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The earthen vessel that he with the discharge touches shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.


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When he who has a discharge is cleansed of it, he shall count seven days for his purification, then wash his clothes, bathe in running water, and be clean.


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On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and come before the Lord to the door of the Tent of Meeting and give them to the priest;


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And the priest shall offer them, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering; and [he] shall make atonement for the man before the Lord for his discharge.


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And if any man has a discharge of semen, he shall wash all his body in water, and be unclean until evening.


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And every garment and every skin on which the sperm comes shall be washed with water, and be unclean until evening.


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The woman also with whom a man with emission of semen shall lie, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until evening.


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And if a woman has a discharge, her [regular] discharge of blood of her body, she shall be in her impurity <i>or</i> separation for seven days, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening.


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And everything that she lies on in her separation shall be unclean; everything also that she sits on shall be unclean.


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And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until evening.


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Whoever touches anything she sat on shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until evening.


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And if her flow has stained her bed or anything on which she sat, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until evening.


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And if any man lie with her and her impurity be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.


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And if a woman has an issue of blood for many days, not during the time of her separation, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her [regular] impurity, all the days of the issue of her uncleanness she shall be as in the days of her impurity; she shall be unclean. <f>ⓐ</f>


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Every bed on which she lies all the days of her discharge shall be as the bed of her impurity, and whatever she sits on shall be unclean, as in her impurity.


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And whoever touches those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until evening.


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But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall wait seven days, and after that she shall be clean.


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And on the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting;


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He shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering; and he shall make atonement for her before the Lord for her unclean discharge.


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Thus you shall separate the Israelites from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness by defiling My tabernacle that is in the midst of them.


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This is the law for him who has a discharge and for him who has emissions of sperm, being made unclean by it;


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And for her who is sick with her impurity, and for any person who has a discharge, whether man or woman, and for him who lies with her who is unclean.


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After the death of Aaron’s two sons, when they drew near before the Lord [offered false fire] and died, <f>ⓐ</f>


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The Lord said to Moses, Tell Aaron your brother he <f>[1]</f>must not come at all times into the Holy of Holies within the veil before the mercy seat upon the ark, lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat. <f>ⓑ</f>


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But Aaron shall come into the holy enclosure in this way: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.


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He shall put on the holy linen undergarment, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his body, and be girded with the linen girdle <i>or</i> sash, and with the linen turban <i>or</i> miter shall he be attired; these are the holy garments; he shall bathe his body in water and then put them on.


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He shall take [at the expense] of the congregation of the Israelites two male goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.


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And Aaron shall present the bull as the sin offering for himself and make atonement for himself and for his house [the other priests].


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Aaron shall cast lots on the two goats — one lot for the Lord, the other lot for Azazel <i>or</i> removal.


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But the goat on which the lot fell for Azazel <i>or</i> removal shall be presented alive before the Lord to make atonement over him, that he may be let go into the wilderness for Azazel (for dismissal).


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Aaron shall present the bull as the sin offering for his own sins and shall make atonement for himself and for his house [the other priests], and shall kill the bull as the sin offering for himself.


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He shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the [bronze] altar before the Lord, and his two hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil [into the Holy of Holies],


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And put the incense on the fire [in the censer] before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon [the ark of] the Testimony, lest he die.


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He shall take of the bull’s blood and sprinkle it with his finger on the front [the east side] of the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.


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Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering that is for [the sins of] the people and bring its blood within the veil [into the Holy of Holies] and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat. <f>ⓒ</f>


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Thus he shall make atonement for the Holy Place because of the uncleanness of the Israelites and because of their transgressions, even all their sins; and so shall he do for the Tent of Meeting, that remains among them in the midst of their uncleanness. <f>ⓓ</f>


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There shall be no man in the Tent of Meeting when the high priest goes in to make atonement in the Holy of Holies [within the veil] until he comes out and has made atonement for his own sins and those of his house [the other priests] and of all the congregation of Israel.


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And he shall go out to the altar [of burnt offering in the court] which is before the Lord and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the blood of the bull and of the goat and put it on the horns of the altar round about.


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And he shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his fingers seven times and cleanse it and hallow it from the uncleanness of the Israelites.


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And when he has finished atoning for the Holy of Holies and the Tent of Meeting and the altar [of burnt offering], he shall present the live goat;


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And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat and confess over him all the iniquities of the Israelites and all their transgressions, all their sins; and he shall put them upon the head of the goat [the sin-bearer], and send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man <f>[2]</f>who is timely (ready, fit).


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The goat shall bear upon himself all their iniquities, carrying them to a land cut off (a land of forgetfulness <i>and</i> separation, not inhabited)! And the man leading it shall let the goat go in the wilderness. <f>ⓔ</f>


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Aaron shall come into the Tent of Meeting and put off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the Holy of Holies, and leave them there;


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And he shall bathe his body with water in a sacred place and put on his garments, and come forth and offer his burnt offering and that of the people, and make atonement for himself and for them.


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The man who led the sin-bearing goat out and let him go for Azazel <i>or</i> removal shall wash his clothes and bathe his body, and afterward he may come into the camp.


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The bull and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy of Holies, shall be carried forth without the camp; their skins, their flesh, and their dung shall be burned with fire. <f>ⓕ</f>


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And he who burns them shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.


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It shall be a statute to you forever that in the seventh month [nearly October] on the tenth day of the month you shall afflict yourselves [by fasting with penitence and humiliation] and do no work at all, either the native-born or the stranger who dwells temporarily among you.


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For on this day atonement shall be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins you shall be clean before the Lord. <f>ⓖ</f>


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It is a sabbath of [solemn] rest to you, and you shall afflict yourselves [by fasting with penitence and humiliation]; it is a statute forever.


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And the priest who shall be anointed and consecrated to minister in the priest’s office in his father’s stead shall make atonement, wearing the holy linen garments;


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He shall make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary, for the Tent of Meeting, and for the altar [of burnt offering in the court], and shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.


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This shall be an everlasting statute for you, that atonement may be made for the Israelites for all their sins once a year. And Moses did as the Lord commanded him.


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If any man of the house of Israel kills an ox or lamb or goat in the camp or kills it outside the camp


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And does not bring it to the door of the Tent of Meeting to offer it as an offering to the Lord before the Lord’s tabernacle, [guilt for shedding] <f>[1]</f>blood shall be imputed to that man; he has shed blood and shall be cut off from among his people.


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This is so that the Israelites, rather than offer their sacrifices [to idols] in the open field [where they slew them], may bring them to the Lord at the door of the Tent of Meeting, to the priest, to offer them as peace offerings to the Lord.


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And the priest shall dash the blood on the altar of the Lord at the door of the Tent of Meeting and burn the fat for a sweet <i>and</i> satisfying fragrance to the Lord.


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So they shall no more offer their sacrifices to goatlike gods <i>or</i> demons <i>or</i> field spirits after which they have played the harlot. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.


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And you shall say to them, Whoever of the house of Israel or of the strangers who dwell temporarily among you offers a burnt offering or sacrifice


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And does not bring it to the door of the Tent of Meeting to offer it to the Lord shall be cut off from among his people.


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Any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who dwell temporarily among them who eats any kind of blood, against that person I will set My face and I will cut him off from among his people [that he may not be included in the atonement made for them]. <f>ⓐ</f>


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For the life (the animal soul) is in the blood, and I have given it for you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement, by reason of the life [which it represents]. <f>ⓑ</f>


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Therefore I have said to the Israelites, No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who dwells temporarily among you eat blood.


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And any of the Israelites or of the strangers who sojourn among them who takes in hunting any clean beast or bird shall pour out its blood and cover it with dust.


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As for the life of all flesh, the blood of it represents the life of it; therefore I said to the Israelites, You shall partake of the blood of no kind of flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats of it shall be cut off.


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And every person who eats what dies of itself or was torn by beasts, whether he is native-born or a temporary resident, shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until evening; then shall he be clean. <f>ⓒ</f>


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But if he does not wash his clothes or bathe his body, he shall bear his own iniquity [for it shall not be borne by the sacrifice of atonement].


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You shall not do as was done in the land of Egypt in which you dwelt, nor shall you do as is done in the land of Canaan to which I am bringing you; neither shall you walk in their statutes.


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You shall therefore keep My statutes and My ordinances which, if a man does, he shall live by them. I am the Lord. <f>ⓐ</f>


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The nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother, you shall not uncover; she is your mother; you shall not have intercourse with her.


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You shall not have intercourse with <i>or</i> uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father or of your mother, whether born at home or born abroad.


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You must not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter; their nakedness you shall not uncover, for they are your own flesh.


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You must not have intercourse with your father’s wife’s daughter; begotten by your father, she is your sister; you shall not uncover her nakedness.


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You shall not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s near kinswoman.


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You shall not have intercourse with your father’s brother’s wife; you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.


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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife; you shall not have intercourse with her.


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You shall not marry a woman and her daughter, nor shall you take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to have intercourse; they are [her] near kinswomen; it is wickedness <i>and</i> an outrageous offense.


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You must not marry a woman in addition to her sister, to be a rival to her, having sexual relations with the second sister when the first one is alive.


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Also you shall not have intercourse with a woman during her [menstrual period or similar] uncleanness.


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You shall not give any of your children to pass through the fire <i>and</i> sacrifice them to Molech [the fire god], nor shall you profane the name of your God [by giving it to false gods]. I am the Lord.


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Neither shall you lie with any beast and defile yourself with it; neither shall any woman yield herself to a beast to lie with it; it is confusion, perversion, <i>and</i> degradedly carnal.


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Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for in all these things the nations are defiled which I am casting out before you.


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And the land is defiled; therefore I visit the iniquity of it upon it, and the land itself vomits out her inhabitants.


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So you shall keep My statutes and My ordinances and shall not commit any of these abominations, neither the native-born nor any stranger who sojourns among you,


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For all these abominations have the men of the land done who were before you, and the land is defiled —


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[Do none of these things] lest the land spew you out when you defile it as it spewed out the nation that was before you.


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So keep My charge: do not practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you and defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God.


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Say to all the assembly of the Israelites, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. <f>ⓐ</f>


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Each of you shall give due respect to his mother and his father, and keep My Sabbaths holy. I the Lord am your God.


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Do not turn to idols <i>and</i> things of nought or make for yourselves molten gods. I the Lord am your God.


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And when you offer a sacrifice of peace offering to the Lord, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.


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It shall be eaten the same day you offer it and on the day following; and if anything remains until the third day, it shall be burned in the fire.


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But everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, for he has profaned a holy thing of the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from his people [and not be included in the atonement made for them].


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And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field to its very corners, neither shall you gather the fallen ears <i>or</i> gleanings of your harvest.


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And you shall not glean your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather its fallen grapes; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger. I am the Lord your God.


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And you shall not swear by My name falsely, neither shall you profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.


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You shall not defraud <i>or</i> oppress your neighbor or rob him; the wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until morning.


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You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall [reverently] fear your God. I am the Lord.


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You shall do no injustice in judging a case; you shall not be partial to the poor or show a preference for the mighty, but in righteousness <i>and</i> according to the merits of the case judge your neighbor.


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You shall not go up and down as a dispenser of gossip <i>and</i> scandal among your people, nor shall you [secure yourself by false testimony or by silence and] endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the Lord.


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You shall not hate your brother in your heart; but you shall surely rebuke your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him. <f>ⓒ</f>


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You shall not take revenge or bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord. <f>ⓓ</f>


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You shall keep My statutes. You shall not let your domestic animals breed with a different kind [of animal]; you shall not sow your field with mixed seed, neither wear a garment of linen mixed with wool.


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And if a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave betrothed to a husband and not yet ransomed or given her freedom, they shall be punished [after investigation]; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free;


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But he shall bring his guilt <i>or</i> trespass offering to the Lord to the door of the Tent of Meeting, a ram for a guilt <i>or</i> trespass offering.


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The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt <i>or</i> trespass offering before the Lord for his sin, and he shall be forgiven for committing the sin.


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And when you come into the land and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count the fruit of them as inedible <i>and</i> forbidden to you for three years; it shall not be eaten.


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But in the fifth year you may eat of the fruit [of the trees], that their produce may enrich you; I am the Lord your God.


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You shall not eat anything with the blood; neither shall you use magic, omens, <i>or</i> witchcraft [or predict events by horoscope or signs and lucky days].


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You shall not round the corners of the hair of your heads nor trim the corners of your beard [as some idolaters do].


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You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead nor print <i>or</i> tattoo any marks upon you; I am the Lord.


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Do not profane your daughter by causing her to be a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry and become full of wickedness.


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Turn not to those [mediums] who have familiar spirits or to wizards; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.


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You shall rise up before the hoary head and honor the face of the old man and [reverently] fear your God. I am the Lord.


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And if a stranger dwells temporarily with you in your land, you shall not suppress <i>and</i> mistreat him.


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But the stranger who dwells with you shall be to you as one born among you; and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.


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You shall have accurate <i>and</i> just balances, just weights, just ephah and hin measures. I am the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt.


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Moreover, you shall say to the Israelites, Any one of the Israelites or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech [the fire god worshiped with human sacrifices] shall surely be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones.


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I also will set My face against that man [opposing him, withdrawing My protection from him, and excluding him from My covenant] and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given of his children to Molech, defiling My sanctuary and profaning My holy name.


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And if the people of the land do at all hide their eyes from the man when he gives one of his children [as a burnt offering] to Molech [the fire god] <i>and</i> they overlook it <i>or</i> neglect to take legal action to punish him, winking at his sin, and do not kill him [as My law requires],


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Then I will set My face against that man and against his family and will cut him off from among their people, him and all who follow him to [unfaithfulness to Me, and thus] play the harlot after Molech.


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The person who turns to those who have familiar spirits and to wizards, [being unfaithful to Israel’s Maker Who is her Husband, and thus] playing the harlot after them, I will set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people [that he may not be included in the atonement made for them]. <f>ⓐ</f>


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Everyone who curses his father or mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or mother; his bloodguilt is upon him.


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The man who commits adultery with another’s wife, even his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. <f>ⓑ</f>


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And the man who lies carnally with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of the guilty ones shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon their own heads.


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And if a man lies carnally with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have wrought confusion, perversion, <i>and</i> defilement; their blood shall be upon their own heads.


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If a man lies with a male as if he were a woman, both men have committed an offense (something perverse, unnatural, abhorrent, and detestable); 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 <i>and</i> an outrageous offense; all three shall be burned with fire, both he and they [after being stoned to death], that there be no wickedness among you. <f>ⓒ</f>


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And if a man lies carnally with a beast, he shall surely be [stoned] to death, and you shall slay the beast.


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If a woman approaches any beast and lies carnally with it, you shall [stone] the woman and the beast; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.


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If a man takes his sister, his father’s or his mother’s daughter, and sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a wicked <i>and</i> shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people; he has had sexual relations with his sister; he shall bear his iniquity.


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


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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister or of your father’s sister, for that is to make naked his close kin; they shall bear their iniquity.


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And if a man shall lie carnally with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness; they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless [not literally, but in a legal sense].


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And if a man shall take his brother’s wife, it is impurity; he has uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless [not literally, but in a legal sense].


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You shall therefore keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out [as it did those before you]. <f>ⓓ</f>


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You shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I was wearied <i>and</i> grieved by them.


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But I have said to you, You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, Who has separated you from the peoples.


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You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean; and you shall not make yourselves detestable with beast or with bird or with anything with which the ground teems <i>or</i> that creeps, which I have set apart from you as unclean.


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And you shall be holy to Me; for I the Lord am holy, and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be Mine.


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A man or woman who is a medium <i>and</i> has a familiar spirit or is a wizard shall surely be put to death, be stoned with stones; their blood shall be upon them.


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The Lord said to Moses, Speak to the priests [exclusive of the high priest], the sons of Aaron, and say to them that none of them shall defile himself for the dead among his people [by touching a corpse or assisting in preparing it for burial],


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


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He shall not even defile himself, being a [bereaved] husband [his wife not being his blood kin] <i>or</i> being a chief man among his people, and so profane himself.


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The priests [like the other Israelite men] shall not shave the crown of their heads or clip off the corners of their beard or make any cuttings in their flesh.


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They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God; for they offer the offerings made by fire to the Lord, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.


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They shall not take a wife who is a harlot or polluted <i>or</i> profane or divorced, for [the priest] is holy to his God.


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You shall consecrate him therefore, for he offers the bread of your God; he shall be holy to you, for I the Lord Who sanctifies you am holy.


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The daughter of any priest who profanes herself by playing the harlot profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire [after being stoned]. <f>ⓐ</f>


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But he who is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured and who is consecrated to put on the [sacred] garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose or rend his clothes [in mourning],


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Neither shall he go in where any dead body lies nor defile himself [by doing so, even] for his father or for his mother;


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Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary nor desecrate <i>or</i> make ceremonially unclean the sanctuary of his God, for the crown <i>or</i> consecration 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 a woman who is polluted <i>or</i> profane or a harlot, these he shall not marry, but he shall take as his wife a virgin of his own people, <f>ⓑ</f>


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That he may not profane <i>or</i> dishonor his children among his people; for I the Lord do sanctify the high priest.


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Say to Aaron, Any one of your sons in their successive generations who has any blemish, let him not come near to offer the bread of his God.


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For no man who has a blemish shall approach [God’s altar to serve as priest], a man blind or lame, or he who has a disfigured face or a limb too long,


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Or is a hunchback, or a dwarf, or has a defect in his eye, or has scurvy <i>or</i> itch, or scabs <i>or</i> skin trouble, or has damaged testicles.


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No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a blemish <i>and</i> is disfigured <i>or</i> deformed shall come near [the altar] 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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But he shall not come within the veil or come near the altar [of incense], because he has a blemish, that he may not desecrate <i>and</i> make unclean My sanctuaries <i>and</i> hallowed things; for I the Lord do sanctify them. <f>ⓒ</f>


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Say to Aaron and his sons that they shall stay away from the holy things which the Israelites dedicate to Me, that they may not profane My holy name; I am the Lord.


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Tell them, Any one of your offspring throughout your generations who goes to the holy things which the Israelites dedicate to the Lord when he is unclean, that [priest] shall be cut off from My presence <i>and</i> excluded from the sanctuary; I am the Lord.


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No man of the offspring of Aaron who is a leper or has a discharge shall eat of the holy things [the offerings and the showbread] until he is clean. And whoever touches any person <i>or</i> thing made unclean by contact with a corpse or a man who has had a discharge of semen,


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Or whoever touches any dead creeping thing by which he may be made unclean, or a man from whom he may acquire uncleanness, whatever it may be, <f>ⓐ</f>


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The priest who has touched any such thing shall be unclean until evening and shall not eat of the holy things unless he has bathed with water. <f>ⓑ</f>


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When the sun is down, he shall be clean, and afterward may eat of the holy things, for they are his food.


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That which dies of itself or is torn by beasts he shall not eat, defiling himself with it. I am the Lord.


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The priests therefore shall observe My ordinance, lest they bear sin for it and die thereby if they profane it. I am the Lord, Who sanctifies them.


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No outsider [not of the family of Aaron] shall eat of the holy thing [which has been offered to God]; a sojourner with the priest or a hired servant shall not eat of the holy thing.


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But if a priest buys a slave with his money, the slave may eat of the holy thing, and he also who is born in the priest’s house; they may eat of his food.


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If a priest’s daughter is married to an outsider [not of the priestly tribe], she shall not eat of the offering of the holy things.


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But if a priest’s daughter is a widow or divorced, and has no child, and returns to her father’s house as in her youth, she shall eat of her father’s food; but no stranger shall eat of it.


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And if a man eats unknowingly of the holy thing [which has been offered to God], then he shall add one-fifth of its value to it and repay that amount to the priest for the holy thing.


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And so cause them [by neglect of any essential observance] to bear the iniquity when they eat their holy things; for I the Lord sanctify them.


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Say to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites, Whoever of the house of Israel and of the foreigners in Israel brings his offering, whether to pay a vow or as a freewill offering which is offered to the Lord for a burnt offering


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That you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without blemish of the young bulls, the sheep, or the goats.


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But you shall not offer anything which has a blemish, for it will not be acceptable for you. <f>ⓒ</f>


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And whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offering to the Lord to make a special vow to the Lord or for a freewill offering from the herd or from the flock must bring what is perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish in it.


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Animals blind or made infirm <i>and</i> weak or maimed, or having sores <i>or</i> a wen or an itch or scabs, you shall not offer to the Lord or make an offering of them by fire upon the altar to the Lord.


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For a freewill offering you may offer either a bull or a lamb which has some part too long or too short, but for [the payment of] a vow it shall not be accepted.


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You shall not offer to the Lord any animal which has its testicles bruised or crushed or broken or cut, neither sacrifice it in your land.


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Neither shall you offer as the bread of your God any such animals obtained from a foreigner [who may wish to pay respect to the true God], because their defects render them unfit; there is a blemish in them; they will not be accepted for you.


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When a bull or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall remain for seven days with its mother; and from the eighth day on it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire to the Lord.


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And when you sacrifice an offering of thanksgiving to the Lord, sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.


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So shall you heartily accept My commandments <i>and</i> conform your life and conduct to them. I am the Lord.


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Neither shall you profane My holy name [applying it to an idol, or treating it with irreverence or contempt or as a byword]; but I will be hallowed among the Israelites. I am the Lord, Who consecrates <i>and</i> makes you holy,


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Say to the Israelites, The set feasts <i>or</i> appointed seasons of the Lord which you shall proclaim as holy convocations, even My set feasts, are these:


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Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, a holy convocation <i>or</i> assembly by summons. You shall do no work on that day; it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.


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These are the set feasts <i>or</i> appointed seasons of the Lord, holy convocations you shall proclaim at their stated times:


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On the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. <f>ⓐ</f>


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On the first day you shall have a holy “calling together;” you shall do no servile <i>or</i> laborious work on that day.


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But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord for seven days; on the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall do no servile <i>or</i> laborious work on that day.


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Tell the Israelites, When you have come into the land I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.


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And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, that you may be accepted; on the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it [before the Lord].


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You shall offer on the day when you wave the sheaf a male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to the Lord.


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Its cereal offering shall be two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the Lord for a sweet, pleasing, <i>and</i> satisfying fragrance; and the drink offering of it [to be poured out] shall be of wine, a fourth of a hin.


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And you shall eat neither bread nor parched grain nor green ears, until this same day when you have brought the offering of your God; it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your houses.


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And you shall count from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, seven Sabbaths; [seven full weeks] shall they be.


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Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall present a cereal offering of new grain to the Lord.


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You shall bring from your dwellings two loaves of bread to be waved, made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven, for firstfruits to the Lord.


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And you shall offer with the bread seven lambs, a year old and without blemish, and one young bull and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to the Lord, with their cereal offering and their drink offerings, an offering made by fire, of a sweet <i>and</i> satisfying fragrance to the Lord.


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


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The priest shall wave the two lambs, together with the bread of the firstfruits, for a wave offering before the Lord. They shall be holy to the Lord for the priest.


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You shall make proclamation the same day, summoning a holy assembly; you shall do no servile work that day. It shall be a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.


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And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger. I am the Lord your God.


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Say to the Israelites, On the first day of the seventh month [almost October], you shall observe a day of solemn [sabbatical] rest, a memorial day announced by blowing of trumpets, a holy [called] assembly.


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Also the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement; it shall be a holy [called] assembly, and you shall afflict yourselves [by fasting in penitence and humility] and present an offering made by fire to the Lord.


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And you shall do no work on this day, for it is the Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God.


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For whoever is not afflicted [by fasting in penitence and humility] on this day shall be cut off from among his people [that he may not be included in the atonement made for them].


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


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It shall be to you a sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict yourselves [by fasting in penitence and humility]. On the ninth day of the month from evening to evening you shall keep your sabbath.


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Say to the Israelites, The fifteenth day of this seventh month, and for seven days, is the Feast of Tabernacles <i>or</i> Booths to the Lord.


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For seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord; on the eighth day shall be a holy convocation and you shall present an offering made by fire to the Lord. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no laborious work on that day.


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These are the set feasts <i>or</i> appointed seasons of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to present an offering made by fire to the Lord, a burnt offering and a cereal offering, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its own day.


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This is in addition to the Sabbaths of the Lord and besides your gifts and all your vowed offerings and all your freewill offerings which you give to the Lord.


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Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month [nearly October], when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the Lord for seven days, the first day and the eighth day each a Sabbath.


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And on the first day you shall take the fruit of pleasing trees [and make booths of them], branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick (leafy) trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.


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You shall keep it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year, a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month.


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That your generations may know that I made the Israelites dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.


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Command the Israelites that they bring to you pure oil from beaten olives for the light [of the golden lampstand] to cause a lamp to burn continually.


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Outside the veil of the Testimony [between the Holy and the Most Holy Places] in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the Lord continually; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.


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He shall keep the lamps in order upon the lampstand of pure gold before the Lord continually. <f>ⓐ</f>


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And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake [of the showbread <i>or</i> bread of the Presence].


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You shall put pure frankincense [in a bowl or spoon] beside each row, that it may be with the bread as a memorial portion, an offering to be made by fire to the Lord.


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Every Sabbath day Aaron shall set the showbread in order before the Lord continually; it is on behalf of the Israelites, an everlasting covenant.


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And the bread shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a sacred place, for it is for [Aaron] a most holy portion of the offerings to the Lord made by fire, a perpetual due [to the high priest].


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Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the Israelites, and he and a man of Israel quarreled <i>and</i> strove together in the camp.


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The Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the Name [of the Lord] and cursed. They brought him to Moses — his mother was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.


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Bring him who has cursed out of the camp, and let all who heard him lay their hands upon his head; then let all the congregation stone him.


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And he who blasphemes the Name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him; the stranger as well as he who was born in the land shall be put to death when he blasphemes the Name [of the Lord].


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And if a man causes a blemish <i>or</i> disfigurement on his neighbor, it shall be done to him as he has done:


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Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has caused a blemish <i>or</i> disfigurement on a man, so shall it be done to him. <f>ⓑ</f>


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You shall have the same law for the sojourner among you as for one of your own nationality, for I am the Lord your God.


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Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they brought him who had cursed out of the camp and stoned him with stones. Thus the Israelites did as the Lord commanded Moses.


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Say to the Israelites, When you come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath to the Lord.


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For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits.


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But in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the Lord; you shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard.


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What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap and the grapes on your uncultivated vine you shall not gather, for it is a year of rest to the land.


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And the sabbath rest of the [untilled] land shall [in its increase] furnish food for you, for your male and female slaves, your hired servant, and the temporary resident who lives with you,


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For your domestic animals also and for the [wild] beasts in your land; all its yield shall be for food.


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And you shall number seven sabbaths <i>or</i> weeks of years for you, seven times seven years, so the total time of the seven weeks of years shall be forty-nine years.


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Then you shall sound abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month [almost October]; on the Day of Atonement blow the trumpet in all your land.


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And you shall hallow the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his ancestral possession [which through poverty he was compelled to sell], and each of you shall return to his family [from whom he was separated in bond service].


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That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; in it you shall not sow, or reap and store what grows of itself, or gather the grapes of the uncultivated vines.


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For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat the [sufficient] increase of it out of the field.


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And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.


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According to the number of years after the Jubilee, you shall buy from your neighbor. And he shall sell to you according to the number of years [remaining in which you may gather] the crops [before you must restore the property to him].


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If the years [to the next Jubilee] are many, you may increase the price, and if the years remaining are few, you shall diminish the price, for the number of the crops is what he is selling to you.


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You shall not oppress <i>and</i> wrong one another, but you shall [reverently] fear your God. For I am the Lord your God.


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Therefore you shall do <i>and</i> give effect to My statutes and keep My ordinances and perform them, and you will dwell in the land in safety.


