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Therefore you shall keep my rights and my statutes, of which the man doing them, shall live in them. I [am] the LORD.


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No man shall approach any [woman] that is near of kin to him, to uncover her nakedness. I [am] the LORD.


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


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The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father or daughter of thy mother, [whether she is] born at home or born abroad, their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.


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The nakedness of thy son's daughter or of thy daughter's daughter, their nakedness thou shalt not uncover; for theirs is thine own nakedness.


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The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she [is] thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.


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Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister; for she [is] thy mother's near kinswoman.


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Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife; she [is] thine aunt.


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Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter-in-law; she [is] thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.


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Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; neither shalt thou take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness; [for] they are her near kinswomen; it [is] wickedness.


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Neither shalt thou take a woman together with her sister, to make her a rival, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her lifetime.


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Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness as long as she is separated for her uncleanness.


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And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through [the fire] to Molech; neither shalt thou contaminate the name of thy God: I [am] the LORD.


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Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith; neither shall any woman stand before a beast to join herself with it; it [is] mixture.


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Do not defile yourselves in any of these things; for in all these things the Gentiles which I cast out before you have defiled themselves;


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and the land became defiled; therefore, I visited its iniquity upon it, and the land itself vomited out her inhabitants.


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Ye shall, therefore, keep my statutes and my rights and shall not commit [any] of these abominations, [neither] the natural of your own nor any stranger that sojourns among you.


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(For all these abominations were done by the men of the land who [were] before you, and the land was contaminated.)


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And will the land not vomit you out also for having contaminated it, as it vomited out the Gentiles that were before you?


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For whoever shall commit any of these abominations, the persons that commit [them] shall be cut off from among his people.


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Keep, therefore, my ordinance that [ye] commit not [any one] of these abominable laws which were committed before you, and do not defile yourselves in them; I [am] the LORD your God.:


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Speak unto all the congregation of the sons of Israel and say unto them, Ye shall be holy, for I the LORD your God [am] holy.


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It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it and on the next day, and any remaining until the third day shall be burnt in the fire.


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and whoever eats it shall bear his iniquity because he has profaned the holiness of the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from among his people.


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


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And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather the fallen grapes of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and the stranger. I AM your God.


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And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou defile the name of thy God. I [am] the LORD.


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Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob [him]. Do not detain [the wages of] the work of the hired man in thy house until the morning.


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Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God. I [am] the LORD.


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Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, neither pleasing the poor, nor favoring the mighty; [but] in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.


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Thou shalt not travel about [as] a talebearer among thy people; neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour. I [am] the LORD.


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Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart; thou shalt rebuke thy neighbour in sincerity, that thou not bear sin for him.


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Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the sons of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. I [am] the LORD.


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Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy animal join [with a diverse kind] for mixtures; thou shalt not sow thy field with mixture, neither shalt thou wear garments of a mixture of different things.


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And when a man lies carnally with a woman that is a bondmaid, betrothed to a husband and has not been completely ransomed nor been given her freedom, [both] shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death because [she] is not free.


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And he shall bring [in expiation] for his guilt unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, a ram for [expiation of] guilt.


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And the priest shall reconcile him with the ram of the guilt before the LORD for his sin which he has committed, and the sin which he has committed shall be forgiven him.


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And when ye have come into the land and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall circumcise the foreskin of the fruit; three years it shall be uncircumcised unto you; it shall not be eaten of.


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And in the fifth year ye shall eat of the fruit thereof that it may yield unto you the increase thereof. I AM your God.


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Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you. I [am] the LORD.


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Do not contaminate thy daughter, causing her to commit fornication, lest the land be prostituted, and the land become full of wickedness.


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Thou shalt rise up before grey hair and honour the face of the elder and fear thy God. I [am] the LORD.


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[But] the stranger that dwells with you shall be as the natural of yourselves, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. I AM your God.


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Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measurement [of land], in weight, or in other measure.


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


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Likewise, thou shalt say to the sons of Israel, Any man of the sons of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel that gives [any] of his seed unto Molech shall surely die; 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 seed unto Molech, contaminating my sanctuary and defiling my holy name.


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And if the people of the land should hide their eyes from the man, when he gives of his seed unto Molech, to 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 with all those that fornicated after him, prostituting themselves after Molech.


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And the person that turns after spiritists or after diviners to prostitute themselves after them, I will even set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.


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For any man that curses his father or his mother shall be surely 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, [he] that commits adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely die.


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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 die; 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 wrought mixture; their blood [shall be] upon them.


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If a man shall join himself with a male as 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 any animal, to join herself with it, thou shalt kill the woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death; their blood [shall be] upon themselves.


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And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it [is] a wicked thing; and they shall be killed in the sight of the sons 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 menstruation and shall uncover her nakedness, he has discovered her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood; both of them shall be cut off from among their people.


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Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy 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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Keep, therefore, all my statutes and all my rights and do them, and the land where I bring you to dwell therein will not vomit you out.


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And ye shall not walk in the practices of the Gentiles which I shall cast out before you; for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.


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But I have said unto you, Ye shall possess their land, and I will give it unto you in possession of inheritance, a land that flows with milk and honey. I AM your God, who have separated you from the [other] peoples.


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Therefore, ye shall differentiate between clean animals and unclean and between unclean fowls and clean; and ye shall not defile your persons by animals or by fowl or by any manner of living thing that moves on the ground which I have separated from you as unclean.


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Ye must, therefore, be holy unto me, for I the LORD [am] holy and have separated you from the [other] peoples, that ye should be mine.


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And the man or the woman that consults with spiritists, or that is a diviner, shall surely die; they shall stone them with stones; their blood [shall be] upon them.:


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests, the sons of Aaron, and tell them to not be defiled for the dead among his people.


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But for his kin, that is near unto 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 virgin sister, that is near unto him, who has had no husband; for her he may 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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Thou shalt sanctify him, therefore, for he offers the bread of thy God; he shall be holy unto thee; for I the LORD, who sanctify you, [am] holy.


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And the daughter of the man [who is a] priest, if she begins to fornicate, she profanes her father; she shall be burnt with fire.


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And [he that is] the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head nor rend 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 he shall not take, but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.


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Speak unto Aaron, saying, The man of thy seed in their generations that has [any] blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.


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For no man in whom there is a blemish, shall approach: a blind man or a lame or he that lacks any thing or has any thing superfluous


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or crookbacked or a dwarf or that has a blemish in his eye or has scurvy or [is] scabbed or has his stones broken.


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No man that has a blemish of the seed 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 inside the veil nor come near unto the altar because he has a blemish, that he not profane my sanctuary; for I AM he that sanctifies them.


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Speak unto Aaron and to his sons that they abstain from the holy things of the sons of Israel and that they not profane my holy name [in those things] which they sanctify unto me. I [am] the LORD.


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Say unto them, Any man of all your seed among your generations that goes in unto the holy things, which the children of Israel sanctify 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 seed of Aaron who [is] a leper or has a running issue shall not eat of the holy things until he is clean. And whosoever touches any thing [that is] unclean [by] the dead or a man whose seed has gone out from him


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or the man who has touched any reptile, by which he shall be unclean, or a man of whom he shall become unclean, according to whatever uncleanness he has,


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the person who has touched any such shall be unclean until evening and shall not eat of the holy things until he has washed 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 bread.


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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 therefore, if they profane it. I AM he who sanctifies them.


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No stranger shall eat [of] the holy thing; a guest of the priest or a hired servant shall not eat [of] the holy thing.


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But when the priest shall buy [any] soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house, they shall eat of his bread.


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If the priest's daughter becomes married unto a stranger, she may not eat of that which is set apart of the holy things.


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But if the priest's daughter becomes a widow or divorced and has no child and is returned unto her father's house as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's bread; but no stranger shall eat thereof.


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And if a man eats [of] the holy thing by error, then he shall add the fifth [part] thereof unto it and shall give [it] unto the priest with the offering that he ate.


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And they shall not profane the holy things of the sons of Israel, which they set apart unto the LORD,


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or suffer them to bear the iniquity of their guilt, when they eat their holy things. For I AM he who sanctifies them.


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Speak unto Aaron and to his sons and unto all the sons of Israel and say unto them, Any man of the house of Israel or of the strangers in Israel that will offer his oblation for all his vows and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering,


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[ye shall offer] of your own free will a male without blemish of the bovine cattle of the sheep or of the goats.


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Likewise when anyone offers a sacrifice of peace unto the LORD to present [his] vow or a freewill offering in bovine cattle or sheep, it must 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 scurvy or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering on fire of them upon the altar of the LORD.


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A bullock or a lamb that has any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, [thou may] offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.


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Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised or crushed or broken or cut; neither shall ye do thus in [all] your land.


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


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When a bullock or a sheep or a goat is born, then it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering on fire unto the LORD.


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Profane ye not my holy name, and I will sanctify myself in the midst of the sons of Israel. I AM he who sanctifies you


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Speak unto the sons of Israel and say unto them, The feasts of the LORD, unto which ye shall make a general convocation of all the people, these shall be my feasts.


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Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day shall be a sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; ye 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, the holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their appointed times.


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And on the fifteenth day of the same month [is] the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD; seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.


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And ye shall offer an offering on fire unto the LORD seven days; the seventh day [shall be] a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work [therein].


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Speak unto the sons of Israel and say unto them, When ye have entered into the land which I give unto you and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest;


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and he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD that ye shall be accepted; on the day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.


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And ye shall offer that day when ye 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 present thereof [shall be] two-tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil in an offering on fire unto the LORD [for] an acceptable aroma; and the drink offering thereof [shall be] of wine, the fourth [part] of a hin.


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And ye shall eat neither bread nor parched grain nor green ears until this same day until ye have offered the offering of your God; [it shall be] a statute for ever throughout your ages in all your dwellings.


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And ye shall count unto you from the day after the sabbath, from the day that ye offered the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete;


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unto the day after the seventh sabbath, ye shall number fifty days; then ye shall offer a new present unto the LORD.


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Ye 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 firstfruits unto the LORD.


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And ye 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 presents and their drink offerings in an offering on fire, of a [very] acceptable aroma unto the LORD.


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Then ye shall also sacrifice one he goat as the sin and two lambs of the first year as a sacrifice of peace.


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And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits [for] a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs; they shall be holiness of the LORD for the priest.


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And ye shall be summoned on that same day; it shall be a holy convocation unto you; ye shall do no servile work: a perpetual statute in all your dwellings throughout your ages.


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And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest; thou shalt leave them for the poor and for the stranger. I AM your God.


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Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, In the seventh month in the first [day] of the month, ye shall have a rest, an alarm for a reminder, and a holy convocation.


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But the tenth [day] of this seventh month [shall be] the day of reconciliations; it shall be a holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls and offer an offering made on fire unto the LORD.


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And ye shall do no work in this same day; for it [is] a day of reconciliations, to reconcile you before the LORD your God.


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For every person that shall not afflict themselves in that same day, shall be cut off from among his people.


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


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Ye shall do no manner of work; [it shall be] a perpetual statute throughout your ages in all your dwellings.


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It [shall be] unto you a sabbath of sabbaths, and ye shall afflict your souls, beginning in the ninth [day] of the month in the evening, from evening unto evening, shall ye rest [on] your sabbath.


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Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month [shall be] the feast of tabernacles unto the LORD [for] seven days.


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Seven days ye shall offer an offering on fire unto the LORD; the eighth day ye shall have a holy convocation and offer an offering on fire unto the LORD; it is a feast; [and] ye shall do no servile work [therein].


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These [are] the feasts of the LORD, unto which ye shall be summoned: holy convocations to offer an offering on fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering and a present, a sacrifice and drink offerings, every thing in its [proper] time;


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in addition the sabbaths of the LORD and in addition to your gifts and in addition to all your vows, and in addition to all your freewill offerings, which ye shall give unto the LORD.


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


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And on the first day ye shall take [branches] with fruit of a beautiful tree, palm branches and the boughs of thick trees and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.


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And ye shall keep this feast unto the LORD for seven days each year. [It shall be] a perpetual statute for your ages; ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.


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that your descendants may know that I made the sons of Israel to dwell in tabernacles when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I AM your God.


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Command the sons of Israel that they bring unto thee 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 testimony, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually; [it shall be] a perpetual statute for [all] your ages.


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And thou shalt take fine flour and bake twelve cakes thereof; each cake shall be of two-tenth deals.


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And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon [each] order, that it may be on the bread for an aroma and incense unto the LORD.


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Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually: everlasting covenant of the sons of Israel.


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And it shall belong to Aaron 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 on fire, by a perpetual statute.


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In that season the son of an Israelite woman, whose father [was] an Egyptian, went out among the sons of Israel; and this son of the Israelite [woman] and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;


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and the Israelite woman's son pronounced the Name and cursed; and they brought him unto Moses. And his mother's name [was] Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.


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Bring forth the one that has blasphemed 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 thou shalt speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, The man that speaks evil of his God shall bear his sin.


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And he that pronounces the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him; the same with the stranger as with the natural, if he pronounces the Name, he shall be put to death.


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


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Ye shall have one manner of law: as for the stranger, so shall it be for the natural; for I [am] the LORD your God.


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And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel that they should bring forth the one that had blasphemed out of the camp and stone him with stones. And the sons of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.:


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


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


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but the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath of rest, a sabbath unto the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field nor prune thy vineyard.


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That which grows of its own accord in thy land that was harvested, thou shalt not reap; neither fence in the grapes of thy consecrated vine; [for] it is a year of rest unto the land.


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But the sabbath of the land shall be food for you, for thee and for thy servant and for thy maid and for thy hired servant and for thy stranger that sojourns with thee


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


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Then shalt thou cause the shofar to [sound] an alarm on the tenth [day] of the seventh month; in the day of the reconciliations shall ye cause the shofar to sound throughout all your land.


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And ye shall sanctify the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout [all] the land unto all the inhabitants thereof; it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every one unto his possession, and ye shall return each one unto his family.


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A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you; ye shall not sow nor reap that which grows of itself in it nor fence in thy consecrated vine.


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And if thou sell anything unto thy neighbour or buy [anything] of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another.


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According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, [and] according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee.


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According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it; for [according] to the number [of the years] of the fruits does he sell unto thee.


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Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God; for I [am] the LORD your God.


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Execute, therefore, my statutes and keep my rights and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety;


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And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow nor gather in our fruits,


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


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The land shall not be sold for ever, for the land [is] mine; for ye [are] strangers and sojourners with me.


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If thy brother becomes poor and has sold away [some] of his possession, his redeemer shall come, his closest [kinsman], and shall redeem that which his brother sold.


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And when the man has no redeemer and is able to stretch forth his hand and find enough for his redemption,


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then he shall count the years from the sale thereof and pay that which remains unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.


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But if he is not able to stretch forth his hand and find enough to return unto it, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of the one that has bought it until the year of jubilee; and in the jubilee [the land] shall go out [free], and he shall return unto 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 is not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to the one that bought it for his descendants; 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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Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites [and] the houses of the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.


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


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But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold, for it [is] their perpetual possession.


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And if thy brother becomes poor and comes unto thee, then thou shalt receive him; as a stranger, or a sojourner, he shall live with thee.


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Take thou no usury of him, or increase; but thou shalt have the fear of thy God, and thy brother shall live with thee.


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


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And when thy brother becomes poor, [being] with thee, and if he should sell himself unto thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a slave.


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As a hired servant [and] as a sojourner, he shall be with thee [and] shall serve thee unto the year of jubilee.


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Then he shall depart [free] from thy house, [both] he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he be restored.


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For they belong to me, I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.


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Both thy bondmen and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, [shall be] of the Gentiles that are round about you; of them shall ye buy slaves.


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Ye may also buy of the children of the strangers that live among you and of those of their lineage that are born in your land, who [are] with you, and they shall be your possession.


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


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And if a sojourner or stranger who is with thee becomes rich and thy brother who is with him becomes poor and sells himself unto the stranger [or] sojourner who is with thee or to the race of the lineage of the stranger,


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either his uncle or his uncle's son shall redeem him; or [any] that is near of kin unto him of his lineage shall redeem him; or if he is 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 unto 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 are] yet many years, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.


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And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall count with him, [and] according unto his years shall he give him again 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 thy 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 the sons of Israel [are] mine; they [are] my slaves whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. I AM your God.:


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Ye shall make no idols for yourselves nor graven image, neither shall you raise up a title, neither shall ye place [any] painted stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I AM your God.


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


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And your threshing shall last unto the vintage, and the vintage shall last unto the sowing time; and ye shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land safely.


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For I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and no one shall make [you] afraid; and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.


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And five of you shall chase one hundred, and one hundred of you shall put ten thousands to flight; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.


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For I will return unto you and make you fruitful and multiply you and establish my covenant with you.


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I AM your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their slaves; and I have broken the bands of your yoke and made you walk [with] your faces uplifted.


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and if ye shall despise my statutes or if your soul should abhor my rights so that ye will not do all my commandments [but] that ye break my covenant,


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I also will do this unto you: I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague that shall consume the eyes and torment the soul, and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.


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And I will place my wrath upon you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies; those that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when no one pursues you.


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


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And I will break the pride of your stronghold, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as bronze.


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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 ye walk contrary unto me and will not hearken unto 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 rapture your children and destroy your animals and make you few in number, and your ways shall be desolate.


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And I will bring an avenging sword upon you, in vindication of the covenant; and ye shall gather together within your cities; but I will send pestilence among you, and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.


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


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


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And I will destroy your high places and cut down your images and cast your 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 aroma of your suave [incense].


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


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And I will scatter you among the Gentiles 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 rest for her sabbaths all the days that it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies' land; [even] then shall the land rest and enjoy her sabbaths.


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All the time that it shall be desolate, it shall rest that which it did not rest in your sabbaths when ye dwelt upon it.


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


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And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursue; and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.


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


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And they shall confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers for their trespass which they trespassed against me and that also they have walked contrary unto me,


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and [that] I also have walked contrary unto them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; and then their uncircumcised hearts shall be humbled, and they shall plead because their iniquity;


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and I will remember my covenant [with] Jacob and likewise my covenant [with] Isaac, and also my covenant [with] Abraham will I remember, and I will remember the land.


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That the land shall be without them and shall rest her sabbaths, being desolate because of them; and they shall plead because of their iniquity because they despised my rights and their soul abhorred my statutes.


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


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But I will remember them [because of] the old covenant, when I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the Gentiles, that I might be their God: I [am] the LORD.


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These [are] the statutes and rights and laws, which the LORD established between him and the sons of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.:


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Speak unto the sons of Israel and say unto them, When someone shall make a special vow unto the LORD, according to the estimation of the the persons [that are to be redeemed], thus shall be thy estimation:


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Regarding the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.


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And if [it is] from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.


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And if [it is] from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation [shall be] three shekels of silver.


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And if [it is] from sixty years old and above, if [it is] a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.


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But if he is poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of the one that vowed shall the priest value him.


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And if [it is] an animal which is offered unto the LORD, all that [anyone] 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 exchange one animal for another, then it and the one exchanged thereof shall belong to the sanctuary.


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And if it [is] an unclean animal, which cannot be offered as a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the animal before the priest;


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and the priest shall value it, whether it is good or bad; according to the estimation of 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 value it, whether it is good or bad; as the priest shall value 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 thy estimation unto 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 thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof; one 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 until the year of the jubilee, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.


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And if he that sanctified the field desires to redeem it, then he shall add the fifth [part]of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.


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But if he should not redeem the field, and if the field is sold to another, 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 of anathema; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.


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And if [anyone] sanctifies unto the LORD a field which he has bought, which is not of the fields of his inheritance,


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then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation until the year of the jubilee; and that day he shall give thy assigned price, [as] a holy [thing] unto the LORD.


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In the year of the jubilee the field shall return unto the one of whom it was bought, unto whom the inheritance of the land [did belong].


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And all thy values shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary; twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.


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But the firstborn of the animals, which because it is firstborn belongs to the LORD, no one shall sanctify it; whether [it is] ox or sheep, it [is] the LORD'S.


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And if [it is] of an unclean beast, it shall be ransomed according to thy estimation, and they shall add a fifth [part] unto it; or if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation.


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But no anathema, that anyone shall devote unto the LORD of all that they have of men and animals and of the fields of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed. All anathema [is] most holy unto the LORD.


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And all the tithes of the land, [whether] of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD'S; [it is] holiness unto the LORD.


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And if anyone desires to redeem [anything] of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth [part] thereof.


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And concerning the tithe of the cows or of the sheep, [even] of whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holiness unto the LORD.


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


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These [are] the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for the sons of Israel in Mount Sinai.:


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And the LORD spoke unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the testimony, on the first of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,


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Take the sum of all the congregation of the sons of Israel by their families, by the houses of their fathers, with the number of [their] names, every male by their polls,


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


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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 sons 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, captains of the thousands of Israel.


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and they assembled all the congregation together on the first of the second month, and they were gathered by their lineages, by the houses of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls,


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And the sons of Reuben, [the] firstborn of Israel, by their generations, after their families, by the houses of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;


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


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Of the sons of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the houses 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, of the tribe of Gad, [were] forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.


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Of the sons of Judah, by their generations, after their families, by the houses 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 sons of Issachar, by their generations, after their families, by the houses 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, of the tribe of Issachar, [were] fifty-four thousand four hundred.


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Of the sons of Zebulun, by their generations, after their families, by the houses 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, of the tribe of Zebulun, [were] fifty-seven thousand four hundred.


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Of the sons of Joseph: of the sons of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the houses 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, of the tribe of Ephraim, [were] forty thousand five hundred; [and]


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of the sons of Manasseh, by their generations, after their families, by the houses 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 sons of Benjamin, by their generations, after their families, by the houses 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, of the tribe of Benjamin, [were] thirty-five thousand four hundred.


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Of the sons of Dan, by their generations, after their families, by the houses 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 sons of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the houses 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 sons of Naphtali, by their generations, after their families, by the houses 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, 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 twelve princes of Israel, one man for each house of his fathers.


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


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Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the sons of Israel;


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But thou shalt place the Levites in the tabernacle of the testimony and over all the vessels thereof and over all things that [belong] to it; they shall bear the tabernacle and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister in it and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.


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And when the tabernacle departs, 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 sons of Israel shall pitch their tents, each man by his own camp and each man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.


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But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of the testimony that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the sons of Israel; and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.


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Each man of the sons of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, according to the ensigns of the houses of their fathers; round about the tabernacle of the testimony shall they pitch.


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These shall pitch toward the sunrise, on the east: the standard of the camp of Judah throughout their hosts and the prince of the sons of Juda, Nahshon, the son of Amminadab.


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Next to him shall pitch [those of] the tribe of Issachar and the prince of the sons of Issachar, Nethaneel, the son of Zuar.


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All that were numbered in the camp of Judah [were] one hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred, by their hosts. These shall set forth first.


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The standard of the camp of Reuben shall be towards the Negev, by their hosts and the prince of the sons of Reuben, Elizur, the son of Shedeur.


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And those which pitch by him [shall be] the tribe of Simeon and the prince of the sons of Simeon, Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai.


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His host, [with] those that were numbered of them, [were] forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.


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All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben [were] one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifty, by their hosts. And they shall set forth second.


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Then shall set forward the tabernacle of the testimony, the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps, in the manner that they encamp, so shall they set forward, each one in his place by their standards.


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The standard of the camp of Ephraim by his hosts, on the west and the prince of the sons of Ephraim, Elishama, the son of Ammihud.


