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Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them, Whatever man shall have an issue out of his body, his issue is unclean.


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And this <i>is</i> the law of his uncleanness; whoever has a gonorrhoea out of his body, this is his uncleanness in him by reason of the issue, by which, his body is affected through the issue: all the days of the issue of his body, by which his body is affected through the issue, there is his uncleanness.


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Every bed on which he that has the issue shall happen to lie, is unclean; and every seat on which he that has the issue may happen to sit, shall be unclean.


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And the man who shall touch his bed, shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean till evening.


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And whoever sits on the seat on which he that has the issue may have sat, shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean until evening.


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And he that touches the skin of him that has the issue, shall wash his garments and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean till evening.


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And if he that has the issue should spit upon one that is clean, <i>that person</i> shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until evening.


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And every ass's saddle, on which the man with the issue shall have mounted, shall be unclean till evening.


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And every one that touches whatever shall have been under him shall be unclean until evening; and he that takes them up shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean until evening.


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And whoever he that has the issue shall touch, if he have not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until evening.


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And the earthen vessel which he that has the issue shall happen to touch, shall be broken; and a wooden vessel shall be washed with water, and shall be clean.


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and if he that has the issue should be cleansed of his issue, then shall he number to himself seven days for his purification; and he shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and shall be clean.


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And on the eighth day he shall take to himself two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and he shall bring them before the Lord to the doors of the tabernacle of witness, and shall give them to the priest.


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And the priest shall offer them one for a sin-offering, and the other for a whole burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord for his issue.


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And the man whose seed of copulation shall happen to go forth from him, shall then wash his whole body, and shall be unclean until evening.


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


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And a woman, if a man shall lie with her with seed of copulation—they shall both bathe themselves in water and shall be unclean until evening.


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And the woman whoever shall have an issue of blood, when her issue shall be in her body, shall be seven days in her separation; every one that touches her shall be unclean until evening.


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And every thing whereon she shall lie in her separation, shall be unclean; and whatever she shall sit upon, shall be unclean.


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And whoever shall touch her bed shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until evening.


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and every one that touches any vessel on which she shall sit, shall wash his garments and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean until evening.


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And whether it be while she is on her bed, or on a seat which she may happen to sit upon when he touches her, he shall be unclean till evening.


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And if any one shall lie with her, and her uncleanness be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed on which he shall have lain shall be unclean.


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And if a woman have an issue of blood many days, not in the time of her separation; if the blood should also flow after her separation, all the days of the issue of her uncleanness <i>shall be</i> as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.


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And every bed on which she shall lie all the days of her flux shall be to her as the bed of her separation, and every seat whereon she shall sit shall be unclean according to the uncleanness of her separation.


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Every one that touches it shall be unclean; and he shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean till evening.


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But if she shall be cleansed from her flux, then she shall number to herself seven days, and afterwards she shall be esteemed clean.


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And on the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and shall bring them to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of witness.


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And the priest shall offer one for a sin-offering, and the other for a whole burnt offering, and the priest shall make atonement for her before the Lord for her unclean flux.


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And you° shall cause the children of Israel to beware of their uncleannesses; so they shall not die for their uncleanness, in polluting my tabernacle that is among them.


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This is the law of the man who has an issue, and if one discharge seed of copulation, so that he should be polluted by it.


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And <i>this is the law</i> for her that has the issue of blood in her separation, and as to the person who has an issue of seed, in his issue: <i>it is a law</i> for the male and the female, and for the man who shall have lain with her that is set apart.<pb/>


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And the Lord spoke to Moses after the two sons of Aaron died in bringing strange fire before the Lord, so they died.


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And the Lord said to Moses, Speak to Aaron your brother, and let him not come in at all times into the holy place within the veil before the propitiatory, which is upon the ark of the testimony, and he shall not die; for I will appear in a cloud on the propitiatory.


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Thus shall Aaron enter into the holy place; with a calf of the herd for a sin-offering, and <i>having</i> a ram for a whole burnt offering.


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And he shall put on the consecrated linen tunic, and he shall have on his flesh the linen drawers, and shall gird himself with a linen girdle, and shall put on the linen cap, they are holy garments; and he shall bathe all his body in water, and shall put them on.


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And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin-offering, and one lamb for a whole burnt offering.


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And Aaron shall bring the calf for his own sin-offering, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house.


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And he shall take the two goats, and place them before the Lord by the door of the tabernacle of witness.


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and Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats, one lot for the Lord, and the other for the scape-goat.


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And Aaron shall bring forward the goat on which the lot for the Lord fell, and shall offer him for a sin-offering.


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and the goat upon which the lot of the scape-goat came, he shall present alive before the Lord, to make atonement upon him, so as to send him away as a scape-goat, and he shall send him into the wilderness.


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And Aaron shall bring the calf for his sin, and he shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and he shall kill the calf for his sin-offering.


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And he shall take his censer full of coals of fire off the altar, which is before the Lord; and he shall fill his hands with fine compound incense, and shall bring it within the veil.


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And he shall put the incense on the fire before the Lord, and the smoke of the incense shall cover the mercy-seat over the tables of testimony, and he shall not die.


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And he shall take of the blood of the calf, and sprinkle with his finger on the mercy-seat eastward: before the mercy-seat shall he sprinkle seven times of the blood with his finger.


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And he shall kill the goat for the sin-offering that is for the people, before the Lord; and he shall bring in of its blood within the veil, and shall do with its blood as he did with the blood of the calf, and shall sprinkle its blood on the mercy-seat, in front of the mercy-seat.


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and he shall make atonement for the sanctuary on account of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and for their trespasses in the matter of all their sins; and thus shall he do to the tabernacle of witness established among them in the midst of their uncleanness.


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and there shall be no man in the tabernacle of witness, when he goes in to make atonement in the holy place, until he shall have come out; and he shall make atonement for himself, and for his house, and for all the congregation of the children of Israel.


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And he shall come forth to the altar that is before the Lord, and he shall make atonement upon it; and he shall take of the blood of the calf, and of the blood of the goat, and shall put it on the horns of the altar round about.


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And he shall sprinkle some of the blood upon it seven times with his finger, and shall purge it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.


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And he shall finish making atonement for the sanctuary and for the tabernacle of witness, and for the altar; and he shall make a cleansing for the priests, and he shall bring the living goat;


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and Aaron shall lay his hands on the head of the live goat, and he shall declare over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their unrighteousness, and all their sins; and he shall lay them upon the head of the live goat, and shall send him by the hand of a ready man into the wilderness.


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And the goat shall bear their unrighteousnesses upon him into a desert land; and Aaron shall send away the goat into the wilderness.


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And Aaron shall enter into the tabernacle of witness, and shall put off the linen garment, which he had put on, as he entered into the holy place, and shall lay it by there.


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And he shall bathe his body in water in the holy place, and shall put on his raiment, and shall go out and offer the whole burnt offering for himself and the whole burnt offering for the people: and shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and for the people, as for the priests.


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And he that sends forth the goat that has been set apart to be let go, shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and afterwards shall enter into the camp.


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And the calf for the sin-offering, and the goat for the sin-offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, they shall carry forth out of the camp, and burn them with fire, even their skins and their flesh and their dung.


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And he that burns them shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and afterwards he shall enter into the camp.


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And this shall be a perpetual statute for you; in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you° shall humble your souls, and shall do no work, the native and the stranger who abides among you.


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For in this day he shall make an atonement for you, to cleanse you from all your sins before the Lord, and you° shall be purged.


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This shall be to you a most holy sabbath, a rest, and you° shall humble your souls; it is a perpetual ordinance.


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The priest whoever they shall anoint shall make atonement, and whoever they shall consecrate to exercise the priestly office after his father; and he shall put on the linen robe, the holy garment.


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And he shall make atonement for the most holy place, and the tabernacle of witness; and he shall make atonement for the altar, and for the priests; and he shall make atonement for all the congregation.


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And this shall be to you a perpetual statute to make atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins: it shall be done once in the year, as the Lord commanded Moses.<pb/>


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Speak to Aaron and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and you shall say to them, This is the word which the Lord has commanded, saying,


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Every man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers dwelling among you, who shall kill a calf, or a sheep, or a goat in the camp, or who shall kill it out of the camp,


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and shall not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of witness, so as to sacrifice it for a whole burnt offering or peace-offering to the Lord to be acceptable for a sweet smelling savor: and whoever shall kill it without, and shall not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of witness, so as to offer it as a gift to the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord; blood shall be imputed to that man, he has shed blood; that soul shall be cut off from his people.


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That the children of Israel may offer their sacrifices, all that they shall kill in the fields, and bring them to the Lord to the doors of the tabernacle of witness to the priest, and they shall sacrifice them as a peace-offering to the Lord.


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And the priest shall pour the blood on the altar round about before the Lord by the doors of the tabernacle of witness, and shall offer the fat for a sweet smelling savor to the Lord.


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And they shall no longer offer their sacrifices to vain <i>gods</i> after which they go a whoring; it shall be a perpetual statute to you for your generations.


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And you shall say to them, Whatever man of the children of Israel, or of the sons of the proselytes dwelling among you, shall offer a whole burnt offering or a sacrifice,


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and shall not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of witness to sacrifice it to the Lord, that man shall be destroyed from among his people.


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And whatever man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers dwelling among you, shall eat any blood, I will even set my face against that soul that eats blood, and will destroy it from its people.


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For the life of flesh is its blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for its blood shall make atonement for the soul.


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Therefore I said to the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, and the stranger that abides among you shall not eat blood.


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And whatever man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers dwelling among you shall take any animal in hunting, beast, or bird, which is eaten, then shall he pour out the blood, and cover it in the dust.


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For the blood of all flesh is its life; and I said to the children of Israel, You° shall not eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood: every one that eats it shall be destroyed.


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And every soul which eats that which has died of itself, or is taken of beasts, either among the natives or among the strangers, shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean until evening: then shall he be clean.


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But if he do not wash his garments, and do not bathe his body in water, then shall he bear his iniquity.<pb/>


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You° shall not do according to the devices of Egypt, in which you° lived: and according to the devices of the land of Chanaan, into which I bring you, you° shall not do; and you° shall not walk in their ordinances.


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You° shall observe my judgments, and shall keep my ordinances, and shall walk in them: I <i>am</i> the Lord your God.


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So you° shall keep all my ordinances, and all my judgments, and do them; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I <i>am</i> the Lord your God.


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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, or the nakedness of your mother, for she is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness.


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The nakedness of your sister by your father or by your mother, born at home or abroad, their nakedness you shall not uncover.


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The nakedness of your son's daughter, or your daughter's daughter, their nakedness you shall not uncover; because it is your nakedness.


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You shall not uncover the nakedness of the daughter of your father's wife; she is your sister by the same father: you shall not uncover her nakedness.


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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, and you shall not go in to his wife; for she is your relation.


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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law, for she is your son's wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness.


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The nakedness of a woman and her daughter shall you not uncover; her son's daughter, and her daughter's daughter, shall you not take, to uncover their nakedness, for they are your kinswomen: it is impiety.


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You shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, as a rival, to uncover her nakedness in opposition to her, while she is yet living.


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And you shall not give of your seed to serve a ruler; and you shall not profane my holy name; I <i>am</i> the Lord.


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Neither shall you lie with any quadruped for copulation, to be polluted with it: neither shall a woman present herself before any quadruped to have connexion with it; for it is an abomination.


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Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for in all these things the nations are defiled, which I drive out before you,


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and the land is polluted; and I have recompensed their iniquity to them because of it, and the land is aggrieved with them that dwell upon it.


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And you° shall keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and you° shall do none of these abominations; neither the native, nor the stranger that joins himself with you:


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and lest the land be aggrieved with you in your polluting it, as it was aggrieved with the nations before you.


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For whoever shall do any of these abominations, the souls that do them shall be destroyed from among their people.


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And you° shall keep my ordinances, that you° may not do any of the abominable practices, which have taken place before your time: and you° shall not be polluted in them; for I <i>am</i> the Lord your God.<pb/>


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Speak to the congregation of the children of Israel, and you shall say to them, You° shall be holy; for I the Lord your God <i>am</i> holy.


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Let every one of you reverence his father and his mother; and you° shall keep my sabbaths: I <i>am</i> the Lord your God.


