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And if a man will lie with a woman having her sickness, and will uncover her nakedness; he has discovered her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them will be cut off from among their people.


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And you will not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, nor of your father's sister: for he uncovers his near kin: they will bear their iniquity.


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And if a man will lie with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they will bear their sin; they will die childless.


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And if a man will take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they will be childless.


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You will therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, where I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.


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And you will not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.


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But I have said to you, You will inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land that flows with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.


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You will therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and you will not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.


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And you will be holy to me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that you should be mine.


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A man also or woman that has a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, will surely be put to death: they will stone them with stones: their blood will be upon them.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, and say to them, There will none be defiled for the dead among his people:


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But for his kin, that is near to him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother.


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And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh to him, which has had no husband; for her may he be defiled.


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They will not make baldness upon their head, neither will they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.


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They will be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they will be holy.


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They will not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither will they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy to his God.


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You will sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of your God: he will be holy to you: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy.


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And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profanes her father: she will be burnt with fire.


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And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, will not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;


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Neither will he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.


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A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these will he not take: but he will take a virgin of his own people to wife.


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Speak to Aaron, saying, Whoever he be of your seed in their generations that has any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.


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For whatever man he be that has a blemish, he will not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that has a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,


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Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that has a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or has his stones broken;


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No man that has a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest will come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he has a blemish; he will not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.


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Only he will not go in to the vail, nor come nigh to the altar, because he has a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.


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Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow to me: I am the LORD.


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Say to them, Whoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goes to the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow to the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul will be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.


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What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or has a running issue; he will not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoever touches any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goes from him;


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Or whoever touches any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he has;


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The soul which has touched any such will be unclean until even, and will not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water.


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


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That which dies of itself, or is torn with beasts, he will not eat to defile himself therewith; I am the LORD.


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They will therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.


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There will no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, will not eat of the holy thing.


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But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he will eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they will eat of his meat.


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If the priest's daughter also be married to a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.


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But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she will eat of her father's meat: but there will be no stranger eat thereof.


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And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he will put the fifth part thereof to it, and will give it to the priest with the holy thing.


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Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.


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Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, Whatever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer to the LORD for a burnt offering;


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You will offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.


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And whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it will be perfect to be accepted; there will be no blemish therein.


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Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, you will not offer these to the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar to the LORD.


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Either a bullock or a lamb that has any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that may you offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it will not be accepted.


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You will not offer to the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither will you make any offering thereof in your land.


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Neither from a stranger's hand will you offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they will not be accepted for you.


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When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it will be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it will be accepted for an offering made by fire to the LORD.


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Neither will you profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD which hallow you,


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Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which you will proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.


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Six days will work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; you will do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.


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And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to the LORD: seven days you must eat unleavened bread.


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But you will offer an offering made by fire to the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: you will do no servile work therein.


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Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you be come into the land which I give to you, and will reap the harvest thereof, then you will bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest:


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And he will wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest will wave it.


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And you will offer that day when you wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering to the LORD.


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And the meat offering thereof will be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof will be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.


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And you will eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that you have brought an offering to your God: it will be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.


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And you will count to you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths will be complete:


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Even to the morrow after the seventh sabbath will you number fifty days; and you will offer a new meat offering to the LORD.


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You will bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals; they will be of fine flour; they will be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits to the LORD.


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And you will offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they will be for a burnt offering to the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour to the LORD.


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Then you will sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.


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


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And you will proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation to you: you will do no servile work therein: it will be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.


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And when you reap the harvest of your land, you will not make clean riddance of the corners of your field when you reap, neither will you gather any gleaning of your harvest: you will leave them to the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.


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Speak to the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, will you have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.


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Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there will be a day of atonement: it will be an holy convocation to you; and you will afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.


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


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For whatever soul it be that will not be afflicted in that same day, he will be cut off from among his people.


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


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You will do no manner of work: it will be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.


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It will be to you a sabbath of rest, and you will afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even to even, will you celebrate your sabbath.


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Speak to the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month will be the feast of tabernacles for seven days to the LORD.


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Seven days you will offer an offering made by fire to the LORD: on the eighth day will be an holy convocation to you; and you will offer an offering made by fire to the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and you will do no servile work therein.


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These are the feasts of the LORD, which you will proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:


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Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill 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 will keep a feast to the LORD seven days: on the first day will be a sabbath, and on the eighth day will be a sabbath.


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And you will take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you will rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.


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And you will keep it a feast to the LORD seven days in the year. It will be a statute for ever in your generations: you will celebrate it in the seventh month.


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That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.


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


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Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, will Aaron order it from the evening to the morning before the LORD continually: it will be a statute for ever in your generations.


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And you will put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to the LORD.


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Every sabbath he will set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.


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And it will be Aaron's and his sons'; and they will eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy to him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.


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And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;


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And the Israelitish woman's son 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 him that has cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.


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And he that blasphemes the name of the LORD, he will surely be put to death, and all the congregation will certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemes the name of the Lord, will be put to death.


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Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he has caused a blemish in a man, so will it be done to him again.


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You will have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God.


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And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.


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


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Six years you will sow your field, and six years you will prune your vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;


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


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That which grows of its own accord of your harvest you will not reap, neither gather the grapes of your vine undressed: for it is a year of rest to the land.


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And the sabbath of the land will be meat for you; for you, and for your servant, and for your maid, and for your hired servant, and for your stranger that sojourns with you.


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And for your cattle, and for the beast that are in your land, will all the increase thereof be meat.


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And you will number seven sabbaths of years to you, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years will be to you forty and nine years.


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Then will you cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement will you make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.


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And you will hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all the inhabitants thereof: it will be a jubile to you; and you will return every man to his possession, and you will return every man to his family.


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A jubile will that fiftieth year be to you: you will not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of your vine undressed.


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And if you sell ought to your neighbour, or buy ought of your neighbour's hand, you will not oppress one another:


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According to the number of years after the jubile you will buy of your neighbour, and according to the number of years of the fruits he will sell to you:


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According to the multitude of years you will increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years you will diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits does he sell to you.


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Therefore you will do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and you will dwell in the land in safety.


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And if you will say, What will we eat the seventh year? behold, we will not sow, nor gather in our increase:


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


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And you will sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in you will eat of the old store.


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The land will not be sold for ever: for the land is mine, for you are strangers and sojourners with me.


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If your brother be waxen poor, and has sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then will he redeem that which his brother sold.


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


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But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold will remain in the hand of him that has bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it will go out, and he will return to his possession.


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And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.


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And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city will be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it will not go out in the jubile.


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But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them will be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they will go out in the jubile.


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Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.


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And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, will go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.


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And if your brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with you; then you will relieve him: yes, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with you.


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I am the LORD your God, which 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 that dwells by you be waxen poor, and be sold to you; you will not compel him to serve as a bondservant:


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But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he will be with you, and will serve you to the year of jubile.


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And then will he depart from you, both he and his children with him, and will return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers will he return.


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For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they will not be sold as bondmen.


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Both your bondmen, and your bondmaids, which you will have, will be of the heathen that are round about you; of them will you buy bondmen and bondmaids.


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Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them will you buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they will be your possession.


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And you will take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they will be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, you will not rule one over another with rigour.


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And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by you, and your brother that dwells by him wax poor, and sell himself to the stranger or sojourner by you, or to the stock of the stranger's family:


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Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin to him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.


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And he will reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him to the year of jubile: and the price of his sale will be according to the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant will it be with him.


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If there be yet many years behind, according to them he will give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.


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


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And as a yearly hired servant will he be with him: and the other will not rule with rigour over him in your sight.


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And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he will go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.


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For to me the children 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 will make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither will you set up any image of stone in your land, 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 will yield her increase, and the trees of the field will yield their fruit.


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And your threshing will reach to the vintage, and the vintage will reach to the sowing time: and you will 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 will lie down, and none will make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither will the sword go through your land.


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And five of you will chase an hundred, and an hundred of you will put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.


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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, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.


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And if you will despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that you will not do all my commandments, but that you break my covenant:


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I also will do this to you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that will consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.


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And I will set my face against you, and you will be slain before your enemies: they that hate you will reign over you; and you will flee when none pursues you.


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And if you will not yet for all this hearken to me, 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 as iron, and your earth as brass:


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And your strength will be spent in vain: for your land will not yield her increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruits.


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


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I will also send wild beasts among you, which will rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways will be desolate.


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And I will bring a sword upon you, that will avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when you are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.


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And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will deliver you your bread again by weight: and you will 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 cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul will abhor you.


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And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.


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And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein will 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 will be desolate, and your cities waste.


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Then will the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lies desolate, and you be in your enemies' land; even then will the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.


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As long as it lies desolate it will rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when you dwelt upon it.


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And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf will chase them; and they will flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they will fall when none pursues.


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And they will fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursues: and you will have no power to stand before your enemies.


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And they that are left of you will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers will they pine away with them.


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If they will confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary to me;


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And that I also have walked contrary to them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:


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


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The land also will be left of them, and will enjoy her sabbaths, while she lies desolate without them: and they will accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.


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And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.


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But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, 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 children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.


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Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When a man will make a singular vow, the persons will be for the LORD by your estimation.


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


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And if it be from five years old even to twenty years old, then your estimation will be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.


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And if it be from a month old even to five years old, then your estimation will be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female your estimation will be three shekels of silver.


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And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then your estimation will be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.


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But if he be poorer than your estimation, then he will present himself before the priest, and the priest will value him; according to his ability that vowed will the priest value him.


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And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering to the LORD, all that any man gives of such to the LORD will be holy.


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He will not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he will at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof will be holy.


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And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice to the LORD, then he will present the beast before the priest:


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And the priest will value it, whether it be good or bad: as you value it, who are the priest, so will it be.


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And when a man will sanctify his house to be holy to the LORD, then the priest will estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest will estimate it, so will it stand.


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And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he will add the fifth part of the money of your estimation to it, and it will be his.


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And if a man will sanctify to the LORD some part of a field of his possession, then your estimation will be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed will be valued at fifty shekels of silver.


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But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest will reckon to him the money according to the years that remain, even to the year of the jubile, and it will be abated from your estimation.


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And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he will add the fifth part of the money of your estimation to it, and it will be assured to him.


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


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But the field, when it goes out in the jubile, will be holy to the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof will be the priest's.


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And if a man sanctify to the LORD a field which he has bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;


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Then the priest will reckon to him the worth of your estimation, even to the year of the jubile: and he will give your estimation in that day, as a holy thing to the LORD.


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In the year of the jubile the field will return to him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.


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And all your estimations will be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs will be the shekel.


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Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD's firstling, no man will sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the LORD's.


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And if it be of an unclean beast, then he will redeem it according to your estimation, and will add a fifth part of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it will be sold according to your estimation.


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Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man will devote to the LORD of all that he has, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, will be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy to the LORD.


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


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And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatever passes under the rod, the tenth will be holy to the LORD.


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He will not search whether it be good or bad, neither will he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof will be holy; it will not be redeemed.


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These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.


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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 were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,


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Take you the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;


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From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: you and Aaron will number them by their armies.


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And these are the names of the men that will stand with you: of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur.


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


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These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.


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And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.


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And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;


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Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.


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


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Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.


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Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, 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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Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.


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Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, 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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Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.


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Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, 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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Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.


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Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, 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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Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.


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Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, 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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Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.


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Of the children of Manasseh, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, 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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Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.


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Of the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, 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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Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.


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Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, 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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Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Dan, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.


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Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, 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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Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.


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Of the children of Naphtali, throughout their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, 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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Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.


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These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: each one was for the house of his fathers.


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So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;


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Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.


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Only you will not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:


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But you will appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they will bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they will minister to it, and will encamp round about the tabernacle.


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And when the tabernacle set forward, the Levites will take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites will set it up: and the stranger that comes nigh will be put to death.


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And the children of Israel will pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.


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But the Levites will pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites will keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.


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Every man of the children of Israel will pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation will they pitch.


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And on the east side toward the rising of the sun will they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab will be captain of the children of Judah.


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And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.


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And those that do pitch next to him will be the tribe of Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar will be captain of the children of Issachar.


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All that were numbered in the camp of Judah were an hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred, throughout their armies. These will first set forth.


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On the south side will be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben will be Elizur the son of Shedeur.


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And those which pitch by him will be the tribe of Simeon: and the captain of the children of Simeon will be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.


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And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.


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All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben were an hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty, throughout their armies. And they will set forth in the second rank.


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Then the tabernacle of the congregation will set forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so will they set forward, every man in his place by their standards.


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On the west side will be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim will be Elishama the son of Ammihud.


