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And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after he hath taken away the stones, and after the house hath been scraped, and after it hath been plastered:


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Then shall the priest come; and if he see that, behold, the plague have spread in the house, it is a corrosive leprosy in the house; it is unclean.


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And he shall break down the house, its stones, and the timbers thereof, and all the mortar of the house; and he shall carry them forth to without the city, unto an unclean place.


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And he that goeth into the house, all the days that it is locked up, shall be unclean until the evening.


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And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.


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But if the priest should come in, and see, and, behold, the plague have not spread in the house, after the house was plastered: then shall the priest pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.


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And he shall take, to atone for the house, two birds, and cedar wood, and a string of scarlet yarn, and hyssop;


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And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet yarn, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle on the house seven times:


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And he shall atone for the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the string of scarlet yarn;


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But he shall let fly forth the living bird out of the city into the open field, and make <i>thus</i> an atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.


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To teach on the day when something is unclean, and on the day when it is clean: this is the law of the leprosy.


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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man have a running issue out of his flesh: because of his issue is he unclean.


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And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness.


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Every bed, whereon he may lie that hath the issue, shall be unclean: and every vessel, whereon he may sit, shall be unclean.


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And any man that toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And he that sitteth on any vessel whereon he that hath the issue may sit, shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean: then shall this one wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And whatsoever toucheth any thing, that may be under him, shall be unclean until the evening: and he that beareth any of these things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And whomsoever he that hath the issue may touch, and he have not rinsed his hands in water, shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And an earthen vessel that he who hath the issue may touch, shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.


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And when he that hath an issue becometh clean of his issue: then shall he number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and then shall he be clean.


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And on the eighth day shall he take unto himself two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before the Lord, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them unto the priest:


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And the priest shall offer them, the one for a sinoffering, and the other for a burntoffering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord for his issue.


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And if any mans seed of copulation go out from him, then shall he bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And any garment, and any skin, whereon the seed of copulation may be, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And if a man should lie with a woman with seed of copulation, then shall they bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And if a woman have an issue, so that blood flow from her flesh: then shall she be in her state of separation seven days; and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the evening.


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And every thing that she may lie upon in her separation shall be unclean: and whatever she may sit upon shall be unclean.


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And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And whosoever toucheth any vessel, that she may sit upon, shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And if something be on the bed, or on any thing whereon she may sit, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the evening.


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And if any man should lie with her, and the uncleanness of her separation come upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed whereon he may lie shall be unclean.


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And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation: all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall she be as in the days of her separation; she shall be unclean.


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Every bed whereon she may lie all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation; and whatever vessel she may sit upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation.


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And whosoever toucheth these things shall be unclean; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.


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And when she becometh clean of her issue, then shall she number to herself seven days, and after that shall she be clean.


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And on the eighth day shall she take unto herself two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And the priest shall offer the one for a sinoffering, and the other for a burntoffering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the Lord for the issue of her uncleanness.


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And ye shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they may not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in their midst.


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This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;


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And of her that is suffering in her separation, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.


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And the Lord spoke unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they had come near before the Lord, and died:


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And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail, before the mercyseat, which is upon the ark, that he die not; for in the cloud will I appear upon the mercyseat.


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With this shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sinoffering, and a ram for a burntoffering.


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A holy linen coat shall be put on, and linen breeches shall he have upon his flesh, and with a linen girdle shall he gird himself, and a linen mitre shall he bind on his head; these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and then put them on.


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And from the congregation of the children of Israel shall he take two goats for a sinoffering, and one ram for a burntoffering.


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And Aaron shall bring near the bullock of the sinoffering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house.


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And he shall take the two goats, and place them before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And Aaron shall put lots upon the two goats; one lot "for the Lord," and the other lot "for Azazel."


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And Aaron shall bring near the goat upon which fell the lot "for the Lord," and offer him for a sinoffering.


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But the goat on which fell the lot "for Azazel," shall be placed alive before the Lord, to make an atonement with him, by sending him away to Azazel into the wilderness.


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And Aaron shall bring near the bullock of the sinoffering, which is for himself, and he shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house; and he shall kill the bullock of the sinoffering which is for himself.


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And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the Lord, and both his hands full of incense of spices, pounded fine, and bring it within the vail;


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And he shall put the incense upon the fire, before the Lord; that the cloud of the incense may envelop the mercyseat that is upon the testimony, that he die not.


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And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger above toward the mercyseat, eastward; and before the mercyseat shall he sprinkle seven times of the blood with his finger.


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And he shall kill the goat of the sinoffering, that is for the people, and bring his blood to within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it above the mercyseat, and before the mercyseat.


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And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that abideth among them in the midst of their uncleanness.


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And there shall not be any man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out: and so shall he make an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for the whole congregation of Israel.


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And he shall then go out unto the altar that is before the Lord, and make an atonement upon it; and he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about.


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And he shall sprinkle upon it of the blood with his finger seven times; and he shall cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.


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And when he hath made an end of atoning for the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: then shall he bring near the live goat.


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And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and he shall send him away by the hand of a man appointed thereto into the wilderness:


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And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited; and so shall he send away the goat into the wilderness.


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And Aaron shall then go into the tabernacle of the congregation, and he shall take off the linen garments, which he had put on when he went into the holy place, and he shall leave them there:


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And he shall bathe his flesh with water in a holy place, and put on his garments; and come then forth, and offer his burntoffering, and the burntoffering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people.


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And he that carrieth the goat to Azazel shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.


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And the bullock for the sinoffering, and the goat for the sinoffering, the blood of which was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.


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And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.


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And it shall be unto you a statute for ever: in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month, ye shall afflict yourselves <i>by fasting</i>, and no work shall ye do, whether it be one of your own country, or the stranger that sojourneth among you;


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For on that day shall <i>the highpriest</i> make an atonement for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins before the Lord shall ye be clean.


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It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict yourselves <i>by fasting</i>, as a statute for ever.


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And the priest, who shall be anointed, and who shall be consecrated to minister as priest in his fathers stead, shall make the atonement; and he shall put on the linen clothes, the holy garments.


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And he shall make an atonement for the holy of holies; and for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar shall he make an atonement; and also for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation shall he make an atonement.


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And this shall be unto you as a statute for everlasting, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year: and he did as the Lord had commanded Moses.


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Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, saying,


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Any man whatsoever of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or a sheep, or a goat, in the camp, or that killeth it out of the camp,


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And bringeth it not to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer it as an offering unto the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord: as bloodguiltiness shall it be imputed unto that man, blood hath he shed; and that man shall be cut off from among his people.


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In order that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they slay in the open field, and bring them unto the Lord, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest, and slay them as sacrifices of peaceofferings unto the Lord.


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And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation; and he shall burn the fat for a sweet savor unto the Lord.


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So that they shall offer no more their sacrifices unto evil spirits, after which they have gone astray: a statute for ever shall this be unto them throughout their generations.


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And unto them shalt thou say, Whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who may sojourn among them, that offereth a burntoffering or a sacrifice,


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And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer it unto the Lord: even that man shall be cut off from among his people.


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And if there be any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, that eateth any manner of blood: I will set my face against the person that eateth the blood, and I will cut him off from among his people.


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For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have appointed it for you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls; for the blood it is that maketh an atonement for the soul.


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Therefore have I said unto the children of Israel, No one of you shall eat blood, and the stranger that sojourneth among you shall not eat blood.


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And if there be any man whatsoever of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who catcheth by hunting any beast or fowl that may be eaten: then shall he pour out the blood thereof, and cover it up with dust.


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For the life of all flesh is its blood, on which its life dependeth; therefore have I said unto the children of Israel, The blood of every manner of flesh shall ye not eat; for the life of all flesh is its blood, every one who eateth it shall be cut off.


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And every person that eateth that which hath died of itself, or that which was torn by beasts, be this one born in your own country, or a stranger, shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening, when he shall be clean.


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After the doings of the Land of Egypt, wherein ye have dwelt, shall ye not do; and after the doings of the land of Canaan whither I am bringing you, shall ye not do; and in their customs shall ye not walk.


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And ye shall keep my statutes, and my ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.


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None of you shall approach to any that are near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord.


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The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.


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The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or the daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad,even the nakedness of any of these shalt thou not uncover.


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The nakedness of thy sons daughter, or of thy daughters daughter,even the nakedness of any of these, shalt thou not uncover; for theirs is thy own nakedness.


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The nakedness of thy fathers wifes daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister,thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.


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The nakedness of thy mothers sister shalt thou not uncover; for she is thy mothers near kinswoman.


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The akedness of thy fathers brother shalt thou not uncover: his wife shalt thou not approach, she is thy aunt.


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The nakedness of thy daughterinlaw shalt thou not uncover: she is thy sons wife, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.


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The nakedness of a woman and her daughter shalt thou not uncover: her sons daughter, or her daughters daughter shalt thou not take, to uncover her nakedness; for they are near kinswomen; it is incest.


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And a woman together with her sister shalt thou not take, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other, in her lifetime.


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And any of thy seed shalt thou not let pass through <i>the fire</i> to Molech, and thou shalt not profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.


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And with any beast shalt thou not lie to defile thyself therewith; neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.


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Do not defile yourselves through any of these things.; for through all these have become defiled the nations which I cast out before you:


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And the land became defiled; wherefore I have visited its iniquity upon it, and the land itself vomited out its inhabitants.


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Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, and ye shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor the stranger that sojourneth among you;


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(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, who were before you, and the land hath become defiled;)


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That the land may not vomit you out also, when ye defile it, as it hath vomited out the nations that were before you.


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For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.


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Therefore shall ye keep my charge, so that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye do not defile yourselves therewith: I am the Lord your God.


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Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy; for I the Eternal your God am holy.


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Ye shall fear, every man, his mother and his father, and my sabbaths shall ye keep: I am the Lord your God.


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Ye shall not turn unto the idols, and molten gods shall ye not make to yourselves: I am the Lord your God.


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And if ye offer a sacrifice of peaceoffering unto the Lord, ye shall offer it so that it may be favorably received from you.


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On the same day ye offer it shall it be eaten, and on the morrow: and whatever is left until the third day, shall be burnt with fire.


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And if the intention was that it should be eaten on the third day, it is an abomination, it shall not be favorably received.


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And whoever eateth it shall bear his iniquity; because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the Lord: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.


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And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather up the gleanings of thy harvest.


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And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, and the single grapes that drop in thy vineyard shalt thou not gather up; for the poor and the stranger shalt thou leave them: I am the Lord your God.


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Ye shall not steal; neither shall ye deny <i>anothers property in your hands</i>, nor lie one to another.


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And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, and thou shalt not thus profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.


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Thou shalt not withhold any thing from thy neighbor, nor rob him: there shall not abide with thee the wages of him that is hired, through the night until morning.


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Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind; but thou shalt be afraid of thy God: I am the Lord.


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Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment; thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the great; in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.


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Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people; thou shalt not stand <i>idly</i> by the blood of thy neighbor: I am the Lord.


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Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: thou shalt indeed rebuke thy neighbor, and not bear sin on account of him.


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Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am the Lord.


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My statutes shall ye keep; thy cattle shalt thou not let gender with a diverse kind; thy field shalt thou not sow with mingled seeds; and a garment of mingled kinds, of linen and woollen, shall not come upon thee.


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And if a man lie carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to a man, but who hath neither been redeemed, nor hath her freedom been given her: there shall a scourging be decreed; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.


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And he shall bring his trespassoffering unto the Lord, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: a ram for a trespassoffering.


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And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespassoffering before the Lord for his sin which he hath done; and he shall be forgiven for his sin which he hath committed.


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And when ye come into the land, and plant any kind of tree bearing edible fruit, then shall ye count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you, it shall not be eaten.


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And in the fifth year shall ye eat of its fruit, in order that it may increase unto you its productiveness: I am the Lord your God.


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Ye shall not cut round the corners <i>of the hair</i> of your head, neither shalt thou destroy the corners of thy beard.


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And for the dead shall ye not make any incision in your flesh; and any etchedin writing shall you not fix on yourselves: I am the Lord.


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Do not profane thy daughter, to cause her to be a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of incest.


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Turn not unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards; seek <i>them</i> not, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.


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Before the hoary head shalt thou rise up, and honor the face of the old man; and thou shalt be afraid of thy God: I am the Lord.


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As one born in the land among you, shall be unto you the stranger that sojourneth with you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.


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Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the Lord your God, who have brought you forth out of the land of Egypt.


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And to the children of Israel shalt thou say, Whatsoever man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech, shall surely be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones.


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And I will set my face against that man, and I will cut him off from among his people; because of his seed hath he given unto Molech, in order to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.


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And if the people of the land should in any way hide their eyes from that man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, so as not to kill him:


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Then will I set my face against that man, and against his family, and I will cut him off, and all that go astray after him, to go astray after Molech, from among their people.


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And the person that turneth unto such as have familiar spirits, and unto wizards, to go astray after them,then will I set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.


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For every one whatever that curseth his father or his mother shall be put to death: his father or his mother hath he cursed, his blood shall be upon him.


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And if there be a man that committeth adultery with a mans wife, <i>whoever it be</i> that committeth adultery with his neighbors wife: then shall the adulterer be put to death, together with the adulteress.


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And a man that lieth with his fathers wife, hath uncovered his fathers nakedness: both of them shall be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.


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And if a man lie with his daughterinlaw, both of them shall be put to death: they have committed an unnatural deed; their blood shall be upon them.


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And if a man lie with a male, as they lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.


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And if a man take a woman and her mother, it is incest: in fire shall they burn him and them; that there be no incest among you.


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And if a woman approach unto any beast to lie down thereto, then shalt thou kill the woman, and the beast; they shall be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.


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And if a man take his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother, and he see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness: it is a disgraceful deed; and they shall be cut off before the eyes of their people: the nakedness of his sister hath he uncovered; his iniquity shall he bear.


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And if a man lie with a woman suffering of her separation, and uncover her nakedness, and he lay open her fountain, and she uncover the fountain of her blood: then shall both of them be cut off from the midst of their people.


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And the nakedness of thy mothers sister, or of thy fathers sister shalt thou not uncover; for his near of kin he uncovereth: their iniquity shall they bear.


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And the man that lieth with his uncles wife, hath uncovered his uncles nakedness: their sin shall they bear; childless shall they die.


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And if a man do take his brothers wife, it is an abominable act: the nakedness of his brother hath he uncovered; childless shall they remain.


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And keep ye all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them; that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, may not vomit you forth.


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And ye shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I cast out before you; for all these things they committed, and therefore I felt loathing for them.


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And I said unto you, Ye shall possess their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the Eternal your God, who have separated you from the nations.


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Ye shall therefore make a difference between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean; and ye shall not make your souls abominable by the beast, or by the fowl, or by any manner of thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.


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And ye shall be holy unto me, for I the Lord am holy; and I have separated you from the nations, that ye should be mine.


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And if there be among men or women one that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, they shall be put to death; with stones shall they stone them; their blood shall be upon them.


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And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, None <i>of them</i> shall defile himself on the dead, among his people;


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But on his kin, that is near unto him, <i>that is,</i> on his mother, and on his father, and on his son, and on his daughter, and on his brother,


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And on his sister that is a virgin, that is nigh unto him, who hath had no husband: on her may he defile himself.


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They shall not make any baldness upon their head, and the corner of their beard shall they not shave off, and in their flesh shall they not make any incision.


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Holy shall they be unto their God, and they shall not profane the name of their God; for the fireofferings of the Lord, the bread of their God, do they offer, they shall therefore be holy.


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A woman that is a harlot, or one profaned, shall they not take; and a woman put away from her husband shall they not take; for holy is he unto his God.


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And thou shalt sanctify him; for the bread of thy God doth he offer: holy shall he be unto thee; for I the Lord, who sanctify you, am holy.


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And if the daughter of any priest profane herself by committing incest, her father doth she profane: with fire shall she be burnt.


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And the priest that is highest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil hath been poured, and who hath been consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head grow long, and his garments shall he not rend;


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Neither shall he go in to any dead body; even on his father, and on his mother shall he not defile himself.


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And out of the sanctuary shall he not go, that he may not 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, and a divorced woman, and one profaned, <i>and</i> a harlot, these shall he not take; but a virgin of his own people shall he take for wife;


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Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever of thy seed in their generations it be on whom there is any blemish, shall not approach to offer the bread of his God.


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For whatsoever man it be on whom there is a blemish, shall not approach: a blind, or a lame man, or one that hath a flattened nose, or a man one of whose limbs is too long,


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Or a crookbacked, or a dwarf, or one that hath a blemish in his eye, or the itch, or the scurvy, or the testicles broken.


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Every man on whom there is a blemish, of the seed of Aaron the priest, shall not come nigh to offer the fireofferings of the Lord: there is a blemish on him; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.


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Only unto the vail, and unto the altar shall he not come nigh, because there is a blemish on him; that he profane not my holy things; for I the Lord do sanctify them.


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Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they keep themselves away from the holy things of the children of Israel, <i>so that they profane not my holy name</i> which they hallow unto me: I am the Lord.


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Say unto them, In your generations, if there be any man of all your seed, that approacheth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the Lord, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the Lord.


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Any man whatsoever of the seed of Aaron, that is a leper, or hath a running issue, shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean; and whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;


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Or a man who toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man through whom he can be rendered unclean, through any kind of uncleanness which he hath:


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The person that toucheth any such shall be unclean until the evening, and he shall not eat of the holy things, unless he have bathed his flesh in water.


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And when the sun hath set, he shall be clean; and afterward he may eat of the holy things; because it is his food.


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That which dieth of itself, or is torn by beasts, shall he not eat, to defile himself therewith: I am the Lord.


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And they shall keep my charge, that they may not bear sin through it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I am the Lord who sanctify them.


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And no stranger shall eat of a holy thing: a sojourner of a priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat of a holy thing.


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But if a priest buy a person with his money, then may he eat of it; and those that are born in his house, may eat of his bread.


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And if the daughter of a priest be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of the offered part of holy things.


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But the daughter of a priest, if she be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her fathers house, as in her youth, may eat of her fathers bread; but no stranger shall eat thereof.


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And if a man eat a holy thing unwittingly, then shall he add the fifth part thereof unto it, and he shall make good unto the priest the holy thing.


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And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the Lord;


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And load on themselves the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things; for I am the Lord who sanctify them.


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Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, If there be any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that offereth his oblation, be it for any manner of vows, or for any manner of freewillofferings, which they may offer unto the Lord for a burntoffering:


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Then shall it be, that it may be favorably received for you, a male without blemish, of the oxen, of the sheep, or of the goats.


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Whatsoever on which there is a blemish shall ye not offer; for it will not be favorably received for you.


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And when a man offereth a sacrifice of peaceoffering unto the Lord as a vow, or a freewilloffering of the herds or of the flocks: it shall be without blemish to be favorably received; no kind of bodily defect shall be thereon.


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A blind, or brokenlimbed, or maimed animal, or one having a wen, or itch, or scurvy,ye shall not offer these unto the Lord, and a fireoffering shall ye not make of them upon the altar unto the Lord.


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And an ox or a lamb that hath a limb too long or too short, that mayest thou offer for a freewilloffering; but for a vow it shall not be favorably received.


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And one that is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut in the testicles, shall ye not offer unto the Lord; and in your land shall ye not make the like.


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And from a strangers hand shall ye not offer the bread of your God from any of these; because their corruption is on them, a bodily defect is on them: they shall not be favorably received for you.


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When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then shall it remain seven days by its mother; and from the eighth day and thenceforth shall it be favorably received for an offering made by fire unto the Lord.


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And when ye offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the Lord, offer it so that it may be favorably received of you.


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And ye shall not profane my holy name; so that I may be sanctified among the children of Israel; I am the Lord who sanctify you,


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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, The feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations,these are my feasts:


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Six days may work be done; but on the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; no kind of work shall ye do thereon; it is the sabbath <i>holy</i> unto the Lord in all your dwellings.


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On the fourteenth day of the first month, toward evening, is the passoverlamb to be offered unto the Lord.


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And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord: seven days must ye eat unleavened bread.


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And ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord seven days: on the seventh day is a holy convocation; no servile work shall ye do.


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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye shall have come into the land which I give unto you, and reap the harvest thereof: then shall ye bring an omer full of the first of your harvest unto the priest;


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And he shall wave the omer before the Lord, that it may be favorably received for you; on the morrow after the holy day shall the priest wave it.


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And ye shall offer on the day when ye wave the omer, a male sheep without blemish of the first year for a burntoffering unto the Lord.


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And the meatoffering thereof shall be two tenth parts of fine flour mingled with oil, as an offering made by fire unto the Lord, for a sweet savor; with its drinkoffering of wine, the fourth part of a hin.


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And neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, shall ye eat, until the selfsame day, until ye have brought the offering of your God: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.


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And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the holy day, from the day that ye bring the omer of the waveoffering, <i>that</i> it be seven complete weeks:


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Even unto the morrow after the seventh week shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall then offer a new meatoffering unto the Lord.


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Out of your own habitations shall ye bring two waveloaves of two tenth parts; of fine flour shall they be; leavened shall they be baked; they are the firstfruits unto the Lord.


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And ye shall offer with the bread seven sheep without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burntoffering unto the Lord, with their meatoffering, with their drinkofferings, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the Lord.


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And ye shall sacrifice one hegoat for a sinoffering, and two sheep of the first year for a sacrifice of peaceoffering.


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And the priest shall make with them together with the bread of the firstfruits a waving before the Lord, together with the two sheep; holy shall they be to the Lord for the priest.


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And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be a holy convocation unto you; no servile work shall ye do; it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.


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And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not cut away altogether the corners of thy field when thou reapest, and the gleaning of thy harvest shalt thou not gather up; unto the poor, and to the stranger shalt thou leave them: I am the Lord your God.


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Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall ye have a rest, a <i>day of</i> memorial of sounding the cornet, a holy convocation.


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But on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement, a holy convocation shall it be unto you, and ye shall fast; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.


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And no manner of work shall ye do on this 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 whatsoever person it be that fasteth not on this same day, shall be cut off from among his people.


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And if there be any person that doth any work on this same day, then will I destroy the same person from among his people.


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No manner of work shall ye do: it shall he a statute for ever throughout your generations, in all your dwellings.


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A sabbath of rest it shall be unto you, and ye shall fast: on the ninth day of the month at evening <i>shall ye begin</i>, from evening unto evening shall ye celebrate your sabbath.


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Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month, shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the Lord.


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Seven days shall ye offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: on the eighth day shall be a holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord, it is a solemn assembly; no servile work shall ye do.


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These are the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord, burntoffering, and meatoffering, sacrifice, and drinkofferings, every thing upon its day:


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Beside the sabbaths of the Lord, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewillofferings, which ye may give unto the Lord.


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But on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, shall ye keep the feast of the Lord seven days: on the first day shall be a rest, and on the eighth day shall be a rest.


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And ye shall take unto yourselves on the first day the fruit of the tree hadar, branches of palmtrees, and the boughs of the myrtletree, and willows of the brook: and ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days.


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And ye shall keep it as a feast unto the Lord seven days in the year: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations; in the seventh month shall ye celebrate it.


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In order that your generations may know, that I caused the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.


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Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure beaten oliveoil, for the lighting, to cause the lamp to burn continually.


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Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron put it in order <i>for</i> from evening unto morning before the Lord continually; as a statute for ever in your generations.


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And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake thereof twelve cakes: of two tenth parts shall each one cake be.


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And thou shalt put upon each row pure frankincense, that it may be unto the bread for a memorial, as a fireoffering unto the Lord.


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On every and each sabbath day shall he place it in order before the Lord continually, <i>obtained</i> from the children of Israel as an everlasting covenant.


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And it shall belong to Aaron and to his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy unto him, from the fireofferings of the Lord, as a perpetual fixed portion.


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And there went forth a son of an Israelitish woman, but who was the son of an Egyptian man, among the children of Israel; and there quarrelled together in the camp this son of the Israelitish woman and an Israelitish man.


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And the son of the Israelitish woman pronounced the <i>holy</i> Name, and blasphemed; and they brought him unto Moses: <i>and his mothers name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan;</i>


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Lead forth the blasphemer to without the camp; and all that have heard him shall lay their hands upon his head; and all the congregation shall stone him.


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And unto the children of Israel shalt thou speak, saying, Whatsoever man that blasphemeth his God shall bear his sin.


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But he that pronounced the name of the Lord <i>with blasphemy</i> shall be put to death, all the congregation shall stone him; be he a stranger, or be he one that is born in the land, when he pronounceth the <i>holy</i> Name <i>with blasphemy,</i> he shall be put to death.


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Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: in the manner as he hath caused a bodily defect in a man, so shall it be done to him.


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And he that killeth a beast, shall make restitution for it; and he that killeth a man, shall be put to death.


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One manner of judicial law shall ye have, the stranger shall be equal with one of your own country; for I am the Lord your God.


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And Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they led forth the blasphemer to without the camp, and they stoned him with stones; and the children of Israel did as the Lord had commanded Moses.


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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give unto you; then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the Lord.


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Six years shalt thou sow thy field, and six years shalt thou prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;


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But in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath <i>in honor</i> of the Lord: thy field shalt thou not sow, and thy vineyard shalt thou not prune.


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That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest shalt thou not reap, and the grapes of thy undressed vine shalt thou not gather: a year of rest shall it be unto the land.


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And <i>the product of</i> the sabbath of the land shall be unto you for food, for thee, and for thy manservant, and for thy maidservant, and for thy hired laborer, and for thy stranger, that sojourn with thee;


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And for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land, shall all its products be <i>left</i> for food.


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And thou shalt number unto thee seven sabbaths of years, seven years seven times; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.


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And then shalt thou cause the sound of the cornet to be heard, in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month: on the day of atonement shall ye sound the cornet throughout all your land.


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And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim freedom throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof; it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return, every man, unto his possession, and ye shall return, every man, unto his family.


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A jubilee shall this, the fiftieth year, be unto you: ye shall not sow, nor reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather in it the fruit of the undressed vines.


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And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbor, or buy aught of thy neighbors hand, ye shall not overreach one the other;


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According to the number of years after the jubilee shalt thou buy of thy neighbor, according unto the number of harvestyears shall he sell unto thee;


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According to the multitude of years shalt thou increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years shalt thou diminish the price thereof; for a number of harvests doth he sell unto thee.


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And ye shall not overreach one the other; but thou shalt be afraid of thy God; for I am the Lord your God.


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And ye shall do my statutes, and my ordinances shall ye keep and do them; and then shall ye dwell in the land in safety.


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And if ye should say, What shall we eat in the seventh year? behold, we are not permitted to sow, and we cannot gather in our harvest:


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Then will I command my blessing unto you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth a harvest for three years.


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And when ye sow in the eighth year, then shall ye eat yet of the old harvest; until the ninth year, until its harvest come in, shall ye eat of the old store.


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And the land shall not be sold for a permanence <i>to the purchaser</i>; for the land is mine; for strangers and sojourners are ye with me.


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If thy brother become poor, and sell away some of his possession: then may his nearest of kin come and redeem what his brother hath sold.


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And if the man have none to redeem it, and he acquire the means, sufficient to be able to redeem it himself:


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Then let him reckon the years since his sale, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; and so shall he return unto his possession.


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But if his means do not suffice to enable him to restore it to him: then shall that which he hath sold remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of the jubilee; and it shall be freed in the jubilee, and he shall return unto his possession.