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You° shall not follow idols, and you° shall not make to yourselves molten gods: I <i>am</i> the Lord your God.


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And if you° will sacrifice a peace-offering to the Lord, you° shall offer it acceptable from yourselves.


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In what day soever you° shall sacrifice it, it shall be eaten; and on the following day, and if any of it should be left till the third day, it shall be thoroughly burnt with fire.


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And if it should be at all eaten on the third day, it is unfit for sacrifice: it shall not be accepted.


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And he that eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy things of the Lord; and the souls that eat it shall be destroyed from among their people.


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And when you° reap the harvest of your land, you° shall not complete the reaping of your field with exactness, and you shall not gather that which falls from your reaping.


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And you shall not go over the gathering of your vineyard, neither shall you gather the remaining grapes of your vineyard: you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger: I am the Lord your God.


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You° shall not steal, you° shall not lie, neither shall one bear false witness as an informer against his neighbor.


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And you° shall not swear unjustly by my name, and you° shall not profane the holy name of your God: I am the Lord your God.


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You shall not injure your neighbor, neither do you rob <i>him</i>, neither shall the wages of your hireling remain with you until the morning.


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You shall not revile the deaf, neither shall you put a stumbling block in the way of the blind; and you shall fear the Lord your God: I am the Lord your God.


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You shall not act unjustly in judgment: you shall not accept the person of the poor, nor admire the person of the mighty; with justice shall you judge your neighbor.


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You shall not walk deceitfully among your people; you shall not rise up against the blood of your neighbor: I am the Lord your God.


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You shall not hate your brother in your heart: you shall in any wise rebuke your neighbor, so you shall not bear sin on his account.


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And your hand shall not avenge you; and you shall not be angry with the children of your people; and you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord.


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You° shall observe my law: you shall not let your cattle gender with one of a different kind, and you shall not sow your vineyard with diverse seed; and you shall not put upon yourself a mingled garment woven of two <i>materials</i>.


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And if any one lie carnally with a woman, and she should be a home-servant kept for a man, and she has not been ransomed, <i>and</i> her freedom has not been given to her, they shall be visited <i>with punishment</i>; but they shall not die, because she was not set at liberty.


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And he shall bring for his trespass to the Lord to the door of the tabernacle of witness, a ram for a trespass-offering.


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And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass-offering, before the Lord, for the sin which he sinned; and the sin which he sinned shall be forgiven him.


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And whenever you° shall enter into the land which the Lord your God gives you, and shall plant any fruit tree, then shall you° purge away its uncleanness; its fruit shall be three years uncleansed to you, it shall not be eaten.


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And in the fifth year you° shall eat the fruit, its produce is an increase to you. I am the Lord your God.


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And you° shall not make cuttings in your body for a <i>dead</i> body, and you° shall not inscribe on yourselves any marks. I am the Lord your God.


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You shall not profane your daughter to prostitute her; so the land shall not go a whoring, and the land be filled with iniquity.


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You° shall not attend to those who have in them divining spirits, nor attach yourselves to enchanters, to pollute yourselves with them: I am the Lord your God.


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You shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and shall fear your God: I am the Lord your God.


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The stranger that comes to you shall be among you as the native, and you shall love him as yourself; for you° were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.


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There shall be among you just balances and just weights and just liquid measure. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.


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And you° shall keep all my law and all my ordinances, and you° shall do them: I am the Lord your God.<pb/>


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You shall also say to the children of Israel, If <i>there shall be</i> any of the children of Israel, or of those who have become proselytes in Israel, who shall give of his seed to Moloch, let him be surely put to death; the nation upon the land shall stone him with stones.


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And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from his people, because he has given of his seed to Moloch, to defile my sanctuary, and profane the name of them that are consecrated to me.


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And if the natives of the land should in anyway overlook that man in giving of his seed to Moloch, so as not to put him to death;


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then will I set my face against that man and his family, and I will destroy him, and all who have been of one mind with him, so that he should go a whoring to the princes, from their people.


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And the soul that shall follow those who have in them divining spirits, or enchanters, so as to go a whoring after them; I will set my face against that soul, and will destroy it from among its people.


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Every man who shall speak evil of his father or of his mother, let him die the death; has he spoken evil of his father or his mother? he shall be guilty.


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Whatever man shall commit adultery with the wife of a man, or whoever shall commit adultery with the wife of his neighbor, let them die the death, the adulterer and the adulteress.


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And if any one should lie with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness: let them both die the death, they are guilty.


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And if any one should lie with his daughter-in-law, let them both be put to death; for they have wrought impiety, they are guilty.


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And whoever shall lie with a male as with a woman, they have both wrought abomination; let them die the death, they are guilty.


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Whosoever shall take a woman and her mother, it is iniquity: they shall burn him and them with fire; so there shall not be iniquity among you.


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And whatever woman shall approach any beast, so as to have connexion with it, you° shall kill the woman and the beast: let them die the death, they are guilty.


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Whosoever shall take his sister by his father or by his mother, and shall see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness, it is a reproach: they shall be destroyed before the children of their family; he has uncovered his sister's nakedness, they shall bear their sin.


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And whatever man shall lie with a woman that is set apart <i>for a flux</i>, and shall uncover her nakedness, he has uncovered her fountain, and she has uncovered the flux of her blood: they shall both be destroyed from among their generation.


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And you shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister, or of the sister of your mother; for that man has uncovered the nakedness of one near akin: they shall bear their iniquity.


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Whosoever shall lie with his near kinswoman, has uncovered the nakedness of one near akin to him: they shall die childless.


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Whoever shall take his brother's wife, it is uncleanness; he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall die childless.


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And keep you° all my ordinances, and my judgments; and you° shall do them, and the land shall not be aggrieved with you, into which I bring you to dwell upon it.


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And walk you° not in the customs of the nations which I drive out from before you; for they have done all these things, and I have abhorred them:


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and I said to you, You° shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you for a possession, <i>even</i> a land flowing with milk and honey: I <i>am</i> the Lord your God, who have separated you from all people.


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And you° shall make a distinction between the clean and the unclean cattle, and between clean and unclean birds; and you° shall not defile your souls with cattle, or with birds, or with any creeping things of the earth, which I have separated for you by reason of uncleanness.


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And you° shall be holy to me; because I the Lord your God <i>am</i> holy, who separated you from all nations, to be mine.


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And <i>as for</i> a man or woman whoever of them shall have in them a divining spirit, or be an enchanter, let them both die the death: you° shall stone them with stones, they are guilty.<pb/>


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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, and you shall tell them <i>that</i> they shall not defile themselves in their nation for the dead,


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but <i>they may mourn</i> for a relative who is very near to them, for a father and mother, and sons and daughters, for a brother,


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and for a virgin sister that is near to one, that is not espoused to a man; for these one shall defile himself.


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And you° shall not shave your head for the dead with a baldness on the top; and they shall not shave their beard, neither shall they make gashes on their flesh.


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They shall be holy to their God, and they shall not profane the name of their God; for they offer the sacrifices of the Lord as the gifts of their God, and they shall be holy.


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They shall not take a woman who is a harlot and profaned, or a woman put away from her husband; for he is holy to the Lord his God.


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And you shall hallow him; he offers the gifts of the Lord your God: he shall be holy, for I the Lord that sanctify them <i>am</i> holy.


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And if the daughter of a priest should be profaned to go a whoring, she profanes the name of her father: she shall be burnt with fire.


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And the priest that is chief among his brethren, the oil having been poured upon the head of the anointed one, and he having been consecrated to put on the garments, shall not take the mitre off his head, and shall not rend his garments:


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neither shall he go in to any dead body, neither shall he defile himself for his father or his mother.


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And he shall not go forth out of the sanctuary, and he shall not profane the sanctuary of his God, because the holy anointing oil of God <i>is</i> upon him: I <i>am</i> the Lord.


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But a widow, or one that is put away, or profaned, or a harlot, these he shall not take; but he shall take for a wife a virgin of his own people.


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Say to Aaron, A man of your tribe throughout your generations, who shall have a blemish on him, shall not draw near to offer the gifts of his God.


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No man who has a blemish on him shall draw near; a man blind, lame, with his nose disfigured, or his ears cut,


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or humpbacked, or blear-eyed, or that has lost his eye-lashes, or a man who has a malignant ulcer, or tetter, or one that has lost a testicle.


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Whoever of the seed of Aaron the priest has a blemish on him, shall not draw near to offer sacrifices to your God, because he has a blemish on him; he shall not draw near to offer the gifts of God.


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Only he shall not approach the veil, and he shall not draw near to the altar, because he has a blemish; and he shall not profane the sanctuary of his God, for I am the Lord that sanctifies them.


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Speak to Aaron and to his sons, and let them take heed concerning the holy things of the children of Israel, so they shall not profane my holy name in any of the things which they consecrate to me: I <i>am</i> the Lord.


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Say to them, Every man throughout your generations, whoever of all your seed shall approach to the holy things, whatever the children of Israel shall consecrate to the Lord, while his uncleanness is upon him, that soul shall be cut off from me: I <i>am</i> the Lord your God.


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And the man of the seed of Aaron the priest, if he should have leprosy or issue of the reins, shall not eat of the holy things, until he be cleansed; and he that touches any uncleanness of a dead body, or the man whose seed of copulation shall have gone out from him,


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or whoever shall touch any unclean reptile, which will defile him, or <i>who shall touch</i> a man, whereby he shall defile him according to all his uncleanness:


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whatever soul shall touch them shall be unclean until evening; he shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his body in water,


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and the sun go down, and then he shall be clean; and then shall he eat of all the holy things, for they are his bread.


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He shall not eat that which dies of itself, or is taken of beasts, so that he should be polluted by them: I <i>am</i> the Lord.


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And they shall keep my ordinances, that they do not bear iniquity because of them, and die because of them, if they shall profane them: I <i>am</i> the Lord God that sanctifies them.


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And no stranger shall eat the holy things: one that sojourns with a priest, or a hireling, shall not eat the holy things.


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But if a priest should have a soul purchased for money, he shall eat of his bread; and they that are born in his house, they also shall eat of his bread.


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And if the daughter of a priest should marry a stranger, she shall not eat of the offerings of the sanctuary.


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And if the daughter of priest should be a widow, or put away, and have no seed, she shall return to her father's house, as in her youth: she shall eat of her father's bread, but no stranger shall eat of it.


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And the man who shall ignorantly eat holy things, shall add the fifth part to it, and give the holy thing to the priest.


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So should they bring upon themselves the iniquity of trespass in their eating their holy things: for I <i>am</i> the Lord that sanctifies them.


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Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to all the congregation of Israel, and you shall say to them, Any man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that abide among them in Israel, who shall offer his gifts according to all their confession and according to all their choice, whatever they may bring to the Lord for whole burnt offerings—


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your free will offerings <i>shall</i> be males without blemish of the herds, or of the sheep, or of the goats.


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They shall not bring to the Lord anything that has a blemish in it, for it shall not be acceptable for you.


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And whatever man shall offer a peace-offering to the Lord, discharging a vow, or in the way of free will offering, or an offering in your feasts, of the herds or of the sheep, it shall be without blemish for acceptance: there shall be no blemish in it.


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One that is blind, or broken, or has its tongue cut out, or is troubled with warts, or has a malignant ulcer, or tetters, they shall not offer these to the Lord; neither shall you° offer any of them for a burnt offering on the altar of the Lord.


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And a calf or a sheep with the ears cut off, or that has lost its tail, you shall kill them for yourself; but they shall not be accepted for your vow.


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That which has broken testicles, or is crushed or gelt or mutilated, —you shall not offer them to the Lord, neither shall you° sacrifice them upon your land.


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Neither shall you° offer the gifts of your God of all these things by the hand of a stranger, because there is corruption in them, a blemish in them: these shall not be accepted for you.


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As for a calf, or a sheep, or a goat, whenever it is born, then shall it be seven days under its mother; and on the eighth day and after they shall be accepted for sacrifices, a burnt offering to the Lord.


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And if you should offer a sacrifice, a vow of rejoicing to the Lord, you° shall offer it so as to be accepted for you.


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In that same day it shall be eaten; you° shall not leave of the flesh till the morrow: I am the Lord.


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And you° shall not profane the name of the Holy One, and I will be sanctified in the midst of the children of Israel. I <i>am</i> the Lord that sanctifies you,


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Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them, The feasts of the Lord which you° shall call holy assemblies, these are my feasts.