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And if you say, What shall we eat in the seventh year if we are not to sow or gather in our increase?


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Then [this is My answer:] I will command My [special] blessings on you in the sixth year, so that it shall bring forth [sufficient] fruit for three years.


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And you shall sow in the eighth year, but eat of the old store of produce; until the crops of the ninth year come in you shall eat of the old supply.


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The land shall not be sold into perpetual ownership, for the land is Mine; you are [only] strangers and temporary residents with Me. <f>ⓐ</f>


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And in all the country you possess you shall grant a redemption for the land [in the Year of Jubilee].


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If your brother has become poor and has sold some of his property, if any of his kin comes to redeem it, he shall [be allowed to] redeem what his brother has sold.


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And if the man has no one to redeem his property, and he himself has become more prosperous <i>and</i> has enough to redeem it,


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Then let him count the years since he sold it and restore the overpayment to the man to whom he sold it, and return to his ancestral possession. <f>ⓑ</f>


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But if he is unable to redeem it, it shall remain in the buyer’s possession until the Year of Jubilee, when it shall be set free and he may return to it.


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If a man sells a dwelling house in a fortified city, he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; for a full year he may have the right of redemption.


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And if it is not redeemed within a full year, then the house that is in the fortified city shall be made sure, permanently <i>and</i> without limitations, for him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not go free in the Year of Jubilee.


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But the houses of the unwalled villages shall be counted with the fields of the country. They may be redeemed, and they shall go free in the Year of Jubilee.


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


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But if a house is not redeemed by a Levite, the sold house in the city they possess shall go free in the Year of Jubilee, for the houses in the Levite cities are their ancestral possession among the Israelites.


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But the field of unenclosed <i>or</i> pasture lands of their cities may not be sold; it is their perpetual possession.


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And if your [Israelite] brother has become poor and his hand wavers [from poverty, sickness, or age and he is unable to support himself], then you shall uphold (strengthen, relieve) him, [treating him with the courtesy and consideration that you would] a stranger or a temporary resident with you [without property], so that he may live [along] with you. <f>ⓒ</f>


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Charge him no interest or [portion of] increase, but fear your God, so your brother may [continue to] live along with you.


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


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And if your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not compel him to serve as a bondman (a slave not eligible for redemption),


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But as a hired servant and as a temporary resident he shall be with you; he shall serve you till the Year of Jubilee,


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


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For the Israelites are My servants; I brought them out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as bondmen. <f>ⓓ</f>


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You shall not rule over him with harshness (severity, oppression), but you shall [reverently] fear your God. <f>ⓔ</f>


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As for your bondmen and your bondmaids whom you may have, they shall be from the nations round about you, of whom you may buy bondmen and bondmaids.


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Moreover, of the children of the strangers who sojourn among you, of them you may buy and of their families that are with you which they have begotten in your land, and they shall be your possession.


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And you shall make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them shall you take your bondmen always, but over your brethren the Israelites you shall not rule one over another with harshness (severity, oppression).


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And if a sojourner or stranger with you becomes rich and your [Israelite] brother becomes poor beside him and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with you or to a member of the stranger’s family,


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Either his uncle or his uncle’s son may redeem him, or a near kinsman may redeem him; or if he has enough <i>and</i> is able, he may redeem himself.


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And [the redeemer] shall reckon with the purchaser of the servant from the year when he sold himself to the purchaser to the Year of Jubilee, and the price of his release shall be adjusted according to the number of years. The time he was with his owner shall be counted as that of a hired servant.


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If there remain many years [before the Year of Jubilee], in proportion to them he must refund [to the purchaser] for his release [the overpayment] for his acquisition.


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And if little time remains until the Year of Jubilee, he shall count it over with him and he shall refund the proportionate amount for his release.


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And as a servant hired year by year shall he deal with him; he shall not rule over him with harshness (severity, oppression) in your sight [make sure of that].


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And if he is not redeemed during these years <i>and</i> by these means, then he shall go free in the Year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.


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For to Me the Israelites are servants, My servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.


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You shall make for yourselves no idols nor shall you erect a graven image, pillar, <i>or</i> obelisk, nor shall you place any figured stone in your land to which <i>or</i> on which to bow down; for I am the Lord your God.


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


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


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I will give peace in the land; you shall lie down and none shall fill you with dread <i>or</i> make you afraid; and I will clear ferocious (wild) beasts out of the land, and no sword shall go through your land.


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


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For I will be leaning toward you with favor <i>and</i> regard for you, rendering you fruitful, multiplying you, and establishing <i>and</i> ratifying My covenant with you. <f>ⓐ</f>


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And you shall eat the [abundant] old store of produce long kept, and clear out the old [to make room] for the new.


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I will set My dwelling in <i>and</i> among you, and My soul shall not despise <i>or</i> reject <i>or</i> separate itself from you.


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And I will walk in <i>and</i> with <i>and</i> among you and will be your God, and you shall be My people.


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I am the Lord your God, Who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that you should no more be slaves; and I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect [as free men].


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And if you spurn <i>and</i> despise My statutes, and if your soul despises <i>and</i> rejects My ordinances, so that you will not do all My commandments, but break My covenant,


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I will do this: I will appoint over you [sudden] terror (trembling, trouble), even consumption and fever that consume <i>and</i> waste the eyes and make the [physical] life pine away. You shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.


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I [the Lord] will set My face against you and <f>[1]</f>you shall be defeated <i>and</i> slain before your enemies; they who hate you shall rule over you; you shall flee when no one pursues you. <f>ⓑ</f>


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And if in spite of all this you still will not listen <i>and</i> be obedient to Me, then I will chastise <i>and</i> discipline you seven times more for your sins.


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And I will break <i>and</i> humble your pride in your power, and I will make your heavens as iron [yielding no answer, no blessing, no rain] and your earth [as sterile] as brass. <f>ⓒ</f>


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


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If you walk contrary to Me and will not heed Me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you, according to your sins.


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I will loose the wild beasts of the field among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few so that your roads shall be deserted <i>and</i> desolate. <f>ⓓ</f>


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And I will bring a sword upon you that shall execute the vengeance [for the breaking] of My covenant; and you shall be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hands of the enemy. <f>ⓔ</f>


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When I break your staff of bread <i>and</i> cut off your supply of food, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall ration your bread <i>and</i> deliver it again by weight; and you shall eat, and not be satisfied. <f>ⓕ</f>


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And I will destroy your high places [devoted to idolatrous worship], and cut down your sun-images, and throw your dead bodies upon the [wrecked] bodies of your idols, and My soul shall abhor you [with deep and unutterable loathing]. <f>ⓗ</f>


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I will lay your cities waste, bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the fragrance of your sweet <i>and</i> soothing odors [of offerings made by fire]. <f>ⓘ</f>


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


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I will scatter you among the nations and draw out [your enemies’] sword after you; and your land shall be desolate and your cities a waste. <f>ⓙ</f>


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Then shall the land [of Israel have the opportunity to] enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land; then shall the land rest, to enjoy <i>and</i> receive payments for its sabbaths [divinely ordained for it].


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As long as it lies desolate <i>and</i> waste, it shall have rest, the rest it did not have in your sabbaths when you dwelt upon it. <f>ⓚ</f>


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As for those who are left of you, I will send dejection (lack of courage, a faintness) into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to hasty <i>and</i> tumultuous flight, and they shall flee as if from the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.


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They shall stumble over one another as if to escape a sword when no one pursues them; and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.


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


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But if they confess their own and their fathers’ iniquity in their treachery which they committed against Me — and also that because they walked contrary to Me


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I also walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies — if then their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they then accept the punishment for their iniquity, <f>ⓛ</f>


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Then will I [earnestly] remember My covenant with Jacob, My covenant with Isaac, and My covenant with Abraham, and [earnestly] remember the land. <f>ⓜ</f>


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But the land shall be left behind them and shall enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they shall accept the punishment for their sins <i>and</i> make amends because they despised <i>and</i> rejected My ordinances and their soul scorned <i>and</i> rejected My statutes.


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And <f>[2]</f>yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn <i>and</i> cast them away, neither will I despise <i>and</i> abhor them to destroy them utterly and to break My covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God. <f>ⓝ</f>


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But I will for their sake [earnestly] remember the covenant with their forefathers whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the Lord.


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These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws which the Lord made between Him and the Israelites on Mount Sinai through Moses.


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Say to the Israelites, When a man shall make a special vow of persons to the Lord at your valuation,


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Then your valuation of a male from twenty years old to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.


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And if the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, then your valuation shall be for the male twenty shekels and for the female ten shekels.


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


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


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But if the man is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him who vowed shall the priest value him.


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If it is a beast of which men offer an offering to the Lord, all that any man gives of such to the Lord shall be holy.


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He shall not replace it or exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if he makes any exchange of a beast for a beast, then both the original offering and that exchanged for it shall be holy.


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If it is an unclean animal, such as is not offered as an offering to the Lord, he shall bring the animal before the priest,


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


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If a man dedicates his house to be sacred to the Lord, the priest shall appraise it, whether it be good or bad; as the priest appraises it, so shall it stand.


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If he who dedicates his house wants to redeem it, he shall add a fifth of your valuation to it, and it shall be his.


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And if a man shall dedicate to the Lord some part of a field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed [required] for it; [a sowing of] a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.


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If he dedicates his field during the Year of Jubilee, it shall stand according to your full valuation.


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But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall count the money value in proportion to the years that remain until the Year of Jubilee, and it shall be deducted from your valuation.


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If he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth of the money of your appraisal to it, and it shall remain his.


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


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But the field, when it is released in the Jubilee, shall be holy to the Lord, as a field devoted [to God or destruction]; the priest shall have possession of it.


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And if a man dedicates to the Lord a field he has bought, which is not of the fields of his [ancestral] possession,


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The priest shall compute the amount of your valuation for it up to the Year of Jubilee; the man shall give that amount on that day as a holy thing to the Lord.


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In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him of whom it was bought, to him to whom the land belonged [as his ancestral inheritance].


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And all your valuations shall be according to the sanctuary shekel; twenty gerahs shall make a shekel.


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But the firstling of the animals, since a firstling belongs to the Lord, no man may dedicate, whether it be ox or sheep. It is the Lord’s [already].


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If it be of an unclean animal, the owner may redeem it according to your valuation, and shall add a fifth to it; or if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.


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But nothing that a man shall devote to the Lord of all that he has, whether of man or beast or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord.


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No one doomed to death [under the claim of divine justice], who is to be completely destroyed from among men, shall be ransomed [from suffering the death penalty]; he shall surely be put to death.


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And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s; it is holy to the Lord. <f>ⓐ</f>


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And all the tithe of the herd or of the flock, whatever passes under the herdsman’s staff [by means of which each tenth animal as it passes through a small door is selected and marked], the tenth shall be holy to the Lord. <f>ⓑ</f>


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The man shall not examine whether the animal is good or bad nor shall he exchange it. If he does exchange it, then both it and the animal substituted for it shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.


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These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses on Mount Sinai for the Israelites. <f>ⓒ</f>


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The Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai in the Tent of Meeting on the first day of the second month in the second year after they came out of the land of Egypt, saying,


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Take a census of all the males of the congregation of the Israelites by families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, head by head.


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From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go forth to war you and Aaron shall number, company by company.


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And with you there shall be a man [to assist you] from each tribe, each being the head of his father’s house.


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These were those chosen from the congregation, the leaders of their ancestral tribes, heads of thousands [the highest class of officers] in Israel.


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And assembled all the congregation on the first day of the second month, and they declared their ancestry after their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names from twenty years old and upward, head by head,


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The sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:


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Of the sons of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those numbered of them according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:


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Of the sons of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:


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


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Of the sons of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all able to go to war:


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Of the sons of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all able to go to war:


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Of the sons of Joseph: the sons of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all able to go to war:


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Of the sons of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all able to go to war:


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Of the sons of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all able to go to war:


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Of the sons of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all able to go to war:


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Of the sons of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all able to go to war:


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Of the sons of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all able to go to war:


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These were numbered by Moses and Aaron, and the leaders of Israel, twelve men, each representing his father’s house.


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So all those numbered of the Israelites, by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, able to go to war in Israel,


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But appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its vessels and furnishings and all things that belong to it. They shall carry the tabernacle [when journeying] and all its furnishings, and they shall minister to it and encamp around it.


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When the tabernacle is to go forward, the Levites shall take it down, and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up. And the excluded [any not of the tribe of Levi] who approach the tabernacle shall be put to death.


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The Israelites shall pitch their tents by their companies, every man by his own camp and every man by his own [tribal] standard.


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But the Levites shall encamp around the tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath upon the congregation of the Israelites; and the Levites shall keep charge of the tabernacle of the Testimony.


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The Israelites shall encamp, each by his own [tribal] standard <i>or</i> banner with the ensign of his father’s house, opposite the Tent of Meeting <i>and</i> facing it on every side.


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On the east side toward the sunrise shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah encamp by their companies; Nahshon son of Amminadab being the leader of the sons of Judah.


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Next to Judah the tribe of Issachar shall encamp, Nethanel son of Zuar being the leader of the sons of Issachar.


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All these [three tribes] numbered in the camp of Judah totaled 186,400. They shall set forth first [on the march].


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On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben by their companies, the leader of the sons of Reuben being Elizur son of Shedeur.


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Those who encamp next to Reuben shall be the tribe of Simeon, the leader of the sons of Simeon being Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.


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The whole number in [the three tribes of] the camp of Reuben was 151,450. They shall take second place [on the march].


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Then the Tent of Meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps; as they encamp so shall they set forward, every man in his place, standard after standard.


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On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim by their companies, the leader of the sons of Ephraim being Elishama son of Ammihud.


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Beside Ephraim shall be the tribe of Manasseh, the leader of the sons of Manasseh being Gamaliel son of Pedahzur.


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The whole number [of the three tribes] in the camp of Ephraim totaled 108,100. They shall go forward in third place.


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The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side [of the tabernacle] by their companies, the leader of the sons of Dan being Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.


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Encamped next to Dan shall be the tribe of Asher, the leader of the sons of Asher being Pagiel son of Ochran.


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The whole number [of the three tribes] in the camp of Dan totaled 157,600. They shall set out last, standard after standard.


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These are the Israelites as numbered by their fathers’ houses. All in the camps who were numbered by their companies were 603,550.


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Thus the Israelites did according to all the Lord commanded Moses; so they encamped by their standards, and so they set forward, everyone with his [tribal] families, according to his father’s house.


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These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom Aaron consecrated <i>and</i> ordained to minister in the priest’s office.


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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 children. So Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the presence <i>and</i> under the supervision of Aaron their father. <f>ⓐ</f>


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And they shall carry out his instructions and the duties connected with the whole assembly before the Tent of Meeting, doing the service of the tabernacle.


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And they shall keep all the instruments <i>and</i> furnishings of the Tent of Meeting and take charge of [attending] the Israelites, to serve in the tabernacle.


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And you shall give the Levites [as servants and helpers] to Aaron and his sons; they are wholly given to him from among the Israelites.


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And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall observe <i>and</i> attend to their priest’s office; but the excluded [anyone daring to assume priestly duties or privileges who is not of the house of Aaron and called of God] who comes near [the holy things] shall be put to death.


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Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the Israelites instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the Israelites; and the Levites shall be Mine,


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For all the firstborn are Mine. On the day that I slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated for Myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast; Mine they shall be. I am the Lord.


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Number the sons of Levi by their fathers’ houses and by families. Every male from a month old and upward you shall number.


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The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their fathers’ houses.


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Of Gershon were the families of the Libnites and of the Shimeites. These are the families of the Gershonites.


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And the responsibility of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting was to be the tabernacle, the tent, its covering, and the hangings for the door of the Tent of Meeting,


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And the hangings of the court, the curtain for the door of the court which is around the tabernacle and the altar, its cords, and all the service pertaining to them.


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Of Kohath were the families of the Amramites, the Izharites, the Hebronites, and the Uzzielites; these are the families of the Kohathites.


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The number of all the males from a month old and upward totaled 8,600, attending to the duties of the sanctuary.


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Their charge was to be the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, and the utensils of the sanctuary with which the priests minister, and the screen, and all the service having to do with these.


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Eleazar son of Aaron the priest was to be chief over the leaders of the Levites, and have the oversight of those who had charge of the sanctuary.


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And the head of the fathers’ houses of the families of Merari was Zuriel son of Abihail; the Merarites were to encamp on the north side of the tabernacle.


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And the appointed charge of the sons of Merari was the boards <i>or</i> frames of the tabernacle, and its bars, pillars, sockets <i>or</i> bases, and all the accessories <i>or</i> instruments of it, and all the work connected with them,


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And the pillars of the surrounding court and their sockets <i>or</i> bases, with their pegs and their cords.


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But those to encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, before the Tent of Meeting, toward the sunrise, were to be Moses and Aaron and his sons, keeping the full charge of the rites of the sanctuary in whatever was required for the Israelites; and the <f>[1]</f>excluded [one not a descendant of Aaron and called of God] who came near [the sanctuary] was to be put to death.


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All the Levites whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the command of the Lord, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were 22,000.


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


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You shall take the Levites for Me instead of all the firstborn among the Israelites. I am the Lord; and you shall take the cattle of the Levites for Me instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the Israelites.


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But all the firstborn males from a month old and upward as numbered were 22,273 [273 more than the Levites].


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Take the Levites [for Me] instead of all the firstborn Israelites, and the Levites’ cattle instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be Mine. I am the Lord.


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And for those 273 who are to be redeemed of the firstborn of the Israelites who outnumber the Levites,


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You shall take five shekels apiece, reckoning by the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs; you shall collect them,


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And you shall give the ransom silver from the excess number [over the Levites] to be redeemed to Aaron and his sons.


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So Moses took the redemption money from those who were left over from the number who were redeemed by the Levites.


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From the firstborn of the Israelites he took the money, 1,365 shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.


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And Moses gave the money from those who were ransomed to Aaron and his sons, as the Lord commanded Moses.


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Take a census of the Kohathite division among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,


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From thirty years old and up to fifty years old, all who can enter the service to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.


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This shall be the responsibility of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting: the most holy things.


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When the camp prepares to set forward, Aaron and his sons shall take down the veil [screening the Holy of Holies] and cover the ark of the Testimony with it,


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And shall put on it the covering of dolphin <i>or</i> porpoise skin, and shall spread over that a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in place the poles of the ark.


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And upon the table of showbread they shall spread a cloth of blue and put on it the plates, the dishes for incense, the bowls, the flagons for the drink offering, and also the continual showbread.


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And they shall spread over them a cloth of scarlet, and put over that a covering of dolphin <i>or</i> porpoise skin, and put in place the poles [for carrying].


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And they shall take a cloth of blue and cover the lampstand for the light and its lamps, its snuffers, its ashtrays, and all the oil vessels from which it is supplied.


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And they shall put the lampstand and all its utensils within a covering of dolphin <i>or</i> porpoise skin and shall put it upon the frame [for carrying].


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And upon the golden [incense] altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of dolphin <i>or</i> porpoise skin, and shall put in place its poles [for carrying].


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And they shall take all the utensils of the service with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of dolphin <i>or</i> porpoise skin, and shall put them on the frame [for carrying].


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And they shall take away the ashes from the altar [of burnt offering] and spread a purple cloth over it.


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And they shall put upon it all its vessels <i>and</i> utensils with which they minister there, the firepans, the fleshhooks <i>or</i> forks, the shovels, the basins, and all the vessels <i>and</i> utensils of the altar, and they shall spread over it all a covering of dolphin <i>or</i> porpoise skin, and shall put in its poles [for carrying].


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When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all its furniture, as the camp sets out, after all that [is done but not before], the sons of Kohath shall come to carry them. But they shall not touch the holy things, lest they die. These are the things of the Tent of Meeting which the sons of Kohath are to carry.


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And Eleazar son of Aaron the priest shall have charge of the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the continual cereal offering, and the anointing oil, with the oversight of all the tabernacle and of all that is in it, of the sanctuary and its utensils.


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[Since] the tribe of the families of the Kohathites [are only Levites and not priests], do not [by exposing them to the sin of touching the most holy things] cut them off from among the Levites.


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But deal thus with them, that they may live and not die when they approach the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint them each to his work and to his burden [to be carried on the march].


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But [the Kohathites] shall not go in to see the sanctuary [the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies] <i>or</i> its holy things, even for an instant, lest they die.


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From thirty years old and up to fifty years old you shall number them, all who enter for service to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.


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This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens [when on the march]:


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And they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the Tent of Meeting, its covering, and the covering of dolphin <i>or</i> porpoise skin that is on top of it, and the hanging <i>or</i> screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,


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And the hangings of the court, and the hanging <i>or</i> screen for the entrance of the gate of the court which is around the tabernacle and the altar [of burnt offering], and their cords, and all the equipment for their service; whatever needs to be done with them, that they shall do.


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Under the direction of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all they have to carry and in all they have to do; and you shall assign to their charge all that they are to carry [on the march].


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This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting; and their work shall be under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the [high] priest.


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From thirty years old up to fifty years old you shall number them, everyone who enters the service to do the work of the Tent of Meeting.


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And this is what they are assigned to carry <i>and</i> to guard [on the march], according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting: the boards <i>or</i> frames of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets <i>or</i> bases,


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And the pillars of the court round about with their sockets <i>or</i> bases, and pegs, and cords, with all their equipment and all their accessories for service; and you shall assign to them by name the articles which they are to carry [on the march].


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This is the work of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their tasks in the Tent of Meeting, under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the [high] priest.


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And Moses and Aaron and the leaders of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites by their families and their fathers’ houses,


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From thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who enters the service to do the work of the Tent of Meeting;


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These were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all who did service in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the command of the Lord through Moses.


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


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From thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who entered the service to do the work of the Tent of Meeting,


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These were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered as the Lord commanded.


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And those numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,


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From thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service for work in the Tent of Meeting,


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These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the command of the Lord by Moses.


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All those who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the leaders of Israel counted by their families and by their fathers’ houses,


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From thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who could enter to do the work of service and of burden bearing in the Tent of Meeting,


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According to the command of the Lord through Moses, they were assigned each to his work of serving and carrying. Thus they were numbered by him, as the Lord had commanded Moses.


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Command the Israelites that they put outside the camp every leper and everyone who has a discharge, and whoever is defiled by [coming in contact with] the dead.


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Both male and female you shall put out; without the camp you shall put them, that they may not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.


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The Israelites did so, and put them outside the camp; as the Lord said to Moses, so the Israelites did.


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Say to the Israelites, When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit by breaking faith with the Lord, and that person is guilty,


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Then he shall confess the sin which he has committed, and he shall make restitution for his wrong in full, and add a fifth to it, and give it to him whom he has wronged.


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But if the man [wronged] has no kinsman to whom the restitution may be made, let it be given to the Lord for the priest, besides the ram of atonement with which atonement shall be made for the offender.


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


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And every man’s hallowed things shall be the priest’s; whatever any man gives the priest shall be his.


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And a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and it is kept secret though she is defiled, and there is no witness against her nor was she taken in the act,


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And if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he is jealous <i>and</i> suspicious of his wife who has defiled herself — or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he is jealous <i>and</i> suspicious of his wife though she has not defiled herself —


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Then shall the man bring his wife to the priest, and he shall bring the offering required of her, a tenth of an ephah of barley meal; but he shall pour no oil upon it nor put frankincense on it [symbols of favor and joy], for it is a cereal offering of jealousy <i>and</i> suspicion, a memorial offering bringing iniquity to remembrance.


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And the priest shall take holy water [probably from the sacred laver] in an earthen vessel and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it in the water.


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And the priest shall set the woman before the Lord, and let the hair of the woman’s head hang loose, and put the meal offering of remembrance in her hands, which is the jealousy <i>and</i> suspicion offering. And the priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings the curse.


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Then the priest shall make her take an oath, and say to the woman, If no man has lain with you and if you have not gone astray to uncleanness with another instead of your husband, then be free from any effect of this water of bitterness which brings the curse.


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Then the priest shall make the woman take the oath of the curse, and say to the woman, The Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people when the Lord makes your thigh fall away and your body swell.


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May this water that brings the curse go into your bowels and make your body swell and your thigh fall away. And the woman shall say, So let it be, so let it be.


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The priest shall then write these curses in a book and shall wash them off into the water of bitterness;


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And he shall cause the woman to drink the water of bitterness that brings the curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter into her [to try her] bitterly.


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Then the priest shall take the cereal offering of jealousy <i>and</i> suspicion out of the woman’s hand and shall wave the offering before the Lord and offer it upon the altar.


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And the priest shall take a handful of the cereal offering as the memorial portion of it and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.


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And when he has made her drink the water, then if she is defiled and has committed a trespass against her husband, the curse water which she drank shall be bitterness and cause her body to swell and her thigh to fall away, and the woman shall be a curse among her people.


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But if the woman is not defiled and is clean, then she shall be free [from the curse] and be able to have children.


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This is the law of jealousy <i>and</i> suspicion when a wife goes aside to another instead of her husband and is defiled,


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Or when the spirit of jealousy <i>and</i> suspicion comes upon a man and he is jealous <i>and</i> suspicious of his wife; then shall he set the woman before the Lord, and the priest shall execute on her all this law.


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The [husband] shall be free from iniquity <i>and</i> guilt, and that woman [if guilty] shall bear her iniquity.


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Say to the Israelites, When either a man or a woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, that is, one separated <i>and</i> consecrated to the Lord,


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He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar of wine or of strong drink, and shall drink no grape juice, or eat grapes, fresh or dried. <f>ⓐ</f>


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All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing produced from the grapevine, not even the seeds or the skins.


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All the days of the vow of his separation <i>and</i> abstinence there shall no razor come upon his head. Until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the Lord, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.


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He shall not make himself unclean for his father, mother, brother, or sister, when they die, because his separation <i>and</i> abstinence to his God is upon his head.


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


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On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest to the door of the Tent of Meeting,


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And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering and make atonement for him because he sinned by reason of the dead body. He shall consecrate his head the same day,


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And he shall consecrate <i>and</i> separate himself to the Lord for the days of his separation and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass <i>or</i> guilt offering; but the previous days shall be void <i>and</i> lost, because his separation was defiled.


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And this is the law of the Nazirite when the days of his separation <i>and</i> abstinence are fulfilled. He shall be brought to the door of the Tent of Meeting,


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And he shall offer his gift to the Lord, one he-lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for a peace offering,


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And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread spread with oil, and their cereal offering, and their drink offering.


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And the priest shall present them before the Lord and shall offer the person’s sin offering and his burnt offering.


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And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offering to the Lord, with the basket of unleavened bread; the priest shall offer also its cereal offering and its drink offering.


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And the Nazirite shall shave his consecrated head at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall take the hair and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.


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And the priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaven the hair of his separation <i>and</i> abstinence.


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And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord; they are a holy portion for the priest, with the breast that is waved and the thigh <i>or</i> shoulder that is offered; and after that the Nazirite may drink wine.


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This is the law for the Nazirite who has made a vow. His offering to the Lord, besides what else he is able to afford, shall be according to the vow which he has vowed; so shall he do according to the law for his separation <i>and</i> abstinence [as a Nazirite]. <f>ⓑ</f>


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The Lord make His face to shine upon <i>and</i> enlighten you and be gracious (kind, merciful, and giving favor) to you;


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The Lord lift up His [approving] countenance upon you and give you peace (tranquility of heart and life continually).


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On the day that Moses had fully completed setting up the tabernacle and had anointed and consecrated it and all its furniture, and the altar and all its utensils, and had anointed and set them apart for holy use,


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The princes <i>or</i> leaders of Israel, heads of their fathers’ houses, made offerings. These were the leaders of the tribes and were over those who were numbered.


