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He shall not take a widow or a divorced woman, or profane, [or] a harlot, but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.


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Speak to Aaron, saying, No man of your seed in their generations shall draw near to offer the bread of his God if there is a blemish in him.


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For no man in whom [there is] a blemish shall draw near, a blind man, or a lame man, or disfigured, or deformed,


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or crook-backed, or a crushed one, or who has a blemish in his eye, or a scurvy or scabbed person, or one with crushed testicles.


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No man of the seed of Aaron, the priest, in whom there is a blemish shall come near to offer the fire offerings of the LORD. He has a blemish; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.


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Only he shall not go in to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a blemish; so that he does not profane My sanctuaries. For I the LORD do sanctify them.


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Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they set themselves apart from the holy things of the sons of Israel, and that they do not profane My holy name [in what] they devote to Me. I [am] the LORD.


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Say to them, Any man of all your seed among your generations who draws near to the holy things, which the sons of Israel set apart to the Lord, if he has his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from My presence. I [am] the LORD.


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Any man of the seed of Aaron who [is] leprous, or has a discharge, he shall not eat of the holy things until he is clean. And he who touches any uncleanness of a person, or a man whose semen has gone out from him,


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or a man who touches any swarming thing by which he may be made unclean, or touches a man who is unclean to him, by any uncleanness he has,


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the soul which has touched it shall be unclean until evening. And he shall not eat of the holy things unless he washes his flesh with water.


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And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things, because it [is] his food.


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And they shall keep My ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, that they may not die for it when they defile it. I the LORD sanctify them.


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There shall no stranger eat [of] the holy things. A tenant of a priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.


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But if the priest buys a soul with his silver, he shall eat of it. And one born in his house shall eat of his food.


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And a priest's daughter, when she belongs to a man, a stranger, she may not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.


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But if the priest's daughter is a widow, or put away, and has no child, and has returned to her father's house, as [in] her youth, she shall eat of her father's food. But no stranger shall eat of it.


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And if a man eats a holy thing without knowing it, then he shall put the fifth part to it, and shall give to the priest with the holy thing.


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and so load on them the iniquity of the guilt offering in their eating of their holy things. For I [am] the LORD who sanctifies them.


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Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel, and say to them: Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, who offers his sacrifices for his vows, for all his free-will offerings, which they will offer to the LORD for a burnt offering,


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[you shall offer] at your own will a male without blemish, of the cattle, of the sheep, or of the goats.


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And when a man offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD to carry out [his] vow, or a free-will offering in cattle or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted. There shall be no blemish in them.


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Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a running sore, or having scurvy, or scabbed, you shall not offer these to the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to the LORD.


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As to a young bull or a sheep that is deformed or dwarfed, you may offer that [for] a free-will offering. But for a vow it shall not be accepted.


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You shall not offer to the LORD that which is bruised or crushed, or broken or cut. You shall not make [any offering] of it in your land.


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And you shall not offer the bread of your God out of the hand of a son of a stranger, or any of these, because their uncleanness [is] in them, and blemishes are in them. They shall not be accepted for you.


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When a bull or a lamb or a goat is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam. And from the eighth day and from then on, it shall be accepted for a fire offering to the LORD.


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And you shall not profane My holy name. But I will be holy among the sons of Israel. I [am] the LORD who is sanctifying you,


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Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, The feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim, holy convocations, even these are My appointed feasts.


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Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day [is] the sabbath of rest, a holy convocation. You shall not do any work. It [is] a sabbath to the LORD in all your dwellings.


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These [are] the appointed feasts of the LORD, holy convocations which you shall proclaim in their appointed seasons.


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and on the fifteenth day of the same month [is] the Feast of Unleavened [Bread] to the LORD. You must eat unleavened [bread] seven days.


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but you shall offer a fire offering to the LORD seven days. In the seventh day [is] a holy convocation. You shall do no work of labor.


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Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap the harvest of it, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.


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And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD to be received for you. On the next day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.


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And you shall offer that day when you wave the sheaf, a male lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering to the LORD.


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And its food offering [shall be] two-tenth parts of fine flour mixed with oil, a fire offering to the LORD for a sweet savor. And the drink offering of it [shall be] of wine, the fourth [part] of a hin.


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And you shall eat neither bread, nor parched grain, nor green ears, until the same day, until you have brought an offering to your God. [It shall be] a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.


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And you shall count to you from the next day after the sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete.


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To the next day after the seventh sabbath you shall number fifty days. And you shall offer a new food offering to the LORD.


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You shall bring out of your homes two wave loaves of two-tenth parts. They shall be of fine flour. They shall be baked with leaven, firstfruits to the LORD.


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And you shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bull, and two rams. They shall be [for] a burnt offering to the LORD, with their food offering, and their drink offerings, a fire offering of sweet savor to the LORD.


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Then you shall sacrifice one he-goat for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.


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And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits, a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.


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And you shall proclaim on the same day [that] it may be a holy convocation to you. You shall do no work of labor. [It shall be] a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.


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And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not completely reap the corner of your field. When you reap the gleaning of your harvest, you shall not gather. You shall leave them to the poor and to the stranger. I [am] the LORD your God.


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Speak to the sons of Israel saying: In the seventh month, in the first [day] of the month, you shall have a sabbath, a memorial summons, a holy convocation.


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Also, on the tenth of this seventh month, this is a day of atonement. [It shall be] a holy convocation to you. And you shall afflict your souls and offer a fire offering to the LORD.


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And you shall do no work in that same day, for it [is] a day of atonement, in order to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.


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And any soul who does any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.


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You shall do no kind of work. [It shall be] a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.


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It [shall be] to you a sabbath of rest, and you shall humble your souls. In the ninth of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your sabbath.


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Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month [shall be] the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the LORD.


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Seven days you shall offer a fire offering to the LORD. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you. And you shall offer a fire offering to the LORD. It [is] a solemn assembly. And you shall do no work of labor.


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These [are] the feasts of the LORD which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer a fire offering to the LORD, a burnt offering and a food offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, everything on its day;


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besides the sabbath of the LORD, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your free-will offerings which you give to the LORD.


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Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days. On the first day [shall be] a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.


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And you shall take the fruit of majestic trees for yourselves on the first day, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook. And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.


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And you shall keep it a feast to the LORD seven days in the year. [It shall be] a statute forever in your generations. You shall keep it in the seventh month.


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so that your generations may know that I made the sons of Israel live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I [am] the LORD your God.


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Command the sons of Israel that they bring to you pure olive oil, beaten, for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.


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Aaron shall order it from evening until the morning before the LORD forever outside the veil of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation. [It shall be] a statute forever in your generations.


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


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Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD forever, from the sons of Israel by an everlasting covenant.


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And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'. And they shall eat it in the holy place, for it [is] most holy to him of the fire offerings of the LORD, by a never-ending statute.


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And the son of a woman of Israel, whose father [was] an Egyptian, went out among the sons of Israel. And this son of the woman of Israel and a man of Israel struggled together in the camp.


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


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Bring forth the despiser outside the camp. And let all that heard lay their hands on his head. Let all the congregation stone him.


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And he that blasphemes the Name of the LORD shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall surely stone him. And the stranger as well, even as he that is born in the land; when he blasphemes the Name, he shall be put to death.


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break for break, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As he has caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him.


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And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel that they should bring the despiser outside the camp, and stone him with stones. And the sons of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.


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Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath to the LORD.


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You shall sow your field six years, and you shall prune your vineyard six years, and gather in the fruit of it.


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But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest to the land, a sabbath for the LORD. You shall neither sow your field, nor prune your vineyard.


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You shall not reap that which grows of its own accord of your harvest, neither gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It is a year of rest to the land.


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And the sabbath of the land shall be food for you, for you and for your servant, and for your slave woman and for your hired servant, and for your stranger who stays with you,


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and for your cattle, and for the beast that [is] in your land, shall all the increase of it be for food.


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And you shall number seven sabbaths of years to you, seven times seven years. And the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be forty-nine years to you.


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Then you shall cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth of the seventh month; in the day of atonement, the trumpet shall sound throughout all your land.


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And you shall make the fiftieth year holy, [one] year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you, and you shall return each man to his possession, and you shall return each man to his family.


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That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. You shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself in it, nor gather in it of your undressed vine.


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For it [is] the jubilee. It shall be holy to you. You shall eat the increase of it out of the field.


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And if you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress one another.


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According to the number of years after the jubilee you shall buy of your neighbor, according to the number of years of the fruits he shall sell to you.


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According to the number of years you shall increase the price of it, and according to the fewness of years you shall diminish the price of it, for he is selling to you the number of crops.


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And you shall do My statutes, and keep My judgments and do them. And you shall dwell in the land in safety.


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And if you shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow nor gather in our increase!


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


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And you shall sow the eighth year, and eat of old fruit until the ninth year; until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old fruit.


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The land shall not be sold forever; for the land [is] Mine. For you are strangers and pilgrims with Me.


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If your brother has become poor, and has sold his possessions, and if any of his relatives come to redeem it, then he shall redeem that which his brother sold.


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And if the man has no redeemer, and he himself is able to redeem it, and he has enough [for] its redemption;


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then let him count the years of the sale of it, and restore the overplus to the man to whom he sold it, so that he may return to his possession.


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But if he is not able to restore to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that has bought 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 a man sells a dwelling house [in] a walled city, then he may redeem it [within] a whole year after it is sold. He may redeem it within a full year.


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And if it is not redeemed within the time of a full year, then the house in the walled city shall be made sure forever to its buyer throughout his generations. It shall not go out in the jubilee.


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But the houses of the villages which have no walls around them shall be counted as the field of the country. They may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.


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As to the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, the Levites shall have a never-ending redemption.


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And if a man purchases [a house] from the Levites, then the house that was sold and the city of his possession shall go out in [the year of] jubilee. For the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel.


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And if your brother has become poor, and his hand has failed with you, then you shall help him; yes, [even if he is] a stranger or a visitor, so that he may live with you.


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You shall take no interest from him, or increase. But you shall fear your God, so that your brother may live with you.


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I [am] the LORD your God who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan [and] to be your God.


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And if your brother [who lives] beside you has become poor, and is sold to you, you shall not compel him to serve as a bond-servant.


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As a hired servant, as a temporary resident, he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the year of jubilee.


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And he shall depart from you, he and his sons with him, and shall return to his own family. And he shall return to the possession of his fathers.


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For they [are] My servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as a slave.


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Both your male slaves, and your female slaves whom you shall have, [shall be] of the nations that are all around you. You shall buy male slaves and female slaves from them.


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And also you may buy of the sons of the tenants who are staying with you; and from their families that [are] with you, whom they fathered in your land. And they shall be your possession.


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And you shall take them as an inheritance [for] your sons after you, to hold [for] a possession; you may lay service on them forever. But you shall not rule over your brothers, the sons of Israel, over one another, with harshness.


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And if an alien or a tenant lifts up a hand among you, and your brother [who dwells] beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the alien [or] tenant by you, or to the offshoot of the alien's family,


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either his uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him, or [any] that is near of kin to him of his family may redeem him. Or if he is able, he may redeem himself.


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And he shall count with his buyer from the year that he was sold to him, until the year of jubilee. And the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years, according to the time of a hired servant it shall be with him.


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If [there are] still many years, he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the silver that he was bought for, according to the years.


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And if there remain but few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall count with him, [and] according to his years he shall give him again the price of his redemption.


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And if he is not redeemed in this way, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he and his sons with him.


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For to Me the sons of Israel [are] servants. They are My servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. I [am] the LORD your God.


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You shall make no idols to yourselves; and you shall not set up for yourselves graven images, or a memorial pillar. And you shall not set up any image of stone in your land in order to bow down to it. For I [am] the LORD your God.


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then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.


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And your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time. And you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.


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And I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down and none shall make [you] afraid. And I will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.


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And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight. And your enemies shall fall by the sword in front of you.


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For I will have respect to you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish My covenant with you.


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I [am] the LORD your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, from being their bondmen. And I have broken the bonds of your yoke, and made you go upright.


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and if you shall despise My statutes, or if your soul hates My judgments, so that you will not do all My commandments, so that you break My covenant;


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I will also do this to you: I will even appoint terror over you, consumption, and burning fever, consuming the eyes and causing sorrow of heart. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.


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And I will set My face against you, and you shall be slain before your enemies. They that hate you shall reign over you. And you shall flee when none pursues you.


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And if you will not yet listen to Me for all this, then I will punish 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 heaven like iron and your earth like bronze.


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And your strength shall be spent in vain. For your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the field yield their fruits.


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


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I will also send wild beasts among you, who shall bereave you. And I will destroy your cattle, and make you few. And your highways shall be deserted.


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And I will bring a sword on you that shall execute the vengeance of the covenant. And when you are gathered inside your cities, I will send the plague among you. And you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.


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When I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver [you] your bread again by weight. And you shall eat and not be satisfied.


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then I will walk contrary to you also in fury. And I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.


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And I will destroy your high places and cut down your images, and throw your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols, and My soul shall despise you.


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And I will make your cities waste and cause your sanctuaries to be deserted. And I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.


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And I will turn the land into wasteland. And your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.


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And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you. And your land shall be waste, and your cities waste.


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Then shall the land enjoy its sabbaths, as long as it lies waste, and [you are] in your enemies' land; then shall the land rest and enjoy its sabbaths.


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As long as it lies waste it shall rest, because it did not rest in your sabbaths when you lived on it.


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And on those of you that are left I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee as if fleeing from a sword. And they shall fall when none pursues.


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And they shall fall on one another, as if it were before a sword, when none pursues. And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.


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And they that are left of you shall putrefy in their wilful sin in your enemies' lands. And also they shall putrefy with them in the perversities of their fathers.


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If they shall confess their wilfulness and the wilfulness of their fathers, with their sin which they sinned against Me, and that also they have walked contrary to Me--


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I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies. If then their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they then pay for their iniquity,


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


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The land also shall be forsaken by them, and shall enjoy its sabbaths, while it lies waste without them. And they shall accept the punishment of their iniquities; because, even because they despised My judgments, and because their soul hated My statutes.


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And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I hate them, to destroy them utterly and to break My covenant with them. For I [am] the LORD their God.


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But for their sakes, I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, so that I might be their God. I [am] the LORD.


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These [are] the statutes and judgments and laws, which the Lord made between Him and the sons of Israel in Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.


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Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When a man shall make a special vow, the persons [shall be] for the LORD by your evaluation.


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And your judgment shall be of the male from twenty years old even to sixty years old, even your judgment shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.


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And if from five years old to twenty years old, then your judgment shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.


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And if from a month old to five years old, then your judgment shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female your judgment [shall be] three shekels of silver.


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And if from sixty years old and above, if it is a male then your judgment shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.


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But if he is poorer than your judgment, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him. The priest shall value him according to the ability of him who vowed.


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And if [it is] an animal of which they bring an offering to the LORD, all that one gives of such to the LORD shall be holy.


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He shall not alter it nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good. And if he shall at all change animal for animal, then it and the exchange of it shall be holy.


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And if [it is] any unclean animal, of which they do not offer a sacrifice to the LORD, then he shall present 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 shall it be.


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And when a man shall sanctify his house [to be] holy to the LORD, then the priest shall judge it, whether it is good or bad. As the priest shall judge it, so shall it stand.


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And if he who sanctified it desires to redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth [part] of the silver of your judgment, and it shall be his.


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And if a man shall sanctify to the LORD [some part] of a field that he owns, then your judgment shall be according to its seed; a homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver.


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But if he sanctifies his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the silver according to the years that remain, even until the year of jubilee, and it shall be taken from your estimation.


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And if he who sanctified the field desires in any way to redeem it, then he shall add the fifth [part] of the money of your estimation to it, and it shall be made sure to him.


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And if he will not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.


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But the field, when it goes out in the jubilee, shall be holy to the LORD, as a field devoted. The possession of it shall be the priest's.


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And if [a man] sanctifies to the LORD a field which he has bought, which [is] not of the fields he owns,


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then the priest shall count to him the worth of your estimation, until the year of jubilee. And he shall give your estimation in that day, a holy thing to the LORD.


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In the year of the jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to him who owns [it in] the land.


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And all your judgments shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary, twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.


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However, the first-born of an animal, which should be the LORD's first-born, no man shall sanctify it, whether an ox, or sheep, it is the LORD's.


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And if [it is] of an unclean animal, then he shall redeem it according to your estimation, and shall add a fifth [part] of it to it. Or if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your estimation.


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However, no devoted thing that a man shall devote to the LORD of all that he has, either of man or animal, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed. Every devoted thing [is] most holy to the LORD.


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Nothing devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed, [but] shall surely be put to death.


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And all the tithe of the land, of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, [is] the LORD's. [It is] holy to the LORD.


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And all the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, all that passes under the rod, a tenth shall be holy to the LORD


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He shall not search whether it is good or bad, neither shall he change it. And if he changes it at all, then both it and the change of it shall be holy. It shall not be redeemed.


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And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, 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 congregation of the sons of Israel, according to their families, by their fathers' house, with the number of names, every male by their heads,


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from twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their armies.


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And these [are] the names of the men that shall stand with you: Of Reuben, Elizur, the son of Shedeur;


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


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These [were] the noted ones of the congregation, rulers of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.


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And they gathered all the congregation on the first [day] of the second month. And they declared their pedigrees according to their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their heads.


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And the sons of Reuben, Israel's first-born son, by their generations, according to their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of the names, by their heads, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:


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Of the sons of Simeon, by their generations, according to their families, by their fathers' house, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their heads, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:


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Of the sons of Gad, by their generations, according to their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:


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Of the sons of Judah, by their generations, according to their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all able to go forth to war:


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Of the sons of Issachar, by their generations, according to their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:


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Of the sons of Zebulun, by their generations, according to their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:


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Of the sons of Joseph, of the sons of Ephraim, by their generations, according to their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:


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Of the sons of Manasseh, by their generations, according to their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:


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Of the sons of Benjamin, by their generations, according to their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:


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Of the sons of Dan, by their generations, according to their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:


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Of the sons of Asher, by their generations, according to their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:


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Of the sons of Naphtali, by their generations, according to their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:


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These are those who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the rulers of Israel being twelve men. Each one was for the house of his fathers.


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And all those that were numbered of the sons of Israel, by their fathers' house, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel:


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But you shall set the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all its vessels, and over all its things. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its vessels. And they shall serve it, and shall camp around the tabernacle.


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And when the tabernacle sets forth, the Levites shall take it down. And when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up. And the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.


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And the sons of Israel shall pitch their tents, each man by his own camp, and each man by his own banner, throughout their armies.


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But the Levites shall pitch around the tabernacle of testimony, so that there may be no wrath upon the congregation of the sons of Israel. And the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.


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Every man of the sons of Israel shall pitch by his own banner, with the banner of their father's house. They shall pitch far off, around the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And those who pitch on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall be those of the banner of the camp of Judah, throughout their armies. And Nahshon the son of Amminadab [shall be] captain of the sons of Judah.


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And those that pitch next to him [shall be] the tribe of Issachar. And Nethaneel the son of Zuar shall be captain of the sons of Issachar.


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All that were numbered of the camp of Judah [were] a hundred and eighty-six thousand and four hundred, by their armies. They shall set forth first.


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On the south side [shall be] the standard of the camp of Reuben, according to their armies; the ruler of the sons of Reuben [shall be] Elizur the son of Shedeur.


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And those who pitch beside him [shall be] the tribe of Simeon. And the captain of the sons of Simeon [shall be] Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.


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All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben [were] a hundred fifty-one thousand, four hundred and fifty, throughout their armies. And they shall go forward in the second rank.


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And the tabernacle of the congregation shall go forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp. As they camp, so they shall go forward, each man in his place, by their banners.


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On the west side [shall be] the banner of the camp of Ephraim, according to their armies. And the ruler of the sons of Ephraim [shall be] Elishama the son of Ammihud.


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And beside him [shall be] the tribe of Manasseh. And the ruler of the sons of Manasseh [shall be] Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.


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All that [were] numbered of the camp of Ephraim were a hundred eight thousand, one hundred, by their armies. And they shall go forward in the third rank.


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The banner of the camp of Dan [shall be] on the north side of their armies. And the ruler of the sons of Dan [shall be] Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.


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And those that camp beside him [shall be] the tribe of Asher. And the ruler of the sons of Asher [shall be] Pagiel the son of Ocran.


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All those who [were] numbered in the camp of Dan were a hundred fifty-seven thousand, six hundred. They shall go last with their banners.


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These [are] those numbered of the sons of Israel, by their fathers' house. All those numbered of the camps throughout their armies were six hundred three thousand, five hundred and fifty.


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And the sons of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses. So they pitched by their banners, and so they went forward, everyone according to their families, according to the house of their fathers.


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These also [are] the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day the LORD spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.


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And these [are] the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the first-born, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.


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These [are] the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom he set apart to minister as priests.


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And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD when they offered strange fire before the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai. And they had no sons. And Eleazar and Ithamar ministered as priest in the presence of Aaron their father.


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Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, so that they may minister to him.


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And they shall keep his charge and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle.


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And they shall keep all the vessels of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the sons of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.


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And you shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his son. They [are] wholly given to him out of the sons of Israel.


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And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's office. And the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.


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And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the sons of Israel instead of all the first-born that open the womb among the sons of Israel. Therefore the Levites shall be Mine.


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Because all the first-born [are] Mine. On the day that I struck all the first-born in the land of Egypt I set apart to Myself all the first-born in Israel, both man and animal. They shall be Mine. I [am] the LORD.


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Number the sons of Levi according to their fathers' house, by their families. You shall number them, every male from a month old and upward.


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And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These [were] the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.


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Of Gershon [was] the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites. 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; those numbered of them [were] seven thousand, five hundred.


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And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation [shall be] the tabernacle, and the tent, and its covering, and the veil for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,


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and the hangings of the court, and the veil for the door of the court which [is] by the tabernacle and by the altar all around, and the cords of it, for all the service of it.


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And of Kohath [was] the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites. These were the families of the Kohathites.


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In number, all the males, from a month old and upward, [were] eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.


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And the ruler of the house of the father 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 vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the veil, and all the service of it.


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And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest [shall be] chief over the leaders of the Levites, having the oversight of the ones 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 numbered of them, according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, [were] six thousand and two hundred.


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And the ruler of the house of the father of the families of Merari [was] Zuriel the son of Abihail. They pitched on the side of the tabernacle northward.


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And the office and charge of the sons of Merari [were] the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and its vessels, and all its service,


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And those who camp before the tabernacle toward the east, before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, [shall be] Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the sons of Israel. And the stranger that comes near shall be put to death.


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All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the command of the LORD, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, [were] twenty-two thousand.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Number all the first-born of the males of the sons of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.


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You shall take the Levites for Me, I [am] the LORD, in the place of all the first-born among the sons of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the sons of Israel.


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And all the first-born males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those numbered of them, [were] twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.


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Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle. And the Levites shall be Mine. I [am] the LORD.


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And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and seventy-three of the first-born of the sons of Israel, who are more than the Levites,


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you shall even take five shekels each by the head, according to the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take. (The shekel [is] twenty gerahs.)


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And Moses took the redemption silver from those who were over and above the ones who were redeemed by the Levites.


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He took the silver from the first-born of the sons of Israel: one thousand three hundred and sixty-five [shekels], according to the shekel of the sanctuary.


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And Moses gave the silver from those who were redeemed to Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.


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Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, according to their families, by their fathers' house,


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from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years, all that enter into the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.


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This [shall be] the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, the most holy [place].


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And when the camp sets forth, Aaron and his sons shall come, and they shall take down the covering veil and cover the ark of testimony with it.


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And they shall put on it the covering of dugong skins, and shall spread over [it] a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in its staves.


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And they shall spread a cloth of blue upon the table of showbread, and put the dishes on it, and the spoons, and the bowls, and the cups of the drink offering, and covers to cover it with. And the continual bread shall be on it.


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And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet and cover it with a covering of dugong skins, and they shall put in its staves.


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And they shall take a cloth of blue and cover the lampstand of the light, and its lamps, and its tongs, and its fire-pans, and all the oil vessels of it, with which they serve it.


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And they shall put it and all the vessels of it inside a covering of dugong skins, and shall put [it] upon a bar.


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And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins, and they shall put the staves into it.


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And they shall take all the vessels of ministry with which they serve in the sanctuary, and put [them] in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of dugong skins, and shall put them on a bar.


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And they shall put on it all its vessels, with which they minister about it: the fire-pans, the flesh-hooks, and the shovels, and the basins, all the vessels of the altar. And they shall spread upon it a covering of dugong skins, and put the staves into it.


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And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, when the camp is to set forward, then after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it]. But they shall not touch any holy thing lest they die. These [are] the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest [belongs] the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the daily food offering, and the anointing oil, the oversight of all the tabernacle and of all that is in it, in the sanctuary and in its vessels.


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But do this to them, and they shall live and not die when they approach the Holy of Holies. Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint 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, all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, its covering, and the covering of the dugong skins that [is] above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,


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and the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court, which [is] by the tabernacle and by the altar all around, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and all that is made for them. So they shall serve.


