Deuteronomy:2:24-3
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Rise up ;
pull up and cross over the Arnon River ;
behold ,
I have given Sihon the king of Heshbon ,
the Amorite ,
and his land into your hand .
Begin to possess ,
and stir yourselves up against him in battle .
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Today I will begin to put your dread and your fear on the face of the people under all the heavens ,
who will hear your fame ,
and will tremble and writhe because of you .
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And I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon the king of Heshbon with words of peace ,
saying ,
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Let me pass on the highway through your land ;
I will go on the highway ;
I will not turn aside to the right or the left ;
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you shall sell me food for silver ,
and I shall eat ;
and you shall give me water for silver ,
and I will drink .
Only ,
let me pass through on my feet ,
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as the sons of Esau who live in Seir ,
and the Moabites who live in Ar ,
have done to me ,
until I have crossed over the Jordan ,
to the land which Jehovah our God is giving to us .
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And Sihon the king of Heshbon was not willing to let us pass by him ,
for Jehovah your God had hardened his spirit ,
and had emboldened his heart ,
so as to give him into your hand ,
as it is this day .
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And Jehovah said to me ,
Behold ,
I have begun to give Sihon and his land before you ;
begin to possess ,
in order to possess his land .
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And Sihon came out to meet us ,
he and all his people ,
to battle at Jahaz .
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And Jehovah our God delivered him before us ,
and we struck him and his sons ,
and all his people .
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And we captured all his cities at that time ,
and utterly destroyed every city ,
men and women and little ones .
We did not leave a remnant .
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Only ,
we plundered the cattle for ourselves ,
and we took the plunder of the cities .
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From Aroer ,
which is by the edge of the Arnon River ,
and the city beside the river ,
even to Gilead ,
there was not a city which was too high for us .
Jehovah our God delivered all before us .
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Only ,
you did not come near to the land of the sons of Ammon ,
any part of the Jabbok River ,
and the cities of the hill country ,
and all which Jehovah our God had forbidden us .
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When you go out to battle against your enemies ,
and see horses and chariots ,
a people more than you ,
you shall 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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And it shall be ,
when you draw near to battle ,
the priest shall come and speak to the people ,
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and say to them .
Hear ,
Israel ,
you are drawing near today to battle against your enemies .
Do not let your heart be faint ;
do not fear nor tremble ,
nor be terrified before their faces .
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For Jehovah your God is He who is going before you ,
to fight for you with your enemies ,
to save you .
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And the officers shall speak to the people ,
saying ,
who is the man that has built a new house ,
and has not dedicated it ?
Let him go and return to his house ,
that he not die in battle and another man dedicate it .
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And who is the man that has planted a vineyard ,
and has not used its fruit ?
Let him go and return to his house ,
that he not die in battle ,
and another man use its fruit .
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And who is the man who has betrothed a woman ,
and has not taken her ?
Let him go and return to his house ,
that he not die in the battle ,
and another man take her .
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And the officers shall speak further to the people ,
and say ,
Who is the man who is afraid ,
and faint of heart ?
Let him go and return to his house ;
then the heart of his brothers will not melt like his heart .
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And it shall be ,
when the officers have finished speaking to the people ,
commanders of the armies shall be appointed at the head of the people .
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When you come near a city to fight against it ,
then call to it for peace .
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And it shall be ,
if it answers peace to you ,
and shall open to you ,
then it shall be that all the people found in it shall be forced laborers for you ,
and shall serve you .
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And if it shall not make peace with you ,
and shall make war with you ,
then you shall lay siege against it .
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And Jehovah your God shall give it into your hand ;
and you shall strike every male of it by the mouth of the sword .
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Only ,
the women ,
and the little ones ,
and the livestock ,
and all in the city ,
all its plunder ,
you shall seize for yourself .
And you shall eat the plunder of your enemies which Jehovah your God has given to you .
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So you shall do to all the cities very far away from you ,
which are not of the cities of these nations .
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But of the cities of these peoples which Jehovah your God is giving to you as an inheritance ,
you shall not keep alive any that breathes .
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But you shall utterly destroy them the Hittites ,
and the Amorites ,
the Canaanites ,
and the Perizzites ,
the Hivites ,
and the Jebusites ,
as Jehovah your God has commanded you ;
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so that they may not teach you to do according to all their filthy deeds which they have done for their gods ;
and you would sin against Jehovah your God .
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When you shall lay siege to a city many days ,
to fight against it ,
to capture it ,
you shall not destroy its trees in order to force an axe against them .
For you shall eat of them ,
and you shall not cut them down ,
for is the tree of the field a man that it should be used by you to lay siege ?
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Only the tree which you know not to be a fruit tree ,
you may destroy it ,
and may cut it down ,
and may build a bulwark against the city making war with you ,
until you have subdued it .