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And by him will be the tribe of Manasseh: and the captain of the children of Manasseh will be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.


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Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the captain of the sons of Benjamin will be Abidan the son of Gideoni.


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All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were an hundred thousand and eight thousand and an hundred, throughout their armies. And they will go forward in the third rank.


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The standard of the camp of Dan will be on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan will be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.


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And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.


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And those that encamp by him will be the tribe of Asher: and the captain of the children of Asher will be Pagiel the son of Ocran.


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Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the captain of the children of Naphtali will be Ahira the son of Enan.


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All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan were an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They will go hindmost with their standards.


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These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.


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And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after 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 that the LORD spoke with Moses in mount Sinai.


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These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office.


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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 children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father.


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


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And they will 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 will keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.


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And you will give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given to him out of the children of Israel.


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And you will appoint Aaron and his sons, and they will wait on their priest's office: and the stranger that comes nigh will be put to death.


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And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that opens the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites will be mine;


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Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed to me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine will they be: I am the LORD.


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Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward will you number them.


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And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are 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 that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.


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And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation will be the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,


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And the hangings of the court, and the curtain for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and the cords of it for all the service thereof.


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And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.


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In the number of 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 chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites will be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.


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And their charge will be the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the service thereof.


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And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest will be chief over the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that 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 that were 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 chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these will pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward.


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And under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari will be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the vessels thereof, and all that serves thereto,


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But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, will be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that comes nigh will be put to death.


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All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand.


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


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And you will take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel.


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And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.


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


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And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of Israel, which are more than the Levites;


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You will even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary will you take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)


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And you will give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.


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And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:


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Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:


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And Moses gave the money of them that 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, after their families, by the house of their fathers,


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


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This will be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things:


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And when the camp set forward, Aaron will come, and his sons, and they will take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it:


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And will put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and will spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and will put in the staves thereof.


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And upon the table of showbread they will spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread will be thereon:


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And they will spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers' skins, and will put in the staves thereof.


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And they will take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister to it:


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And they will put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers' skins, and will put it upon a bar.


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And upon the golden altar they will spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins, and will put to the staves thereof:


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And they will take all the instruments of ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers' skins, and will put them on a bar:


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And they will put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister about it, even the censers, the fleshhooks, and the shovels, and the basons, all the vessels of the altar; and they will spread upon it a covering of badgers' skins, and put to the staves of 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, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath will come to bear it: but they will not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things 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 pertains the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, and the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein is, in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.


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But thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons will go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden:


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Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families;


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From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old will you 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 will bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers' 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 round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and all that is made for them: so will they serve.


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At the appointment of Aaron and his sons will be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burdens, and in all their service: and you will appoint to them in charge all their burdens.


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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 will be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.


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As for the sons of Merari, you will number them after their families, by the house of their fathers;


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From thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old will you number them, every one that 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 the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets thereof,


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And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name you will reckon the instruments of the charge of their burden.


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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 chief of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their families, and after the house of their fathers,


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From thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, every one that enters into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation:


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These were they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number 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 the house of their fathers,


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From thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, every one 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, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty.


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These are they that were 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 did number according to the commandment of the LORD.


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


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These be those that were 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 that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after the house of their fathers,


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From thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, every one 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 commandment of the LORD they were numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as the LORD commanded Moses.


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Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that has an issue, and whoever is defiled by the dead:


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Both male and female will you put out, without the camp will you put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.


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And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spoke to Moses, so did the children of Israel.


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Speak to the children of Israel, When a man or woman will commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty;


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Then they will confess their sin which they have done: and he will recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add to it the fifth part thereof, and give it to him against whom he has trespassed.


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But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass to, let the trespass be recompensed to the LORD, even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement will be made for him.


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


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Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,


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And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;


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And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:


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Then will the man bring his wife to the priest, and he will bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he will pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.


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And the priest will take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest will take, and put it into the water:


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And the priest will set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest will have in his hand the bitter water that causes the curse:


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And the priest will charge her by an oath, and say to the woman, If no man have lain with you, and if you have not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of your husband, be you free from this bitter water that causes the curse:


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But if you have gone aside to another instead of your husband, and if you be defiled, and some man have lain with you beside your husband:


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Then the priest will charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest will say to the woman, The LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD does make your thigh to rot, and your belly to swell;


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And this water that causes the curse will go into your bowels, to make your belly to swell, and your thigh to rot: And the woman will say, Amen, amen.


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And he will cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causes the curse: and the water that causes the curse will enter into her, and become bitter.


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


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And the priest will take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward will cause the woman to drink the water.


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And when he has made her to drink the water, then it will come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly will swell, and her thigh will rot: and the woman will be a curse among her people.


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This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goes aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;


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Or when the spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and will set the woman before the LORD, and the priest will execute upon her all this law.


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Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When either man or woman will separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves to the LORD:


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


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All the days of his separation will he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.


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All the days of the vow of his separation there will no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separates himself to the LORD, he will be holy, and will let the locks of the hair of his head grow.


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He will not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.


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And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he has defiled the head of his consecration; then he will shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day will he shave it.


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And on the eighth day he will bring two turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:


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


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And he will consecrate to the LORD the days of his separation, and will bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before will 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 will be brought to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:


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And he will offer his offering to the LORD, one he 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 bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings.


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And the priest will bring them before the LORD, and will offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:


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And he will offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest will offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering.


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And the Nazarite will shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and will take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.


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And the priest will take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and will put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair of his separation is shaven:


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And the priest will wave them for a wave offering before the LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.


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This is the law of the Nazarite who has vowed, and of his offering to the LORD for his separation, beside that that his hand will get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation.


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Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, On this wise you will bless the children of Israel, saying to them,


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And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them;


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That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and were over them that were numbered, offered:


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


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Take it of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and you will give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service.


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


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But to the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service of the sanctuary belonging to them was that they should bear upon their shoulders.


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


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And the LORD said to Moses, They will offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedicating 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 charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:


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And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he 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 charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:


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And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he 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 charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:


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And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.


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His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:


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And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.


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And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.


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His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, a silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:


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And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.


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And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he 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 he 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 he 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 he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.


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And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran.


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And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he 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 princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:


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Each charger of silver weighing an hundred and thirty shekels, each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:


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The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels.


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All the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their meat offering: and the kids of the goats for sin offering twelve.


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And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace offerings were twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after that it was anointed.


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And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking to him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spoke to him.


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Speak to Aaron and say to him, When you light the lamps, the seven lamps will give light over against the candlestick.


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And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, to the shaft thereof, to the flowers thereof, was beaten work: according to the pattern which the LORD had showed Moses, so he made the candlestick.


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And thus will you do to them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean.


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Then let them take a young bullock with his meat offering, even fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock will you take for a sin offering.


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And you will bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and you will gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together:


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And you will bring the Levites before the LORD: and the children of Israel will put their hands upon the Levites:


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And Aaron will offer the Levites before the LORD for an offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the LORD.


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And the Levites will lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and you will 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 will 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 will the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and you will cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.


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For they are wholly given to me from among the children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken them to me.


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For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.


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


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And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites according to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel to them.


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And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them as an offering before the LORD; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them.


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


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This is it that belongs to the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they will go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:


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And from the age of fifty years they will cease waiting upon the service thereof, and will serve no more:


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But will minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and will do no service. Thus will you do to the Levites touching their charge.


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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 were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,


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In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, you will keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, will you keep it.


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


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And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep 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: therefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?


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Speak to the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity will be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he will keep the passover to the LORD.


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The fourteenth day of the second month at even they will keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.


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They will leave none of it to the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they will keep it.


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But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbears to keep the passover, even the same soul will be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man will bear his sin.


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And if a stranger will sojourn among you, and will keep the passover to the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so will he do: you will 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, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning.


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And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.


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At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents.


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And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not.


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And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed.


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And so it was, when the cloud abode from even to the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.


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Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.


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At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.


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Make you two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece will you make them: that you may use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps.


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


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And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, will 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 will take their journey: they will blow an alarm for their journeys.


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


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And the sons of Aaron, the priests, will blow with the trumpets; and they will be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations.


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And if you go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresses you, then you will blow an alarm with the trumpets; and you will be remembered before the LORD your God, and you will 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 will blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.


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And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.


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And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.


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In the first place went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host 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 set forward, bearing the tabernacle.


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And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur.


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And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came.


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And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud.


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And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, which was the rereward of all the camps throughout their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.


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Thus were the journeyings of the children of Israel according to their armies, when they set forward.


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


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And he said, Leave us not, I pray you; forasmuch as you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you may be to us instead of eyes.


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And it will be, if you go with us, yes, it will be, that what goodness the LORD will do to us, the same will we do to you.


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And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them.


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And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let your enemies be scattered; and let them that hate you flee before you.


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And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.


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And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who will give us flesh to eat?


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We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:


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And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.


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Then Moses heard the people weep 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, Therefore have you afflicted your servant? and therefore have I not found favour in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people upon me?


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Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that you should say to me, Carry them in your bosom, as a nursing father bears the sucking child, to the land which you swore to their fathers?


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Where should I have 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 deal thus with me, kill me, I pray you, out of hand, if I have found favour in your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.


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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 officers over them; and bring them to the tabernacle of the congregation, 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 which is upon you, and will put it upon them; and they will bear the burden of the people with you, that you bear it not yourself alone.


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And say you to the people, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you will eat flesh: for you have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who will give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and you will eat.


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But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome to you: because that you have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth 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, that they may eat a whole month.


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


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And the LORD said to Moses, Is the LORD's hand waxed short? you will see now whether my word will come to pass to you or not.


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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 round about the tabernacle.


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And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it to the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.


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But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but went not 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, forbid them.


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And Moses said to him, Envy you for my sake? would God that all the LORD's people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!


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And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.


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And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.


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


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And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.


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And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.


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


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And the LORD spoke suddenly to Moses, and to Aaron, and to Miriam, Come out you three to the tabernacle of the congregation. And they 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 be 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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With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD will he behold: therefore then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?


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And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.


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And Aaron said to Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech you, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.


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Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed 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 in again.


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And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.


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Send you men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers will you send a man, every one a ruler among them.


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And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.


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These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.


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And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Get you 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 dwells therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;


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And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds;


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And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be you of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.


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And they ascended by the south, and came to Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)


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And they came to the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.


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The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.


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And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and 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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Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover 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 be 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 children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eats up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.


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


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And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!


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


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


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And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:


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And they spoke to all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.


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If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which flows with milk and honey.


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Only rebel not you against the LORD, neither fear you the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.


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But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.


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And the LORD said to Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have showed among them?


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


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And Moses said to the LORD, Then the Egyptians will hear it, (for you brought up this people in your might from among them;)


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And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that you LORD are among this people, that you LORD are seen face to face, and that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.


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Now if you will kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,


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Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.


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The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation.


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Pardon, I beseech you, 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 which 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 hearkened to my voice;


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Surely they will not see the land which I sware to their fathers, neither will 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, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed will possess it.


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(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.


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How long will I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.


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Say to them, As truly as I live, says the LORD, as you have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:


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Your carcases will fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me.


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Doubtless you will not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save 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, them will I bring in, and they will know the land which you have despised.


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And your children will wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.


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After the number of the days in which you searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, will you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my breach of promise.


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I the LORD have said, I will surely do it to all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they will be consumed, and there they will die.


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And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,


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But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.


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


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And Moses said, Therefore now do you transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it will not prosper.


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For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will fall by the sword: because you are 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: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.


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Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even to Hormah.


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Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you be come into the land of your habitations, 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 freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour to the LORD, of the herd or of the flock:


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Then will he that offers his offering to the LORD bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil.


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


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Or for a ram, you will prepare for a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil.


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And for a drink offering you will offer the third part of an hin of wine, for a sweet savour to the LORD.


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


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Then will he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil.


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


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According to the number that you will prepare, so will you do to every one according to their number.


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All that are born of the country will do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour to the LORD.


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And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour to the LORD; as you do, so he will do.


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One ordinance will be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourns with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as you are, so will the stranger be before the LORD.


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Then it will be, that, when you eat of the bread of the land, you will offer up an heave offering to the LORD.


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You will offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering: as you do the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so will you heave it.


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Even all that the LORD has commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the LORD commanded Moses, and henceforward among your generations;


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Then it will be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation will offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour to the LORD, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.


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And the priest will make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it will be forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they will 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 will be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourns among them; seeing all the people were in ignorance.


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And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he will bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering.


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And the priest will make an atonement for the soul that sins ignorantly, when he sins by ignorance before the LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it will be forgiven him.


