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Do not regard those who have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.


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You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear your God: I am the LORD.


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But the stranger that dwells with you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you 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 you have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.


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Again, you shall say to the children of Israel, Whoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that gives any of his descendents unto Molech; he 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 will cut him off from among his people; because he has given of his descendents unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.


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And if the people of the land do at all hide their eyes from the man, when he gives of his descendents unto Molech, and do not kill him:


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


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And the soul that turns after those who have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.


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For every one that curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.


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And the man that commits adultery with another man's wife, even he that commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.


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And the man that lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.


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And if a man lies with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have caused confusion; their blood shall be upon them.


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If a man also lies with mankind, as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.


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And if a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.


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And if a woman approaches unto any beast, and lies down to it, you shall kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.


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And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he has uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.


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


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


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


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


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You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: so that the land, to which I bring you to dwell therein, does not vomit you out.


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


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


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You shall therefore make a distinction between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean birds and clean: and you shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by bird, or by any manner of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.


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And you shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have separated you from other people, that you should be mine.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of your God: he shall be holy unto you: for I the LORD, who sanctifies you, am holy.


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


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


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


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


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


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For whatever man he be that has a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that has a flat nose, or anything extra,


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Or has a crooked back, or a dwarf, or that has a blemish in his eye, or is scaly, or scabbed, or has his testicles broken;


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


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


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


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Say to them, Whoever he be of all your descendents among your generations, that goes 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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Whatever man of the descendents of Aaron is a leper, or has a flowing discharge; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goes from him;


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


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


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


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


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


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


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But if the priest buys any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his food.


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


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


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And if a man eats of the holy thing unknowingly, then he shall add the fifth part thereof to it, and shall give it to the priest with 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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Or permit them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.


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


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You shall offer of your own will a male without blemish, of the beef animals, of the sheep, or of the goats.


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


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


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Either a bullock or a lamb that has anything extra or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.


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


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


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When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days with its mother; and from the eighth day and onwards it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the LORD.


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


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


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


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


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


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But you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is a holy convocation: you shall do no common work therein.


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


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


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


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And the food offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savor: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.


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And you shall eat neither bread, nor parched grain, nor green ears, until the very same day that you have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.


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


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Even until the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall you number fifty days; and you shall offer a new food offering unto the LORD.


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You shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven; they are the first fruits unto the LORD.


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


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


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


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And you shall proclaim on the very same day, that it may be a holy convocation unto you: you shall do no common work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 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 you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you; and you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and you shall do no common work therein.


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These are the feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a food offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, everything upon its day:


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Besides the sabbaths of the LORD, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give unto the LORD.


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


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


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


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


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


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Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron tend to it from the evening until the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.


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


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


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


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


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


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Bring forth him that has cursed outside the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.


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


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Bruise for bruise, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he has caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And the sabbath of the land shall be food for you; for you, and for your servant, and for your maid, and for your hired servant, and for your stranger that sojourns with you,


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And for your cattle, and for the beasts that are in your land, shall all the increase thereof be food.


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And you shall number seven sabbaths of years unto you, seven times seven years; and the period of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty nine years.


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


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


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A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of your uncared for vine.


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For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you: you shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.


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


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


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


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You shall not therefore oppress one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am the LORD your God.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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But the field of the open country of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.


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And if your brother has become poor, and falls on hard times with you; then you shall relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with you.


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


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And if your brother that dwells by you has become poor, and be sold unto you; you shall not compel him to serve as a bondservant:


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But as a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the year of jubilee:


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


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


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Both your male servants, and your female servants, which you shall have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; from them shall you buy male and female servants.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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You shall make for yourself no idols nor sculptured image, neither raise up a standing image, neither shall you set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am the LORD your God.


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


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


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And I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will take away evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.


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


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For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.


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


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


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


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


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And if you will not yet for all this listen to me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.


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And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:


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


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


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


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


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


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Then I will walk contrary to you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.


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And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and throw your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.


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And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.


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And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And if it be a beast, of which men bring an offering to the LORD, all that any man gives 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, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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But the field, when it goes out in the jubilee, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field dedicated; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.


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


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


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In the year of the jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.


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


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


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


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Nevertheless no dedicated thing that a man shall dedicate unto the LORD of all that he has, either of man or beast, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every dedicated thing is most holy unto the LORD.


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None dedicated to destruction, which shall be dedicated of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.


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


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And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatever passes under the rod, the tenth 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 changes it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.


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


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


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Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, according to their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their listing;


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah, were seventy four thousand six hundred.


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


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Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty four thousand four hundred.


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


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Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty seven thousand four hundred.


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


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


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Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty two thousand two hundred.


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


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Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty five thousand four hundred.


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


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


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


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Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty three thousand four hundred.


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


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


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You shall, however, not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:


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


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And when the tabernacle goes 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 comes near 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, throughout their hosts.


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But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall have the oversight of the tabernacle of testimony.


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


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


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


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All that were numbered in the camp of Judah were a hundred eighty six thousand four hundred, throughout their armies. These shall first set forth.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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All those who were numbered in the camp of Dan were a hundred fifty seven thousand six hundred. They shall go last with their standards.


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


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And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they went forward, every one according to their families, according to the house of their fathers.


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These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spoke with Moses in mount Sinai.


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


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And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father.


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


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


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And they shall attend to all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the responsibilities of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.


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


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


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And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that open the womb among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine;


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Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the 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 the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shall you number them.


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And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.


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Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites.


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


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


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


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


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In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were eight thousand six hundred, having the responsibilities of the sanctuary.


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And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.


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And their responsibilities shall be the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the hanging, and all the service thereof.


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And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of those who have the responsibilities of the sanctuary.


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


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


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And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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You shall even take five shekels apiece by the listing, according to the shekel of the sanctuary shall you take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)


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


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And Moses took the redemption money of those who were over and above those who were redeemed by the Levites:


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Of the firstborn of the children of Israel he took money; a thousand three hundred sixty five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary:


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


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


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


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This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, concerning the most holy things:


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And when the camp moves forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering veil, and cover the ark of testimony with it:


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


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


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


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And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and its lamps, and its tongs, and its fireholders, and all the oil vessels thereof, with which they minister to it:


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


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And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put in the poles thereof:


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


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And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, with which they minister concerning it, even the censers, the flesh hooks, and the shovels, and the basins, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers' skins, and put in the poles of it.


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And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to move forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things are the burden for the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation.


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


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


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


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From thirty years old and upward up to fifty years old shall you number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.


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


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And the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and all that is made for them: so shall they serve.


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Under the supervision of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burdens, and in all their service: and you shall appoint to them in charge all their burdens to carry.


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This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their orders shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.


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As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them according to their families, by the house of their fathers;


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From thirty years old and upward even up to fifty years old shall you number them, every one that enters into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And this is the responsibility of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets thereof,


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


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


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


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


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These were those who were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.


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


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


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Even those that were numbered of them, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers, were two thousand six hundred and thirty.


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These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD.


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


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These be those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.


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All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, according to their families, and according to the house of their fathers,


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From thirty years old and upward even up to fifty years old, every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation,


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According to the commandment of the LORD they were numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his service, and according to his burden to carry: thus were they numbered by him, as the LORD commanded Moses.


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


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Both male and female shall you put out, outside the camp shall you put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst of which I dwell.


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


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


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


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But if the man has no kinsman to recompense the trespass to, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, even to the priest; besides the ram of the atonement, with which 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 to the priest, shall be his.


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


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And a man lies with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept secret, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, and she be not handled in the usual manner;


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:


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


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


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


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


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And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive offspring.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.


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And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:


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


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


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


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And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also its food offering, and its drink offering.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And his offering was one silver charger, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering:


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


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


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


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His offering was one silver charger, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering:


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


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His offering was one silver charger of the weight of a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering:


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


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


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His offering was one silver charger of the weight of a hundred and thirty shekels, a silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering:


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:


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


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The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, according to 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 burnt offering were twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their food offering: and the kids of the goats for sin offering twelve.


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


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


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Speak to Aaron, and say to him, When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light forwards from the candlestick.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And the Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bullocks: and you shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to make an atonement for the Levites.


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


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Thus shall you separate the Levites from among 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: and you shall cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to fulfill their responsibilities, and shall do no service. Thus shall you do unto the Levites concerning their duties.


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


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


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


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


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And those men said to him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: why are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in its appointed season among the children of Israel?


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


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


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


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


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And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: you shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.


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And on the day that the tabernacle was set up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at evening there was upon the tabernacle what looked like the appearance of fire, until the morning.


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


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


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And when the cloud stayed long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel obeyed the instruction of the LORD, and journeyed not.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.


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When you blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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In the first place went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.


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And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari went forward, carrying the tabernacle.


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


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And the Kohathites went forward, carrying the sanctuary: and the others set up the tabernacle before they came.


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


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


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


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


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


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And it shall be, if you go with us, yea, it shall be, that what goodness the LORD shall do unto us, the same will we do unto you.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore have you afflicted your servant? and wherefore have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?


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


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


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


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


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And I will come down and talk with you there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon you, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you do not bear it yourself alone.


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


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But even a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome to you: because you have despised the LORD who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why did we come forth out of Egypt?


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And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and you have said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.


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


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


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


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


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But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of those who were written, but did not go out to the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And the LORD spoke suddenly to Moses, and to Aaron, and to Miriam, Come out you three to the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out.


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


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And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known to him in a vision, and will speak to him in a dream.


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With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even visibly, and not in dark speeches; and the likeness of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.


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


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


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The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from 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, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them, and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.


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


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Nevertheless the people are strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of those who searched the land, tore their clothes:


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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Pardon, I plead with you, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your mercy, and as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.


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Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not heard and obeyed my voice;


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Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who provoked me see it:


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But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into which he went; and his descendents shall possess it.


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


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


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


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Doubtless you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore to make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword: because you have turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.


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But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.


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Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and struck them, and overcame them, even unto Hormah.


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


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And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savor unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock:


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Then shall he that offers his offering unto the LORD bring a food offering of a tenth deal of flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of oil.


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


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


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And for a drink offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, for a sweet savor unto the LORD.


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


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Then shall he bring with a bullock a food offering of three tenth deals of flour mixed with half a hin of oil.


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


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According to the number that you shall prepare, so shall you do for each one according to their number.


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All that are born in the land shall do these things in this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the LORD.