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Six days shall you do works, but on the seventh day is the sabbath; a rest, a holy convocation to the Lord: you shall not do any work, it is a sabbath to the Lord in all your dwellings.


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In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, between the evening times is the Lord's passover.


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And on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast of unleavened bread to the Lord; seven days shall you° eat unleavened bread.


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And you° shall offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord seven days; and the seventh day shall be a holy convocation to you: you° shall do no servile work.


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Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them, When you° shall enter into the land which I give you, and reap the harvest of it, then shall you° bring a sheaf, the first fruits of your harvest, to the priest;


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and he shall lift up the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you. On the morrow of the first day the priest shall lift it up.


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And you° shall offer on the day on which you° bring the sheaf, a lamb without blemish of a year old for a whole burnt offering to the Lord.


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And its meat-offering two tenth portions of fine flour mingled with oil: it is a sacrifice to the Lord, a smell of sweet savor to the Lord, and its drink-offering the fourth part of a hin of wine.


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And you° shall not eat bread, or the new parched corn, until this same day, until you° offer the sacrifices to your God: <i>it is</i> a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings.


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And you° shall number to yourselves from the day after the sabbath, from the day on which you° shall offer the sheaf of the heave-offering, seven full weeks:


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until the morrow after the last week you° shall number fifty days, and shall bring a new meat-offering to the Lord.


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You° shall bring from your dwelling loaves, as a heave-offering, two loaves: they shall be of two tenth portions of fine flour, they shall be baked with leaven of the first fruits to the Lord.


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And you° shall bring with the loaves seven unblemished lambs of a year old, and one calf of the herd, and two rams without blemish, and they shall be a whole burnt offering to the Lord: and their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings <i>shall be</i> a sacrifice, a smell of sweet savor to the Lord.


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And they shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin-offering, and two lambs of a year old for a peace-offering, with the loaves of the first fruits.


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And the priest shall place them with the loaves of the first fruits an offering before the Lord with the two lambs, they shall be holy to the Lord; they shall belong to the priest that brings them.


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And you° shall call this day a convocation: it shall be holy to you; you° shall do no servile work on it: it is a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations in all your habitations.


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And when you° shall reap the harvest of your land, you° shall not fully reap the remainder of the harvest of your field when you reap, and you shall not gather that which falls from your reaping; you shall leave it for the poor and the stranger: I <i>am</i> the Lord your God.


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Speak to the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you° shall have a rest, a memorial of trumpets: it shall be to you a holy convocation.


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Also on the tenth day of this seventh month is a day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to you; and you° shall humble your souls, and offer a whole burnt offering to the Lord.


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You° shall do no work on this self-same day: for this is a day of atonement for you, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God.


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You° shall do no manner of work: it is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your habitations.


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It shall be a holy sabbath to you; and you° shall humble your souls, from the ninth day of the month: from evening to evening you° shall keep your sabbaths.


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Speak to the children of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month, there shall be a feast of tabernacles seven days to the Lord.


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Seven days shall you° offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord, and the eighth-day shall be a holy convocation to you; and you° shall offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord: it is a time of release, you° shall do no servile work.


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These <i>are</i> the feasts to the Lord, which you° shall call holy convocations, to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, whole burnt offerings and their meat-offerings, and their drink-offerings, that for each day on its day:


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besides the sabbaths of the Lord, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides your free will offerings, which you° shall give to the Lord.


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And on the fifteenth day of this seventh month, when you° shall have completely gathered in the fruits of the earth, you° shall keep a feast to the Lord seven days; on the first day there shall be a rest, and on the eighth day a rest.


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And on the first day you° shall take goodly fruit of trees, and branches of palm trees, and thick boughs of trees, and willows, and branches of osiers from the brook, to rejoice before the Lord your God seven days in the year.


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that your posterity may see, that I made the children of Israel to dwell in tents, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I <i>am</i> the Lord your God.


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Charge the children of Israel, and let them take for you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to burn a lamp continually,


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outside the veil in the tabernacle of witness; and Aaron and his sons shall burn it from evening until morning before the Lord continually, a perpetual statute throughout your generations.


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And you° shall take fine flour, and make of it twelve loaves; each loaf shall be of two tenth parts.


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And you° shall put them <i>in</i> two rows, each row <i>containing</i> six loaves, on the pure table before the Lord.


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And you° shall put on <i>each</i> row pure frankincense and salt; and <i>these things</i> shall be for loaves for a memorial, set forth before the Lord.


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On the sabbath-day they shall be set forth before the Lord continually before the children of Israel, for an everlasting covenant.


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And they shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat them in the holy place: for this is their most holy portion of the offerings made to the Lord, a perpetual statute.


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And there went forth a son of an Israelitish woman, and he was son of an Egyptian man among the sons of Israel; and they fought in the camp, the son of the Israelitish woman, and a man who was an Israelite.


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And the son of the Israelitish woman named THE NAME and curse; and they brought him to Moses: and his mother's name was Salomith, daughter of Dabri of the tribe of Dan.


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Bring forth him that cursed outside the camp, and all who heard shall lay their hands upon his head, and all the congregation shall stone him.


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And speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them, Whosoever shall curse God shall bear his sin.


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And he that names the name of the Lord, let him die the death: let all the congregation of Israel stone him with stones; whether he be a stranger or a native, let him die for naming the name of the Lord.


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And whoever shall inflict a blemish on his neighbor, as he has done to him, so shall it be done to himself in return;


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bruise for bruise, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as any one may inflict a blemish on a man, so shall it be rendered to him.


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And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and they brought him that had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones: and the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses.<pb/>


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Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them, Whenever you° shall have entered into the land, which I give to you, then the land shall rest which I give to you, for its sabbaths to the Lord.


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Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vine, and gather in its fruit.


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But in the seventh year <i>shall be</i> a sabbath, it shall be a rest to the land, a sabbath to the Lord: you shall not sow your field, and you shall not prune your vine.


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And you shall not gather the spontaneous produce of your field, and you shall not gather fully the grapes of your dedication: it shall be a year of rest to the land.


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And the sabbaths of the land shall be food for you, and for your man-servant, and for your maidservant, and your hireling, and the stranger that abides with you.


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And for your cattle, and for the wild beats that are in your land, shall every fruit of it be for food.


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And you shall reckon to yourself seven sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and they shall be to you seven weeks of years, nine and forty years.


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In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you° shall make a proclamation with the sound of a trumpet in all your land; on the day of atonement you° shall make a proclamation with a trumpet in all your land.


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And you° shall sanctify the year, the fifties year, and you° shall proclaim a release upon the land to all that inhabit it; it shall be given a year of release, a jubilee for you; and each one shall depart to his possession, and you° shall go each to his family.


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This is a jubilee of release, the year shall be to you the fifties year: you° shall not sow, nor reap the produce that comes of itself from the land, neither shall you° gather its dedicated fruits.


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In the year of the release <i>even</i> the jubilee of it, shall <i>each</i> one return to his possession.


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And if you should sell a possession to your neighbor, or if you should buy of your neighbor, let not a man oppress his neighbor.


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According to the number of years after the jubilee shall you buy of your neighbor, according to the number of years of the fruits shall he sell to you.


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According as <i>there may be</i> a greater number of years he shall increase <i>the value of</i> his possession, and according as <i>there may be</i> a less number of years he shall lessen <i>the value of</i> his possession; for according to the number of his crops, so shall he sell to you.


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And you° shall keep all my ordinances, and all my judgments; and do you° observe them, and you° shall keep them, and dwell securely in the land.


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And the land shall yield her increase, and you° shall eat to fullness, and shall dwell securely in it.


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And if you° should say, What shall we eat in this seventh year, if we do not sow nor gather in our fruits?


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Then will I send my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and the land shall produce its fruits for three years.


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And you° shall sow in the eighth year, and eat old fruits till the ninth year: until its fruit come, you° shall eat old fruits of the old.


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And the land shall not be sold for a permanence; for the land is mine, because you° are strangers and sojourners before me.


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And if your brother who is with you be poor, and should have sold <i>part</i> of his possession, and his kinsman who is near to him come, then he shall redeem the possession which his brother has sold.


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And if one have no near kinsman, and he prosper with his hand, and he find sufficient money, <i>even</i> his ransom;


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then shall he calculate the years of his sale, and he shall give what is due to the man to whom he sold it, and he shall return to his possession.


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But if his hand have not prospered sufficiently, so as that he should restore the money to him, then he that bought the possessions shall have them till the sixth year of the release; and it shall go out in the release, and the owner shall return to his possession.


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And if any one should sell an inhabited house in a walled city, then there shall be the ransom of it, until <i>the time</i> is fulfilled: its time of ransom shall be a full year.


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And if it be not ransomed until there be completed of its time a full year, the house which is in the walled city shall be surely confirmed to him that bought it, throughout his generations; and it shall not go out in the release.


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But the houses in the villages which have not a wall round about them, shall be reckoned as the fields of the country: they shall always be redeemable, and they shall go out in the release.


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And the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities in their possession, shall be always redeemable to the Levites.


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And if any one shall redeem a house of the Levites, then shall their sale of the houses of their possession go out in the release; because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession in the midst of the children of Israel.


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And the lands set apart for their cities shall not be sold, because this is their perpetual possession.


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And if your brother who is with you become poor, and he fail in resources with you, you shall help him as a stranger and a sojourner, and your brother shall live with you.


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You shall not receive from him interest, nor increase: and you shall fear your God: I <i>am</i> the Lord: and your brother shall live with you.


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You shall not lend your money to him at interest, and you shall not lend your meat to him to be returned with increase.


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I <i>am</i> the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Chanaan, so as to be your God.


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And if your brother by you be lowered, and be sold to you, he shall not serve you with the servitude of a slave.


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and he shall go out in the release, and his children with him; and he shall go to his family, he shall hasten back to his patrimony.


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Because these are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; such an one shall not be sold as a <i>common</i> servant.


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And whatever number of menservants and maidservants you shall have, you shall purchase male and female servants from the nations that are round about you.


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And of the sons of the sojourners that are among you, of these you° shall buy and of their relations, all that shall be in your lands; let them be to you for a possession.


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And you° shall distribute them to your children after you, and they shall be to you permanent possessions for ever: but of your brethren the children of Israel, one shall not oppress his brother in labors.


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And if a stranger or sojourner with you wax rich, and your brother in distress be sold to the stranger or the sojourner that is with you, or to a proselyte by extraction;


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A brother of his father, or a son of his father's brother shall redeem him; or let one of his near kin of his tribe redeem him, and if he should be rich and redeem himself,


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then shall he calculate with his purchaser from the year that he sold himself to him until the year of release: and the money of his purchase shall be as that of a hireling, he shall be with him from year to year.


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And if any have a greater number of years <i>than enough</i>, according to these he shall pay his ransom out of his purchase-money.


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And if but a little time be left of the years to the year of release, then shall he reckon to him according to his years, and shall pay his ransom


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as a hireling; he shall be with him from year to year; you shall not oppress him with labor before you.


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And if he do not pay his ransom accordingly, he shall go out in the year of his release, he and his children with him.


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For the children of Israel are my servants: they are my attendants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt.<pb/>


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I <i>am</i> the Lord your God: you° shall not make to yourselves gods made with hands, or graven; neither shall you° rear up a pillar for yourselves, neither shall you° set up a stone <i>for</i> an object in your land to worship it: I am the Lord your God.


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then will I give you the rain in its season, and the land shall produce its fruits, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.


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And your threshing time shall overtake the vintage, and your vintage shall overtake your seed time; and you° shall eat your bread to the full; and you° shall dwell safely upon your land, and war shall not go through your land.


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And I will give peace in your land, and you° shall sleep, and none <i>shall</i> make you afraid; and I will destroy the evil beasts out of your land,


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And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase tens of thousands; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.


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I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, where you° were slaves; and I broke the band of your yoke, and brought you forth openly.


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but disobey them, and your soul should loathe my judgments, so that you° should not keep all my commands, so as to break my covenant,


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then will I do thus to you: I will even bring upon you perplexity and the itch, and the fever that causes your eyes to waste away, and <i>disease</i> that consumes your life; and you° shall sow your seeds in vain, and your enemies shall eat them.