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And they brought their offering before the Lord, six covered wagons and twelve oxen; a wagon for each two of the princes <i>or</i> leaders and an ox for each one; and they brought them before the tabernacle.


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Accept the things from them, that they may be used in doing the service of the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the Levites, to each man according to his service.


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


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But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because they were assigned the care of the sanctuary <i>and</i> the holy things which had to be carried on their shoulders.


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And the princes <i>or</i> leaders offered sacrifices for the dedication of the altar [of burnt offering] on the day that it was anointed; and they offered their sacrifice before the altar.


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And the Lord said to Moses, They shall offer their offerings, each prince <i>or</i> leader on his day, for the dedication of the altar.


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And his offering was one silver platter, the weight of which was 130 shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;


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And <f>[1]</f>for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nahshon son of Amminadab.


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He gave for his offering one silver platter, the weight of which was 130 shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;


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And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nethanel son of Zuar.


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His offering was one silver platter, the weight of which was 130 shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;


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And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliab son of Helon.


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His offering was one silver platter of the weight of 130 shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;


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And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elizur son of Shedeur.


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And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.


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His offering was one silver platter of the weight of 130 shekels, a silver basin of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;


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


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


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And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel son of Pedahzur.


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And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Abidan son of Gideoni.


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And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.


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And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Pagiel son of Ochran.


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And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahira son of Enan.


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This was the dedication offering for the altar [of burnt offering] from the leaders of Israel on the day when it was anointed: twelve platters of silver, twelve silver basins, twelve golden bowls;


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Each platter of silver weighing 130 shekels, each basin seventy; all the silver vessels weighed 2,400 shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.


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The twelve golden bowls full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary, all the gold of the bowls being 120 shekels.


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All the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve bulls, the rams twelve, the male lambs a year old twelve, together with their cereal offering; and the male goats for a sin offering twelve.


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


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And when Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with the Lord, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was upon the ark of the Testimony from between the two cherubim; and He spoke to [Moses].


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Say to Aaron, When you set up <i>and</i> light the lamps, the seven lamps shall be made to give light in front of the lampstand.


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And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps of the lampstand to give light in front of it, as the Lord commanded Moses.


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And this was the workmanship of the candlestick: beaten <i>or</i> turned gold, beaten work [of gold] from its base to its flowers; according to the pattern which the Lord had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.


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And thus you shall do to them to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of purification [water to be used in case of sin] upon them, and let them pass a razor over all their flesh and wash their clothes and cleanse themselves. <f>ⓐ</f>


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


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You shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting, and you shall assemble the whole Israelite congregation.


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And you shall present the Levites before the Lord, and the Israelites shall put their hands upon the Levites,


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And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the Lord as a wave offering from the Israelites <i>and</i> on their behalf, that they may do the service of the Lord.


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Then the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to the Lord, to make atonement for the Levites.


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And you shall present the Levites before Aaron and his sons and offer them as a wave offering to the Lord.


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Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites shall be Mine [in a very special sense].


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And after that the Levites shall go in to do service at the Tent of Meeting, when you have cleansed them and offered them as a wave offering.


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For they are wholly given to Me from among the Israelites; instead of all who open the womb, the firstborn of all the Israelites, I have taken the Levites for Myself.


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For all the firstborn of the Israelites are Mine, both of man and beast; on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt [not of Israel], I consecrated them <i>and</i> set them apart for Myself.


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And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the Israelites to do the service of the Israelites at the Tent of Meeting and to make atonement for them, that there may be no plague among the Israelites if they should come near the sanctuary.


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So Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the Israelites did thus to the Levites; according to all that the Lord commanded Moses concerning [them], so did the Israelites to them.


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The Levites cleansed <i>and</i> purified themselves and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them as a wave offering before the Lord and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.


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And after that the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting with the attendance of Aaron and his sons; as the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they to them.


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This is what applies to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to perform the work of the service of the Tent of Meeting,


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But shall help their brethren in the Tent of Meeting [attend to protecting the sacred things from being profaned], but shall do no regular <i>or</i> heavy service. Thus shall you direct the Levites in regard to their duties.


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The Lord said to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt,


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On the fourteenth day of this month in the evening, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and ordinances you shall keep it.


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And they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month in the evening in the Wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the Israelites did.


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


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Those men said to [Moses], We are defiled by touching the dead body. Why are we prevented from offering the Lord’s offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?


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Say to the Israelites, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of touching a dead body or is far off on a journey, still he shall keep the Passover to the Lord.


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


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They shall leave none of it until the morning nor break any bone of it; according to all the statutes for the Passover they shall keep it. <f>ⓐ</f>


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But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, yet does not keep the Passover, that person shall be cut off from among his people because he did not bring the Lord’s offering at its appointed time; that man shall bear [the penalty of] his sin.


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And if a stranger sojourns among you and will keep the Passover to the Lord, according to [its] statutes and its ordinances, so shall he do; you shall have one statute both for the temporary resident and for him who was born in the land.


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And on the day that the tabernacle was erected, the cloud [of God’s presence] covered the tabernacle, that is, the Tent of the Testimony; and at evening it was over the tabernacle, having the appearance of [a pillar of] fire until the morning. <f>ⓑ</f>


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Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, after that the Israelites journeyed; and in the place where the cloud rested, there the Israelites encamped.


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At the Lord’s command the Israelites journeyed, and at [His] command they encamped. As long as the cloud rested upon the tabernacle they remained encamped.


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Even when the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle many days, the Israelites kept the Lord’s charge and did not set out.


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And sometimes the cloud was only a few days upon the tabernacle, but according to the command of the Lord they remained encamped, and at His command they journeyed.


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And sometimes the cloud remained [over the tabernacle] from evening only until morning, but when the cloud was taken up, they journeyed; whether it was taken up by day or by night, they journeyed.


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Whether it was two days or a month or a longer time that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, dwelling on it, the Israelites remained encamped; but when it was taken up, they journeyed.


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At the command of the Lord they remained encamped, and at [His] command they journeyed; they kept the charge of the Lord, at the command of the Lord through Moses.


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Make two trumpets of silver; of hammered <i>or</i> turned work you shall make them, that you may use them to call the congregation and for breaking camp.


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When they both are blown, all the congregation shall assemble before you at the door of the Tent of Meeting.


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And if one blast on a single trumpet is blown, then the princes <i>or</i> leaders, heads of the tribes of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.


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When you blow an alarm the second time, then the camps on the south side shall set out. An alarm shall be blown whenever they are to set out on their journeys.


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When the congregation is to be assembled, you shall blow [the trumpets in short, sharp tones], but not the blast of an alarm.


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And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets, and the trumpets shall be to you for a perpetual statute throughout your generations.


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


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Also in the day of rejoicing, and in your set feasts, and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and your peace offerings; thus they may be a remembrance before your God. I am the Lord your God.


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On the twentieth day of the second month in the second year [since leaving Egypt], the cloud [of the Lord’s presence] was taken up from over the tabernacle of the Testimony,


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And the Israelites took their journey by stages out of the Wilderness of Sinai, and the [guiding] 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 by their companies; and over their host was Nahshon son of Amminadab.


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When the tabernacle was taken down, the sons of Gershon and Merari, bearing [it] on their shoulders, set out.


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The standard of the camp of Reuben set forward by their companies; and over Reuben’s host was Elizur son of Shedeur.


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Then the Kohathites set forward, bearing the holy things, and the tabernacle was set up before they arrived.


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And the standard of the camp of the sons of Ephraim set forward according to their companies; and over Ephraim’s host was Elishama son of Ammihud.


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Then the standard of the camp of the sons of Dan, which was the rear guard of all the camps, set forward according to their companies; and over Dan’s host was Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.


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And Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, We are journeying to the place of which the Lord said, I will give it to you. Come with us, and we will do you good, for the Lord has promised good concerning Israel.


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And Moses said, <f>[1]</f>Do not leave us, I pray you; for you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you will serve as eyes for us.


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And if you will go with us, it shall be that whatever good the Lord does to us, the same we will do to you.


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They departed from the mountain of the Lord [Mount Sinai] three days’ journey; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them during the three days’ journey to seek out a resting-place for them.


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Whenever the ark set out, Moses said, Rise up, Lord; let Your enemies be scattered; and let those who hate You flee before You. <f>ⓐ</f>


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And the people grumbled <i>and</i> deplored their hardships, which was evil in the ears of the Lord, and when the Lord heard it, His anger was kindled; and the fire of the Lord burned among them and devoured those in the outlying parts of the camp.


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And the mixed multitude among them [the rabble who followed Israel from Egypt] began to lust greatly [for familiar and dainty food], and the Israelites wept again and said, Who will give us meat to eat?


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We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt <i>and</i> without cost, the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.


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But now our soul (our strength) is dried up; there is nothing at all [in the way of food] to be seen but this manna.


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The manna was like coriander seed and its appearance was like that of bdellium [perhaps a precious stone].


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The people went about and gathered it, and ground it in mills or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it; and it tasted like cakes baked with fresh oil.


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And Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and the anger of the Lord blazed hotly, and in the eyes of Moses it was evil.


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And Moses said to the Lord, Why have You dealt ill with Your servants? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You lay the burden of all this people on me?


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


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Where should I get meat to give to all these people? For they weep before me and say, Give us meat, that we may eat.


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And if this is the way You deal with me, kill me, I pray You, at once, and be granting me a favor and let me not see my wretchedness [in the failure of all my efforts].


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And the Lord said to Moses, Gather for Me <f>[1]</f>seventy men of the elders of Israel whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting and let them stand there with you.


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And I will come down and talk with you there; and I will take of the Spirit which is upon you and will put It upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you may not have to bear it yourself alone.


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And say to the people, Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the hearing of the Lord, saying, Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt. Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you shall eat.


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But a whole month — until [you are satiated and vomit it up violently and] it comes out at your nostrils and is disgusting to you — because you have rejected <i>and</i> despised the Lord Who is among you, and have wept before Him, saying, Why did we come out of Egypt? <f>ⓐ</f>


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But Moses said, The people among whom I am are 600,000 footmen [besides all the women and children], and You have said, I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month!


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Shall flocks and herds be killed to suffice them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be collected to satisfy them?


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The Lord said to Moses, Has the Lord’s hand (His ability and power) become short (thwarted and inadequate)? You shall see now whether My word shall come to pass for you or not. <f>ⓑ</f>


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So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord, and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and set them round about the Tent.


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And the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him and put It upon the seventy elders; and when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied [sounding forth the praises of God and declaring His will]. Then they did so no more. <f>ⓒ</f>


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But there remained two men in the camp named Eldad and Medad. The Spirit rested upon them, and they were of those who were selected <i>and</i> listed, yet they did not go out to the Tent [as told to do], but they prophesied in the camp.


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And a young man ran to Moses and said, Eldad and Medad are prophesying [sounding forth the praises of God and declaring His will] in the camp.


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But Moses said to him, Are you <f>[2]</f>envious <i>or</i> jealous for my sake? Would that all the Lord’s people were prophets and that the Lord would put His Spirit upon them! <f>ⓓ</f>


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And there went forth a wind from the Lord and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall [so they flew low] beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and on the other side, all around the camp, about two cubits above the ground.


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And the people rose all that day and all night and all the next day and caught <i>and</i> gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them out for themselves round about the camp [to cure them by drying].


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While the meat was yet between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote them with a very great plague.


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That place was called Kibroth-hattaavah [the graves of sensuous desire], because there they buried the people who lusted, whose physical appetite caused them to sin. <f>ⓔ</f>


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Now Miriam and Aaron talked against Moses [their brother] because of his <f>[1]</f>Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite 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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Now the man Moses was very meek (gentle, kind, and humble) <i>or</i> above all the men on the face of the earth.


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Suddenly the Lord said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, Come out, you three, to the Tent of Meeting. And the three of them came out.


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The Lord came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the Tent door and called Aaron and Miriam, and they came forward.


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


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With him I speak mouth to mouth [directly], clearly and not in dark speeches; and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses?


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And when the cloud departed from over the Tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. And Aaron looked at Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous!


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


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And the Lord said to Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed for seven days? Let her be shut up outside the camp for seven days, and after that let her be brought in again.


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So Miriam was shut up without the camp for seven days, and the people did not journey on until Miriam was brought in again.


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Send men to explore <i>and</i> scout out [for yourselves] the land of Canaan, which I give to the Israelites. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a leader <i>or</i> head among them.


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So Moses by the command of the Lord sent scouts from the Wilderness of Paran, all of them men who were heads of the Israelites.


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


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Moses sent them to scout out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Get up this way by the South (the Negeb) and go up into the hill country,


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And whether the land they live in is good or bad, and whether the cities they dwell in are camps or strongholds,


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


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So they went up and scouted through the land from the Wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.


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And then went up into the South (the Negeb) and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai [probably three tribes of] the sons of Anak were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)


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And they came to the Valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two [of them]; they brought also some pomegranates and figs.


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That place was called the Valley of Eshcol [cluster] because of the cluster which the Israelites cut down there.


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They came to Moses and Aaron and to all the Israelite congregation in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh, and brought them word, and showed them the land’s fruit.


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They told Moses, We came to the land to which you sent us; surely it flows with milk and honey. This is its fruit.


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But the people who dwell there are strong, and the cities are <f>[1]</f>fortified <i>and</i> very large; moreover, there we saw the sons of Anak [of great stature and courage].


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Amalek dwells in the land of the South (the Negeb); the Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hill country; and the Canaanite dwells by the sea and along by the side of the Jordan [River].


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


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But his fellow scouts said, We are not able to go up against the people [of Canaan], for they are stronger than we are.


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So they brought the Israelites an evil report of the land which they had scouted out, saying, The land through which we went to spy it out is a land that devours its inhabitants. And all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature.


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There we saw the Nephilim [or giants], the sons of Anak, who come from the giants; and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.


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All the Israelites grumbled <i>and</i> deplored their situation, accusing Moses and Aaron, to whom the whole congregation said, Would that we had died in Egypt! Or that we had died in this wilderness!


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Why does the Lord bring us to this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and little ones will be a prey. Is it not better for us to return to Egypt? <f>ⓐ</f>


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And Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among the scouts who had searched the land, rent their clothes,


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And they said to all the company of Israelites, The land through which we passed as scouts is an exceedingly good land.


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If the Lord delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.


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Only do not rebel against the Lord, neither fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their defense <i>and</i> the shadow [of protection] is removed from over them, but the Lord is with us. Fear them not.


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But all the congregation said to stone [Joshua and Caleb] with stones. But the glory of the Lord appeared at the Tent of Meeting before all the Israelites.


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And the Lord said to Moses, How long will this people provoke (spurn, despise) Me? And how long will it be before they believe Me [trusting in, relying on, clinging to Me], for all the signs which I have performed among them?


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


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But Moses said to the Lord, Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for You brought up this people in Your might from among them.


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And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, Lord, are in the midst of this people [of Israel], that You, Lord, are seen face to face, and that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.


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


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The Lord is long-suffering <i>and</i> slow to anger, and abundant in mercy <i>and</i> loving-kindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and fourth generation. <f>ⓑ</f>


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Pardon, I pray You, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of Your mercy <i>and</i> loving-kindness, just as You have forgiven [them] from Egypt until now.


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Because all those men who have seen My glory and My [miraculous] signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tested <i>and</i> proved Me these ten times and have not heeded My voice,


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Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to give to their fathers; nor shall any who provoked (spurned, despised) Me see it. <f>ⓓ</f>


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But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.


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Now because the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley, tomorrow turn and go into the wilderness by way of the Red Sea.


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How long will this evil congregation murmur against Me? I have heard the complaints the Israelites murmur against Me.


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Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness — of all who were numbered of you, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against Me, <f>ⓔ</f>


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Surely none shall come into the land in which I swore to make you dwell, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.


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


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And your children shall be wanderers <i>and</i> shepherds in the wilderness for forty years and shall suffer for your whoredoms (your infidelity to your espoused God), until your corpses are consumed in the wilderness.


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After the number of the days in which you spied out the land [of Canaan], even forty days, for each day a year shall you bear <i>and</i> suffer for your iniquities, even for forty years, and you shall know My displeasure [the revoking of My promise and My estrangement].


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I the Lord have spoken; surely this will I do to all this evil congregation who is gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed [by war, disease, plagues], and here they shall die. <f>ⓕ</f>


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And the men whom Moses sent to search the land, who returned and made all the congregation grumble <i>and</i> complain against him by bringing back a slanderous report of the land,


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


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


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But Moses said, Why now do you transgress the command of the Lord [to turn back by way of the Red Sea], since it will not succeed?


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For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from following after the Lord, therefore the Lord will not be with you.


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But they presumed to go up to the heights of the hill country; however, neither the ark of the covenant of the Lord nor Moses departed out of the camp.


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Then the Amalekites came down and the Canaanites who dwelt in that hill country and smote the Israelites and beat them back, even as far as Hormah.


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And will make an offering by fire to the Lord from the herd or from the flock, a burnt offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a special vow or as a freewill offering or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant <i>and</i> soothing fragrance to the Lord,


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Then shall he who brings his offering to the Lord bring a cereal offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a fourth of a hin of oil.


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


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Or for a ram you shall prepare for a cereal offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil.


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And for the drink offering you shall offer a third of a hin of wine, for a sweet <i>and</i> pleasing odor to the Lord.


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And when you prepare a bull for a burnt offering or for a sacrifice, in fulfilling a special vow or peace offering to the Lord,


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Then shall one offer with the bull a cereal offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil.


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And you shall bring for the drink offering half a hin of wine for an offering made by fire, of a pleasant <i>and</i> soothing fragrance to the Lord.


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


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All who are native-born shall do these things in this way in bringing an offering made by fire of a sweet <i>and</i> pleasant odor to the Lord.


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And if a stranger sojourns with you or whoever may be among you throughout your generations, and he wishes to offer an offering made by fire, of a pleasing <i>and</i> soothing fragrance to the Lord, as you do, so shall he do.


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There shall be one [and the same] statute [both] for you [of the congregation] and for the stranger who is a temporary resident with you, a statute forever throughout your generations: as you are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord.


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Then, when you eat of the food of the land, you shall set apart a portion for a gift to the Lord [called a heave or taken-out offering].


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You shall set apart a cake made of the first of your coarse meal as a gift [to the Lord]; as an offering set apart from the threshing floor, so shall you lift it out <i>or</i> heave it.


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Of the first of your coarse meal you shall give to the Lord a portion for a gift throughout your generations [your heave or lifted-out offering].


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When you have erred and have not observed all these commandments which the Lord has spoken to Moses,


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Even all that the Lord has commanded you through Moses, from the day that the Lord gave commandment and onward throughout your generations,


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Then it shall be, if it was done unwittingly <i>or</i> in error without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, for a pleasant <i>and</i> soothing fragrance to the Lord, with its cereal offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering.


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And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the Israelites, and they shall be forgiven, for it was an error and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord for their error.


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And all the congregation of the Israelites shall be forgiven and the stranger who lives temporarily among them, because all the people were involved in the error.


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And if any person sins unknowingly <i>or</i> unintentionally, he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering.


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And the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for the person who commits an error when he sins unknowingly <i>or</i> unintentionally, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven.


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You shall have one law for him who sins unknowingly <i>or</i> unintentionally, whether he is native born among the Israelites or a stranger who is sojourning among them.


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But the person who does anything [wrong] willfully <i>and</i> openly, whether he is native-born or a stranger, that one reproaches, reviles, <i>and</i> blasphemes the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from among his people [that the atonement made for them may not include him].


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Because he has despised and rejected the word of the Lord, and has broken His commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.


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While the Israelites were in the wilderness, they found a man who was gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.


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


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And all the congregation brought him without the camp and stoned him to death with stones, as the Lord commanded Moses.


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Speak to the Israelites and bid them make fringes <i>or</i> tassels on the corners in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and put upon the fringe of the borders <i>or</i> upon the tassel of each corner a cord of blue.


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And it shall be to you a fringe <i>or</i> tassel that you may look upon and remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them, that you may not spy out <i>and</i> follow after [the desires of] your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to follow <i>and</i> play the harlot [spiritually, if not physically],


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


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


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And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the Israelites, 250 princes <i>or</i> leaders of the congregation called to the assembly, men well known <i>and</i> of distinction.


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And they gathered together against Moses and Aaron, and said to them, [Enough of you!] You take too much upon yourselves, seeing that all the congregation is holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you lift yourselves up above the assembly of the Lord?


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And he said to Korah and all his company, In the morning the Lord will show who are His and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to Him; him whom He has chosen will He cause to come near to Him. <f>ⓐ</f>


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And put fire in them and put incense upon them before the Lord tomorrow; and the man whom the Lord chooses shall be holy. You take too much upon yourselves, you sons of Levi.


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


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And that He has brought you near to Him, and all your brethren the sons of Levi with you? Would you seek the priesthood also?


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Therefore you and all your company are gathered together against the Lord. And Aaron, what is he that you murmur against him?


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


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


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And Moses was very angry and said to the Lord, Do not respect their offering! I have not taken one donkey from them, nor have I hurt one of them.


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


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And let every man take his censer and put incense upon it and bring before the Lord every man his censer, 250 censers; you also and Aaron, each his censer.


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So they took every man his censer, and they put fire in them and laid incense upon it, and they stood at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting with Moses and Aaron.


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Then Korah assembled all the congregation against Moses and Aaron before the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the congregation.


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


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


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So they got away from around the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. And Dathan and Abiram came out and stood in the door of their tents with their wives, and their sons, and their little ones.


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And Moses said, By this you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, for I do not act of my own accord:


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If these men die the common death of all men or if [only] what happens to everyone happens to them, then the Lord has not sent me.


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But if the Lord causes a new thing [to happen], and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up, with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol (the place of the dead), then you shall understand that these men have provoked (spurned, despised) the Lord!


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And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households and [Korah and] all [his] men and all their possessions. <f>ⓑ</f>


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They and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol (the place of the dead); and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly.


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


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Speak to Eleazar son of Aaron, the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning and scatter the fire at a distance. For the censers are hallowed —


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The censers of these men who have sinned against themselves <i>and</i> at the cost of their own lives. Let the censers be made into hammered plates for a covering of the altar [of burnt offering], for they were used in offering before the Lord and therefore they are sacred. They shall be a sign [of warning] to the Israelites.


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Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers with which the Levites who were burned had offered incense, and they were hammered into broad sheets for a covering of the [brazen] altar [of burnt offering],


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To be a memorial [a warning forever] to the Israelites, so that no outsider, that is, no one not of the descendants of Aaron, should come near to offer incense before the Lord, lest he become as Korah and as his company, as the Lord said to Eleazar through Moses.


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But on the morrow all the congregation of the Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying, You have killed the people of the Lord.


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When the congregation was gathered against Moses and Aaron, they looked at the Tent of Meeting, and behold, the cloud covered it and they saw the Lord’s glory.


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Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. And Moses and Aaron fell on their faces.


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And Moses said to Aaron, Take a censer and put fire in it from off the altar and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them. For there is wrath gone out from the Lord; the plague has begun!


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


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Speak to the Israelites and get from them rods <i>or</i> staves, one for each father’s house, from all their leaders according to their father’s houses, twelve rods. Write every man’s name on his rod.


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And you shall write Aaron’s name on the rod of Levi [his great-grandfather]. For there shall be one rod for the head of each father’s house.


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You shall lay them up in the Tent of Meeting before [the ark of] the Testimony, where I meet with you.


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And the rod of the man whom I choose shall bud, and I will make to cease from Me the murmurings of the Israelites, which they murmur against you.


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And Moses spoke to the Israelites, and every one of their leaders gave him a rod <i>or</i> staff, one for each leader according to their fathers’ houses, twelve rods, and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.


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And the next day Moses went into the Tent of the Testimony, and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted and brought forth buds and produced blossoms and yielded [ripe] almonds.


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Moses brought out all the rods from before the Lord to all the Israelites; and they looked, and each man took his rod.


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And the Lord told Moses, Put Aaron’s rod back before the Testimony [in the ark], to be kept as a [warning] sign for the rebels; and you shall make an end of their murmurings against Me, lest they die.


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Everyone who comes near, who comes near the tabernacle of the Lord, dies <i>or</i> shall die! Are we all to perish?


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And the Lord said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father’s house with you shall bear <i>and</i> remove the iniquity of the sanctuary [that is, the guilt for the offenses which the people unknowingly commit when brought into contact with the manifestations of God’s presence]. And you and your sons with you shall bear <i>and</i> remove the iniquity of your priesthood [your own unintentional offenses].


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And your brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your [fore]father, bring with you, that they may be joined to you and minister to you; but only you and your sons with you shall come before the Tent of the Testimony [into the Holy Place where only priests may go and into the Most Holy Place which only the high priest dares enter].


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And the Levites shall attend you [as servants] and attend to all the duties of the Tent; only they shall not come near the sacred vessels of the sanctuary or to the brazen altar, that they and also you [Aaron] die not.


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And they shall be joined to you and attend to the duties of the Tent of Meeting — all the [menial] service of the Tent — and no stranger [no layman, anyone who is not a Levite] shall come near you [Aaron and your sons].


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And you shall attend to the duties of the sanctuary and attend to the altar [of burnt offering and the altar of incense], that there be no wrath any more upon the Israelites [as in the incident of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram]. <f>ⓐ</f>


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And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the Israelites; to you they are a gift, given to the Lord, to do the [menial] service of the Tent of Meeting.


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Therefore you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for everything of the altar [of burnt offering and the altar of incense] and [of the Holy of Holies] within the veil, and you shall serve. I give you your priesthood as a service of gift. And the stranger [anyone other than Moses or your sons, Aaron] who comes near shall be put to death. <f>ⓑ</f>


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And the Lord said to Aaron, And I, behold, I have given you the charge of My heave offerings [whatever is taken out and kept of the offerings made to Me], all the dedicated <i>and</i> consecrated things of the Israelites; to you have I given them [as your portion] and to your sons as a continual allowance forever by reason of your anointing as priests. <f>ⓒ</f>


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This shall be yours of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every offering of the people, every cereal offering and sin offering and trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to Me, shall be most holy for you [Aaron] and for your sons.


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As the most holy thing <i>and</i> in a sacred place shall you eat of it; every male [of your house] shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you. <f>ⓓ</f>


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And this also is yours: the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given them to you and to your sons and to your daughters with you as a continual allowance forever; everyone in your house who is [ceremonially] clean may eat of it.


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All the best of the oil, and all the best of the [fresh] wine and of the grain, the firstfruits of what they give to the Lord, to you have I given them.


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Whatever is first ripe in the land, which they bring to the Lord, shall be yours. Everyone who is [ceremonially] clean in your house may eat of it.


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Everything that first opens the womb in all flesh, which they bring to the Lord, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be yours. Nevertheless the firstborn of man you shall surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts you shall redeem.


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


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But the firstling of a cow or of a sheep or of a goat you shall not redeem. They [as the firstborn of clean beasts belong to God and] are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood upon the altar and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet <i>and</i> soothing odor to the Lord.


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All the heave offerings [the lifted-out and kept portions] of the holy things which the Israelites give to the Lord I give to you and to your sons and your daughters with you, as a continual debt forever. It is a covenant of salt [that cannot be dissolved or violated] forever before the Lord for you [Aaron] and for your posterity with you.


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And the Lord said to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in the land [of the Israelites], neither shall you have any part among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites.


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And, behold, I have given the Levites all the tithes in Israel for an inheritance in return for their service which they serve, the [menial] service of the Tent of Meeting.


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Henceforth the Israelites shall not come near the Tent of Meeting [the covered sanctuary, the Holy Place, and the Holy of Holies], lest they incur guilt and die.