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And if a man sell a dwellinghouse in a walled city: then shall the time of redemption last till the end of the year of his sale; a full year shall his time of redemption last.


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And if it be not redeemed within the expiration of a full year: then shall the house which is in the walled city remain as a permanence to him that bought it throughout his generations; it shall not become freed in the jubilee.


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But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they shall have the right of redemption, and they shall become freed in the jubilee.


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And <i>respecting</i> the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, a perpetual right of redemption shall belong to the Levites.


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And if a man of the Levites redeem something: then shall the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, become freed in the jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.


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And a field of the suburbs of their cities shall not be sold; for a perpetual possession is it unto them.


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And if thy brother become poor, and fall in decay with thee: then shalt thou assist him, <i>yea</i> a stranger, or a sojourner, that he may live with thee.


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Thou shalt not take of him any usury or increase; but thou shalt be afraid of thy God: that thy brother may live with thee.


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I am the Lord your God, who have brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give unto you the land of Canaan, to be unto you a God.


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And if thy brother become poor near thee, and be sold unto thee: thou shalt not compel him to work as a bondservant.


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But as a hired laborer, as a sojourner, shall he be with thee; until the year of the jubilee shall he serve with thee:


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And then shall he depart from thee, he and his children with him; and he shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.


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


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But thy bondman, and thy bondwoman that shall remain thine, shall be of the nations that are round about you; of them may ye buy bondman and bondwoman.


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And also of the children of the strangers that sojourn with you, of them may ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they have begotten in your land; and they shall remain to you as a possession.


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And ye may transfer them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; you may hold them to service for ever; but over your brethren the children of Israel, one over the other, ye shall not rule with rigor.


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And if a stranger or sojourner wax rich near thee, and thy brother become poor near him, and he sell himself unto the sojourning stranger near thee, or to a descendant of a strangers family:


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After he hath sold himself shall he have the right of redemption; one of his brethren may redeem him.


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Either his uncle, or his uncles son, may redeem him, or any that is near of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he obtain the means, he may redeem himself.


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And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he sold himself to him unto the year of the jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years, as the time of a hired laborer shall he have been with him.


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If there be yet many years, according to them shall he return the price of his redemption out of his purchasemoney.


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And if there remain but few years unto the year of the jubilee: then shall he reckon with him; according to his years shall he return the price of his redemption.


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As a laborer hired from year to year shall he be with him; he shall not rule over him with rigor before thy eyes.


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And if he be not redeemed by <i>one of</i> these means: then shall he go out in the year of the jubilee, both he, and his children with him.


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For unto me are the children of Israel servants, my servants are they, whom I have brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the Eternal your God.


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Ye shall not make yourselves any idols, and a graven image, or a standing image shall ye not rear up unto you, and any carved stone shall you not place in your land, to bow down upon it; for I am the Eternal your God.


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Then will I give you rains in their due season, and the earth shall yield her products, and the tree of the field shall yield its fruit.


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And the threshing shall reach with you unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto sowingtime; and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and ye shall dwell in safety in your land.


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And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, with none to make you afraid; and I will remove evil beasts out of the land, and the sword shall not pass through your land.


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


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And I will turn myself unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you; and I will establish my covenant with you.


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I am the Eternal your God, who have brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and caused you to walk upright.


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And if my statutes ye despise, and if my ordinances your soul loath, so as not to do all my commandments, in that ye break my covenant:


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Then will I also do this unto you, and I will inflict on you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart; and ye shall sow in vain your seed, for your enemies shall eat it.


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And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be struck down before your enemies: and they that hate you shall bear rule over you; and ye shall flee while there is no one pursuing you.


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And if with these things even ye will not yet hearken unto me: then will I chastise you yet more, sevenfold 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 copper:


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And in vain shall your strength be spent; for your land shall not yield her products, and the tree of the land shall not yield its fruit.


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And if ye walk yet contrary unto me, and if you refuse to hearken unto me: then will I bring more plagues upon you, sevenfold according to your sins.


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And I will send out against you the beasts of the field, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and diminish yourselves; so that your roads shall be desolate.


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And I will bring over you the sword, avenging the quarrel of my covenant, so that ye shall be gathered together within your cities; and then will I send the pestilence among you, that ye shall deliver yourselves into the hand of the enemy;


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When I break unto you the staff of bread; and ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.


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Then will I also walk contrary unto you in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you, sevenfold for your sins.


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And I will destroy your highplaces, and cut down your sunimages, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols; and my soul shall loath you.


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And I will render your cities a waste, and I will make desolate your sanctuaries, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.


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And I will surely make desolate the land: and your enemies who dwell therein shall be astonished at it.


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


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Then shall the land satisfy its sabbaths, all the days of its desolation, when ye are in the land of your enemies: then shall the land rest, and satisfy its sabbaths.


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All the days of its desolation shall it rest, the time which it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.


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And regarding those that are left of you, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a leaf shaken shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from the sword; and they shall fall with none pursuing.


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And they shall stumble one over the other, as before the sword, without one pursuing: and ye shall have no power to stand up before your enemies.


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And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in the land of your enemies; and also through the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.


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And they shall then confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, <i>that</i> through their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that <i>because</i> they had walked contrary unto me:


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I also had to walk contrary unto them, and to bring them into the land of their enemies; and then shall their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and then shall they satisfy their iniquity.


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


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For the land shall be forsaken by them, and shall satisfy its sabbaths, while it lieth desolate without them, and they shall satisfy their iniquity; because, even because my ordinances they despised, and my statutes their soul loathed.


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And yet for all that, though they be in the land of their enemies, will I not cast them away, neither will I loath them, to destroy them utterly, to break my covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God.


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But I will remember for their sakes the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations, that I might be unto them a God: I am the Lord.


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These are the statutes and ordinances and laws, which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel on mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.


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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If a man make a particular vow, <i>to give</i> the estimated value of persons in honor of the Lord:


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If the estimated value concern a male from twenty years old, and unto sixty years old, then shall the estimation be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.


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And if <i>the person be</i> from five years old and unto twenty years old, then shall the estimation of the male be twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.


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And if <i>the person be</i> from a month old and unto five years old, then shall the estimation of the male be five shekels of silver, and for the female the estimation <i>shall be</i> three shekels of silver.


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And if <i>the person be</i> from sixty years old and upward, if it be a male, then shall the estimation be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.


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But if he be too poor for this estimation, then shall he present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability to pay of him that hath vowed shall the priest value him.


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And if it he a beast, whereof men can bring an offering unto the Lord, all that a man giveth of such unto the Lord shall be holy.


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He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad one, or a bad for a good one; and if he should change beast for beast, then shall it together with its exchange be holy.


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And if it be any unclean beast, of which they cannot offer a sacrifice unto the Lord, then shall he present the beast before the priest:


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And if a man sanctify his house as holy unto the Lord, then shall the priest value it, whether it be good or bad; as the priest may value it, so shall it stand.


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And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then shall he add the fifth part of the money of the estimated value unto it, and it shall remain his.


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And if a man sanctify some part of a field of his possession unto the Lord, then shall the estimation be in proportion to its required seed: the seed of a chomer of barley at fifty shekels of silver.


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If immediately after the year of the jubilee he sanctify his field, according to this estimation shall it stand.


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But if after the jubilee he sanctify his field, then shall the priest reckon unto him the money in proportion to the years that remain, until the year of the jubilee, and it shall be deducted from the estimation.


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And if he that sanctified the field will redeem it, then shall he add the fifth part of the money of the estimated value unto it, and it shall be assured to him.


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


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But the field, when it is freed in the jubilee, shall be holy unto the Lord, as a devoted field: to the priest shall it belong as his possession.


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And if a man sanctify a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession, unto the Lord:


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Then shall the priest reckon unto him the amount of the estimated value to the year of the jubilee; and he shall give this estimation on that day, as a holy thing unto the Lord.


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In the year of the jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom he bought it, to the one to whom belongeth the possession of the land.


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And all estimations of value shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary; twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.


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Only the firstborn which shall, by being first born, be sacred unto the Lord among cattle, no man shall sanctify; whether it be ox, or lamb, it is the Lords.


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And if it be an unclean animal, then shall he redeem it according to the estimated value, and he shall add its fifth part thereto; and if it be not redeemed, then shall it be sold according to the estimated value.


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But any devoted thing, which a man may devote unto the Lord of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall not be sold nor redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the Lord.


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Any one condemned, who shall be condemned to death among men, shall not be redeemed: he shall be put to death.


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And every tithe of the land, of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, belongeth to the Lord; it is holy unto the Lord.


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And concerning the tithe of the herds, or of the flocks, whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the Lord.


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


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And the Lord spoke unto 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 their going out of the land of Egypt, saying,


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Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the descent from their fathers, by numbering the names, every male according to their polls;


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From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: these shall ye number according to their armies, thou and Aaron.


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And with you there shall be one man each of every tribe; a man who is the head of his family division.


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Of the children of Joseph, of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud; of Menasseh: Gamliel the son of Pedahzur.


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These were the selected of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; the heads of the thousands of Israel were they.


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And all the congregation they assembled together on the first day of the second month, and they were enrolled in the lists of their pedigrees after their families, by the descent from their fathers, by numbering the names, from twenty years old and upward, according to their polls.


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And there were of the children of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, by their generations, after their families, by the descent from their fathers, by numbering the names according to their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;


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


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Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the descent from their fathers, by numbering the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;


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Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their families, by the descent from their fathers, by numbering the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;


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Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their families, by the descent from their fathers, by numbering the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;


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Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their families, by the descent from their fathers, by numbering the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;


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Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the descent from their fathers, by numbering the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war.


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Of the children of Menasseh, by their generations, after their families, by the descent from their fathers, by numbering the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;


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Of the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after their families, by the descent from their fathers, by numbering the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;


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Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their families, by the descent from their fathers, by numbering the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;


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Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the descent from their fathers, by numbering the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;


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Of the children of Naphtali, by their generations, after their families, by the descent from their fathers, by numbering the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;


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These are those that were numbered, whom Moses numbered with Aaron, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men; one man each for his family division were they.


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Thus were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the descent from 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 the tribe of Levi shalt thou not number, and their sum shalt thou not take, among the children of Israel;


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But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its vessels, and over all things that belong to it: they shall carry the tabernacle, and all its vessels; and they shall minister unto it; and round about the tabernacle shall they encamp.


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


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And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their armies.


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But the Levites shall encamp round shout the tabernacle of the testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.


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Every man by his own standard, by the ensign of their family division, shall the children of Israel pitch their tent; at some distance round about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they encamp.


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And they, who encamp on the east, toward the rising of the sun, shall be <i>those who belong to</i> the standard of the camp of Judah according to their armies: and the prince of the children of Judah shall be Nachshon the son of Amminadab.


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And those that encamp next unto him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and the prince of the children of Issachar shall be Nethanel the son of Zuar.


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<i>Then</i> the tribe of Zebulun: and the prince of the children of Zebulun shall be Eliab the son of Chelon.


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All that were numbered of the camp of Judah were one hundred thousand and eighty thousand and six thousand and four hundred, according to their armies: they shall first set forward.


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The standard of the camp of Reuben shall be on the south side, according to their armies: and the prince of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.


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And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Simeon: and the prince of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.


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


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All that were numbered of the camp of Reuben were one hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty, according to their armies; and as the second shall they set forward.


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


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The standard of the camp of Ephraim shall be on the west side, according to their armies: and the prince of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.


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And by him shall be the tribe of Menasseh; and the prince of the children of Menasseh shall be Gamliel the son of Pedahzur.


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Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the prince of the sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gidoni.


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All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were one hundred thousand and eight thousand and one hundred, according to their armies; and as the third shall they set forward.


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The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side, according to their armies: and the prince of the children of Dan shall be Achiezer the son of Ammishaddai.


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And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the prince of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ochran.


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Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the prince of the children of Naphtali shall be Achira the son of Enan.


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All those that were numbered of the camp of Dan were one hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred; the hindmost shall they set forward according to their standards.


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These are those that were numbered of the children of Israel according to their family divisions: and all those that were numbered of the camps, according to their armies, were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.


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And the children of Israel did all just as the Lord had commanded Moses, so did they encamp by their standards, and so did they set forward every one after his family, by his division.


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And these are the generations of Aaron and Moses, on the day that the Lord spoke with Moses on mount Sinai.


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These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests that were anointed, who were consecrated to minister as priests.


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And Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord, when they offered a strange fire before the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Elazar and Ithamar ministered as priests in the lifetime of Aaron their father.


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Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present the same before Aaron the priest, that they may serve him.


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


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


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And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: as associates are they given unto him out of the children of Israel.


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And Aaron and his sons shalt thou instruct, that they shall guard well their priests office; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.


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And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from the midst of the children of Israel instead of every firstborn that openeth the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine.


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Because mine is every firstborn; on the day when I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me every firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be; I am the Lord.


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Number the children of Levi after their divisions, by their families; every male of them from a month old and upward shalt thou number.


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And the sons of Merari after their families: Machli, and Mushi; these are the families of the Levites according to their family divisions.


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Of Gershon: the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites; these are the families of the Gershunites.


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Those that were numbered of them, by the numbering 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 was the tabernacle and the tent, its covering, 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 its cords for all the service thereof.


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And of Kehath: the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Yizharites, and the family of the Chebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites; these are the families of the Kehathites.


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By the numbering of all the males, from a month old and upward, they were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.


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And their charge was the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary which are used for the service, and the vail, and all belonging thereto.


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And the chief over the princes of the Levites was Elazar the son of Aaron the priest, having the oversight of those that kept the charge of the sanctuary.


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Of Merari: the family of the Machlites, and the family of the Mushites; these are the families of Merari.


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And those that were numbered of them, by the numbering 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 division of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abichayil: they used to encamp on the side of the tabernacle, northward.


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And under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari were the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and all its vessels, and all that belongeth thereto,


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But those that encamped before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation toward the rising of the sun, were Moses, and Aaron, and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that came nigh was to be put to death.


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All that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses numbered with Aaron, at the order of the Lord, according to their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand.


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


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And thou shalt 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 firstborn among the cattle of the children of Israel.


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


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


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And <i>for</i> those that are to be redeemed, the two hundred and seventy and three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, who are more than the Levites,


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Thou shalt take five shekels apiece for the poll; after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take, twenty gerahs to the shekel;


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And thou shalt give unto Aaron and to his sons the money, <i>for</i> those who are to be redeemed of those that are over the number of them.


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And Moses took the redemptionmoney of those that were over in number above those who were redeemed by the Levites:


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Of the firstborn of the children of Israel did he take the money; a thousand three hundred and sixty and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.


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And Moses gave the money of those who were redeemed unto Aaron and unto his sons, by the order of the Lord; as the Lord had commanded Moses.


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Take the sum of the sons of Kehath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by their divisions,


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From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that are fitted for the service, to do work at the tabernacle of the congregation.


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This shall be the service of the sons of Kehath at the tabernacle of the congregation: The most holy things.


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And Aaron shall come with his sons, when the camp setteth forward, and they shall take down the vail of the separation, and cover therewith the ark of the testimony;


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And they shall put over it a covering of badgers skins, and they shall spread over all a cloth wholly of blue <i>woollen yarn</i>, and they shall put in its staves.


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And over the table of the showbread shall they spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the tubes, and the staves of the covering; and the continual bread shall be thereon:


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And they shall spread over them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers skins; and they shall put in its staves.


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And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the lighting, and its lamps, and its tongs, and its snuffdishes, and all the oilvessels thereof, wherewith they minister by it:


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And they shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of badgers skins, and they shall put it upon a barrow.


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And over the golden altar shall they spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers skins; and they shall put in its staves.


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And they shall take all the vessels of the service, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers skins; and they shall put them on a barrow.


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And they shall put upon it all its vessels, wherewith they minister upon it, the firepans, the forks, and the shovels, and the basins, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread over it a covering of badgers skins, and put in its staves.


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And when Aaron and his sons have thus made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, when the camp is to set forward: then shall, after that, the sons of Kehath come to carry it; but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die; these are the things which the sons of Kehath are to carry at the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And under the supervision of Elazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be the oil for the lighting, and the incense of spices, and the daily meatoffering, and the anointingoil; the supervision of all the tabernacle, and of all that is therein, over the sanctuary, and over its vessels.


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


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From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that are fitted for the service, to do work in the tabernacle of the congregation.


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They shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and of the tent of the congregation, its covering, and the covering of the badgers skins that is over it above, 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 vessels of their service; and all that is delivered to them shall they perform.


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By the order of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershunites, in all their carrying, and in all their service: and ye shall designate unto them in charge all which they have to carry.


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This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershunites at the tabernacle of the congregation; their charge shall be under the supervision of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.


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From thirty years old and upward, even until fifty years old, shalt thou number them, every one that is fitted for the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And this is what is confided to them to carry, regarding all their service at the tabernacle of the congregation: The boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets,


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And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and all which belongeth thereto; and by name shall ye designate <i>to them</i> the vessels which are confided to them to carry.


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This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, regarding all their service, at the tabernacle of the congregation, under the supervision of Ithamar the son of Aaron, the priest.


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And Moses with Aaron and the princes of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kehathites after their families, and after their divisions,


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From thirty years old and upward, even until fifty years old, every one that was fitted for the service, for the work at the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And those that were numbered of them after their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.


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These were they that were numbered of the families of the Kehathites, all that could do service at the tabernacle of the congregation, whom Moses with Aaron numbered by the order of the Lord through the hand of Moses.


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And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon, after their families, and after their divisions,


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From thirty years old and upward, even until fifty years old, every one that was fitted for the service, for the work at the tabernacle of the congregation,


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Even those that were numbered of them, after their families, after their divisions, 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, all that could do service at the tabernacle of the congregation, whom Moses with Aaron numbered by the order of the Lord.


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And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, after their families, after their divisions,


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These are those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses with Aaron numbered by the order of the Lord through the hand of Moses.


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All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses with Aaron and the chiefs of Israel numbered, after their families, and after their divisions,


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From thirty years old and upward, even until fifty years old, every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the carrying at the tabernacle of the congregation,


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By the order of the Lord through the hand of Moses, did he appoint them, every one to his proper service, and to his proper carrying: and they were numbered, as the Lord had commanded Moses.


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Command the children of Israel, that they send out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:


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Both male and female shall ye send out, to without the camp shall ye send 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 they sent them out to without the camp: as the Lord had spoken unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.


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Speak unto the children of Israel, If any man or woman commit any sin against a fellowman, thereby doing a trespass against the Lord, and this person thus become guilty:


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Then shall they confess their sin which they have committed; and he shall make restitution for his trespass with the principal thereof, and its fifth part shall he add thereto, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.


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But if the man have no kinsman to whom restitution could be made for the trespass, then shall the trespass which is restored unto the Lord, belong to the priest; besides the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him.


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


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And every mans hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth to the priest, shall belong to him.


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


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And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hidden from the eyes of her husband, because she hath been secretly defiled; and there be no witness against her, and she have not been detected and in the fact;


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And the spirit of jealousy come over him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she have been defiled; or the spirit of jealousy come over him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she have not been defiled:


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Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barleymeal; he shall not pour any oil upon it, nor put any frankincense thereupon; for it is a meatoffering of jealousy, a meatoffering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.


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


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And the priest shall place the woman before the Lord, and uncover the womans head, and put upon her hands the meatoffering of memorial, it is the meatoffering of jealousy; and in the hand of the priest shall be the bitter waters that bring the curse.


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And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and he shall say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness behind thy husband: then be thou free from these bitter waters that bring the curse.


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But if thou hast gone aside behind thy husband, and if thou hast been defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband:


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And the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of imprecation, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The Lord then make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the Lord doth cause thy thigh to fall away, and thy belly to swell;


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And these waters that bring the curse shall go into thy bowels, to cause the belly to swell, and the thigh to fall away; and the woman shall say, Amen, amen.


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And the priest shall write these curses on a roll, and he shall blot them out with the bitter waters.


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And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter waters that bring the curse: and the waters that bring the curse shall enter into her for bitterness.


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And the priest shall take out of the womans hand the meatoffering of jealousy, and he shall wave the meatoffering before the Lord, and bring it near to the altar:


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And the priest shall take a handful from the meatoffering, as its memorial, and burn it upon the altar, and after that shall he cause the woman to drink the water.


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And when he hath made her drink the water, then shall it come to pass, if she have been defiled, and have committed a trespass against her husband, that the waters that bring the curse shall enter into her, for bitterness, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away; and the woman shall become a curse among her people.


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And if the woman have not been defiled, but be clean: then shall she remain unharmed, and she shall conceive seed.


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Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh over him, and he be jealous of his wife; and he shall place the woman before the Lord, and the priest shall do unto her altogether according to this law.


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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman pronounce an especial vow, the vow of a Nazarite, to be abstinent in honor of the Lord:


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Then shall he abstain from wine and strong drink, vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink shall he not drink, and any infusion of grapes shall he not drink, and grapes, fresh or dried, shall he not eat.


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All the days of his abstinence shall he eat nothing that is made of the grapevine, from the kernels even to the husk.


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All the days of the vow of his abstinence no razor shall pass over his head: until the days be completed, in which he abstaineth in honor of the Lord, shall he be holy, letting grow untouched the hair of his head.


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On his father, or on his mother, on his brother, or on his sister, shall he not make himself unclean, when they die; because the consecration of his God is upon his head.


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And if some one die very suddenly by him, and he thus defile his consecrated head: then shall he shave his head on the day of his being cleansed, on the seventh day shall he shave it.


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


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And the priest shall prepare the one for a sinoffering, and the other for a burntoffering, and make an atonement for him, because he hath sinned through the dead; and he shall hallow his head on that same day.


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And he shall consecrate unto the Lord <i>again</i> the days of his abstinence, and he shall bring a sheep of the first year for a trespassoffering; but the prior days shall not be counted, because his consecration hath been defiled.


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And this is the law of the Nazarite: On the day when the days of his abstinence are completed, shall he present himself at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation;


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And he shall bring his offering unto the Lord, one male sheep of the first year without blemish for a burntoffering, and one ewe of the first year without blemish for a sinoffering, and one ram without blemish for a peaceoffering,


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And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil; and their meatoffering, and their drinkofferings.


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And the priest shall bring them near before the Lord, and he shall prepare his sinoffering, and his burntoffering:


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And the ram shall he prepare for a sacrifice of peaceoffering unto the Lord, with the basket of unleavened bread; and the priest shall prepare his meatoffering and his drinkoffering.


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And the Nazarite shall shave at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation his consecrated head; and he shall take the hair of his consecrated head, and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peaceoffering.


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And the priest shall take the shoulder of the ram when it is cooked, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and he shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after he hath shaved his consecrated <i>head</i>.


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And the priest shall make with them a waving before the Lord; it is a holy gift for the priest, together with the breast that was waved and the shoulder that was lifted up: and after that may the Nazarite drink wine.


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This is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed; his offering unto the Lord for his abstinence, besides that which he may be able to give: according to his vow which he may vow, so must he do in addition to what is required by the law of his abstinence.


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Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, Thus shall ye bless the children of Israel, saying unto them,


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And it came to pass on the day that Moses had finally set up the tabernacle, and had anointed, and sanctified it, and all its vessels, as also the altar and all its vessels, and had anointed them, and sanctified them:


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That the princes of Israel, the heads of their family divisions, who were the princes of the tribes, the same who had superintended the numbering, offered.


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


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Take it from them, that they may be used to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service.


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Two of the wagons and four of the oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon, according to their service:


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


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But unto the sons of Kehath he gave none; because the service of the sanctuary belonged unto them, they were to bear upon their shoulders.


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The princes also offered for the dedicating of the altar on the day that it was anointed; and the princes presented their offering before the altar.


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And the Lord said unto Moses, One prince each on a given day, shall they offer their offering, for the dedication of the altar.


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And he that offered his offering on the first day was Nachshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:


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And his offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was a 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 meatoffering;


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And for a sacrifice of peaceoffering, two oxen, five rams, five hegoats, five sheep of the first year; this was the offering of Nachshon the son of Amminadab.


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He offered for his offering one silver charger, the weight whereof was a 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 meatoffering;


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And for a sacrifice of peaceoffering, two oxen, five rams, five hegoats, five sheep of the first year; this was the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.


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His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was a 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 meatoffering;


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And for a sacrifice of peaceoffering, two oxen, five rams, five hegoats, five sheep of the first year; this was the offering of Eliab the son of Chelon.


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On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, the prince of the children of Reuben, <i>did offer</i>:


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And for a sacrifice of peaceoffering, two oxen, five rams, five hegoats, five sheep of the first year; this was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.


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On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, the prince of the children of Simeon, <i>did offer</i>:


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And for a sacrifice of peaceoffering, two oxen, five rams, five hegoats, five sheep of the first year; this was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.


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And for a sacrifice of peaceoffering, two oxen, five rams, five hegoats, five sheep of the first year; this was the offering of Elyassaph the son of Deuel.


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On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, the prince of the children of Ephraim, <i>did offer</i>:


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And for a sacrifice of peaceoffering, two oxen, five rams, five hegoats, five sheep of the first year; this was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.


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On the eighth day Gamliel the son of Pedahzur, the prince of the children of Menasseh, <i>did offer</i>:


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And for a sacrifice of peaceoffering, two oxen, five rams, five hegoats, five sheep of the first year; this was the offering of Gamliel the son of Pedahzur.


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On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gidoni, the prince of the children of Benjamin, <i>did offer</i>:


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His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was a 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 meatoffering.


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And for a sacrifice of peaceoffering, two oxen, five rams, five hegoats, five sheep of the first year; this was the offering of Abidan the son of Gidoni.


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On the tenth day Achiezer the son of Ammishaddai, the prince of the children of Dan, <i>did offer</i>:


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And for a sacrifice of peaceoffering, two oxen, five rams, five hegoats, five sheep of the first year; this was the offering of Achiezer the son of Ammishaddai.


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On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran, the prince of the children of Asher, <i>did offer</i>:


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And for a sacrifice of peaceoffering, two oxen, five rams, five hegoats, five sheep of the first year; this was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran.


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On the twelfth day Achira the son of Enan, the prince of the children of Naphtali, <i>did offer</i>:


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And for a sacrifice of peaceoffering, two oxen, five rams, five hegoats, five sheep of the first year; this was the offering of Achira the son of Enan.


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This was the dedicationoffering of the altar, on the day when it was anointed, from the princes of Israel: Twelve silver chargers, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden spoons;


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A hundred and thirty shekels was the weight of each silver charger, and seventy of each bowl; the silver of all the vessels was two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;


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Twelve golden spoons, full of incense; ten shekels was the weight of each spoon, after the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the spoons was a hundred and twenty shekels.


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all the oxen for the burntoffering were twelve bullocks, the rams were twelve, the sheep of the first year twelve, with their meatoffering; and the hegoats for sinoffering were twelve.


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And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peaceofferings were twenty and four bullocks, the rams were sixty, the hegoats sixty, the sheep of the first year sixty: this was the dedication offering of the altar, after it had been anointed.


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And when Moses went into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with Him, then heard he the voice speaking unto him from off the mercyseat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubim: and thus he spoke unto him.


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Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, then shall the seven lamps give light toward the body of the candlestick.


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And Aaron did so; toward the body of the candlestick did he light its lamps; as the Lord had commanded Moses.


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And this was the workmanship of the candlestick: It was of beaten gold, from the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, it was beaten work; according unto the pattern which the Lord had shown Moses, so made he the candlestick.