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And I will set my face against you, and you° shall fall before your enemies, and they that hate you shall pursue you; and you° shall flee, no one pursuing you.


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And if you° still refuse to listen to me, then will I chasten you yet more even seven times for your sins.


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And I will break down the haughtiness of your pride; and I will make your heaven iron, and your earth as it were brass.


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And your strength shall be in vain; and your land shall not yield its seed, and the tree of your field shall not yield its fruit.


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And if after this you° should walk perversely, and not be willing to obey me, I will further bring upon you seven plagues according to your sins.


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And I will send upon you the wild beasts of the land, and they shall devour you, and shall consume your cattle: and I will make you few in number, and your ways shall be desolate.


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I also will walk with you with a perverse spirit, and I also will strike you seven times for your sins.


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And I will bring upon you a sword avenging the cause of <i>my</i> covenant, and you° shall flee for refuge to your cities; and I will send out death against you, and you° shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies.


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When I afflict you with famine of bread, then ten women shall bake your loaves in one oven, and they shall render your loaves by weight; and you° shall eat, and not be satisfied.


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then will I walk with you with a froward mind, and I will chasten you sevenfold according to your sins.


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And I will render your pillars desolate, and will utterly destroy your wooden <i>images</i> made with hands; and I will lay your carcases on the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall loathe you.


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And I will lay your cities waste, and I will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell the savor of your sacrifices.


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And I will scatter you among the nations, and the sword shall come upon you and consume you; and your land shall be desolate, and your cities shall be desolate.


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And you° shall be in the land of your enemies; then the land shall keep its sabbaths, and the land shall enjoy its sabbaths all the days of its desolation: it shall keep sabbaths which it kept not among your sabbaths, when you° lived in it.


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And to those who are left of you I will bring bondage into their heart in the land of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee as fleeing from war, and shall fall when none pursues them.


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And brother shall disregard brother as in war, when none pursues; and you° shall not be able to withstand your enemies.


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And those who are left of you shall perish, because of their sins, and because of the sins of their fathers: in the land of their enemies shall they consume away.


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And they shall confess their sins, and the sins of their fathers, that they have transgressed and neglected me, and that they have walked perversely before me,


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and I walked with them with a perverse mind; and I will destroy them in the land of their enemies: then shall their uncircumcised heart be ashamed, and then shall they acquiesce in <i>the punishment of</i> their sins.


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And I will remember the covenant of Jacob, and the covenant of Isaac, and the covenant of Abraam will I remember.


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And I will remember the land, and the land shall be left of them; then the land shall enjoy her sabbaths, when it is deserted through them: and they shall accept <i>the punishment of</i> their iniquities, because they neglected my judgments, and in their soul loathed my ordinances.


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And yet not even thus, while they were in the land of their enemies, did I overlook them, nor did I loathe them so as to consume them, to break my covenant made with them; for I am the Lord their God.


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And I will remember their former covenant, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage before the nation, to be their God; I am the Lord.


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These are my judgments and my ordinances, and the law which the Lord gave between himself and the children of Israel, in the mount Sina, by the hand of Moses.<pb/>


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Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them, Whosoever shall vow a vow as the valuation of his soul for the Lord,


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the valuation of a male from twenty years old to sixty years old shall be his valuation shall be fifty didrachmas of silver by the standard of the sanctuary.


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And if it be from five years old to twenty, the valuation of a male shall be twenty didrachmas, and of a female ten didrachmas.


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And from a month old to five years old, the valuation of a male shall be five didrachmas, and of a female, three didrachmas of silver.


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And if from sixty year <i>old</i> and upward, if it be a male, his valuation shall be fifteen didrachmas of silver, and if a female, ten didrachmas.


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And if the man be too poor for the valuation, he shall stand before the priest; and the priest shall value him: according to what the man who has vowed can afford, the priest shall value him.


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And if it be from the cattle that are offered as a gift to the Lord, whoever shall offer one of these to the Lord, it shall be holy.


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He shall not change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if he do at all change it, a beast for a beast, it and the substitute shall be holy.


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And if it be any unclean beast, of which none are offered as a gift to the Lord, he shall set the beast before the priest.


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And the priest shall make a valuation between the good and the bad, and accordingly as the priest shall value it, so shall it stand.


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And whatever man shall consecrate his house as holy to the Lord, the priest shall make a valuation of it between the good and the bad: as the priest shall value it, so shall it stand.


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And if he that has sanctified it should redeem his house, he shall add to it the fifth part of the money of the valuation, and it shall be his.


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And if a man should hallow to the Lord a part of the field of his possession, then the valuation shall be according to its seed, fifty didrachmas of silver for a homer of barley.


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And if he should sanctify his field from the year of release, it shall stand according to his valuation.


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And if he should sanctify his field in the latter time after the release, the priest shall reckon to him the money for the remaining years, until the <i>next</i> year of release, and it shall be deducted as an equivalent from his full valuation.


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And if he that sanctified the field would redeem it, he shall add to its value the fifth part of the money, and it shall be his.


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And if he do not redeem the field, but should sell the field to another man, he shall not after redeem it.


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But the field shall be holy to the Lord after the release, as separated land; the priest shall have possession of it.


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And if he should consecrate to the Lord of a field which he has bought, which is not of the field of his possession,


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the priest shall reckon to him the full valuation from the year of release, and he shall pay the valuation in that day <i>as</i> holy to the Lord.


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And in the year of release the land shall be restored to the man of whom the other bought it, whose the possession of the land was.


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And every firstborn which shall be produced among your cattle shall be the Lord's, and no man shall sanctify it: whether calf or sheep, it is the Lord's.


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But if he should redeem an unclean beast, according to its valuation, then he shall add the fifth part to it, and it shall be his; and if he redeem it not, it shall be sold according to its valuation.


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And every dedicated thing which a man shall dedicate to the Lord of all that he has, whether man or beast, or of the field of his possession, he shall not sell it, nor redeem it: every devoted thing shall be most holy to the Lord.


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Every tithe of the land, both of the seed of the land, and of the fruit of trees, is the Lord's, holy to the Lord.


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And if a man should at all redeem his tithe, he shall add the fifth part to it, and it shall be his.


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And every tithe of oxen, and of sheep, and whatever may come in numbering under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to the Lord.


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You shall not change a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if you should at all change it, its equivalent also shall be holy, it shall not be redeemed.


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And the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sina, in the tabernacle of witness, on the first day of the second month, in the second year of their departure from the land of Egypt, saying,


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Take the sum of all the congregation of Israel according to their kindred, according to the houses of their fathers' families, according to their number by their names, according to their heads: every male


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from twenty years old and upwards, every one that goes forth in the <n>[[Gr. ]] force. </n> forces of Israel, take account of them with their strength; you and Aaron take account of them.


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And with you there shall be each one of the rulers according to the tribe of each: they shall be according to the houses of their families.


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And these are the names of the men who shall be present with you; of the tribe of Ruben, Elisur the son of Sediur.


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Of the sons of Joseph, of Ephraim, Elisama the son of Emiud: of Manasses, Gamaliel the son of Phadasur.


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These were famous men of the congregation, heads of the tribes according to their families: these are heads of thousands in Israel.


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And they assembled all the congregation on the first day of the month in the second year; and they <n>ἄξονες dicebantur olim tabulae publicae; atque inde ἐπαξοοῦ, quod videtur esse, [[in tabulas referre. L. Bos.]]</n> registered them after their lineage, after their families, after the number of their names, from twenty years old and upwards, every male according to their <n>[[Gr. ]] head or poll. </n> number:


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And the sons of Ruben the firstborn of Israel according to their kindred, according to their divisions, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names, according to their heads, were—all males from twenty years old and upward, every one that went out with the host—


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For the children of Symeon according to their kindred, according to their divisions, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names, according to their polls, all males from twenty years old and upward, every one that goes out with the host,


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For the sons of Juda according to their kindred, according to their divisions, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names, according to their polls, all males from twenty years old and upward, every one that goes forth with the host,


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For the sons of Issachar according to their kindred, according to their divisions, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names, according to their polls, all males from twenty years old and upward, every one that goes forth with the host,


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For the sons of Zabulon according to their kindred, according to their divisions, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names, according to their polls, all males from twenty years old and upward, every one that goes out with the host,


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the numbering of them of the tribe of Zabulon, was fifty-seven thousand and <n>[[Alex. ]] 500. </n> four hundred.


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For the sons of Joseph, the sons of Ephraim, according to their kindred, according to their divisions, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names, according to their polls, all males from twenty years old and upward, every one that goes out with the host,


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For the sons of Manasse according to their kindred, according to their divisions, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names, according to their polls, all males from twenty years old and upward, every one that goes out with the host,


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For the sons of Benjamin according to their kindred, according to their divisions, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names, according to their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, every one that goes forth with the host,


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For the sons of Gad according to their kindred, according to their divisions, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names, according to their polls, all males from twenty years old and upward, every one that goes forth with the host,


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For the sons of Dan according to their kindred, according to their divisions, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names, according to their polls, all males from twenty years old and upward, every one that goes forth with the host,


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For the sons of Aser according to their kindred, according to their divisions, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names, according to their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, every one that goes forth with the host,


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For the sons of Nephthali according to their kindred, according to their divisions, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names, according to their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, every one who goes forth with the host,


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This is the numbering which Moses and Aaron and the rulers of Israel, being twelve men, conducted: there was a man for each tribe, they were according to the tribe of the houses of their family.


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And the whole numbering of the children of Israel with their host from twenty years old and upward, every one that goes out to set himself in battle array in Israel, came to


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See, you shall not muster the tribe of Levi, and you shall not take their numbers, in the midst of the children of Israel.


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And do you set the Levites over the tabernacle of witness, and over all its furniture, and over all things that are in it; and they shall do service in it, and they shall encamp round about the tabernacle.


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And in removing the tabernacle, the Levites shall take it down, and in pitching the tabernacle they shall set it up: and let the stranger that advances <i>to touch it</i> die.


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And the children of Israel shall encamp, every man in his own order, and every man according to his <n>[[Or, ]] headship, [[i.e. ]] according to the situation of his captain or prince. </n> company, with their host.


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But let the Levites encamp round about the tabernacle of witness fronting it, and <i>so</i> there shall be no sin among the children of Israel; and the Levites themselves shall keep the guard of the tabernacle of witness.


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And the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.<pb/>


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Let the children of Israel encamp fronting <i>each other</i>, every man keeping his own rank, according to <i>their</i> standards, according to the houses of their families; the children of Israel shall encamp round about the tabernacle of witness.


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And they that encamp first toward the east <i>shall be</i> the order of the camp of Juda with their host, and the prince of the sons of Juda, Naasson the son of Aminadab.


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And they that encamp next <i>shall be</i> of the tribe of Issachar, and the prince of the sons of Issachar <i>shall be</i> Nathanael the son of Sogar.


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And they that encamp next <i>shall be</i> of the tribe of Zabulon, and the prince of the sons of Zabulon <i>shall be</i> Eliab the son of Chaelon.


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All that were numbered of the camp of Juda were a hundred and eighty thousand and six thousand and four hundred: they shall move first with their forces.


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<i>This is</i> the order of the camp of Ruben; their forces <i>shall be</i> toward the south, and the prince of the children of Ruben <i>shall be</i> Elisur the son of Sediur.


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And they that encamp next to him <i>shall be</i> of the tribe of Symeon, and the prince of the sons of Symeon <i>shall be</i> Salamiel the son of Surisadai.


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And they that encamp next to them <i>shall be</i> the tribe of Gad; and the prince of the sons of Gad, Elisaph the son of Raguel.


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All who were numbered of the camp of Ruben, were a hundred and fifty-one thousand and four hundred and fifty: they with their forces shall proceed in the second place.


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And <i>then</i> the tabernacle of witness shall be set forward, and the camp of the Levites <i>shall be</i> between the camps; as they shall encamp, so also shall they commence their march, each one next in order to his fellow according to their companies.


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The station of the camp of Ephraim <i>shall be</i> <n>[[Gr. ]] by the sea. </n> westward with their forces, and the head of the children of Ephraim <i>shall be</i> Elisama the son of Emiud.


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And they that encamp next <i>shall be</i> of the tribe of Manasse, and the prince of the sons of Manasse, Gamaliel the son of Phadassur.


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And they that encamp next <i>shall be</i> of the tribe of Benjamin, and the prince of the sons of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gadeoni.