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At the appointment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burdens and in all their service. And you shall appoint all their burdens to the ones in charge.


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This [is] the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation. And their charge [shall be] under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.


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You shall number them from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who enters into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And this [is] the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation: the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets,


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and the pillars of the court all around, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their vessels, and with all their service. And you shall count the vessels of the charge of their burden by name.


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This [is] the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the tabernacle of the congregation under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.


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And Moses and Aaron and the leaders of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites according to their families, and according to the house of their fathers.


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They numbered them from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone that entered into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.


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These [were] the ones that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.


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And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon throughout their families, and by their fathers' house,


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from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone that enters into the service for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,


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even those that were numbered of them by their families, by their fathers' house, were two thousand six hundred and thirty.


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These [are] the ones numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the command of the LORD.


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And those numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, throughout their families, by their fathers' house,


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These [are] those numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.


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All those numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the rulers of Israel numbered, according to their families and according to their fathers' house,


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from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone that came to do the service of the ministry and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation,


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According to the command of the LORD they were numbered by the hand of Moses, everyone according to his service and according to his burden. So they were numbered by him as the LORD commanded Moses.


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Command the sons of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper and everyone that has an issue, and whoever is defiled by a dead body.


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You shall put out both male and female. You shall put them outside the camp so that they do not defile their camps in the midst of which I dwell.


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And the sons of Israel did so, and put them out outside the camp. Even as the LORD spoke to Moses, so the sons of Israel did.


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Speak to the sons of Israel: When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to commit a trespass against the LORD, and that person is guilty,


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then they shall confess their sin which they have done. And he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, and add to it one fifth of it, and give [it] to him against whom he has sinned.


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But if the man has no kinsman to whom he may make restitution for the guilt, the guilt which is restored [shall be] given to the LORD, to the priest, besides the ram of the atonement by which an atonement shall be made for him.


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And every offering of all the holy things of the sons of Israel which they shall bring to the priest, shall be his.


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Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, If any man's wife goes astray, and has committed a trespass against him,


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and a man lie with her carnally, and if it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and is kept hidden, and she is defiled, and [there is] no witness against her, neither is she taken in the act;


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and if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled-- or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he is jealous of his wife, and she is not defiled--


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then the man shall bring his wife to the priest. And he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense on it, for it [ is] an offering of jealousy, a reminding offering, bringing iniquity to mind.


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And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel. And the priest shall take of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle and put [it] into the water.


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And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the reminding offering in her hands, which [is] the jealousy offering. And the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causes the curse.


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And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say to the woman, If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, you are free from this bitter water that causes the curse.


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But if you have gone aside, being under your husband, and if you are defiled and some man besides your husband has given his semen to you,


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then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing. And the priest shall say to the woman, The LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD makes your thigh to fall away and your belly to swell.


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And this water that causes the curse shall go into your bowels to make [your] belly swell and your thigh fall 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 blot [them] out with the bitter water.


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And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causes the curse. And the water that causes the curse shall enter into her [and become] bitter.


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Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar.


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And the priest shall take a handful of the offering, as a memorial of it, and burn [it] upon the altar, and afterward [he] shall cause the woman to drink the water.


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And when he has made her drink the water, then it shall be, if she is defiled and has committed a trespass against her husband, the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and [become bitter]. And her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away. And the woman shall be a curse among her people.


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Or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.


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Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When a man or woman shall separate in order to vow a vow of a Nazarite, in order to separate to the LORD,


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he shall separate from wine and strong drink and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink; neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes or dried.


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All the days of his Nazariteship he shall eat nothing that is made of the grapevine, from grape seeds even to a stem.


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All the days of his vow to separate, no razor shall come upon his head. Until all the days are fulfilled in which he separates to the LORD, he shall be holy. He shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.


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


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And if any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he has defiled the head of his consecration, then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day he shall shave it.


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And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtle-doves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, because he sinned by the dead, and shall make his head holy that same day.


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And he shall set apart to the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a guilt offering. But the former days shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.


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And this [is] the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled. He shall be brought to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And he shall offer his offering to the LORD: one male lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,


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and a basket of unleavened cakes of fine flour, cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their food offerings and their drink offerings.


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And the priest shall bring [them] before the LORD 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 the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also his food offering and his drink offering.


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And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation and put [it] in the fire under the sacrifice of the 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] on the hands of the Nazarite, after his separation has been shaved.


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And the priest shall wave them [for] a wave offering before the LORD. This [is] holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder. And afterward the Nazarite may drink wine.


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This [is] the law of the Nazarite who has vowed his offering to the LORD for his separation, besides that which he is able to get. According to the vow which he vowed, so he must do according to the law of his separation.


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Speak to Aaron and to his sons saying, In this way you shall bless the sons of Israel, saying to them,


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And it happened on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, and all the vessels of it, both the altar and all its vessels, and had anointed them and sanctified them,


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and the rulers of Israel offered, the head men of their fathers' house, the rulers of the tribes; these [were] they who stood over the numbered ones.


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And they brought their offerings before the LORD: six covered wagons and twelve oxen, a wagon for two of the rulers, an ox for each one. And they brought them before the tabernacle.


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Take [it] from them so that they may be used in doing the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. And you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service.


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


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But to the sons of Kohath he did not give any, because the service of the sanctuary belonging to them [was that] which they should carry upon their shoulders.


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And the rulers offered for the dedication of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the rulers offered their offering before the altar.


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And the LORD said to Moses, They shall offer their offering, each ruler on his day, for the dedication of the altar.


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And he that offered 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 dish, and its weight hundred and thirty [shekels]; one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering;


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


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He offered [for] his offering one silver dish, and its weight a hundred thirty [shekels] according to the sanctuary shekel; one silver bowl [of] seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering;


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and for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs of the first year. This [was] the offering of Nethaneel the son of Zuar.


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His offering [was] one silver dish, its weight a hundred thirty [shekels] according to the sanctuary shekel; one silver basin [of] seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering;


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


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


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His offering was one silver dish, its weight a hundred thirty [shekels] according to the sanctuary shekel; one silver basin [of] seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering;


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


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and for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs of the first year. This [was] the offering Eliasaph the son of Reuel.


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


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


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


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


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and for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs of the first year. This [was] the offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran.


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His offering [was] one silver dish, its weight a hundred thirty [shekels] according to the sanctuary shekel; one silver basin [of] seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel; of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering;


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and for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs of the first year. 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 rulers of Israel: twelve platters of silver, twelve silver basins, twelve golden pans.


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Each silver dish weighed a hundred and thirty [shekels], each basin seventy. All the silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hundred [shekels], according to the sanctuary shekel.


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twelve golden pans, full of incense, ten [shekels] each, according to the sanctuary shekel. All the gold of the pans [was] a hundred and twenty [shekels].


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All the animals for the burnt offerings were twelve bulls, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their food offering. And the males of the goats for a sin offering twelve.


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And all the animals for the sacrifice of the peace offerings [were] twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This [was] the dedication of the altar after it was anointed.


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And when Moses had gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with Him, then he heard the voice of One speaking to him from the mercy-seat on the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubs. And He spoke to him.


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Speak to Aaron, and say to him, When you bring the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand.


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And this work of the lampstand [was of] beaten gold, to its base and to its blossoms; it was beaten work. According to the pattern which the LORD had showed Moses, so he made the lampstand.


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And in this way shall you do to them to purify them. Sprinkle water of sin-offering on them, and let them shave all their flesh and wash their clothes, and make themselves clean.


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Then let them take a young bull with its food offering, fine flour mixed with oil, and another young bull shall you take for a sin offering.


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And you shall bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation. And you shall gather the whole assembly of the sons of Israel together.


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And you shall bring the Levites before the LORD. And the sons of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites.


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And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD [for] an offering of the sons of Israel, so that they may do the service of the LORD.


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And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bulls. And you shall offer the one [for] a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, to the LORD, to make an atonement for the Levites.


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And you shall set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them [for] an offering to the LORD.


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And after that the Levites shall go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. And you shall purify them and offer them [for] a wave offering.


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For they [are] wholly given to Me from among the sons of Israel, instead of those that open every womb. The first-born of all the sons of Israel, I have taken them to Me.


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For all the first-born of the sons of Israel [are] Mine, both man and animal. On the day that I struck every first-born in the land of Egypt I set them apart for Myself.


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And I have given the Levites [as] a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the sons of Israel, to do the service of the sons of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the sons of Israel, so that there may be no plague among the sons of Israel when the sons of Israel come near the sanctuary.


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And Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the sons of Israel did to the Levites according to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites. So the sons of Israel did to them.


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And the Levites purified themselves, and they washed their clothes. And Aaron offered them, an offering before the LORD. And Aaron made an atonement for them to purify them.


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


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This [is that] which [pertains] to the Levites. From twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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But they shall minister with their brothers in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge; only he shall not serve [at] a service. So you shall do to the Levites as to their duties.


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


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In the fourteenth day of this month, between the evenings, you shall keep it in its appointed time. You shall keep it according to all its statutes, and according to all the ceremonies of it.


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And they prepared the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month between the evenings, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so all the sons of Israel did.


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And there were certain men who were defiled by the dead body of a man, so that they could not prepare the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.


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And those men said to him, We [are] defiled by the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in its appointed time among the sons of Israel?


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Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your generations shall be unclean because of a dead body, or in a journey afar off, he shall still keep the Passover to the LORD.


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They shall keep it the fourteenth day of the second month at evening, eating it with unleavened cakes and bitter [herbs].


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They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break any bone of it. According to all the ordinances of the Passover they shall keep it.


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But the man that [is] clean, and is not in a journey, and holds back from preparing the Passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people. Because he did not bring the offering of the LORD in His appointed time, that man shall bear his sin.


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And if a stranger shall live among you, and prepares the Passover to the LORD, he shall do according to the ordinance of the Passover, and according to its ordinance. You shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger and for him that was born in the land.


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And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the tent of the testimony. And at evening it was upon the tabernacle, looking like fire, until the morning.


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And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the sons of Israel pulled up [stakes]. And in the place where the cloud stayed, there the sons of Israel pitched their tents.


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At the command of the LORD the sons of Israel pulled up [stakes], and at the command of the LORD they pitched. As long as the cloud stayed upon the tabernacle they rested in camp.


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And when the cloud stayed long upon the tabernacle many days, then the sons of Israel kept the charge of the LORD and did not journey.


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And so when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle, according to the command of the LORD they remained in their tents, and according to the command of the LORD they pulled up [stakes].


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And so when the cloud stayed from evening to the morning, and the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they pulled up [stakes]. Whether by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they pulled up [stakes].


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Whether [it was] two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud stayed upon the tabernacle, remaining on it, the sons of Israel stayed in their tents and did not journey. But when it was taken up, they pulled up [stakes].


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At the command of the LORD they encamped, and at the command of the LORD they pulled up [stakes]. They kept the charge of the LORD at the command of the LORD by the hand of Moses.


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Make two trumpets of silver for yourself. You shall make them of beaten work. And they shall be used for the calling of the assembly and for causing the camps to go forward.


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And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall gather themselves to you at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And if they blow with one, then the rulers [who are] heads of the thousands of Israel shall gather themselves to you.


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When you blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall pull up. They shall blow an alarm for their journeys.


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And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets. And they shall be to you for an ordinance forever throughout your generations.


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And if you go to war in your land against the enemy who fights against you, then you shall blow with the trumpets. And you shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.


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Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings, so that they may be to you for a memorial before your GOD. I [am] the LORD your God.


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And on the twentieth of the second month, in the second year, the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle of the testimony.


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And the sons of Israel pulled up in their journeyings out of the wilderness of Sinai. And the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.


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And at the front the sons of Judah pulled up the standard of the camp by their armies. And over his army [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 pulled up, carrying the tabernacle.


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And the standard of the camp of Reuben pulled up according to their armies. And over his army [was] Elizur the son of Shedeur.


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And the Kohathites pulled up carrying the sanctuary. And the tabernacle was set up before they came.


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And the standard of the camp of the sons of Ephraim pulled up according to their armies. And over his army [was] Elishama the son of Ammihud.


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And the standard of the camp of the sons of Dan set forward, the rear guard of all the camps throughout their army. And over his army [was] Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.


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And Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law: We are going to the place of which the LORD said, I will give it to you. Come with us, and we will do you good. For the LORD has spoken good concerning Israel.


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And he said, Please do not leave us, because you know how we are to camp in the wilderness, and so you may be to us for eyes.


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And it shall be, if you go with us, then it shall be, whatever goodness the LORD shall do to us, the same will we do to you.


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And they moved three days' journey from the mountain of the LORD. And the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days' journey, to look for a resting-place for them.


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And it happened when the ark pulled up, Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let Your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate You flee before You.


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And the people [were] evil, as those complaining in the ears of the LORD. And the LORD heard, and His anger was kindled. And the fire of the LORD burned among them and devoured in the outermost parts of the camp.


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And the mixed multitude in their midst lusted with [great] lust. And the sons of Israel also turned and wept, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?


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We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic.


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The people went around and gathered, and ground it in mills, or beat [it] in a mortar, and baked in pans, and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like the taste of fresh oil.


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Then Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent. And the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly. Moses also was displeased.


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And Moses said to the LORD, Why have You afflicted Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, so that You lay the burden of all this people upon me?


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Have I conceived all this people? Did I bring them forth, that You should say to me, Carry them in your bosom like a nursing father carries the sucking child, to the land which You swore to their fathers?


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From where should I get flesh to give to all this people? For they weep to me, saying, Give us flesh that we may eat.


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And if You are going to part this way with me, I beg You to kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your sight, and let me not see my misery.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Gather to Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and the officers over them. And bring them to the tabernacle of the congregation so that they may stand there with you.


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And I will come down and talk with you there. And I will take of the spirit on you, and will put [it] on them, and they shall bear the burden of the people with you so that you do not bear [it] yourself alone.


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And say to the people, Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat flesh. For you have wept in the ears of the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat, for [it was] well with us in Egypt? Therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and you shall eat.


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Even a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is hateful to you, because you have despised the LORD among you, and have wept before Him, saying, Why did we come out of Egypt?


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And Moses said, The people among whom I [am] [are] six hundred thousand footmen. And You have said, I will give them flesh so that they may eat a whole month!


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Shall the flocks and the herds be killed for them, to be enough for them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be enough for them?


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And the LORD said to Moses, Has the LORD's hand become short? You shall see now whether or not My word shall come to pass to you.


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And Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them all around the tabernacle.


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And the LORD came down in a cloud and spoke to him, and took of the spirit on him and gave [it] to the seventy elders. And it happened when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they never did so again.


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But two of the men stayed in the camp; the name of the one [was] Eldad, and the name of the other was Medad. And the Spirit rested upon them. And they [were] of those who were written, but did not go out to the tabernacle. And they prophesied in the camp.


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And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, [one] of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, make them cease.


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


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And a wind went forth from the LORD. And it cut off quails from the sea and let them fall by the camp, about a day's journey on this side, and about a day's journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about two cubits [high upon the face of the earth.


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And the people stood up all that day and all night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails. And he that gathered least gathered ten homers. And they spread [them] out for themselves all around the camp.


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And while the flesh [was] yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.


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And he called the name of that place Graves of Lust, because there they buried the people that lusted.


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And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had taken. For he had taken a Cushite woman.


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And they said, Has the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? Has He not also spoken by us? And the LORD heard.


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And the LORD spoke suddenly to Moses and to Aaron and to Miriam, You three come out to the tabernacle of the congregation. And the three came out.


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And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud and stood [in] the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam. And they both came forth.


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And He said, Hear now My words. If there is a prophet among you, [I] the LORD will make Myself known to him in a vision, and will speak to him in a dream.


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I will speak with him mouth to mouth, even clearly, and not in dark speeches. And he shall behold the likeness of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses?


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And the cloud moved from the tabernacle. And behold! Miriam [became] leprous, as snow. And Aaron looked on Miriam, and behold, [she was] leprous.


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And Aaron said to Moses, Oh, my lord, I beg you, do not lay upon us the sin in which we have done foolishly, and in which we have sinned.


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Let her not be like one dead, of whom the flesh is half gone when he comes out of his mother's womb.


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And the LORD said to Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received.


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And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days. And the people did not pull up until Miriam was brought in.


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Send men so that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give to the sons of Israel. You shall send a man from every tribe of their fathers, everyone a ruler among them.


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And Moses by the command of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran. All those men [were] heads of the sons of Israel.


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


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And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up this [way], southward, and go up [into] the mountain.


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And see the land, what it [is], and the people that live in it, whether it is strong or weak, few or many.


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And see what the land [is] that they live in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they dwell in, whether in tents or in strongholds;


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and what the land [is], whether fat or lean, whether there is wood in it or not. And be of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time [was] the time of first ripe grapes.


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And they went up by the south and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the sons of Anak [were]. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)


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And they came to the valley of Eshcol and cut from there a branch with one cluster of grapes. And they carried it between two men upon a staff, and some of the pomegranates and of the figs.


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The place was called the valley of Eshcol because of the cluster of grapes which the sons of Israel cut down from there.


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


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And they told him and said, We came to the land where you sent us, and surely it flows with milk and honey. And this [is] the fruit of it.


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However, the people that dwell in the land [are] strong, and the cities [are] walled, very great. And also we saw the children of Anak there.


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The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south, and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains. And the Canaanites dwell by the sea and by the coast of Jordan.


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And Caleb stilled 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 that 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 up an evil report of the land which they had searched to the sons of Israel, saying, The land through which we have gone to search it, [is] a land that eats up those who live in it. And all the people whom we saw in it were men of stature.


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


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And all the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. And the whole congregation said to them, Oh that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or, Oh that we had died in the wilderness!


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And why has the LORD brought us into this land to fall by the sword, so that our wives and our sons should be a prey? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?


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And Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.


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And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of those that searched the land, tore their clothes.


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And they spoke to all the company of the [sons] of Israel saying, The land which we passed through to search is an exceedingly good land.


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If the LORD delights in 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 the LORD, neither fear the people of the land. For they [are] bread for us. Their protection has moved from them, and the LORD [is] with us. Do not fear them.


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But all the congregation said to stone them with stones. And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the sons of Israel.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, How long will this people provoke Me? And how long will it be before they believe Me, for all the signs which I have shown among them?


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I will strike them with the pestilence and will disinherit them, and will make of you a greater nation and mightier than they.


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And Moses said to Jehovah, Then the Egyptians will hear, for You have brought up this people in Your might from among them.


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And they will say to the inhabitant of this land. They have heard that You, LORD, [are] among this people, who is seen eye to eye. You [are] Jehovah, and Your cloud stands over them, and You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.


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And will you kill this people as one man? Then the nations who have heard Your fame will speak, saying,


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


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The LORD [is] long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth [generation].


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I beseech You, pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of Your mercy, and as You have forgiven this people from Egypt even until now.


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Because all those men who have seen My glory and My miracles which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted Me now these ten times, and have not listened to My voice,


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surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked Me see it.


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But My servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed Me fully, I will bring him into the land into which he went. And his seed shall possess it.


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(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites lived in the valley.) Tomorrow turn and go into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.


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How long [shall I bear with] this evil congregation, which murmurs against Me? I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Israel which they murmur against Me.


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Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against Me,


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you shall certainly not come into the land which I swore to make you live in, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.


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But your little ones, which you said should be a prey, I will bring them in and they shall know the land which you have despised.


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And your sons shall feed in the wilderness forty years and bear your fornications, until your dead bodies have wasted in the wilderness.


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According to the number of the days in which you searched the land-- forty days-- each day for a year you shall bear your iniquities, forty years; and you shall know my alienation.


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I the LORD have spoken; I will surely do it to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. They shall be destroyed in this wilderness, and there they shall die.


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


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But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of the men that went to spy out the land, lived.


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And they rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we are here, and will go up to the place which the LORD has promised, for we have sinned.


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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 away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.


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But they presumed to go up to the hill top. But the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and Moses, did not leave the camp.


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And the Amalekites and the Canaanites who were living in that mountain came down and struck them, and beat them down, to Hormah.


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Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you have come into the land of your dwelling places, which I give to you,


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and will make an offering by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a free-will offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savor to the LORD, from the herd or from the flock,


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then he who offers his offering to the LORD shall bring a food offering of a tenth part of flour mixed with the fourth of a hin of oil.


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


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Or for a ram, you shall prepare a food offering, two-tenth parts of flour mixed with the third of a hin of oil.


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And for a drink offering you shall offer the third of a hin of wine [for] a sweet savor to the LORD.


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And when you prepare a bull, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace offerings to the LORD,


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then he shall bring with the bull, a food offering of three-tenth parts of flour mixed with half a hin of oil.


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And you shall bring for a drink offering half a hin of wine, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD.


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According to the number that you shall prepare, so you shall do to everyone according to their number.


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All that are born of the country shall do these things in this way, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD.


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And if a stranger stays with you, or whoever [is] among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire of a sweet savor to the LORD; as you do, so he shall do.


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One ordinance for you of the congregation and also for the stranger that resides [with you], an ordinance forever in your generations. As you are, so the stranger shall be before the LORD.


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then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a heave offering to the LORD.


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You shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough, a heave offering, as the heave offering of the threshing-floor, so you shall lift it up.


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all that the LORD has commanded you by the hand of Moses from the day that the LORD commanded, and onward in your generations,


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then it shall be if it is committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, all the congregation shall offer up one young bull for a burnt offering, for a sweet savor to the LORD, with its food offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.


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And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them, for it [is] ignorance. And they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their ignorance.


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And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the sons of Israel and the stranger that lives among them, since all the people [were] in ignorance.


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And if one soul sins through ignorance, then he shall bring a female goat of the first year for a sin offering.


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And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul, when he sins through error before the LORD, to make an atonement for him. And it shall be forgiven him.


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And you shall have one law for him who acts through ignorance; [for] him that is native among the sons of Israel and for the alien that resides among them.


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But the soul who acts with a high hand, [whether] of the native or of the alien, the same blasphemes the LORD. And that soul shall be cut off from among his people.


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Because he has despised the word of the LORD and has broken His commandment, that soul shall be utterly cut off. His iniquity [shall be] upon him.


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And while the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day.


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And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation.


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And the LORD said to Moses, The man shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.


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And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones, and he died, even as the LORD commanded Moses.


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Speak to the sons of Israel and command them that they make fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribbon of blue.


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And it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look upon it and remember all the commands of the LORD, and do them; and so that you do not seek after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you prostitute yourself,


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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, took both Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben;


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even they rose up before Moses with some of the sons of Israel, two hundred and fifty rulers of the assembly, elect men in the congregation, men who were well-known.


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And they gathered themselves against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, [You take] too much upon you, since all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why then do you lift yourselves up above the congregation of the LORD?


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And he spoke to Korah and to all his company, saying, Even tomorrow the LORD will show [who are] His, and him who is holy, and will cause him to come near to Him; even him whom He has chosen, He will cause to come near to Him.


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and put fire in them, and put incense in them before the LORD tomorrow. And it shall be the man whom the LORD chooses, he [shall be] holy. You take too much upon you, sons of Levi!


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[is it] only a small thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near Himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD and to stand before the congregation to minister to them?


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And 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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For this cause you and all your company [are] gathered against the LORD. And what is Aaron, that you murmur against him?


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[Is it] a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land that flows with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but must you also seize dominion over us?


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


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And Moses was very angry, and said to the LORD, Do not respect their offering. I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.


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And Moses said to Korah, Stand before the LORD, you and all your company-- you and they, and Aaron, tomorrow.


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And every man take his fire-pan and put incense in them, and let every man bring his fire-pan before the LORD, two hundred and fifty fire-pans, you also, and Aaron, each with his fire-pan.


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And every man took his fire-pan and put fire in them, and laid incense on it, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.


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And Korah gathered all the congregation against them, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And the glory of the LORD appeared to all the congregation.


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And they fell upon their faces and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin and will You be angry with all the congregation?


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And he spoke to the congregation, saying, I pray you, get away from the tents of these wicked men. And touch nothing of theirs lest you be destroyed in all their sins.


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So they got away from the tent of Korah, Dathan and Abiram, on every side. And Dathan and Abiram came out and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little sons.


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And Moses said, By this you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, [and] that not from my own heart.


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If these men die the common death of all men, or if they are visited according to the examination of all men, the LORD has not sent me.


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But if the LORD makes a new thing, and the earth opens her mouth and swallows them up with all that they have, and they go down alive into the pit, then you shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.


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And it happened, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, the ground under them split apart.


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And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who [were] for Korah, and all [their] goods.


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They and all that they had went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed upon them. And they perished from among the congregation.


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And there came out a fire from the LORD and burned up the two hundred and fifty men who offered incense.


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Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the fire-pans out of the burning, and scatter the fire yonder. For they are holy.


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The fire-pans of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them into broad plates, a covering for the altar; for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are made holy. And they shall be a sign to the sons of Israel.


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And Eleazar the priest took the bronze fire-pans, the ones with which those who had been burned up had offered, and they were made into broad [plates], a covering of the altar,


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a memorial to the sons of Israel, that no stranger not of the seed of Aaron may come near to offer incense before the LORD, so that he may not be as Korah and as his company-- as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.


