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Rise ,
take your journey ,
and cross over the River Arnon .
Look ,
I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite ,
king of Heshbon ,
and his land .
Begin to possess it ,
and engage him in battle .
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This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the nations under the whole heaven ,
who shall hear the report of you ,
and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you .'
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And I sent messengers from the Wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon ,
with words of peace ,
saying ,
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Let me pass through your land ;
I will keep strictly to the road ,
and I will turn neither to the right nor to the left .
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You shall 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 foot ,
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just as the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir and the Moabites who dwell in Ar did for me ,
until I cross the Jordan to the land which the LORD our God is giving us .'
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But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through ,
for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate ,
that He might deliver him into your hand ,
as it is this day .
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And the LORD said to me , "
See ,
I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you .
Begin to possess it ,
that you may inherit his land .'
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Then Sihon and all his people came out against us to fight at Jahaz .
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And the LORD our God delivered him over to us ;
so we defeated him ,
his sons ,
and all his people .
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We took all his cities at that time ,
and we utterly destroyed the men ,
women ,
and little ones of every city ;
we left none remaining .
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We took only the livestock as plunder for ourselves ,
with the spoil of the cities which we took .
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From Aroer ,
which is on the bank of the River Arnon ,
and from the city that is in the ravine ,
as far as Gilead ,
there was not one city too strong for us ;
the LORD our God delivered all to us .
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Only you did not go near the land of the people of Ammon--anywhere along the River Jabbok ,
or to the cities of the mountains ,
or wherever the LORD our God had forbidden us .
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When you go out to battle against your enemies ,
and see horses and chariots and people more numerous than you ,
do not be afraid of them ;
for the LORD your God is with you ,
who brought you up from the land of Egypt .
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So it shall be ,
when you are on the verge of battle ,
that the priest shall approach and speak to the people .
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And he shall say to them , "
Hear ,
O Israel :
Today you are on the verge of battle with your enemies .
Do not let your heart faint ,
do not be afraid ,
and do not tremble or be terrified because of them ;
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for the LORD your God is He who goes with you ,
to fight for you against your enemies ,
to save you .'
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Then the officers shall speak to the people ,
saying : "
What man is there who has built a new house and has not dedicated it ?
Let him go and return to his house ,
lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it .
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Also what man is there who has planted a vineyard and has not eaten of it ?
Let him go and return to his house ,
lest he die in the battle and another man eat of it .
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And what man is there who is betrothed to a woman and has not married her ?
Let him go and return to his house ,
lest he die in the battle and another man marry her .'
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The officers shall speak further to the people ,
and say , "
What man is there who is fearful and fainthearted ?
Let him go and return to his house ,
lest the heart of his brethren faint like his heart .'
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And so it shall be ,
when the officers have finished speaking to the people ,
that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people .
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When you go near a city to fight against it ,
then proclaim an offer of peace to it .
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And it shall be that if they accept your offer of peace ,
and open to you ,
then all the people who are found in it shall be placed under tribute to you ,
and serve you .
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Now if the city will not make peace with you ,
but war against you ,
then you shall besiege it .
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And when the LORD your God delivers it into your hands ,
you shall strike every male in it with the edge of the sword .
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But the women ,
the little ones ,
the livestock ,
and all that is in the city ,
all its spoil ,
you shall plunder for yourself ;
and you shall eat the enemies '
plunder which the LORD your God gives you .
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Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far from you ,
which are not of the cities of these nations .
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But of the cities of these peoples which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance ,
you shall let nothing that breathes remain alive ,
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but you shall utterly destroy them :
the Hittite and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite ,
just as the LORD your God has commanded you ,
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lest they teach you to do according to all their abominations which they have done for their gods ,
and you sin against the LORD your God .
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When you besiege a city for a long time ,
while making war against it to take it ,
you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them ;
if you can eat of them ,
do not cut them down to use in the siege ,
for the tree of the field is man '
s food .
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Only the trees which you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down ,
to build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you ,
until it is subdued .
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If anyone is found slain ,
lying in the field in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess ,
and it is not known who killed him ,
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then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure the distance from the slain man to the surrounding cities .
