Deuteronomy:30-31
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And it shall come to pass ,
when all these things are come upon thee ,
the blessing and the curse ,
which I have set before thee ,
and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations ,
whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee ,
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And shalt return unto the LORD thy God ,
and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day ,
thou and thy children ,
with all thine heart ,
and with all thy soul ;
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That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity ,
and have compassion upon thee ,
and will return and gather thee from all the nations ,
whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee .
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If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven ,
from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee ,
and from thence will he fetch thee :
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And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed ,
and thou shalt possess it ;
and he will do thee good ,
and multiply thee above thy fathers .
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And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart ,
and the heart of thy seed ,
to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart ,
and with all thy soul ,
that thou mayest live .
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And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies ,
and on them that hate thee ,
which persecuted thee .
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And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD ,
and do all his commandments which I command thee this day .
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And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand ,
in the fruit of thy body ,
and in the fruit of thy cattle ,
and in the fruit of thy land ,
for good :
for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good ,
as he rejoiced over thy fathers :
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If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God ,
to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law ,
and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart ,
and with all thy soul .
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For this commandment which I command thee this day ,
it is not hidden from thee ,
neither is it far off .
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It is not in heaven ,
that thou shouldest say ,
Who shall go up for us to heaven ,
and bring it unto us ,
that we may hear it ,
and do it ?
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Neither is it beyond the sea ,
that thou shouldest say ,
Who shall go over the sea for us ,
and bring it unto us ,
that we may hear it ,
and do it ?
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But the word is very nigh unto thee ,
in thy mouth ,
and in thy heart ,
that thou mayest do it .
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See ,
I have set before thee this day life and good ,
and death and evil ;
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In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God ,
to walk in his ways ,
and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments ,
that thou mayest live and multiply :
and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it .
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But if thine heart turn away ,
so that thou wilt not hear ,
but shalt be drawn away ,
and worship other gods ,
and serve them ;
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I denounce unto you this day ,
that ye shall surely perish ,
and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land ,
whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it .
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I call heaven and earth to record this day against you ,
that I have set before you life and death ,
blessing and cursing :
therefore choose life ,
that both thou and thy seed may live :
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That thou mayest love the LORD thy God ,
and that thou mayest obey his voice ,
and that thou mayest cleave unto him :
for he is thy life ,
and the length of thy days :
that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers ,
to Abraham ,
to Isaac ,
and to Jacob ,
to give them .
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And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel .
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And he said unto them ,
I am an hundred and twenty years old this day ;
I can no more go out and come in :
also the LORD hath said unto me ,
Thou shalt not go over this Jordan .
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The LORD thy God ,
he will go over before thee ,
and he will destroy these nations from before thee ,
and thou shalt possess them :
and Joshua ,
he shall go over before thee ,
as the LORD hath said .
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And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og ,
kings of the Amorites ,
and unto the land of them ,
whom he destroyed .
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And the LORD shall give them up before your face ,
that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you .
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Be strong and of a good courage ,
fear not ,
nor be afraid of them :
for the LORD thy God ,
he it is that doth go with thee ;
he will not fail thee ,
nor forsake thee .
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And Moses called unto Joshua ,
and said unto him in the sight of all Israel ,
Be strong and of a good courage :
for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them ;
and thou shalt cause them to inherit it .
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And the LORD ,
he it is that doth go before thee ;
he will be with thee ,
he will not fail thee ,
neither forsake thee :
fear not ,
neither be dismayed .
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And Moses wrote this law ,
and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi ,
which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD ,
and unto all the elders of Israel .
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And Moses commanded them ,
saying ,
At the end of every seven years ,
in the solemnity of the year of release ,
in the feast of tabernacles ,
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When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose ,
thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing .
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Gather the people together ,
men ,
and women ,
and children ,
and thy stranger that is within thy gates ,
that they may hear ,
and that they may learn ,
and fear the LORD your God ,
and observe to do all the words of this law :
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And that their children ,
which have not known any thing ,
may hear ,
and learn to fear the LORD your God ,
as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it .
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And the LORD said unto Moses ,
Behold ,
thy days approach that thou must die :
call Joshua ,
and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation ,
that I may give him a charge .
And Moses and Joshua went ,
and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation .
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And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud :
and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle .
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And the LORD said unto Moses ,
Behold ,
thou shalt sleep with thy fathers ;
and this people will rise up ,
and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land ,
whither they go to be among them ,
and will forsake me ,
and break my covenant which I have made with them .
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Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day ,
and I will forsake them ,
and I will hide my face from them ,
and they shall be devoured ,
and many evils and troubles shall befall them ;
so that they will say in that day ,
Are not these evils come upon us ,
because our God is not among us ?
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And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought ,
in that they are turned unto other gods .
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Now therefore write ye this song for you ,
and teach it the children of Israel :
put it in their mouths ,
that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel .
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For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers ,
that floweth with milk and honey ;
and they shall have eaten and filled themselves ,
and waxen fat ;
then will they turn unto other gods ,
and serve them ,
and provoke me ,
and break my covenant .
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And it shall come to pass ,
when many evils and troubles are befallen them ,
that this song shall testify against them as a witness ;
for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed :
for I know their imagination which they go about ,
even now ,
before I have brought them into the land which I sware .
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Moses therefore wrote this song the same day ,
and taught it the children of Israel .
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And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge ,
and said ,
Be strong and of a good courage :
for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them :
and I will be with thee .
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And it came to pass ,
when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book ,
until they were finished ,
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That Moses commanded the Levites ,
which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD ,
saying ,
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Take this book of the law ,
and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God ,
that it may be there for a witness against thee .
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For I know thy rebellion ,
and thy stiff neck :
behold ,
while I am yet alive with you this day ,
ye have been rebellious against the LORD ;
and how much more after my death ?
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Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes ,
and your officers ,
that I may speak these words in their ears ,
and call heaven and earth to record against them .
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For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves ,
and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you ;
and evil will befall you in the latter days ;
because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD ,
to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands .
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And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song ,
until they were ended .
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Give ear ,
O ye heavens ,
and I will speak ;
and hear ,
O earth ,
the words of my mouth .