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And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle upon them water of purification, after they have let the razor pass over all their flesh, and then let them wash their clothes, and so shall they be clean.


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And they shall take a young bullock with his meatoffering, fine flour mingled with oil; and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sinoffering.


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And thou shalt bring near the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt assemble together the whole congregation of the children of Israel.


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And when thou hast brought near the Levites before the Lord, then shall the children of Israel lay their hands upon the Levites:


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And Aaron shall make with the Levites a waving before the Lord from the children of Israel, that they may be ready to execute the service of the Lord.


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And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt prepare the one as a sinoffering, and the other as a burntoffering, unto the Lord, to make an atonement for the Levites.


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And thou shalt place the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and make with them a waving before the Lord.


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Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from the midst of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.


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And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: after thou shalt have cleansed them, and made with them a waving.


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For they are wholly given unto me from the midst of the children of Israel: instead of every one that openeth the womb, of every firstborn of the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me.


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


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And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from the midst of 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 unto the sanctuary.


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


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And the Levites purified themselves, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron made with them a waving 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 unto them.


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This shall be the rule for the Levites: From twenty and five years old and upward shall he go into the ranks to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation;


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And from the age of fifty years shall he go out of the ranks of the service, and he shall serve no more;


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But he shall wait on his brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, but the service shall he not perform; thus shalt thou do unto the Levites in the discharge of their office.


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And the Lord spoke unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the second year after their coming out of the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying,


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On the fourteenth day of this month, toward evening, shall ye prepare it at its appointed season: according to all its ordinances, and according to all its prescribed rules, shall ye prepare it.


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And they prepared the passoverlamb on the fourteenth day of the first month toward evening in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.


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But there were certain men, who had been defiled by the dead body of a man, and they could not prepare the passoverlamb on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.


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And these men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore shall we be kept back, so as not to offer the sacrifice of the Lord at its appointed season in the midst of the <i>other</i> children of Israel?


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Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man whatever should be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be on a distant journey, among you or your posterity: yet shall he prepare the passoverlamb unto the Lord;


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In the second month on the fourteenth day toward evening shall they prepare it, with unleavened bread and bitter herbs shall they eat it.


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They shall leave none of it until morning, and no bone shall they break on it: according to the whole ordinance of the passoverlamb shall they prepare it.


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But the man that is clean, and is not on a journey, and forbeareth to prepare the passoverlamb, even that same soul shall be cut off from his people; because the offering of the Lord hath he not brought at its appointed season, his sin shall that man bear.


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And if a stranger sojourn among you, and will prepare the passoverlamb unto the Lord: according to the ordinance of the passoverlamb, and according to its prescribed rule, so shall he prepare it; one statute shall be for you, both for the stranger, and for the native born in the land.


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And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle of the tent of the testimony: and in the evening there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.


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And as the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that did the children of Israel journey forward: and in the place where the cloud halted, there did the children of Israel encamp.


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At the order of the Lord did the children of Israel journey forward, and at the order of the Lord they encamped: all the days that the cloud abode upon the tabernacle did they remain in camp.


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And when the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle many days, then did the children of Israel keep the charge of the Lord, and journeyed not forward.


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And at times it was, that the cloud remained but a few days upon the tabernacle; at the order of the Lord they abode in camp, and at the order of the Lord they journeyed forward.


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And at times it was, that the cloud remained from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they journeyed forward; or a day and a night, and when the cloud was taken up, they journeyed forward;


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Or two days, or a month, or a year; so long as the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, to remain thereon, did the children of Israel remain encamped, and journeyed not forward; but when it was taken up, they journeyed forward.


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At the order of the Lord they remained in camp, and at the order of the Lord they journeyed forward: the charge of the Lord they kept, at the order of the Lord by the hand of Moses.


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Make unto thyself two trumpets of silver, beaten out of one piece shalt thou make them; and they shall serve thee for the calling of the congregation, and for the setting forward of the camps.


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And when they shall blow with both, all the congregation shall assemble themselves unto thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And if they blow with but one, then shall assemble themselves unto thee the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel.


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And when ye blow an alarm the second time, then shall set forward the camps that encamp on the south side: an alarm shall they blow for their setting forward.


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


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And if ye go to war in your land against the oppressor that oppresseth you, then shall ye blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the Lord your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.


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And on the day of your gladness, and on your appointed festivals, and on the beginnings of your months, shall ye blow with the trumpets over your burntofferings, and over the sacrifices of your peaceofferings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the Lord your God.


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


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And the children of Israel set forward on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud halted in the wilderness of Paran.


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And the standard of the camp of the children of Judah set forward at the first, according to their armies: and over their host was Nachshon the son of Amminadab.


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And <i>in the mean time</i> the tabernacle was taken down; and then set forward the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, the bearers of the tabernacle.


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


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And then set forward the Kehathites, the bearers of the sanctuary: and the others set up the tabernacle against they came.


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


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Then set forward the standard of the camp of the children of Dan, the rereward of all the camps, according to their hosts: and over their host was Achiezer the son of Ammishaddai.


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


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And Moses said unto Chobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, the fatherinlaw of Moses, We are journeying unto the place of which the Lord hath said, This will I give unto you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good; for the Lord hath spoken <i>to bring</i> good upon Israel.


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And he said, Do not, I pray thee, leave us; since thou didst find out the places where we were to encamp in the wilderness, and thou hast been to us instead of eyes.


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And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that the same goodness which the Lord may do unto us, will we do unto thee.


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And they set forward from the mount of the Lord a three days journey; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them in the three days journey, to search out for them a restingplace.


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And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, Lord, and let thy enemies be scattered; and let those that hate thee flee before thy face.


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And it came to pass that as the people complained in a manner displeasing in the ears of the Lord, the Lord heard it, and his anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed at the uttermost part of the camp.


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And the mixed multitude that was among them felt a lustful longing: 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 could eat in Egypt for naught; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;


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The people went about and gathered it, and ground it in a mill, or pounded it in a mortar, and boiled it in a pot, or made cakes of it: and its taste was as the taste of cakes mixed with oil.


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And Moses heard the people weep according to their families, every man at the door of his tent: and the anger of the Lord was kindled greatly; and in the eyes of Moses also was it displeasing.


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And Moses said unto the Lord, Wherefore hast thou done evil to thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favor in thy eyes, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?


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Was it I who have conceived all this people? or was it I who have begotten them? that thou shouldst say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou hast sworn unto their fathers?


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Whence shall I obtain flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep around me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.


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And if thou wilt thus deal with me, then slay me, I pray thee, at once, if I have found favor in thy eyes: that I may not see my wretchedness.


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And the Lord said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and its officers; and take them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall stand there with thee.


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And I will come down and speak with thee there: and I will take some of the spirit which is upon thee, and I will put it upon them; and they shall bear with thee the burden of the people, and thou shalt not bear it by thyself alone.


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And unto the people shalt thou say, Hold yourselves ready against tomorrow, that ye may eat flesh; for ye have wept in the ears of the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was better with us in Egypt: thus will the Lord give you flesh, and ye shall eat.


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But up to a full month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it become loathsome unto you; because that ye have despised the Lord who is in the midst of you, and ye have wept before him, saying, Why did we come forth out of Egypt?


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And Moses said, Six hundred thousand men on foot is the people, in the midst of whom I am; and yet thou hast said, Flesh will I give them, that they may eat a whole month.


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Shall flocks and herds be slain for them, that they may suffice for them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, that they may suffice for them?


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And the Lord said unto Moses, Should the Lords hand be too short? now shalt thou see whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.


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And Moses went out, and spoke to the people the words of the Lord; and he assembled seventy men from the elders of the people, and placed them round about the tabernacle.


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And the Lord came down in a cloud and spoke unto him; and he took some of the spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy men, the elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, but they did not so any more.


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And there remained two 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 those that were written down, but they had not gone out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp.


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And there ran a young man, and told to Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.


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And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses from his youth, answered and said, My Lord Moses, forbid them.


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And Moses said unto him, Art thou zealous for my sake? And oh that one might render all the people of the Lord prophets, that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!


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And a wind went forth from the Lord, and drove up quails from the sea, and scattered them over the camp, about a days journey on this side, and about a days journey on the other side, round about the camp, and about two cubits high over the face of the earth.


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And the people arose all that day, and all that night, and all the following day, and they gathered the quails; he that had taken the least, had gathered ten chomers: and they spread them out for themselves round about the camp.


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The flesh was yet between their teeth, it was not yet chewed: when the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote among the people a very great plague.


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And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah; because there they buried the people that had lustfully craved.


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And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses, on account of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married; for an Ethiopian woman had he married.


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And they said, Hath then only with Moses the Lord spoken? hath he not also spoken with us? And the Lord heard it.


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And the Lord said suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Go out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation; and these three went out.


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And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the tabernacle; and he called Aaron and Miriam, and both of them went out.


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And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet of your kind, I, the Lord, do make myself known unto him in a vision, in a dream do I speak with him.


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Mouth to mouth do I speak with him, even evidently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the Lord doth he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?


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And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, <i>white</i> as snow; and Aaron turned toward Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.


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Then said Aaron unto Moses, Alas, my Lord, do not, I beseech thee, account to us as sin that wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.


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Let her not be as a deadborn child, of which half the flesh is consumed, when it cometh out of its mothers womb.


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And the Lord said unto Moses, If her father had spit in her face, would she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut up seven days outside of the camp, and after that let her be brought in again.


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And Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days; and the people did not set forward till Miriam was brought in again.


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Send thou out some men that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: one man each of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send, every one who is a prince among them.


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And Moses sent them out from the wilderness of Paran by the order of the Lord: they all were men, <i>who</i> were heads of the children of Israel.


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These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land; and Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun, Joshua <i>Yehoshua</i>.


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And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and he said unto them, Go you up this way at the south side, and go up into the mountain;


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And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwell therein, whether they be strong or weak, whether they be few or many;


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And what the land is on which they dwell, whether it be good or bad; and what the cities are in which they dwell, whether in open places, or in strongholds;


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And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be trees therein, or not; and take ye courage, and take away some of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the season of the first ripening of grapes.


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And they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rechob, on the road to Chamath.


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And they ascended on the south side, and came unto Hebron; and there were Achiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak; <i>now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.</i>


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And they came unto the valley of Eshcol, and they cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it upon a barrow between two; and <i>they took some</i> of the pomegranates and of the figs.


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That place was called the valley of Eshcol, on account of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.


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


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And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou didst send us, and truly doth it flow with milk and honey; and this is its fruit.


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Nevertheless the people are strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are very strongly walled, and great; and the children of Anak also have we seen there.


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The Amalekites dwell in the southern country; and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Emorites, dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the margin of the Jordan.


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And Caleb stilled the people toward Moses, and he said, We can easily go up, and take possession of it; for we are well able to overcome it.


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


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And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out unto the children of Israel, saying, The land through which we have passed to spy it out, is a land that consumeth its inhabitants; 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, of the giants <i>family</i>: and we were in our own eyes as grasshoppers, and so were we in their eyes.


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And all the people murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and the whole congregation said unto them, Oh who would grant that we had died in the land of Egypt! or that we might but die in this wilderness!


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And wherefore doth the Lord bring us unto yonder land, to fall by the sword? that our wives and our children may become a prey? is it not better for us to return to Egypt?


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Then fell Moses and Aaron 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 Yephunneh, of those that had spied out the land, rent their garments.


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And they said unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, as followeth, The land, through which we have passed to spy it out, this land is exceedingly good.


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If the Lord have delight in us, then will he bring us into this land, and give it to us: a land which is flowing with milk and honey.


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Only against the Lord do ye not rebel; and then ye need not fear the people of the land; for they are our bread: their shadow is departed from them, while the Lord is with us; fear them not.


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But all the congregation said to stone them with stones: when the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation unto all the children of Israel.


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And the Lord said unto Moses, How long yet shall this people provoke me? and how long yet will they not believe in me, with all the signs which I have shown in the midst of them?


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I will smite them with the pestilence, and root them out, and I will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.


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And Moses said unto the Lord, But when the Egyptian hear, from the midst of whom thou hast brought up in thy might this people; 


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And when they tell to the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that thou, Lord, art in the midst of this people, that face to face thou, Lord, art seen, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that in a pillar of cloud thou goest before them by day, and in a pillar of fire by night; 


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That thou hast killed this people as one man: then will the nations that have heard thy fame, say in this manner,


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That because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he had sworn unto them, hath he slain them in the wilderness.


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And now, I beseech thee, let the greatness of the power of the Lord be made manifest, as thou hast spoken, saying,


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The Eternal is longsuffering, and abundant in beneficence, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.


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Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of thy beneficence, and as thou hast been indulgent to this people, from Egypt even until hitherto.


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That all the men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I have displayed in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice,


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Shall surely not see the land which I have sworn unto their fathers, yea all those that have provoked me shall not see it.


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But my servant Caleb, as a reward that he had another spirit with him, and followed me fully,therefore will I bring him into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.


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And the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn you, and set forward into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.


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How long <i>shall indulgence be given</i> to this evil congregation, that murmur against me? the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me, have I heard.


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Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:


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In this wilderness shall your carcasses fall, and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward; ye who have murmured against me;


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Truly ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I have lifted up my hand to let you dwell therein; save Caleb the son of Yephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.


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But your little ones of which ye said, They would become a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.


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And your children shall wander about in the wilderness forty years, and bear your backslidings, until your carcasses be spent in the wilderness.


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After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, forty days, yea, each one day for a year, shall ye bear for your iniquities, forty years; and ye shall experience my withdrawal <i>of protection</i>.


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I the Lord have spoken it, surely, this will I do unto all this evil congregation that have assembled against me: in this wilderness shall they be spent, and therein shall they die.


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


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Even these men, that had brought up the evil report of the land, died by the plague before the Lord.


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But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Yephunneh, remained alive of those men, who had gone to spy out the land.


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And they rose up early in the morning, and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, here we are, and we will go up unto the place of which the Lord hath spoken; for we have sinned.


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For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye will fall by the sword; since, because ye are turned away from the Lord, the Lord also will not be with you.


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Yet they persisted to go up unto the top of the mountain; but the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and Moses, did not move out of the camp.


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Then came down the Amalekites, and the Canaanites that dwelt on that mountain, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Chormah.


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Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, When ye shall have come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you,


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And ye will prepare a fireoffering unto the Lord, a burntoffering, or a sacrifice, in performing a pronounced vow, or as a freewilloffering, or on your solemn feasts, to prepare a sweet savor unto the Lord, of the herds of the flocks:


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Then shall he that bringeth his offering unto the Lord, bring as a meatoffering a tenth part of fine flour mingled with the fourth of a hin of oil.


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And wine for a drinkoffering, the fourth of a hin, shalt thou prepare with the burntoffering or sacrifice, for each one sheep.


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But for a ram, shalt thou prepare as a meatoffering two tenth parts of fine flour mingled with the third of a hin of oil.


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And wine for the drinkoffering, the third of a hin, shalt thou bring, for a sweet savor unto the Lord.


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And when thou preparest a bullock for a burntoffering, or for a sacrifice, in performing a pronounced vow, or a peaceoffering unto the Lord:


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Then shall he bring with the bullock as a meatoffering, three tenth parts of fine flour mingled with half a hin of oil.


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And wine shalt thou bring for a drinkoffering, half a hin, as a fireoffering of a sweet savor unto the Lord.


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Thus shall it be done for each one bullock, or for each one ram, or for a lamb, be it of the sheep or of the goats.


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All that are born in the country shall do these things after this manner, in offering a fireoffering of a sweet savor unto the Lord.


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And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever may be among you in your generations, and will make an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the Lord: as ye do, so shall he do.


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Congregation! one statute shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth: a statute for ever in your generations; as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord.


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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you:


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Then shall it be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall set aside a heaveoffering unto the Lord.


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As the first of your doughs shall ye set aside a cake for a heaveoffering; like the heaveoffering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye set this aside.


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All that the Lord hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the Lord commanded <i>the same</i> and thenceforward, among your generations:


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Then shall it be, if, through inadvertence of the congregation, it was committed by ignorance, that all the congregation shall prepare one young bullock for a burntoffering, for a sweet savor unto the Lord, with his meatoffering, and his drinkoffering, according to the prescribed manner, and one hegoat for a sinoffering.


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And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven unto them; for it is <i>a sin of</i> ignorance; and they have brought their offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord, and their sinoffering before the Lord, for their <i>sin of</i> ignorance:


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And it shall be forgiven unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them; for by all the people <i>was it done</i> in ignorance.


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And if any person sin through ignorance, then shall he bring a shegoat of the first year for a sinoffering.


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And the priest shall make an atonement for the person that hath erred, in his sinning through ignorance before the Lord; to make an atonement for him, that it may be forgiven unto him.


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For the native born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them:one law shall be for you, for him that acteth through ignorance.


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But the person that doth aught with a high hand, be he one born in the land, or a stranger, the same dishonoreth the Lord; and that person shall be cut off from among his people.


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Because the word of the Lord hath he despised, and his commandment hath he broken; that person shall be cut off, his iniquity is upon him.


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And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks upon the sabbathday.


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And they that found him gathering sticks brought him for judgment unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.


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And the Lord said unto Moses, The man shall be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.


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And all the congregation brought him forth to without the camp, and they stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord had commanded Moses.


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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say to them, that they shall make themselves fringes on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and that they shall put upon the fringe of the corner a thread of blue:


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And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them; and that ye seek not after <i>the inclination of</i> your own heart and <i>the delight of</i> your eyes, in pursuit of which ye have been led astray.


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


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Now Korach, the son of Yizhar, the son of Kehath, the son of Levi, was presumptuous, together with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben:


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So that they rose up before Moses, with certain men of the children of Israel, in number two hundred and fifty; <i>who were</i> princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown.


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And they assembled themselves against Moses, and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye assume too much; for the whole of the congregation are all of them holy, and the Lord is among them; wherefore then will you lift yourselves up above the congregation of the Lord?


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And he spoke unto Korach and unto all his company, saying, Tomorrow,then will the Lord make known who is his, and who is holy, that he may cause them to come near unto him; and him whom he shall choose will he cause to come near unto him.


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And put therein fire, and put upon them incense before the Lord, tomorrow; and it shall be that the man whom the Lord will choose, he shall be the holy one; you assume too much, ye sons of Levi.


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It is too little for you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near unto himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the congregation to minister for them?


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And he hath brought thee near, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and now will ye seek the priesthood also?


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For which cause <i>beware</i>, thou and all thy company that are gathered together against the Lord; for Aaron, what is he, that ye should murmur against him:


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Is it too little that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that thou wilt assume to make thyself also a prince over us?


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Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, and thou hast not given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou bore out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.


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And this displeased Moses greatly, and he said unto the Lord, Have no respect unto their offering: I have not taken away an ass of any one of them, nor have I done wrong to any one of them.


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And Moses said unto Korach, Thou and all thy company, be ye before the Lord, thou, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow:


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And take ye every man his censer, and put incense upon them, and bring ye near before the Lord every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each his censer.


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And they took every man his censer, and put fire on them, and laid incense thereupon; and they stood at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.


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And Korach assembled against them all the congregation unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation; and the glory of the Lord then appeared unto all the congregation.


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Separate yourselves from the midst of this congregation, and I will make an end of them in a moment.


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And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, this one man doth sin, and with all the congregation wouldst thou be wroth!


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Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you away from about the dwelling of Korach, Dathan, and Abiram.


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And he spoke unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing which belongeth to them, lest ye be destroyed through all their sins.


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So they got away from the dwelling of Korach, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, standing <i>boldly</i> at the door of their tents, with their wives, and their sons, and their little ones.


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And Moses said, Through this shall ye know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these deeds; that <i>I have</i> not done them out of my own heart.


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If these men die as all men die, and if the visitation of all men be visited on them: then hath the Lord not sent me.


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But if the Lord do create a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertaineth unto them, and they go down alive into the pit: then shall ye understand that these men have provoked the Lord.


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


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


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And they went down, they, and all they that appertained to them, alive into the pit; and the earth closed over them, and they disappeared from the midst of the congregation.


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And all Israel that were round about them fled at their cry; for they said, Perhaps the earth may swallow us up <i>also</i>.


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


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<n>(17:2)</n> Speak unto Elazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he lift up the censers out of the burning, and throw out the fire far away; for they have been hallowed:


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<n>(17:3)</n> The censers of these sinners against their own lives; and they shall make of them broad plates for a covering for the altar; for they brought them near before the Lord, and they have thus become hallowed; and they shall serve for a sign unto the children of Israel.


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<n>(17:4)</n> And Elazar the priest took the copper censers, which they that were burnt had brought near; and they beat them out for a covering unto the altar:


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<n>(17:5)</n> As a memorial unto the children of Israel, in order that no stranger, who is not of the seed of Aaron, should come near to burn incense before the Lord; that he become not as Korach, and as his company; as the Lord had spoken to him by the hand of Moses.


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<n>(17:6)</n> And all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, on the morrow, saying, It is you who have caused the people of the Lord to die.


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<n>(17:7)</n> And it came to pass, when the congregation assembled 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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<n>(17:10)</n> Remove yourselves from the midst of this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.


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<n>(17:11)</n> And Moses said unto Aaron, Take the censer, and put therein fire from off the altar, and put on incense, and carry <i>it</i> quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them; for the wrath is gone forth from the Lord; the plague hath begun.


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<n>(17:12)</n> And Aaron took as Moses had commanded, and he ran into the midst of the assembly; and, behold, the plague had begun among the people: and he put on the incense, and made an atonement for the people.


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<n>(17:14)</n> And those who died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those that had died about the matter of Korach.


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<n>(17:15)</n> And Aaron returned unto Moses, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, after the plague had been stayed.


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<n>(17:17)</n> Speak unto the children of Israel, and take from them one staff each for a family division, from all their princes, according to their family divisions, twelve staves: the name of each man shalt thou write upon his staff.


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<n>(17:18)</n> And the name of Aaron shalt thou write upon the staff of Levi; for there shall be but one staff for the head of their family division.


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<n>(17:19)</n> And thou shalt lay them down in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I usually meet with you.


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<n>(17:20)</n> And it shall come to pass, that the staff of the man whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will allay from around me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you.


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<n>(17:21)</n> And Moses spoke unto the children of Israel, and all their princes gave him each a staff, one for every prince, according to their family divisions, twelve staves: and the staff of Aaron was among their staves.


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<n>(17:23)</n> And it came to pass on the morrow, that as Moses went into the tabernacle of the testimony, behold, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had budded; and it brought forth buds, and produced blossoms, and yielded ripe almonds.


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<n>(17:24)</n> And Moses brought out all the staves from before the Lord unto all the children of Israel; and they looked <i>at them</i>, and took away every one his staff.


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<n>(17:25)</n> And the Lord said unto Moses, Carry back the staff of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept as a token against the children of rebellion, that there may be an end of their murmurings from around me, and they die not.


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<n>(17:27)</n> And the children of Israel said unto Moses, thus, Behold, we perish, we are lost, we are all lost.


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<n>(17:28)</n> Every one that cometh near at all unto the tabernacle of the Lord must die: shall we totally perish?


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And the Lord said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy fathers house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.


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And also thy brethren, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou near with thee, that they may be joined with thee, and minister unto thee; while thou and thy sons with thee shall be before the tabernacle of the testimony.


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And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only unto the vessels of the sanctuary and unto the altar shall they not come near, that they may not die, either they or you.


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And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, respecting all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.


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And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar; that there be not any more wrath upon the children of Israel.


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And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from the midst of the children of Israel; unto you are they given as a gift for the Lord, to perform the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priesthood concerning every matter of the altar, and for that within the vail, where ye shall serve: as a service of gift do I give you your priesthood; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.


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And the Lord spoke unto Aaron, And I, behold, I give thee the charge of my heaveofferings; of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel, unto thee have I given them as an official portion, and to thy sons, as a fixed right for ever.


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This shall belong to thee of the most holy things, from the fire<i>offerings</i>: every oblation of theirs, namely, every meatoffering of theirs, and every sinoffering of theirs, and every, trespassoffering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall, as most holy things, belong to thee and to thy sons.


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And this shall be thine, as the heaveoffering of their gift, of all the waveofferings of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, as a fixed portion for ever: every one that is clean in thy house may eat thereof.


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All the best of oil, and all the best of wine, and of corn, the firstfruits thereof which they shall offer unto the Lord, to thee have I given them.


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The first ripe fruit of whatsoever is in their land, which they may bring unto the Lord, shall be thine: every one that is clean in thy house may eat thereof.


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Whatever openeth the womb of all flesh, which they bring unto the Lord, be it of men or of cattle, shall be thine: nevertheless thou shalt redeem the firstborn of man, and the firstling of the unclean cattle shalt thou redeem.


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And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to the usual estimation of five shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.


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But the firstling of an ox, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: their blood shalt thou sprinkle upon the altar, and their fat shalt thou burn as a fireoffering, for a sweet savor unto the Lord.


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And their flesh shall be thine: as the breast that is waved and as the right shoulder shall it be thine.


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All the heaveofferings of the holy things, which the children of Israel set apart unto the Lord, I have given to thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, as a fixed portion for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord for thee and for thy seed with thee.


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And the Lord said unto Aaron, In their land shalt thou have no inheritance, and any portion shalt thou not have among them: I am thy portion and thy inheritance among the children of Israel.


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And to the children of Levi, behold, I have given every tithe in Israel, for an inheritance, in lieu of their service which they render, the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And the children of Israel shall not henceforth come nigh unto the tabernacle of the congregation, to bear sin, to die thereby.


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But they of the tribe of Levi themselves shall perform the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: a statute for ever shall it be throughout your generations; and among the children of Israel shall they not possess any inheritance.


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But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as a heaveoffering unto the Lord, have I given to the Levites for an inheritance: therefore have I said unto them, Among the children of Israel shall they obtain no inheritance.


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And unto the Levites shalt thou speak, and say unto them, When ye take from the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance: then shall ye separate therefrom a heaveoffering of the Lord, the tenth part of the tithe.


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And your heaveoffering shall be reckoned unto you, like the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.


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Thus shall ye also offer a heaveoffering unto the Lord from all your tithes, which ye may receive from the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the heaveoffering of the Lord to Aaron the priest.


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From all your gifts shall ye set apart every heaveoffering of the Lord, from every best part thereof, its hallowed portion therefrom.


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And thou shalt say unto them, When ye have separated the best thereof from it: then shall <i>the remainder</i> be counted unto the Levites as the produce of the threshingfloor, and as the produce of the winepress.


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And ye may eat it in every place, ye and your households; for it is your reward in lieu of your service at the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And ye shall not bear any sin by reason of it, when ye have separated its best part from it: and the holy things of the children of Israel shall ye not profane, lest ye die.


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This is the statute of the law which the Lord hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee a completely red cow, on which there is no blemish, upon which no yoke hath ever come.


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And ye shall give her unto Elazar the priest, and he shall lead her forth to without the camp, and some one shall slay her before his face:


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And Elazar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger; and he shall sprinkle in the direction of the front of the tabernacle of the congregation of her blood seven times.


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And some one shall burn the cow before his eyes; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn.


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And the priest shall take cedarwood, and hyssop, and a scarlet string, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the cow.


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


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And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water; and he shall be unclean until the evening.


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And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the cow, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of sprinkling: it is a purificationoffering.


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And he that gathereth up the ashes of the cow shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.


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Such a one shall purify himself with it on the third day and on the seventh day, when he shall be clean; but if he purify himself not on the third day and on the seventh day, he shall not be clean.