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And it shall be that the elders of the city nearest to the slain man will take a heifer which has not been worked and which has not pulled with a yoke .
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The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with flowing water ,
which is neither plowed nor sown ,
and they shall break the heifer '
s neck there in the valley .
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Then the priests ,
the sons of Levi ,
shall come near ,
for the LORD your God has chosen them to minister to Him and to bless in the name of the LORD ;
by their word every controversy and every assault shall be settled .
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And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley .
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Then they shall answer and say , "
Our hands have not shed this blood ,
nor have our eyes seen it .
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Provide atonement ,
O LORD ,
for Your people Israel ,
whom You have redeemed ,
and do not lay innocent blood to the charge of Your people Israel .'
And atonement shall be provided on their behalf for the blood .
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So you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD .
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When you go out to war against your enemies ,
and the LORD your God delivers them into your hand ,
and you take them captive ,
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and you see among the captives a beautiful woman ,
and desire her and would take her for your wife ,
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then you shall bring her home to your house ,
and she shall shave her head and trim her nails .
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She shall put off the clothes of her captivity ,
remain in your house ,
and mourn her father and her mother a full month ;
after that you may go in to her and be her husband ,
and she shall be your wife .
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And it shall be ,
if you have no delight in her ,
then you shall set her free ,
but you certainly shall not sell her for money ;
you shall not treat her brutally ,
because you have humbled her .
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If a man has two wives ,
one loved and the other unloved ,
and they have borne him children ,
both the loved and the unloved ,
and if the firstborn son is of her who is unloved ,
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then it shall be ,
on the day he bequeaths his possessions to his sons ,
that he must not bestow firstborn status on the son of the loved wife in preference to the son of the unloved ,
the true firstborn .
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But he shall acknowledge the son of the unloved wife as the firstborn by giving him a double portion of all that he has ,
for he is the beginning of his strength ;
the right of the firstborn is his .
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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 who ,
when they have chastened him ,
will not heed them ,
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then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city ,
to the gate of his city .
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And they shall say to the elders of his city , "
This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious ;
he will not obey our voice ;
he is a glutton and a drunkard .'
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Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones ;
so you shall put away the evil from among you ,
and all Israel shall hear and fear .
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If a man has committed a sin deserving of death ,
and he is put to death ,
and you hang him on a tree ,
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his body shall not remain overnight on the tree ,
but you shall surely bury him that day ,
so that you do not defile the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance ;
for he who is hanged is accursed of God .
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You shall not see your brother '
s ox or his sheep going astray ,
and hide yourself from them ;
you shall certainly bring them back to your brother .
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And if your brother is not near you ,
or if you do not know him ,
then you shall bring it to your own house ,
and it shall remain with you until your brother seeks it ;
then you shall restore it to him .
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You shall do the same with his donkey ,
and so shall you do with his garment ;
with any lost thing of your brother '
s ,
which he has lost and you have found ,
you shall do likewise ;
you must not hide yourself .
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You shall not see your brother '
s donkey or his ox fall down along the road ,
and hide yourself from them ;
you shall surely help him lift them up again .
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A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man ,
nor shall a man put on a woman '
s garment ,
for all who do so are an abomination to the LORD your God .
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If a bird '
s nest happens to be before you along the way ,
in any tree or on the ground ,
with young ones or eggs ,
with the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs ,
you shall not take the mother with the young ;
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you shall surely let the mother go ,
and take the young for yourself ,
that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days .
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When you build a new house ,
then you shall make a parapet for your roof ,
that you may not bring guilt of bloodshed on your household if anyone falls from it .
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You shall not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seed ,
lest the yield of the seed which you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard be defiled .
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You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together .
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You shall not wear a garment of different sorts ,
such as wool and linen mixed together .
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You shall make tassels on the four corners of the clothing with which you cover yourself .
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If any man takes a wife ,
and goes in to her ,
and detests her ,
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and charges her with shameful conduct ,
and brings a bad name on her ,
and says , "
I took this woman ,
and when I came to her I found she was not a virgin ,'
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then the father and mother of the young woman shall take and bring out the evidence of the young woman '
s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate .
