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And every earthen vessel, into which any of them falls, whatever is in it will be unclean and you* will break it.


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All food in it which may be eaten, that on which water comes, will be unclean and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel will be unclean.


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And everything upon which any part of their carcass falls will be unclean, whether oven, or range for pots, it will be broken in pieces; they are unclean and will be unclean to you*.


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Nevertheless a fountain or a pit in which is a gathering of water will be clean, but what touches their carcass will be unclean.


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And if any beast, of which you* may eat, dies, he who touches the carcass of it will be unclean until the evening.


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And he who eats of the carcass of it will wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. He also who bears the carcass of it will wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.


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Whatever goes upon the belly and whatever goes upon all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them you* will not eat, for they are an abomination.


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You* will not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps, nor will you* make yourselves unclean with them, that you* should be defiled by it.


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<pb/>For I am Jehovah your* God. Sanctify yourselves therefore and become you* holy, since I am holy. Neither will you* defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that moves upon the earth.


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For I am Jehovah who brought you* up out of the land of Egypt, to be your* God. You* will therefore be holy, for I am holy.


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<pb/>This is the law of the beast and of the bird and of every living creature that moves in the waters and of every creature that creeps upon the earth,


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to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.


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Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, If a woman conceives seed and bears a male-child, then she will be unclean seven days, as in the days of the impurity of her sickness she will be unclean.


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And she will continue in the blood of her purifying thirty-three days. She will touch no holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.


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But if she bears a maid-child, then she will be unclean two weeks, as in her impurity and she will continue in the blood of her purifying sixty-six days.


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<pb/>And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she will bring a lamb a year old for a burnt offering and a young pigeon, or a turtle-dove, for a sin offering, to the door of the tent of meeting, to the priest.


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And he will offer it before Jehovah and make atonement for her and she will be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female.


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<pb/>And if her means are not sufficient for a lamb, then she will take two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, the one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. And the priest will make atonement for her and she will be clean.


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When a man will have in the skin of his flesh a rising, or a scab, or a bright spot and it becomes in the skin of his flesh a leprous disease, then he will be brought to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons the priests.


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And the priest will look on the disease in the skin of the flesh and if the hair in the disease has turned white and the appearance of the disease is deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a leprous disease. And the priest will look on him and pronounce him unclean.


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And if the bright spot is white in the skin of his flesh and the appearance of it is not deeper than the skin and the hair of it has not turned white, then the priest will shut up the disease seven days.


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<pb/>And the priest will look on him the seventh day, and behold, if in his eyes the disease is arrested and the disease is not spread in the skin, then the priest will shut him up seven days more.


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<pb/>And the priest will look on him again the seventh day, and behold, if the disease is dim and the disease has not spread in the skin, then the priest will pronounce him clean. It is a scab and he will wash his clothes and be clean.


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But if the scab spreads abroad in the skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he will show himself to the priest again.


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And the priest will look, and behold, if the scab is spread in the skin, then the priest will pronounce him unclean. It is a leprous disease.


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And the priest will look, and behold, if there is a white rising in the skin and it has turned the hair white and there is quick raw flesh in the rising,


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it is an old leprous disease in the skin of his flesh and the priest will pronounce him unclean. He will not shut him up, for he is unclean.


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<pb/>And if the leprous disease breaks out abroad in the skin and the leprous disease covers all the skin of the disease from his head even to his feet, as far as appears to the priest,


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then the priest will look. And behold, if the leprous disease has covered all his flesh, he will pronounce him clean of the disease. It is all turned white; he is clean.


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And the priest will look on the raw flesh and pronounce him unclean. The raw flesh is unclean; it is a leprous disease.


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And the priest will look on him, and behold, if the disease is turned into white, then the priest will pronounce him clean of the disease; he is clean.


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and in the place of the boil there is a white rising, or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it will be shown to the priest.


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And the priest will look, and behold, if the appearance of it is deeper than the skin and the hair of it has turned white, then the priest will pronounce him unclean. It is a leprous disease; it has broken out in the boil.


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But if the priest looks on it, and behold, there are no white hairs in it and it is not deeper than the skin, but is dim, then the priest will shut him up seven days.


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But if the bright spot stays in its place and has not spread, it is the scar of the boil and the priest will pronounce him clean.


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<pb/>Or when the flesh has a burning by fire in the skin of it and the quick of the burning become a bright spot, reddish-white, or white,


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then the priest will look upon it. And behold, if the hair in the bright spot has turned white and the appearance of it is deeper than the skin, it is a leprous disease. It has broken out in the burning and the priest will pronounce him unclean; it is a leprous disease.


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But if the priest looks on it, and behold, there is no white hair in the bright spot and it is no deeper than the skin, but is dim, then the priest will shut him up seven days.


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<pb/>And the priest will look upon him the seventh day. If it spread abroad in the skin, then the priest will pronounce him unclean; it is a leprous disease.


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And if the bright spot stays in its place and has not spread in the skin, but is dim, it is the rising of the burning and the priest will pronounce him clean, for it is the scar of the burning.


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then the priest will look on the disease. And behold, if the appearance of it is deeper than the skin and there is yellow thin hair in it, then the priest will pronounce him unclean; it is a scale. It is a leprous disease of the head or of the beard.


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And if the priest looks on the disease of the scale, and behold, the appearance of it is not deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, then the priest will shut up the disease of the scale seven days.


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<pb/>And in the seventh day the priest will look on the disease, and behold, if the scale has not spread and there is in it no yellow hair and the appearance of the scale is not deeper than the skin,


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then he will be shaven, but the scale he will not shave and the priest will shut up he who has the scale seven days more.


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<pb/>And in the seventh day the priest will look on the scale, and behold, if the scale has not spread in the skin and the appearance of it is not deeper than the skin, then the priest will pronounce him clean. And he will wash his clothes and be clean.


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then the priest will look on him. And behold, if the scale has spread in the skin, the priest will not seek for the yellow hair, he is unclean.


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But if in his eyes the scale is arrested and black hair is grown up in it, the scale is healed. He is clean and the priest will pronounce him clean.


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then the priest will look. And behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh are of a dull white, it is a eczema. It has broken out in the skin; he is clean.


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<pb/>But if there is a reddish-white disease in the bald head, or the bald forehead, it is a leprous disease breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead.


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Then the priest will look upon him, and behold, if the rising of the disease is reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the appearance of a leprous disease in the skin of the flesh,


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he is a leprous man; he is unclean. The priest will surely pronounce him unclean; his disease is on his head.


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<pb/>And the man with a leprous disease in whom the disease is, his clothes will be torn and the hair of his head will go loose and he will cover his upper lip and will cry, Unclean, unclean.


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All the days in which the disease is in him he will be unclean; he is unclean. He will dwell alone; his dwelling will be outside the camp.


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<pb/>The garment also that a leprous disease is in, whether it is a woolen garment, or a linen garment,


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whether it is in warp, or woof, of linen, or of woolen, whether in a skin, or in anything made of skin,


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if the disease is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is a leprous disease and will be shown to the priest.


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<pb/>And he will look on the disease on the seventh day. If the disease has spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever service skin is used for, the disease is a prickling leprosy, it is unclean.


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And he will burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in woolen or in linen, or anything of skin, in which the disease is, for it is a prickling leprosy. It will be burnt in the fire.


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<pb/>And if the priest will look, and behold, the disease has not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin,


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then the priest will command that they wash the thing in which the disease is and he will shut it up seven more days.


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<pb/>And the priest will look, after the disease is washed, and behold, if the disease has not changed its color and the disease has not spread, it is unclean. You will burn it in the fire. It is a fret, whether the bareness be inside or outside.


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And if the priest looks, and behold, the disease is dim after the washing of it, then he will tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof.


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And if it still appears in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is breaking out. You will burn that in which the disease is with fire.


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<pb/>And the garment, either the warp, or the woof, or whatever thing of skin it be, which you will wash, if the disease has departed from them, then it will be washed the second time and will be clean.


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This is the law of a leprous disease in a garment of woolen or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.


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This will be the law of the man with a leprous disease in the day of his cleansing: He will be brought to the priest,


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and the priest will go forth out of the camp. And the priest will look, and behold, if a leprous disease be healed in the man with a leprous disease,


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then the priest will command to take two living clean birds and cedar wood and scarlet and hyssop for him who is to be cleansed.


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As for the living bird, he will take it and the cedar wood and the scarlet and the hyssop and will dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water.


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And he will sprinkle seven times upon he who is to be cleansed from the leprous disease and will pronounce him clean and will let the living bird go into the open field.


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And he who is to be cleansed will wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and bathe himself in water and he will be clean. And after that he will come into the camp, but will dwell outside his tent seven days.


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<pb/>And it will be on the seventh day, that he will shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he will shave off. And he will wash his clothes and he will bathe his flesh in water and he will be clean.


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<pb/>And on the eighth day he will take two male-lambs without blemish and one ewe-lamb a year old without blemish and three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil and one log of oil.


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And the priest who cleanses him will set the man who is to be cleansed and those things, before Jehovah, at the door of the tent of meeting.


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And the priest will take one of the male-lambs and offer him for a trespass offering and the log of oil and wave them for a wave offering before Jehovah.


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And he will kill the male-lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary. For as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering; it is most holy.


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And the priest will take of the blood of the trespass offering and the priest will put it upon the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and upon the thumb of his right hand and upon the great toe of his right foot.


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And the priest will dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand and will sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before Jehovah.


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And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand the priest will put upon the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and upon the thumb of his right hand and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering.


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And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he will put upon the head of him who is to be cleansed and the priest will make atonement for him before Jehovah.


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<pb/>And the priest will offer the sin offering and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness and afterward he will kill the burnt offering.


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And the priest will offer the burnt offering and the meal offering upon the altar and the priest will make atonement for him and he will be clean.


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<pb/>And if he is poor and cannot get so much, then he will take one male-lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him and one tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering and a log of oil,


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and two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get and the one will be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.


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<pb/>And on the eighth day he will bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting, before Jehovah.


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And the priest will take the lamb of the trespass offering and the log of oil and the priest will wave them for a wave offering before Jehovah.


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And he will kill the lamb of the trespass offering. And the priest will take of the blood of the trespass offering and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and upon the thumb of his right hand and upon the great toe of his right foot.


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And the priest will sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before Jehovah.


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And the priest will put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and upon the thumb of his right hand and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass offering.


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And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he will put upon the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before Jehovah.


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even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering and the priest will make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before Jehovah.


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This is the law of him in whom is a leprous disease, who is not able to get what pertains to his cleansing.


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When you* have come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you* for a possession and I put a leprous disease in a house of the land of your* possession,


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then he who owns the house will come and tell the priest, saying, There seems to me to be as it were a disease in the house.


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And the priest will command that they empty the house before the priest goes in to see the disease, that all that is in the house not be made unclean. And afterward the priest will go in to see the house,


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and he will look on the disease. And behold, if the disease is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish and the appearance of it is deeper than the wall surface,


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<pb/>And the priest will come again the seventh day and will look. And behold, if the disease has spread in the walls of the house,


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then the priest will command that they take out the stones in which the disease is and cast them into an unclean place outside the city.


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And he will cause the house to be scraped inside all around and they will pour out the mortar, that they scrape off, outside the city into an unclean place.


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And they will take other stones and put them in the place of those stones. And he will take other mortar and will plaster the house.


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<pb/>And if the disease comes again and breaks out in the house, after he has taken out the stones and after he has scraped the house and after it is plastered,


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then the priest will come in and look. And behold, if the disease has spread in the house, it is a prickling leprosy in the house; it is unclean.


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And he will break down the house, the stones of it and the timber of it and all the mortar of the house and he will carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.


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Moreover he who goes into the house all the while that it is shut up will be unclean until the evening.


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And he who lies in the house will wash his clothes. And he who eats in the house will wash his clothes.


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<pb/>And if the priest will come in and look, and behold, the disease has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest will pronounce the house clean, because the disease is healed.


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And he will take the cedar wood and the hyssop and the scarlet and the living bird and dip them in the blood of the slain bird and in the running water and sprinkle the house seven times.


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And he will cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the running water and with the living bird and with the cedar wood and with the hyssop and with the scarlet,


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but he will let the living bird go out of the city into the open field. So he will make atonement for the house and it will be clean.


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Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When any man has a discharge out of his flesh, he is unclean because of his discharge.


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And this will be his uncleanness in his discharge, whether his flesh runs with his discharge, or his flesh has stopped from his discharge, it is his uncleanness.


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<pb/>Every bed on which he who has the discharge lies will be unclean and everything on which he sits will be unclean.


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And whoever touches his bed will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.


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And he who sits on anything on which he who has the discharge sat will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.


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And he who touches the flesh of him who has the discharge will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.


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And if he who has the discharge spits upon him who is clean, then he will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.


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And whoever touches anything that was under him will be unclean until the evening. And he who bears those things will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.


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And whomever he who has the discharge touches, without having rinsed his hands in water, he will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.


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And the earthen vessel, which he who has the discharge touches, will be broken and every vessel of wood will be rinsed in water.


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<pb/>And when he who has an discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he will number to himself seven days for his cleansing and wash his clothes and he will bathe his flesh in running water and will be clean.


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And on the eighth day he will take to him two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons and come before Jehovah to the door of the tent of meeting and give them to the priest.


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And the priest will offer them, the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering and the priest will make atonement for him before Jehovah for his discharge.


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<pb/>And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he will bathe all his flesh in water and be unclean until the evening.


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And every garment and every skin, on which is the seed of copulation, will be washed with water and be unclean until the evening.


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The woman also with whom a man will lie with seed of copulation, they will both bathe themselves in water and be unclean until the evening.


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<pb/>And if a woman has a discharge and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she will be seven days in her impurity and whoever touches her will be unclean until the evening.


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And everything that she lies upon in her impurity will be unclean. Also everything that she sits upon will be unclean.


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


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And whoever touches anything that she sits upon will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.


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And if it is on the bed, or on anything on which she sits, when he touches it, he will be unclean until the evening.


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


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<pb/>And if a woman has a discharge of her blood many days not in the time of her impurity, or if she has an discharge beyond the time of her impurity, she will be all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness as in the days of her impurity; she is unclean.


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Every bed on which she lies all the days of her discharge will be to her as the bed of her impurity and everything on which she sits will be unclean, as the uncleanness of her impurity.


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


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<pb/>But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she will number to herself seven days and after that she will be clean.


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And on the eighth day she will take to her two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting.


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And the priest will offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering and the priest will make atonement for her before Jehovah for the discharge of her uncleanness.


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<pb/>Thus you* will separate the sons of Israel from their uncleanness, that they not die in their uncleanness when they defile my tabernacle that is in the midst of them.


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This is the law of him who has an discharge and of him whose seed of copulation goes from him, so that he is unclean by it,


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and of her who is sick with her impurity and of him who has an discharge, of the man and of the woman and of him who lies with her who is unclean.


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<pb/>And Jehovah spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before Jehovah and died,


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and Jehovah said to Moses, Speak to Aaron your brother, that he not come at all times into the holy place within the veil, before the mercy-seat which is upon the ark, that he not die, for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy-seat.


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<pb/>Aaron will come into the holy place this way: with a young bullock for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.


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He will put on the holy linen tunic and he will have the linen breeches upon his flesh and will be girded with the linen sash and he will be attired with the linen miter. They are the holy garments and he will bathe his flesh in water and put them on.


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And he will take from the congregation of the sons of Israel two male-goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.


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<pb/>And Aaron will present the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself and make atonement for himself and for his house.


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And Aaron will cast lots upon the two goats, one lot for Jehovah and the other lot for the scapegoat.


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And Aaron will present the goat upon which the lot fell for Jehovah and offer him for a sin offering.


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<pb/>But the goat, on which the lot fell for the scapegoat, will be set alive before Jehovah, to make atonement for him, to send him away for the scapegoat into the wilderness.


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<pb/>And Aaron will present the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself and will make atonement for himself and for his house and will kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself.


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And he will take a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before Jehovah and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small and bring it within the veil.


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And he will put the incense upon the fire before Jehovah, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy-seat that is upon the testimony, that he not die.


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And he will take of the blood of the bullock and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy-seat on the east. And he will sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times before the mercy-seat.


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<pb/>Then he will kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people and bring his blood within the veil and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bullock and sprinkle it upon the mercy-seat and before the mercy-seat.


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And he will make atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleannesses of the sons of Israel and because of their transgressions, even all their sins. And so he will do for the tent of meeting that dwells with them in the midst of their uncleannesses.


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<pb/>And there will be no man in the tent of meeting when he goes in to make atonement in the holy place until he comes out and has made atonement for himself and for his household and for all the assembly of Israel.


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And he will go out to the altar that is before Jehovah and make atonement for it. And will take of the blood of the bullock and of the blood of the goat and put it upon the horns of the altar all around.


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And he will sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times and cleanse it and sanctify it from the uncleannesses of the sons of Israel.


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<pb/>And when he has made an end of atoning for the holy place and the tent of meeting and the altar, he will present the live goat.


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And Aaron will lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat and confess over him all the iniquities of the sons of Israel and all their transgressions, even all their sins. And he will put them upon the head of the goat and will send him away by the hand of a man who is in readiness into the wilderness.


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And the goat will bear upon him all their iniquities to a solitary land. And he will let the goat go in the wilderness.


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And Aaron will come into the tent of meeting and will put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place and will leave them there.


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And he will bathe his flesh in water in a holy place and put on his garments and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people and make atonement for himself and for the people.


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And he who lets the goat go for the scapegoat will wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water and afterward he will come into the camp.


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<pb/>And the bullock of the sin offering and the goat of the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, will be carried forth outside the camp and they will burn in the fire their skins and their flesh and their manure.


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And he who burns them will wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water and afterward he will come into the camp.


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<pb/>And it will be an everlasting statute to you*. In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you* will afflict your* souls and will do no manner of work, the home-born, or the stranger who travels among you*.


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For on this day atonement will be made for you*, to cleanse you*. You* will be clean from all your* sins before Jehovah.


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It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you* and you* will afflict your* souls. It is an everlasting statute.


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<pb/>And the priest, who will be anointed and who will be consecrated to be priest in his father's stead, will make the atonement. And he will put on the linen garments, even the holy garments,


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and will make atonement for the holy sanctuary and he will make atonement for the tent of meeting and for the altar and he will make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.


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And this will be an everlasting statute to you*, to make atonement for the sons of Israel because of all their sins once in the year. And he did as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel and say to them, This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded, saying,


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Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, who kills an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp,


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and has not brought it to the door of the tent of meeting, to offer it as an oblation to Jehovah before the tabernacle of Jehovah, blood will be imputed to that man. He has shed blood and that man will be cut off from among his people,


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to the end that the sons of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, even that they may bring them to Jehovah, to the door of the tent of meeting, to the priest and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace offerings to Jehovah.


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And the priest will sprinkle the blood upon the altar of Jehovah at the door of the tent of meeting and burn the fat for a sweet aroma to Jehovah.


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And they will no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the male-goats, after which they play the prostitute. This will be an everlasting statute to them throughout their genealogy.


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<pb/>And you will say to them, Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that journey among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,


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and does not bring it to the door of the tent of meeting, to sacrifice it to Jehovah, that man will be cut off from his people.


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<pb/>And whatever man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that journey among them, who eats any manner of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.


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For the life of the flesh is in the blood and I have given it to you* upon the altar to make atonement for your* souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.


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Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, No soul of you* will eat blood, nor will any stranger that travels among you* eat blood.


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And whatever man there is of the sons of Israel, or of the strangers that journey among them, who takes any beast or bird in hunting that may be eaten, he will pour out the blood of it and cover it with dust.


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For as to the life of all flesh, the blood of it is with the life of it. Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, You* will eat the blood of no manner of flesh, for the life of all flesh is the blood of it. Whoever eats it will be cut off.


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<pb/>And every soul who eats what dies of itself, or what is torn of beasts, whether he is home-born or a traveler, he will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening, then he will be clean.


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You* will not do after the practices of the land of Egypt, in which you* dwelt and you* will not do after the practices of the land of Canaan, where I bring you*, nor will you* walk in their statutes.


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You* will therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them. I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>None of you* will approach to any who are near of kin to him, to uncover nakedness. I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>The nakedness of your father, even the nakedness of your mother, you will not uncover. She is your mother. You will not uncover her nakedness,


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<pb/>The nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness you will not uncover.


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<pb/>The nakedness of your son's daughter, or of your daughter's daughter, even their nakedness you will not uncover, for theirs is your own nakedness.


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<pb/>The nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, born from your father, she is your sister, you will not uncover her nakedness.


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<pb/>You will not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister. She is your father's near kinswoman.


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You will not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is your mother's near kinswoman.


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<pb/>You will not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother. You will not approach to his wife. She is your aunt.


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<pb/>You will not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife. You will not uncover her nakedness.


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<pb/>You will not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. You will not take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness. They are near kinswomen. It is perversion.


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<pb/>And you will not take a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival to her, to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her life-time.


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<pb/>And you will not approach to a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.


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<pb/>And you will not give any of your seed to make them pass through the fire to Molech, neither will you profane the name of your God. I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>And you will not lie with any beast to defile yourself with it, nor will any woman stand before a beast, to lie down with it. It is a perversion.


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<pb/>Do not defile you* yourselves in any of these things. For in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you*,


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and the land is defiled. Therefore I visit the iniquity of it upon it and the land vomits out its inhabitants.


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<pb/>You* therefore will keep my statutes and my ordinances and will not do any of these abominations, neither the home-born, nor the stranger that travels among you*,


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(for all these abominations the men of the land have done, who were before you* and the land is defiled),


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that the land not vomit you* out also, when you* defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you*.


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For whoever will do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them will be cut off from among their people.


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Therefore you* will keep my charge, that you* not practice any of these abominable customs, which were practiced before you* and that you* not defile yourselves in it. I am Jehovah your* God.


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Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel and say to them, You* will be holy, for I Jehovah your* God am holy.


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<pb/>Every man will fear his mother and his father. And you* will keep my Sabbaths. I am Jehovah your* God.


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<pb/>And when you* offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah, you* will offer it that you* may be accepted.


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It will be eaten the same day you* offer it and on the morrow. And if any remain until the third day, it will be burnt with fire.


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But he who eats it will bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of Jehovah and that soul will be cut off from his people.


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<pb/>And when you* reap the harvest of your* land, you will not entirely reap the corners of your field, nor will you gather the gleaning of your harvest.


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And you will not glean your vineyard, nor will you gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard. You will leave them for the poor man and for the traveler. I am Jehovah your* God.


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<pb/>You will not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired servant will not abide with you all night until the morning.


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<pb/>You will not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but you will fear your God. I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>You* will do no unrighteousness in judgment. You will not respect the person of the poor man, nor honor the person of the mighty man, but you will judge your neighbor in righteousness.


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<pb/>You will not go up and down as a gossiper among your people, neither will you stand against the blood of your neighbor. I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>You will not hate your brother in your heart. You will surely rebuke your neighbor and not bear sin because of him.


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<pb/>You will not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you will love your neighbor as yourself. I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>You* will keep my statutes. You will not let your cattle engender with a diverse kind. You will not sow your field with two kinds of seed, neither will there come upon you a garment of two kinds of stuff mingled together.


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<pb/>And whoever lies carnally with a woman, who is a bondmaid, betrothed to a husband and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her, they will be punished. They will not be put to death, because she was not free.


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And he will bring his trespass offering to Jehovah, to the door of the tent of meeting, even a ram for a trespass offering.


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And the priest will make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before Jehovah for his sin which he has sinned. And the sin which he has sinned will be forgiven him.


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<pb/>And when you* will come into the land and will have planted all manner of trees for food, then you* will count the fruit of it as their uncircumcision. Three years they will be as uncircumcised to you*; it will not be eaten.


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And in the fifth year you* will eat of the fruit of it, that it may yield to you* the increase of it. I am Jehovah your* God.


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<pb/>You* will not eat anything with the blood. Neither will you* use enchantments, nor practice soothsaying.


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<pb/>You* will not make any cuttings in your* flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you*. I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>Do not profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute, lest the land fall to prostitution and the land become full of wickedness.


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<pb/>Do not turn to those who have familiar spirits, nor to the wizards. Do not seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am Jehovah your* God.


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<pb/>You will rise up before the hoary head and honor the face of the old man and you will fear your God. I am Jehovah.


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The stranger that travels with you* will be to you* as the home-born among you* and you will love him as yourself, for you* were travelers in the land of Egypt. I am Jehovah your* God.


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You* will have just balances, just weights, a just ephah and a just hin. I am Jehovah your* God, who brought you* out of the land of Egypt.


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Moreover, you will say to the sons of Israel, Whoever he is of the sons of Israel, or of the strangers that journey in Israel, who gives of his seed to Molech, he will surely be put to death. The people of the land will stone him with stones.


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I also will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given of his seed to Molech, to defile my sanctuary and to profane my holy name.


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And if the people at the land do at all hide their eyes from that man, when he gives of his seed to Molech and do not put him to death,


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then I will set my face against that man and against his family and will cut him off and all who play the prostitute after him, to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people.


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<pb/>And the soul that turns to those who have familiar spirits and to the wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that soul and will cut him off from among his people.


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<pb/>For he who curses his father or his mother will surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother; his blood will be upon him.


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<pb/>And the man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress will surely be put to death.


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<pb/>And the man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness. Both of them will surely be put to death, their blood will be upon them.


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<pb/>And if a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them will surely be put to death. They have worked perversion. Their blood will be upon them.


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<pb/>And if a man lies with a man, as with a woman, both of them have committed abomination. They will surely be put to death; their blood will be upon them.


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<pb/>And if a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness. They will be burnt with fire, both he and they, that there is no wickedness among you*.


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And if a woman approaches to any beast and lies down with it, you will kill the woman and the beast. They will surely be put to death; their blood will be upon them.


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<pb/>And if a man will take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter and see her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a shameful thing and they will be cut off in the sight of the sons of their people. He has uncovered his sister's nakedness; he will bear his iniquity.


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<pb/>And if a man will lie with a woman having her sickness and will uncover her nakedness, he has made naked her fountain and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. And both of them will be cut off from among their people.


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<pb/>And you will not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, nor of your father's sister, for he has made naked his near kin. They will bear their iniquity.