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Whosoever toucheth the dead body, the person of any man that is dead, and purifieth himself not, hath defiled the tabernacle of the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel; because the water of sprinkling was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.


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This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: Every one that cometh into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.


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And whosoever toucheth in the open field one that hath been slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.


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And they shall take for the unclean person some of the ashes of the burnt purificationoffering, and they shall put thereupon running water in a vessel.


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


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And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and when he hath purified him on the seventh day, then shall he wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.


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But a man that is unclean, and doth not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation; because the sanctuary of the Lord hath he defiled; the water of sprinkling hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.


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And it shall be unto them for a perpetual statute; and he that sprinkleth the water of sprinkling shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of sprinkling shall be unclean until the evening.


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And whatsoever the unclean person may touch shall be unclean; and the person that toucheth him shall be unclean until the evening.


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And the children of Israel, the whole congregation, came 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 assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.


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And the people quarreled with Moses, and said thus, Oh that we had but perished when our brethren perished before the Lord!


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And why have ye brought the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, to die there, we and our cattle!


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And wherefore have ye caused us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place for sowing, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; and water even there is none to drink.


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And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the Lord appeared unto them.


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Take the staff, and gather the assembly together, thou, with Aaron thy brother, and ye shall speak unto the rock before their eyes, that it shall give forth its water; and thou shalt bring forth for them water out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their cattle.


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And Moses and Aaron assembled the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels! shall we out of this rock bring forth water for you?


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And Moses lifted up his hand, and he smote the rock with his staff twice: and there came out much water, and the congregation drank, together with their cattle.


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And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye have not confided in me, to sanctify me before the eyes of the children of Israel: therefore shall ye not bring this congregation into the land which I have given to them.


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These are the waters of Meribah; where the children of Israel quarreled with the Lord, and through which he was sanctified.


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And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus hath said thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the hardship that hath befallen us.


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How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt many days; and the Egyptians did evil to us, and to our fathers:


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And we cried unto the Lord, and he heard our voice, and he sent a messenger, and caused us to go forth out of Egypt; and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city at the outmost end of thy border.


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Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy country; we will not pass through field, or through vineyard, and we will not drink the water of the wells: by the kings highway will we go, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy border.


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And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass through my land, lest I come against thee with the sword.


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And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the highway: and if we drink of thy water, I and my cattle, then will I pay its value; I will do thee no injury, only on foot will I pass through.


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And he said, Thou shalt not pass through; and Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.


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And they set forward from Kadesh; and the children of Israel, the whole congregation, came unto mount Hor.


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And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron at mount Hor, by the boundary of the land of Edom, as followeth,


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Aaron shall be gathered unto his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my order at the waters of Meribah.


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And cause Aaron to take off his garments, and clothe therewith Elazar his son; and Aaron shall be gathered in, and he shall die there.


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And Moses did as the Lord had commanded; and they went up to mount Hor before the eyes of all the congregation.


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And Moses caused Aaron to take off his garments, and he clothed therewith Elazar his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mount; and Moses and Elazar then came down from the mount.


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


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And when the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the south, heard that Israel was coming by the way of the spies: he made an attack on Israel, and took from them some prisoners.


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And Israel made a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou wilt but deliver this people into my hand, then will I devote their cities.


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And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, and he delivered up the Canaanites; and they devoted them and their cities: and they called the name of the place Chormah.


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And they set forward from mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to go round the land of Edom: and the spirit of the people became impatient because of the way.


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And the people spoke against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loatheth this miserable bread.


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And the Lord let loose against the people poisonous serpents, and they bit the people; and there died much people of Israel.


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And the people then came to Moses, and they said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away from us the serpents. And Moses prayed for the people.


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And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thyself a serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that whoever is bitten shall look at it, and he shall live.


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And Moses made a serpent of copper, and put it upon a pole; and it came to pass, that, when a serpent had bitten any man, and he looked up to the serpent of copper, he remained alive.


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And they journeyed from Oboth, and encamped at Iyehaabarim, in the wilderness, which is before Moab, toward the rising of the sun.


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From there they set forward, and encamped on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness, and which cometh out of the boundary of the Emorites; for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and between the Emorites.


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Therefore mention is made in the book of the wars of the Lord, of Vaheb in Supha, and of the brooks of Arnon,


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And the descent of the brooks, that turneth toward ShebethAr, and leaneth upon the border of Moab;


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And from there to the well; this is the well where the Lord said unto Moses, Assemble the people and I will give them water.


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Well, which the princes have dug, which the nobles of the people have hollowed out with the sceptre, with their staves; and from the wilderness to Mattanah;


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And from Bamoth to the valley, which is in the fields of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward the desert.


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Let me pass through thy land; we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink the water of a well: by the kings highway will we go along, until we have passed thy border.


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But Sichon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border; and Sichon assembled all his people together; and went out against Israel into the wilderness; and he came to Yahaz, and fought against Israel.


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And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from Arnon unto Yabbok, even unto 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 Emorites, in Cheshbon, and in all the villages thereof.


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For Cheshbon was the city of Sichon the king of the Emorites; and he had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, up to the Arnon.


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For a fire is gone out of Cheshbon, a flame from the city of Sichon: it hath consumed ArMoab, the men of the high places of the Arnon.


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Woe to thee, Moab! thou art lost, O people of Kemosh: he hath suffered his sons to become fugitives, and his daughters to go into captivity, unto the king of the Emorites, Sichon.


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We have thrown them down; lost is Cheshbon even unto Dibon, and we have laid waste <i>all</i> up to Nophach, which reacheth unto Medeba.


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And Moses sent to spy out Yazer, and they captured the villages thereof, and drove out the Emorites that were there.


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And they turned and went up by the way to 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 unto Moses, Fear him not; for into thy hand have I delivered him, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do unto him as thou hast done unto Sichon, the king of the Emorites, who dwelt at Cheshbon.


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And they smote him and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left unto him that escaped; and they took possession of his land.


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And the children of Israel set forward, and encamped in the plains of Moab, on this side of the Jordan, opposite Jericho.


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And Moab was greatly afraid of the people, because it was numerous; and Moab was horrified because of the children of Israel.


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And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now will this assemblage devour all that is round about us, as the ox devoureth the grass of the field; and Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.


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And he sent messengers unto Bilam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river, in the land of the children of his people, to have him called; saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt; behold, it covereth the surface of the earth, and it is abiding opposite to me:


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And now do but come, curse me this people; for it is too mighty for me; peradventure I may be able to smite it, that I may drive it out of the land; for I know that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest 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 unto Bilam, and spoke unto him the words of Balak.


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And he said unto them, Remain you here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the Lord may speak unto me; and the princes of Moab abode with Bilam.


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And Bilam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, the king of Moab, hath sent unto me, <i>saying,</i>


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Behold, there is the people that is come out of Egypt, and covereth the face of the earth: now come, denounce it for me; peradventure I shall be able to fight against it, and drive it away.


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And God said unto Bilam, Thou shalt not go with them: thou shalt not curse the people; for it is blessed.


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And Bilam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Go back to your land; for the Lord refuseth to give me leave to go with you.


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And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said, Bilam refuseth to come with us.


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And they came to Bilam, and said to him, Thus hath said Balak the son of Zippor, Do not suffer thyself, I pray thee, to be prevented from coming unto me;


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For I will honor thee greatly, and whatsoever thou mayest say unto me will I do: and only come, I pray thee, denounce me this people.


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And Bilam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not transgress the order of the Lord my God, to do a small or a great thing.


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And now, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the Lord will farther speak with me.


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And God came unto Bilam at night, and said unto him, If to call thee the men have come, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I shall speak unto thee, that shalt thou do.


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And the anger of God was kindled, because he went; and an angel of the Lord placed himself in the way to be a hindrance to him; and 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, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Bilam smote the ass, to make her turn into the way.


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But the angel of the Lord stepped into a path between the vineyards, <i>with</i> a wall on this side, and a wall on that side.


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And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she forced herself against the wall, and pressed Bilams foot against the wall: and he smote her again.


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And the angel of the Lord went yet farther, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right or to the left.


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And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she lay down under Bilam: whereupon Bilams anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a stick.


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And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Bilam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?


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And Bilam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: had I but a sword in my hand, I would assuredly have now killed thee.


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And the ass said unto Bilam, Am not I thy ass, upon which thou hast ridden from thy commencement unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? and he said, No.


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Then the Lord opened the eyes of Bilam, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head and prostrated himself on his face.


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And the angel of the Lord said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thy ass these three times? behold, I went out to be a hindrance; because the journey which is odious to me was too quickly begun.


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And the ass saw me, and turned aside before me these three times; if she had not turned aside from me, I would surely now not only have slain thee, but saved her alive.


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And Bilam said unto the angel of the Lord, I have sinned; for I knew not that thou wast standing against me in the way; but now, if it be evil in thy eyes, I will return home again.


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And the angel of the Lord said unto Bilam, Go with the men; however, only the word which I will speak unto thee, that shalt thou speak: and Bilam went with the princes of Balak.


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And when Balak heard that Bilam was come, he went out to meet him unto IrMoab, which is on the border of Arnon, which is at the outmost end of the boundary.


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And Balak said unto Bilam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to have thee called? wherefore camest thou not unto me? in truth, am I not able to honor thee?


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And Bilam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee; have I now any power whatever to speak the least? the word that God may put in my mouth, that alone must I speak.


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And it came to pass in the morning, that Balak took Bilam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, and he saw thence a portion of the people.


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And Bilam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.


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


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And Bilam said unto Balak, Place thyself by thy burntoffering; and I will go, peradventure the Lord will come to meet me, and whatsoever he may show me I will tell thee: and he went thoughtfully alone.


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And God met Bilam: and he said unto him, The seven altars have I made ready, and I have offered a bullock and a ram upon every altar.


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And he returned unto him, and, lo, he was standing by his burntoffering, he, and all the princes of Moab.


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And he took up his parable, and said, From Aram did Balak send for me, the king of Moab, out of the mountains of the east, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.


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How shall I denounce, whom God hath not denounced? and how shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied?


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For from the top of rocks I see him, and from hills I behold him: lo, it is a people that shall dwell alone, and among the nations it shall not be reckoned.


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Who can count the dust of Jacob, and number the fourth part of Israel? May my soul die the death of the righteous, and may my last end be like his!


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And Balak said unto Bilam, What hast thou done unto me? to denounce my enemies did I take thee, and, behold, thou hast even blessed them.


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And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that only which the Lord may put in my mouth?


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And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from where thou canst see them; nevertheless a portion of them only wilt thou see, but the whole of them thou wilt not see: and denounce them for me from there.


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And he brought him to the field of the watchmen, on the top of Pisgah, and he built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.


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And he said unto Balak, Place thyself here by thy burntoffering, while I will repair to yonder place.


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And the Lord met Bilam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.


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And he came to him, and, behold, he was standing by his burntoffering, and the princes of Moab with him; and Balak said unto him: What hath the Lord spoken?


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And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; bend hither thy ear unto me, son of Zippor!


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God is not a man, that he should lie; nor a son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? and hath he spoken, and shall he not fulfill it?


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He hath not beheld any wrong in Jacob, nor hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the glory of the king dwelleth among him.


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For there is no enchantment in Jacob, nor is there any divination in Israel: at the proper time shall it be said to Jacob and to Israel, what God doth work.


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Behold, it is a people, that shall rise up as a lioness, and as a lion shall it raise itself: it will not lie down until it have eaten the prey, and have drunk the blood of the slain.


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But Bilam answered and said unto Balak, Have I not spoken unto thee, saying, all that the Lord will speak, that must I do.


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And Balak said unto Bilam, Come, I pray thee, I will take thee unto another place, peradventure it may be pleasing in the eyes of God that thou mayest denounce them for me from there.


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And when Bilam saw that it was pleasing in the eyes of 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 Bilam lifted up his eyes, and when he saw Israel encamped according to their tribes, there came upon him the spirit of God.


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And he took up his parable, and said, Thus saith Bilam the son of Beor, and thus saith the man whose eyes are open;


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Thus saith he who heareth the sayings of God, who seeth the vision of the Almighty, falling down, with unvailed eyes:


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As streams are they spread forth, as gardens by the rivers side, as aloetrees, which the Lord hath planted, as cedartrees beside the waters.


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Water runneth out of His buckets, that his seed may be moistened by abundance of water; and exalted above Agag shall be his king, and raised on high shall be his kingdom.


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God, who brought him forth out of Egypt, is to him like the heights of the reem; he will devour nations, his oppressors, and their bones will he break, and pierce <i>them</i> through with his arrows.


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He coucheth, he lieth down as a lion, and as a lioness: who shall make him rise up? They that bless thee be blessed, and they that curse thee be cursed.


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And the anger of Balak was kindled against Bilam, and he struck his hands together: and Balak said unto Bilam, To denounce my enemies did I call thee, and, behold, thou hast even blessed them these three times.


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And now flee thou to thy place: I thought to honor thee greatly; but, lo, the Lord hath kept thee back from honor.


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And Bilam said unto Balak, Did I not already speak to thy messengers, whom thou sentest unto me, saying,


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If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not transgress the order of the Lord, to do good or evil out of my own heart: what the Lord will speak, that must I speak?


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And now, behold, I am going unto my people: come, I will advise thee against what this people will do to thy people in the end of days.


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And he took up his parable and said, Thus saith Bilam the son of Beor, and thus saith the man whose eyes are open;


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Thus saith he who heareth the sayings of God, and knoweth the knowledge of the Most High, who seeth the vision of the Almighty, falling down, with unvailed eyes:


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I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not nigh; there steppeth forth a star out of Jacob, and there ariseth a sceptre out of Israel, and he pierceth the chiefs of Moab, and destroyeth all the children of Sheth.


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And Edom shall be a conquest, and Seir shall be a conquest for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.


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And he looked on Amalek, and he took up his parable, and said, The first of nations is Amalek; but his latter end shall be destruction for ever.


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And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and placed on the rock is thy nest.


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But ships will come from the coast of Kittim, and will afflict Asshur, and will afflict Eber; and he also will be given to destruction for ever.


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And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed themselves down to their gods.


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And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and <i>cause them to</i> hang the <i>guilty</i> up before the Lord, in the face of the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.


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And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that have been joined unto Baalpeor.


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And, behold, one of the children of Israel came, and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman, before the eyes of Moses, and before the eyes of all the congregation of the children of Israel, and these were weeping by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And when Phinehas, the son of Elazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of 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 body: and the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.


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Phinehas, the son of Elazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned away my wrath from the children of Israel, while he was zealous in my stead in the midst of them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my indignation.


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And it shall be unto him and unto his seed after him a 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 man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Sahlu, a prince of a family division 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 of tribes, of a family division in Midian.


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For they are enemies unto 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, who was slain on the day of the plague for the sake of Peor.


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And it came to pass after the plague, That the Lord spoke unto Moses and unto Elazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,


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Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by the descent from their fathers, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel.


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And Moses with Elazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho, saying,


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<i>Take the sum of the people,</i> from twenty years old and upward; as the Lord commanded Moses and the children of Israel, who went forth out of the land of Egypt.


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Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben, of Chanoch, the family of the Chanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;


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These are the families of the Reubenites; and those 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. These are Dathan and Abiram, men called to the assembly, who quarreled against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korach, at the time they quarreled against the Lord;


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When the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korach, while that company died, when the fire devoured the 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 Yamin, the family of the Yaminites; of Yachin, the family of the Yachinites;


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The children of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Chaggi, the family of the Chaggites; 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 Perez, the family of the Parzites; of Zerach, the family of the Zarchites.


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And the sons of Perez were: of Chezron, the family of the Chezronites; of Chamul, the family of the Chamulites.


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


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The sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puva, the family of the Punites;


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


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The sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Sardites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Yachleel, the family of the Yachleelites.


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These are the families of the Zebulonites according to those that were numbered of them, sixty thousand and five hundred.


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The sons of Menasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir begat Gilad; of Gilad, the family of the Giladites.


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These are the sons of Gilad: of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Chelek, the family of the Chelkites;


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And Zelophehad the son of Chepher had no sons, but only daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Machlah, and Noah, Choglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.


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


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These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelach, the family of the Shuthalchites; of Becher, the family of the Bachrites; of Tachan, the family of the Tachanites.


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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 Balites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Achiram, the family of the Achiramites;


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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 those 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 Shucham, the family of the Shuchamites; these are the families of Dan after their families.


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


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The children of Asher after their families: of Yimnah, the family of the Yimnites; of Yishvi, the family of the Yishvites; of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.


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Of the sons of Beriah: of Cheber, the family of the Chebrites; of Malkiel, the family of the Makielites.


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


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The sons of Naphtali after their families: of Yachzeel, the family of the Yachzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;


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These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those 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 one thousand, seven hundred and thirty.


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To the large tribe shalt thou give the more inheritance, and to the small shalt thou give the less inheritance: to each according to those that were numbered thereof shall its inheritance be given.


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Nevertheless, through the lot shall the land be divided: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers shall they obtain their inheritance.


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By the decision of the lot shall the inheritance of each be divided, according as they are many or few.


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And these are those that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershunites: of Kehath, the family of the Kehathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.


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These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Chebronites, the family of the Machlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korchites; and Kehath begat Amran.


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And the name of Amrams wife was Yochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom <i>her mother</i> bore to Levi in Egypt; and she bore unto 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 the males from a month old and upward; for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was not given unto them any inheritance among the children of Israel.


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These are those that were numbered by Moses and Elazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, opposite Jericho.


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And among these there was not one man of those whom Moses and Aaron the priest had numbered, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.


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For the Lord had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness: and there was not left of them one man, save Caleb the son of Yephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.


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And there came nigh the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Chepher, the son of Gilad, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Menasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters, Machlah, Noah, and Choglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.


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And they stood before Moses, and before Elazar 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; but he was not among the company of those that gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korach; but in his own sin he died, and sons he had not.


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Why should the name of our father be done away from the midst of his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us a possession among the brothers of our father.


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The daughters of Zelophehad speak rightly: thou shalt indeed give them a possession as an inheritance among the brothers of their father; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.


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And unto the children of Israel shalt thou speak, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then shall ye cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.


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And if his father have no brothers, then shall ye give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall inherit it; and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of justice, as the Lord hath commanded Moses.


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And the Lord said unto Moses, Go thou up unto this mount of Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.


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And when thou hast seen it, then shalt thou also be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother hath been gathered.


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Because ye rebelled against my order in the desert of Zin, at the quarreling of the congregation, to sanctify me through the waters before their eyes: these are the waters of Meribah in Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin.


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Who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in; that the congregation of the Lord be not as a flock which have no shepherd.


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And the Lord said unto Moses, Take to thyself Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom there is a spirit, and thou shalt lay thy hand upon him;


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And thou shalt cause him to stand before Elazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and thou shalt give him a charge before their eyes.


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And thou shalt put some of thy greatness upon him; in order that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.


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And before Elazar the priest shall he stand, and he shall ask of him after the judgment of the Urim before the Lord: at his direction shall they go out, and at his direction shall they come in, he, and all the children of Israel with him, and all the congregation.


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And Moses did, as the Lord had commanded him; and he took Joshua, and caused him to stand before Elazar the priest, and before all the congregation;


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


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Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, my bread for my sacrifices consumed by fire, for a sweet savor unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in its due season.


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And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall bring unto the Lord: Sheep of the first year without blemish, two on every day, as a continual burntoffering.


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The one sheep shalt thou prepare in the morning, and the other sheep shalt thou prepare toward evening;


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


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It is a continual burntoffering, as it was prepared at mount Sinai, for a sweet savor, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord.


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And the drinkoffering thereof shall be the fourth part of a hin for the one sheep: in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured out as a drinkoffering unto the Lord.


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And the other sheep shalt thou prepare toward evening: as the meatoffering of the morning, and as the drinkoffering thereof, shalt thou prepare it; an offering made by fire, for a sweet savor unto the Lord.


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And on the sabbathday two sheep of the first year without blemish, and two tenth parts of fine flour for a meatoffering, mingled with oil, and the drinkoffering thereof.


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This is the burntoffering of the sabbath on every sabbath, besides the continual burntoffering, and its drinkoffering.


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And on the beginnings of your months shall ye bring as a burntoffering unto the Lord, two young bullocks, and one ram, seven sheep of the first year without blemish.


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And three tenth parts of fine flour for a meatoffering, mingled with oil, for each one bullock; and two tenth parts of fine flour for a meatoffering, mingled with oil, for the one ram;


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And a tenth part of fine flour mingled with oil for a meatoffering for every sheep: as a burntoffering for a sweet savor, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord.


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And their drinkofferings shall be half of a hin of wine for each bullock, and the third part of a hin for the ram, and a fourth part of a hin for every sheep: this is the burntoffering of the new moon for every month throughout the months of the year.


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And one hegoat for a sinoffering unto the Lord; beside the continual burntoffering shall it be prepared with its drinkoffering.


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And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, the passoverlamb <i>must be offered</i> unto the Lord.


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And ye shall bring as a sacrifice made by fire for a burntoffering unto the Lord, two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven sheep of the first year; without blemish shall they be unto you;


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And their meatoffering shall be of fine flour mingled with oil; three tenth parts for each bullock, and two tenth parts for the ram shall ye offer;


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Besides the burntoffering of the morning, which is for a continual burntoffering, shall ye prepare these.


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After this manner shall ye prepare daily, throughout the seven days, the food of the sacrifice made by fire, for a sweet savor unto the Lord: besides the continual burntoffering shall it be prepared with its drinkoffering.


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And on the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meatoffering unto the Lord, after your weeks are out, shall ye have a holy convocation; no servile work shall ye do.


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And ye shall bring as a burntoffering for a sweet savor unto the Lord, two young bullocks, one ram, seven sheep of the first year;


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And their meatoffering of fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for each one bullock, two tenth parts for the one ram,


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Besides the continual burntoffering and its meatoffering shall ye prepare them; without blemish shall they be unto you together with their drinkofferings.


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And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall ye have a holy convocation; no servile work shall ye do: a day of blowing the cornet shall it be unto you.


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And ye shall prepare as a burntoffering for a sweet savor unto the Lord, one young bullock, one ram, seven sheep of the first year without blemish;


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And their meatoffering of fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for the bullock, and two tenth parts for the ram.


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Besides the burntoffering of the new moon, and its meatoffering, and the daily burntoffering, and its meatoffering, and their drinkofferings, according unto their prescribed manner; for a sweet savor, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord.


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And on the tenth day of this seventh month shall ye have a holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your persons; no manner of work shall ye do.


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And ye shall bring as a burntoffering unto the Lord for a sweet savor, one young bullock, one ram, seven sheep of the first year; without blemish shall they be unto you.


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And their meatoffering shall be of fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for the bullock, two tenth parts for the one ram,


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One hegoat for a sinoffering: besides the sinoffering of the atonement, and the continual burntoffering, and the meatoffering thereof, and their drinkofferings.


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And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month shall ye have a holy convocation; no servile work shall ye do; and ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days.


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And ye shall bring as a burntoffering, a sacrifice made by fire, for a sweet savor unto the Lord, thirteen young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen sheep of the first year; without blemish shall they be.


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And their meatoffering shall be of fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth parts for each one ram of the two rams,


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And one hegoat for a sinoffering: besides the continual burntoffering, its meatoffering, and its drinkoffering.


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And on the second day, twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen sheep of the first year without blemish;


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And their meatoffering and their drinkofferings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the sheep, shall be according to their number, after the prescribed manner;


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And one hegoat for a sinoffering: besides the continual burntoffering, and the meatoffering thereof, and their drinkofferings.


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And one goat for a sinoffering: besides the continual burntoffering, and its meatoffering, and its drinkoffering.


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Their meatoffering and their drinkofferings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the sheep, shall be according to their number, after the prescribed manner;


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And one goat for a sinoffering: besides the continual burntoffering, its meatoffering, and its drinkofferings.


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And their meatoffering and their drinkofferings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the sheep, shall be according to their number, after their prescribed manner;


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And one goat for a sinoffering: besides the continual burntoffering, its meatoffering, and its drinkoffering.


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And ye shall bring as a burntoffering, a sacrifice made by fire, for a sweet savor unto the Lord, one bullock, one ram, seven sheep of the first year without blemish.


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Their meatoffering and their drinkofferings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the sheep, shall be according to their number, after the prescribed manner;


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These shall ye prepare unto the Lord on your appointed festivals; besides your vows, and your freewillofferings, consisting of your burntofferings, and of your meatofferings, and of your drinkofferings, and of your peaceofferings.


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<n>(30:1)</n> And Moses said to the children of Israel according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses.


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<n>(30:2)</n> And Moses spoke unto the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saving, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded,


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<n>(30:3)</n> If a man make a vow unto the Lord, or he swear an oath to bind his soul with an obligation: he shall not profane his word; according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth shall he do.


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<n>(30:4)</n> And if a woman make a vow unto the Lord, and bind herself by an obligation, being in her fathers house in her youth;


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<n>(30:5)</n> And her father hear her vow, and her obligation wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father be silent to her: then shall all her vows stand, and every obligation wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.


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<n>(30:6)</n> But if her father disallow her on the day that he heareth it: all her vows or her obligations, wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall not stand; and the Lord will forgive her, because her father hath disallowed her.


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<n>(30:7)</n> And if she be given to a man, and have vows upon her, or what she may have uttered with her lips, wherewith she hath bound her soul;


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<n>(30:8)</n> And her husband hear it, and be silent to her on the day that he heareth it: then shall her vows stand, and her obligations wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand.


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<n>(30:9)</n> But if on the day of her husbands hearing it, he disallow her: then doth he annul her vow which is upon her, and that which she hath uttered with her lips, wherewith she hath bound her soul; and the Lord will forgive her.


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<n>(30:10)</n> But regarding the vow of a widow, or of her that is divorced, all, wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand for her.


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<n>(30:11)</n> And if she had vowed in her husbands house, or had bound her soul by an obligation with an oath;


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<n>(30:12)</n> And her husband heard it, and was silent to her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every obligation, wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand.


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<n>(30:13)</n> But if her husband hath annulled them on the day he heard them: then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips, concerning her vows, or concerning the obligation of her soul, shall not stand; her husband hath annulled them; and the Lord will forgive her.


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<n>(30:14)</n> Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the person, her husband may confirm it, or her husband may annul it.


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<n>(30:15)</n> But if her husband should be silent to her from day to day: then hath he confirmed all her vows, or all her obligations, which are upon her; he hath confirmed them, because he was silent to her on the day that he heard them.


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<n>(30:16)</n> But if he should annul them after <i>the day</i> that he hath heard them: then shall he bear her iniquity.


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<n>(30:17)</n> 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 fathers house.


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Execute the vengeance of the children of Israel on the Midianites, after which thou shalt be gathered unto thy people.


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And Moses spoke unto the people, saying, Arm from yourselves some men for the army, and let them go against the Midianites, to execute the vengeance of the Lord on Midian.


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And there were levied out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for the army.


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And Moses sent them, a thousand of every tribe, to the army; them and Phinehas the son of Elazar the priest, to the army, with the holy vessels, and the trumpets for blowing the alarm in his hand.


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And they marched out against the Midianites, as the Lord had commanded Moses; and they slew every male.


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And the kings of Midian they slew, besides the rest of their men that were slain; namely, Evi and Rekem, and Zur, and Chur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian; and Bilam the son of Beor they slew with the sword.