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If one is found slain in the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you ,
to possess it ,
lying in the field ,
and it is not known who has struck him ;
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then your elders and your judges shall come out .
And they shall measure to the cities which are around the one slain .
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And it shall be ,
that the city nearest to the one slain ,
even the elders of that city shall 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 shall bring the heifer down to an ever-flowing stream ,
which is not plowed nor sown .
And they shall break the heifer '
s neck there by the stream .
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And the priests ,
the sons of Levi ,
shall come near (
for Jehovah your God has chosen them to minister to Him ,
and to bless in the name of Jehovah )
and by their mouth shall every controversy and every stroke be tried .
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And all the elders of that city nearest to the one slain shall wash their hands by the stream ,
over the heifer whose neck was broken .
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And they shall answer and say ,
Our hands have not shed this blood ,
nor have our eyes seen it .
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O Jehovah ,
be merciful to Your people Israel ,
whom You have redeemed ,
and do not allow innocent blood in the midst of Your people Israel .
And the blood shall be forgiven them .
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And you shall put away the innocent blood from among you ,
for you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah .
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When you go out to battle against your enemies ,
and Jehovah your God has given them into your hands ,
and you have taken them captive ;
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and you have seen in the captivity a woman of beautiful form ,
and you desire her ,
even to take her to you for a wife ,
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then you shall bring her into the midst of your household .
And she shall shave her head ,
and prepare her nails ,
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and shall remove the clothing of her captivity from her ,
and shall live in your house ,
and shall sorrow for her father and her mother a month of days .
Then afterwards you shall go in to her ,
and shall marry her ;
and she shall be a wife to you .
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And it shall be ,
if you do not delight in her ,
you shall send her away at her desire ;
and you shall not at all sell her for silver ;
you shall not treat her as a slave ,
because you have humbled her .
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If a man has two wives ,
the one loved ,
and the other hated ;
and they have borne him sons ,
both the loved one and the hated one ;
and if the first-born son was of her who was hated ,
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then it shall be ,
in the day that he causes his son to inherit that which he has ,
he may not cause to inherit the son of the loved one the first-born before the son of the hated one ,
who is truly the first-born .
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But he shall acknowledge the first-born ,
the son of the hated one ,
by giving him a double portion of all that he has ;
for he is the firstfruit of his strength ,
the right of the first-born is his .
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If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not listen to his father '
s voice ,
or his mother '
s voice ;
even though they discipline him ,
he will not listen to them ;
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then his father and his mother shall lay hold on him and bring him out to the elders of his city ,
and to the gate of his place ;
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and they shall say to the elders of his city ,
This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious ;
he will not listen to our voice ;
he is a glutton ,
and a drunkard .
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And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones ,
and he shall die .
So you shall put away the evil from among you ,
that all Israel shall hear ,
and fear .
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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 shall not remain all night on the tree ;
but you shall surely bury him the same day .
For he that is hanged is a reproach to God .
And you shall not defile your land which Jehovah your God is giving to you as an inheritance .
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You shall not see your brother '
s ox or his sheep driven away ,
and hide yourself from them .
You shall surely turn them back to your brother .
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And if your brother is not near you ,
and you do not know him ,
then you shall surely bring it home to your house ;
and it shall be with you until your brother inquires of it ;
and you shall restore it to him .
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And so you shall do with his ass .
and so you will do with his clothing ,
and so you shall do with everything lost of your brother '
s ,
which he has lost and you have found ;
you may not hide it .
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You shall not see your brother '
s ass or his ox fallen down in the highway ,
and hide yourself from them .
You shall surely help him lift up .
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There shall not be the thing of a man on a woman ,
nor shall a man put on a woman '
s garment .
For whoever does these things is an abomination to Jehovah your God .
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If a bird '
s nest happens to be before you in the way in any tree ,
or on the ground ,
with young ones ,
or eggs ;
and the mother is sitting on the young ,
or on the eggs ,
you shall not take the mother with the young .
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But in every case you shall let the mother go ,
and take the young for yourself ,
so that it may be well with you ,
and you may prolong your days .
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When you build a new house ,
then you shall make a guard rail for your roof ,
so that you do not put blood on your house if someone falls from it .
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You shall not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seeds ,
that the fruit of your seed which you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard not be defiled .
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You shall not plow with an ox and an ass together .
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You shall not wear a garment of different kinds ,
of wool and linen together .
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You shall make for yourself tassels on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover .
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If any man takes a wife ,
and goes in to her ,
and hates her ,
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then makes shameful charges against her ,
and brings up an evil name on her ,
and says ,
I took this woman ,
and when I came near her ,
I did not find in her the tokens of virginity .