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All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim, were one hundred and eight thousand and one hundred: they with their forces shall set out third.


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The order of the camp of Dan <i>shall be</i> northward with their forces; and the prince of the sons of Dan, Achiezer the son of Amisadai.


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And they that encamp next to him <i>shall be</i> the tribe of Aser; and the prince of the sons of Aser, Phagiel the son of Echran.


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And they that encamp next <i>shall be</i> of the tribe of Nephthali; and the prince of the children of Nephthali, Achire son Aenan.


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All that were numbered of the camp of Dan, <i>were</i> a hundred and fifty-seven thousand and six hundred: they shall set out last according to their order.


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This <i>is</i> the numbering of the children of Israel according to the houses of their families: all the numbering of the camps with their forces, <i>was</i> six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.


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And the children of Israel did all things that the Lord commanded Moses; thus they encamped in their order, and thus they began their march in succession each according to their divisions, according to the houses of their families.<pb/>


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And these <i>are</i> the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day in which the Lord spoke to Moses in mount Sina.


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And these <i>are</i> the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the firstborn; and Abiud, Eleazar and Ithamar.


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These <i>are</i> the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests whom they <n>[[Gr. ]] accomplished their hands to minister: according to the Hebrew idiom, <i>filled </i> their hands. </n> consecrated to the priesthood.


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And Nadab and Abiud died before the Lord, when they offered strange fire before the Lord, in the wilderness of Sina; and they had no children; and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priests' office with Aaron their father.


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Take the tribe of Levi, and you shall set them before Aaron the priest, and they shall minister to him,


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and shall keep his charges, and the charges of the children of Israel, before the tabernacle of witness, to do the works of the tabernacle.


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And they shall keep all the furniture of the tabernacle of witness, and the charges of the children of Israel as to all the works of the tabernacle.


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And you shall give the Levites to Aaron, and to his sons the priests; they are given for a gift to me of the children of Israel.


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And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons over the tabernacle of witness; and they shall keep their charge of priesthood, and all things belonging to the altar, and within the veil; and the stranger that touches them shall die.


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Behold, I have taken the Levites from the midst of the children of Israel, instead of every male that opens the womb from among the children of Israel: they shall be their ransom, and the Levites shall be mine.


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For every firstborn <i>is</i> mine; in the day in which I struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified to myself every firstborn in Israel: both of man and beast, they shall be mine: I <i>am</i> the Lord.


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Take the number of the sons of Levi, according to the houses of their families, according to their divisions; number you° them every male from a month old and upwards.


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And Moses and Aaron numbered them by the <n>[[Gr. ]] voice. </n> word of the Lord, as the Lord commanded them.


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and the sons of Merari according to their families, Mooli and Musi; these are the families of the Levites according to the houses of their families.


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The numbering of them according to the number of every male from a month old and upwards, their numbering <i>was</i> seven thousand and five hundred.


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And the charge of the sons of Gedson in the tabernacle of witness <i>was</i> the tent and the veil, and the covering of the door of the tabernacle of witness,


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and the curtains of the court, and the veil of the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and the remainder of all its works.


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To Caath <i>belonged</i> one division, that of Amram, and another division, that of Issaar, and another division, that of Chebron, and another division, that of Oziel: these are the divisions of Caath, according to number.


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Every male from a month old and upward, eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charges of the holy things.


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And the chief of the house of the families of the divisions of Caath, <i>was</i> Elisaphan the son of Oziel.


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And their charge <i>was</i> the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and all the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they do holy service, and the veil, and all their works.


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And the chief over the chief of the Levites, <i>was</i> Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, appointed to keep the charges of the holy things.


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To Merari <i>belonged</i> the family of Mooli, and the family of Musi: these are the families of Merari.


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The mustering of them according to number, every male from a month old and upwards, <i>was</i> six thousand and fifty.


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And the head of the house of the families of the division of Merari, was Suriel the son of Abichail: they shall encamp by the side of the tabernacle northwards.


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The oversight of the charge of the sons of Merari <i>included</i> the chapiters of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and all their furniture, and their works,


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They that encamp before the tabernacle of witness on the east <i>shall be</i> Moses and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charges of the sanctuary according to the charges of the children of Israel; and the stranger that touches them, shall die.


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All the numbering of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered by the word of the Lord, according to their families, every male from a month old and upwards, <i>were</i> two and twenty thousand.


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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Count every firstborn male of the children of Israel from a month old and upwards, and take the number by name.


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And you shall take the Levites for me—I <i>am</i> the Lord—instead of all the firstborn of the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the cattle of the children of Israel.


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And all the male firstborn in number by name, from a month old and upwards, were according to their numbering twenty-two thousand and two hundred and seventy-three.


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Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle, and the Levites shall be mine; I <i>am</i> the Lord.


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And for the ransoms of the two hundred and seventy-three which exceed the Levites in number of the firstborn of the sons of Israel;


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you shall even take five shekels a head; you shall take them according to the holy didrachm, twenty oboli to the shekel.


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And you shall give the money to Aaron and to his sons, the ransom of those who exceed in number among them.


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And Moses took the silver, the ransom of those that exceeded in number <n>[[i.e. ]] the number redeemed by the Levites. </n> the redemption of the Levites.


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He took the silver from the firstborn of the sons of Israel, a thousand three hundred and sixty-five shekels, according to the holy shekel.


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And Moses gave the ransom of them that were over to Aaron and his sons, by the <n>[[Gr. ]] voice. </n> word of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.<pb/>


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Take the sum of the children of Caath from the midst of the sons of Levi, after their families, according to the houses of their fathers' households;


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from twenty-five years old and upward until fifty years, every one that goes in to minister, to do all the works in the tabernacle of witness.


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And Aaron and his sons shall go in, when the camp is about to move, and shall take down the shadowing veil, and shall cover with it the ark of the testimony.


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And they shall put on it a cover, even a blue skin, and put on it above a garment all of blue, and shall put the staves through <i>the rings</i>.


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And they shall put on the table set forth for show-bread a cloth all of purple, and the dishes, and the censers, and the cups, and the vessels with which one offers drink-offerings; and the continual loaves shall be upon it.


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And they shall put upon it a scarlet cloth, and they shall cover it with a blue covering of skin, and they shall put the staves into it.


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And they shall take a blue covering, and cover the candlestick that gives light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its funnels, and all the vessels of oil with which they minister.


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And they shall put it, and all its vessels, into a blue skin cover; and they shall put it on bearers.


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And they shall put a blue cloth for a cover on the golden altar, and shall cover it with a blue skin cover, and put in its staves.


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And they shall take all the instruments of service, with which they minister in the sanctuary: and shall place them in a cloth of blue, and shall cover them with blue skin covering, and put them upon staves.


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And they shall put upon it all the vessels with which they minister upon it, and the fire-pans, and the flesh hooks, and the cups, and the cover, and all the vessels of the altar; and they shall put on it a blue cover of skins, and shall put in its staves; and they shall take a purple cloth, and cover the laver and its foot, and they shall put it into a blue cover of skin, and put it on bars.


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And Aaron and his sons shall finish covering the holy things, and all the holy vessels, when the camp begins to move; and afterwards the sons of Caath shall go in to take up <i>the furniture</i>; but shall not touch the holy things, lest they die: these shall the sons of Caath bear in the tabernacle of witness.


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Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest is overseer—the oil of the light, and the incense of composition, and the daily meat-offering and the anointing oil, are his charge; even the oversight of the whole tabernacle, and all things that are in it in the holy place, in all the works.


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This do you° to them, and they shall live and not die, when they approach the holy of holies: Let Aaron and his sons advance, and they shall place them each in his post for bearing.


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Take the sum of the children of Gedson, and these according to the houses of their lineage, according to their families.


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Take the number of them from five and twenty years old and upwards until the age of fifty, every one that goes in to minister, to do his business in the tabernacle of witness.


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And <n>[[Gr. ]] it, [[i.e. ]] the family. </n> they shall bear the skins of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of witness, and its veil, and the blue cover that was on it above, and the cover of the door of the tabernacle of witness.


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And all the curtains of the court which were upon the tabernacle of witness, and the appendages, and all the vessels of service that they minister with they shall attend to.


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According to the direction of Aaron and his sons shall be the ministry of the sons of Gedson, in all their ministries, and in all their works; and you shall take account of them by name in all things borne by them.


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This is the service of the sons of Gedson in the tabernacle of witness, and their charge by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.


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The sons of Merari according to their families, according to the houses of their lineage, take you° the number of them.


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Take the number of them from five and twenty years old and upwards until fifty years old, every one that goes in to perform the services of the tabernacle of witness.


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And these are the charges of the things borne by them according to all their works in the tabernacle of witness: they shall bear the chapiters of the tabernacle, and the bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and the veil, and <i>there shall be</i> their sockets, and their pillars, and the curtain of the door of the tabernacle.


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And they shall bear the pillars of the court round about, and <i>there shall be</i> their sockets, and <i>they shall bear</i> the pillars of the veil of the door of the court, and their sockets and their pins, and their cords, and all their furniture, and all their instruments of service: take you° their number by name, and all the articles of the charge of the things borne by them.


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This is the ministration of the family of the sons of Merari in all their works in the tabernacle of witness, by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.


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And Moses and Aaron and the rulers of Israel took the number of the sons of Caath according to their families, according to the houses of their lineage;


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from five and twenty years old and upwards to the age of fifty years, every one that goes in to minister and do service in the tabernacle of witness.


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And the numbering of them according to their families was two thousand, <n>[[Alex. ]] 350. </n> seven hundred and fifty.


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This is the numbering of the family of Caath, every one that ministers in the tabernacle of witness, as Moses and Aaron numbered them by the word of the Lord, by the hand of Moses.


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And the sons of Gedson were numbered according to their families, according to the houses of their lineage,


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from five and twenty years old and upward till fifty years old, every one that goes in to minister and to do the services in the tabernacle of witness.


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And the numbering of them according to their families, according to the houses of their lineage, <i>was</i> two thousand six hundred and thirty.


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This <i>is</i> the numbering of the family of the sons of Gedson, every one who ministers in the tabernacle of witness; whom Moses and Aaron numbered by the word of the Lord, by the hand of Moses.


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And also the family of the sons of Merari were numbered according to their divisions, according to the house of their fathers;


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from five and twenty years old and upward till fifty years old, every one that goes in to minister in the services of the tabernacle of witness.


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And the numbering of them according to their families, according to the houses of their lineage, <i>was</i> three thousand and two hundred.


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This <i>is</i> the numbering of the family of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered by the <n>[[Gr. ]] voice. </n> word of the Lord, by the hand of Moses.


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All that were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron and the rulers of Israel numbered, <i>namely</i>, the Levites, according to their families and according to the houses of their lineage,


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from five and twenty years old and upward till fifty years old, every one that goes in to the <n>[[Gr. ]] work. </n> service of the works, and the <i>charge of</i> the things that are carried in the tabernacle of witness.


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He reviewed them by the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses, appointing each man severally over their <i>respective</i> work, and over their burdens; and they were numbered, as the Lord commanded Moses.<pb/>


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Charge the children of Israel, and let them send forth out of the camp every leper, and every one who has in issue of the reins, and every one who is unclean from a <n>[[Gr. ]] soul. </n> dead body.


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Whether male or female, send them forth out of the camp; and they shall not defile their camps in which I dwell among them.


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And the children of Israel did so, and sent them out of the camp: as the Lord said to Moses, so did the children of Israel.


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Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Every man or woman who shall commit any sin that is common to man, or if that soul shall in anyway have neglected the commandment and transgressed;


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<i>that person</i> shall confess the sin which he has committed, and shall make satisfaction for his trespass: he <i>shall pay</i> the principal, and shall add to it the fifth part, and shall make restoration to him against whom he has trespassed.


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But if a man have no near kinsman, so as to make satisfaction for his trespass to him, the trespass-offering paid to the Lord shall be for the priest, besides the ram of atonement, by which he shall make atonement with it for him.


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And every first fruits in all the sanctified things among the children of Israel, whatever they shall offer to the Lord, shall be for the priest himself.


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And the hallowed things of every man shall be his; and whatever man shall give <i>any thing</i> to the priest, the gift shall be his.