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And the children of Israel took captives the women of Midian, and their little ones; and all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took as spoil.


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And they brought unto Moses, and to Elazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, the captives, and the booty, and the spoil, unto the camp, to the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan opposite Jericho.


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


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And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, the captains over the thousands, and the captains over the hundreds, who had come from the warcampaign.


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Behold, these chiefly were the cause unto the children of Israel, through the counsel of Bilam, to commit the gross trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor; through which there was the plague among the congregation of the Lord.


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And now kill ye every male among the little ones, and every woman that hath known man by lying with him shall ye kill.


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But all among the womenchildren, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.


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But ye,you must abide without the camp seven days: all ye who have killed any person, and all who have touched any one slain, shall purify yourselves on the third day, and on the seventh day; both you and your captives.


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And every garment, and whatever is made of skins, and every work of goats hair, and every vessel made of wood, shall ye purify unto yourselves.


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And Elazar the priest said unto the men of the army who had gone to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded Moses:


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Every thing that cometh into the fire shall ye make go through the fire, and it shall be clean; only it shall be purified with the waters of sprinkling: and whatsoever doth not come into the fire shall ye cause to go through the water.


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And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and after that may ye come into the camp.


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Take the sum of the booty of the captives, both of man and of cattle, thou, with Elazar the priest, and the chiefs of the families of the congregation:


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And thou shalt divide the booty, between those that carried on the war, who went out to the army, and between all the congregation.


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And thou shalt levy a tribute unto the Lord from the men of war who went out to the army, one individual from every five hundred, of the persons, and of the beefcattle, and of the asses, and of the sheep;


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From their half shall ye take it; and thou shalt give it unto Elazar the priest, for a heaveoffering of the Lord.


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And from the half of the children of Israel, shalt thou take one individual, as it may come, from any fifty, of the persons, of beefcattle, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of cattle; and thou shalt give the same unto the Levites, who keep the charge of the tabernacle of the Lord.


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And the booty, being the rest of the spoil which the men of the army had taken, was of sheep and goats, six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand,


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And of human persons, of women that had not known men by lying with him, in all thirty and two thousand.


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And the half, the portion of those who had gone out in the army, was, in the number of sheep and goats, three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred.


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And the beefcattle were thirty and six thousand; and the tribute thereof unto the Lord was seventy and two.


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And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; and the tribute thereof unto the Lord was sixty and one.


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And the human persons were sixteen thousand; and the tribute thereof unto the Lord was thirty and two persons.


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And Moses gave the tribute, the Lords heaveoffering, unto Elazar the priest, as the Lord had commanded Moses.


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And from the half of the children of Israel, which Moses divided off from the men that had gone forth in the army,


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(Now the half of the congregation was, of sheep and goats three hundred thousand and thirty thousand, seven thousand and five hundred.


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And Moses took from this half of the children of Israel, as it came, one from every fifty, of man and of cattle, and gave the same unto the Levites, who kept the charge of the tabernacle of the Lord; as the Lord had commanded Moses.


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And there came near unto Moses the officers who had been over the thousands of the army, the captains of the thousands, and the captains of the hundreds.


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And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war who have been under our command, and there lacketh not one man of us.


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We have therefore brought an oblation unto the Lord, each what he hath gotten of vessels of gold, chains, and bracelets, fingerrings, 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, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels, from the captains of the thousands, and from the captains of the hundreds.


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And Moses and Elazar the priest took the gold from the captains of the thousands and of the hundreds, and they brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, as 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 they saw the land of Yazer, and the land of Gilad, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle.


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And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came, and said unto Moses, and unto Elazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, as followeth,


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Ataroth, and Dibon, and Yazer, and Nimrah, and Cheshbon, and Elaleh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,


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The country which the Lord hath smitten before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle; and thy servants have cattle.


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And they said, If we have found grace in thy eyes, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession: do not compel us to go over the Jordan.


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And Moses said unto the children of Gad, and unto the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to the war, and will ye sit here?


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And wherefore will you turn aside the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord hath given them?


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For they went up as far as the valley of Eshcol, and they saw the land, and then they turned aside the heart of the children of Israel, so that they would 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, shall see the land which I swore unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:


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Save Caleb the son of Yephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; for they have wholly followed the Lord.


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And the anger of the Lord was thus kindled against Israel, and he made them wander about in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation was spent, that had done the evil in the eyes of the Lord.


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And now, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers stead, a new race of sinful men, to augment yet more the fierce anger of the Lord toward Israel.


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For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet longer leave them in the wilderness; and ye will thus be destruction to all this people.


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And they came near unto him, and said, Sheepfolds will we build for our cattle here, and cities for our little ones;


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But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until that we have brought them unto their place; and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities, because of the inhabitants of the land.


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We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have acquired for themselves every man his inheritance.


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For we will not take possession with them on the other side of the Jordan, and farther on: when our inheritance hath come to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.


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And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will arm yourselves before the Lord for the war;


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And every armed man of you will go over the Jordan before the Lord, until he have driven out his enemies from before him;


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And when, only after the land hath been subdued before the Lord, ye will return, and ye be thus guiltless before the Lord, and before Israel: then shall this land be yours for a possession before the Lord.


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But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the Lord; and ye shall experience the punishment of your sin which will overtake you.


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Build yourselves cities for your little ones, and folds for your flocks; and that which hath proceeded out of your mouth shall ye do.


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And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben said unto Moses, as followeth, Thy servants will do as my Lord commandeth.


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Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall remain there in the cities of Gilad;


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But thy servants will pass over, every one that is armed for the army, before the Lord, to the war, as my Lord speaketh.


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And Moses commanded concerning them Elazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chiefs of the families of the tribes of the children of Israel;


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And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben do pass with you over the Jordan, every one that is armed for the war, before the Lord, and the land shall be subdued before you: then shall ye give to them the land of Gilad for a possession;


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But if they should not pass over armed with you, they shall take possessions among you in the land of Canaan.


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And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, That which the Lord hath spoken concerning thy servants, even so will we do.


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We will indeed pass over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, while ours remaineth the possession of our inheritance on this side of the Jordan.


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And Moses gave unto them, to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to half the tribe of Menasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sichon, the king of the Emorites, and the kingdom of Og, the king of Bashan, the land, with its cities within the boundaries, the cities of the country round about.


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And Nebo, and Baalmeon <i>their names being changed</i>, and Shibmah; and they gave the former names unto the cities which they built.


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And the children of Machir the son of Menasseh went to Gilad, and conquered it, and dispossessed the Emorites who were in it.


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And Yair the son of Menasseh went and conquered the small towns thereof, and called them Chavothyair.


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And Nobach went and conquered Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobach, after his own name.


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These are the journeys of the children of Israel, who went forth out of the land of Egypt according to their armies, under the guidance of Moses and Aaron.


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And Moses wrote their departures according to their journeys by the order of the Lord; and these are their journeys according to their departures.


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And they set forward from Rameses in the first month; on the fifteenth day of the first month, on the morrow after the passoversacrifice the children of Israel went out with a high hand before the eyes of all the Egyptians.


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And the Egyptians were burying all the firstborn, whom the Lord had smitten among them; and upon their gods also did the Lord execute judgments.


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And they removed from Etham, and returned unto Pihachiroth, which is before Baalzephon; and they encamped before Migdol.


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And they removed from before Pihachiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness; and they went three days journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.


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And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim; and in Elim there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palmtrees; and they encamped there.


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And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, and there was no water for the people to drink.


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And Aaron the priest went up on mount Hor by the order of the Lord, and died there, in the fortieth year after the going out of the children of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first of the month.


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And the Canaanite the king of Arad, who dwelt on the south side in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.


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And they removed from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho.


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And they encamped by the Jordan, from Bethhayeshimoth even unto Abelhashittim in the plains of Moab.


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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan:


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Then shall ye drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and ye shall destroy all their statues, and all their molten images shall ye destroy, and devastate all their high places.


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And ye shall drive out <i>the inhabitants of</i> the land, and ye shall dwell therein; for unto you have I given the land to possess it.


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And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families; to the numerous shall ye give the more inheritance, and to the small in number shall ye give the less inheritance: there, where the lot designateth it for him, shall every ones possessions be; according to the tribes of your fathers shall ye divide it among yourselves.


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But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you: then shall it come to pass, that those whom ye will let remain of them shall be as thorns in your eyes, and as stings in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land wherein ye dwell.


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Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, when ye come into the land of Canaan, shall this be the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance: The land of Canaan according to its boundaries.


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And the southern side shall be unto you from the wilderness of Zin along by the boundary of Edom, and your southern border shall commence at the outmost edge of the Salt Sea on its east side.


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And the border shall turn for you from the south of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin; and its terminating points shall be to the south of Kadeshbarnea, and shall go on to Chazaraddar, and pass on to Azmon;


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And the border shall turn from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and its terminating points shall be at the sea.


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And as the western border, shall ye have the Great Sea for a border: this shall be your western border.


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And this shall be unto you the northern border: from the Great Sea shall ye mark out for you <i>the boundary to</i> mount Hor;


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From mount Hor shall ye mark out <i>the boundary</i> unto the entrance of Chamath; and the terminations of the border shall be toward Zedad;


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And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and its terminating points shall be at Chazarenan: this shall be unto you the northern border.


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And the boundary shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, to the eastward of Ayin; and the boundary shall descend, and shall touch upon the coast of the sea of Kinnereth, eastward;


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And the border shall go down to the Jordan, and its terminating points shall be at the Salt Sea: this shall be your land after its boundaries round about.


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And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall divide among yourselves by lot, which the Lord hath commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe.


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For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their family divisions, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to their family divisions, have received,and the half of the tribe of Menasseh have received their inheritance;


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The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side of the Jordan opposite Jericho eastward, toward the rising of the sun.


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These are the names of the men who shall parcel out unto you the land: Elazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.


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Of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the children of Menasseh the prince, Channiel the son of Ephod;


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These are they whom the Lord hath commanded to divide out the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.


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Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites from the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and an open space for the cities round about them shall ye give <i>also</i> unto the Levites.


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And the cities shall serve them to dwell in; and their open spaces shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their requirements.


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And the open spaces of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about.


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And ye shall 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, with the city in the midst: this shall be to them the open spaces of the cities.


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And the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, which ye shall appoint that the manslayer may flee thither; and in addition to them shall ye give forty and two cities.


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All the cities which ye shall <i>thus</i> give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities, they with their open spaces.


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And the cities which ye shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the tribe that hath many shall ye give many; but from the one that hath few shall ye give few: every one according to its inheritance which it may inherit shall give of its cities unto the Levites.


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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye have passed over the Jordan into the land of Canaan:


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Then ye shall appoint unto yourselves proper cities, that they be cities of refuge for you; and thither shall flee the manslayer who killeth any person at unawares.


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And these cities shall be unto you for a refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he have stood before the congregation for trial.


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Three of these cities shall ye give on this side of the Jordan, and the three other cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan: cities of refuge shall they be.


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For the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them, shall these six cities be for a refuge: that every one may flee thither that killeth any person at unawares.


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And if he have smitten him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.


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And if he have smitten him with a stone which one can take in the hand, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.


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Or if he have smitten him with an article of wood, which one can take in the hand, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.


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And if he push against him out of hatred, or he have hurled at him <i>any thing</i> by lying in wait, that he die;


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Or if in enmity he have smitten him with his hand, that he died, he that smote him shall surely be put to death; <i>for</i> he is a murderer: the avenger of the blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth with him.


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But if he have pushed against him accidentally without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without lying in wait,


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Or with any stone wherewith a man may die, without seeing him, and he have let it fall upon him that he died; whereas he was not his enemy, and did not seek his harm:


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Then shall the congregation judge between the slayer and the avenger of the blood according to these institutions;


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And the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of the blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he had fled; and he shall abide in it until the death of the highpriest, who hath been anointed with the holy oil.


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But if the manslayer should at any time pass the boundary of the city of his refuge, whither he may have fled;


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And the avenger of the blood should find him beyond the boundary of the city of his refuge, and the avenger of the blood should kill the manslayer: he shall not be guilty of blood;


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Because in the city of his refuge shall be remain until the death of the highpriest; but after the death of the highpriest the manslayer may return unto the land of his possession.


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And these things shall be unto you for a statute of justice throughout your generations, in all your dwellings.


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Whoever it be that killeth a person, according to the testimony of witnesses shall the murderer be put to death; but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.


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Moreover ye shall take no redemption money for the person of a murderer, who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.


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And ye shall take no redemption money for him that hath 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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And ye shall not defile the land wherein ye are; for the blood it is which defileth the land: and no atonement can be made unto the land for the blood which hath been shed therein, except through the blood of him that hath shed it.


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And ye shall not render unclean the land which ye inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell; for I the Lord dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.


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And there came near the chiefs of the divisions of the family of the children of Gilad, the son of Machir, the son of Menasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph; and they spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the chiefs of the divisions of the children of Israel;


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And they said, the Lord hath commanded my Lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel; and my Lord hath been commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.


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And if they become the wives of any of the sons of the <i>other</i> tribes of the children of Israel: then will their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and be added to the inheritance of the tribe whereamong they may be married; and from the lot of our inheritance will it be taken away.


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And whenever the jubilee shall be to the children of Israel: then will their inheritance be added unto the inheritance of the tribe whereamong they may be married; and from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers will their inheritance be taken away.


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And Moses commanded the children of Israel by the order of the Lord, saying, the tribe of the sons of Joseph have spoken well.


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This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, To those who are pleasing in their eyes may they become wives; however only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they become wives.


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And the inheritance of the children of Israel shall not pass from tribe to tribe; but the children of Israel shall adhere every one to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.


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And every daughter that inheriteth any possession out of any tribe of the children of Israel, shall become the wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father; in order that the children of Israel may inherit every one the inheritance of his fathers.


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And no inheritance shall pass from one tribe to another tribe; but the tribes of the children of Israel shall adhere, every one, to his own inheritance.


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And Machlah, Tirzah, and Choglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad became the wives of the sons of their uncles.


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<i>To persons</i> of the families of the sons of Menasseh the son of Joseph did they become wives, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.


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These are the commandments and the ordinances, which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel, in the plain of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho.


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These are the words which Moses spoke unto all Israel on this side of the Jordan, in the wilderness, in the plain opposite Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Chazeroth, 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 unto the children of Israel, according to all that the Lord had commanded him concerning them;


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After he had smitten Sichon the king of the Emorites, who dwelt in Cheshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth in Edrei.


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Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mountain of the Emorites, and unto all its neighboring places, in the plain, in the mountain, and in the lowlands, and in the southern country, and by the coast of the sea, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto the Lebanon, up to the great river, the river Euphrates.


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Behold, I have given up the land before you: go in and take possession of the land which the Lord hath sworn unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give it unto them and to their seed after them.


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The Lord your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.


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May the Lord the God of your fathers make you a thousand times as many more as ye are; and bless you, as he hath spoken unto you.


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Furnish for yourselves wise and understanding men, and those known among your tribes, and I will place them as chiefs over you.


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And I took the chiefs of your tribes, wise and known men, and I set them as heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and as officers for your tribes.


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And I commanded your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously, between a man and his brother, and between his stranger.


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Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; the small as well as the great shall ye hear; ye shall not be afraid of any man; for the judgment belongeth to God: and the cause that is too hard for you shall ye bring unto me, and I will hear it.


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And we departed from Horeb, and we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye have seen, by the way of the mountain of the Emorites, as the Lord our God had commanded us; and we came as far as Kadeshbarnea.


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And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Emorites, which the Lord our God doth give unto us.


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Behold, the Lord thy God hath given up the land before thee: go up and take possession of it, as the Lord the God of thy fathers hath spoken unto thee; do not fear, and be not discouraged.


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And ye all came near unto me and said, Let us send out men before us, that they may search out for us the land, and bring us word again concerning the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.


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And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.


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And they took in their hand some of the fruit of the land, and brought it down unto us; and they brought us word again, and said, The land which the Lord our God doth give us is good.


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And ye murmured in your tents, and said, On account of the hatred of the Lord toward us, hath he brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Emorites, to destroy us.


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Whither shall we go up? our brethren have made faint our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover the sons of the Anakim have we seen there.


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The Lord your God who goeth before you, he it is who will fight for you; all just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;


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And in the wilderness which thou hast seen, where the Lord thy God bore thee, as a man doth bear his son, on all the way that ye have gone, until ye came unto this place.


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Who goeth before you on the way to seek out for you a place for your encamping, in fire by night, to cause you to see on the way in which ye are to go, and in a cloud by day.


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Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I have sworn to give unto your fathers;


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Save Caleb the son of Yephunneh, he shall see it, and to him will I give the land upon which he hath trodden, and to his children; because he hath wholly followed the Lord.


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Joshua the son of Nun, who standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: him encourage; for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.


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And your little ones, of whom ye said, They will become a prey, and your children who know not this day either good or evil, these shall go in thither; and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.


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And ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the Lord; we indeed will go up and we will fight, according to all that the Lord our God hath commanded us; and ye girded on every man his weapons of war, and ye insisted to go up into the mountain.


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And the Lord said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, and do not fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.


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And I spoke unto you; but ye would not hear; and ye rebelled against the order of the Lord, and you were presumptuous, and went up into the mountain.


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And the Emorites, who dwelt in that mountain: came out against you, and they pursued you, as the bees do, and they overthrew you in Seir, as far as Chormah.


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And ye returned and wept before the Lord; but the Lord hearkened not to your voice, nor gave ear unto 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 had spoken unto me: and we traveled around mount Seir many days.


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And the people command thou, saying, Ye are passing by the border of your brethren the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you; therefore take ye good heed unto yourselves;


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Do not contend with them; for I will not give unto you of their land, even so much as a foots breadth; because unto Esau have I given mount Seir for an inheritance.


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Food shall ye buy of them for money, that ye may eat; and water also shall ye buy of them for money, that ye may drink.


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For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand; he hath provided for thy wandering through this great wilderness: these forty years the Lord thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.


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And we passed away from our brethren the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way through the plain, from Elath, and from Ezyongaber. And we turned and passed the way of the wilderness of Moab.


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And the Lord said unto me, Do not attack the Moabites, nor contend with them in battle; for I will not give thee from their land any inheritance, because unto the children of Lot have I given Ar for an inheritance.


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As Rephaim were also they accounted, equally with the Anakim; and the Moabites called the <i>m</i> Emim.


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And in Seir dwelt the Chorim in times past; but the children of Esau drove them out, and they destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel hath done unto the land of his inheritance, which the Lord hath given unto them.


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And the time which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we had passed over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were spent from out the midst of the camp, as the Lord had sworn unto them.


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And also the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp; until they were spent.


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And thou comest nigh opposite the children of Ammon: do not attack them, nor contend with them; for I will not give unto thee of the land of the children of Ammon any inheritance; because unto the children of Lot have I given it for an inheritance.


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As the land of Rephaim was it also accounted: Rephaim dwelt therein in times past; and the Ammonites called them Zamzummim;


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A people great, and numerous, and tall, as the Anakim; but the Lord destroyed them before them; and they drove them out, and dwelt in their stead:


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As he hath done to the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from before whom he destroyed the Chorim; and they drove them out and dwelt in their stead, even unto this day.


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And the Avvim, who dwelt in open towns, as far as unto Gazzah,the Caphtorim, who came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.


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Rise ye up, set forward, and pass over the brook Arnon; behold I have given into thy hand Sichon the king of Cheshbon, the Emorite, and his land: begin to drive him out, and contend with him in battle.


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This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven; whoever will hear the report of thee, shall tremble, and shall quake because of thee.


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And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sichon, the king of Cheshbon, with words of peace, saying,


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Let me pass through thy land: always by the highway will I go along; I will not turn unto the right hand or unto the left.


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Food shalt thou sell me for money, that I may eat; and water for money shalt thou give me, that I may drink: only let me pass through on foot;


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(As the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, have done unto me:) until that I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which the Lord our God giveth us.


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But Sichon, the king of Cheshbon, would not suffer our passing by him; for the Lord thy God had hardened his spirit, and had made obstinate his heart, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as <i>hath happened</i> this day.


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And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give up Sichon and his land before thee: begin to drive him out, that thou mayest inherit his land.


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And we conquered all his cities at that time, and devoted every inhabited city, and the women, and the little ones; we left none that escaped.


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From Aroer, which is by the bank of the brook of Arnon, and the city that is in the brook, even unto Gilad, there was not one city which was too strong for us; the whole did the Lord our God give up before us.


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Only unto the land of the children of Ammon didst thou not come nigh, unto the whole margin of the brook Yabbok, and the cities in the mountain, and unto whatsoever the Lord our God had forbidden us.


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And we turned, and went up the way to Bashan; and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to the battle at Edrei.


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And the Lord said unto me, Fear him not; for into thy hand have I given him, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do unto him as thou hast done unto Sichon, the king of the Emorites, who dwelt at Cheshbon.


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And the Lord our God gave into our hands also Og the king of Bashan, and all his people; and we smote him until none was left to him who escaped.


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And we conquered all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.


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all these were fortified cities, with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns, which were a great many.


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And we devoted them, as we had done unto Sichon the king of Cheshbon, devoting every inhabited city, the women, and the little ones.


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And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Emorites the land which is on this side of the Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Chermon;


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All the cities of the plain, and all Gilad, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.


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For only Og the king of Bashan had been left of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; lo! it is in Rabbah of the children of Ammon: nine cubits is its length, and four cubits its breadth, after the arm of a man.


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And of this land, of which we took possession at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilad, and the cities thereof, I gave unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.


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And the rest of Gilad, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave unto the half tribe of Menasseh: all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, this is called the land of Rephaim.


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Yair the son of Menasseh took all the region of Argob up to the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites; and he called them the <i>land of</i> Bashan, after his own name, the villages of Yair, unto this day.


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And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilad even unto the brook Arnon, the land within the river and that adjoining, even unto the brook Yabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;


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The plain also, and the Jordan, and the adjoining land, from Kinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, the Salt Sea, under the declivities of Pisgah, eastward.


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And I commanded you at that time, saying, The Lord your God hath given you this land to possess it: armed shall ye pass over before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are fit to bear arms.


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But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you;


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Until that the Lord have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and they also have taken possession of the land which the Lord your God giveth them beyond the Jordan: then shall ye return every man unto his possession which I have given you.


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And Joshua also I commanded at that time, saying, Thy own eyes have seen all that the Lord your God hath done unto these two kings: thus will the Lord do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest.


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O Lord Eternal, thou hast begun to show thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand; for what God is there in heaven or on earth, that can do aught like thy works, and like thy mighty deeds?


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Let me go over, I pray thee, that I may see the good land which is on the other side of the Jordan, this goodly mountain, and the Lebanon.


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But the Lord was wroth with me for your sakes, and he would not hear me: and the Lord said unto me, Let it suffice thee; do not continue to speak unto me any more of this matter.


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Get thee up unto the top of Pisgah, and lift up thy eyes, westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thy eyes; for thou shalt not pass over this Jordan.


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And do thou charge Joshua, and strengthen him, and encourage him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall divide out to them the land which thou shalt see.


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And now, O Israel, hearken unto the statutes and unto the ordinances which I teach you to do; in order that ye may live, and go in and take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, giveth unto you.


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Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, nor shall ye diminish aught from it; that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.


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Your own eyes have seen that which the Lord hath done because of Baalpeor; for every man that followed Baalpeor, him the Lord thy God hath destroyed from the midst of thee.


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See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, just as the Lord my God commanded me; that ye may do so in the midst of the land whither ye go to take possession of it.


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Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the nations, that shall hear all these statutes, and they will say, Nothing but a wise and understanding people is this great nation.


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For what great nation is there that hath gods so nigh unto it, as is the Lord our God at all times that we call upon him.


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And what great nation is there that hath statutes and ordinances so righteous as is all this law, which I lay before you this day?


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Only take heed to thyself, and guard thy soul diligently, that thou do not forget the things which thy eyes have seen, and that they depart not from thy heart all the days of thy life; but thou shalt make them known unto thy sons, and unto thy sons sons;


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The day that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God at Horeb, when the Lord said unto me, Assemble for me the people, and I will cause them to hear my words, which they shall learn, to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and which they shall teach their children.


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And ye came near and stood at the foot of the mount; and the mount was burning with fire unto the midst of the heaven, <i>from amidst</i> darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.


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And the Lord spoke unto you out of the midst of the fire; the sound of words ye heard, but any similitude ye saw not: there was nothing but a sound.


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And he told unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, the ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.


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And me the Lord commanded at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.


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Take ye therefore good heed of your souls; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spoke unto you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire:


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That ye become not corrupt, and make yourselves a graven image, the similitude of any idolfigure, the likeness of a male or of a female,


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The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air of heaven,


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The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth;


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And that thou lift not up thy eyes unto the heavens, and thou see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, and be misled to bow down to them, and to serve them, those which the Lord thy God hath assigned unto all nations under the whole heaven.


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But you did the Lord take, and he brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be unto you a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.


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Farthermore the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, and he swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the Lord thy God giveth unto thee for an inheritance;


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For I must die in this land; I shall not go over the Jordan; but ye will go over and take possession of this good land.


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Take heed unto yourselves, that ye do not forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he hath made with you, and make yourselves a graven image, the likeness of any thing, which the Lord thy God hath forbidden thee.


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When thou begettest children, and childrens children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and ye become corrupt, and make a graven image, the likeness of any thing, and do the evil in the eyes of the Lord thy God, to provoke him to anger:


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I call this day the heavens and the earth to witness against you, that ye shall soon perish from off the land whereunto ye go over the Jordan to possess it; ye shall not remain many days upon it, but ye shall surely be destroyed.


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And the Lord will scatter you among the nations, and ye will be left few in number among the nations, whither the Lord will lead you.


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And ye will serve there gods, the work of mans hands, wood and stone, which neither can see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.


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But thou wilt seek from there the Lord thy God, and wilt find him, if thou apply to him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.


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When thou art in tribulation, and all these things have overtaken thee, in the latter end of days: then wilt thou return to the Lord thy God, and be obedient unto his voice.


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For a merciful God is the Lord thy God; he will not forsake thee, nor destroy thee; and he will not forget the covenant of thy fathers which he hath sworn unto them.


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For do but ask of former days, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and from the one end of the heavens unto the other end of the heavens, whether there hath been the like of this great thing, or whether the like of it hath been heard.


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Hath ever a people heard the voice of a god, speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and remained alive?


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Or hath a god essayed to go to take himself a nation from the midst of a nation, by proofs, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, like all that which the Lord your God hath done for you in Egypt before thy eyes.


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Unto thee it was shown, that thou mightest know, that the Eternal is the God: there is none else besides him.


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Out of the heavens he caused thee to hear his voice, to correct thee: and upon the earth he caused thee to see his great fire; and his words didst thou hear out of the midst of the fire.


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And therefore, because he loved thy fathers, he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his presence with his mighty power out of Egypt;


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To drive out nations greater and mightier than thou art, from before thee, to bring thee in, to give unto thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.


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Know therefore this day, and reflect in thy heart, that the Eternal is the God in the heavens above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.


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And thou shalt keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee; and that thou mayest live many days upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for all times.


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That thither might flee the manslayer, who should kill his neighbor unawares, when he had not been an enemy to him in times past; and that he should flee unto one of these cities and live.


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Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilad for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Menassites.