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And the young woman '
s father shall say to the elders , "
I gave my daughter to this man as wife ,
and he detests her .
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Now he has charged her with shameful conduct ,
saying , "
I found your daughter was not a virgin ,"
and yet these are the evidences of my daughter '
s virginity .'
And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city .
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Then the elders of that city shall take that man and punish him ;
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and they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman ,
because he has brought a bad name on a virgin of Israel .
And she shall be his wife ;
he cannot divorce her all his days .
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But if the thing is true ,
and evidences of virginity are not found for the young woman ,
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then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father '
s house ,
and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones ,
because she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel ,
to play the harlot in her father '
s house .
So you shall put away the evil from among you .
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If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband ,
then both of them shall die--the man that lay with the woman ,
and the woman ;
so you shall put away the evil from Israel .
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If a young woman who is a virgin is betrothed to a husband ,
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 to death with stones ,
the young woman because she did not cry out in the city ,
and the man because he humbled his neighbor '
s wife ;
so you shall put away the evil from among you .
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But if a man finds a betrothed young woman in the countryside ,
and the man forces her and lies with her ,
then only the man who lay with her shall die .
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But you shall do nothing to the young woman ;
there is in the young woman no sin deserving of death ,
for just as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him ,
even so is this matter .
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For he found her in the countryside ,
and the betrothed young woman cried out ,
but there was no one to save her .
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If a man finds a young woman who is a virgin ,
who is not betrothed ,
and he seizes her and lies with her ,
and they are found out ,
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then the man who lay with her shall give to the young woman '
s father fifty shekels of silver ,
and she shall be his wife because he has humbled her ;
he shall not be permitted to divorce her all his days .
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A man shall not take his father '
s wife ,
nor uncover his father '
s bed .
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He who is emasculated by crushing or mutilation shall not enter the assembly of the LORD .
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One of illegitimate birth shall not enter the assembly of the LORD ;
even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the LORD .
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An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the assembly of the LORD ;
even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the LORD forever ,
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because they did not meet you with bread and water on the road 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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Nevertheless the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam ,
but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you ,
because the LORD your God loves you .
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You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever .
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You shall not abhor an Edomite ,
for he is your brother .
You shall not abhor an Egyptian ,
because you were an alien in his land .
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The children of the third generation born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD .
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When the army goes out against your enemies ,
then keep yourself from every wicked thing .
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If there is any man among you who becomes unclean by some occurrence in the night ,
then he shall go outside the camp ;
he shall not come inside the camp .
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But it shall be ,
when evening comes ,
that he shall wash with water ;
and when the sun sets ,
he may come into the camp .
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Also you shall have a place outside the camp ,
where you may go out ;
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and you shall have an implement among your equipment ,
and when you sit down outside ,
you shall dig with it and turn and cover your refuse .
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For the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp ,
to deliver you and give your enemies over to you ;
therefore your camp shall be holy ,
that He may see no unclean thing among you ,
and turn away from you .
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You shall not give back to his master the slave who has escaped from his master to you .
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He may dwell with you in your midst ,
in the place which he chooses within one of your gates ,
where it seems best to him ;
you shall not oppress him .
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There shall be no ritual harlot of the daughters of Israel ,
or a perverted one of the sons of Israel .
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You shall not bring the wages of a harlot or the price of a dog to the house of the LORD your God for any vowed offering ,
for both of these are an abomination to the LORD your God .
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You shall not charge interest to your brother--interest on money or food or anything that is lent out at interest .
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To a foreigner you may charge interest ,
but to your brother you shall not charge interest ,
that the LORD your God may bless you in all to which you set your hand in the land which you are entering to possess .
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When you make a vow to the LORD your God ,
you shall not delay to pay it ;
for the LORD your God will surely require it of you ,
and it would be sin to you .
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But if you abstain from vowing ,
it shall not be sin to you .
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That which has gone from your lips you shall keep and perform ,
for you voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God what you have promised with your mouth .
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When you come into your neighbor '
s vineyard ,
you may eat your fill of grapes at your pleasure ,
but you shall not put any in your container .