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Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them, Whosesoever wife shall transgress against him, and slight and despise him,


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and <i>supposing</i> any one shall lie with her carnally, and the thing shall be hid from the eyes of her husband, and she should conceal it and be herself defiled, and there be no witness with her, and she should not be taken;


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and there should come upon him a spirit of jealousy, and he should be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled; or there should come upon him a spirit of jealousy, and he should be jealous of his wife, and she should not be defiled;


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then shall the man bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring his gift for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley-meal: he shall not pour oil upon it, neither shall he put frankincense upon it; for it is a sacrifice of jealousy, a sacrifice of memorial, recalling sin to remembrance.


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And the priest shall take pure running water in an earthen vessel, and he shall take of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle of witness, and the priest having taken it shall cast it into the water.


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And the priest shall cause the woman to stand before the Lord, and shall uncover the head of the woman, and shall put into her hands the sacrifice of memorial, the sacrifice of jealousy; and in the hand of the priest shall be the water of this conviction that brings the curse.


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And the priest shall adjure her, and shall say to the woman, If no one has lain with you, and if you have not transgressed so as to be polluted, being under the power of your husband, be free from this water of the conviction that causes the curse.


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But if being a married woman you have transgressed, or been polluted, and any one has lain with you, beside your husband:


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then the priest shall adjure the woman by the oaths of this curse, and the priest shall say to the woman, The Lord bring you into a curse and under an oath in the midst of your people, in that the Lord should cause your thigh to rot and your belly to swell;


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and this water bringing the curse shall enter into your womb to cause your belly to swell, and your thigh to rot. And the woman shall say, So be it, So be it.


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And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall blot them out <n>[[Gr. ]] in. </n> with the water of the conviction that brings the curse.


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And he shall cause the woman to drink the water of the conviction that brings the curse; and the water of the conviction that brings the curse shall enter into her.


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And the priest shall take from the hand of the woman the sacrifice of jealousy, and shall present the sacrifice before the Lord, and shall bring it to the altar.


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And the priest shall take a handful of the sacrifice as a memorial of it, and shall offer it up upon the altar; and afterwards he shall cause the woman to drink the water.


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And it shall come to pass, if she be defiled, and have altogether escaped the notice of her husband, then the water of the conviction that brings the curse shall enter into her; and she shall swell in her belly, and her thigh shall rot, and the woman shall be for a curse in the midst of her people.


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But if the woman have not been polluted, and be clean, then shall she be guiltless and shall <n>[[Gr. ]] give out seed. </n> conceive seed.


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or in the case of a man on whoever the spirit of jealousy should come, and he should be jealous of his wife, and he should place his wife before the Lord, and the priest shall execute towards her all this law.


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speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them, Whatsoever man or woman shall specially vow a vow to separate oneself with purity to the Lord,


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he shall purely abstain from wine and strong drink; and he shall drink no vinegar of wine or vinegar of strong drink; and whatever is made of the grape he shall not drink; neither shall he eat fresh grapes or raisins,


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all the days of his vow: he shall eat no one of all the things that come from the vine, wine from the grape-stones to the <n>[[Gr. ]] grape-stones. </n> husk,


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all the days of his separation:—a razor shall not come upon his head, until the days be fulfilled which he vowed to the Lord: he shall be holy, cherishing the <n>[[Gr. ]] a head of hair  [[d even ]][[d* hair, etc. ]]</n> long hair of the head,


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to his father or his mother, or to his brother or his sister; he shall not defile himself for them, when they have died, because the vow of God is upon him on his head.


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And if any one should die suddenly by him, immediately the head of his vow shall be defiled; and he shall shave his head in whatever day he shall be purified: on the seventh day he shall be shaved.


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And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the doors of the tabernacle of witness.


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And the priest shall offer one for a sin-offering; and the other for a whole burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him in the things wherein he sinned respecting the dead body, and he shall sanctify his head in that day,


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in which he was consecrated to the Lord, <i>all</i> the days of his vow; and he shall bring a lamb of a year old for a trespass-offering; and the former days shall not be reckoned, because the head of his vow was polluted.


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And this is the law of him that has vowed: in whatever day he shall have fulfilled the days of his vow, he shall himself bring his gift to the doors of the tabernacle of witness.


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And he shall bring his gift to the Lord; one he-lamb of a year old without blemish for a whole burnt offering, and one ewe-lamb of a year old without blemish for a sin-offering, and one ram without blemish for a peace-offering;


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and a basket of unleavened bread of fine flour, <i>even</i> loaves kneaded with oil, and unleavened cakes anointed with oil, and their meat-offering, and their drink-offering.


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And the priest shall bring them before the Lord, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his whole burnt offering.


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And he shall offer the ram as a sacrifice of peace-offering to the Lord with the basket of unleavened bread; and the priest shall offer its meat-offering and its drink-offering.


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And he that has vowed shall shave the head of his consecration by the doors of the tabernacle of witness, and shall put the hairs on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace-offering.


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And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened loaf from the basket, and one unleavened cake, and shall put them on the hands of the votary after he has shaved off his <n>[[Gr. ]] his vow, compare Acts 18. 18. </n>


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And the priest shall present them as an offering before the Lord; it shall be the holy portion for the priest beside the breast of the heave-offering and beside the shoulder of the wave-offering: and afterwards the votary shall drink wine.


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This is the law of the votary who shall have vowed to the Lord his gift to the Lord, concerning his vow, besides what he may be able to afford according to the value of his vow, which he may have vowed according to the law of separation.


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Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, Thus you° shall bless the children of Israel, saying to them,


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And it came to pass in the day in which Moses finished <n>[[Gr. ]] so as to set up. </n> the setting-up of the tabernacle, that he anointed it, and consecrated it, and all its furniture, and the altar and all its furniture, he even anointed them, and consecrated them.


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And the princes of Israel brought <i>gifts</i>, twelve princes of their fathers' houses: these were the heads of tribes, these are they that presided over the numbering.


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And they brought their gift before the Lord, six covered waggons, and twelve oxen; a waggon from two princes, and a calf from each: and they brought them before the tabernacle.


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Take of them, and they shall be for the works of the services of the tabernacle of witness: and you shall give them to the Levites, to each one according to his ministration.


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And four waggons and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari according to their ministrations, by Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.


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But to the sons of Caath he gave them not, because they have the ministrations of the sacred things: they shall bear them on their shoulders.


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And the rulers brought <i>gifts</i> for the dedication of the altar, in the day in which he anointed it, and the rulers brought their gifts before the altar.


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And the Lord said to Moses, One chief each day, they shall offer their gifts a chief each day for the dedication of the altar.


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And he that offered his gift on the first day, was Naasson the son of Aminadab, prince of the tribe of Juda.


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And he brought his gift, one silver charger of a hundred and thirty shekels was its weight, one silver bowl, of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat-offering.


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One <n>[[Gr. ]] one censer of ten golden  [[d weights. ]][[d* ]]</n> golden censer of ten shekels full of incense.


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And for a sacrifice of peace-offering, two heifers, five rams, five he goats, five ewe-lambs of a year old: this <i>was</i> the gift of Naasson the son of Aminadab.


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On the second day Nathanael son of Sogar, the prince of the tribe of Issachar, brought <i>his offering</i>.


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And he brought his gift, one silver charger, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat-offering.


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And for a sacrifice, a peace-offering, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe-lambs of a year old: this <i>was</i> the gift of Nathanael the son of Sogar.


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<i>He brought</i> his gift, one silver charger, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat-offering.


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And for a sacrifice of peace-offering, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe-lambs of a year old: this <i>was</i> the gift of Eliab the son of Chaelon.


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And for a sacrifice of peace-offering, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe-lambs of a year old: this <i>was</i> the gift of Elisur the son of Sediur.


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<i>He brought</i> his gift, one silver charger, its weight one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat-offering.


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And for a sacrifice of peace-offering, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe-lambs of a year old: this <i>was</i> the gift of Salamiel the son of Surisadai.


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<i>He brought</i> his gift, one silver charger, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat offering.


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And for a sacrifice of peace-offering, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe-lambs of a year old: this <i>was</i> the gift of Elisaph the son of Raguel.


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<i>He brought</i> his gift, one silver charger, its weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat-offering.


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And for a sacrifice of peace-offering, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe-lambs of a year old: this <i>was</i> the gift of Elisama the son of Emiud.


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<i>He brought</i> his gift, one silver charger, its weight one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat-offering.


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And for a sacrifice of peace-offering two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe-lambs of a year old: this <i>was</i> the gift of Gamaliel the son of Phadassur.


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<i>He brought</i> his gift, one silver charger, its weight a hundred and thirty <i>shekels</i>, one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat-offering.


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And for a sacrifice of peace-offering, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe-lambs of a year old: this <i>was</i> the gift of Abidan the son of Gadeoni.


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<i>He brought</i> his gift, one silver charger, its weight a hundred and thirty <i>shekels</i>, one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat-offering.


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And for a sacrifice of peace-offering, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe-lambs of a year old. This <i>was</i> the gift of Achiezer the son of Amisadai.


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And for a sacrifice of peace-offering, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe-lambs of a year old: this <i>was</i> the gift of Phageel the son of Echran.


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<i>He brought</i> his gift, one silver charger, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering.


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And for a sacrifice of peace-offering, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe-lambs of a year old: this <i>was</i> the gift of Achire the son of Aenan.


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This was the dedication of the altar in the day in which <i>Moses</i> anointed it, by the princes of the sons of Israel; twelve silver chargers, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden censers:


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<n>[[Gr. ]] one. </n> each charger of a hundred and thirty shekels, and each bowl of seventy shekels: all the silver of the vessels <i>was</i> two thousand four hundred shekels, the shekels according to the holy shekel.


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All the <n>[[Gr. ]] cows. </n>cattle for whole burnt offerings, twelve calves, twelve rams, twelve he-lambs of a year old, and their meat-offerings, and their drink-offerings: and twelve kids of the goats for sin-offering.


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All the cattle for a sacrifice of peace-offering, twenty-four heifers, sixty rams, sixty he-goats of a year old, sixty ewe-lambs of a year old without blemish: this is the dedication of the altar, after that <i>Moses</i> <n>[[Gr. ]] filled his hands. </n> consecrated <i>Aaron</i>, and after he anointed him.


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When Moses went into the tabernacle of witness to speak to <n>[[Gr. ]] him. </n> God, then he heard the voice of the Lord speaking to him from off the mercy-seat, which is upon the ark of the testimony, between the two cherubs; and he spoke to him.<pb/>


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Speak to Aaron, and you shall say to him, Whenever you shall set the lamps in order, the seven lamps shall give light opposite the candlestick.


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And Aaron did so: on one side opposite the candlestick he lighted its lamps, as the Lord appointed Moses.


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And this <i>is</i> the <n>[[Or, ]] Appointment, or arrangement. </n> construction of the candlestick: <i>it is</i> solid, golden—its stem, and its lilies—all solid: according to the pattern which the Lord showed Moses, so he made the candlestick.


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And thus shall you perform their purification: you shall sprinkle them with water of purification, and a razor shall come upon the whole of their body, and they shall wash their garments, and shall be clean.


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And they shall take one calf of the herd, and its meat-offering, fine flour mingled with oil: and you shall take a calf of a year old of the herd for a sin-offering.


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And you shall bring the Levites before the tabernacle of witness; and you shall assemble all the congregation of the sons of Israel.


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And you shall bring the Levites before the Lord; and the sons of Israel shall lay their hands upon the Levites.


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And Aaron shall separate the Levites for a gift before the Lord from the children of Israel: and they shall be prepared <n>[[Gr. ]] so as to perform. </n> to perform the works of the Lord.


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And the Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the calves; and you shall offer one for a sin-offering, and the other for a whole burnt offering to the Lord, to make atonement for them.


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And you shall set the Levites before the Lord, and before Aaron, and before his sons; and you shall give them as a gift before the Lord.


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And afterwards the Levites shall go in to perform the works of the tabernacle of witness; and you shall purify them, and present them before the Lord.


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For these are given to me for a present out of the midst of the children of Israel: I have taken them to myself instead of all the firstborn of the sons of Israel that open every womb.


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For every firstborn among the children of Israel <i>is</i> mine, whether of man or beast: in the day in which I struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them to myself.


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And I gave the Levites presented as a gift to Aaron and his sons out of the midst of the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of witness, and to make atonement for the children of Israel: thus there shall be none among the sons of Israel to draw near to the holy things.