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


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<pb/>And if a man will take his brother's wife, it is impurity. He has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they will be childless.


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<pb/>You* will therefore keep all my statutes and all my ordinances and do them, that the land, where I bring you* to dwell in it, does not vomit you* out.


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And you* will not walk in the customs of the nation which I cast out before you*, for they did all these things and therefore I disgusted with them.


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<pb/>But I have said to you*, You* will inherit their land and I will give it to you* to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am Jehovah your* God, who has separated you* from the peoples.


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You* will therefore make a distinction between the clean beast and the unclean and between the unclean fowl and the clean. And you* will not make your* souls abominable by beast, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you* as unclean.


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<pb/>And you* will be holy to me, for I, Jehovah, am holy and have set you* apart from the peoples, that you* should be mine.


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<pb/>A man or also a woman who has a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, will surely be put to death. They will stone them with stones; their blood will be upon them.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron and say to them, There will none defile himself for the dead among his people,


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except for his kin, who is near to him: for his mother and for his father and for his son and for his daughter and for his brother.


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And for his sister a virgin, who is near to him, who has had no husband, for her he may defile himself.


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


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<pb/>They will be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. For they offer the offerings of Jehovah made by fire, the bread of their God. Therefore they will be holy.


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<pb/>They will not take a woman who is a prostitute, or profane, neither will they take a woman put away from her husband, for he is holy to his God.


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<pb/>You will sanctify him therefore, for he offers the bread of your God. He will be holy to you, for I Jehovah, who sanctify you*, am holy.


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<pb/>And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father. She will be burnt with fire.


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<pb/>And he who is the high priest among his brothers, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured and who is consecrated to put on the garments, will not let the hair of his head go loose, nor tear his clothes,


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neither will he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God, for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him. I am Jehovah.


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A widow, or one divorced, or a profane woman, a prostitute, these he will not take, but he will take as a wife a virgin of his own people.


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Speak to Aaron, saying, Whoever he is of your seed throughout their genealogy who has a blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.


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For whatever man he is who has a blemish, he will not approach: not a blind man, or a lame man, or he who has a flat nose, or anything superfluous,


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or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or who has a blemish in his eye, or is scurvy, or scabbed, or has his testicles broken.


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No man of the seed of Aaron the priest, who has a blemish, will come near to offer the offerings of Jehovah made by fire; he has a blemish, he will not come near to offer the bread of his God.


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only he will not go in to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a blemish, that he not profane my sanctuaries, for I am Jehovah who sanctifies them.


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Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the sons of Israel, which they sanctify to me and that they not profane my holy name. I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>Say to them, Whoever he is of all your* seed throughout your* genealogy, that approaches to the holy things, which the sons of Israel sanctify to Jehovah, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul will be cut off from before me. I am Jehovah.


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Whatever man of the seed of Aaron being a man with a leprous disease, or has a discharge, he will not eat of the holy things until he is clean. And whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goes from him,


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


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the soul that touches any such will be unclean until the evening. And will not eat of the holy things unless he bathe his flesh in water.


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


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They will therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it and die in it if they profane it. I am Jehovah who sanctifies them.


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<pb/>There will no stranger eat of the holy thing. A traveler of the priest's, or a hired servant, will not eat of the holy thing.


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But if a priest buys any soul, the purchase of his money, he will eat of it and such as are born in his house, they will eat of his bread.


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And if a priest's daughter be married to a stranger, she will not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.


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


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<pb/>And if a man eats of the holy thing unwittingly, then he will put the fifth part of it to it and will give the holy thing to the priest.


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and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt when they eat their holy things, for I am Jehovah who sanctifies them.


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Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel and say to them, Whoever he is of the house of Israel, or of the travelers in Israel, who offers his oblation, whether it is any of their vows, or any of their free-will offerings, which they offer to Jehovah for a burnt offering,


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that you* may be accepted, you* will offer a male without blemish, of the bullocks, of the sheep, or of the goats.


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And whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah to accomplish a vow, or for a free-will offering, of the herd or of the flock, it will be perfect to be accepted; there will be no blemish in it.


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


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Either a bullock or a lamb that has anything superfluous or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a free-will offering, but it will not be accepted for a vow.


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What has its testicles bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut, you* will not offer to Jehovah, neither will you* do thus in your* land.


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Neither from the hand of a foreigner will you* offer the bread of your* God of any of these, because their corruption is in them; there is a blemish in them. They will not be accepted for you*.


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


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And when you* sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Jehovah, you* will sacrifice it that you* may be accepted.


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And you* will not profane my holy name, but I will be made holy among the sons of Israel. I am Jehovah who sanctifies you*,


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Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, The set feasts of Jehovah, which you* will proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts.


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Six days will work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You* will do no manner of work. It is a Sabbath to Jehovah in all your* dwellings.


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<pb/>These are the set feasts of Jehovah, even holy convocations, which you* will proclaim in their appointed season.


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And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to Jehovah. You* will eat unleavened bread seven days.


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But you* will offer an offering made by fire to Jehovah seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation, you* will do no job work.


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Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you* have come into the land which I give to you* and will reap the harvest of it, then you* will bring the sheaf of the first-fruits of your* harvest to the priest.


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And he will wave the sheaf before Jehovah, to be accepted for you*. On the morrow after the Sabbath the priest will wave it.


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And in the day when you* wave the sheaf, you* will offer a male-lamb without blemish a year old for a burnt offering to Jehovah.


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And the meal offering of it will be two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to Jehovah for a sweet aroma. And the drink offering of it will be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.


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And you* will eat neither bread, nor parched grain, nor fresh ears, until this same day, until you* have brought the oblation of your* God. It is an everlasting statute throughout your* genealogy in all your* dwellings.


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<pb/>And you* will count to you* from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that you* brought the sheaf of the wave offering, there will be complete seven Sabbaths.


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You* will number fifty days, even to the morrow after the seventh Sabbath and you* will offer a new meal offering to Jehovah.


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You* will bring out of your* habitations two wave-loaves of two tenth parts of an ephah. They will be of fine flour. They will be baked with leaven, for first-fruits to Jehovah.


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And you* will present with the bread seven lambs without blemish a year old and one young bullock and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to Jehovah, with their meal offering and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Jehovah.


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And you* will offer one male-goat for a sin offering and two male-lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings.


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And the priest will wave them with the bread of the first-fruits for a wave offering before Jehovah, with the two lambs. They will be holy to Jehovah for the priest.


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And you* will make proclamation on the same day, there will be a holy convocation to you*. You* will do no job work. It is an everlasting statute in all your* dwellings throughout your* genealogy.


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<pb/>And when you* reap the harvest of your* land, you will not entirely reap the corners of your field, neither will you gather the gleaning of your harvest. You will leave them for the poor man and for the traveler. I am Jehovah your* God.


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Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, will be a solemn rest to you*, a memorial of blowing <i>of trumpets</i>, a holy convocation.


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However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement. It will be a holy convocation to you* and you* will afflict your* souls and you* will offer an offering made by fire to Jehovah.


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And you* will do no manner of work in that same day, for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you* before Jehovah your* God.


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


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And whatever soul it is who does any manner of work in that same day, that soul I will destroy from among his people.


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You* will do no manner of work. It is an everlasting statute throughout your* genealogy in all your* dwellings.


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It will be to you* a Sabbath of solemn rest and you* will afflict your* souls. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you* will keep your* Sabbath.


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Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tabernacles for seven days to Jehovah.


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Seven days you* will offer an offering made by fire to Jehovah. On the eighth day will be a holy convocation to you* and you* will offer an offering made by fire to Jehovah. It is a solemn assembly; you* will do no job work.


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<pb/>These are the set feasts of Jehovah, which you* will proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to Jehovah, a burnt offering and a meal offering, a sacrifice and drink offerings, each on its own day.


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Besides the Sabbaths of Jehovah and besides your* gifts and besides all your* vows and besides all your* free-will offerings, which you* give to Jehovah.


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<pb/>However on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you* have gathered in the fruits of the land, you* will keep the feast of Jehovah seven days. On the first day will be a solemn rest and on the eighth day will be a solemn rest.


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And you* will take to you* on the first day the fruit of majestic trees, branches of palm trees and boughs of thick trees and willows of the brook and you* will rejoice before Jehovah your* God seven days.


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And you* will keep it a feast to Jehovah seven days in the year. It is an everlasting statute throughout your* genealogy. You* will keep it in the seventh month.


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that your* genealogy may know that I made the sons of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am Jehovah your* God.


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


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Aaron will keep it outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, in order from evening to morning before Jehovah continually. It will be an everlasting statute throughout your* genealogy.


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<pb/>And you will take fine flour and bake twelve cakes of it. Two tenth parts of an ephah will be in one cake.


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


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Every Sabbath day he will set it in order before Jehovah continually. It is an everlasting covenant from the sons of Israel.


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And it will be for Aaron and his sons. And they will eat it in a holy place, for it is most holy to him of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire by an everlasting statute.


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<pb/>And the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the sons of Israel. And the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp,


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


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


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And he who blasphemes the name of Jehovah, he will surely be put to death. All the congregation will certainly stone him. As well the traveler, as the home-born, when he blasphemes the Name, will be put to death.


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injury for injury, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, as he has caused a blemish in a man, so will it be rendered to him.


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<pb/>You* will have one manner of law, as for the traveler, as for the home-born, for I am Jehovah your* God.


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<pb/>And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel and they brought out him who had cursed out of the camp and stoned him with stones. And the sons of Israel did as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you* come into the land which I give you*, then will the land keep a Sabbath to Jehovah.


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Six years you will sow your field and six years you will prune your vineyard and gather in the fruits of it,


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but in the seventh year will be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to Jehovah. You will neither sow your field, nor prune your vineyard.


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What grows of itself of your harvest you will not reap and the grapes of your undressed vine you will not gather. It will be a year of solemn rest for the land.


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And the Sabbath of the land will be for food for you*: for you and for your servant and for your maid and for your hired servant and for your stranger, who travels with you.


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And for your cattle and for the beasts that are in your land, all the increase of it will be for food.


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<pb/>And you will number seven Sabbaths of years to you, seven times seven years and there will be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.


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Then you will send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. In the day of atonement you* will send abroad the trumpet throughout all your* land.


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And you* will sanctify the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all the inhabitants of it. It will be a jubilee to you* and you* will return every man to his possession and you* will return every man to his family.


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<pb/>That fiftieth year will be a jubilee to you*. You* will not sow, neither reap what grows of itself in it, nor gather in it of the undressed vines.


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<pb/>For it is a jubilee; it will be holy to you*. You* will eat the increase of it out of the field.


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And if you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy of your neighbor's hand, you* will not wrong each other.


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According to the number of years after the jubilee you will buy of your neighbor and according to the number of years of the crops he will sell to you.


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According to the multitude of the years you will increase the price of it and according to the fewness of the years you will diminish the price of it, for the number of the crops he sells to you.


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Therefore you* will do my statutes and keep my ordinances and do them and you* will dwell in the land in safety.


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<pb/>And if you* will say, What will we eat the seventh year? Behold, we will not sow, nor gather in our increase,


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


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And you* will sow the eighth year and eat of the fruits, the old storage, until the ninth year. Until its fruits come in, you* will eat the old storage.


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<pb/>And the land will not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you* are strangers and travelers with me.


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If your brother becomes poor and sells some of his possession, then his kinsman who is next to him will come and will redeem what his brother has sold.


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then let him reckon the years of the sale of it and restore the excess to the man to whom he sold it and he will return to his possession.


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But if he is not able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold will remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the year of jubilee. And in the jubilee it will go out and he will return to his possession.


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<pb/>And if a man sells a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold. For a full year he will have the right of redemption.


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And if it is not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city will be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his genealogy. It will not go out in the jubilee.


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But the houses of the villages which have no wall all around them will be reckoned with the fields of the country. They may be redeemed and they will go out in the jubilee.


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<pb/>Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, the Levites may have an everlasting redemption rights.


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And if a man purchases from the Levites, then the house that was sold and the city of his possession, will go out in the jubilee. For the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel.


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<pb/>And if your brother becomes poor and his hand shakes toward you   <n>{i.e. lost his strength}</n>, then you will help him; he will live with you as a stranger and a traveler.


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I am Jehovah 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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<pb/>And if your brother becomes poor with you and sells himself to you, you will not impose upon him servile labor.


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He will be with you as a hired servant and as a traveler. He will serve with you to the year of jubilee.


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Then he will go out from you, he and his sons with him and will return to his own family. And he will return to the possession of his fathers.


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


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<pb/>And as for your bondmen and your bondmaids, whom you will have, from the nations that are all around you*, you* will buy bondmen and bondmaids from them.


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Moreover of the sons of the strangers who journey among you*, you* will buy from them and from their families that are with you*, which they have fathered in your* land and they will be your* possession.


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And you* will make them an inheritance for your* sons after you*, to hold for a possession. You* will take your* everlasting bondmen from them, but over your* brothers the sons of Israel you* will not rule, one over another, with rigor.


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<pb/>And if a stranger or traveler with you becomes rich and your brother becomes poor beside him and sells himself to the stranger or traveler with you, or to the stock of the stranger's family,


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Or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him. Or any who is near of kin to him of his family may redeem him. Or if he becomes rich, he may redeem himself.


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<pb/>And he will reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the year of jubilee. And the price of his sale will be according to the number of years. He will be with him according to the time of a hired servant.


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


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And if there remain but few years to the year of jubilee, then he will reckon with him. He will give back the price of his redemption according to his years.


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He will be with him as a servant hired year by year. He will not rule with rigor over him in your sight.


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And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he will go out in the year of jubilee, he and his sons with him.


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For the sons of Israel are servants to me. They are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. I am Jehovah your* God.


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<pb/>You* will make for you* no idols. Neither will you* rear up for you* a graven image, or a pillar. Neither will you* place any figured stone in your* land, to bow down to it. For I am Jehovah your* God.


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then I will give your* rains in their season and the land will yield its increase and the trees of the field will yield their fruit.


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And your* threshing will reach to the vintage and the vintage will reach to the sowing time and you* will eat your* bread to the full and dwell in your* land safely.


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<pb/>And I will give peace in the land and you* will lie down and none will make you* afraid. And I will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land, nor will the sword go through your* land.


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And five of you* will chase a hundred and a hundred of you* will chase ten thousand and your* enemies will fall before you* by the sword.


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<pb/>And I will have respect to you* and make you* fruitful and multiply you* and will establish my covenant with you*.


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I am Jehovah your* God, who brought you* forth out of the land of Egypt, that you* should not be their bondmen. And I have broken the bars of your* yoke and made you* go upright.


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and if you* will reject my statutes and if your* soul abhors my ordinances, so that you* will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,


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I also will do this to you*: I will appoint terror over you*, even consumption and fever, that will consume the eyes and make the soul to pine away. And you* will sow your* seed in vain, for your* enemies will eat it.


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And I will set my face against you* and you* will be struck before your* enemies. Those who hate you* will rule over you* and you* will flee when no man pursues you*.


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<pb/>And if for these things you* will not yet listen to me, then I will discipline you* seven times more for your* sins.


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And I will break the pride of your* power. And I will make your* sky as iron and your* earth as brass,


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and your* strength will be spent in vain, for your* land will not yield its increase, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit.


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<pb/>And if you* walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you* according to your* sins.


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And I will send the beast of the field among you*, which will rob you* of your* sons and destroy your* cattle and make you* few in number and your* ways will become desolate.


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And I will bring a sword upon you* that will execute the vengeance of the covenant and you* will be gathered together within your* cities. And I will send the pestilence among you* and you* will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.


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When I break your* staff of bread, ten women will bake your* bread in one oven and they will deliver your* bread again by weight and you* will eat and not be satisfied.


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then I will walk contrary to you* in wrath and I also will discipline you* seven times for your* sins.


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And I will destroy your* high places and cut down your* sun-images and cast your* dead bodies upon the bodies of your* idols and my soul will abhor you*.


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And I will make your* cities a waste and will bring your* sanctuaries to desolation and I will not smell the savor of your* sweet odors.


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


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<pb/>And I will scatter you* among the nations and I will draw out the sword after you* and your* land will be a desolation and your* cities will be a waste.


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Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths, as long as it lies desolate and you* are in your* enemies' land, even then will the land rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.


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As long as it lies desolate it will have rest, even the rest which it had not in your* Sabbaths, when you* dwelt upon it.


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<pb/>And as for those who are left of you*, I will send a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf will chase them and they will flee as a man flees from the sword and they will fall when no man pursues.


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And they will stumble one upon another, as it were before the sword, when no man pursues. And you* will have no power to stand before your* enemies.


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


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<pb/>And they will confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed 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 heart be humbled and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity,


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


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The land also will be left by them and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. And they will accept of the punishment of their iniquity, because, even because they rejected my ordinances and their soul loathed my statutes.


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<pb/>And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly and to break my covenant with them, for I am Jehovah their God,


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but for their sakes I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>These are the statutes and ordinances and laws, which Jehovah made between him and the sons of Israel at Mount Sinai by Moses.


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Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When a man will accomplish a vow, the persons will be for Jehovah by your estimation.


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


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


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


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


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But if he is poorer than your estimation, then he will be set before the priest and the priest will value him; according to the ability of him who vowed will the priest value him.


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<pb/>And if it is a beast, of which men offer an oblation to Jehovah, all that any man gives of such to Jehovah will be holy.


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He will not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good. And if he will at all change beast for beast, then both it and that for which it is changed will be holy.


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And if it is any unclean beast, of which they do not offer an oblation to Jehovah, then he will set the beast before the priest,


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and the priest will value it, whether it is good or bad. As you the priest values it, so will it be.


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<pb/>And when a man will sanctify his house to be holy to Jehovah, then the priest will estimate it, whether it is good or bad. As the priest will estimate it, so will it stand.


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


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<pb/>And if a man will sanctify to Jehovah part of the field of his possession, then your estimation will be according to the sowing of it, the sowing of a homer of barley at fifty shekels of silver.


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But if he sanctifies his field after the jubilee, then the priest will reckon to him the money according to the years that remain to the year of jubilee and an abatement will be made from your estimation.


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<pb/>And if he who made the field holy will indeed redeem it, then he will add the fifth part of the money of your estimation to it and it will be assured to him.


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


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but the field, when it goes out in the jubilee, will be holy to Jehovah, as a field set apart; the possession of it will be the priest's.


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<pb/>And if he sanctifies to Jehovah a field which he has bought, which is not of the field of his possession,


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then the priest will reckon to him the worth of your estimation to the year of jubilee and he will give your estimation in that day, as a holy thing to Jehovah.


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In the year of jubilee the field will return to him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongs.


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<pb/>And all your estimations will be according to the shekel of the sanctuary; twenty gerahs will be the shekel.


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<pb/>Only the first-offspring among beasts, which is made a first-offspring to Jehovah, no man will sanctify it, whether it is ox or sheep, it is Jehovah's.


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And if it is of an unclean beast, then he will ransom it according to your estimation and will add to it the fifth part of it, or if it is not redeemed, then it will be sold according to your estimation.


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<pb/>Notwithstanding, nothing set apart, that a man will set apart to Jehovah of all that he has, whether of man or beast, or of the field of his possession, will be sold or redeemed; everything set apart is most holy to Jehovah.


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No one set apart, who will be set apart from among men, will be ransomed; he will surely be put to death.


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<pb/>And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is Jehovah's; it is holy to Jehovah.


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And all the tithe of the herd or the flock, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth will be holy to Jehovah.


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He will not search whether it is good or bad, neither will he change it. And if he changes it at all, then both it and that for which it is changed will be holy; it will not be redeemed.


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<pb/>These are the commandments, which Jehovah commanded Moses for the sons of Israel at Mount Sinai.


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<pb/>And Jehovah 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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You* take the sum of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, every male, by their polls,


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from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go forth to war in Israel. You and Aaron will number them by their armies.


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<pb/>And these are the names of the men who will stand with you*. Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.


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


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<pb/>These are those who were called from the congregation, the rulers of the tribes of their fathers. They were the heads of the thousands of Israel.


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and they assembled all the congregation together 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 the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.


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<pb/>And the sons of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, their genealogy, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war,


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<pb/>Of the sons of Simeon, their genealogy, by their families, by their fathers' houses, those who were numbered of it, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war,


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those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand and three hundred.


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<pb/>Of the sons of Gad, their genealogy, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,


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those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.


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<pb/>Of the sons of Judah, their genealogy, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,


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<pb/>Of the sons of Issachar, their genealogy, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,


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those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty-four thousand and four hundred.


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<pb/>Of the sons of Zebulun, their genealogy, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,


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those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand and four hundred.


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<pb/>Of the sons of Joseph, <i>namely</i>, of the sons of Ephraim, their genealogy, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,


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of the sons of Manasseh, their genealogy, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,


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those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand and two hundred.


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<pb/>Of the sons of Benjamin, their genealogy, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,


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those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand and four hundred.


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<pb/>Of the sons of Dan, their genealogy, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,


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<pb/>Of the sons of Asher, their genealogy, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,


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<pb/>Of the sons of Naphtali, their genealogy, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,


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those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand and four hundred.


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<pb/>These are those who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered and the rulers of Israel, being twelve men. They were each one for his fathers' house.


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


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


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but appoint you the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony and over all the furniture of it and over all that belongs to it. They will bear the tabernacle and all the furniture of it and they will minister to it and will encamp all around the tabernacle.


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And when the tabernacle sets forward, the Levites will take it down and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites will set it up. And the stranger who comes near will be put to death.


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<pb/>And the sons of Israel will pitch their tents, every man by his own camp and every man by his own standard, according to their armies.


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But the Levites will encamp all around the tabernacle of the testimony, that there is no wrath upon the congregation of the sons of Israel. And the Levites will keep the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.


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The sons of Israel will encamp every man by his own standard, with the ensigns of their fathers' houses. They will encamp all around opposite the tent of meeting.


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<pb/>And those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise will be those of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their armies. And the ruler of the sons of Judah will be Nahshon the son of Amminadab.


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And those who encamp next to him will be the tribe of Issachar. And the ruler of the sons of Issachar will be Nethanel the son of Zuar.


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<i>Then</i> the tribe of Zebulun. And the ruler of the sons of Zebulun will be Eliab the son of Helon.


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<pb/>All who were numbered of the camp of Judah were a hundred eighty-six thousand and four hundred, according to their armies. They will set forth first.


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<pb/>On the south side will be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies. And the ruler of the sons of Reuben will be Elizur the son of Shedeur.


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And those who encamp next to him will be the tribe of Simeon. And the ruler of the sons of Simeon will be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.


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


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<pb/>All who were numbered of the camp of Reuben were a hundred fifty-one thousand and four hundred and fifty, according to their armies. And they will set forth second.


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<pb/>Then the tent of meeting will set forward, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps. As they encamp, so will they set forward, every man in his place, by their standards.


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<pb/>On the west side will be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies. And the ruler of the sons of Ephraim will be Elishama the son of Ammihud.


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And next to him will be the tribe of Manasseh. And the ruler of the sons of Manasseh will be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.


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Then the tribe of Benjamin. And the ruler of the sons of Benjamin will be Abidan the son of Gideoni.


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<pb/>All who were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were a hundred eight thousand and a hundred, according to their armies. And they will set forth third.


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<pb/>On the north side will be the standard of the camp of Dan according to their armies. And the ruler of the sons of Dan will be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.


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And those who encamp next to him will be the tribe of Asher. And the ruler of the sons of Asher will be Pagiel the son of Ochran.


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<pb/>All that were numbered of the camp of Dan were a hundred fifty-seven thousand and six hundred. They will set forth rearmost by their standards.


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<pb/>These are those who were numbered of the sons of Israel by their fathers' houses. All who were numbered of the camps according to their armies were six hundred three thousand and five hundred and fifty.


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Thus did the sons of Israel. According to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards and so they set forward, everyone by their families, according to their fathers' houses.


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<pb/>Now these are the genealogies of Aaron and Moses in the day that Jehovah spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai:


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


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And Nadab and Abihu died before Jehovah when they offered strange fire before Jehovah in the wilderness of Sinai and they had no sons. And Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the presence of Aaron their father.


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


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And they will keep all the furniture of the tent of meeting and the charge of the sons of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.


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And you will give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons. They are entirely given to him from the sons of Israel.


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And you will appoint Aaron and his sons and they will keep their priesthood. And the stranger who comes near will be put to death.


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And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the sons of Israel instead of all the firstborn who opens the womb among the sons of Israel. And the Levites will be mine,


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for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I killed* all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made holy to me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast. They will be mine. I am Jehovah.


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Number the sons of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families. You will number them, every male from a month old and upward.


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And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the Levite families according to their fathers' houses.


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


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And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting will be the tabernacle and the tent, the covering of it and the screen for the door of the tent of meeting,


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and the hangings of the court and the screen for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar all around and the cords of it for all the service of it.


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<pb/>And of Kohath was the Amramite family and the Izharite family and the Hebronite family and the Uzzielite family. These are the Kohathite families.


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According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.


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And their charge will be the ark and the table and the lamp-stand and the altars and the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister and the screen and all the service of it.


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And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest will be ruler of the rulers of the Levites, <i>with</i> the oversight of those who keep the charge of the sanctuary.


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


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And the ruler of the fathers' house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They will encamp on the side of the tabernacle northward.


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And the appointed charge of the sons of Merari will be the boards of the tabernacle and the bars of it and the pillars of it and the sockets of it and all the instruments of it and all the service of it,


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<pb/>And those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrise, will be Moses and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the sons of Israel. And the stranger that comes near will be put to death.


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<pb/>All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of Jehovah, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Number all the firstborn males of the sons of Israel from a month old and upward and take the number of their names.


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And you will take the Levites for me (I am Jehovah) instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the first-offspring among the cattle of the sons of Israel.


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


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Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle. And the Levites will be mine. I am Jehovah.


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And for the redemption of the two hundred and seventy-three of the firstborn of the sons of Israel, who are over and above <i>the number of</i> the Levites,


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you will take five shekels apiece by the poll. According to the shekel of the sanctuary you will take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs),


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and you will give the money, with which the odd number of them is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.


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<pb/>And Moses took the redemption-money from those who were over and above those who were redeemed by the Levites.


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He took the money from the firstborn of the sons of Israel, a thousand three hundred and sixty-five <i>shekels</i>, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.