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When you come into your neighbor '
s standing grain ,
you may pluck the heads with your hand ,
but you shall not use a sickle on your neighbor '
s standing grain .
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When a man takes a wife and marries her ,
and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some uncleanness in her ,
and he writes her a certificate of divorce ,
puts it in her hand ,
and sends her out of his house ,
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when she has departed from his house ,
and goes and becomes another man '
s wife ,
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if the latter husband detests her and writes her a certificate of divorce ,
puts it in her hand ,
and sends her out of his house ,
or if the latter husband dies who took her as his wife ,
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then her former husband who divorced her must not take her back to be his wife after she has been defiled ;
for that is an abomination before the LORD ,
and you shall not bring sin on the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance .
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When a man has taken a new wife ,
he shall not go out to war or be charged with any business ;
he shall be free at home one year ,
and bring happiness to his wife whom he has taken .
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No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge ,
for he takes one '
s living in pledge .
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If a man is found kidnapping any of his brethren of the children of Israel ,
and mistreats him or sells him ,
then that kidnapper shall die ;
and you shall put away the evil from among you .
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Take heed in an outbreak of leprosy ,
that you carefully observe and do according to all that the priests ,
the Levites ,
shall teach you ;
just as I commanded them ,
so you shall be careful to do .
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Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the way when you came out of Egypt !
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When you lend your brother anything ,
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 pledge out to you .
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And if the man is poor ,
you shall not keep his pledge overnight .
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You shall in any case return the pledge to him again when the sun goes down ,
that he may sleep in his own garment and bless you ;
and it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God .
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You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy ,
whether one of your brethren or one of the aliens who is in your land within your gates .
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Each day you shall give him his wages ,
and not let the sun go down on it ,
for he is poor and has set his heart on it ;
lest he cry out against you to the LORD ,
and it be sin to you .
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Fathers shall not be put to death for their children ,
nor shall children be put to death for their fathers ;
a person shall be put to death for his own sin .
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You shall not pervert justice due the stranger or the fatherless ,
nor take a widow '
s garment as a pledge .
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But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt ,
and the LORD your God redeemed you from there ;
therefore I command you to do this thing .
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When you reap your harvest in your field ,
and forget a sheaf in the field ,
you shall not go back to get it ;
it shall be for the stranger ,
the fatherless ,
and the widow ,
that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands .
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When you beat your olive trees ,
you shall not go over the boughs again ;
it shall be for the stranger ,
the fatherless ,
and the widow .
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When you gather the grapes of your vineyard ,
you shall not glean it afterward ;
it shall be for the stranger ,
the fatherless ,
and the widow .
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And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt ;
therefore I command you to do this thing .
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If there is a dispute between men ,
and they come to court ,
that the judges may judge them ,
and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked ,
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then it shall be ,
if the wicked man deserves to be beaten ,
that the judge will cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence ,
according to his guilt ,
with a certain number of blows .
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Forty blows he may give him and no more ,
lest he should exceed this and beat him with many blows above these ,
and your brother be humiliated in your sight .
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You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain .
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If brothers dwell together ,
and one of them dies and has no son ,
the widow of the dead man shall not be married to a stranger outside the family ;
her husband '
s brother shall go in to her ,
take her as his wife ,
and perform the duty of a husband '
s brother to her .
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And it shall be that the firstborn son which she bears will succeed to the name of his dead brother ,
that his name may not be blotted out of Israel .
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But if the man does not want to take his brother '
s wife ,
then let his brother '
s wife go up to the gate to the elders ,
and say , "
My husband '
s brother refuses to raise up a name to his brother in Israel ;
he will not perform the duty of my husband '
s brother .'
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Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him .
But if he stands firm and says , "
I do not want to take her ,'
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then his brother '
s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders ,
remove his sandal from his foot ,
spit in his face ,
and answer and say , "
So shall it be done to the man who will not build up his brother '
s house .'
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And his name shall be called in Israel , "
The house of him who had his sandal removed .'