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


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


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


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


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


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Then it shall be, if anything be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savor unto the LORD, with its food offering, and its drink offering, according to the proper manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.


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And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their ignorance:


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And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourns among them; seeing all the people were in ignorance.


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


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


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


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But the soul that does anything presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproaches the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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Does it seem but a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them?


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And he has brought you near to him, and all your brethren the sons of Levi with you: and do you seek the priesthood also?


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For which cause both you and all your company are gathered together against the LORD: and what is Aaron, that you murmur against him?


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Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land that flows with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, unless you make yourself altogether a prince over us?


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Moreover you have not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: will you put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.


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


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And Moses said to Korah, You and all your company be before the LORD, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow:


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


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


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


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


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And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, so that you are not consumed in all their sins.


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So they got up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, So that the earth does not swallow us up also.


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


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


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


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And Eleazar the priest took the brass censers, with which those who were burnt had offered; and they were made into wide plates for a covering of the altar:


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


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


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And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.


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


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And Moses said to Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.


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


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


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And Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stopped.


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Speak to the children of Israel, and take from every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, from all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write every man's name on his rod.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And they shall fulfill your responsibilities, and the responsibilities of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come near the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor you also, die.


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And they shall be joined to you, and have the responsibilities of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come near to you.


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And you shall have the responsibilities of the sanctuary, and the responsibilities of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.


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And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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


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


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This shall be yours of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every food offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall return unto me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons.


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


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


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


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Everything that opens the womb in all flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be yours: nevertheless the firstborn of man shall you surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shall you redeem.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And this your heave offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fulness of the winepress.


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


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


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Therefore you shall say to them, When you have offered up the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the winepress.


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


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And you shall bear no sin because of it, when you have offered up from it the best of it: neither shall you pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest you die.


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This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD has commanded, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, and upon which a yoke never came:


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And you shall give her to Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth outside the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:


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


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


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


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


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


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And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkles the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that touches the water of separation shall be unclean until evening.


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


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


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


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


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


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And why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.


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And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell on their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared to them.


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Take the rod, and gather the assembly together, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth its water, and you shall bring forth to them water out of the rock: so you shall give the congregation and their beasts drink.


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And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said to them, Hear now, you rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?


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


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


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


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


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How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians distressed us, and our fathers:


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And when we cried out unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and has brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the farthest part of your border:


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And the people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loathes this light bread.


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


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Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against you; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Make a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looks upon it, shall live.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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Woe to you, Moab! you are undone, O people of Chemosh: he has given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.


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


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And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.


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


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And the LORD said to Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into your hand, and all his people, and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.


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


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And the children of Israel went forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab across the Jordan by Jericho.


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


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And Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.


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He sent messengers therefore to Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they dwell before me:


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Come now therefore, I pray you, curse for me this people; for they are too mighty for me: perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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Now therefore, I pray you, stay also here this night, that I may know what more the LORD will say to me.


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


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And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the LORD stood in the way as an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his donkey, and his two servants were with him.


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And the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the donkey turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the way.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And the donkey said to Balaam, Am I not your donkey, upon which you have ridden ever since I was yours until this day? was I ever accustomed to do so to you? And he said, No.


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


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And the angel of the LORD said to him, Why have you struck your donkey these three times? behold, I went out to withstand you, because your way is perverse before me:


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And the donkey saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain you, and saved her alive.


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And Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for I knew not that you stood in the way against me: now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again.


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And the angel of the LORD said to Balaam, Go with the men: but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.


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


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And Balak said to Balaam, Did I not earnestly send to you to call you? why did you not come to me? am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?


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


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


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


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


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


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And God met Balaam: and he said to him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.


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


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


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


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


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And Balak said to him, Come, I pray you, with me to another place, from which you may see them: you shall see but the farthest part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse them for me from there.


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


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


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God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: has he said, and shall he not do it? or has he spoken, and shall he not make it good?


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him.


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


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He has said, who heard the words of God, who saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:


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


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


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God brought him forth out of Egypt; he has strength like the strength of a wild ox: he shall eat up the nations that are his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remains of the city.


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And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perishes for ever.


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


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


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And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.


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


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And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his kindred a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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For they trouble you with their wiles, with which 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 in the day of the plague for Peor's sake.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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Of the sons of Zebulun according to their families: of Sered, the family of the Sardites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.


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


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Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begot Gilead: of Gilead come the family of the Gileadites.


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These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites:


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


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


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These are the sons of Ephraim according to their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher, the family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan near Jericho.


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


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


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


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


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


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Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he has no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the kindred of our father.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a responsibility in their sight.


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And you shall put some of your honor upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.


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


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


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


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Command the children of Israel, and say to them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savor unto me, shall you observe to offer unto me at the proper times.


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


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


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


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


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And the other lamb shall you offer at evening: as the food offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, you shall offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the LORD.


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


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


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


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


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And a tenth deal of flour mixed with oil for a food offering for each lamb; for a burnt offering of a sweet savor, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.


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And their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bullock, and the third part of a hin for a ram, and a fourth part of a hin for a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.


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


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


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And their food offering shall be of flour mixed with oil: three tenth deals shall you offer for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram;


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


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In this manner you shall offer daily, throughout the seven days, the food of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the LORD: it shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering, and its drink offering.


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Also in the day of the first fruits, when you bring a new food offering unto the LORD, after your weeks be finished, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no common work:


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But you shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet savor unto the LORD; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year;


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And their food offering of flour mixed with oil, three tenth deals for one bullock, two tenth deals for one ram,


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You shall offer them besides the continual burnt offering, and its food offering, (they shall be unto you without blemish) and their drink offerings.


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And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no common work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.


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


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And their food offering shall be of flour mixed with oil, three tenth deals for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram,


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Besides the burnt offering of the month, and its food offering, and the daily burnt offering, and its food offering, and their drink offerings, according to their manner, for a sweet savor, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.


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


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


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And their food offering shall be of flour mixed with oil, three tenth deals to a bullock, and two tenth deals to one ram,


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


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And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no common work, and you shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days:


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


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And their food offering shall be of flour mixed with oil, three tenth deals for every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth deals to each ram of the two rams,


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And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its food offering, and its drink offering.


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


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And their food offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, according to the manner:


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


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And one goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and its food offering, and its drink offering.


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Their food offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, according to the manner:


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


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And one goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its food offering, and its drink offering.


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


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


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Their food offering and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, according to the manner:


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These things you shall do unto the LORD in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your food offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.


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And Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD has commanded.


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


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


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And her father hears her vow, and her bond with which she has bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she has bound her soul shall stand.


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


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And if she had at all a husband, when she vowed, or uttered anything out of her lips, with which she bound her soul;


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


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


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


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And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and did not disallow her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she bound her soul shall stand.


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


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Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.


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


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These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's house.


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And Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves for war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD on Midian.


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So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.


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And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.


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And they slew the kings of Midian, besides the rest of those who were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.


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And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.


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And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan near Jericho.


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And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them outside the camp.


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


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


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


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And remain outside the camp seven days: whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.


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And purify all your clothing, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood.


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And Eleazar the priest said to the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses;


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


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


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


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


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


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And from the children of Israel's half, you shall take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the herd, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them to the Levites, which have the oversight of the tabernacle of the LORD.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD.


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And all the gold of the offering that they offered up to the LORD, from the captains of thousands, and from the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.


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And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, for a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.


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


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The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying,


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Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,


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Even the country which the LORD struck down before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle:


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


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


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


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For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.


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Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, 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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Except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD.


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


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And, behold, you are risen up in your fathers' place, a generation of sinful men, to increase yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.


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For if you turn away from following him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you shall destroy all this people.


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And they came near to him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:


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But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to 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 to our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.


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For we will not inherit with them on yonder side of the Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.


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And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he has driven out his enemies from before him,


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And the land be subdued before the LORD: then afterward you shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the LORD.


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


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Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.


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And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, Your servants will do as my lord commands.


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But your servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord says.


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So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel:


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And Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you; then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:


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


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And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the LORD has said to your servants, so will we do.


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We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side of the Jordan may be ours.


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And Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the territory, even the cities of the country round about.


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And Nebo, and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names to the cities which they built.


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And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.


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These are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.


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And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.


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And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.


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For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the LORD had stricken among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments.


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And they removed from Etham, and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which is before Baal-zephon: and they pitched before Migdol.


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And they departed from before Pi-hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.


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And they removed from Marah, and came to Elim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm trees; and they pitched there.


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And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.


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And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.


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And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.


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And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by the Jordan near Jericho.


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Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you have passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;


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Then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and completely pull down all their high places:


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And you shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.


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And you shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falls; according to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit.


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But if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which you let remain of them shall be briers in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall trouble you in the land in which you dwell.


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Command the children of Israel, and say to them, When you come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with the borders thereof:)


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Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the border of Edom, and your south border shall be the outermost coast of the salt sea eastward:


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And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea, and shall go on to Hazar-addar, and pass on to Azmon:


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And the border shall curve around from Azmon to the river of Egypt, and it shall come out at the sea.


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And as for the western border, you shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.


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From mount Hor you shall mark out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad:


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And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and it shall come out at Hazar-enan: this shall be your north border.


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And the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward:


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And the border shall go down to the Jordan, and it shall come out at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the borders thereof round about.


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And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which the LORD commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half tribe:


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For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance; and the half tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance:


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The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side of the Jordan near Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising.


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These are the names of the men who shall divide the land for you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.


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The prince of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod.


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These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.


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Command the children of Israel, that they give to the Levites from the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and you shall give also to the Levites open country for the cities round about them.


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And the cities they shall have to dwell in; and the open country of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.


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And the open country of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about.


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And you shall measure from outside the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the open country of the cities.


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And among the cities which you shall give to the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which you shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee there: and to them you shall add forty two cities.


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So all the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty eight cities: them shall you give with their open country.


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And the cities which you shall give shall be of the possession of the children of Israel: from those who have many you shall give many; but from those who have few you shall give few: every one shall give of his cities to the Levites according to his inheritance which he inherits.


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Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you have come over Jordan into the land of Canaan;


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Then you shall appoint cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee there, which kills any person unexpectedly.


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And they shall be to you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stands before the congregation in judgment.


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You shall give three cities on this side of the Jordan, and three cities shall you give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge.


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These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that kills any person unexpectedly may flee there.


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And if he strikes him with an instrument of iron, so that he dies, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.


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And if he strikes him with throwing a stone, with which he may die, and he dies, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.