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Then the girl '
s father and her mother shall take and bring the girl '
s tokens of virginity to the elders of the city in the gate .
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And the girl '
s father shall say to the elders ,
I have given my daughter to this man for a wife ,
and he hates her .
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And ,
behold ,
he has laid shameful charges ,
saying ,
I have not found in your daughter the tokens of virginity .
And yet see these tokens of my daughter '
s virginity .
And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city .
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And the elders of that city shall take that man and punish him .
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And they shall fine him a hundred pieces of silver ,
and give them to the girl '
s father ,
because he has caused an evil name to be spread abroad on a virgin of Israel .
And she shall be his wife ;
he may not put her away all his days .
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But if this thing is true that tokens of virginity have not been found for the girl ,
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then they shall bring out the girl to the door of her father '
s house .
And the men of her city shall stone her with stones ,
and she shall die ;
for she has done folly in Israel ,
to commit fornication in her father '
s house .
And you shall put away the evil from among you .
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If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband ,
then they shall both of them die ,
the man that lay with the woman ,
and the woman .
And you shall put away the evil from Israel .
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If there is a girl that is a virgin ,
betrothed to a man ,
and a man finds her in the city ,
and lies with her ,
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then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city .
And you shall stone them with stones so that they die ,
the girl because she did not cry out ,
being in the city ;
and the man ,
because he has humbled his neighbor '
s wife .
And you shall put away the evil from among you .
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But if a man finds a betrothed girl in the field ,
and the man seizes her and lies with her ;
then only the man that lay with her shall die .
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And you shall do nothing to the girl ;
the girl has no sin worthy of death ;
for as when a man rises against his neighbor and murders him ,
even so is this matter .
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For he found her in the field ,
and the betrothed girl cried out ,
but no one saved her .
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If a man finds a virgin girl ,
not being betrothed ,
and seizes her and lies with her ,
and they be found ;
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then the man lying with her shall give to the girl '
s father fifty pieces of silver ,
and she shall be his wife ,
because he has humbled her .
He may not put her away all his days .
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A man shall not take his father '
s wife ,
and shall not uncover his father '
s skirt .
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He being wounded ,
crushed ,
or cut in his male member shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah .
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An illegitimate child shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah ,
even to the tenth generation none of his shall enter into the assembly of Jehovah .
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An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah ;
even to the tenth generation shall none of them enter into the assembly of Jehovah ,
perpetually ;
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because they did not meet you with bread and with water in the way when you came 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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But Jehovah your God would not listen to Balaam ,
and Jehovah your God turned the curse into a blessing to you ,
because Jehovah your God loved you .
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You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days ,
perpetually .
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You shall not despise an Edomite ,
for he is your brother .
You shall not despise an Egyptian ,
for you were an alien in his land ;
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sons of the third generation that are born to them may enter into the assembly of Jehovah .
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When you go forth into camp against your enemies ,
then keep yourself from every evil thing .
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If there is among you any man who is not clean because of an accident at night ,
then he shall go to the outside of the camp ;
he shall not come in to the middle of the camp .
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And it shall be ,
as evening is turning ,
he shall bathe with water ,
and as the sun is going ,
he shall come into the middle of the camp .
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Also you shall have a place outside the camp ,
and you shall go out there .
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And you shall have an instrument on your staff .
And it shall be ,
as you sit outside ,
you shall dig with it ,
and shall turn back ,
and shall cover that which comes from you .
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For Jehovah your God walks in the middle of your camp to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you ;
therefore your camp shall be holy ,
so that He may see no unclean thing in you ,
and turn away from you .
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You shall not hand over to his master a slave that has escaped from his master to you .
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He shall live with you ,
among you ,
in the place which he chooses inside one of your gates ,
wherever it is pleasing to him .
You shall not oppress him .
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There shall be no prostitute among the daughters of Israel ,
nor shall there be a homosexual among the sons of Israel .
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You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute ,
or the price of a dog ,
into the house of Jehovah your God for any vow ;
for even both of these are an abomination to Jehovah your God .
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You shall not lend at interest to your brother ;
interest of silver ,
interest of food ,
interest of anything loaned at interest .
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You may lend to a stranger at interest ,
but you shall not lend at interest to your brother ,
so that Jehovah your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to ,
in the land where you go to possess it .
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When you shall vow a vow to Jehovah your God ,
you shall not delay to perform it ;
for Jehovah your God will certainly require it of you ,
and it shall be sin to you .
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But if you shall forebear to vow ,
it shall be no sin to you .
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That which has gone out of your lips ,
you shall keep ,
and shall do it .
According as you have vowed as a freewill offering to Jehovah your God ,
do even that which you have promised with your mouth .
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When you come into your neighbor '
s vineyard ,
then you may eat grapes to your fill ,
at your pleasure .