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You will have one law for him that sins through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourns among them.


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But the soul that does ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproaches the LORD; and that soul will 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 will utterly be cut off; his iniquity will be upon him.


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And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.


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And they that 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 will be surely put to death: all the congregation will stone him with stones without the camp.


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And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.


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Speak to the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:


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And it will be to you for a fringe, that you may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that you seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to go a whoring:


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


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


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And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:


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And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: therefore then lift you up yourselves 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 who is holy; and will cause him to come near to him: even him whom he has chosen will he cause to come near to him.


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And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the LORD tomorrow: and it will be that the man whom the LORD does choose, he will be holy: you take too much upon you, you sons of Levi.


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Seems it but a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to 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 to him, and all your brethren the sons of Levi with you: and seek you the priesthood also?


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For which cause both you and all your company are gathered together 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, except you make yourself altogether a prince over us?


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Moreover you have not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of 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 wroth, and said to the LORD, Respect not you 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, Be you and all your company before the LORD, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow:


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And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring you before the LORD every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each of you his censer.


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And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, 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, will one man sin, and will you be wroth with all the congregation?


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Speak to the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.


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And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of their's, lest you be consumed in all their sins.


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So they gat up from the tabernacle 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 children.


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And Moses said, Hereby you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind.


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If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD has not sent me.


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But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down quick into the pit; then you will understand that these men have provoked the LORD.


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And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:


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And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained to Korah, and all their goods.


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They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.


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And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.


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And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.


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Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter you the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.


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The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they will be a sign to the children of Israel.


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And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar:


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To be a memorial to the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.


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


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And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that 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 you up from among this congregation, 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 censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly to the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.


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And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.


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Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that 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 children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write you every man's name upon his rod.


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And you will write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod will be for the head of the house of their fathers.


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


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And it will come to pass, that the man's rod, whom I will choose, will blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against you.


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And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.


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And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.


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And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD to all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and you will quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.


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Whoever comes any thing near to the tabernacle of the LORD will die: will we be consumed with dying?


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And the LORD said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father's house with you will bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and you and your sons with you will bear the iniquity of your priesthood.


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And your brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring you with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you: but you and your sons with you will minister before the tabernacle of witness.


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And they will keep your charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they will not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor you also, die.


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And they will be joined to you, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger will not come nigh to you.


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And you will keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.


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And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are given 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 will keep your priest's office for everything of the altar, and within the vail; and you will serve: I have given your priest's office to you as a service of gift: and the stranger that comes nigh will be put to death.


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And the LORD spoke to Aaron, Behold, I also have given you the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; to you have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, by an ordinance for ever.


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This will be your of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of their's, every meat offering of their's, and every sin offering of their's, and every trespass offering of their's which they will render to me, will be most holy for you and for your sons.


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And this is your; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in your house will eat of it.


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All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they will offer to the LORD, them have I given you.


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And whatever is first ripe in the land, which they will bring to the LORD, will be your; every one that is clean in your house will eat of it.


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Every thing that opens the matrix in all flesh, which they bring to the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, will be your: nevertheless the firstborn of man will you surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts will you redeem.


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And those that are to be redeemed from a month old will you redeem, according to your estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.


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But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, you will not redeem; they are holy: you will sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and will burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour to the LORD.


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All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to the LORD, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD to you and to your seed with you.


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And the LORD spoke to Aaron, You will have no inheritance in their land, neither will you have any part among them: I am your part and your inheritance among the children of Israel.


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


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Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.


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But the Levites will do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they will bear their iniquity: it will be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.


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But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave offering to the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they will have no inheritance.


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Thus speak to the Levites, and say to them, When you take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you will offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe.


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And this your heave offering will be reckoned to you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.


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Thus you also will offer an heave offering to the LORD of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and you will give thereof the LORD's heave offering to Aaron the priest.


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Out of all your gifts you will offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.


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Therefore you will say to them, When you have heaved the best thereof from it, then it will be counted to the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.


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And you will 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 will bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it the best of it: neither will you pollute the holy things of the children 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 children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:


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And you will give her to Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one will slay her before his face:


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And Eleazar the priest will 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 one will burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, will he burn:


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And the priest will take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.


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


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And he that burns her will wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and will be unclean until the even.


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And a man that is clean will gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it will be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.


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And he that gathers the ashes of the heifer will wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it will be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger that sojourns among them, for a statute for ever.


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


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Whoever touches the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifies not himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul will be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he will be unclean; his uncleanness is yet 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 that is in the tent, will be unclean seven days.


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


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And for an unclean person they will take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water will be put thereto in a vessel:


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And a clean person will take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:


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And the clean person will sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he will purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and will be clean at even.


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But the man that will be unclean, and will not purify himself, that soul will 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 will be a perpetual statute to them, that he that sprinkles the water of separation will wash his clothes; and he that touches the water of separation will be unclean until even.


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And whatever the unclean person touches will be unclean; and the soul that touches it will be unclean until even.


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Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode 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 together against Moses and against Aaron.


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And the people chode with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!


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


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And therefore have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any 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 you the assembly together, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak you to the rock before their eyes; and it will give forth his water, and you will bring forth to them water out of the rock: so you will give the congregation and their beasts 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 fetch you water out of this rock?


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And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.


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And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, Because you believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you will not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.


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This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.


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


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How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed 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 uttermost of your border:


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Let us pass, I pray you, through your country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your borders.


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And the children of Israel said to him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of your water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing anything else, go through on my feet.


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And he said, You will not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.


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And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came to mount Hor.


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


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And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron will be gathered to his people, and will 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 mount.


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


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And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners.


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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 utterly destroy their cities.


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And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.


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And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.


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And the people spoke against God, and against Moses, Therefore 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 much people of Israel died.


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Therefore 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 you a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it will come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looks upon it, will live.


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And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.


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And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.


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From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.


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Therefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,


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


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And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the LORD spoke to Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.


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The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:


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And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks toward Jeshimon.


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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 of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past your borders.


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And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jaha, and fought against Israel.


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And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon to Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.


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And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.


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For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to Arnon.


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Therefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:


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For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it has consumed Ar of Moab, and 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 that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.


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We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even to Dibon, and we have laid them waste even to Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.


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And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that 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, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into your hand, and all his people, and his land; and you will do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.


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So they smote 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 children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.


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


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And Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now will this company lick up all that are round about 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, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:


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Come now therefore, I pray you, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I will prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot 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 departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.


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And he said to them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD will speak to me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.


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Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covers the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I will be able to overcome them, and drive them out.


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


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And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the LORD refuses to give me leave to go with you.


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And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus says Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray you, hinder you from coming to me:


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For I will promote you to very great honour, and I will do whatever you say to me: come therefore, I pray you, curse me this people.


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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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Now therefore, I pray you, tarry you also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say to me 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, and go with them; but yet the word which I will say to you, that will you do.


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And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were 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 smote 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 being on this side, and a wall on that side.


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And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he smote her again.


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And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where 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 smote 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 smitten me these three times?


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


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And the ass said to Balaam, Am not I your ass, upon which you have ridden ever since I was your to this day? was I ever wont to do so to you? And he said, Nay.


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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 flat on his face.


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And the angel of the LORD said to him, Therefore have you smitten your ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand 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 also I had slain you, and saved her alive.


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And Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for I knew not that you stood in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease you, I will get me 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 will speak to you, that you will speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.


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And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him to a city of Moab, which is in the border of Arnon, which is in the utmost coast.


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And Balak said to Balaam, Did I not earnestly send to you to call you? therefore came you not to me? am I not able indeed to promote you to honour?


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And Balaam said to Balak, Lo, I am come to you: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God puts in my mouth, that will I speak.


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And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost part of the people.


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


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And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.


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And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatever he shows me I will tell you. And he went to an 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 every altar a bullock 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 me Jacob, 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 will dwell alone, and will not be reckoned among the nations.


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Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part 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 mine enemies, and, behold, you have blessed them altogether.


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And Balak said to him, Come, I pray you, with me to another place, from where you may see them: you will see but the utmost part of them, and will not see them all: and curse me them from thence.


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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 bullock 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 princes of Moab 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 will he not do it? or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?


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


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Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God wrought!


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Behold, the people will rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he will not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.


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


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And Balak said to Balaam, Come, I pray you, I will bring you to another place; peradventure it will please God that you may curse me them from thence.


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


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And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.


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And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents 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, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:


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As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD has planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.


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He will pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed will be in many waters, and his king will be higher than Agag, and his kingdom will be exalted.


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God brought him forth out of Egypt; he has as it were the strength of an unicorn: he will eat up the nations his enemies, and will break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.


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He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who will stir him up? Blessed is he that blesses you, and cursed is he that curses you.


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And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said to Balaam, I called you to curse mine enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times.


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Therefore now flee you to your place: I thought to promote you to great honour; but, lo, the LORD has kept you back from honour.


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If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD says, that will I speak?


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And now, behold, I go to my people: come therefore, and I will advertise you what this people will do to your people in the latter days.


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He has said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:


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I will see him, but not now: I will behold him, but not nigh: there will come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre will rise out of Israel, and will smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.


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And Edom will be a possession, Seir also will be a possession for his enemies; and Israel will 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 will be that he perish for ever.


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And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is your dwellingplace, and you put your nest in a rock.


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And ships will come from the coast of Chittim, and will afflict Asshur, and will afflict Eber, and he also will perish for ever.


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And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, 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, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.


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And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children 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 javelin in his hand;


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


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Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.


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


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Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.


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And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian.


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For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake.


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And it came to pass after the plague, that 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 children 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 by Jordan near Jericho, saying,


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Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.


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Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, of whom comes the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites:


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These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.


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And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD:


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And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.


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The sons of Simeon after 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 children of Gad after 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 children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.


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And the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Phare, the family of the Pharzites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.


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


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These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred.


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Of the sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites:


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These are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred.


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Of the sons of Zebulun after 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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These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five hundred.


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Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come 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 were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.


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These are the families of Manasseh, and those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred.


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These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: 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 according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.


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The sons of Benjamin after 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: and of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.


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These are the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and six hundred.


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


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All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred.


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Of the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.


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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 according to those that were numbered of them; who were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.


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Of the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites:


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These are the families of Naphtali according to their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and four hundred.


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These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.


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To many you will give the more inheritance, and to few you will give the less inheritance: to every one will his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him.


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Notwithstanding the land will be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they will inherit.


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And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after 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 Kohath begat Amram.


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And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.


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And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.


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These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near 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 children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.


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


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Then came 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: 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 princes 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 them that gathered themselves together 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 done away from among his family, because he has no son? Give to us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.


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The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: you will surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and you will cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.


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And you will speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then you will cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.


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And if his father have no brethren, then you will give his inheritance to his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he will possess it: and it will be to the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.


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


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


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For you rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.


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


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And the LORD said to Moses, Take you 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 will put some of your honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.


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And he will stand before Eleazar the priest, who will ask counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before the LORD: at his word will they go out, and at his word they will come in, both he, and all the children 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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Command the children of Israel, and say to them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour to me, will you observe to offer to me in their due season.


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And you will say to them, This is the offering made by fire which you will offer to the LORD; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering.


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And a tenth part of an ephah of flour for a meat offering, mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil.


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It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire to the LORD.


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And the drink offering thereof will be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy place will you cause the strong wine to be poured to the LORD for a drink offering.


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And the other lamb will you offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, you will offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour to the LORD.


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And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof:


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This is the burnt offering of every sabbath, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.


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And in the beginnings of your months you will offer a burnt offering to the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;


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And three tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one bullock; and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one ram;


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And a several tenth deal of flour mingled with oil for a meat offering to one lamb; for a burnt offering of a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire to the LORD.


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And their drink offerings will be half an hin of wine to a bullock, and the third part of an hin to a ram, and a fourth part of an 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 will be offered, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.


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But you will offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt offering to the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they will be to you without blemish:


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And their meat offering will be of flour mingled with oil: three tenth deals will you offer for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram;


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You will offer these beside the burnt offering in the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.


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After this manner you will offer daily, throughout the seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour to the LORD: it will be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.


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Also in the day of the firstfruits, when you bring a new meat offering to the LORD, after your weeks be out, you will have an holy convocation; you will do no servile work:


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But you will offer the burnt offering for a sweet savour to the LORD; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year;


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And their meat offering of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals to one bullock, two tenth deals to one ram,


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You will offer them beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, (they will be to you without blemish) and their drink offerings.


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And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you will have an holy convocation; you will do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets to you.