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If two men fight together ,
and the wife of one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one attacking him ,
and puts out her hand and seizes him by the genitals ,
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then you shall cut off her hand ;
your eye shall not pity her .
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You shall not have in your bag differing weights ,
a heavy and a light .
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You shall not have in your house differing measures ,
a large and a small .
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You shall have a perfect and just weight ,
a perfect and just measure ,
that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God is giving you .
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For all who do such things ,
all who behave unrighteously ,
are an abomination to the LORD your God .
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Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt ,
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how he met you on the way and attacked your rear ranks ,
all the stragglers at your rear ,
when you were tired and weary ;
and he did not fear God .
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Therefore it shall be ,
when the LORD your God has given you rest from your enemies all around ,
in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance ,
that you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven .
You shall not forget .
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And it shall be ,
when you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance ,
and you possess it and dwell in it ,
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that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground ,
which you shall bring from your land that the LORD your God is giving you ,
and put it in a basket and go to the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide .
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And you shall go to the one who is priest in those days ,
and say to him , "
I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come to the country which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us .'
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Then the priest shall take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God .
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And you shall answer and say before the LORD your God : "
My father was a Syrian ,
about to perish ,
and he went down to Egypt and dwelt there ,
few in number ;
and there he became a nation ,
great ,
mighty ,
and populous .
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But the Egyptians mistreated us ,
afflicted us ,
and laid hard bondage on us .
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Then we cried out to the LORD God of our fathers ,
and the LORD heard our voice and looked on our affliction and our labor and our oppression .
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So the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm ,
with great terror and with signs and wonders .
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He has brought us to this place and has given us this land , "
a land flowing with milk and honey ";
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and now ,
behold ,
I have brought the firstfruits of the land which you ,
O LORD ,
have given me .' "
Then you shall set it before the LORD your God ,
and worship before the LORD your God .
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So you shall rejoice in every good thing which the LORD your God has given to you and your house ,
you and the Levite and the stranger who is among you .
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When you have finished laying aside all the tithe of your increase in the third year--the year of tithing--and have given it to the Levite ,
the stranger ,
the fatherless ,
and the widow ,
so that they may eat within your gates and be filled ,
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then you shall say before the LORD your God : "
I have removed the holy tithe from my house ,
and also have given them to the Levite ,
the stranger ,
the fatherless ,
and the widow ,
according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me ;
I have not transgressed Your commandments ,
nor have I forgotten them .
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I have not eaten any of it when in mourning ,
nor have I removed any of it for an unclean use ,
nor given any of it for the dead .
I have obeyed the voice of the LORD my God ,
and have done according to all that You have commanded me .
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Look down from Your holy habitation ,
from heaven ,
and bless Your people Israel and the land which You have given us ,
just as You swore to our fathers , "
a land flowing with milk and honey ."'
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This day the LORD your God commands you to observe these statutes and judgments ;
therefore you shall be careful to observe them with all your heart and with all your soul .
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Today you have proclaimed the LORD to be your God ,
and that you will walk in His ways and keep His statutes ,
His commandments ,
and His judgments ,
and that you will obey His voice .
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Also today the LORD has proclaimed you to be His special people ,
just as He promised you ,
that you should keep all His commandments ,
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and that He will set you high above all nations which He has made ,
in praise ,
in name ,
and in honor ,
and that you may be a holy people to the LORD your God ,
just as He has spoken ."
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Now Moses ,
with the elders of Israel ,
commanded the people ,
saying : "
Keep all the commandments which I command you today .
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And it shall be ,
on the day when you cross over the Jordan to the land which the LORD your God is giving you ,
that you shall set up for yourselves large stones ,
and whitewash them with lime .
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You shall write on them all the words of this law ,
when you have crossed over ,
that you may enter the land which the LORD your God is giving you , "
a land flowing with milk and honey ,'
just as the LORD God of your fathers promised you .
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Therefore it shall be ,
when you have crossed over the Jordan ,
that on Mount Ebal you shall set up these stones ,
which I command you today ,
and you shall whitewash them with lime .
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And there you shall build an altar to the LORD your God ,
an altar of stones ;
you shall not use an iron tool on them .