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By him [shall be] the tribe of Manasseh and the prince of the sons of Manasseh, Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur.


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


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The standard of the camp of Dan [shall be] on the Aquilon by their hosts and the prince of the sons of Dan, Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai.


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Next to him shall camp [those of] the tribe of Asher and the prince of the sons of Asher, Pagiel, the son of Ocran.


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All those that were numbered in the camp of Dan [were] one hundred and fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall go last behind their standards.


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These [are] those who were numbered of the sons of Israel by the houses 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 sons of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses; so they pitched by their standards, and so they marched, each one after their families, according to the houses of their fathers.:


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


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


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These [are] the names of the sons of Aaron, anointed priests, whose hands he filled to administer the priesthood.


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But Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no sons; and Eleazar and Ithamar exercised the priesthood 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 unto him.


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And they shall keep his commandment and the commandment of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the testimony, to minister in the service of the tabernacle.


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And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the testimony and the charge of the sons of Israel, to minister in the service of the tabernacle.


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And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons; they [are] completely given unto him out of the sons of Israel.


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And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons that they shall guard their priesthood; and the stranger that comes near shall be put to death.


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Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the sons of Israel instead of all the firstborn that open the womb among the sons of Israel; therefore the Levites shall be mine;


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because all the firstborn [are] mine; from the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both of men and of animals; they shall be mine: I [am] the LORD.


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Number the sons of Levi by the houses of their fathers, by their families; thou shalt number every male from a month old and upward.


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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 houses of their fathers.


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


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And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the testimony [shall be] the tabernacle and the tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the testimony,


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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 Amram and the family of Izehar and the family of Hebron and the family of Uzziel; 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, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.


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And their charge [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 veil, with all its service.


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And Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, [shall be] principal over the princes of the Levites [and have] the oversight of those that keep the charge of the sanctuary.


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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 prince of the house of the father of the families of Merari, Zuriel the son of Abihail: [these] shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle to the Aquilon.


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And [under] the custody and charge 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 instruments thereof, with all its service,


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And those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, before the tabernacle of the testimony towards the sunrise, [shall be] Moses and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the sons of Israel; and the stranger that comes near shall be put to death.


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All that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron, according to the word of the LORD, numbered by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, [were] twenty-two thousand.


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


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And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I [am] the LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel and the animals of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the animals of the sons 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 sons of Israel and the animals of the Levites instead of their animals, and the Levites shall be mine; I [am] the LORD.


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And for the ransoms of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the sons of Israel, who are more than the Levites,


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thou shalt take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take [them] (the shekel is of twenty gerahs).


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And thou shalt give the money, of the ransoms of the odd number of them, unto Aaron and to his sons.


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And Moses took the ransom money of those that were over and above the ones that were redeemed by the Levites


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and received of the firstborn of the sons of Israel, in money, a thousand three hundred and sixty-five [shekels], after the shekel of the sanctuary.


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And Moses gave the money of the ransoms unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.:


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Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the houses of their fathers,


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


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This [shall be] the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the testimony, in the holy of holies:


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When the camp is to be moved, 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 entirely of blue and shall put in the staves thereof.


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


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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 staves 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 snuffdishes and all the oil vessels thereof with which they minister unto 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 staves thereof;


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and they shall take all the vessels 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 take away the [ashes with the burnt] fat from the altar and spread a purple cloth thereon


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and they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof with which they minister about it: the censers, the fleshhooks, 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 staves of it.


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


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But unto the care of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, [shall be] the oil of the light and the aromatic incense and the daily present and the anointing oil [and] the care of all the tabernacle and of all that is therein, in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.


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but thus do unto them that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the holy of holies: Aaron and his sons shall come and place each one of them in his ministry and to his burden.


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


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from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them, all that enter in to the host to do work in the tabernacle of the testimony.


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They shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle and the tabernacle of the testimony, its covering, and the covering of badgers' skins that is over it above and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the testimony


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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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According to the word of Aaron and his sons shall be all the ministry of the sons of the Gershon, in all their burdens and in all their service; and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their burdens.


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


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As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after their families, by the houses of their fathers.


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From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, all that enters into the host, to do work in the tabernacle of the testimony.


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And this [shall be] the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the testimony: 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 stakes and their cords with all their instruments and with all their service; and ye shall number by name the vessels of the charge of their burden.


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This [shall be] the service of the families of the sons of Merari for all their ministry, in the tabernacle of the testimony, under the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.


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So Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation numbered the sons of Kohath after their families and after the houses of their fathers,


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from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to minister in the tabernacle of the testimony.


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These were the numbered of the families of Kohath, all that minister in the tabernacle of the testimony, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.


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


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from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to minister in the tabernacle of the testimony,


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


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These were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, all that minister in the tabernacle of the testimony, whom Moses and Aaron numbered 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 houses of their fathers,


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These [were] 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 princes of Israel numbered, after their families and after the houses of their fathers,


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from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entered in to serve in the service and to [bear] a burden in the tabernacle of the testimony,


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As the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, they were numbered, each one according to his ministry and according to his burden; thus were they numbered of Moses, as the LORD commanded him.:


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Command the sons of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper and every one that has an issue and anyone who is defiled by the dead.


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Both male and female shall ye put out; ye shall put them outside the camp; that they not defile the camp of those among whom I dwell.


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And the sons of Israel did so and put them outside the camp; as the LORD spoke unto Moses, so did the sons of Israel.


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


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then they shall confess their sin which they have done, and he shall recompense his guilt with the principal thereof and add unto it the fifth [part] thereof and give [it] unto [him] against whom he is guilty.


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But if that man has no redeemer to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, [even] to the priest, beside the ram of the reconciliations, whereby reconciliation shall be made for him.


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


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And every man's sanctified things shall be his; likewise whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be his.


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and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hid from the eyes of her husband because she contaminated herself in secret, and [there is] no witness against her, neither was she taken in the act;


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if a spirit of jealousy should come upon him, and he becomes jealous of his wife, and she is defiled; or if a spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he becomes jealous of his wife, and she is not defiled,


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then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth [part] of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it [is] a present of jealousy, a present of remembrance, which brings iniquity to memory.


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[Then] 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 cause the woman to stand before the LORD and shall uncover the woman's head and put the present of remembrance in her hands, which [is] the present of jealousy; and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that brings the curse.


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And the priest shall charge her by an oath and say unto the woman, If no man has lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone astray from thy husband to uncleanness, thou shalt be clean from this bitter water that brings the curse.


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But if thou hast gone astray from thy husband and hast defiled thyself and some man has placed seed in thee other than thine husband,


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(the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing) and the priest shall say unto the woman, Let the LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people when the LORD makes thy thigh to fail and thy belly to swell,


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and this water that causes the curse shall go into thy bowels and cause [thy] belly to swell and [thy] thigh to fail. 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 brings the curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter into her as bitter.


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


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And the priest shall take a handful of the present, in memory of her, and incense [it] upon the altar and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.


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He shall give her, therefore, the water to drink, and it shall come to pass, [that] if she is defiled and has betrayed her husband, that the water that works the curse shall enter into her in bitterness, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall fail; and that woman shall be a curse among her people.


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This [is] the law of jealousies when a woman goes astray, [being] under the power of her husband, and is defiled;


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or of the husband upon whom a spirit of jealousy comes, and he is jealous over his wife; he shall [then] present the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute in her all this law.


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Speak unto the sons of Israel and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate [themselves] to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to dedicate [themselves] unto the LORD,


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they shall separate [themselves] from wine and strong drink and shall drink no vinegar of wine or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall they drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes or dried.


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All the days of their Nazariteship they shall eat nothing that is made of the wine vine, from the kernels even to the husk.


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All the days of the vow of their Nazariteship no razor shall come upon their head, until the days are fulfilled of their separation unto the LORD; they shall be holy [and] shall let the locks of the hair of their head grow.


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They shall not make themselves unclean for their father or for their mother, for their brother or for their sister, when they die because the consecration of their God [is] upon their head.


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And if anyone dies very suddenly beside them, and they have defiled the head of their Nazariteship, then they shall shave their head in the day of their cleansing; on the seventh day shall they shave it.


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And on the eighth day they shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony,


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and the priest shall offer the one as the sin and the other as a burnt offering and reconcile the one that sinned upon the dead and shall sanctify their head that same day.


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And they shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of their Nazariteship and shall bring a lamb of the first year for their guilt; but the days that were before shall be lost because their Nazariteship was defiled.


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This is, therefore, the law of the Nazarite, in the day in which their Nazariteship is fulfilled: they shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the testimony;


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and they shall offer their 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 as [the] sin and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,


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


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and he shall offer the ram [for] a sacrifice of peace unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread; the priest shall likewise offer his present and his drink offering.


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Then the Nazarite shall shave the head of their Nazariteship [at] the door of the tabernacle of the testimony and shall take the hair of the head of their Nazariteship and put it upon the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace.


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Then 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 their Nazariteship is shaven;


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and the priest shall wave them [for] a wave [offering] before the LORD, which shall be a holy thing of the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder; and after that the Nazarite shall drink wine.


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This [is] the law of the Nazarite who made a vow of their offering unto the LORD for their Nazariteship, beside that which their means allows, according to the vow which they vowed, so they must do according to the law of their Nazariteship.


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Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, Thus shall ye bless the sons 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 with all its vessels; likewise having anointed and sanctified the altar, with all its vessels;


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that the princes of Israel, heads of the houses of their fathers, who [were] the princes of the tribes, and were over those that were numbered, offered;


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


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Take [it] from them, and it shall be for the service of the tabernacle of the testimony; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to each one according to his ministry.


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


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But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none; because the ministry of the sanctuary belonging unto them [was that] they should bear upon their shoulders.


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And the princes offered at the dedication of the altar the day that it was anointed; even the princes offered their offering before the altar.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, at the dedication of the altar.


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


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And his offering [was] one silver charger, the weight thereof [was] one hundred and thirty [shekels], and one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them [were] full of fine flour mingled with oil for a present;


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and for a sacrifice of peace, 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 thereof [was] one hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a present;


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and for a sacrifice of peace: 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 thereof was one hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a present;


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and for a sacrifice of peace: 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 one hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a present;


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and for a sacrifice of peace: 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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His offering [was] one silver charger, the weight thereof was one hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a present;


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and for a sacrifice of peace, 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, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a present;


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and for a sacrifice of peace, 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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His offering [was] one silver charger, the weight whereof [was] one hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a present;


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and for a sacrifice of peace, 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, 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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His offering [was] one silver charger, the weight thereof [was] one hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a present;


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and for a sacrifice of peace, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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] one hundred and thirty [shekels], each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels, two thousand four hundred [shekels], after the shekel of the sanctuary.


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The twelve golden spoons full of incense, ten [shekels] apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the spoons [was] one 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 present; and the he goats for sin twelve.


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And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace [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 entered into the tabernacle of the testimony to speak with Him, then he heard the voice of the one speaking unto him from above the seat of reconciliation that [was] over the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim; and he spoke with him.:


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Speak unto Aaron and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the face of the candlestick.


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


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And this work of the candlestick [was of] beaten gold, from the shaft thereof unto the flowers thereof; it [was] beaten work; according unto the pattern which the LORD had showed Moses, so he made the candlestick.


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And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of [atonement for] sin upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and be clean.


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Then let them take a young bullock with his present, [even] fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou offer as sin.


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And thou shalt offer the Levites before the tabernacle of the testimony, and thou shalt gather the whole congregation of the sons of Israel together;


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and thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD, and the sons of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites;


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and Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD [for] a wave offering of the sons of Israel, and they shall serve in the ministry of the LORD.


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And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks; and thou shalt offer the one as [the] sin, and the other as a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to reconcile the Levites.


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And thou shalt cause the Levites to present themselves before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them [for] an offering unto the LORD.


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Thus shall the Levites go in to minister in the tabernacle of the testimony; and thou shalt cleanse them and wave them [for] an offering.


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For they [are] completely given unto me from among the sons of Israel, instead of each one that opens the womb; [instead of] the firstborn of all the sons of Israel, I have taken them for myself.


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For all the firstborn of the sons of Israel [are] mine, [both] of man and of animals; from the day that [I]smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.


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And I have given the Levites [as] a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the sons of Israel, that they may serve the ministry of the sons of Israel in the tabernacle of the testimony and reconcile the sons of Israel, that there be no plague in the sons of Israel when the sons of Israel come near unto the sanctuary.


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


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And the sin was removed from the Levites, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them [for] a wave offering before the LORD; and Aaron reconciled them to cleanse them.


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And thus went the Levites in to serve in their ministry in the tabernacle of the testimony before Aaron and before his sons; in the manner that the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.


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This regarding the Levites from twenty-five years old and upward, they shall go in to serve in the host of the tabernacle of the testimony.


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And from the age of fifty years they shall return from their ministry unto the host and shall never serve again,


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but shall serve with their brethren in the tabernacle of the testimony, to stand guard, even though they do not serve in the ministry. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge.:


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


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In the fourteenth day of this month, between the two evenings, ye shall keep it in its [appointed] season; according to all its ordinance and according to all the laws thereof, shall ye keep it.


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And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month between the two evenings in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the sons of Israel.


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


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and those men said unto 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 his [appointed] season among the sons of Israel?


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Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your generations should be unclean by reason of a dead body or [be] on a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.


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The fourteenth day of the second month, between the two evenings they shall keep it, [and] eat it with unleavened bread and bitter [herbs].


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They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it; according to all the ordinance of the passover they shall keep it.


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But the man that is clean and is not on a journey and forbears to keep the passover, that same soul shall be cut off from [among] his people; because he did not bring the offering of the LORD in his [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 laws thereof, so shall he do; ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger and for the natural of the land.


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


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


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At the commandment of the LORD the sons of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they pitched camp; as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle, they rested.


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


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And so it was, when the cloud was a [determined] number of days upon the tabernacle, according to the commandment of the LORD they camped, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed.


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And so it was that when the cloud [remained] from evening unto the morning, and in the morning the cloud was taken up, then they journeyed; or [if it had remained during] the day and the cloud was taken up by night, they journeyed.


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Or [if it] was two days or a month or a year that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the sons of Israel camped and did not journey; but when it was taken up, they journeyed.


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At the commandment of the LORD they camped, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed, keeping the charge of the LORD, as the LORD had said by the hand of Moses.:


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Make thee two trumpets of silver; of beaten work shalt thou make them that thou may use them for the convocation of the congregation and for the moving of the camp.


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And when they shall blow them, all the congregation shall join themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.


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But when they blow [only] one, then the princes, [who are] heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee.


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And when ye blow an alarm the second time, then ye shall move the camp of those that are lodged on the side of the Negev; they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.


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


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And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and you shall have them as a perpetual statute throughout your generations.


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


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


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


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And the sons of Israel moved 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 sons of Judah according to their armies, and over his host [was] Nahshon, the son of Amminadab.


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And the tabernacle was already taken down, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle.


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


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Then the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary, and while they were coming, [the others] set up the tabernacle.


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After them the standard of the camp of the sons of Ephraim set forward according to their armies, and over his host [was] Elishama, the son of Ammihud.


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Then the standard of the camp of the sons of Dan set forward according to their armies, gathering together all the camps, and over his host [was] Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai.


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


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And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; for thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou shalt be to us instead of eyes.


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And it shall be, if thou go with us, that when we come into the goodness that the LORD shall do unto us, that we will do thee good.


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Thus 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, searching out a resting place for them.


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And it came to pass, when the ark was moved, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered, and let those that hate thee flee before thee.


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And it came to pass that the people complained in an evil manner in the ears of the LORD, and the LORD heard [it]; and his anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burnt among them and consumed in the uttermost parts of the camp.


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And the vulgar who were mixed in among them returned to their lust; and even the sons of Israel wept and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?


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


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[And] the people scattered 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, each 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, Why hast thou afflicted thy servant and why have I not found grace in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all these people upon me?


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Have I conceived all these people? Have I begotten them, that thou should say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nurse carries a sucking child, unto the land which thou hast sworn unto their fathers?


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Where should I find flesh to give unto all these people? For they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh that we may eat.


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And if thou [must] deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found grace in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.


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Then the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be elders of the people, and their princes; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the testimony that they may stand there with thee.


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And I will come down and talk with thee there, and I will take of the spirit which [is] in thee and will put [it] upon them, and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear [it] not thyself alone.


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But thou shalt say unto the people, Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, and ye shall eat flesh, for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for [it was] better with us in Egypt. Therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.


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[But] even a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and it becomes loathsome unto you, because ye have despised the LORD who [is] among you and have wept before him, saying, Why have we come forth out of Egypt?


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Then Moses said, The people, among whom I [am], are six hundred thousand footmen, and thou hast said, I will give them flesh that they may eat a whole month!


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Shall sheep and oxen be slain for them, to suffice them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?


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Then the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD'S hand waxed short? Thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee 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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Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke unto him and took of the spirit that [was] in 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, upon whom the spirit also rested; and they [were] of those that were written, but they had not gone unto the tabernacle; and they began to prophesy in the camp.


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Then Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, [one] of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.


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And Moses said unto him, Art thou jealous for my sake? It would [be good] 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 quail from the sea and left them upon the camp, a day's journey on this side and a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp and almost two cubits [high] upon the face of the earth.


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Then the people stood up all that day and all [that] night and all the next day, and they gathered the quail; he that gathered least gathered ten heaps, 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 wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.


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


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And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had taken; for he had taken 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 unto Moses and unto Aaron and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the testimony. And they three came out.


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


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And he said, Hear now my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision [and] will speak unto him in dreams.


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With him I will speak mouth to mouth and by sight not by enigmas; he shall see the similitude of the LORD. Why then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?


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


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And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, in which we have done foolishly, and 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 unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in [again].


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So Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days, and the people did not journey until Miriam was brought in [again].


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Send thou men that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give unto the sons of Israel; of every tribe of their fathers ye shall send a man, each one a prince 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] princes of the sons of Israel.


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


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And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said unto them, Go up this [way] towards the Negev 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 [are] strong or weak, few or many,


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and how the land [is] that they dwell in, whether it [is] good or bad, and what cities [there are] that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds,


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And what the land [is], whether it [is] fertile or sterile, whether there are trees therein, or not. And be ye of good courage and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time [was] the time of the firstripe grapes.


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


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


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And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and from there they cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore 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 sons 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 sons of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran to Kadesh and brought back word unto them and unto all the congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.


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And they told him and said, We came unto the land where thou didst send 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 that land, and the cities [are] very great and strong; and moreover we saw the sons of Anak there.


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Amalek dwells in the land of the Negev, and the Hittite and the Jebusite and the Amorite dwell in the mountains, and the Canaanite dwells by the sea and by the side of the Jordan.


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


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


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


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And there we saw giants, the sons of Anak, [of the race] of the giants; and we were in our own sight as locusts, and so we were in their sight.:


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And all the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, and the whole congregation said unto them, Oh, that we might die in the land of Egypt or that we might die 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? Would it not [be] 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 sons of Israel.


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And Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, [who were] of those that had spied out the land, rent their clothes;


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and they spoke unto all the company of the sons of Israel, saying, The land which we passed through to spy out is an exceeding 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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Therefore, do not be rebels against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land, for they are our bread; their defence is departed from them, and the LORD [is] with us; do not fear them.


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Then all the multitude spoke of stoning them with stones. But the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the testimony before all the sons of Israel.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? How long will it be before they believe me, with all the signs which I have done among them?


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


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And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear [it], for thou didst bring this people out of the midst of them with thy might;


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and the inhabitants of this land will say, [for] they have already heard that thou, oh LORD, [wast] among this people, that thou, O LORD, art seen face to face, and [that] thy cloud was over them, and [that] thou didst go before them by day time in a pillar of a cloud and in a pillar of fire by night;


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and that thou hast caused [all] this people to die as one man; and the Gentiles who have heard [of] thy fame will speak, saying,


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


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The LORD [is] longsuffering and of great mercy, letting go of iniquity and transgression and absolving, but by no means absolving [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons unto the third and fourth [generations].


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Pardon now the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of thy mercy and as thou hast forgiven this people from Egypt even until now.


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Because all those men who saw my glory and my signs which I have done in Egypt and in the wilderness and have tempted me now these ten times and have not hearkened to my voice,


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[surely] they shall not see the land which I swore unto their fathers, neither shall any of those that provoked me see it.


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But my servant Caleb, because there was another spirit in him, and he proved to follow after me, [I] will bring him into the land that he entered into, and his seed shall receive it by inheritance,


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and even the Amalekite and the Canaanite who dwell in the valley. Turn around tomorrow and go into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.


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How long shall I hear this evil congregation, which murmurs against me, the complaints of the sons of Israel, which they murmur against me?


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Say unto them, [As truly as] I live, saith the LORD, according as ye have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you.


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


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[doubtless] ye 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, whom ye said should be a prey, I will bring them in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.


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And your children shall be shepherded in the wilderness forty years and bear your fornications until your carcasses are wasted in the wilderness.


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After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, [even] forty days, each day for a year, ye shall bear your iniquities forty years, and ye shall know my reason [for annulling my promise].


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I, the LORD, have spoken, 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, whom Moses had sent to spy out 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, remained alive of the men that went to spy out the land.


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And they rose up early in the morning and climbed up into the top of the mountain, saying, Here we are [prepared] to go up unto the place of which the LORD has spoken; for we have sinned.


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For the Amalekite and the Canaanite [are] there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword; because ye are turned away from following 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, did not depart out of the camp.


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Then the Amalekite came down and the Canaanite who dwelt in that hill and smote them and defeated them, [pursuing them] unto Hormah.:


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Speak unto the sons of Israel and say unto them, When you have entered into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you


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and will make an offering on fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to offer a vow or of your free will or to make in your solemn feasts an acceptable savour unto the LORD, of the cows, or of the sheep,


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then he that offers his offering unto the LORD shall bring a present of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth [part] of a hin of oil;


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and of wine for a drink offering shalt thou offer the fourth [part] of a hin in addition to the burnt offering or the sacrifice, for each lamb.


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And for each ram, thou shalt prepare [as] a present two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third [part] of a hin of oil;


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and of wine for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third [part] of a hin, [for] an acceptable savour unto the LORD.


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And when thou preparest a bullock [for] a burnt offering or for a sacrifice, to offer a vow or a [sacrifice] of peace unto the LORD,


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thou shalt offer with the bullock a present of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half [of] a hin of oil;


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and of wine for a drink offering thou shalt offer half of a hin, [for] an offering on fire, of an acceptable savour unto the LORD.


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Thus shall it be done for each bullock or for each ram or for each lamb, the same for sheep as for goats.


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


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All that are natural born shall do these things after this manner, to offer an offering on fire, of an acceptable savour unto the LORD.


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And when a stranger sojourns with you or whoever [is] among you, for your ages, if they will offer an offering on fire of an acceptable savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do.


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One statute [shall be both] for you of the congregation and also for the stranger that sojourns [with you], a perpetual statute, for your ages; as ye [are], so shall the stranger be before the LORD.


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then it shall be that when ye begin to eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an offering unto the LORD.


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Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough [for] an offering; as the offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye offer it.


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[even] all that the LORD has commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the LORD commanded [Moses] and from then on, for your ages,


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then it shall be, if [the sin] was committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock as a burnt offering, for an acceptable savour unto the LORD with its present and its drink offering, according to the law, and one he goat as [the] sin.


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And the priest shall reconcile all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them, for it [is] ignorance; and they shall bring their offering, an offering on fire unto the LORD and their sins before the LORD [which they committed] in their ignorance.