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


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And it happened when the congregation was gathered together against Moses and against Aaron, they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation. And behold! The cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.


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Get away from this congregation so that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.


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And Moses said to Aaron, Take a fire-pan, and put fire in it from the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly to the congregation and make an atonement for them. For wrath has gone out from the LORD. The plague has begun.


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And Aaron did as Moses commanded and ran into the midst of the congregation. And behold! The plague had begun among the people. And he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.


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And those who died in the plague were fourteen thousand, seven hundred, besides the ones who died about the matter of Korah.


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And Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the plague was stayed.


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Speak to the sons of Israel, and take a rod from each of them for a father's house, of all their rulers, for their fathers' house, twelve rods. Write every man's name upon his rod.


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And you shall write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi. For one rod [shall be] for the head of the house of their fathers.


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And you shall lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.


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And it shall be, the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall blossom. And I will make to cease from Me the murmurings of the sons of Israel by which they murmur against you.


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And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, and all their rulers gave to him a rod, for each ruler, one rod for each ruler, for their father's house, twelve rods. And the rod of Aaron [was] among their rods.


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And it happened on the next day Moses went into the tabernacle of witness. And behold! The rod of Aaron for the house of Levi had budded and had brought forth buds, and had bloomed blossoms, and had yielded almonds.


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


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And the LORD said to Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept as a token against the rebels. And you shall completely take away their murmurings from Me so that they do not die.


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And the LORD said to Aaron, You and your sons, and your father's house 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 bring your brothers also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father with you, so that they may be joined to you and minister to you, you and your sons with you, before the tabernacle of witness.


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And they shall keep your charge and the charge of all the tabernacle. Only they shall not come near the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, so that neither they nor you also may die.


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And they shall be joined to you, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle. And a stranger shall not come near 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 wrath any more upon the sons of Israel.


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


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Therefore you and your sons with you shall keep your priests' office for everything of the altar and inside the veil. And you shall serve. I have given your priest's office as a service of gift. And the stranger that comes near shall be put to death.


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And the LORD spoke to Aaron, Behold, I have also given you the charge of My heave offerings of all the holy things of the sons of Israel. I have given them to you for the anointing, and to your sons, by an ordinance forever.


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This shall be yours of the most holy things, [reserved] from the fire, every sacrifice of theirs, every food offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall give Me. These are] most holy for you and for your sons.


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And this [is] yours, the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the sons of Israel. I have given them to you and to your sons and to your daughters with you, by a statute forever. Everyone that is clean in your house shall eat it.


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All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the first-fruits of them which they shall offer to the LORD, I have given them to you.


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The first fruits of all that is in the land, which they shall bring to the LORD, shall be yours. Everyone that is clean in your house shall eat [of] it.


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Everything that opens the womb in all flesh, which they bring to the LORD, of men or animals, shall be yours. Nevertheless, the first-born of man you shall surely redeem, and the first-born of unclean animals you shall redeem.


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And those that are to be redeemed from a month old you shall redeem, according to your judgment for the silver of five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which [is] twenty gerahs.


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But the first-born of a cow, or the first-born of a sheep, or the first-born of a goat, you shall not redeem. They [are] holy. You shall sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shall burn their fat, an offering made by fire, for a sweet savor to the LORD.


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All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the sons of Israel offer to the LORD, I have given you and your sons and your daughters with you, by a law forever. It [is] a covenant of salt forever before the LORD to you and to your seed with you.


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And the LORD said to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any part among them. I [am] your part and your inheritance among the sons of Israel.


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And behold, I have given the sons of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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Neither must the sons of Israel come near the tabernacle of the congregation from now on, lest they bear sin and die.


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But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity, a statute forever throughout your generations, that among the sons of Israel they have no inheritance.


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But the tithes of the sons of Israel, which they offer [as] a heave offering to the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit. Therefore I have said to them, Among the sons of Israel they shall have no inheritance.


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And you shall speak to the Levites, and you shall say to them, When you take tithes from the sons of Israel, which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a heave offering of it for the LORD, a tenth of the tithe.


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And your heave offering shall be credited to you as grain of the threshing-floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.


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So you also shall offer a heave offering to the LORD of all your tithes which you receive from the sons of Israel. And you shall give from it the LORD's heave offering to Aaron the priest.


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Out of all your gifts you shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all its fat, the holy part of it out of it.


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And you shall say to them, When you have lifted up its fat, then it shall be credited to the Levites as the increase of the threshing-floor, and as the increase of the winepress.


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And you shall eat it in every place, you and your households. For it [is] your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And you shall bear no sin because of it, when you have lifted up the fat of it. Neither shall you defile the holy things of the sons of Israel, lest you die.


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This [is] the ordinance of the law which the LORD has commanded, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel that they bring you a red heifer, a perfect one, in which there is no blemish, on which no yoke ever came.


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And you shall give her to Eleazar the priest that he may bring her forth outside the camp. And he shall kill her before his face.


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And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times.


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And he shall burn the heifer in his sight, her skin and her flesh and her blood with her dung, he shall burn.


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And the priest shall take cedar-wood and hyssop and scarlet, and throw [it] into the midst of the burning of the heifer.


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


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


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And a man [that is] clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay up outside the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the sons of Israel for a water of separation. It is a cleansing for sin.


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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 to the sons of Israel, and to the stranger that lives among them, for a statute forever.


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


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Whoever touches the dead body of any man that is dead, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. And that soul shall be cut off from Israel. Because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness [is] still upon him.


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This [is] the law when a man dies in a tent. All that come into the tent, and all in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.


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And whoever touches one that is killed with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.


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And for the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of cleansing for sin, and running water shall be put to it in a vessel.


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And a clean person shall take hyssop and dip in the water, and sprinkle upon the tent and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one killed, or one dead, or a 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 himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water. And he shall be clean at evening.


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But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water of separation has not been sprinkled upon him. He [is unclean.


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And it shall be a perpetual law to them, that he who sprinkles the water of separation shall wash his clothes. And he that touches the water of separation shall be unclean until evening.


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And whatever the unclean touches shall be unclean. And the soul who touches shall be unclean until evening.


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


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And there was no water for the congregation. And they gathered themselves against Moses and against Aaron.


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And the people contended with Moses and spoke, saying, Oh that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!


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And why have you brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, so that we and our cattle should die there?


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And why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us into this evil place? It [is] no place of seed or of figs or of vines or of pomegranates. And there is no water to drink.


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And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces. And the glory of the LORD 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. And it shall give forth its water, and you shall bring forth to them water out of the rock. So you shall give the congregation and their animals drink.


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And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said to them, Hear now you rebels. Must we bring water for you out of this rock?


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And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he struck the rock twice. And the water came out plentifully, and the congregation and their animals drank.


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And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, Because you did not believe Me, to sanctify Me in the eyes of the sons 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 Strife, because the sons of Israel fought with the LORD, and He showed Himself holy among them.


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And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, so says your brother Israel, You know all the trouble that has happened to us,


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how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have lived in Egypt a long time. And the Egyptians troubled us and our fathers.


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And when we cried to the LORD, He heard our voice and sent an Angel, and has brought us forth out of Egypt. And behold! We [are] in Kadesh, a city in the outermost part of your border.


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Let us pass, I pray you, through your country. We will not pass through a field, nor through a vineyard, neither will we drink [of] the water of a well. We will go by the king's highway. We will not turn to the right hand nor to the left until we have passed your borders.


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And the sons of Israel said to him, We will go by the highway. And if I and my cattle drink of your water, then I will pay for it. Without [doing] anything, I will only go through on my feet.


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And he said, You shall not go through. And Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong 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 sons of Israel, because you rebelled against My word at the Waters of Strife.


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And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son. And Aaron shall be gathered [to his people], and shall die there.


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And Moses did as the LORD commanded. And they went up into Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.


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And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son. And Aaron died there in the top of the mount. And Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.


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And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, all the house of Israel.


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And king Arad the Canaanite, who lived in the south, heard that Israel came by the Way of the Spies, then he fought against Israel and took prisoners of them.


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And Israel vowed a vow to the LORD and said, If You will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will completely destroy their cities.


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And the LORD listened to the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites. And they completely destroyed them and their cities. And he called the name of the place Hormah.


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And they pulled up from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the soul of the people was very discouraged because of 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 bread, neither is there any water. And our soul hates this light bread.


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And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people. And many people of Israel died.


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And the people came to Moses and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD that He take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole. And it shall be when everyone that is bitten, when he looks upon it, he shall live.


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And Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it upon a pole. And it happened that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked upon the serpent of brass, he lived.


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And they pulled up from Oboth and pitched at Ije-abarim in the wilderness before Moab, toward the sunrising.


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From there they pulled up and pitched on the other side of Arnon, in the wilderness that comes out of the borders of the Amorites; for Arnon [is] in the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.


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


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and at the stream of the torrents that goes down to the dwelling of Ar and lies upon the border of Moab.


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And from there [they went] to Beer. That is the well of which the LORD spoke to Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.


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The well which the rulers dug, which the nobles of the people dug with their staves by [the word] of the Lawgiver. And from the wilderness [they went] to Mattanah,


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and from Bamoth [in] the valley, in the country of Moab, [they worked] to the top of Pisgah, which looks toward the wilderness.


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Let me pass through your land. We will not turn into the fields or into the vineyards. We will not drink the waters of the well. We will go along by the king's highway until we are past your borders.


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And Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border. But Sihon gathered all his people, and went out against Israel in 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 possessed his land from Arnon to Jabbok, even to the sons of Ammon. For the border of the sons of Ammon [was] strong.


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And Israel took all these cities. And Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites in Heshbon, and in all its 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 had taken all his land out of his hand, even to Arnon.


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Therefore they who speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and prepared.


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For there has gone out a fire from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has consumed Ar of Moab, the lords of the high places of Arnon.


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Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! He has given his sons to be runaways, and his daughters to go into captivity, to Sihon king of the Amorites.


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We have cast them down. Heshbon has perished even to Dibon, and we have laid them waste even to Nophah which [is] to Medeba.


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And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took its villages and drove out the Amorites who [were] there.


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


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


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So they struck him and his sons and all his people, until there was none left him alive. And they possessed his land.


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And the sons of Israel pulled up and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan [by] Jericho.


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And Moab was much afraid of the people because they [were] many. And Moab was worried because of the sons of Israel.


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And Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now this company is licking up all around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor [was] king of the Moabites at that time.


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He sent messengers therefore to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, by the river of the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying, Behold! A people come out from Egypt. Behold! They cover the face of the earth, and they are staying across from me.


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Therefore, I pray you, come now and curse this people for me. For they [are] too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall prevail so that we may strike them, and so that I may drive them out of the land. For I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.


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And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian pulled up with the rewards of divination in their hand. And they came to Balaam and spoke the words of Balak to him.


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And he said to them, stay here tonight, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak to me. And the leaders of Moab stayed with Balaam.


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Behold! A people has come out of Egypt which covers the face of the earth. Come now, curse them for me. Perhaps, I shall be able to overcome 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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And Balaam rose up in the morning and said to the leaders of Balak, Go into your land, for the LORD refuses to let me go with you.


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And they came to Balaam and said to him, So says Balak the son of Zippor, Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me.


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For I will raise you up to very great honor, and I will do whatever you say to me. Please come then and curse this people for me.


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And Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.


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And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, If the men come to call you, rise up, go with them. But still, the word which I shall say to you, that you shall do.


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And God's anger was kindled because he went. And the Angel of the LORD stood in the way as an enemy against him. And he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants with him.


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And the ass saw the Angel of the LORD standing in the way, and His sword drawn in His hand. And the ass turned aside out of the way and went into the field. And Balaam struck the ass, to turn her into the way.


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But the Angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall on this side, and a wall on that side.


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And when the ass saw the Angel of the LORD, she pushed herself into the wall and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall. And he struck her again.


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And the Angel of the LORD went further and stood in a narrow place, where [there was] no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.


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And when the ass saw the Angel of the LORD, she fell down under Balaam. And Balaam's anger was kindled, and he struck the ass with a staff.


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


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And Balaam said to the ass, Because you have mocked me. I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would kill you.


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And the ass said to Balaam, [Am] I not your ass, upon which you have ridden ever since [I was] yours, to this day? Was I ever known to do so to you? And he said, No.


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


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And the Angel of the LORD said to him, Why have you beaten your ass these three times? Behold! I went out to be an enemy to you, because your [way] is perverse before Me.


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And the ass saw Me and turned from Me these three times. Unless she had turned from Me, surely now I also would have killed you and saved her alive.


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And Balaam said to the Angel of the LORD, I have sinned. For I did not know that You stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases You, I will go back again.


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And the Angel of the LORD said to Balaam, Go with the men. But only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak. So Balaam went with the leaders of Balak.


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And when Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him, to a city of Moab, in the border of Arnon, which [is] in the outermost border.


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


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And Balaam said to Balak, Lo, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to say anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that I shall speak.


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And it happened on the next day Balak took Balaam and brought him up into the high places of Baal, so that from there he might see the edge of the people.


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


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And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet me. And whatever He reveals to me I will tell you. And he went to a high place.


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


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And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, [saying], Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, defy Israel.


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For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him. Lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be counted among the nations.


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Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!


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And Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have kept on blessing [them]!


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And Balak said to him, Please come with me to another place from where you may see them. You shall see only their edge, and shall not see them all. And curse them from there for me.


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And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on [every] altar.


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And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the leaders of Moab were with him. And Balak said to him, What has the LORD spoken?


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God [is] not a man that He should lie, neither the son of man that He should repent. Has He said, and shall He not do it? Or has He spoken, and shall He not make it good?


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He has not seen iniquity in Jacob, neither has He seen perverseness in Israel. The LORD his God [is] with him, and the shout of a king among them.


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Surely, [there is] no spell against Jacob, nor any fortune-telling against Israel. According to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What God has worked!


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Behold, the people shall rise up like a great lion, and lift up himself like a young lion. He shall not lie down until he eats [of] the prey and drinks the blood of the slain.


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


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And Balak said to Balaam, Please, come. I will bring you into another place. Perhaps it will please God that you will curse them for me from there.


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


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And Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, and he did not go, as at other times, to seek for secret arts, but he set his face toward the wilderness.


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And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel pitched, 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 has said, and the man whose eyes are open has said;


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he has said; he who heard the words of God, who saw the vision of the Almighty, falling down but having his eyes open;


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They are spread forth like the valleys, like gardens by the river's side, like the trees of aloes which the LORD has planted, like cedar trees beside the waters.


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He shall pour the water out of 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 brought him forth out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of an ox. He shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through [with] his arrows.


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He crouched. He lay down as a lion, and as a great lion. Who shall stir him up? Blessed is he who blesses you, and cursed is he who curses you.


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And 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, and behold, you have kept on blessing these three times.


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Therefore now flee to your place. I thought to lift you up to great honor, but lo, the LORD has kept you back from honor.


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If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the mouth of the LORD, to do good or bad of my own mind. What the LORD said, that I will speak.


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And now, behold, I go to my people. Come! I will make known to you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.


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And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor has said, and the man whose eyes [are] open has said;


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he has said, he who heard the words of God and knew the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down but having his eyes open;


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I shall see him, but not now. I shall behold him, but not near. There shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Scepter shall rise out of Israel. and shall strike the corners of Moab, and destroy all the sons of tumult.


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And Edom shall be a possession. Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies. And Israel shall do valiantly.


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And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable and said, Amalek [was] the first of the nations. But his latter end [is] 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 you put your nest in a rock.


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And ships shall come from the coast of Cyprus, and shall afflict Assyria and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish forever.


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And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to their gods.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Take all the heads of the people and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, so that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.


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And behold! One of the sons of Israel came and brought to his brothers a woman of Midian, before the eyes of Moses, and before all the congregation of the sons of Israel, who [were] weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw [it], he rose up from among the congregation and took a spear in his hand.


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And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and pierced both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman, through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the sons of Israel.


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Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the sons of Israel while he was zealous for My sake among them, so that I did not destroy the sons of Israel in My jealousy.


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And he shall have it, and his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the sons of Israel.


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And the name of the Israelite who was killed, he who was struck with the woman of Midian, [was] Zimri, the son of Salu, ruler of a chief house of the Simeonites.


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And the Midianite woman's name who was killed [was] Cosbi, the daughter of Zur. He was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian.


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For they trouble you with their lies, with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi the daughter of a ruler of Midian, their sister, who was stricken in the day of the plague because of Peor.


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And it happened after the plague, the LORD spoke to Moses and to Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saying,


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Take the sum of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.


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


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[Count] the people from twenty years old and upward, as the LORD commanded Moses and the sons of Israel, who came out of the land of Egypt.


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Reuben, the first-born of Israel, the sons of Reuben, of Hanoch who [came] of the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu the family of the Palluites;


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these [are] the families of the Reubenites. And their numbered ones [were] forty-three thousand, seven hundred and thirty.


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And the sons of Eliab, Nemuel, and Dathan and Abiram. This [is] that Dathan and Abiram [who were] famous in the congregation, who fought against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they fought against the LORD.


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And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured two hundred and 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 by their numbered ones, forty thousand and five hundred.


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And the sons of Judah according to their families: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Pharez, the family of the Pharzites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahite.


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And the sons of Pharez: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites;


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


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


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The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites. And Machir fathered Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites;


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these [are] the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites.


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


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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 Bachrites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.


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these [are] the families of the sons of Ephraim by their numbered ones, 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 their numbered ones, forty-five thousand, six hundred.


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


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[Of] the sons of Asher according to their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites; of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites; of Beriah, the family of the Berites.


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Of 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 by their numbered ones, 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, by their numbered ones, forty-five thousand, four hundred.


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These [were] the numbered ones of the sons of Israel, six hundred one thousand, seven hundred and thirty.


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To many you shall give the more inheritance, and to few you shall give the less inheritance; each by the mouth of his numbered ones shall be given his inheritance.


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But the land shall be divided by lot. According to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.


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And these [are] the numbered ones 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 the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Korah fathered Amram.


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And the name of Amram's wife [was] Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom one bore to Levi in Egypt. And she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.


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And their numbered ones, twenty-three thousand, all males from a month old and upward. For they were not numbered among the sons of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the sons of Israel.


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These [are] those numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab beside Jordan [at] Jericho.


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But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.


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


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And 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. And these [are] the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.


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And they stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest, and before the rulers and all the congregation, [by] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,


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


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Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he has no son? Therefore give us a possession among the brothers of our father.


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The daughters of Zelophehad speak right. You shall surely give them a 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 sons of Israel, saying, When 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 nearest relative, of his family, and he shall possess it. And it shall be to the sons of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Get up into this Mount Abarim and see the land which I have given to the sons of Israel.


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


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For you rebelled against My command in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify Me at the water before their eyes; they [were] the Waters of Strife in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.


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who may go out before them, and who may go in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in, so that the congregation of the LORD may not be as sheep which have no shepherd.


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And the LORD 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 all the congregation, and give him a charge in their sight.


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And you shall put of your honor on him, so that all the congregation of the sons of Israel may be obedient.


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And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask for him according to the judgment of Urim before the LORD. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, he and all the sons of Israel with him, even all the congregation.


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And Moses did as the LORD commanded him. And he took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation.


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And he laid his hands upon him and gave him a charge, even as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.


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Command the sons of Israel, and say to them, My offering [and] My bread for My sacrifices made by fire, a sweet savor to Me, you shall be careful to offer to Me in their due season.


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And you shall say to them, This [is] the fire offering which you shall offer to the LORD: two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, a continual burnt offering.


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The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer between the evenings.


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[It is] a continual burnt offering which was ordained in Mount Sinai for a sweet savor, a fire offering to the LORD,


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and its drink offering [shall be] the fourth of a hin for the one lamb. Pour a drink offering [of] strong drink to the LORD in the holy place.


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And the other lamb you shall offer between the evenings, even as the food offering of the morning, and as its drink offering, you shall offer [it], a fire offering, a sweet savor to the LORD.


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And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two-tenth parts of flour [for] a food offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering;


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[this is] the burnt offering of every sabbath, besides the continual burnt offering, and its drink offering.


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And in the beginning of your months you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot,


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and three tenth parts of flour [for] a food offering, mixed with oil, for one bull, and two-tenth parts of flour [for] a food offering, mixed with oil, for one ram;


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and a separate tenth part of flour mixed with oil [for] a food offering to one lamb, for a burnt offering of a sweet savor, a fire offering to the LORD.


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


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And one kid of the goats for a sin offering to the LORD shall be prepared, besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.


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And in the fifteenth day of this month [is] the feast. Seven days shall unleavened [bread] be eaten.


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But you shall offer a fire offering [for] a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year. They shall be to you without blemish.


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And their food offering [shall be] of flour mixed with oil: three tenth parts you shall prepare for a bull, and two tenth parts for a ram.


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You shall prepare these besides the burnt offering in the morning, which [is] for a continual burnt offering.


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In this way you shall offer daily, seven days, the bread of the fire offering, a sweet savor to the LORD. It shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.


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And in the day of the first-fruits, when you bring a new food offering to the LORD in your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no laboring work.


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And you shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet savor to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, seven lambs of the first year


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and their food offering of flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts to one bull, two tenth parts to one ram,


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You shall offer [them] besides the continual burnt offering and its food offering and their drink offerings. They shall be to you without blemish.


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And in the seventh month, on the first of the month, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no laboring work. It is a day of blowing the trumpets to you.


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And you shall prepare a burnt offering for a sweet savor to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish.


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And their food offering [shall be] flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for a bull, two tenth parts for a ram,


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besides the burnt offering of the month, and its food offering, and the daily burnt offering, and its food offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a sweet savor, a fire offering to the LORD.


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And you shall have a holy convocation on the tenth of this seventh month. And you shall afflict your souls. You shall not do any work.


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But you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD [for] a sweet savor: one young bull, one ram, seven lambs of the first year. They shall be to you without blemish.


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And their food offering [shall be] flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts to a bull, two tenth parts to one ram,


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one kid of the goats [for] a sin offering, besides the sin offering of atonement and the continual burnt offering and the food offering of it, 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 laboring work, and you shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days.


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And you shall offer a burnt offering, a fire offering, of a sweet savor to the LORD: thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year. They shall be without blemish.


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And their food offering [shall be] flour, mixed with oil, three tenth parts to every bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenth parts to each ram of the two rams,


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and one kid of the goats [for] a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its food offering, and its drink offering.


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And on the second day [you shall offer] twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot;


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and their food offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, according to the law;


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and one kid of the goats [for] a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its food offering, and their drink offerings.


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And their food offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, according to the law;


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and one goat [for] a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its food offering and its drink offering.


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Their food offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, according to the law;


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and their food offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, according to the law;


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and one goat [for] a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its food offering, and its drink offering.


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But you shall offer a burnt offering, a fire offering of a sweet savor to the LORD: one bull, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish;


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their food offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, according to their number, according to the law;


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and one goat [for] a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and its food offering and its drink offering.


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You shall prepare these to the LORD in your appointed seasons, besides your vows and your free-will offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your food offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.


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And Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes concerning the sons of Israel, saying, This [is] the thing which the LORD has commanded:


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If a man vows a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that comes out of his mouth.


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[If] a woman also vows a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by a bond, [being] in her father's house in her youth,


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and [if] her father hears her vow and her bond with which she has bound her soul, and [if] her father is silent as to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she has bound her soul shall stand.


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But [if] her father does not allow her in the day that he hears, not any of her vows or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul shall stand. And the LORD shall forgive her because her father did not allow her.


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And [if] she had a husband when she vowed, or if she said anything rash out of her lips with which she bound her soul,


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and [if] her husband heard and is silent as to her in the day that he heard, then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with which she bound her soul shall stand.


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But [if] her husband did not allow her on the day that he heard it, then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, with which she bound her soul, of no effect. And the LORD shall forgive her.


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But every vow of a widow and of her who is divorced, all which she has bound on her soul shall stand against her.


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and [if] her husband heard and is silent as to her, and did not forbid her, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she bound her soul shall stand.


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But if her husband has certainly broken them on the day he heard, whatever comes out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand. Her husband has broken them. And the LORD shall forgive her.


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Every vow and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may break it.


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But [if] her husband is altogether silent as to her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows or all her bonds which [are] on her. He confirms them, because he was silent as to her in the day that he heard.


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These [are] the statutes which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter in her youth in her father's house.


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And Moses spoke to the people saying, Arm some of yourselves to the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD on Midian.


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So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of [every] tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.


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And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of [every] tribe. He sent them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments and the trumpets to blow in his hand.


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And [they] warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses. And [they] killed all the males.


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


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And the sons of Israel took [all] the women of Midian captive, and their little ones, and the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.


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And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to Moses and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the sons of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which [are] beside Jordan, [at] Jericho.


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And Moses and Eleazar the priest, and all the rulers of the congregation, went forth to meet them outside the camp.


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And Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains over thousands and captains over hundreds, who came from the battle.


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Behold, these caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit sin against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and the plague was on the congregation of the LORD.