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Or if he strikes him with a hand weapon of wood, with which he may die, and he dies, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.


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Or in enmity strikes him with his hand, that he dies: he that struck him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meets him.


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But if he pushed him suddenly without enmity, or has thrown down upon him any thing without lying in wait,


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Or with any stone, with which a man may die, not seeing him, and thrown it down upon him, that he dies, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm:


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Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these judgments:


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And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, to which he had fled: and he shall remain in it until the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.


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But if the slayer shall at any time come outside the border of the city of his refuge, to which he had fled;


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And the avenger of blood finds him outside the borders of the city of his refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:


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Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession.


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So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.


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Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.


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Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall surely be put to death.


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And you shall take no ransom for him who has fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.


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So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood defiles the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.


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Do not defile therefore the land which you shall inhabit, in which I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.


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And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel:


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And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.


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And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put with the inheritance of the tribe in which they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.


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And when the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put with the inheritance of the tribe in which they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.


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And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph has said well.


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This is the thing which the LORD commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.


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So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.


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And every daughter, that possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.


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Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.


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For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father's brothers' sons:


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And they were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.


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These are the commandments and the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan near Jericho.


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These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side the of the Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain before the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.


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And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that the LORD had given him in commandment to them;


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After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:


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Turn, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and to all the places near it, in the plain, in the hills, and in the valley, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and to Lebanon, to the great river, the river Euphrates.


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Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them and to their descendents after them.


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The LORD your God has multiplied you, and, behold, you are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.


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(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more than you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!)


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Take men who are wise, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.


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So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.


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And I instructed your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your people, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.


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You shall not favor any person in judgment; but you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it to me, and I will hear it.


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And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which you saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.


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And I said to you, You are come to the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God gives to us.


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Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of your fathers has said to you; fear not, neither be discouraged.


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And you came near to me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.


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And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.


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And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God gives us.


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And you murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.


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Where shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.


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The LORD your God who goes before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;


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And in the wilderness, where you have seen that the LORD your God bore you, as a man bears his son, in all the way that you went, until you came into this place.


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Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in a cloud by day.


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Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I swore to give to your fathers,


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Except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he has trodden upon, and to his children, because he has wholly followed the LORD.


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But Joshua the son of Nun, which stands before you, he shall go in there: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.


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Moreover your little ones, which you said would be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in there, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it.


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Then you answered and said to me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when you had girded on every man his weapons of war, you were ready to go up into the hill.


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And the LORD said to me, Say to them, Do not go up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest you be stricken before your enemies.


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So I spoke to you; and you would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hill.


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And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.


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And you returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not listen to your voice, nor give ear to you.


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Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spoke to me: and we circled around mount Seir many days.


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And command the people, saying, You are to pass through the territory of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take good heed to yourselves therefore:


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Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir to Esau for a possession.


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You shall buy food from them for money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water from them for money, that you may drink.


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For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the works of your hand: he knows your walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.


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And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.


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And the LORD said to me, Do not distress the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give you of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.


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The Horims also dwelt in Seir formerly; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their place; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which the LORD gave to them.


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And the time in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we had come over the brook Zered, was thirty eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were destroyed out from among the host, as the LORD swore to them.


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For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.


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And when you come near facing the children of Ammon, do not distress them, nor meddle with them: for I will not give you of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.


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(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;


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A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their place:


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As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their place even to this day:


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And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their place.)


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Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.


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This day will I begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of you, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of you.


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And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,


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Let me pass through your land: I will go along by the highway, I will neither turn to the right hand nor to the left.


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You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet;


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(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did to me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God gives us.


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But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD your God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as appears this day.


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And the LORD said to me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before you: begin to possess, that you may inherit his land.


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And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we struck him down, and his sons, and all his people.


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And we took all his cities at that time, and completely destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city; we left none to remain:


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From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us:


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Only unto the land of the children of Ammon you did not come, nor to any place of the river Jabbok, nor to the cities in the mountains, nor to whatever the LORD our God forbade us.


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Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.


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And the LORD said to me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into your hand; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.


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So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we struck him down until none was left to him remaining.


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And we took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we did not take from them, sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.


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All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides unwalled towns a great many.


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And we completely destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, completely destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.


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And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side of the Jordan, from the river of Arnon to mount Hermon;


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All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.


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For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, according to the cubit of a man.


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And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I to the Reubenites and to the Gadites.


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And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I to the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.


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Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob to the borders of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashan-havoth-jair, until this day.


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And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;


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The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdoth-pisgah eastward.


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And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God has given you this land to possess it: you shall pass over armed before your people the children of Israel, all that are fit for war.


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But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that you have much cattle,) shall stay in your cities which I have given you;


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Until the LORD has given rest to your brethren, as well as to you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God has given them beyond Jordan: and then shall you return every man to his possession, which I have given you.


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And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings: so shall the LORD do to all the kingdoms where you pass.


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O Lord GOD, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or on earth, that can do according to your works, and according to your might?


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I pray you, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that pleasant mountain, and Lebanon.


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But the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said to me, Let it suffice you; speak no more to me of this matter.


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Go up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with your eyes: for you shall not go over this Jordan.


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But instruct Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.


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Now therefore listen, O Israel, to the statutes and to the judgments, which I teach you, in order to do them, that you may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers gives you.


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You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away anything from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.


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Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the LORD your God has destroyed them from among you.


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Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do so in the land to which you go to possess it.


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Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.


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For what nation is there so great, who has God so near to them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?


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And what nation is there so great, that has statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?


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Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life: but teach them to your sons, and your sons' sons;


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Especially the day that you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, Gather the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.


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And you came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.


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And the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of the words, but saw no likeness; only you heard a voice.


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And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.


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And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might do them in the land to which you go over to possess it.


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Be therefore very careful of yourselves; for you saw no manner of likeness on the day that the LORD spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:


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Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make a sculptured image, the likeness of any figure, the likeness of male or female,


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The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,


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The likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:


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And lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, should be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD your God has given to all nations under the whole heaven.


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But the LORD has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as you are this day.


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Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance:


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But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but you shall go over, and possess that good land.


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Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make a sculptured image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD your God has forbidden you.


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When you shall beget children, and children's children, and you shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a sculptured image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke him to anger:


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I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon completely perish off of the land to which you go over Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall completely be destroyed.


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And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and you shall be left few in number among the heathen, where the LORD shall lead you.


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And there you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.


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But if from there you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.


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When you are in tribulation, and all these things have come upon you, even in the latter days, if you turn to the LORD your God, and shall be obedient to his voice;


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(For the LORD your God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore unto them.


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For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven to the other, whether there has been any such thing as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?


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Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?


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Or has God attempted to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?


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Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you: and upon earth he showed you his great fire; and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.


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And because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their descendents after them, and brought you out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;


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To drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you are, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.


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Know therefore this day, and consider it in your heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.


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You shall keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days upon the earth, which the LORD your God gives you, for ever.


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That the slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unexpectedly, and did not hate him in times past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:


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Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.


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These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spoke to the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,


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On this side of the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck down, after they had come forth out of Egypt:


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And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side of the Jordan toward the sunrising;


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And all the plain on this side of the Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.


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And Moses called all Israel, and said to them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that you may learn them, and keep, and do them.


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The LORD did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.


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(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD: for you were afraid because of the fire, and did not go up into the mount;) saying,


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You shall not make for yourself any sculptured image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:


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You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,


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You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that takes his name in vain.


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But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates; that your manservant and your maidservant may rest as well as you.


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And remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out from there through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day.


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Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you; that your days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with you, in the land which the LORD your God gives you.


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Neither shall you desire your neighbor's wife, neither shall you covet your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.


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These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them to me.


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And it came to pass, when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;


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And you said, Behold, the LORD our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God talks with man, and he lives.


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Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die.


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For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?


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Go near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak to you; and we will hear it, and do it.


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And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when you spoke to me; and the LORD said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you: they have well said all that they have spoken.


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O that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!


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But as for you, stand here by me, and I will speak to you all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.


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You shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God has commanded you: you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.


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You shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.


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Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land to which you go to possess it:


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That you might fear the LORD your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, and your son's son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.


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Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you, in the land that flows with milk and honey.


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And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.


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And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.


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And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.


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And it shall be, when the LORD your God shall have brought you into the land which he swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you great and desirable cities, which you did not build,


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And houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, and wells dug, which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you did not plant; when you shall have eaten and be full;


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Then beware that you do not forget the LORD, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.


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(For the LORD your God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and destroy you off of the face of the earth.


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You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.


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And you shall do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore unto your fathers,


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And when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What do the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments mean, which the LORD our God has commanded you?


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Then you shall say to your son, We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:


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And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and severe, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:


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And he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers.


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And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.


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And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.


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When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land to which you go to possess it, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you;


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And when the LORD your God shall deliver them before you; you shall strike them, and utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them:


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Neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall you take to your son.


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For they will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy you suddenly.


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But thus shall you deal with them; you shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their sculptured images with fire.


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For you are a holy people unto the LORD your God: the LORD your God has chosen you to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.


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The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all people:


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But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn to your fathers, has the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.


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Know therefore that the LORD your God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and mercy with those who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;


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And repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hates him, he will repay him to his face.


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You shall therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command you this day, to do them.


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Therefore it shall come to pass, if you listen to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD your God shall keep for you the covenant and the mercy which he swore to your fathers:


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And he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you: he will also bless the fruit of your womb, and the fruit of your land, your grain, and your wine, and your oil, the increase of your cattle, and the flocks of your sheep, in the land which he swore unto your fathers to give you.


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You shall be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.


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And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, upon you; but will lay them upon all those who hate you.


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And you shall consume all the people which the LORD your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto you.


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You shall not be afraid of them: but shall well remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt;


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The great temptations which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD your God brought you out: so shall the LORD your God do to all the people of whom you are afraid.


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Moreover the LORD your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves from you, be destroyed.


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And the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you little by little: you may not consume them at once, so that the beasts of the field do not increase upon you.


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But the LORD your God shall deliver them to you, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.


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And he shall deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.


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The sculptured images of their gods shall you burn with fire: you shall not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto you, lest you be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.


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Neither shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be a cursed thing like it: but you shall completely detest it, and you shall completely abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.


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All the commandments which I command you this day shall you observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers.


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And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.


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And he humbled you, and permitted you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you did not know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD does man live.


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You shall also consider in your heart, that, as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.


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Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.