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And you will offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour to the LORD; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish:


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And their meat offering will be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram,


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Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according to their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire to the LORD.


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And you will have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and you will afflict your souls: you will not do any work therein:


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But you will offer a burnt offering to the LORD for a sweet savour; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year; they will be to you without blemish:


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And their meat offering will be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals to a bullock, and two tenth deals to one ram,


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One kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering of it, and their drink offerings.


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And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month you will have an holy convocation; you will do no servile work, and you will keep a feast to the LORD seven days:


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And you will offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour to the LORD; thirteen young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year; they will be without blemish:


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And their meat offering will be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals to every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth deals to each ram of the two rams,


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And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.


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And on the second day you will offer twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:


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And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, will be according to their number, after the manner:


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And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering thereof, and their drink offerings.


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And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.


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Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, will be according to their number, after the manner:


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And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:


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And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.


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And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:


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But you will offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour to the LORD: one bullock, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish:


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Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, will be according to their number, after the manner:


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These things you will do to the LORD in your set feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat 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 children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD has commanded.


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If a man vow a vow to the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he will not break his word, he will do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.


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If a woman also vow a vow to the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth;


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And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she has bound her soul, and her father will hold his peace at her; then all her vows will stand, and every bond wherewith she has bound her soul will stand.


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But if her father disallow her in the day that he hears; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she has bound her soul, will stand: and the LORD will forgive her, because her father disallowed her.


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And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;


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And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows will stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul will stand.


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But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he will make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD will forgive her.


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But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, will stand against her.


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And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows will stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul will stand.


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But if her husband has utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, will not stand: her husband has made them void; and the LORD will 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 make it void.


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But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establishes all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon her: he confirms them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.


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But if he will any ways make them void after that he has heard them; then he will bear her iniquity.


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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, being yet 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 of 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, 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 killed the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword.


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And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took 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 Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.


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And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.


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And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.


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Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.


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Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that has known man by lying with him.


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And do you abide without the camp seven days: whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.


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And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, 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 which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses;


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Every thing that may abide the fire, you will make it go through the fire, and it will be clean: nevertheless it will be purified with the water of separation: and all that abides not the fire you will make go through the water.


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


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Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation:


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And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:


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And levy a tribute to the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:


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And of the children of Israel's half, you will take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them to the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.


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And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,


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And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep:


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And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which the LORD's tribute was threescore and one.


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And Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD's heave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.


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(Now the half that pertained to the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep,


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Even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them to the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And the officers which were over thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near to Moses:


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And they said to Moses, Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge, and there lacks not one man of us.


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We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every man has gotten, 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 captains of thousands, and of the captains 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 captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, for a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.


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Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;


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The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes 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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Even the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle:


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Therefore, said they, if we have found grace in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession, and bring us not over Jordan.


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And Moses said to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Will your brethren go to war, and will you sit here?


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And therefore discourage you the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them?


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For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, 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 upward, will see the land which I sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:


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Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD.


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


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And, behold, you are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet 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 will 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 children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place: and our little ones will dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.


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We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.


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For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.


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And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he has driven out his enemies from before him,


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And the land be subdued before the LORD: then afterward you will return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before Israel; and this land will be your possession before the LORD.


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


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Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.


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And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, Your servants will do as my lord commands.


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But your servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to battle, as my lord says.


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So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel:


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


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


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And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the LORD has said to your servants, so will we do.


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We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be our's.


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And Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to 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 the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.


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And Nebo, and Baalmeon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names to the cities which they builded.


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And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.


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These are the journeys of the children of Israel, which 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 commandment of the LORD: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.


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And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.


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For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the LORD had smitten among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments.


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And they removed from Etham, and turned again to Pihahiroth, which is before Baalzephon: and they pitched before Migdol.


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And they departed from before Pihahiroth, and passed through the midst 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 removed from Marah, and came to Elim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there.


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And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.


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And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.


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And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.


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Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;


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Then you will drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:


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And you will dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.


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And you will divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more you will give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you will give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance will be in the place where his lot falls; according to the tribes of your fathers you will inherit.


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But if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it will come to pass, that those which you let remain of them will be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and will vex you in the land wherein you dwell.


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Command the children of Israel, and say to them, When you come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that will fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof:)


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Then your south quarter will be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border will be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:


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And your border will turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof will be from the south to Kadeshbarnea, and will go on to Hazaraddar, and pass on to Azmon:


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And the border will fetch a compass from Azmon to the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it will be at the sea.


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And as for the western border, you will even have the great sea for a border: this will be your west border.


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From mount Hor you will point out your border to the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border will be to Zedad:


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And the border will go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it will be at Hazarenan: this will be your north border.


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And the coast will go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border will descend, and will reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward:


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And the border will go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it will be at the salt sea: this will be your land with the coasts thereof round about.


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And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which you will 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 children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance; 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 near Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising.


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These are the names of the men which will divide the land to you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.


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The prince of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod.


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These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.


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Command the children of Israel, that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and you will give also to the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them.


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And the cities will they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them will be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.


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And the suburbs of the cities, which you will give to the Levites, will reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about.


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And you will measure from without 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 will be in the midst: this will be to them the suburbs of the cities.


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And among the cities which you will give to the Levites there will be six cities for refuge, which you will appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them you will add forty and two cities.


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So all the cities which you will give to the Levites will be forty and eight cities: them will you give with their suburbs.


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And the cities which you will give will be of the possession of the children of Israel: from them that have many you will give many; but from them that have few you will give few: every one will give of his cities to the Levites according to his inheritance which he inherits.


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Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you be come over Jordan into the land of Canaan;


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Then you will appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which kills any person at unawares.


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And they will be to you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.


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You will give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities will you give in the land of Canaan, which will be cities of refuge.


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These six cities will be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that kills any person unawares may flee thither.


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And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer will surely be put to death.


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And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer will surely be put to death.


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Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer will surely be put to death.


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Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him will surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood will slay the murderer, when he meets him.


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But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait,


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Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, that he die, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm:


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Then the congregation will judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:


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And the congregation will deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation will restore him to the city of his refuge, where he was fled: and he will abide in it to the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.


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But if the slayer will at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge, where he was fled;


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And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he will 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 slayer will return into the land of his possession.


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So these things will 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 will be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness will not testify against any person to cause him to die.


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Moreover you will take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he will be surely put to death.


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And you will take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.


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So you will not pollute the land wherein you are: for blood it defiles the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.


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Defile not therefore the land which you will inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.


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And the chief fathers of the families of the children 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 princes, the chief fathers of the children 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 children 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 be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then will their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so will it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.


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And when the jubile of the children of Israel will be, then will their inheritance be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.


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And Moses commanded the children 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 does command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father will they marry.


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So will not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel will 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 children of Israel, will be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.


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Neither will the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel will 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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And 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 children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.


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These be the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.


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And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that the LORD had given him in commandment to them;


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After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:


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Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and to all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and to Lebanon, to the great river, the river Euphrates.


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Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.


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The LORD your God has multiplied you, and, behold, you are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.


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(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!)


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Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.


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So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, 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 charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.


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You will not respect persons in judgment; but you will hear the small as well as the great; you will not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it to me, and I will hear it.


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And when we departed 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 Kadeshbarnea.


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And I said to you, You are come to the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God does give to us.


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Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of your fathers has said to you; fear not, neither be discouraged.


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And you came near to me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they will search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we will 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 does give us.


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And you murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated 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 will we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.


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The LORD your God which goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;


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And in the wilderness, where you have seen how that the LORD your God bare you, as a man does bear 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, 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 will not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give to your fathers.


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Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he will see it, and to him will I give the land that he has trodden upon, and to his children, because he has wholly followed the LORD.


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But Joshua the son of Nun, which stands before you, he will go in thither: encourage him: for he will cause Israel to inherit it.


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Moreover your little ones, which you said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they will go in thither, and to them will I give it, and they will possess it.


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Then 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 you had girded on every man his weapons of war, you were ready to go up into the hill.


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And the LORD said to me, Say to them. Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest you be smitten before your enemies.


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So I spoke to you; and you would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hill.


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And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even to Hormah.


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And you returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not hearken 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 compassed mount Seir many days.


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And command you the people, saying, You are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take you good heed to yourselves therefore:


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Meddle not 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 will buy meat of them for money, that you may eat; and you will also buy water of them for money, that you may drink.


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For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the works of your hand: he knows your walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.


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And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.


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And the LORD said to me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give you of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.


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The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which the LORD gave to them.


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And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware to them.


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For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.


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And when you come nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give you of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.


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(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;


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A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:


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As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even to this day:


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And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even to Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)


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Rise you up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.


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This day will I begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who will hear report of you, and will 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 high way, I will neither turn to the right hand nor to the left.


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You will sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet;


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(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did to me;) until I will pass 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 obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as appeared 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, that you may inherit his land.


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And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:


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From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even to 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 children of Ammon you came not, nor to any place of the river Jabbok, nor to the cities in the mountains, nor to whatever the LORD our God forbad us.


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Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.


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And the LORD said to me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into your hand; and you will do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.


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So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.


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And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.


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And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly 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 that was 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, to Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.


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For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.


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And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I to the Reubenites and to the Gadites.


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And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I 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 to the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair, 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, which is the border of the children of Ammon;


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The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdothpisgah 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 will pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.


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But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that you have much cattle,) will abide in your cities which I have given you;


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Until the LORD have given rest to your brethren, as well as to you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God has given them beyond Jordan: and then will you return every man to his possession, 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 will the LORD 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, that can do according to your works, and according to your might?


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I pray you, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.


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But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said to me, Let it suffice you; speak no more to me of this matter.


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Get you 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 will not go over this Jordan.


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But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he will go over before this people, and he will cause them to inherit the land which you will see.


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Now therefore hearken, O Israel, to the statutes and to the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, 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 will not add to the word which I command you, neither will you diminish ought from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.


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Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD your God has destroyed them from among you.


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Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do so in the land where you go to possess it.


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Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which will hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.


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For what nation is there so great, who has God so nigh to them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?


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And what nation is there so great, that has statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?


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Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, 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 your sons, and your sons' sons;


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Specially the day that you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they will live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.


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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 similitude; only you heard a voice.


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And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.


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And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.


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Take you therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:


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Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,


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The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flies in the air,


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The likeness of any thing that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:


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And lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, should be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD your God has divided to all nations under the whole heaven.


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But the LORD has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as you are this day.


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Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware 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 will 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, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD your God has forbidden you.


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When you will beget children, and children's children, and you will have remained long in the land, and will corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and will 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 will soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over Jordan to possess it; you will not prolong your days upon it, but will utterly be destroyed.


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And the LORD will scatter you among the nations, and you will be left few in number among the heathen, where the LORD will lead you.


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And there you will 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 from thence you will seek the LORD your God, you will find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.


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When you are in tribulation, and all these things are come upon you, even in the latter days, if you turn to the LORD your God, and will be obedient to his voice;


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(For the LORD your God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he sware to them.


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For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven to the other, whether there has been any such thing as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?


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Did ever people 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 assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, 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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Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you: and upon earth he showed you his great fire; and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.


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And because he loved your fathers, 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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To drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you are, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.


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Know therefore this day, and consider it in your heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.


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You will keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days upon the earth, which the LORD your God gives you, for ever.


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That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:


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Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.


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These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spoke to the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt.


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On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were 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, which were on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;


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And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the plain, under the springs 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, that you may learn them, and keep, and do them.


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The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.


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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 by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,


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You will not make you any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:


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You will not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,


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You will not take the name of the LORD your God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that took his name in vain.


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But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you will 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 that is within your gates; that your manservant and your maidservant may rest as well as you.


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And remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day.


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Honour your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you; that your days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with you, in the land which the LORD your God gives you.


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Neither will you desire your neighbour's wife, neither will you covet your neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is your neighbour's.


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These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly in the mount 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 tables of stone, and delivered them to me.


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And it came to pass, when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;


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And you said, Behold, the LORD our God has showed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God does talk with man, and he 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 will die.


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For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?


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Go you near, and hear all that the LORD our God will say: and speak you to us all that the LORD our God will speak to you; and we will hear it, and do it.


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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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O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!


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But as for you, stand you here by me, and I will speak to you all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which you will teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.


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You will observe to do therefore as the LORD your God has commanded you: you will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.


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You will walk in all the ways which the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you will possess.


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Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, 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 that your days may be prolonged.


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Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you, in the land that flows with milk and honey.


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And you will love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.


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And you will teach them diligently to your children, and will talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.