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And now kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that has known man by lying with him.


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And stay outside the camp seven days. Whosoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any dead one, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.


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And purify all clothing, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats' [hair], and all things made of wood.


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And Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to battle, This [is] the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses.


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everything that can stand the fire, you shall make go through the fire, and it shall be clean. Only it shall be purified with the water of separation. And all that cannot stand the fire you shall make go through the water.


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And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean, and afterwards you shall come into the camp.


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Count the prey that was taken of man and of animal, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers of the congregation.


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And divide the prey into two parts: between those skilled in the battle, who went out to war, and between all the congregation.


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And levy a tax for the LORD from the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, of the persons and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the flock.


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And from the sons of Israel's half you shall take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, of the flocks, of all kinds of animals, and give them to the Levites who keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.


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And the prize, the rest of the spoil which the men of war had captured, was six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,


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And the half, the portion of those who went out to war, the number of the flock [was] three hundred thirty-seven thousand, five hundred;


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And Moses gave the tax, the LORD's heave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.


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even of the sons of Israel's half, Moses took one portion in fifty, of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites who kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, --even as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And the officers who [were] over thousands of the army, over the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, came near Moses.


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And they said to Moses, Your servants have counted the men of war who [are] under our charge, and there is not one man of us lacking.


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And we bring an offering for the LORD, what every man has found, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD.


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And all the gold of the offering that they offered up to the LORD, of the commanders of thousands, and of the commanders of hundreds, was sixteen thousand, seven hundred and fifty shekels.


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And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, [for] a memorial for the sons of Israel before the LORD.


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And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle. And when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, behold, the place [was] a place for cattle.


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And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came and spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the priest, and to the rulers of the congregation, saying,


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Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,


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the land which the LORD struck before the congregation of Israel, [is] a land for cattle, and your servants [have] cattle.


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And, they said, If we have found grace in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession; do not bring us over Jordan.


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And Moses said to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, Shall your brothers go to war, and shall you sit here?


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And why do you break the heart of the sons of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them?


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For when they went up into the valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they broke the hearts of the sons of Israel, so that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.


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Surely, none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and up, shall see the land which I swore 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, for they have fully followed the LORD.


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


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And behold, you are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to add still more to the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.


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For if you turn away from after Him, He will yet again leave them in the wilderness. And you shall destroy all this people.


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And they came near to him and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones,


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but we ourselves will go ready armed before the sons of Israel until we have brought them to their place. And our little ones shall live in the fenced cities because of those who live in the land.


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For we will not inherit with them on the other side of Jordan, or forward, because our inheritance has fallen to us on this side of Jordan, eastward.


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and all of you will go armed over Jordan before the LORD until He has driven out His enemies from before Him,


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and the land is subdued before the LORD, then afterwards you shall return and be guiltless before the LORD and before Israel. And this land shall be your possession before the LORD.


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


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Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do that which has come out of your mouth.


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


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But your servants will go over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord says.


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So regarding them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel.


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And Moses said to them, If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben will go with you over Jordan, each armed to battle before the LORD, and the land shall be humbled before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession.


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But if they will not go over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.


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And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answered, saying, As the LORD has said to your servants, so we will do.


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We will go over armed before the LORD [into] the land of Canaan, so that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan [may be] ours.


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And Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, and to the half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land with its cities in the borders, the cities of the land all around.


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and Nebo, and Baal-meon (their names being changed) and Sibmah, and they gave other names to the cities which they built.


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And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and put out the Amorite who [was] in it.


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These [are] the journeys of the sons of Israel, who went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.


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And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the command of the LORD. And these [are] their journeys according to their starting-places.


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And they pulled up from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the next day after the Passover the sons of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.


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For the Egyptians buried all [their] first-born whom the LORD had stricken among them. The LORD also executed judgments upon their gods.


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And they pulled up from Etham and turned again to Pihahiroth which [is] in front of Baal-zephon. And they pitched in front of Migdol.


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And they pulled up from before Pihahiroth and passed through the middle of the Sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.


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And they pulled up from Marah and came to Elim. And in Elim [were] twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm trees. And they pitched there.


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And they pulled up from Alush and pitched at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.


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


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


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And they pulled up from the mountains of Abarim and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan [at] Jericho.


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And they pitched by Jordan, from The House of Deserts to The Meadow of Acacias in the plains of Moab.


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


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then you shall drive out all those who live in the land from before you, and destroy all their carved images, and destroy all their molded images and pluck down all their high places.


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And you shall divide the land by lot by your families. And you shall give the more inheritance to the many; to the few you shall give the less inheritance. Wherever the lot falls out to him; according to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit.


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But if you will not drive out the people of the land from before you, then it will be, those of them whom you let remain [shall] be goads in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land in which you live.


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Command the sons 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 with its borders.


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And your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the border of Edom, and your south border shall be the furthest coast of the Salt Sea eastward.


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And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim and pass on to Zin. And its limit shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea, and shall go on to Hazar-addar, and pass on to Azmon.


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And the border shall turn from Azmon to the torrent of Egypt, and the end of it shall be at the sea.


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And [for] the western border, you shall even have the Great Sea for a border. This shall be your west border.


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From Mount Hor you shall [point] your border to the entrance of Hamath. And the end of the border shall be at Zedad.


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And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the end of it shall be at Hazar-enan. This shall be your north border.


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And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain. And the border shall go down, and shall reach to the side of the Sea of Chinnereth eastward.


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And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the end of it shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land with the borders of it all around.


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And Moses commanded the sons of Israel saying, This [is] the land which you shall inherit by lot, which the LORD commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half tribe.


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For the tribe of the sons of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the sons of Gad according to the house of their fathers. And half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance.


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The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side 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: Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun.


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These [are the ones] to whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance to the sons of Israel in the land of Canaan.


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Command the sons of Israel that they give to the Levites, from the land of their possessions cities to live in. And you shall give to the Levites suburbs for the cities all around them.


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And they shall have the cities to live in. And their open lands shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their animals.


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And the open lands of the cities which you shall give to the Levites [shall reach] from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits all around.


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And you shall measure from outside the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits. And the city [shall be] in the middle. This shall be to them the open land of the cities.


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And among the cities which you shall give to the Levites there [shall be] six cities for refuge, which you shall appoint for the manslayer, so that he may flee there. And you shall add forty-two cities to them.


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All the cities which you shall give to the Levites, forty-eight cities. You shall give them with their open land.


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And the cities which you shall give [shall be] of the possessions of the sons of Israel. You shall give many from those who have many. But from those who have few you shall give few. Everyone shall give of his cities to the Levites according to his inheritance which he inherits.


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


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then you shall choose cities to be cities of refuge for you, so that the slayer who kills any person through error may flee there.


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And they shall be to you cities for refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer does not die until he stands before the congregation in judgment.


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You shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan to be cities of refuge.


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These six cities shall be a refuge for the sons of Israel, and for the stranger, and for anyone who stays among them, so that everyone who kills any person through error may flee there.


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And if he strikes him with an instrument of iron, so that he dies, he [is] a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.


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And if he strikes him by throwing a stone, with which he may die, and if he dies, he [is] a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.


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Or [if] he strikes him with a hand weapon of wood, with which he may die, and if he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.


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or in hatred strikes him with his hand so that he dies, he who struck [him] shall surely he put to death. He [is] a murderer. The revenger of blood will kill the murderer when he meets him.


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But if he thrusts him suddenly without hatred, or has thrown something on him without lying in wait,


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or with any stone with which a man may die if he does not see, and throws [it] upon him so that he dies, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm,


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then the congregation shall judge between the one who kills and the revenger of blood according to these judgments.


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And the congregation shall deliver the one who kills out of the hand of the revenger of blood. And the congregation shall send him back to the city of his refuge, to which he had fled. And he shall stay in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.


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But if the one who killed shall at any time come outside the border of the city of his refuge to which he had fled,


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and if the avenger of blood finds him outside the borders of the city of his refuge, and if the avenger of blood kills the slayer, he shall not be guilty of blood,


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because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest the one who killed shall return to the land of his possession.


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So these [things] shall be for a statute of judgment to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.


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Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses. But one witness shall not testify against any person [to cause him] to die.


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And you shall take no 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 take no ransom [for him] who has fled to the city of his refuge, to return to live in the land until the death of the [high] priest.


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So you shall not defile the land in which you [are]. For blood defiles the land. And the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of him that shed it.


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So do not defile the land which you shall inhabit, in which I dwell. For I the LORD dwell among the sons of Israel.


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And the chief fathers of the families 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 rulers, the chief fathers of the sons of Israel.


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And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the sons of Israel. And my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.


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And [if] they are married to any of the sons of the tribes of the sons of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe to which they are received. So it shall be taken from the lot of our inheritance.


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And when the jubilee of the sons of Israel shall come, then their inheritance shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe into which they are received. So their inheritance shall be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.


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And Moses commanded the sons of Israel according to the word of the LORD saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph has said well.


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This [is] the thing which the LORD commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best. Only they shall marry into the family of the tribe of their father.


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So the inheritance of the sons of Israel shall not be moved from tribe to tribe. For every one of the sons of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.


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And every daughter that possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the sons of Israel shall become a wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, so that the sons of Israel may each one enjoy the inheritance of his fathers.


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And the inheritance shall not move from [one] tribe to another tribe. But every one of the tribes of the sons of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.


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For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, [were] married to their father's brothers' sons.


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They were 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 judgments which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab beside Jordan, at Jericho.


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These [are] the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain opposite the Red Sea, between Paran and Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab,


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And it happened, in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first of the month, Moses spoke to the sons of Israel according to all that Jehovah had commanded him concerning them;


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after he had smitten Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth in Edrei,


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Turn and pull up [stakes], and enter the hill-country of the Amorites, and to all [its] neighboring places, in the Arabah in the hill-country, and in the low country, and in the south, and in the shore of the sea, the land of the Canaanites and of Lebanon, to the great river, the river Euphrates.


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Behold, I have set before you the land; go in and possess the land which the LORD has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.


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Jehovah your God has multiplied you, and, behold, today you [are] as the stars of heaven for multitude.


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May the LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times more than you [are], and bless you as He has said to you!


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Give wise and understanding men, and [those] known to your tribes, and I will appoint them rulers over you.


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And I took the chiefs of your tribes, wise and noted men, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.


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And I commanded your judges at that time saying, Hear [the causes] between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the stranger with him.


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You shall not respect persons in judgment. You shall hear the small as well as the great. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment [is] God's. And the cause that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.


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And when we pulled up from Horeb, we went [through] all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us. And we came to Kadesh-barnea.


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And I said to you, You have come to the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God has given unto us.


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Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you. Go up. Possess [it], even as the LORD God of your fathers has said to you. Do not fear, neither be troubled.


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And you came near to me, every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search out the land and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.


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And they turned and went up into the mountain and came to the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.


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And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought [it] down to us, and brought us word again and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God gives us.


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And you murmured in your tents and said, Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.


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Where [shall] we go up? Our brothers have broken our heart, saying, We have seen there a people greater and taller than we [are]. The cities are great and walled up to the heavens, also the sons of the giants.


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The LORD your God who goes before you shall 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 how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came into this place.


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who went in the way before you to search you out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in a cloud by day.


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Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I swore 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 that he has trodden upon, and to his sons, because he has fully followed the LORD.


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Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there. Make him strong, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.


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And your little ones, who you said would be a prey, and your sons who in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in there. And I will give it to them, and they shall possess it.


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And you answered and said to me, We have sinned against the LORD; we will go up and fight according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when each one of you had buckled on his weapons of war, you were ready to go up into the hill.


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But the LORD said to me, Say to them, Do not go up, nor fight, for I [am] not among you, you will be beaten by your enemies.


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So I spoke to you. And you would not hear, but rebelled against the command of the LORD, and went presumptuously into the hill.


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And the Amorites who lived in that mountain came out against you and chased you, even as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, to Hormah.


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And you returned and wept before the LORD. But the LORD would not listen to your voice, nor give ear to you.


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Then we turned and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea, as the LORD spoke to me. And we went around Mount Seir many days.


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And command the people saying, You [are] to pass through the border of your brothers, the sons of Esau, who dwell in Seir. And they shall be afraid of you. Therefore be careful.


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Do not meddle with them, for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau [for] a possession.


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You shall buy food from them for silver, so that you may eat. And you shall also buy water from them for silver, so that you may drink.


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For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the works of your hand. He knows your walking [through] this great wilderness. The LORD your God [has been] with you these forty years. You have lacked nothing.


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And when we left our brothers the sons of Esau who lived in Seir, through the way of the Arabah from Elath, and from Ezion-geber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.


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And the LORD said to me, Do not besiege Moab, nor fight with them in battle. For I will not give you any of their land [for] a possession. Because I have given Ar to the sons of Lot [for] a possession.


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The Horim also lived in Seir in times past. But the sons of Esau took their place when they had destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which the LORD gave to them.


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And the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we had come over the brook Zered [were] thirty-eight years; until the end of all the generation. The men of war [were] destroyed from the midst of the camp, as the LORD swore to them.


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And the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the camp, until they were consumed.


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And when you come near, across from the sons of Ammon, do not trouble them nor be stirred up against them. For I will not give you [any] possessions from the land of the sons of Ammon, because I have given it to the sons of Lot [for a possession.


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It also was known to be a land of giants. Giants lived there in past times. And the Ammonites call them Zamzumim,


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a great and plentiful people, and tall, like the sons of Anak, but the LORD destroyed them before them. And they expelled them and lived in their place,


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as He did to the sons of Esau who lived in Seir, when he destroyed the Horim from before them. And they expelled them and lived in their place even to this day.


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And the Avvim who lived in villages as far as Azzah, the Caphtorites, who came forth out of Caphtor destroyed them, and lived in their place.


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Rise up, set out and cross over the river Arnon. Behold! I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to possess, and fight with him in battle.


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Today, I will begin to put your dread and your fear upon the nations under the whole heavens; who shall hear report of you, and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.


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And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon [with] words of peace, saying,


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Let me pass through your land. I will go along by the highway. I will neither turn [to] the right hand nor to the left.


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You shall sell me food for silver, so that I may eat, and give me water for silver so that I may drink. Only I will pass through on my feet,


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as the sons of Esau who live in Seir, and the Moabites who live in Ar, did to me, until I shall cross over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God gives us.


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But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him. For the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart stubborn so that He might deliver him into your hand, as [it is] this day.


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And the LORD said to me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before you. Begin to possess it so that you may inherit his land.


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And we took all his cities at that time and completely destroyed the men and the women and the little ones of every city. We left none to remain.


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From Aroer, by the brink of the river of Arnon, and the city by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us. The LORD our God delivered all to us.


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Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not come, to any place of the river Jabbok, nor to the cities in the mountains, nor to whatever the LORD our God denied us.


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And we turned and went up the way to Bashan. And Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle [at] Edrei.


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And the LORD said to me, Do not fear him, for I will deliver him and all his people, and his land, into your hand. And you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.


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So the LORD our God delivered Og into our hands also, the king of Bashan, and all his people. And we struck him until none [was] left remaining to him.


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And we took all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we did not take from them, sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.


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All these cities [were] fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides a good many unwalled towns.


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And we completely destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, completely destroying the men, women, and children of every city.


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And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon to Mount Hermon,


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All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, and Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan [were taken].


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For only Og king of Bashan remained of the rest of the giants. Behold! His bedstead [was] a bedstead of iron. Is it not in Rabbath of the sons of Ammon? Nine cubits [was] its length, and four cubits its width, according to the cubit of a man.


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And this is the land [which] we possessed at that time, from Aroer by the river Arnon, and half of Mount Gilead, and its cities, I gave to the men of Reuben and of Gad.


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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, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.


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Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites. And he called them after his own name, Bashan (Towns of Jair) to this day.


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And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the river Arnon, half the valley, and the border even to the river Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon,


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the plain also, and Jordan, and its border, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the plain, the Salt Sea, under The Slopes of Pisgah eastward.


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And I commanded you at that time saying, The LORD your God has given you this land to possess it. You shall pass over armed before your brothers the sons of Israel, all the sons of might.


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But your wives and your little ones, and your cattle, (I know that you have much cattle), shall stay in your cities which I have given you


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until the LORD has given rest to your brothers, as well as to you, and they also possess the land which the LORD your God [has] given them beyond Jordan. And then you shall each one return to his possessions which I have given you.


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And I commanded Joshua at that time saying, Your eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings. So the LORD shall do to all the kingdoms where you pass.


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O, LORD God, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness, and Your mighty hand. For what God [is there] in heaven or in earth who can do according to Your works, and according to Your might?


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But the LORD was angry with me because of you and would not hear me. And the LORD said to me, [Let it be] enough for you. Speak no more to Me of this matter.


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Go up into the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward, and behold [it] with your eyes. For you shall not go over this Jordan.


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But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him. For he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.


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And now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the judgments which I teach you, in order to do them, so that you may live and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers gives you.


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You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, so that you may keep the commands of the LORD your God which I command you.


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Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal-peor. For the LORD your God has destroyed from among you all the men that followed Baal-peor.


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Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, so that you should do so in the land where you go to possess it.


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And you shall keep and do [them], for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes and say, Surely this great nation [is] a wise and understanding people.


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For who is a great nation whose God [is] coming near to them, as Jehovah our God [is], in all our calling on him?


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And who is a great nation whose statutes and judgments [are so] righteous as all this law which I set before you today?


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Only take heed to yourself and keep your soul carefully, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. But teach them to your sons, and your sons' sons.


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Remember the day that you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, Gather the people to Me, and I will make them hear My words so that they may learn to fear Me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and they may teach their sons.


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And you came near and stood under the mountain. And the mountain burned with fire to the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.


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And the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the voice of the words, but saw no likeness, only a voice.


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And He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, ten commandments. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone.


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And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments so that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.


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Therefore take good heed to yourselves, for you saw no kind of likeness on the day the LORD spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire,


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lest you act corruptly and make yourselves a graven image, the likeness of any figure, the likeness of male or female,


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the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish in the waters beneath the earth;


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and lest you lift up your eyes to the heavens, and when you see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, lest you should be driven to worship them and serve them, which the LORD your God has allotted to all nations under all the heavens.


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But the LORD has taken you and brought you out from the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to Him a people of inheritance, as [you are] today.


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And the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land which the LORD your God gives you [for] an inheritance.


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But I must die in this land; I must not go over Jordan. But you [shall] go over and possess that good land.


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Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which He made with you, and make you a graven image, a likeness of anything which the LORD your God has forbidden you.


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When you father sons and sons of sons, and when you shall have remained long in the land and have dealt corruptly by making a graven image, the likeness of anything, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke Him to anger,


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I call Heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land which you are crossing over Jordan to possess. You shall not prolong [your] days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.


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And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and you shall be left few in number among the nations where the LORD shall drive you.


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And there you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.


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But if you shall seek the LORD your God from there, you shall find [Him], if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.


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When you are in trouble and when all these things have found you in the latter days, then you shall return to the LORD your God and shall be obedient to His voice.


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For the LORD your God [is] a merciful God; He will not forsake you, nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.


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For ask now of the days past which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and from the one end of the heavens to the other end of the heavens, where there has been a thing as great as this, or has been heard any like it.


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Did people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire as you have heard and live?


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Or has God gone forth to take a nation for himself from the midst of a nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?


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He made you hear His voice out of Heaven so that He might teach you. And He showed you His great fire upon earth. And you heard His words out of the midst of the fire.


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And because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their seed after them, and brought you out in His sight with His mighty power out of Egypt,


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in order to drive out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as [it is] this day.


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Therefore, know this day and consider within your heart, that the LORD [is] God in Heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no other.


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Therefore, you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I command you this day, so that it may go well with you and with your sons after you, and so that you may make your days longer upon the earth which the LORD your God gives you forever.


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so that the slayer might flee there, he who should kill his neighbor through error and who did not hate him [in] times past, and he fleeing to one of these cities might live.


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They were Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.


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These [are] the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel after they came forth out of Egypt,


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beyond Jordan, in the valley over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel killed, after they had come forth out of Egypt.


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And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, who [were] on this side Jordan toward the sunrise,


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and all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the plain, under the Slopes of Pisgah.


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And Moses called all Israel and said to them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, so that you may learn them and keep and do them.


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The LORD did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, all of us here, alive today.


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(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to show you the Word of the LORD, for you were afraid because of the fire, and did not go up into the mountain,) saying,


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You shall not make a graven image for you, any likeness [of anything] that is in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters beneath the earth.


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You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them. For I the LORD your God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth [generation] of those who hate Me,


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You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not acquit [the one] who takes His name in vain.


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But the seventh day [shall be] the sabbath of the LORD your God. [In it] you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your ox, nor your ass, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger inside your gates, so that your manservant and your maidservant may rest like yourself.


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And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and with a stretched-out arm. Therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day.


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Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be made longer, and that it may go well with you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.


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And you shall not lust after your neighbor's wife, nor shall you covet your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any [thing] that is your neighbor's.


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The LORD spoke these words to all your assembly in the mountain out of the midst of the fire of the cloud and of the thick darkness with a great voice. And He added no more. And He wrote them in two tablets of stone and delivered them to me.


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And it happened when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, for the mountain burned with fire, you came near me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders,


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and you said, Behold! The LORD our God has revealed His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice out of the midst of the fire. We have seen today that God talks with man yet he [still] lives.


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Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die.


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For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we [have], and lived?


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You go near and hear all that the LORD our God shall say. And you speak to us all that the LORD our God shall speak to you, and we will hear and act.


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And the LORD heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me. And the LORD said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They have well [said] all that they have spoken.


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Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their sons forever!


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But as for you, you stand here by Me, and I will speak to you all the commandments and the statutes and the judgments which you shall teach them, that they may do [them] in the land which I am giving them, to possess it.


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And you shall be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.


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You shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God has commanded you so that you may live and that good [may be] to you, and you may make [your] days longer in the land which you shall possess.


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And these [are] the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God commanded to teach you so that you might do [them] in the land where you go, to possess it,


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that you might fear the LORD your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, you, and your son, and your son's son, all the days of your life, and so that your days may be prolonged.


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Then hear, O, Israel, and be careful to [do] it, so that it may be well with you, and that you may greatly multiply, as the LORD God of our fathers has promised you, in the land that flows with milk and honey.


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And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.


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And you shall carefully teach them to your sons, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.


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And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.


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And it shall be when the LORD your God has brought you into the land which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you great and good cities which you did not build,


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and houses full of every good [thing] which you did not fill, and wells which are dug, but which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and you shall eat and be full,


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you shall be on guard lest you forget the LORD who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves.


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for the LORD your God [is] a jealous God among you, lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you and destroy you from off the face of the earth.


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You shall carefully keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you.


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And you shall do the right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you, and so that you may go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore to your fathers,


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When your son asks you in time to come, saying, What are the testimonies, and the statutes and the judgments which the LORD our God has commanded you?


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Then you shall say to your son, We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt, and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.


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And the LORD gave signs and wonders, great and evil signs, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh and upon all his household, before our eyes.


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And He brought us out from there so that He might bring us in to give us the land which He swore to our fathers.


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And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, so that He might preserve us alive, as [it is] today.


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And if we are careful to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us, it shall be our righteousness.


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When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you,


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and the LORD your God shall deliver them before you, you shall crush them, completely destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them.


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Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter to your son.


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For they will turn away your son from following Me, so that they may serve other gods. So the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you and will destroy you suddenly.


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But you shall deal with them in this way: you shall destroy their altars and break down their images, and cut down their groves and burn their graven images with fire.


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For you [are] a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a special people to Himself above all people that are upon the face of the earth.


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The LORD did not set His love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people, for you [were] the fewest of all people.


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But because the LORD loved you, and because He would keep the oath which He had sworn to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of slaves, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.


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Therefore, know that the LORD your God, He [is] God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy with them that love Him and keep His commandments, to a thousand generations.


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And he repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slow to repay him who hates Him. He will repay him to his face.


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And you shall keep the commandments and the statutes and the judgments which I command you today, to do them.


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And it shall be, because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, the LORD your God shall keep to you the covenant and the mercy 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 land, your grain, and your wine, and your oil, the increase of your cattle, and the flocks of your sheep, in the land which He swore to your fathers to give you.


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You shall be blessed above all people. There shall not be male or female barren among you or among your cattle.


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And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt which you know upon you. But He will lay them upon all who hate you.


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And you shall destroy all the people which the LORD your God shall deliver you. Your eye shall have no pity upon them, neither shall you serve their gods, for [they will be] a snare to you.


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You shall not be afraid of them, [but] shall well remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.


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[Remember] the great temptations which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched-out arm by which the Lord your God brought you out. So shall the LORD your God do to all the people of whom you are afraid.


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And the LORD your God will send the hornet among them, until the ones who are left, and who hide themselves from you, are destroyed.


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And the LORD your God will put out those nations before you by little and little. You may not destroy them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon you.


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And the LORD your God shall deliver them to you, and shall destroy them with a mighty ruin until they are destroyed.


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And He shall deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall destroy their name from under the heavens. No man shall be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.