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But the Levites shall do the [menial] service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear and remove the iniquity of the people [that is, be answerable for the legal pollutions of the holy things and offer the necessary atonements for unintentional offenses in these matters]. It shall be a statute forever in all your generations, that among the Israelites the Levites have no inheritance [of land].


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But the tithes of the Israelites, which they present as an offering to the Lord, I have given to the Levites to inherit; therefore I have said to them, Among the Israelites they shall have no inheritance. [They have homes and cities and pasturage to use but not to possess as their personal inheritance.]


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Moreover, you shall say to the Levites, When you take from the Israelites the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present an offering from it to the Lord, even a tenth of the tithe [paid by the people].


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And what you lift out and keep [your heave offering] shall be credited to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor or as the fully ripe produce of the vine.


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Likewise you shall also present an offering to the Lord of all your tithes which you receive from the Israelites; and therefore you shall give this heave offering [lifted out and kept] for the Lord to Aaron the priest.


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Out of all the gifts to you, you shall present every offering due to the Lord, of all the best of it, even the hallowed part lifted out <i>and</i> held back out of it [for the Levites].


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Therefore you shall say to them, When you have lifted out <i>and</i> held back the best from it [and presented it to the Lord by giving it to yourselves, the Levites], then it shall be counted to [you] the Levites just as if it were the increase of the threshing floor or of the winepress.


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And you may eat it in every place, you and your households, for it is your reward for your service in the Tent of Meeting.


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And you shall be guilty of no sin by reason of it when you have lifted out <i>and</i> held back the best of it; neither shall you have polluted the holy things of the Israelites, neither shall you die [because of it].


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This is the ritual of the law which the Lord has commanded: Tell the Israelites to bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, upon which a yoke has never come.


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And you shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her outside the camp, and she shall be slaughtered before him.


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Eleazar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger and sprinkle it toward the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times.


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And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet [stuff] and cast them into the midst of the burning heifer.


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


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He who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until evening.


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And a man who is clean shall collect the ashes of the heifer and put them outside the camp in a clean place, and they shall be kept for the congregation of the Israelites for the water for impurity; it is a sin offering.


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And he who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until evening. This shall be to the Israelites and to the stranger who sojourns among them a perpetual statute.


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He shall purify himself with the water for impurity [made with the ashes of the burned heifer] on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean. But if he does not purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.


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Whoever touches the corpse of any who has died and does not purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from Israel. Because the water for impurity was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still upon him.


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


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


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And for the unclean, they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering, and the running water shall be put with 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 vessels, and upon the persons who were there, and upon him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the naturally dead, or the grave.


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And the clean person shall sprinkle [the water for purification] upon the unclean person on the third day and on the seventh day, and on the seventh day the unclean man shall purify himself, and wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.


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But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. The water for purification has not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.


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And it shall be a perpetual statute to them. He who sprinkles the water for impurity [upon another] shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.


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And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean, and anyone who touches it shall be unclean until evening.


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And the Israelites, the whole congregation, came into the Wilderness of Zin in the first month. And the people dwelt in Kadesh. Miriam died and was buried there.


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And the people contended with Moses, and said, Would that we had died when our brethren died [in the plague] before the Lord! <f>ⓐ</f>


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And why have you brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we should die here, we and our livestock?


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


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Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting and fell on their faces. Then the glory of the Lord appeared to them.


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Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to give forth its water, and you shall bring forth to them water out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink.


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


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And Moses lifted up his hand and with his rod he smote the rock <f>[1]</f>twice. And the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.


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And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Because you did not believe in (rely on, cling to) Me to sanctify Me in the eyes of the Israelites, you therefore <f>[2]</f>shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them. <f>ⓑ</f>


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These are the waters of Meribah [strife], where the Israelites contended with the Lord and He showed Himself holy among them.


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And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying, Thus says your kinsman Israel: You know all the adversity <i>and</i> birth pangs that have come upon us [as a nation]:


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How our fathers went down to Egypt; we dwelt there a long time, and the Egyptians dealt evilly with us and our fathers.


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But when we cried to the Lord, He heard us and sent an angel and brought us forth out of Egypt. Now behold, we are in Kadesh, a city on your country’s edge.


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Let us pass, I pray you, through your country. We will not pass through field or vineyard, or drink of the water of the wells. We will go along the king’s highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed your borders.


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And the Israelites said to him, We will go by the highway, and if I and my livestock drink of your water, I will pay for it. Only let me pass through on foot, nothing else.


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But Edom said, You shall not go through. And Edom came out against Israel with many people and a strong hand.


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Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory, <f>[3]</f>so Israel turned away from him.


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Aaron shall be gathered to his people. For he shall not enter the land which I have given to the Israelites, because you both rebelled against My instructions at the waters of Meribah.


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Strip Aaron of his vestments and put them on Eleazar his son, and Aaron shall be gathered to his people, and shall die there.


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


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And Moses stripped Aaron of his [priestly] garments and put them on Eleazar his son. And Aaron died there on the mountain top; and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.


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When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept <i>and</i> mourned for him thirty days, all the house of Israel.


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When the Canaanite king of Arad, who dwelt in the South (the Negeb), heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim [the route traveled by the spies sent out by Moses], he fought against Israel and took some of them captive.


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


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And the Lord hearkened to Israel and gave over the Canaanites. And they utterly destroyed them and their cities; and the name of the place was called Hormah [a banned or devoted thing].


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And they journeyed from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom, and the people became impatient (depressed, much discouraged), because [of the trials] of the way.


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And the people spoke against God and against Moses, Why have you brought us out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, neither is there any water, and we loathe this light (contemptible, unsubstantial) manna.


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Then the Lord sent fiery (burning) serpents among the people; and they bit the people, and many Israelites died.


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And the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord, that He may take away the serpents from us. So Moses prayed for the people.


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And the Lord said to Moses, Make a fiery serpent [of bronze] and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.


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And Moses made a serpent of bronze and put it on a pole, and if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of bronze [<f>[1]</f>attentively, expectantly, with a steady and absorbing gaze], he lived.


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They journeyed from Oboth and encamped at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness opposite Moab, toward the sunrise.


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From there they journeyed and encamped on the other side of [the river] Arnon, which is in the desert <i>or</i> wilderness that extends from the frontier of the Amorites; for [the river] Arnon is the boundary of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.


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That is why it is said in the Book of the Wars of the Lord: Waheb in Suphah, and the valleys of [the branches of] the Arnon [River],


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And the slope of the valleys that stretch toward the site of Ar and find support on the border of Moab.


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From there the Israelites went on to Beer [a well], the well of which the Lord had said to Moses, Assemble the people together and I will give them water. <f>ⓐ</f>


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The fountain that the princes opened, that the nobles of the people hollowed out from their staves. And from the wilderness <i>or</i> desert [Israel journeyed] to Mattanah,


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And from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah which looks down upon Jeshimon <i>and</i> the desert.


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Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into field or vineyard; we will not drink the water of the wells. We will go by the king’s highway until we have passed your border.


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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 came to Jahaz, and he fought against Israel.


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And Israel smote the king of the Amorites with the edge of the sword and possessed his land from the river Arnon to the river Jabbok, as far as the Ammonites, for the boundary of the Ammonites was strong.


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And Israel took all these cities and dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all its towns.


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For Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land out of his hand, as far as [the river] Arnon.


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That is why those who sing ballads say, Come to Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and established.


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For fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon; it has devoured Ar of Moab and the lords of the heights of the Arnon.


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Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, O people of [the god] Chemosh! Moab has given his sons as fugitives and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.


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We have shot them down; Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon, and we have laid them waste as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.


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And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they took its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.


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Then 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 battle at Edrei.


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


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So the Israelites slew Og and his sons and all his people until there was not one left alive, And they possessed his land.


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The Israelites journeyed and encamped in the plains of Moab, on the east side of the Jordan [River] at Jericho.


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And Moab was terrified at the people <i>and</i> full of dread, because they were many. Moab was distressed <i>and</i> overcome with fear because of the Israelites.


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And Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now will this multitude lick up all that is round about us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field. So Balak son of Zippor, the king of the Moabites at that time,


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Sent messengers to Balaam [a foreteller of events] son of Beor at Pethor, which is by the [Euphrates] River, even to the land of the children of his people, to say to him, There is a people come out from Egypt; behold, they cover the face of the earth and they have settled down <i>and</i> dwell opposite me.


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Now come, I beg of you, curse this people for me, for they are too powerful for me. Perhaps I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land, for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.


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And the elders of Moab and of Midian departed with the rewards of foretelling in their hands; and they came to Balaam and told him the words of Balak.


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And he said to them, Lodge here tonight and I will bring you word as the Lord may speak to me. And the princes of Moab abode with Balaam [that night].


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Behold, the people who came out of Egypt cover the face of the earth; come now, curse them for me. Perhaps I shall be able to fight against them and drive them out.


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


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And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, Go back to your own land, for the Lord refuses to permit me to go with you.


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And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus says Balak son of Zippor, I beg of you, let nothing hinder you from coming to me.


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For I will promote you to very great honor and I will do whatever you tell me; so come, I beg of you, curse this people for me.


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


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Now therefore, I pray you, tarry here again tonight that I may know what more the Lord will say to me.


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And God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men come to call you, rise up and go with them, but still only what I tell you may you do.


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And God’s anger was kindled because he went, and the <f>[1]</f>Angel of the Lord stood in the way as an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his donkey, and his two servants were with him.


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


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


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And when the donkey saw the Angel of the Lord, she thrust herself against the wall and crushed Balaam’s foot against it, and he struck her again.


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


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And when the donkey saw the Angel of the Lord, she fell down under Balaam, and Balaam’s anger was kindled and he struck the donkey with his staff.


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


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And Balaam said to the donkey, Because you have ridiculed <i>and</i> provoked me! I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would kill you!


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And the donkey said to Balaam, Am not I your donkey, upon which you have ridden all your life long until this day? Was I ever accustomed to do so to you? And he said, No.


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Then the Lord opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the Angel of the Lord standing in the way with His sword drawn in His hand; and he bowed his head and fell on his face.


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And the Angel of the Lord said to him, Why have you struck your donkey these three times? See, I came out to stand against <i>and</i> resist you, for your behavior is willfully obstinate <i>and</i> contrary before Me.


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And the ass saw Me and turned from Me these three times. If she had not turned from Me, surely I would have slain you and saved her alive.


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Balaam said to the Angel of the Lord, I have sinned, for I did not know You stood in the way against me. But now, if my going displeases You, I will return.


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The Angel of the Lord said to Balaam, Go with the men, but you shall speak only what I tell you. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.


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When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him at the city of Moab on the border formed by the Arnon [River], at the farthest end of the boundary.


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Balak said to Balaam, Did I not [earnestly] send to you to ask you [to come] to me? Why did you not come? Am not I able to promote you to honor?


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


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And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent [portions] to Balaam and to the princes who were with him.


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And on the following day Balak took Balaam and brought him up into the high places of Bamoth-baal; from there he saw the nearest of the Israelites.


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


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And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering and I will go. Perhaps the Lord will come to meet me; and whatever He shows me I will tell you. And he went to a bare height.


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God met Balaam, who said to Him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.


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Balaam took up his [figurative] speech and said: Balak, the king of Moab, has brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse Jacob for me; and come, violently denounce Israel.


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How can I curse those God has not cursed? Or how can I [violently] denounce those the Lord has not denounced?


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For from the top of the rocks I see Israel, and from the hills I behold him. Behold, the people [of Israel] shall <f>[1]</f>dwell alone and shall not be reckoned <i>and</i> esteemed among the nations.


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Who can count the dust (the descendants) of Jacob and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous [those who are upright and in right standing with God], and let my last end be like theirs! <f>ⓐ</f>


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And Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, and here you have [thoroughly] blessed them instead!


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Balak said to him, Come with me, I implore you, to another place from which you can see them, though you will see only the nearest and not all of them; and curse them for me from there.


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So he took Balaam into the field of Zophim to the top of [Mount] Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.


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And when he returned to Balak, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, What has the Lord said?


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Balaam took up his [figurative] discourse and said: Rise up, Balak, and hear; listen [closely] to me, son of Zippor.


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God is not a man, that He should tell <i>or</i> act a lie, neither the son of man, that He should feel repentance <i>or</i> compunction [for what He has promised]. Has He said and shall He not do it? Or has He spoken and shall He not make it good?


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You see, I have received His command to bless Israel. He has blessed, and I cannot reverse <i>or</i> qualify it.


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[God] has not beheld iniquity in Jacob [for he is forgiven], neither has He seen mischief <i>or</i> perverseness in Israel [for the same reason]. The Lord their God is with Israel, and the shout of praise to their King is among the people. <f>ⓑ</f>


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Surely there is no enchantment with <i>or</i> against Jacob, neither is there any divination with <i>or</i> against Israel. [In due season and even] now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God wrought!


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Behold, a people! They rise up as a lioness and lift themselves up as a lion; he shall not lie down until he devours the prey and drinks the blood of the slain.


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And Balak said to Balaam, Come, I implore you; I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them for me from there.


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So Balak brought Balaam to the top of [Mount] Peor, that overlooks [the wilderness or desert] Jeshimon.


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


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When Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he did not go as he had done each time before [superstitiously] to meet with omens <i>and</i> signs in the natural world, but he set his face toward the wilderness <i>or</i> desert.


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And Balaam lifted up his eyes and he saw Israel abiding in their tents according to their tribes. And the Spirit of God came upon him


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And he took up his [figurative] discourse and said: Balaam son of Beor, the man whose eye is opened [at last, to see clearly the purposes and will of God],


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He [Balaam] who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, but having his eyes open <i>and</i> uncovered, he says:


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How attractive <i>and</i> considerable are your tents, O Jacob, <i>and</i> your tabernacles, O Israel!


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As valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the riverside, as [rare spice] of lignaloes which the Lord has planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters. <f>ⓐ</f>


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[Israel] shall pour water out of his own buckets [have his own sources of rich blessing and plenty], and his offspring shall dwell by many waters, and his king shall be higher than <f>[1]</f>Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.


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God brought [Israel] forth out of Egypt; [Israel] has strength like the wild ox; he shall eat up the nations, his enemies, crushing their bones and piercing them through with his arrows.


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He couched, he lay down as a lion; and as a lioness, who shall rouse him? Blessed [of God] is he who blesses you [who prays for and contributes to your welfare] and cursed [of God] is he who curses you [who in word, thought, or deed would bring harm upon you]. <f>ⓑ</f>


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Then Balak’s anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have done nothing but bless them these three times.


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Therefore now go back where you belong <i>and</i> do it in a hurry! I had intended to promote you to great honor, but behold, the Lord has held you back from honor.


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


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And now, behold, I am going to my people; come, I will tell you what this people [Israel] will do to your people [Moab] in the latter days.


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And he took up his [figurative] discourse, and said: Balaam son of Beor speaks, the man whose eye is opened speaks,


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He speaks, who heard the words of God and knew the knowledge of the Most High, who saw the vision of the Almighty, falling down, but having his eyes open <i>and</i> uncovered:


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I see Him, but not now; I behold Him, but He is not near. A <f>[2]</f>star (Star) shall come forth out of Jacob, and a scepter (Scepter) shall rise out of Israel and shall crush all the corners of Moab and break down all the sons of Sheth [Moab’s sons of tumult]. <f>ⓒ</f>


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And Edom shall be [taken as] a possession, [Mount] Seir also shall be dispossessed, who were Israel’s enemies, while Israel does valiantly.


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[Balaam] looked at Amalek and took up his [prophetic] utterance, and said: Amalek is the foremost of the [neighboring] nations, but in his latter end he shall <f>[3]</f>come to destruction.


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And he looked at the Kenites and took up his [prophetic] utterance, and said: Strong is your dwelling place, and you set your nest in the rock.


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And he took up his [prophetic] speech, and said: Alas, who shall live when God does this <i>and</i> establishes [Assyria]?


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But ships shall come from Kittim [Cyprus and the greater part of the Mediterranean’s east coast] and shall afflict Assyria and Eber [the Hebrews, certain Arabs, and descendants of Nahor], and he [the victor] also shall come to destruction.


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Israel settled down <i>and</i> remained in Shittim, and the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab,


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Who invited the [Israelites] to the sacrifices of their gods, and [they] ate and bowed down to Moab’s gods.


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So Israel joined himself to [the god] Baal of Peor. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.


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And the Lord said to Moses, Take all the leaders <i>or</i> chiefs of the people, and hang them before the Lord in the sun [after killing them], that the fierce anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel.


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And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Each one of you slay his men who joined themselves to Baal of Peor.


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And behold, one of the Israelites came and brought to his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and of all the congregation of Israel while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting [over the divine judgment and the punishment].


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


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And went after the man of Israel into the inner room and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman through her body. Then the [smiting] plague was stayed from the Israelites.


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Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the Israelites, in that he was jealous with My jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in My jealousy.


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And he shall have it, and his descendants after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelites. <f>ⓐ</f>


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Now the man of Israel who was slain with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, a head of a father’s house among the Simeonites.


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And the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi daughter of Zur; he was head of a father’s house in Midian.


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For they harass you with their wiles with which they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.


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Take a census of all the [male] congregation of the Israelites from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all in Israel able to go to war.


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A census of the people shall be taken from twenty years old and upward, as the Lord commanded Moses. And the Israelites who came forth out of the land of Egypt were:


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Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;


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The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are the Dathan and Abiram chosen from the congregation who contended against Moses and Aaron in the company of Korah when they contended against the Lord.


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And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died and the fire devoured 250 men; and they became a [warning] sign.


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


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


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And the sons of Judah according to their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.


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


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The sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites;


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


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The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites (and Machir was the father of Gilead); of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.


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These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites;


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Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons, but only daughters, and their names were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.


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These are the sons of Ephraim according to their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.


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These, the families of the sons of Ephraim according to their number, totaled 32,500. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.


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


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


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


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Of the sons of Asher according to their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; 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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Of the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;


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To a larger tribe you shall give the greater inheritance, and to a small tribe the less inheritance; to each tribe shall its inheritance be given according to its numbers.


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


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And these were numbered of the Levites according to their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.


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These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. And Kohath was the father of Amram.


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Amram’s wife was Jochebed daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt; and she bore to Amram Aaron, Moses, and Miriam their sister.


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And those numbered of them were 23,000, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not numbered among the Israelites, because there was no inheritance given them among the Israelites.


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These were those numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the Israelites in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.


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But among these there was not a man of those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.


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


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Then came the daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, from the families of Manasseh son of Joseph. The names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.


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They stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders, and all the congregation at the door of the Tent of Meeting, saying,


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Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among those who assembled together against the Lord in the company of Korah, but died for his own sin [as did all those who rebelled at Kadesh], and he had no sons. <f>ⓐ</f>


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Why should the name of our father be removed from his family because he had no son? Give to us a possession among our father’s brethren.


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The daughters of Zelophehad are justified <i>and</i> speak correctly. You shall surely give them an inheritance among their father’s brethren, and you shall cause their father’s inheritance to pass to them.


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And say to the Israelites, If a man dies and has no son, you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.


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And if his father has no brethren, then give his inheritance to his next of kin, and he shall possess it. It shall be to the Israelites a statute and ordinance, as the Lord commanded Moses.


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And the Lord said to Moses, Go up into this mountain of Abarim and behold the land I have given to the Israelites.


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


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For you disobeyed My order in the Wilderness of Zin during the strife of the congregation to uphold My sanctity [by strict obedience to My authority] at the waters before their eyes. [These are the waters of Meribah in Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin]. <f>ⓑ</f>


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Who shall go out and come in before them, leading them out and bringing them in, that the congregation of the Lord may not be as sheep which have no shepherd.


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The Lord said to Moses, Take Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand upon him;


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And set him before Eleazar the priest and all the congregation and give him a charge in their sight.


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And put some of your honor <i>and</i> authority upon him, that all the congregation of the Israelites may obey him.


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He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him before the Lord by the judgment of the Urim [one of two articles in the priest’s breastplate worn when asking counsel of the Lord for the people]. At Joshua’s word the people shall go out and come in, both he and all the Israelite congregation with him.


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And Moses did as the Lord commanded him. He took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest and all the congregation,


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Command the Israelites, saying, My offering, My food for My offerings made by fire, My sweet <i>and</i> soothing odor you shall be careful to offer to Me at its proper time.


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And you shall say to the people, This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to the Lord: two male lambs a year old without spot <i>or</i> blemish, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering.


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Also a tenth of an ephah of flour for a cereal offering, mixed with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil.


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It is a continual burnt offering which was ordained in Mount Sinai for a sweet <i>and</i> soothing odor, an offering made by fire to the Lord.


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Its drink offering shall be a fourth of a hin for each lamb; in the Holy Place you shall pour out a fermented drink offering to the Lord.


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And the other lamb you shall offer in the evening; like the cereal offering of the morning and like its drink offering, you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, a sweet <i>and</i> soothing odor to the Lord.


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And on the Sabbath day two male lambs a year old without spot <i>or</i> blemish, and two-tenths of an ephah of flour for a cereal offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering.


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This is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.


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And at the beginning of your months you shall offer a burnt offering to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without spot <i>or</i> blemish;


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And three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a cereal offering, mixed with oil, for each bull; and two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a cereal offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram.


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And a tenth part of fine flour mixed with oil as a cereal offering, for each lamb, for a burnt offering of a sweet <i>and</i> pleasant fragrance, an offering made by fire to the Lord.


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


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And one male goat for a sin offering to the Lord — it shall be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.


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But you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish to the best of your knowledge.


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And their cereal offering shall be of fine flour mixed with oil; three-tenths of an ephah shall you offer for a bull, and two-tenths for a ram;


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You shall offer these in addition to the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.


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In this way you shall offer daily for seven days the food of an offering made by fire, a sweet <i>and</i> soothing odor to the Lord; it shall be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.


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And on the seventh day you shall have a holy [summoned] assembly; you shall do no work befitting a slave <i>or</i> a servant.


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Also in the day of the firstfruits, when you offer a cereal offering of new grain to the Lord at your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy [summoned] assembly; you shall do no servile work.


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But you shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet, pleasing, <i>and</i> soothing fragrance to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old,


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And their cereal offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three-tenths of an ephah for each bull, two-tenths for one ram,


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You shall offer them in addition to the continual burnt offering and its cereal offering and their drink offerings. See that they are without blemish.


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On the first day of the seventh month [on New Year’s Day of the civil year], you shall have a holy [summoned] assembly; you shall do no servile work. It is a day of blowing of trumpets for you [everyone blowing who wishes, proclaiming that the glad New Year has come and that the great Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles are now approaching].


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And you shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet <i>and</i> pleasing odor to the Lord: one young bull, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old without blemish.


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Their cereal offering shall be of fine flour mixed with oil, three-tenths of an ephah for a bull, two-tenths for a ram,


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These are in addition to the burnt offering of the new moon and its cereal offering, and the daily burnt offering and its cereal offering, and their drink offerings, according to the ordinance for them, for a pleasant <i>and</i> soothing fragrance, an offering made by fire to the Lord.


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And you shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month a holy [summoned] assembly; [it is the great Day of Atonement, a day of humiliation] and you shall humble <i>and</i> abase yourselves; you shall not do any work in it.


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But you shall offer a burnt offering to the Lord for a sweet <i>and</i> soothing fragrance: one young bull, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old. See that they are without blemish.


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And their cereal offering shall be of fine flour mixed with oil, three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the one ram,


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One male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering and its cereal offering, and their drink offerings.


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And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy [summoned] assembly; you shall do no servile work, and you shall keep a feast to the Lord for seven days.


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And you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet <i>and</i> pleasing fragrance to the Lord: thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish.


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And their cereal offering shall be of fine flour mixed with oil, three-tenths of an ephah for each of the thirteen bulls, two-tenths for each of the two rams,


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Also one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its cereal offering, and its drink offering.


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And on the second day you shall offer twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without spot <i>or</i> blemish,


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With their cereal offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, the rams, and the lambs, by number according to the ordinance,


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Also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its cereal offering, and their drink offerings.


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With their cereal offering and drink offerings for the bulls, the rams, and the lambs, by number according to the ordinance,


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And one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its cereal offering, and its drink offerings.


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Their cereal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, the rams, and the lambs shall be by number according to the ordinance,


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And on the fifth day nine bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old without spot <i>or</i> blemish,


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And their cereal offering and drink offerings for the bulls, the rams, and the lambs, by number according to the ordinance,


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And one goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and its cereal offering, and its drink offerings.


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And their cereal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, the rams, and the lambs, by number according to the ordinance,


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And one goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its cereal offering, and its drink offerings.


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And their cereal and drink offerings for the bulls, the rams, and the lambs, by number according to the ordinance.


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And one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and its cereal offering, and its drink offerings.


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You shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet <i>and</i> pleasing fragrance to the Lord: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish,


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Their cereal offering and drink offerings for the bull, the ram, and the lambs shall be by number according to the ordinance,


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These you shall offer to the Lord at your appointed feasts, besides the offerings you have vowed and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, cereal offerings, drink offerings, and peace offerings.


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And Moses said to the heads <i>or</i> leaders of the tribes of Israel, This is the thing which the Lord has commanded:


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If a man vows a vow to the Lord or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break <i>and</i> profane his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.


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Also when a woman vows a vow to the Lord and binds herself by a pledge, being in her father’s house in her youth,


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And her father hears her vow and her pledge with which she has bound herself and he offers no objection, then all her vows shall stand and every pledge with which she has bound herself shall stand.


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But if her father refuses to allow her [to carry out her vow] on the day that he hears about it, not any of her vows or of her pledges with which she has bound herself shall stand. And the Lord will forgive her because her father refused to let her [carry out her purpose].


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And if she is married to a husband while her vows are upon her or she has bound herself by a rash utterance


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And her husband hears of it and holds his peace concerning it on the day that he hears it, then her vows shall stand and her pledge with which she bound herself shall stand.


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But if her husband refuses to allow her [to keep her vow or pledge] on the day that he hears of it, then he shall make void <i>and</i> annul her vow which is upon her and the rash utterance of her lips by which she bound herself, and the Lord will forgive her.


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But the vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, with which she has bound herself, shall stand against her.


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And her husband heard it and did not oppose or prohibit her, then all her vows and every pledge with which she bound herself shall stand.


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But if her husband positively made them void on the day he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning her pledge of herself shall not stand. Her husband has annulled them, and the Lord will forgive her.


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Every vow and every binding oath to humble <i>or</i> afflict herself, her husband may establish it or her husband may annul it.


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But if her husband altogether holds his peace [concerning the matter] with her from day to day, then he establishes <i>and</i> confirms all her vows or all her pledges which are upon her. He establishes them because he said nothing to [restrain] her on the day he heard of them.


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But if he shall nullify them after he hears of them, then he shall be responsible for <i>and</i> bear her iniquity.


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These are the statutes which the Lord commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, and between a father and his daughter while in her youth in her father’s house.


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And Moses said to the people, Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian and execute the Lord’s vengeance on Midian [for seducing Israel]. <f>ⓐ</f>


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And Moses sent them to the war, 1,000 from each tribe, together with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, with the [sacred] vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets to blow the alarm in his hand.


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Including the five kings of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba; also Balaam son of Beor they slew with the sword. <f>ⓑ</f>


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And the Israelites took captive the women of Midian and their little ones, and all their cattle, their flocks, and their goods as booty.


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Then they brought the captives, the prey, and the spoil to Moses and Eleazar the priest and to the congregation of the Israelites at the camp on the plains of Moab by Jordan at Jericho.


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Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the princes <i>or</i> leaders of the congregation went to meet them outside the camp.


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But Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, who served in the war.


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Behold, these caused the Israelites by the counsel of Balaam to trespass <i>and</i> act treacherously against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and so a [smiting] plague came among the congregation of the Lord. <f>ⓒ</f>


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Encamp outside the camp seven days; whoever has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.