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For the LORD your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs that flow out of valleys and hills;


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A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil, and honey;


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A land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig brass.


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When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which he has given you.


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Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command you this day:


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And when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;


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Then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;


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Who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint;


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Who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;


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But you shall remember the LORD your God: for it is he that gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore unto your fathers, as it is this day.


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And it shall be, if you do at all forget the LORD your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.


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As the nations which the LORD destroys before your face, so shall you perish; because you would not be obedient to the voice of the LORD your God.


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Hear, O Israel: You are to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,


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A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, Who can stand before the children of Anak!


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Understand therefore this day, that the LORD your God is he who goes over before you; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before your face: so shall you drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said to you.


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Do not speak in your heart, after the LORD your God has cast them out from before you, saying, For my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD drives them out from before you.


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Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that he may perform the word which the LORD swore unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.


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Understand therefore, that the LORD your God does not give you this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.


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Remember, and forget not, how you provoked the LORD your God to anger in the wilderness: from the day that you departed out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.


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Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to anger, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.


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When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I remained in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:


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And the LORD delivered to me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spoke with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.


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And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.


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And the LORD said to me, Arise, go down quickly from here; for your people which you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molten image.


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Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people:


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Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.


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So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.


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And I looked, and, behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made for yourselves a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.


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And I took the two tables, and threw them down out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.


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And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which you sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.


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For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which the LORD was angry against you to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me at that time also.


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And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.


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And I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I threw the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.


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Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and you did not believe him, nor listen to his voice.


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Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.


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I prayed therefore to the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, do not destroy your people and your inheritance, which you have redeemed through your greatness, which you have brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.


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Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:


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So that the land from which you brought us out does not say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.


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Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your mighty power and by your stretched out arm.


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At that time the LORD said to me, Hew two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up to me into the mount, and make an ark of wood.


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And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.


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And I made an ark of acacia wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in my hand.


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And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spoke to you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them to me.


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And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.


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And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his place.


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At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister to him, and to bless in his name, until this day.


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Therefore Levi has no part nor inheritance with his people; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD your God promised him.


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And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD listened to me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy you.


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And the LORD said to me, Arise, take your journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give to them.


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And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,


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Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD your God's, the earth also, with all that is in it.


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Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their descendents after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.


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For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and to be feared, who does not favor any person, nor take reward:


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He executes judgment for the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger, in giving him food and clothing.


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You shall fear the LORD your God; him shall you serve, and to him shall you cling, and swear by his name.


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He is your praise, and he is your God, that has done for you these great and awesome things, which your eyes have seen.


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Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of heaven for multitude.


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Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and obey his instruction, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, always.


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And know this day: for I do not speak with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,


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And his miracles, and his deeds, which he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land;


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And what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD has destroyed them until this day;


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And what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the belongings that were in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:


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Therefore shall you keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, to which you go to possess it;


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And that you may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendents, a land that flows with milk and honey.


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For the land, to which you go in to possess it, is not like the land of Egypt, from which you came out, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, like a garden of vegetables:


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But the land, to which you go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinks water of the rain of heaven:


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A land which the LORD your God cares for: the eyes of the LORD your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even until the end of the year.


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And it shall come to pass, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,


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That I will give you the rain of your land at the proper time, the first rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your wine, and your oil.


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Be careful that your heart is not deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;


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And then the LORD'S anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land does not yield her fruit; and lest you perish quickly off of the good land which the LORD gives you.


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Therefore shall you lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.


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And you shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.


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That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.


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For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him;


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Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.


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Every place on which the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the farthest sea shall your territory be.


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There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that you shall tread upon, as he has said to you.


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And a curse, if you will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.


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And it shall come to pass, when the LORD your God has brought you in unto the land to which you go to possess it, that you shall put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.


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Are they not on the other side of the Jordan, by the way where the sun goes down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the plain over by Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?


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For you shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell therein.


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These are the statutes and judgments which you shall observe to do in the land which the LORD God of your fathers gives you to possess it, all the days that you live upon the earth.


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You shall completely destroy all the places in which the nations which you shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:


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And you shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and you shall cut down the sculptured images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.


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But to the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even to his habitation shall you seek, and there you shall come:


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And there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:


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And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand unto, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.


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You shall not do according to all the things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right in his own eyes.


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But when you go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God gives you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety;


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Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; there shall you bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow unto the LORD:


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And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; considering that he has no part nor inheritance with you.


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But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.


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Nevertheless you may kill and eat flesh in all your gates, whatever your soul desires, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roe deer, and as of the red deer.


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You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your wine, or of your oil, or the firstlings of your herds or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill offerings, or heave offering of your hand:


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But you must eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite that is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you put your hands unto.


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When the LORD your God shall enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your soul longs to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, whatever your soul desires.


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If the place which the LORD your God has chosen to put his name there, be too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and you shall eat in your gates whatever your soul desires.


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Even as the roe deer and the red deer is eaten, so you shall eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.


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Only be sure that you do not eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you may not eat the life with the flesh.


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You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.


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Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to the place which the LORD shall choose:


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And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD your God: and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD your God, and you shall eat the flesh.


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Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you for ever, when you do that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.


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When the LORD your God shall cut off the nations from before you, to which you go to possess them, and you take their place, and dwell in their land;


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Be careful that you are not snared by following them, after they are destroyed from before you; and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.


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You shall not do so unto the LORD your God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hates, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.


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And the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, Let us go after other gods, which you have not known, and let us serve them;


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You shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proves you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.


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You shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cling to him.


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And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he has spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust you out of the way which the LORD your God commanded you to walk in. So shall you put the evil away from the midst of you.


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If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, which is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;


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Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, near unto you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;


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You shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him:


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But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.


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And you shall stone him with stones, so that he dies; because he has sought to thrust you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.


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If you shall hear it said in one of your cities, which the LORD your God has given you to dwell there, saying,


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Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known;


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Then shall you inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done among you;


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You shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it completely, and all that is in it, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.


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And you shall gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shall burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof completely, for the LORD your God: and it shall be a heap of ruins for ever; it shall not be built again.


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And there shall cling nothing of the cursed thing to your hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion upon you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;


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When you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.


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You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.


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For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a special people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.


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The red deer, and the roe deer, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the antelope, and the chamois.


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And every animal that parts the hoof, and divides the cleft into two claws, and chews the cud among the beasts, that you shall eat.


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Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but do not divide the hoof; therefore they are unclean to you.


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And the swine, because it divides the hoof, yet does not chew the cud, it is unclean to you: you shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass.


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You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you shall give it to the stranger that is in your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to an alien: for you are a holy people unto the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.


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And you shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks; that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.


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And if the way be too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from you, which the LORD your God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD your God has blessed you:


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Then shall you turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose:


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And you shall bestow that money for whatever your soul desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul desires: and you shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you, and your household,


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And the Levite that is within your gates; you shall not forsake him; for he has no part nor inheritance with you.


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At the end of three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates:


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And the Levite, (because he has no part nor inheritance with you,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.


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And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lends anything to his neighbor shall release it; he shall not require it of his neighbor, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD'S release.


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Of a foreigner you may require it again: but that which is yours with your brother your hand shall release;


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Except when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it:


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Only if you carefully listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command you this day.


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For the LORD your God blesses you, as he promised you: and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over you.


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If there be among you a poor man of one of your people within any of your gates in your land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother:


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But you shall open your hand wide to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he lacks.


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Beware that there be not a thought in your wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cries unto the LORD against you, and it be sin unto you.


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You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him: because for this thing the LORD your God shall bless you in all your works, and in all that you put your hand to.


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For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor, and to your needy, in your land.


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And if your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold to you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.


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You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress: of that with which the LORD your God has blessed you you shall give to him.


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And you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you: therefore I command you this thing today.


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And it shall be, if he says to you, I will not go away from you; because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;


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Then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant for ever. And also to your maidservant you shall do likewise.


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It shall not seem hard to you, when you send him away free from you; for he has been worth a double hired servant to you, in serving you six years: and the LORD your God shall bless you in all that you do.


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All the firstling males that come of your herd and of your flock you shall sanctify to the LORD your God: you shall do no work with the firstling of your bullock, nor shear the firstling of your sheep.


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You shall eat it before the LORD your God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, you and your household.


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And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.


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You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roe deer, and as the red deer.


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Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover to the LORD your God: for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.


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You shall therefore sacrifice for the passover unto the LORD your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there.


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You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shall you eat unleavened bread with it, even the bread of affliction; for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.


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And there shall be no leavened bread seen with you within all your borders seven days; neither shall any thing of the flesh, which you sacrificed the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning.


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But at the place which the LORD your God shall choose to place his name in, there you shall sacrifice for the passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out of Egypt.


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And you shall roast and eat it in the place which the LORD your God shall choose: and you shall return in the morning, and go to your tents.


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Six days you shall eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God: you shall do no work therein.


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Seven weeks shall you number for yourself: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as you begin to put the sickle to the grain.


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And you shall keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give unto the LORD your God, according as the LORD your God has blessed you:


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And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite that is within your gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD your God has chosen to place his name there.


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And you shall remember that you were a bondman in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these statutes.


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You shall observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after you have gathered in your grain and your wine:


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And you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within your gates.


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Seven days shall you keep a solemn feast unto the LORD your God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD your God shall bless you in all your increase, and in all the works of your hands, therefore you shall surely rejoice.


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Three times in a year shall all your males appear before the LORD your God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:


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Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given you.


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Judges and officers shall you appoint for yourselves in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, throughout your tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.


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You shall not pervert judgment; you shall not favor any person, neither take a bribe: for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.


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That which is altogether just shall you follow, that you may live, and inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you.


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You shall not plant for yourselves a grove of any trees near to the altar of the LORD your God, which you shall make for yourselves.


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You shall not sacrifice unto the LORD your God any bullock, or sheep, in which is a blemish, or any defect: for that is an abomination unto the LORD your God.


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If there be found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, man or woman, that has done wickedness in the sight of the LORD your God, in transgressing his covenant,


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And has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;


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And it be told you, and you have heard of it, and inquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel:


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Then shall you bring forth that man or that woman, who has committed that wicked thing, unto your gates, even that man or that woman, and shall stone them with stones, till they die.


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At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.


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The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall put the evil away from among you.


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If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates: then shall you arise, and go up into the place which the LORD your God shall choose;


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And you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall make known to you the sentence of judgment:


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And you shall do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall tell you; and you shall observe to do according to all that they inform you:


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According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do: you shall not turn aside from the sentence which they shall make known to you, to the right hand, nor to the left.