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You shall burn the graven images of their gods with fire. You shall not desire the silver or gold on them, nor take [it] for yourself, so that you may not be snared in it. For it is an abomination to the LORD your God.


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And you shall not bring an abomination into your house, lest you be a cursed thing like it. You shall utterly hate it, and you shall utterly despise it. For it [is] a cursed thing.


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All the commandments which I command you this day shall you be careful to do, that you may live and multiply and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers.


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And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness in order to humble you, to prove you, to know what is in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.


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And He humbled you and allowed you to hunger, and then He fed you with manna, which you did not know, neither did your fathers know [it], so that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every [word] that comes out of the mouth of the LORD man shall live.


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And you have known with your heart that as a man chastens his son, [so] the LORD your God chastens you.


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For the LORD your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills,


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a land in which you shall eat bread without want. You shall not lack any [thing] in it. [It is] a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.


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And you shall eat and be satisfied, then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you.


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Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God, in not keeping His commandments, and His judgments, and His statutes, which I command you today,


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and [when] your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied,


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then your heart might be lifted up, and you might forget the LORD your God who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves.


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He led you through the great and terrible wilderness, [with] fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground, where [there was] no water, who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint,


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who fed you in the wilderness with manna which your fathers did not know, so that He might humble you and so that He might prove you, to do you good in your latter end,


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and so that you might not say in your heart, My power and the might of [my] hand has gotten me this wealth.


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But you shall remember the LORD your God, for [it is] He who gives you power to get wealth, so that He may confirm His covenant which He has sworn to your fathers, as it is today.


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And it shall be if you do at all forget the LORD your God and walk after other gods and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish.


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As the nations whom the LORD destroys before your face, so you shall perish because you would not listen to the voice of the LORD your God.


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Hear, O, Israel! You [are] to pass over Jordan today, to go in to expel nations greater and mightier than you, cities great and fenced up to heaven,


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a people great and tall, the sons of the giants, whom you know and have heard it said, Who can stand before the sons of Anak!


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Therefore, understand today that the LORD your God [is] He who goes over before you. [Like] a consuming fire, He shall destroy them, and He shall bring them down before your face. So you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said to you.


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Do not speak in your heart, after the LORD your God has cast them out from before you, saying: For my righteousness, the LORD has brought me in to possess this land. But for the wickedness of these nations, the LORD your God drives them out from before you.


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Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go to possess their land. But for the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God drives them out from before you, so that He may perform the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.


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Therefore, understand that the LORD your God does not give you this good land, to possess it, for your righteousness. For you [are] a stiff-necked people.


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Remember, [and] do not forget, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day you departed out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.


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Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.


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When I had gone up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed in the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.


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And the LORD delivered to me two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them according to all the words which the LORD spoke with you in the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.


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And it happened, at the end of forty days and forty nights the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, the tablets of the covenant.


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And the LORD said to me, Arise! Get down quickly from here, for your people whom you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted. They have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them. They have made them a molten image.


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And the LORD spoke to me saying: I have seen this people, and, behold, it [is] a stiff-necked people.


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Let Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.


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So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire. And the two tables of the covenant [were] in my two hands.


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And I looked, and behold! You had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.


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And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sins which you sinned in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger.


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For I was afraid of the anger and fury with which the LORD was angry against you to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me at that time also.


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And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him. And I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.


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And I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and stamped it, grinding [it] very small, until it was as small as dust. And I threw the dust of it into the torrent that descended out of the mountain.


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And when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying: Go up and possess the land which I have given you, then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and you did not believe Him, nor listened to His voice.


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And I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, that I had thrown myself down, for Jehovah had said to destroy you.


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I prayed therefore to the LORD and said, O, Lord God, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance which You have redeemed through Your greatness, which You have brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.


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Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not look to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin,


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lest the land from where You bring us out say, Because the LORD 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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Yet they [are] Your people and Your inheritance which You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your stretched-out arm.


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At that time the LORD said to me: Cut out two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me into the mountain, and make an ark of wood.


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And I will write on the tablets the words that were in the first tablets which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.


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And I made an ark [of] acacia-wood, and cut out two tablets of stone like the first, and went up into the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand.


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And He wrote on the tablets, according to the first writing, the Ten Commandments which the LORD spoke to you in the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. And the LORD gave them to me.


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And I turned myself and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made. And there they are, as the LORD commanded me.


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And the sons of Israel pulled up [stakes] from Beeroth of the sons of Jaakan to Mosera. There Aaron died, and there he was buried. And Eleazar his son served in the priest's office in his place.


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From there they pulled up to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of water brooks.


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At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister to Him, and to bless in His name, until today.


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Therefore Levi has no part nor inheritance with his brothers. The LORD [is] his inheritance, according as the LORD your God promised him.


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And I stayed in the mountain, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights. And the LORD listened to me at that time also. The LORD would not destroy you.


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And the LORD said to me, Arise, Go before the people, causing them to go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give to them.


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And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,


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Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens [belong] to the LORD your God, the earth also, with all in it.


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Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them, and He chose their seed after them, you above all people, as [it is] today.


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For the LORD your God [is] God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, the mighty, and a terrible God, who does not respect persons nor take a bribe.


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He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger in giving him food and clothing.


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You shall fear the LORD your God. You shall serve Him, and you shall hold fast to Him, and swear by His name.


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He [is] your praise, and He [is] your God, who has done for you these great and terrible things which your eyes have seen.


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Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons. And now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of the heavens for multitude.


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Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep His charge and His statutes and His judgments and His commandments always.


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And you know today, for [I do] not [speak] with your sons who have not known and who have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, His greatness, His mighty hand, and His stretched-out arm,


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and His miracles, and His acts which He did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land.


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And [you know] what He did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots, how He made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and the LORD has destroyed them to today.


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and what He did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance in their possession, in the midst of all Israel.


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Therefore you shall keep all the commandments which I command you today, so that you may be strong and go in and possess the land where you go to possess it,


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and so that you may make [your] days longer in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land that flows with milk and honey.


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For the land into which you go to possess it, [is] not as the land of Egypt from which you came out, where you sowed your seed and watered [it] with your foot, like a garden of herbs.


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But the land which you are entering to possess it [is] a land of hills and valleys, drinking water from the rain of heavens.


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It is a land which the LORD your God cares for. The eyes of the LORD your God [are] always upon it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.


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And it will be, if you will listen carefully to My commandments which I command you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,


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I will give the rain of your land in its due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.


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Take heed to yourselves that your heart may not be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods, and worship them,


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and the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and He shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain, and so that the land will not yield her fruit, and you perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD gives you.


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Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your hearts and in your souls, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, so that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.


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And you shall teach them to your sons, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.


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so that your days and the days of your sons may be multiplied in the land which the LORD swore to give to your fathers, like the days of the heavens upon the earth.


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For if you will carefully keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him,


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then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall possess greater and mightier nations than you.


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Every place on which the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours, from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the furthest sea shall your border be.


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There shall no man stand before you, [for] the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon the face of all the land that you shall tread upon, as He has said to you.


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and a curse if you will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but will turn aside out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.


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And it will be, when the LORD your God has brought you into the land where you go to possess it, you shall set the blessing upon Mount Gerizim, and the curse upon Mount Ebal.


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[Are] they not on the other side Jordan, by the way of the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites, who dwell in the plain across from Gilgal beside the plains of Moreh?


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For you shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God gives you, and you shall possess it and dwell in it.


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These [are] the statutes and judgments which you shall be careful to do in the land which the LORD God of your fathers gives you to possess it, all the days that you live upon the earth.


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You shall completely destroy all the places in which the nations which you shall possess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.


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And you shall overthrow their altars and break their pillars, and burn their pillars with fire. And you shall cut down the carved images of their gods, and destroy their names out of that place.


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But you shall seek to the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put His name there, even to His dwelling place you shall seek, and there you shall come.


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And there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offering of your hand, and your vows, and your free-will offerings, and the first-born of your herds and of your flocks.


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And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households in which the LORD your God has blessed you.


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You shall not do according to all that we do here today, each doing whatever [is] right in his own eyes.


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But [when] you go over Jordan and live in the land which the LORD your God gives you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies all around, so that you live in safety,


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then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause His name to dwell there. There you shall bring all that I command you, your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to the LORD.


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And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, your sons, your daughters, your men-servants, your female-servants, and the Levite that [is] within your gates (because he has no part nor inheritance with you).


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But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.


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However, with all your soul's desire you shall sacrifice and eat flesh in all your gates, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you, the clean and the unclean, one may eat, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.


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You may not eat inside your gates the tithe of your grain or of your wine or of your oil, or the first-born of your herds or of your flock, or any of your vows which you vow, or your free-will offerings or the heave offering of your hand.


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But you must eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite within your gates. And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you put your hand [to].


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When the LORD your God shall make your border larger, as He has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your soul longs to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, whatever your soul desires.


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If the place which the LORD your God has chosen to put his name there is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and you shall eat in your gates whatever your soul desires.


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Even as the gazelle and the hart is eaten, so you shall eat them. The unclean and the clean shall eat [of] them alike.


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Only be sure that you do not eat the blood. For the blood [is] the life. And you may 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 sons after you, when you shall do what [is] right in the sight of the LORD.


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Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD shall choose.


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And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God. And the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, and you shall eat the flesh.


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Be careful to hear all these words which I command you, so that it may go well with you and with your sons after you forever, when you do the good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.


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When the LORD your God shall cut off the nations before you, where you go to possess them, and you take their place and dwell in their land,


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take heed to yourself that you do not become snared by following them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not ask about their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods that I too may do likewise?


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You shall not do so to the LORD your God. For every abomination to the LORD, which He hates, they have done to their gods; even their sons and their daughters they have burned in the fire to their gods.


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and the sign or the wonder which he foretold to you occurs, saying, Let us go after other gods which you have not known, and let us serve them,


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you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the LORD your God [is] testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.


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You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments, and obey His voice, and you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him.


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And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken to turn [you] away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slaves, to thrust you out of the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall put the evil away from the midst of you.


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If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who [is] like your own soul, lures you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods which you have not known, you nor your fathers,


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that is, of the gods of the people who [are] around you, near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth,


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you shall not consent to him nor listen to him. Nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare, nor shall you hide him.


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But you shall surely kill him. Your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.


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And you shall stone him with stones so that he dies, because he has sought to drive you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves.


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If, in one of your cities which the LORD your God has given you to dwell in, you shall hear [one] saying,


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Men, the sons of Belial, have gone out from among you and have drawn away those who live in their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known,


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then you shall inquire and make search, and ask carefully. And behold, [if it is true], and the thing is certain, [that] such an abomination is done among you,


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you shall surely strike those who live in that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it completely, and all that [is] in it, and all the cattle of it, with the edge of the sword.


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And you shall gather all its spoil into the middle of its street, and shall burn the city with fire, and all its spoil, every bit of it, for the LORD your God. And it shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again.


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And let nothing of the cursed thing cling to your hand, so that the LORD may turn from the heat of his anger and show you mercy, and give mercies to you, and multiply you as He has sworn to your fathers,


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when you listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep all His commandments which I command you today, to do the right in the eyes of the LORD your God.


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You [are] the sons of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves nor make [any] baldness between your eyes for the dead.


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For you [are] a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a peculiar people to Himself, above all the nations that are on the earth.


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the hart, and the gazelle, and the roe deer, and the wild goat, and the mountain goat, and the wild ox, and the mountain-sheep.


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And every animal that divides the hoof, and divides it into two hooves, [and] chews the cud among the animals, that you shall eat.


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But these you shall not eat, of those which chew the cud, or of those that divide the cloven hoof: the camel, and the hare, and the rock badger, for they chew the cud, but do not divide the hoof. They [are] unclean to you.


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And the swine, because it divides the hoof but does not chew the cud; it [is] unclean to you. You shall not eat of their flesh nor touch their dead body.


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You shall not eat anything that dies of itself. You shall give it to the stranger that [is] in your gates, so that he may eat it. Or you may sell [it] to a stranger. For you [are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.


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And you shall eat before the LORD your God in the place which He shall choose to place His name there, the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the first-born of your herds and of your flocks, so that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.


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And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, [or] if the place is too far from you, which the LORD your God shall choose to set His name there, when the LORD your God has blessed you,


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then you shall turn [it] into silver and bind up the silver in your hand, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose.


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And you shall pay that silver for whatever your soul desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul desires. And you shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household


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and the Levite within your gates, you shall not forsake him, for he has no part nor inheritance with you.


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At the end of three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase the same year, and shall lay [it] up inside your gates.


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And the Levite, because he has no part nor inheritance with you, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, who [are] inside your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.


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And this [is] the manner of the release. Every man who has a loan to his neighbor shall release it. He shall not exact [it] from his neighbor, or from his brother, because it is called the LORD's release.


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You may exact [it] from a foreigner, but your hand shall release that which is yours with your brother,


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except when there shall be no poor among you. For the LORD shall greatly bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you [for] an inheritance to possess it,


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only if you carefully listen to the voice of the LORD your God to be careful to do all these commandments which I command you today.


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For the LORD your God blesses you as He promised you. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. And you shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over you.


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If there is among you a poor man of one of your brothers inside any of your gates in your land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother.


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But you shall open your hand wide to him, and shall surely lend him enough for his need, that which he lacks.


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Beware that there is not a thought in your wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand, and your eye may be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing. And he may cry to the LORD against you, and it is sin to you.


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You shall surely give to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the LORD your God shall bless you in all your works, and in all that you put your hand to.


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For the poor shall never cease out of the land. Therefore, I command you saying, You shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor, and to your needy, in your land.


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If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.


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You shall richly bestow on him from your flock, and from your grain floor, and from your winepress; with what the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.


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And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.


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And if he says to you, I will not go away from you, because he loves you and your house, because it [has been] good for him with you;


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then you shall take an awl and put [it] through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. And also to your slave-girl you shall do so.


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It shall not seem hard to you when you send him away from you free, for he has been worth a double hired servant in serving you six years. And the LORD your God shall bless you in all that you do.


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All the first-born males that come from your herd and from your flock, you shall set apart to the LORD your God. You shall do no work with the first-born of your bull, nor shear the first-born of your sheep.


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You shall eat before the LORD your God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, you and your household.


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And if there is a blemish in it, lame, or blindness, or any ill blemish, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.


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You shall eat it inside your gates. The unclean and the clean shall [eat it] alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.


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Observe the month Abib, and keep the Passover to the LORD your God. For in the month of Abib, the LORD your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.


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And you shall therefore sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place His name there.


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You shall eat no leavened [bread] with it. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of affliction, for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste, so that you may remember the day that you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.


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And there shall be no leavened [bread] seen with you in all your borders for seven days. Nor shall [any] of the flesh which you sacrificed in the first day at evening remain all night until the morning.


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but at the place which the LORD your God shall choose to place His name in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going of the sun, at the time that you came out of Egypt.


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And you shall roast and eat in the place which the LORD your God shall choose. And in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.


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Six days you shall eat unleavened [bread]. And on the seventh day [shall be] a solemn assembly to the LORD your God. You shall do no work.


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You shall count seven weeks to yourselves. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time you began [to put] the sickle to the grain.


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And you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with a measure of a free-will offering of your hand, which you shall give according as the LORD your God has blessed you.


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And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your slave-girl, and the Levite inside your gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, those among you, in the place which the LORD your God has chosen to place His name there.


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And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. And you shall be careful to do these statutes.


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You shall keep the Feast of Tabernacles seven days after you have gathered in your grain floor and your wine press.


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And you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male slave, and your slave-girl, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow inside your gates.


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Seven days you shall keep a solemn feast to the LORD your God in the place which the LORD shall choose. Because the LORD your God shall bless you in all your increase, and in all the works of your hands, therefore you shall surely rejoice.


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Three times in a year shall all your males appear before the LORD your God in the place which He shall choose: in the Feast of Unleavened [Bread], and in the Feast of Weeks, and in the Feast of Tabernacles. And they shall not appear before the LORD empty,


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[but] each with his gift in his hand, according to the blessing of the LORD your God, which He has given you.


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You shall appoint judges and officers for yourself in all your gates which the LORD your God gives you, tribe by tribe. And they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.


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You shall not pervert judgment; you shall not respect persons, nor take a gift. For a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.


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You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you.


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You shall not set up for yourself pillars of any trees near the altar of the LORD your God which you shall make for yourself.


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You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God [any] bull or sheep in which there is a blemish, any evil thing, for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.


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If there is found among you, inside any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, in breaking His covenant,


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and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, either the sun, or moon, or any [of] the host of heaven, which I have not commanded,


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and if it is told you, and you have heard and inquired carefully, and, behold, it is true and the thing is certain, such abomination is done in Israel;


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then you shall bring forth that man or that woman who has committed that evil thing, to your gates, even that man or that woman, and shall stone them with stones until they die.


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At the mouth of two witnesses or three witnesses shall he that is worthy of death be put to death. At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.


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The hands of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people. So you shall put the evil away from among you.


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If a matter [is] too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, matters of strife within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the LORD your God shall choose.


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And [you] shall come to the priests of the Levites, and to the judge that shall be in those days, and ask. And they shall declare to you the sentence of judgment.


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And you shall do according to the sentence which they declare to you from that place which the LORD shall choose. And you shall be careful to do according to all that they tell you.


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According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach you and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand or the left.


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And the man that acts proudly and will not listen to the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. And you shall put away the evil from Israel.


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When you come to the land which the LORD your God gives you, and shall possess it and shall live in it and shall say, I will set a king over me, like all the nations around me,


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you shall surely set a king over you, whom the LORD your God shall choose. You shall set a king over you from among your brothers. You may not set a stranger over you, who is not your brother.


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But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, so as to multiply horses, because the LORD has said to you, You shall return no more that way from now on.


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Nor shall he multiply wives to himself, so that his heart does not turn away. Nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold to himself.


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And it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write a copy of this law in a book from before the priests the Levites.


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And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law, and these statutes, to do them,


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so that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he does not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, so that he may make his days longer in his kingdom, he and his sons, in the midst of Israel.


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The priests, the Levites, all the tribe of Levi, [shall have] no part nor inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and His inheritance.


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Therefore they shall have no inheritance among their brothers. The LORD [is ] their inheritance, as He has said to them.


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And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from those that offer a sacrifice, whether ox or sheep. And they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks, and the stomach.


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You shall give him the first-fruit of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep.


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For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons forever.


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And if a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he lived, and come with all the desire of his mind to the place which the LORD shall choose,


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then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brothers and Levites who stand there before the LORD.


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They shall have the same portions to eat, besides that of the sales of [the inheritance from] his father.


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When you come to the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.


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There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, [or] that uses divination, an observer of clouds, or a fortune-teller, or a witch,


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For all that do these things [are] an abomination to the LORD. And because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you.


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For these nations whom you shall possess listened to observers of clouds and to diviners. But as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you [to do] so.


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The LORD your God will raise up to you a Prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, One like me. To Him you shall listen,


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according to all that you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying: Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, so that I do not die.


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I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brothers, [one] like you, and will put My words in His mouth. And He shall speak to them all that I shall command Him.


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And it shall happen, whatever man will not listen to My words which He shall speak in My name, I will require [it] of him.


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But the prophet who shall presume to speak a word in My name which I have not commanded him to speak or who shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.


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When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not follow nor come to pass, that [is] the thing which the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You shall not be afraid of him.


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When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land the LORD your God gives you, and when you take their place and live in their cities and in their houses,


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you shall separate three cities for you in the middle of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to possess it.


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You shall prepare you a way, and divide the borders of your land which the LORD your God gives you to inherit, into three parts, so that every slayer may flee there.


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And this [is] the case of the slayer who shall flee there that he may live: whoever in error kills his neighbor whom he did not hate him before,


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even he who goes into the wood with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand brings a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the wood and lights on his neighbor so that he dies; he shall flee to one of those cities and live,


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so that the avenger of the blood may not pursue the slayer while his heart is hot, and overtake him because the way is long, and kill him, and he had no sentence worthy of death, for he did not hate him in time past.


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And if the LORD your God makes your border larger, as He has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which He promised to give to your fathers;


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if you will keep all these commandments which I command you today, to do them, to love the LORD your God, and to walk always in His ways, then you shall add to yourself three more cities to these three,


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so that innocent blood may not be shed in your land which the LORD your God gives you [for] an inheritance and blood may not be on you.


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But if a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and rises up against him and strikes his life from him, so that he dies, and flees to one of these cities,


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then the elders of his city shall send and bring him away 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 put away innocent blood from Israel, so that it may go well with you.


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You may not remove your neighbor's landmark, which those in the past have set in your inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess it.


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One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be made sure.


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then both the men who are disagreeing shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges which shall be in those days.


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And the judges shall make careful inquiry. And behold, [if] the witness [is] a false witness [and] has testified falsely against his brother,


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then you shall do to him as he had thought to have done to his brother. So you shall put the evil away from among you.


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And your eye shall not pity. Life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.


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When you go out to battle against your enemies and see horses and chariots, a people more than you, do not be afraid of them. For the LORD your God [is] with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.


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and shall say to them, Hear, O, Israel, today you go up to battle against your enemies. Do not let your hearts faint, do not fear, and do not tremble, neither be terrified before their faces.


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And the officers shall speak to the people saying, Who [is] the man that 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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And who [is] the man that has planted a vineyard and has not used its fruits? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man use its fruits.


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And who [is] the man that has become engaged to a wife and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her.


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And the officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, Who [is] the man that is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brothers' heart faint as well as his heart.


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And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.


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And it shall be, if it makes the answer of peace and opens to you, then all the people found in it shall be forced laborers to you, and they shall serve you.


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And when the LORD your God has delivered it into your hands, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword.


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But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, all the spoil of it, you shall take to yourself. And you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.


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So you shall do to all the cities [which are] very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.


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But of the cities of these people, which the LORD your God gives you [for] an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes.


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But you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; as the LORD your God has commanded you,


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so that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominations which they have done to their gods. So you would sin against the LORD your God.


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When you shall besiege a city a long time in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by forcing an axe against 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 go before you to lay siege?


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Only the trees which you know that they [are] not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down. And you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it is subdued.


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If [one] is found dead in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it is not known who has killed him,


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then your elders and your judges shall come forth. And they shall measure to the cities which [are] around him who is dead.


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And it shall be, the city nearest to the slain one, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer which has not been worked with, which has not drawn in the yoke.


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And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to an ever-flowing stream, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the stream.


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And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come near. For the LORD your God has chosen them to minister to him, and to bless in the name of the LORD, and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be [tried].


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And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain one, shall wash their hands over the heifer that has been beheaded in the stream.


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Be merciful, O LORD, to Your people Israel, whom You have redeemed, and do not lay innocent blood to the charge of Your people Israel. And the blood shall be forgiven them.


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So you shall put away innocent blood from among you, when you do the right in the sight of the LORD.


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When you go forth to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God has delivered them into your hands and you have taken them captive,


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and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire to her, that you would take [her] for your wife,


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And she shall put off the clothing of her captivity, and shall remain in your house, and shall sorrow for her father and her mother a full month. And after that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.


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And it shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will. But you shall not sell her at all for silver, you shall not make a slave of her, because you have humbled her.


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If a man has two wives, one beloved and another hated, and they have borne him sons, the beloved and the hated; and [if] the first-born son was of her that was hated,


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then it shall be in the day when he makes his sons to inherit what he has, he may not cause to [inherit] the son of the beloved first-born before the son of the hated one, he who [is truly] the first-born.


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But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated as the first-born by giving him a double portion of all that he has. For he [is] the beginning of his strength. The right of the first-born is his.


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If a man has a son who is stubborn and rebels, who will not obey his father's voice or his mother's voice, even when they have chastened him [he] will not listen to them,


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then his father and his mother shall lay hold on him and bring him out 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 will not obey our voice. [He is] a glutton and a drunkard.


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And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones so that he dies. So shall you put evil away from you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.


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And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and if he is put to death and you hang him on a tree,


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his body shall not remain all night on the tree. But you shall surely bury him that day (for he that [is] hanged is accursed of God), so that your land may not be defiled, which the LORD your God gives you [for] an inheritance.


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You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother.


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And if your brother [is] not near you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring [it] into your own house, and it shall be with you until your brother seeks after it, and you shall give it back to him again.


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In the same way you shall do with his ass. And so shall you do with his clothing. And with any lost thing of your brother's, which he has lost and you have found, you shall do the same. You may not hide yourself.


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You shall not see your brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely [help] him to lift [it] up again.


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There shall not be the thing of a man on a woman, neither shall a man put a woman's garment on. For all that do so [are] abominable to the LORD your God.


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If a bird's nest happens to be before you in the way in any tree, or on the ground, [with] young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.


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You shall in every case let the mother go and take the young for yourself, so that it may be well with you, and you may make [your] days longer.


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When you build a new house, then you shall make a guard rail for your roof, so that you do not bring blood on your house, if one falls from it.


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You shall not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seeds, lest the fruit of your seed which you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard be defiled.