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And Moses and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites as the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the sons of Israel did to them.


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So the Levites purified themselves and washed their garments; and Aaron presented them as a gift before the Lord, and Aaron made atonement for them to purify them.


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And afterwards the Levites went in to minister in their service in the tabernacle of witness before Aaron, and before his sons; as the Lord appointed Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.


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This is the <i>ordinance</i> for the Levites; From five and twenty years old and upward, they shall go in to <n>[[Gr. ]] do the work. </n> minister in the tabernacle of witness.


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And from fifty years old <i>the Levites</i> shall cease from the ministry, and shall not work any longer.


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And his brother shall serve in the tabernacle of witness to keep charges, but he shall not do works: so shall you do to the Levites in their charges.<pb/>


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And the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sina in the second year after they had gone forth from the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying,


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On the fourteenth day of the first month at even, you shall keep it in its season; you shall keep it according to its law, and according to its ordinance.


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on the fourteenth day of the first month in the wilderness of Sina, as the Lord appointed Moses, so the children of Israel did.


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And there came men who were unclean by reason of a dead body, and they were not able to keep the passover on that day; and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.


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And those men said to <n>[[Gr. ]] him. </n> Moses, We are unclean by reason of the dead body of a man: shall we therefore fail to offer the gift to the Lord in its season in the midst of the children of Israel?


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Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Whatever man shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or on a journey far off, among you, or among your posterity; he shall then keep the passover to the Lord,


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in the second month, on the fourteenth day; in the evening they shall offer it, with unleavened bread and bitter herbs shall they eat it.


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They shall not leave of it until the morrow, and they shall not break a bone of it; they shall sacrifice it according to the ordinance of the passover.


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And whatever man shall be clean, and is not far off on a journey, and shall fail to keep the passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people, because he has not offered the gift to the Lord in its season: that man shall bear his iniquity.


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And if there should come to you a stranger in your land, and should keep the passover to the Lord, he shall keep it according to the law of the passover and according to its ordinance: there shall be one law for you, both for the stranger, and for the native of the land.


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And in the day in which the tabernacle was pitched the cloud covered the tabernacle, the <n>[[Gr. ]] house. </n> place of the testimony; and in the evening there was upon the tabernacle as the appearance of fire till the morning.


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And when the cloud went up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel departed; and in whatever place the cloud rested, there the children of Israel encamped.


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The children of Israel shall encamp by the command of the Lord, and by the command of the Lord they shall remove: all the days in which the cloud overshadows the tabernacle, the children of Israel shall encamp. And whenever the cloud shall be drawn over the tabernacle for many days, then the children of Israel shall keep the charge of God, and they shall not remove.


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And it shall be, whenever the cloud overshadows the tabernacle <n>[[Gr. ]] days by number. </n> a number of days, they shall encamp by the word of the Lord, and shall remove by the command of the Lord.


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And it shall come to pass, whenever the cloud shall remain from the evening till the morning, and in the morning the cloud shall go up, then shall they remove by day or by night.


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When the cloud continues <n>[[Or, ]] more than a month. </n> a full month overshadowing the tabernacle, the children of Israel shall encamp, and shall not depart.


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Make to yourself two silver trumpets: you shall make them of beaten work; and they shall be to you for the purpose of calling the assembly, and of removing the <n>[[i.e. ]] the successive encampments. </n> camps.


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And you shall sound with them, and all the congregation shall be gathered to the door of the tabernacle of witness.


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And you° shall sound a second alarm, and the camps pitched southward shall move; and you° shall sound a third alarm, and the camps pitched westward shall move forward; and you° shall sound a fourth alarm, and they that encamp toward the north shall move forward: they shall sound an alarm at their departure.


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And the priests the sons of Aaron shall sound with the trumpets; and it shall be a perpetual ordinance for you throughout your generations.


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And if you° shall go forth to war in your land against your enemies that are opposed to you, then shall you° sound with the trumpets; and you° shall be had in remembrance before the Lord, and you° shall be saved from your enemies.


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And in the days of your gladness, and in your feasts, and in your new moons, you° shall sound with the trumpets at your whole burnt offerings, and at the sacrifices of your peace-offerings; and there shall be a memorial for you before your God: I <i>am</i> the Lord your God.


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And it came to pass in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud went up from the tabernacle of witness.


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And the children of Israel set forward with their baggage in the wilderness of Sina; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Pharan.


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And they first set in motion the order of the camp of the children of Juda with their host; and over their host <i>was</i> Naasson, son of Aminadab.


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And they shall take down the tabernacle, and the sons of Gedson shall set forward, and the sons of Merari, who bear the tabernacle.


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And the order of the camp of Ruben set forward with their host; and over their host <i>was</i> Elisur the son of Sediur.


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And the sons of Caath shall set forward bearing the holy things, and <n>[[i.e. ]] the Gershonites and the Merarites. [[A.V. ]] margin.</n> <i>the others</i> shall set up the tabernacle until they arrive.


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And the order of the camp of Ephraim shall set forward with their forces; and over their forces <i>was</i> Elisama the son of Semiud.


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And over the forces of the tribes of the sons of Manasse, <i>was</i> Gamaliel the <i>son</i> of Phadassur.


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And over the forces of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, <i>was</i> Abidan the <i>son</i> of Gadeoni.


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And the order of the camp of the sons of Dan shall set forward the last of all the camps, with their forces: and over their forces <i>was</i> Achiezer the <i>son</i> of Amisadai.


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And Moses said to Obab the son of Raguel the Madianite, the father-in-law of Moses, We are going forward to the place concerning which the Lord said, This will I give to you: Come with us, and we will do you good, for the Lord has spoken good concerning Israel.


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And he said, Leave us not, because you have been with us in the wilderness, and you shall be an elder among us.


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And it shall come to pass if you will go with us, it shall even come to pass that in whatever things the Lord shall do us good, we will also do you good.


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And they departed from the mount of the Lord a three days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them a three days' journey to provide rest for them.


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And it came to pass when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Arise, O Lord, and let your enemies be scattered: let all that hate you flee.


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And in the resting he said, Turn again, O Lord, the thousands <i>and</i> tens of thousands in Israel.<pb/>


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And the people murmured sinfully before the Lord; and the Lord heard <i>them</i> and was very angry; and fire was kindled among them from the Lord, and devoured a part of the camp.


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And the name of that place was called <n><i>Heb. Taberah. </i></n> Burning; for a fire was kindled among them from the Lord.


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And the mixed multitude among them lusted <n>[[Gr. ]] lusted a lust. </n> exceedingly; and they and the children of Israel sat down and wept and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?


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We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt freely; and the cucumbers, and the <n>[[Or, ]] pumpkins. </n> melons, and the leeks, and the garlic, and the onions.


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And the people went through the field, and gathered, and ground it in the mill, or pounded it in a mortar, and baked it in a pan, and made cakes of it; and the sweetness of it was as the taste <i>of</i> wafer made with oil.


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And Moses heard them weeping by their families, every one in his door: and the Lord was very angry; and the thing was evil in the sight of Moses.


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And Moses said to the Lord, Why have you afflicted your servant, and why have I not found grace in your sight, that you should lay the weight of this people upon me?


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Have I conceived all this people, or have I born them? that you say to me, Take them into your bosom, as a nurse would take her suckling, into the land which you sware to their fathers?


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Whence have I flesh to give to all this people? for they weep to me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.


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And if you do thus to me, kill me utterly, if I have found favor with you, that I may not see my affliction.


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And the Lord said to Moses, Gather me seventy men from the elders of Israel, whom you yourself know that they are the elders of the people, and their scribes; and you shall bring them to the tabernacle of witness, and they shall stand there with you.


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And I will go down, and speak there with you; and I will take of the spirit that is upon you, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear together with you the <n>[[Or, ]] impetus. </n> burden of the people, and you shall not bear them alone.


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And to the people you shall say, Purify yourselves for the morrow, and you° shall eat flesh; for you° wept before the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it <n>[[Gr. ]] is. </n> was well with us in Egypt: and the Lord shall allow you to eat flesh, and you° shall eat flesh.


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you° shall eat for <n>[[Gr. ]] a month of days. </n> a full month, until <i>the flesh</i> come out at your nostrils; and it shall be <n>[[Lit. ]] cholera. </n> nausea to you, because you° disobeyed the Lord, who is among you, and wept before him, saying, What had we to do to come out of Egypt?


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And Moses said, The people among whom I am are six hundred thousand footmen; and you said, I will give them flesh to eat, and they shall eat a whole month.


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Shall sheep and oxen be slain for them, and shall it suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, and shall it suffice them?


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And the Lord said to Moses, Shall not the hand of the Lord be fully sufficient? now shall you know whether my word shall <n>[[Gr. ]] will overtake you. </n> come to pass to you or not.


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And Moses went out, and spoke the words of the Lord to the people; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and he set them round about the tabernacle.


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And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy men that were elders; and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied and ceased.


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And there were two men left in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Modad; and the spirit rested upon them, and these were of the number of them that were enrolled, but they did not come to the tabernacle; and they prophesied in the camp.


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And Joshua the son of Naue, who attended on Moses, the chosen one, said, <i>My</i> lord Moses, forbid them.


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And Moses said to him, Are you jealous on my account? and would that all the Lord's people were prophets; whenever the Lord shall put his spirit upon them.


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And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails over from the sea; and it brought them down upon the camp a day's journey on this side, and a day's journey on that side, round about the camp, as it were two cubits from the earth.


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And the people rose up all the day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered quails; he that gathered <n>[[Gr. ]] little. </n> least, gathered ten <n>[[Gr. ]] cors. </n> measures; and they <n>[[Gr. ]] refreshed refreshments to themselves. <i>Heb. spread a spreading. וישמחו שמוח </i></n> refreshed themselves round about the camp.


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The flesh was yet between their teeth, before it failed, when the Lord was angry with the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague.


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And the name of that place was called the Graves of Lust; for there they buried the people that lusted.


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The people departed from the <n><i>Heb. קכווה החאוה Kibroth-hattaavah. </i></n> Graves of Lust to Aseroth; and the people <n>[[Gr. ]] were in. </n> halted at Aseroth.<pb/>


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And Mariam and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of the Ethiopian woman whom Moses took; for he had taken an Ethiopian woman.


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And they said, Has the Lord spoken to Moses only? has he not also spoken to us? and the Lord heard it.


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And the Lord said immediately to Moses and Aaron and Mariam, Come forth <n>[[Gr. ]] the three. </n> all three of you to the tabernacle of witness.


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And the three came forth to the tabernacle of witness; and the Lord descended in a pillar of a cloud, and stood at the door of the tabernacle of witness; and Aaron and Mariam were called; and both came forth.


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And he said to them, Hear my words: If there should be of you a prophet to the Lord, I will be made known to him in a vision, and in sleep will I speak to him.


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I will speak to him mouth to mouth apparently, and not in dark speeches; and he has seen the glory of the Lord; and why were you° not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?


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And the cloud departed from the tabernacle; and, behold, Mariam was leprous, <i>white</i> as snow; and Aaron looked upon Mariam, and, behold, she <i>was</i> leprous.


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And Aaron said to Moses, I beseech you, my lord, do not lay sin upon us, for we were ignorant wherein we sinned.


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Let her not be as it were like death, as an abortion coming out of his mother's womb, when <i>the disease</i> devours the half of the flesh.


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And the Lord said to Moses, If her father had only spit in her face, <n>[[Gr. ]] will. </n> would she not be ashamed seven days? let her be set apart seven days without the camp, and afterwards she shall come in.


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Send for you men, and let them spy the land of the Chananites, which I give to the sons of Israel for a possession; one man for a tribe, you shall send them away according to their families, every one of them a prince.


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And Moses sent them out of the wilderness of Pharan by the word of the Lord; all these <i>were</i> the princes of the sons of Israel.


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These <i>are</i> the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land; and Moses called Ause the son of Naue, Joshua.


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And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Chanaan, and said to them, Go up by this wilderness; and you° shall go up to the mountain,


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and you° shall see the land, what it is, and the people that dwells on it, whether it is strong or weak, or <i>whether</i> they are few or many.


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And what the land is on which they dwell, <i>whether</i> it is good or bad; and what the cities are wherein these dwell, whether they dwell in walled <i>cities</i> or unwalled.