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And Moses gave the redemption-money to Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of Jehovah, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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


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from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter upon the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting.


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<pb/>This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting, <i>about</i> the most holy things:


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<pb/>When the camp sets forward, Aaron will go in and his sons and they will take down the veil of the screen and cover the ark of the testimony with it.


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And will put on it a covering of <i>certain</i> skin and will spread over it a cloth all of blue and will put in the staves of it.


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<pb/>And upon the table of showbread they will spread a cloth of blue and put on it the dishes and the spoons and the bowls and the cups with which to pour out. And the continual bread will be on it.


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And they will spread upon them a cloth of scarlet and cover the same with a covering of <i>certain</i> skin and will put in the staves of it.


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<pb/>And they will take a cloth of blue and cover the lamp-stand of the light and its lamps and its snuffers and its snuff dishes and all the oil vessels of it, with which they minister to it.


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And they will put it and all the vessels of it within a covering of <i>certain</i> skin and will put it upon the frame.


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<pb/>And upon the golden altar they will spread a cloth of blue and cover it with a covering of <i>certain</i> skin and will put in the staves of it.


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<pb/>And they will take all the vessels of ministry, with which they minister in the sanctuary and put them in a cloth of blue and cover them with a covering of <i>certain</i> skin and will put them on the frame.


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And they will put upon it all the vessels of it, with which they minister about it: the censors, the forks and the shovels and the basins, all the vessels of the altar. And they will spread upon it a covering of <i>certain</i> skin and put in the staves of it.


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<pb/>And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp is set forward, after that, the sons of Kohath will come to bear it, but they will not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting.


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<pb/>And the charge of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest will be the oil for the light and the sweet incense and the continual meal offering and the anointing oil, the charge of all the tabernacle and of all that is in it: the sanctuary and the furniture of it.


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


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from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old you will number them, all who enter in to wait upon the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting.


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They will bear the curtains of the tabernacle and the tent of meeting, its covering and the covering of <i>certain</i> skin that is above upon it and the screen for the door of the tent of meeting,


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and the hangings of the court and the screen for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar all around and their cords and all the instruments of their service and whatever will be done with them; they will serve in it.


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<pb/>At the commandment of Aaron and his sons will be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden and in all their service. And you* will appoint to those in charge all their burden.


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This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the tent of meeting. And their charge will be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.


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From thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old you will number them, each man who enters upon the service, to do the work of the tent of meeting.


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<pb/>And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tent of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle and the bars of it and the pillars of it and the sockets of it,


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and the pillars of the court all around and their sockets and their pegs and their cords, with all their instruments and with all their service. And you* will appoint the instruments of the charge of their burden by name.


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


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<pb/>And Moses and Aaron and the rulers of the congregation numbered by the sons of the Kohathite families and by their fathers' houses,


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from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, each man who entered upon the service, for work in the tent of meeting.


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These are those who were numbered of the Kohathite families, all who served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Jehovah by Moses.


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<pb/>And those who were numbered of the sons of Gershon, their families and by their fathers' houses,


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from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, each man who entered upon the service, for work in the tent of meeting,


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even those who were numbered of them, by their families, by their fathers' houses, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty.


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These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Jehovah.


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<pb/>And those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by their fathers' houses,


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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 commandment of Jehovah by Moses.


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<pb/>All those who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the rulers of Israel numbered, by their families and by their fathers' houses,


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from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, each man who entered in to do the work of service and the work of bearing burdens in the tent of meeting,


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According to the commandment of Jehovah they were numbered by Moses, each man according to his service and according to his burden. Thus they were numbered by him, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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Command the sons of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper and every man who has a discharge and whoever is unclean about life.


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You* will put out both male and female. You* will put them outside the camp, that they not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.


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And the sons of Israel did so and put them outside the camp. As Jehovah spoke to Moses, so did the sons of Israel.


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Speak to the sons of Israel, When a man or woman will commit any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Jehovah and that soul will be guilty,


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then he will confess his sin which he has done. And he will make restitution for his guilt in full and add to it the fifth part of it and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty.


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<pb/>But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made to Jehovah will be the priest's, besides the ram of the atonement, by which atonement will be made for him.


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And every heave offering of all the holy things of the sons of Israel, which they present to the priest, will be his.


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


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and a man lies with her carnally and it is hid from the eyes of her husband and be kept close and she is defiled and there is no witness against her and she is not taken in the act,


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


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then the man will bring his wife to the priest and will bring her oblation for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal. He will pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.


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


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And the priest will set the woman before Jehovah and let the hair of the woman's head go loose and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. And the priest will have in his hand the water of bitterness that causes the curse.


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<pb/>And the priest will cause her to swear and will say to the woman, If no man has lain with you and if you have not gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, you are free from this water of bitterness that causes the curse.


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But if you have gone aside, being under your husband and if you are defiled and some man has lain with you besides your husband,


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then the priest will cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing and the priest will say to the woman, Jehovah make you a curse and an oath among your people when Jehovah makes your thigh to fall away and your body to swell.


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And this water that causes the curse will go into your guts and make your body to swell and your thigh to fall away. And the woman will say, Truly, Truly.


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<pb/>And the priest will write these curses in a book and he will blot them out into the water of bitterness.


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And he will make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse. And the water that causes the curse will enter into her bitter.


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And the priest will take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand and will wave the meal offering before Jehovah and bring it to the altar.


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And the priest will take a handful of the meal offering, as the memorial of it and burn it upon the altar and afterward will make the woman drink the water.


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And when he has made her drink the water, then it will happen, if she is defiled and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her bitter and her body will swell and her thigh will fall away. And the woman will be a curse among her people.


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or when the spirit of jealousy comes upon a man and he is jealous of his wife. Then he will set the woman before Jehovah and the priest will execute upon her all this law.


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Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When either man or woman will make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to Jehovah,


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


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


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All the days of his vow of separation there will no razor come upon his head. Until the days be fulfilled, in which he separates himself to Jehovah, he will be holy. He will let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.


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He will not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die, because his separation to God is upon his head.


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<pb/>And if any man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles the head of his separation, then he will shave his head in the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he will shave it.


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And on the eighth day he will 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 will offer 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 and will sanctify his head that same day.


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And he will separate to Jehovah the days of his separation and will bring a male-lamb a year old for a trespass offering. But the former days will be void, because his separation was defiled.


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<pb/>And this is the law of the Nazirite when the days of his separation are fulfilled: He will be brought to the door of the tent of meeting,


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and he will offer his oblation to Jehovah: one male-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 peace offerings,


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


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And the priest will present them before Jehovah and will offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.


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And he will offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest will also offer the meal offering of it and the drink offering of it.


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<pb/>And the Nazirite will shave the head of his separation at the door of the tent of meeting and will take the hair of the head of his separation and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings.


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And the priest will take the boiled shoulder of the ram and one unleavened cake out of the basket and one unleavened wafer and will put them upon the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaven his separation,


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and the priest will wave them for a wave offering before Jehovah. This is holy for the priest, together with the wave-breast and heave-thigh. And after that the Nazirite may drink wine.


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<pb/>This is the law of the Nazirite who vows, <i>and of</i> his oblation to Jehovah for his separation, besides what he is able to get. According to his vow which he vows, so he must do after the law of his separation.


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Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, This way you* will bless the sons of Israel: You* will say to them,


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<pb/>And it happened on the day that Moses made an end of setting up the tabernacle, that he anointed it and made it holy and all the furniture of it and the altar and all the vessels of it and anointed them and made them holy.


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Then the rulers of Israel, the heads of their fathers' houses, offered. These were the rulers of the tribes. These are those who were over those who were numbered.


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And they brought their oblation before Jehovah: six covered wagons and twelve oxen; a wagon for every two of the rulers and for each one an ox. And they presented them before the tabernacle.


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Take it from them, that they may be <i>used</i> in doing the service of the tent of meeting. And you will give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service.


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


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But he gave none to the sons of Kohath, because the service of the sanctuary belonged to them. They bore it upon their shoulders.


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<pb/>And the rulers offered for the dedication of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the rulers offered their oblation before the altar.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, They will offer their oblation, each ruler on his day, for the dedication of the altar.


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<pb/>And he who offered his oblation the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah.


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And his oblation was one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty <i>shekels</i>, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal 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 oblation of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.


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He offered for his oblation one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty <i>shekels</i>, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal 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 oblation of Nethanel the son of Zuar.


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His oblation was one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty <i>shekels</i>, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal 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 oblation of Eliab the son of Helon.


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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 oblation of Elizur the 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 oblation of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.


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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 oblation of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.


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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 oblation of Elishama the 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 oblation of Gamaliel the 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 oblation of Abidan the 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 oblation of Ahiezer the 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 oblation of Pagiel the son of Ochran.


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His oblation was one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred a thirty <i>shekels</i>, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal 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 oblation of Ahira the son of Enan.


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<pb/>This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the rulers of Israel: twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden spoons,


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each silver platter <i>weighing</i> a hundred and thirty <i>shekels</i> and each bowl seventy. All the silver of the vessels <i>was</i> two thousand and four hundred <i>shekels</i>, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.


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The twelve golden spoons, full of incense, <i>weighed ten shekels</i> apiece, according to the shekel of the sanctuary. All the gold of the spoons <i>was</i> a hundred and twenty <i>shekels</i>.


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All the oxen for the burnt offering <i>were</i> twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the male-lambs a year old twelve and their meal offering and the males of the goats for a sin offering twelve.


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And all the oxen for the sacrifice of peace offerings <i>was</i> twenty-four bullocks, the rams sixty, the male-goats sixty, the male-lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication of the altar after it was anointed.


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<pb/>And when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with him, then 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 him.


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Speak to Aaron and say to him, When you light the lamps, the seven lamps will give light in front of the lamp-stand.


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And this was the work of the lamp-stand, beaten work of gold. To the base of it, <i>and</i> to the flowers of it, it was beaten work. According to the pattern which Jehovah had shown Moses, so he made the lamp-stand.


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And thus you will do to them to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of expiation upon them and let them cause a razor to pass over all their flesh and let them wash their clothes and cleanse themselves.


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Then let them take a young bullock and its meal offering — fine flour mingled with oil. And you will take another young bullock for a sin offering.


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And you will present the Levites before the tent of meeting. And you will assemble the whole congregation of the sons of Israel,


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and you will present the Levites before Jehovah. And the sons of Israel will lay their hands upon the Levites.


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<pb/>And Aaron will offer the Levites before Jehovah for a wave offering from the sons of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of Jehovah.


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And the Levites will lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks and offer you the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, to Jehovah, to make atonement for the Levites.


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And you will set the Levites before Aaron and before his sons and offer them for a wave offering to Jehovah.


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And after that the Levites will go in to do the service of the tent of meeting. And you will cleanse them and offer them for a wave offering.


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<pb/>For they are entirely given to me from among the sons of Israel; instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the sons of Israel, I have taken them to me.


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For all the firstborn among the sons of Israel are mine, both man and beast. On the day that I killed* all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made them holy for myself.


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And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the sons of Israel, to do the service of the sons of Israel in the tent of meeting and to make atonement for the sons of Israel, that there is no plague among the sons of Israel, when the sons of Israel come near to the sanctuary.


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<pb/>Thus did Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the sons of Israel, to the Levites. According to all that Jehovah commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the sons of Israel did to them.


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And the Levites purified themselves from sin and they washed their clothes. And Aaron offered them for a wave offering before Jehovah 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 before Aaron and before his sons. As Jehovah had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.


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This is what belongs to the Levites: From twenty-five years old and upward they will go in to wait upon the service in the work of the tent of meeting.


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but will minister with their brothers in the tent of meeting, to keep the charge and will do no service. Thus will you do to the Levites concerning their charges.


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<pb/>And Jehovah spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they came out of the land of Egypt, saying,


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In the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you* will keep it in its appointed season. According to all the statutes of it and according to all the ordinances of it, you* will keep it.


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And they kept the Passover in the first <i>month</i>, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so did the sons of Israel.


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<pb/>And there were certain men who were unclean by reason of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day,


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and those men said to him, We are unclean by reason of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the oblation of Jehovah in its appointed season among the sons of Israel?


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Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, If any man of you* or of your* genealogy will be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be on a journey afar off, yet he will keep the Passover to Jehovah.


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In the second month on the fourteenth day at evening they will keep it. They will eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.


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They will leave none of it to the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they will keep it.


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But the man who is clean and is not on a journey and forbears to keep the Passover, that soul will be cut off from his people, because he did not offer the oblation of Jehovah in its appointed season; that man will bear his sin.


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And if a stranger will journey among you* and will keep the Passover to Jehovah, according to the statute of the Passover and according to the ordinance of it, so will he do. You* will have one statute, both for the traveler and for him who is born in the land.


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<pb/>And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the tent of the testimony and at evening it was upon the tabernacle, as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.


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And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tent, then after that the sons of Israel journeyed. And in the place where the cloud abode, there the sons of Israel encamped.


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At the commandment of Jehovah the sons of Israel journeyed and at the commandment of Jehovah they encamped. As long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they remained encamped.


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


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And sometimes the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle, then according to the commandment of Jehovah they remained encamped and according to the commandment of Jehovah they journeyed.


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And sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they journeyed, or <i>if</i> by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.


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<pb/>Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud stayed upon the tabernacle, abiding on it, the sons of Israel remained encamped and did not journey, but when it was taken up, they journeyed.


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At the commandment of Jehovah they encamped and at the commandment of Jehovah they journeyed. They kept the charge of Jehovah, at the commandment of Jehovah by Moses.


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You make two trumpets of silver, you will make them of beaten work. And you will use them for the calling of the congregation and for the journeying of the camps.


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And when they will blow them, all the congregation will gather themselves to you at the door of the tent of meeting.


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And if they blow but one, then the rulers, the heads of the thousands of Israel, will gather themselves to you.


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And when you* blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side will take their journey. They will blow an alarm for their journeys.


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But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you* will blow, but you* will not shout out an alarm.


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<pb/>And the sons of Aaron, the priests, will blow the trumpets and they will be to you* for an everlasting statute throughout your* genealogy.


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And when you* go to war in your* land against the adversary that oppresses you*, then you* will shout out an alarm with the trumpets. And you* will be remembered before Jehovah your* God and you* will be saved from your* enemies.


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Also in the day of your* gladness and in your* set feasts and in the beginnings of your* months, you* will blow the trumpets over your* burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your* peace offerings. And they will be to you* for a memorial before your* God: I am Jehovah your* God.


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<pb/>And it happened in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony.


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And the sons of Israel set forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran.


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<pb/>And in the first <i>place</i> the standard of the camp of the sons of Judah set forward according to their armies and over his army was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.


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<pb/>And the tabernacle was taken down and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, set forward.


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<pb/>And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their armies and over his army was Elizur the son of Shedeur.


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<pb/>And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary and <i>the others</i> set up the tabernacle until their coming.


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<pb/>And the standard of the camp of the sons of Ephraim set forward according to their armies and over his army was Elishama the son of Ammihud.


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<pb/>And the standard of the camp of the sons of Dan, which was the rearward of all the camps, set forward according to their armies and over his army was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.


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<pb/>And Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, We are journeying to the place of which Jehovah said, I will give it to you*. You come with us and we will do you good, for Jehovah has spoken good concerning Israel.


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And he said, I beseech you, do not leave us, inasmuch as you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness and you will be to us instead of eyes.


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And it will be, if you go with us, yes, it will be, that whatever good Jehovah will do to us, the same we will do to you.


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<pb/>And they set forward from the mountain of Jehovah three days' journey. And the ark of the covenant of Jehovah went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting-place for them.


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<pb/>And it happened, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, O Jehovah and let your enemies be scattered and let those who hate you flee before you.


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<pb/>And the people were as complainers, <i>speaking</i> evil in the ears of Jehovah. And when Jehovah heard it, his anger was kindled and the fire of Jehovah burnt among them and devoured in the outermost part of the camp.


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<pb/>And the mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly. And the sons of Israel also wept again and said, Who will give us flesh to eat?


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We remember the fish which we ate in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic,


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<pb/>And the manna was like coriander seed and the appearance of it as the appearance of bdellium   <n>{sweat smelling gum resin or its plant}</n>.


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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 the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.


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<pb/>And Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent. And the anger of Jehovah was kindled greatly and Moses was displeased.


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And Moses said to Jehovah, Why have you dealt ill with your servant? And why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people upon me?


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


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


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


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them. And bring them to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with you.


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


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<pb/>And you say to the people, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow and you* will eat flesh, for you* have wept in the ears of Jehovah, saying, Who will give us flesh to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt. Therefore Jehovah will give you* flesh and you* will eat.


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but a whole month, until it comes out at your* nostrils and it is loathsome to you*, because you* have rejected Jehovah who is among you* and have wept before him, saying, Why did we come forth out of Egypt?


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


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


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Is Jehovah's hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.


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And Moses went out and told the people the words of Jehovah. And he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and set them all around the tent.


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<pb/>And Jehovah 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 it happened, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.


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<pb/>But there remained two men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad and the name of the other Medad. And the spirit rested upon them. And they were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the tent. And they prophesied in the camp.


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


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<pb/>And Moses said to him, Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all of Jehovah's people were prophets, that Jehovah would put his spirit upon them!


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<pb/>And there went forth a wind from Jehovah and brought quails from the sea and let them fall by the camp, about a day's journey on this side and a day's journey on the other side, all around the camp and about two cubits above the face of the earth.


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And the people rose up all that day and all the night and all the next day and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers. And they spread them all abroad for themselves all around the camp.


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<pb/>While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of Jehovah was kindled against the people and Jehovah killed* the people with a very great plague.


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And the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah   <n>{The Graves of Lust}</n>, because there they buried the people who lusted.


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From Kibroth-hattaavah   <n>{The Graves of Lust}</n>   the people journeyed to Hazeroth and they abode at Hazeroth.


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<pb/>And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman.


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And they said, Has Jehovah indeed spoken only with Moses? Has he not spoken also with us? And Jehovah heard it.


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<pb/>And Jehovah spoke suddenly to Moses and to Aaron and to Miriam, Come out the three of you* to the tent of meeting. And the three came out.


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And Jehovah came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the door of the tent and called Aaron and Miriam. And they both came forth.


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<pb/>And he said, Hear now my words. If there is a prophet among you*, I Jehovah will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.


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With him I will speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly and not in dark speeches and he has beheld the form of Jehovah. Why then were you* not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?


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<pb/>And the cloud removed from over the tent. And behold, Miriam was leprous, as snow. And Aaron looked upon Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.


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


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


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside the camp seven days and after that she will be brought in again.


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And Miriam was shut up outside the camp seven days. And the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.


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Send you men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the sons of Israel. From every tribe of their fathers you* will send a man, each one a ruler among them.


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And Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Jehovah. All of them men who were heads of the sons of Israel.


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These are the names of the men that Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.


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<pb/>And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, You* get up this way by the South and go up into the hill-country.


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And see the land, what it is and the people who dwell in it, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many,


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and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds,


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


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<pb/>So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.


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And they went up by the South and came to Hebron. And Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the sons of Anak, were there. (Now 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 bore it upon a staff between two, also of the pomegranates and of the figs.


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That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the sons of Israel cut down from there.


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<pb/>And they went and came to Moses and to Aaron and to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh and brought back word to them and to all the congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.


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


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<pb/>However the people who dwell in the land are strong and the cities are fortified, very great and moreover we saw the sons of Anak there.


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Amalek dwells in the land of the South. And the Hittite and 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.


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<pb/>And Caleb stilled the people before Moses and said, Let us go up at once and possess it, for we are well able to overcome it.


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<pb/>But the men who went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.


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


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


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


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And why does Jehovah bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey. Were it not better for us to return into Egypt?


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<pb/>Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.


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<pb/>And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.


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And they spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.


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


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Only do not rebel against Jehovah, neither fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them and Jehovah is with us. Fear them not.


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But all the congregation commanded, stone them with stones. And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the tent of meeting to all the sons of Israel.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?


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


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<pb/>And Moses said to Jehovah, Then the Egyptians will hear it, for you brought up this people in your might from among them,


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


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


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Jehovah is slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression and that will by no means clear <i>the guilty</i>, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.


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Pardon, I beseech you, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness and just-as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.


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because all those men who have seen my glory and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have challenged me these ten times and have not listened to my voice,


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surely they will not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither will any of them who despised me see it.


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


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<pb/>Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley. Tomorrow turn and get into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.


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How long <i>shall I bear</i> with this evil congregation that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Israel, which they murmur against me.


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Your* dead bodies will fall in this wilderness. And all who were numbered of you*, according to your* whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,


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surely you* will not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I would make you* dwell in it, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.


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


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And your* sons will be wanderers in the wilderness forty years and will bear your* prostitutions, until your* dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.


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<pb/>After the number of the days in which you* spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you* will bear your* iniquities, even forty years and you* will know my alienation.


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I, Jehovah, have spoken, surely I will do this to all this evil congregation that are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they will be consumed and there they will die.


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<pb/>And the men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up an evil report against the land,


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But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.


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


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For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you* and you* will fall by the sword. Because you* have turned back from following Jehovah, therefore Jehovah will not be with you*.


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<pb/>But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain, nevertheless the ark of the covenant of Jehovah and Moses, did not depart out of the camp.


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Then the Amalekites came down and the Canaanites who dwelt in that mountain and killed* them and beat them down, even to Hormah.


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


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and will make an offering by fire to Jehovah, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a free-will offering, or in your* set feasts, to make a sweet aroma to Jehovah, of the herd, or of the flock,


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then he who offers his oblation will offer to Jehovah a meal offering of a tenth part <i>of an ephah</i> of fine flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of oil.


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


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Or for a ram, you will prepare for a meal offering two tenth parts <i>of an ephah</i> of fine flour mingled with the third part of a hin of oil.


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And for the drink offering you will offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a sweet aroma to Jehovah.


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<pb/>And when you prepare a bullock for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace offerings to Jehovah;


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then he will offer with the bullock a meal offering of three tenth parts <i>of an ephah</i> of fine flour mingled with half a hin of oil.


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And you will offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Jehovah.


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<pb/>Thus it will be done for each bullock, or for each ram, or for each of the male-lambs, or of the kids.


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


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All who are home-born will do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Jehovah.


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<pb/>And if a stranger travels with you*, or whoever may be among you* throughout your* genealogy and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Jehovah; as you* do, so he will do.


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For the assembly, there will be one statute for you* and for the stranger who travels <i>with you</i>*, an everlasting statute throughout your* genealogy. As you* are, so will the traveler be before Jehovah.


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then it will be, that, when you* eat of the bread of the land, you* will offer up a heave offering to Jehovah.


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Of the first of your* dough you* will offer up a cake for a heave offering, as the heave offering of the threshing-floor, so will you* heave it.


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<pb/>And when you* will err and not observe all these commandments, which Jehovah has spoken to Moses,


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even all that Jehovah has commanded you* by Moses, from the day that Jehovah commanded and onward throughout your* generations,


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then it will be, if it is done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation will offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet aroma to Jehovah, with the meal offering of it and the drink offering of it, according to the ordinance and one male-goat for a sin offering.


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And the priest will make atonement for all the congregation of the sons of Israel and they will be forgiven, for it was an error and they have brought their oblation, an offering made by fire to Jehovah and their sin offering before Jehovah, for their error.


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And all the congregation of the sons of Israel will be forgiven and the stranger who travels among them, for in respect of all the people it was done unwittingly.


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<pb/>And if one soul sins unwittingly, then he will offer a female-goat a year old for a sin offering.


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And the priest will make atonement for the soul that errs, when he sins unwittingly, before Jehovah, to make atonement for him and he will be forgiven.


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<pb/>But the soul that does anything with a high hand, whether he is home-born or a traveler, the same blasphemes Jehovah and that soul will be cut off from among his people.


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<pb/>And while the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks upon the Sabbath day.


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


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And Jehovah said to Moses, The man will surely be put to death. All the congregation will stone him with stones outside the camp.


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And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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Speak to the sons of Israel and bid them that they make for them hems in the borders of their garments throughout their genealogy and that they put upon the hem of each border a cord of blue.


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<pb/>Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took,


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and they rose up before Moses, with certain of the sons of Israel, two hundred and fifty rulers of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown,


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and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, You* take too much upon you*, since all the congregation are holy, every one of them and Jehovah is among them. Why then do you* lift up yourselves above the assembly of Jehovah?


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And he spoke to Korah and to all his company, saying, In the morning Jehovah will show who are his and who is holy and will cause him to come near to him, even him whom he will choose will he cause to come near to him.


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and put fire in them and put incense upon them before Jehovah tomorrow. And it will be that the man whom Jehovah chooses, he <i>is</i> holy. You* take too much upon you*, you* sons of Levi.


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and that he has brought you near and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? And you* seek the priesthood also?


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


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<pb/>And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab. And they said, We will not come up.


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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 make yourself also a ruler over us?


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Moreover you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.


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<pb/>And Moses was very angry and said to Jehovah, Do not respect you their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them.


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<pb/>And Moses said to Korah, You and all your company be before Jehovah, you and they and Aaron, tomorrow.


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And take you* every man his censer and put incense upon them and bring you* before Jehovah every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers, you also and Aaron, each his censer.


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And they took every man his censer and put fire in them and laid incense on it and stood at the door of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron.


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And Korah assembled all the congregation against them to the door of the tent of meeting. And the glory of Jehovah appeared to all the congregation.


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


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Speak to the congregation, saying, You* get up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan and Abiram.


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And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Depart, I beseech you*, from the tents of these wicked men and touch nothing of theirs, lest you* are consumed in all their sins.


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


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<pb/>And Moses said, Hereby you* will know that Jehovah has sent me to do all these works, for <i>it is</i> not of my own mind.


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


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But if Jehovah makes a new thing and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up, with all that pertains to them and they go down alive into Sheol, then you* will understand that these men have despised Jehovah.


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<pb/>And it happened, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground split asunder that was under them,


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and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up and their households and all the men that pertained to Korah and all their goods.


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So they and all that pertained to them, went down alive into Sheol. And the earth closed upon them and they perished from among the assembly.


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<pb/>And all Israel that were all around them fled at the cry of them, for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.


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even the censers of these sinners against their own lives and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before Jehovah, therefore they are holy and they will be a sign to the sons of Israel.


