the children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and they took it and struck it with the edge of the sword; and they set the city on fire.


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And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who inhabited the hill country and the Negev and the lowland.


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Then Judah went against the Canaanites who dwelt in Hebron. (Now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath- arba.) And they struck Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.


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Then Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it; and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.


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And when she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for the field. And she alighted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, What do you want?


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And she said to him, Give me a blessing, for you have given me land in the Negev; give me also springs of water. So Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.


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And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up from the city of palms with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is to the south of Arad. And they went and dwelt with the people.


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Then Judah went with Simeon his brother and struck the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath; and they utterly destroyed it. And they called the name of the city Hormah.


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And Jehovah was with Judah. And they took possession of the hill country, but they could not dispossess the inhabitants of the valley, for they had chariots of iron.


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And they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had spoken; and he dispossessed the three sons of Anak from there.


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But the Jebusites, who dwelt in Jerusalem, the children of Benjamin did not dispossess; thus the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.


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And those who watched saw a man coming out of the city; and they said to him, Show us now the entrance of the city, and we will show mercy to you.


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And he showed them the entrance of the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man and all his family go.


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And the man went into the land of the Hittites; and he built a city and called its name Luz, which is its name unto this day.


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And Manasseh did not dispossess Beth-shean with its towns or Taanach with its towns or the inhabitants of Dor with its towns or the inhabitants of Ibleam with its towns or the inhabitants of Megiddo with its towns, but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling


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And when Israel became strong, they made the Canaanites forced labor; but they did not utterly dispossess them.


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And Ephraim did not dispossess the Canaanites who dwelt in Gezer, but the Canaanites dwelt among them in Gezer.


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Zebulun did not dispossess the inhabitants of Kitron or the inhabitants of Nahalol, but the Canaanites dwelt among them and became forced labor.