But you shall not put any in your vessel .
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When you come into your neighbor '
s standing grain ,
then you may pluck heads with your hand ;
but you shall not move a sickle into your neighbor '
s standing grain .
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When a man has taken a wife and married her ,
and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found a thing of uncleanness in her ,
and he writes her a bill of divorce and puts it in her hand ,
and sends her out of his house ;
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and if she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man '
s wife ,
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and the latter husband hates her ,
and writes her a bill of divorce ,
and puts it in her hand ,
and sends her out of his house or if the latter husband who took her to be his wife dies ;
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her former husband who sent her away is not to take her again to be his wife ,
after she is defiled .
For it is a hateful thing before Jehovah ,
and you shall not cause the land to sin which Jehovah your God is giving to you as an inheritance .
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When a man has taken a new wife ,
he shall not go out to war ,
and he shall not be given any duty .
He shall be free at his own house for one year ,
and shall gladden his wife whom he has taken .
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No one shall take in pledge the lower and upper millstone ,
for he is taking a man '
s life to pledge .
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If a man is found stealing a person of his brothers of the sons of Israel ,
and has dealt with him as a slave ,
and sold him ,
then that thief shall die .
And you shall put away the evil from among you .
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Be on guard in the plague of leprosy ,
that you watch closely and do according to all that the Levitical priests shall teach you .
As I commanded them ,
so you shall be careful to do .
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Remember that which Jehovah your God did to Miriam in the way ,
as you came out of Egypt .
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When you lend your neighbor any kind of loan ,
you shall not go into his house to get his pledge .
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You shall stand outside ,
and the man to whom you lend shall bring the security outside to you .
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And if the man is poor ,
you shall not sleep with his pledge .
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You shall certainly give back to him the pledge at sundown ;
and he shall lie down in his own clothing ,
and shall bless you .
And it shall be righteousness to you before Jehovah your God .
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You shall not oppress a poor and needy hired servant ,
of your brothers or of your aliens who are in your land ,
within your gates .
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In the same day you shall give him his hire ;
do not let the sun go down on it .
For he is poor ,
and has lifted up his heart on it ;
that he not cry against you to Jehovah ,
and it be sin against you .
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The fathers shall not be put to death for sons ,
and sons are not to be put to death for fathers ;
they each shall be put to death for his own sin .
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You shall not pervert judgment of an alien ,
or of an orphan ;
and you shall not take a widow '
s garment as pledge .
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But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt ,
and Jehovah your God redeemed you from there .
For that reason I command you to do this thing .
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When you cut down your harvest in your field ,
and have forgotten a sheaf in the field ,
you shall not turn back to take it .
It shall be for the alien ,
for the orphan .
and for the widow ;
so that Jehovah your God shall bless you in all the work of your hand .
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When you beat your olive tree ,
you shall not search the branch behind you .
It shall be for the alien ,
for the orphan ,
and for the widow .
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When you gather the grapes of your vineyard ,
you shall not glean it afterward .
It shall be for the alien ,
for the orphan ,
and for the widow .
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And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt .
On account of this I am commanding you to do this thing .
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If there is a contention between men ,
and they come to judgment ,
and they have been judged ,
and the righteous one is declared righteous ,
and the wrong doer declared guilty ;
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then it shall be ,
if the wrongdoer is a son of stripes ,
the judge shall cause him to fall down .
And one shall strike him before his face ,
enough for his wickedness ,
by number .
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He may give him forty stripes ;
he shall not add more ,
lest ,
if he should exceed and beat him above with many stripes ,
then your brother would be dishonored before your eyes .
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You shall not muzzle an ox when he is treading out grain .
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If brothers live together ,
and one of them dies ,
and has no son ,
the wife of the dead shall not go outside to a strange man ;
her brother-in-law shall go in to her ,
and take her to himself for a wife ,
and shall perform the duty of the levirate ;
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and it shall be ,
the first-born which she bears shall rise up for his dead brother '
s name ,
and his name shall not be wiped out of Israel .
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And if the man does not desire to take his brother '
s wife then his brother '
s wife shall go up to the gate ,
to the elders ,
and say ,
My husband '
s brother is refusing to raise up a name to his brother in Israel ;
he has not been willing to perform the duty of my levirate .
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And the elders of his city shall call for him and shall speak to him .
And he shall stand and say ,
I have no desire to take her .
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Then his brother '
s wife shall draw near to him before the elders ,
and shall take his shoe from his foot ,
and spit in his face ,
and shall answer and say ,
So it shall be done to the man who will not build up the house of his brother .
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And his name shall be called in Israel ,
The house of him whose shoe was taken off .