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<pb/>And Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers, which those who were burnt had offered and they beat them out for a covering of the altar,


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to be a memorial to the sons of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to burn incense before Jehovah, that he not be as Korah and as his company, as Jehovah spoke to him by Moses.


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<pb/>But on the morrow all the congregation of the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You* have killed the people of Jehovah.


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<pb/>And it happened, when the congregation was assembled against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tent of meeting, and behold, the cloud covered it and the glory of Jehovah appeared.


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


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And Moses said to Aaron, Take your censer and put fire in it from 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 Jehovah. The plague has begun.


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<pb/>And Aaron took as Moses spoke and ran into the midst of the assembly. And behold, the plague had begun among the people. And he put on the incense and made atonement for the people.


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<pb/>Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those who died about the matter of Korah.


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Speak to the sons of Israel and take rods from them, one for each father's house, from all their rulers according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods. Write every man's name upon his rod.


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And you will write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi, for there will be one rod for each head of their fathers' houses.


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And it will happen, that the rod of the man whom I will choose will bud. And I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the sons of Israel, which they murmur against you*.


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<pb/>And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel. And all their rulers gave him rods, for each ruler one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.


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<pb/>And it happened on the morrow, that Moses went into the tent of the testimony, and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded and put forth buds and produced blossoms and bore ripe almonds.


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And Moses brought out all the rods from before Jehovah to all the sons of Israel. And they looked and took every man his rod.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept for a sign against the sons of rebellion, that you may make an end of their murmurings against me, that they not die.


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<pb/>And the sons of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.


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Every man who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of Jehovah, dies. Shall we all of us perish?


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Aaron, You and your sons and your fathers' house with you will bear the iniquity of the sanctuary and you and your sons with you will bear the iniquity of your* priesthood.


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<pb/>And your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring near with you, that they may be joined to you and minister to you, but you and your sons with you will be before the tent of the testimony.


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And they will keep your charge and the charge of all the tent. Only they will not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they, nor you*.


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And they will be joined to you and keep the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent and a stranger will not come near to you*.


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And you* will keep the charge of the sanctuary and the charge of the altar, that there is no more wrath upon the sons of Israel.


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<pb/>And I, behold, I have taken your* brothers the Levites from among the sons of Israel. They are a gift to you*, given to Jehovah, to do the service of the tent of meeting.


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And you and your sons with you will keep your* priesthood for everything of the altar and for that within the veil and you* will serve. I give you* the priesthood as a service of gift. And the stranger who comes near will be put to death.


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<pb/>And Jehovah spoke to Aaron, And I, behold, I have given you the charge of my heave offerings, even all the holy things of the sons of Israel. I have given them to you by reason of the anointing and to your sons, as a everlasting portion.


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This will be your of the most holy things, <i>reserved</i> from the fire: every oblation of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs and every sin offering of theirs and every trespass offering of theirs, which they will render to me, will be most holy for you and for your sons.


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<pb/>And this is your: the heave offering of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the sons of Israel. I have given them to you and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as an everlasting portion. Everyone who is clean in your house will eat of it.


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All the best of the oil and all the best of the vintage and of the grain, the first-fruits of them which they give to Jehovah, I have given them to you.


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The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to Jehovah, will be your. Everyone who is clean in your house will eat of it.


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<pb/>Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to Jehovah, both of man and beast will be your. Nevertheless the firstborn of man you will surely redeem and the first-offspring of unclean beasts you will redeem.


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


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But the first-offspring of an ox, or the first-offspring of a sheep, or the first-offspring of a goat, you will not redeem. They are holy. You will sprinkle their blood upon the altar and will burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet aroma to Jehovah.


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<pb/>All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the sons of Israel offer to Jehovah, I have given you and your sons and your daughters with you, as an everlasting portion. It is a covenant of salt forever before Jehovah to you and to your seed with you.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Aaron, You will have no inheritance in their land, neither will you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the sons of Israel.


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And to the sons of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the tent of meeting.


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<pb/>And hereafter the sons of Israel will not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin and die.


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But the Levites will do the service of the tent of meeting and they will bear their iniquity. It will be an everlasting statute throughout your* genealogy. And among the sons of Israel they will have no inheritance.


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<pb/>For the tithe of the sons of Israel, which they offer as a heave offering to Jehovah, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said to them, Among the sons of Israel they will have no inheritance.


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Moreover you will speak to the Levites and say to them, When you* take from the sons of Israel the tithe which I have given you* from them for your* inheritance, then you* will offer up a heave offering of it for Jehovah, a tithe of the tithe.


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And your* heave offering will be reckoned to you*, as though it were the grain of the threshing-floor and as the fullness of the winepress.


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Thus you* also will offer a heave offering to Jehovah of all your* tithes, which you* receive of the sons of Israel. And from it you* will give Jehovah's heave offering to Aaron the priest.


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Out of all your* gifts you* will offer every heave offering of Jehovah, of all the best of it, even the holy part of it out of it.


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<pb/>Therefore you will say to them, When you* heave the best of it from it, then it will be reckoned to the Levites as the increase of the threshing-floor and as the increase of the wine-press.


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And you* will eat it in every place, you* and your* households, for it is your* reward in return for your* service in the tent of meeting.


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And you* will bear no sin by reason of it, when you* have heaved from it the best of it. And you* will not profane the holy things of the sons of Israel, that you* not die.


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This is the statute of the law which Jehovah has commanded, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, <i>and</i> upon which a yoke never came.


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And you* will give her to Eleazar the priest and he will bring her forth outside the camp and she will be killed before his face.


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And Eleazar the priest will take of her blood with his finger and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.


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And the heifer will be burned in his sight: her skin and her flesh and her blood, with her manure, he will burn.


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


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


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And he who burned her will wash his clothes in water and bathe his flesh in water and will be unclean until the evening.


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<pb/>And a man who is clean will gather up the ashes of the heifer and lay them up outside the camp in a clean place. And it will be kept for the congregation of the sons of Israel for a water for impurity. It is a sin offering.


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And he who gathers the ashes of the heifer will wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. And it will be to the sons of Israel and to the stranger who travels among them, for an everlasting statute.


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


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<pb/>Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of Jehovah. And that soul will be cut off from Israel, because the water for impurity was not sprinkled upon him. He will be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.


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<pb/>This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent, will be unclean seven days.


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


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And for the unclean they will take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering and running water will be put with that in a vessel.


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And a clean man will take hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it upon the tent and upon all the vessels and upon the souls who were there and upon him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave.


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And the clean man will sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day. And on the seventh day he will purify him. And he will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and will be clean at evening.


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<pb/>But the man who will be unclean and will not purify himself, that soul will be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Jehovah. The water for impurity has not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.


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And it will be an everlasting statute to them. And he who sprinkles the water for impurity will wash his clothes and he who touches the water for impurity will be unclean until evening.


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And whatever the unclean man touches will be unclean and the soul who touches it will be unclean until evening.


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<pb/>And the sons of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month and the people abode in Kadesh. And Miriam died there and was buried there.


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<pb/>And there was no water for the congregation and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.


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And the people contended with Moses and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brothers died before Jehovah!


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And why have you* brought the assembly of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?


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


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And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tent of meeting and fell upon their faces. And the glory of Jehovah appeared to them.


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Take the rod and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother and <i>speak</i> to the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water and you will bring forth water to them out of the rock. So you will give the congregation and their cattle drink.


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<pb/>And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock and he said to them, Hear now, you* rebels. Shall we bring forth water to you* out of this rock?


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And Moses lifted up his hand and killed* the rock with his rod twice and water came out abundantly. And the congregation drank and their cattle.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron, Because you* did not believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the sons of Israel, therefore you* will not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.


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These are the waters of Meribah, because the sons of Israel contend with Jehovah and he was made holy in them.


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<pb/>And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the King of Edom, Thus says your brother Israel, You know all the travail that has befallen us,


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how our fathers went down into Egypt and we dwelt in Egypt a long time. And the Egyptians dealt ill with us and our fathers.


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And when we cried to Jehovah, he heard our voice and sent a messenger and brought us forth out of Egypt. And behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the outermost of your border.


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I beseech you, let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells. We will go along the king's highway. We will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border.


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<pb/>And Edom said to him, You will not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you.


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And the sons of Israel said to him, We will go up by the highway. And if we drink of your water, I and my cattle, then will I give the price of it. Only let me, without <i>doing</i> anything, pass through on my feet.


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


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<pb/>Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border. Therefore Israel turned away from him.


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And they journeyed from Kadesh and the sons of Israel, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.


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


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and strip Aaron of his garments and put them upon Eleazar his son. And Aaron will be gathered and will die there.


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<pb/>And Moses did as Jehovah commanded. And they went up into Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.


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And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and put them upon Eleazar his son. And Aaron died there on the top of the mountain and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.


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


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<pb/>And the Canaanite, the King of Arad, who dwelt in the South, heard tell that Israel came by the way of Atharim and he fought against Israel and took some of them captive.


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And Israel vowed a vow to Jehovah and said, If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.


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And Jehovah listened to the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites. And they utterly destroyed them and their cities. And the name of the place was called Hormah.


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And they journeyed from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to encompass the land of Edom. And the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.


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And the people spoke against God and against Moses, Why have you* brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread and there is no water and our soul loathes this light bread.


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And Jehovah sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people and many people of Israel died.


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<pb/>And the people came to Moses and said, We have sinned, because we have spoken against Jehovah and against you. Pray to Jehovah, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, You make a fiery serpent and set it upon a standard. And it will happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, will live.


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And Moses made a serpent of brass and set it upon the standard. And it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived.


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And they journeyed from Oboth and encamped at Iye-abarim   <n>{Ruins of Abarim}</n>, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrise.


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


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Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of Jehovah, Waheb in Suphah and the valleys of the Arnon,


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and the slope of the valleys that inclines toward the dwelling of Ar and leans upon the border of Moab.


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<pb/>And from there <i>they journeyed</i> to Beer. That is the well of which Jehovah said to Moses, Gather the people together and I will give them water.


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the well, which the rulers dug, which the nobles of the people dug, with the scepter, <i>and</i> with their staves. And from the wilderness <i>they journeyed</i> to Mattanah,


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and from Bamoth to the valley which is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down upon the desert.


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Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard. We will not drink of the water of the wells. We will go by the king's highway, until we have passed your border.


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And Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border, but 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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<pb/>And Israel killed* him with the edge of the sword and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the sons of Ammon, for the border of the sons of Ammon was strong.


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And Israel took all these cities. And Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all the towns of it.


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


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<pb/>Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, Come you* to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established.


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For a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has devoured Ar of Moab, the lords of the high places of the Arnon.


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Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh. He has given his sons as fugitives and his daughters into captivity, to Sihon King of the Amorites.


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We have shot at them. Heshbon has perished even to Dibon and we have laid waste even to Nophah, which <i>reaches</i> to Medeba.


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And Moses sent to spy out Jazer. And they took the towns of it and drove out the Amorites that were there.


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<pb/>And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan. And Og the King of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Fear him not, for I have delivered him into your hand and all his people and his land. And you will do to him as you did to Sihon King of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.


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So they killed* him and his sons and all his people, until there was none left to him remaining. And they possessed his land.


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<pb/>And the sons of Israel journeyed and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.


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And Moab was exceedingly afraid of the people, because they were many. And Moab was distressed because of the sons of Israel.


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<pb/>And Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now will this multitude lick up all that is all around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was King of Moab at that time.


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<pb/>And he sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, a people came out from Egypt. Behold, they cover the face of the earth and they abide opposite me.


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Therefore, I beseech you, come now, curse this people for me, for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I will prevail, that we may kill* them and that I may drive them out of the land. For I know that he whom you bless is blessed and he whom you curse is cursed.


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<pb/>And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand and they came to Balaam and spoke to him the words of Balak.


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


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Behold, the people came out of Egypt, it covers the face of the earth. Now, come curse them for me. Perhaps I will be able to fight against them and will drive them out.


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


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<pb/>And Balaam rose up in the morning and said to the rulers of Balak, Get into your* land, for Jehovah refuses to give me leave to go with you*.


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And they came to Balaam and said to him, Thus says Balak the son of Zippor, I beseech you, let nothing hinder you from coming to me.


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


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


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Now therefore, I beseech you*, abide also here this night, that I may know what Jehovah will speak to me more.


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<pb/>And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, If the men come to call you, rise up, go with them, but only the word which I speak to you, that will you do.


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<pb/>And God's anger was kindled because he went and the messenger of Jehovah placed himself in the way for 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 messenger of Jehovah standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand and the donkey turned aside out of the way and went into the field. And Balaam killed* the donkey, to turn her into the way.


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<pb/>Then the messenger of Jehovah stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side and a wall on that side.


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And the donkey saw the messenger of Jehovah and she thrust herself to the wall and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall. And he killed* her again.


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<pb/>And the messenger of Jehovah went further and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.


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And the donkey saw the messenger of Jehovah and she lay down under Balaam. And Balaam's anger was kindled and he killed* the donkey with his staff.


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


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And Balaam said to the donkey, Because you have mocked me. I would there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed 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 to this day? Was I ever accustomed to do so to you? And he said, No.


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<pb/>Then Jehovah opened the eyes of Balaam and he saw the messenger of Jehovah 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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<pb/>And the messenger of Jehovah said to him, Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me.


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And the donkey saw me and turned aside before me these three times. Unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I would have even slain you and saved her alive.


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<pb/>And Balaam said to the messenger of Jehovah, I have sinned, for I did not know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displease you, I will get back again.


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<pb/>And the messenger of Jehovah said to Balaam, Go with the men, but only the word that I will speak to you, that you will speak. So Balaam went with the rulers of Balak.


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<pb/>And when Balak heard that Balaam came, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the outmost part of the border.


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


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And Balaam said to Balak, Behold, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.


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And it happened in the morning, that Balak took Balaam and brought him up into the high places of Baal and he saw from there the outmost part of the people.


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


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


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And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering and I will go. Perhaps Jehovah 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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<pb/>And God met Balaam and he said to him, I have prepared the seven altars and I have offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar.


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And he returned to him. And behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he and all the rulers of Moab.


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<pb/>And he took up his oracle and said, From Aram Balak has brought me, the King of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me and come, defy Israel.


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For from the top of the rocks I see him and from the hills I behold him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone and will not be reckoned among the nations.


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


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


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<pb/>And Balak said to him, I beseech you, come with me to another place, from where you may see them. You will see but the outmost part of them and will not see them all and curse them for me from there.


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


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<pb/>And Jehovah met Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said, Return to Balak and thus will you speak.


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And he came to him. And behold, he was standing by his burnt offering and the rulers of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, What has Jehovah spoken?


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God is not a man, that he should lie, neither the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said and will he not do it? Or has he spoken and will he not make it good?


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


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Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob, neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God worked!


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Behold, the people rise up as a lioness and as a lion he lifts himself up. He will not lie down until he eats of the prey and drinks the blood of the slain.


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


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<pb/>And Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.


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


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<pb/>And when Balaam saw that it pleased Jehovah to bless Israel, he did not go, as at the other times, to meet with omens, but he set his face toward the wilderness.


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And Balaam lifted up his eyes and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes and the Spirit of God came upon him.


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<pb/>And he took up his oracle and said, Balaam the son of Beor says and the man whose eye was closed says,


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he says who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down and having his eyes open,


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As valleys they are spread forth, as gardens by the river-side, as aloes which Jehovah has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.


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Water will flow from his buckets and his seed will be in many waters and his king will be higher than Agag and his kingdom will be exalted.


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<pb/>God brings him forth out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild-ox. He will eat up the nations his adversaries and will break their bones in pieces and kill* <i>them</i> through with his arrows.


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He couched, he lay down as a lion and as a lioness. Who will rouse him up? He who graces you is blessed, And he who curses you is cursed.


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


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Therefore now flee to your place. I thought to promote you to great honor, but behold, Jehovah has kept you back from honor.


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If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of Jehovah, to do either good or bad of my own mind. What Jehovah speaks, that I will speak?


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<pb/>And now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will advise you what this people will do to your people in the latter days.


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he says who hears the words of God and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down and having his eyes open.


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<pb/>I see him, but not now. I behold him, but not near. There will come out a star out of Jacob and a scepter will rise out of Israel and will kill* through the corners of Moab and break down all the sons of tumult.


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And Edom will be a possession, Seir also will be a possession, <i>who were</i> his enemies, while Israel does valiantly.


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<pb/>And out of Jacob will come he who will have dominion and will destroy the remnant from the city.


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And he looked on Amalek and took up his oracle and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his latter end will come to destruction.


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And he looked on the Kenite and took up his oracle and said, Strong is your dwelling-place and your nest is set in the rock.


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But ships <i>will come</i> from the coast of Kittim and they will afflict Asshur and will afflict Eber and he also will come to destruction.


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<pb/>And Israel abode in Shittim. And the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab,


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for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. And the people ate and bowed-down to their gods.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people and hang them up to Jehovah before the sun, that the fierce anger of Jehovah may turn away from Israel.


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And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Kill you* every one his men who have joined themselves to Baal-peor.


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<pb/>And behold, one of the sons of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the tent of meeting.


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<pb/>And when Phinehas, the 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 he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the sons of Israel.


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Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the sons of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the sons of Israel in my jealousy.


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And it will be to him and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the sons of Israel.


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<pb/>Now the name of the man of Israel who was slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a ruler of a fathers' house among the Simeonites.


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And the name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur. He was head of the people of a fathers' house in Midian.


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for they distress you* with their wiles, with which they have beguiled you* in the matter of Peor and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the ruler of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.


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<pb/>And it happened after the plague, that Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,


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Take the sum of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' houses, all who are able to go forth to war in Israel.


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<pb/>And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho


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saying from twenty years old and upward, as Jehovah commanded Moses and the sons of Israel, who came forth out of the land of Egypt.


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<pb/>Reuben, the firstborn of Israel. The sons of Reuben <i>were</i>: <i>of</i> Hanoch, the Hanochite family; of Pallu, the Palluite family;


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These are the Reubenite families. And those who were numbered of them were forty-three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.


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And the sons of Eliab: Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram, who were renown men of the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah when they strove against Jehovah,


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


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<pb/>The sons of Simeon according to their families: of Nemuel, the Nemuelite family; of Jamin, the Jaminite family; of Jachin, the Jachinite family;


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<pb/>The sons of Gad according to their families: of Zephon, the Zephonite family; of Haggi, the Haggite family; of Shuni, the Shunite family;


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These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.


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And the sons of Judah according to their families were: of Shelah, the Shelanite family; of Perez, the Perezite family; of Zerah, the Zerahite family.


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These are the families of Judah according to those who were numbered of them, seventy-six thousand and five hundred.


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<pb/>The sons of Issachar according to their families <i>were</i>: <i>of</i> Tola, the Tolaite family; of Puvah, the Punite family;


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These are the families of Issachar according to those who were numbered of them, sixty-four thousand and three hundred.


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<pb/>The sons of Zebulun according to their families: of Sered, the Seredite family; of Elon, the Elonite family; of Jahleel, the Jahleelite family.


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These are the Zebulunite families according to those who were numbered of them, sixty thousand and five hundred.


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<pb/>The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the Machirite family; and Machir fathered Gilead; of Gilead, the Gileadite family.


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And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah.


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


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<pb/>These are the sons of Ephraim according to their families: of Shuthelah, the Shuthelahite family; of Becher, the Becherite family; of Tahan, the Tahanite family.


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These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were numbered of them, thirty-two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.


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<pb/>The sons of Benjamin according to their families: of Bela, the Belaite family; of Ashbel, the Ashbelite family; of Ahiram, the Ahiramite family;


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And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: <i>of Ard</i>, the Ardite family; of Naaman, the Naamite family.


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These are the sons of Benjamin according to their families and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand and six hundred.


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<pb/>These are the sons of Dan according to their families: of Shuham, the Shuhamite family. These are the families of Dan according to their families.


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All the Shuhamite families, according to those who were numbered of them, were sixty-four thousand and four hundred.


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<pb/>The sons of Asher according to their families: of Imnah, the Imnite family; of Ishvi, the Ishvite family; of Beriah, the Beriite family.


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These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those who were numbered of them, fifty-three thousand and four hundred.


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<pb/>The sons of Naphtali according to their families: of Jahzeel, the Jahzeelite family; of Guni, the Gunite family;


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These are the families of Naphtali according to their families and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand and four hundred.


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<pb/>These are those who were numbered of the sons of Israel, six hundred one thousand seven hundred and thirty.


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


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<pb/>Notwithstanding, the land will be divided by lot. They will inherit according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.


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<pb/>And these are those who were numbered of the Levites according to their families: of Gershon, the Gershonite family; of Kohath, the Kohathite family; of Merari, the Merarite family.


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<pb/>These are the families of Levi: the Libnite family, the Hebronite family, the Mahlite family, the Mushite family, the Korahite family. And Kohath fathered Amram.


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And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. And she bore to Amram, Aaron and Moses and Miriam their sister.


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<pb/>And those who were numbered of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward, for they were not numbered among the sons of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the sons of Israel.


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<pb/>These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.


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<pb/>But among these there was not a man of them who was numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.


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


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<pb/>Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph, drew near. And these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah and Hoglah and Milcah and Tirzah.


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<pb/>And they stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the rulers and all the congregation, at the door of the tent of meeting, saying,


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


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Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father.


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


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<pb/>And you will speak to the sons of Israel, saying, If a man dies and has no son, then you* will cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.


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And if his father has no brothers, then you* will give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family and he will possess it. And it will be to the sons of Israel a statute <i>and</i> ordinance, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, You get up onto this mountain of Abarim and behold the land which I have given to the sons of Israel.


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


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because you* rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes. (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)


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who may go out before them and who may come in before them and who may lead them out and who may bring them in, that the congregation of Jehovah is not as sheep which have no shepherd.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, You take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit and lay your hand upon him,


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


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And he will stand before Eleazar the priest, who will inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Jehovah. At his word will they go out and at his word they will come in, both he and all the sons of Israel with him, even all the congregation.


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<pb/>And Moses did as Jehovah commanded him. And he took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation.


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Command the sons of Israel and say to them, My oblation, my food for my offerings made by fire, of a sweet aroma to me, you* will observe to offer to me in their due season.


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<pb/>And you will say to them, This is the offering made by fire which you* will offer to Jehovah: male-lambs a year old without blemish, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering.


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and the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.


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It is a continual burnt offering, which was made on Mount Sinai for a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to Jehovah.


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And the drink offering of it will be the fourth part of a hin for the one lamb. In the holy place you will pour out a drink offering of strong drink to Jehovah.


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And the other lamb you will offer at evening. As the meal offering of the morning and as the drink offering of it, you will offer it, an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Jehovah.


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<pb/>And on the Sabbath day two male-lambs a year old without blemish and two tenth parts <i>of an ephah</i> of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil and the drink offering of it.


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This is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, besides the continual burnt offering and the drink offering of it.


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<pb/>And in the beginnings of your* months you* will offer a burnt offering to Jehovah: two young bullocks and one ram, seven male-lambs a year old without blemish,


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and three tenth parts <i>of an ephah</i> of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil for each bullock and two tenth parts of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil for the one ram,


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and a tenth part of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering to every lamb, for a burnt offering of a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to Jehovah.


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And their drink offerings will be half a hin of wine for a bullock and the third part of a hin for the ram and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.


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And one male-goat for a sin offering to Jehovah, it will be offered besides the continual burnt offering and the drink offering of it.


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But you* will offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to Jehovah: two young bullocks and one ram and seven male-lambs a year old (they will be to you* without blemish),


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and their meal offering, fine flour mingled with oil. Three tenth parts you* will offer for a bullock and two tenth parts for the ram,


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You* will offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.


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After this manner you* will offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Jehovah. It will be offered besides the continual burnt offering and the drink offering of it.


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<pb/>Also in the day of the first-fruits, when you* offer a new meal offering to Jehovah in your* <i>feast of</i> weeks, you* will have a holy convocation. You* will do no job work.


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But you* will offer a burnt offering for a sweet aroma to Jehovah: two young bullocks, one ram, seven male-lambs a year old,


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and their meal offering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for each bullock, two tenth parts for the one ram,


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Besides the continual burnt offering and the meal offering of it, you* will offer them (they will be to you* without blemish) and their drink offerings.


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<pb/>And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you* will have a holy convocation. You* will do no job work. It is a day of alarming-joy to you*.


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And you* will offer a burnt offering for a sweet aroma to Jehovah: one young bullock, one ram, seven male-lambs a year old without blemish,


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and their meal offering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for the bullock, two tenth parts for the ram,


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besides the burnt offering of the new moon and the meal offering of it and the continual burnt offering and the meal offering of it and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to Jehovah.


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<pb/>And on the tenth day of this seventh month you* will have a holy convocation and you* will afflict your* souls. You* will do no manner of work.


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But you* will offer a burnt offering to Jehovah for a sweet aroma: one young bullock, one ram, seven male-lambs a year old (they will be to you* without blemish),


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and their meal offering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for the bullock, two tenth parts for the one ram,


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one male-goat for a sin offering, besides the sin offering of atonement and the continual burnt offering and the meal offering of it and their drink offerings.


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<pb/>And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month you* will have a holy convocation. You* will do no job work and you* will keep a feast to Jehovah seven days.


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And you* will offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Jehovah: thirteen young bullocks, two rams, fourteen male-lambs a year old (they will be without blemish),


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and their meal offering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth parts for each ram of the two rams,


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and one male-goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering of it and the drink offering of it.


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<pb/>And on the second day, twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen male-lambs a year old without blemish,


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and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance,


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and one male-goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and the meal offering of it and their drink offerings.


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<pb/>And on the third day, eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen male-lambs a year old without blemish,


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and one male-goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and the meal offering of it and the drink offering of it.


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their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance,


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<pb/>And on the sixth day, eight bullocks, two rams, fourteen male-lambs a year old without blemish,


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and one male-goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering of it and the drink offerings of it.


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<pb/>And on the seventh day, seven bullocks, two rams, fourteen male-lambs a year old without blemish,


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But you* will offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Jehovah: one bullock, one ram, seven male-lambs a year old without blemish,


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their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the ram and for the lambs, will be according to their number, after the ordinance,


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<pb/>These you* will offer to Jehovah in your* set feasts, besides your* vows and your* free-will offerings, for your* burnt offerings and for your* meal offerings and for your* drink offerings and for your* peace offerings.