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


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And if any person sins through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year as [the] sin.


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And the priest shall reconcile the soul that errs ignorantly, when he sins by ignorance before the LORD, he shall be reconciled; and it shall be forgiven him.


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Ye shall have the same law for the one that sins through ignorance, [both for] the natural born among the sons of Israel and for the stranger that sojourns among them.


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But the person that does something consciously, [whether they are] natural born 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 made void his commandment, that person shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity [shall be] upon him.


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


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And those that found him gathering firewood brought him unto Moses and Aaron and unto all the congregation.


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


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Then 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 unto the sons of Israel and bid them that they make for themselves fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue.


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And it shall be unto you for a fringe that ye may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the LORD and do them and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, [seeking] after which ye fornicate.


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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, of the sons of Reuben, took [men];


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and they rose up against Moses, with two hundred and fifty men of the sons of Israel, princes of the congregation, of the council, men of renown;


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and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said unto them, [We have had] enough of you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD [is] among them; why then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?


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and he spoke unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Tomorrow the LORD will show who [are] his and [who is] holy and will cause the one who is holy to come near unto him; the one whom he has chosen he will 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; this shall be enough for you, ye sons of Levi.


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


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And that he has brought thee near to [him] and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee, and ye seek the priesthood also?


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For which cause [both] thou and all thy company [are] gathered together against the LORD, for what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him?


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[Is it] a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that flowed with milk and honey to make us die in the wilderness, but thou must also make thyself lord to rule over us?


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Moreover, thou hast not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards; wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.


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Then Moses was very angry and said unto the LORD, Look not thou upon their offering; I have not taken so much as one ass from them, neither have I done evil to any of them.


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And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before the LORD, thou and they and Aaron, tomorrow;


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and let each man take his censer and put incense in them and let each man bring his censer before the LORD, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also and Aaron, each [of you] with his censer.


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And each man took his censer and put fire in them and laid incense in them and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the testimony with Moses and Aaron.


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And Korah had gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the testimony; then the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation.


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


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Speak unto the congregation, saying, Separate yourselves now from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.


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And he spoke unto the congregation, saying, Depart from the tents of these wicked men and touch nothing of theirs lest peradventure ye be consumed in all their sins.


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So they removed themselves from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side; and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, with their wives and their sons and their little children.


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And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, for [I have] not [done them out] of my own heart.


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


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But if the LORD does a new thing and the earth opens her mouth and swallows them up with all their things and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall know 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 broke open under them;


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the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up, and their houses and all the men of Korah and all [their] goods.


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


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


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Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning and scatter thou the fire yonder, for


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the censers of these sinners are sanctified against their own souls, and broad plates shall be made of them [for] a covering of the altar, for they offered with them before the LORD; therefore, they are sanctified, and they shall be a sign unto the sons of Israel.


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And Eleazar, the priest, took the brass censers with which those that were burnt had offered, and they were made into a broad covering of the altar


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


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But on the next day all the congregation of the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye 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 testimony; and, behold, the cloud had covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.


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Depart from among this congregation, and I will consume them in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.


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And Moses said unto Aaron, Take the censer and put fire in it from off the altar and put incense upon it and go quickly unto the congregation and reconcile them; for the wrath has gone out from before the face of the LORD; the plague is begun.


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Then Aaron took [his censer] as Moses said and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people; and he put on incense and reconciled the people.


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


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And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, [when] the plague was stayed.:


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Speak unto the sons of Israel and take of each of them a rod according to the houses of [their] fathers, of all their princes, twelve rods according to the houses of their fathers, and write thou each man's name upon his rod.


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And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi, for each head of family of their fathers shall have one rod.


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


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And it shall come to pass [regarding] the man whom I shall choose that his rod shall blossom; and I will resolve the complaints of the sons of Israel, with which they murmur against you.


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And Moses spoke unto the sons of Israel, and all 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 next day Moses went into the tabernacle of the testimony; and, behold, the rod of Aaron of the house of Levi had budded and blossomed and brought forth open flowers and yielded almonds.


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


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Return Aaron's rod before the testimony to be kept for a sign unto the rebellious sons; and thou shalt cause their complaints to cease from upon me, that they not die.


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Then the sons of Israel spoke unto Moses, saying, Behold, we are dead, we are lost, we are all lost.


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And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.


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


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And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle; only they shall not come near the holy vessels or the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.


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And they shall join themselves unto thee and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony in all the service of the tabernacle; and no stranger shall come near unto you.


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And ye shall have the charge of the sanctuary and the charge of the altar, that there be no more wrath upon the sons of Israel.


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For behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the sons of Israel, given unto you [as] a gift of the LORD, to serve in the ministry of the tabernacle of the testimony.


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Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priesthood for every thing of the altar and within the veil, and ye shall minister; for I have given the service of your priesthood as a gift, and the stranger that comes near shall die.


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The LORD spoke further unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of my offerings; all the dedicated things of the sons of Israel I have given unto thee by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by a perpetual statute.


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This shall be thine of the holy things, [reserved] from the fire: every offering of theirs, every present of theirs, and every [offering that represents] their sin, and every [offering that represents] their guilt, which they shall render unto me, [shall be] most holy for thee and for thy sons.


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This also [shall be] thine: the [heave] offering of their gifts. All the [wave] offerings of the sons of Israel, I have given them unto thee and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever; everyone that is clean in thy 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 firstfruits of this, which they shall present unto the LORD, this have I given thee.


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The firstfruits of theirs of all the things of the land, which they shall bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; everyone that is clean in thy house shall eat [of] it.


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Every thing that opens the womb in all flesh, which they shall offer unto the LORD, [whether it is] of men or animals, shall be thine; nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely ransom, and the firstborn of unclean animals shalt thou ransom.


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And from a month old shalt thou effect their ransom, a ransom according to thine estimation, for the price of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which [is] twenty gerahs.


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But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, thou shalt not ransom; they [are] sanctified; thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar and shalt burn their fat [for] an offering on fire, for an acceptable savour unto the LORD.


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All the [heave] offerings of the holy things, which the sons of Israel offer unto the LORD, I have given for thee and for thy sons and for thy daughters with thee, by a perpetual statute; it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD for thee and for thy seed with thee.


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And the LORD spoke unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them. I [am] thy part and thine inheritance among the sons of Israel.


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And, behold, I have given the sons of Levi all the tithes in Israel for an inheritance, for their ministry because they serve [in] the ministry of the tabernacle of the testimony.


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Neither must the sons of Israel from now on come near the tabernacle of the testimony lest they bear sin and die because of it.


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But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the testimony, and they shall bear their iniquity by a perpetual statute throughout your ages, and they shall not possess an inheritance among the sons of Israel.


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For unto the Levites I have given the tithes of the sons of Israel as inheritance, which they shall offer unto the LORD as offerings; therefore, I have said unto them, Among the sons of Israel they shall possess no inheritance.


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Thus shalt thou speak unto the Levites and say unto them, When ye take the tithes from the sons of Israel which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall present a tithe of the tithes as an offering unto the LORD.


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And ye shall count your offering as though [it were] the grain of the threshingfloor and as the fullness of the winepress.


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Thus ye also shall offer an offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye shall have received of the sons of Israel; and ye shall give of them an offering unto the LORD, to Aaron the priest.


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Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every offering unto the LORD, of all the best thereof ye shall offer the portion that is to be dedicated.


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Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye offer the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the fruit of the threshingfloor and as the fruit of the winepress.


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And ye shall eat it in any place, ye and your family; for it [is] your reward for your ministry in the tabernacle of the testimony.


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And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have offered from it the best of it; and ye shall not pollute the holy things of the sons of Israel, and ye shall not die.:


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This [is] the ordinance of the law which the LORD has commanded, saying, Speak unto the sons of Israel that they bring thee a red heifer, perfect, in which there [is] no blemish, [and] upon which there has never been placed a yoke;


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and ye shall give her unto Eleazar, the priest, that he may bring her forth outside the camp, and he shall cause her to be slain in his presence.


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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 testimony seven times;


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and he shall cause the heifer to be burnt in his sight; her skin and her flesh and her blood with her dung shall he cause to burn.


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Then the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet and cast [it] into the midst of the burning of the heifer.


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Then the priest 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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Likewise 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 sons of Israel for the water of separation; it is 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 sons of Israel and unto the stranger that sojourns among them for a perpetual statute.


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They shall remove the sin from themselves with that [water] on the third day, and on the seventh day they shall be clean; but if they do not remove the sin from themselves the third day, then the seventh day they shall not be clean.


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Whoever touches the dead body of anyone that is dead and does not remove the sin has defiled the tabernacle of the LORD; and that person shall be cut off from Israel; because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean, and his uncleanness shall be upon him.


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This [is] the law when anyone dies in a tent; all that come into the tent and all that [are] 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 human bone or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.


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And for the unclean [person] they shall take of the dust of the heifer [that was] burnt as sin and put living water over it in a vessel;


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and a clean person shall take hyssop and dip [it] in the water and sprinkle [it] upon the tent and upon all the stuff and upon the persons that were there and upon the one that touched the bone or the one slain or the one dead or the grave.


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And the clean [person] shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and when he has removed the sin from them the seventh day, he shall then wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and shall be clean in the evening.


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But the man that shall be unclean and shall not cause the sin to be removed from himself, that person shall be cut off from among the congregation because he has defiled the tabernacle of the LORD; the water of separation has not been sprinkled upon him; he [is] unclean.


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And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, [also] 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 person that touches [it] shall be unclean until evening.:


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Then came the sons of Israel, [even] the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month; and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there and was buried there.


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


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


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And why have ye caused the congregation of the LORD to come into this wilderness that we and our beasts should die here?


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And why have ye made us to come up out of Egypt to bring us in unto this evil place? It [is] not a place to [plant] seed or of figs or of vines or of pomegranates; there [is] not even any water to drink.


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And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the congregation unto the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, and they fell upon their faces; and the glory of the LORD appeared upon them.


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Take the rod and gather the congregation together, thou and Aaron, thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes, and it shall give forth its water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock; so thou shalt 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 unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?


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


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


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These [are] the waters of Meribah; over which the sons of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.


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And Moses sent ambassadors from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that has befallen us:


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how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we were in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers;


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and we cried unto the LORD, who heard our voice, and sent an angel and has brought us forth out of Egypt; and, behold, we [are] in Kadesh, a city on the edge of thy border.


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


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And the sons of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way; and if I and my cattle drink of thy 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, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with many people and with a strong hand.


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And the sons of Israel, [even] the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto Mount Hor.


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Aaron shall be gathered unto his peoples; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the sons of Israel because ye were rebels to my word at the water of Meribah.


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and cause Aaron to be stripped of his garments and put them upon Eleazar, his son; for Aaron shall be gathered [unto his people] and shall die there.


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


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


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


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And [when] king Arad, the Canaanite, who dwelt toward the Negev, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the sentinels; then he fought against Israel and took [some] of them prisoners.


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Then Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.


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


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And they journeyed from Mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to 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 ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? [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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Then the people came to Moses and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against thee; pray unto the LORD that he take away these serpents from [among] us. And Moses prayed for the people.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent and lift it up as a banner, and it shall be that anyone that is bitten and looks upon it shall live.


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And Moses made a serpent of brass and put it up as a banner, and it came to pass that when a serpent bit anyone, he beheld the serpent of brass, and lived.


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And they journeyed from Oboth and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which [is] before Moab, toward the rising of the sun.


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From thence they removed and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which [is] in the wilderness that comes out of the borders of the Amorite; for Arnon [is] the border of Moab between Moab and the Amorite.


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


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


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


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The princes dug the well, the willing people dug it, and the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness [they went] to Mattanah.


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


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Let me pass through thy land; we will not turn into the fields or into the vineyards; we will not drink [of] the waters of the wells; [but] we will go along by the king's [high] way until we are past thy borders.


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But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border; instead 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 smote him with the edge of the sword and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the sons of Ammon, for the border of the sons of Ammon [was] strong.


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And Israel took all these cities; and Israel 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 out of his hand all his land unto Arnon.


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


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


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Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh; he has put thy sons to flight and thy daughters into captivity because of Sihon king of the Amorites.


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And Heshbon destroyed their kingdom even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah and Medeba.


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And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof and drove out the Amorite that [was] 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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Then the LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not, for I have delivered him into thy hand and all his people and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.


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So they smote him and his sons and all his people until there was none left him alive; and they possessed his land.:


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And the sons of Israel set forward and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan [in front of] Jericho.


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And Moab was sore afraid of the people because they [were] many; and Moab was distressed because of the sons of Israel.


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


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Therefore he sent messengers unto Balaam, the son of Beor, to Pethor, which [is] by the river [Eufrates] in the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt; behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me.


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Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people, for they [are] too mighty for me; peradventure I shall be able to smite them and drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom thou blessest shall be blessed, and he whom thou cursest shall be cursed.


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And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the incantations in their hand; and they came unto Balaam and spoke unto him the words of Balak.


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And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will recite the words unto you when the LORD shall speak unto me. So the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.


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Behold, this people that has come out of Egypt, covers the face of the earth; come now, curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to overcome them and drive them out.


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Then God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; neither shalt thou curse the people; for they [are] blessed.


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So Balaam rose up in the morning and said unto the princes of Balak, Go back to 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 saith Balak, the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me;


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for I will without a doubt honour thee greatly, and I will do whatever thou sayest unto me; come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.


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And Balaam answered and said unto 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 anything small or great.


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Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night that I may know what the LORD will say unto me again.


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And God came unto Balaam at night and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, [and] go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou 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 ass, and his two servants [were] with him.


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And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way with his sword drawn in his hand; and the ass turned aside out of the way and went into the field. Then Balaam smote the ass to turn her into the way.


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


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


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


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


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Then the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee that thou hast smitten me these three times?


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And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me. I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now would I kill thee.


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And the ass said unto Balaam, [Am] I not thine ass upon which thou hast ridden ever since [I was] thine unto this day? Was I ever accustomed to do so unto thee? 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 unto him, Why hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? Behold, I went out as thine adversary, because [thy] way is perverse before me.


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The ass saw me and turned from me these three times; and if she had not turned from me, I also now would slay thee and leave her alive.


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Then Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for I did not know that thou didst stand in the way against me; now therefore, if it displease thee, I will return.


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And the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam, Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.


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And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him unto a city of Moab, which [is] next to the border of Arnon, which [is] at the limit of his territory.


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And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? Why hast thou not come unto me? Am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?


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And Balaam said unto Balak, Behold, I am come unto thee; may I now say something? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.


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And on the next day, Balak took Balaam and brought him up into the high places of Baal, and from there he saw the utmost [part] of the people.:


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And Balaam said unto 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 unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go; peradventure the LORD will come to meet me, and whatever he shows me I will tell thee. And thus he went alone.


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And God met Balaam; and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon [each] altar a bullock and a ram.


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And he returned unto him, and, behold, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he and all the princes of Moab.


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


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Why should I curse one whom God has not cursed? And why should I denounce one whom the LORD has not denounced?


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For from the top of the rocks I have seen him, and from the hills I beheld him; behold, a people that shall dwell in confidence and shall not be counted among the Gentiles.


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


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Then Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse my enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed [them] altogether.


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And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from which thou may see them; thou hast seen but the utmost part of them and hast not seen them all; and from there thou shalt curse them for me.


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


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And the LORD met Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said unto him, Go again unto Balak and say thus.


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


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Then he took up his parable and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:


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God [is] not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent; he said and shall he not do [it]? He spoke and shall he not execute it?


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He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither has he seen rebellion in Israel; the LORD his God [is] with him, and the battle-cry of a king [is] in him.


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Because there is no enchantment in Jacob, neither [is there] any divination in Israel. According to this time, it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What God has made!


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Behold the people, who 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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Then Balaam said unto Balak, Did I not tell thee that all that the LORD says unto me, that I must do?


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And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou may curse them for me from there.


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And Balaam said unto 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 the first and second times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness;


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and lifting up his eyes, he saw Israel abiding [in his tents] according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came upon him.


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Then 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 who has heard the words of God has said, who saw the vision of the Almighty, fallen, but having his eyes open:


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


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From his branches he shall distil waters, and his seed [shall be] in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.


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God brought him forth out of Egypt; he has, as it were, the strength of a unicorn; he shall eat up the Gentiles his enemies and shall break their bones and pierce [them] through with his arrows.


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He couched, he lay down as a lion and as a great lion; who shall awaken him? Blessed [is] he that blesses thee, and cursed [is] he that curses thee.


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Then Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and smiting his hands together he said, I called thee to curse my enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed [them] these three times.


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Therefore, now flee thou to thy place; I said that I would honour thee; but, behold, the LORD has deprived thee of honour.


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And Balaam replied unto Balak, Did I not declare also unto thy messengers which thou didst send unto me, saying,


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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 heart; [but] what the LORD saith that will I speak?


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Therefore, behold, I go now unto my people; come and I will indicate unto thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.


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


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he who has heard the words of God has said, and he who knows the knowledge of the most High, he who saw the vision of the Almighty, fallen, but having his eyes open:


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I shall see him, but not now; I shall behold him, but not near by; there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel and shall smite the corners of Moab and destroy all the sons of Seth.


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And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek, head of the Gentiles; but his latter end [shall be] that he perish for ever.


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And he looked on the Kenite and took up his parable and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy 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, but he also shall perish for ever.


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who called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the princes of the people and disjoint them before the LORD [hanging them from a tree] against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.


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Then Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.


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Then, behold, one of the sons of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, who [were] weeping [before] the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.


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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 of the sons of Israel was stayed.


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Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the sons of Israel, being zealous for my sake among them, therefore I did not consume the sons of Israel in my jealousy.


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and he shall have, and his seed after him, [even] the covenant of the everlasting priesthood because he was zealous for his God and reconciled the sons of Israel.


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Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, [even] that was slain with the Midianite, [was] Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a family of the tribe of Simeon.


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And the name of the Midianite woman that was slain [was] Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, prince of peoples, [of the] house of [the] father, in Midian.


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for they treated you as enemies with their wiles, with which they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, daughter of the 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 unto Moses and unto Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saying,


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Take the sum of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by the houses of their fathers, 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 of Jericho, saying,


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


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Reuben, firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: Enoch, [of whom] was the family of the Enochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;


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These [are] the families of the Reubenites; and those numbered were forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.


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


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And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men and they became an example.


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


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


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These [are] the families of the sons of Gad according to those numbered, forty thousand five hundred.


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And the sons of Judah by their families: 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: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.


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The sons of Issachar by 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 numbered, sixty-four thousand three hundred.


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The sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Sardites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.


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These [are] the families of the Zebulunites according to those numbered, sixty thousand five hundred.


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The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir begat Gilead; of Gilead [comes] 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 sons of Ephraim by 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 numbered, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These [are] the sons of Joseph by their families.


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


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


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These [are] the sons of Benjamin by their families: and those numbered [were] forty-five thousand six hundred.


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These [are] the sons of Dan by their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These [are] the families of Dan by their families.


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


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The sons of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites; of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites; of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.


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


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These [are] the families of the sons of Asher according to those numbered; fifty-three thousand four hundred.


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[Of] the sons of Naphtali by 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 by their families; and those numbered [were] forty-five thousand four hundred.


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These are the numbered of the sons of Israel, six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty.


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To [those that are] many thou shalt give more inheritance, and to [those that are] few thou shalt give less inheritance; to each 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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According to the lot shall the inheritance be divided between [those that are] many and [those that are few].


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And these [are] those that were numbered of the Levites by their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.


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These [are] the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram.


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


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And those that were numbered of them were twenty-three thousand, all males from a month old and upward; for they were not numbered among the sons of Israel because no inheritance was to be given them among the sons of Israel.


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


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And among these there was not a man of those whom Moses and Aaron the priest [had] numbered when they numbered the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.


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For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not 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 testimony, saying,


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


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Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family because he has no son? Give unto us [therefore] a possession among the brethren of our father.


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The daughters of Zelophehad speak right; thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren, and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.


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And thou shalt speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, If a man dies and has no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.


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And if his father has no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his lineage, and he shall inherit it; and it shall be unto the sons of Israel a law of rights, as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Climb up this mount Abarim, and thou shalt see the land which I have given unto the sons of Israel.


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And after thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy peoples, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.


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For ye were rebels to my word in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me in the waters before their eyes. These [are] the waters of Meribah of 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 not be as sheep without a shepherd.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Take Joshua, the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay thine hand upon him


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and set him before Eleazar, the priest, and before all the congregation and give him a charge in their presence.


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And thou shalt put [some] of thy splendour upon him that all the congregation of the sons of Israel may hear [him].


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And he shall stand before Eleazar, the priest, whom he shall consult in the judgment of the Urim before the LORD; at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, [both] he and all the sons of Israel with him, even all the congregation.


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


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


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Command the sons of Israel and say unto them, My offering, my bread with my offerings on fire, [for] an acceptable savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.


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And thou shalt say unto them, This [is] the offering on fire which ye shall offer unto the LORD; two lambs of the first year without spot each day, [for] a continual burnt offering.


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The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer between the two evenings,


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and a tenth [part] of an ephah of flour, mingled with the fourth [part] of a hin of beaten oil as a present.


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[It is] a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in Mount Sinai for an acceptable savour, an offering on fire unto the LORD.


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And the drink offering thereof [shall be] the fourth [part] of a hin with each lamb; thou shalt pour out the drink offering of [superior] wine unto the LORD in the sanctuary.


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And the other lamb shalt thou offer between the two evenings; according to the offering of the morning and according to the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer [it], an offering on fire, of an acceptable savour unto the LORD.


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


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


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And in the beginnings of your months ye 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 mingled with oil, as a present with each bullock; and two tenth deals of flour mingled with oil, as a present with each ram;


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and a tenth deal of flour mingled with oil in offering as a present with each lamb; a burnt offering of an acceptable savour, a sacrifice on fire unto the LORD.


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And their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine with each bullock and the third [part] of a hin with each ram and a fourth [part] of a hin with each lamb. This [shall be] the burnt offering of each month throughout all the months of the year.


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And one he goat as [the] sin shall be offered unto the LORD, besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.


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And ye shall offer a sacrifice on fire [for] a burnt offering unto the LORD: two young bullocks and one ram and seven lambs of the first year; they shall be unto you without blemish;


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and their present [shall be of] flour mingled with oil; three tenth deals shall ye offer with each bullock and two tenth deals with each ram;


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Ye shall offer these besides the burnt offering in the morning, which [is] the continual burnt offering.


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After this manner ye shall offer daily throughout the seven days, the bread of the sacrifice on fire, of an acceptable savour 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 firstfruits, when ye offer a new present unto the LORD in your [fulfilled] weeks, ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.


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But ye shall offer in burnt offering, in an acceptable savour unto the LORD: two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year;


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and their present of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals with each bullock, two tenth deals with each ram,


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Ye shall offer [them] besides the continual burnt offering and its presents and their drink offerings; they shall be unto you without blemish.:


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And in the seventh month, on the first [day] of the month, ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work; it is a day of sounding an alarm unto you.


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And ye shall offer a burnt offering for an acceptable savour unto the LORD: one young bullock, one ram, [and] seven lambs of the first year without blemish;


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and their present [shall be of] flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals with each bullock, [and] two tenth deals with each ram,


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Besides the burnt offering of the month and its present, and the daily burnt offering and its present and their drink offerings, according to their law, for an acceptable savour, a sacrifice on fire unto the LORD.