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When men fight with one another ,
and the wife of the one shall come near to deliver her husband from his assailant '
s hand ,
and shall put out her hand and lay hold on his genitals ,
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then you shall cut off her hand ;
your eye shall not pity .
You shall not have in your bag a weight and a weight ,
a great and a small .
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You shall not have in your bag a weight and a weight ,
a great and a small stone .
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You shall not have in your house an ephah and an ephah ,
a great and a small .
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You shall have a perfect and just weight ;
you shall have a perfect and just ephah ;
so that they prolong your days in the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you .
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For anyone doing these things is hateful to Jehovah your God ,
everyone acting evilly .
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Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt ;
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how he met you on the way and attacked your back ,
all the feeble ones in the rear ,
when you were faint and weary ;
and he did not fear God .
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And it shall be ,
when Jehovah your God gives you rest from all your enemies all around in the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you as an inheritance to possess it ,
you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens ;
you shall not forget .
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And it shall be ,
when you have come into the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you as an inheritance ,
and you have possessed it ,
and live in it ;
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then you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the ground which you shall bring in from your land which Jehovah your God is giving to you ,
and shall put it in a basket ,
and shall go to the place which Jehovah your God shall choose to cause His name to dwell there .
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And you shall come to the priest who is in those days ,
and shall say to him ,
I declare today to Jehovah your God that I have come into the land which Jehovah has sworn to our fathers to give to us .
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And the priest shall take the basket out of your hand and place it before the altar of Jehovah your God .
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And you shall speak and say before Jehovah your God ,
My father was a perishing Aramean !
And he went down to Egypt with few men ,
and lived there ,
and became a nation there ,
great ,
mighty and many .
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And the Egyptians dealt ill with us ,
and afflicted us ,
and put hard labor on us .
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And we cried to Jehovah ,
the God of our fathers ,
and Jehovah heard our voice ,
and saw our affliction ,
and our labor ,
and our oppression .
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And Jehovah brought us out from Egypt by a mighty hand ,
and by a stretched out arm ,
and by great terribleness ,
and with signs ,
and with wonders .
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And He has brought us to this place ,
and has given to us this land ,
a land flowing with milk and honey .
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And now ,
behold ,
I have brought in the first of the fruits of the ground which You have given me ,
O Jehovah .
And you shall place it before Jehovah your God ,
and bow yourself before Jehovah your God ,
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and rejoice in all the good which Jehovah your God has given to you ,
and to your house ,
you ,
and the Levite ,
and the alien who is in your midst .
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When you have made an end of tithing all the tithes of your increase the third year ,
the year of tithing ,
and have given it to the Levite ,
the alien ,
the orphan ,
and the widow ,
that they may eat inside your gates ,
and be filled ,
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then you shall say before Jehovah your God I have consumed the devoted things from the house ,
and also have given them to the Levite ,
and to the alien ,
to the orphan ,
and to the widow ,
according to all Your command which You have commanded me .
I have not transgressed Your commands ,
and I have not forgotten .
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I have not eaten of it in my mourning ;
nor have I put any of it away for uncleanness ;
nor have I 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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Look down from Your holy habitation ,
from Heaven ,
and bless Your people Israel ,
and the land which You have given to us ,
as You swore to our fathers ,
a land flowing with milk and honey .
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Today Jehovah your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances .
You shall take heed to do them with all your heart ,
and with all your soul .
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You have today declared Jehovah to be your God ,
and to walk in His ways ,
and to keep His statutes and His commands ,
and His judgments ,
and to pay attention to His voice .
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And Jehovah has declared you today to be His people ,
a special treasure as He has spoken to you ,
and to keep all His commands .
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And He will make you high above all nations that He has made ,
in praise ,
and in name ,
and in glory ;
and that you may be a holy people to Jehovah your God ,
as He has spoken .
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And Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people ,
saying ,
Keep all the commands which I am commanding you today ,
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and it shall be in the day you cross over the Jordan to the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you ,
that you shall raise up for yourself great stones ,
and plaster them with plaster .
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And you shall write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over ,
so that you may go into the land which Jehovah your God is giving you a land flowing with milk and honey ,
as Jehovah the God of your fathers has promised you .
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And it shall be when you have crossed over the Jordan ,
that you shall set up these stones as to which I am commanding you today ,
in Mount Ebal ,
and you shall plaster them with plaster .
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And you shall build an altar there to Jehovah your God ,
an altar of stones ;
you shall not wield any iron tool on them ;
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You shall build the altar of Jehovah your God of uncut stones .
And you shall offer burnt offerings on it to Jehovah your God .
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And you shall offer peace offerings ,
and shall eat there .
And you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God .
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And you shall write on the stones all the words of the law very plainly .