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And it will be, when the LORD your God will have brought you into the land which he sware to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you great and goodly cities, which you buildedst not,


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And houses full of all good things, which you filledst not, and wells digged, which you diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which you plantedst not; when you will have eaten and be full;


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Then beware lest you forget the LORD, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.


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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 will diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.


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And you will do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware to your fathers.


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And when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God has commanded you?


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Then you will say to your son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:


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And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:


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And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware to our fathers.


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And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.


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And it will be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.


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When the LORD your God will 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 when the LORD your God will deliver them before you; you will smite them, and utterly destroy them; you will make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them:


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Neither will you make marriages with them; your daughter you will not give to his son, nor his daughter will you take to your son.


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For they will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy you suddenly.


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But thus will you deal with them; you will 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 an 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, has the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.


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Know therefore that the LORD your God, he is God, the faithful God, which keeps covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;


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And repays them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hates him, he will repay him to his face.


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You will therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command you this day, to do them.


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Therefore it will come to pass, if you hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD your God will keep to you the covenant and the mercy which he sware 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 corn, and your wine, and your oil, the increase of your kine, and the flocks of your sheep, in the land which he sware to your fathers to give you.


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You will be blessed above all people: there will 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 will lay them upon all them that hate you.


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And you will consume all the people which the LORD your God will deliver you; your eye will have no pity upon them: neither will you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you.


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You will not be afraid of them: but will well remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt;


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The great temptations which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD your God brought you out: so will the LORD your God do to all the people of whom you are afraid.


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Moreover the LORD your God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from you, be destroyed.


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And the LORD your God will put out those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon you.


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But the LORD your God will deliver them to you, and will destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.


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And he will deliver their kings into your hand, and you will destroy their name from under heaven: there will no man be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.


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The graven images of their gods will you burn with fire: you will not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it to you, lest you be snared therin: for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.


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Neither will you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be a cursed thing like it: but you will utterly detest it, and you will utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.


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All the commandments which I command you this day will you observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware to your fathers.


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And you will remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or no.


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And he humbled you, and suffered you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you knew not, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD does man live.


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You will also consider in your heart, that, as a man chastens his son, so the LORD your God chastens you.


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Therefore you will keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.


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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 of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;


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A land wherein you will eat bread without scarceness, you will not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig brass.


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When you have eaten and are full, then you will bless the LORD your God for the good land which he has given you.


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Beware that you forget not the LORD your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command you this day:


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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 be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;


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Who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, 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 knew not, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;


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But you will remember the LORD your God: for it is he that gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware to your fathers, as it is this day.


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And it will 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 this day that you will surely perish.


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As the nations which the LORD destroys before your face, so will you perish; because you would not be obedient to the voice of the LORD your God.


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Hear, O Israel: You are to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,


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A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!


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Understand therefore this day, that the LORD your God is he which goes over before you; as a consuming fire he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before your face: so will you drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said to you.


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Speak not you in your heart, after that 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 does drive 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 does drive them out from before you, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.


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Understand therefore, that the LORD your God gives you not this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiffnecked people.


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Remember, and forget not, how you provokedst the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you did depart 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 was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:


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And the LORD delivered to me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spoke with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.


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And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.


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And the LORD said to me, Arise, get you down quickly from hence; for your people which you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.


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Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:


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Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.


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So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount 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 did neither eat bread, nor drink 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 hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened 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 the same time.


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And I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.


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Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, 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 believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.


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Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.


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I prayed therefore to the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not 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; look not to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:


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Lest the land where you brought 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 slay 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, Hew you two tables of stone like to the first, and come up to me into the mount, and make you an ark of wood.


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And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which you broke, and you will put them in the ark.


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And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like to the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.


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And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spoke to you in the mount 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 mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.


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And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.


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At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.


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Therefore Levi has no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD your God promised him.


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And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened to me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy you.


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And the LORD said to me, Arise, take your journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware to their fathers to give to them.


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And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, 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 is the LORD's your God, the earth also, with all that therein is.


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Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.


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For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regards not persons, nor took reward:


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He does execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.


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You will fear the LORD your God; him will you serve, and to him will you cleave, and swear by his name.


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He is your praise, and he is your God, that 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 threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of heaven for multitude.


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Therefore you will love the LORD your God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.


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And know you this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which 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 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 how the LORD has destroyed them to this day;


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And what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:


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Therefore will you keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where you go to possess it;


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And that you may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD sware 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, where you go in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from where you came out, where you sowedst your seed, and wateredst it with your foot, as a garden of herbs:


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But the land, where you go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinks water of the rain of heaven:


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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 come to pass, if you will hearken diligently to my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,


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That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your corn, and your wine, and your oil.


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Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;


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And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest you perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD gives you.


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Therefore will you lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.


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And you will teach them your children, 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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That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware to your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.


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For if you will diligently 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 cleave to him;


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Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and you will possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.


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Every place whereon the soles of your feet will tread will be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the uttermost sea will your coast be.


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There will no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that you will 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 turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.


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And it will come to pass, when the LORD your God has brought you in to the land where you go to possess it, that you will put 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 where the sun goes down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?


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For you will pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God gives you, and you will possess it, and dwell therein.


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These are the statutes and judgments, which you will observe 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 will utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which you will possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:


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And you will overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and you will hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.


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But to the place which the LORD your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even to his habitation will you seek, and thither you will come:


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And thither you will bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:


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And there you will eat before the LORD your God, and you will rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, wherein the LORD your God has blessed you.


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You will not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right in his own eyes.


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But when you go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God gives you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety;


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Then there will be a place which the LORD your God will choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither will you 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 will rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he has no part nor inheritance with you.


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But in the place which the LORD will choose in one of your tribes, there you will offer your burnt offerings, and there you will do all that I command you.


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Notwithstanding you may kill and eat flesh in all your gates, whatever your soul lusts after, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.


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You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your corn, or of your wine, or of your oil, or the firstlings of your herds or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill offerings, or 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 will choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite that is within your gates: and you will rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you put your hands to.


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When the LORD your God will enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you will say, I will eat flesh, because your soul longs to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, whatever your soul lusts after.


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If the place which the LORD your God has chosen to put his name there be too far from you, then you will kill of your herd and of your flock, which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and you will eat in your gates whatever your soul lusts after.


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Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so you will eat them: the unclean and the clean will eat of them alike.


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Only be sure that you eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and you may not eat the life with the flesh.


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You will not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you will do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.


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Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you will take, and go to the place which the LORD will choose:


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And you will offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD your God: and the blood of your sacrifices will be poured out upon the altar of the LORD your God, and you will eat the flesh.


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Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you for ever, when you do that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.


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When the LORD your God will cut off the nations from before you, where you go to possess them, and you succeed them, and dwell in their land;


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Take heed to yourself that you be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before you; and that you enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.


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You will not do so to the LORD your God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hates, have they done to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.


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And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spoke to you, saying, Let us go after other gods, which you have not known, and let us serve them;


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You will not hearken to the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proves you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.


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You will walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you will serve him, and cleave to him.


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And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, will be put to death; because he has spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust you out of the way which the LORD your God commanded you to walk in. So will you 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, which is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;


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Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh to 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 will not consent to him, nor hearken to him; neither will your eye pity him, neither will you spare, neither will you conceal him:


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But you will surely kill him; your hand will be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.


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And you will stone him with stones, that he die; because he has sought to thrust you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.


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If you will hear say in one of your cities, which the LORD your God has given you to dwell there, saying,


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Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known;


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Then will you enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done among you;


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You will surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.


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And you will gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and will burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD your God: and it will be an heap for ever; it will not be built again.


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And there will cleave nought of the cursed thing to your hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion upon you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;


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When you will hearken to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.


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You are the children of the LORD your God: you will not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.


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For you are an 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 upon the earth.


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The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.


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And every beast that parts the hoof, and cleaves the cleft into two claws, and chews the cud among the beasts, that you will eat.


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Nevertheless these you will not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean to you.


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And the swine, because it divides the hoof, yet chews not the cud, it is unclean to you: you will not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.


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You will not eat of anything that dies of itself: you will give it to the stranger that is in your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to an alien: for you are an holy people to the LORD your God. You will not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.


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And you will eat before the LORD your God, in the place which he will choose to place his name there, the tithe of your corn, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks; that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.


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And if the way be too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from you, which the LORD your God will choose to set his name there, when the LORD your God has blessed you:


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Then will you turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and will go to the place which the LORD your God will choose:


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And you will bestow that money for whatever your soul lusts after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul desires: and you will eat there before the LORD your God, and you will rejoice, you, and your household,


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And the Levite that is within your gates; you will not forsake him; for he has no part nor inheritance with you.


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At the end of three years you will bring forth all the tithe of your increase the same year, and will lay it up within 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, which are within your gates, will come, and will eat and be satisfied; 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 creditor that lends ought to his neighbour will release it; he will not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD's release.


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Of a foreigner you may exact it again: but that which is your with your brother your hand will release;


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Save when there will be no poor among you; for the LORD will 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 hearken to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command you this day.


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For the LORD your God blesses you, as he promised you: and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow; and you will reign over many nations, but they will not reign over you.


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If there be among you a poor man of one of your brethren within any of your gates in your land which the LORD your God gives you, you will not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother:


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But you will open your hand wide to him, and will surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wants.


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Beware that there be not a thought in your wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nought; and he cry to the LORD against you, and it be sin to you.


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You will surely give him, and your heart will not be grieved when you give to him: because that for this thing the LORD your God will bless you in all your works, and in all that you put your hand to.


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For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You will open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor, and to your needy, in your land.


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And if your brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold to you, and serve you six years; then in the seventh year you will let him go free from you.


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You will furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your floor, and out of your winepress: of that wherewith the LORD your God has blessed you you will give to him.


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And you will remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you: therefore I command you this thing to day.


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And it will be, if he say to you, I will not go away from you; because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;


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Then you will take an aul, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he will be your servant for ever. And also to your maidservant you will do likewise.


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It will not seem hard to you, when you send him away free from you; for he has been worth a double hired servant to you, in serving you six years: and the LORD your God will bless you in all that you do.


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All the firstling males that come of your herd and of your flock you will sanctify to the LORD your God: you will do no work with the firstling of your bullock, nor shear the firstling of your sheep.


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You will eat it before the LORD your God year by year in the place which the LORD will choose, you and your household.


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And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, you will not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.


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You will eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean person will eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.


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Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover to the LORD your God: for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.


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You will therefore sacrifice the passover to the LORD your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD will choose to place his name there.


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You will eat no leavened bread with it; seven days will you eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.


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And there will be no leavened bread seen with you in all your coast seven days; neither will there any thing of the flesh, which you sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.


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But at the place which the LORD your God will choose to place his name in, there you will sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out of Egypt.


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And you will roast and eat it in the place which the LORD your God will choose: and you will turn in the morning, and go to your tents.


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Six days you will eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day will be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God: you will do no work therein.


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Seven weeks will you number to you: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as you begin to put the sickle to the corn.


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And you will keep the feast of weeks to the LORD your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you will give to the LORD your God, according as the LORD your God has blessed you:


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And you will rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite that is within your gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD your God has chosen to place his name there.


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You will observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that you have gathered in your corn and your wine:


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And you will rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within your gates.


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Seven days will you keep a solemn feast to the LORD your God in the place which the LORD will choose: because the LORD your God will bless you in all your increase, and in all the works of your hands, therefore you will surely rejoice.


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Three times in a year will all your males appear before the LORD your God in the place which he will choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they will not appear before the LORD empty:


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Every man will give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given you.


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Judges and officers will you make you in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, throughout your tribes: and they will judge the people with just judgment.


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You will not wrest judgment; you will not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.


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That which is altogether just will you follow, that you may live, and inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you.


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You will not plant you a grove of any trees near to the altar of the LORD your God, which you will make you.


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You will not sacrifice to the LORD your God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.


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If there be found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, man or woman, that has done wickedness in the sight of the LORD your God, in transgressing his covenant,


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And has gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;


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And it be told you, and you have heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel:


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Then will you bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, to your gates, even that man or that woman, and will stone them with stones, till they die.


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At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, will he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he will not be put to death.


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The hands of the witnesses will be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you will put the evil away from among you.


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If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates: then will you arise, and get you up into the place which the LORD your God will choose;


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And you will come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge that will be in those days, and enquire; and they will show you the sentence of judgment:


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And you will do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD will choose will show you; and you will observe to do according to all that they inform you:


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According to the sentence of the law which they will teach you, and according to the judgment which they will tell you, you will do: you will not decline from the sentence which they will show you, to the right hand, nor to the left.


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And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken to the priest that stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or to the judge, even that man will die: and you will put away the evil from Israel.