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<pb/>And Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the sons of Israel, saying, This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded.


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When a man vows a vow to Jehovah, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he will not break his word. He will do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.


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<pb/>Also when a woman vows a vow to Jehovah and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth,


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and her father hears her vow and her bond with which she has bound her soul and her father remains silent at her, then all her vows will stand and every bond with which she has bound her soul will stand.


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But if her father disallows her in the day that he hears, none of her vows, or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul, will stand. And Jehovah will forgive her, because her father disallowed her.


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<pb/>And if she is <i>married</i> to a husband, while her vows are upon her, or the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul,


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and her husband hears it and remains silent at her in the day that he hears it, then her vows will stand and her bonds with which she has bound her soul will stand.


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But if her husband disallows her in the day that he hears it, then he will make void her vow which is upon her and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul. And Jehovah will forgive her.


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But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, <i>even</i> everything with which she has bound her soul will stand against her.


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and her husband heard it and remained silent at her and did not disallow her, then all her vows will stand and every bond with which she bound her soul will stand.


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But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, will not stand. Her husband has made them void and Jehovah will forgive her.


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<pb/>Every vow and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.


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But if her husband altogether remains silent at her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon her. He has established them, because he remained silent at her in the day that he heard them.


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<pb/>These are the statutes, which Jehovah commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth in her father's house.


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And Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm men from among you* for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Jehovah's vengeance on Midian.


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<pb/>So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.


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And Moses sent them, a thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.


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And they killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.


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And the sons of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones. And all their cattle and all their flocks and all their goods, they took for a prey.


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And all their cities in the places in which they dwelt and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.


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And they brought the captives and the prey and the spoil, to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the congregation of the sons of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.


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<pb/>And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the rulers of the congregation, went forth to meet them outside the camp.


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And Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.


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Behold, these caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Jehovah in the matter of Peor and so the plague was among the congregation of Jehovah.


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


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<pb/>And encamp you* outside the camp seven days. Whoever has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you* and your* captives.


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And as to every garment and all that is made of skin and all work of goats' <i>hair</i> and all things made of wood, you* will purify yourselves.


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<pb/>And Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, This is the statute of the law which Jehovah has commanded Moses:


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everything which may go into fire — you* will make to go through the fire and it will be clean. Nevertheless it will be purified with the water for impurity. And all that may not go into fire you* will make to go through the water.


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


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


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and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in war who went out to battle and all the congregation.


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<pb/>And levy a tribute to Jehovah of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, <i>both</i> of the persons and of the oxen and of the donkeys and of the flocks.


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And of the sons of Israel's half, you will take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the oxen, of the donkeys and of the flocks, <i>even</i> of all the cattle and give them to the Levites, who keep the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah.


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<pb/>Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,


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And the half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand and five hundred sheep.


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


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even of the sons of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of beast and gave them to the Levites, who kept the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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<pb/>And the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses.


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


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And we have brought Jehovah's oblation, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet-rings, earrings and armlets, to make atonement for our souls before Jehovah.


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And all the gold of the heave offering that they offered up to Jehovah, of the captains of thousands and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.


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And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds and brought it into the tent of meeting, for a memorial for the sons of Israel before Jehovah.


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<pb/>Now the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle. And when they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle,


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the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came and spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the rulers of the congregation, saying,


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the land which Jehovah killed* 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. Bring us not over the Jordan.


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<pb/>And Moses said to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, Shall your* brothers go to the war and will you* sit here?


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And why do you* discourage the heart of the sons of Israel from going over into the land which Jehovah has given them?


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For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the sons of Israel, that they should not go into the land which Jehovah had given them.


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Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, will see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob; because they have not entirely followed me,


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except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, because they have entirely followed Jehovah.


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


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<pb/>And behold, you* have risen up in your* fathers' stead, an brood of sinful men, to consume yet the fierce anger of Jehovah toward Israel.


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For if you* turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness and you* will destroy all this people.


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<pb/>And they came near to him and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle and cities for our little ones,


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but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the sons of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. And our little ones will dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.


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For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and forward, because our inheritance has fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.


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<pb/>And Moses said to them, If you* will do this thing, if you* will arm yourselves to go before Jehovah to the war,


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and every armed man of you* will pass over the Jordan before Jehovah, until he has driven out his enemies from before him,


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and the land is subdued before Jehovah, then afterward you* will return and be guiltless towards Jehovah and towards Israel and this land will be to you* for a possession before Jehovah.


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But if you* will not do so, behold, you* have sinned against Jehovah and be sure your* sin will find you* out.


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Build for you* cities for your* little ones and folds for your* sheep and do what has proceeded out of your* mouth.


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<pb/>And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, Your servants will do as my lord commands.


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but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before Jehovah to battle, as my lord says.


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<pb/>So Moses gave charge concerning them to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel.


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And Moses said to them, If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben will pass with you* over the Jordan, every man that is armed to battle, before Jehovah and the land will be subdued before you*, then you* will give them the land of Gilead for a possession,


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but if they will not pass over with you* armed, they will have possessions among you* in the land of Canaan.


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<pb/>And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answered, saying, As Jehovah has said to your servants, so we will do.


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We will pass over armed before Jehovah into the land of Canaan and the possession of our inheritance <i>is</i> with us beyond the Jordan.


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<pb/>And Moses gave to them, even to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon King of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og King of Bashan, the land, according to the cities of it with <i>their</i> borders, even the cities of the land all around.


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and Nebo and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Sibmah. And they gave other names to the cities which they built.


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<pb/>And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it and dispossessed the Amorites that were in it.


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<pb/>These are the journeys of the sons of Israel when they went forth out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.


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And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of Jehovah. And these are their journeys according to their goings out.


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<pb/>And they journeyed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the morrow after the Passover the sons of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians,


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while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn whom Jehovah had struck among them; upon their gods also Jehovah executed judgments.


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<pb/>And they journeyed from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which is before Baal-zephon and they encamped before Migdol.


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<pb/>And they journeyed from before Hahiroth and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness. And they went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham and encamped in Marah.


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<pb/>And they journeyed from Marah and came to Elim. And in Elim were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees and they encamped there.


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<pb/>And they journeyed from Alush and encamped in Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.


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<pb/>And they journeyed from Bene-jaakan and encamped in Hor-haggidgad  <n>{The Hole in the Cleft}</n>.


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<pb/>(And Aaron the priest went up onto Mount Hor at the commandment of Jehovah and died there, in the fortieth year after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.


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And the Canaanite, the King of Arad, who dwelt in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the sons of Israel.)


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<pb/>And they journeyed from Oboth and encamped in Iye-abarim  <n>{Ruins of Abarim}</n>, in the border of Moab.


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<pb/>And they journeyed from the mountains of Abarim and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.


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Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you* pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,


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then you* will drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you* and destroy all their figured <i>stones</i> and destroy all their molten images and demolish all their high places.


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<pb/>And you* will take possession of the land and dwell in it, for to you* I have given the land to possess it.


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And you* will inherit the land by lot according to your* families. To the more you* will give more inheritance and to the few you will give less inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to any man, that will be his. You* will inherit according to the tribes of your* fathers.


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<pb/>But if you* will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you*, then those that you* let remain of them will be as pricks in your* eyes and as thorns in your* sides and they will distress you* in the land in which you* dwell.


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Command the sons of Israel and say to them, When you* come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that will fall to you* for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to the borders of it),


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then your* south quarter will be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom. And your* south border will be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward.


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And your* border will turn about southward of the ascent of Akrabbim and pass along to Zin. And the goings out of it will be southward of Kadesh-barnea. And it will go forth to Hazar-addar and pass along to Azmon.


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And the border will turn about from Azmon to the brook of Egypt and the goings out of it will be at the sea.


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<pb/>And for the western border, you* will have the great sea and the border <i>of it</i>. This will be your* west border.


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From Mount Hor you* will mark out to the entrance of Hamath. And the goings out of the border will be at Zedad.


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And the border will go forth to Ziphron and the goings out of it will be at Hazar-enan. This will be your* north border.


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And the border will go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain. And the border will go down and will reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward.


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And the border will go down to the Jordan and the goings out of it will be at the Salt Sea. This will be your* land according to the borders of it all around.


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<pb/>And Moses commanded the sons of Israel, saying, This is the land which you* will inherit by lot, which Jehovah has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe.


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For the tribe of the sons of Reuben according to their fathers' houses and the tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers' houses, have received and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received, their inheritance.


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The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.


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These are the names of the men who will divide the land to you* for inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun.


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These are those whom Jehovah commanded to divide the inheritance to the sons of Israel in the land of Canaan.


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Command the sons of Israel, that they give from the inheritance of their possession to the Levites cities to dwell in. And you* will give suburbs for the cities all around them to the Levites.


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And they will have the cities to dwell in and their suburbs will be for their cattle and for their substance and for all their beasts.


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And the suburbs of the cities, which you* will give to the Levites, will be from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits all around.


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And you* will measure outside the city for the east side two thousand cubits and for the south side two thousand cubits and for the west side two thousand cubits and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This will be to them the suburbs of the cities.


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<pb/>And of the cities which you* will give to the Levites, there will be the six cities of refuge, which you* will give for the manslayer to flee to. And besides them you* will give forty-two cities.


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All the cities which you* will give to the Levites will be forty-eight cities, them with their suburbs.


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And concerning the cities which you* will give of the possession of the sons of Israel, from the many you* will take many and from the few you* will take few. Everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits will give of his cities to the Levites.


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then you* will appoint cities to be cities of refuge for you*, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.


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And the cities will be to you* for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.


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You* will give three cities beyond the Jordan and three cities you* will give in the land of Canaan. They will be cities of refuge.


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For the sons of Israel and for the stranger and for the traveler among them, these six cities will be for refuge, that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.


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<pb/>But if he killed* him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer will surely be put to death.


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And if he killed* him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer will surely be put to death.


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Or if he killed* him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer will surely be put to death.


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<pb/>The avenger of blood will himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he will put him to death.


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or in enmity killed* him with his hand, so that he died, he who killed* him will surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood will put the murderer to death, when he meets him.


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<pb/>But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him anything without lying in wait,


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or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him and cast it upon him, so that he died and he was not his enemy, nor sought his harm,


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then the congregation will judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.


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<pb/>And the congregation will deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood and the congregation will restore him to his city of refuge where he fled. And he will dwell in it until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.


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<pb/>But if the manslayer will at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge where he flees,


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and the avenger of blood find him outside the border of his city of refuge and the avenger of blood kills the manslayer, he will not be guilty of blood,


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because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest the manslayer will return into the land of his possession.


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<pb/>And these things will be for a statute <i>and</i> ordinance to you* throughout your* genealogy in all your* dwellings.


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<pb/>Whoever kills any person, the murderer will be slain at the mouth of witnesses, but one witness will not testify against any person so that he dies.


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Moreover you* will take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he will surely be put to death.


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And you* will take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.


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<pb/>So you* will not pollute the land in which you* are, for blood, it pollutes the land. And no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.


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And you will not defile the land which you* inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell, for I, Jehovah, dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel.


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<pb/>And the heads of the fathers of the family of the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the rulers, the heads of the fathers of the sons of Israel.


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And they said, Jehovah commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the sons of Israel. And my lord was commanded by Jehovah to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.


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<pb/>And if they are married to any of the sons of the <i>other</i> tribes of the sons of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they will belong. So it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.


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And when the jubilee of the sons of Israel will be, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they will belong. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.


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<pb/>And Moses commanded the sons of Israel according to the word of Jehovah, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph speak right.


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This is the thing which Jehovah commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them be married to whom they think best, only they will be married into the family of the tribe of their father.


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So no inheritance of the sons of Israel will remove from tribe to tribe, for the sons of Israel will cling each one 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 sons of Israel, will be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the sons of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers.


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So no inheritance will move from one tribe to another tribe, for the tribes of the sons of Israel will cling each one to his own inheritance.


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for Mahlah, Tirzah and Hoglah and Milcah and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father's brothers' sons.


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They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.


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<pb/>These are the commandments and the ordinances which Jehovah commanded by Moses to the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.


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<pb/>These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Di-zahab.


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<pb/>And it happened in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, according to all that Jehovah had given him in commandment to them,


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after he had struck Sihon the King of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon and Og the King of Bashan, who dwelt in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.


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Turn and take your* journey and go to the hill-country of the Amorites and to all <i>the places</i> near to it, in the Arabah, in the hill-country and in the lowland and in the South and by the sea-shore, the land of the Canaanites and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.


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<pb/>Behold, I have set the land before you*. Go in and possess the land which Jehovah swore to your* fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.


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Jehovah your* God has multiplied you*, and behold, you* are this day as the stars of heaven for a multitude.


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Jehovah, 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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Take for you* wise men and understanding and known, 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 men and known and made them heads over you*, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds and captains of fifties and captains of tens and officers, according to your* tribes.


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<pb/>And I charged your* judges at that time, saying, Hear between your* brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother and the traveler who is with him.


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You* will not respect persons in judgment. You* will hear the small and the great alike. You* will not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you* you* will bring to me and I will hear it.


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<pb/>And we journeyed from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you* saw, by the way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as Jehovah 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 Jehovah our God gives to us.


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Behold, Jehovah your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as Jehovah, the God of your fathers, has spoken to you. Do not fear, neither be dismayed.


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<pb/>And you* came near to me, all of you* and said, Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up and the cities to which we will come.


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<pb/>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 Jehovah our God gives to us.


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And you* murmured in your* tents and said, Because Jehovah hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.


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Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.


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Jehovah your* God who goes before you*, he will fight for you*, according to all that he did for you* in Egypt before your* eyes,


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and in the wilderness, where you have seen how that Jehovah your God bore you, as a man bears his son, in all the way that you* went, until you* came to this place.


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who went before you* in the way, to seek out a place for you* to pitch your* tents in, in fire by night, to show you* by what way you* should go and in the cloud by day.


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Surely there will not one of these men of this evil generation see the good land, which I swore to give to your* fathers,


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except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He will see it and I will give to him the land that he has trodden upon and to his sons, because he has entirely followed Jehovah.


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Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he will go in there. Encourage him, for he will cause Israel to inherit it.


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Moreover your* little ones, who you* said would be a prey and your* sons, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they will go in there and I will give it to them and they will possess it.


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<pb/>Then you* answered and said to me, We have sinned against Jehovah, we will go up and fight according to all that Jehovah our God commanded us. And you* girded on every man his weapons of war and were forward to go up into the hill-country.


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And Jehovah said to me, Say to them, Do not go up, neither fight, for I am not among you*, lest you* are struck before your* enemies.


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<pb/>So I spoke to you* and you* did not listen, but you* rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah and were presumptuous and went up into the hill-country.


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And the Amorites, who dwelt in that hill-country, came out against you* and chased you*, as bees do and beat you* down in Seir, even to Hormah.


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And you* returned and wept before Jehovah, but Jehovah did not listen to your* voice, nor gave ear to you*.


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<pb/>Then we turned and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Jehovah spoke to me. And we encompassed Mount Seir many days.


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And command you the people, saying, You* are to pass through the border of your* brothers the sons of Esau, who dwell in Seir and they will be afraid of you*. You* take good heed to yourselves therefore.


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<pb/>Do not contend with them, for I will not give you* of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.


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You* will purchase food from them for money, that you* may eat and you* will also buy water from them for money, that you* may drink.


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For Jehovah your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He has known your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years Jehovah your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.


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<pb/>So we passed by from our brothers the sons of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion-geber. And we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.


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And Jehovah said to me, Do not harass Moab, neither contend with them in battle, for I will not give <i>to</i> you of his land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the sons of Lot for a possession.


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The Horites also dwelt in Seir formerly, but the sons of Esau succeeded them. And they destroyed them from before them and dwelt in their stead, as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Jehovah gave to them.)


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And the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we came over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah swore to them.


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Moreover the hand of Jehovah was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.


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And when you come near opposite the sons of Ammon, do not harass them, nor contend with them, for I will not give you of the land of the sons of Ammon for a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot for a possession.


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<pb/>(That also is accounted a land of Rephaim. Rephaim dwelt in it formerly, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,


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a people great and many and tall, as the Anakim. But Jehovah destroyed them before them and they succeeded them and dwelt 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 succeeded them and dwelt in their stead even to this day.


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And the Avvim, who dwelt in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them and dwelt in their stead.)


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<pb/>Rise you* 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 I will begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you upon the peoples who are under the whole heaven, who will hear the report of you and will tremble and be in anguish because of you.


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<pb/>And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon King of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,


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Let me pass through your land. I will go along by the highway, I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left.


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You will sell me food for money, that I may eat and give me water for money, that I may drink. Only let me pass through on my feet,


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as the sons of Esau who dwell in Seir and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me, until I will pass over the Jordan into the land which Jehovah our God gives us.


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<pb/>But Sihon King of Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for Jehovah your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as at this day.


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And Jehovah said to me, Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before you. Begin to possess, that you may inherit his land.


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And we took all his cities at that time and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining.


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<pb/>We only took the cattle for a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken.


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From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon and <i>from</i> the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. Jehovah our God delivered up all before us.


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<pb/>Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not come near, all the side of the river Jabbok and the cities of the hill-country and wherever Jehovah our God forbad us.


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<pb/>Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan. And Og the King of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.


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And Jehovah said to me, Fear him not, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land, into your hand. And you will do to him as you did to Sihon King of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.


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<pb/>So Jehovah our God delivered into our hand Og also, the King of Bashan and all his people and we killed* him until none was left to him remaining.


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And we took all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we did not take from them, sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.


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All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates and bars; besides the un-walled towns a great many.


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And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon King of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.


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all the cities of the plain and all Gilead and all Bashan, to 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 Rephaim. Behold, his couch was a couch of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon? Nine cubits was the length of it and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.)


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<pb/>And we took this land in possession at that time. From Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon and half the hill-country of Gilead and the cities of it, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites.


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<pb/>And the rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh, all the region of Argob, even all Bashan. The same is called the land of Rephaim.


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(Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth-jair, to this day.)


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<pb/>And I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley and the border <i>of it</i>, even to the brook of Jabbok, which is the border of the sons of Ammon,


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also the Arabah and the Jordan and the border <i>of it</i>, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.


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<pb/>And I commanded you* at that time, saying, Jehovah your* God has given you* this land to possess it. You* will pass over armed before your* brothers the sons of Israel, all the men of valor.


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But your* wives and your* little ones and your* cattle, (I know that you* have much cattle,) will abide in your* cities which I have given you*


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until Jehovah gives rest to your* brothers, as to you* and they also possess the land which Jehovah your* God gives them beyond the Jordan, then you* will return every man to his possession, which I have given you*.


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<pb/>And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen all that Jehovah your* God has done to these two kings. So will Jehovah do to all the kingdoms where you go over.


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O lord Jehovah, you have begun to show your servant your greatness and your strong hand, for what god is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to your works and according to your mighty acts?


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Let me go over, I beseech you and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that pleasant mountain and Lebanon.


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<pb/>But Jehovah was angry with me because of you* and did not listen to me. And Jehovah said to me, It will be enough for you. Speak no more to me of this matter.


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You get up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward and behold with your eyes, for you will not go over this Jordan.


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<pb/>But charge Joshua and encourage him and strengthen him, for he will go over before this people and he will cause them to inherit the land which you will see.


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<pb/>And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you*, to do them, that you* may live and go in and possess the land which Jehovah, the God of your* fathers, gives you*.


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You* will not add to the word which I command you*, neither will you* diminish from it, that you* may keep the commandments of Jehovah your* God which I command you*.


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<pb/>Your* eyes have seen what Jehovah did because of Baal-peor. For all the men who followed Baal-peor, Jehovah your God has destroyed them from the midst of you.


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<pb/>Behold, I have taught you* statutes and ordinances, even as Jehovah my God commanded me, that you* should do so in the midst of the land where you* go in to possess it.


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Keep therefore and do them, for this is your* wisdom and your* understanding in the sight of the peoples, who will hear all these statutes and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.


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For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them, as Jehovah our God is whenever we call upon him?


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And what great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you* this day?


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<pb/>Only take heed to yourself and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life, but make them known to your sons and your son's sons–


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the day that you stood before Jehovah your God in Horeb, when Jehovah said to me, Assemble the people to me and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live upon the earth and that they may teach their sons.


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And you* came near and stood under the mountain and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, with darkness, cloud and thick darkness.


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<pb/>And Jehovah spoke to you* out of the midst of the fire. You* heard the voice of words, but you* saw no form, only a voice.


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And he declared to you* his covenant, which he commanded you* to perform, even the ten commandments. And he wrote them upon two tablets of stone.


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And Jehovah commanded me at that time to teach you* statutes and ordinances, that you* might do them in the land where you* go over to possess it.


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<pb/>You* take therefore good heed to yourselves, for you* saw no manner of form on the day that Jehovah spoke to you* in Horeb out of the midst of the fire.


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Lest you* corrupt yourselves and make for you* a graven image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,


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the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,


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the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth.


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<pb/>And lest you lift up your eyes to heaven and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, you are drawn away and worship them and serve them, which Jehovah your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.


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But Jehovah has taken you* and brought you* forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.


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<pb/>Furthermore Jehovah was angry with me because of you* and swore that I would not go over the Jordan and that I would not go in to that good land, which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance,


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but I must die in this land. I must not go over the Jordan, but you* will go over and possess that good land.


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<pb/>Take heed to yourselves, lest you* forget the covenant of Jehovah your* God, which he made with you* and make you* a graven image in the form of anything which Jehovah your God has forbidden you.


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<pb/>When you will beget sons and son's sons and you* will have been long in the land and will corrupt yourselves and make a graven image in the form of anything and will do what is evil in the sight of Jehovah your God, to provoke him to anger,


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I call heaven and earth to witness against you* this day, that you* will soon utterly perish from the land to which you* go over the Jordan to possess it. You* will not prolong your* days upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.


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<pb/>And Jehovah will scatter you* among the peoples and you* will be left few in number among the nations where Jehovah will lead you* away.


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And there you* will serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.


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<pb/>But from there you* will seek Jehovah your God. And you will find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.


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When you are in tribulation and all these things have come upon you, in the latter days you will return to Jehovah your God and listen to his voice.


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For Jehovah your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.


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<pb/>For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth and from the one end of heaven to the other, whether there has been <i>anything</i> as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?


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Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard and live?


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Or has God ever tried to go and take for him a nation from the midst of <i>another</i> nation, by trials, by signs and by wonders and by war and by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm and by great terrors, according to all that Jehovah your* God did for you* in Egypt before your* eyes?


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<pb/>It was shown to you, that you might know that Jehovah, he is God. There is none else besides him.


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Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. And upon earth he made you to see his great fire and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.


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<pb/>And because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt,


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to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as at this day.


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<pb/>Know therefore this day and lay it to your heart, that Jehovah he is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath. There is none else.


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And you will keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you and with your sons after you and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Jehovah your God gives you, forever.


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that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares and did not hate him in time past and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:


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<i>namely</i>, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, 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 statutes and the ordinances, which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, when they came forth 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 sons of Israel killed* when they came forth out of Egypt.


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And they took his land in possession and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise,


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and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.


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<pb/>And Moses called to all Israel and said to them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your* ears this day, that you* may learn them and observe to do them.


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Jehovah did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.


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(I stood between Jehovah and you* at that time, to show you* the word of Jehovah, for you* were afraid because of the fire and did not go up onto the mountain), saying,


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<pb/>You will not make to you a graven image: any likeness that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.


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You will not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them, for I, Jehovah your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons and upon the third and upon the fourth generation of those who hate me,


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<pb/>You will not take the name of Jehovah your God in vain, for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.


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but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Jehovah your God: you will not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maid-servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates, that your manservant and your maid-servant may rest as well as you.


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And you will remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt and Jehovah your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm, therefore Jehovah your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.


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<pb/>Honor your father and your mother, as Jehovah your God commanded you, that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land which Jehovah your God gives you.


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<pb/>Neither will you covet your neighbor's wife. Neither will you desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.


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<pb/>These words Jehovah spoke to all your* assembly on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud and of the thick darkness, with a great voice and he added no more. And he wrote them upon two tablets of stone and gave them to me.


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<pb/>And it happened, when you* heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you* came near to me, even all the heads of your* tribes and your* elders.


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And you* said, Behold, Jehovah our God has shown us his glory and his greatness and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire. We have seen this day that God speaks with man and he lives.


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<pb/>Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of Jehovah our God any more, then we will 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 the fire, as we have and lived?


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Go near and hear all that Jehovah our God will say. And speak to us all that Jehovah our God will speak to you and we will hear it and do it.


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<pb/>And Jehovah heard the voice of your* words, when you* spoke to me. And Jehovah said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They have well said all that they have spoken.


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Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their sons everlasting!


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But as for you, stand here by me and I will speak to you all the commandment and the statutes and the ordinances, which you will teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.


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<pb/>You* will observe to do therefore as Jehovah your* God has commanded you*. You* will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.


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You* will walk in all the way which Jehovah your* God has commanded you*, that you* may live and that it may be well with you* and that you* may prolong your* days in the land which you* will possess.


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<pb/>Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the ordinances, which Jehovah your* God commanded to teach you*, that you* might do them in the land where you* go over to possess it,


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that you might fear Jehovah your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life and that your days may be prolonged.


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<pb/>Hear therefore, O Israel and observe to do it, that it may be well with you and that you* may increase mightily, as Jehovah, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.


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And you will love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.


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And you will teach them diligently to your sons and will talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.


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<pb/>And it will be, when Jehovah your God will bring you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, to give you, great and pleasant 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, vineyards and olive trees, which you did not plant and you will eat and be full,


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then beware lest you forget Jehovah, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.


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for Jehovah your God in the midst of you is a jealous God, lest the anger of Jehovah your God be kindled against you and he destroy you from the face of the earth.


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<pb/>You* will diligently keep the commandments of Jehovah your* God and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you.


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And you will do what is right and good in the sight of Jehovah, that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which Jehovah swore to your fathers,


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<pb/>When your son asks you in time to come, saying, What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances, which Jehovah our God has commanded you*?


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Then you will say to your son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.


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And Jehovah showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh and upon all his house, before our eyes.


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And he brought us out from there that he might bring us in to give us the land which he swore to our fathers.