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and makes shameful charges against her, and brings up an evil name on her, and says, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I did not find in her the tokens of virginity,


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then shall the father of the girl, and her mother, take and bring tokens of the girl's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.


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And the girl's father shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her.


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And, lo, he has made shameful charges [against her], saying, I have not found in your daughter the tokens of virginity. And yet these are the tokens 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 a hundred [shekels] of silver, and give them to the father of the girl, because he has brought an evil name on a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days.


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then they shall bring the girl out to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones so that she dies because she has done foolishness in Israel to play the harlot in her father's house. So you shall put evil away from among you.


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If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall put away evil from Israel.


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If a girl [who is] a virgin is engaged to a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her,


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then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones that they die; the girl because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has humbled his neighbor's wife. So you shall put away evil from among you.


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But if a man finds an engaged girl in the field, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man that lay with her shall die.


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But you shall do nothing to the girl. No sin [worthy] of death [is] in the girl; for as when a man rises against his neighbor and slays him, even so is this matter.


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If a man finds a girl, a virgin not engaged, and lays hold on her, and lies with her, and they are found,


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then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife. Because he has humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.


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He who is wounded, crushed, or who has his male member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.


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A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. Even to his tenth generation he shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.


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An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. Even to their tenth generation they shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD forever,


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because they did not meet you with bread and with water in the way when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor, of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.


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But the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, but the LORD your God turned the curse to a blessing to you, because the LORD your God loved you.


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You shall not despise an Edomite, for he [is] your brother. You shall not despise an Egyptian, because you were a stranger in his land.


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The sons that are born to them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.


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If there is among you any man who is not clean because of an accident at night, then he shall go outside the camp. He shall not come inside the camp.


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And it shall be as evening turns, he shall wash with water. And when the sun is down, he shall come into the the middle of the camp.


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And you shall have a paddle on your weapon. And it shall be, when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it, and shall turn back and cover that which comes from you.


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For the LORD your God walks in the middle of your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you. Therefore your camp shall be holy, so that He may see no unclean thing in you and turn away from you.


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He shall live with you, among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of your gates, where it seems good to him. You shall not oppress him.


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You shall not bring the hire of a harlot, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD your God for any vow. For even both these [are] hateful to the LORD your God.


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You shall not lend for interest to your brother, interest of silver, interest of food, interest of anything that is loaned on interest.


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You may lend on interest to a stranger, but you shall not lend on interest to your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you set your hand to in the land where you go to possess it.


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When you shall vow a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not wait to pay it, for the LORD your God will surely require it of you, and it would be sin in you.


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That which has gone out of your lips you shall keep and perform, even a free-will offering, according as you have vowed to the LORD your God, which you have promised with your mouth.


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When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat grapes to your fill at your own pleasure, but you shall not put [any] in your vessel.


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When you come into the standing grain of your neighbor, then you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not move a sickle into your neighbor's standing grain.


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When a man has taken a wife and married her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her, then let him write her a bill of divorce and put it] in her hand, and send her out of his house.


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and the latter husband hates her and writes her a bill of divorce and puts [it] in her hand and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, he who took her to be his wife


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her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled. For that [is] hateful before the LORD. And you shall not cause the land to sin, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.


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When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any duty. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife whom he has taken.


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No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone to pledge, for he takes [a man's] life to pledge.


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If a man is found stealing a person of his brothers, the sons of Israel, and makes a slave of him, or sells him, then that thief shall die. And you shall put evil away from among you.


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Be careful in the plague of leprosy, that you watch carefully and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you. As I commanded them, you shall be careful to do.


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Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam by the wayside, after you had come forth out of Egypt.


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When you loan a loan of any kind to your brother, you shall not go into his house to bring forth his pledge.


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You shall certainly give back to him the pledge at sundown, that he may sleep in his own clothing, and bless you. And it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.


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You shall not oppress a hired servant who [is] poor and needy, of your brothers, or of your strangers that [are] in your land within your gates.


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At his day you shall give [him] his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it. For he [is] poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it shall be sin to you.


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The fathers shall not be put to death for the sons, neither shall the sons be put to death for the fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin.


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You shall not pervert the rightful judgment of the stranger [nor] of the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing to pledge.


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But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from there. Therefore I command you to do this thing.


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When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to bring it. It shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow; so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand.


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When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.


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When you gather the grapes from your vineyard, you shall not glean afterward. It shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.


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And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I command you to do this thing.


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If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and they have been judged, and the righteous one is declared righteous, and the wrongdoer declared guilty,


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then it shall be, if the wrongdoer [is] worthy to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to fall down. And one shall strike him in his presence, enough for his wrong, by a certain number.


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He may give him forty stripes, no more, lest he should exceed and beat him above these [with] many stripes, then your brother would be dishonored before your eyes.


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If brothers live together, and one of them dies and has no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her as a wife for himself, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.


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And it shall be, the first-born whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his dead brother, so that his name may not be put out of Israel.


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And if the man does not want to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife 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 will not perform my levirate.


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Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him. And [if] he stands and says, I do not desire to take her,


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then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of his elders, and take off his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done to that man who will not build up his brother's house.


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When men strive together with one another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand and takes him by the secret parts,


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You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure you shall have, so that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God gives you.


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how he met you by the way and struck those of you who were behind, all the feeble behind you, when you [were] faint and weary. And he did not fear God.


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And it shall be when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around in the land which the LORD your God gives you [for] an inheritance to possess it, you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heavens. You shall not forget.


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And it shall be, when you come into the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and live in it,


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you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the earth which you shall bring of your land that the LORD your God gives you, and you shall put [it] in a basket, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose to place His name there.


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And you shall go to the priest in those days, and say to him, I profess today to the LORD your God that I have come into the land which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.


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And the priest shall take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.


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And you shall speak and say before the LORD your God, My father [was] a Syrian ready to perish. And he went down to Egypt, and stayed there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and many.


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And when we cried to the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice and looked on our afflictions and our labor and our oppression.


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And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with fearful might, and with miracles and with wonders.


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And He has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land that flows with milk and honey.


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And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land which You, O LORD, have given me. And you shall set it before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God.


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And [you shall] rejoice in all the good which the LORD your God has given to you, and to your house; you, and the Levite, and the stranger in your midst.


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When you have made an end of tithing all the tithes of your increase the third year, the year of tithing, and have given [it] to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow (that they may eat inside your gates and be filled),


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then you shall say before the LORD your God, I have brought away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me. I have not broken Your commandments, neither have I forgotten.


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I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put [any] of it away for unclean [use], nor have I given of it for the dead. I have listened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that You have commanded me.


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Look down from Your holy dwelling, from Heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land which You have given us, as You swore to our fathers, a land that flows with milk and honey.


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Today the LORD your God has commanded you to do these statutes and judgments. You therefore shall keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.


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You have today said that the LORD is your God, and that you would walk in His ways, and keep His statutes and His commandments and His judgments, and listen to His voice.


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And the LORD has taken you today to be His peculiar people, as He has promised you, and to keep all His commandments,


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and to make you high above all nations which he has made, in praise and in name and in honor, and that you may be a holy people to the LORD your God, even as He has spoken.


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And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you today.


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And it will be, on the day when you shall pass over Jordan to the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall set up great stones and plaster them with plaster.


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And you shall write on them all the words of the law when you have passed over, so that you may go in to the land which the LORD your God gives you, a land that flows [with] milk and honey, as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you.


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Therefore it shall be when you have gone over Jordan, you shall set up these stones which I command you today, in Mount Ebal. And you shall plaster them with plaster.


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And you shall build an altar there to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You shall not lift up [any] iron [tool] on them.


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You shall build the altar of the LORD your God [of] uncut stones, and you shall offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God.


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And Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying: Take heed and listen, O Israel. Today you have become the people of the LORD your God.


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You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God, and do His commandments and His statutes which I command you today.


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These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people when you have come over Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin.


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And these shall stand on Mount Ebal to curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.


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Cursed [is] the man that makes any graven or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and puts [it] in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.


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Cursed [is] he who perverts the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.


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Cursed [is] he who lies with his father's wife, because he uncovers his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.


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Cursed [is] he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.


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Cursed [is] he who does not confirm [all] the words of this law, to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.


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And it will be, if you shall listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe [and] to do all His commandments which I command you today, the LORD your God will set you on high above all nations of the earth.


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And all these blessings shall come on you and overtake you, if you will listen to the voice of the LORD your God.


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The fruit of your body [shall be] blessed, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your cows, and the flocks of your sheep.


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The LORD shall cause your enemies that rise up against you to be stricken before your face. They shall come out against you one way, and flee before you seven ways.


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The LORD shall command the blessing on you in your storehouses, and all that you set your hand to. And He shall bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.


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The LORD shall establish you a holy people to Himself, as He has sworn to you, if you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.


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And all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they shall be afraid of you.


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And the LORD shall prosper you in goods, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.


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The LORD shall open to you His good treasure, the heaven to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. And you shall loan to many nations, and you shall not borrow.


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And the LORD shall make you the head, and not the tail. And you shall be always above, and you shall not be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today, to observe and to do them.


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And you shall not go aside from any of the words which I command you today, to the right hand or the left, to go after other gods to serve them.


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And it shall be, if you will not listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe and to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, all these curses shall come on you and overtake you.


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The fruit of your body [shall be] cursed, and the fruit of your land, the increase of your cows, and the flocks of your sheep.


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The LORD shall send on you cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings [by] which you have forsaken Me.


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The LORD shall make the plague cling to you until He has consumed you from off the land where you go to possess it.


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The LORD shall strike you with lung disease and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew. And they shall pursue you until you perish.


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The LORD shall make the rain of your land powder and dust. It shall come down from the heavens on you until you are destroyed.


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The LORD shall cause you to be stricken before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them. And you shall be a trembling to all the kingdoms of the earth.


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And your body shall be food to all birds of the air, and to the beasts of the earth. And no man shall frighten [them] away.


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The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with the hemorrhoids, and with the scab, and with the itch, of which you cannot be healed.


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And you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall always be pressed down and spoiled forever, and no man shall save you.


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You shall become engaged to a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You shall build a house, and you shall not live in it. You shall plant a vineyard, and you shall not gather the grapes of it.


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Your ox [shall be] slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it. Your ass [shall be] violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you, your sheep given to your enemies, and you [shall have none to rescue them.


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Your sons and your daughters [shall be] given to another people, and your eyes shall look and fail for them all the day long. And [there shall be] no power in your hand.


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The fruit of your land, and all your labors, shall be eaten up by a nation which you do not know. And you shall always be oppressed and crushed,


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The LORD shall strike you in the knees and in the legs with an evil ulcer that cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.


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The LORD shall bring you, and your king which you shall set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone.


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And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by-word among all nations where the LORD shall lead you.


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You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in, for the locust shall eat it.


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You shall plant vineyards and dress [them], but shall neither drink the wine nor gather, for the worm shall eat them.


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You shall have olive trees throughout all your coasts, but you shall not anoint [with] the oil, for your olive shall drop off [its fruit].


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You shall father sons and daughters, but you shall not enjoy them, for they shall go into captivity.


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He shall loan to you, and you shall not loan to him. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.


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And all these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.


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Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart for the abundance of all [things];


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therefore you shall serve your enemies which the LORD shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in the lack of all [things]. And he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.


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The LORD shall bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose tongue you shall not understand,


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And he shall eat the fruit of your cattle and the fruit of your land, until you are destroyed. He shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, or flocks of your sheep, until he has destroyed you.


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And he shall besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down, throughout all the land. And he shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land which the LORD your God has given you.


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And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, which the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the anguish with which your enemies shall distress you.


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The man [that is] tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the rest of his sons which he has left;


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so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his sons whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left to him in the siege and in the anguish with which your enemies shall distress you in all your gates.


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The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not have ventured to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,


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and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her sons whom she shall bear. For she shall eat them secretly for lack of all [things], in the siege and anguish with which your enemies shall distress you in your gates.


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If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, JEHOVAH YOUR GOD,


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then Jehovah will make your plagues remarkable, and the plagues of your seed great and persistent plagues; with evil and long-lasting sicknesses.


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Also, He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid. And they shall cling to you.


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Also, every sickness and every plague which [is] not written in the book of this law, the LORD will bring them on you until you are destroyed.


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And you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the heavens for multitude, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.


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And it shall be, as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you and to bring you to nothing. And you shall be plucked from off the land where you go to possess it.


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


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And among these nations you shall find no ease, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest. But the LORD shall give you there a trembling heart and failing of eyes and sorrow of mind.


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And your life shall hang in doubt before you, and you shall fear day and night, and shall have no assurance of your life.


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In the morning you shall say, Oh that it were evening! And at evening you shall say, Oh that it were morning, for the fear of your heart with which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.


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And the LORD shall bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said to you, You shall see it no more again. And there you shall be sold to your enemies for men-slaves and women-slaves, and no man shall buy [you].


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These [are] the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which He made with them in Horeb.


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


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And I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not become old on you, and your shoe has not become old on your foot.


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You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I [am] the LORD your God.


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


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And we took their land and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to the half tribe of Manasseh.


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


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You stand today, all of you, before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,


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your little ones, your wives, and your stranger that [is] in your camp, from the cutter of your wood to the drawer of your water;


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so that you should enter into covenant with the LORD your God, and into His oath, which the LORD your God makes you today;


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that He may establish you today for a people to Himself, and [that] He may be a God to you, as He has said to you, and as He has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.


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but with [him] who stands here with us today before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us today.


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(For you know how we have lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the nations which you passed.


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And you have seen their abominations and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which [were] among them)


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lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God, to go serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood,


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and it happens when he hears the words of this curse, that he shall bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to snatch away the drunken with the thirsty.


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The LORD will not be willing to forgive him, but then the anger of the LORD and His jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie on him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heavens.


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And the LORD shall set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law;


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so that the generation to come of your sons that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say (when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD has laid on it)


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the whole land shall be burned [with] brimstone, and salt; it shall not be sown; nor shall it sprout; nor shall there be any grass in it. It [shall be] like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in His anger, and in His wrath,


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even all nations shall say, Why has the LORD done this to this land? [For] what [is] the heat of this great anger?


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Then [men] shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them forth out of the land of Egypt.


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For they went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods whom they did not know, and who had not given to them any portion.


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And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book.


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And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger and wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as [it is] today.


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The secret things [belong] to the LORD our God, but the revealed things [belong] to us and to our sons forever, so that we may do all the words of this law.


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And it shall be when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and when you shall call [them] to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,


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and shall return to the LORD your God and shall obey His voice according to all that I command you today, you and your sons, with all your heart, and with all your soul,


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then the LORD your God will turn your captivity. And He will have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the nations where the LORD your God has scattered you.


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If you are driven out into the outermost [parts] of the heavens, the LORD your God will gather you from there, and He will bring you from there.


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And the LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it. And He will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers.


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


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And the LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies, and on those that hate you, who persecuted you.


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And you shall return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all His commandments which I command you today.


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And the LORD your God will make you have plenty in every work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your land, for good. For the LORD will again rejoice over you for good, as He rejoiced over your fathers;


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for you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law, [and] if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.


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It [is] not in Heaven, [that you should] say, Who shall go up for us to Heaven, and bring it to us, so that we may hear it and do it?


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Nor [is] it beyond the sea, [that you should] say, Who shall go over the sea for us to the region beyond the sea, and bring it to us, so that we may hear it and do it?


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in that I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, so that you may live and multiply. And the LORD your God shall bless you in the land where you go to possess it.


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But if you turn away your heart, so that you will not hear, but shall be drawn away and worship other gods and serve them,


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I declare to you today that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong [your] days on the land where you pass over Jordan to go to possess it.


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I call Heaven and earth to record today against you. I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore, choose life, so that both you and your seed may live,


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so that you may love the LORD your God, [and] that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him. For He is your life and the length of your days, so that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give it to them.


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And he said to them, I [am] a hundred twenty years old today. I can no more go out and come in. Also the LORD has said to me, You shall not go over this Jordan.


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The LORD your God will go over before you. He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall possess them. Joshua [is] the one crossing over before you, as the LORD has said.


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And the LORD shall do to them as He did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and to the land of those whom He destroyed.


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And the LORD shall give them up before your face, so that you may do to them according to all the commandments which I have commanded you.


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Be strong and of a good courage. Do not fear nor be afraid of them. For the LORD your God [is] He who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.


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And Moses called to Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage. For you must go with this people to the land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give it to] them, and you shall cause them to inherit it.


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And Jehovah [is] He who goes before you. He will be with you; He will not fail you nor forsake you. Do not fear; nor be dismayed.


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


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And Moses commanded them, saying: At the end of seven years, at the set time of the year of release, in the Feast of Tabernacles,


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when all Israel has come to appear before the LORD your God in the place which He shall choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.


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Gather the people, men and women and the little ones, and your stranger who [is] within your gates, so that they may hear and that they may learn and fear the LORD your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law,


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and [that] their sons who have not known may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over Jordan to possess it.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, your days are coming near to die. Call Joshua and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, and that I shall charge him. And Moses and Joshua went. And they presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud. And the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. And this people shall rise up and go lusting after the gods of the strangers of the land into which they are going, into their midst. And they will forsake Me and break My covenant which I made with them.


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Then My anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them. And I will hide My face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day, Have not these evils come on us because our God [is] not among us?


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And I will surely hide My face in that day for all the evils which they have done, for they shall turn to other gods.


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


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For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, the land that flows [with] milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and have become satisfied, and become fat, then turn to other gods and serve them, and provoke Me and break My covenant.


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And it shall be when many evils and troubles have found them, this song shall testify against them as a witness. For it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed. For I know their imagination which they do, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.


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And he commanded Joshua the son of Nun, and said: Be strong and of a good courage. For you shall bring the sons of Israel into the land which I swore to them, and I will be with you.


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And it happened when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,


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Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, so that it may be there for a witness against you.


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For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am still alive with you today, you have been rebellious against the LORD. And how much more after my death?


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Gather to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, so that I may speak these words in their ears, and call Heaven and earth to record against them.


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For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you. And evil will happen to you in the latter end of the days, because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger through the work of your hands.


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And Moses spoke in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until their conclusion.


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My doctrine shall drop as the rain; my speech shall drop down as the dew, as the small rain on the tender plant, and as the showers on the grass;


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[He is] the Rock; His work [is] perfect. For all His ways [are] just, a God of faithfulness, and without evil; just and upright is He.


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They have corrupted themselves: [they are] not His sons; [it is] their blemish; [they are] a crooked and perverse generation.


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Do you thus give back to the LORD, Oh foolish and unwise people? [Is] He not your Father who bought you? [Has] He [not] made you and established you?


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


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


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He found him in a desert land, and in the deserted, howling wilderness. He led him about, He cared for him, He kept him as the pupil of His eye.


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As an eagle stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, spreads abroad her wings, takes them and bears them on her wing,


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He made him ride on the high places of the earth, so that he might eat the increase of the fields. And He made him suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock,


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butter from cows, and milk from sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the sons of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat. And you drank the blood of the grape.


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But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked. You grew fat, thick, [and] satisfied. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.


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They sacrificed to devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new ones newly come up, whom your fathers did not fear.


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And He said, I will hide My face from them; I will see what their end [shall be]. For they [are] a very perverse generation, sons in whom [is] no faithfulness.


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They have moved Me to jealousy with a no-god. They have provoked Me to anger with their vanities. And I will move them to jealousy with a no-people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.


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For a fire is kindled in My anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with its increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.


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Exhaustion by famine, and consumption by burning heat, and bitter destruction, and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of crawling things of the dust.


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The sword outside, and the terror inside, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling [also] with the man of grey hairs.


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were it not the provocation of an enemy I feared, lest their enemies should misconstrue; lest they should say, Our hand [is] high and the LORD has not done all this.


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How shall one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them and the LORD had shut them up?


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For their vine [is] of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of gall. Their clusters [are] bitter.


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Vengeance and retribution [belong] to Me. Their foot shall slide in time, for the day of their calamity [is] at hand, and the things that shall come on them make haste.


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


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Who ate the fat of their sacrifices [and] drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let it be your hiding place.


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See now that I, I am He, and there is no god with me. I kill, and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is no deliverer out of My hand.


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If I sharpen My glittering sword, and if My hand takes hold in judgment, I will give vengeance to My enemies and will reward those that hate Me.


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


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Rejoice, O, nations, [with] His people; for He will avenge the blood of His servants, and will render vengeance to His foes and will be merciful to His land, to His people.


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


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And he said to them, Set your hearts to all the words which I testify among you today, which you shall command your sons to observe and to do, all the words of this law.


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For it [is] not a vain thing for you, because it is your life. And by this word you shall prolong [your] days in the land where you go over Jordan, there to possess it.


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Go up into Mount Abarim, [to] Mount Nebo in the land of Moab, which is opposite Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan which I am giving to the sons of Israel for a possession.


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


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because you sinned against Me among the sons of Israel at the Waters of Strife in Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, because you did not sanctify Me in the midst of the sons of Israel.


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Yet you shall see the land before [you], but you shall not go there to the land which I [am] giving to the sons of Israel.


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And this [is] the blessing [with] which Moses the man of God blessed the sons of Israel before his death.


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And he said: The LORD came from Sinai and rose up from Seir to them. He shone forth from Mount Paran, and He came with ten thousands of saints. From His right went a fiery law for them.


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Yea, He loved the people. All His saints [are] in Your hand, and they sat down at Your feet. Everyone shall receive of Your words.


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And this for Judah: And he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him to his people. Let his hands be sufficient for him, and You shall be a help [to him] from his enemies.


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


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


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Let them teach Jacob Your judgments, and Israel Your law. Let them put incense before You and whole burnt sacrifice on Your altar.


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O, LORD, bless his strength, and accept the work of his hands. Strike through the loins of those who rise against him, and [of those] who hate him, that they should not rise again.


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Of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall live in safety beside Him, [and] shall cover him all the day long, yea he shall dwell between His shoulders.


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And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD [be] his land, with the precious things of the heavens, for the dew, and for the deep that crouches beneath,


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and for the precious things of the earth and fullness of it, and [for] the good will of Him who lived in the Bush. Let the blessing come on the head of Joseph, and on the top of the head of him who was separated from his brothers.


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His glory [is like] the first-born of his bull, and his horns are like the horns of the wild ox. With them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth. And they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.


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They shall call the peoples to the mountain. There they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness, for they shall suck the bounty of the seas and treasures hidden in the sand.


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And of Gad he said, Blessed [is] he who makes Gad greater. He lives as a lion and tears the arm and the crown of the head.


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And he provided the first part for himself, because there was the portion of the lawgiver hidden. And he came [with] the heads of the people. He executed the justice of the LORD, and His judgments with Israel.


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


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


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[There is] none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides on the heaven to your help, and in His majesty on the clouds.


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The eternal God [is your] refuge, and underneath [are] the everlasting arms. And He shall throw the enemy out from before you, and shall say, Destroy!


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


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Blessed [are] you, O Israel! Who [is] like you, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of your help, and who [is] the sword of your excellency! And your enemies shall be found liars to you, and you shall tread on their high places.


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And Moses went up from the plains of Moab to the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah that [is] opposite Jericho. And the LORD showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan,


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and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the furthest sea,


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And the LORD said to him, This [is] the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, I will give it to your seed. I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.


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


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And He buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor. But no man knows of his grave 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 he lost any of his natural strength.


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


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


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


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and in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses showed in the eyes of all Israel.


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And it happened after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,


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My servant Moses is dead. Now, therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people to the land which I give to them, to the sons of Israel.


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Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, I have given that to you, as I said to Moses.


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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 going down of the sun, shall be your border.


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No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, [so] I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.


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Be strong and of good courage. For you shall divide for an inheritance to this people, the land which I swore to their fathers, to give it to them.


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Only be strong and very courageous so that you may be careful to do according to all the law which My servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may act wisely wherever you go.


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This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it by day and by night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall act wisely.


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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage. Do not be afraid, neither be dismayed. For the LORD your God [is] with you in all places where you go.


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Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare food for yourselves, for within three days you are crossing over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess it.


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Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you saying, The LORD your God has given you rest and has given you this land.


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Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan. But you shall go armed before your brothers, all the mighty men of valor, and help them


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until the LORD has given your brothers rest, even as you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God gives them; and you shall return to the land of your possession and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD's servant gave you on this side Jordan, towards the sunrise.


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And they answered Joshua, saying: We will do all that you command us, and wherever you send us we will go.


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Just as we listened to Moses in all things, so we will listen to you. Only may the LORD your God be with you as He was with Moses.


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Whoever rebels against your command and will not listen to your words in all that you command him, he shall be put to death. Only be strong and of a good courage.


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And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go look over the land, even Jericho. And they went and came to the house of a harlot named Rahab. And they stayed there.


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And the king of Jericho was told about it, saying, Behold, men from the sons of Israel came in here tonight, to search out the country.


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And the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, Bring out the men that have come to you, those who have entered into your house. For they have come to search out all the country.


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And the woman took the two men and hid them. And she said, Two men came to me, but I did not know from where they came.


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And it happened when it was dark, [at the time of] shutting the gate, the men went out. Where the men went I do not know. Go after them quickly, for you shall overtake them.