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And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not listen to the priest that stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put away the evil from Israel.


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When you have come to the land which the LORD your God gives you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say, I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me;


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You shall be sure to set him king over you, whom the LORD your God shall choose: one from among your people shall you set king over you: you may not set a stranger over you, which is not your brother.


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But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: considering that the LORD has said to you, You shall henceforth return no more that way.


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Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, so that his heart does not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.


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And it shall be, when he sits upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book out of that which is 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: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:


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That his heart be not lifted up above his people, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.


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The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.


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Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their people: the LORD is their inheritance, as he has said to them.


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And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the stomach.


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The first fruit also of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, shall you give him.


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For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.


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And if a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and comes with all the desire of his mind to the place which the LORD shall choose;


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Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD.


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When you have come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.


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There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,


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For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you.


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For these nations, which you shall possess, listened to observers of times, and to diviners: but as for you, the LORD your God has not permitted you so to do.


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The LORD your God will raise up unto you a Prophet from the midst of you, of your people, like unto me; unto him you shall listen;


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According to all that you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, so that I do not die.


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I will raise up for them a Prophet from among their people, like unto you, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.


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And it shall come to pass, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.


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But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.


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When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not follow, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken, but the prophet has spoken it presumptuously: you shall not be afraid of him.


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When the LORD your God has cut off the nations, whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you take their place, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses;


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You shall separate three cities for you in the midst of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to possess it.


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You shall prepare a way, and divide the territory of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee there.


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And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee there, that he may live: Whoever kills his neighbor ignorantly, whom he did not hate in time past;


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As when a man goes into the wood with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand makes a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights upon his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of those cities, and live:


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So that the avenger of the blood does not pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and kill him; whereas he was not worthy of death, because he did not hate him in time past.


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And if the LORD your God enlarges your borders, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;


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If you shall keep all these commandments to do them, which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to walk always in his ways; then shall you add three cities more for you, besides these three:


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That innocent blood be not shed in your land, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be upon you.


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But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and strikes him mortally that he dies, and flees into one of these cities:


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Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.


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Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.


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You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set in your inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess it.


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One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.


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Then both of the men between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;


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And the judges shall make diligent inquiry: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;


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Then shall you do to him, as he had thought to have done to his brother: so shall you put the evil away from among you.


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And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no longer any such evil among you.


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And your eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.


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When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, and chariots, and a people more than you, be not afraid of them: for the LORD your God is with you, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.


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And it shall be, when you have come near unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people,


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And shall say to them, Hear, O Israel, you approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be terrified because of them;


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And the officers shall speak to the people, saying, What man is there that has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, so that he does not die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.


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And what man is he that has planted a vineyard, and has not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return to his house, so that he does not die in the battle, and another man eat of it.


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And what man is there that has become engaged to a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, so that he does not die in the battle, and another man take her.


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And the officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return to his house, so that his brethren's heart does not faint as well as his heart.


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And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of the armies to lead the people.


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And it shall be, if it makes you an answer of peace, and opens to you, then it shall be, that all the people that are found therein shall pay tribute to you, and they shall serve you.


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And when the LORD your God has delivered it into your hands, you shall strike every male thereof with the edge of the sword:


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But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shall you take for yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.


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Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.


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But of the cities of these people, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes:


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But you shall completely destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD your God has commanded you:


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That they do not teach you to do according to all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so would you sin against the LORD your God.


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When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:


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Only the trees which you know that they be not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it be subdued.


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If one be found slain in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who has slain him:


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Then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are round about him that is slain:


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And it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer, which has not been worked with, and which has not pulled in the yoke;


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And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a rough valley, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:


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And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for the LORD your God has chosen them to minister to him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:


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And all the elders of that city, that are nearest to the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:


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Be merciful, O LORD, to your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto your people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.


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So shall you put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when you shall do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.


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When you go forth to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God has delivered them into your hands, and you have taken them captive,


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And see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire for her, that you would have her as your wife;


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And she shall put the clothing of her captivity off from her, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.


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And it shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not make merchandise of her, because you have humbled her.


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If a man has two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:


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Then it shall be, when he makes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:


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But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he has: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.


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If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have disciplined him, will not listen to them:


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Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;


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And they shall say to the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.


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And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, so that he dies: so shall you put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.


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And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is to be put to death, and you hang him on a tree:


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His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed by God;) that your land be not defiled, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.


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You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them again to your brother.


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And if your brother be not near to you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring it to your own house, and it shall be with you until your brother seeks after it, and you shall restore it to him again.


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In like manner shall you do with his donkey; and so shall you do with his clothing; and with all lost things of your brother's, which he has lost, and you have found, shall you do likewise: you may not hide yourself.


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You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fall down by the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again.


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The woman shall not wear that which is typical for a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination to the LORD your God.


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If a bird's nest chances to be before you in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the mother sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young:


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But you shall surely let the mother go, and take the young to you; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.


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When you build a new house, then you shall make a barrier for your roof, so that you do not bring blood upon your house, if any man falls from there.


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You shall not sow your vineyard with different seeds: lest the fruit of your seed which you have sown, and the fruit of your vineyard, be defiled.


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And gives occasions of speech against her, and brings up an evil name upon her, and says, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:


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Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate:


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And the damsel's father shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man as wife, and he hates her;


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And, lo, he has given occasions of speech against her, saying, I did not find your daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.


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And they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the damsel, because he has brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.


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Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she dies: because she has done folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shall you put evil away from among you.


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If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shall you put away evil from Israel.


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If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her;


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Then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she did not cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away evil from among you.


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But if a man finds a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man forces her, and lies with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:


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But to the damsel you shall do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and slays him, even so is this matter:


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If a man finds a damsel that is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and lays hold on her, and lies with her, and they be found;


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Then the man that lay with her shall give to the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he has humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.


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He that is wounded in the stones, or has his male member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.


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An illegitimate child shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.


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An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:


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Because they did not meet you with bread and with water in the way, when you came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.


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Nevertheless the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam; but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loved you.


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You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you shall not abhor an Egyptian; because you were a stranger in his land.


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The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.


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If there be among you any man, that is not clean because of uncleanness that chances to him by night, then shall he go to a place outside of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:


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But it shall be, when evening comes on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again.


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And you shall have a paddle upon your weapon; and it shall be, when you will relieve yourself outside the camp, you shall dig with it, and shall turn back and cover that which comes from you:


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For the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you; therefore shall your camp be holy: that he sees no unclean thing in you, and turns not away from you.


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He shall dwell with you, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of your gates, where it pleases him best: you shall not oppress him.


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You shall not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD your God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD your God.


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You shall not lend upon interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of any thing that is lent upon interest:


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To a stranger you may lend upon interest; but to your brother you shall not lend upon interest: that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you set your hand to in the land to which you go to possess it.


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When you shall vow a vow unto the LORD your God, you shall not be slack to pay it: for the LORD your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.


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That which is gone out of your lips you shall keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as you have vowed unto the LORD your God, which you have promised with your mouth.


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When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat your fill of grapes at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your vessel.


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When you come into the standing grain of your neighbor, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle unto your neighbor's standing grain.


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When a man has taken a wife, and married her, and it comes to pass that she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorce, and give it into her hand, and send her out of his house.


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And if the latter husband hates her, and writes her a bill of divorce, and gives it into her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, which took her to be his wife;


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Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.


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When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he has taken.


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No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone as a pledge: for he takes a man's life as a pledge.


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If a man be found stealing any of his people of the children of Israel, and makes merchandise of him, or sells him; then that thief shall die; and you shall put evil away from among you.


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Be careful in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.


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You shall certainly deliver to him the pledge again when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own clothing, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.


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You shall not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of your people, or of your strangers that are in your land within your gates:


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In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it: so that he does not cry against you unto the LORD, and it be sin unto you.


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The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.


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You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing as a pledge:


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But you shall remember that you were a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from there: therefore I command you to do this thing.


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When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.


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When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.


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When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.


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And you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.


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If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.


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And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.


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Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother would seem despised to you.


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If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.


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And it shall be, that the firstborn which she bears shall continue in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.


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And if the man does not want to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up for his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.


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Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stands to it, and says, I do not want to take her;


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Then shall his brother's wife come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe off from his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done to that man that will not build up his brother's house.


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When men fight together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the private parts:


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But you shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shall you have: that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God gives you.


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For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD your God.


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How he met you on the way, and struck the last of you, even all that were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he did not fear God.


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Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies round about, in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget it.


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And it shall be, when you are come in unto the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell therein;


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That you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which you shall bring of your land that the LORD your God gives you, and shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose to place his name there.


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And you shall go to the priest that shall be in those days, and say to him, I profess this day to the LORD your God, that I am come to the country which the LORD swore unto our fathers to give us.


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And the priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.


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And you shall speak and say before the LORD your God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:


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And when we cried out unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labor, and our oppression:


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And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:


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And he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, even a land that flows with milk and honey.


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And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which you, O LORD, have given me. And you shall set it before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God:


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And you shall rejoice in every good thing which the LORD your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.


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When you have made an end of tithing all the tithes of your increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled;


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Then you shall say before the LORD your God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandments which you have commanded me: I have not transgressed your commandments, neither have I forgotten them:


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I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away anything thereof for any unclean use, nor given anything thereof for the dead: but I have listened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that you have commanded me.


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Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the land which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land that flows with milk and honey.


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This day the LORD your God has commanded you to do these statutes and judgments: you shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart, and with all your soul.


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You have acknowledged the LORD this day to be your God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to listen to his voice:


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And the LORD has acknowledged you this day to be his special people, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments;


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And to make you high above all nations which he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people unto the LORD your God, as he has spoken.


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And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.


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And it shall be on the day when you shall pass over Jordan to the land which the LORD your God gives you, that you shall set up great stones, and plaster them with plaster:


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And you shall write upon them all the words of this law, when you have passed over, that you may go in to the land which the LORD your God gives you, a land that flows with milk and honey; as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you.


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Therefore it shall be when you have gone over Jordan, that you shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster.


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And there shall you build an altar unto the LORD your God, an altar of stones: you shall not lift up any iron tool upon them.


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You shall build the altar of the LORD your God of whole stones: and you shall offer burnt offerings on it unto the LORD your God:


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And Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, Be careful, and listen, O Israel; this day you have become the people of the LORD your God.