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<pb/>And Jehovah commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Jehovah our God for our good always, that he might preserve us alive as at this day.


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And it will be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment before Jehovah our God as he has commanded us.


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<pb/>When Jehovah your God will bring you into the land where you go to possess it and will cast out many nations before you, the Hittite and the Girgashite and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you,


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and when Jehovah your God will deliver them up before you and you will kill* them, then you will utterly destroy them. You will make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.


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Neither will you make marriages with them. Your daughter you will not give to his son, nor his daughter will you take to your son.


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For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods, so the anger of Jehovah will be kindled against you* and he will destroy you quickly.


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<pb/>But thus will you* deal with them: You* will break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and hew down their Asherim  <n>{pole-images}</n>  and burn their graven images with fire.


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<pb/>For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Jehovah your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.


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Jehovah did not set his love upon you*, nor choose you*, because you* were more in number than any people, for you* were the fewest of all peoples,


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but because Jehovah loves you*. And because he would keep the oath which he swore to your* fathers, Jehovah 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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<pb/>Know therefore that Jehovah your God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,


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and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates him. He will repay him to his face.


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You will therefore keep the commandment and the statutes and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.


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<pb/>And it will happen, because you* listen to these ordinances and keep and do them, that Jehovah your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers.


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And he will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and 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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<pb/>You will be blessed above all peoples. There will not be male or female barren among you*, or among your* cattle.


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And Jehovah will take away from you all sickness. And none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, will he put upon you, but will lay them upon all those who hate you.


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And you will consume all the peoples that Jehovah your God will deliver to you. Your eye will not pity them. Neither will you serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.


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You will not be afraid of them. You will remember well what Jehovah your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:


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the great trials which your eyes saw and the signs and the wonders and the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which Jehovah your God brought you out. So will Jehovah your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.


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<pb/>Moreover Jehovah your God will send the hornet among them until those who are left and hide themselves perish from before you.


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You will not be frightened at them, for Jehovah your God is in the midst of you, a great God and awesome.


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<pb/>And Jehovah your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon you.


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But Jehovah your God will deliver them up before you and will confuse them with a great confusion until they are destroyed.


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And he will deliver their kings into your hand and you will make their name to perish from under heaven. There will no man be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.


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<pb/>You* will burn the graven images of their gods with fire. You will not desire the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it to you, lest you are snared by it, for it is an abomination to Jehovah your God.


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And you will not bring an abomination into your house and become a devoted thing like it. You will make it an abomination and you will utterly abhor it, for it is a cursed thing.


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<pb/>All the commandment which I command you this day you* will observe to do, that you* may live and multiply and go in and possess the land which Jehovah swore to your* fathers.


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And you will remember all the way which Jehovah your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.


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And he humbled you and allowed you to hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, neither did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Jehovah.


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And you will consider in your heart, that, as a man disciplines his son, so Jehovah your God disciplines you.


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<pb/>For Jehovah your God brings 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 will eat bread without scarceness. You will not lack anything in it, a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you may dig copper.


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And you will eat and be full and you will praise Jehovah your God for the good land which he has given you.


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<pb/>Beware lest you forget Jehovah your God, in not keeping his commandments and his ordinances and his statutes, which I command you this day.


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and when your herds and your flocks multiply and your silver and your gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied,


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then your heart be lifted up and you forget Jehovah your God, who brought you forth 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 — fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where was no water — who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint,


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who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end.


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<pb/>And <i>lest</i> you say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.


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But you will remember Jehovah 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 at this day.


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<pb/>And it will be, if you will forget Jehovah your God and walk after other gods and serve them and worship them, I testify against you* this day that you* will surely perish.


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As the nations that Jehovah makes to perish before you*, so will you* perish, because you* would not listen to the voice of Jehovah your* God.


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<pb/>Hear, O Israel: You are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,


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a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know and of whom you have heard say, Who can stand before the sons of Anak?


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<pb/>Know therefore this day, that Jehovah your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them and he will bring them down before you. So you will drive them out and make them to perish quickly, as Jehovah has spoken to you.


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<pb/>Do not speak in your heart, after Jehovah your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, For my righteousness Jehovah has brought me in to possess this land. But because of the wickedness of these nations Jehovah drives them out from before you.


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<pb/>Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land, but for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah your God drives them out from before you and that he may establish the word which Jehovah swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob.


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<pb/>Know therefore, that Jehovah your God does not give you this good land to possess it for your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.


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<pb/>Remember, do not you forget how you provoked Jehovah your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you went forth out of the land of Egypt, until you* came to this place, you* have been rebellious against Jehovah.


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When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, even the tablets of the covenant which Jehovah made with you*, then I abode on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.


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And Jehovah delivered to me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God. And on them <i>was</i> according to all the words, which Jehovah spoke with you* in the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.


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<pb/>And it happened, at the end of forty days and forty nights, that Jehovah gave me the two tablets of stone, even the tablets of the covenant.


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And Jehovah said to me, Arise, get down quickly from here, for your people that you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them. They have made them a molten image.


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<pb/>Furthermore Jehovah spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stubborn people.


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Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.


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<pb/>So I turned and came down from the mountain and the mountain was burning with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.


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And I looked, and behold, you* had sinned against Jehovah your* God. You* had made you* a molten calf. You* had turned aside quickly out of the way which Jehovah had commanded you*.


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And I took hold of the two tablets and cast them out of my two hands and broke them before your* eyes.


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<pb/>And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your* sin which you* sinned, in doing what was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.


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For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which Jehovah was angry against you* to destroy you*. But Jehovah listened to me that time also.


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<pb/>And Jehovah was very angry with Aaron to destroy 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 burnt it with fire and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. And I cast the dust of it into the brook that descended out of the mountain.


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And when Jehovah sent you* from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you*, then you* rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your* God and you* did not believe him, nor listen to his voice.


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<pb/>So I fell down before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Jehovah had said he would destroy you*.


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And I prayed to Jehovah and said, O lord Jehovah, destroy not your people and your inheritance, that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.


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<pb/>Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Do not look to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their profaneness, nor to their sin,


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lest the land from where you brought us out say, Because Jehovah was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.


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Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.


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<pb/>At that time Jehovah said to me, Hew you two tablets of stone like the first and come up to me onto the mountain and make you an ark of wood.


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And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke and you will put them in the ark.


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So I made an ark of acacia wood and hewed two tablets of stone like the first and went up onto the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand.


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And he wrote on the tablets according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Jehovah spoke to you* in the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly and Jehovah gave them to me.


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And I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the ark which I had made. And they are there as Jehovah commanded me.


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<pb/>(And the sons of Israel journeyed from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died and there he was buried and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office instead of him.


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At that time Jehovah set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, to stand before Jehovah to minister to him and to bless in his name, to this day.


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Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers. Jehovah is his inheritance, just-as Jehovah your God spoke to him.)


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<pb/>And I stayed on the mountain as at the first time, forty days and forty nights and Jehovah listened to me that time also: Jehovah would not destroy you.


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And Jehovah said to me, Arise, take your journey before the people and they will go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give to them.


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<pb/>And now, Israel, what does Jehovah your God require of you, but to fear Jehovah your God, to walk in all his ways and to love him and to serve Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul,


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<pb/>Behold, to Jehovah your God belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is in it.


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Only Jehovah had a delight in your fathers to love them and he chose their seed after them, even you* above all peoples as at this day.


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<pb/>For Jehovah your* God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty and the awesome, who regards not persons, nor takes reward.


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<pb/>He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the traveler in giving him food and garments.


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<pb/>You will fear Jehovah your God. Him you will serve and to him you will cling and by his name you will swear.


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He is your praise and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things, which your eyes have seen.


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<pb/>Your fathers went down into Egypt, in souls, seventy. And now Jehovah your God has made you as the stars of heaven for multitude.


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<pb/>Therefore you will love Jehovah your God and keep his charge and his statutes and his ordinances and his commandments, always.


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<pb/>And you* know this day, for <i>it is</i> not with your* sons who have not known and who have not seen the chastisement of Jehovah your* God, his greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm,


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and his signs and his works, which he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the King of Egypt and to all his land,


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and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots, how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you* and how Jehovah has destroyed them to this day,


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and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up and their households and their tents and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel,


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<pb/>Therefore you* will keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that you* may be strong and go in and possess the land, where you* go over to possess it,


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and that you* may prolong your* days in the land, which Jehovah swore to your* fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.


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<pb/>For the land, where you go in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from where you* came out, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs,


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but the land, where you* go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, <i>and</i> drinks water from the rain of heaven,


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a land which Jehovah your God cares for. The eyes of Jehovah your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.


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<pb/>And it will happen, if you* will listen diligently to my commandments which I command you* this day, to love Jehovah your* God and to serve him with all your* heart and with all your* soul,


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that I will give the rain of your* land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your oil.


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<pb/>Take heed to yourselves, lest your* heart be deceived and you* turn aside and serve other gods and worship them,


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and the anger of Jehovah 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 from the good land which Jehovah gives you*.


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<pb/>Therefore you* will lay up these my words in your* heart and in your* soul. And you* will bind them for a sign upon your* hand and they will be for bands between your* eyes.


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And you* will teach them to your* sons, talking 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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that your* days may be multiplied and the days of your* sons, in the land which Jehovah swore to your* fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.


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<pb/>For if you* will diligently keep all this commandment which I command you*, to do it, to love Jehovah your* God, to walk in all his ways and to cling to him,


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then will Jehovah drive out all these nations from before you* and you* will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.


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Every place on which the sole of your* foot will tread will be yours*, from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the hinder sea will be your* border.


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There will no man be able to stand before you*. Jehovah your* God will lay the fear of you* and the dread of you* upon all the land that you* will tread upon, as he has spoken to you*.


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the blessing, if you* will listen to the commandments of Jehovah your* God, which I command you* this day,


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and the curse, if you* will not listen to the commandments of Jehovah your* God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you* this day to go after other gods, which you* have not known.


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<pb/>And it will happen, when Jehovah your God will bring you into the land where you go to possess it, that you will set the blessing upon Mount Gerizim and the curse upon Mount Ebal.


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Are they not beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?


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<pb/>For you* are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Jehovah your* God gives you* and you* will possess it and dwell in it.


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<pb/>These are the statutes and the ordinances which you* will observe to do in the land which Jehovah, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess it all the days that you* live upon the earth.


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You* will surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you* will dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains and upon the hills and under every green tree.


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And you* will break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim  <n>{pole-images}</n>  with fire. And you* will hew down the graven images of their gods and you* will destroy their name out of that place.


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But to the place which Jehovah your* God will choose out of all your* tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation you* will seek and there you will come.


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And there you* will bring your* burnt offerings and your* sacrifices and your* tithes and the heave offering of your* hand and your* vows and your* free-will offerings and the first-offspring of your* herd and of your* flock.


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And there you* will eat before Jehovah your* God and you* will rejoice in all that you* put your* hand to, you* and your* households, in which Jehovah your God has blessed you.


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<pb/>You* will not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right in his own eyes.


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<pb/>But when you* go over the Jordan and dwell in the land which Jehovah your* God causes you* to inherit and he gives you* rest from all your* enemies all around, so that you* dwell in safety,


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then it will happen that to the place which Jehovah your* God will choose to cause his name to dwell there, there you* will bring all that I command you*: your* burnt offerings and your* sacrifices, your* tithes and the heave offering of your* hand and all your* choice vows which you* vow to Jehovah.


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<pb/>And you* will rejoice before Jehovah your* God, you* and your* sons and your* daughters and your* men-servants and your* maid-servants and the Levite who is within your* gates — inasmuch as he has no portion nor inheritance with you*.


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but in the place which Jehovah will choose in one of your tribes. There you will offer your burnt offerings and there you will do all that I command you.


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<pb/>Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the blessing of Jehovah your God which he has given you, the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the male-deer.


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<pb/>You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the first-offspring of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your free-will offerings, nor the heave offering of your hand.


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But you will eat them before Jehovah your God in the place which Jehovah your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter and your man-servant and your maid-servant and the Levite who is within your gates. And you will rejoice before Jehovah your God in all that you put your hand to.


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<pb/>When Jehovah your God will enlarge your border, as he has promised you and you will say, I will eat flesh, because your soul desires to eat flesh, you may eat flesh, after all the desire of your soul.


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If the place which Jehovah your God will choose, to put his name there, be too far from you, then you will kill of your herd and of your flock, which Jehovah has given you, as I have commanded you and you may eat within your gates, according to all the desire of your soul.


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Even as the gazelle and as the male-deer is eaten, so you will eat of it. The unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.


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<pb/>Only be sure that you not eat the blood. For the blood is the life and you will not eat the life with the flesh.


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You will not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your sons after you, when you will do what is right in the eyes of Jehovah.


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<pb/>Only your holy things which you have and your vows, you will take and go to the place which Jehovah will choose.


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And you will offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of Jehovah your God and the blood of your sacrifices will be poured out upon the altar of Jehovah your God and you will eat the flesh.


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<pb/>Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and with your sons after you everlasting, when you do what is good and right in the eyes of Jehovah your God.


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<pb/>When Jehovah your God will cut off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,


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take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods? Even so I will do likewise.


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<pb/>You will not do so to Jehovah your God. For every abomination to Jehovah, which he hates, they have done to their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.


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<pb/>Whatever thing I command you*, that will you* observe to do. You will not add to it, nor diminish from it.


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<pb/>If there arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams and he gives you a sign or a wonder,


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and the sign or the wonder occurs, of which he spoke to you, saying, Let us go after other gods, which you have not known and let us serve them,


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you will not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams, for Jehovah your* God proves you*, to know whether you* love Jehovah your* God with all your* heart and with all your* soul.


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You* will walk after Jehovah your* God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice and you* will serve him and cling to him.


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<pb/>And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, will be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Jehovah your* God, who brought you* out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Jehovah your God commanded you to walk in. So will you put away the evil from the midst of you.


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<pb/>If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers,


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of the gods of the peoples that are all around you*, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth,


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you will not consent to him, nor listen to him. Neither will your eye pity him, neither will you spare, neither will you conceal him,


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but you will surely kill him. Your hand will be first upon him to put him to death and afterwards the hand of all the people.


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And you will stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.


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<pb/>And all Israel will hear and fear and will no more do any such wickedness as this is in the midst of you.


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<pb/>If you will hear tell concerning one of your cities, which Jehovah your God gives you to dwell there, saying,


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Certain worthless fellows have gone out from the midst of you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you* have not known,


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then you will inquire and make search and ask diligently. And behold, if it is true and the thing certain, that such abomination is worked in the midst of you,


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you will surely kill* the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly and all that is in it and the cattle in it, with the edge of the sword.


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And you will gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street of it and will burn the city with fire and all the spoil of it, every whit, to Jehovah your God and it will be a heap everlasting. It will not be built again.


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<pb/>And nothing of the devoted thing will cling to your hand, that Jehovah may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy and have compassion upon you and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers,


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when you will listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do what is right in the eyes of Jehovah your God.


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<pb/>You* are the sons of Jehovah your* God. You* will not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your* eyes for the dead.


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For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God and Jehovah has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.


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the male-deer and the gazelle and the roebuck and the wild goat and the ibex and the antelope and the chamois.


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And every beast that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two, <i>and</i> chews the cud, among the beasts, that may you* eat.


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<pb/>Nevertheless of those that chew the cud, or of those that have the hoof cloven, these you* will not eat: the camel and the hare and the coney, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, they are unclean to you*,


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and the swine, because he parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, he is unclean to you*. Of their flesh you* will not eat and their carcasses you* will not touch.


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<pb/>You* will not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the traveler who is within your gates, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. You will not boil a kid in its mother's milk.


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<pb/>You will surely tithe all the increase of your seed; what comes forth from the field year by year.


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And you will eat before Jehovah your God, in the place which he will choose to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine and of your oil and the first-offspring of your herd and of your flock, that you may learn to fear Jehovah your God always.


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<pb/>And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, which Jehovah your God will choose to set his name there when Jehovah your God will bless you,


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then you will turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and will go to the place which Jehovah your God will choose.


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<pb/>And you will bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you. And you will eat there before Jehovah your God and you will rejoice, you and your household.


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<pb/>And the Levite who is within your gates, you will not forsake him, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.


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At the end of every three years you will bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year and will lay it up within your gates.


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<pb/>And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you and the traveler and the fatherless and the widow, who are within your gates, will come and will eat and be satisfied, that Jehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.


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And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor will release what he has lent to his neighbor. He will not exact it from his neighbor and his brother, because Jehovah's release has been proclaimed.


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From a foreigner you may exact it, but whatever of your is with your brother, your hand will release.


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<pb/>However there will be no poor with you (for Jehovah will surely bless you in the land which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it),


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if only you diligently listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you this day.


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<pb/>For Jehovah your God will bless you as he promised you and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow and you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.


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<pb/>If there is with you a poor man, one of your brothers, within any of your gates in your land which Jehovah your God gives you, you will not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother,


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but you will surely open your hand to him and will surely lend him sufficient for his need which he wants.


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<pb/>Beware that there not be a worthless thought in your heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing and he cry to Jehovah against you and it is sin to you.


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You will surely give him and your heart will not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing Jehovah your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.


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<pb/>For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you, saying, You will surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy and to your poor, in your land.


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<pb/>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 will let him go free from you.


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You will furnish him liberally out of your flock and out of your threshing-floor and out of your winepress. As Jehovah your God has blessed you, you will give to him.


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<pb/>And you will remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt and Jehovah your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.


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<pb/>And it will be, if he says to you, I will not go out from you, because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you,


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then you will take an awl and thrust it through his ear to the door and he will be your servant everlasting. And also to your maid-servant you will do likewise.


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<pb/>It will not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for he has been worth a double hired servant to you, in serving you six years. And Jehovah your God will bless you in all that you do.


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<pb/>All the first-offspring males that are born of your herd and of your flock you will sanctify to Jehovah your God. You will do no work with the first-offspring of your herd, nor shear the first-offspring of your flock.


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<pb/>You will eat it before Jehovah your God year by year in the place which Jehovah will choose, you and your household.


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And if it has any blemish, <i>as</i> lame or blind, any ill blemish whatever, you will not sacrifice it to Jehovah your God.


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<pb/>You will eat it within your gates. The unclean man and the clean man alike, as the gazelle and as the male-deer.


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<pb/>Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover to Jehovah your God, for in the month of Abib Jehovah your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.


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And you will sacrifice the Passover to Jehovah your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Jehovah will choose to cause his name to dwell there.


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<pb/>You will eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you will eat unleavened bread with it, even the bread of affliction, for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste, that you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.


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And there will be no leaven seen with you in all your borders seven days. Neither will any of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning.


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but at the place which Jehovah your God will choose to cause his name to dwell in, there you will sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out of Egypt.


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And you will roast and eat it in the place which Jehovah your God will choose and you will turn in the morning and go to your tents.


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Six days you will eat unleavened bread and on the seventh day will be a solemn assembly to Jehovah your God. You will do no work.


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<pb/>You will number to you seven weeks. From the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you will begin to number seven weeks.


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And you will keep the feast of weeks to Jehovah your God with a tribute of a free-will offering from your hand, which you will give, just-as Jehovah your God graces you.


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<pb/>And you will rejoice before Jehovah your God, you and your son and your daughter and your man-servant and your maid-servant and the Levite who is within your gates and the traveler and the fatherless and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which Jehovah your God will choose to cause his name to dwell there,


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<pb/>You will keep the feast of tabernacles seven days after you have gathered in from your threshing-floor and from your winepress.


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And you will rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter and your man-servant and your maid-servant and the Levite and the traveler and the fatherless and the widow, who are within your gates.


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<pb/>Seven days you will keep a feast to Jehovah your God in the place which Jehovah will choose, because Jehovah your God will bless you in all your increase and in all the work of your hands and you will be altogether joyful.


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<pb/>Three times in a year all your males will appear before Jehovah your God in the place which he will choose: in the feast of unleavened bread and in the feast of weeks and in the feast of tabernacles. And they will not appear before Jehovah empty.


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Every man will give as he is able, according to the blessing of Jehovah your God which he has given you.


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<pb/>You will make judges and officers for you in all your gates, which Jehovah your God gives you, according to your tribes and they will judge the people with righteous judgment.


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You will not distort justice. You will not respect persons, neither will you take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.


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You will follow what is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which Jehovah your God gives you.


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<pb/>You will not plant for you an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Jehovah your God, which you will make for you.


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<pb/>You will not sacrifice to Jehovah your God an ox, or a sheep, in which is a blemish <i>or</i> anything bad, for that is an abomination to Jehovah your God.


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<pb/>If there is found in the midst of you, within any of your gates which Jehovah your God gives you, man or woman, who does what is evil in the sight of Jehovah your God, in transgressing his covenant,


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and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded,


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and it is told you and you have heard of it, then will you inquire diligently. And behold, if it is true and the thing certain, that such abomination is worked in Israel,


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then you will bring forth that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to your gates, even the man or the woman and you will stone them to death with stones.


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<pb/>At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, will he who is to die be put to death. He will not be put to death at the mouth of one witness.


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The hand of the witnesses will be first upon him to put him to death and afterward the hand of all the people. So you will put away the evil from the midst of you.


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<pb/>If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you will arise and get you up to the place which Jehovah your God will choose.


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And you will come to the priests the Levites and to the judge who will be in those days and you will inquire. And they will show you the sentence of judgment.


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<pb/>And you will do according to the tenor of the sentence which they will show you from that place which Jehovah will choose. And you will observe to do according to all that they will teach you,


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according to the tenor of the law which they will teach you and according to the judgment which they will tell you, you will do. You will not turn aside from the sentence, which they will show you, to the right hand, nor to the left.


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<pb/>And the man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Jehovah your God, or to the judge, even that man will die and you will put away the evil from Israel.


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<pb/>When you have come to the land which Jehovah your God gives you and will possess it and will dwell in it and will say, I will set a king over me like all the nations that are all around me,


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you will surely set him king over you whom Jehovah your God will choose. You will set a king over you from among your brothers. You may not put a foreigner over you who is not your brother.


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<pb/>Only he will not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses, inasmuch as Jehovah has said to you*, You* will hereafter return no more that way.


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Neither will he multiply wives to himself, that his heart do not turn away. Neither will he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.


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<pb/>And it will be, when he sits upon the throne of his kingdom, that he will write for him a copy of this law in a book, out of <i>it</i> before the priests the Levites,


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and it will be with him. And he will read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Jehovah his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them,


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that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers and that he does not turn aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his sons, in the midst of Israel.


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<pb/>The priests the Levites, <i>even</i> all the tribe of Levi, will have no portion nor inheritance with Israel. They will eat the offerings of Jehovah made by fire and his inheritance.


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And they will have no inheritance among their brothers. Jehovah is their inheritance as he has spoken to them.


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<pb/>And this will be the priests' due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it is ox or sheep: that they will give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the maw.


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The first-fruits of your grain, of your new wine and of your oil and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you will give him.


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For Jehovah your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to minister in the name of Jehovah, him and his sons forever.


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<pb/>And if a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he travels and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Jehovah will choose,


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then he will minister in the name of Jehovah his God, as all his brothers the Levites do who stand there before Jehovah.


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<pb/>When you have come into the land, which Jehovah your God gives you, you will not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.


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<pb/>There will not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, a psychic, he who practices soothsaying, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,


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For whoever does these things is an abomination to Jehovah. And because of these abominations Jehovah your God drives them out from before you.


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For these nations, that you will dispossess, listen to those who practice soothsaying and to psychics. But as for you, Jehovah your God has not allowed you to do so.


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<pb/>Jehovah your God will raise up for you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me. You* will listen to him,


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according to all that you desired of Jehovah your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Do not let me hear again the voice of Jehovah my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.


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<pb/>I will raise up a prophet for them from among their brothers, like you. And I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them all that I will command him.


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And it will happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he will speak in my name, I will require it of him.


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<pb/>But the prophet, who will speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who will speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet will die.


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When a prophet speaks in the name of Jehovah, if the thing does not follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Jehovah has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You will not be afraid of him.


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<pb/>When Jehovah your God will cut off the nations, whose land Jehovah your God gives you and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,


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you will set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land, which Jehovah your God gives you to possess it.


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You will prepare for you the way and divide the borders of your land, which Jehovah your God causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee there.


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<pb/>And this is the case of the manslayer, who will flee there and live: Whoever kills his neighbor unawares and did not hate him in time past,


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as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree and the head slips from the helve and lands upon his neighbor, so that he dies, he will flee to one of these cities and live.


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<pb/>Lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot and overtake him, because the way is long and kill* him mortally, and he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he did not hate him in time past.


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And if Jehovah your God enlarge your border, as he has sworn to your fathers and give you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers,


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if you will keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love Jehovah your God and to walk ever in his ways, then will you add three more cities for you, besides these three,


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that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance and so blood be upon you.


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<pb/>But if any man hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and rises up against him and slays him mortally so that he dies and he flees into one of these cities,


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then the elders of his city will send and fetch him from there and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.


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<pb/>Your eye will not pity him, but you will put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.


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<pb/>You will not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit, in the land that Jehovah your God gives you to possess it.


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<pb/>One witness will not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, will a matter be established.


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then both the men, between whom the controversy is, will stand before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges that will be in those days,


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<pb/>and the judges will make diligent inquiry. And behold, if the witness is a false witness and has testified falsely against his brother,


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then you* will do to him, as he had thought to do to his brother. So will you put away the evil from the midst of you.


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<pb/>And those who remain will hear and fear and will hereafter commit no more any such evil in the midst of you.


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And your eyes will not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.


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<pb/>When you go forth to battle against your enemies and see horses and chariots, <i>and</i> a people more than you, you will not be afraid of them, for Jehovah your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.


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<pb/>And it will be, when you* draw near to the battle, that the priest will approach and speak to the people,


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and will say to them, Hear, O Israel, you* draw near this day to battle against your* enemies. Do not let your* heart faint. Do not fear, nor tremble, neither be you* frightened at them.


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For Jehovah your* God is he who goes with you*, to fight for you* against your* enemies, to save you*.


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<pb/>And the officers will speak to the people, saying, What man is there who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.


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<pb/>And what man is there who has planted a vineyard and has not used the fruit of it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man use the fruit of it.


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<pb/>And what man is there who has betrothed a wife and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her.