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And ye shall have on the tenth of this seventh month a holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls; ye shall not do any work;


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and ye shall offer in burnt offering unto the LORD [for] an acceptable savour: one young bullock, one ram, [and] seven lambs of the first year; they shall be unto you without blemish.


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And their presents [shall be of] flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals with each bullock, [and] two tenth deals with each ram,


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one he goat as [the] sin, besides the offering of the reconciliations for the sin, and the continual burnt offering and its presents and their drink offerings.


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Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days;


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and ye shall offer in burnt offering, a sacrifice on fire, of an acceptable savour 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 presents [of] flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals with each of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth deals with each of the two rams,


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and one he goat as [the] sin, besides the continual burnt offering, its present, and its drink offering.


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And on the second day [ye shall offer] twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot;


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and their presents and their drink offerings with the bullocks, with the rams, and with the lambs [shall be] according to their number, according to the law;


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And one he goat as [the] sin, besides the continual burnt offering and its present and its drink offering.


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and one he goat as [the] sin, besides the continual burnt offering and its present and its drink offering.


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And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, [and] fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish;


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their presents and their drink offerings with the bullocks, with the rams, and with the lambs [shall be] according to their number, according to the law;


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and one he goat as [the] sin, besides the continual burnt offering, and its present, and its drink offering.


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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 on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, [and] fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish;


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And ye shall offer in burnt offering, in a sacrifice on fire, of an acceptable savour unto the LORD one bullock, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish;


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their presents and their drink offerings with the bullock, with the ram, and with the lambs [shall be] according to their number, according to the law;


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These [things] ye shall offer unto the LORD in your solemnities, besides your vows, and your freewill offerings, in your burnt offerings, and in your presents, and in your drink offerings, and in your peace [offerings].


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And Moses spoke unto the princes of the tribes concerning the sons of Israel, saying, This [is] the thing which the LORD has commanded.


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When a man vows a vow unto the LORD or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not defile his word: he shall do according to all that proceeded out of his mouth.


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But the woman, when she shall vow a vow unto the LORD and bind 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 remain silent regarding it, then all her promises 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 all of her vows and of her bonds with which she has bound her soul, they shall not stand, and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.


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But if she had at all a husband when she vowed or pronounced anything out of her lips, with which she bound her soul,


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if her husband heard [it] and remained silent regarding it 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 her vow which she vowed and that which she pronounced with her lips, with which she bound her soul, shall be of no 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.


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if her husband heard [it] and remained silent regarding it [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 utterly made them void on the day he heard [them], [then] whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning the bond of her soul, 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 remained silent regarding this from day to day; then he establishes all her vows or all her bonds, which [are] upon her; he confirms them because he remained silent regarding this in the day that he heard [them].


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But if he shall in any way make them void after that he has heard [them], then he shall bear her iniquity.


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These [are] the statutes which the LORD commanded Moses between a man and his wife [and] between the father and his daughter, [being yet] in her youth in her father's house.:


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And Moses spoke unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war and let them go against the Midianites and carry out the vengeance the LORD in 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; he sent a thousand of every tribe; and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, [went] to the war with the holy instruments, with the trumpets to blow in his hand.


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And they also slew the kings of Midian among the rest of those that were slain: [namely], Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, five kings of Midian; they also slew Balaam, the son of Beor, with the sword.


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And the sons of Israel took [all] the women of Midian captives and their little ones and took the spoil of all their beasts and all their flocks and all their goods.


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And they brought the captives and the prey and the spoil unto Moses and Eleazar, the priest, and unto the congregation of the sons of Israel, unto the camp in the plains of Moab, which [was] by Jordan of 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 host, [with] the captains over thousands and captains over hundreds who returned from the battle.


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Behold, these caused the sons of Israel through the counsel of Balaam to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor for which 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 a man by lying with him.


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And ye must abide outside the camp seven days; and whoever has killed any person and whoever has touched any dead [body] ye shall remove the sin from them on the third and on the seventh day, [both] of yourselves and of your captives.


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Likewise remove all sin from all [your] clothing and all that is made of skins and all work of goats' [hair] and every vessel made of wood.


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And Eleazar, the priest, said unto 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, ye shall cause to pass through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless, ye shall remove the sin with the water of separation; and all that does not endure the fire ye shall cause to go through the water.


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Ye shall also wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterwards ye shall come into the camp.


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Take the sum of the prey that was taken, [both] of man and of beast, thou and Eleazar, the priest, and the heads of the fathers of the congregation,


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and divide the prey into two parts between those that took the part in the war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.


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And offer a tribute unto the LORD from the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, [both] of the persons and of the oxen and of the asses and of the sheep.


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And of the half belonging to the sons of Israel, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the oxen, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of animals and give them unto the Levites, who keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.


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And the prey, [that is] the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep


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And the half [which was] the portion of those that went out to war was in number three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep.


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And the asses [were] thirty thousand five hundred, of which the tribute for the LORD [was] sixty-one.


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And the persons [were] sixteen thousand, of which the tribute for the LORD [was] thirty-two persons.


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And Moses gave the tribute, [which was] the LORD'S [heave] offering, unto Eleazar, the priest, as the LORD had commanded Moses.


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And of the half pertaining to the sons of Israel, which Moses divided from the men that had gone to war,


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(now the half [that pertained unto] the congregation was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep


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of the half, therefore of the sons of Israel, Moses took one portion of fifty, [both] of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, who kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.


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And the officers who [were] over thousands of the host, the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses,


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and they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war who [are] under our charge and not one man of us is missing.


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We have therefore brought an offering for the LORD, each man of what he has found, of vessels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to reconcile our souls before the LORD.


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And all the gold of the offering that they offered up to the LORD, of the captains of thousands and of the captains of hundreds, [was] sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.


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And Moses and Eleazar, the priest, took the gold from the captains of thousands and of hundreds and brought it into the tabernacle of the testimony, [for] a memorial of the sons of Israel before the LORD.:


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Now the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock, and when they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, it seemed unto them that the place [was] a place for livestock.


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And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came and spoke unto Moses and to Eleazar, the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying,


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the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, [is] a land for livestock, and thy servants have livestock.


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Therefore, they said, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession [and] do not make us pass the Jordan.


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And Moses said unto the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?


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Why do ye discourage the heart of the sons of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them?


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For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the sons 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 were not perfect in following me,


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except Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua, the son of Nun, for they were perfect in following 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, ye are risen up in the place of your fathers, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.


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For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave you in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.


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Then they came near unto him and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock and cities for our little ones,


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but we ourselves will go arm ourselves and go with diligence before the sons of Israel until we have brought them unto their place, and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.


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We will not return unto our houses until the sons of Israel have inherited each man his inheritance.


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For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan or forward because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side of Jordan eastward.


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Then Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will prepare yourselves to go before the LORD to the war


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and will all pass the Jordan armed before the LORD until he has driven out his enemies from before him


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and the land is subdued before the LORD, then afterward ye 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 ye will not do so, behold, ye shall have sinned against the LORD, and be sure your sin will catch up with you.


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Build 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 sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben spoke unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commands.


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Our little ones, our wives, our livestock, and all our beasts, shall be there in the cities of Gilead;


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So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar, the priest, and Joshua, the son of Nun, and the princes of the fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel.


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And Moses said unto them, If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben will pass the Jordan with you, each one armed to battle, before the LORD, after the land shall be subdued before you, then ye 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 sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answered, saying, As the LORD has said unto thy servants, so will we do.


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We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance on this side of the Jordan [shall be] ours.


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Thus Moses gave unto the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and unto half the tribe of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with its cities and borders, [even] the cities of the country round about.


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and Nebo and Baalmeon (their names being changed) and Shibmah and gave other names unto the cities which they built.


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And the sons of Machir, the son of Manasseh, went to Gilead and took it and dispossessed the Amorite who [was] in it.


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These [are] the journeys of the sons of Israel who went forth out of the land of Egypt with their hosts 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. 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 second day of the passover the sons of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.


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For the Egyptians were burying all [their] firstborn, which the LORD had smitten among them, the LORD having also executed judgments upon their gods.


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And they removed from Etham and turned again unto Pihahiroth, which [is] before Baalzephon, and they pitched before Migdol.


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And they departed from before Pihahiroth and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham and pitched in Marah.


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And they removed from Marah and came unto 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 sons of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first [day] of the fifth month.


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And king Arad, the Canaanite, who dwelt in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard how the sons of Israel had come.


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And they departed from the mountains of Abarim and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan of Jericho.


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Finally they pitched by the Jordan, from Bethjesimoth [even] unto Abelshittim in the plains of Moab.


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Speak unto the sons of Israel and say unto them, When ye have passed the Jordan into the land of Canaan,


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then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you and abolish all their paintings and abolish all their molten images and destroy all their high places,


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and ye shall dispossess [the inhabitants] of the land and dwell therein; for I have given you the land to inherit it.


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And ye shall inherit the land by lots by your families, [and] to [those with] the most ye shall give more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give less inheritance, each one's [inheritance] shall be in the place where his lot falls; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.


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But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall come to pass that those whom ye let remain of them [shall be] pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides and shall afflict you in the land in which ye dwell.


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Command the sons of Israel and say unto them, When ye have entered into the land of Canaan (this [is] the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, [even] the land of Canaan according to its borders),


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you shall have on the side of the Negev from the wilderness of Zin unto the borders of Edom, and your border towards the Negev shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward.


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And this border shall turn from the Negev to the ascent of Akrabbim and pass on to Zin, and the going forth thereof shall be from the Negev to Kadeshbarnea and shall go on to Hazaraddar and pass on to Azmon;


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and the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the [western] sea.


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And [as for] the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border; this shall be your west border.


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From mount Hor ye shall point 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 the goings out of it shall be at Hazarenan; 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 the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea; this shall be your land with the borders thereof round about.


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And Moses commanded the sons of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the LORD commanded to give unto the nine tribes and to the half tribe,


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because the tribe of the sons of Reuben, according to the houses of their fathers, and the tribe of the sons of Gad, according to the houses of their fathers, and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance.


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The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side of the Jordan of Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising.


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These [are] the names of the men who shall divide the possession of the land for you: Eleazar, the priest, and Joshua, the son of Nun.


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These [are those] whom the LORD commanded to cause the sons of Israel to inherit the land of Canaan.:


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Command the sons of Israel that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in, and ye shall give [also] unto the Levites the suburbs of those cities round about them.


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And they shall have the cities to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their animals and for their substance and for all their beasts.


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And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, [shall reach] from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about.


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Then ye shall measure from outside the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the side of the Negev 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 suburbs of the cities.


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And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, [there shall be] six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint so that the murderer may flee there; and in addition to them ye shall give them forty-two cities.


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So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites [shall be] forty-eight cities, the [cities] with their suburbs.


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And the cities which ye shall give [shall be] of the possession of the sons of Israel; from [those that have] much ye shall give many; but from [those that have] few ye shall give few, each one shall give of his cities unto the Levites according to his possession which he inherited.


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then ye shall appoint yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you that the murderer who kills any person unawares may flee there.


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And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger that the murderer not die until he stands before the congregation in judgment.


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Ye shall give three cities on this side of the Jordan and three cities shall ye 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 sons of Israel and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them that anyone that kills another person unawares may flee there.


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And if he smites 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 smites him by 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 smites 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 out of enmity smites him with his hand so that he dies, he that smote [him] shall surely be put to death; [for] he [is] a murderer; the kinsman avenger of blood shall slay the murderer when he meets him.


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But if he thrusts him suddenly without enmity, or has cast upon him any thing without laying in wait,


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or with any stone, with which a man may die, seeing [him] not and casts [it] 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 kinsman avenger of blood according to these laws.


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And the congregation shall deliver the murderer out of the hand of the kinsman avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, where he has fled, and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.


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But if the murderer shall at any time come outside the border of the city of his refuge where he has fled,


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and the kinsman avenger of blood finds him outside the borders of the city of his refuge, and the kinsman avenger of blood murders the murderer, he shall not be guilty of his blood.


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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 murderer shall return into the land of his possession.


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So these [things] shall be for a statute of rights unto you throughout your ages 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 ye shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who [is] guilty of death, but he shall be surely put to death.


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And ye shall take no ransom for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.


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So ye shall not pollute the land where ye are, for this blood shall defile the land; and the land cannot be reconciled of the blood that is shed therein except by the blood of the one that shed it.


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Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit in the midst of which I dwell; for I the LORD dwell among the sons of Israel.:


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And the princes of the fathers of the families of the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the princes, the heads of the fathers of the sons of Israel,


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and they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the sons of Israel; and my lord was also commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad, our brother unto his daughters.


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And if they become married to any of the sons of the [other] tribes of the sons of Israel, then their inheritance shall be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe unto 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 sons of Israel shall come, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe unto which they are received; so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.


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Then Moses commanded the sons of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph has spoken well.


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This [is] the thing which the LORD commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry as they desire; but they shall marry only within the family of the tribe of their father


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so that the inheritance of the sons of Israel shall not be passed from tribe to tribe; for each one of the sons of Israel shall cleave to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.


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And any daughter, that possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the sons of Israel, shall marry one of the family of the tribe of her father so that each man of the sons of Israel may possess the inheritance of his fathers.


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So that the inheritance shall not change from [one] tribe to another tribe, each one of the tribes of the sons of Israel shall cleave to his own inheritance.


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And [thus] Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, married the sons of their uncles.


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They were women of the family 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 rights which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan of Jericho.:


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These [are] the words which Moses spoke unto all Israel on this side of the Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red [sea], between Paran, Tophel, Laban, 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 unto the sons of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had commanded him regarding them;


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after he had slain Sihon, the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og, the king of Bashan, who dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei;


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turn and take your journey and go to the mount of the Amorite and unto all [the places] nearby, in the plain, in the hills, and in the valleys and to the Negev and by the sea side to the land of the Canaanite and unto Lebanon unto the great river, the river Euphrates.


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Behold, [I] have given the land in your presence; go in and possess the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he would give unto them and to their seed after them.


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the LORD your God has multiplied you, and, behold, ye [are] this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.


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Let the LORD God of your fathers add upon you a thousand times so many more as ye [are] and bless you, as he has promised!


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Give me from among you, of your tribes, wise and understanding and expert men, and I will make them the head [over you].


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So I took the principals of your tribes, wise men and experts, and made them princes over you, princes over thousands and princes over hundreds and princes over fifties and princes over tens and officers among your tribes.


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And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear [the causes] between your brethren and judge righteously between [every] man and his brother and the stranger [that is] with him.


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Ye shall not respect persons in judgment, [but] ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye 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] unto 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 ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorite, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.


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[Then I] said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorite, which the LORD our God gives unto us.


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Behold, the LORD thy God has given the land before thee; go up [and] possess [it], as the LORD God of thy fathers has said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.


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And ye came near unto me every one of you and said, We will send men before us, and they shall spy 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 unto the valley of Eshcol and spied out [the land].


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And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought [it] down unto 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 ye 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 Amorite, to destroy us.


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Where shall we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, This people [is] greater and taller than we; the cities [are] great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.


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The LORD your God who goes before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did with you in Egypt before your eyes;


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and in the wilderness thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bore thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went until ye 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, with fire by night, to show you by what way ye should go, and with a cloud by day.


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Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see that good land, which I swore to give unto 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 sons, because he has perfectly followed the LORD.


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[But] Joshua, the son of Nun, who stands before thee, he shall go in there; encourage him; for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.


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Moreover your little ones, whom ye said should be a prey and your children who in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in there, and unto them will I give it, and they shall inherit it.


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[Then] ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God has commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the mountain.


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And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them, Do not go up or fight, for I [am] not among you, lest ye be smitten before your enemies.


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So I spoke unto you, and ye would not hear but were rebels against the word of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hill.


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And the Amorite, who 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 ye returned and wept before the LORD, but the LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.


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Then we turned and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD had said unto me; and we went around Mount Seir many days


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And command thou the people, saying, Ye [are] to pass through the border of your brethren, the sons of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you; take care unto yourselves, therefore;


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do not seek a fight 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 unto Esau [for] an inheritance.


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Ye shall buy food from them for money that ye may eat, and ye shall also buy water from them for money that ye may drink.


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For the LORD thy God has blessed thee in all the works of thy hand; he knows thy walking through this great wilderness; these forty years the LORD thy God [has been] with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.


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And when we passed by our brethren, the sons of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.


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And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give thee of their land [for] a possession because I have given Ar unto the sons of Lot [for] an inheritance.


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The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime, but the sons of Esau inherited from them, and they destroyed them from before them and dwelt in their stead as Israel did in the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.)


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And the days in which we came from Kadeshbarnea until we were come over the brook Zered, [was] thirty-eight years until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the camp, as the LORD swore unto them.


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For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the camp until they were consumed.


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and [when] thou comest near over against the sons of Ammon, do not distress them nor meddle with them, for I will not give thee of the land of the sons of Ammon [any] possession because I have given it unto the sons of Lot [for] an inheritance.


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(That also was accounted a land of giants; giants dwelt therein in another time, and the Ammonites called them Zamzummims,


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a people great and many and tall as the Anakims; whom the LORD destroyed before the Ammonites; and they inherited from them and dwelt in their stead,


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as he did to the sons of Esau who dwelt in Seir when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they inherited from them and dwelt in their stead even unto this day.


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And the Avims who dwelt in Hazerim, [even] unto Gaza, the Caphtorims, who came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them and dwelt in their stead.)


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Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass the river Arnon; behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon, the Amorite king of Heshbon, and his land; begin, take possession and contend with him in battle.


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This day I will begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the peoples [that are under] the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of thee, and shall tremble and be in anguish because of thee.


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And I sent ambassadors out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon, king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying,


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Let me pass through thy land; I will go along by the high way; I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.


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Thou shalt sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink; I will only pass through on my feet


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(as the sons of Esau, who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites, who dwell in Ar, did unto me) until I shall pass the 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 thy God had hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate that he might deliver him into thy hand as [until] this day.


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And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee; begin, take possession that thou may inherit his land.


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And we took all his cities at that time and utterly destroyed all the cities, the men and the women and the little ones; we left none to remain.


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From Aroer, which [is] by the brink of the river of Arnon, and [from] the city that is by the river even unto Gilead, there was not one city escaped us; the LORD our God delivered all of them before us.


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Only unto the land of the sons of Ammon thou camest not, [nor] unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto any place that 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 unto me, Fear him not, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land into thy hand, and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon, king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.


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So the LORD our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people, and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.


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And we took all his cities at that time there was not a city which we did not take from them, sixty cities, all the region of Argob, of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.


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All these cities [were] fenced with high walls, gates, and bars besides a great many unwalled towns.


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And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon, king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every city, men, women, and children.


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And we [also] 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 unto Mount Hermon


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all the cities of the plain and all Gilead and all Bashan unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.


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For only Og, king of Bashan, had remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead [was] a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the sons of Ammon? Nine cubits [was] the length thereof and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.


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And this land, [which] we inherited at that time, from Aroer, which [is] by the river Arnon, and half of mount Gilead and the cities thereof, I gave unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.


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And the rest of Gilead and all Bashan ([fertile ground]), [being] the kingdom of Og, gave I unto 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 unto the border of Geshuri and Maachathi and called them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair, unto this day.


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And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon, half the valley for a border even unto the river Jabbok, [which is] the border of the sons of Ammon,


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the plain also and the Jordan and the border [thereof] from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, [even] the salt sea, under Ashdothpisgah eastward.


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And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God has given you this land to possess it; ye shall pass armed before your brethren, the sons of Israel, all [that are] valiant.


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Only your wives and your little ones and your livestock (for I know that ye have much livestock) shall abide in your cities which I have given you


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until the LORD has given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and [until] they also inherit the land which the LORD your God has given them beyond the Jordan; [then] shall ye return each man unto his possession, which I have given you.


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And I also commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done unto these two kings, so shall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms where thou passest.


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O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to show thy servant thy greatness and thy mighty hand; for what God [is there] in heaven or in earth that can do according to thy works and according to thy mighty acts?


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I pray thee, let me go over and see that good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly 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 unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.


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Climb up into the top of Pisgah and lift up thine eyes westward and towards the Aquilon and towards the Negev and eastward and behold [it] with thine eyes, for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.


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But charge Joshua and encourage him and comfort him, for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.


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Now, therefore, hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rights which I teach you, for [in] doing them ye shall live and go in and inherit the land which the LORD God of your fathers gives you.


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Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish [anything] from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.


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Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor; for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God has destroyed them from among you.


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Behold, I have taught you statutes and rights, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do thus in the midst of the land where ye are about to enter in to possess it.


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Keep [them], therefore, and do [them], for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who 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 nigh unto 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 rights [so] just as all this law, which I set before you this day?


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Therefore, take heed to thyself and keep thy soul diligently lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life, but teach them to thy sons and thy sons' sons.


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The day that thou didst stand before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather the people together unto me, 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 sons.


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And ye came near and stood under the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of the heavens, [with] darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.


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And the LORD spoke unto you out of the midst of the fire; ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no likeness; only [ye heard] a voice.


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And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, the ten words; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.


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And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you the statutes and rights that ye might do them in the land which ye are about to enter to possess.


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Diligently guard, therefore, your souls, for ye saw no manner of likeness on the day [that] the LORD spoke unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire,


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lest ye corrupt [yourselves] and make yourselves a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,


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the likeness of any beast that [is] on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flies in the air,


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the likeness of any animal that moves on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth,


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And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars, [even] all the host of heaven, [and] should be driven to worship them and serve them because the LORD thy God has conceded them unto all the peoples under all the heavens.


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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 the people of [his] inheritance, as [ye 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 thy God gives thee [for] an inheritance.


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Therefore, I must die in this land and will not pass the Jordan, but ye shall pass and inherit that good land.


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Keep yourselves, do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he established with you, and make yourselves a graven image [or] the likeness of any [thing], which the LORD thy God has forbidden thee.


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When thou shalt beget children and grandchildren and ye shall have remained long in the land and shall corrupt [yourselves] and make a graven image or the likeness of any [thing] and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger,


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I put heaven and earth as witnesses today that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land unto which ye pass the Jordan to inherit it; ye shall not prolong [your] days upon it without being utterly destroyed.


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And the LORD shall scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left few in number among the Gentiles, unto whom the LORD shall take you.


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And there ye 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, thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find [him] if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.


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When thou art in trouble and all these things are come upon thee, if in the latter days thou shalt turn to the LORD thy God and shalt hear his voice


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(for the LORD thy God [is] a merciful God), he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he swore unto them.


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Ask, therefore, now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth and [ask] from the one side of heaven unto the other whether there has been [any such thing] as this great thing [is], or has [any] other been heard like it?


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Have a people [ever] hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and lived?


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Or has God assayed to go [and] take him a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by trials, by signs and by wonders and by war and by a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?


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Unto thee it was shown that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; [there is] no one else other than he.


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Out of the heavens he made thee to hear his voice that he might instruct thee, and upon earth he showed thee his great fire, and thou hast heard his words out of the midst of the fire.


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And because he loved thy fathers, therefore, he chose their seed after them and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt,


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to drive out Gentiles from before thee greater and mightier than thou [art], to bring thee in, to give thee their land [for] an inheritance, as [it is] this day.


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Know therefore this day and consider it in thine heart that the LORD is the only God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath; [there is] no other.