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When you are come to the land which the LORD your God gives you, and will possess it, and will dwell therein, and will say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;


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You will in any wise set him king over you, whom the LORD your God will choose: one from among your brethren will you set king over you: you may not set a stranger over you, which is not your brother.


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But he will not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD has said to you, You will henceforth return no more that way.


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Neither will he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither will he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.


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And it will be, when he sits upon the throne of his kingdom, that he will write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:


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And it will be with him, and he will read therein all the days of his life: 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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That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.


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The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, will have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they will eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.


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Therefore will they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he has said to them.


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And this will be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they will give to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.


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The firstfruit also of your corn, of your wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, will you give him.


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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 for ever.


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And if a Levite come from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind to the place which the LORD will choose;


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Then he will minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD.


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When you are come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you will not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.


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There will not be found among you any one that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, 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 does drive them out from before you.


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For these nations, which you will possess, hearkened to observers of times, and to diviners: but as for you, the LORD your God has not suffered you so to do.


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The LORD your God will raise up to you a Prophet from the midst of you, of your brethren, like to me; to him you will hearken;


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According to all that you desiredst 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, that I die not.


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I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like to you, and will put my words in his mouth; and he will speak to them all that I will command him.


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And it will come to pass, that whoever will not hearken to my words which he will speak in my name, I will require it of him.


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But the prophet, which will presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that will speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet will die.


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When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken, but the prophet has spoken it presumptuously: you will 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 you succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses;


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You will separate three cities for you in the midst of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to possess it.


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You will prepare you a way, and divide the coasts of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.


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And this is the case of the slayer, which will flee thither, that he may live: Whoever kills his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;


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As when a man goes into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the helve, and lights upon his neighbour, that he die; he will flee to one of those cities, and live:


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Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.


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And if the LORD your God enlarge your coast, as he has sworn to your fathers, and give you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;


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If you will keep all these commandments to do them, which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then will you add three cities more for you, beside these three:


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That innocent blood be not shed in your land, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be upon you.


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But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and flees into one of these cities:


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Then the elders of his city will send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.


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Your eye will not pity him, but you will put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.


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You will not remove your neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in your inheritance, which you will inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess it.


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One witness will 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, will the matter be established.


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Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, will stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which will be in those days;


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And the judges will make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;


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Then will you do to him, as he had thought to have done to his brother: so will you put the evil away from among you.


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And those which remain will hear, and fear, and will henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.


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And your eye will not pity; but life will 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, and a people more than you, be not afraid of them: for the LORD your God is with you, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.


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And it will be, when you are come nigh to the battle, that the priest will approach and speak to the people,


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And will say to them, Hear, O Israel, you approach this day to battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be you terrified because of them;


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And the officers will speak to the people, saying, What man is there 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 what man is he that has planted a vineyard, and has not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.


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And what man is there that has betrothed 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 will speak further to the people, and they will say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return to his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.


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And it will be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people that they will make captains of the armies to lead the people.


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And it will be, if it make you answer of peace, and open to you, then it will be, that all the people that is found therein will be tributaries to you, and they will serve you.


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And when the LORD your God has delivered it into your hands, you will smite every male thereof 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, even all the spoil thereof, will you take to yourself; and you will eat the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.


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Thus will you 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 does give you for an inheritance, you will save alive nothing that breaths:


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But you will utterly destroy them; namely, 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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That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so should you sin against the LORD your God.


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When you will besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you will not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for you may eat of them, and you will not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:


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Only the trees which you know that they be not trees for meat, you will destroy and cut them down; and you will build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it be subdued.


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If one be found slain in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who has slain him:


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Then your elders and your judges will come forth, and they will measure to the cities which are round about him that is slain:


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And it will be, that the city which is next to the slain man, even the elders of that city will take an heifer, which has not been done with, and which has not drawn in the yoke;


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And the elders of that city will bring down the heifer to a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and will strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:


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And the priests the sons of Levi will come near; for them the LORD your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word will every controversy and every stroke be tried:


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And all the elders of that city, that are next to the slain man, will wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:


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Be merciful, O LORD, to your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and lay not innocent blood to your people of Israel's charge. And the blood will be forgiven them.


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So will you put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when you will do that which is 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 have her to your wife;


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And she will put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and will remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that you will go in to her, and be her husband, and she will be your wife.


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And it will be, if you have no delight in her, then you will let her go where she will; but you will not sell her at all for money, you will not make merchandise of her, because you have humbled her.


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If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:


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Then it will be, when he makes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:


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But he will acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he has: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.


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If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken to them:


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Then will his father and his mother 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 will say to the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.


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And all the men of his city will stone him with stones, that he die: so will you put evil away from among you; and all Israel will hear, and fear.


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And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and you hang him on a tree:


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His body will not remain all night upon the tree, but you will in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that your land be not defiled, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.


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You will not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you will in any case bring them again to your brother.


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And if your brother be not nigh to you, or if you know him not, then you will bring it to your own house, and it will be with you until your brother seek after it, and you will restore it to him again.


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In like manner will you do with his ass; and so will you do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of your brother's, which he has lost, and you have found, will you do likewise: you may not hide yourself.


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You will not see your brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide yourself from them: you will surely help him to lift them up again.


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The woman will not wear that which pertains to a man, neither will a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination to the LORD your God.


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If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, you will not take the dam with the young:


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But you will in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to you; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.


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When you build a new house, then you will make a battlement for your roof, that you bring not blood upon your house, if any man fall from thence.


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You will not sow your vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of your seed which you have sown, and the fruit of your vineyard, be defiled.


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And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:


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Then will the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate:


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And the damsel's father will 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 given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not your daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they will spread the cloth before the elders of the city.


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And they will amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the damsel, because he has brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she will be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.


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Then they will bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city will stone her with stones that she die: because she has done folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so will you put evil away from among you.


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If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they will both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so will you put away evil from Israel.


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If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed to an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;


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Then you will bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you will stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbour's wife: so you will put away evil from among you.


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But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her will die.


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But to the damsel you will do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbour, and slays him, even so is this matter:


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If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;


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Then the man that lay with her will give to the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she will be his wife; because he has humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.


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He that is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut off, will not enter into the congregation of the LORD.


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A bastard will not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation will he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.


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An Ammonite or Moabite will not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation will they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:


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Because they met you not 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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Nevertheless the LORD your God would not hearken to Balaam; but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because the LORD your God loved you.


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You will not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you will not abhor an Egyptian; because you were a stranger in his land.


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The children that are begotten of them will enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.


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If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chances him by night, then will he go abroad out of the camp, he will not come within the camp:


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But it will be, when evening comes on, he will wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he will come into the camp again.


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And you will have a paddle upon your weapon; and it will be, when you will ease yourself abroad, you will dig therewith, and will turn back and cover that which comes from you:


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For the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you; therefore will your camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.


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He will dwell with you, even among you, in that place which he will choose in one of your gates, where it like him best: you will not oppress him.


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You will not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD your God for any vow: for even both these are abomination to the LORD your God.


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You will not lend upon usury to your brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:


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To a stranger you may lend upon usury; but to your brother you will not lend upon usury: 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 will vow a vow to the LORD your God, you will not slack 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 is gone out of your lips you will keep and perform; even a freewill 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 neighbour's vineyard, then you may eat grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you will not put any in your vessel.


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When you come into the standing corn of your neighbour, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you will not move a sickle to your neighbour's standing corn.


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When a man has taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.


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And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and gives it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;


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Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and you will 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 will not go out to war, neither will he be charged with any business: but he will be free at home one year, and will cheer up his wife which he has taken.


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If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and makes merchandise of him, or sells him; then that thief will die; and you will put evil away from among you.


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Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites will teach you: as I commanded them, so you will observe to do.


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Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam by the way, after that you were come forth out of Egypt.


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In any case you will deliver him the pledge again when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless you: and it will be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.


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You will not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of your brethren, or of your strangers that are in your land within your gates:


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At his day you will give him his hire, neither will the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and set his heart upon it: lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you.


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The fathers will not be put to death for the children, neither will the children be put to death for the fathers: every man will be put to death for his own sin.


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You will not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:


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But you will remember that you were a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you thence: therefore I command you to do this thing.


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When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you will not go again to fetch it: it will be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.


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When you beat your olive tree, you will not go over the boughs again: it will be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.


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When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you will not glean it afterward: it will be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.


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And you will remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.


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If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they will justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.


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And it will be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge will cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.


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Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you.


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If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead will not marry without to a stranger: her husband's brother will go in to her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother to her.


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And it will be, that the firstborn which she bears will succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.


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And if the man like not 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 to his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.


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Then the elders of his city will call him, and speak to him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;


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Then will his brother's wife come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and will answer and say, So will it be done to that man that will not build up his brother's house.


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When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smites him, and puts forth her hand, and took him by the secrets:


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But you will have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure will you have: that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God gives you.


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For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.


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How he met you by the way, and smote the hindmost of you, even all that were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he feared not God.


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Therefore it will be, when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies round about, in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; you will not forget it.


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And it will be, when you are come in to the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell therein;


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That you will take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which you will bring of your land that the LORD your God gives you, and will put it in a basket, and will go to the place which the LORD your God will choose to place his name there.


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And you will go to the priest that will be in those days, and say to him, I profess this day to the LORD your God, that I am come to the country which the LORD sware to our fathers for to give us.


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And the priest will 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 will speak and say before the LORD your God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:


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And when we cried to the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, 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 great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:


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And he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, even 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 will set it before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God:


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And you will rejoice in every good thing which the LORD your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.


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When you have made an end of tithing all the tithes of your increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled;


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Then you will say before the LORD your God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine 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 transgressed your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.


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I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened 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 habitation, 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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This day the LORD your God has commanded you to do these statutes and judgments: you will therefore keep and do them with all your heart, and with all your soul.


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You have avouched the LORD this day to be your God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken to his voice:


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And the LORD has avouched you this day to be his peculiar people, as he has promised you, and that you should 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 honour; and that you may be an holy people to the LORD your God, 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 this day.


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And it will be on the day when you will pass over Jordan to the land which the LORD your God gives you, that you will set you up great stones, and plaister them with plaister:


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And you will write upon them all the words of this law, when you are passed over, 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 will be when you be gone over Jordan, that you will set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and you will plaister them with plaister.


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And there will you build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones: you will not lift up any iron tool upon them.


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You will build the altar of the LORD your God of whole stones: and you will offer burnt offerings thereon to the LORD your God:


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And Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day you are become the people of the LORD your God.


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You will therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you this day.


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These will stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:


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And these will stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.


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Cursed be 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 will answer and say, Amen.


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Cursed be he that perverts the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people will say, Amen.


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Cursed be he that lies with his father's wife; because he uncovers his father's skirt. And all the people will say, Amen.


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Cursed be he that lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people will say, Amen.


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Cursed be he that confirms not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people will say, Amen.


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And it will come to pass, if you will hearken diligently to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that the LORD your God will set you on high above all nations of the earth:


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And all these blessings will come on you, and overtake you, if you will hearken to the voice of the LORD your God.


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Blessed will be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your kine, and the flocks of your sheep.


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The LORD will cause your enemies that rise up against you to be smitten before your face: they will come out against you one way, and flee before you seven ways.


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The LORD will command the blessing upon you in your storehouses, and in all that you set your hand to; and he will bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.


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The LORD will establish you an holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you will keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and walk in his ways.


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And all people of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD; and they will be afraid of you.


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And the LORD will make you plenteous 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 sware to your fathers to give you.


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The LORD will open to you his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain to your land in his season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.


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And the LORD will make you the head, and not the tail; and you will be above only, and you will not be beneath; if that you hearken to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day, to observe and to do them:


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And you will not go aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.


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But it will come to pass, if you will not hearken to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day; that all these curses will come upon you, and overtake you:


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Cursed will be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your land, the increase of your kine, and the flocks of your sheep.


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The LORD will send upon you cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that you set your hand to for to do, until you be destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the wickedness of your doings, whereby you have forsaken me.


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The LORD will make the pestilence cleave to you, until he have consumed you from off the land, where you go to possess it.


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The LORD will smite you with a consumption, 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 will pursue you until you perish.


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The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from heaven will it come down upon you, until you be destroyed.


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The LORD will cause you to be smitten before your enemies: you will go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and will be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.


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And your carcase will be meat to all fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the earth, and no man will fray them away.


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The LORD will smite you with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof you can not be healed.


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And you will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways: and you will be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man will save you.