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These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke unto the children of Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt,


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On this side of the Jordan, in the valley opposite to Bethpeor, in the land of Sichon the king of the Emorites, who dwelt at Cheshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt;


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And they took possession of his land, and of the land of Og the king of Bashan, the two kings of the Emorites, who were on this side of the Jordan toward the rising of the sun;


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And all the plain on this side of the Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the declivities of Pisgah.


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And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and that ye may observe to do them.


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Not with our fathers did the Lord make this covenant, but with us, we who are here all of us alive this day.


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(I was standing between the Lord and between you at that time, to announce to you the word of the Lord; for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and ye went not up into the mount;) saying,


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Thou shalt not make unto thyself any graven image, any likeness of any thing that is in the heavens above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:


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Thou shalt not bow thyself down unto them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me,


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But the seventh day is the sabbath in honor of the Lord thy God; on it thou shalt not do any work, neither thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy ox, nor thy ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: in order that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.


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And thou shalt remember that thou hast been a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore hath the Lord thy God commanded thee to observe the sabbathday.


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Honor thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee: in order that thy days may be prolonged, and in order that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.


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<n>(5:18)</n> Neither shalt thou covet thy neighbors wife. Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbors house, nor his field, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbors.


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<n>(5:19)</n> These words did the Lord speak unto all your assembly on the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice, but he did so no more; and he wrote them on two tables of stone, and he gave them unto me.


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<n>(5:20)</n> And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mount was burning with fire, that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;


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<n>(5:21)</n> And ye said, Behold, the Lord our God hath caused us to see his glory and his greatness, and his voice have we heard out of the midst of the fire: this day have we seen that God can speak with man, who nevertheless may live.


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<n>(5:22)</n> But now why should we die? for this great fire may consume us; if we continue to hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, then shall we die.


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<n>(5:23)</n> For where is there any flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, like us, and hath remained alive?


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<n>(5:24)</n> Do thou approach, and hear all that the Lord our God may say; and thou shalt speak unto us all that the Lord our God may speak unto thee; and we will hear and do it.


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<n>(5:25)</n> And the Lord heard the voice of your words, while ye were speaking unto me; and the Lord said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have done well in all that they have spoken.


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<n>(5:26)</n> Who would grant that this their heart might remain in them, to fear me, and to keep all my commandments at all times; in order that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!


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<n>(5:28)</n> But as for thee, remain thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.


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<n>(5:29)</n> Observe ye then to do as the Lord your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right or to the left.


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<n>(5:30)</n> altogether in the way, which the Lord your God hath commanded you, shall ye walk; in order that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may remain many days in the land which ye will possess.


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And this is the commandment, with the statutes, and the ordinances, which the Lord your God hath commanded to teach you, to do them in the land whither ye are passing over to possess it:


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In order that you mayest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou and thy son, and thy sons son, all the days of thy life; and in order that thy days may be prolonged.


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Hear, therefore, O Israel, and observe to do them; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase greatly, as the Lord the God of thy fathers hath spoken to thee, <i>in</i> the land flowing with milk and honey.


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And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.


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And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and thou shalt speak of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.


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And it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land which he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto thee, great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build,


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And houses full of all good things, which thou didst not fill, and wells hewed out which thou didst not hew, vineyards and olivetrees, which thou didst not plant; and thou hast eaten and art satisfied:


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Then beware that thou do not forget the Lord, who hath brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.


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For the Lord thy God is a watchful God among you: so that the anger of the Lord thy God may not be kindled against thee, and he destroy thee from off the face of the earth.


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Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.


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And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the eyes of the Lord; in order that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and take possession of the good land which the Lord hath sworn unto thy fathers,


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When thy son should ask thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which the Lord our God hath commanded you?


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Then shalt thou say unto thy son, We were bondmen unto Pharaoh in Egypt; and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;


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And the Lord let come signs and wonders, great and sore, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household, before our eyes;


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And us he brought out from there; in order to bring us in, to give us the land which he had sworn unto our fathers.


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And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God; that it might be well with us at all times, and that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.


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And it shall be accounted righteousness unto us, if we observe to do all this commandment before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.


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When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Emorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations, greater in number and mightier than thou;


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And when the Lord thy God shall give them up before thee, and thou dost smite them: thou shalt utterly destroy them; thou shalt not make any covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them.


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Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughters shalt thou not give unto his son, and his daughter shalt thou not take unto thy son.


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For he would turn away thy son from following me, so that they might serve other gods; and the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy thee speedily.


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But thus shall ye do unto them: their altars shall ye pull down, and their statues shall ye break, and their groves shall ye cut down, and their graven images shall ye burn with fire.


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For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God; of thee the Lord thy God hath made choice to be unto himself a special people, above all the nations that are upon the face of the earth.


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Not because ye are more in number than all the nations, did the Lord desire you and make choice of you; for ye are the fewest of all the nations;


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But on account of the love of the Lord for you, and because he keepeth the oath which he hath sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, out of the hand of Pharaoh the king of Egypt.


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Know then that the Eternal thy God, is the God, the faithful God, who keepeth the covenant and the mercy with those that love him and with those that keep his commandments to the thousandth generation;


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And repayeth those that hate him to their face, to destroy them; he will not delay to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.


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Therefore shalt thou keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command thee this day, to do them.


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And it shall come to pass in reward for that ye will hearken to these ordinances, and keep, and do them, that the Lord thy God will keep unto thee the covenant and the kindness which he hath sworn unto thy fathers:


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And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; and he will bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of thy flocks, in the land which he hath sworn unto thy fathers to give unto thee.


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Blessed shalt thou be above all the nations; there shall not be a barren male or female among thee, nor among thy cattle.


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And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness; and all the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, will he not put upon thee; but he will lay them upon all those that hate thee.


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And thou shalt consume all the nations which the Lord thy God giveth unto thee; thy eye shall not look with pity upon them: and thou shalt not serve their gods; for that would be a snare unto thee.


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If thou shouldst say in thy heart, These nations are more numerous than I: how shall I be able to dispossess them?


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Thou shalt not be afraid of them; <i>but</i> thou shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;


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The great proofs which thy eyes have seen, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out: in this wise will the Lord thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.


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Moreover the hornet will the Lord thy God send out against them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.


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Thou shalt not be affrighted at them; for the Lord thy God is in the midst of thee, a mighty and terrible God.


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And the Lord thy God will chase out these nations before thee, little by little: thou shalt not be able to make an end of them speedily, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.


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And the Lord thy God will give them up before thee, and he will bring among them a mighty confusion, until they be destroyed.


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And he will give their kings into thy hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under the heavens: no man shall be able to stand up before thee, until thou have destroyed them.


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The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver or gold that is on them, so that thou wouldst take it unto thyself, lest thou be ensnared thereby; for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.


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And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house, lest thou become accursed like it: thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is accursed.


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All the commandment which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do; in order that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and take possession of the land which the Lord hath sworn unto your fathers.


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And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, in order to afflict thee, to prove thee, to know what is in thy heart, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments, or not.


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And he afflicted thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and he gave thee manna to eat, which thou knewest not, and which thy fathers had not known; in order that he might make thee know that not by bread alone man doth live, but by every thing that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.


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And thou shalt consider in thy heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so doth the Lord thy God chasten thee.


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For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and mountains;


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A land of wheat, and barley, and of the vine, and the figtree, and the pomegranate; a land of the oilolive, and of honey;


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A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, wherein thou shalt not lack anything; a land the stones whereof are iron, and out of the mountains of which thou canst hew copper.


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And when thou hast eaten and art satisfied, then shalt thou bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.


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Take heed unto thyself that thou forget not the Lord thy God, so as not to keep his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command thee this day;


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And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold are multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied:


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Thy heart be then not lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God, who hath brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery;


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Who hath led thee through the great and terrible wilderness, wherein are snakes, poisonous serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there is no water; who hath brought forth for thee water out of the flinty rock;


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Who hath fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not; in order to afflict thee, and in order to prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;


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But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God; for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth; in order that he might fulfill his covenant which he hath sworn unto thy fathers, as it is this day.


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And it shall come to pass, that, if thou shouldst forget the Lord thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and bow thyself down to them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish;


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Like the nations which the Lord destroyeth from before you, so shall ye perish; in recompense of that ye would not hearken unto the voice of the Lord your God.


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Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass this day over the Jordan, to go in to drive out nations greater and mightier than thou, <i>to conquer</i> cities great and fortified up to heaven,


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A people great and tall, the children of the Anakim, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!


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Understand therefore this day, that the Lord thy God it is who goeth over before thee, he is a consuming fire; he will destroy them, and he will subdue them before thy face; and thou wilt drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the Lord hath spoken unto thee.


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Thou must not say in thy heart, when the Lord thy God doth cast them out from before thee, as followeth, For my righteousness hath the Lord brought me in to possess this land; and that for the wickedness of these nations the Lord doth drive them out from before thee.


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Not for thy righteousness, nor for the uprightness of thy heart, dost thou go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations doth the Lord thy God drive them out from before thee, and in order that he may fulfill the word which the Lord hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.


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And thou shalt know, that not for thy righteousness doth the Lord thy God give unto thee this good land to possess it; for thou art a stiffnecked people.


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Remember, do not forget, how thou didst provoke the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou wentest out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, have ye been rebellious against the Lord.


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When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which the Lord had made with you, and I abode on the mount forty days and forty nights, bread did I not eat, and water did I not drink.


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And the Lord gave unto me the two tables of stone inscribed by the finger of God; and on them <i>was written</i> according to all the words, which the Lord had spoken with you on the mount out of the midst of the fire on 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 unto me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant.


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And the Lord said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from here; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have become corrupted; they have quickly turned aside out of the way which I have commanded them; they have made themselves a molten image.


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Let me alone, and I will destroy them, and blot out their name from under the heavens; and I will make of thee a nation mightier and more numerous than they.


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And I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount was burning with fire; and the two tables of the covenant were upon my two hands.


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And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the Lord your God, ye had made yourselves a molten calf; ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the Lord had commanded you.


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And I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and I broke them before your eyes.


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And I threw myself down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; bread did I not eat, and water did I not drink; on account of all your sins which ye had committed, in doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.


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For I was afraid of the anger and the indignation, wherewith the Lord was wroth against you to destroy you; but the Lord hearkened unto me also at that time.


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And with Aaron was the Lord very angry to destroy him; and I prayed also for Aaron at the same time.


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And your work of sin, which ye had made, the calf, I took and burnt it in fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descendeth from the mount.


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And when the Lord sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and take possession of the land which I have given you: then rebelled ye against the order of the Lord your God, and ye believed not in him, and ye hearkened not to his voice.


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And I threw myself down before the Lord those forty days and forty nights, which I threw myself down; because the Lord had said that he would destroy you.


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And I prayed unto the Lord, and said, O Lord Eternal, destroy not thy people and thy heritage, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.


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Think of thy servants, of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob; turn not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to its wickedness, nor to its sin:


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Lest <i>the inhabitants of</i> the land whence thou hast brought us out say, Out of want of ability in the Lord to bring them into the land which he had promised them, and out of his hatred to them, hath he brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.


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Whereas they are thy people and thy heritage, whom thou hast brought out by thy mighty power and by thy outstretched arm.


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At that time the Lord said unto me, Hew for thyself two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount; and make thyself an ark of wood.


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And I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which thou hast broken; and thou shalt put them in the ark.


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And I made an ark of shittimwood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and I went up into the mount, with the two tables in my hand.


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And he wrote on the tables, like the first writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord had spoken unto you on the mount out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them unto me.


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And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and I put the tables in the ark which I had made; and they have remained there, as the Lord hath commanded me.


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And the children of Israel took their journey from the wells of the children of Yaakan to Mosserah: there Aaron died, and he was buried there; and Elazar his son became priest in his stead.


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At that time did the Lord separate the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.


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Therefore was not assigned unto Levi any portion or inheritance with his brethren: the Lord is his inheritance, as the Lord thy God hath spoken to him.


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And I stayed on the mount, like the first days, forty days and forty nights; and the Lord hearkened unto me also at that time, the Lord would not destroy thee.


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And the Lord said unto me, Arise, go on the journey before the people, that they may go in and take possession of the land, which I have sworn unto their fathers to give unto them.


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And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,


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To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which I command thee this day, for thy own good?


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Behold, to the Lord thy God belong the heavens and the heavens of heavens, and the earth with all that is thereon;


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Yet only in thy fathers had the Lord delight, to love them; he chose, therefore, their seed after them, namely you, from all the nations, as it is this day.


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For the Lord your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who hath no regard to persons, and taketh no bribe;


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Who executeth justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loveth the stranger, to give him food and raiment.


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The Lord thy God shalt thou fear: him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and by his name shalt thou swear.


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He is thy praise, and he is thy God, who hath done for thee these great and fearful things, which thy own eyes have seen.


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With seventy persons did thy fathers go down into Egypt; and now the Lord thy God hath made thee like the stars of heaven in multitude.


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Thou shalt therefore love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, all the days.


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And ye shall know this day, that <i>I speak</i> not with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of the Lord your God, his greatness, his strong hand, and his outstretched arm;


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And his signs, and his acts, which he displayed in the midst of Egypt, unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;


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And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto its horses, and to its chariots; over whom he caused the water of the Red Sea to flow, as they pursued after you, and whom the Lord destroyed unto this day;


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And what he did unto 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 living substance that followed them, in the midst of all Israel;


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Ye shall therefore keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and take possession of the land, whither ye go over to possess it;


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And in order that ye may live many days in the land, which the Lord hath sworn unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.


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For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not like the land of Egypt, from where ye came out, where thou sowest thy seed, and waterest it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs;


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But the land, whither ye go over to possess it, is a land of mountains and valleys, from the rain of heaven doth it drink water.


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A land which the Lord thy God careth for; always are the eyes of the Lord thy God upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.


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And it shall come to pass, if ye will hearken diligently unto 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 send rain for your land in its due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil.


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Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;


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<i>For</i> then the Lords wrath will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the heavens that there be no rain, and the land will not yield her products; and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord giveth unto you.


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Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul; and ye shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.


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And ye shall teach them to your children, to speak of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.


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In order that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord swore unto your fathers to give unto them, as the days of the heavens over the earth.


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For if ye will diligently keep all this commandment which I command you, in order to do it, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him:


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Then will the Lord drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall supplant nations greater and mightier than yourselves.


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Every place whereon the sole of your foot may tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and the Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the Western Sea shall be your boundary.


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There shall no man be able to stand up before you; the dread of you and the fear of you will the Lord your God lay upon all the land which ye may tread upon, as he hath spoken unto you.


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The blessing, if ye will hearken unto the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day;


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And the curse, if ye will not hearken unto the commandments of the Lord your God, and ye turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye know not.


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And it shall come to pass, when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizzim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.


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Behold, they are on the other side of the Jordan, far away in the direction of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites, who dwell in the plain, opposite Gilgal, near the grove of Moreh.


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For ye are about to pass over the Jordan to go in to take possession of the land which the Lord your God giveth you; and ye will possess it, and dwell therein.


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These are the statutes and ordinances, which ye shall observe to do, in the land which the Lord, the God of thy fathers, giveth unto thee to possess it, and all the days that ye live upon the earth.


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Ye shall utterly destroy all the places whereon the nations which ye are about to drive out served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree;


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And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their statues, and their groves shall ye burn with fire; and the graven images of their gods shall ye hew down; and ye shall destroy their name out of the same place.


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But unto the place which the Lord your God may choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye repair, and thither shalt thou come;


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And ye shall bring thither your burntofferings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the heaveoffering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewillofferings, and the firstborn of your herds and of your flocks;


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And ye shall eat there before the Lord your God, and ye shall rejoice with all the acquisition of your hand, ye and your households, wherewith the Lord thy God may have blessed thee.


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Ye shall not do after all the manner that we do here this day, every one whatsoever is right in his own eyes.


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But ye will go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which the Lord your God causeth you to inherit, and he will give you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye may dwell in safety.


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And then shall it be, that the place which the Lord your God will choose to cause his name to dwell there,<i>even</i> thither shall ye bring all that I command you: your burntofferings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heaveoffering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye may vow unto the Lord;


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And ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite who is within your gates; because he hath not any portion nor inheritance with you.


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But in the place which the Lord will choose in one of thy tribes, there shalt thou offer thy burntofferings, and there shalt thou do all that I command thee.


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Notwithstanding, according to all the longing of thy soul, mayest thou kill and eat flesh, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee, in all thy gates: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.


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Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, nor the firstborn of thy herds or of thy flocks, nor any of thy vows which thou mayest vow, nor thy freewillofferings, and the heaveoffering of thy hand;


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But before the Lord thy God must thou eat them in the place which the Lord thy God may choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite who is within thy gates; and thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God with all the acquisition of thy hand.


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When the Lord thy God will enlarge thy border, as he hath spoken unto thee, and thou dost say, I wish to eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh: then mayest thou, according to all the longing of thy soul, eat flesh.


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If the place which the Lord thy God may choose to put his name there be too far for thee: then mayest thou kill of thy herds and of thy flocks, which the Lord hath given thee, as I have commanded thee; and thou shalt eat in thy gates according to all the longing of thy soul.


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But as the roebuck and the hart are eaten, so shalt thou eat the same: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof together.


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Only be firm so as not to eat the blood; for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh.


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Thou shalt not eat it; in order that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou wilt do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.


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Nevertheless thy holy things which thou mayest have, and thy vows, shalt thou take, and go unto the place which the Lord may choose:


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And thou shalt offer thy burntofferings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the Lord thy God; and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the Lord thy God, and the flesh shalt thou eat.


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Observe and hear all these words which I command thee; in order that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou wilt do what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord thy God.


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When the Lord thy God will cut off the nations, whither thou goest to drive them out from before thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land:


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Then take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after they have been destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.


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Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God; for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters have they burnt in the fire to their gods.


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<n>(13:1)</n> What thing soever I command you, even that shall ye observe to do: thou shalt not add thereto, and thou shalt not diminish therefrom.


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<n>(13:2)</n> If there arise in the midst of thee a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he giveth thee a sign or a token,


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<n>(13:3)</n> And the sign or the token come to pass, whereof he spoke unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou dost not know, and let us serve them:


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<n>(13:4)</n> Then shalt thou not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or unto that dreamer of dreams; for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye indeed love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.


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<n>(13:5)</n> After the Lord your God shall ye walk, and him shall ye fear, and his commandments shall ye keep, and his voice shall ye obey, and him shall ye serve, and unto him shall ye cleave.


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<n>(13:6)</n> And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken revolt against the Lord your God, who hath brought you out of the land of Egypt, and who hath redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, to mislead thee front the way which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk therein; and thou shalt put the evil away from the midst of thee.


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<n>(13:7)</n> If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, who is <i>dear to thee</i> as thy own soul, should entice thee, in secret, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou dost not know, either thou, or thy fathers;


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<n>(13:8)</n> Some of the gods of the nations which are round about you, that are nigh unto thee, or that are far off from thee, from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth:


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<n>(13:9)</n> Then shalt thou not consent unto him, nor shalt thou hearken unto him; nor shall thy eye look with pity on him, nor shalt thou spare, nor shalt thou conceal it for him;


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<n>(13:10)</n> But thou shalt surely kill him; thy hand shall be the first upon him to put him to death, and the hand of all the people afterward.


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<n>(13:11)</n> And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he sought to mislead thee from the Lord thy God, who hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondmen.


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<n>(13:12)</n> And all Israel shall hear it, and they shall be afraid, and they shall not do any more such a wicked deed as this is in the midst of thee.


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<n>(13:13)</n> If thou shouldst hear concerning one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,


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<n>(13:14)</n> There have gone forth men, children of worthlessness, from the midst of thee, and have misled the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known:


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<n>(13:15)</n> Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be true, the thing is certain, such abomination hath been wrought in the midst of thee:


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<n>(13:16)</n> Then shalt thou smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, devoting it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, to the edge of the sword.


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<n>(13:17)</n> And all its spoil shalt thou gather into the midst of the marketplace thereof, and thou shalt burn with fire the city, and all its spoil entirely, unto the Lord thy God; and it shall be a ruinous heap for ever: it shall not be built again.


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<n>(13:18)</n> And there shall not cleave to thy hand aught of the devoted things; in order that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and grant thee mercy, and have mercy upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;


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<n>(13:19)</n> When thou wilt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do what is right in the eyes of the Lord thy God.


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Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.


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For a holy people art thou unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath made choice of thee to be unto himself a peculiar nation above all the nations that are upon the face of the earth.


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The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallowdeer, and the chamois, and the gazelle, and the wild ox, and the antelope.


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And every beast that hath parted hoofs, and whose feet are cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beaststhat alone may ye eat.


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Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of those that chew the cud, and of those that possess the divided cloven hoof: The camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; unclean are they unto you;


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And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you; of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their dead carcass shall ye not touch.


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Ye shall not eat any thing that dieth of itself: unto the stranger that is in thy gates canst thou give it, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien; for thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God; thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mothers milk.


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And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, in the place which he will choose to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thy oil, and the firstborn of thy herds and of thy flocks; in order that thou may learn to fear the Lord thy God all the days.


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And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; because the place is too far from thee, which the Lord thy God will choose to set his name there, because the Lord thy God will bless thee:


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Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thy hand, and thou shalt go unto the place which the Lord thy God will choose;


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And thou shalt lay out that money for whatsoever thy soul longeth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul asketh of thee; and thou shalt eat it there before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thy household.


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And the Levite, who is within thy gates, him shalt thou not forsake; for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee.


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At the end of three years shalt thou bring forth all the tithe of thy produce in the same year, and thou shalt lay it down within thy gates:


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And then shall come the Levite, because he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee, with the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates, and they shall eat and be satisfied; in order that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest.


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And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor shall release the loan which he hath lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor, or of his brother; because the release year in honor of the Lord hath been proclaimed.


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Of a foreigner thou mayest exact <i>payment</i>; but that which is thine with thy brother shall thy hand release.


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Although indeed there should be no needy man among thee; for the Lord will greatly bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:


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Yet only if thou wilt carefully hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command thee this day.


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For the Lord thy God blesseth thee, as he hath spoken unto thee; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt rule over many nations, but over thee shall they not rule.


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If there be among thee a needy man, any one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee: thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy needy brother.


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But thou shalt open wide thy hand unto him, and thou shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, which his want requireth.


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Beware that there be not a wicked thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thy eye be thus evil against thy needy brother, so that thou wouldst give him nought; and if he cry concerning thee unto the Lord, it will be sin in thee:


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Thou shalt surely give him, and thy heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him; for because of this thing the Lord thy God will bless thee in all thy work, and in all the acquisition of thy hand.


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For the needy will not cease out of the land; therefore do I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open wide thy hand unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.


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If thy brother, the Hebrew, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, he shall serve thee six years; and in the seventh year shalt thou let him go free from thee.


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Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flocks, and out of thy threshingfloor, and out of thy winepress; wherewith the Lord thy God hath blessed thee, that shalt thou give unto him.


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And thou shalt remember that thou hast been a bondman in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God hath redeemed thee; therefore do I command thee this thing today.


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And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thy house, because he is well with thee:


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Then shalt thou take an awl, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be unto thee a servant for ever; and also unto thy maidservant shalt thou do likewise.


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It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee, that for double the wages of a hired laborer hath he served thee six years; and the Lord thy God will bless thee in all that thou doest.


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All the firstborn males that come of thy herds and of thy flocks shalt thou sanctify unto the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstborn of thy bullock, and not shear the firstborn of thy sheep.


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Before the Lord thy God shalt thou eat it year by year, in the place which the Lord will choose, thou with thy household.


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And if there be any blemish thereon, if it be lame, or blind, or have any <i>other</i> ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the Lord thy God.


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Within thy gates shalt thou eat it, the unclean and the clean together, as the roebuck, and as the hart.


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Observe the month of Abib, and prepare the passoversacrifice unto the Lord thy God; for in the month of Abib did the Lord thy God bring thee forth out of Egypt by night.


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And thou shalt sacrifice the passoveroffering unto the Lord thy God of sheep and oxen, in the place which the Lord will choose to let his name dwell there.


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Thou shalt not eat therewith any leavened bread: seven days shalt thou eat therewith unleavened bread, the bread of affliction; for in haste didst thou go forth out of the land of Egypt; in order that thou mayest remember the day of thy going forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.


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And there shall not be seen with thee any leaven in all thy borders seven days: neither shall there any of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst in the evening, on the first day, remain all night until the morning.


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But at the place which the Lord thy God will choose to let his name dwell in, there shalt thou slay the passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.


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And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the Lord thy God will choose; and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.


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Six days shalt thou eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work.


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Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thyself: from the time thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn, shalt thou begin to number seven weeks.


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And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the Lord thy God with a tribute of a freewilloffering of thy hand, which thou shalt give: according as the Lord thy God shall have blessed thee.


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And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in the midst of thee, in the place which the Lord thy God will choose to let his name dwell there.


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And thou shalt remember that thou hast been a bondman in Egypt; and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.


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The feast of tabernacles shalt thou hold for thyself seven days, when thou hast gathered in the produce of thy threshingfloor and of thy winepress:


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And thou shalt rejoice on thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.


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Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord will choose; because the Lord thy God will bless thee in all thy product, and in all the work of thy hands, and thou shalt only rejoice.


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Three times in the year shall every one of thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he will choose: on the feast of unleavened bread, and on the feast of weeks, and on the feast of tabernacles; and no one shall appear before the Lord empty;


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Every man according to what his hand can give, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee.


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Judges and officers shalt thou appoint unto thyself in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with a just judgment.


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Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, and thou shalt not take a bribe; for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.


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Justice, only justice shalt thou pursue; in order that thou mayest live, and retain possession of the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.


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Thou shalt not plant unto thyself a grove, any tree, near the altar of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt make unto thyself.


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Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the Lord thy God any bullock, or lamb, whereon there is a blemish, any thing evil; for it is an abomination unto the Lord thy God.


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If there be found in the midst of thee, within any one of thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee. a man or a woman, that doth the wickedness in the eyes of the Lord thy God, to transgress his covenant,


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And he hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have prohibited;


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And it be told thee, and thou hearest of it: then shalt thou inquire diligently; and, behold, if it be true, the thing is certain, such abomination hath been wrought in Israel:


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Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, who have committed this wicked thing, unto thy gates, the man or the woman, and thou shalt stone them with stones till they die.


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Upon the evidence of two witnesses, or of three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; he shall not be put to death upon the evidence of one witness.


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The hand of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and the hand of all the people at the last; and thou shalt put the evil away from the midst of thee.


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If a matter be unknown to thee for decision, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between bodily injury and injury, <i>or</i> matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up unto the place which the Lord thy God will choose;


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And thou shalt come unto the priests, the Levites, and unto the judge that may be in those days, and thou shalt inquire, and they shall inform thee of the sentence of the case;


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And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they may tell thee from that place which the Lord will choose, and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they may instruct thee;


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In accordance with the instruction which they may instruct thee, and according to the decision which they may say unto thee, shalt thou do: thou shalt not depart from the sentence which they may tell thee, to the right, or to the left.


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And the man that will act presumptuously, so as not to hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the Lord thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die; and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.


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When thou art come unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, and thou hast taken possession of it, and dwellest therein, and thou sayest, I wish to set a king over me, like all the nations that are round about me:


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Then mayest thou indeed set a king over thee, the one whom the Lord thy God will choose; <i>but</i> from the midst of thy brethren shalt thou set a king over thee; thou mayest not set over thee a stranger, who is not thy brother.