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Thou shalt keep, therefore, his statutes and his commandments which I command thee this day that it may go well with thee and with thy sons after thee and that thou may prolong [thy] days upon the land which the LORD thy God gives thee, for ever.


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that the murderer might flee there, who should kill his neighbour unawares and hated him not in times past and that fleeing unto 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 rights, which Moses spoke unto the sons of Israel after they came forth out of Egypt,


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on this side of the Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel smote after they were come forth out of Egypt;


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and they possessed his land and the land of Og, king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, who [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 unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and rights which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them and keep them, to do them.


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Not with our fathers did the LORD make this covenant, but with us, all of us who are here alive this day.


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(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to show you the word of the LORD, for ye were afraid by reason of the fire and did not climb the mount), saying,


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Thou shalt not make thee [any] graven image or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in the heavens above or that [is] in the earth beneath or that [is] in the waters beneath the earth.


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Thou shalt not bow down to them nor serve them, for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons unto the third and fourth [generation] of those that hate me


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Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain, for the LORD will not hold [him] innocent that takes his name in vain.


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but the seventh day [is] the sabbath unto the LORD thy God; [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou nor thy son nor thy daughter nor thy manservant nor thy maidservant nor thine ox nor thine ass nor any animal of thine nor thy stranger that [is] within thy gates, that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.


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And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt and [that] the LORD thy God brought thee out of there with a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore, the LORD thy God has commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.


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Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God has commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God gives thee.


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Thou shalt not desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field or his manservant or his maidservant, his ox or his ass or any [thing] that [is] thy neighbour's.


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These words the LORD spoke unto all your congregation 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 unto me.


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And it came to pass when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness and [saw] the mountain that burned with fire that ye came near unto me, [even] all the princes of your tribes and your elders;


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and ye 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 does talk with man, and he lives.


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Now, therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die.


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For what is all flesh that it should hear the voice of the living God that speaks out of the midst of the fire, as we [heard], and live?


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Go thou near and hear all that the LORD our God shall say, and thou shalt tell us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear [it], and do [it].


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And the LORD heard the voice of your words when ye spoke unto me, and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee; they have 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 thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments and the statutes and the rights, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do [them] in the land which I give them to inherit.


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Ye shall observe to do, therefore, as the LORD your God has commanded you; ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.


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Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God has commanded you that ye may live and [that it may be] well with you and [that] ye may prolong [your] days in the land which ye are to inherit.:


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Now these [are] the commandments, the statutes, and the rights, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you that ye might do [them] in the land into which ye go to inherit it


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that thou might fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou and thy son and thy son's son, all the days of thy life and that thy days may be prolonged.


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Hear, therefore, O Israel, and observe to do [it] that it may be well with thee and that ye may be multiplied exceedingly (as the LORD God of thy fathers has said unto thee) in the land that flows with milk and honey.


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And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might.


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and thou shalt repeat them diligently unto thy sons and shalt talk of them being in thy house and walking by the way, lying down in bed, and rising up;


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And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give it unto thee: great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build,


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and houses full of all good [things], which thou didst not fill, and hewn out wells, which thou didst not dig, vineyards and olive trees, which thou didst not plant; when thou shalt have eaten and be full,


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[then] beware lest thou forget the LORD, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.


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(for the LORD thy God [is] a jealous God among you) lest peradventure the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.


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Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded thee.


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And thou shalt do [that which is] right and good in the sight of the LORD that it may be well with thee and that thou may enter in and inherit the good land which the LORD swore unto thy fathers


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[And] when tomorrow thy son asks thee, saying, What [are] the testimonies and the statutes and the rights, which the LORD our God has commanded you?


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Then thou shalt say unto thy 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 sore, in 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 unto our fathers.


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And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes that we might fear the LORD our God for our good always that he might give us life, as [it is] at this day.


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And we shall have justice when we keep ourselves [by] doing all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.:


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When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land into which thou must enter to inherit it and has cast out many Gentiles before thee, the Hittite and the Girgashite and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;


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and when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee, thou shalt smite them [and] utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them nor show mercy unto them.


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Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.


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For they will turn away thy son from following me that they may serve other gods; and the anger of the LORD will be kindled upon you and destroy thee suddenly.


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But thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall destroy their altars and break down their images and cut down their groves and burn their graven images in the fire.


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For thou [art] a holy people unto the LORD thy God; the LORD thy God has chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, different from all the peoples that [are] upon the face of the earth.


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Not because ye were more than the other peoples has the LORD desired you and chosen you; for ye [were] the fewest of all the peoples;


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but because the LORD loved you and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, has the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand and ransomed you out of the house of bondage from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.


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Know, therefore, that the LORD thy God, he [is] God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and mercy with those that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations


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and repays him that hates him to his face, to destroy him; he will not be slack to him that hates him; he will repay him to his face.


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Keep, therefore, the commandments and statutes and rights, which I command thee this day, to do them.


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And it shall come to pass, for having heard these rights and for having kept them [by] doing them that the LORD thy God shall keep the covenant with thee and the mercy which he swore unto thy fathers;


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and he will love thee and bless thee and multiply thee; he will also bless the fruit of thy womb and the fruit of thy land, thy grain and thy wine and thine oil, the increase of thy cows and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he swore unto thy fathers to give thee.


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Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be male or female barren among you or among your beasts.


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And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee, but will lay them upon all [those] that hate thee.


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And thou shalt consume all the peoples which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them; neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be] a snare unto thee.


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of the great trials which thine eyes saw and the signs and the wonders and the mighty hand and the outstretched arm, by which the LORD thy God brought thee out; so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the peoples of whose presence thou art afraid.


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Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them until those that are left and hide themselves from thee are destroyed.


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And the LORD thy God will put out those Gentiles before thee little by little; thou may not consume them at once lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.


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But the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction until they are destroyed.


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And he shall deliver their kings into thy hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven; no one shall be able to stand before thee until thou hast destroyed them.


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The graven images of their gods ye shall burn in the fire; thou shalt not desire the silver or gold [that is] on them nor take [it] unto thee lest thou be snared therein; for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.


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Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house lest thou become an anathema like it, [but] thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it [is] anathema.:


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Take care to do all the commandments which I command thee this day that ye may live and be multiplied and enter in and inherit the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers.


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And thou shalt remember all the way by which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness to afflict thee [and] to prove thee to know what [was] in thine heart, whether thou would keep his commandments, or not.


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And he afflicted thee and caused thee to hunger and sustained thee with manna, [food of] which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know, that he might make thee know that man does not live by bread alone, but by every [word] that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD shall man live.


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For the LORD thy God brings thee into a good land, a land of brooks, of waters, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills,


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a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olives, of oil, and honey;


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a land in which thou shalt eat bread without scarceness; thou shalt not lack any [thing] in it, a land whose stones [are] iron, and out of whose mountains thou may dig brass.


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Keep thyself, that thou forget not the LORD thy God, to not fulfill his commandments and his rights and his statutes, which I command thee this day,


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lest peradventure [when] thou hast eaten and art full and hast built goodly houses and dwelt [therein],


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and [when] thy herds and thy flocks multiply and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied and all that thou hast is multiplied,


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then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage,


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who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness of burning serpents and scorpions and drought, where [there was] no water, who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint,


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who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, [a food] which thy fathers knew not, afflicting thee and proving thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;


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But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God, for [it is] he that gives thee the power to get wealth that he may confirm his covenant which he swore unto thy fathers, as [it is] this day.


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And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God and walk after other gods and serve them and worship them, I protest against you this day that ye shall surely perish.


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As the Gentiles which the LORD shall destroy before your face, so shall ye perish because ye would not attend to the voice of the LORD your God.:


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Hear, O Israel: Thou [art ready] to pass over the Jordan this day to enter in to inherit [that of] Gentiles greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,


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A people, great and tall, sons of the Anakims, whom thou knowest and [of whom] thou hast heard [say], Who can stand before the sons of Anak!


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Understand, therefore, this day that the LORD thy God is he who passes before thee; [as] a consuming fire he shall destroy them and and humble them before thee, and thou shalt drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said unto thee.


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Think not in thine heart, after the LORD thy God has cast them out from before thee, saying, Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to inherit this land; rather for the wickedness of these Gentiles the LORD drives them out from before thee.


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Not for thy righteousness or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou enter in to inherit their land; but for the wickedness of these Gentiles, the LORD thy God drives them out from before thee and that he may confirm the word which the LORD swore unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.


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Understand, therefore, that the LORD thy God does not give thee this good land [to] inherit because of thy righteousness, for thou [art] a stiffnecked people.


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Remember, [and] forget not, how thou hast provoked the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness; from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.


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Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.


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When I climbed up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, [even] the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, without eating bread or drinking water;


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and the LORD delivered unto 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 unto me, Arise, go down quickly from here, for thy people which thou hast 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 unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it [is] a stiffnecked people.


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Let me alone that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.


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So I turned and came down from the mount with the two tables of the covenant in my two hands and the mount burned with fire,


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and I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God [and] had made yourselves a molten calf; ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.


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And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water because of all your sins in which ye 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 wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto 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 ye had made, and burnt it with fire and stamped it [and] ground [it] very small [even] until it was as small as dust, and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.


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Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and inherit the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye did not believe him nor hearken 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, unto the LORD and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast ransomed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.


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Remember thy 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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lest [those of] the land from which thou didst bring us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them or because he hated them, he has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.


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Yet they [are] thy people and thine inheritance, which thou didst bring out by thy mighty power and by thy outstretched arm.:


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At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first and come up unto me into the mount and make thee an ark of wood,


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and I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou didst brake, and thou shalt put them in the ark.


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And I made an ark [of] cedar 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 words which the LORD spoke unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the LORD gave them unto me.


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And I turned and came down from the mount and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are, as the LORD commanded me.


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(After this, the sons of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the sons of Jaakan to Mosera; there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar, his son, received the priesthood in his stead.


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At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.


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Therefore, Levi had no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD [is] his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God said unto him.)


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And I stayed in the mount, like the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, [and] the LORD did not desire to destroy thee.


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And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take [thy] journey before the people that they may enter in and inherit the land, which I swore unto their fathers to give unto them.


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And now, Israel, what does the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways and to love him and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,


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Behold, the heavens and the heaven of heavens [are of] the LORD thy God, the earth [also], with all that [is] therein.


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The LORD delighted only in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, [even] you from [among] all the peoples, 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, mighty, and terrible, who makes no exception [of] persons, nor takes a bribe;


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he executes the rights of the fatherless and the widow and also loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.


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Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave and swear by his name.


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He [shall be] thy praise, and he [shall be] thy God, that has done with thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.


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Thy fathers went down into Egypt with seventy souls, and now the LORD thy God has made thee as the stars of heaven in multitude.:


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Therefore, thou shalt love the LORD thy God and keep his charge and his statutes and his rights and his commandments, always.


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And know ye this day; for [I speak] not with your children who have not known and who have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm,


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and his miracles and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh, the king of Egypt and unto all his land,


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and what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto 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 unto this day,


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and what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up and their households and their tents and all the substance that [was] in their possession in the midst of all Israel;


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Keep, therefore, all the commandments which I command you this day that ye may be strong and enter in and inherit the land, into which ye go to inherit it


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and that ye may prolong [your] days in the land, which the LORD swore unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that flows with milk and honey.


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For the land, into which thou goest to inherit it, is not as the land of Egypt, from which ye came out, where thou didst sow thy seed and water [it] with thy foot, as a garden of herbs.


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The land, into which ye go to inherit it, is a land of mountains and valleys [and] drinks water of the rain of heaven,


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a land which the LORD thy God procures; the eyes of the LORD thy God [are] always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.


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And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day: to love the LORD your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul


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that I will give [you] the rain of your land in its due season, the early rain and the latter rain, and thou shalt gather in thy grain and thy wine and thine oil.


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Keep yourselves, therefore, that your heart not be deceived and ye turn aside and serve other gods and worship them;


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and [then] the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you and he shut up the heavens, that there be no rain and that the land yield not her fruit, and [lest] ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD gives you.


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Therefore, ye shall 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 ye shall teach them to your children that ye may think of them sitting in thy house and walking by the way, lying down in bed, and rising up.


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that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, upon the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens upon the earth.


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For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, loving the LORD your God [and] walking in all his ways, to cleave unto him,


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then the LORD will drive out all these Gentiles from before you, and ye shall possess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.


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Every place upon 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 western sea shall be your border.


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No one shall 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 ye shall tread upon, as he has said unto you.


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and the curse if ye will not hear 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 ye have not known.


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And it shall come to pass when the LORD thy God has brought thee in unto the land where thou goest to inherit it that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim and the curse upon mount Ebal,


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which are on the other side of the Jordan, by the way of the west, in the land of the Canaanite, who dwells in the plain over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh.


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For ye shall pass the Jordan to go in to inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you, and ye shall possess it and dwell therein.


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These [are] the statutes and rights which ye shall keep to do them in the land which the LORD God of thy fathers gives thee to inherit all the days that ye live upon the land.


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Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, upon which the Gentiles, [of] whom ye shall inherit, served their gods, upon the high mountains and upon the hills and under every green tree;


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and ye shall overthrow their altars and break their images and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the statues of their gods and destroy the names of them out of that place.


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But ye shall seek the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there for his habitation, and thou shalt go there.


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And there ye shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices and your tithes and the offerings of your hand and your vows and your freewill [offerings] and the firstborn of your cows and of your sheep;


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and there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye and your households shall rejoice in every work of your hands in which the LORD thy God has blessed thee.


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Ye shall not do after all [the things] that we do here this day, each man doing what [seems] right in his own eyes,


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But [when] ye pass the 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 ye 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 ye bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the offerings of your hand and all your choice of vows which ye vow unto the LORD;


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and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye and your sons and your daughters and your menservants and your maidservants and the Levite that [is] within your gates because he has no part nor inheritance with you.


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but in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes; there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.


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Notwithstanding, thou may kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, according to the desire of thy soul, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he has given thee; the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck and as of the hart.


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Thou may not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy grain or of thy wine or of thy oil or the firstborn of thy cows or of thy sheep nor any of thy vows which thou hast promised nor thy freewill [offerings] or the [heave] offerings of thy hands.


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But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall have chosen, thou and thy son and thy daughter and thy manservant and thy maidservant and the Levite that [is] within thy gates; and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all the work of thy hands.


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When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he has promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul desires to eat flesh, according to all the desire of thy soul thou shalt eat flesh.


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When the place which the LORD thy God shall have chosen to put his name there is far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy cows and of thy sheep, which the LORD has given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates according to all thy soul desires.


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Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them; the unclean and the clean shall eat [of] them alike.


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Only be sure not to eat the blood; for the blood [is] the soul ([or the life]), and thou art not to eat the soul with its flesh.


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Thou shalt not eat it that it may go well with thee and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do [that which is] right in the sight of the LORD.


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But the things which thou hast consecrated and thy vows, thou shalt take and go unto the place which the LORD shall have chosen,


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and thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.


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Keep and hear all these words which I command thee that it may go well with thee and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest [that which is] good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.


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When the LORD thy God shall have cut off the Gentiles from before thee, in the place where thou goest to inherit [of] them, and thou dost inherit [of] them and dost dwell in their land,


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keep thyself from being snared by following them, after they are destroyed from before thee; enquire not after their gods, saying, After the manner that these Gentiles served their gods, even so will I do likewise.


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Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God; for every abomination unto the LORD, which he hates, they have done unto their gods; for they have even burnt their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.


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and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them,


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thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for the LORD your God proves you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.


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Ye shall walk after the LORD your God and fear him and keep his commandments and hear his voice, and ye shall serve him and cleave unto him.


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And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death because he has spoken rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and ransomed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.


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If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son or thy daughter or the wife of thy bosom or thy friend who [is] as thine own soul should entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou nor thy fathers have known,


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[namely], of the gods of the peoples who [are] round about you, near unto thee or far off from thee, from the [one] end of the earth even unto the [other] end of the earth,


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thou shalt not consent with him nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him; neither shalt thou have compassion; neither shalt thou conceal him,


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but thou must kill him; thy hand shall be first upon him to put him to death and afterwards the hand of all the people.


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And thou must stone him with stones, and he shall die because he has sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage;


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so that all Israel shall hear and fear and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.


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If thou shalt hear in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God has given thee to dwell there, that it is said,


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[certain] men, the sons of Belial, are gone out from among you and have incited the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known,


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then shalt thou enquire and search and ask diligently; and, behold, [if it is the] truth [and] the thing certain [that] such abomination is wrought among you,


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thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly with all that [is] therein and the beasts thereof, with the edge of the sword.


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And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of its plaza and shalt burn the city with fire and all the spoil thereof, all of it, unto the LORD thy God; and it shall be a heap for ever; it shall never be built again.


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And none of the anathema shall cleave to thine hand that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show thee mercy and have compassion upon thee and multiply thee, as he has sworn unto thy fathers,


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when thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, keeping all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do [that which is] right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.:


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Ye [are] the sons of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves nor make any baldness over your eyes for the dead.


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For thou [art] a holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD has chosen thee to be a unique people unto himself from among all the peoples that [are] upon the face of the earth.


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the hart and the roebuck and the buffalo and the wild goat and the unicorn (rhinoceros) and the wild ox and the mountain goat,


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and every animal that parts the hoof and cleaves the cleft into two claws [and] chews the cud among the beasts that ye shall eat.


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Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of those that chew the cud or of those 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 unto you;


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and the swine, because it divides the hoof, yet does not chew the cud, it is unclean unto you. Ye shall not eat of their flesh nor touch their dead carcase.


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Ye shall not eat [of] any thing that died of itself; thou shalt give it unto the stranger that [is] in thy gates that he may eat it, or thou may sell it unto an alien; for thou [art] a holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not cook a kid in his mother's milk.


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And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose for his name to dwell, the tithe of thy grain, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstborn of thy cows and of thy sheep, that thou may learn to fear the LORD thy God always.


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And if the way is too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it, [or] if the place is [too] far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God has blessed thee,


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then shalt thou sell [it] for money and bind up the money in thy hand and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;


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and thou shalt give that money for whatever thy soul desires, for cows or for sheep or for wine or for strong drink or for whatever thy soul desires; and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou and thine household.


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And thou shalt not forsake the Levite that [dwells] within thy gates, for he has no part nor inheritance with thee.


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At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year and shalt lay [it] up within thy gates.


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And the Levite, who has no part nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who [are] within thy gates, shall come and shall eat and be satisfied, that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hands which thou doest.:


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And this [is] the manner of the release: everyone who has lent anything to his neighbour, causing him to be in debt, shall release [it]; he shall not exact it any more of his neighbour or of his brother, because the release of the LORD is proclaimed.


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Of the foreigner thou shalt demand that it be repaid; but [that] which thy brother has of thine thy hand shall release,


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so that thus there shall be no poor among you, for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God gives thee [for] an inheritance to possess it;


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only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep and to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.


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For [when the LORD thy God has blessed thee, as he promised thee, thou shalt lend unto many Gentiles, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt rule over many Gentiles, but they shall not rule over thee.


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If there should be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy towns in thy land which the LORD thy God gives thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother,


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but thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, [in that] which he lacks.


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Keep thyself that there not be a thought of Belial in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother to give him nothing; for he shall cry unto the LORD against thee, and it shall be a sin unto thee.


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Thou shalt surely give unto him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him because for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works and in all that thou puttest thine hand to.


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For the poor shall never cease out of the land; therefore, I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor and to thy needy, in thy land.


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[And] if thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold unto thee and serves thee six years, then in the seventh year thou shalt send him forth from thee free.


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Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock and out of thy threshing floor and out of thy winepress; [of that] with which the LORD thy God has blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.


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And thou shalt remember that thou wast a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God ransomed thee; therefore, I command thee this thing to day.


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And it shall be, if he says unto thee, I will not go away from thee because he loves thee and thy house because he is well with thee,


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then thou shalt take an aul and thrust [it] through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.


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It shall not seem hard unto thee when thou sendest him away free from thee, for he has served thee for half the cost of a hired servant for six years; and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.


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All the firstborn males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God; thou shalt do no work with the firstborn of thy bullock nor shear the firstborn of thy sheep.


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Thou shalt eat [it] before the LORD thy God each year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.


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And if there is [any] blemish in it, [if it is] lame or blind [or has] any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.


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Thou shalt eat it within thy gates; the unclean and the clean [person shall eat it] alike, as the roebuck and as the hart.


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Keep the month of the new fruit, and thou shalt do the passover unto the LORD thy God; for in the month of the new fruit the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.


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Thou shalt, therefore, sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the sheep and the cows, in the place which the LORD shall choose to cause his name to dwell therein.


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Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, [even] the bread of affliction; for thou didst come forth out of the land of Egypt in haste; that thou may remember the day when thou didst come forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.


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And there shall be no leavened bread seen in thee within all thy borders for seven days; neither shall [any] of the flesh which thou didst sacrifice the evening of the first day remain all night until the morning.


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Thou may not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates ([or within any of thy towns]) which the LORD thy God gives thee


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but at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to cause his name to dwell in; there thou shalt sacrifice the passover in the evening, at the going down of the sun, at the [appointed] time when thou came forth out of Egypt.


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And thou shalt roast and eat [it] in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, and thou shalt turn in the morning and return unto thy tabernacles.


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Six days thou shalt eat unleavened [bread], and on the seventh day [shall be] a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God; thou shalt do no work [in this].


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Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee; begin to number the seven weeks from [such time as] thou shalt begin [to put] the sickle to the grain.


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And thou shalt do the solemn feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God; out of the voluntary abundance of thy hand thou shalt give, according as the LORD thy God has blessed thee.


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And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou and thy son and thy daughter and thy manservant and thy maidservant and the Levite that [is] within thy gates and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, that [are] among you, in the place which the LORD thy God has chosen to place his name there.


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And thou shalt remember that thou wast a slave in Egypt; therefore thou shalt keep and do these statutes.


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Thou shalt observe the solemn feast of the tabernacles seven days after thou hast gathered in [the harvest of] thy threshing floor and thy winepress.


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And thou shalt rejoice in thy solemn feast, thou and thy son and thy daughter and thy manservant and thy maidservant and the Levite [and] the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, that [are] within thy gates ([or within thy towns]).


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Seven days shalt thou celebrate a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose; because the LORD thy God shall have blessed thee in all thy fruits and in all the works of thine hands, therefore, thou shalt truly be glad.


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Three times each year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose: in the solemn feast of unleavened bread and in the solemn feast of weeks and in the solemn feast of the tabernacles. And they shall not appear before the LORD empty,


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Each man with the gift of his hand, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God, which he shall have given thee.


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Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all [the] gates [of] thy [cities], which the LORD thy God shall give thee throughout thy tribes, and they shall judge the people with just (and righteous) judgment.


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Thou shalt not twist that [which is] right; thou shalt not respect persons neither take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.


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Thou shalt follow justice [and] righteousness, that thou may live and inherit the land which the LORD thy God gives thee.


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Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.


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Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God [any] bullock or sheep in which there is a blemish [or] anything wrong, for that [is] an abomination unto the LORD thy God.


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If there is found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God gives thee, man or woman that has wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God in transgressing his covenant


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and has gone and served other gods and worshipped them or the sun or [the] moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded,


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and it is told unto thee and thou hast heard [of it] and enquired diligently, and, behold, [it is] true, [and] the thing certain [that] such abomination is wrought in Israel,


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then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman who has committed that wicked thing unto thy gates, [even] that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones until they die.