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You shall build with whole stones the altar of the LORD your God ,
and offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God .
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You shall offer peace offerings ,
and shall eat there ,
and rejoice before the LORD your God .
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And you shall write very plainly on the stones all the words of this law ."
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Then Moses and the priests ,
the Levites ,
spoke to all Israel ,
saying , "
Take heed and listen ,
O Israel :
This day you have become the people of the LORD your God .
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Therefore you shall obey the voice of the LORD your God ,
and observe His commandments and His statutes which I command you today ."
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And Moses commanded the people on the same day ,
saying ,
* "
These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people ,
when you have crossed over the Jordan :
Simeon ,
Levi ,
Judah ,
Issachar ,
Joseph ,
and Benjamin ;
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and these shall stand on Mount Ebal to curse :
Reuben ,
Gad ,
Asher ,
Zebulun ,
Dan ,
and Naphtali .
* "
And the Levites shall speak with a loud voice and say to all the men of Israel :
* "
Cursed is the one who makes a carved or molded image ,
an abomination to the LORD ,
the work of the hands of the craftsman ,
and sets it up in secret .' "
And all the people shall answer and say , "
Amen !'
* "
Cursed is the one who treats his father or his mother with contempt .' "
And all the people shall say , "
Amen !'
* "
Cursed is the one who moves his neighbor '
s landmark .' "
And all the people shall say , "
Amen !'
* "
Cursed is the one who makes the blind to wander off the road .' "
And all the people shall say , "
Amen !'
* "
Cursed is the one who perverts the justice due the stranger ,
the fatherless ,
and widow .' "
And all the people shall say , "
Amen !'
* "
Cursed is the one who lies with his father '
s wife ,
because he has uncovered his father '
s bed .' "
And all the people shall say , "
Amen !'
* "
Cursed is the one who lies with any kind of animal .' "
And all the people shall say , "
Amen !'
* "
Cursed is the one who lies with his sister ,
the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother .' "
And all the people shall say , "
Amen !'
* "
Cursed is the one who lies with his mother-in-law .' "
And all the people shall say , "
Amen !'
* "
Cursed is the one who attacks his neighbor secretly .' "
And all the people shall say , "
Amen !'
* "
Cursed is the one who takes a bribe to slay an innocent person .' "
And all the people shall say , "
Amen !'
* "
Cursed is the one who does not confirm all the words of this law .' "
And all the people shall say , "
Amen !"'
* "
Now it shall come to pass ,
if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God ,
to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today ,
that the LORD your God will set you high above all nations of the earth .
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And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you ,
because you obey the voice of the LORD your God :
* "
Blessed shall you be in the city ,
and blessed shall you be in the country .
* "
Blessed shall be the fruit of your body ,
the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds ,
the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks .
* "
Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl .
* "
Blessed shall you be when you come in ,
and blessed shall you be when you go out .
* "
The LORD will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face ;
they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways .
* "
The LORD will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand ,
and He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you .
* "
The LORD will establish you as a holy people to Himself ,
just as He has sworn to you ,
if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways .
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Then all peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD ,
and they shall be afraid of you .
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And the LORD will grant you plenty of goods ,
in the fruit of your body ,
in the increase of your livestock ,
and in the produce of your ground ,
in the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you .
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The LORD will 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 .
You shall lend to many nations ,
but you shall not borrow .
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And the LORD will make you the head and not the tail ;
you shall be above only ,
and not be beneath ,
if you heed the commandments of the LORD your God ,
which I command you today ,
and are careful to observe them .
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So you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day ,
to the right or the left ,
to go after other gods to serve them .
* "
But it shall come to pass ,
if you do not obey the voice of the LORD your God ,
to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today ,
that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you :
* "
Cursed shall you be in the city ,
and cursed shall you be in the country .
* "
Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl .
* "
Cursed shall be the fruit of your body and the produce of your land ,
the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks .
* "
Cursed shall you be when you come in ,
and cursed shall you be when you go out .
* "
The LORD will send on you cursing ,
confusion ,
and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do ,
until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly ,
because of the wickedness of your doings in which you have forsaken Me .