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But she had brought them up on the roof, and had hidden them with the stalks of flax which she had laid in order upon the roof.


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And the men went after them on the way to Jordan, to the fords. And when they who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.


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And she said to the men, I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that your terror has fallen on us, and that all those who live in the land faint because of you.


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For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.


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And we had heard, and our hearts melted, nor did any more spirit remain in any man, because of you. For the LORD your God, He is God in Heaven above and in earth beneath.


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Now therefore, I pray you, swear to me by the LORD, since I have dealt with you in kindness, that you will also deal with kindness to my father's house. And give me a true token,


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and shall save alive my father and my mother, and my brothers and my sisters, and all that they [have], and deliver our lives from death.


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And the men answered her, Our life shall be for yours, if you do not tell our business. And when the LORD has given us the land, we will deal kindly and truly with you.


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Then she let them go down by a cord through the window. For her house [was] on the town wall, and she lived on the wall.


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And she said to them, Get up into the mountain lest the pursuers meet you. And hide yourselves there three days until the pursuers have returned. And afterward you may go your way.


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Behold, [when] we come into the land, you shall set this line of scarlet thread in the window from which you let us down. And you shall bring your father and your mother, and your brothers, and all your father's household, home to you.


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And it shall be, whoever shall go out of the doors of your house, his blood [shall be] on his head, and we [will be] blameless. And whoever shall be with you in the house, his blood [shall be] on our head if a hand is on him.


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And she said, Let [it be] according to your word. And she sent them away, and they departed. And she set the scarlet line in the window.


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And they went and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days until the pursuers had returned. And the pursuers looked for [them] throughout all the way, but did not find [them].


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And the two men returned and came down from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun. And they told him all that happened to them.


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And they said to Joshua, Truly the LORD has delivered all the land into our hands, for even all those who live in the country faint because of us.


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And Joshua rose early in the morning. And they moved from Shittim and came to Jordan, he and all the sons of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.


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And [they] commanded the people saying, When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you shall move from your place and go after it.


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Yet keep a space between you and it, 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 now.


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And Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.


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And Joshua spoke to the priests saying, Take up the ark of the covenant and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people.


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And the LORD said to Joshua, Today, I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel so that they may know that I will be with you, as I was with Moses.


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And you shall command the priests that carry the ark of the covenant, saying, When you have come to the brink of the water of Jordan, you shall stand still in Jordan.


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And Joshua said, By this you shall know that the living God [is] among you, and He will without fail drive out from 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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And it shall be, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that carry the ark of Jehovah, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, the waters of Jordan shall be cut off [from] the waters that come down from above. And they shall stand all in a heap.


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And it happened, when the people moved from their tents to pass over Jordan, and as the priests carried the ark of the covenant before the people,


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and as those who bore the ark had come to Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bore the ark were dipped in the edge of the water (for Jordan overflows all its banks, all the time of harvest);


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that the waters which came down from above stopped [and] rose up all in a heap, very far from the city Adam that [is] beside Zaretan. And those that came down toward the sea of the plain, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the people passed over across from Jericho.


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And the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of Jordan. And all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people had passed completely over Jordan.


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And it happened when all the people had completely passed over the Jordan, the LORD spoke to Joshua saying,


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and command them saying, Take twelve stones from here, out of the middle of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm. And you shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the place where you shall stay tonight.


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Then Joshua called the twelve men whom he had prepared from the sons of Israel, a man out of every tribe.


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And Joshua said to them, Pass over in front of the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. And every man take a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel,


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so that this may be a sign to you when your sons ask in time to come, saying, What do you [mean] by these stones?


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Then you shall answer them, The waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off, and these stones shall be for a memorial to the sons of Israel forever.


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And the sons of Israel did as Joshua commanded. And they took up twelve stones out of the middle of the Jordan, as the LORD spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel, and carried them over with them to the place where they stayed, and laid them down there;


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even the twelve stones Joshua lifted up in the middle of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who carried the ark of the covenant, stood. And they are there to this day.


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For the priests who bore the ark stood in the middle of the Jordan until everything was finished, all that the LORD commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua. And the people hurried and passed over.


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And it happened, when all the people had finished passing over, the ark of the LORD and the priests passed over before the people.


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And the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed in front of the sons of Israel, as Moses spoke to them;


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about forty thousand armed men of the army passed over before the LORD to battle, to the plains of Jericho.


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On that day the LORD made Joshua great in the sight of all Israel. And they feared him, even as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.


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And it happened, when the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD had come up out of the midst of the Jordan, the soles of the feet of the priests were lifted up to the dry land, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and flowed over all its banks, as before.


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And the people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth of the first month, and camped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.


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And he spoke to the sons of Israel saying, When your sons shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What do these stones [mean] ?


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For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you until you had passed over, even as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea which He dried up from before us until we had gone over;


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so that all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, [is] mighty and so that you might fear the LORD your God forever.


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And it happened, when all the kings of the Amorites who [were] on the west side of the Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites who [were] by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan in front of the sons of Israel until we had passed over, that their hearts melted. Neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the sons of Israel.


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At that time the LORD said to Joshua, Make sharp knives for yourselves and circumcise the sons of Israel again, the second time.


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And this [is] the reason why Joshua circumcised. All the people that came out of Egypt, the males, all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the wayside, after they came out of Egypt.


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For all the people who came out were circumcised. But all the people born in the wilderness by the wayside, as they came forth out of Egypt, had not been circumcised.


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For the sons of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the people, the men of war, who came out of Egypt, were destroyed, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD. To them the LORD swore that He would not show them the land which the LORD swore to their fathers that He would give us, a land that flows with milk and honey.


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And Joshua circumcised their sons, [whom] He raised up in their place. For they were not circumcised, because they had not been circumcised by the wayside.


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And it happened when they had finished circumcising all the people, they stayed in their places in the camp until they were well.


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And the LORD said to Joshua, Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you. Therefore, the name of the place is called Gilgal to this day.


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And the sons of Israel camped in Gilgal and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.


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And they ate of the old grain of the land on the next day after the Passover, unleavened cakes and roasted grain in the same day.


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And the manna stopped on the next day after they had eaten the old grain of the land. And there was no more manna to the sons of Israel, but they ate the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.


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And it happened, when Joshua was beside Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked. And, behold, there stood a Man in front of him with His sword drawn in His hand. And Joshua went to Him and said to Him, [Are] You for us, or for our foes?


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And He said, No, but I have come [as] the Commander of the army of the LORD. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth. And he worshiped and said to Him, What does my Lord say to His servant?


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And the Commander of the LORD's army said to Joshua, Take your shoe off your foot, for the place on which you stand [is] holy. And Joshua did so.


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And the LORD said to Joshua, See, I have given Jericho into your hand, and its king, [and] the mighty men of war.


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And you shall go around the city, all the men of war. Go around the city once. So you shall do for six days.


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And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of ram's horns in front of the ark. And the seventh day you shall go around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.


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And it shall be when they make a long [blast] with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout. And the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up, each man straight before him.


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And 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 ram's horns in front of the ark of the LORD.


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And he said to the people, Pass on, and go around the city. And let him who is armed pass on in front of the ark of the LORD.


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And it happened when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven ram's horns passed on before the LORD and blew the ram's horns. And the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them.


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And the armed men went before the priests who blew with the ram's horns. And the gathering army came after the ark, as [the priests] were going on and blowing with the ram's horns.


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And Joshua had commanded the people saying, You shall not shout nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall [any] word come out of your mouth until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout.


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And the ark of the LORD went around the city, going around [it] once. And they came into the camp and stayed in the camp.


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And seven priests carrying seven ram's horns before the ark of the LORD went on without stopping and blew with the ram's horns. And the armed men went in front of them. But the rear guard came after the ark of the LORD as [the priests were going on and blowing with the ram's horns.


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And it happened on the seventh day they rose early, at the dawning of the day, and circled the city in the same way seven times. Only on that day did they go around the city seven times.


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And it happened, at the seventh time, when the priest blew with the ram's horns, Joshua said to the people, Shout! For the LORD has given you the city!


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And the city shall be devoted to the LORD, it and all in it. Only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.


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And you surely shall keep [clear of] the cursed thing, lest you make yourselves cursed when you take of the cursed things, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.


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But all the silver and gold, and vessels of bronze and iron, [are] devoted to the LORD. They shall come into the treasury of the LORD.


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And the people shouted when [the priests] blew with the ram's horns. And it happened when the people heard the sound of the ram's horns, and the people shouted with a great shout, the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, each man straight before him. And they took the city.


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And they completely destroyed all in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.


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And Joshua had said to the two men who had spied out the country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring the woman out from there, and all that she has, as you swore to her.


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And the young men who were spies went in and brought Rahab out, and her father and her mother, and her brothers, and all that she had. And they brought out all her kindred and set them outside the camp of Israel.


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And they burned the city with fire, and all that [was] in it. Only the silver and the gold, and the vessels of bronze and iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.


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And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had. And she lives in Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.


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And Joshua charged [them] at that time, saying, Cursed before the LORD [is] the man who rises up and builds this city of Jericho. He shall lay the foundation of it in his first-born, and in his youngest [son] he shall set up the gates of it.


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But the sons of Israel committed a sin in the cursed thing. For Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the thing which was cursed. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against the sons of Israel.


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And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which [is] beside Beth-aven, on the east side of Bethel. And he spoke to them, saying, Go up and look over the country. And the men went up and spied out Ai.


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And they returned to Joshua and said to him, Let not all the people go up. But let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Do not make all the people labor there, for they [are] few.


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And the men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them, for they chased them [from] before the gate to Shebarim, and struck them in the road going down. Therefore the hearts of the people melted and became as water.


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And Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust on their heads.


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And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord God, why have You at all brought this people over Jordan to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? And, oh that we had been content and lived on the other side Jordan!


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For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear, and shall surround us, and shall cut off our name from the earth. And what will You do for Your great name?


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Israel has sinned, and they have also broken My covenant which I commanded them, and have even taken of the cursed things, and have also stolen and pretended falsely. And they have even put [it] among their own stuff.


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And the sons of Israel could not stand before their enemies. They will turn [their] backs before their enemies, because they have become cursed. I will not be with you again, unless you destroy the one who is cursed from among you.


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Up! Sanctify the people and say, Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow. For thus says the LORD God of Israel, A cursed thing is] in the midst of you, O Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the cursed thing from among you.


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And in the morning, you shall be brought according to your tribes. And it shall be, the tribe which the LORD takes shall come, according to its families. And the family which the LORD shall take shall come by households. And the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man.


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And it shall be, he who is taken with the cursed thing shall be burned with fire, he and all he has, because he has broken the covenant of the LORD, and because he has done wickedness in Israel.


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And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes. And the tribe of Judah was taken.


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And he brought the families of Judah. And he took the family of the Zerahites. And he took the family of the Zerahites man by man. And Zabdi was taken.


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And he brought his household man by man. 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, I pray you, give glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession to Him. And tell me now what you have done. Do not hide [it] from me.


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And Achan answered Joshua and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and this I have done.


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When I saw among the spoil a goodly robe of Shinar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, I coveted them and took them. And behold, they [are] hidden in the earth in the middle of my tent, and the silver under it.


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And Joshua sent messengers, and they ran into the tent. And behold, [it was hidden] in his tent, and the silver under it.


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And they took them out of the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua, and to all the sons of Israel. And they laid them out before the LORD.


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And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had. And they brought them to the valley of Achor.


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And Joshua said, Why have you troubled us? The LORD shall trouble you this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.


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And they raised over him a great heap of stones to this day. And the LORD turned from the greatness of His anger. Therefore, the name of that valley is called, The Valley of Grief, to this day.


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And the LORD said to Joshua, Do not fear, nor be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land.


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And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its cattle you shall take for a prize for yourselves. Lay an ambush for the city behind it.


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So Joshua and all the people of war arose to go up against Ai. And Joshua chose out thirty thousand men, mighty warriors, and sent them away by night.


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And he commanded them, saying, Behold, you [will be] an ambush against the city, behind the city. You shall not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.


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And I, and all the people with me, shall go toward the city. And it shall be, when they come out against us, as at the first, we will flee before them,


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(for they will come out after us,) until we have drawn them out of the city. For they will say, They flee before us, even as at the first. And we will flee before them.


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Then you shall rise up from the ambush, and seize on the city; for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.


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And it shall be, when you have taken the city, you shall set the city on fire, according to the command of the LORD you shall do. See, I have commanded you.


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And Joshua sent them out. And they went to lie in ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai. But Joshua stayed that night among the people.


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And Joshua rose up early in the morning and called up the people. And [they] went up, he and the elders of Israel, in the sight of the people of Ai.


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And all the people of war with him went up and drew near. And they came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai. And a valley [was] between them and Ai.


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And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.


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And when they had set the people, all the army that [was] on the north of the city, and its rear [ambush] on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the middle of the valley.


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And it happened, when the king of Ai saw, they hurried and rose up early. And the men of the city went out to do battle against Israel, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the plain. But] he did not know that [there were] some lying in ambush against him behind the city.


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And Joshua and all Israel acted as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.


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And all the people in Ai were called together to run after them. And they ran after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.


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And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, who did not go after Israel. And they left the city open, and ran after Israel.


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And the LORD said to Joshua, Stretch out the spear in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear in his hand toward the city.


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And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand. And they entered into the city, and took it, and hurried and set the city on fire.


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And the men of Ai looked behind them and saw. And, behold, the smoke of the city went up into the sky, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. And the people who fled to the wilderness turned back against the pursuers.


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And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city went up, then they turned again and killed the men of Ai.


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And the others came out of the city against them. So they were in the middle of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. And they struck them so that they let none of them remain or escape.


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And it happened, when Israel had made an end of killing all those who lived in Ai, in the field and in the wilderness where they chased them, and when they had all fallen on the edge of the sword until they were gone, all the Israelites returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.


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For Joshua did not draw his hand back, with which he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the people of Ai.


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Only, Israel took the cattle and the spoil of that city for a prize for themselves, according to the word of the LORD which He commanded Joshua.


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And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening. And as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his body down from the tree and throw it down at the entrance to the gate of the city, and raise on it a great heap of stones, to this day.


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as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones over which no man has lifted [any] iron. And they offered on it burnt offerings to the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.


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And he wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the sons of Israel.


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And all Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark, and on that side, before the priests the Levites who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, the stranger as well as the homeborn among them, half of them over against Mount Gerizim, and half of them over against Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before that they should bless all the people of Israel.


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And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.


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There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua did not read before all the congregation of Israel, with the women and the little ones, and the strangers that walked among them.


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And it happened, when all the kings who [were] on this side Jordan, in the hills and in the valleys, and in all the coast of the great sea over against Lebanon heard, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite,


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they worked slyly. For they came and acted as if they were ambassadors. And they took old sacks on their asses, and old and torn and bound up wineskins,


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and old and patched sandals on their feet, and old clothes on them. And all the bread they had taken was dry [and] moldy.


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And they went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, We have come from a far country. Now therefore, make a treaty with us.


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And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, Perhaps you are living among us, and how shall we make a treaty with you?


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And they said to Joshua, We [are] your servants. And Joshua said to them, Who [are] you, and from where do you come?


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And they said to him, Your servants have come from a very far country, because of the name of the LORD your God. For we have heard of His fame 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] beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.


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And our elders and all those who live in our country spoke to us saying, Take provisions with you for the journey, and go to meet them. Say to them, We [are] your servants. And now make a treaty with us.


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We took this bread hot [for] our provision out of our houses on the day we came out to go to you. But now, see, [it is] dry, and it is moldy.


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And these wineskins which we filled [were] new. And, see, they are torn. And these clothes and shoes of ours have become old because of the very long journey.


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And Joshua made peace with them, and made a treaty with them, to let them live. And the rulers of the congregation swore to them.


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And it happened at the end of three days after they had made a treaty with them, they heard that they [were] their neighbors and that they lived among them.


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And the sons of Israel journeyed and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities [were] Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-jearim.


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And the sons of Israel did not strike them, because the rulers of the congregation had sworn to them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the rulers.


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But all the rulers said to the congregation, We have sworn to them by the LORD God of Israel. Now, therefore, we may not touch them.


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This we will do to them. We will even let them live, lest wrath be on us because of the oath which we swore to them.


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And the rulers said to them, Let them live, but let them be woodcutters and drawers of water to all the congregation, as the rulers had promised them.


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And Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, Why have you fooled us saying, We [are] very far from you, when you dwell among us?


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And now you [are] cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being slaves and woodcutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.


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And they answered Joshua and said, Because it was certainly told your servants how the LORD your God commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all those who lived in the land from before you; therefore, we were very much afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.


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And so he did to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the sons of Israel, so that they did not kill them.


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And Joshua made them that day woodcutters and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even to this day, in the place which He should choose.


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And it happened, when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai and had utterly destroyed it (as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king) and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them,


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they feared greatly, because Gibeon [was] a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it [was] greater than Ai, and all of its men were mighty.


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And Adonizedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, and to Piram king of Jarmuth, and to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,


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Come up to me, and help me, so that we may strike Gibeon. For it has made peace with Joshua and with the sons of Israel.


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And the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves. And they went up, they and all their armies, and camped before Gibeon, and made war against it.


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And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Do not withhold your hand from your servants. Come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us. For all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the mountains have 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 war.


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And the LORD said to Joshua, Do not fear them, for I have delivered them into your hands. There shall not a man of them stand before you.


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And the LORD troubled them before Israel, and killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goes up to Beth-horon, and struck them to Azekah, and to Makkedah.


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And it happened, as they fled from before Israel, and [were] in the descent of Bethhoron, the LORD cast down great stones from the heavens on them to Azekah, and they died. The many who died from hailstones were more than the sons of Israel killed with the sword.


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Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun! Stand still on Gibeon! And, moon, [stand still] in the valley of Aijalon!


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And the sun stood still, and the moon stood [still], until the people [had] avenged themselves on their enemies. [Is] this not written in the Book of Jasher? And the sun stood still] in the midst of the heavens, and did not hasten to go down about a whole day.


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And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD listened to the voice of a man. For the LORD fought for Israel.


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And Joshua said, Roll great stones on the mouth of the cave, and set men by it in order to keep them.


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And do not stay. Pursue your enemies and strike the ones who are behind. Do not allow them to enter into their cities. For the LORD your God has delivered them into your hand.


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And it happened, when Joshua and the sons of Israel had made an end of killing them [with] a very great slaughter until they were gone, the rest of those [who] remained entered into fortified cities.


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And all the people returned in peace to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah. None moved his tongue against any of the sons of Israel.


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And they did so, and brought those five kings out of the cave to him: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon.


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And it happened, when they brought out those kings to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel. And he said to the commanders of the men of war who had gone with him, Draw near, set your feet on the necks of these kings. And they drew near and put their feet on their necks.


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And Joshua said to them, Do not fear nor be dismayed. Be strong and of good courage. For so shall the LORD do to all your enemies against whom you fight.


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And afterward Joshua struck them and killed them, and hanged them on five trees. And they were hanging on the trees until the evening.


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And it happened at the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees and threw them into the cave in which they had been hidden, and laid great stones in the cave's mouth, [which remain] until this very day.


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And that day Joshua took Makkedah and struck it with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed the king of it, them, and every soul in it. He let none remain. And he did to the king of Makkedah as he did to the king of Jericho.


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And the LORD delivered it also, and its king, into the hand of Israel. And [he] struck it with the edge of the sword, and every soul in it. He let none remain in it, but did to its king as he did to the king of Jericho.


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And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and camped against it, and fought against it.


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And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, who took it on the second day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and every soul in it, according to all that he had done to Libnah.


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Then Horam, king of Gezer, came up to help Lachish. And Joshua struck him and his people until he had left him none remaining.


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And from Lachish Joshua passed to Eglon, and all Israel with him. And they camped against it and fought against it.


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And they took it in that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword; and every soul in it he completely destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.


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And they took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and its king, and all its cities, and every soul in it. He left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon, but destroyed it, and all the souls that were in it.


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And he took it, and its king, and all its cities. And they struck them with the edge of the sword, and destroyed every soul in it. He left none remaining. As he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to its king, as he had done also to Libnah, and to its king.


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And Joshua struck all the land, the hills, and the south, and the valley, and the springs, and all their kings. He left none remaining, but destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded.


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And Joshua took all these kings and their land [at] one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.


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And it happened when Jabin, king of Hazor, had heard, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,


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and to the kings on the north of the mountains, and on the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west,


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[and to] the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon, in the land of Mizpeh.


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And they went out, they and all their armies with them, many people, even as the sand on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.


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And when all these kings had met together, they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.


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And the LORD said to Joshua, Do not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow about this time I will deliver them up, all killed before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.


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And Joshua came suddenly, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom. And they fell on them.


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And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who struck them and chased them to great Sidon, and to the salt pits, and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward. And they struck them until they left them none remaining.


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And Joshua did to them as the LORD commanded him. He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.


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And Joshua at that time turned back and took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword. For Hazor formerly [was] the head of all those kingdoms.


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And they struck every soul in it with the edge of the sword, destroying [them]. And he left none breathing. And he burned Hazor with fire.


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And Joshua took all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them. And he struck them with the edge of the sword. He destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded.


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But Israel did not burn any of them, the cities that stood in their strength, except Hazor only. Joshua did burn it.


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And all the spoil of these cities and the cattle the sons of Israel took for a prize to themselves. But they struck every man with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They left none breathing.


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As the LORD commanded Moses His servant, so did Moses command Joshua, and so Joshua did. He left nothing undone of all that the LORD commanded Moses.


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So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountains of Israel, and its lowlands,


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from mount Halak that goes up to Seir, even to Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon. And he took all their kings, and struck them and killed them.


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There was not a city that made peace with the sons of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. All [others] they took in battle.


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For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts so that they should come against Israel in battle, so that they might be destroyed, so that they might have no favor, but that He might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.


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At that time Joshua came and cut off the giants from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel. Joshua destroyed them with their cities.


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There were none of the giants left in the land of the sons of Israel; only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod there remained some.


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And Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD commanded Moses. And Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.


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And these [are] the kings of the land, whom the sons of Israel struck and whose land they possessed on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon to mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:


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Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon [and] ruled from Aroer, which is on the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon;


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and from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and to the sea of the plain, the Salt Sea on the east, the way to Beth-jeshimoth, and from the south, under The Slopes of Pisgah.


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And they struck the coast of Og king of Bashan, of the rest of the giants, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,


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and reigned in mount Hermon and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.


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Moses the servant of the LORD and the sons of Israel struck them. And Moses the servant of the LORD gave it [for] 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 which Joshua and the sons of Israel struck on this side Jordan, on the west, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon even to the mount Halak that goes up to Seir, which Joshua gave to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;


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in the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country--the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:


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Now Joshua [was] old, going on [in] days. And the LORD said to him, You are old, far along in days, [and] there remains yet very much land to be possessed.


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from Shihor, which [is] before Egypt, even to the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite, five lords of the Philistines: of Gaza, of Ashdod, of Ashkelon, of Gath, and of Ekron; also the Avim.


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From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah which [belongs] to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites.


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And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal-gad under Mount Hermon to the border of Hamath,


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all the inhabitants from the hills; from Lebanon to the Burning Waters, [and] all the Sidonians, I will expel them before the sons of Israel. Only you divide it by lot to the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.


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And, therefore, divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half tribe of Manasseh,


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with whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance which Moses gave them beyond Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them,


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from Aroer on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba, to Dibon;


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and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the sons of Ammon;


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and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salcah,


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all the kingdom of Og in Bashan (who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei; he remained of the rest of the giants), even Moses struck them and expelled them.


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But the sons of Israel did not put out the Geshurites and the Maachathites, but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.


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Only, he gave no inheritance to the tribe of Levi. The sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire [are] their inheritance, as He said to them.


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And their coast was from Aroer on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeba.


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and all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon (whom Moses struck with the rulers of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, rulers of Sihon, the inhabitants of the land).


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The sons of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor, the diviner, with the sword, among their slain.


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And the border of the sons of Reuben was Jordan, and [its] border. This [was] the inheritance of the sons of Reuben according to their families, the cities and its villages.


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And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the sons of Ammon, to Aroer, before Rabbah,


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And in the valley he gave them Beth-aram, and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and [its] border, even to the edge of the Sea of Chinnereth on the east side Jordan eastward.


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This [is] the inheritance of the sons of Gad according to their families, the cities, and their villages.


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And Moses gave [inheritance] to the half tribe of Manasseh, and this was of the half tribe of the sons of Manasseh by their families.


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And their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which [are] in Bashan, sixty cities.


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And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, [were given] to the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh, even to their half of the sons of Machir by their families.


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These [are] they whom Moses caused to inherit in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan by Jericho, eastward.


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But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance. The LORD God of Israel [was] their inheritance, as He said to them.


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And these [are] they [of] the sons of Israel who inherited in the land of Canaan, whom Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel, gave out for inheritance to them.


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Their inheritance [was] by lot, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe.


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For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and a half tribe on the other side Jordan. But to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.