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You shall purify every garment, all that is made of skins, all work of goats’ hair, and every article of wood.


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And Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone to battle, This is the statute of the law which the Lord has commanded Moses:


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Everything that can stand fire, you shall make go through fire, and it shall be clean. Nevertheless it shall also be purified with the water of impurity; and all that cannot stand fire [such as fabrics] you shall pass through water.


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And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day and you shall be clean; then you shall come into the camp.


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Take the count of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the congregation.


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Divide the booty into two [equal] parts between the warriors who went out to battle and all the congregation.


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And levy a tribute to the Lord from the warriors who went to battle, one out of every 500 of the persons, the oxen, the donkeys, and the flocks.


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Take [this tribute] from the warriors’ half and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the Lord.


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And from the Israelites’ half [of the booty] you shall take one out of every fifty of the persons, the oxen, the donkeys, the flocks, and of all livestock, and give them to the Levites who have charge of the tabernacle of the Lord.


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And Moses gave the tribute which was the Lord’s offering to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.


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Even of the Israelites’ half, Moses took one of every 50, both of persons and of beasts, and gave them to the Levites, who had charge of the tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.


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And the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders of thousands and hundreds, came to Moses.


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They told [him], Your servants have counted the warriors under our command, and not one man of us is missing.


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We have brought as the Lord’s offering what each man obtained — articles of gold, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, neck ornaments — to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord.


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And all the gold of the offering that they offered to the Lord from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds was 16,750 shekels.


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And Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds and brought it into the Tent of Meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the Lord.


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Now the sons of Reuben and of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle, and they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead [on the east side of the Jordan], and behold, the place was suitable for cattle.


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So the sons of Gad and of Reuben came and said to Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the congregation,


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The land the Lord smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle.


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And they said, If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Do not take us over the Jordan.


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Why do you discourage the hearts of the Israelites from going over into the land which the Lord has given them?


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For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the hearts of the Israelites from going into the land the Lord had given them.


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Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me —


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Except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the Lord.


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


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And behold, you are risen up in your fathers’ stead, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the Lord against Israel.


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For if you turn from following Him, He will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all this people.


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But they came near to him and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our flocks and walled settlements for our little ones.


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But we will be armed and ready to go before the Israelites until we have brought them to their place. Our little ones shall dwell in the fortified settlements because of the people of the land.


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For we will not inherit with them on the [west] side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.


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And every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before the Lord until He has driven out His enemies before Him


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And the land is subdued before the Lord, then afterward you shall return and be guiltless [in this matter] before the Lord and before Israel, and this land shall be your possession before the Lord.


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But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord; and be sure your sin will find you out.


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Build settlements for your little ones, and folds for your sheep, and do that of which you have spoken.


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But your servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to battle, as my lord says.


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So Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of Israel.


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And Moses said to them, If the sons of Gad and Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man armed to battle before the Lord, and the land shall be subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession.


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But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.


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We will pass over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side of the Jordan may be ours.


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Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and of Reuben and to half the tribe of Manasseh 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 their territories, even the cities round about the country.


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Nebo, and Baal-meon — their names were to be changed — and Shibmah; and they gave other names to the cities they built.


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And the sons of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.


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These are the stages of the journeys of the Israelites by which they went out of the land of Egypt by their hosts under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.


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Moses recorded their starting places, as the Lord commanded, stage by stage; and these are their journeying stages from their starting places:


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They set out from Rameses on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the Israelites went out [of Egypt] with a high hand <i>and</i> triumphantly in the sight of all the Egyptians,


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While the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn whom the Lord had struck down among them; upon their gods also the Lord executed judgments.


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They set out from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, east of Baal-zephon, and they encamped before Migdol.


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And they journeyed from before Pi-hahiroth and passed through the midst of the [Red] Sea into the wilderness; and they went a three days’ journey in the Wilderness of Etham and encamped at Marah.


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They journeyed from Marah and came to Elim; at Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there.


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And they set out from Alush and encamped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.


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Aaron the priest went up on Mount Hor at the command of the Lord, and died there in the fortieth year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, the first day of the fifth month. <f>ⓐ</f>


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The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the South (the Negeb) in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the Israelites.


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And they departed from the mountains of Abarim and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.


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Then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you and destroy all their figured stones and all their molten images and completely demolish all their [idolatrous] high places,


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And you shall take possession of the land and dwell in it, for to you I have given the land to possess it.


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You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the large tribe you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the small tribe you shall give a smaller inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his. According to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit.


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But if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them shall be as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they shall vex you in the land in which you dwell.


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Command the Israelites, When you come into the land of Canaan (which is the land that shall be yours for an inheritance, the land of Canaan according to its boundaries),


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Your south side shall be from the Wilderness of Zin along the side of Edom, and your southern boundary from the end of the Salt [Dead] Sea eastward.


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Your boundary shall turn south of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin, and its end shall be south of Kadesh-barnea. Then it shall go on to Hazar-addar and pass on to Azmon.


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Then the boundary shall turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and it shall terminate at the [Mediterranean] Sea.


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From Mount Hor you shall mark out your boundary to the entrance of Hamath, and its end shall be at Zedad;


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The boundary shall go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and shall descend and reach to the shoulder of the Sea of Chinnereth [the Sea of Galilee] on the east;


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And the boundary shall go down to the Jordan, and the end shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land with its boundaries all around.


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Moses commanded the Israelites, This is the land you shall inherit by lot, which the Lord has commanded to give to the nine tribes and the half-tribe [of Manasseh],


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For the tribes of the sons of Reuben and of Gad by their fathers’ houses have received their inheritance, and also the half-tribe of Manasseh.


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The two and a half tribes have received their inheritance east of the Jordan at Jericho, toward the sunrise.


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These are the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.


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And [with them] you shall take one head <i>or</i> prince of each tribe to divide the land for inheritance.


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These are the men whom the Lord commanded to divide the inheritance to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.


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Command the Israelites that they give to the Levites from the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and [suburb] pasturelands round about the cities’ walls you shall give to the Levites also.


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They shall have the cities to dwell in and their [suburb] pasturelands shall be for their cattle, for their wealth [in flocks], and for all their beasts.


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And the pasturelands of the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall reach from the wall of the city and outward 1,000 cubits round about.


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You shall measure from the wall of the city outward on the east, south, west, and north sides 2,000 cubits, the city being in the center. This shall belong to [the Levites] as [suburb] pasturelands for their cities.


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Of the cities which you shall give to the Levites there shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee into; and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities.


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So all the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight; you shall give them with their adjacent [suburb] pasturelands.


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As for the cities, you shall give from the possession of the Israelites, from the larger tribes you shall take many and from the smaller tribes few; each tribe shall give of its cities to the Levites in proportion to its inheritance.


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Then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the slayer who kills any person unintentionally <i>and</i> unawares may flee there.


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And the cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he has had a fair trial before the congregation.


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You shall give three cities on this [east] side of the Jordan and three cities in the land of Canaan, to be cities of refuge.


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These six cities shall be a refuge for the Israelites and for the stranger and the temporary resident among them; that anyone who kills any person unintentionally <i>and</i> unawares may flee there.


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But if he struck him down with an instrument of iron so that he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.


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And if he struck him down by throwing a stone, by which a person may die, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.


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Or if he struck him down with a weapon of wood in his hand, by which one may die, and he died, the offender is a murderer; he shall surely be put to death.


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Or in enmity struck him down with his hand so that he died, he that smote him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall slay the murderer when he meets him.


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But if he stabbed him suddenly without enmity or threw anything at <i>or</i> upon him without lying in wait


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Or with any stone with which a man may be killed, not seeing him, and threw it at him so that he died, and was not his enemy nor sought to harm him,


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Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.


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And the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood and restore him to his city of refuge to which he had fled; and he shall live in it until the high priest dies, who was anointed with the sacred oil.


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But if the slayer shall at any time come outside the limits of his city of refuge to which he had fled


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And the avenger of blood finds him outside the limits of his city of refuge and kills the manslayer, he shall not be guilty of blood


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Because the manslayer should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the high priest’s death the manslayer shall return to the land of his possession.


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And these things shall be for a statute <i>and</i> ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.


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Whoever kills any person [intentionally], the murderer shall be put to death on the testimony of witnesses; but no one shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness.


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Moreover, you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.


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And you shall accept no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, so that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the high priest.


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So you shall not pollute the land in which you live; for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.


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And you shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, for I, the Lord, dwell in the midst of the people of Israel.


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The heads of the fathers’ houses of the families of the sons of Gilead son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the fathers’ houses of the sons of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and the leaders, the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Israelites.


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They said, The Lord commanded [you] my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the Israelites; and my lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.


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But if they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the Israelites, then their inheritance will be taken from that of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they are received <i>and</i> belong; so it will be taken out of the lot of our inheritance.


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And when the Jubilee of the Israelites comes, then their inheritance will be added to that of the tribe to which they are received <i>and</i> belong; so will their inheritance be taken away from that of the tribe of our fathers.


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And Moses commanded the Israelites according to the word of the Lord, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph is right.


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This is what the Lord commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: Let them marry whom they think best; only they shall marry within the family of the tribe of their father.


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So shall no inheritance of the Israelites be transferred from tribe to tribe, for every one of the Israelites shall cling to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.


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And every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the Israelites shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, so that the Israelites may each one possess the inheritance of his fathers.


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So shall no inheritance be transferred from one tribe to another, but each of the tribes of the Israelites shall cling to its own inheritance.


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For Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to sons of their father’s brothers.


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They married into the families of the sons of Manasseh 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 ordinances which the Lord commanded the Israelites through Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan [River] at Jericho.


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These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel [still] on the [east] side of the Jordan [River] in the wilderness, in the Arabah [the deep valley running north and south from the eastern arm of the Red Sea to beyond the Dead Sea], over near Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.


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It is [only] eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea [on Canaan’s border; yet Israel took forty years to get beyond it].


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And in the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the Israelites according to all that the Lord had given him in commandment to them,


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After He had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth [and] Edrei.


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Turn and take up your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the lowland, in the South (the Negeb), and on the coast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.


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Behold, I have set the land before you; go in and take possession of the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their descendants after them.


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The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of the heavens for multitude.


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May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you as He has promised you!


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Choose wise, understanding, experienced, <i>and</i> respected men according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.


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So I took the heads of your tribes, wise, experienced, <i>and</i> respected men, and made them heads over you, commanders of thousands, and hundreds, and fifties, and tens, and officers according to your tribes.


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And I charged your judges at that time: Hear the cases between your brethren and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the stranger <i>or</i> sojourner who is with him.


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You shall not be partial in judgment; but you shall hear the small as well as the great. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.


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And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us, and we came to Kadesh-barnea.


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And I said to you, You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God gives us.


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Behold, the Lord your God has set the land before you; go up and possess it, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has said to you. Fear not, neither be dismayed.


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Then you all came near to me and said, Let us send men before us, that they may search out the land for us and bring us word again by what way we should go up and the cities into which we shall come.


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And they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied it out.


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And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the Lord our God gives us.


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You were peevish <i>and</i> discontented in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us, He brought us forth out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.


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To what are we going up? Our brethren have made our hearts melt, saying, The people are bigger and taller than we are; the cities are great and fortified to the heavens. And moreover we have seen the [giantlike] sons of the Anakim there.


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The Lord your God Who goes before you, He will fight for you just as He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,


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And in the wilderness, where you have seen how the Lord your God bore you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.


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Yet in spite of this word you did not believe (trust, rely on, and remain steadfast to) the Lord your God,


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Who went in the way before you to search out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.


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Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see that good land which I swore to give to your fathers,


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Except [Joshua, of course, and] Caleb son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land upon which he has walked, because he has wholly followed the Lord.


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But Joshua son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall enter there. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.


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Moreover, your little ones whom you said would become a prey, and your children who at this time cannot discern between good and evil, they shall enter Canaan, and to them I will give it and they shall possess it.


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Then you said to me, We have sinned against the Lord. We will go up and fight, as the Lord our God commanded us. And you girded on every man his battle weapons, and thought it a simple matter to go up into the hill country.


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And the Lord said to me, Say to them, Do not go up or fight, for I am not among you — lest you be dangerously hurt by your enemies.


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So I spoke to you, and you would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord, and were presumptuous and went up into the hill country.


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Then the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do and struck you down in Seir as far as Hormah.


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Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea, as the Lord directed me; and for many days we journeyed around Mount Seir.


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And command the Israelites, You are to pass through the territory of your kinsmen the sons of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. So watch yourselves carefully.


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Do not provoke <i>or</i> stir them up, for I will not give you of their land, no, not enough for the sole of your foot to tread on, for I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.


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You shall buy food from them for money, that you may eat, and you shall also buy water from them for money, that you may drink.


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For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He knows your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.


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So we passed on from our brethren the sons of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, away from the Arabah (wilderness), and from Elath and from Ezion-geber. We turned and went by the way of the wilderness of Moab.


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And the Lord said to me, Do not trouble <i>or</i> assault Moab or contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the sons of Lot for a possession.


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These also are known as Rephaim [of giant stature], as are the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim.


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The Horites also formerly lived in Seir, but the sons of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and dwelt in their stead, as Israel did to the land of their possession which the Lord gave to them.)


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And the time from our leaving Kadesh-barnea until we had come over the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until the whole generation of the men of war had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.


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Moreover the hand of the Lord was against them to exterminate them from the midst of the camp, until they were all gone.


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But when you come near the territory of the sons of Ammon, do not trouble <i>or</i> assault them or provoke <i>or</i> stir them up, for I will not give you any of the land of the Ammonites for a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot for a possession.


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(That also is known as a land of Rephaim [of giant stature]; Rephaim dwelt there formerly, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,


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A people great and many, and tall as the Anakim. But the Lord destroyed them before [Ammon], and they dispossessed them and settled in their stead,


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As He did for the sons of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them, and they dispossessed them and settled in their stead even to this day.


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As for the Avvim who dwelt in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim who came from Caphtor destroyed them and dwelt in their stead.)


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Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the Valley of the Arnon. Behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it and contend with him in battle.


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This day will I begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the peoples who are under the whole heavens, who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.


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So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,


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Let me pass through your land. I will go only by the road, turning aside neither to the right nor to the left.


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As the sons of Esau, who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites, who dwell in Ar, <f>[1]</f>did for me, until I go over 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 your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that He might give him into your hand, as at this day.


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And the Lord said to me [Moses], Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to take possession, that you may succeed him <i>and</i> occupy his land.


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At the same time we took all his cities and utterly destroyed every city — men, women, and children. We left none to remain.


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From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Arnon Valley, and from the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was no city too high <i>and</i> strong for us; the Lord our God delivered all to us.


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Only you did not go near the land of the Ammonites, that is, to any bank of the river Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever the Lord our God had forbidden us.


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Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.


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


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So the Lord our God also gave into our hands Og king of Bashan and all his people, and we smote him until not one was left to him.


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And we took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we did not take from them, sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.


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All these cities were fortified with high <i>and</i> haughty walls, gates, and bars, besides a great many unwalled villages.


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And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every city — men, women, and children.


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So we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the Valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon


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All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.


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For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the [gigantic] Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead was of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits was its length and four cubits its breadth, using the cubit of a man [the forearm to the end of the middle finger].


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When we took possession of this land, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead and its cities.


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The rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, that is, all the region of Argob in Bashan, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It is called the land of Rephaim [of giant stature].


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Jair son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, that is, Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called it after his own name, Havvoth-jair, so called to this day.


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And to the Reubenites and Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the Valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as the boundary of it, as far over as the river Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites,


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The Arabah also, with the Jordan as its boundary, from Chinnereth as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt [Dead] Sea, under the cliffs [of the headlands] of Pisgah on the east.


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And I commanded you at that time, saying, The Lord your God has given you this land to possess it; you [Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh] shall go over [the Jordan] armed before your brethren the other Israelites, all that are able for war.


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But your wives and your little ones and your cattle — I know that you have many cattle — shall remain in your cities which I have given you,


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Until the Lord has given rest to your brethren as to you, and until they also possess the land which the Lord your God has given them beyond the Jordan. Then shall you return every man to the possession which I have given you.


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And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your <i>own</i> eyes have seen all that the Lord your God has done to these two kings [Sihon and Og]; so shall the Lord do to all the kingdoms into which you are going over [the Jordan].


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O Lord God, You have only begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your mighty hand; for what god is there in heaven or on earth that can do according to Your works and according to Your might?


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I pray You, [will You not just] let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain country [with Hermon] and Lebanon?


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But the Lord was angry with me on your account and would not listen to me; and the Lord said to me, That is enough! Say no more to Me about it.


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Get up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward, and behold it with your eyes, for you shall not go over this Jordan.


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But charge Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he shall go over before this people and he shall cause them to possess the land which you shall see.


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Now listen <i>and</i> give heed, O Israel, to the statutes and ordinances which I teach you, and do them, that you may live and go in and possess the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, gives you.


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You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.


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Your eyes still see what the Lord did because of Baal-peor; for all the men who followed the Baal of Peor the Lord your God has destroyed from among you, <f>ⓐ</f>


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Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land which you are entering to possess.


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So keep them and do them, for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.


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For what great nation is there who has a god so near to them as the Lord our God is to us in all things for which we call upon Him?


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And what large <i>and</i> important nation has statutes and ordinances so upright <i>and</i> just as all this law which I set before you today?


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Only take heed, and guard your life diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen and lest they depart from your [mind and] heart all the days of your life. Teach them to your children and your children’s children —


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Especially how on the day that you stood before the Lord your God in Horeb, the Lord said to me, Gather the people together to Me and I will make them hear My words, that they may learn [reverently] to fear Me all the days they live upon the earth and that they may teach their children.


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And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick gloom.


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And the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the voice of the words, but saw no form; there was only a voice.


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And He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to perform, the Ten Commandments, and He wrote them on two tables of stone.


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And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you the statutes and precepts, that you might do them in the land which you are going over to possess.


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Therefore take good heed to yourselves, since you saw no form of Him on the day the Lord spoke to you on Horeb out of the midst of the fire,


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Beware lest you become corrupt by making for yourselves [to worship] a graven image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,


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The likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, or of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth.


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And beware lest you lift up your eyes to the heavens, and when you see the sun, moon, and stars, even all the host of the heavens, you be drawn away and worship them and serve them, things which the Lord your God has allotted to all nations under the whole heaven.


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But the Lord has taken you and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to Him a people of His own possession, as you are this day.


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Furthermore the Lord was angry with me because of you, and He swore that I should not go over the Jordan and that I should not enter the good land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance.


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But I must die in this land; I must not cross the Jordan; but you shall go over and possess that good land.


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Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God which He made with you, and make for yourselves a graven image in the form of anything which the Lord your God has forbidden you.


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When children shall be born to you, and children’s children, and you have grown old in the land, if you corrupt yourselves by making a graven image in the form of anything, and do evil in the sight of the Lord your God, provoking Him to anger,


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I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day that you shall soon utterly perish from the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it but will be utterly destroyed.


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And the Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations to which the Lord will drive you.


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There you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.


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But if from there you will seek (inquire for and require as necessity) the Lord your God, you will find Him if you [truly] seek Him with all your heart [and mind] and soul and life.


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When you are in tribulation and all these things come upon you, in the latter days you will turn to the Lord your God and be obedient to His voice.


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For the Lord your God is a merciful God; He will not fail you or destroy you or forget the covenant of your fathers, which He swore to them.


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For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from one end of the heavens to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever occurred or been heard of anywhere.


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Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you heard, and live?


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Or has God ever tried to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?


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To you it was shown, that you might realize <i>and</i> have personal knowledge that the Lord is God; there is no other besides Him.


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Out of heaven He made you hear His voice, that He might correct, discipline, <i>and</i> admonish you; and on earth He made you see His great fire, and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire.


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And because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them, and brought you out from Egypt with His own Presence, by His mighty power,


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Driving out nations from before you, greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day;


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Know, recognize, <i>and</i> understand therefore this day and turn your [mind and] heart to it that the Lord is God in the heavens above and upon the earth beneath; there is no other.


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Therefore you shall keep His statutes and His commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may prolong your days in the land which the Lord your God gives you forever.


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That the manslayer might flee there, who slew his neighbor unintentionally and had not previously been at enmity with him, that fleeing to one of these cities he might save his life:


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Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.


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These are the testimonies and the laws and the precepts which Moses spoke to the Israelites when they came out of Egypt,


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Beyond the Jordan in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the Israelites smote when they came out of Egypt.


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And they took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who lived beyond the Jordan to the east,


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From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, as far as Mount Sirion (that is, Hermon),


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And all the Arabah (lowlands) beyond the Jordan eastward, as far as the Sea of the Arabah [the Dead Sea], under the slopes <i>and</i> springs of Pisgah.


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And Moses called all Israel, and said to them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances which I speak in your hearing this day, that you may learn them and take heed and do them.


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The Lord made this covenant not with our fathers, but with us, who are all of us here alive this day.


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I stood between the Lord and you at that time to show you the word of the Lord, for you were afraid because of the fire and went not up into the mount. He said,


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You shall not make for yourself [to worship] a graven image or any likeness of anything that is in the heavens above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth.


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You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,


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And showing mercy <i>and</i> steadfast love to thousands <i>and</i> to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.


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You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in falsehood <i>or</i> without purpose.


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But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, or your manservant or your maidservant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the stranger <i>or</i> sojourner who is within your gates, that your manservant and your maidservant may rest as well as you.


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And [earnestly] remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt and that the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to observe <i>and</i> take heed to the Sabbath day.


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Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well with you in the land which the Lord your God gives you.


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Neither shall you covet your neighbor’s wife, nor desire your neighbor’s house, his field, his manservant or his maidservant, his ox or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.


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These words the Lord spoke to all your assembly at the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and He spoke not again [added no more]. He wrote them on two tables of stone and gave them to me [Moses].


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And when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders;


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And you said, Behold, the Lord our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice out of the midst of the fire; we have this day seen that God speaks with man and man still lives.


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Now therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any longer, we shall die.


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For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire, as we have, and lived?


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Go near [Moses] and hear all that the Lord our God will say. And speak to us all that the Lord our God will speak to you; and we will hear and do it.


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And the Lord heard your words when you spoke to me and the Lord said to me, I have heard the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They have said well all that they have spoken.


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Oh, that they had such a [mind and] heart in them always [reverently] to fear Me and keep all My commandments, that it might go well with them and with their children forever!


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But you [Moses], stand here by Me, and I will tell you all the commandments and the statutes and the precepts which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess.


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Therefore you people shall be watchful to do as the Lord your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.


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You shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land which you shall possess.


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Now this is the instruction, the laws, and the precepts which the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you might do them in the land to which you go to possess it,


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That you may [reverently] fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son’s son, and keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.


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Hear therefore, O Israel, and be watchful to do them, that it may be well with you and that you may increase exceedingly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.


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And you shall love the Lord your God with all your [mind and] heart and with your entire being and with all your might.


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And these words which I am commanding you this day shall be [first] in your [own] minds <i>and</i> hearts; [then]


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You shall whet <i>and</i> sharpen them so as to make them penetrate, <i>and</i> teach <i>and</i> impress them diligently upon the [minds and] hearts of your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up.


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And you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets (forehead bands) between your eyes.


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And when the Lord your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you, with great and goodly cities which you did not build,


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And houses full of all good things which you did not fill, and cisterns hewn out which you did not hew, and vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and when you eat and are full,


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Then beware lest you forget the Lord, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.


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For the Lord your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you, and He destroy you from the face of the earth.


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You shall not tempt <i>and</i> try the Lord your God as you tempted <i>and</i> tried Him in Massah. <f>ⓐ</f>


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You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God and His exhortations and His statutes which He commanded you.


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And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may go well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which the Lord swore to give to your fathers,


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When your son asks you in time to come, What is the meaning of the testimonies and statutes and precepts which the Lord our God has commanded you?


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Then you shall say to your son, We were Pharaoh’s bondmen in Egypt, and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.


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And the Lord showed signs and wonders, great and evil, against Egypt, against Pharaoh, and all his household, before our eyes;


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And He brought us out from there, that He might bring us in to give us the land which He swore to give our fathers.


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And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to [reverently] fear the Lord our God for our good always, that He might preserve us alive, as it is this day.


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And it will be accounted as righteousness (conformity to God’s will in word, thought, and action) for us if we are watchful to do all this commandment before the Lord our God, as He has commanded us.


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When the Lord your God brings you into the land which you are entering to possess and has plucked away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you,


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And when the Lord your God gives them over to you and you smite them, then you must utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, or show mercy to them.


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You shall not make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son nor shall you take his daughter for your son,


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For they will turn away your sons from following Me, that they may serve other gods; so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you and He will destroy you quickly.


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But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and hew down their Asherim [symbols of the goddess Asherah] and burn their graven images with fire.


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For you are a holy <i>and</i> set-apart people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a special people to Himself out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.


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The Lord did not set His love upon you and choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the fewest of all people.


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But because the Lord loves you and because He would keep the oath which He had sworn to your fathers, the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.


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Know, recognize, <i>and</i> understand therefore that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God, Who keeps covenant and steadfast love <i>and</i> mercy with those who love Him and keep His commandments, to a thousand generations,


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And repays those who hate Him to their face, by destroying them; He will not be slack to him who hates Him, but will requite him to his face.


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And if you hearken to these precepts and keep and do them, the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love which He swore to your fathers.


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And He will love you, bless you, and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain, your new wine, and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock in the land which He swore to your fathers to give you.


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You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.


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And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt which you knew will He put upon you, but will lay them upon all who hate you.


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And you shall consume all the peoples whom the Lord your God will give over to you; your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.


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If you say in your [minds and] hearts, These nations are greater than we are; how can we dispossess them?


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You shall not be afraid of them, but remember [earnestly] what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt,


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The great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which the Lord your God brought you out. So shall the Lord your God do to all the people of whom you are afraid.


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Moreover, the Lord your God will send the <f>[1]</f>hornet among them until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed.


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And the Lord your God will clear out those nations before you, little by little; you may not consume them quickly, lest the beasts of the field increase among you.


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But the Lord your God will give them over to you and will confuse them with a mighty panic until they are destroyed.


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And He will give their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under the heavens; there shall no man be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.


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The graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire. You shall not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.


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Neither shall you bring an abomination (an idol) into your house, lest you become an accursed thing like it; but you shall utterly detest and abhor it, for it is an accursed thing.


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All the commandments which I command you this day you shall be watchful to do, that you may live and multiply and go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to give to your fathers.


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And you shall [earnestly] remember all the way which the Lord your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and to prove you, to know what was in your [mind and] heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.


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And He humbled you and allowed you to hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you recognize <i>and</i> personally know that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.


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Know also in your [minds and] hearts that, as a man disciplines <i>and</i> instructs his son, so the Lord your God disciplines <i>and</i> instructs you.


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So you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and [reverently] fear Him. <f>ⓐ</f>


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For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;


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A land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey;


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A land in which you shall eat food without shortage and lack nothing in it; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper.


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When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God for all the good land which He has given you.


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Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His precepts, and His statutes which I command you today,


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And when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all you have is multiplied,


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Then your [minds and] hearts be lifted up and you forget the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage,


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Who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, but Who brought you forth water out of the flinty rock,


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Who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end.


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And beware lest you say in your [mind and] heart, My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.


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But you shall [earnestly] remember the Lord your God, for it is He Who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.


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And if you forget the Lord your God and walk after other gods and serve them and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.


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Like the nations which the Lord makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God.


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Hear, O Israel. You are to cross the Jordan today to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you are, cities great and fortified up to the heavens,


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A people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know and of whom you have heard it said, Who can stand before the sons of Anak?


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Know therefore this day that the Lord your God is He Who goes over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them and bring them down before you; so you shall dispossess them and make them perish quickly, as the Lord has promised you.