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Only he shall not acquire for himself many horses; so that he may not cause the people to return to Egypt, in order to acquire many horses; whereas the Lord hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth not return on that way any more.


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Neither shall he take to himself many wives, that his heart may not turn away; nor shall he acquire for himself too much silver and gold.


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And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book out of <i>that which is</i> before the priests, the Levites;


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And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: in order that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them.


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So that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and so that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right, or to the left: in order that he may live many 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, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel: the fireofferings of the Lord, and his inheritance shall they consume.


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But any inheritance shall he not have among his brethren: the Lord is his inheritance, as he hath spoken unto him.


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And this shall be the priests due from the people, from them that slay an animal, whether it be ox or lamb: then shall each one give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.


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The firstfruit of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thy oil, and the first shearing of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.


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For him the Lord thy God hath chosen out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the Lord, he and his sons all the days.


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And if the Levite come from any one of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourneth, and come with all the longing of his soul unto the place which the Lord will choose:


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Then can he minister in the name of the Lord his God, like all his brethren the Levites, who stand there before the Lord.


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When thou comest into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.


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There shall not be found among thee any one who causeth his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who useth divination, one who is an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a conjurer.


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For an abomination unto the Lord are all that do these things; and on account of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.


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For these nations, which thou art about to dispossess, hearken unto observers of times, and unto diviners; but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not assigned the like unto thee.


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A prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me, will the Lord thy God raise up unto thee; unto him shall ye hearken:


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According to all that thou didst desire of the Lord thy God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, I wish no more to hear the voice of the Lord my God, and this great fire I wish not to see again, that I die not.


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A prophet will I raise up unto them from among their brethren, like unto thee; and I will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I may command him.


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And it shall come to pass, that if there be a man who will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him.


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But the prophet, who may presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who may speak in the name of other Gods even that prophet shall die.


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That which the prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, and the thing do not happen and come not to pass this is the word which the Lord hath not spoken; in presumption hath the prophet spoken it; thou shalt not be afraid of him.


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When the Lord thy God shall have cut off the nations, whose land the Lord thy God giveth thee, and thou hast driven them out, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses:


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Then shalt thou set apart three cities for thyself, in the midst of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.


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Thou shalt put in order for thyself the <i>way to them</i>, and divide into three parts the territory of thy land, which the Lord thy God will give thee to inherit, and it shall serve, that every manslayer may flee thither.


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And this is the case of the manslayer, who shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso smiteth his neighbor without knowledge, when he hath not been an enemy to him in time past;


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And he that goeth into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron slippeth from the helve, and striketh his neighbor, that he die: this one shall flee unto one of these cities, and live;


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That the avenger of the blood pursue not the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and smite him dead; whereas he deserveth not a judgment of death, inasmuch as he was not an enemy to him in time past.


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And if the Lord thy God enlarge thy boundary, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he hath spoken to give unto thy fathers;


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Because thou dost keep all this commandment to do it, which I command thee this day, to love the Lord thy God, and to walk in his ways all the days: then shalt thou add for thyself three cities more, unto these three;


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That innocent blood be not shed in the midst of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and bloodguiltiness be brought upon thee.


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But if any man be an enemy to his neighbor, and he lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally so that he die, and he flee unto one of these cities:


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Then shall the elders of his city send and fetch him thence, and they shall deliver him into the hand of the avenger of the blood, that he may die.


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Thy eye shall not look with pity on him; but thou shalt put away the <i>shedding of</i> innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.


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Thou shalt not remove the landmark of thy neighbor, which they of old time have set, in thy inheritance which thou shalt inherit, in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.


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There shall not rise up one single witness against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: upon the evidence of two witnesses, or upon the evidence of three witnesses, must a case be established.


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Then shall both the men, who have the controversy, stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges, who shall be in those days;


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And the judges shall inquire diligently; and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, he hath testified a falsehood against his brother:


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Then shall ye do unto him, as he had purposed to do unto his brother; and thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee.


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And those who remain shall hear, and be afraid, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil thing in the midst of thee.


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And thy eye shall have no pity; but life <i>shall go</i> for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.


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When thou goest out to battle against thy enemies, and thou seest horse, and chariot, people more in number than thou: be not afraid of them; for the Lord thy God is with thee, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.


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And it shall be, when ye come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people;


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And he shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye come nigh this day unto the battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and be not downcast, and do not tremble because of them:


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And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there who hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.


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And what man is there who hath planted a vineyard, and hath not redeemed it? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man redeem it.


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And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.


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And the officers shall speak yet farther unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, that the heart of his brethren become not as faint as his heart.


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And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that they shall appoint captains of the armies at the head of the people.


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And it shall be, if it make thee an answer of peace, and open <i>its gates</i> unto thee: then shall it be, that all the people that are found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.


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And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thy hands, thou shalt 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 may be in the city, all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take as booty unto thyself; and thou shalt enjoy the spoil of thy enemies, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.


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Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.


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But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, shalt thou not let live a single soul.


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But thou shalt utterly devote them; namely, the Hittites, and the Emorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee;


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In order that they may not teach you to do in accordance with all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; and ye would thus sin against the Lord your God.


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When thou besiegest a city a long time, to make war against it to capture it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them; for of them thou mayest eat, and thou shalt not cut them down, <i>for man liveth of the trees of the field,</i> to employ them in thy siege;


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Only those trees of which thou knowest that they are not fruittrees, thou mayest destroy and cut down; and <i>thus</i> thou canst build bulwarks against the city that wageth war with thee, until it be subdued.


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If there be found a slain person in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, <i>and</i> it be not known who hath slain him:


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Then shall thy elders and thy judges go forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about the one that is slain.


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And it shall be, that the city which is the nearest unto the slain person, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer, which hath not been wrought with, which hath not drawn in a yoke;


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And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither tilled nor sown, and they shall break there the neck of the heifer in the valley;


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And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the Lord thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the Lord; and after their decision shall be done <i>at</i> every controversy and every injury;


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And all the elders of that city who are nearest unto the slain person shall wash their hands over the heifer, the neck of which is broken in the valley.


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Grant pardon unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, O Lord, and lay not innocent blood in the midst of thy people Israel: and the blood shall be forgiven unto them.


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And thou shalt put away the <i>guilt of</i> the innocent blood from the midst of thee, when thou wilt do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.


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When thou goest forth to war against thy enemies, and the Lord thy God delivereth them into thy hands, and thou takest captives of them;


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And thou seest among the captives a woman of handsome form, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldst take her to thee for wife:


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And she shall put off the raiment of her captivity from her, and she shall remain in thy house, and weep for her father and her mother a full month; and after that thou mayest go in unto her, and be her husband, that she may become thy wife.


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And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then shalt thou let her go whither she will; but thou shalt nowise sell her for money; thou shalt not make a servant of her, because thou hast humbled her.


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If a man have two wives, one beloved, and the other hated, and they bear him children, both the beloved and the hated; so that the firstborn son be hers that is hated:


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Then shall it be, when he divideth as inheritance among his sons what he hath, that he shall not institute the son of the beloved as the firstborn before the son of the hated, the firstborn;


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But the firstborn, the son of the hated woman, shall he acknowledge, to give him a double portion of all that is found in his possession; for he is the beginning of his strength; to him belongeth the right of the first birth.


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If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who hearkeneth not to the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and they chastise him, and he will not hearken unto them:


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Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;


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And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not hearken to our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.


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And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die; and thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee; and all Israel shall hear, and be afraid.


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And if a man have committed a sin for which there is a punishment of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:


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Then shall his body not remain all night on the tree, but thou shalt surely bury him on that day; <i>for he that is hanged is a dishonor of God;</i>and thou shalt not defile thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.


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Thou shalt not see thy brothers ox or his lamb go astray, and withdraw thyself from them: thou shalt surely bring them back again unto thy brother.


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But if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or thou know him not: then shalt thou take it unto thy own house, and it shall remain with thee until thy brother inquire after it, and then shalt thou restore it to him.


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In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and in like manner shalt thou do with his raiment; and in like manner shalt thou do with every lost thing of thy brothers, which may have been lost to him, and which thou hast found; thou art not at liberty to withdraw thyself.


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Thou shalt not see thy brothers ass or his ox fallen down by the way, and withdraw thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.


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A woman shall not have upon her the apparel of a man, and a man shall not put on a womans garment; for an abomination unto the Lord thy God are all who do this.


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If a birds nest chance to be before thee in the way, on any tree, or on the ground, with young ones, or with eggs, and the mother be sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs: thou shalt not take the mother with the young;


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But thou shalt surely let the mother go, and the young thou mayest take to thyself; in order that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest live many days.


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When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof; that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any one were to fall from there.


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Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds; that the ripe fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of the vineyard, be not defiled.


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Thou shalt make thyself fringes upon the four corners of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.


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And he lay an accusation against her, and spread abroad an evil name upon her, and say, This woman I took <i>for wife</i>, and when I came near to her, I found no tokens of virginity in her:


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Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsels virginity unto the elders of the city, to the gate.


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And the father of the damsel shall say unto the elders, My daughter I gave unto this man for wife; but he hath conceived hatred toward her;


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And, lo, he hath laid an accusation <i>against her</i>, saying, I have found no tokens of virginity in thy daughter; and yet these are the tokens of my daughters virginity; and they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.


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And they shall amerce him in a hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel; because he hath spread abroad an evil name upon a virgin of Israel; and she shall remain his wife; he shall not be at liberty to put her away all his days.


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Then shall they lead out the damsel to the door of her fathers house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die; because she hath wrought a disgraceful deed in Israel, to commit incest in her fathers house; and thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee.


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If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband: then shall both of them die, the man that lieth with the woman, and the woman; and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.


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If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto a man, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her:


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Then shall ye lead them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not <i>for aid</i> in the city; and the man, because he hath done violence to his neighbors wife; and thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee.


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But if in the field the man should find the betrothed damsel, and the man take hold of her by force, and lie with her: then shall the man that lay with her die alone;


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But unto the damsel shalt thou not do any thing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death; for as when a man riseth against his neighbor, and striketh him dead. even so is this matter;


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For in the field did he find her; had the betrothed damsel even cried, there would have been none to aid her.


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If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and lay fast hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found:


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Then shall the man who lieth with her give unto the father of the damsel fifty shekels of silver; and she shall become his wife, because he hath done violence to her, he shall not be at liberty to put her away all his days.


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<n>(23:2)</n> He that is wounded in the testicles, or hath his privy member cut, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord.


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<n>(23:3)</n> One born from prohibited connections shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even the tenth generation of him shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord.


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<n>(23:4)</n> An Ammonite and a Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even the tenth generation of him shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord, for ever;


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<n>(23:5)</n> For the reason, that they met you not with bread and with water on the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because he hired against thee Bilam the son of Beor of Pethor in Mesopotamia, to curse thee;


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<n>(23:6)</n> But the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Bilam; and the Lord thy God changed unto thee the curse into a blessing, because the Lord thy God loved thee.


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<n>(23:8)</n> Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother; thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.


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<n>(23:9)</n> The children that are born unto them in the third generation, may enter of them into the congregation of the Lord.


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<n>(23:10)</n> When thou goest forth into camp against thy enemies, then keep thyself from every evil thing.


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<n>(23:11)</n> If there be among thee any man, that is not clean by reason of an occurrence by night; then shall he go abroad to without the camp, he shall not come within the camp;


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<n>(23:12)</n> But it shall be, that toward evening he shall bathe himself in water; and when the sun goeth down, he may come into the midst of the camp.


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<n>(23:14)</n> And a spade shalt thou have with thy weapons: and it shall be, when thou sittest abroad, that thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt afterward cover that which cometh from thee;


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<n>(23:15)</n> For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee and to give up thy enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy; that he see no unseemly thing in thee, and turn away from thee.


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<n>(23:16)</n> Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant who may escape unto thee from his master;


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<n>(23:17)</n> With thee shall he dwell, in the midst of thee, in the place which he may choose in any one of thy gates, where it seemeth best to him: thou shalt not oppress him.


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<n>(23:18)</n> There shall not be a prostitute of the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.


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<n>(23:19)</n> Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow; for both of these are equally an abomination unto the Lord thy God.


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<n>(23:20)</n> Thou shalt not take interest from thy brother, interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of any thing that is lent upon interest:


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<n>(23:21)</n> From an alien thou mayest take interest; but from thy brother thou shalt not take interest; in order that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the acquisition of thy hand, in the land whither thou goest to possess it.


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<n>(23:22)</n> When thou makest a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not delay to pay it; for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.


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<n>(23:24)</n> What is gone out of thy lips shalt thou keep and perform, as thou hast vowed unto the Lord thy God voluntarily, as thou hast spoken with thy mouth.


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<n>(23:25)</n> When thou comest into thy neighbors vineyard, thou mayest eat grapes at thy own pleasure, till thou have enough; but into thy vessel shalt thou not put any.


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<n>(23:26)</n> When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbor, thou mayest pluck ears with thy hand; but a sickle shall thou not move over thy neighbors standing corn.


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When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass, that if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some scandalous thing in her, he may write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her away out of his house;


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And the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her away out of his house; or if the latter husband, who took her as his wife, should die:


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Then shall her former husband, who had sent her away, not be at liberty to take her again to be his wife, after she hath been defiled; for it is abomination before the Lord; and thou shalt not bring sin upon the land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.


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When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any public business: he shall be free for his house one year, and shall cheer up his wife whom he hath taken.


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No man shall take to pledge the nether or the upper millstone; for he taketh a mans life to pledge.


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If a man be found stealing any one of his brethren of the children of Israel, and he treateth him as a slave, and selleth him: then shall that thief die; and thou shalt put the evil away from the midst of thee.


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Take heed of the plague of leprosy, to observe diligently, and to do according to all that the priests, the Levites, may instruct you; as I have commanded them, so shall ye observe to do.


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When thou dost lend thy brother any thing as a loan, thou shalt not go into his house to take his pledge.


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In the street shalt thou stand, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out unto thee the pledge into the street.


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Thou shalt punctually deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may lie under his own cover, and bless thee; and unto thee shall it be as righteousness before the Lord thy God.


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Thou shalt not withhold the wages of a hired man, of the poor and needy, <i>whether he be</i> of thy brethren, or of the strangers that are in thy land within thy gates.


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On the same day shalt thou give him his wages, that the sun may not go down upon it; for he is poor, and his soul longeth for it; so that he may not cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin in thee.


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Fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall children be put to death for the fathers: for his own sin shall every man be put to death.


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Thou shalt not pervert the cause of the stranger, or of the fatherless; and thou shalt not take in pledge the raiment of a widow;


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But thou shalt remember that thou waste a bondman in Egypt, and that the Lord thy God redeemed thee thence; therefore do I command thee to do this thing.


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When thou cuttest down thy harvest in thy field, and forgettest a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go back to fetch it; for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow shall it be; in order that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hands.


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When thou beatest thy olivetree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again; for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow shall it be.


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When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean the small fruit afterward; for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow shall it be.


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And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore do I command thee to do this thing:


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If there be a controversy between men, and they come nigh unto a court of justice, and they judge them; and they justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked:


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Then shall it be, if the guilty man deserve to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to the degree of his fault, by a <i>certain</i> number.


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Forty stripes may he give him, not more; so that he shall not exceed to have him beaten above these with too many stripes, and thy brother be thus rendered vile before thy eyes.


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If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child: then shall the wife of the dead not be married abroad, unto a stranger; her husbands brother shall go in unto her, and take her to himself for wife, and perform the duty of a husbands brother unto her.


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And it shall be, that the firstborn whom she may bear shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead; so that his name be not blotted out of Israel.


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And if the man have no desire to take his sisterinlaw: then shall his sisterinlaw go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husbands brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform on me the duty of a husbands brother.


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Then shall the elders of his city call him, and speak unto him; and if he persist, and say, I have no desire to take her:


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Then shall his sisterinlaw come nigh unto him in the presence of the elders, and pull his shoe from off his foot, and spit out before him, and shall commence and say, Thus shall be done unto that man that will not build up his brothers house.


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When men strive together one with the other, and the wife of the one draweth near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:


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A perfect and just weight shalt thou have, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have; in order that thy days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee;


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For an abomination of the Lord thy God is every one that doth such things, every one that acteth unrighteously.


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How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were feeble behind thee, when thou was faint and weary; and he feared not God.


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And it shall come to pass, when the Lord thy God giveth thee rest from all thy enemies round about, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens: thou shalt not forget.


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And it shall come to pass, when thou art come in unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and thou hast taken possession of it, and dwellest therein:


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That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the soil, which thou shalt bring in from thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket; and thou shalt go unto the place which the Lord thy God will choose to let his name dwell there.


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And thou shalt come unto the priest that may be in those days, and thou shalt say unto him, I give thanks this day unto the Lord thy God, that I am come into the land which the Lord swore unto our fathers to give to us.


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And the priest shall take the basket out of thy hand, and set it down before the altar of the Lord thy God.


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And thou shalt commence and say before the Lord thy God, A Syrian, wandering about, was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a family few in number, and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and numerous.


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And then we cried unto the Eternal, the God of our fathers; and the Lord heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our trouble, 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 terror, and with signs, and with wonders;


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And now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruits of the soil, which thou hast given me, O Lord; and thou shalt set it down before the Lord thy God, and prostrate thyself before the Lord thy God;


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And thou shalt rejoice with every good thing which the Lord thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thy house, thou, with the Levite, and the stranger that is in the midst of thee.


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When thou hast made an end of giving away all the tithe of thy produce in the third year, the year of the tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, to the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, and they have eaten it within thy gates, and are satisfied:


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Then shalt thou say before the Lord thy God, I have removed away the hallowed things out of the house, and I have also given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandment which thou hast commanded me; I have not deviated from thy commandments, and I have not forgotten;


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I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I removed away aught thereof in an unclean state, nor have I given aught thereof for the dead: I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord my God, I have done all, just as thou hast commanded me.


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Look down from the habitation of thy holiness, from the heavens, and bless thy people Israel, and the soil which thou hast given unto us, as thou hast sworn unto our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.


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This day the Lord thy God commandeth thee to do these statutes and ordinances; and thou shalt keep and do them with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.


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Thou hast this day acknowledged the Lord, that he is thy God, and that thou wilt walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and hearken unto his voice;


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And the Lord hath acknowledged thee this day, that thou art unto him a peculiar people, as he hath spoken unto thee, and that thou shouldst keep all his commandments;


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So that he may set thee highest above all nations that he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that thou mayest be a holy people unto the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken.


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And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep the whole commandment which I command you this day.


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And it shall be on the day when ye pass over the Jordan unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set up for thyself great stones, and cover them with plaster;


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And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, so soon as thou art passed over; in order that thou mayest go in unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, a land flowing with milk and honey; as the Lord, the God of thy fathers, hath spoken unto thee.


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And it shall be so soon as ye are gone over the Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, on mount Ebal; and thou shalt cover them with plaster.


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And thou shalt build there an altar unto the Lord thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.


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Of whole stones shalt thou build the altar of the Lord thy God; and thou shalt offer thereupon burntofferings unto the Lord thy God;


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And thou shalt slay peaceofferings, and eat <i>them</i> there; and thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God.


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And Moses with the priests, the Levites, spoke unto all Israel, saying, Be attentive, and hearken, O Israel! this day art thou become a people unto the Lord thy God.


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Thou shalt therefore hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.


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These shall stand upon mount Gerizzim to bless the people, when ye are come over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin.


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And these shall stand for the sake of the curse upon mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.


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Cursed be the man who maketh a graven or molten image, the abomination of the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place; and all the people shall answer, and say, Amen.


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Cursed be he that holdeth in light esteem his father or his mother; and all the people shall say, Amen.


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Cursed be he that perverteth the cause of the stranger, of the fatherless, and of the widow; and all the people shall say, Amen.


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Cursed be he that lieth with his fathers wife; because he uncovereth his fathers skirt; and all the people shall say, Amen.


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Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother; and all the people shall say, Amen.


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Cursed be he that taketh a bribe to slay a person, an innocent blood; and all the people shall say, Amen.


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Cursed be he that executeth not the words of this law to do them; and all the people shall say, Amen.


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And it shall come to pass, if thou wilt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee highest above all nations of the earth.


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And all these blessings shall come upon thee, and overtake thee; because thou wilt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.


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Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of thy flocks.


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The Lord will cause thy enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: on one way shall they come out against thee, and on seven ways shall they flee before thee.


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The Lord will command upon thee the blessing in thy storehouse, and in all the acquisitions of thy hand; and he trill bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.


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The Lord will raise thee up unto himself as a holy people, as he hath sworn unto thee; if thou wilt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways.


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And all the nations of the earth shall see, that thou art called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of thee.


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And the Lord will make thee preeminent for good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord swore unto thy fathers to give unto thee.


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The Lord will open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven, to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow.


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And the Lord will constitute thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt only be uppermost, and thou shalt not be beneath; if thou wilt hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day to observe and to do;


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And thou wilt not go aside from all the words which I command thee this day, to the right, or to the left, to go after strange gods, to serve them.


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But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day: that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.


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Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of the flocks.


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The Lord will send out against thee misfortune, confusion, and failure, in all the occupation of thy hand which thou mayest engage in; until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, that thou hast forsaken me.


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The Lord will cause the pestilence to cleave unto thee, until it have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.


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The Lord will smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with extreme burning, and with drought, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou be lost.


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And thy heavens that are over thy head shall be copper, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.


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The Lord will give as the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.


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The Lord will cause thee to be smitten before thy enemies: on one way shalt thou go out against them, and on seven ways shalt thou flee before them; and thou shalt become a horror unto all the kingdoms of the earth.


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And thy carcass shall become food unto all the fowls of the heavens, and unto the beasts of the earth, but with no one to scare them away.


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The Lord will smite thee with the inflammatory disease of Egypt, and with the hemorrhoids, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou shalt not be able to be healed.


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And thou shalt grope about at noonday, as the blind gropeth about in the darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways; and thou shalt be only oppressed and robbed all the days, but with no one to help.


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A wife wilt thou betroth, and another man shall lie with her; a house wilt thou build, and thou shalt not dwell therein; a vineyard wilt thou plant, and thou shalt not redeem it.


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Thy ox shall be slain before thy eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof; thy ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be brought back to thee; thy sheep shall be given unto thy enemies, without any one to help thee.


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Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thy eyes shall look on, and fail with longing for them all the day long; but without any power in thy hand.


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The fruit of thy soil, and all thy exertion, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt only be oppressed and crushed all the days.


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The Lord will smite thee with a sore inflammation upon the knees, and upon the legs, of which thou shalt not be able to be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.


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The Lord will drive thee, and thy king whom thou wilt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and thou wilt serve there strange gods, of wood and stone.


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And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the nations whither the Lord will lead thee.


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Much seed wilt thou carry out into the field, yet but little shalt thou gather in; for the locust shall consume it.


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Vineyards wilt thou plant and dress; but wine shalt thou not drink nor lay up; for the worms shall eat them.


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Olivetrees wilt thou have throughout all thy borders; but with the oil shalt thou not anoint thyself; for thy olive shall cast the fruit.


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Sons and daughters wilt thou beget; but they shall not remain thine: for they shall go into captivity.


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The stranger that is in the midst of thee shall get up above thee higher and higher; but thou shalt come down lower and lower;


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He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him; he shall become the head, and thou shalt become the tail.


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And there shall come upon thee all these curses, and they shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he hath commanded thee;


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For the reason that thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, while there was an abundance of all things;


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Therefore shalt thou serve thy enemies whom the Lord will send out against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of every thing; and they will put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until they have destroyed thee.


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The Lord will bring up against thee a nation from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle rusheth down; a nation whose tongue thou wilt not understand;


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A nation of a fierce countenance, that will not have respect for the old, nor show favor to the young;


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And it will eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy soil, until thou be destroyed; so that it will not leave unto thee corn, wine, or oil, the increase of thy cattle, or the young of thy flocks, until it have ruined thee.


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And it will besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and strong walls come down, wherein thou trustest, throughout all thy land; and it will besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.


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And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, whom the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thy enemy will distress thee.


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The man that is the most tender among thee, and who is very delicate,his eye shall look enviously toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he may spare;


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So as not to give to any of them of the flesh of his children which he may eat; because there is nothing left unto him, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thy enemy will distress thee in all thy gates.


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The woman, the most tender among thee, and the most delicate, who hath never adventured to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness,her eye shall look enviously toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,


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And toward her young one that is come from between her feet, and toward her children which she hath born; for she shall eat them for want of every thing secretly, in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thy enemy will distress thee in thy gates.


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If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law which are written in this book; to fear this glorious and fearful name, the Lord thy God:


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Then will the Lord render peculiar thy plagues, and the plagues of thy seed, plagues great, and of long continuance, and sicknesses sore, and of long continuance.


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And he will bring back upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, of which thou wast afraid; and they shall cleave unto thee.


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Also every sickness, and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, will the Lord bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.


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And ye shall be left but few in number, instead of that ye once were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.


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And it shall come to pass, that, as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so will the Lord rejoice over you to bring you to nought, and to destroy you; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.


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And the Lord will scatter thee among all the nations, from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; and there wilt thou serve strange gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.


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And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, and there shall not be any rest for the sole of thy foot: and the Lord will give thee there a trembling heart, and a failing of eyes, and a faintness of soul.


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And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt be in dread day and night, and thou shalt have no confidence of thy life;


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In the morning thou wilt say, Who would but grant that it were only evening! and at evening thou wilt say, Who would but grant that it were only morning! from the dread of thy heart which thou wilt experience, and from the sight of thy eyes which thou wilt see.


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And the Lord will bring thee back to Egypt in ships, by the way whereof I have spoken unto thee, Thou shalt no more see it again: and there will ye offer yourselves for sale unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, without any one to buy you.


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<n>(28:69)</n> These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he had made with them in Horeb.


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<n>(29:1)</n> And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye yourselves have seen all that the Lord hath done before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;


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<n>(29:3)</n> Yet the Lord gave you not a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.


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<n>(29:4)</n> And I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes did not fall worn out from off you, and thy shoe did not fall worn out from off thy foot.


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<n>(29:5)</n> Bread have ye not eaten, and wine or strong drink have ye not drunk; in order that ye might understand that I am the Lord your God.


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<n>(29:6)</n> And when ye came unto this place, Sichon the king of Cheshbon, and Og the king of Bashan went out against us unto battle, and we smote them:


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<n>(29:7)</n> And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of the Menassites.


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<n>(29:8)</n> Keep ye therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.


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<n>(29:9)</n> Ye are standing this day, all of you, before the Lord your God; your heads of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,


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<n>(29:10)</n> Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in the midst of thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:


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<n>(29:11)</n> That thou shouldst enter into the covenant of the Lord thy God, and into his oath of denunciation, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day.


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<n>(29:12)</n> In order to raise thee up today unto himself for a people, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath spoken unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.


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<n>(29:14)</n> But with him that is standing here with us this day before the Lord our God, and with him that is not here with us this day.


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<n>(29:15)</n> (For ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we passed through the nations through which ye have passed;


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<n>(29:16)</n> And ye saw their abominations, and their idols, of wood and stone, silver and gold, which they had with them:)


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<n>(29:17)</n> So that there may not be among you a man, or a woman, or a family, or a tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go to serve the gods of these nations; that there may not be among you a root that beareth abundantly poison and wormwood.