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At the mouth of two witnesses or three witnesses shall he that is worthy of death be put to death, [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 thou shalt put the evil away from among you.


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If a matter arises that is too difficult for thee in judgment between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, [being] matters of controversy within thy gates, then thou shalt arise and go up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose,


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and thou shalt come unto the priests, the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days and enquire, and they shall show thee the word of judgment.


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And thou shalt do according to the word which those of that place which the LORD shall choose shall show thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they shall show thee.


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According to the word of the law which they shall show thee and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do; thou shalt not decline from the word which they shall show thee, [to] the right hand nor [to] the left.


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And the man that will act presumptuously and will not hearken unto the priest that stands to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die; and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.


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When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God gives thee and shalt inherit it and shalt dwell therein and shalt say, I will set a king over me like all the Gentiles that [are] round about me;


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Thou shalt surely appoint as king over thee the one whom the LORD thy God shall choose; [one] from among thy brethren shalt thou set as king over thee; thou may not set a stranger over thee, who [is] not thy brother.


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Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses; for the LORD has said unto you, Ye shall not procure to return any more to that way.


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Neither shall he multiply wives unto himself, that his heart turn not away; neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver or gold.


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And it shall be when he sits upon the throne of his kingdom that he shall cause a copy of this second law to be written in a book in the presence of the priests the Levites;


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and it shall be near unto him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them,


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that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren and that he turn not aside from the commandment, [to] the right hand or [to] the left, to the end that he may prolong [his] days in his kingdom, he and his sons, in the midst of Israel.:


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The priests the Levites [and] all the tribe of Levi shall have no part nor shall they inherit with Israel; they shall eat of the offerings on fire unto the LORD and of his inheritance.


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Therefore, shall they have no inheritance among their brethren; the LORD [is] their inheritance, as he has said unto them.


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And this shall be the right of the priest from the people, from those that offer a sacrifice, whether [it] be ox or sheep; they shall give unto the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the maw.


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The firstfruits [also] of thy grain, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstfruits of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him;


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for the LORD thy God has chosen him out of all thy tribes to stand to minister unto the name of the LORD, him and his sons all the days.


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And when a Levite comes from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and comes with all the desire of his soul unto the place which the LORD shall choose,


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then he shall minister unto the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites [do] who stand there before the LORD.


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When thou shall have come into the land which the LORD thy God gives thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those Gentiles.


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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 anyone that does these things [is] an abomination unto the LORD, and because of these abominations the LORD thy God drove them out from before thee.


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For these Gentiles, whom thou shalt inherit, hearkened unto observers of times and unto diviners, but as for thee, the LORD thy God has not allowed thee [to do] so.


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The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken,


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according to all that thou didst desire of the LORD thy 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, lest I die.


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I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.


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And it shall come to pass [that] whoever will not hearken unto 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, it is a word which the LORD has not spoken, [but] the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; thou shalt not be afraid of him.:


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When the LORD thy God has cut off the Gentiles whose land the LORD thy God gives thee, and thou hast inherited them and dost dwell in their cities and in their houses,


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thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God gives thee to inherit.


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Thou shalt prepare thee a way and divide the borders of thy land, which the LORD thy God gives thee to inherit, into three parts, so that every murderer may flee there.


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And this [is] the case of the murderer who is to flee there, that he may live: whoever kills his neighbour by mistake, whom he hated not in time past;


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and he who went into the woods with his neighbour to cut firewood and his hand fetched a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree and the head slipped from the handle and lighted upon his neighbour so that he died, he shall flee unto one of those cities and live,


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lest the avenger of the blood pursue the murderer, while his heart is hot and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him, whereas he [was] not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.


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And if the LORD thy God enlarges thy borders, as he has sworn unto thy fathers, and gives thee all the land which he was to give unto thy fathers,


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when thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day: to love the LORD thy God, and to walk all the days in his ways, then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, besides these three,


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that innocent blood not be shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God gives thee [for] an inheritance, and [the] blood shall [not] be upon thee.


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But when any man hates his neighbour and lies in wait for him and rises up against him and smites 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 take him from there and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, and he shall die.


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Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away [the guilt of] innocent blood from Israel that it may go well with thee.


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Thou shalt not reduce thy neighbour's border, which those of old time have marked in thine inheritance, which thou shalt possess in the land that the LORD thy God gives thee to inherit.


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One witness shall not be valid against a man for any iniquity or for any sin, in any sin which he should commit. At the mouth of two witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.


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then both the men, between whom the controversy [is], shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, who shall be in those days;


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and the judges shall make diligent inquisition; and, behold, [if] the witness [is] a false witness [and] has testified falsely against his brother,


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then shall ye do unto him as he had thought to have done unto his brother; so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.


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And thine 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 thou goest out to battle against thine enemies and seest horses and chariots [and] a people more than thou, do not be afraid of them; for the LORD thy God [is] with thee, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.


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And it shall be, when ye are come near unto the battle that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people


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and shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies; let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them,


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for the LORD your God [is] he that goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.


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And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man [is there] that has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house lest peradventure he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.


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And who has planted a vineyard and has not [yet] eaten of it? Let him [also] go and return unto his house lest peradventure he die in the battle and another man eat of it.


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And what man [is there] that has betrothed a wife and has not taken her? Let him go and return unto his house lest peradventure he die in the battle and another man take her.


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And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man [is there that is] fearful and a coward at heart? Let him go and return unto his house that he not cause his brethren's hearts to become as his heart.


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And it shall be when the officers have finished speaking unto the people that the captains of the armies shall lead before the people.


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And it shall be, if it makes thee an answer of peace and opens unto thee, [that] all the people [that are] found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.


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And if it will make no peace with thee but will make war against thee, and if thou should besiege it,


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and if the LORD thy God should deliver it into thine hands, then thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword.


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Only the women and the little ones and the animals and all that is in the city, all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat of the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God has given thee.


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Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities [which are] very far off from thee, which [are] not of the cities of these Gentiles.


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Only of the cities of these peoples, which the LORD thy God gives thee [for] an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breathes;


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but thou shalt utterly destroy them: the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as the LORD thy God has commanded thee,


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that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they do unto their gods, lest ye should sin against the LORD your God.


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When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them, for thou may eat of them; and thou shalt 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 thou knowest that they [are] not trees for food, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that makes war with thee, until it is subdued.:


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When [one] is found dead in the land which the LORD thy God gives thee to inherit, lying in the field, [and] it is not known who has slain him,


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then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which [are] round about him that is dead;


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and it shall be [that] the elders of the city [which] is next unto the dead man shall take a heifer, which has not served, [and] which has not drawn in the yoke;


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and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which has neither been 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 thy God has chosen them to minister unto him and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be determined.


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And all the elders of that closest city next to the dead [man] shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley.


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Reconcile thy people Israel, whom thou hast ransomed, O LORD, and impute not the innocent blood shed in the midst of thy people Israel. And the blood shall be forgiven them.


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So shalt thou put away the [guilt of] innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do [that which is] right in the sight of the LORD.


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When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God has delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,


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and seest among the captives a beautiful woman and hast a desire unto her that thou would have her to thy wife,


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and she shall put off the clothing of her captivity and shall remain in thine house and bewail her father and her mother a full month, and after that thou shalt go in unto her and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.


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And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go free, but thou shalt not sell her at all for money; thou shalt not make merchandise of her because thou hast humbled her.


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When a man has two wives, one beloved and the other hated, and they have born him sons, [both] the beloved and the hated; and [if] the firstborn son is of the one 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 give the right of the firstborn unto the son of the beloved in preference over the son of the hated, [who is indeed] the firstborn;


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but he shall acknowledge the son of the hated [as] 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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When anyone has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother and when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them,


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then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him and bring him out unto the elders of his city and unto the gate of his place;


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and they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son [is] stubborn and rebellious; he will not hear our voice; [he is] a glutton and a drunkard.


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Then all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, and he shall die; so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear and fear.


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And when a man shall have committed a sin worthy of death, and he is to be put to death, and thou shall have hung him on a tree,


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his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt without fail bury him that same day (for he that is hanged [is] accursed of God) that thy land not be defiled, which the LORD thy God gives thee [for] an inheritance.:


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Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray and hide thyself from them; thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.


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And even if thy brother [is] not kin unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seeks after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.


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In like manner shalt thou do with his ass, and so shalt thou do with his clothing; and with any lost thing of thy brother's, which he has lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise; thou may not draw back from this.


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Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fallen down by the way and hide thyself from them; thou shalt surely help him to lift [them] up again.


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The woman shall not wear that which pertains unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment; for all that do so [are] abomination unto the LORD thy God.


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If a bird's nest is encountered before thee in the way in any tree or on the ground, [with] young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting upon the young or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the mother with the young.


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[But] thou shalt let the mother go and take the young for thyself, that it may be well with thee and [that] thou may prolong [thy] days.


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When thou shall build a new house, then thou shalt make a parapet for thy roof that thou not bring blood upon thine house if anyone should fall from there.


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Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with mixture lest the fullness of thy seed which thou hast sown and the fruit of thy vineyard be defiled.


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Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy covering with which thou dost cover [thyself].


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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 virgin,


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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 unto the elders of the city in the gate.


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And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hates her;


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and, behold, he has given occasions of speech [against her], saying, I found not thy daughter a virgin; 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 one hundred [shekels] of silver and give [them] unto 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, and she shall die because she has wrought folly in Israel, to fornicate in her father's house; so shalt thou put evil away from among you.


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If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, [both] the man that lay with the woman and the woman; so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.


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When a damsel [that] is a virgin is betrothed unto a husband and a man finds her in the city and lies with her,


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then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones, and they shall die; the damsel because she did not cry out, [being] in the city, and the man because he has humbled his neighbour's wife; so thou shalt put away evil from among you.


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But if the man found a betrothed damsel in the field and the man forced her and lay with her; then only the man that lay with her shall die;


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but unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; [there is] in the damsel no sin [worthy] of death; for as when a man rises against his neighbour and murders him, even so [is] this matter.


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For he found her in the field [and] the betrothed damsel cried out, and [there was] no one to save her.


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When a man finds a damsel [that is] a virgin who is not betrothed and lays hold on her and lies with her, and they are found,


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then the man that lay with her shall give unto 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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A bastard 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 ye came forth out of Egypt and because they hired against thee Balaam, the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.


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Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam, but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee because the LORD thy God loved thee.


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Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, for he [is] thy brother; thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian because thou wast a stranger in his land.


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The sons that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.


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When there is among you any man that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chances by night, then he shall go abroad out of the camp; he shall not come within the camp.


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And it shall be when evening comes, he shall wash [himself] with water, and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp [again].


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and thou shalt have a stake among thy weapons; and it shall be when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig with it and shalt turn back and cover thy excrement;


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for the LORD thy God walks in the midst of thy camp to deliver thee and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore, shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee and turn away from thee.


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He shall dwell with thee, [even] among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates where he likes it best; thou shalt not oppress him.


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There shall be no female cult prostitutes of the daughters of Israel nor any male cult prostitutes of the sons of Israel.


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Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow; for even both these [are] abomination unto the LORD thy God.


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Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother, usury of money, usury of food, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury.


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Unto a stranger thou may lend upon usury, but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hands upon the land which thou doest enter in to inherit.


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When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not delay to pay it; for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.


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That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform, that which thou hast promised unto the LORD thy God, that which thou hast spoken of thy free will with thy mouth.


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When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou may eat grapes, thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put [any] in thy vessel.


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When thou comest into the standing grain of thy neighbour, then thou may pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour'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 favour in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her; then let him write her a bill of divorce and give [it] in 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] in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband who took her [to be] his wife dies,


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her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she is defiled, for that [is] abomination before the LORD; and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God gives thee [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 whom he has taken.


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No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone for a pledge, for he takes [a man's] life to pledge.


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When a man is found stealing any of his brethren of the sons of Israel and making merchandise of him or selling him, then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put the evil away from among you.


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Keep yourselves from the plague of leprosy that thou observe diligently and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you; as I commanded them, so ye shall take care to do.


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Without fail thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goes down that he may sleep in his own clothing and bless thee, and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.


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Thou shalt not do violence unto a hired servant [that] is poor and needy, [whether he is] of thy brethren or of thy strangers that [are] in thy land within thy gates.


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In his day thou shalt give [him] his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he [is] poor and with it sustains his life, lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.


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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; each one shall be put to death for his own sin.


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Thou shalt not twist the rights of the stranger [nor] of the fatherless nor take a widow's clothing for a pledge,


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but thou shalt remember that thou wast a slave in Egypt, and the LORD thy God ransomed thee from there; therefore, I command thee to do this thing.


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When thou doest reap thy harvest in thy field and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to bring it; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, or for the widow, that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.


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When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.


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When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean [it] afterward; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.


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And thou shalt remember that thou wast a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore, I command thee to do this thing.:


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If there is a controversy between persons and they come unto judgment and they are judged, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.


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And it shall be if the wicked man [is] worthy to be beaten the judge shall cause him to lie down and to be beaten in his presence, 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 thy brother should be despised before thee.


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When brethren dwell together and one of them dies and has no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside unto a stranger; her husband's brother shall go in unto her and take her to him to wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her.


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And it shall be [that] the firstborn which she bears shall be raised up in the name of his brother [who] is dead that his name be not blotted out of Israel.


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And if the man does not desire to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up unto 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 unto him, and [if] he stands and says, I desire not to take her;


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then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders and loose his shoe from off his foot and spit in his face and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house.


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When men strive together one with another and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smites him and puts forth her hand and takes him by his secret parts;


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[But] thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have, that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God gives thee.


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For all that do such things [and] all that do unrighteously [are] an abomination unto the LORD thy God.


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how he met thee by the way and smote the hindmost of thee, [even] all [that were] feeble behind thee, when thou [wast] faint and weary and he did not fear God.


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Therefore it shall be when the LORD thy God has given thee rest from all thine enemies round about in the land which the LORD thy God gives thee [for] an inheritance to possess it [that] thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget [it].:


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And it shall be when thou [art] come in unto the land, which the LORD thy God gives thee [for] an inheritance and possess it and dwell therein,


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thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God gives thee, and shalt put [it] in a basket and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to cause his name to dwell.


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And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days and say unto him, I declare today unto the LORD thy God that I have entered into the land which the LORD swore unto our fathers to give us.


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And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.


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Then thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, My father, the Syrian, perishing [of hunger] went down into Egypt and sojourned there with a few and became there a nation, great, mighty, and many;


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And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice and looked on our affliction and our labour and our oppression.


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And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm and with great terribleness and with signs and with wonders;


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and he has brought us into this place and has given us this land, [even] a land that flows with milk and honey.


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And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God and worship before the LORD thy God.


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And thou shalt rejoice in every good [thing] which the LORD thy God has given unto thee and unto thine house, thou and the Levite and the stranger that [is] among you.


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When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thy fruits the third year, [which is] the year of tithing and hast given [it] unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates and be filled;


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then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought the consecrated things out of [my] house and also have given them unto the Levite and unto the stranger to the fatherless and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me; I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten [them].


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I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken out [any] of it [being] unclean, nor have I given [any] of it for the dead; [but] I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.


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Look down from the habitation of thy holiness, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel and the land which thou hast given us, as thou didst sware unto our fathers, a land that flows with milk and honey.


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Today the LORD thy God has commanded thee to comply with these statutes and rights; take care, therefore, to keep and do them with all thine heart and with all thy soul.


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Thou hast lifted up the LORD today to be thy God and to walk in his ways and to keep his statutes and his commandments and his rights and to hearken unto his voice.


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And the LORD has lifted thee up this day to be his unique people, as he has promised thee, and that [thou] should keep all his commandments,


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and to make thee high above all the Gentiles which he has made, in praise, and in fame, and in glory; and that thou may be a holy people unto the LORD thy 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 ye shall pass the Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God gives thee that thou shalt set thee up great stones and plaster them with plaster;


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And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law when thou has passed to enter in unto the land which the LORD thy God gives thee, a land that flows with milk and honey, as the LORD God of thy fathers has said unto thee.


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Therefore, it shall be when ye have passed the Jordan, [that] ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in Mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaster them with plaster.


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And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones; thou shalt not lift up [any] iron [tool] upon them.


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Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones, and thou shalt offer burnt offerings upon it unto the LORD thy God;


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And Moses with the priests the Levites spoke unto all Israel, saying, Take heed and hearken, O Israel; today thou art become the people of the LORD thy God.


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Thou shalt, therefore, hear the voice of the LORD thy God and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.


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These shall stand upon Mount Gerizim to bless the people when ye have passed the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.


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And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to pronounce the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.


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Cursed [is] the man that makes [any] graven 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 [is] he that twists the rights of the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.


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Cursed [is] 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 [is] 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 [is] 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 thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God to keep [and] to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all the Gentiles of the earth;


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and all these blessings shall come upon thee and overtake thee when thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.


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Blessed [shall] be the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy ground and the fruit of thy beasts, the increase of thy cows, and the flocks of thy sheep.


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The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face; they shall come out against thee one way and flee before thee seven ways.


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The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God gives thee.


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The LORD shall confirm thee as his holy people, as he has sworn unto thee, when thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God and walk in his ways.


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And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD, and they shall be afraid of thee.


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And the LORD shall cause thee to have good in abundance in the fruit of thy body and in the fruit of thy beasts and in the fruit of thy ground, upon the land which the LORD swore unto thy fathers to give thee.


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The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven, to give the rain unto thy land in its season and to bless all the work of thine hand. And thou shalt lend unto many Gentiles, and thou shalt not borrow.


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And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail, and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath, when thou shalt hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to keep them and to fulfill [them].


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And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day [to] the right hand or [to] the left, to go after other gods to serve them.


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And it shall come to pass if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep, to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee today, that all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee.


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Cursed [shall] be the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy cows and the flocks of thy sheep.


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The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, destruction and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand to do, until thou art destroyed and perish quickly because of the wickedness of thy doings, by which thou hast forsaken me.


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The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee until he has consumed thee from off the land into which thou dost enter to inherit it.


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The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption 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 thee until thou perish.


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And thy heavens which [are] over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee [shall be] iron.


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The LORD shall make the rain of thy land dust and ashes; from the heavens it shall come down upon thee, until thou art destroyed.


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The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies; thou shalt go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them and shalt be an object of trembling unto all the kingdoms of the earth.


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And thy carcase shall be food unto all fowls of the air and unto the beasts of the earth, and [there shall be] no one to frighten [them] away.


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The LORD will smite thee with the boil of Egypt and with the hemorrhoids and with the scab and with the itch, of which thou canst not be healed.


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And thou shalt grope at noonday as the blind grope in the darkness, and thou shalt not be prospered in thy ways; and thou shalt only be oppressed and spoiled all the days, and [there shall be] no one to save [thee].


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Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her; thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein; thou shalt plant a vineyard and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.


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Thine ox [shall be] slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof; thine ass [shall be] violently taken away from before thy face and shall not be restored to thee; thy sheep [shall be] given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have no one to rescue [them].


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Thy sons and thy daughters [shall be] given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look and fail [with longing] for them all the day long; and [there shall be] no strength in thine hand.


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The fruit of thy land and all thy labours shall a people which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt only be oppressed and crushed all the days.


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The LORD shall smite thee in the knees and in the legs with an evil boil that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.


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The LORD shall bring thee and thy king which thou shalt set over thee unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, and there shalt thou serve other gods, [even] wood and stone.


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And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all nations where the LORD shall carry thee away.


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Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field and shalt gather [but] little in, for the locust shall consume it.


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Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress [them], but shalt neither drink [of] the wine nor gather [the grapes], for the worms shall eat them.


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Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint [thyself] with the oil; for thine olive shall fall.


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Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.


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The stranger that [is] in the midst of thee shall get up above thee very high, and thou shalt come down very low.


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He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him; he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.


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Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee and shall pursue thee and overtake thee until thou art destroyed because thou shalt not have attended unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee;


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Because thou didst not serve the LORD thy God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all [things];


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therefore, thou shalt serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in lack of all [things]; and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck until he has destroyed thee.


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The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from afar, from the end of the earth, [as swift] as the eagle flies, a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand,


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a nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old nor show favour to the young;


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and he shall eat the fruit of thy beast and the fruit of thy land until thou art destroyed, which [also] shall not leave thee [either] grain, wine, or oil, [or] the increase of thy cows or flocks of thy sheep until he has destroyed thee.


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And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates until thy high and fenced walls come down, in which thou dost trust, throughout all thy land; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God has given thee.


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And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God has given thee, in the siege and in the straitness with which thine enemies shall distress thee.


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The man [that] is tender among you and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother and toward the wife of his bosom and toward the 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 shall have nothing left him in the siege and in the straitness with which thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.


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The tender and delicate woman among you who 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 straitness with which thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates,


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if thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book that thou may fear this glorious and fearful name; I AM thy God.


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Then the LORD will augment thy plagues wonderfully, and the plagues of thy seed, [even] great plagues and of long continuance, and evil sicknesses and of long continuance.


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Moreover, he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of, and they shall cleave unto thee.


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Also every sickness and every plague, which [is] not written in the book of this law, the LORD will bring upon thee until thou art destroyed.


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And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude, because thou would not hear the voice of the LORD thy God.


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And it shall come to pass [that] as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to cause you to perish and to destroy you; and ye shall be plucked from off the land into which thou dost enter in to inherit it.


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And the LORD shall scatter thee among all the peoples from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, [even] wood and stone.


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Neither shalt thou find rest among these Gentiles, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest; but there the LORD shall give thee a trembling heart and failing of eyes and sorrow of soul;


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and thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night and shalt have no assurance of thy life.


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In the morning thou shalt say, I wish it were evening, and in the evening thou shalt say, I wish it were morning! For the fear of thine heart with which thou shalt fear and for the that which thine eyes shall see.


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And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again in ships by the way of which I spoke unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again; and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and there shall be no one to buy [you].:


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These [are] the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.


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Moses, therefore, called unto all Israel and said unto them, Ye 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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And I have brought you forty years through the wilderness; your clothes are not waxed old upon you, and neither has thy shoe waxed old upon thy foot.


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Ye have never eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink that ye might know that I [am] the LORD your God.


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And when ye came unto this place, Sihon, the king of Heshbon, and Og, the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them;


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and we took their land and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reuben and unto Gad and to the half tribe of Manasseh.


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Thou shalt keep, therefore, the words of this covenant and do them that ye may understand all that ye do.


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Ye stand today, all of you, before the LORD your God, your princes of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, [with] all the men of Israel,


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your little ones, your wives, and thy strangers that dwell within thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water,


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that thou may enter into covenant with the LORD thy God and into his oath, which the LORD thy God makes with thee today,


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to confirm thee today as his people and [that] he may be unto thee as God, as he has said unto thee, and as he has sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.


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but with those that stand here with us today before the LORD our God and also with those that are not here with us today.


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For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the Gentiles which ye passed by;


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and ye have seen their abominations and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which [they have] among them.


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Peradventure there shall be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God to go [and] serve the gods of those Gentiles; peradventure there shall be among you a root that bears poison and wormwood;


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and it shall be, that when that one 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 forgive him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.


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And the LORD shall separate him unto 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 shall it produce [anything], nor shall any grass grow therein, like in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and in his wrath;


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even all Gentiles shall say, Why has the LORD done thus unto this land? What [means] the heat of this great anger?


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Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt;


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for they went and served other gods and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not and who had not given anything unto them.


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Therefore, the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book.