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Do not say in your [mind and] heart, after the Lord your God has thrust them out from before you, It is because of my righteousness that the Lord has brought me in to possess this land — whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is dispossessing them before you.


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Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your [minds and] hearts do you go to possess their land; but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out before you, and that He may fulfill the promise which the Lord swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.


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Know therefore that the Lord your God does not give you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a hard <i>and</i> stubborn people.


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[Earnestly] remember and forget not how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness; from the day you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord.


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Even in Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, and the Lord was so angry with you that He would have destroyed you.


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When I went up the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I neither ate food nor drank water.


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And the Lord delivered to me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them were all the words which the Lord spoke with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.


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And at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant.


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And the Lord said to me, Arise, go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten image.


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Furthermore the Lord said to me, I have seen this people, and behold, they are stubborn <i>and</i> hard.


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Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.


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So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. And the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.


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And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way which the Lord had commanded you.


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Then I fell down before the Lord as before, for forty days and forty nights; I neither ate food nor drank water, because of all the sin you had committed 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 which the Lord held against you, enough to destroy you. But the Lord listened to me that time also.


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And the Lord was very angry with Aaron, angry enough to have destroyed him, and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.


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And I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust; and I cast the dust of it into the brook that came down out of the mountain.


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Likewise when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you, then you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and you did not believe Him <i>or</i> trust <i>and</i> rely on Him or obey His voice.


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So I fell down <i>and</i> lay prostrate before the Lord forty days and nights because the Lord had said He would destroy you.


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And I prayed to the Lord, O Lord God, do not destroy Your people and Your heritage, whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.


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Remember [earnestly] Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not at the stubbornness of this people or at their wickedness or at their sin,


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Lest the land from which You brought us out say, Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.


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Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched arm.


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At that time the Lord said to me, Hew two tables of stone like the first and come up to Me on the mountain and make an ark of wood.


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And I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.


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So I [Moses] made an ark of acacia wood and hewed two tables of stone like the first, and went up the mountain <f>[1]</f>with the two tables of stone in my [one] hand.


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And the Lord wrote on the tables as at the first writing, the Ten Commandments which the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me.


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And I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are, as the Lord commanded me.


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(The Israelites journeyed from the wells of the sons of Jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried, and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest’s office in his stead.


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From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and then to Jotbathah, a land of brooks [dividing the valley].


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At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister to Him and to bless in His name unto this day.


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Therefore Levi has no part or inheritance with his brethren; the Lord is his inheritance, as the Lord your God promised him.)


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And I [Moses] stayed on the mountain, as the first time, forty days and nights, and the Lord listened to me at that time also; the Lord would not destroy you.


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And the Lord said to me, Arise, journey on before the people, that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give to them.


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And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you but [reverently] to fear the Lord your God, [that is] to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your [mind and] heart and with your entire being,


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Behold, the heavens and the heaven of heavens belong to the Lord your God, the earth also, with all that is in it <i>and</i> on it.


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Yet the Lord had a delight in loving your fathers, and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day.


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For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, the terrible God, Who is not partial and takes no bribe.


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He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger <i>or</i> temporary resident and gives him food and clothing.


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Therefore love the stranger <i>and</i> sojourner, for you were strangers <i>and</i> sojourners in the land of Egypt.


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You shall [reverently] fear the Lord your God; you shall serve Him and cling to Him, and by His name <i>and</i> presence you shall swear.


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He is your praise; He is your God, Who has done for you these great and terrible things which your eyes have seen.


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Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons in all, and now the Lord your God has made you as the stars of the heavens for multitude.


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Therefore you shall love the Lord your God and keep His charge, His statutes, His precepts, and His commandments always.


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And know this day — for I am not speaking to your children who have not [personally] known and seen it — the instruction <i>and</i> discipline of the Lord your God: His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm;


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And what He did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and chariots, how He made the waters of the Red Sea flow over them as they pursued you, and how the Lord has destroyed them to this day;


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And what He did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up them, their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel. <f>ⓐ</f>


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Therefore you shall keep all the commandments which I command you today, that you may be strong and go in and possess the land which you go across [the Jordan] to possess,


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And that you may live long in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.


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For the land which you go in to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you came out, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot laboriously as in a garden of vegetables.


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But the land which you enter to possess is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water of the rain of the heavens,


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A land for which the Lord your God cares; the eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.


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And if you will diligently heed My commandments which I command you this day — to love the Lord your God and to serve Him with all your [mind and] heart and with your entire being —


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I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.


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Take heed to yourselves, lest your [minds and] hearts be deceived and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them,


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And the Lord’s anger be kindled against you, and He shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain and the land will not yield its fruit, and you perish quickly off the good land which the Lord gives you.


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Therefore you shall lay up these My words in your [minds and] hearts and in your [entire] being, and bind them for a sign upon your hands and as forehead bands between your eyes.


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And you shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you rise up.


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That your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.


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For if you diligently keep all this commandment which I command you to do, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, and to cleave to Him —


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Then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.


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Every place upon which the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea [the Mediterranean] your territory shall be.


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There shall no man be able to stand before you; the Lord your God shall lay the fear and the dread of you upon all the land that you shall tread, as He has said to you.


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And the curse if you will not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you this day to go after other gods, which you have not known.


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And when the Lord your God has brought you into the land which you go to possess, you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. <f>ⓑ</f>


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Are they not beyond the Jordan, west of the road, where the sun goes down, in the land of the Canaanites living in the Arabah opposite Gilgal, beside the oaks <i>or</i> terebinths of Moreh?


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For you are to cross over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which the Lord your God gives you, and you shall possess it and live in it.


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These are the statutes and ordinances which you shall be watchful to do in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, gives you to possess all the days you live on the earth.


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You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations you dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains and the hills and under every green tree.


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You shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire; you shall hew down the graven images of their gods and destroy their name out of that place.


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But you shall seek the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put His <f>[1]</f>Name and make His dwelling place, and there shall you come;


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And there you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the offering of your hands, and your vows and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock.


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And there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice in all to which you put your hand, you and your households, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.


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You <f>[2]</f>shall not do according to all we do here [in the camp] this day, every man doing whatever looks right in his own eyes.


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But when you go over the Jordan and dwell in the land which the Lord your God causes you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies round about so that you dwell in safety,


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Then there shall be a place which the Lord your God shall choose to cause His Name [and His Presence] to dwell there; to it you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes and what the hand presents [as a first gift from the fruits of the ground], and all your choicest offerings which you vow to the Lord.


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And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, and your menservants and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your towns, since he has no part or inheritance with you.


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But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all I command you.


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However, you may kill and eat flesh in any of your towns whenever you desire, according to the provision for the support of life with which the Lord your God has blessed you; those [ceremonially] unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the hart.


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You may not eat within your towns the tithe of your grain or of your new wine or of your oil, or the firstlings of your herd or flock, or anything you have vowed, or your freewill offerings, or the offerings from your hand [of garden products].


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But you shall eat them before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God shall choose, you and your son and your daughter, your manservant and your maidservant, and the Levite that is within your towns; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all that you undertake.


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Take heed not to forsake <i>or</i> neglect the Levite [God’s minister] as long as you live in your land.


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When the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as He promised you, and you say, I will eat flesh, because you crave flesh, you may eat flesh whenever you desire.


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If the place where the Lord your God has chosen to put His Name [and Presence] is too far from you, then you shall kill from your herd or flock which the Lord has given you, as I [Moses] have commanded you; eat in your towns as much as you desire.


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Just as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so you may eat of it [but not offer it]; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.


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Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you may not eat the life with the flesh.


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You shall not eat it, that all may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord.


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Only your holy things which you have [to offer] and what you have vowed you shall take, and go to the place [before the sanctuary] which the Lord shall choose.


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And offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the Lord your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the Lord your God, and you may eat the flesh.


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Be watchful and obey all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.


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When the Lord your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go to dispossess, and you dispossess them and live in their land,


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Be watchful that you are not ensnared into following them after they have been destroyed before you and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? We will do likewise.


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You shall not do so to the Lord your God, for every abominable thing which the Lord hates they have done for their gods. For even their sons and their daughters they have burned in the fire to their gods.


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And the sign or the wonder he foretells to you comes to pass, and if he says, Let us go after other gods — gods you have not known — and let us serve them,


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You shall not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your [mind and] heart and with your entire being.


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You shall walk after the Lord your God and [reverently] fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice, and you shall serve Him and cling to Him.


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But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has talked rebellion <i>and</i> turning away from the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of bondage; that man has tried to draw you aside from the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So shall you put the evil away from your midst.


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If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own life entices you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods — gods you have not known, you nor your fathers,


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Of the gods of the peoples who are round about you, near you or far away from you, from one end of the earth to the other —


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You shall not give consent to him or listen to him; nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him or conceal him.


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But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people.


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And you shall stone him to death with stones, because he has tried to draw you away from the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.


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And all Israel shall hear and [reverently] fear, and shall never again do any such wickedness as this among you.


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That certain base fellows have gone out from your midst and have enticed away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods — gods you have not known —


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Then you shall inquire and make search and ask diligently. And behold, if it is true and certain that such an abominable thing has been done among you,


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You shall surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly and all who are in it and its beasts with the edge of the sword.


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And you shall collect all its spoil into the midst of its open square and shall burn the city with fire with every bit of its spoil [as a whole burnt offering] to the Lord your God. It shall be a heap [of ruins] forever; it shall not be built again.


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And nothing of the accursed thing shall cling to your hand, so that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of His anger, and show you mercy and have compassion on you and multiply you, as He swore to your fathers,


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If you obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep all His commandments which I command you this day, to do what is right in the eyes of the Lord your God.


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You are the sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead,


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For you are a holy people [set apart] to the Lord your God; and the Lord has chosen you to be a peculiar people to Himself, above all the nations on the earth.


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And every beast that parts the hoof and has it divided into two and brings up <i>and</i> chews the cud among the beasts you may eat.


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Yet these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud or have the hoof split in two: the camel, the hare, and the coney, because they chew the cud but divide not the hoof; they are unclean for you.


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And the swine, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud; it is unclean to you. You shall not eat of their flesh or touch their dead bodies.


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You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the stranger <i>or</i> the foreigner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to an alien. [They are not under God’s law in this matter] but you are a people holy to the Lord your God. You shall not [even] boil a kid in its mother’s milk.


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And you shall eat before the Lord your God in the place in which He will cause His Name [and Presence] to dwell the tithe (tenth) of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the firstlings of your herd and your flock, that you may learn [reverently] to fear the Lord your God always.


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And if the distance is too long for you to carry your tithe, or the place where the Lord your God chooses to set His Name [and Presence] is too far away for you, when the Lord your God has blessed you,


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Then you shall turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place [of worship] which the Lord your God has chosen.


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And you may spend that money for whatever your appetite craves, for oxen, or sheep, or new wine or strong[er] drink, or whatever you desire; and you shall eat there before the Lord your God and you shall rejoice, you and your household.


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And you shall not forsake <i>or</i> neglect the Levite [God’s minister] in your towns, for he has been given no share or inheritance with you.


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At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase the same year and lay it up within your towns.


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And the Levite [because he has no part or inheritance with you] and the stranger <i>or</i> temporary resident, and the fatherless and the widow who are in your towns shall come and eat and be satisfied, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.


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And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, for the Lord’s release is proclaimed.


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Of a foreigner you may exact it, but whatever of yours is with your brother [Israelite] your hand shall release.


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But there will be no poor among you, for the Lord will surely bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance to possess,


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If only you carefully listen to the voice of the Lord your God, to do watchfully all these commandments which I command you this day.


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When the Lord your God blesses you as He promised you, then you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.


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If there is among you a poor man, one of your kinsmen in any of the towns of your land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not harden your [minds and] hearts or close your hands to your poor brother;


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But you shall open your hands wide to him and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks.


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Beware lest there be a base thought in your [minds and] hearts, and you say, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand, and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing, and he cry to the Lord against you, and it be sin in you.


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You shall give to him freely without begrudging it; because of this the Lord will bless you in all your work and in all you undertake.


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For the poor will never cease out of the land; therefore I command you, You shall open wide your hands to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor in your land.


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And if your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.


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You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress; of what the Lord your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.


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And you shall [earnestly] remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore I give you this command today.


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But if the servant says to you, I will not go away from you, because he loves you and your household, since he does well with you,


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Then take an awl and pierce his ear through to the door, and he shall be your servant always. And also to your bondwoman you shall do likewise.


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It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for at half the cost of a hired servant he has served you six years; and the Lord your God will bless you in all you do.


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All the firstling males that are born of your herd and flock you shall set apart for the Lord your God; you shall do no work with the firstling of your herd, nor shear the firstling of your flock.


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You shall eat it before the Lord your God annually in the place [for worship] which the Lord shall choose, you and your household.


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But if it has any blemish, if it is lame, blind, or has any bad blemish whatsoever, you shall not sacrifice it to the Lord your God.


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You shall eat it within your towns; the [ceremonially] unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as if it were a gazelle or a hart.


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Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night.


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You shall offer the Passover sacrifice to the Lord your God from the flock or the herd in the place where the Lord will choose to make His Name [and His Presence] dwell.


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You shall eat no leavened bread with it; for seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction — for you fled from the land of Egypt in haste — that all the days of your life you may [earnestly] remember the day when you came out of Egypt.


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No leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory for seven days; nor shall any of the flesh which you sacrificed the first day at evening be left all night until the morning.


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You may not offer the Passover sacrifice within any of your towns which the Lord your God gives you,


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But at the place which the Lord your God will choose in which to make His Name [and His Presence] dwell, there you shall offer the Passover sacrifice in the evening at sunset, at the season that you came out of Egypt.


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And you shall roast <i>or</i> boil and eat it in the place which the Lord your God will choose. And in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.


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For six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord your God; you shall do no work on it.


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You shall count seven weeks; begin to number the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain.


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Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with a tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give to the Lord your God, as the Lord your God blesses you.


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And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and daughter, your manservant and maidservant, and the Levite who is within your towns, the stranger <i>or</i> temporary resident, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place in which the Lord your God chooses to make His Name [and His Presence] dwell.


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And you shall [earnestly] remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be watchful and obey these statutes.


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You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles <i>or</i> Booths for seven days after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and wine vat.


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You shall rejoice in your Feast, you, your son and daughter, your manservant and maidservant, the Levite, the transient <i>and</i> the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns.


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For seven days you shall keep a solemn Feast to the Lord your God in the place which the Lord chooses; because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the works of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful.


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Three times a year shall all your males appear before the Lord your God in the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles <i>or</i> Booths. They shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed:


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Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you.


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You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.


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You shall not misinterpret <i>or</i> misapply judgment; you shall not be partial, or take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.


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Follow what is altogether just (uncompromisingly righteous), that you may live and inherit the land which your God gives you.


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You shall not plant for yourselves any kind of tree dedicated to [the goddess] Asherah beside the altar of the Lord your God which you shall make.


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You shall not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or sheep with a blemish or any defect whatsoever, for that is an abomination to the Lord your God.


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If there is found among you within any of your towns which the Lord your God gives you a man or woman who does what is wicked in the sight of the Lord your God by transgressing His covenant,


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Who has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or moon or any of the host of the heavens, which I have forbidden,


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And it is told and you hear of it, then inquire diligently. And if it is certainly true that such an abomination has been committed in Israel,


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Then you shall bring forth to your town’s gates that man or woman who has done that wicked thing and you shall stone that man or woman to death.


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On the evidence of two or three witnesses he who is worthy of death shall be put to death; he shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness.


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The hands of the witnesses shall be the first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from among you.


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If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment — between one kind of bloodshed and another, between one legality and another, between one kind of assault and another, matters of controversy within your towns — then arise and go to the place which the Lord your God chooses.


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And you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them and they shall make clear to you the decision.


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And you shall do according to the decision which they declare to you from that place which the Lord chooses; and you shall be watchful to do according to all that they tell you;


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According to the decision of the law which they shall teach you and the judgment which they shall announce to you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the verdict they give you, <f>[1]</f>either to the right hand or the left.


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The man who does presumptuously and will not listen to the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God or to the judge, that man shall die; so you shall purge the evil from Israel.


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When you come to the land which the Lord your God gives you and you possess it and live there, and then say, We will set a king over us like all the nations that are about us,


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You shall surely set as king over you him whom the Lord your God will choose. One from among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not set a foreigner, who is not your brother, over you.


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But he shall not multiply horses to himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to multiply horses, since the Lord said to you, You shall never return that way.


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And he shall not multiply wives to himself, that his [mind and] heart turn not away; neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.


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And when he sits on his royal throne, he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book, out of what is before the Levitical priests.


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And he shall keep it with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn [reverently] to fear the Lord his God, by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes and doing them,


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That his [mind and] heart may not be lifted up above his brethren and that he may not turn aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left; so that he may continue long, he and his sons, in his kingdom in Israel.


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The Levitical priests and all the tribe of Levi shall have no part or inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings made by fire to the Lord, and His rightful dues.


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They shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the Lord is their inheritance, as He promised them.


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And this shall be the priest’s due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach.


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The firstfruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first <i>or</i> best of the fleece of your sheep you shall give the priest.


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For the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to minister in the name [and presence] of the Lord, him and his sons forever.


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And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel where he is a temporary resident, he may come whenever he desires to [the sanctuary] the place the Lord will choose;


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Then he may minister in the name [and presence of] the Lord his God like all his brethren the Levites who stand to minister there before the Lord.


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When you come into the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of these nations.


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There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire, or who uses divination, or is a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer,


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For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and it is because of these abominable practices that the Lord your God is driving them out before you.


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For these nations whom you shall dispossess listen to soothsayers and diviners. But as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do so.


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The Lord your God will raise up for you <f>[1]</f>a prophet (Prophet) from the midst of your brethren like me [Moses]; to him you shall listen. <f>ⓑ</f>


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This is what you desired [and asked] of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.


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I will raise up for them a prophet (Prophet) from among their brethren like you, and will put My words in his mouth; and he shall speak to them all that I command him.


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And whoever will not hearken to My words which he shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him.


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But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.


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When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or prove true, that is a word which the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.


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When the Lord your God has cut off the nations whose land the Lord your God gives you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,


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You shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the land which the Lord your God gives you to possess.


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You shall prepare the road and divide into three parts the territory of your land which the Lord your God gives you to possess, so that any manslayer can flee to them.


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And this is the case of the slayer who shall flee there in order that he may live. Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, for whom he had no enmity in time past —


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As when a man goes into the wood with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand strikes with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips off the handle and lights on his neighbor and kills him — he may flee to one of those cities and live;


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Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer while his [mind and] heart are hot with anger and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him even though the slayer was not worthy of death, since he had not been at enmity with him previously.


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And if the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as He has sworn to your fathers to do, and gives you all the land which He promised to your fathers to give,


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If you keep all these commandments to do them, which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God and to walk always in His ways, then you shall add three other cities to these three,


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Lest innocent blood be shed in your land, which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance, and so blood guilt be upon you.


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But if any man hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him, and attacks him and wounds him mortally so that he dies, and the assailant flees into one of these cities,


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Then the elders of his own city shall send for him and fetch him from there and give him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die.


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Your eyes shall not pity him, but you shall clear Israel of the guilt of innocent blood, that it may go well with you.


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You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark in the land which the Lord your God gives you to possess, which the men of old [the first dividers of the land] set.


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One witness shall not prevail against a man for any crime or any wrong in connection with any sin he commits; only on the testimony of two or three witnesses shall a charge be established.


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Then both parties to the controversy shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days.


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The judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely,


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Then you shall do to him as he had intended to do to his brother. So you shall put away the evil from among you.


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And those who remain shall hear and [reverently] fear, and shall henceforth commit no such evil among you.


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Your eyes shall not pity: it shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.


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When you go forth to battle against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than your own, do not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, is with you.


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And shall say to them, Hear, O Israel, you draw near this day to battle against your enemies. Let not your [minds and] hearts faint; fear not, and do not tremble or be terrified [and in dread] because of them.


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For the Lord your God is He Who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to save you. <f>ⓐ</f>


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And the officers shall speak to the people, saying, What man is there who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.


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And what man has planted a vineyard and has not used the fruit of it? Let him also return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man use the fruit of it.


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And what man has betrothed a wife and has not taken her? Let him return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her.


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And the officers shall speak further to the people, and say, What man is fearful and fainthearted? Let him return to his house, lest [because of him] his brethren’s [minds and] hearts faint as does his own.


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And when the officers finish speaking to the people, they shall appoint commanders at the head of the people.


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And if that city makes an answer of peace to you and opens to you, then all the people found in it shall be tributary to you and they shall serve you.


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And when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, you shall smite every male there with the edge of the sword.


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But the women, the little ones, the beasts, and all that is in the city, all the spoil in it, you shall take for yourselves; and you shall use the spoil of your enemies which the Lord your God has given you.


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So shall you treat all the cities that are very far off from you, that do not belong to the cities of these nations.


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But in the cities of these people which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes.


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But you shall utterly exterminate them, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded you,


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So that they may not teach you all the abominable practices they have carried on for their gods, and so cause you to sin against the Lord your God.


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When you besiege a city for a long time, making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by using an ax on them, for you can eat their fruit; you must not cut them down, for is the tree of the field a man, that it should be besieged by you?


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Only the trees which you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down, that you may build siege works against the city that makes war with you until it falls.


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If one is found slain in the land which the Lord your God gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it is not known who has killed him,


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Then your elders and judges shall come forth and measure the distance to the cities around him who is slain.


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And the city which is nearest to the slain man, the elders of that city shall take a heifer which has never been worked, never pulled in the yoke,


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And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.


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And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come near, for the Lord your God has chosen them to minister to Him and to bless in the name [and presence] of the Lord, and by their word shall every controversy and every assault be settled.


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And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley,


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Forgive, O Lord, Your people Israel, whom You have redeemed, and do not allow the shedding of innocent blood to be charged to Your people Israel. And the guilt of blood shall be forgiven them.


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So shall you purge the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord.


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When you go forth to battle against your enemies and the Lord your God has given them into your hands and you carry them away captive,


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And you see among the captives a beautiful woman and desire her, that you may have her as your wife,


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Then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head and pare her nails [in purification from heathenism]


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And put off her prisoner’s garb, and shall remain in your house and bewail her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife.


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And if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go absolutely free. You shall not sell her at all for money; you shall not deal with her as a slave <i>or</i> a servant, because you have humbled her.


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If a man has two wives, one loved and the other disliked, and they both have borne him children, and if the firstborn son is the son of the one who is disliked,


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Then on the day when he wills his possessions to his sons, he shall not put the firstborn of his loved wife in place of the [actual] firstborn of the disliked wife — her firstborn being older.


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But he shall acknowledge the son of the disliked as the firstborn by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he was the first issue of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.


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If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or his mother and though they chasten him will not listen to them,


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Then his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives,


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And they shall say to the elders of his city, This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard. <f>ⓐ</f>


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Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death; so you shall cleanse out the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear and [reverently] fear.


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And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death and he is put to death and [afterward] you hang him on a tree, <f>ⓑ</f>


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His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day, for a hanged man is accursed by God. Thus you shall not defile your land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance. <f>ⓒ</f>


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You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep being driven away <i>or</i> stolen, and hide yourself from [your duty to help] them; you shall surely take them back to your brother. <f>ⓐ</f>


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And if your brother [the owner] is not near you or if you do not know who he is, you shall bring the animal to your house and it shall be with you until your brother comes looking for it; then you shall restore it to him.


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And so shall you do with his donkey or his garment or with anything which your brother has lost and you have found. You shall not hide from [your duty concerning] them.


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You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fall down by the way, and hide from [your duty concerning] them; you shall surely help him to lift them up again.


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The woman shall not wear that which pertains to a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment, for all that do so are an abomination to the Lord your God.


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If a bird’s nest should chance to be before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother bird is sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother bird with the young.


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You shall surely let the mother bird go, and take only the young, that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.


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When you build a new house, then you shall put a railing around your [flat] roof, so that no one may fall from there and bring guilt of blood upon your house.


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You shall not plant your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole crop be forfeited [under this ban], the seed which you have sown and the yield of the vineyard forfeited to the sanctuary.


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You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself. <f>ⓓ</f>


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And charges her with shameful things and gives her an evil reputation, and says, I took this woman, but when I came to her, I did not find in her the tokens of a virgin,


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Then the father of the young woman, and her mother, shall get and bring out the tokens of her virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.


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And her father shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man as wife, but he hates <i>and</i> spurns her;


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And behold, he has made shameful charges against her, saying, I found not in your daughter the evidences of her virginity. And yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city,


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And they shall fine him 100 shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought an evil name upon a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife; he may not divorce her all his days.


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Then they shall bring her to the door of her father’s house and the men of her city shall stone her to death, because she has wrought [criminal] folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father’s house. So you shall put away the evil from among you.


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If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, they shall both die, the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.


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If a maiden who is a virgin is engaged to be married, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her,


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Then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city and shall stone them to death — the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s [promised] wife. So shall you put away evil from among you.


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But if a man finds the betrothed maiden in the open country and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.


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But you shall do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no sin punishable by death, for this is as when a man attacks and slays his neighbor,


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For he came upon her in the open country, and the betrothed girl cried out, but there was no one to save her.


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If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and he seizes her and lies with her and they are found,


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Then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her; he may not divorce her all his days.


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He who is wounded in the testicles, or has been made a eunuch, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord.


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A person begotten out of wedlock shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall his descendants not enter into the congregation of the Lord.


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An Ammonite or <f>[1]</f>Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to their tenth generation their descendants shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord forever,


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Because they did not meet you with food and water on the way when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired Balaam son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia against you to curse you.


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Nevertheless, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because the Lord your God loves you.


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You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother [Esau’s descendant]. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were a stranger <i>and</i> temporary resident in his land.


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When you go forth against your enemies and are in camp, you shall keep yourselves from every evil thing.


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If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of what happens to him at night, then he shall go outside the camp; he shall not come within the camp;


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But when evening comes he shall bathe himself in water, and when the sun is down he may return to the camp.


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And you shall have a paddle <i>or</i> shovel among your weapons, and when you sit down outside [to relieve yourself], you shall dig a hole with it and turn back and cover up what has come from you.


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For the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you. Therefore shall your camp be holy, that He may see nothing indecent among you and turn away from you.


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He shall dwell with you in your midst wherever he chooses in one of your towns where it pleases him best. You shall not defraud <i>or</i> oppress him.


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There shall be no cult prostitute among the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a cult prostitute (a sodomite) among the sons of Israel.


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You shall not bring the hire of a harlot or the price of a dog (a sodomite) into the house of the Lord your God as payment of a vow, for both of these [the gift and the giver] are an abomination to the Lord your God.


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You shall not lend on interest to your brother — interest on money, on victuals, on anything that is lent for interest.


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You may lend on interest to a foreigner, but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land to which you go to possess it.


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When you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not be slack in paying it, for the Lord your God will surely require it of you, and slackness would be sin in you.


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The vow which has passed your lips you shall be watchful to perform, a voluntary offering which you have made to the Lord your God, which you have promised with your mouth.


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When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, as many as you please, but you shall not put any in your vessel.


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When you come into the standing grain of your neighbor, you may pluck the ears with your hand, but you shall not put a sickle to your neighbor’s standing grain.


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When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a bill of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house,


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And if the latter husband dislikes her and writes her a bill of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies, who took her as his wife,


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Then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled. For that is an abomination before the Lord; and you shall not bring guilt upon the land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance.


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When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be charged with any business; he shall be free at home one year and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.


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If a man is found kidnapping any of his brethren of the Israelites and treats him as a slave <i>or</i> a servant or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall put evil from among you.