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You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you this day.


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These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:


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And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.


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Cursed be the man that makes any sculptured or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and puts it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.


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Cursed be he that perverts the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.


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Cursed be he that lies with his father's wife; because he uncovers his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.


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Cursed be he that lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.


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Cursed be he that does not confirm all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.


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And it shall come to pass, if you shall listen diligently to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that the LORD your God will set you on high above all nations of the earth:


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And all these blessings shall come on you, and overtake you, if you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God.


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Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your animals, the increase of your cattle, and the flocks of your sheep.


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The LORD shall cause your enemies that rise up against you to be stricken before your face: they shall come out against you one way, and flee before you seven ways.


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The LORD shall command the blessing upon you in your storehouses, and in all that you set your hand to; and he shall bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.


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The LORD shall establish you a holy people unto himself, as he has sworn to you, if you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and walk in his ways.


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And all people of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of you.


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And the LORD shall make you plenteous in goods, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers to give you.


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The LORD shall open to you his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend to many nations, and you shall not borrow.


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And the LORD shall make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath; if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day, to observe and to do them:


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And you shall not go aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.


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But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day; that all these curses shall come upon you, and overtake you:


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Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your land, the increase of your cattle, and the flocks of your sheep.


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The LORD shall send upon you cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that you set your hand to do, until you be destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the wickedness of your doings, whereby you have forsaken me.


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The LORD shall make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you off of the land, to which you go to possess it.


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The LORD shall strike you with a wasting disease, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.


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And your heaven that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.


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The LORD shall make the rain of your land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon you, until you be destroyed.


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The LORD shall cause you to be struck down before your enemies: you shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shall be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.


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And your carcass shall be food to all birds of the air, and to the beasts of the earth, and no man shall frighten them away.


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The LORD will strike you with the boil of Egypt, and with the tumor, and with the scab, and with the itch, of which you cannot be healed.


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And you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save you.


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You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes thereof.


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Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat thereof: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have none to rescue them.


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Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in your hand.


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The fruit of your land, and all your labors, shall a nation which you know not, eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always:


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The LORD shall strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a hurtful boil that cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.


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The LORD shall bring you, and your king which you shall set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known; and there shall you serve other gods, wood and stone.


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And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a disgrace, among all nations to which the LORD shall lead you.


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You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.


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You shall plant vineyards, and dress them, but shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.


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You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive shall drop its fruit.


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He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.


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Moreover all these curses shall come upon you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, till you be destroyed; because you did not listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you:


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Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;


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Therefore shall you serve your enemies which the LORD shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon your neck, until he has destroyed you.


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The LORD shall bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies; a nation whose tongue you shall not understand;


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A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young:


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And he shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land, until you be destroyed: which also shall not leave you either grain, wine, or oil, or the increase of your cattle, or flocks of your sheep, until he has destroyed you.


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And he shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land: and he shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you.


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And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, which the LORD your God has given you, in the siege, and in the scarcity, with which your enemies shall distress you:


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So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:


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So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he has nothing left him in the siege, and in the scarcity, with which your enemies shall distress you in all your gates.


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The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,


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And toward her young one that comes out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and scarcity, with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.


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If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD your GOD;


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Then the LORD will make your plagues awesome, and the plagues of your descendents, even great plagues of long continuance, and severe sicknesses of long continuance.


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Moreover he will bring upon you all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they shall cling to you.


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Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon you, until you be destroyed.


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And you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.


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And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nothing; and you shall be plucked off of the land to which you go to possess it.


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And the LORD shall scatter you among all people, from the one end of the earth even to the other; and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known, even wood and stone.


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And among these nations shall you find no ease, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest: but the LORD shall give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:


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And your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear day and night, and shall have no assurance of your life:


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In the morning you shall say, Would God it were evening! and at evening you shall say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of your heart with which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.


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And the LORD shall bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I spoke to you, that you should see it no more again: and there you shall be sold to your enemies as male and female slaves, and no man shall buy you.


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These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.


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And Moses called unto all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;


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Yet the LORD has not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.


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And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not become old upon you, and your shoe has not become old upon your foot.


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You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink: that you might know that I am the LORD your God.


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And when you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them:


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And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.


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You stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,


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Your little ones, your wives, and your stranger that is in your camp, from the hewer of your wood to the drawer of your water:


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That you should enter into covenant with the LORD your God, and into his oath, which the LORD your God makes with you this day:


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That he may establish you today for a people unto himself, and that he may be to you a God, as he has said to you, and as he has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.


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But with him that stands here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:


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(For you know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which you passed by;


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And you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)


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Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;


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And it comes to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:


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The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.


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And the LORD shall separate him for evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:


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So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD has laid upon it;


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And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his fury:


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Even all nations shall say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land? what does the heat of this great anger mean?


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Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:


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For they went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given to them:


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And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:


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And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in fury, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.


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The secret things belong to the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.


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And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, to which the LORD your God has driven you,


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And shall return to the LORD your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;


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That then the LORD your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the nations, to which the LORD your God has scattered you.


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If any of you be driven out unto the farthest parts of heaven, from there will the LORD your God gather you, and from there will he fetch you:


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And the LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers.


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And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your descendents, to love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.


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And the LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies, and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.


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And you shall return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command you this day.


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And the LORD your God will make you plenteous in every work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers:


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If you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.


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For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not hidden from you, neither is it far off.


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It is not in heaven, that you should say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, that we may hear it, and do it?


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Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, that we may hear it, and do it?


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In that I command you this day to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that you may live and multiply: and the LORD your God shall bless you in the land to which you go to possess it.


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But if your heart turns away, so that you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;


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I denounce unto you this day, that you shall surely perish, and that you shall not prolong your days upon the land, to which you pass over Jordan to go to possess it.


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I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your descendents may live:


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That you may love the LORD your God, and that you may obey his voice, and that you may cling to him: for he is your life, and the length of your days: that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.


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And he said to them, I am a hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no longer go out and come in: also the LORD has said to me, You shall not go over this Jordan.


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The LORD your God, he will go over before you, and he will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before you, as the LORD has said.


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And the LORD shall do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and to the land of them, whom he destroyed.


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And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that you may do to them according to all the commandments which I have commanded you.


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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD your God, he it is that goes with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you.


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And Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for you must go with this people to the land which the LORD has sworn unto their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it.


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And the LORD, he it is that goes before you; he will be with you, he will not fail you, neither forsake you: fear not, neither be dismayed.


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And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, which carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.


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And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,


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When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD your God in the place which he shall choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.


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Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and your stranger that is within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:


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And that their children, who have not known anything, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land to which you go over Jordan to possess it.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, your days approach that you must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him instruction. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, to which they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.


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Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?


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And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have done, in that they have turned to other gods.


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Now therefore write this song for yourself, and teach it to the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.


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For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore unto their fathers, that flows with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to 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 mouths of their descendents: for I know their imagination which they intend to do, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.


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And he gave Joshua the son of Nun instruction, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore unto them: and I will be with you.


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And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,


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Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.


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For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?


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Gather to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them.


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For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.


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And Moses spoke in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.


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My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the gentle rain upon the tender plant, and as the showers upon the grass:


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He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are justice: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.


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They have corrupted themselves, their stain is not the stain of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.


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Do you thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he your father that has bought you? has he not made you, and established you?


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Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask your father, and he will make it known to you; your elders, and they will tell you.


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When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.


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He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.


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As an eagle stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, spreads abroad her wings, takes them, bears them on her wings:


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He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;


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Butter of cattle, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of grains of wheat; and you drank the pure blood of the grape.


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But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked: you have become fat, you have grown thick, you are covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.


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They sacrificed to devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.


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And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.


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And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very obstinate generation, children in whom is no faith.


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They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.


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For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.


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They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.


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The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.


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I said, I would scatter them into hidden places, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:


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Were it not that I feared the anger of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves improperly, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD has not done all this.


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How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?


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For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:


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To me belong vengeance, and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.


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For the LORD shall judge his people, and be sorry for his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.


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Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.


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See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.


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If I sharpen my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment; I will return vengeance to my enemies, and will reward those who hate me.


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I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, in the beginning of vengeance upon the enemy.


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Rejoice, O you nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will return vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.


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And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.


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And he said to them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.


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For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, to which you go over Jordan to possess it.


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Go up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over by Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession:


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And die in the mountain where you are going up, and be gathered to your people; as Aaron your brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered to his people:


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Because you trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you did not sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel.


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Yet you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there unto the land which I give the children of Israel.


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And this is the blessing, with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.


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And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shone forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.


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Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in your hand: and they sat down at your feet; every one shall receive of your words.


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And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together.


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And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be a help to him from his enemies.


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And of Levi he said, Let your Thummim and your Urim be with your holy one, whom you proved at Massah, and with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah;


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Who said to his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed your word, and kept your covenant.


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They shall teach Jacob your judgments, and Israel your law: they shall put incense before you, and whole burnt sacrifice upon your altar.


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Bless, LORD, his possessions, and accept the work of his hands: strike through the loins of those who rise against him, and of those who hate him, so that they do not rise again.


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And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; and the LORD shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.


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And of Joseph he said, Blessed by the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that crouches beneath,


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And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon,


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And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the enduring hills,


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And for the precious things of the earth and the fullness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.


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His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of the wild ox: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.


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They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.


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And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlarges Gad: he dwells as a lion, and tears the arm with the crown of the head.


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And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a place for the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.


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And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favor, and full of the blessing of the LORD: possess the west and the south.


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And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.


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There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rides upon the heaven to your help, and in his excellency on the sky.


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The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before you; and shall say, Destroy them.


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Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of grain and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.


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Happy are you, O Israel: who is like unto you, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of your help, and who is the sword of your excellency! and your enemies shall be found liars unto you; and you shall tread upon their high places.


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And Moses went up from the plains of Moab to the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over by Jericho. And the LORD showed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,


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And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the farthest sea,


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And the LORD said to him, This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, I will give it to your descendents: I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.


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And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over by Beth-peor: but no man knows of his sepulcher until this day.


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And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force diminished.


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And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.


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And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel listened to him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.


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In all the signs and the wonders which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,


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And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses showed in the sight of all Israel.


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Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,


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Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you, and all this people, unto the land which I give to them, even to the children of Israel.


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Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given to you, as I said to 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 territory.


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There shall not any man be able to stand before you all the days of your life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with you: I will not fail you, nor forsake you.


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Be strong and of a good courage: for to this people shall you divide for an inheritance the land, which I swore to their fathers to give them.