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And Moses and the priests ,
the Levites ,
spoke to all Israel ,
saying ,
Keep silence ,
and hear ,
O Israel :
Today you have become the people of Jehovah your God .
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Therefore you shall obey the voice of Jehovah your God and do His commandments and His statutes which I command you today .
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And Moses charged the people the same day ,
saying ,
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These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people when you have crossed over the Jordan :
Simeon ,
and Levi ,
and Judah ,
and Issachar ,
and Joseph ,
and Benjamin .
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And these shall stand on Mount Ebal to curse :
Reuben ,
Gad ,
and Asher ,
and Zebulun ,
Dan ,
and Naphtali .
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And the Levites shall answer ,
and shall say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice :
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Cursed is the man who makes a carved and molten image an abomination to Jehovah ,
the work of a craftsman '
s hands ,
and who sets it up in a secret place !
And all the people shall answer and say ,
Amen !
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Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother !
And all the people shall say ,
Amen !
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Cursed is he who removes his neighbor '
s landmark !
And all the people shall say ,
Amen !
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Cursed is he who makes the blind to wander out of the way !
And All the people shall say ,
Amen !
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Cursed is he who perverts the judgment of the alien ,
the fatherless ,
and widow !
And all the people shall say ,
Amen !
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Cursed is he who lies with his father '
s wife ,
because he uncovers his father '
s skirt !
And all the people shall say ,
Amen !
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Cursed is he who lies with any kind of animal !
And all the people shall say ,
Amen !
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Cursed is he who lies with his sister ,
his father '
s daughter ,
or his mother '
s daughter !
And all the people shall say ,
Amen !
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Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law !
And all the people shall say ,
Amen !
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Cursed is he who strikes his neighbor secretly !
And all the people shall say ,
Amen !
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Cursed is he who takes a bribe to strike a life ,
to shed innocent blood !
And all the people shall say ,
Amen !
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Cursed is he who does not rise to all the words of this law ,
to do them !
And all the people shall say ,
Amen !
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And if you shall heed the voice of Jehovah your God ,
taking heed to do all His commandments which I command you this day ,
Jehovah your God shall set you on high above all nations of the earth .
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And all these blessings shall come on you and overtake you .
If you will listen to the voice of Jehovah your God .
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You shall be blessed in the city ,
and you shall be blessed in the field .
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The fruit of your body shall be blessed ,
and the fruit of your ground ,
and the fruit of your livestock ,
the offspring of your oxen ,
and the young ones of your flock .
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Your basket and your kneadingtrough shall be blessed .
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You shall be blessed when you come in ,
and you shall be blessed when you go out .
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Jehovah shall cause your enemies that rise up against you to be stricken before your face .
They shall come out against you one way ,
and flee before you seven ways .
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Jehovah shall command the blessing on you in your storehouses and all that you set your hand to .
And He shall bless you in the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you .
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Jehovah shall establish you a holy people to Himself ,
as He has sworn to you ,
if you shall keep the commands of Jehovah your God and welcome His ways .
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And all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of Jehovah ,
and they shall fear you .
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And Jehovah shall prosper you in goods ,
and in the fruit of your body ,
and in the fruit of your livestock ,
and in the fruit of your ground in the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers to give it to you .
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Jehovah shall open to you His good treasure ,
the heavens to give the rain to your land in its season ,
and to bless all the work of your hand .
And you shall lend to many nations ,
but you shall not borrow .
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And Jehovah shall make you the head ,
and not the tail .
And you shall be only above ,
and you shall not be beneath ,
if you heed the commandments of Jehovah your God ,
which I am commanding you today ,
to be careful to do them .
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And you shall not turn away from all the words which I am commanding you today ,
right or left ,
to go after other gods ,
to serve them .
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And it shall be ,
it you will not heed the voice of your God ,
to take heed to do all His commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today ,
even all these curses shall come on you and overtake you :
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You shall be cursed in the city ,
and you shall be cursed in the field .
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Your basket and your kneading-trough shall be cursed .
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The fruit of your body shall be cursed ,
and the fruit of your land ,
the offspring of your oxen ,
and the young ones of your sheep .
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You shall be cursed when you come in ,
and you shall be cursed when you go out .
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Jehovah shall send cursing on you ,
trouble and rebuke in all that you set your hand ,
all which you will do ,
until you are destroyed ,
or until you quickly perish ,
because of the badness of your doings by which you have forsaken Me .
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Jehovah shall make the plague cling to you until He has consumed you from off the land where you are going ,
to possess it .
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Jehovah shall strike you with lung disease and with a fever ,
and with an inflammation ,
and with extreme burning ,
and with the sword ,
and with blasting and mildew .
And they shall pursue you until you perish .
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And your heavens over your head shall become bronze ,
and the earth under you iron .
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Jehovah shall make the rain of your land be dust and ashes .