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You will betroth a wife, and another man will lie with her: you will build an house, and you will not dwell therein: you will plant a vineyard, and will not gather the grapes thereof.


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Your ox will be slain before your eyes, and you will not eat thereof: your ass will be violently taken away from before your face, and will not be restored to you: your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have none to rescue them.


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Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will look, and fail with longing for them all the day long; and there will be no might in your hand.


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The fruit of your land, and all your labours, will a nation which you know not eat up; and you will be only oppressed and crushed alway:


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The LORD will smite you in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.


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The LORD will bring you, and your king which you will set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known; and there will you serve other gods, wood and stone.


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And you will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations where the LORD will lead you.


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You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather but little in; for the locust will consume it.


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You will plant vineyards, and dress them, but will neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms will eat them.


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You will have olive trees throughout all your coasts, but you will not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive will cast his fruit.


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Moreover all these curses will come upon you, and will pursue you, and overtake you, till you be destroyed; because you hearkenedst not 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 servedst not the LORD your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;


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Therefore will you serve your enemies which the LORD will send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he will put a yoke of iron upon your neck, until he have destroyed you.


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The LORD will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies; a nation whose tongue you will not understand;


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A nation of fierce countenance, which will not regard the person of the old, nor show favour to the young:


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And he will eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land, until you be destroyed: which also will not leave you either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of your kine, or flocks of your sheep, until he have destroyed you.


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And he will besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fenced walls come down, wherein you trustedst, throughout all your land: and he will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you.


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And you will 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 straitness, wherewith your enemies will distress you:


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So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he will leave:


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So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat: because he has nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith your enemies will distress you in all your gates.


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The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will 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 that comes out from between her feet, and toward her children which she will bear: for she will eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith your enemy will 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, THE LORD THY GOD;


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Then the LORD will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.


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Moreover he will bring upon you all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they will cleave to you.


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Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon you, until you be destroyed.


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And you will be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.


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And it will come to pass, that 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 nought; and you will be plucked from off the land where you go to possess it.


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


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And among these nations will you find no ease, neither will the sole of your foot have rest: but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:


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And your life will hang in doubt before you; and you will fear day and night, and will have none assurance of your life:


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In the morning you will say, Would God it were even! and at even you will say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of your heart wherewith you will fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you will see.


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And the LORD will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spoke to you, You will see it no more again: and there you will be sold to your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man will buy you.


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These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside 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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Yet the LORD has not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.


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And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and your shoe is not waxen old upon your foot.


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You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink: 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 smote 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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You stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,


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Your little ones, your wives, and your stranger that is in your camp, from the hewer of your wood to the drawer of your water:


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That you should enter into covenant with the LORD your God, and into his oath, which the LORD your God makes with you this day:


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That he may establish you to day for a people to himself, and that he may be to you a God, 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 that stands here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:


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(For you know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which you passed by;


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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 this day from the LORD our God, to go and 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 come to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I will have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:


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The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book will lie upon him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.


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And the LORD will separate him 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 children that will rise up after you, and the stranger that will come from a far land, will say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD has laid upon it;


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And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, 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 will say, Therefore has the LORD done thus to this land? what means the heat of this great anger?


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Then men will 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 worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given to them:


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And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon 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 in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.


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The secret things belong to the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.


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And it will come to pass, when all these things are come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you will call them to mind among all the nations, where the LORD your God has driven you,


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And will return to the LORD your God, and will obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;


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That then the LORD your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion upon you, and will return and gather you from all the nations, where the LORD your God has scattered you.


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If any of your be driven out to the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD your God gather you, and from thence will he fetch you:


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And the LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you will 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, that you may live.


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And the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your enemies, and on them that hate you, which persecuted you.


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And you will return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command you this day.


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And the LORD your God will make you plenteous 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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If you will hearken 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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For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not hidden from you, neither is it far off.


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


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


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In that I command you this day to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that you may live and multiply: and the LORD your God will bless you in the land where you go to possess it.


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But if your heart turn away, so that you will not hear, but will be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;


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I denounce to you this day, that you will surely perish, and that you will not prolong your days upon the land, where you pass over Jordan to go to possess it.


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I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your seed may live:


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That you may love the LORD your God, and that you may obey his voice, and that you may cleave to him: for he is your life, and the length of your days: that you may dwell in the land which the LORD sware to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.


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And he said to them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD has said to me, You will not go over this Jordan.


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The LORD your God, he will go over before you, and he will destroy these nations from before you, and you will possess them: and Joshua, he will go over before you, as the LORD has said.


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And the LORD will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and to the land of them, whom he destroyed.


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And the LORD will give them up before your face, 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, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD your God, he it is that does go 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 them; and you will cause them to inherit it.


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And the LORD, he it is that does go before you; he will be with you, he will not fail you, neither forsake you: fear not, neither be dismayed.


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And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, which bare 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 every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,


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When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD your God in the place which he will choose, you will read this law before all Israel in their hearing.


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Gather the people together, men and women, and children, and your stranger that is within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:


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And that their children, which have not known any thing, 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 approach that you must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and 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 will sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.


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Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they will be devoured, and many evils and troubles will befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon 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 will have done, in that they are turned to other gods.


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Now therefore write you this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.


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For when I will have brought them into the land which I sware to their fathers, that flows with milk and honey; and they will have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.


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And it will come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song will testify against them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.


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And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for you will bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware to them: and I will be with you.


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And it came to pass, 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, 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 yet alive with you this day, 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, 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 utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter 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 they were ended.


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My doctrine will drop as the rain, my speech will distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:


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He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.


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They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.


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Do you thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he your father that has 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 children of Israel.


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He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.


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As an eagle stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, spreads abroad her wings, took them, bears them on her wings:


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He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;


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Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and you did drink the pure blood of the grape.


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But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: you are waxen fat, you are grown thick, you are covered with fatness; then he forsook God which 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 gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.


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And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.


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And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end will be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.


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They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.


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For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and will burn to the lowest hell, and will consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.


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They will be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.


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The sword without, and terror within, will destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.


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I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:


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Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD has not done all this.


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How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except 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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To me belongs vengeance and recompence; their foot will slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that will come upon them make haste.


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For the LORD will judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.


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Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.


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See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.


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If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.


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I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.


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Rejoice, O you nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful to his land, and 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 Hoshea 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 this day, which you will command your children to observe 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 through this thing you will prolong your days in the land, where you go over Jordan to possess it.


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Get you up into this mountain Abarim, to mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession:


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And die in the mount 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 trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.


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Yet you will see the land before you; but you will not go thither to the land which I give the children of Israel.


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And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children 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 shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.


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Yes, he loved the people; all his saints are in your hand: and they sat down at your feet; every one will receive of your words.


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


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And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him to his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be you an 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 did prove at Massah, and with whom you did strive at the waters of Meribah;


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Who said to his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed your word, and kept your covenant.


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They will teach Jacob your judgments, and Israel your law: they will put incense before you, and whole burnt sacrifice upon your altar.


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Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands; smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again.


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And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD will dwell in safety by him; and the Lord will cover him all the day long, and he will dwell between his shoulders.


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And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that couches beneath,


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And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon,


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And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,


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And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.


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His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he will 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 will call the people to the mountain; there they will offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they will suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.


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And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlarges Gad: he dwells as a lion, and tears the arm with the crown of the head.


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And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; 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 favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess you the west and the south.


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And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.


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There is none like to the God of Jeshurun, who rides upon the heaven in your help, and in his excellency on the sky.


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The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he will thrust out the enemy from before you; and will say, Destroy them.


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Israel then will dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob will be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens will drop down dew.


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Happy are you, O Israel: who is like to you, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of your help, and who is the sword of your excellency! and your enemies will be found liars to you; and you will tread upon 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 over against 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 utmost sea,


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And the LORD said to him, This is the land which I sware 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 will not go over thither.


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And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knows of his sepulchre to this day.


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And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.


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And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so 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 upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened 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 sight of all Israel.


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Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,


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Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you, and all this people, to the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.


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Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon, that have I given 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, will be your coast.


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There will not any man 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 a good courage: for to this people will you divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware to their fathers to give them.


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Only be you strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded you: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper withersoever you go.


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This book of the law will not depart out of your mouth; but you will meditate therein day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.


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Have not I commanded you? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be you dismayed: for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.


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Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days you will pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God gives 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, will remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but you will pass before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and help them;


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Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as he has given you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God gives them: then you will return to the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD's servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising.


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And they answered Joshua, saying, All that you command us we will do, and wherever you send us, we will go.


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According as we hearkened to Moses in all things, so will we hearken to you: only the LORD your God be with you, as he was with Moses.


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Whoever he be that does rebel against your commandment, and will not hearken to your words in all that you command him, he will 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 view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.


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And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in here to night of the children of Israel to search out the country.


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And the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that are come to you, which are entered into your house: for they be come to search out all the country.


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And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men to me, but I wist not where they were:


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And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: where the men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for you will overtake them.


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But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.


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And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan to the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were 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 is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of 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 as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage 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 showed you kindness, that you will also show kindness to my father's house, and give me a true token:


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And that you will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, 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 for yours, if you utter not this our business. And it will be, when the LORD has given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.


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Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.


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And she said to them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may you go your way.


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Behold, when we come into the land, you will bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which you did let us down by: and you will bring your father, and your mother, and your brethren, and all your father's household, home to you.


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And it will be, that whoever will go out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be upon his head, and we will be guiltless: and whoever will be with you in the house, his blood will be on our head, if any hand be upon him.


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And if you utter this our business, then we will be quit of your oath which you have made us to swear.


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And she said, According to your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.


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And they went, and came to the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but found them not.


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So the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all things that befell them:


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And they said to Joshua, Truly the LORD has delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us.


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And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children 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 will remove from your place, and go after it.


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Yet there will be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near to it, that you may know the way by which you must go: for you have not passed this way heretofore.


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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, This day will I begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.


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And you will command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When you are come to the brink of the water of Jordan, you will stand still in Jordan.


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And Joshua said, Hereby you will know that the living God is among you, and that 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 will come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the LORD of all the earth, will rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan will be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they will stand upon an heap.


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And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people;


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And as they that bare the ark were come to Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overflows all his banks all the time of harvest,)


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That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.


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And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.


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And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,


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And command you them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and you will carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where you will lodge this night.


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Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:


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And Joshua said to them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of Jordan, and take you up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel:


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That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean you by these stones?


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Then you will answer them, That 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 will be for a memorial to the children of Israel for ever.


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And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the LORD spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.


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And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there to this day.


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For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until everything was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over.


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And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the people.


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And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke to them:


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About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD to battle, to the plains of Jericho.


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On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.


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And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up to the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned to their place, and flowed over all his banks, as they did before.


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And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.


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And he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your children will ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?


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For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until you were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:


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That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty: that you might fear the LORD your God for ever.


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And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.


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At that time the LORD said to Joshua, Make you sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.


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And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.


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And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.


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Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.


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For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: to whom the LORD sware that he would not show them the land, which the LORD sware to their fathers that he would give us, a land that flows with milk and honey.


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And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.


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And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole.


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And the LORD said to Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Therefore the name of the place is called Gilgal to this day.


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And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.


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And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.


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And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.


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And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went to him, and said to him, Are you for us, or for our adversaries?


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And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said to him, What says my Lord to his servant?


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And the captain of the LORD's host said to Joshua, Loose your shoe from off your foot; for the place whereon you stand is holy. And Joshua did so.


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Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.


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And the LORD said to Joshua, See, I have given into your hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour.


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And you will compass the city, all you men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus will you do six days.


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And seven priests will bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day you will compass the city seven times, and the priests will blow with the trumpets.


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And it will come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people will shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city will fall down flat, and the people will ascend up every 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 bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD.


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And he said to the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.


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And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken to the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed on before the LORD, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them.


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And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets, and the rereward came after the ark, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.


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And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, You will not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither will any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then will you shout.


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So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.


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And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of the LORD, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.


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And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.


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And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, Shout; for the LORD has given you the city.


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And the city will be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot will live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.


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And you, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest you make yourselves accursed, when you take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.


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But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated to the LORD: they will come into the treasury of the LORD.


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So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.


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And they utterly destroyed all that was 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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But Joshua had said to the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she has, as you sware to her.


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And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel.


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And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of 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 dwells in Israel even to this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.


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And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that rises up and builds this city Jericho: he will lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son will he set up the gates of it.


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But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.


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And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed 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 smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are but few.


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So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.


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And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: therefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.


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And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.


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And Joshua said, Alas, O LORD God, therefore have you at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!


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For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what will you do to your great name?


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Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.


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Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except you destroy the accursed from among you.