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<n>(29:18)</n> And it might come to pass, when he heareth the words of this denunciation, that he would bless himself in his heart, saying, There will be peace unto me, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart; in order that the indulgence of the passions may appease the thirst <i>for them</i>:


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<n>(29:19)</n> The Lord will not pardon him; but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and there shall rest upon him all the curse that is written in this book; and the Lord will blot out his name from under the heavens.


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<n>(29:20)</n> And the Lord will single him out unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the denunciations of the covenant which is written in this book of the law.


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<n>(29:21)</n> And the latest generation, 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 its sufferings with which the Lord hath smitten it;


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<n>(29:22)</n> <i>That</i> the whole soil thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning waste, which is not sown, and beareth not, and in which no kind of grass springeth up, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboyim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:


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<n>(29:23)</n> Even all the nations will say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? whence the heat of this great anger?


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<n>(29:24)</n> Then shall men say, Because they had forsaken the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt;


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<n>(29:25)</n> And they went and served other gods, and bowed down to them, gods which they knew not, and which he had not assigned unto them;


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<n>(29:26)</n> And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it the entire curse that is written in this book;


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<n>(29:27)</n> And the Lord plucked them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and he cast them into another land, as it is this day.


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<n>(29:28)</n> The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are publicly known belong unto us and to our children for ever, to do all the words of this law.


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And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou reflectest on them in thy heart among all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee,


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So that thou returnest unto the Lord thy God, and hearkenest unto his voice according to all that I command this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul:


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That then the Lord thy God will restore thy captivity, and have mercy upon thee; and he will again gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee.


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If thy outcasts be at the outmost parts of heaven, from there will the Lord thy God gather thee, and from there will he fetch thee:


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And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.


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And the Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, in order that thou mayest live.


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And the Lord thy God will put all these denunciations upon thy enemies, and on those that hate thee, who have persecuted thee.


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And thou wilt return and hearken unto the voice of the Lord, and thou wilt do all his commandments which I command thee this day.


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And the Lord thy God will make thee preeminent in every work of thy hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good; for the Lord will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers;


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If thou wilt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if thou wilt return unto the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.


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It is not in heaven; that thou shouldst say, Who will go up for us to heaven, and fetch it down unto us, and cause us to hear it, that we may do it?


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Neither is it beyond the sea; that thou shouldst say, Who will go over the sea for us, and fetch it unto us, and cause us to hear it, that we may do it!


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In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances; that thou mayest live and multiply; and that the Lord thy God may bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.


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But if thy heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hearken, and thou sufferest thyself to be drawn away, and thou bowest down to other gods, and servest them:


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I announce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish; ye shall not remain many days upon the land, whither thou passest over the Jordan to go thither to possess it.


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I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse; therefore choose thou life, in order that thou mayest live, both thou and thy seed;


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To love the Lord thy God, to hearken to his voice, and to cleave unto him; for he is thy life, and the length of thy days; that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto them.


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And he said unto them, I am a hundred and twenty years old this day; I am not able any more to go out and come in; for the Lord hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.


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The Lord thy God it is who goeth over before thee; he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt dispossess them: Joshua it is who goeth over before thee, as the Lord hath spoken.


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And the Lord will do unto them as he hath done to Sichon and to Og, the kings of the Emorites, and unto their land, whom he hath destroyed.


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And the Lord will give them up before you; and ye shall do unto them according unto the whole of the commandment which I have commanded you.


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Be strong and of a good courage, be not afraid and be not dismayed on account of them; for the Lord thy God it is that goeth with thee; he will not let thee fail, nor forsake thee.


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And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him before the eyes of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage; for thou must go with this people unto the land which the Lord hath sworn unto their fathers to give unto them; and thou shalt divide it for them as a possession.


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And the Lord it is that goeth before thee; he will be with thee, he will not let thee fail, nor will he forsake thee: fear not, nor be thou discouraged.


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And Moses wrote down this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and unto all the elders of Israel.


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And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of <i>every</i> seven years, at the fixed time of the year of release, on the feast of tabernacles,


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When all Israel come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he will choose, shalt thou read this law in the presence of all Israel in their hearing.


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Assemble the people together, the men, and the women, and the children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates; in order that they may hear, and in order that they may learn how they are to fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law;


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And that their children, who have not yet any knowledge, may hear, and learn to fear the Lord your God, all the days which ye live in the land whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.


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And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die; call Joshua, and place yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge: and Moses and Joshua went, and placed themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And the Lord appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of cloud; and the pillar of cloud stood at the door of the tabernacle.


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And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers: and then will this people rise up, and go astray after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be in the midst of them, and they will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.


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And my anger shall be kindled against them on that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be given to be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall overtake them; and they will say on that day, Is it not, because my God is not in the midst of me, that these evils have overtaken me?


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But I will assuredly hide my face on that day on account of all the evils which they have wrought, because they have turned unto other gods.


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Now therefore write ye for yourselves this song, and teach it the children of Israel, put it in their mouth; in order that this song may become for me a witness against the children of Israel.


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For when I shall have brought them into the land which I have sworn unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat: then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.


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And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles have befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouth of their seed; for I know their inclination which they have shown, even this day, before I have brought them into the land which I have sworn.


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And he gave a charge unto Joshua the son of Nun, and said, Be strong and of a good courage; for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I have sworn unto them; and I will be with thee.


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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 at the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may remain there against thee for a witness.


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For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, have ye been rebellious against the Lord, and how much more after my death?


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Assemble unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers; and I will speak in their ears these words, and I will call as witnesses against them the heavens and the earth.


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For I know that after my death ye will to a surety become corrupt, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and that the evil will befall you in the latter days, when ye do the evil in the eyes of the Lord, to incense him 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 shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as heavy rains upon the grass, and as showers upon herbs.


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He is the Rock, his work is perfect; for all his ways are just: the God of truth and without iniquity, just and upright is he.


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The corruption is not his, it is the defect of his children, of the perverse and crooked generation.


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Will ye thus requite the Lord, O people, worthless and unwise? is he not thy father who hath bought thee? is it not he who hath made thee, and established thee?


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Remember the days of old, consider the years of former generations; ask thy father, and he will tell thee; thy elders, and they will say it unto thee:


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When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of man: he set the bounds of the tribes according to the number of the sons of Israel.


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He found him in a desert land, and in the waste of the howling of the wilderness; he encircled him, he watched him, he guarded him as the apple of his eye.


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As an eagle stirreth up his nest, fluttereth over his young, spreadeth abroad his wings, seizeth them, beareth them aloft on his pinions:


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He caused him to stride on the high places of the earth, and he ate the products of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty stone;


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Cream of cows, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of wheat; and of the blood of the grape thou drunkest unmixed wine.


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Thus did Yeshurun grow fat, and he kicked; <i>thou art grown fat, thick, fleshy;</i>and then he forsook the God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.


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They sacrificed unto evil spirits, things that are not god, gods that they know not, new ones lately come up, which your fathers dreaded not.


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Of the Rock that begat thee thou wast unmindful, and forgottest the God that had brought thee forth.


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And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end will be; for a perverse generation are they, children in whom there is no faith.


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They have moved me to wrath with things that are not god; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities; and I too will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a worthless nation.


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For a fire is kindled in my anger, and it burneth unto the lowest deep; and it consumeth the earth with her products, and it setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains.


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They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter deadly disease; also the tooth of beasts will I let loose against them, with the poison of serpents that crawl in the dust.


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Without shall the sword destroy, and terror within the chambers, both the young man and the virgin, the suckling with the man of gray hairs.


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I said, I would drive them into one corner, I would cause their remembrance to cease from among men:


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Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their oppressors should mistake the truth, lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the Lord hath not wrought all this.


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How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had delivered them up?


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For from the vine of Sodom is their vine, and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of gall, they bear bitter clusters.


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Mine are vengeance and recompense, at the time that their foot shall slip; for nigh draweth the day of their calamity, and the future speedeth along for them.


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For the Lord will espouse the cause of his people, and bethink himself concerning his servants: when he seeth that their power is gone, and the guarded and fortified axe no more.


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They that ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drinkofferings? let them arise and help you, let them be a protection over you.


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See now that I, even I, am he, ard there is no god with me: I alone kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; and no one can deliver out of my hand.


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When I whet my glittering sword, and my hand taketh hold on judgment: I will render vengeance unto my enemies, and those that hate me will I requite.


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I will make my arrows drunken with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; from the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the crushed head of the enemy.


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Speak aloud, O ye nations, the praises of his people; for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and vengeance will he render to his adversaries, and forgive his land, and 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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He said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify against you this day, so that ye may command them your children, to observe to do all the words of this law.


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For it is not a vain word for you; on the contrary, it is your life; and through this word shall ye live many days in the land, whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.


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Get thee up into this mountain of Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is in front of Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession;


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And die on the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died on mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people;


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Because ye trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of contention at Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.


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For from afar shalt thou see the land; but thither shalt thou not go unto 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 unto them: he shone forth from mount Paran, and he came from among myriads of saints; from his right hand he gave a fiery law unto them.


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Yea, thou also lovedst the tribes; all their saints were in thy hand; and they, prostrate before thy feet, received thy words.


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Thus became he king in Yeshurun, when the heads of the people were assembled, as one the tribes of Israel.


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And this is <i>the blessing</i> of Judah, and he said, Hear, Lord, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let the power of his hands contend for him; and be thou a help to him from his adversaries.


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And of Levi he said, Thy Thummim and thy Urim are with thy holy man, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;


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Who said of his father and of his mother, I have not seen him; and who did not acknowledge his brothers, nor regarded his own children; for they observe thy word, and thy covenant they keep.


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They shall teach thy ordinances unto Jacob, and thy law unto Israel: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burntsacrifice upon thy altar.


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Bless, O Lord, his substance, and receive favorably the work of his hands: crush the loins of those that rise up against him, and those that hate him, that they cannot rise again.


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And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the Lord <i>is he</i>, he shall dwell in safety by him: he will shield him all the day long, and between his shoulders will he dwell.


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And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the Lord be his land, through the precious gift of heaven, through the dew, and through the deep that coucheth beneath,


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And through the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and through the precious things put forth by the moon,


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And through the best things of the ancient mountains, and through the precious things of the everlasting hills,


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And through the precious things of the earth and its fulness, and through the goodwill of him that dwelt in the thornbush: may this blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the head of him that was separated from his brothers.


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His firstborn steer is adorned with glory, and his horns are like the horns of reem; with them shall he push nations together to the ends of the earth: and they are the myriads of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Menasseh.


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They will call the tribes unto the mountain; there will they offer sacrifices of righteousness; for they will suck the abundance of the seas, and the treasures hid in the sand.


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And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: like a lioness lieth he down, and teareth off the arm with the crown of the head.


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And he provided the first part for himself, because there is the field of the lawgiver, of the hidden; and he went forth at the head of the people: he executed the justice of the Lord, and his judgments with Israel.


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And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favor, and full of the blessing of the Lord, take thou possession of the west and the south.


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And of Asher he said, More than <i>all</i> the children be Asher blessed: he shall be the most favored of his brethren, and bathe his foot in oil.


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There is none like unto the God of Yeshurun, who rideth to help thee upon the heavens, and in his excellency upon the skies.


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Thy refuge is the eternal God, and here beneath, the everlasting arms; and he thrust out the enemy from before thee; and he said, Destroy.


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And then dwelt Israel in safety, alone, the fountain of Jacob; in a land of corn and wine; also its heavens shall drop down dew.


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Happy art thou, O Israel! who is like unto thee, O people, saved by the Lord, the Shield of thy help, and who is the Sword of thy excellency! and thy enemies shall fawn upon thee; and thou shalt tread upon their highplaces.


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And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mount of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is before Jericho; and the Lord showed him all the land <i>from</i> Gilad unto Dan,


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And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Menasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the western sea.


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And the Lord said unto him, This is the land which I swore unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it: I have let thee see it with thy eyes, but thither shalt thou not go over.


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And Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the order of the Lord.


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And he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, opposite Bethpeor; but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.


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And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eye was not dimmed, and his natural force had not abated.


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And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; and then were ended the days of weeping and mourning for Moses.


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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 unto him, and did, as the Lord had commanded Moses.


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And there arose not a prophet since then in Israel like unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face,


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In respect to all the signs and the wonders, which the Lord had 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 respect to all that mighty hand, and in all the great terrific deeds which Moses displayed before the eyes of all Israel.


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And it came to pass after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, that the Lord spoke unto Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, saying,


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Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, pass over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, to the children of Israel.


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Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.


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From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your boundary.


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No man shall be able to stand up before thee all the days of thy life; as I was with Moses, so will I be with thee: I will not let thee fail, nor forsake thee.


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Be strong and of a good courage; for thou shalt divide for an inheritance unto this people the land, which I swore unto their fathers to give to them.


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Only be thou strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant hath commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left; in order that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.


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This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, in order that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein; for then shalt thou make thy way prosperous, and then shalt thou have good success.


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Behold, I have commanded thee, Be strong and of good courage; be not dismayed, neither be thou discouraged; for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.


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Pass through the midst of the camp, and command the people, saying, Prepare yourselves provisions; for after only three days more ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the Lord your God giveth 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 hath granted you rest, and hath given you this land;


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Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan; but ye shall pass over armed before your brethren, all the mighty men of valor, and help them;


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Until the Lord shall have granted your brethren rest, as he hath done to you, and they also have taken possession of the land which the Lord your God giveth them: then shall ye return unto the land of your possession, and possess it, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun.


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And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou hast commanded us will we do, and whithersoever thou wilt send us will we go.


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Entirely so as we have hearkened unto Moses, thus will we hearken unto thee: only the Lord thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses.


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Every man that doth rebel against thy order, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou mayest command him, shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage.


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And Joshua, the son of Nun, had sent out from Shittim two men as spies, secretly, saying, Go ye, view the land and especially Jericho; and they went, and came unto the house of a woman, a harlot, whose name was Rachab, and they lodged there.


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And it was told unto the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, men came in hither this night, of the children of Israel, to search out the country.


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And the king of Jericho sent to Rachab, saying, Bring forth the men who are come to thee, who came to thy house; for, to search out all the country are they come.


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But the woman had taken the two men, and hidden them; and she said, It is true, the men came unto me, but I knew not whence they were.


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And it came to pass, about the time of shutting the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out; I know not whither the men are gone: pursue quickly after them, for ye can overtake them.


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But she had brought them up to the roof, and had hidden them among the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.


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And the men pursued after them, by the way to the Jordan unto the fords; and the gate was closed, as soon as those who pursued after them were gone out.


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And she said unto them, I know that the Lord hath given you the land, and that the terror of you hath fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land are become fainthearted, because of you.


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For we have heard, how that the Lord dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you, when ye went forth out of Egypt; and what ye have done unto the two kings of the Emorites, who were on the other side of the Jordan, unto Sichon and Og, whom ye have utterly destroyed.


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And when we heard this, our heart melted, and there remained not any more courage in any man, because of you; for the Lord your God is alone God in the heavens above, and upon the earth beneath.


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And now swear, I pray you, unto me by the Lord, because I have shown you kindness, that ye will also, for your part, show kindness, unto my fathers house; and give me a sure token,


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That ye will preserve the life of my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.


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And the men said unto her, Our life shall be <i>doomed</i> to death instead of yours, if ye tell not this our business; and it shall be, when the Lord giveth us the land, that we will show thee kindness and truth.


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Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was within the town wall, and within the wall she dwelt.


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And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet with you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned; and afterward ye may go your way.


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And the men said unto her, We will be blameless of this thy oath which thou hast caused us to swear.


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Behold, when we come into the land, this line of scarlet thread shalt thou bind in the window by which thou hast let us down; and thy father, and thy mother, and thy brothers, and all thy fathers household, thou must bring together unto thee into the house.


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And it shall be, that whosoever will go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless; and whosoever will remain with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if a hand be laid upon him.


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And if thou tell this our business, then will we be free of thy oath which thou hast caused us to swear.


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And she said, According unto your words, so be it; and she dismissed them, and they departed; and she bound the scarlet line in the window.


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And they went, and came unto the mountain, and they remained there three days, until the pursuers were returned; and the pursuers sought throughout all the way, but found nothing.


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And the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and related to him all the things that had befallen them.


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And they said unto Joshua, Truly the Lord hath given up into our hand all the country; for all the inhabitants of the country are already become fainthearted because of us.


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And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they broke up from Shittim, and came close to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel; and they lodged there before they passed over.


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And it came to pass at the end of three days, that the officers passed through the midst of the camp.


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And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then shall ye break up from your place, and go after it.


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Nevertheless there shall be a space between you and it, of about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, in order that ye may know the way by which ye must go; for ye have not passed this way heretofore.


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And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow will the Lord do wonders in the midst of you.


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And Joshua said unto the priests, as followeth, 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 unto Joshua, This day will I begin to make thee great in the eyes of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so will I be with thee.


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And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When ye are come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, ye shall stand still in the Jordan.


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And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Approach hither, and hear the words of the Lord your God.


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And Joshua said, Hereby shall ye know that the living God is in the midst of 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 Emorites, and the Jebusites.


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Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passeth over before you into the Jordan.


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And it shall come to pass, that as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, namely, the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand up as a wall.


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And it came to pass, when the people broke up from their tents, to pass over the Jordan, and the priests the bearers of the ark of the covenant were before the people;


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And as they that bore the ark were come up to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bore the ark were dipped in the edge of the water, <i>the Jordan, however, had overflowed all its banks all the time of harvest,</i>


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That the waters which came down from above stood still and rose up as a wall, very far from the city Adam, which is beside Zarethan; and those that ran down toward the sea of the plain, the salt sea, failed, were cut off; and the people passed over opposite to Jericho.


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And the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people had finished passing over the Jordan.


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And it came to pass, when all the people had finished passing over the Jordan, That the Lord said unto Joshua, as followeth,


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And command ye them, saying, Take yourselves hence out of the midst of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests feet stood firmly, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodgingplace, where ye will lodge this night.


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Then did Joshua call the twelve men, whom he had appointed out of the children of Israel, one man each out of every tribe:


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And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take yourselves up every man one stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel;


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In order that this may be a sign among you, when your children ask in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?


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That ye shall answer them, That the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off; and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.


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And the children of Israel did so as Joshua had commanded; and they took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as the Lord had spoken unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.


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Twelve stones also did Joshua set up in the midst of the Jordan, on the spot where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant had stood: and they have remained there unto this day.


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But the priests who bore the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan, until every thing was finished that the Lord had commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua; and the people hastened and passed over.


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And it came to pass, when all the people had finished passing over, that the ark of the Lord passed over with the priests in the presence of the people.


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And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half tribe of Menasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses had spoken unto them:


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About forty thousand ready armed for war, did they pass over before the Lord unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.


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On that day the Lord made Joshua great in the eyes of all Israel; and they feared him, as they had feared Moses, all the days of his life.


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And it came to pass, when the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord were come up out of the midst of the Jordan, the soles of the feet of the priests were lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters of the Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all its banks, as on the preceding days.


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And the people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the extreme eastern border of Jericho.


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And he said unto the children of Israel, thus, When your children shall ask in time to come their fathers, saying, What mean these stones?


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That the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you, until ye 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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In order that all the nations of the earth may know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty; in order that ye may fear the Lord your God all the days.


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And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Emorites, who were on the side of the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until they were passed over, that their heart melted, and there remained no more any courage in them, because of the children of Israel.


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At that time the Lord said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.


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And Joshua made himself sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of Araloth.


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And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, the males, all the men of war, died in the wilderness on the way, after their going forth out of Egypt.


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For all the people that came out were circumcised; but all the people that were born in the wilderness on the way at their going forth out of Egypt, they had not circumcised.


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For during forty years the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness, till there was an end of all the people, the men of war, who were come out of Egypt, who had not obeyed the voice of the Lord; unto whom the Lord had sworn that he would not let them see the land, which the Lord had sworn unto their fathers that he would give unto us, a land flowing with milk and honey.


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But their children he raised up in their stead: these did Joshua circumcise; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on the way.


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And it came to pass, when the whole people had all been circumcised, that they abode in their places in the camp till they were healed.


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And the Lord said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. And he called the name of the place Gilgal unto this day.


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And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and they prepared the passoveroffering on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.


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And they ate of the corn of the land on the morrow after the passoveroffering, unleavened cakes and parched corn, on the selfsame day.


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And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the corn of the land; and the children of Israel had not any more manna; but they did eat of the product of the land of Canaan during 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, a man was standing over against him with his sword drawn in his hand; and Joshua went unto him, and said to him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?


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And he said, No; for I am a captain of the host of the Lord: now am I come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and bowed himself, and said to him, What doth my lord speak unto his servant?


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And the captain of the Lords host said unto Joshua, Put off thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.


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Now Jericho was shut up, and barred up, because of the children of Israel: no one went out, and no one came in.


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And the Lord said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thy hand Jericho and its king, even the mighty men of valor.


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And ye shall compass the city, all the men of war, going round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.


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And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven cornets of rams horns; and on the seventh day shall ye compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the cornets.


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And it shall come to pass, that, when they blow a long blast with the rams horn, when ye hear the sound of the cornet all the people shall utter a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.


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And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven cornets of rams horns before the ark of the Lord.


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And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let the armed men pass on before the ark of the Lord.


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And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests, bearing the seven cornets of rams horns before the Lord, passed on and blew with the cornets; 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 the cornets, and the rereward came after the ark, going on, and blowing with the cornets.


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And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you, Shout; and then shall ye shout.


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So the ark of the Lord compassed the city, going round it once; and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.


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And the seven priests bearing the seven cornets of rams horns before the ark of the Lord went on continually, and blew with the cornets; and the armed men went before them; and the rereward came after the ark of the Lord, going on, and blowing with the cornets.


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And they compassed the city on the second day once, and returned into the camp: so did they six days.


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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 this 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 priest blew with the cornets, that Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the Lord hath given you the city.


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And the city shall be devoted, it, and all that is therein, to the Lord: only Rachab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house; because she did hide the messengers that we sent.


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But ye, keep yourselves from the devoted things, lest ye devote and yet take of the devoted things, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.


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And all the silver, and gold, and vessels of copper and iron, shall be holy unto the Lord: into the treasury of the Lord shall they come.


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So the people shouted, when they blew with the cornets; and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the cornet, that the people uttered a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, and the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they captured 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 lamb, and ass, with the edge of the sword.


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But unto the two men that had spied out the country, Joshua said, Go into the house of the woman, the harlot, and bring out thence the woman, and all belonging to her, as ye have sworn unto her.


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And the young men, the spies, went in, and brought out Rachab, and her father, and her mother, and her brothers, and all belonging to her: and they brought out all her kindred, and they left them without the camp of Israel.


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And the city they burnt with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of copper and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord.


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And Rachab the harlot did Joshua save alive, and her fathers household, and all belonging to her; and she dwelt in the midst of Israel even unto this day; because she had hidden the messengers, whom Joshua had sent to spy out Jericho.


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And Joshua adjured <i>the people</i> at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the Lord, that will rise up and build this city Jericho: with his firstborn shall he lay its foundation, and with his youngest shall he set up its gates.


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But the children of Israel committed a trespass on the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerach, of the tribe of Judah, took of the devoted things: 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 side of Bethel, and said unto them, thus, Go up and spy out the country. And the men went up and spied out Ai.


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And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai: do not fatigue all the people <i>to go</i> 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; and they chased them from before the gate unto the stonequarries, and smote them on the declivity <i>of the hill</i>; wherefore the heart of the people melted, and became as water.


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And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell upon his face to the earth before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he with the elders of Israel, and they put dust upon their head.


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And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord Eternal, wherefore hast thou caused this people to pass over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Emorites, to destroy us? and oh! that we had been content, and dwelt on the other side of the Jordan!


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And when the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, they will environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth; and what wilt thou do for thy great name?


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Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I have commanded them; and they have also taken of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and have also dissembled, and they have also put it into their own vessels.


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Therefore will the children of Israel not be able to stand up before their enemies; their back will they turn before their enemies, because they have become accursed: I will not be any more with you, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.


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Rise up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow; for thus hath said the Lord the God of Israel, An accursed thing is in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou shalt not be able to stand up before thy enemies, until ye have removed the accursed from among you.


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And ye shall be brought near in the morning according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the Lord will seize shall come near according to its families; and the family which the Lord will seize shall come near by households; and the household which the Lord shall seize will come near by its men.


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And it shall be, that he that is seized with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he, and all that he hath; because he hath transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he hath wrought wickedness in Israel.


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So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel near by their tribes, and the tribe of Judah was seized;


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And he brought near the family of Judah, and he seized the family of the Zarchites; and he brought near the family of the Zarchites by its men, and Zabdi was seized;


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And he brought near his household by its men, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerach, of the tribe of Judah, was seized.


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And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the Lord, the God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me, I pray thee, what thou hast done: hide nothing from me.


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And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Truly! I have indeed sinned against the Lord the God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:


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I saw among the spoil a handsome Babylonish mantle, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels in weight, and I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hidden in the earth in the midst of my tent, with the silver beneath the same.


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Joshua thereupon sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and, behold, it was hidden in his tent, and the silver beneath it.


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And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and they laid them out before the Lord.


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And Joshua took Achan the son of Zerach, and the silver, and the mantle, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his ox, and his ass, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had, and all Israel were with him, and they brought them up unto the valley of Achor.


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And Joshua said, How hast thou troubled us! so shall the Lord trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burnt them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.


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And they raised over him a great heap of stones <i>which is</i> unto this day; and the Lord turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.


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And the Lord said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou discouraged: take with thee all the people of war, and arise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land.


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And thou shalt do to Ai and to its king as thou hast done unto Jericho and its king; only its spoil and its cattle shall ye take for booty unto yourselves; but lay thee an ambush for the city in its rear.


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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 valor, and sent them away by night.


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And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, in the rear of the city; go not very far from the city; and be ye all ready;


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And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city; and it shall come to pass that, when they come out against us, as at the first time, we will flee before them;


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And they will come out after us, till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee from us as at the first time: and we will flee before them.


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And then shall ye rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; and the Lord your God will deliver it in into your hand.


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And it shall be, that as soon as ye have seized the city, ye shall set the city on fire; according to the word of the Lord shall ye do: see, I have commanded you.


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And Joshua sent them off: and they went to lie in ambush, and remained 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, toward Ai.


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And all the people of war that were with him went up, and drew nigh, and came opposite the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai; and the valley was between them and Ai.


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And he took about five thousand men, and set them as an ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai.


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And the people, all the camp that was on the north of the city, and its ambush on the west of the city got ready; and 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 this, the men of the city hastened and rose up early, and went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the plain; but he knew not that there was an ambush against him in the rear of the city.


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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 unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward Ai; for into thy hand will I give it. And Joshua stretched out the spear which was 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 stretched out his hand; and they entered into the city, and took possession of it, and hastened and set the city on fire.


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And the men of Ai turned <i>and looked</i> behind them, and 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 had fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.


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For when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had seized the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended: they turned back, and smote the men of Ai.


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And the others issued out of the city against them; so that the Israelites had them in the middle, some on this side, and some on that side; and they smote them, until there was not left of them one that remained or escaped.


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And it came to pass, that, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they had pursued them, and when they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, All the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.


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And <i>the number of</i> all that fell in that day, both of men and women, was twelve thousand, all the people of Ai.


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And Joshua drew not back his hand, wherewith he had 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 as booty unto themselves, according to the word of the Lord which he had commanded Joshua.


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And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide; and at the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took his carcass down from the tree and cast it at the entrance of the city gate, and they raised over him a great heap of stones, <i>which is</i> even unto this day.