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And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger and in wrath and in great indignation and cast them into another land, as [it is] today.


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The hidden things of the LORD our God are uncovered unto 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 thee, the blessing and the curse which I have set before thee, and thou shalt return unto thy heart [among] all the Gentiles, where the LORD thy God shall have driven thee,


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and shalt convert unto the LORD thy God and shalt hear his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart and with all thy soul,


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then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity and have mercy upon thee and will return and gather thee from all the peoples where the LORD thy God has scattered thee.


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If thou hast been driven out unto the outmost [parts] of the heavens, from there will the LORD thy God gather thee and from there will he take thee;


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and the LORD thy God will return thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt inherit it; and he will do thee good and multiply thee more than thy fathers.


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And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul, that thou may live.


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And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies and on those that hate thee, who persecuted thee.


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And thou shalt return and thou shalt hear the voice of the LORD and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.


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And the LORD thy God will make thee abound in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body and in the fruit of thy beasts and in the fruit of thy land, for good; for the LORD will turn to rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers,


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when thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, when thou shalt turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul.


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It [is] not in heaven, that thou should say, Who shall go up for us to heaven and take it for us and recite it unto us, that we may fulfil it?


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Neither [is] it beyond the sea, that thou should say, Who shall go over the sea for us and take it for us and recite it unto us, that we may fulfil it?


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for I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his rights, that thou may live and be multiplied; and may the LORD thy God bless thee in the land into which thou dost enter to inherit it.


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But if thine heart turns away so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away and worship other gods and serve them,


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I declare unto you this day that ye shall surely perish [and that] ye shall not prolong [your] days upon the land, to go unto which thou passest the Jordan to inherit it.


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I call the heavens and the earth to witness today against you [that] I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore, choose life that both thou and thy seed may live,


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that thou may love the LORD thy God [and] that thou may hear his voice and that thou may cleave unto him; for he [is] thy life and the length of thy days that thou may dwell in the land which the LORD swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob, to give them.:


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and he said unto them, I [am] one hundred and twenty years old today; I can no longer go out and come in; also the LORD has said unto me, Thou shalt not pass this Jordan.


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The LORD thy God, he will pass in front of thee, [and] he will destroy these Gentiles from before thee, and thou shalt inherit them; Joshua shall be the one who shall pass before thee, as the LORD has said.


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And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them whom he destroyed.


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And the LORD shall give them up before your face that ye may do unto them according unto 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 thy God is he that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee nor forsake thee.


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And Moses called unto Joshua and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage, for thou shalt enter in with this people to the land which the LORD has sworn unto their fathers to give them, and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.


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And the LORD is he that doth go before thee; he will be with thee; he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee; fear not, neither be dismayed.


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And Moses wrote this law and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel.


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And Moses commanded them, saying, At the beginning of the seventh year, in the appointed time of the year of release, in the feast of the tabernacles,


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when all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.


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Gather the people together, men and women and children and thy strangers that [are] within thy 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 [any thing], may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God all the days that ye live in the land to go unto which ye are to pass the Jordan to inherit it.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days are fulfilled that thou must die; call Joshua and wait in the tabernacle of the testimony that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went and waited in the tabernacle of the testimony.


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And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in the pillar of cloud, and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.


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And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people shall rise up and fornicate after the gods of the strangers of the land where they go [when they shall 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 same 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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But I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.


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Now therefore write ye this song for you and teach it to the sons of Israel; put it in their mouths that this song may be a witness for me against the sons of Israel.


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For I shall bring them into the land which I swore unto their fathers, that flows with milk and honey, and they shall eat and fill themselves and wax fat; then they will turn unto other gods and serve them and provoke me and break my covenant.


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And it shall come to pass when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall reply to them in their face as a witness, for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed; for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.


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And he gave Joshua, the son of Nun, a charge and said, Be strong and of a good courage for thou shalt bring the sons of Israel into the land which I swore unto them, and I will be with thee.


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And it came to pass when Moses had finished writing the words of this law in the 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 thee.


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For I know thy rebellion and thy stiff neck; behold, while I am yet alive with you today, ye are rebels against the LORD, and how much more after my death?


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Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, and I shall speak these words in their ears and call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against them.


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For I know that after my death ye 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 ye will have done evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.


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Then 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 small rain upon the tender herb and as the showers upon the grass.


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The strong One, whose work [is] perfect: for all his ways [are] right; a God of truth and without iniquity, just and upright [is] he.


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They have corrupted themselves, their spot is that they are not his sons; [they are] a perverse and crooked generation.


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Do ye thus repay the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? [Is] he not thy father [that] has possessed thee? He made thee and established thee.


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Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee;


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when the most High caused the Gentiles to be inherited, when he separated the sons of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the sons 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 fruits of the field; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock and oil out of the strong flint,


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butter of cows and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs and rams of the sons of Bashan [(or fruitfulness)] and goats with the fat of kidneys, of wheat; and thou didst drink the blood of the grape, [pure] wine.


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But Jeshurun [(the upright one)] waxed fat and kicked; (thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou hast covered thyself) and forsook the God [who] made him and lightly esteemed the strong One of his saving health.


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They sacrificed unto devils, not to God, to gods whom they knew not, to new [gods that] came from nearby, whom your fathers feared not.


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Of the strong One [that] begat thee thou art unmindful and hast forgotten the God that travailed for thee.


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And he said, I will hide my face from them; I will see what their end [shall be]: that they [are] a generation of perversities, sons without 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 also will move them to jealousy with [those who are] not a people; I will provoke them to anger with foolish Gentiles.


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For fire shall be kindled in my anger and shall burn unto the lowest [part of] Sheol and shall consume the earth with her fruit and burn up the foundations of the mountains.


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[They shall be] consumed 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 shatter them in pieces: I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,


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if I did not fear the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should become vain [and] lest they should say, Our high hand has done this and not the LORD.


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How could one chase a thousand and two put ten thousands to flight if their strong One had not sold them, and the LORD had not delivered them up?


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Therefore, their vine [is] of the vine of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes [are] grapes of gall, their clusters [are] very bitter.


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Vengeance and recompense are mine, in the time when their foot shall slide; for the day of their calamity [is] at hand and that which is determined upon them makes haste.


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For the LORD shall judge his people and repent himself for his servants when he sees that [their] power is gone, and [there is] none shut up or left.


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who ate 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, I [am] he, and [there are] no gods with me; I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; and there is not one that can deliver out of my hand.


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if I whet the resplendence of my sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to my enemies and will recompense those that hate me.


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I will make my arrows drunk with blood and my sword shall devour flesh, in the blood of the slain and of the captives of the heads, in revenge as an enemy.


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Rejoice, O ye Gentiles, [with] his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants and will render vengeance to his enemies and will reconcile his land, to his people.


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And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hosea, the son of Nun.


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and he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I protest against you today, to command them unto your children and keep and fulfil 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 ye shall prolong [your] days in the land, which ye shall pass the Jordan to inherit.


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Climb up into this mountain Abarim, [unto] mount Nebo, which [is] in the land of Moab, that [is] over against Jericho, and behold the land of Canaan, which I give as inheritance unto the sons of Israel,


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and die in the mountain which thou shalt climb and be gathered unto thy peoples, as Aaron thy brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered unto his peoples,


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because ye trespassed against me among the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, because ye did not sanctify me in the midst of the sons of Israel.


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Yet thou shalt see the land before [thee], but thou shalt not enter there to the land which I give the sons of Israel.:


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And this [is] the blessing, with which Moses the man of God blessed the sons of Israel before his death.


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And he said, The LORD came from Sinai and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from Mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of holiness, at his right hand the law of fire for them.


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Yea, he loved the peoples; all his saints [are] in thy hand; they also united at thy feet; they received thy words.


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And he was king in Jeshurun when the heads of the people, the tribes of Israel, were gathered together as one.


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And this [blessing is] for 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 thou a help [to him] from his enemies.


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And to Levi he said, [Let] thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah [and with] whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah,


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who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen them; neither did he acknowledge his brethren nor know his own children; therefore, they shall keep thy word and guard thy covenant.


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They shall teach Jacob thy judgments and Israel thy law; they shall put incense before thy nostrils and a perfect [sacrifice] upon thine altar.


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Bless, O LORD, his ministry, and take pleasure in the work of his hands; smite through the loins of those that rise up against him and of those that hate him that they may never rise again.


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And to 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 to Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD [is] his land, for the gifts of the heavens, for the dew, and for the deep that is stretched out beneath,


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and for the gifts of the earth and fullness thereof, and may the grace of him that dwelt in the bush 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 beauty [is like] the firstborn of his bullock, and his horns [are like] the horns of unicorns; with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth; these [are] the ten thousands of Ephraim, and these [are] the thousands of Manasseh.


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They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness; therefore they shall suck the abundance of the seas and hidden treasures of the sand.


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And to Gad he said, Blessed [is] he that caused Gad to be enlarged; he shall dwell as a lion and shall tear the arm with the crown of the head.


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And he saw the best for himself because there the portion of the lawgiver was enclosed; and he came at the head of the people; he shall execute the righteousness of the LORD and his judgments with Israel.


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And to Naphtali he said, Naphtali, filled with grace and full of the blessing of the LORD, shall inherit the west and the Negev.


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And to Asher he said, Asher, more blessed than the sons, shall be acceptable unto his brethren and shall dip his foot in oil.


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[There is] no [other] like unto the God of Jeshurun, [who] rides upon the heavens for thy help, in the clouds with his excellency.


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The habitation of God is eternal, and underneath the everlasting arms; he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee and shall say, Destroy [them].


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Then Israel, the fountain of Jacob, shall dwell in safety alone in a land of grain and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.


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Blessed [art] thou, O Israel, who [is] like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help and the sword of thy excellency? Thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee, and thou shalt tread upon their high places.:


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And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo to the top of Pisgah, that [is] over against 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 utmost sea,


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And the LORD said unto him, This [is] the land which I swore unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed. I have caused thee to see [it] with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over there.


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So Moses, the servant of the LORD, died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.


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And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor, but no one knows of his sepulchre unto this day.


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And Moses [was] one hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.


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And the sons of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; so the days of weeping [and] mourning for Moses were fulfilled.


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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 sons of Israel hearkened unto 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 unto Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,


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Moses, my servant, is dead; now, therefore, arise, pass this Jordan, thou and all this people, unto the land which I give to the sons of Israel.


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Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.


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From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your borders.


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No one shall be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life; as I was with Moses, [so] I will be with thee; I will not fail thee nor forsake thee.


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Be strong and of a good courage; for thou shalt cause this people to inherit the land as an inheritance, which I swore unto their fathers to give them.


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Only be thou strong and very courageous that thou mayest keep and do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee; turn not from it [to] the right hand or [to] the left that thou may be prospered in all the things that thou doest.


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This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night that thou may keep and do according to all that is written therein; for then thou shalt make thy way to prosper, and then thou shalt understand everything.


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See that I command thee to be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed; for [I], the LORD thy God [am], with thee whereever thou goest.


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Pass through the camp and command the people, saying, Prepare food; for within three days ye shall pass this Jordan, to enter in to inherit the land, which the LORD your God gives you to inherit.


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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 beasts shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan; but ye, all the mighty men of valour, shall pass before your brethren armed and help them


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until the LORD has given your brethren rest, as [he has given] you and they also inherit the land which the LORD your God gives them; then ye shall return unto the land of your inheritance and inherit it, which Moses the LORD'S servant has given you on this side of the Jordan toward the sunrising.


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Then [they] answered Joshua, saying, All that thou hast commanded us we will do, and whereever thou dost send us, we will go.


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According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee; only [let] the LORD thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses.


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Whoever rebels against thy commandment and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou doest command him, let him die; 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, men of the sons of Israel have come here this night to spy out the land.


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Then the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that have come unto thee, who have entered into thy house; for they are come to spy out all the land.


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And the woman had taken the two men and hidden them and said thus, [It is] true [that some] men came unto me, but I did not know where they came from.


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And at the [time of] shutting the gate, when it was dark, these men went out, and I do not know where the men went; pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.


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But she had brought them up to the roof of the house and hid them among the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.


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And the men pursued after them [along] the way to 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 unto the men, I know that the LORD has given you this land because the fear of you has fallen upon us and 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 ye came out of Egypt and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites that [were] on the other side of the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.


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Hearing this has melted our heart, neither has there remained any more spirit in any man because of you, for the LORD your God is God above in the heavens and in the earth beneath.


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Now, therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD since I have showed you mercy that ye will also do the same unto my father's house, of which thou shalt give me a true sign,


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and [that] ye will save alive my father and my mother and my brethren and my sisters and all that they have and deliver our lives from death.


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And the men answered her, Our life for yours if ye do not declare this our business. And it shall be when the LORD has given us the land, that we will deal with thee according to mercy and truth.


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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 unto them, Go to the mountain lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned; and afterwards ye may go your way.


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And the men said unto her, We [will be] exempted of this thine oath which thou hast made us [swear in the following manner].


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Behold, [when] we come into the land, thou shall have bound this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by, and thou shall have brought thy father and thy mother and thy brethren and all thy father's household home unto thee.


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And it shall be [that] whoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood [shall be] upon his own head, and we [will be] guiltless; and whoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood [shall be] on our head if [any] hand touches him.


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And if thou should declare this our business, then we will be exempted of thine oath which thou hast made us swear.


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And she said, According unto 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 unto the mountain and abode there three days until their pursuers had returned; and the pursuers sought [them] throughout all the way but did not find [them].


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So the two men returned and descended from the mountain and crossed over and came to Joshua, the son of Nun, and told him all the things that had befallen them.


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And they said unto Joshua, Truly the LORD has delivered all the land into our hands; and also all the inhabitants of the land are faint before us.:


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And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the sons of Israel and lodged there before they passed over.


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and they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove 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; do not come near unto it that ye may know the way by which ye must go; for ye have not passed [this] way before now.


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And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.


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And Joshua spoke unto the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant and pass before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people.


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And the LORD said unto Joshua, From this day I will begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.


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Therefore, thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When ye are entered into the brink of the water of the Jordan, ye shall stand still in the Jordan.


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And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God [is] among you and [that] he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Hivite and the Perizzite and the Girgashite and the Amorite and the Jebusite.


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And when the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off; for the waters that come down from above shall stand in a heap.


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And it came to pass when the people removed from their tents to pass the Jordan and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people,


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when those that bore the ark entered into the Jordan, as soon as the feet of the priests that bore the ark were dipped in the brim of the water (for Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),


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that the waters which came down from above stood [and] rose up in a heap very far from the city of Adam, that [is] beside Zaretan; and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, [even] the salt sea, failed [and] were cut off; and the people passed over right against Jericho.


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But the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan until all the people finished passing the Jordan; and all Israel passed on dry ground.:


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And it came to pass when all the people were finished passing the Jordan, that the LORD spoke unto Joshua, saying,


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and command them, saying, Take from here of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night.


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Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the sons of Israel, out of each tribe a man;


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and Joshua said unto them, Pass before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of the Jordan and take ye up each one of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the sons 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 these stones [mean] unto you?


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Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off; and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the sons of Israel for ever.


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And the sons of Israel did so as Joshua commanded and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as the LORD spoke unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged and laid them down there.


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Joshua also set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant had stood; and they are there unto this day.


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For the priests who bore 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 had commanded Joshua; and the people made haste and passed.


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And when all the people were finished passing, the ark of the LORD passed, and the priests, in the presence of the people.


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And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh passed armed before the sons of Israel, as Moses had said unto them.


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About forty thousand [men] prepared for war passed over before the LORD unto battle, towards 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 had feared Moses, all the days of his life.


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And it came to pass, when the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD came up out of the midst of the Jordan [and] the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters of the Jordan returned unto their place, flowing as before over all its banks.


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And the people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth [day] of the first month and camped in Gilgal, on the east side of Jericho.


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And he spoke unto the sons of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What do these stones [mean] unto you?


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For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you until ye had passed, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us until we had passed,


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that all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it [is] mighty; that ye might fear the LORD your God all the days.:


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And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, who [were] on the west side of the Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who [were] by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the sons of Israel until we had passed, that their heart melted, and there was no more spirit in them before the sons of Israel.


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At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives and circumcise again the sons of Israel the second time.


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And Joshua made himself sharp knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.


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And this [is] the reason why Joshua circumcised [them]: All the people that had come out of Egypt, [that were] males, [even] all the men of war, had died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.


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Now all the people that had come out were circumcised; but all the people [that were] born in the wilderness by the way, after they came forth out of Egypt, were not circumcised.


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For the sons of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness until all the people [that were] men of war, who had come out of Egypt, were consumed because they did not listen to the voice of the LORD; therefore, the LORD swore unto them that he would not let them see the land which the LORD had sworn unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that flows with milk and honey.


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But their sons, [whom] he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised; for they were uncircumcised because they had not been circumcised by the way.


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And when they had finished circumcising all the people, they abode in the same place in the camp until they were whole.


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And the LORD said unto Joshua, Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Therefore, the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.


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And the sons of Israel encamped in Gilgal and celebrated the passover on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, in the plains of Jericho.


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And they ate of the fruit of the land, unleavened cakes, on the next day after the passover and parched new ears [of grain] in the same day.


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And the manna ceased on the next day after they had begun to eat of the fruit of the land; and the sons of Israel never had manna again; but they ate of the fruits of the land of Canaan that year.


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And Joshua, being near Jericho, lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand. And Joshua went unto him and said unto him, [Art] thou one of us or one of our adversaries?


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And he said, No, but I [am] the Prince of the host of the LORD; now I am come. Then Joshua falling upon his face in the earth worshiped him and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?


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And the Prince of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place on which thou dost stand [is] holy. And Joshua did so.:


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But the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given Jericho and its king into thy hand, [with] its mighty men of valour.


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Therefore, ye shall compass the city, all [ye] men of war, going round about the city once; and thou shalt do this six days.


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And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven shofarot ([or rams horns]) of jubilee; and the seventh day ye shall go around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the shofarot.


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And when they make a long [sound] of jubilee with the horn so that ye hear the voice of the shofar, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat; then the people shall ascend up each man straight before him.


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And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant and let seven priests bear seven shofarot of jubilee before the ark of the LORD.


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And he said unto the people, Pass on and compass the city and let those that are armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.


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And when Joshua had spoken unto the people, the seven priests bearing the seven shofarot of jubilee passed on before the LORD and blew with the shofarot; 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 shofarot, and the congregation came after the ark, [the priests] going on and blowing with the shofarot.


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And Joshua commanded the people, saying, Ye 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, Shout; then ye shall shout.


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So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about [it] once; and they came into the camp and lodged in the camp.


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And the seven priests bearing the seven shofarot of jubilee before the ark of the LORD walked continually, and blew with the shofarot; and the armed men went before them; but the congregation came after the ark of the LORD, [the priests] going on and blowing with the shofarot.


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Likewise the second day they compassed the city once and returned into the camp; so they did for six days.


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And on the seventh day they rose early about the dawning of the day and compassed the city after the same manner seven times; only on that day they compassed the city seven times.


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And when the priests had blown the shofarot the seventh time, Joshua said unto the people, Shout, for the LORD has given you the city.


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And the city shall be anathema unto the LORD, [even] it, and all the things that are in it; 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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But keep yourselves from the anathema, that ye not touch nor take any thing of the anathema so that ye not make the camp of Israel anathema and trouble it.


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For all the silver and gold and vessels of brass and iron [are] consecrated unto the LORD; they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.


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Then the people shouted when [the priests] blew with the shofarot, and it came to pass when the people heard the voice of the shofar, that the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, each man straight before him and they took the city.


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And they utterly destroyed all that [was] in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and ass, with the edge of the sword.


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But Joshua said unto the two men that had spied out the land, Go into the harlot's house and bring the woman out of there with all that she has, as ye swore unto 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 put them outside in the camp of Israel.


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And they burnt the city with fire and all that [was] in it; 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 gave Rahab, the harlot, her life and [also] to her father's household and to all that she had; and she dwells in Israel [even] unto this day because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.


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And Joshua adjured [them] at that time, saying, Cursed [be] the man before the LORD that rises up and builds this city Jericho. He 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 sons of Israel committed a trespass in the anathema; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the anathema; and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the sons of Israel.


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And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which [was] beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke unto them, saying, Go up and spy out the land. And the men went up and spied out Ai.


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And they returned to Joshua and said unto him, Let not all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; do not make all the people to labour there; for they [are but] few.


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And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty-six men; for they chased them [from] before the gate [even] unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down; therefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.


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Then Joshua rent 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, putting dust upon their heads.


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And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, why hast thou caused this people to pass the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? We should have 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 compass us around and cut off our name from upon the earth; then what wilt thou do unto thy great name?


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Israel has sinned and has even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them; for they have even taken of the anathema and have also stolen and lied also, and they have even put [it] in their own vessels.


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Therefore, the sons of Israel could not stand before their enemies, [but] shall turn [their] backs before their enemies because they have been in the anathema; neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the anathema from among you.


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Get up, sanctify the people and say, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow; for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, [There is] anathema in the midst of thee, O Israel; thou canst not stand before thy enemies until ye take away the anathema from among you.


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In the morning, therefore, ye shall come near 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 in the anathema shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he has because he has broken the covenant of the LORD and because he has wrought 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 bringing near the tribe of Judah, the family of the Zarhites was taken; and bringing near the family of the Zarhites man by man, Zabdi was taken;


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and he caused his household to come near, 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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Then Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory now to the LORD God of Israel and give him praise; and tell me now what thou hast done; do not hide [it] from me.


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And Achan answered Joshua and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done.


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When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment and two hundred shekels of silver and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them and took them; and, behold, they [are] hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.


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So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto 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 unto Joshua and unto all the sons of Israel and laid them out before the LORD.


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Then Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan, the son of Zerah, and the silver and the garment and the wedge of gold and his sons and his daughters and his oxen and his asses and his sheep and his tent and all that he had, and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.


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And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? The LORD shall trouble thee 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 them a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.:


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And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed; take all the people of war with thee and arise; go up to Ai. See, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai and his people and his city and his land.


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And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king; only the spoil thereof and the cattle thereof, ye shall take for yourselves. Lay thee an ambush for the city behind it.


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So Joshua arose and all the people of war, to go up against Ai; and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour and sent them away by night.


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And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, [even] behind the city; do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.


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And I and all the people that [are] with me, will approach the city; and when they come out against us, as at the first, we will flee before them


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(for they will come out after us) until we have raptured them out of 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 ye shall rise up from the ambush and take possession the city; for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.


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And when ye have taken the city, ye shall set the city on fire. Ye shall do according to the word of the LORD. See, I have commanded you.


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Then Joshua sent them forth, and they went to lie in ambush and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; and Joshua lodged that night in the midst of 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 against Ai.


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And all the people of war that [were] with him, went up, and drew near and came before the city and pitched camp 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 the people, all the camp that [was] on the side of the north came near to the city, and their ambush on the west of the city. And Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.


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When the king of Ai saw it, he rose up early in the morning and made haste with the men of the city to go out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he did not know that [there was] an ambush against him behind the city.


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Then Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them and fled by the way of the wilderness.


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And all the people that [were] in Ai were called together to pursue after them; and they pursued after Joshua and were raptured from the city.


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And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel that did not go out after Israel; and because they pursued after Israel, they left the city open.


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Then the LORD said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that [is] in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thy hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that [he had] in his hand toward the city.


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And those of 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 made haste to 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 were fleeing into the wilderness turned back upon their pursuers.