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Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow: for thus says the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of you, O Israel: you can not stand before your enemies, until you take away the accursed thing from among you.


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In the morning therefore you will be brought according to your tribes: and it will be, that the tribe which the LORD took will come according to the families thereof; and the family which the LORD will take will come by households; and the household which the LORD will take will come man by man.


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And it will be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing will be burnt with fire, he and all that he has: because he has transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he has done folly in Israel.


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So 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 family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites 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, give, I pray you, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession to him; and tell me now what you have done; hide it not from me.


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And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:


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When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.


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So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.


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And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them to Joshua, and to all the children of Israel, and 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 will 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. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, to this day.


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And the LORD said to Joshua, Fear not, neither be you 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 will do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, will you take for a prey to yourselves: lay you an ambush for the city behind it.


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So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night.


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And he commanded them, saying, Behold, you will lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be you all ready:


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And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach to the city: and it will come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,


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(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.


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Then you will rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.


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And it will be, when you have taken the city, that you will set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD will you do. See, I have commanded you.


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Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.


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And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.


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And all the people, even the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley 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, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.


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And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.


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And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.


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And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.


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And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.


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And the LORD said to Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in your hand toward Ai; for I will give it into your hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city.


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And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.


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And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon 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 ascended, then they turned again, and killed the men of Ai.


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And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.


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And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned to Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.


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And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.


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For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.


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Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey to themselves, according to the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.


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And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remains to this day.


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As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man has lift up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings to the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.


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And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.


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And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born 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 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 read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.


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And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;


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They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;


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And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.


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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 be come from a far country: now therefore make you a league with us.


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And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, Peradventure you dwell among us; and how will we make a league 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 come you?


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And they said to him, From a very far country your servants are come because of the name of the LORD your God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,


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And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, which was at Ashtaroth.


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Therefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take victuals with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say to them, We are your servants: therefore now make you a league with us.


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This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy:


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And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.


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And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware to them.


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And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them.


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And the children of Israel journeyed, and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim.


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And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes.


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But all the princes said to all 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 upon us, because of the oath which we sware to them.


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And the princes said to them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water to all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.


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And Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, Therefore have you beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you; when you dwell among us?


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Now therefore you are cursed, and there will none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood 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 that the LORD your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.


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And so did he to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they killed them not.


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And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood 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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Now it came to pass, when Adonizedec king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;


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That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty.


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Therefore Adonizedec 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, that we may smite Gibeon: for it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.


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Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped 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, Slack not your hand from your servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.


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So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour.


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And the LORD said to Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into your hand; there will not a man of them stand before you.


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And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goes up to Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah, and to Makkedah.


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And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them to Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel killed with the sword.


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Then spoke Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand you still upon Gibeon; and you, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.


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And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not 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 hearkened to the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel.


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And stay you not, but pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the LORD your God has delivered them into your hand.


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And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into fenced cities.


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And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.


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And they did so, and brought forth those five kings to him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.


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And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings to Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them.


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And Joshua said to them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage: for thus will the LORD do to all your enemies against whom you fight.


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And afterward Joshua smote them, and killed them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.


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And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, 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 smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them, and all the souls that were therein; 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 the king thereof, into the hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain in it; but did to the king thereof 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 encamped against it, and fought against it:


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And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein, 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 smote 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 encamped against it, and fought against it:


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And they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.


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And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but destroyed it utterly, and all the souls that were therein.


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And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah, and to her king.


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So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded.


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And Joshua smote them from Kadeshbarnea even to Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even to Gibeon.


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And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.


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And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard those things, that 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 that were on the north of the mountains, and of 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 to 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 hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many.


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And when all these kings were 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, Be not afraid because of them: for tomorrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: you will hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.


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So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon them.


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And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased them to great Zidon, and to Misrephothmaim, and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining.


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And Joshua did to them as the LORD bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.


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And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and smote the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the head of all those kingdoms.


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And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.


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And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded.


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But as for the cities that stood still in their strength, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn.


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And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey to themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.


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As the LORD commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua, and so did Joshua; 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 mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same;


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Even from the mount Halak, that goes up to Seir, even to Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and killed them.


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There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all other they took in battle.


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For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims 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 utterly with their cities.


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There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.


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So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said to 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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Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land 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 dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children 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, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Bethjeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdothpisgah:


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And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt 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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Them did Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of Israel smite: 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 country which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baalgad 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 and stricken in years; and the LORD said to him, You are old and stricken in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.


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From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even to the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:


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From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside 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 sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon to the entering into Hamath.


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All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide you it by lot to the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.


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Now 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, even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them;


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From Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is 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, which reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the children 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, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.


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Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.


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Only to the tribes of Levi he gave none inheritance; 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, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is 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, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, which were dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country.


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Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.


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And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the border thereof. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben after their families, the cities and the villages thereof.


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And Moses gave inheritance to the tribe of Gad, even to the children of Gad according to their families.


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And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer that is before Rabbah;


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And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and his border, even to the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward.


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This is the inheritance of the children of Gad after their families, the cities, and their villages.


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And Moses gave inheritance to the half tribe of Manasseh: and this was the possession of the half tribe of the children of Manasseh by their families.


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And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities:


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And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining to the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their families.


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These are the countries which Moses did distribute for inheritance 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 not any inheritance: the LORD God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said to them.


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And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them.


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By lot was their inheritance, 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 an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but to the Levites he gave none inheritance among them.


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For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part to the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.


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Then the children of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said to him, You know the thing that the LORD said to Moses the man of God concerning me and you in Kadeshbarnea.


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Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.


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Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.


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And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon your feet have trodden will be your inheritance, and your children's for ever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.


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And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.


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As yet I am as strong this day 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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Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me, then I will be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.


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Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite to this day, because that he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel.


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And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.


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This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast.


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And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side to Kadeshbarnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa:


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From thence it passed toward Azmon, and went out to the river of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea: this will be your south coast.


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And the east border was the salt sea, even 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 Bethhogla, and passed along by the north of Betharabah; 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, that is before the going up to Adummim, which is on the south side of the river: and the border passed toward the waters of Enshemesh, and the goings out thereof were at Enrogel:


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And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is 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, which is Kirjathjearim:


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And the border compassed from Baalah westward to mount Seir, and passed along to the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Bethshemesh, and passed on to Timnah:


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And the border went out to the side of Ekron northward: and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out to Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.


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And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families.


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And to Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron.


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And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.


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And Caleb said, He that smites Kirjathsepher, and took it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.


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And Othniel the son of Kena, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.


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And it came to pass, as she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted off her ass; and Caleb said to her, What would you?


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Who 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 nether springs.


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And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children 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 and nine, with their villages:


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Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, to the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border thereof:


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As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.


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And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, to the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goes up from Jericho throughout mount Bethel,


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And goes down westward to the coast of Japhleti, to the coast of Bethhoron the nether, and to Gezer; and the goings out thereof are at the sea.


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And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Atarothaddar, to Bethhoron 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 Taanathshiloh, 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 to Jericho, and went out at Jordan.


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The border went out from Tappuah westward to the river Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families.


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And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.


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And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, and serve under tribute.


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There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph; to wit, for Machir the firstborn 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 children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children 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 are 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 princes, saying, The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.


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And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, beside 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 coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah, that lies before Shechem; and the border went along on the right hand to the inhabitants of Entappuah.


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Now Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim;


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And the coast descended to the river Kanah, southward of the river: these cities of Ephraim are among the cities of Manasseh: the coast of Manasseh also was on the north side of the river, and the outgoings of it were at the sea:


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Southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's, and the sea is his 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 Bethshean and her towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and her towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns, even three countries.


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Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.


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Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, but did not utterly drive them out.


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And the children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, Why have you given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as the LORD has blessed me hitherto?


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And Joshua answered them, If you be a great people, then get you up to the wood country, and cut down for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for you.


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And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Bethshean and her towns, and they 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 will not have one lot only:


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But the mountain will be your; for it is a wood, and you will cut it down: and the outgoings of it will be your: for you will drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong.


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And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together 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 children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.


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And Joshua said to the children of Israel, How long are you slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers has given you?


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Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they will rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they will come again to me.


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And they will divide it into seven parts: Judah will abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph will abide in their coasts on the north.


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You will therefore describe the land into seven parts, and bring the description here to me, that I may cast lots for you here 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 them that went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, 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 described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.


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And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions.


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And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth between the children of Judah and the children 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 the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Bethaven.


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And the border went over from thence toward Lu, to the side of Lu, which is Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Atarothadar, near the hill that lies on the south side of the nether Bethhoron.


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And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lies before Bethhoron southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.


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And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjathjearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah:


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And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to Enrogel,


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And was drawn from the north, and went forth to Enshemesh, and went forth toward Geliloth, which is over against the going up of Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,


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And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the south coast.


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And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families.


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Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Bethhoglah, and the valley of Kezi,


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And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.


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And the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah.


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And all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalathbeer, Ramath of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.


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Out of the portion of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them.


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And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families: and the border of their inheritance was 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 sunrising to the border of Chislothtabor, and then goes out to Daberath, and goes up to Japhia,


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And from thence passes on along on the east to Gittahhepher, to Ittahkazin, and goes out to Remmonmethoar to Neah;


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And the border compasses it on the north side to Hannathon: and the outgoings thereof are 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 children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.


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And the coast reaches to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Bethshemesh; and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.


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This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages.


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And turns toward the sunrising to Bethdagon, and reaches to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthahel toward the north side of Bethemek, and Neiel, and goes out to Cabul on the left hand,


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And then the coast turns to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the coast turns to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:


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This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.


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The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their families.


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And their coast was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim, and Adami, Nekeb, and Jabneel, to Lakum; and the outgoings thereof were at Jordan:


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And then the coast turns westward to Aznothtabor, and goes out from thence to Hukkok, and reaches to Zebulun on the south side, and reaches to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising.


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This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages.


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And the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.


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This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.


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When they had made an end of dividing the land for inheritance by their coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them:


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According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein.


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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 children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end of dividing the country.


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Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spoke to you by the hand of Moses:


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That the slayer that kills any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.


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And when he that does flee to one of those cities will stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and will declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they will take him into the city to them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.


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And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they will not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.


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And he will dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that will be in those days: then will the slayer return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city from where he fled.


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And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.


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And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.


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These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourns among them, that whoever kills any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.


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Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel;


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And they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.


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And the children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, at the commandment of the LORD, these cities and their suburbs.


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And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the priest, which were 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 children 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 children 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 children 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 children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.


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And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are here mentioned by name.


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Which the children of Aaron, being of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the first lot.


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And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.


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But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.


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Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah with her suburbs,


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And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.


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And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites which remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.


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For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs,


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And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her suburbs, and Gathrimmon with her suburbs; two cities.


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All the cities were ten with their suburbs for the families of the children of Kohath that remained.


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And to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the other half tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Beeshterah with her suburbs; two cities.


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And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Hammothdor with her suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs; three cities.


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All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.


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And to the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her suburbs, and Kartah with her suburbs,


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And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with her suburbs,


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So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, which were remaining 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 children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs.


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And the LORD gave to Israel all the land which he sware to give to their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.


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And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to all that he sware to their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand.


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There failed not ought of 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 kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you:


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You have not left your brethren these many days to this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.


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And now the LORD your God has given rest to your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return you, and get you to your tents, and to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side Jordan.


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But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged 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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Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given possession in Bashan: but to the other half thereof gave Joshua among their brethren on this side Jordan westward. And when Joshua sent them away also to their tents, then he blessed them,


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And he spoke to them, saying, Return with much riches to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.


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And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof 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, that are in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to see to.


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And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel.


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And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up to war against them.


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And the children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,


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And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one was an head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel.


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And they came to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying,


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Thus says the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that you have builded you an altar, that you might rebel this day against the LORD?


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Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,


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But that you must turn away this day from following the LORD? and it will be, seeing you rebel to day against the LORD, that tomorrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel.


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Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass you over to the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the LORD's tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us: but rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the LORD our God.


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Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.


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Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh answered, and said to the heads of the thousands of Israel,


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The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knows, and Israel he will know; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day,)


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That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the LORD himself require it;


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And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, What have you to do with the LORD God of Israel?


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For the LORD has made Jordan a border between us and you, you children of Reuben and children of Gad; you have no part in the LORD: so will your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD.


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Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:


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But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the LORD.


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Therefore said we, that it will be, when they should so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say again, Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between us and you.


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God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the LORD our God that is before his tabernacle.


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And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them.


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And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD is among us, because you have not committed this trespass against the LORD: now you have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.


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And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.


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And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.