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The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has consumed you from the land which you are going to possess .
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The LORD will strike you with consumption ,
with fever ,
with inflammation ,
with severe burning fever ,
with the sword ,
with scorching ,
and with mildew ;
they shall pursue you until you perish .
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And your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze ,
and the earth which is under you shall be iron .
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The LORD will change the rain of your land to powder and dust ;
from the heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed .
* "
The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies ;
you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them ;
and you shall become troublesome to all the kingdoms of the earth .
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Your carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth ,
and no one shall frighten them away .
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The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt ,
with tumors ,
with the scab ,
and with the itch ,
from which you cannot be healed .
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The LORD will strike you with madness and blindness and confusion of heart .
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And you shall grope at noonday ,
as a blind man gropes in darkness ;
you shall not prosper in your ways ;
you shall be only oppressed and plundered continually ,
and no one shall save you .
* "
You shall betroth a wife ,
but another man shall lie with her ;
you shall build a house ,
but you shall not dwell in it ;
you shall plant a vineyard ,
but shall not gather its grapes .
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Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes ,
but you shall not eat of it ;
your donkey shall be violently taken away from before you ,
and shall not be restored to you ;
your sheep shall be given to your enemies ,
and you shall have no one to rescue them .
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Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people ,
and your eyes shall look and fail with longing for them all day long ;
and there shall be no strength in your hand .
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A nation whom you have not known shall eat the fruit of your land and the produce of your labor ,
and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually .
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So you shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see .
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The LORD will strike you in the knees and on the legs with severe boils which cannot be healed ,
and from the sole of your foot to the top of your head .
* "
The LORD will bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known ,
and there you shall serve other gods--wood and stone .
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And you shall become an astonishment ,
a proverb ,
and a byword among all nations where the LORD will drive you .
* "
You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in ,
for the locust shall consume it .
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You shall plant vineyards and tend them ,
but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes ;
for the worms shall eat them .
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You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory ,
but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil ;
for your olives shall drop off .
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You shall beget sons and daughters ,
but they shall not be yours ;
for they shall go into captivity .
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Locusts shall consume all your trees and the produce of your land .
* "
The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you ,
and you shall come down lower and lower .
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He shall lend to you ,
but you shall not lend to him ;
he shall be the head ,
and you shall be the tail .
* "
Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you ,
until you are destroyed ,
because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God ,
to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you .
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And they shall be upon you for a sign and a wonder ,
and on your descendants forever .
* "
Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart ,
for the abundance of everything ,
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therefore you shall serve your enemies ,
whom the LORD will send against you ,
in hunger ,
in thirst ,
in nakedness ,
and in need of everything ;
and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you .
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The LORD will bring a nation against you from afar ,
from the end of the earth ,
as swift as the eagle flies ,
a nation whose language you will not understand ,
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a nation of fierce countenance ,
which does not respect the elderly nor show favor to the young .
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And they shall eat the increase of your livestock and the produce of your land ,
until you are destroyed ;
they shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil ,
or the increase of your cattle or the offspring of your flocks ,
until they have destroyed you .
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They shall besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls ,
in which you trust ,
come down throughout all your land ;
and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which the LORD your God has given you .
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You shall eat the fruit of your own body ,
the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom the LORD your God has given you ,
in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you .
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The sensitive and very refined man among you will be hostile toward his brother ,
toward the wife of his bosom ,
and toward the rest of his children whom he leaves behind ,
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so that he will not give any of them the flesh of his children whom he will eat ,
because he has nothing left in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates .
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The tender and delicate woman among you ,
who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and sensitivity ,
will refuse to the husband of her bosom ,
and to her son and her daughter ,
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her placenta which comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears ;
for she will eat them secretly for lack of everything in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates .
* "
If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book ,
that you may fear this glorious and awesome name ,
THE LORD YOUR GOD ,
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then the LORD will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary plagues--great and prolonged plagues--and serious and prolonged sicknesses .
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Moreover He will bring back 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 this Book of the Law ,
will the LORD bring upon you until you are destroyed .
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You shall be left few in number ,
whereas you were as the stars of heaven in multitude ,
because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God .