It shall come down on you from the heavens until you are destroyed .
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Jehovah shall cause you to be stricken before your enemies .
You shall go out one way against them ,
and shall flee seven ways before them .
And you shall be a trembling to all the kingdoms of the earth .
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And your body shall be food to all the birds of the heavens ,
and to the beasts of the earth ;
and there shall be none to cause them to tremble .
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Jehovah shall strike you with the ulcer of Egypt ,
and with hemorrhoids ,
and with the scab ,
and with itch ,
of which you cannot be healed .
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Jehovah shall strike you with madness ,
and with blindness ,
and with astonishment of heart .
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And you shall grope at noonday as the blind grope in darkness .
And you shall not prosper in your ways .
And you shall be always oppressed and plundered all the days ;
and there will be no one to save .
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You shall betroth a wife ,
and another shall lie with her .
You shall build a house ,
and you shall not live in it .
You shall plant a vineyard ,
and shall not use its fruit .
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Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes ,
and you shall not eat of it .
Your ass shall be violently taken away from before you ,
and it will not be given back .
Your sheep shall be given to your enemies ,
and you shall have no deliverer .
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Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people ;
and your eyes shall look and fail for them all the day .
And no power shall be in your hand .
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The fruit of your ground ,
and all your labor ,
shall be eaten up by a nation which you do not know And you shall always be oppressed and crushed .
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And you shall be maddened because of that which you shall see with the sight of your eyes .
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Jehovah shall strike you with an evil ulcer on the knees ,
and on the legs ,
of which you cannot be healed from the sole of your foot even to your crown .
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Jehovah shall cause you and your king whom you shall raise up over you ,
to go to a nation which you have not known ,
you and your fathers .
And you shall serve other gods there ,
wood and stone .
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And you shall be an astonishment ,
a proverb and a byword among all the peoples where Jehovah shall lead you .
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You shall carry much seed out to the field ,
and you shall gather in little ;
for the locusts will devour it .
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You shall plant vineyards ,
and shall labor ,
and you shall not gather ,
nor drink wine ;
for the worm will devour it .
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You shall have olive trees in all your border ,
and you shall not anoint with oil ;
for your olive shall fall off .
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You shall father sons and daughters ,
and they shall not be with you ;
for they shall go into captivity .
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The locust shall possess all your trees and fruit of your ground .
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The alien in your midst shall go above you ,
higher and higher ;
and you shall come down ,
lower and lower .
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He shall lend to you ,
and you shall not lend to him .
He shall be the head ,
and you shall be the tail .
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And all these curses shall come on you and shall pursue you and overtake you ,
until you are destroyed ;
for you did not heed the voice of Jehovah your God ,
to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you .
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And they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder ,
and on your seed forever .
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Because you did not serve Jehovah your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart for the abundance of all things ,
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and you shall serve your enemies whom Jehovah shall send on you ,
in hunger ,
and in thirst ,
and in nakedness ,
and in lack of all things .
And He shall put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you .
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Jehovah shall raise a nation against you from afar ,
from the end of the earth ,
as the eagle flies ;
a nation whose tongue you will not understand ,
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a nation fierce of face ,
who will not regard the person of the aged ,
nor show favor to the young .
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And he shall eat the fruit of your livestock ,
and the fruit of your land ,
until you are destroyed .
He shall not leave to you grain ,
new wine ,
and oil ,
offspring of your oxen ,
or young ones of your flock ,
until he has destroyed you .
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And he shall lay siege to you in all your gates ,
until your high and fortified walls in which you are trusting come down ,
in all your land ;
yea ,
he shall lay siege to you in all your gates ,
in all your land which Jehovah your God has given to you .
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And you shall eat the fruit of your body ,
the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom Jehovah your God has given to you ,
in the siege ,
and in the anguish with which your enemies shall distress you .
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The man who is tender and very delicate among you ,
and his eye shall be evil against his brother ,
and against the wife of his bosom ,
and against the remnant of his sons which he has left ;
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so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his sons that he shall eat ,
because he has nothing left to him in the siege ,
and in the anguish with which your enemies shall distress you in all your gates .
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The tender and delicate woman among you ,
who would not have ventured to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness ,
her eye shall be evil against the husband of her bosom ,
and against her son ,
and against her daughter ;
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and against her fetus which comes out from between her feet ,
even against her sons whom she shall bear .
For she shall eat them in secret ,
for the lack of everything in the siege and in the anguish with which the enemy shall distress you within your gates .
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If you will not take heed to do all the words of this law written in this book ,
to fear this glorious and fearful Name ,
Jehovah your God ,
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then Jehovah will make your plagues remarkable ,
and the plagues of your children shall be great and persistent plagues with evil and long lasting sicknesses .