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<pb/>And the officers will speak further to the people and they will say, What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother's heart melt as his heart.


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<pb/>And it will be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, that they will appoint captains of armies at the head of the people.


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And it will be, if it makes to you an answer of peace and opens to you, then it will be, that all the people that are found in it will become forced-labor to you and will serve you.


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<pb/>And if it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you will besiege it.


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And when Jehovah your God delivers it into your hand, you will kill* every male of it with the edge of the sword,


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but the women and the little ones and the cattle and all that is in the city, even all the spoil of it, you will take for a prey to yourself. And you will eat the spoil of your enemies, which Jehovah your God has given you.


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<pb/>Thus you will do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.


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<pb/>But of the cities of these peoples, that Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance, you will save alive nothing that breathes,


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but you will utterly destroy them — the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite — as Jehovah your God has commanded you,


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that they not teach you* to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods, so you* would sin against Jehovah your* God.


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<pb/>When you will besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you will not destroy the trees of it by wielding an axe against them, for you may eat of them. And you will 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 of which you know that they are not trees for food, you will destroy and cut them down. And you will build ramparts against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.


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<pb/>If a man is found slain in the land which Jehovah your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field and it not be known who has struck him,


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then your elders and your judges will come forth. And they will measure to the cities which are all around him who is slain,


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and it will be, that the city which is nearest to the slain man, even the elders of that city will take a heifer of the herd, which has not been worked with and which has not drawn in the yoke,


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and the elders of that city will bring down the heifer to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown and will break the heifer's neck there in the valley.


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<pb/>And the priests the sons of Levi will come near, for Jehovah your God has chosen them to minister to him and to bless in the name of Jehovah and according to their word will every controversy and every stroke be.


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<pb/>And all the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man, will wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley,


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Forgive, O Jehovah, your people Israel whom you have redeemed and allow no innocent blood <i>to remain</i> in the midst of your people Israel. And the blood will be forgiven them.


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<pb/>So will you put away the innocent blood from the midst of you when you will do what is right in the eyes of Jehovah.


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<pb/>When you go forth to battle against your enemies and Jehovah your God delivers them into your hands and you carry them away captive,


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and see among the captives a beautiful woman and you have a desire for her and would take her to you as a wife,


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and she will put the garments of her captivity from her and will remain in your house and weep for her father and her mother a full month. And after that you will go in to her and be her husband and she will be your wife.


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<pb/>And it will be, if you have no delight in her, then you will let her go where she will, but you will not sell her at all for money. You will not deal with her harshly, because you have humbled her.


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<pb/>If a man has two wives, the one beloved and the other hated and they have borne him sons, both the beloved and the one hated and if the firstborn son be hers who was hated,


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then it will be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit what he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the one hated, who is the firstborn.


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But he will acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the one hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.


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<pb/>If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and though they discipline him, will not listen to them,


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then his father and his mother will lay hold on him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place.


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And they will say to the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.


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And all the men of his city will stone him to death with stones. So you will put away the evil from the midst of you and all Israel will hear and fear.


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<pb/>And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death and he is put to death and you hang him on a tree,


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his body will not remain all night upon the tree, but you will surely bury him the same day, for he who is hanged is accursed of God, that you not defile your land which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance.


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<pb/>You will not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them. You will surely bring them again to your brother.


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And if your brother is not near to you, or if you do not know him, then you will bring it home to your house and it will be with you until your brother seeks after it and you will restore it to him.


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And so will you do with his donkey and so will you do with his garment and so will you do with every lost thing of your brother's, which he has lost and you have found. You may not hide yourself.


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<pb/>You will not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way and hide yourself from them. You will surely help him to lift them up again.


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<pb/>A woman will not wear what pertains to a man, neither will a man put on a woman's garment, for whoever does these things is an abomination to Jehovah your God.


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<pb/>If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs, you will not take the dam with the young.


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You will surely let the dam go, but the young you may take to yourself, that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.


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<pb/>When you build a new house, then you will make a guard rail for your roof, that you not bring blood upon your house, if any man falls from there.


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<pb/>You will not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit is forfeited: the seed which you have sown and the increase of the vineyard.


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<pb/>You will make for you hems upon the four borders of your clothing, with which you cover yourself.


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and charges her with shameful things and brings up an evil name upon her and says, I took this woman and when I came near to her, I did not find in her the tokens of virginity,


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then the father of the maiden and her mother, will take and bring forth the tokens of the maiden's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.


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<pb/>And the maiden's father will say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man as a wife and he dislikes her.


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And behold, he has charged her with shameful things, saying, I did not find in your daughter the tokens of virginity and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they will spread the garment before the elders of the city.


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and they will fine him a hundred <i>shekels</i> of silver and give them to the father of the maiden, because he has brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel and she will be his wife. He may not put her away all his days.


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then they will bring the maiden out to the door of her father's house and the men of her city will stone her to death with stones, because she has done senselessness in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father's house. So will you put away the evil from the midst of you.


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<pb/>If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they will both of them die, the man that lay with the woman and the woman. So will you put away the evil from Israel.


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<pb/>If there is a maiden who is a virgin betrothed to a husband and a man finds her in the city and lies with her,


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then you* will bring them both out to the gate of that city. And you* will stone them to death with stones, the maiden, because she did not cry out, being in the city and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife. So you will put away the evil from the midst of you.


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<pb/>But if the man finds the maiden who is betrothed in the field and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her will die,


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but to the maiden you will do nothing. There is in the maiden no sin worthy of death. For as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter,


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<pb/>If a man finds a maiden who is a virgin, who is not betrothed and lays hold on her and lies with her and they are found,


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then the man who lay with her will give to the maiden's father fifty <i>shekels</i> of silver and she will be his wife, because he has humbled her. He may not put her away all his days.


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<pb/>He who is wounded in the testicles, or has his private part cut off, will not enter into the assembly of Jehovah.


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A bastard will not enter into the assembly of Jehovah, even to the tenth generation none of his will enter into the assembly of Jehovah.


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<pb/>An Ammonite or a Moabite will not enter into the assembly of Jehovah, even to the tenth generation none belonging to them will enter into the assembly of Jehovah everlasting,


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because they met you* not with bread and with water on the way, when you* came forth out of Egypt and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.


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Nevertheless Jehovah your God would not listen to Balaam, but Jehovah your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Jehovah your God loved you.


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<pb/>You will not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You will not abhor an Egyptian, because you were a traveler in his land.


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<pb/>If there is any man among you*, who is not clean by reason of an accident by night, then he will go abroad out of the camp. He will not come inside the camp.


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But it will be, when evening comes on, he will bathe himself in water and when the sun is down, he will come inside the camp.


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And you will have a paddle among your weapons and it will be, when you sit down abroad, you will dig with it and will turn back and cover what comes from you.


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For Jehovah your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you. Therefore your camp will be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you and turn away from you.


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He will dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place which he will choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best. You will not oppress him.


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<pb/>There will be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither will there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.


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<pb/>You will not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a dog, into the house of Jehovah your God for any vow, for even both these are an abomination to Jehovah your God.


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<pb/>You will not lend upon interest to your brother: interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent upon interest.


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To a foreigner you may lend upon interest, but to your brother you will not lend upon interest, that Jehovah your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.


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<pb/>When you will vow a vow to Jehovah your God, you will not be slack to pay it. For Jehovah your God will surely require it of you and it would be sin in you.


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What has gone out of your lips you will observe and do, just-as you have vowed to Jehovah your God, a free-will offering, which you have promised with your mouth.


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<pb/>When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat your fill of grapes at your own pleasure, but you will not put any in your vessel.


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When you come into your neighbor's standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand, but you will not move a sickle to your neighbor's standing grain.


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<pb/>When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it will be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he will write her a document of divorcement and give it in her hand and send her out of his house.


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And if the latter husband dislikes her and writes her a document of divorcement and gives it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife,


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her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled. For that is abomination before Jehovah and you will not cause the land to sin, which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance.


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<pb/>When a man takes a new wife, he will not go out in the army, neither will he be charged with any business. He will be free at home one year and will cheer his wife whom he has taken.


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<pb/>If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the sons of Israel and he deals with him harshly, or sells him, then that thief will die. So will you put away the evil from the midst of you.


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<pb/>Take heed in the disease of leprosy, that you observe diligently and do according to all that the priests the Levites will teach you*. As I commanded them, so you* will observe to do.


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<pb/>When you do lend your neighbor any manner of loan, you will not go into his house to fetch his pledge.


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You will surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment and bless you. And it will be righteousness to you before Jehovah your God.


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<pb/>You will not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is of your brothers, or of your travelers that are in your land within your gates.


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You will give him his hire in his day, neither will the sun go down upon it, for he is poor and sets his heart upon it, lest he cry against you to Jehovah and it is sin to you.


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<pb/>The fathers will not be put to death for the sons, neither will the sons be put to death for the fathers. Every man will be put to death for his own sin.


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<pb/>You will not distort the justice <i>due</i> to the traveler, <i>or</i> to the fatherless, nor take the widow's garments to pledge,


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but you will remember that you were a bondman in Egypt and Jehovah your God redeemed you from there. Therefore I command you to do this thing.


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<pb/>When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you will not go again to fetch it. It will be for the traveler, for the fatherless and for the widow, that Jehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.


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<pb/>When you beat your olive tree, you will not go over the branches again. It will be for the traveler, for the fatherless and for the widow.


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<pb/>When you gather of your vineyard, you will not glean it behind you. It will be for the traveler, for the fatherless and for the widow.


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<pb/>And you will remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt. Therefore I command you to do this thing.


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<pb/>If there is a controversy between men and they come to judgment and <i>they</i> judge them, then they will justify the righteous and condemn the iniquitous.


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And it will be, if the iniquitous man is deserving to be beaten, that the judge will cause him to lie down and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.


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He may give him forty stripes. He will not exceed, lest, if he should exceed and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem debased to you.


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<pb/>If brothers dwell together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man will not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband's brother will go in to her and take her to him as a wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.


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And it will be, that the firstborn who she bears will succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name is not blotted out of Israel.


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<pb/>And if the man does not want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife will go up to the gate to the elders and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.


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<pb/>Then the elders of his city will call him and speak to him. And if he stands and says, I do not want to take her,


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then his brother's wife will come to him in the presence of the elders and loose his shoe from his foot and spit in his face. And she will answer and say, So it will be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.


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<pb/>When men strive together, one with another and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who slays him and puts forth her hand and takes him by the genitals,


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A perfect and just weight you will have, a perfect and just measure you will have, that your days may be long in the land which Jehovah your God gives you.


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For all who do such things, <i>even</i> all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Jehovah your God.


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how he met you by the way and killed* the hindmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary and he did not fear God.


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Therefore it will be, when Jehovah your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. You will not forget.


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<pb/>And it will be, when you have come in to the land which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance and possess it and dwell in it,


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that you will take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you will bring in from your land that Jehovah your God gives you and you will put it in a basket and will go to the place which Jehovah your God will choose to cause his name to dwell there.


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<pb/>And you will come to the priest who will be in those days and say to him, I profess this day to Jehovah your God, that I have come to the land which Jehovah swore to our fathers to give us.


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And the priest will take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of Jehovah your God.


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<pb/>And you will answer and say before Jehovah your God, My father was a Syrian ready to perish and he went down into Egypt and traveled there, few in number. And he became there a nation, great, mighty and populous.


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<pb/>And we cried to Jehovah, the God of our fathers and Jehovah heard our voice and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression.


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And Jehovah brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm and with great terribleness and with signs and with wonders.


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And he has brought us into this place and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.


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<pb/>And now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, O Jehovah, have given me. And you will set it down before Jehovah your God and worship before Jehovah your God.


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<pb/>And you will rejoice in all the good which Jehovah your God has given to you and to your house, you and the Levite and the traveler who is in the midst of you.


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<pb/>When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you will give it to the Levite, to the traveler, to the fatherless and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates and be filled.


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<pb/>And you will say before Jehovah your God, I have put away the holy things out of my house and also have given them to the Levite and to the traveler, to the fatherless and to the widow, according to all your commandment 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 it in my mourning, neither have I put away from it, being unclean, nor given of it for the dead. I have listened to the voice of Jehovah my God. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.


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<pb/>Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven and bless your people Israel and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.


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<pb/>This day Jehovah your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You will therefore keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.


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<pb/>You have avowed Jehovah to be your God this day and that you would walk in his ways and keep his statutes and his commandments and his ordinances and listen to his voice.


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<pb/>And Jehovah has avowed you this day to be a people for his own possession, as he has promised you and that you should keep all his commandments,


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and to make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise and in name and in honor and that you may be a holy people to Jehovah your God, as he has spoken.


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<pb/>And Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandment which I command you* this day.


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And it will be on the day when you* will pass over the Jordan to the land which Jehovah your God gives you, that you will set up for you great stones and plaster them with plaster.


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And you will write upon them all the words of this law when you have passed over, that you may go in to the land which Jehovah your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Jehovah, the God of your fathers, has promised you.


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<pb/>And it will be, when you* have passed over the Jordan, that you* will set up these stones, which I command you* this day, in Mount Ebal and you will plaster them with plaster.


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And there you will build an altar to Jehovah your God, an altar of stones. You will lift up no iron upon them.


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You will build the altar of Jehovah your God of unhewn stones. And you will offer burnt offerings on it to Jehovah your God.


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And you will sacrifice peace offerings and will eat there and you will rejoice before Jehovah your God.


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<pb/>And Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, Keep silence and listen, O Israel. This day you have become the people of Jehovah your God.


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You will therefore obey the voice of Jehovah your God and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you this day.


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These will stand upon Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you* have passed over the Jordan: Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Joseph and Benjamin.


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And these will stand upon Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad and Asher and Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali.


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<pb/>Cursed be the man who makes a graven or molten image, an abomination to Jehovah, the work of the hands of the craftsman and sets it up in secret. And all the people will answer and say, Truly.


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<pb/>Cursed be he who distorts the justice to the traveler, fatherless and widow. And all the people will say, Truly.


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<pb/>Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt. And all the people will say, Truly.


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<pb/>Cursed be he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people will say, Truly.


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<pb/>Cursed is every man who does not continue in all things written in the book of the law, to do them. And all the people will say, Truly.


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<pb/>And it will happen, if you will listen diligently to the voice of Jehovah your God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Jehovah your God will set you on high above all the nations of the earth,


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and all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you will listen to the voice of Jehovah your God:


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The fruit of your body will be blessed 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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<pb/>Jehovah will cause your enemies that rise up against you to be struck before you. They will come out against you one way and will flee before you seven ways.


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Jehovah will command the blessing upon you in your barns and in all that you put your hand to. And he will bless you in the land which Jehovah your God gives you.


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<pb/>Jehovah will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you will keep the commandments of Jehovah your God and walk in his ways.


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And all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of Jehovah and they will be afraid of you.


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<pb/>And Jehovah will make you plenteous for good, in the fruit of your body and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers to give you.


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<pb/>Jehovah will open to you his good treasure the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand. And you will lend to many nations and you will not borrow.


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<pb/>And Jehovah will make you the head and not the tail. And you will only be above and you will not be beneath, if you will listen to the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I command you this day, to observe and to do,


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and will 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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<pb/>But it will happen, if you will not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:


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The fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock will be cursed.


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Jehovah will send upon you cursing, confusion and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your practices, by which you have forsaken me.


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<pb/>Jehovah will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from the land, where you go in to possess it.


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Jehovah will kill* you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with blight and with mildew. And they will pursue you until you perish.


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<pb/>And your sky that is over your head will be brass and the earth that is under you will be iron.


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Jehovah will make the rain of your land powder and dust. From the sky it will come down upon you, until you are destroyed.


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<pb/>Jehovah will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them and will flee seven ways before them. And you will be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth.


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And your dead body will be food to all birds of the sky and to the beasts of the earth and there will be none to frighten them away.


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<pb/>Jehovah will kill* you with the boils of Egypt and with the tumors and with the scurvy and with the itch, of which you cannot be healed.


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and you will grope at noonday, as the blind man gropes in darkness. And you will not prosper in your ways. And you will only be oppressed and robbed always and there will be none to save you.


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<pb/>You will betroth a wife and another man will lie with her. You will build a house and you will not dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard and will not use the fruit of it.


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Your ox will be slain before your eyes and you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be violently taken away from before your face and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies and you will have none to save you.


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Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. And your eyes will look and fail with longing for them all the day and there will be nothing in the power of your hand.


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The fruit of your ground and all your labors, will a nation eat up which you do not know. And you will only be oppressed and crushed always,


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<pb/>Jehovah will kill* you in the knees and in the legs, with a sore boil, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.


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<pb/>Jehovah will bring you and your king whom you will set over you, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers. And there you will serve other gods, wood and stone.


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And you will become an astonishment, a proverb and a parable, among all the peoples where Jehovah will lead you away.


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<pb/>You will carry much seed out into the field and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.


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You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor gather, for the worm will eat them.


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You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olive will drop off.


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<pb/>The traveler who is in the midst of you will mount up above you higher and higher and you will come down lower and lower.


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<pb/>And all these curses will come upon you and will pursue you and overtake you, till you are destroyed, because you listened not to the voice of Jehovah your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you,


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Because you served not Jehovah your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things,


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therefore you will serve your enemies that Jehovah will send against you, in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in want of all things. And he will put a yoke of iron upon your neck, until he has destroyed you.


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<pb/>Jehovah will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies, a nation whose tongue you will not understand,


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a nation of fierce countenance, that will not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young,


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and will eat the fruit of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed, that also will not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.


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And they will besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land. And they will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Jehovah your God has given you.


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<pb/>And you will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Jehovah your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.


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The man who is tender among you* and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother and toward the wife of his bosom and toward the remnant of his sons whom he has remaining,


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so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his sons whom he will eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates.


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<pb/>The tender and delicate woman among you*, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband of her bosom and toward her son and toward her daughter,


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and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet and toward her sons whom she will bear, for she will eat them secretly for want of all things, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.


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<pb/>If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, JEHOVAH YOUR GOD,


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then Jehovah will make your calamities extraordinary and the calamities of your seed, even great calamities and of long continuance and severe sicknesses and of long continuance.


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<pb/>And he will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of and they will cling to you.


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Also every sickness and every calamity, which is not written in the book of this law, them Jehovah will bring upon you, until you are destroyed.


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And you* will be left few in number, in that you* were as the stars of heaven for multitude, because you did not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God.


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<pb/>And it will happen, that, as Jehovah rejoiced over you* to do you* good and to multiply you*, so Jehovah will rejoice over you* to cause you* to perish and to destroy you*. And you* will be plucked from the land where you go in to possess it.


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<pb/>And Jehovah will scatter you among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. And you will serve other gods there, which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone ones.


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<pb/>And among these nations you will find no ease and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot, but Jehovah will give you there a trembling heart and failing of eyes and pining of soul.


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And your life will hang in doubt before you and you will fear night and day and will have no assurance of your life.


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In the morning you will say, Would it were evening! and at evening you will say, Would it were morning! for the fear of your heart which you will fear and for the sight of your eyes which you will see.


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And Jehovah will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said to you, You will see it no more again. And there you* will sell yourselves to your* enemies for bondmen and for bondwomen and no man will buy you*.


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<pb/>These are the words of the covenant which Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.


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<pb/>And Moses called to all Israel and said to them, You* have seen all that Jehovah did before your* eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land,


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<pb/>And I have led you* forty years in the wilderness. Your* clothes have not grown old upon you* and your shoe has not grown old upon your foot.


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You* have not eaten bread, neither have you* drunk wine or strong drink, that you* may know that I am Jehovah your* God.


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<pb/>And when you* came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle and we killed* them.


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And we took their land and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.


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<pb/>Keep therefore the words of this covenant and do them, that you* may prosper in all that you* do.


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You* stand this day all of you* before Jehovah 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 your traveler who is in the midst of your camps, from the hewer of your wood to the drawer of your water–


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that you may enter into the covenant of Jehovah your God and into his oath, which Jehovah your God makes with you this day,


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that he may establish you this day to himself for a people and that he may be to you a God, as he spoke to you and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob.


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but with him who stands here with us this day before Jehovah our God and also with him who is not here with us this day


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(for you* know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you* passed,


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and you* have seen their abominations and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them).


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<pb/>Lest there should be among you* man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations. Lest there should be among you* a root that bears gall and wormwood,


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and it happens, when he hears the words of this curse, that he graces himself in his heart, saying, I will have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.


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<pb/>Jehovah will not pardon him, but then the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will smoke against that man and all the curse that is written in this book will lie upon him and Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven.


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And Jehovah will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.


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<pb/>And the generation to come, your* sons who will rise up after you* and the foreigner who will come from a far land, will say, when they see the calamities of that land and the sicknesses with which Jehovah has made it sick.


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The whole land of it is brimstone and salt, a burning. It is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his wrath,


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even all the nations will say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? What is the meaning of the heat of this great anger?


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<pb/>Then men will say, Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah, 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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and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they did not know and that he had not given to them.


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Therefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book.


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And Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger and in wrath and in great indignation and cast them into another land, as at this day.


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<pb/>The secret things belong to Jehovah our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our sons until everlasting, that we may do all the words of this law.


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<pb/>And it will happen, when all these things have come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you and you will call them to mind among all the nations, where Jehovah your God has driven you,


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and will return to Jehovah your God and will obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your sons, with all your heart and with all your soul,


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that then Jehovah your God will turn your captivity and have compassion upon you and will return and gather you from all the peoples where Jehovah your God has scattered you.


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<pb/>If <i>any of</i> your outcasts be in the outermost parts of heaven, from there Jehovah your God will gather you and from there he will fetch you.


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And Jehovah your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed and you will possess it and he will do you good and multiply you above your fathers.


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And Jehovah your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed, to love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.


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<pb/>And Jehovah your God will put all these curses upon your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.


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And you will return and obey the voice of Jehovah and do all his commandments which I command you this day.


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<pb/>And Jehovah your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground, for good. For Jehovah will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers,


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if you will obey the voice of Jehovah your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.


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<pb/>For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not too hard for you, neither is it far off.


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It is not in heaven, that you should say, Who will go up for us to heaven and bring it to us and make us to hear it, that we may do it?


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Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us and make us to hear it, that we may do it?


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in that I command you this day to love Jehovah your God, to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply and that Jehovah your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.


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<pb/>But if your heart turns away and you will not hear, but will be drawn away and worship other gods and serve them,


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I declare to you* this day, that you* will surely perish. You* will not prolong your* days in the land where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it.


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<pb/>I call heaven and earth to witness against you* this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed,


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to love Jehovah your God, to obey his voice and to cling to him, for he is your life and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, to give them.


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And he said to them, I am a hundred and twenty years old this day. I can no more go out and come in. And Jehovah has said to me, You will not go over this Jordan.


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<pb/>Jehovah your God, he will go over before you. He will destroy these nations from before you and you will dispossess them. Joshua, he will go over before you, as Jehovah has spoken.


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And Jehovah will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites and to their land, whom he destroyed.


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And Jehovah will deliver them up before you* and you* will do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you*.


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<pb/>Be strong and of good courage, do not fear, nor be frightened at them, for Jehovah your God, he it is who goes with you. He will not leave you, nor forsake you.


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<pb/>And Moses called to Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of good courage. For you will go with this people into the land which Jehovah has sworn to their fathers to give them and you will cause them to inherit it.


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And Jehovah, he it is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake you. Do not fear, neither be dismayed.


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<pb/>And Moses wrote this law and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of Jehovah and to all the elders of Israel.


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And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of <i>every</i> seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,


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when all Israel has come to appear before Jehovah your God in the place which he will choose, you will read this law before all Israel in their hearing.


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<pb/>Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones and your traveler who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn and fear Jehovah your* God and observe to do all the words of this law,


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and that their sons who have not known may hear and learn to fear Jehovah your* God as long as you* live in the land where you* go over the Jordan to possess it.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may give him a command. And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.


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And Jehovah 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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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, you will sleep with your fathers. And this people will rise up and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them.


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<pb/>Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day and I will forsake them and I will hide my face from them and they will be devoured and many evils and troubles will come upon 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 for all the evil which they will have worked, in that they have turned to other gods.


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<pb/>Now therefore write this song for you* and teach you it the sons of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the sons of Israel.


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<pb/>For when I will have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey and they will have eaten and filled themselves and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods and serve them and despise me and break my covenant.


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<pb/>And it will happen, when many evils and troubles have come upon them, that this song will testify before them as a witness, for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed. For I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.


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And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a command and said, Be strong and of good courage, for you will bring the sons of Israel into the land which I swore to them and I will be with you.


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<pb/>And it happened, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,


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Take this book of the law and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your* God, that it may be there for a witness against you.


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<pb/>For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you* this day, you* have been rebellious against Jehovah and how much more after my death?


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<pb/>Assemble 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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<pb/>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 Jehovah, to provoke him to anger through the work of your* hands.


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<pb/>And Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished:


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My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will flow as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender grass and as the showers upon the herb.


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The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice, a God of faithfulness and without unrighteousness, just and right is he.


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<pb/>They have dealt corruptly with him. <i>They are</i> not his sons, <i>it is</i> their blemish, a perverse and crooked generation.


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Do you* thus requite Jehovah, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.


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<pb/>Remember the days of old. Consider the years of generations to 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 sons of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.


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He found him in a desert land and in the waste howling wilderness. He compassed him about. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.


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As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spreads abroad his wings. He took them. He bore them on his pinions.


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He made him ride on the high places of the earth and he ate the increase of the field and he made him to suck honey out of the rock and oil out of the flinty rock,


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butter of the herd and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs and rams of the breed of Bashan and goats, with the finest of the wheat and of the blood of the grape you drank wine.


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<pb/>But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made him and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.


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<pb/>They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they did not know, to new <i>gods</i> that came up of late, which your* fathers did not dread.


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And he said, I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be. For they are a very perverse generation, sons in whom is no faithfulness.


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They have moved me to jealousy with what is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities and I will move them to jealousy with a non-nation. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.


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<pb/>For a fire is kindled in my anger and burns to the lowest Sheol and devours the earth with its increase and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.


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<i>to be</i> wasted with hunger and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. And I will send upon them the teeth of beasts, with the poison of crawling things of the dust.


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Outside the sword will bereave and in the chambers terror, <i>to</i> both young man and virgin, the nursing-baby with the man of gray hairs.