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Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded you: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go.


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This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth; but you shall meditate therein day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.


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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be dismayed: for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.


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Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare food for yourself; for within three days you shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God gives you to possess it.


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Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, The LORD your God has given you rest, and has given you this land.


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Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan; but you shall pass before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valor, and help them;


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Until the LORD has given your brethren rest, as he has given you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God gives them: then you shall return to the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD'S servant gave you on this side of the Jordan toward the sunrising.


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And they answered Joshua, saying, All that you command us we will do, and wherever you send us, we will go.


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According as we listened to Moses in all things, so will we listen to you: only the LORD your God be with you, as he was with Moses.


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Whoever he be that rebels against your commandment, and will not listen to your words in all that you command him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage.


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And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into a harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.


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And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in here tonight of the children of Israel to search out the country.


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And the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that have come to you, which are entered into your house: for they be come to search out all the country.


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And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men to me, but I knew not where they were from:


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And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: where the men went I know not: pursue after them quickly; for you shall overtake them.


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But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.


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And the men pursued after them the way to the Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as those who pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.


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And she said to the men, I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.


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For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side of the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you completely destroyed.


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And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.


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Now therefore, I pray you, swear to me by the LORD, since I have shown you kindness, that you will also show kindness to my father's house, and give me a true token:


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And that you will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.


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And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if you do not tell this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD has given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.


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Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.


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And she said to them, Depart to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward you may go your way.


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Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which you let us down by: and you shall bring your father, and your mother, and your brothers, and all your father's household, home to you.


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And it shall be, that whoever shall go out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless: and whoever shall be with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him.


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And if you tell this our business, then we will be free of your oath which you have made us to swear.


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And she said, According to your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.


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And they went, and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but found them not.


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So the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all things that befell them:


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And they said to Joshua, Truly the LORD has delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us.


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And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they left from Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.


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And they commanded the people, saying, When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites carrying it, then you shall leave from your place, and go after it.


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Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near to it, that you may know the way by which you must go: for you have not passed this way until now.


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And Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves: for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.


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And Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.


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And the LORD said to Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.


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And you shall command the priests that carry the ark of the covenant, saying, When you are come to the edge of the water of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.


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And Joshua said, Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.


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Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan.


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And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that carry the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand up in a heap.


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And it came to pass, when the people left from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests carrying the ark of the covenant before the people;


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And as those who carried the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests that carried the ark were dipped in the edge of the water, (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest,)


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That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, ceased, and were cut off: and the people passed over opposite Jericho.


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And the priests that carried 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 fully passed over Jordan.


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And it came to pass, when all the people had fully passed over Jordan, that the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,


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And command them, saying, Take from here out of the midst of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and you shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where you shall lodge this night.


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Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:


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And Joshua said to them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take you up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel:


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That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What do you mean by these stones?


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Then you 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 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 commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as the LORD spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.


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And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which carried the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there until this day.


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For the priests which carried the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan, until everything was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over.


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And it came to pass, when all the people had fully passed over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the people.


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And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke to them:


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About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD for battle, to the plains of Jericho.


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On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.


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And it came to pass, when the priests that carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD had come up out of the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up to the dry land, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and flowed over all its banks, as they did before.


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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, in the east border of Jericho.


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And he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What do these stones mean?


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For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you, until you had passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we had gone over:


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That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty: that you might fear the LORD your God for ever.


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And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we had passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.


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At that time the LORD said to Joshua, Make 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 the foreskins.


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And this is the reason why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness on the way, after they came out of Egypt.


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Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness on the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.


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For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: to whom the LORD swore that he would not show them the land, which the LORD swore unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that flows with milk and honey.


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And their children, whom he raised up in their place, them Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on the way.


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And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they stayed in their places in the camp, till they were whole.


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And the LORD said to Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you. Therefore the name of the place is called Gilgal until this day.


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And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.


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And they did eat of the old grain of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched grain in the very same day.


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And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old grain of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.


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And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man before him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went to him, and said to him, Are you for us, or for our adversaries?


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And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said to him, What does my lord say unto his servant?


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And the captain of the LORD'S host said to Joshua, Loose your shoe off from your foot; for the place on which you stand is holy. And Joshua did so.


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And the LORD said to Joshua, See, I have given into your hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valor.


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And you shall circle around the city, all you men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shall you do six days.


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And seven priests shall carry before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day you shall go around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.


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And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before him.


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And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests carry seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD.


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And he said to the people, Pass on, and go around the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.


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And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken to the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed on before the LORD, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them.


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And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets, and those in the rear came after the ark, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.


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And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, You shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I tell you to shout; then shall you shout.


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So the ark of the LORD went around the city, going around it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.


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And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but those in the rear came after the ark of the LORD, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.


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And the second day they went around the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did 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 went around the city in the same manner seven times: only on that day they went around the city seven times.


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And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, Shout; for the LORD has given you the city.


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And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.


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And you, be sure to keep yourselves from the accursed thing, so that you do not make yourselves accursed, when you take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.


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But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated to the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.


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So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.


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And they completely destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.


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But Joshua had said to the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out from there the woman, and all that she has, as you swore to her.


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And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them outside the camp of Israel.


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And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.


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And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwells in Israel even until this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.


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And Joshua strictly instructed them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that rises up and builds this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.


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But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.


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And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth-aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.


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And they returned to Joshua, and said to him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai; and do not make all the people to labor there; for they are but few.


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So there went up to there of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.


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And the men of Ai struck down of them about thirty six men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and struck them down in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.


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And Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.


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And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, why have you at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side of the Jordan!


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For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall surround us, and cut off our name from the earth: and what will you do to your great name?


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Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and deceived also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.


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Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, unless you destroy the accursed from among you.


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Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow: for thus says the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of you, O Israel: you can not stand before your enemies, until you take away the accursed thing from among you.


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In the morning therefore you shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD takes shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the LORD shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man.


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And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he has: because he has transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he has done folly in Israel.


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So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:


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And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken:


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And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.


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And Joshua said to Achan, My son, give, I pray you, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what you have done; hide it not from me.


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And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:


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When I saw among the spoils a desirable Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.


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So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.


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And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them to Joshua, and to all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD.


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And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his donkeys, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them to the valley of Achor.


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And Joshua said, Why have you troubled us? the LORD shall trouble you this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.


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And they raised over him a great heap of stones until this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, until this day.


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And the LORD said to Joshua, Fear not, neither be dismayed: take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land:


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And you shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall you take for a prey for yourselves: lay an ambush for the city behind it.


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So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valor, and sent them away by night.


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And he commanded them, saying, Behold, you shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but you must all be 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, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,


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(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.


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Then you shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.


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And it shall be, when you have taken the city, that you shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD shall you do. See, I have commanded you.


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Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.


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And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.


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And all the people, even the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew near, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai.


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And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.


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And when they had set the people, even all the army that was on the north of the city, and their ambushers on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.


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And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he knew not that there were ambushers against him behind the city.


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And Joshua and all Israel acted as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.


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And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.


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And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.


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And the LORD said to Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in your hand toward Ai; for I will give it into your hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city.


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And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.


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And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.


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And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned back, and slew the men of Ai.


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And the others came out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.


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And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they chased them, and when they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned to Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword.


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And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.


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For Joshua did not draw his hand back, with which he stretched out the spear, until he had completely destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.


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Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey for themselves, according to the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.


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And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until evening: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcass down from the tree, and drop it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise on it a great heap of stones, that remains until this day.


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As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man has lifted up any iron: and they offered on it burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.


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And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.


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And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, the stranger as well as he that was born among them; half of them over by mount Gerizim, and half of them over by mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.


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And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.


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There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua did not read before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were living among them.


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And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side of the Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over by Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it;


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They did work deceitfully, and went and acted as if they were ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their donkeys, and wine bottles, old, and torn, and bound up;


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And old and patched shoes upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and moldy.


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And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now therefore make an alliance with us.


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And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, Perhaps you dwell among us; and how shall we make an alliance with you?


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And they said to Joshua, We are your servants. And Joshua said to them, Who are you? and from where do you come?


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And they said to him, From a very far country your servants have come because of the name of the LORD your God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,


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And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.


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Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take food with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say to them, We are your servants: therefore now make an alliance with us.


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This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is moldy:


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And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be torn: and these our garments and our shoes have become old because of the very long journey.


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And Joshua made peace with them, and made an alliance with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation swore to them.


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And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made an alliance with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they dwelt among them.


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And the children of Israel journeyed, and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-jearim.


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And the children of Israel did not strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes.


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But all the princes said to all the congregation, We have sworn to them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.


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This we will do to them; we will even let them live, so that wrath is not upon us, because of the oath which we swore to them.


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And the princes said to them, Let them live; but let them be cutters of wood and drawers of water for all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.


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And Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, Why have you beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you; when you dwell among us?


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Now therefore you are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being servants, and cutters of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.


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And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told your servants, that the LORD your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were greatly afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.


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And so he did to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.


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And Joshua made them that day cutters of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even until this day, in the place which he would choose.


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Now it came to pass, when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had completely destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;


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That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty.


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Therefore Adonizedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, and to Piram king of Jarmuth, and to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,


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Come up unto me, and help me, that we may strike Gibeon: for it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.


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Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their armies, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it.


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And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Do not hold back your hand from your servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.


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So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor.


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And the LORD said to Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into your hand; there shall not a man of them stand before you.


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And the LORD overcame them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goes up to Beth-horon, and struck them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.


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And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Beth-horon, that the LORD threw down great stones from heaven upon them as far as Azekah, and they died: they were more who died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel killed with the sword.


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Then spoke Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand still upon Gibeon; and you, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.


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And the sun stood still, and the moon held back, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.


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And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD listened to the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel.


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And Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to watch over them:


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And do not hold back, but pursue after your enemies, and strike the hindmost of them; do not let them enter into their cities: for the LORD your God has delivered them into your hand.


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And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into fortified cities.


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And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.


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And they did so, and brought forth those five kings to him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.


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And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings to Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them.


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And Joshua said to them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies against whom you fight.


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And afterward Joshua struck them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.


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And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave in which they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave's mouth, which remain until this very day.


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And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof; he completely destroyed them, and all the souls that were in it; he let none remain: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he did to the king of Jericho.


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And the LORD delivered it also, and the king thereof, into the hand of Israel; and he struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain in it; but did to the king thereof as he did to the king of Jericho.