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Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you watch diligently and do according to all that the Levitical priests shall teach you. As I commanded them, so you shall be watchful and do. <f>ⓐ</f>


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Remember [earnestly] what the Lord your God did to Miriam on the way after you had come out of Egypt. <f>ⓑ</f>


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You shall surely restore to him the pledge at sunset, that he may sleep in his garment and bless you; and it shall be credited to you as righteousness (rightness and justice) before the Lord your God.


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You shall not oppress <i>or</i> extort from a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is of your brethren or of your strangers <i>and</i> sojourners who are in your land inside your towns.


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You shall give him his hire on the day he earns it before the sun goes down, for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it; lest he cry against you to the Lord, and it be sin to you.


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The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers; only for his own sin shall anyone be put to death.


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You shall not pervert the justice due the stranger <i>or</i> the sojourner or the fatherless, or take a widow’s garment in pledge.


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But you shall [earnestly] remember that you were a slave in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this.


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When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the stranger <i>and</i> the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.


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When you beat your olive tree, do not go over the boughs again; the leavings shall be for the stranger <i>and</i> the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.


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When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward; it shall be for the stranger <i>and</i> the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.


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You shall [earnestly] remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this.


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If there is a controversy between men, and they come into court and the judges decide between them, justifying the innocent and condemning the guilty,


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Then if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with a certain number of stripes according to his offense.


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Forty stripes may be given him but not more, lest, if he should be beaten with many stripes, your brother should [be treated like a beast and] seem low and worthless to you.


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If brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, his wife shall not be married outside the family to a stranger [an excluded man]. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.


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And the firstborn son shall succeed to the name of the dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.


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And if the man does not want to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband’s brother refuses to continue his brother’s name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother.


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Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him. And if he stands firm and says, I do not want to take her,


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Then shall his brother’s wife come to him in the presence of the elders and pull his shoe off his foot and spit in his face and shall answer, So shall it be done to that man who does 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 rescue her husband out of the hand of him who is beating him, and puts out her hand and seizes the other man by the private parts,


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But you shall have a perfect and just weight and a perfect and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.


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How he did not fear God, but when you were faint and weary he attacked you along the way and cut off all the stragglers at your rear. <f>ⓑ</f>


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Therefore when the Lord your God has given you rest from all your enemies round about in the land which the Lord your God gives you to possess as an inheritance, you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens; you must not forget.


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When you have come into the land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance and possess it and live in it,


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You shall take some of the first of all the produce of the soil which you harvest from the land the Lord your God gives you and put it in a basket, and go to the place [the sanctuary] which the Lord your God has chosen as the abiding place for His Name [and His Presence].


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And you shall go to the priest who is in office in those days, and say to him, I give thanks this day to the Lord your God that I have come to the land which the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.


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And the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the Lord your God.


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And you shall say before the Lord your God, A wandering <i>and</i> lost Aramean ready to perish was my father [Jacob], and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and numerous.


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And when we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers, the Lord heard our voice and looked on our affliction and our labor and our [cruel] 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 (awesome) power and with signs and with wonders;


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And now, behold, I bring the firstfruits of the ground which You, O Lord, have given me. And you shall set it down before the Lord your God and worship before the Lord your God;


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And you and the Levite and the stranger <i>and</i> the sojourner among you shall rejoice in all the good which the Lord your God has given you and your household.


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When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce the third year, which is the year of tithing, and have given it to the Levite, the stranger <i>and</i> the sojourner, the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your towns and be filled,


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Then you shall say before the Lord your God, I have brought the hallowed things (the tithe) out of my house and moreover have given them to the Levite, to the stranger <i>and</i> the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me; I have not transgressed any of Your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.


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I have not eaten of the tithe in my mourning [making the tithe unclean], nor have I handled any of it when I was unclean, nor given any of it to the dead. I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord my God; I have done according to all that You have commanded me.


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Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land which You have given us as You swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.


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This day the Lord your God has commanded you to do these statutes and ordinances. Therefore you shall keep and do them with all your [mind and] heart and with all your being.


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You have [openly] declared the Lord this day to be your God, [pledging] to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes and His commandments and His precepts, and to hearken to His voice.


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And the Lord has declared this day that you are His peculiar people as He promised you, and you are to keep all His commandments;


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And He will make you high above all nations which He has made, in praise and in fame and in honor, and that you shall be a holy people to the Lord your God, as He has spoken.


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And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, Keep all the commandments with which I charge you today.


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And on the day when you pass over the Jordan to the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall set up great stones and cover them with plaster.


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And you shall write on them all the words of this law when you have passed over, that you may go into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you.


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And when you have gone over the Jordan, you shall set up these stones, as I command you this day, on Mount Ebal, and coat them with plaster.


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And there you shall build an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones; you shall not lift up any iron tool upon them.


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You shall build the altar of the Lord your God of whole stones and offer burnt offerings on it to Him;


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And Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel, Keep silence and hear, O Israel! This day you have become the people of the Lord your God.


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So you shall obey the voice of the Lord your God and do His commandments and statutes which I command you today.


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These [tribes] shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have passed over the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph’s [sons], and Benjamin.


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And these [tribes] shall stand on Mount Ebal to pronounce the curse [for disobedience]: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.


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Cursed is the man who makes a graven or molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. All the people shall answer, Amen.


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Cursed is he who perverts the justice due to the sojourner <i>or</i> the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. All the people shall say, Amen.


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Cursed is he who lies with his father’s wife, because he uncovers what belongs to his father. All the people shall say, Amen.


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Cursed is he who lies with his half sister, whether his father’s or his mother’s daughter. All the people shall say, Amen.


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Cursed is he who does not support <i>and</i> give assent to the words of this law to do them [as the rule of his life]. All the people shall say, Amen.


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If you will listen diligently to the voice of the Lord your God, being watchful to do all His commandments which I command you this day, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.


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And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you if you heed the voice of the Lord your God.


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Blessed shall be the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your beasts, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock.


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The Lord shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.


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The Lord shall command the blessing upon you in your storehouse and in all that you undertake. And He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you.


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The Lord will establish you as a people holy to Himself, as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways.


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And all people of the earth shall see that you are called by the name [and in the presence of] the Lord, and they shall be afraid of you.


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And the Lord shall make you have a surplus of prosperity, through the fruit of your body, of your livestock, and of your ground, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.


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The Lord shall open to you His good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.


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And the Lord shall make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you this day and are watchful to do them.


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And you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.


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But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God, being watchful to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command you this day, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you:


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Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, of your land, of the increase of your cattle and the young of your sheep.


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The Lord shall send you curses, confusion, and rebuke in every enterprise to which you set your hand, until you are destroyed, perishing quickly because of the evil of your doings by which you have forsaken me [Moses and God as one].


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The Lord will make the pestilence cling to you until He has consumed you from the land into which you go to possess.


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The Lord will smite you with consumption, with fever and inflammation, fiery heat, sword <i>and</i> drought, blasting and mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.


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The Lord shall make the rain of your land powdered soil and dust; from the heavens it shall come down upon you until you are destroyed.


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The Lord shall cause you to be struck down before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them, and you shall be tossed to and fro <i>and</i> be a terror among all the kingdoms of the earth. [Fulfilled in II Chron. 29:8.]


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And your dead body shall be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there shall be no one to frighten them away.


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The Lord will smite you with the boils of Egypt and the tumors, the scurvy and the itch, from which you cannot be healed.


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And you shall grope at noonday as the blind grope in darkness. And you shall not prosper in your ways; and you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to save you.


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You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall lie with her; you shall build a house, but not live in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but not gather its grapes.


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Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be violently taken away before your face and not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no one to help you.


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Your sons and daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes shall look and fail with longing for them all the day; and there shall be no power in your hands to prevent it. [Fulfilled in II Chron. 29:9.]


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A nation which you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your land and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually, [Fulfilled in Judg. 6:1-6; 13:1.]


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The Lord will smite you on the knees and on the legs with a sore boil that cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.


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The Lord shall bring you and your king whom you have set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall [be forced to] serve other gods, of wood and stone. [Fulfilled in II Kings 17:4, 6; 24:12, 14; 25:7, 11; Dan. 6:11, 12.]


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And you shall become an amazement, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples to which the Lord will lead you.


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You shall carry much seed out into the field and shall gather little in, for the locust shall consume it. [Fulfilled in Hag. 1:6.]


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You shall plant vineyards and dress them but shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them.


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You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory but you shall not anoint yourselves with the oil, for your olive trees shall drop their fruit.


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You shall beget sons and daughters but shall not enjoy them, for they shall go into captivity. [Fulfilled in Lam. 1:5.]


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The transient (stranger) among you shall mount up higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.


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He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.


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All these curses shall come upon you and shall pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.


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They shall be upon you for a sign [of warning to other nations] and for a wonder, and upon your descendants forever.


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Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness of [mind and] heart [in gratitude] for the abundance of all [with which He had blessed you],


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Therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord shall send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and in want of all things; and He will put a yoke of iron upon your neck until He has destroyed you.


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The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you shall not understand,


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A nation of unyielding countenance who will not regard the person of the old or show favor to the young,


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And shall eat the fruit of your cattle and the fruit of your ground until you are destroyed, who also shall not leave you grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your cattle or the young of your sheep until they have caused you to perish.


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They shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land which the Lord your God has given you.


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And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and in the [pressing] misery with which your enemies shall distress you. [Fulfilled in II Kings 6:24-29.]


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The man who is most tender among you and extremely particular <i>and</i> well-bred, his eye shall be cruel <i>and</i> grudging of food toward his brother and toward the wife of his bosom and toward those of his children still remaining,


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So that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children which he is eating, because he has nothing left to him in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you in all your towns.


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The most tender and daintily bred woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground because she is so dainty and kind, will grudge to the husband of her bosom, to her son and to her daughter


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Her afterbirth that comes out from her body and the children whom she shall bear. For she will eat them secretly for want of anything else in the siege and distress with which your enemies shall distress you in your towns.


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If you will not be watchful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may [reverently] fear this glorious and fearful name [and presence] — THE LORD YOUR GOD —


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Then the Lord will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary strokes and blows, great plagues of long continuance, and grievous sicknesses of long duration.


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Moreover, He will bring upon you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you.


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Also every sickness and every affliction which is not written in this Book of the Law the Lord will bring upon you until you are destroyed.


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And you shall be <f>[1]</f>left few in number, whereas you had been as the stars of the heavens for multitude, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God.


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And as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so the Lord will rejoice to bring ruin upon you and to destroy you; and you shall be <f>[2]</f>plucked from the land into which you go to possess.


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And the Lord shall scatter you among all peoples from one end of the earth to the other; and there you shall [be forced to] serve other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known. [Fulfilled in Dan. 3:6.]


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And among these nations you shall find no ease and there shall be no rest for the sole of your foot; but the Lord will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes [from disappointment of hope], fainting of mind, <i>and</i> languishing of spirit.


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Your life shall hang in doubt before you; day and night you shall be worried, and have no assurance of your life.


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In the morning you shall say, Would that it were evening! and at evening you shall say, Would that it were morning! — because of the anxiety <i>and</i> dread of your [minds and] hearts and the sights which you shall see with your [own] eyes.


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And the Lord shall <f>[3]</f>bring you into Egypt again with ships by the way about which I said to you, You shall never see it again. And there you shall be sold to your enemies as bondmen and bondwomen, but no man shall buy you. <f>ⓐ</f>


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These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which He made with them in Horeb.


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Moses called to all Israel and said to them, You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his servants, and to all his land;


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Yet the Lord has not given you a [mind and] heart to understand and eyes to see and ears to hear, to this day.


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I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes have not worn out upon you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet.


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You have not eaten [grain] bread, nor have you drunk wine or strong drink, that you might recognize <i>and</i> know [your dependence on Him Who is saying], I am the Lord your God.


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And when you came to this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us to battle, but we defeated them.


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We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites.


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Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may deal wisely <i>and</i> prosper in all that you do.


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All of you stand today before the Lord your God — your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,


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Your little ones, your wives, and the stranger <i>and</i> sojourner in your camp, from the hewer of your wood to the drawer of your water —


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That you may enter into the covenant of the Lord your God, and into His oath which He makes with you today,


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That He may establish you this day as a people for Himself, and that He may be to you a God as He said to you and as He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.


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But with future Israelites who do not stand here with us today before the Lord our God, as well as with those who are here with us this day.


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You know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we came through the midst of the nations you crossed.


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And you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were among them.


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Beware lest there should be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose [mind and] heart turns away this day from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a [poisonous] root that bears gall and wormwood,


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And lest, when he hears the words of this curse <i>and</i> oath, he flatters <i>and</i> congratulates himself in his [mind and] heart, saying, I shall have peace <i>and</i> safety, <f>[1]</f>though I walk in the stubbornness of my [mind and] heart [bringing down a hurricane of destruction] and sweep away the watered land with the dry.


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The Lord will not pardon him, but then the anger of the Lord and His jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall settle on him; the Lord will blot out his very name from under the heavens.


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And the Lord will single him out for ruin <i>and</i> destruction from 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 next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a distant land, shall say, when they see the plagues of this land and the diseases with which the Lord has made it sick —


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The whole land is brimstone and salt and a burned waste, not sown or bearing anything, where no grass can take root, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah with Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and wrath —


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Even all the nations shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?


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Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them forth out of the land of Egypt.


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For they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they knew not and that He had not given to them.


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So the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, bringing upon it all the curses that are written in this book.


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And the Lord rooted them out of their land in anger and in wrath and in great indignation and cast them into another land, as it is this day.


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The secret things belong unto the Lord our God, but the things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all of the words of this law.


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And when all these things have come upon you, the blessings and the curses which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you,


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And shall return to the Lord your God and obey His voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your [mind and] heart and with all your being,


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Then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion upon you and will gather you again from all the nations where He has scattered you.


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Even if any of your dispersed are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there the Lord your God will gather you and from there will He bring you.


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And the Lord your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will do you good and multiply you above your fathers.


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And the Lord your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your [mind and] heart and with all your being, that you may live.


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And the Lord your God will put all these curses upon your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecute you.


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And you shall return and obey the voice of the Lord and do all His commandments which I command you today.


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And the Lord your God will make you abundantly prosperous in every work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, of your cattle, of your land, for good; for the Lord will again delight in prospering you, as He took delight in your fathers,


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If you obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to the Lord your God with all your [mind and] heart and with all your being.


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It is not [a secret laid up] in heaven, that you should say, Who shall go up for us to heaven and bring it to us, that we may hear and do it?


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Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who shall go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear and do it?


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But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your mind <i>and</i> in your heart, so that you can do it.


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[If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which] I command you today, to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His ordinances, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land into which you go to possess.


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But if your [mind and] heart turn away and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them,


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I declare to you today that you shall surely perish, and you shall not live long in the land which you pass over the Jordan to enter and possess.


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I call heaven and earth to witness this day against you that I have set before you life and death, the blessings and the curses; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live


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And may love the Lord your God, obey His voice, and cling to Him. For He is your life and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.


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And he said to them, I am 120 years old this day; I can no more go out and come in. And the Lord has said to me, You shall not go over this Jordan.


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The Lord your God will Himself go over before you, and He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. And Joshua shall go over before you, as the Lord has said.


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And the Lord will do to them as He did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when He destroyed them.


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And the Lord will give them over to you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandments which I have commanded you.


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Be strong, courageous, <i>and</i> firm; fear not nor be in terror before them, for it is the Lord your God Who goes with you; He will not fail you or forsake you.


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And Moses called to Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong, courageous, <i>and</i> firm, for you shall go with this people into the land which the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall cause them to possess it.


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It is the Lord Who goes before you; He will [march] with you; He will not fail you <i>or</i> let you go or forsake you; [let there be no cowardice or flinching, but] fear not, neither become broken [in spirit — depressed, dismayed, and unnerved with alarm].


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And Moses wrote this law and delivered it to the Levitical priests, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel.


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And Moses commanded them, At the end of every seven years, at the set time of the year of release [of debtors from their debts], at the Feast of Booths,


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When all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God in the place which He chooses [for His sanctuary], you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.


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Assemble the people — men, women, and children, and the stranger <i>and</i> the sojourner within your towns — that they may hear and learn [reverently] to fear the Lord your God and be watchful to do all the words of this law,


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And that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn [reverently] to fear the Lord your God as long as you live in the land which you go over the Jordan to possess.


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And the Lord said to Moses, Behold, your days are nearing when you must die. Call Joshua and present yourselves at the Tent of Meeting, that I may give him his charge. And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves at the Tent of Meeting.


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And the Lord appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.


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And the Lord said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers, and this people will rise up and play the harlot after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them; and they will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.


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Then My anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide My face from them. And they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day, Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?


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And I will surely hide My face in that day because of all the evil which they have done in turning to other gods.


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And now write this song for yourselves and teach it to the Israelites; put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for Me against the Israelites.


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For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves and become fat, then they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise <i>and</i> scorn Me and break My covenant.


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And when many evils and troubles have befallen them, this [sacred] song will confront them as a witness, for it will never be forgotten from the mouths of their descendants. For I know their strong desire <i>and</i> the purposes which they are forming even now, before I have brought them into the land which I swore to give them.


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And [the Lord] charged Joshua son of Nun, Be strong and courageous <i>and</i> firm, for you shall bring the Israelites into the land which I swore to give them, and I will be with you.


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Take this Book of the Law and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.


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For I know your rebellion and stubbornness; behold, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious against the Lord; and how much more after my death!


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Gather to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears and call heaven and earth to witness against them.


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For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days because you will do what is evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger through the work of your hands.


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And Moses spoke in the hearing of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song until they were ended:


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My message shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the light rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb.


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For I will proclaim the name [and presence] of the Lord. Concede <i>and</i> ascribe greatness to our God.


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He is the Rock, His work is perfect, for all His ways are law <i>and</i> justice. A God of faithfulness without breach <i>or</i> deviation, just and right is He.


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They [Israel] have spoiled themselves. They are not sons to Him, and that is their blemish — a perverse and crooked generation!


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Do you thus repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Is not He your Father Who acquired you for His own, Who made and established you [as a nation]?


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Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations. Ask your father and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.


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When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when He separated the children of men, He set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the Israelites.


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He found him in a desert land, in the howling void of the wilderness; He kept circling around him, He scanned him [penetratingly], He kept him as the pupil of His eye.


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As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, He spread abroad His wings and He took them, He bore them on His pinions. <f>ⓐ</f>


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He made Israel ride on the high places of the earth, and he ate the increase of the field; and He made him suck honey out of the rock and oil out of the flinty rock,


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Butter <i>and</i> curds of the herd and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and he-goats, with the finest of the wheat; and you drank wine of the blood of the grape.


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But Jeshurun (Israel) grew fat and kicked. You became fat, you grew thick, you were gorged <i>and</i> sleek! Then he forsook God Who made him and forsook <i>and</i> despised the Rock of his salvation.


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They sacrificed to demons, not to God — to gods whom they knew not, to new gods lately come up, whom your fathers never knew or feared.


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And the Lord saw it and He spurned <i>and</i> rejected them, out of indignation with His sons and His daughters.


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And He said, I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end will be; for they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.


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They have moved Me to jealousy with what is not God; they have angered Me with their idols. So I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people; I will anger them with a foolish nation.


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For a fire is kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.


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They shall be wasted with hunger and devoured with burning heat and poisonous pestilence; and the teeth of beasts will I send against them, with the poison of crawling things of the dust.


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From without the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers shall be terror, destroying both young man and virgin, the sucking child with the man of gray hairs.


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I said, I would scatter them afar and I would have made the remembrance of them to cease from among men,


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Had I not feared the provocation of the foe, lest their enemies misconstrue it and lest they should say, Our own hand has prevailed; all this was not the work of the Lord.


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How could one have chased a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had delivered them up?


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For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of [poisonous] gall, their clusters are bitter.


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Vengeance is Mine, and recompense, in the time when their foot shall slide; for the day of their disaster is at hand and their doom comes speedily.


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For the Lord will revoke sentence for His people and relent for His servants’ sake when He sees that their power is gone and none remains, whether bond or free.


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Who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you, let them be your protection!


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See now that I, I am He, and there is no god beside Me; I kill and I make alive, I wound and I heal, and there is none who can deliver out of My hand.


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If I whet My lightning sword and My hand takes hold on judgment, I will wreak vengeance on My foes and recompense those who hate Me.


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I will make My arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired heads of the foe.


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Rejoice [with] His people, O you nations, for He avenges the blood of His servants, and vengeance He inflicts on His foes and clears guilt from the land of His people.


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And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Hoshea (Joshua) son of Nun.


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He said to them, Set your [minds and] hearts on all the words which I command you this day, that you may command them to your children, that they may be watchful to do all the words of this law.


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For it is not an empty <i>and</i> worthless trifle for you; it is your [very] life. By it you shall live long in the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess.


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Get up into this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho, and look at the land of Canaan which I give to the Israelites for a possession.


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And die on the mountain which you ascend and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people,


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Because you broke faith with Me in the midst of the Israelites at the waters of Meribah-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin and because you did not set Me apart as holy in the midst of the Israelites.


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For you shall see the land opposite you at a distance, but you shall not go there, into the land which I give the Israelites.


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He said, The Lord came from Sinai and beamed upon us from Seir; He flashed forth from Mount Paran, from among ten thousands of holy ones, a flaming fire, a law, at His right hand.


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Yes, He loves [the tribes] His people; all those consecrated to Him are in Your hand. They followed in Your steps; they [accepted Your word and] received direction from You,


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[The Lord] was King in Jeshurun (Israel) when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together.


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And this he [Moses] said of Judah: Hear, O Lord, the voice of Judah, and bring him to his people! With his hands he contended for himself; but may You be a help against his enemies.


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And of Levi he said: Your Thummim and Your Urim [by which the priest sought God’s will for the nation] are for Your pious one [Aaron on behalf of the tribe], whom You tried <i>and</i> proved at Massah, with whom You contended at the waters of Meribah; <f>ⓐ</f>


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[Aaron] who <f>[2]</f>said of his father and mother, I do not regard them; nor did he acknowledge his brothers or openly recognize his own children. For the priests observed Your word and kept Your covenant [as to their limitations].


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[The priests] shall teach Jacob Your ordinances and Israel Your law. They shall put incense before You and whole burnt offerings upon Your altar.


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Bless, O Lord, [Levi’s] substance, and accept the work of his hands; crush the loins of his adversaries, and of those who hate him, that they arise no more.


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Of Benjamin he said: The beloved of the Lord shall <f>[3]</f>dwell in safety by Him; He covers him all the day long, and makes His dwelling between his shoulders.


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And of Joseph he said: Blessed by the Lord be his land, with the precious gifts of heaven from the dew and from the deep that couches beneath,


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With the chief products of the ancient mountains and with the precious things of the everlasting hills,


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With the precious things of the earth and its fullness and the favor <i>and</i> goodwill of Him Who dwelt in the bush. Let these blessings come upon the head of Joseph, upon the crown of the head of him who was separate <i>and</i> prince among his brothers. <f>ⓑ</f>


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Like a firstling young bull his majesty is, and his horns like the horns of the wild ox; with them he shall push the peoples, all of them, to the ends of the earth. And they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.


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And of Zebulun he said: <f>[4]</f>Rejoice, Zebulun, in your interests abroad, and you, Issachar, in your tents [at home].


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They shall call the people unto Mount [Carmel]; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness, for <f>[5]</f>they shall suck the abundance of the seas and the treasures hid in the sand.


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And of Gad he said: Blessed is He Who enlarges Gad! Gad lurks like a lioness, and tears the arm, yes, the crown of the head.


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He selected the best land for himself, for there was the leader’s portion reserved; yet he came with the chiefs of the nation, and the righteous will of the Lord he performed, and His ordinances with Israel. <f>ⓒ</f>


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Of Naphtali he said: O Naphtali, <f>[6]</f>satisfied with favor and full of the blessing of the Lord, possess the Sea [of Galilee] and [its warm, sunny climate like] the south.


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Of Asher he said: Blessed above sons is Asher; let him be acceptable to his brothers, and <f>[7]</f>let him dip his foot in oil.


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Your castles and strongholds shall have bars of iron and bronze, and as your day, so shall your strength, your rest <i>and</i> security, be.


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There is none like God, O Jeshurun [Israel], Who rides through the heavens to your help and in His majestic glory through the skies.


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The eternal God is your refuge <i>and</i> dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms; He drove the enemy before you <i>and</i> thrust them out, saying, Destroy!


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And Israel dwells in safety, the fountain of Jacob alone in a land of grain and new wine; yes, His heavens drop dew.


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Happy are you, O Israel, <i>and</i> blessing is yours! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord, the Shield of your help, the Sword that exalts you! Your enemies shall come fawning <i>and</i> cringing, <i>and</i> submit feigned obedience to you, and you shall march on their high places.


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And Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is opposite Jericho. And the Lord showed him all the land — from Gilead to Dan,


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And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah to the western [Mediterranean] sea,


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And the South (the Negeb) and the plain, that is, the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palm Trees, as far as Zoar.


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And the Lord said to him, This is the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, I will give it to your descendants. I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.


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And He buried him in the valley of the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor, but no man knows where his tomb is to this day.


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And the Israelites wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.


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And Joshua son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands upon him; so the Israelites listened to him and did as the Lord commanded Moses.


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[None equal to him] in all the signs and 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 the mighty power and all the great and terrible deeds which Moses wrought in the sight of all Israel.


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After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ minister, <f>ⓐ</f>


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Moses My servant is dead. So now arise [take his place], go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land which I am giving to them, the Israelites.


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Every place upon which the sole of your foot shall tread, that have I given to you, as I promised Moses.


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From the wilderness and this Lebanon to the great river Euphrates — all the land of the <f>[1]</f>Hittites [Canaan] — and to the Great [Mediterranean] Sea on the west shall be your territory.


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No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not fail you or forsake you.


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Be strong (confident) and of good courage, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.


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Only you be strong and very courageous, that you may do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you. Turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go.


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This Book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe <i>and</i> do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall deal wisely <i>and</i> have good <f>[2]</f>success.


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Have not I commanded you? Be strong, vigorous, and very courageous. Be not afraid, neither be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.


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Pass through the camp and command the people, Prepare your provisions, for within three days you shall pass over this Jordan to go in to take possession of the land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess.


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Remember what Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, The Lord your God is giving you [of these two and a half tribes a place of] rest and will give you this land [east of the Jordan].


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Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle shall dwell in the land which Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan, but all your mighty men of valor shall pass on before your brethren [of the other tribes] armed, and help them [possess their land]


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Until the Lord gives your brethren rest, as He has given you, and they also possess the land the Lord your God is giving them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and possess it, the land Moses the Lord’s servant gave you on the sunrise side of the Jordan.


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As we hearkened to Moses in all things, so will we hearken to you; only may the Lord your God be with you as He was with Moses.


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Whoever rebels against your commandment and will not hearken to all you command him shall be put to death. Only be strong, vigorous, <i>and</i> of good courage.


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Joshua son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as scouts, saying, Go, view the land, especially Jericho. And they went and came to the house of a harlot named Rahab and lodged there.


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It was told the king of Jericho, Behold, there came men in here tonight of the Israelites to search out the country.


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And the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men who have come to you, who entered your house, for they have come to search out the land.


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But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, Yes, two men came to me, but I did not know from where they had come.


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And at gate closing time, after dark, the men went out. Where they went I do not know. Pursue them quickly, for you will overtake them.


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But she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them under the stalks of flax which she had laid in order there.


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So the men pursued them to the Jordan as far as the fords. As soon as the pursuers had gone, the city’s gate was shut.


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And she said to the men, I know that the Lord has given you the land and that your terror is fallen upon us and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.


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For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were on the [east] side of the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.