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For the sons of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And they gave no part to the Levites in the land, except cities to live [in], with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.


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Then the sons of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal. And Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, said to him, You know the thing that the LORD said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea regarding you and me.


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I [was] forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land. And I brought him word again as it was in my heart.


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But my brothers that went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I fully followed the LORD my God.


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And Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land on which your feet have trodden shall be your inheritance, and your sons' forever because you have fully followed the LORD my God.


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And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive these forty-five years as He said, even since the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel wandered in the wilderness. And now, lo, I am eighty-five years old today.


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As yet I [am as] strong today as [I was] in the day that Moses sent me. As my strength [was] then, even so [is] my strength now, for war, both to go out and to come in.


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And now give me this mountain of which the LORD spoke on that day. For you heard in that day [how] the giants [were] there, and that the cities were great and fortified. If the LORD will be with me, then I will be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.


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And Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, to this day, because he fully followed the LORD God of Israel.


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And the name of Hebron before [was] Kirjath-arba; that one [was] a great man among the giants. And the land had rest from war.


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[This] then was the lot of the tribe of the sons of Judah by their families: to the border of Edom, the wilderness of Zin southward, in the extreme south.


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And it went out southward to the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed on to Zin, and went up on the south of Kadesh-barnea, and went on to Hezron, and went up toward Adar, and turned toward Karkaa,


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and passed on to Azmon, and went out by the torrent of Egypt. And the boundary line was at the Sea. This shall be your south border.


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And the east border, the Salt Sea to the end of Jordan, and [their] border in the north quarter [was] from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan.


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And the border went up to Beth-hoglah, and passed along by 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 toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, before the going up to Adummim, which [is] on the south side of the river. And the border passed toward the waters of En-shemesh, and its boundary was at En-rogel.


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And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the south side of the Jebusite. It [is] Jerusalem. And the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the valley of Hinnom westward, at the end of the Valley of the Giants northward.


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And the border was drawn from the top of the hill to the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron. And the border was drawn to Baalah; it [is] Kirjath-jearim.


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And the border went around from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and passed along to the side of mount Jearim; it is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Bethshemesh, and passed on to Timnah.


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And the border went to the side of Ekron northward, and the border was drawn [to] Shikkeron and passed along to Mount Baalah, and went out to Jabneel. And the boundary line was at the Sea.


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And the west border [was] to the Great Sea, and the coast. This is the border of the sons of Judah all around according to their families.


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And he gave a part among the sons of Judah to Caleb the son of Jephunneh, according to the command of the LORD to Joshua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak; it [is] Hebron.


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And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the sons of Anak.


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And he went up from there to those who lived in Debir. And the name of Debir before [was] Kirjath-sepher.


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And Caleb said, He who smites Kirjath-sepher, and takes it, I will give my daughter Achsah to him for a wife.


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And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter for a wife.


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And it happened as she came, she moved him to ask a field from her father. And she dismounted from the ass. And Caleb said to her, What do you [desire] ?


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She answered, Give me a blessing, for you have given me a south land. Give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.


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And the furthest cities of the tribe of the sons of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,


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and Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon. All the cities [are] twenty-nine, with their villages.


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Ashdod with its towns and its villages; Gaza with its towns and its villages, to the river of Egypt, and the Great Sea, and [its] coast.


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As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the sons of Judah could not drive them out. But the Jebusites live with the sons of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.


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And the lot of the sons of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, to the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goes up from Jericho through Mount Bethel,


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and it goes down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth-horon the lower, and to Gezer. And its boundary was at the sea.


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And the border of the sons of Ephraim was by their families: the border of their inheritance on the east side [was] Ataroth-addar, to Beth-horon the upper.


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And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side. And the border went about eastward to Taanath-shiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah.


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And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came again to Jericho, and went out at Jordan.


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The border went out from Tappuah westward to the river Kanah. And the boundary was at the sea. This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim by their families.


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And the separate cities for the sons of Ephraim [were] among the inheritance of the sons of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.


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And they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer. But the Canaanites live among the Ephraimites until this day, and serve under tribute.


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There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh (for he [was] the first-born of Joseph); for Machir, the first-born of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.


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There was also [a lot] for the rest of the sons of Manasseh by their families: for the sons of Abiezer, and for the sons of Helek, and for the sons of Asriel, and for the sons of Shechem, and for the sons of Hepher, and for the sons of Shemida; these [were] the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, by their families.


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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 [were] the names of his daughters: Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.


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And they came near before Eleazar the priest and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the rulers, saying, The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers. And according to the command of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father.


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And there fell ten portions [to] Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which [were] on the other side Jordan;


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because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons. And the rest of Manasseh's sons had the land of Gilead.


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And the border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah before Shechem. And the border went up to the right to the inhabitants of En-tappuah.


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Manasseh had the land of Tappuah, but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh [belonged] to the sons of Ephraim.


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And the border went down to the river Kanah, southward of the river. These cities of Ephraim [are] among the cities of Manasseh. And the border of Manasseh [was] on the north of the river, and the boundary was at the sea.


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Southward [it was] Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's. And the sea is its border. And they met together in Asher on the north, and in Issachar on the east.


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And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth-shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and those who lived in Dor and its towns, and those who lived in Endor and its towns, and those who lived in Taanach and its towns, and those who lived in Megiddo and its towns, even three regions.


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Yet the sons of Manasseh were not able to occupy these cities, but the Canaanites wanted to live in that land.


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And it happened when the sons of Israel had become strong, they put the Canaanites to tribute. But they did not completely drive them out.


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The sons of Joseph spoke to Joshua saying, Why have you given me one lot and one portion to inherit, since I [am] a great people, because the LORD has blessed me until now?


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And Joshua answered them, If you [are] a great people, and if mount Ephraim is too narrow for you, get up to the forest and cut down more for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants.


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And the sons of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us. And all the Canaanites who live in the land of the valley [have] chariots of iron, those who [are] of Beth-shean and its towns, and those who [are] of the valley of Jezreel.


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And Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, You [are] a great people and have great power. You shall not have one lot.


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But the mountain shall be yours, for it [is] a forest, and you shall cut it down. And the outer limits of it shall be yours. For you shall drive out the Canaanites, even though they have iron chariots and though they [are] strong.


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And all the congregation of the sons of Israel gathered at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.


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And there remained among the sons of Israel seven tribes which had not yet received their inheritance.


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And Joshua said to the sons of Israel, How long will you fail to go in to possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers has given you?


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Give from among you three men for [each] tribe. And I will send them, and they shall rise and go through the land and map it according to the inheritance of them. And they shall come to me.


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And they shall divide it into seven parts. Judah shall stay within their border on the south, and the house of Joseph shall stay within their borders on the north.


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And you shall map the land [into] seven parts and bring it here to me, so that I may cast lots here for you before the LORD our God.


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But the Levites have no part among you. For the priesthood of the LORD [is] their inheritance. And Gad and Reuben and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.


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And the men arose and went away. And Joshua charged those who went to map the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and map it, and come again to me so that I may here cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh.


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And the men went and passed through the land, and mapped it by cities into seven parts in a book, and they came to Joshua, to the host at Shiloh.


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And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD. And Joshua divided the land to the sons of Israel there, according to their divisions.


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And the lot of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin came up by their families. And the border of their lot came forth between the sons of Judah and the sons of Joseph.


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And their border on the north side was from Jordan. And the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward. And their boundary was at the wilderness of Beth-aven.


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And the border went over from there toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which [is] Bethel, southward. And the border went down to Ataroth-adar, near the hill that lies on the south side of the lower Beth-horon.


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And the border was drawn [from there], and went around the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that [is] in front of Beth-horon southward. And its boundary was at Kirjath-baal; it [is] Kirjath-jearim, a city of the sons of Judah. This [was] the west quarter.


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And the south quarter [was] from the end of Kirjath-jearim; and the border went out westward, and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah;


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and the border went down to the end of the mountain that [is] before the valley of the sons of Hinnom, which [is] the Valley of the Giants northward, and went down the valley of Hinnom to the side of the Jebusite on the south, and went down to En-rogel.


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And it was drawn from the north and went out to En-shemesh, and went out toward Geliloth, which [is] across from the ascent of Adummim, and went down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,


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And the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah northward. And the boundary was at the north tongue of the Salt Sea, at the south end of Jordan. This [was] the south border.


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And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This [was] the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin, according to its borders all around, according to their families.


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And the cities of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and the valley of Keziz,


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and Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which [is] Jerusalem; Gibeath, Kirjath; fourteen cities and their villages. This is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin according to their families.


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And the second lot came forth to Simeon, for the tribe of the sons of Simeon according to their families. And their inheritance was inside the inheritance of the sons of Judah.


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and all the villages that were around these cities to Baalath-beer, Ramah of the south. This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Simeon according to their families.


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The inheritance of the sons of Simeon [was] out of the portion of the sons of Judah. For the part of the sons of Judah [was] too much for them; therefore the sons of Simeon had their inheritance within their inheritance.


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And the third lot came up for the sons of Zebulun according to their families. And the border of their inheritance was to Sarid.


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And their border went up toward the sea, and Maralah, and reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that [is] before Jokneam,


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and turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrise to the border of The Flames of Tabor, and then goes out to Daberath, and goes up to Japhia,


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and from there it passes on along on the east to Gittah-hepher, to Ittah-kazin, and goes out to Rimmon-methoar, to Neah.


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And the border compasses it on the north side to Hannathon. And its edges were [in] the valley of Jiphthahel,


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and Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem; twelve cities with their villages.


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This [is] the inheritance of the sons of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.


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And the border reaches to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Beth-shemesh. And the edges of their border were at Jordan; sixteen cities with their villages.


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This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages.


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and turns toward the sunrising to Beth-dagon, and reaches to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthah-el toward the north of Beth-emek, and Neiel, and goes out to Cabul on the left hand,


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and the border turns to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre. And the border turns to Hosah, and the boundaries of it are at the sea from the line to Achzib,


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This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.


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The sixth lot came out to the sons of Naphtali, for the sons of Naphtali according to their families.


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And their border was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim, and Adami, Nekeb, and Jabneel, to Lakum. And its boundaries were at Jordan.


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And the border turns west toward Aznoth-tabor, and goes out from there to Hukkok, and reached to Zebulun on the south side, and reaches to Asher on the west side, and to Judah on Jordan toward the sunrise.


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and Iron, and Migdalel, Horem, and Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh; nineteen cities and their villages.


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This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages.


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And the border of the sons of Dan came out [too little] for them. And the sons of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and lived in it. And [they] called Leshem Dan, after the name of their father Dan.


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When they had made an end of dividing the land for inheritance by their borders, the sons of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them.


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According to the command of Jehovah they gave him the city which he asked, Timnath-serah in mount Ephraim. And he built the city and lived in it.


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These [are] the inheritances which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before Jehovah, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And they finished dividing the land.


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Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Appoint cities of refuge for you, as I have spoken to you by the hand of Moses;


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that the manslayer who in innocence strikes [anyone] mortally, without knowing, may flee there. And they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.


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And he shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city. And they shall take him into the city to themselves and make him a place, and he shall live with them.


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And if the avenger of blood pursues him, then they shall not deliver the manslayer into his hand, for he has struck his neighbor without knowing, and did not hate him in past time.


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And he shall live in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest who is in those days. Then the manslayer shall return and come to his city, and to his house, to the city from where he fled.


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And they set apart Kadesh in Galilee, in the hills of Naphtali; and Shechem in the hills of Ephraim; and Kirjath-arba (it [is] Hebron) in the hills of Judah.


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And beyond the Jordan, [at] Jericho eastward, they gave Bezer in the wilderness, on the tableland 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 sons of Israel, and for the alien who was living in their midst, that he who had killed [anyone] without knowing might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.


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And the heads of the fathers of the Levites came near to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel.


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And they spoke to them in Shiloh, in the land of Canaan, saying, the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give cities to us to live in, and their open lands for our cattle.


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And the sons of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance these cities and their open lands, at the command of the LORD:


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And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites. And the sons of Aaron the priest, of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.


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And the rest of the sons of Kohath [had] by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.


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And the sons of Gershon [had] by lot 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, thirteen cities.


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The sons of Merari by their families [had] out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun. twelve cities.


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And the sons of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their open lands, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.


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And they gave out of the tribe of the sons of Judah, and out of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, these cities which are called by name,


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which the sons of Aaron had, [being] of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the sons of Levi, for theirs was the first lot.


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And they gave them the city of Arba, the father of Anak (it [is] Hebron) in the hills of Judah, with its open lands around it.


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But the fields of the city of Arba and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his own.


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And to the sons of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron and its open lands [as] a city of refuge for the manslayer, and Libnah and its open lands,


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and Ain and its open lands, and Juttah and its open lands, and Beth-shemesh and its open lands, nine cities from these two tribes.


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And the families of the sons of Kohath, the Levites who were left of the sons of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe Ephraim.


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And they gave them Shechem and its open lands in mount Ephraim as a city of refuge for the manslayer, and Gezer and its open lands,


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And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach and its open lands, and Gath-rimmon and its open lands; two cities.


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All the cities [were] ten, and their open lands, for the families of the sons of Kohath that were left.


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And to the sons of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, from the half tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan and its open lands [as] a city of refuge for the manslayer, and Beesh-terah and its open lands; two cities.


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And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee and its open lands [as] a city of refuge for the manslayer, and Hammoth-dor and its open lands, and Kartah and its open lands; three cities.


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All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families [were] thirteen cities and their open lands.


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And to the families of the sons of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun: Jokneam and its open lands, and Kartah and its open lands,


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And out of tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead and its open lands [as] a city of refuge for the manslayer, and Mahanaim and its open lands,


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All the cities for the sons of Merari by their families which were left of the families of the Levites, were [by] their lot twelve cities.


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All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the sons of Israel [were] forty-eight cities and their open lands.


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And the LORD gave to Israel all the land which He swore to give to their fathers. And they possessed it, and lived in it.


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And Jehovah gave them rest round about, according to all that He swore to their fathers. And not a man of all their enemies stood before them. Jehovah delivered all their enemies into their hand.


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Not a word failed from any good thing which the LORD had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass.


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and said to them, You have done all that which Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you. And you have listened to my voice, to all that I have commanded you.


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You have not left your brothers these many days until today, and have kept the observance of the command of the LORD your God.


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And now Jehovah your God has given rest to your brothers, as He spoke to them. And now turn and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD has given to you beyond the Jordan.


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Only, diligently take heed to do the commands and the law which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments, and to cleave to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.


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And to the half tribe of Manasseh, Moses had given [possession] in Bashan. And to its [other] half Joshua had given [possession] with their brothers beyond the Jordan westward. And also when Joshua had sent them away to their tents, then he blessed them.


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And [he] spoke to them, saying, You are returning to your tents with your great treasures, and with very much 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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And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned. And they departed from the sons of Israel out of Shiloh, which [is] in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession, of which they were possessed, according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.


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And when they came to the borders of Jordan in the land of Canaan, the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built an altar of grand appearance there by Jordan.


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And the sons of Israel heard, Behold, the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar opposite the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the sons of Israel.


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And when the sons of Israel heard, the whole congregation of the sons of Israel gathered themselves at Shiloh to go to war against them.


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And the sons of Israel sent Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest to the sons of Reuben, and to the sons of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead,


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and with him ten rulers, a ruler from each of the chief houses throughout all the tribes of Israel. And each one [was] a head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel.


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And they came to the sons of Reuben, and to the sons of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them saying,


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So says all the congregation of Jehovah: What trespass [is] this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away today from following Jehovah, in [that] you have built an altar for you so that you might rebel this day against Jehovah?


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[Is] the iniquity of Peor [too] little for us, from which we have not been made clean until today? Yea, a plague came on the congregation of Jehovah!


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But must you turn away today from following Jehovah? It shall be, you rebel today against the LORD, and tomorrow He will be angry with all the congregation of Israel.


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But surely if the land of your possession [is] unclean, pass over to the land of the possession of the LORD in which the LORD's tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us. But do not rebel against the LORD, nor rebel against us in building an altar for yourselves besides the altar of Jehovah our God.


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Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a sin in the cursed thing, and did not wrath fall on all the congregation of Israel? And that man did not perish alone in his iniquity.


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And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh answered and said to the heads of the thousands of Israel,


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Jehovah God of gods, Jehovah God of gods shall know, and Israel shall know if [it is] in rebellion or in transgression against Jehovah (you shall not save us alive today),


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that we have built us an altar to turn from following Jehovah. Or if we have built an altar to offer on it burnt offering or food offering, or if to offer peace offerings on it, let Jehovah Himself require [it].


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And if we have not done it for fear of [this] thing, saying, In time to come your sons might speak to our sons, saying, What have you to do with Jehovah God of Israel?


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For Jehovah has made Jordan a border between us and you, sons of Reuben and sons of Gad. You have no part in Jehovah. And your sons shall make our sons stop fearing Jehovah.


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but it shall be a witness between us and you, and our generations after us, so that we might do the service of Jehovah before Him with our burnt offerings and with our sacrifices and with our peace offerings; so that your sons may not say to our sons in time to come, You have no part in Jehovah.


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And we said that when they should say so to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say, Behold the pattern of the altar of Jehovah which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings nor for sacrifices, but it [is] a witness between us and you.


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Far be it from us that we should rebel against Jehovah and turn this day from following Jehovah, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for food offerings, or for sacrifices, besides the altar of Jehovah our God that [is] before His tabernacle!


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And Phinehas the priest, and the rulers of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel with him, heard the words that the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the sons of Manasseh spoke. And it was good in their eyes.


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And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the sons of Reuben and to the sons of Gad and to the half tribe of Manasseh, Today we see that Jehovah [is] among us, because you have not committed this sin against Jehovah. Now you have delivered the sons of Israel out of the hand of Jehovah.


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And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the rulers, returned from the sons of Reuben, and from the sons of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the sons of Israel, and brought them word again.


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And the thing pleased the sons of Israel. And the sons of Israel blessed God and no more said to go up against them in battle, to destroy the land in which the sons of Reuben and Gad lived.


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And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad proclaimed regarding the altar, that it [was] a witness between us that Jehovah [is] God.


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And it happened many days after the LORD had given rest to Israel from all their enemies all around, Joshua became old, far along in days.


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And Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said to them, I am old, far along in days.


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And you have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations because of you. For the LORD your God [is] He who has fought for you.


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Behold, I have divided to you by lot these nations that are left to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the Great Sea westward.


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And the LORD your God shall put them out from before you, and drive them out of your sight. And you shall possess their land, as the LORD your God has promised to you.


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And be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, so that you do not turn aside from it [to] the right or to the left;


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so that you do not come among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear [by them], neither serve them, nor bow yourselves to them.


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For the LORD has driven out from before you great and strong nations. But [as for] you, no one has been able to stand before you to this day.


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One man of you shall chase a thousand. For the LORD your God [is] He who fights for you, as He has promised you.


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Otherwise, if you go back in any way, and hold to those left of these nations, these that remain among you, and shall marry them and go in to them and they to you,


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know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out these nations from before you. But they shall be snares and traps to you, and whips in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.


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And behold, today I [am] going the way of all the earth. And you know in all your heart and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spoke concerning you. All have come to pass to you. Not one thing of it has failed.


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And it shall be, as comes to you every good thing which the LORD your God has spoken to you has come to you, so shall the LORD bring on you every evil thing until He has destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you,


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when you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them, then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land which He has given to you.


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And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and 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, So says the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers lived Beyond the River in times past, 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 Beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed and gave him Isaac.


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And I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau. And I gave Esau Mount Seir for his own, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.


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I sent Moses also, and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them. And afterward I brought you out.


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And I brought your fathers out of Egypt. And you came to the sea, and the Egyptians followed after your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea.


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And they cried to the LORD, He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them and covered them. And your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt. And you lived in the wilderness a long time.


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And I brought you into the land of the Amorites who lived on the other side Jordan. And they fought with you, and I gave them into your hand so that you might possess their land. And I destroyed them from before you.


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Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you.


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And you went over Jordan and came to Jericho. And the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. And I delivered them into your hand.


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And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, the two kings of the Amorites, not with your sword, nor with your bow.


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And I have given you a land for which you did not labor, and cities which you did not build, and you live in them. You now eat of the vineyards and olive-yards which you did not plant.


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Now, then, fear the LORD, and serve Him in sincerity and truth. And put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.


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And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served Beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.


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For the LORD our God [is] He who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. And He did those great wonders in our sight, and kept us in all our way in which we went and among all the people through whom we passed.


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And the LORD drove out from before us all the people, even the Amorites who lived in the land. We will also serve the LORD, for He [is] our God.


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And Joshua said to the people, You cannot serve the LORD, for He [is] a holy God. He [is] a jealous God. He will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.


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If you forsake the LORD and serve strange gods, then He will turn and do you harm, and destroy you after He has done you good.


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And Joshua said to the people, You [are] witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the LORD, to serve Him. And they said, [We are] witnesses.


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And Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.


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And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone and set it up there under an oak by the sanctuary of the LORD.


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And Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness to us, for it has heard all the words of the LORD which He spoke to us. It shall therefore be a witness to you, lest you deny your God.


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And it happened after these things, Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, [being] a hundred and ten years old.


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And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.


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And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and who had known all the works of the LORD that He had done for Israel.


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And the bones of Joseph, which the sons of Israel brought up out of Egypt, they buried in Shechem, in a piece of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver. And it became the inheritance of the sons of Joseph.


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And Eleazar the son of Aaron died. And they buried him in a hill [belonging] to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.


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And it happened after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites to fight against them?


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And Judah said to Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot so that we may fight against the Canaanites. And I likewise will go with you into your lot. So Simeon went with him.


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And Judah went up. And the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand. And they killed ten thousand men of them in Bezek.


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And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek. And, they fought against him, and they killed the Canaanites and the Perizzites.


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And Adoni-bezek fled. And they ran after him and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.


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And Adoni-bezek said, Seventy kings [with] their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered under my table. As I have done, so God has requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.


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And the sons of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and had struck it with the edge of the sword, and had set the city on fire.


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And afterward the sons of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the mountain, and in the south, and in the valley.


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And Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron; (and the name of Hebron before [was] Kirjath-arba). And they killed Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.


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And from there he went against those who lived in Debir. And the name of Debir before [was] Kirjath-sepher.


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And Caleb said, He who strikes Kirjath-sepher and takes it, I will give Achsah my daughter to him for a wife.


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And Othniel, the son of Caleb's younger brother Kenaz, took it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter for a wife.


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And it happened when she came, she moved him to ask for a field from her father. And she dismounted from the ass. And Caleb said to her, What do you desire?


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And she said to him, Give me a blessing. For you have given me a south land. Give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.


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And the sons of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the sons of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which [is] in the south of Arad. And they went and lived among the people.


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And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they killed the Canaanites who lived in Zephath and destroyed it. And the name of the city [was called] Hormah.


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And the LORD was with Judah. And he took possession of the mountain. But he could not drive out those who lived in the valley, because they had chariots of iron.


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And the sons of Benjamin did not expel the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem. But the Jebusites live with the sons of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.


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And the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said to him, Please show us the gate into the city, and we will show you mercy.


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And when he showed them the gate into the city, 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 built a city, and called the name of it Luz, which [is] the name of it to this day.


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And Manasseh had not taken possession of Beth-shean and its daughter- villages], nor Taanach and its daughter- villages], nor [struck] the inhabitants of Dor and its daughter- villages], nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and its daughter- villages], nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its daughter- villages]. For the Canaanites were determined to live in that land.


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And it happened, when Israel became strong, they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not completely expel them.


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And Ephraim did not expel the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.


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And Zebulun did not expel those who lived in Kitron, nor those who lived in Nahalol. But the Canaanites lived among them and became tributaries.


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And Asher did not expel those who lived in Accho, and the inhabitants of Sidon, and Ahlab, and Achzib, and Helbah, and Aphik, and Rehob.


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But the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, those who lived in the land, for they did not expel them.


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And Naphtali did not expel those who lived in Beth-shemesh, and the inhabitants of Beth-anath, and they lived among the Canaanites, those who lived in the land. But those who lived in Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath became tributaries to them


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And the Amorites forced the sons of Dan into the mountain. For they would not allow them to come down to the valley.


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But the Amorites desired to stay in Mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim. Yet the hand of the house of Joseph was heavy so that they became tributaries.


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And the Angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you go up out of Egypt, and have brought you into the land which I swore to your fathers. And I said, I will never break My covenant with you.


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And you shall make no treaty with those who live in this land. You shall throw down their altars. But you have not obeyed My voice. What [is] this that you have done?


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And I also said, I will not drive them out from before you, but they shall be thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.


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And it happened when the Angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept.


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And when Joshua had let the people go, the sons of Israel left, each man to his inheritance, to possess the land.


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And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD that He did for Israel.


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And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.


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And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD, nor even the works which He had done for Israel.


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And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt. And they followed other gods of the gods of the people who were around them, and bowed themselves to them, and provoked the LORD to anger.


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And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and He delivered them into the hand of spoilers who spoiled them. And He sold them into the hand of their enemies all around, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.