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<pb/>I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,


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were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should recognize, lest they should say, Our hand is exalted and Jehovah has not done all this.


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How should one chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight unless their Rock had sold them and Jehovah had delivered them up?


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For their vine is of the vine of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter.


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<pb/>Vengeance is for me and recompense at the time when their foot will slip. For the day of their calamity is at hand and the things that are to come upon them will make haste.


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For Jehovah will judge his people and regrets for his servants, when he sees that <i>their</i> power has gone and there is none <i>remaining</i>, shut up or left at large.


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which ate the fat of their sacrifices, <i>and</i> drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you*, let them be your* protection.


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<pb/>See now that I, even I, am he and there is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. And there is none that can deliver out of my hand.


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if I flash my glittering sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to my adversaries and will recompense those who hate me.


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I will make my arrows drunk with blood and my sword will devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy.


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<pb/>Rejoice, O you* Gentiles, <i>with</i> his people. For he will avenge the blood of his servants and will render vengeance to his adversaries and will recompense those who hate him and will make expiation for his land, for his people.


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<pb/>And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.


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And he said to them, Set your* heart to all the words which I testify to you* this day, which you* will command your* sons to observe to do, <i>even</i> all the words of this law.


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For it is no vain thing for you*, because it is your* life and through this thing you* will prolong your* days in the land where you* go over the Jordan to possess it.


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You get up onto this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is opposite Jericho and behold the land of Canaan, which I give to the sons of Israel for a possession.


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And die on the mountain where you go up and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people,


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because you* trespassed against me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, because you* did not sanctify me in the midst of the sons of Israel.


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For you will see the land before you, but you will not go there into the land which I give the sons of Israel.


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<pb/>And this is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the sons of Israel before his death.


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<pb/>And he said, Jehovah came from Sinai and rose from Seir to them. He shined forth from Mount Paran and he came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.


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Yes, he loves the people. All his holy ones are in your hand and they sat down at your feet. He will receive from your words.


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And he was king in Jeshurun when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together.


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<pb/>And this <i>is</i> of Judah: And he said, Hear, Jehovah, the voice of Judah and bring him into his people. With his hands he contended for himself and you will be a help against his adversaries.


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<pb/>And of Levi he said, Your Thummim and your Urim are with your holy man, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah,


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who said of his father and of his mother, I have not seen him, neither did he acknowledge his brothers, nor knew he his own sons, for they have observed your word and keep your covenant.


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They will teach Jacob your ordinances and Israel your law. They will put incense before you and whole burnt offering upon your altar.


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Bless, Jehovah, his substance and accept the work of his hands. Strike through the loins of those who rise up against him and of those who hate him, that they not rise again.


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<pb/>Of Benjamin he said, The beloved of Jehovah will dwell in safety by him. He covers him all the day long and he dwells between his shoulders.


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<pb/>And of Joseph he said, Blessed of Jehovah be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew and for the deep that couches beneath,


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and for the precious things of the fruits of the sun and for the precious things of the growth of the moons,


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and for the chief things of the mountains of long-ago and for the precious things of the everlasting hills,


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and for the precious things of the earth and the fullness of it and the good will of him who dwelt in the bush. Let <i>it</i> come upon the head of Joseph and upon the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers.


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The first-offspring of his herd, majesty is his. And his horns are the horns of the wild-ox. With them he will push the peoples, all of them, <i>even</i> the ends of the earth. And they are the ten thousands of Ephraim and they are the thousands of Manasseh.


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They will call the peoples to the mountain. There they will offer sacrifices of righteousness, for they will suck the abundance of the seas and the hidden treasures of the sand.


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<pb/>And of Gad he said, He who enlarges Gad is blessed. He dwells as a lioness and tears the arm, yes, the crown of the head.


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And he provided the first part for himself, for there was the lawgiver's portion reserved. And he came <i>with</i> the heads of the people. He executed the righteousness of Jehovah and his ordinances with Israel.


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<pb/>And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favor and full with the blessing of Jehovah, possess you the west and the south.


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<pb/>And of Asher he said, Asher with sons are blessed. Let him be acceptable to his brothers and let him dip his foot in oil.


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<pb/>There is none like God, O Jeshurun, who rides upon the heavens for your help and in his excellency on the skies.


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The God of long-ago is <i>your</i> dwelling-place and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy from before you and said, 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 down dew.


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You are fortunate, O Israel. Who is like you, a people saved by Jehovah, the shield of your help and the sword of your excellency! And your enemies will submit themselves to you and you will tread upon their high places.


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<pb/>And Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is opposite Jericho. And Jehovah showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan,


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and all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh and all the land of Judah, to the farther sea,


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And Jehovah said to him, This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, saying, I will give it to your seed. I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you will not go over there.


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<pb/>So Moses the servant of Jehovah died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of Jehovah.


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And he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor, but no man knows of his sepulcher to this day.


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<pb/>And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.


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And the sons of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. So the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.


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<pb/>And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands upon him. And the sons of Israel listened to him and did as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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in all the signs and the wonders, which Jehovah 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 hand and in all the great terror, which Moses worked in the sight of all Israel.


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<pb/>Now it happened after the death of Moses the servant of Jehovah, that Jehovah spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,


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Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I give to them, even to the sons of Israel.


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<pb/>Every place that the sole of your* foot will tread upon, to you* I have given it, as I spoke to Moses.


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From the wilderness and this Lebanon, even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun, will be your* border.


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<pb/>There will not any man be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you, nor forsake you.


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Be strong and of good courage, for you will cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.


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<pb/>Only be strong and very courageous to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded you. Turn not from it, <i>neither</i> to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.


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<pb/>This book of the law will not depart out of your mouth, but you will meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then you will make your way prosperous and then you will have good success.


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<pb/>Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage. Do not be frightened, neither be dismayed, for Jehovah your God is with you wherever you go.


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Pass through the midst of the camp and command the people, saying, Prepare food for you*, for within three days you* are to pass over this Jordan to go in to possess the land, which Jehovah your* God gives you* to possess it.


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<pb/>And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joshua spoke, saying,


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Remember the word which Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you*, saying, Jehovah your* God gives you* rest and will give you* this land.


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Your* wives, your* little ones and your* cattle, will abide in the land which Moses gave you* beyond the Jordan, but you* will pass over before your* brothers armed, all the mighty men of valor and will help them


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until Jehovah has given your* brothers rest, as you* and they also have possessed the land which Jehovah your* God gives them. Then you* will return to the land of your* possession and possess it, which Moses the servant of Jehovah gave you* beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.


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<pb/>And they answered Joshua, saying, All that you have commanded us we will do and wherever you send us we will go.


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Just-as we listened to Moses in all things, so will we listen to you. Only Jehovah your God be with you, as he was with Moses.


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Whoever he is who will rebel against your commandment and will not listen to your words in all that you command him, he will be put to death. Only be strong and of good courage.


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<pb/>And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men as spies secretly, saying, Go, view the land and Jericho. And they went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and lay down there.


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And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, men came in here tonight of the sons of Israel to search out the land.


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And the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men who came to you, who have entered into your house, for they have come to search out all the land.


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<pb/>And the woman took the two men and hid them. And she said, Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know from where they were.


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And it happened about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out. Where the men went I do not know. Pursue after them quickly, for you* will overtake them.


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But she had brought them up to the roof and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.


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And the men pursued after them the way to the Jordan to the fords and as soon as those who pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.


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And she said to the men, I know that Jehovah has given you* the land and that the fear of you* has fallen upon us. And that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you*.


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<pb/>For we have heard how Jehovah dried up the water of the Red Sea before you* when you* came out of Egypt and what you* did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you* utterly destroyed.


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And as soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, neither did there remain any more spirit in any man because of you*, for Jehovah your* God, he is God in heaven above and on earth beneath.


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<pb/>Now therefore, I beseech you*, swear to me by Jehovah, since I have dealt kindly with you*, that you* also will deal kindly with my father's house and give me a true token,


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and that you* will save alive my father and my mother and my brothers and my sisters and all that they have and will deliver our lives from death.


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And the men said to her, Our life for yours* if you* do not utter this our business. And it will be, when Jehovah gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.


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<pb/>Then she let them down by a cord through the window, for her house was upon the side of the wall and she dwelt upon the wall.


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And she said to them, You* get to the mountain lest the pursuers come upon you*. And hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned and afterward you* may go your* way.


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<pb/>And the men said to her, We will be guiltless of this your oath which you have made us to swear.


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Behold, when we come into the land, you will bind this line of scarlet cord in the window which you let us down by. And you will gather to you into the house your father and your mother and your brothers and all your father's household.


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<pb/>And it will be, that whoever will go out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be upon his head and we will be guiltless. And whoever will be with you in the house, his blood will be on our head if any hand be upon him.


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But if you utter this our business, then we will be guiltless of your oath which you have made us to swear.


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And she said, According to your* words, so be it. And she sent them away and they departed. And she bound the scarlet line in the window.


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<pb/>And they went and came to the mountain and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned. And the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but did not find them.


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Then the two men returned and descended from the mountain and passed over and came to Joshua the son of Nun. And they told him all that had befallen them.


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And they said to Joshua, Truly Jehovah has delivered into our hands all the land and moreover all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us.


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<pb/>And Joshua rose up early in the morning. And they moved from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the sons of Israel and they lodged there before they passed over.


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and they commanded the people, saying, When you* see the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your* God and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you* will move from your* place and go after it.


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<pb/>Yet there will be a space between you* and it, about two thousand cubits by measure. Do not come near to it, that you* may know the way by which you* must go, for you* have not passed this way yesterday and the day before.


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<pb/>And Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow Jehovah will do wonders among you*.


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And Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Joshua, This day I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.


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And you will command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When you* have come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you* will stand still in the Jordan.


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And Joshua said, Hereby you* will know that the living God is among you* and that he will without fail drive out from before you* the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Hivite and the Perizzite and the Girgashite and the Amorite and the Jebusite.


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<pb/>Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you* into the Jordan.


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And it will happen, when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Jehovah, the Lord of all the earth, will rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off, even the waters that come down from above and they will stand in one heap.


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<pb/>And it happened, when the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan — the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people–


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and when those who bore the ark came to the Jordan and the feet of the priests who bore the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),


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that the waters which came down from above, stood and rose up in one heap a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were entirely cut off. And the people passed over right against Jericho.


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<pb/>And the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Jehovah stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan and all Israel passed over on dry ground until all the nation were passed clean over the Jordan.


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<pb/>And it happened, when all the nation was finished passing over the Jordan, that Jehovah spoke to Joshua, saying,


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and command you* them, saying, Take for you* here out of the midst of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones and carry them over with you* and lay them down in the lodging-place where you* will lodge this night.


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<pb/>Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the sons of Israel, a man out of every tribe.


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And Joshua said to them, Pass over before the ark of Jehovah your* God into the midst of the Jordan and take up every man of you* a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel,


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that this may be a sign among you*, that, when your* children ask in time to come, saying, What do you* mean by these stones?


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Then you* will say to them, Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah. When it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. And these stones will be for a memorial to the sons of Israel everlasting.


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<pb/>And the sons of Israel did so as Joshua commanded and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as Jehovah spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel and they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged and laid them down there.


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<pb/>And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant 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 Jehovah commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua. And the people hastened and passed over.


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And it happened, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of Jehovah passed over and the priests, in the presence of the people.


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<pb/>And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the sons of Israel, as Moses spoke to them.


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About forty thousand ready armed for war passed over before Jehovah to battle, to the plains of Jericho.


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<pb/>On that day Jehovah magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.


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<pb/>And it happened, when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Jehovah came up out of the midst of the Jordan and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up to the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and went over all its banks, as formerly.


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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 spoke to the sons of Israel, saying, When your* sons will ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What do these stones mean?


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For Jehovah your* God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you*, until you* were passed over, as Jehovah your* God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were passed over,


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that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of Jehovah, that it is mighty, that you* may fear Jehovah your* God forever.


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<pb/>And it happened, when all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how that Jehovah had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the sons of Israel until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the sons of Israel.


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<pb/>At that time Jehovah said to Joshua, Make for you knives of flint and circumcise again the sons of Israel the second time.


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And Joshua made him knives of flint and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.


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<pb/>And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised: All the people who came forth out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way after they came forth out of Egypt.


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For all the people who came out were circumcised, but all the people who were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, they had not circumcised.


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<pb/>For the sons of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness till all the nation, even the men of war who came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not listen to the voice of Jehovah, to whom Jehovah swore that he would not let them see the land which Jehovah swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.


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And their sons, whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised, for they were uncircumcised because they had not circumcised them by the way.


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<pb/>And it happened, when they had done circumcising all the nation, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were recovered.


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And Jehovah said to Joshua, This day I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you*. Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal, to this day.


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<pb/>And the sons of Israel 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 they ate of the produce of the land on the morrow after the Passover, unleavened cakes and parched grain, in the same day.


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And the manna ceased on the morrow, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. Neither had the sons of Israel manna any more, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.


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<pb/>And it happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, there stood a man opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said to him, Are you for us, or for our adversaries?


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<pb/>And he said, No, but <i>as</i> captain of the army of Jehovah I have now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped and said to him, What does my lord say to his servant?


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And the captain of Jehovah's army said to Joshua, Put off your shoe from your foot, for the place on which you stand is holy. And Joshua did so.


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And Jehovah said to Joshua, See, I have given Jericho into your hand and the king of it and the mighty men of valor.


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And you* will encompass the city, all the men of war, going around the city once. Thus will you do six days.


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<pb/>And seven priests will bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark. And the seventh day you* will encompass the city seven times and the priests will blow the trumpets.


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And it will be, that, when they make a prolonged <i>blast</i> with the ram's horn and when you* hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people will shout with a great shout. And the wall of the city will fall down flat and the people will go up every man straight before him.


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<pb/>And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, Take up the ark of the covenant and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of Jehovah.


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And they said to the people, Pass on and encompass the city and let the armed men pass on before the ark of Jehovah.


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And it was so, that, when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before Jehovah passed on and blew the trumpets. And the ark of the covenant of Jehovah followed them.


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And the armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets and the rearward went behind the ark, <i>the priests</i> blowing the trumpets as they went.


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<pb/>And Joshua commanded the people, saying, You* will not shout, nor let your* voice be heard, neither will any word proceed out of your* mouth until the day I bid you* shout. Then you* will shout.


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So he caused the ark of Jehovah to encompass the city, going around it 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 Jehovah went on continually and blew the trumpets. And the armed men went before them and the rearward came behind the ark of Jehovah, <i>the priests</i> blowing the trumpets as they went.


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<pb/>And it happened on the seventh day, that they rose early at the dawning of the day and encompassed the city according to the same manner seven times. Only on that day they encompassed the city seven times.


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And it happened at the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, Shout, for Jehovah has given you* the city.


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<pb/>And the city will be set apart, even it and all that is in it, to Jehovah. Only Rahab the prostitute will live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.


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<pb/>But as for you*, only keep yourselves from what is set apart, lest when you* have set it apart, you* take from what is set apart. So you* would make the camp of Israel accursed and trouble it.


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But all the silver and gold and vessels of brass and iron, are holy to Jehovah. They will come into the treasury of Jehovah.


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<pb/>So the people shouted and <i>the priests</i> blew the trumpets. And it happened, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, that the people shouted with a great shout and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him and they took the city.


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And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old and ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.


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<pb/>And Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, Go into the prostitute's house and bring out from there the woman and all that she has, as you* swore to her.


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And the young men, the spies, went in and brought out Rahab and her father and her mother and her brothers and all that she had. They also brought out all her kindred and they set them outside the camp of Israel.


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<pb/>And they burnt the city with fire and all that was in it. Only the silver and the gold and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of Jehovah.


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<pb/>But Joshua saved alive Rahab the prostitute and her father's household and all that she had. And she dwelt in the midst of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.


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<pb/>And Joshua charged them with an oath at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before Jehovah who rises up and builds this city Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn he will lay the foundation of it and with the loss of his youngest son he will set up the gates of it.


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<pb/>But the sons of Israel committed a trespass in what was set apart. For Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took from what was set apart and the anger of Jehovah was kindled against the sons of Israel.


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<pb/>And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth-aven, on the east side of Bethel and spoke to them, saying, Go up and spy out the land. And the men went up and spied out Ai.


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And they returned to Joshua and said to him, Do not let all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and kill* Ai. Do not make all the people to toil there, for they are but few.


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<pb/>So there went up there of the people about three thousand men. And they fled before the men of Ai.


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And the men of Ai killed* of them about thirty-six men. And they chased them <i>from</i> before the gate even to Shebarim and killed* them at the descent. And the hearts of the people melted and became as water.


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<pb/>And Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of Jehovah until the evening, he and the elders of Israel and they put dust upon their heads.


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<pb/>And Joshua said, Alas, O lord Jehovah, why have you at all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? Would that we had been content and dwelt beyond the Jordan!


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For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and will encompass us around and cut off our name from the earth and what will you do for your great name?


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Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken from what was set apart and have also stolen and also dissembled. And they have even put it among their own stuff.


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<pb/>Therefore the sons of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies because they have become accursed. I will not be with you* any more unless you* destroy what was set apart from among you*.


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<pb/>Up, sanctify the people and say, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow. For Jehovah says thus, the God of Israel, There is what has been set apart in the midst of you, O Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you* take away the devoted thing from among you*.


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<pb/>In the morning therefore you* will be brought near by your* tribes and it will be, that the tribe which Jehovah takes will come near by families and the family which Jehovah will take will come near by households and the household which Jehovah will take will come near man by man.


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And it will be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing will be burnt with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of Jehovah and because he has done senselessness in Israel.


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<pb/>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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And he brought near the family of Judah and he took the Zerahite family. And he brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man and Zabdi was taken.


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And he brought near his household man by man and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.


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<pb/>And Joshua said to Achan, I beseech you, my son give glory to Jehovah, the God of Israel and make confession to him and tell me now what you have done. Hide it not from me.


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And Achan answered Joshua and said, Of a truth I have sinned against Jehovah, the God of Israel and thus and thus have I done:


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When I saw among the spoil a pleasant Babylonian mantle and two hundred shekels of silver and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I desired them and took them. And behold, they are hid in the ground in the midst of my tent and the silver under it.


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<pb/>So Joshua sent messengers and they ran to the tent. And behold, it was hid in his tent and the silver under it.


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And they took them from the midst of the tent and brought them to Joshua and to all the sons of Israel and they laid them down before Jehovah.


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<pb/>And Joshua and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah and the silver and the mantle and the wedge of gold and his sons and his daughters and his oxen and his donkeys and his sheep and his tent and all that he had and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.


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<pb/>And Joshua said, Why have you troubled us? Jehovah will trouble you this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.


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And they raised over him a great heap of stones, to this day and Jehovah turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called the valley of Achor to this day.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Joshua, Do not fear, neither be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you and arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into your hand the king of Ai and his people and his city and his land.


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And you will do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only the spoil of it and the cattle of it, you* will take for a prey to yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.


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<pb/>So Joshua arose and all the people of war, to go up to Ai. And Joshua chose out thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor and sent them forth by night.


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And he commanded them, saying, Behold, you* will lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Do not go very far from the city, but be you* all ready,


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and I and all the people that are with me, will approach to the city. And it will happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.


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And they will come out after us, till we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first. So we will flee before them.


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<pb/>And you* will rise up from the ambush and take possession of the city, for Jehovah your* God will deliver it into your* hand.


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And it will be, when you* have seized upon the city, that you* will set the city on fire. According to the word of Jehovah will you* do. See, I have commanded you*.


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<pb/>And Joshua sent them forth and they went to the ambush and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai, but Joshua lodged that night among the people.


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And Joshua arose up early in the morning and mustered the people and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.


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<pb/>And all the people, <i>even the men of</i> war who were with him, went up and drew near and came before the city and encamped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai.


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And he took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.


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So they set the people, even all the army that was on the north of the city and their ambush that were on the west of the city and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.


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<pb/>And it happened, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hastened and rose up early and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah, but he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.


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<pb/>And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them and fled by the way of the wilderness.


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And all the people that were in the city were called together to pursue after them and they pursued after Joshua and were drawn away from the city.


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And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. And they left the city open and pursued after Israel.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand. And Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.


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And the ambush arose quickly out of their place and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand and entered into the city and took it. And they hastened and set the city on fire.


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<pb/>And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven and they had no power to flee this way or that way. And the people who fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.


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<pb/>And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again and killed the men of Ai.


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And the others came forth out of the city against them, so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side and some on that side. And they killed* them so that they let none of them remain or escape.


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<pb/>And it happened, when Israel had made an end of killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them and they were all fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, that all Israel returned to Ai and killed* it with the edge of the sword.


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<pb/>And all who fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.


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For Joshua did not draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.


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Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey to themselves, according to the word of Jehovah which he commanded Joshua.


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<pb/>And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening. And at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded and they took his body down from the tree and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city and raised a great heap of stones on it, to this day.


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as Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of unhewn stones, upon which no man had lifted up any iron. And they offered burnt offerings on it to Jehovah and sacrificed peace offerings.


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And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote, in the presence of the sons of Israel.


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<pb/>And all Israel and their elders and officers and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, as well the traveler as the home born, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Jehovah had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.


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<pb/>And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.


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There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel and the women and the little ones and the travelers who were among them.


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<pb/>And it happened, when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill-country and in the lowland and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon — the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite — heard of it,


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they also worked shrewdly and went and made as if they had been ambassadors and took old sacks upon their donkeys and wine-skins, old and torn and bound up,


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and old and patched shoes upon their feet and old garments upon them and all the bread of their provision was dry and became moldy.


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<pb/>And they went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal and said to him and to the men of Israel, We have come from a far country, now therefore make you* a covenant with us.


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And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, Perhaps you* dwell among us and how will we make a covenant with you*?


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And they said to Joshua, We are your servants. And Joshua said to them, Who are you* and from where do you* come?


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<pb/>And they said to him, From a very far country. Your servants have come because of the name of Jehovah 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 was at Ashtaroth.


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<pb/>And our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take provision in your* hand for the journey and go to meet them and say to them, We are your* servants and now make you* a covenant with us.


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<pb/>This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came out to go to you*, but now, behold, it is dry and has become moldy.


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And these wine-skins, which we filled, were new, and behold, they are torn. And these our garments and our shoes have become old by reason of the very long journey.


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And Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them to let them live and the rulers of the congregation swore to them.


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And it happened at the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors and that they dwelt among them.


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<pb/>And the sons of Israel journeyed and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities <i>were</i> Gibeon and Chephirah and Beeroth and Kiriath-jearim.


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And the sons of Israel did not kill* them, because the rulers of the congregation had sworn to them by Jehovah, the God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the rulers.


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But all the rulers said to all the congregation, We have sworn to them by Jehovah, the God of Israel, now therefore we may not touch them.


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<pb/>This we will do to them and let them live, lest wrath be upon us because of the oath which we swore to them.


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And the rulers said to them, Let them live. So they became hewers of wood and drawers of water to all the congregation, as the rulers had spoken to them.


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<pb/>And Joshua called for them and he spoke to them, saying, Why have you* beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you*, when you* dwell among us?


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Now therefore you* are cursed and there will never fail to be bondmen of you*, both hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.


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<pb/>And they answered Joshua and said, Because it was certainly told your servants, how that Jehovah your God commanded his servant Moses to give you* all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you*. Therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you* and have done this thing.


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And so he did to them and delivered them out of the hand of the sons of Israel, that they did not kill them.


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And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of Jehovah to this day in the place which he should choose.


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<pb/>Now it happened, when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai and had utterly destroyed it, as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them,


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that they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities and because it was greater than Ai and all the men of it were mighty.


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<pb/>Therefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent <i>word</i> to Hoham king of Hebron and to Piram king of Jarmuth and to Japhia king of Lachish and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,


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Come up to me and help me and let us kill* Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and with the sons of Israel.


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<pb/>Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together and went up, they and all their armies and encamped against Gibeon and made war against it.


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And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not your hand from your servants. Come up to us quickly and save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the hill-country are gathered together against us.


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<pb/>So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him and all the mighty men of valor.


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And Jehovah said to Joshua, Fear them not, for I have delivered them into your hands. There will not a man of them stand before you.


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And Jehovah confused them before Israel and he killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon and killed* them to Azekah and to Makkedah.


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<pb/>And it happened, as they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth-horon, that Jehovah cast down great stones from heaven upon them to Azekah and they died. More died with the hailstones than those whom the sons of Israel killed with the sword.


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<pb/>Then Joshua spoke to Jehovah in the day when Jehovah delivered up the Amorites before the sons of Israel. And he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand still upon Gibeon and you, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon.


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<pb/>And the sun stood still and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Is this not written in the book of Jashar? And the sun stayed in the midst of heaven and hastened not to go down about a whole day.


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And there was no day like that before it or after it, that Jehovah listened to the voice of a man, for Jehovah fought for Israel.


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but stay you* not. Pursue after your* enemies and kill* the hindmost of them. Do not allow them to enter into their cities, for Jehovah your* God has delivered them into your* hand.


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<pb/>And it happened, when Joshua and the sons of Israel had made an end of killing them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,


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that all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace. No man moved his tongue against any of the sons of Israel.


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<pb/>Then Joshua said, Open the mouth of the cave and bring forth those five kings to me out of the cave.


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And they did so and brought out those five kings to him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon.


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<pb/>And it happened, when they brought out those kings to Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, Come near, put your* feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near and put their feet upon the necks of them.


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<pb/>And Joshua said to them, Do not fear, nor be dismayed. Be strong and of good courage, for thus will Jehovah do to all your* enemies against whom you* fight.


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And afterward Joshua killed* them and put them to death and hanged them on five trees. And they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.


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<pb/>And it happened at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded and they took them down off the trees and cast them into the cave in which they had hidden themselves and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, to this very day.


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<pb/>And Joshua took Makkedah on that day and killed* it with the edge of the sword and the king of it. He utterly destroyed them and all the souls that were in it. He left none remaining and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.


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And Jehovah delivered it also and the king of it, into the hand of Israel. And he killed* it with the edge of the sword and all the souls that were in it. He left none remaining in it and he did to the king of it as he had done to the king of Jericho.


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<pb/>And Joshua passed from Libnah and all Israel with him, to Lachish and encamped against it and fought against it.