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And it shall be ,
that just as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you ,
so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing ;
and you shall be plucked from off the land which you go to possess .
* "
Then the LORD will scatter you among all peoples ,
from one end of the earth to the other ,
and there you shall serve other gods ,
which neither you nor your fathers have known--wood and stone .
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And among those nations you shall find no rest ,
nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting place ;
but there the LORD will give you a trembling heart ,
failing eyes ,
and anguish of soul .
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Your life shall hang in doubt before you ;
you shall fear day and night ,
and have no assurance of life .
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In the morning you shall say , "
Oh ,
that it were evening !'
And at evening you shall say , "
Oh ,
that it were morning !'
because of the fear which terrifies your heart ,
and because of the sight which your eyes see .
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And the LORD will take you back to Egypt in ships ,
by the way of which I said to you , "
You shall never see it again .'
And there you shall be offered for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves ,
but no one will buy you ."
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These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab ,
besides the covenant which He made with them in Horeb .
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Now Moses called all Israel and said to them : "
You have seen all that the LORD 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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the great trials which your eyes have seen ,
the signs ,
and those great wonders .
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Yet the LORD has not given you a heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear ,
to this very day .
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And I have led you forty years in the wilderness .
Your clothes have not worn out on you ,
and your sandals have not worn out on your feet .
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You have not eaten bread ,
nor have you drunk wine or similar drink ,
that you may know that I am the LORD your God .
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And when you came to this place ,
Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us to battle ,
and we conquered them .
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We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites ,
to the Gadites ,
and to half the tribe of Manasseh .
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Therefore keep the words of this covenant ,
and do them ,
that you may prosper in all that you do .
* "
All of you stand today before the LORD your God :
your leaders and your tribes and your elders and your officers ,
all the men of Israel ,
*
your little ones and your wives--also the stranger who is in your camp ,
from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water --
*
that you may enter into covenant with the LORD your God ,
and into His oath ,
which the LORD your God makes with you today ,
*
that He may establish you today as a people for Himself ,
and that He may be God to you ,
just as He has spoken to you ,
and just as He has sworn to your fathers ,
to Abraham ,
Isaac ,
and Jacob .
* "
I make this covenant and this oath ,
not with you alone ,
*
but with him who stands here with us today before the LORD our God ,
as well as with him who is not here with us today
* (
for you know that we dwelt in the land of Egypt and that we came through the nations which you passed by ,
*
and you saw their abominations and their idols which were among them--wood and stone and silver and gold );
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so that there may not be among you man or woman or family or tribe ,
whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God ,
to go and serve the gods of these nations ,
and that there may not be among you a root bearing bitterness or wormwood ;
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and so it may not happen ,
when he hears the words of this curse ,
that he blesses himself in his heart ,
saying , "
I shall have peace ,
even though I follow the dictates of my heart '--
as though the drunkard could be included with the sober .
* "
The LORD would not spare him ;
for then the anger of the LORD and His jealousy would burn against that man ,
and every curse that is written in this book would settle on him ,
and the LORD would blot out his name from under heaven .
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And the LORD would separate him from all the tribes of Israel for adversity ,
according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this Book of the Law ,
*
so that the coming generation of your children who rise up after you ,
and the foreigner who comes from a far land ,
would say ,
when they see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses which the LORD has laid on it :
* "
The whole land is brimstone ,
salt ,
and burning ;
it is not sown ,
nor does it bear ,
nor does any grass grow there ,
like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah ,
Admah ,
and Zeboiim ,
which the LORD overthrew in His anger and His wrath .'
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All nations would say , "
Why has the LORD done so to this land ?
What does the heat of this great anger mean ?'
*
Then people would say : "
Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD 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 that they did not know and that He had not given to them .
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Then the anger of the LORD was aroused against this land ,
to bring on it every curse that is written in this book .
*
And the LORD uprooted them from their land in anger ,
in wrath ,
and in great indignation ,
and cast them into another land ,
as it is this day .'
* "
The secret things belong to the LORD our God ,
but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever ,
that we may do all the words of this law .
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