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When we heard it, our hearts melted, neither did spirit <i>or</i> courage remain any more in any man because of you, for the Lord your God, He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath. <f>ⓐ</f>


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Now then, I pray you, swear to me by the Lord, since I have shown you kindness, that you also will show kindness to my father’s house, and give me a sure sign,


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And save alive my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all they have, and deliver us from death.


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And the men said to her, Our lives for yours! If you do not tell this business of ours, then when the Lord gives us the land we will deal kindly and faithfully with you.


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Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was built into the [town] wall so that she dwelt in the wall.


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And she said to them, Get to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; hide yourselves there three days until the pursuers have returned; and afterward you may go your way.


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The men said to her, We will be blameless of this oath you have made us swear. [The responsibility is now yours.]


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Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and you shall bring your father and mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household into your house.


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And if anyone goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless; but if a hand is laid upon anyone who is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head.


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And she said, According to your words, so it is. Then she sent them away and they departed; and she bound the <f>[1]</f>scarlet cord in the window.


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They left and went to the mountain and stayed there three days, until the pursuers returned, who had searched all along the way without finding them.


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So the two men descended from the mountain, passed over [the Jordan], and came to Joshua son of Nun, and told him all that had befallen them.


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They said to Joshua, Truly the Lord has given all the land into our hands; for all the inhabitants of the country are faint because of us.


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Joshua rose early in the morning and they removed from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the Israelites, and lodged there before passing over.


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Commanding the people: When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God being borne by the Levitical priests, set out from where you are and follow it.


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Yet a space must be kept between you and it, about 2,000 cubits by measure; come not near it, that you may [be able to see the ark and] know the way you must go, for you have not passed this way before.


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And Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves [that is, separate yourselves for a special holy purpose], for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.


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Joshua said to the priests, Take up the ark of the covenant and pass over before the people. And they took it up and went on before the people.


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The Lord said to Joshua, This day I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, so they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.


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You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.


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Joshua said, Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out from before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.


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Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is passing over before you into the Jordan!


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When the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the Lord of all the earth shall rest in the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan coming down from above shall be cut off and they shall stand in one heap.


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So when the people set out from their tents to pass over the Jordan, with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people,


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And when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were in the brink of the water — for the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest —


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Then the <f>[1]</f>waters which came down from above stood and rose up in a heap far off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those flowing down toward the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt [Dead] Sea, were wholly cut off. And the people passed over opposite Jericho. <f>ⓐ</f>


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And while all Israel passed over on dry ground, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, until all the nation finished passing over the Jordan.


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And command them, Take twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan from the place where the priests’ feet stood firm; carry them over with you and leave them at the place where you lodge tonight.


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And Joshua said to them, Pass over before the ark of the Lord your God in the midst of the Jordan, and take up every man of you a stone on his shoulder, as is the number of the tribes of the Israelites,


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That this may be a sign among you when your children ask in time to come, What do these stones mean to you?


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Then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall be to the Israelites a memorial forever.


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And the Israelites did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, as the Lord told Joshua, and carried them over with them to the place where they lodged and laid them down there.


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And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan in the place where the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant had stood. And they are there to 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 tell the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua. The people passed over in haste.


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When all the people had passed over, the ark of the Lord and the priests went over in the presence of the people.


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And the sons of Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh passed over armed before the [other] Israelites, as Moses had bidden them;


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About 40,000 [of these] prepared for war passed over before the Lord to the plains of Jericho for battle.


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On that day the Lord magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they stood in awe of him, as they stood in awe of Moses, all the days of his life.


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And when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord had come up out of the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of their feet were lifted up to the dry land, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and flowed over all its banks as they had before.


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And the people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month and encamped in Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.


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And he said to the Israelites, When your children ask their fathers in time to come, What do these stones mean?


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For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which He dried up for us until we passed over,


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That all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty and that you may reverence <i>and</i> fear the Lord your God forever.


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When all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until we had crossed over, their hearts melted and there was no spirit in them any more because of the Israelites.


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At that time the Lord said to Joshua, Make knives of flint and circumcise the [new generation of] Israelites as before.


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And this is the reason Joshua circumcised them: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way after they came out of Egypt.


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Though all the people who came out were circumcised, yet all the people who were born in the wilderness on the way after Israel came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.


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For the Israelites walked forty years in the wilderness till all who were men of war who came out of Egypt perished, because they did not hearken to the voice of the Lord; to them the Lord swore that He would not let them see the land which the Lord swore to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.


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So it was their uncircumcised children whom He raised up in their stead whom Joshua circumcised, because the rite had not been performed on the way.


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When they finished circumcising all the males of the nation, they remained in their places in the camp till they were healed.


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And the Lord said to Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you. So the name of the place is called Gilgal [rolling] to this day.


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And the Israelites encamped in Gilgal; and they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.


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And the manna ceased on the day after they ate of the produce of the land; and the Israelites had manna no more, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.


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When Joshua was by Jericho, he looked up, and behold, a Man stood near him with His drawn sword in His hand. And Joshua went to Him and said to Him, Are you for us or for our adversaries?


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And He said, No [neither], but as Prince of the Lord’s host have I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped, and said to Him, What says my Lord to His servant?


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And the Prince of the Lord’s host said to Joshua, <f>[1]</f>Loose your shoes from off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy. And Joshua did so. <f>ⓐ</f>


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Now Jericho [a fenced town with high walls] was tightly closed because of the Israelites; no one went out or came in.


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And the Lord said to Joshua, See, I have given Jericho, its king and mighty men of valor, into your hands.


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You shall march around the enclosure, all the men of war going around the city once. This you shall do for six days.


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And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns; and on the seventh day you shall march around the enclosure seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.


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When they make a long blast with the ram’s horn and you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the enclosure shall fall down in its place and the people shall go up [over it], every man straight before him.


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So Joshua son of Nun called the priests and said to them, Take up the ark of the covenant and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord.


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He said to the people, Go on! March around the enclosure, and let the armed men pass on before the ark of the Lord.


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When Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns passed on before the Lord and blew the trumpets, and the ark of the covenant of the Lord followed them.


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The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard came after the ark, the priests blowing the trumpets as they went.


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But Joshua commanded the people, You shall not shout or let your voice be heard, nor shall any word proceed out of your mouth until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout!


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So he caused the ark of the Lord to go around the city once; and they came into the camp and lodged in the camp.


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And the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord passed on, blowing the trumpets continually; and the armed men went before them and the rear guard came after the ark of the Lord, the priests blowing the trumpets as they went.


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On the second day they compassed the city enclosure once and returned to the camp. So they did for six days.


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On the seventh day they rose early at daybreak and marched around the city as usual, only on that day they compassed the city <f>[1]</f>seven times.


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And the seventh time, when the priests had blown the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, Shout! For the Lord has given you the city.


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And the city and all that is in it shall be devoted to the Lord [for destruction]; only Rahab the harlot and all who are with her in her house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent.


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But you, keep yourselves from the accursed <i>and</i> devoted things, lest when you have devoted it [to destruction], you take of the accursed thing, and so make the camp of Israel accursed and trouble it.


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But all the silver and gold and vessels of bronze and iron are consecrated to the Lord; they shall come into the treasury of the Lord.


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So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, they raised a great shout, and [Jericho’s] wall fell down in its place, so that the [Israelites] went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.


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Then they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, ox, sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.


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But Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, Go into the harlot’s house and bring out the woman and all she has, as you swore to her.


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So the young men, the spies, went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother, her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred and set them outside the camp of Israel.


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And they <f>[2]</f> burned the city with fire and all that was in it; only the silver, the gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord.


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So Joshua saved Rahab the harlot, with her father’s household and all that she had; and she lives in Israel even to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.


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Then Joshua laid this oath on them, Cursed is the man before the Lord who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn shall he lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son shall he set up its gates. <f>ⓐ</f>


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But the Israelites committed a trespass in regard to the devoted things; for Achan son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the things devoted [for destruction]. And the anger of the Lord burned against Israel.


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Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, Go up and spy out the land. So the men went up and spied out Ai.


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And they returned to Joshua and said to him, Let not all the men go up; but let about two thousand or three thousand go up and attack Ai; do not make the whole army toil up there, for they of Ai are few.


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And the men of Ai killed about thirty-six of them, for they chased them from before the gate as far as Shebarim, and slew them at the descent. And the hearts of the people melted and became as water.


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Then Joshua rent his clothes and lay on the earth upon his face before the ark of the Lord until evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.


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Joshua said, Alas, O Lord God, why have You brought this people over the Jordan at all only to give us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan!


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For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and will surround us and cut off our name from the earth. And what will You do for Your great name?


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Israel has sinned; they have transgressed My covenant which I commanded them. They have taken some of the things devoted [for destruction]; they have stolen, and lied, and put them among their own baggage.


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That is why the Israelites could not stand before their enemies, but fled before them; they are accursed <i>and</i> have become devoted [for destruction]. I will cease to be with you unless you destroy the accursed [devoted] things among you.


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Up, sanctify (set apart for a holy purpose) the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow; for thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: There are accursed things in the midst of you, O Israel. You can not stand before your enemies until you take away from among you the things devoted [to destruction].


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In the morning therefore, you shall present your tribes. And the tribe which the Lord takes shall come by families; and the family which the Lord takes shall come by households; and the household which the Lord takes shall come by persons.


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And he who is taken with the devoted things shall be [killed and his body] burned with fire, he and all he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of the Lord and because he has done a shameful <i>and</i> wicked thing in Israel. <f>ⓐ</f>


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So Joshua rose up early in the morning and brought Israel near by their tribes, and the tribe of Judah was taken.


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He brought near the family of Judah, and the family of the Zerahites was taken; and he brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man, and Zabdi was taken.


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He brought near his household man by man, and Achan son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.


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And Joshua said to Achan, My son, give glory to the Lord, the God of Israel, and make confession to Him. And tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me.


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And Achan answered Joshua, In truth, I have sinned against the Lord, the God of Israel, and this have I done:


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When I saw among the spoils an attractive mantle from Shinar and two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the earth inside my tent, with the silver underneath.


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So Joshua sent messengers, who ran to the tent, and behold, the spoil was hidden in his tent, with the silver underneath.


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And they took them from the tent and brought them to Joshua and all the Israelites and laid them out before the Lord.


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And Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan son of Zerah, and the silver, the garment, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his oxen, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them to the Valley of Achor.


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And Joshua said, Why have you brought trouble on us? The Lord will trouble you this day. And all Israel stoned him and those with him with stones, and afterward burned their bodies with fire.


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And they raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Then the Lord turned from the fierceness of His anger. Therefore the name of that place has been called the Valley of Achor <i>or</i> Troubling to this day.


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And the Lord said to Joshua, Fear not nor be dismayed. Take all the men of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.


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And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that its spoil and its cattle [this time] you shall take as booty for yourselves. Lay an ambush against the city behind it.


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So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai; [he] chose thirty thousand mighty men of strength and sent them forth by night.


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And he commanded them, Behold, you shall lie in wait against the city behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.


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And I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out against us, as the first time, we will flee before them


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Till we have drawn them from the city, for they will say, They are fleeing from us as before. So we will flee before them.


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Then you shall rise up from the ambush and seize the city, for the Lord your God will deliver it into your hand.


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When you have taken the city, you shall set it afire; as the Lord commanded, you shall do. See, I have commanded you.


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So Joshua sent them forth, and they went to the place of ambush and remained between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua lodged that night among the people.


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Joshua rose up early in the morning and mustered the men, and went up with the elders of Israel before the warriors to Ai.


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And all the fighting men who were with him went up and drew near before the city and encamped on the north side of [it], with a ravine between them and Ai.


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So they stationed all the army — the main encampment that was north of the city and their men in ambush behind <i>and</i> on the west of the city — and Joshua went that night into the midst of the ravine.


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When the king [and people] of Ai saw it, they hastily rose early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle [at a time and place appointed] before the Arabah [plain]. But he did not know of the ambush against him behind the city.


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So all the people in Ai were called together to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and were drawn away from the city.


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Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. Leaving the city open, they pursued Israel.


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Then the Lord said to Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand. So Joshua stretched out the javelin in his hand toward the city.


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The men in the ambush arose quickly out of their place and ran when he stretched out his hand; and they entered the city and took it, and then hastened and set it afire.


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When the men of Ai looked back, behold, the smoke of the city went up to the heavens, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. Then the Israelites who fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.


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When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that the smoke of the city went up, they turned again and slew the men of Ai.


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And the others came forth out of the city against them [of Ai], so that they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side and some on that side. And [the Israelites] smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.


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When Israel had finished slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field and in the wilderness into which they pursued them, and they were all fallen by the sword until they were consumed, then all the Israelites returned to Ai and smote it with the sword.


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For Joshua drew not back his hand with which he stretched out the javelin until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.


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Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as booty for themselves, according to the word of the Lord which He commanded Joshua.


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And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening; and at sunset, Joshua commanded and they took the body down from the tree and cast it at the entrance of the city gate and raised a great heap of stones over it that is there to this day.


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As Moses the servant of the Lord commanded the Israelites, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, an altar of unhewn stones, upon which no man has lifted up an iron tool; and they offered on it burnt offerings to the Lord and sacrificed peace offerings.


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And there, in the presence of the Israelites, [Joshua] wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses.


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And all Israel, sojourner as well as he who was born among them, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on either side of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded before that they should bless the Israelites.


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Afterward, Joshua read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, all that is written in the Book of the Law.


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There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and little ones, and the foreigners who were living among them.


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When all the kings beyond the Jordan in the hill country and in the lowland and all along the coast of the Great [Mediterranean] Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites heard this,


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They worked cunningly, and went pretending to be ambassadors and took [provisions and] old sacks on their donkeys and wineskins, old, torn, and mended,


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And old and patched shoes on their feet and wearing old garments; and all their supply of food was dry and moldy.


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And they went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel, We have come from a far country; so now, make a covenant with us.


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But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, Perhaps you live among us; how then can we make a covenant with you?


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They said to Joshua, We are your servants. And Joshua said to them, Who are you? From where have you come?


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They said to him, From a very far country your servants have come because of the name of the Lord your God. For we have heard the fame of Him, and all that He did in Egypt,


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And all that He did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth.


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So our elders and all the residents of our country said to us, Take provisions for the journey and go to meet [the Israelites] and say to them, We are your servants; and now make 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 set out to go to you; but now behold, it is dry and has become moldy.


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These wineskins (bottles) which we filled were new, and behold, they are torn; and our garments and our shoes have become old because of the very long journey.


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Joshua made peace with them, covenanting with them to let them live, and the assembly’s leaders swore to them.


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Then three days after they had made a covenant with [the strangers, the Israelites] heard that they were their neighbors and that they dwelt among them.


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And the Israelites set out and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.


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But the Israelites did not slay them, because the leaders of the assembly had sworn to them by the Lord, the God of Israel, [to spare them]. And all the assembly murmured against the leaders.


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But all the leaders said to all the assembly, We have sworn to them by the Lord, the God of Israel, so now we may not touch them.


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This we will do to them: we will let them live, lest wrath be upon us because of the oath which we swore to them.


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And the leaders said to them, Let them live [and be our slaves]. So they became hewers of wood and drawers of water for all the assembly, just as the leaders had said of them.


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Joshua called the men and said, Why did you deceive us, saying, We live very far from you, when you dwell among us?


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Now therefore you are cursed, and of you there shall always be slaves, hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.


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They answered Joshua, Because it was surely told your servants that the Lord your God commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the land’s inhabitants from before you. So we feared greatly for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.


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So he did to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the Israelites, so that they did not kill them.


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But Joshua then made them hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the Lord, to this day, in the place which He should choose.


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When Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai and had utterly destroyed it, doing to Jericho and its king as he had done to Ai and its king, and how the residents of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them,


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He feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.


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So Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,


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Come up to me and help me, and let us smite Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and with the Israelites.


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Then the five kings of the Amorites — the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon — gathered their forces and went up with all their armies and encamped before Gibeon to fight against it.


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And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, saying, Do not relax your hand from your servants; come up to us quickly and save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the hill country are gathered against us.


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And the Lord said to Joshua, Do not fear them, for I have given them into your hand; there shall not a man of them stand before you.


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And the Lord caused [the enemies] to panic before Israel, who slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon and chased them along the way that goes up to Beth-horon and smote them as far as Azekah and Makkedah.


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As they fled before Israel, while they were descending [the pass] to Beth-horon, the Lord cast great stones from the heavens on them as far as Azekah, killing them. More died because of the hailstones than the Israelites slew with the sword.


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Then Joshua spoke to the Lord on the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, be silent <i>and</i> stand still at Gibeon, and you, moon, in the Valley of Ajalon!


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And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation took vengeance upon their enemies. Is not this written in the Book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of the heavens and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day.


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There was no day like it before or since, when the Lord heeded the voice of a man. For the Lord fought for Israel.


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But do not stay. Pursue your enemies and fall upon their rear; do not allow them to enter their cities, for the Lord your God has given them into your hand.


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When Joshua and the Israelites had ended slaying them until they were wiped out and the remnant remaining of them had entered into fortified cities,


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All the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace; none moved his tongue against any of the Israelites.


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They brought the five kings out of the cave to him — the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon.


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When they brought out those kings to Joshua, [he] called for all the Israelites and told the commanders of the men of war who went with him, Come, put your feet on the necks of these kings. And they came and put their feet on the [kings’] necks.


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Joshua said to them, Fear not nor be dismayed; be strong and of good courage. For thus shall the Lord do to all your enemies against whom you fight.


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Afterward Joshua smote and slew them and hanged their bodies on five trees, and they hung on the trees until evening.


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At sunset Joshua ordered and they took the bodies down from the trees and cast them into the cave where the kings had hidden and laid great stones on the cave’s mouth, which remain to this very day.


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Joshua took Makkedah that day and smote it and its king with the sword and utterly destroyed everyone in it. He left none remaining. And he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho. <f>ⓐ</f>


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And the Lord gave it also and its king into Israel’s hands, and Joshua smote it with the sword, and all the people in it. He left none remaining in it. And he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.


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And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish and encamped against it and attacked it.


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And the Lord delivered Lachish into the hands of Israel, and Joshua took it on the second day and smote it with the sword, and all the people in it, as he had done to Libnah.


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Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish, and Joshua smote him and his people — until he had left none remaining.


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And they took it that day and smote it with the sword and utterly destroyed all who were in it that day, as he had done to Lachish.


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And took it and smote it with the sword, and its king and all its towns and everyone in it. He left none remaining, as he had done to Eglon, and utterly destroyed it and all its people.


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And he took it, with its king and all its towns, and they smote them with the sword and utterly destroyed everyone in it. He left none remaining. As he had done to Hebron and to Libnah and its king, so he did to Debir and its king.


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So Joshua smote all the land, the hill country, the South, the lowland, and the slopes, and all their kings. He left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the <f>[1]</f>Lord, the God of Israel, commanded. <f>ⓑ</f>


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And Joshua smote them from Kadesh-barnea even to Gaza, and all the country of Goshen even to Gibeon.


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Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time, because the Lord, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.


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When Jabin king of Hazor heard of this, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the kings of Shimron and Achshaph,


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And to the kings who were in the north in the hill country and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth and in the lowland and in the heights of Dor on the west;


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To the Canaanites in the east and west; to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites in the hill country; and to the Hivites below [Mount] Hermon in the land of Mizpah.


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And they went out with all their hosts, much people, like the sand on the seashore in number, with very many horses and chariots.


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And all these kings met and came and encamped together at the Waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.


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But the Lord said to Joshua, Do not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow by this time I will give them up all slain to Israel; you shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.


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So Joshua and all the people of war with him came against them suddenly by the Waters of Merom and fell upon them.


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And the Lord gave them into the hand of Israel, who smote them and chased them [toward] populous Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of Mizpah; they smote them until none remained.


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And Joshua did to them as the Lord had commanded him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.


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And Joshua at that time turned back and took Hazor and smote its king with the sword; for Hazor previously was the head of all those kingdoms.


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They smote all the people in it with the sword, utterly destroying them; none were left alive, and he burned Hazor with fire.


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And Joshua took all the cities of those kings and all the kings and smote them with the sword, utterly destroying them, as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded. <f>ⓐ</f>


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But Israel burned none of the cities that stood [fortified] on their mounds — except Hazor only, which Joshua burned.


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And all the spoil of these cities and the livestock the Israelites took for their booty; but every man they smote with the sword until they had destroyed them, and they left none who breathed.


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As the Lord had commanded Moses His servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and so Joshua did; he left nothing undone of all that the Lord commanded Moses.


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So Joshua took all that land: the hill country, all the South, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, the Arabah [plain], the hill country of Israel and its lowland,


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From Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and slew them.


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Not a city made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites, the people of Gibeon; all the others they took in battle.


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For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, that [Israel] might <f>[1]</f>destroy them utterly, and that without favor <i>and</i> mercy, as the Lord commanded Moses.


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Joshua came at that time and cut off the Anakim [large in stature] from the hill country: from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah and the hill country of Israel. Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities.


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None of the Anakim were left in the land of the Israelites; only in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod [of Philistia] did some remain.


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So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses, and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their allotments by tribes. And the land had rest from war.


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Now these are the kings of the land whom the Israelites defeated and whose land they took possession of east of the Jordan, from the river Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward:


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Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer on the edge of the Valley of the [river] Arnon, and from the middle of the valley as far as the river Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites, including half of Gilead;


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And the Arabah to the Sea of Chinneroth eastward, and in the direction of Beth-jeshimoth, to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt [or Dead] Sea, southward to the foot of the slopes of Pisgah.


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And ruled over Mount Hermon and Salecah and all of Bashan to the boundary of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and over half of Gilead to the boundary of Sihon king of Heshbon.


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These Moses the servant of the Lord and the Israelites defeated; and Moses the servant of the Lord gave their land for a possession to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. <f>ⓐ</f>


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These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the Israelites defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir. Joshua gave their land to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their allotments,


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In the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, on the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negeb — the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites:


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Now Joshua was old and gone far in years [over 100], and the Lord said to him, You have grown old and are gone far in years, and very much of the land still remains to be possessed.


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From the Shihor [River] which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, all of it counted as Canaanite; there are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron, and those of the Avvites;


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In the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah, which belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the boundary of the Amorites,


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And the land of the Gebalites; and all Lebanon toward the east, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to the gate of Hamath.


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As for all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians, I will Myself drive them out from before the Israelites; only allot the land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.


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With the other half-tribe of Manasseh, the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the Lord gave them:


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From Aroer on the edge of the Valley of the [river] Arnon, and the city in the midst of the valley, and all the tableland of Medeba as far as Dibon;


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And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, as far as the boundary of the Ammonites;


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And Gilead, and the region of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah —


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All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei and alone was left of the Rephaim [giants]; for these Moses had defeated and driven out.


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Yet the Israelites did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites, but Geshur and Maacath dwell among [them] still.


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Only to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the sacrifices made by fire to the Lord, the God of Israel, are their inheritance, as He said to him.


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Their territory was from Aroer on the edge of the Valley of the [river] Arnon, and the city in the midst of the valley, and all the tableland by Medeba;


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All the cities of the plain and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, whom Moses defeated along with the leaders of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon who lived in the land.


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Balaam son of Beor, the soothsayer, the Israelites also killed with the sword among the rest of their slain. <f>ⓐ</f>


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And the border of the Reubenites was the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the Reubenites according to their families, with their cities and villages.


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Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites as far as Aroer east of Rabbah;


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And in the valley, Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the realm of Sihon king of Heshbon, with the Jordan as a boundary, to the lower end of the Sea of Chinnereth east of the Jordan.


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And Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh; it was allotted to them according to their families.


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Their region extended from Mahanaim through all Bashan, the entire 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; these were allotted to the people of Machir son of Manasseh for half of the Machirites according to their families.


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These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan east of Jericho.


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But to the tribe of Levi, Moses gave no inheritance; the Lord, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as He told them.


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These are the inheritances in the land of Canaan distributed to the Israelites by Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of their tribes.


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For Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them,


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For the people of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no part was given in the land to the Levites except cities in which to live, with their pasturelands for their livestock and for their possessions.


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Then the people of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, You know what the Lord said to Moses the man of God concerning me and you in Kadesh-barnea.


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Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to scout out the land. And I brought him a report as it was in my heart.


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But my brethren who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the Lord my God.


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And Moses swore on that day, Surely the land on which your feet have walked shall be an inheritance to you and your children always, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God. <f>ⓐ</f>


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And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years since the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while the Israelites wandered in the wilderness; and now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.


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Yet I am as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me; as my strength was then, so is my strength now for war and to go out and to come in.


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So now give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke that day. For you heard then how the [giantlike] Anakim were there and that the cities were great and fortified; if the Lord will be with me, I shall drive them out just as the Lord said.


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So Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the Lord, the God of Israel.


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The name of Hebron before was Kiriath-arba [city of Arba]. This Arba was the greatest of the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.


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The lot for the tribe of Judah according to its families reached southward to the boundary of Edom, to the Wilderness of Zin at its most southern part.


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And their south boundary was from the end of the Salt [Dead] Sea, from the bay that faces southward;


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It went out south of the ascent of Akrabbim, passed along to Zin, and went up south of Kadesh-barnea, along by Hezron, up to Addar, and turned about to Karka,


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Passed along to Azmon, went out by the Brook of Egypt, and ended at the sea. This was their southern frontier.


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The eastern boundary was the Salt [Dead] Sea as far as the mouth of the Jordan. The northern boundary was from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan;


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And the boundary went up to Beth-hogla and passed along north of Beth-arabah and [it] went up to the [landmark] Stone of Bohan son of Reuben.


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And the boundary went up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, and so northward, turning toward Gilgal, which is opposite the ascent to Adummim on the south side of the valley; and it passed on to the waters of En-shemesh and ended at En-rogel.


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Then the boundary went up by the Valley of Ben-hinnom [son of Hinnom] at the southern shoulder of the Jebusite [city] — that is, Jerusalem; and the boundary went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the Valley of Hinnom on the west, at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim.


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Then the boundary extended from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah and went on to the cities of Mount Ephron; then it bent round to Baalah, that is, Kiriath-jearim.


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And the boundary went around west of Baalah to Mount Seir, passed along to the northern side of Mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, went down to Beth-shemesh, and then passed on by Timnah.


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And the boundary went out to the shoulder of the hill north of Ekron, then bent round to Shikkeron, and passed along to Mount Baalah, and went out to Jabneel. Then the boundary ended at the sea.


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And the west boundary was the Great Sea with its coastline. This is the boundary round about the people of Judah according to their families.


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And to Caleb son of Jephunneh, [Joshua] gave a part among the people of Judah, as the Lord commanded [him]; it was Kiriath-arba, which is Hebron, [named for] Arba the father of Anak.


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And Caleb drove from there the three sons of Anak — Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai — the descendants of Anak.


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Caleb said, He who smites Kiriath-sepher and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife.


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When Achsah came to Othniel, she got his consent to ask her father for a field. Then she returned to Caleb and when she lighted off her donkey, Caleb said, What do you wish?


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Achsah answered, Give me a present. Since you have set me in the [dry] Negeb, give me also springs of water. And he gave her the [sloping field with] upper and lower springs.


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The cities of the tribe of Judah in the extreme south toward the boundary of Edom were: Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,


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Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon. All the cities were twenty-nine [later thirty-six] with their villages.


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Ashdod, with its towns and its villages; Gaza, with its towns and its villages, as far as the Brook of Egypt, and the Great [Mediterranean] Sea with its coastline.


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But the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out; so the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.


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The allotment for the people of Joseph went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel;


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And it went down westward to the territory of the Japhletites as far as the outskirts of Lower Beth-horon, then to Gezer, and ended at the sea.


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The boundary of the Ephraimites according to their families was thus: on the east side their border was Ataroth-addar as far as Upper Beth-horon.