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Then Joshua and all Israel, seeing that those of the ambush had taken the city and that the smoke of the city ascended, they turned and slew the men of Ai.


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And the others issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side and some on that side; and they smote them so that they let none of them remain or escape.


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And when Israel had finished slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword until they were consumed, all the Israelites returned unto Ai and smote it with the edge of the sword.


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And 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 back his hand with which he stretched out the spear until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.


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But the Israelites took the beasts and the spoil of the city for themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he had commanded Joshua.


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And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city and raise a great heap of stones upon it, [that remains] unto this day.


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as Moses, the servant, of the LORD had commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no one lifted up [any] iron [tool]; and they offered burnt offerings upon it unto the LORD and sacrificed peace [offerings].


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He also wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written in the presence of the sons of Israel.


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And all Israel and their elders and officers and their judges stood on one side and on the other near the ark, before the priests the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, the strangers, as well as the natural [born among them], half of them over against mount Gerizim and half of them over against mount Ebal, as Moses, the servant of the LORD, had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.


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After this 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 the things that Moses commanded which Joshua did not read before all the congregation of Israel with the women and the little ones and the strangers that walked among them.:


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And it came to pass when all the kings who [were] on this side of the Jordan, in the mountains and in the valleys and in all the coast of the great sea over against Lebanon, heard [these things], the Hittites and the Amorites the Canaanites the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites


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they worked with prudence and went and made as if they had been ambassadors and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old and rent and bound up,


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and old patched shoes upon their feet, and old garments upon them, and all the bread of their provision was dry [and] mouldy.


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[Thus] they came unto Joshua to the camp at Gilgal and said unto him and to the men of Israel, We are come from a far country; now, therefore, make ye a covenant with us.


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And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us, and how shall we make a covenant with you?


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And they said unto Joshua, We [are] thy servants. And Joshua said unto them, Who [are] you and where do you come from?


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And they said unto him, From a very far lands thy servants are come because of the name of the LORD thy 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] on the other side of the Jordan, and to Sihon, king of Heshbon, and to Og, king of Bashan, who [was] at Ashtaroth.


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Therefore, our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take provision with you for the journey and go to meet them and say unto them, We [are] your servants; therefore, now make ye a covenant 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 come unto you, but now, behold, it is dry and mouldy.


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These bottles of wine, we also filled new, and, behold, they are rent, and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.


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And Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them, to let them live; also the princes of the congregation swore unto them.


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At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard how they [were] their neighbours and that they dwelt among them.


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And the sons of Israel journeyed and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities [were] Gibeon and Chephirah and Beeroth and Kirjathjearim.


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And the sons of Israel did not smite them because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes.


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But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel; therefore, now we may not touch them.


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This we will do to them; we will let them live lest wrath come upon us because of the oath which we swore unto them.


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And the princes said unto them, Let them live but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation, as the princes had said unto them.


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And Joshua called for them, and spoke unto them saying, Why have ye beguiled us, saying, We [are] very far from you, when ye dwell among us?


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Now, therefore, ye [are] cursed, and ye shall always be slaves and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.


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And they answered Joshua and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants how the LORD thy God commanded his servant Moses that he was to give you the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; therefore, we feared greatly of our lives because of you and have done this thing.


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And so did he unto them; he delivered them out of the hand of the sons of Israel, so that they did not slay them.


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And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the LORD, in the place which he should choose; [which they are] even unto this day.:


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Now it came to pass when Adonizedek, king of Jerusalem, heard how Joshua had taken Ai and that he had utterly destroyed it (as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king) and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them;


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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 unto Hoham, king of Hebron, and unto Piram, king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia, king of Lachish, and unto Debir, king of Eglon, saying,


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Come up unto me and help me that we may smite Gibeon; for it has made peace with Joshua and with the sons of Israel.


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Therefore, the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together and went up, they and all their hosts and encamped before Gibeon and made war against it.


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And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly and save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.


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So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him and all the mighty men of valour.


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And the LORD said unto Joshua, Do not fear them; for I have delivered them into thy hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee.


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And the LORD discomfited them before Israel and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon and chased them along the way that goes up to Bethhoron and smote them to Azekah and unto Makkedah.


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And when they were fleeing from before Israel in the descent to Bethhoron, the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died; [there were] more who died from the hailstones than [those] whom the sons of Israel slew with the sword.


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Then Joshua spoke unto the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.


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And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed until the nation had avenged themselves upon their enemies. [Is] not this written in the book of righteousness? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven and hastened not to go down about a whole day.


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And there was no day like that before it or after it that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man; for the LORD fought for Israel.


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and do not stop, [but] pursue after your enemies and smite their rearguard without allowing them to enter into their cities; for the LORD your God has delivered them into your hand.


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And it came to pass when Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished slaying them with a very great slaughter until they were consumed, that those who remained of them entered into strong cities.


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And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace; there was no one to move his tongue against any of the sons of Israel.


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Then Joshua said, Open the mouth of the cave and bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave.


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And they did so and brought forth those five kings unto 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 when they had brought those kings out unto Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel and said unto the captains of the men of war who went with him, Come near; put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near and put their feet upon the necks of them.


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And Joshua said unto them, Do not fear, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage; for thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies against whom ye fight.


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And afterward Joshua smote them and slew them and caused them to be hanged on five trees; and they hung upon the trees until the evening.


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And at the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded that they take them down off the trees and cast them into the cave in which they had been hid, and they laid great stones in the cave's mouth, [which remain] until this very day.


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In that same day Joshua took Makkedah and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them and all the souls that [were] therein; he let no one remain; and he did to the king of Makkedah as he did unto the king of Jericho.


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and the LORD delivered it also, and the king thereof, into the hands of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword and all the souls that [were] therein; he let no one remain in it, but did unto the king thereof as he did unto the king of Jericho.


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And Joshua passed from Libnah and all Israel with him unto Lachish and encamped against it and fought against it;


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and the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, who took it on the second day and smote it with the edge of the sword and all the souls that [were] therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah.


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Then Horam, king of Gezer, came up to help Lachish, and Joshua smote him and his people until none of them were left.


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And from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon and all Israel with him, and they encamped against it and fought against it;


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and they took it that same day and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that [were] in it he utterly destroyed that same day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.


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and they took it and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof and all the cities thereof and all the souls that [were] in it; he left no one remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon, but destroyed it utterly and all the souls that [were] therein.


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and he took it and the king thereof and all the cities thereof, and they smote them with the edge of the sword and utterly destroyed all the souls that [were] in it; he left no one remaining; as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and to the king thereof, as he had done also to Libnah and to her king.


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So Joshua smote all the country of the hills and of the Negev and of the vale and of the springs and all their kings; he left no one remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded.


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And Joshua smote them from Kadeshbarnea even unto Gaza and all the country of Goshen even unto Gibeon.


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All these kings and their lands Joshua took at one time because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.


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Hearing [of] this, Jabin, king of Hazor, sent a message unto 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 in the plain southward of Chinneroth and in the valley and in the borders of Dor to the west


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[and to] the Canaanite on the east and on the west and [to] the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Jebusite in the mountains and [to] the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.


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And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, many people even as the sand that [is] upon the sea shore in multitude, with a great multitude of horses and chariots.


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All these kings united, and as they came they gathered together the camps near the waters of Merom to fight against Israel.


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But the LORD said unto Joshua, Do not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow at this hour I will deliver them up all slain before Israel; thou shalt hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.


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So Joshua came against them with all the people of war and fell upon them suddenly by the waters of Merom.


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And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them and chased them unto great Zidon and unto the hot springs and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them no one remaining.


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And Joshua did unto them as the LORD had commanded him; he hamstrung their horses and burnt their chariots with fire.


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And Joshua at that time returned and took Hazor and smote the king thereof with the sword because Hazor had been the head of all those kingdoms before.


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And they smote all the souls that [were] in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying [them]; there was not any left to breathe; and he burnt Hazor with fire.


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Likewise, Joshua took all the cities of those kings and all their kings and smote them with the edge of the sword, [and] he utterly destroyed them as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded him.


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But of all the cities that stood on their hills, Israel burned none of them, excepting Hazor only, which Joshua burned.


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And all the spoil of these cities and the beasts, the sons of Israel took for themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them, without leaving any that breathed.


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As the LORD had commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua, and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that the LORD had commanded Moses.


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So Joshua took all that land, the mountains and all the [region] of the Negev and all the land of Goshen and the valleys and the plains and the mountain of Israel and its valleys.


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[Even] from mount Halak that goes up unto Seir unto Baalgad in the plains of Lebanon at the roots of mount Hermon; likewise he took all their kings and smote them and slew them.


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There was not a city that made peace with the sons of Israel except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon; they took all [the others] in battle.


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For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly [and] that they might have no mercy, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD had commanded Moses.


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Also at the same time Joshua came and cut off the Anakims from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel; Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities.


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There were none of the Anakims left in the land of the sons of Israel; only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.


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So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto 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 sons of Israel smote and possessed their land on the other side of the Jordan toward the rising of the sun from the river Arnon unto 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 midst of the river and from half of Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, [which is] the border of the sons of Ammon,


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and from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east and unto the sea of the plain, the salt sea on the east, by the way to Bethjeshimoth, and from the Negev, under Ashdothpisgah.


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And the borders of Og, king of Bashan, [who was] of the remnant of the Rephaim, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,


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and reigned in mount Hermon and in Salcah and in all Bashan unto the borders of the Geshur and Maachath and half of Gilead, the border of Sihon, king of Heshbon.


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These did Moses, the servant of the LORD, and the sons of Israel smite; and Moses, the servant of the LORD, gave that land in possession unto the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half tribe of Manasseh.


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And these [are] the kings of the land which Joshua and the sons of Israel smote on this side of the Jordan on the west from Baalgad in the plains of Lebanon even unto mount Halak that goes up to Seir, which Joshua gave unto 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 towards the Negev: the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite,


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Now [when] Joshua was old [and] advanced in years, the LORD said unto him, Thou art old [and] advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.


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from the Nile, which [is] before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, [which] is counted among the Canaanites; five cardinals of the Philistines; the Gazathites and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites, also the Avites;


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towards the Negev all the land of the Canaanites and Mearah that [is] beside those of Sidon unto Aphek to the border of the Amorite;


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and the land of the Giblites and all Lebanon toward the sunrising, from Baalgad at the root of mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.


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All the inhabitants of the mountains from Lebanon unto the hot springs [and] all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the sons of Israel; only thou shalt divide the country by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.


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Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes and the half tribe of Manasseh,


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for the other half received their inheritance with the Reubenites and the Gadites, which Moses gave them of the other side of the Jordan eastward, according 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, unto the borders of the sons of Ammon;


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and Gilead and the borders of the Geshur and Maachath and all mount Hermon and all Bashan unto 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 Rephaim, for these did Moses smite and cast them out [of the land].


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Nevertheless, the sons of Israel did not expel those of Geshur and Maachath, but Geshur and Maachath dwell among the Israelites until this day.


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But unto the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance; the sacrifices on fire of the LORD God of Israel are their inheritance, as he said unto them.


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and their border 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 until 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 smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur and Hur and Reba, [who were] princes of Sihon, dwelling in the country.


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Balaam also, the son of Beor, the diviner, did the sons of Israel slay with the sword among those that were slain by them.


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And the border of the sons of Reuben was the Jordan and the border [thereof]. This [was] the inheritance of the sons of Reuben according to their families, these cities with their villages.


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And their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead and half of the land of the sons of Ammon, unto Aroer that [is] before Rabbah,


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and the valley of Betharam and Bethnimrah and Succoth and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon, king of Heshbon, the Jordan and its border, [even] unto 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 sons of Gad according to their families, these cities with their villages.


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And Moses also gave unto the half tribe of Manasseh, and it belonged to the half tribe of the sons of Manasseh according to their families.


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Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which [are] in Bashan, sixty cities.


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And half of Gilead and Ashtaroth and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, [were given] to the sons of Machir, the son of Manasseh, [even] to one half of the sons of Machir, according to their families.


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This is what Moses distributed in inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side of the Jordan of Jericho, eastward.


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But to the tribe of Levi Moses did not give [any] inheritance; the LORD God of Israel is their inheritance, as he said unto them.:


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This is the inheritance of the sons of Israel 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 sons of Israel, distributed unto them.


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Their inheritance was by lot, as the LORD had commanded by the hand of Moses, to be given to the nine tribes and to the half tribe.


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For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and half a tribe on the other side of the Jordan, but unto the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.


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For the sons of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim, and they gave no part unto the Levites in the land except cities to dwell [in] with their suburbs for their livestock and for their substance.


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Then the sons of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses, the man of God, concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea.


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I was forty years old when Moses, the servant of the LORD, sent me from Kadeshbarnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as [it was] in my heart,


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but my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I entirely followed the LORD my God.


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And Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land on which thy feet have trodden shall be thy inheritance and thy sons' for ever because thou hast entirely followed the LORD my God.


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And now, behold, the LORD has caused me to live, as he said, these forty-five years from the time that the LORD spoke these words unto Moses, while Israel has walked in the wilderness; and now, behold, I [am] this day eighty-five years old.


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As yet I [am] as strong today as [I was] in the day that Moses sent me; as my strength [was] then, even so [is] my strength now, for war and 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 thou didst hear in that day how the Anakims [were] there and [that] the cities [were] great [and] strong; peradventure, the LORD [will be] with me, and I shall drive them out, as the LORD said.


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Hebron, therefore, became the inheritance of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, unto this day because he entirely followed the LORD God of Israel.


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And the name of Hebron before [was] Kirjatharba; [Arba had been] 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 sons of Judah by their families: next to the border of Edom, of the wilderness of Zin towards the Negev on the south side.


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And their border on the side of the Negev was from the shore of the salt sea from the bay that looks toward the Negev;


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and it went out towards the Negev to the ascent to Acrabbim passing unto Zin and ascending up by the Negev unto Kadeshbarnea past Hezron and going up by Adar, it went around to Karkaa,


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from there it passed toward Azmon and went out unto the river of Egypt, and this border goes out to the western sea. This shall be your border of the Negev.


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And the east border [is] the salt sea, [even] unto the end of the Jordan. And the border in the north quarter, from the bay of the sea, from the end of the Jordan,


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and this border goes up to Bethhogla and passes along by the north of Betharabah, and from here this border goes up to the stone of Bohan, the son of Reuben.


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And this border goes back up to Debir from the valley of Achor and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that [is] before the ascent to Adummim, which [is] towards the Negev of the river, and this border passes the waters of Enshemesh and comes out at the fount of Rogel;


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and this border goes up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the side of the Jebusite towards the Negev; this is Jerusalem. Then this border goes up to the top of the mountain that is before the valley of Hinnom westward, which [is] at the end of the valley of the giants northward;


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and this border comes around from the top of the mountain unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah and goes out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border goes around to Baalah, which [is] Kirjathjearim.


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After this, the border turns from Baalah westward unto mount Seir and passes to the side of mount Jearim, which [is] Chesalon, on the north side, and descends to Bethshemesh and passes on to Timnah.


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Then this border goes out to the side of Ekron northward; and the same border comes around to Shicron and passes by mount Baalah and goes out to Jabneel; and this border comes out to the sea.


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And the west border [is] the great sea. This [is] the border of the sons of Judah round about according to their families.


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And unto Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, he gave a part among the sons 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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From there he went up to the inhabitants of Debir, and the name of Debir before [was] Kirjathsepher.


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And Caleb said, He that smites Kirjathsepher and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.


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And Othniel, the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it; and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.


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And it came to pass when he was taking her, he persuaded her to ask of her father for land to cultivate. Then she lighted off [her] ass, and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?


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And she answered, Give me a blessing, for thou hast given me a dry land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.


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And these were the cities in the border of the tribe of the sons of Judah towards the border of Edom towards the Negev: Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,


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Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt and the great sea and the border [thereof];


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As for the Jebusites who inhabit Jerusalem, the sons of Judah could not drive them out; but the Jebusite remains in Jerusalem with the sons of Judah unto this day.:


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And the lot of the sons of Joseph fell from the Jordan of Jericho unto the water of Jericho towards the east to the wilderness that goes up from Jericho to mount Bethel,


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and turns to descend to the [westward] sea to the border of Japhleti until the border of Bethhoron the lower, and to Gezer, and comes out at the sea.


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And this was the border of the sons of Ephraim according to their families; this was the border of their inheritance on the east side from Atarothaddar unto Bethhoron the upper;


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and this border comes out to the sea and to Michmethah on the north side; and this border goes around eastward unto Taanathshiloh and from here passes on the east to Janohah;


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and from Janohah it goes down to Ataroth and to Naarath, and touches in Jericho and comes out at the Jordan.


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And from Tappuah this border turns towards the [westward] sea at the river Kanah and comes out at the sea. This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim by their families.


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[There were also] cities separated for the sons of Ephraim among the inheritance of the sons of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.


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And they did not drive out the Canaanite that dwelt in Gezer, but the Canaanite remained in the midst of Ephraim unto this day and served under tribute.:


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There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he [was] the firstborn of Joseph. Machir, the firstborn of Manasseh and father of Gilead, who was a man of war, had Gilead and Bashan.


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There was also [a lot] for the rest of the sons of Manasseh by their families: for the sons of Abiezer and for the sons of Helek and for the sons of Asriel and for the sons of Shechem, and for the sons of Hepher and for the sons of Shemida: these [were] the male sons of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, by their families.


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But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters, and these [are] the names of his daughters: Mahlah, 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 and said, The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore, according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.


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And there fell ten portions to Manasseh besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which [were] on the other side of theJordan,


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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, which is before Shechem; and this border goes along on the right hand to the inhabitants of Entappuah.


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[Now] Manasseh had the land of Tappuah; but the Tappuah next to the border of Manasseh [belongs] to the sons of Ephraim;


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And this border descends to the river Kanah towards the Negev of the river. These cities of Ephraim [are] among the cities of Manasseh; and the border of Manasseh is from the north side of the same river, and it comes out at the sea.


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Ephraim towards the Negev and Manasseh to the north and the sea is his border; and they meet with Asher on the side of the north and with Issachar to the east.


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And Manasseh also had in Issachar and in Asher Bethshean and her towns and Ibleam and her towns and the inhabitants of Dor and her towns and the inhabitants of Endor and her towns and the inhabitants of Taanach and her towns and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns, three provinces.


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But the sons of Manasseh could not drive out [the inhabitants of] those cities; to the contrary the Canaanite desired to dwell in that land.


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Yet it came to pass when the sons of Israel waxed strong that they put the Canaanite under tribute, but did not utterly drive them out.


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And the sons of Joseph spoke unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me [but] one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I [am] a great people and that the LORD has blessed me as such until now?


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And Joshua answered them, If thou [art] such a great people, [then] go up to the forest and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzite and of the giants, if mountain of Ephraim is too narrow for thee.


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And the sons of Joseph said, This mountain 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] in Bethshean and her towns, and [those] who [are] in the valley of Jezreel.


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Then Joshua replied unto the house of Joseph, [even] to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, Thou [art] a great people and hast great strength; thou shalt not have only one lot;


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but that mountain shall be thine, for it [is] a forest, and thou shalt cut it down, and the borders of it shall be thine; for thou shalt drive out the Canaanite, though he has iron chariots [and] though he [is] strong.:


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And the whole congregation of the sons of Israel assembled together at Shiloh and set up the tabernacle of the testimony there after the land was subdued before them.


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And there remained among the sons of Israel seven tribes who had not yet received their inheritance.


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And Joshua said unto the sons of Israel, How long [shall] ye be negligent to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers has given you?


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Indicate from among you three men for [each] tribe that I may send them and [let them] arise and walk through the land and draw it according to its inheritances; and they shall return unto me.


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And they shall divide it into seven parts; Judah shall abide in their borders towards the Negev, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their borders on the north.


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Ye shall therefore draw up the land [into] seven parts and bring [the description] here 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 of the other side of the Jordan on the east, which Moses, the servant of the LORD, gave them.


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And the men arose and went away; and Joshua charged those that went to draw the land, saying unto them, Go and walk through the land and draw it up and return to me that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD in Shiloh.


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And those men went and passed through the land, drawing it by cities into seven parts in a book and came [again] to Joshua to the camp 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 sons of Israel according to their portions.


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And the lot of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin came up according to their families; and the border of their lot came forth between the sons of Judah and the sons of Joseph.


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And their border on the side of the north was from the Jordan and that border goes up beside Jericho on the north side and up to the mountain westward and comes out at the wilderness of Bethaven;


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and from there that border passes through Luz, by the side of Luz (which [is] Bethel) towards the Negev. And this border descends from Atarothadar to the mountain that [is] towards the Negev of the lower Bethhoron.


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And this border turns and compasses the side of the sea towards the Negev unto the mountain that is before Bethhoron towards the Negev, and it comes out at Kirjathbaal, which [is] Kirjathjearim, a city of the sons of Judah. This [is] the west quarter.


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And the side of the Negev [is] from the end of Kirjathjearim, and the border goes out to the west and comes out at the well of waters of Nephtoah,


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and this border descends to the end of the mountain that is before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which [is] in the valley of the giants to the north, and descends then to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite towards the Negev and [from there] descends to the fountain of Rogel,


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and from the north it turns and goes to Enshemesh and [from there] goes to Geliloth, which [is] over against the ascent to Adummim, and descends to the stone of Bohan, the son of Reuben


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and this border turns to pass to the side of Bethhoglah northward, and the border comes out at the north bay of the salt sea at the end of the Jordan towards the Negev. This [is] the border towards the Negev.


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And Jordan finishes this border on the east side. This [is] the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin, by the borders thereof round about, according to their families.


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Now the cities of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, Bethhoglah, the valley of Keziz,


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Zelah, Eleph, Jebusi, which [is] Jerusalem, Gibeath [and] Kirjath: fourteen cities with their villages. This [is] the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin according to their families.:


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And the second lot came forth to Simeon, for the tribe of the sons of Simeon according to their families; and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the sons of Judah.


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with all the villages that [were] round about these cities unto Baalathbeer, [which is] Ramath of the Negev. This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Simeon according to their families.


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Out of the portion of the sons of Judah [was taken] the inheritance of the sons of Simeon; for the part of the sons of Judah was too much for them; therefore, the sons of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of [Judah].


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The third lot came up for the sons of Zebulun according to their families, and the border of their inheritance was unto Sarid.


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And their border goes up towards the sea and to Maralah and reaches unto Dabbasheth and [from there] comes to the river that [is] before Jokneam,


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and turning from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising to the border of Chislothtabor and then goes out to Daberath and up to Japhia,


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and from there passes eastward toward the sunrising to Gittahhepher, to Ittahkazin, and goes out to Remmonmethoar around Neah;


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This [is] the inheritance of the sons of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.


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and this border reaches to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Bethshemesh; and their border comes out to the Jordan; sixteen cities with their villages.


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This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Issachar according to their families, these cities with their villages.


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and turns toward the sunrising to Bethdagon and reaches to Zebulun and to the valley of Jiphthahel to the north, to Bethemek, and to Neiel, and goes out to Cabul on the left hand,


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and this border turns [from there] to Horma and to the strong city of Zor; and this border turns to Hosah and comes out to the sea from the stronghold of Achzib,


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This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.


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The sixth lot came out to the sons of Naphtali, for the sons of Naphtali according to their families.


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And their border was from Heleph, Allon, Zaanannim, Adami, Nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakum, and comes out at the Jordan,