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He shall also bring on you all the diseases of Egypt ,
of which you were afraid ;
and they shall cling to you .
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Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law ,
Jehovah shall cause them to come on you until you are destroyed .
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And you shall be left few in number ,
whereas you were as the stars of the heavens for multitude ,
because you would not obey the voice of Jehovah your God .
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And it shall be ,
as Jehovah rejoiced over you to do you good ,
and to multiply you ,
so Jehovah shall rejoice over you to destroy you ,
and to lay you waste .
And you shall be plucked from the land you are going to possess .
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And Jehovah shall scatter you among all people ,
from one end of the earth even to the other ,
and you shall serve other gods there ,
wood and stone ,
which you have not known ,
nor your fathers .
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And among these nations you shall find no ease ,
nor shall the sole of your foot have rest .
But Jehovah shall give you there a trembling heart and failing of eyes ,
and sorrow of mind .
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And your life shall hang in doubt before you ,
and you shall fear day and night ,
and shall have no assurance of your life .
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In the morning you shall say ,
Oh that it were evening !
And in the evening you shall say ,
Oh that it were morning !
For the fear of your heart with which you fear ,
and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see .
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And Jehovah shall bring you into Egypt again with ships ,
by the way of which I said to you ,
You shall never see it again .
And you shall be sold to your enemies there ,
for male slaves and slave-girls ;
and there shall be no buyer .
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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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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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Your eyes have seen the great trials ,
the signs ,
and those great miracles .
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Yet Jehovah has not given to you a heart to know ,
and eyes to see ,
and ears to hear ,
until this day .
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And I have led you forty years in the wilderness ;
your garments have not worn out from off you ,
and your sandal has not worn away off your foot .
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You have not eaten bread ,
and you have not drunk wine or strong drink ,
so that you might know that I am Jehovah your God .
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And you came into this place ,
and Sihon the king of Heshbon ,
and Og the king of Bashan ,
came out to meet us ,
to battle .
And we struck them ,
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and took their land ,
and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites ,
and to the Gadites ,
and for the half tribe of Manasseh .
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Then pay attention to the words of this covenant ,
and do them ,
that you may act wisely in all that you do .
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You are standing today ,
all of you ,
before Jehovah your God ;
your rulers ,
your tribes your elders ,
and your officers ,
every man of Israel ;
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your little ones ,
your wives ,
and your alien who is in the midst of your camps ,
from the woodchopper to the one drawing your water ;
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so that you should enter into the covenant of Jehovah your God ,
and into His oath ,
which Jehovah your God is making with you today ;
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so that He may establish you today for a people to Himself ,
and He Himself be your God ,
as He has spoken to you ,
and as He has sworn to your fathers ,
to Abraham to Isaac ,
and to Jacob .
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And I am not making this covenant and this oath with you alone ,
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But with him who stands here with us today before Jehovah your God ;
and also with him that is not here with us today .
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For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt ,
and how we came through the nations through which you passed .
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And you have seen their detestable things ,
and their idols of wood and stone ,
silver and gold ,
which were among them ;
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that there not be among you man ,
or woman ,
or family ,
or tribe ,
whose heart turns away today from Jehovah our God ,
to go and serve the gods of these nations ;
lest there should be among you today a root that bears gall and wormwood ;
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and it happens when he hears the words of this curse ,
that he should bless himself in his heart ,
saying ,
I shall have peace ,
even though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart ,
to snatch away the drunken with the thirsty .
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Jehovah will not be willing to forgive him ,
for then Jehovah '
s anger and His zeal shall smoke ,
and His zeal shall be against that man ,
and all the curses written in this book shall lie upon him .
And Jehovah shall blot out his name from under the heavens .
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And Jehovah shall set him apart to evil ,
out of all the tribes of Israel ,
according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law ;
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so that the generation to come ,
your sons who rise after you ,
and the foreigner who comes in from a distant land ,
shall say when they see the plagues of that land ,
and its sicknesses which Jehovah shall send into it ,
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The whole land shall be burned with brimstone and salt ;
it shall not be sown ,
nor shall it sprout ;
nor shall there be any herb in it .
It shall be like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah ,
Admah and Zeboim ,
which Jehovah overthrew in His anger and in His fury .
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Yes ,
all the nations shall say ,
Why has Jehovah done this to this land ?
For what is the heat of this great anger ?
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Then men shall say ,
Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah ,
the God of their fathers ,
which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt .
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For they went and served other gods ,
and worshiped them ,
gods which they did not know ,
and who had not given to them any portion .
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And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book .
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And Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger and wrath ,
and in great indignation ,
and cast them into another land ,
as it this day .
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The secret things belong to Jehovah our God ;
and the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever ,
that we may do all the words of this law .
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