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And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:


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And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which took it on the second day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah.


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Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.


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And from Lachish Joshua passed to Eglon, and all Israel with him; and they encamped against it, and fought against it:


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And they took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein he completely destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.


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And they took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but destroyed it completely, and all the souls that were therein.


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And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they struck them with the edge of the sword, and completely destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah, and to her king.


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So Joshua struck all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the valley, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but completely destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded.


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And Joshua struck them from Kadesh-barnea even unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.


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And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.


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And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard those things, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,


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And to the kings that were on the north of the mountains, and of the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west,


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And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.


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And they went out, they and all their armies with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the seashore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many.


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And when all these kings were met together, they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.


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And the LORD said to Joshua, Be not afraid because of them: for tomorrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: you shall hamstring their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.


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So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon them.


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And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth-maim, and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they struck them, until they left them none remaining.


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And Joshua did to them as the LORD told him: he hamstrung their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.


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And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and struck down the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor was formerly the head of all those kingdoms.


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And they struck all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, completely destroying them: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.


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And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and struck them with the edge of the sword, and he completely destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded.


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But as for the cities that still stood in their strength, Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only; that did Joshua burn.


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And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey for themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.


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As the LORD commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua, and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that the LORD commanded Moses.


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So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same;


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Even from the mount Halak, that goes up to Seir, even to Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and struck them, and slew them.


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There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all others they took in battle.


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For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them completely, and that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua destroyed them completely with their cities.


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There were none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, some remained.


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So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.


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Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel struck down, and possessed their land on the other side of the Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon to mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:


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Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;


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And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and to the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Beth-jeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdoth-pisgah:


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And the territory of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,


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And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.


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Them did Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of Israel strike: and Moses the servant of the LORD gave it for a possession to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh.


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And these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel struck on this side of the Jordan on the west, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon even to the mount Halak, that goes up to Seir; which Joshua gave to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;


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In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:


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Now Joshua was old and advanced in years; and the LORD said to him, You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.


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From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even to the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:


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From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:


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And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baal-gad under mount Hermon to the entrance to Hamath.


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All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.


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Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,


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With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them;


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From Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon;


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And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon;


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And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salcah;


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All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses strike, and cast them out.


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Nevertheless the children of Israel did not expel the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.


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Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as he said to them.


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And their territory was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeba;


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And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, which were chiefs of Sihon, dwelling in the country.


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Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among those who were slain by them.


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And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the border thereof. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and the villages thereof.


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And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of Gad, even to the children of Gad according to their families.


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And their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer that is before Rabbah;


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And in the valley, Beth-aram, and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and his border, even to the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side of the Jordan eastward.


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This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities, and their villages.


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And Moses gave an inheritance to the half tribe of Manasseh: and this was the possession of the half tribe of the children of Manasseh by their families.


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And their territory was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities:


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And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were assigned to the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their families.


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These are the countries which Moses did distribute for inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side of the Jordan, by Jericho, eastward.


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But to the tribe of Levi Moses did not give any inheritance: the LORD God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said to them.


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And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them.


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By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe.


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For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and a half tribe on the other side of the Jordan: but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.


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For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part to the Levites in the land, except cities to dwell in, with their open country for their cattle and for their belongings.


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Then the children of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said to him, You know the thing that the LORD said to Moses the man of God concerning me and you in Kadesh-barnea.


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Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.


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Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.


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And Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land on which your feet have trodden shall be your inheritance, and your children's for ever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.


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And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as he said, these forty five years, even since the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day eighty five years old.


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As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.


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Now therefore give me this mountain, of which the LORD spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fortified: if indeed the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.


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Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel.


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And the name of Hebron before was Kirjath-arba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.


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This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the farthest part of the south territory.


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And it went out to the south side to Maaleh-acrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side to Kadesh-barnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and curved around to Karkaa:


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From there it passed toward Azmon, and went out to the river of Egypt; and that border came out at the sea: this shall be your south border.


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And the east border was the salt sea, even to the end of the Jordan. And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the farthest part of the Jordan:


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And the border went up to Beth-hogla, and passed along by the north of Beth-arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben:


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And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is before the going up to Adummim, which is on the south side of the river: and the border passed toward the waters of En-shemesh, and came out at En-rogel:


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And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward:


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And the border was drawn from the top of the hill to the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjath-jearim:


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And the border turned from Baalah westward to mount Seir, and passed along to the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed on to Timnah:


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And the border went out to the side of Ekron northward: and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out to Jabneel; and the border came out at the sea.


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And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof. This is the territory of the children of Judah round about according to their families.


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And to Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron.


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And Caleb drove from there the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.


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And he went up from there to the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjath-sepher.


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And Caleb said, He that strikes Kirjath-sepher, and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife.


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And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.


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And it came to pass, as she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she got down off of her donkey; and Caleb said to her, What do you want?


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She answered, Give me a blessing; for you have given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the lower springs.


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And the farthest cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the border of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,


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Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, to the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border thereof:


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As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.


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And the lot fell for the children of Joseph from the Jordan by Jericho, to the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goes up from Jericho throughout mount Bethel,


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And goes down westward to the territory of Japhleti, to the territory of Beth-horon the lower, and to Gezer, and comes out at the sea.


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And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Ataroth-addar, to Beth-horon the upper;


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And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side; and the border went around eastward to Taanath-shiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah;


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And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to Jericho, and went out at the Jordan.


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The border went out from Tappuah westward to the river Kanah, and came out at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families.


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And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.


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And they did not drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, and serve under tribute.


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There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph; that is, for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.


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There was also a lot for the rest of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families.


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But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.


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And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father.


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And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which were on the other side of the Jordan;


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Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons: and the rest of Manasseh's sons had the land of Gilead.


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And the border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah, that lies before Shechem; and the border went along on the right hand to the inhabitants of En-tappuah.


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Now Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim;


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And the border descended to the river Kanah, southward of the river: these cities of Ephraim are among the cities of Manasseh: the border of Manasseh also was on the north side of the river, and it came out at the sea:


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Southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's, and the sea is his border; and they met together in Asher on the north, and in Issachar on the east.


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And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth-shean and her towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and her towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns, even three countries.


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Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites chose to dwell in that land.


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Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel had become strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute; but did not completely drive them out.


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And the children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, Why have you given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great people, considering that the LORD has blessed me until now?


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And Joshua answered them, If you be a great people, then go up to the wood country, and clear land for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for you.


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And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both those who are of Beth-shean and her towns, and those who are of the valley of Jezreel.


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And Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, You are a great people, and have great power: you shall not have one lot only:


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But the mountain shall be yours; for it is a forest, and you shall cut it down: and the borders of it shall be yours: for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong.


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And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.


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And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.


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And Joshua said to the children of Israel, How long are you slow to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers has given you?


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Choose from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; and they shall come again to me.


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And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall dwell in their territory on the south, and the house of Joseph shall dwell in their territory on the north.


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You shall therefore describe the land in its seven parts, and bring the description here to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.


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But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.


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And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua instructed those who went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh.


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And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities in its seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.


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And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.


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And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the territory of their lot came forth between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.


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And their border on the north side was from the Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the border came out at the wilderness of Beth-aven.


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And the border went over from there toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Ataroth-adar, near the hill that lies on the south side of the lower Beth-horon.


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And the border was drawn from there, and went around the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lies before Beth-horon southward; and the border came out at Kirjath-baal, which is Kirjath-jearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.


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And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjath-jearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah:


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And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to En-rogel,


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And was drawn from the north, and went forth to En-shemesh, and went forth toward Geliloth, which is over by the going up of Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,


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And the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah northward: and the border came out at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of the Jordan: this was the south border.


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And the Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the borders thereof round about, according to their families.


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Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and the valley of Keziz,


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And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.


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And the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah.


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And all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalath-beer, Ramath of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.


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Out of the portion of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them.


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And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families: and the border of their inheritance was unto Sarid:


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And their border went up toward the sea, and Maralah, and reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that is before Jokneam;


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And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising to the border of Chisloth-tabor, and then goes out to Daberath, and goes up to Japhia,


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And from there passes on along on the east to Gittah-hepher, to Ittah-kazin, and goes out to Remmon-methoar to Neah;


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And the border goes around it on the north side to Hannathon, and comes out in the valley of Jiphthah-el:


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And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.


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This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.


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And the border reaches to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Beth-shemesh; and their border came out at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.


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This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages.


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And turns toward the sunrising to Beth-dagon, and reaches to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthah-el toward the north side of Beth-emek, and Neiel, and goes out to Cabul on the left hand,


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And then the border turns to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the border turns to Hosah; and comes out at the sea in the region of Achzib:


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This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.


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The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their families.


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And their border was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim, and Adami, Nekeb, and Jabneel, to Lakum; and then came out at the Jordan:


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And then the border turns westward to Aznoth-tabor, and goes out from there to Hukkok, and reaches to Zebulun on the south side, and reaches to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising.


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And Iron, and Migdal-el, Horem, and Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.


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This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages.


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And the territory of the children of Dan extended too little for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.


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This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.


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When they had made an end of dividing the land for inheritance by their territories, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them:


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According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein.


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These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end of dividing the country.


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Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Select for yourselves cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by the hand of Moses:


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That the slayer that kills any person unexpectedly and unknowingly may flee there: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.


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And when he that flees to one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city to them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.


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And if the avenger of blood pursues after him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unknowingly, and did not hate beforehand.


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And he shall dwell in that city, until he stands before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city from which he fled.


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And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjath-arba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.


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And on the other side of the Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.


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These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourns among them, that whoever kills any person unexpectedly might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.


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Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel;


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And they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the open country thereof for our cattle.


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And the children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, at the commandment of the LORD, these cities and their open country.


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And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the priest, which were of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.


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And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.


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And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.


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The children of Merari by their families had out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.


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And the children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their open country, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.


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And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are here mentioned by name,


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Which the children of Aaron, being of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the first lot.


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And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the open country thereof round about it.


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But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.


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Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron with her open country, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah with her open country,


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And Ain with her open country, and Juttah with her open country, and Beth-shemesh with her open country; nine cities out of those two tribes.


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And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites which remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.


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For they gave them Shechem with her open country in mount Ephraim, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her open country,


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And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her open country, and Gath-rimmon with her open country; two cities.


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All the cities were ten with their open country for the families of the children of Kohath that remained.


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And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the other half tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in Bashan with her open country, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Beesh-terah with her open country; two cities.


