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The word of the LORD came to me :
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Son of man ,
take a stick and write on it , `
For Judah ,
and the children of Israel associated with him ';
then take another stick and write upon it , `
For Joseph (
the stick of E '
phraim )
and all the house of Israel associated with him ';
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and join them together into one stick ,
that they may become one in your hand .
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And when your people say to you , `
Will you not show us what you mean by these ?'
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say to them ,
Thus says the Lord GOD :
Behold ,
I am about to take the stick of Joseph (
which is in the hand of E '
phraim )
and the tribes of Israel associated with him ;
and I will join with it the stick of Judah ,
and make them one stick ,
that they may be one in my hand .
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When the sticks on which you write are in your hand before their eyes ,
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then say to them ,
Thus says the Lord GOD :
Behold ,
I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone ,
and will gather them from all sides ,
and bring them to their own land ;
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and I will make them one nation in the land ,
upon the mountains of Israel ;
and one king shall be king over them all ;
and they shall be no longer two nations ,
and no longer divided into two kingdoms .
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They shall not defile themselves any more with their idols and their detestable things ,
or with any of their transgressions ;
but I will save them from all the backslidings in which they have sinned ,
and will cleanse them ;
and they shall be my people ,
and I will be their God .
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My servant David shall be king over them ;
and they shall all have one shepherd .
They shall follow my ordinances and be careful to observe my statutes .
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They shall dwell in the land where your fathers dwelt that I gave to my servant Jacob ;
they and their children and their children '
s children shall dwell there for ever ;
and David my servant shall be their prince for ever .
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I will make a covenant of peace with them ;
it shall be an everlasting covenant with them ;
and I will bless them and multiply them ,
and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore .
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My dwelling place shall be with them ;
and I will be their God ,
and they shall be my people .
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Then the nations will know that I the LORD sanctify Israel ,
when my sanctuary is in the midst of them for evermore ."