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And what the land is, whether rich or <n>[[Gr. q. d. ]] neglected </n> poor; whether there are trees in it or no: and you° shall persevere and take of the fruits of the land: and the days <i>were</i> the days of spring, the forerunners of the grape.


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And they went up by the wilderness, and departed as far as Chebron; and there <i>was</i> Achiman, and Sessi, and Thelami, the progeny of Enach. Now Chebron was built seven years before Tanin of Egypt.


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And they came to the valley of the cluster and surveyed it; and they cut down thence a bough and one cluster of grapes upon it, and bore it on staves, and <i>they took</i> of the pomegranates and the figs.


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And they called that place, The valley of the cluster, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from thence.


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And they proceeded and came to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Pharan Cades; and they brought word to them and to all the congregation, and they showed the fruit of the land:


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and they reported to him, and said, We came into the land into which you sent us, a land flowing with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.


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Only the nation that dwells upon it is bold, and they have very great and strong walled towns, and we saw there the children of Enach.


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And Amalec dwells in the land toward the south: and the Chettite and the Evite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwells in the hill country: and the Chananite dwells by the sea, and by the river Jordan.


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And Chaleb stayed the people from speaking <n>[[Or, ]] to. </n> before Moses, and said to him, Nay, but we will go up by all means, and will inherit it, for we shall surely prevail against them.


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But the men that went up together with him said, We <n>[[Gr. ]] do not. </n> will not go up, for we shall not by any means be able to go up against the nation, for it is much stronger than we.


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And they brought a horror of that land which they surveyed upon the children of Israel, saying, The land which we passed by to survey it, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of extraordinary stature.<pb/>


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And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron; and all the congregation said to them,


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Would we had died in the land of Egypt! or in this wilderness, would we had died! and why does the Lord bring us into this land to fall in war? our wives and our children shall be for a prey: now then it is better to return into Egypt.


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But Joshua the <i>son</i> of Naue, and Chaleb the <i>son</i> of Jephonne, of <i>the number of</i> them that spied out the land, tore their garments,


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and spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land which we surveyed is indeed extremely good.


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If the Lord choose us, he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which flows with milk and honey.


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Only depart not from the Lord; and fear you° not the people of the land, for they are meat for us; for the season <i>of prosperity</i> is departed from them, but the Lord <i>is</i> among us: fear them not.


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And all the congregation bade stone them with stones; and the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud on the tabernacle of witness to all the children of Israel.


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And the Lord said to Moses, How long does this people provoke me? and how long do they <n>[[Gr. ]] not believe me. </n> refuse to believe me for all the signs which I have wrought among them?


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I will strike them with death, and destroy them; and I will make of you and of your father's house a great nation, and much greater than this.


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And Moses said to the Lord, So Egypt shall hear, for you have brought up this people from them by your might.


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Moreover all the dwellers upon this land have heard that you are Lord in the midst of this people, who, O Lord, are seen <i>by them</i> face to face, and your cloud rests upon them, and you go before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire.


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And <i>if</i> you shall destroy this nation as one man; then all the nations that have heard your name shall speak, saying,


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Because the Lord could not bring this people into the land which he sware to them, he has overthrown them in the wilderness.


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The Lord <i>is</i> longsuffering and merciful, and true, removing transgressions and iniquities and sins, and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation.


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Forgive this people their sin according to your great mercy, as you were favourable to them from Egypt until now.


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For all the men who see my glory, and the signs which I wrought in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me this tenth time, and have not listened to my voice,


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surely they shall not see the land, which I sware to their fathers; but their children which are with me here, as many as know not good or evil, every inexperienced youth, to them will I give the land; but none who have provoked me shall see it.


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But my servant Chaleb, because there was another spirit in him, and he followed me, I will bring him into the land into which he entered, and his seed shall inherit it.


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But Amalec and the Chananite dwell in the valley: to-morrow turn and depart for the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.


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How long <i>shall I endure</i> this wicked congregation? I have heard their murmurings against me, <i>even</i> the murmuring of the children of Israel, which they have murmured concerning you.


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Say to them, <i>As</i> I live, says the Lord: surely as you° spoke into my ears, so will I do to you.


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Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all those of you that were reviewed, and those of you that were numbered from twenty years old and upward, all that murmured against me,


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you° shall not enter into the land for which I stretched out my hand to establish you upon it; except only Chaleb the son of Jephonne, and Joshua the <i>son</i> of Naue.


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And your little ones, who you° said should be a prey, them will I bring into the land; and they shall inherit the land, <n>[[Gr. ]] from which you° turned away. </n> which you° rejected.


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And your sons shall be fed in the wilderness forty years, and they shall bear your fornication, until your carcases be consumed in the wilderness.


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According to the number of the days during which you° spied the land, forty days, a day for a year, you° shall bear your sins forty years, and you° shall know my fierce anger.


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I the Lord have spoken, Surely will I do thus to this evil congregation <n>See ἐπισύστασις 2. Cor 11. 28. </n> that has risen up together against me: in this wilderness they shall be utterly consumed, and there they shall die.


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And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who came and murmured against it to the assembly so as to bring out evil words concerning the land, —


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And Joshua the son of Naue and Chaleb the son of Jephonne <i>still</i> lived of those men that went to spy out the land.


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And they rose early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, Behold, we <n>[[Gr. ]] these men. </n> that are here will go up to the place of which the Lord has spoken, because we have sinned.


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For Amalec and the Chananite <i>are</i> there before you, and you° shall fall by the sword; because you° have disobeyed the Lord and turned aside, and the Lord will not be among you.


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And having forced their passage, they went up to the top of the mountain; but the ark of the covenant of the Lord and Moses stirred not out of the camp.


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And Amalec and the Chananite that lived in that mountain came down, and routed them, and destroyed them to Herman; and they returned to the camp.<pb/>


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Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them, When you° are come into the land of your habitation, which I give to you,


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and you will offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord, a whole burnt offering or a meat-offering to <n>[[Gr. ]] magnify. </n> perform a vow, or a free-will offering, or to offer in your feasts a sacrifice of sweet savor to the Lord, whether of the herd or the flock:


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then he that offers his gift to the Lord shall bring a meat-offering of fine flour, a tenth part of an ephah mingled with oil, even with the fourth part of a hin.


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And for a drink-offering you° shall offer the fourth part of a hin on the whole burnt offering, or on the meat-offering: for every lamb you shall offer so much, as a sacrifice, a smell of sweet savor to the Lord.


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And for a ram, when you° offer it as a whole burnt offering or as a sacrifice, you shall prepare as a meat-offering two tenths of fine flour mingled with oil, the third part of a hin.


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And you° shall offer for a smell of sweet savor to the Lord wine for a drink-offering, the third part of a hin.


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And if you° sacrifice <i>a bullock</i> from the herd for a whole burnt offering or for a sacrifice, to perform a vow or a peace-offering to the Lord,


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then <i>the worshipper</i> shall offer upon the calf a meat-offering, three tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, <i>even</i> the half of a hin.


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And wine for a drink-offering the half of a hin, a sacrifice for a smell of sweet savor to the Lord.


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According to the number of what you° shall offer, so shall you° do to each one, according to their number.


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Every native of the country shall do thus to offer such things as sacrifices for a smell of sweet savor to the Lord.


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And if there should be a stranger among you in your land, or one who should be born to you among your generations, and he will offer a sacrifice, a smell of sweet savor to the Lord—as you° do, so the <i>whole</i> congregation shall offer to the Lord.


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There shall be one law for you and for the strangers dwelling among you, a perpetual law for your generations: as you° <i>are</i>, so shall the stranger be before the Lord.


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Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them, When you° are entering into the land, into which I bring you,


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then it shall come to pass, when you° shall eat of the bread of the land, you° shall separate a wave-offering, a special offering to the Lord, the first fruits of your dough.


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You° shall offer your bread a heave-offering: as a heave-offering from the threshing floor, so shall you° separate it,


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even the first fruits of your dough, and you° shall give the Lord a heave-offering throughout your generations.


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But whenever you° shall transgress, and not perform all these commands, which the Lord spoke to Moses;


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as the Lord appointed you by the hand of Moses, from the day which the Lord appointed you and forward throughout your generations,


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then it shall come to pass, if a trespass be committed unwillingly, unknown to the congregation, then shall all the congregation offer a calf of the herd without blemish for a whole burnt offering of sweet savor to the Lord, and its meat-offering and its drink-offering according to the ordinance, and one kid of the goats for a sin-offering.


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And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and <i>the trespass</i> shall be forgiven them, because it is involuntary; and they have brought their gift, a burnt offering to the Lord for their trespass before the Lord, even for their involuntary sins.


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And it shall be forgiven as respects all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that is dwelling among you, because <i>it is</i> involuntary to all the people.


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And the priest shall make atonement for the soul that committed the trespass unwillingly, and that sinned unwillingly before the Lord, to make atonement for him.


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There shall be one law for the native among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that abides among them, whoever shall commit a trespass unwillingly.


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And whatever soul either of the natives or of the strangers shall do any thing with a presumptuous hand, he will provoke God; that soul shall be cut off from his people,


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for he has set at nothing the word of the Lord and broken his commands: that soul shall be utterly destroyed, his sin <i>is</i> upon him.


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And the children of Israel were in the wilderness, and they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath-day.


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And they who found him gathering sticks on the sabbath-day brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel.


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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Let the man be by all means put to death: <i>do you°</i> all the congregation, stone him with stones.


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And all the congregation brought him forth out of the camp; and all the congregation stoned him with stones outside the camp, as the Lord commanded Moses.


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Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall tell them; and let them make for themselves fringes upon the borders of their garments throughout their generations: and you° shall put upon the fringes of the borders a lace of blue.


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And it shall be on your fringes, and you° shall look on them, and you° shall remember all the commands of the Lord, and do them: and you° shall not turn back after your imaginations, and after <i>the sight of your</i> eyes in the things after which you° go a whoring;


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I <i>am</i> the Lord your God that brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I <i>am</i> the Lord your God.<pb/>


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And Core the son of Isaar the son of Caath the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiron, sons of Eliab, and Aun the son of Phaleth the son of Ruben, spoke;


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and rose up before Moses, and two hundred and fifty men of the sons of Israel, chiefs of the assembly, chosen councillors, and men of renown.


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They rose up against Moses and Aaron, and said, Let it be enough for you that all the congregation <i>are</i> holy, and the Lord <i>is</i> among them; and why do you° set up yourselves against the congregation of the Lord?


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And he spoke to Core and all his assembly, saying, God has visited and known those that are his and who are holy, and has brought them to himself; and whom he has chosen for himself, he has brought to himself.


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and put fire on them, and put incense on them before the Lord to-morrow; and it shall come to pass that the man whom the Lord has chosen, he shall be holy: let it be enough for you, you° sons of Levi.


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Is it a little thing for you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, and brought you near to himself to minister in the services of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the tabernacle to minister for them?


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And he has brought you near and all your brethren the sons of Levi with you, and do you° seek to be priests also?


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Thus <i>it is with</i> you and all your congregation which is gathered together against God: and who is Aaron, that you° murmur against him?


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And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiron sons of Eliab; and they said, We <n>[[Gr. ]] do not. </n> will not go up.


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Is it a little thing that you have brought us up <n>Some read, out of. </n> to a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, <i>and</i> that you altogether rule over us?


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You are a prince, and have you brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, and have you given us an inheritance of land and vineyards? would you have <n>[[Gr. ]] cut out. </n> put out the eyes of those men? we <n>[[Gr. ]] do not. </n> will not go up.


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And Moses was exceeding indignant, and said to the Lord, Do you take no heed to their sacrifice: I have not taken away <n>חפד for חפוד </n> the desire of any one of them, neither have I hurt any one of them.


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And Moses said to Core, Sanctify your company, and be ready before the Lord, you and Aaron and they, to-morrow.


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And take each man his censer, and you° shall put incense upon them, and shall bring each one his censer before the Lord, two hundred and fifty censers, and you and Aaron shall bring each his censer.


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And each man took his censer, and they put on them fire, and laid incense on them; and Moses and Aaron stood by the doors of the tabernacle of witness.


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And Core raised up against them all his company by the door of the tabernacle of witness; and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the congregation.


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And they fell on their faces, and said, O God, the God of spirits and of all flesh, if one man has sinned, <i>shall</i> the wrath of the Lord <i>be</i> upon the whole congregation?


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And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Separate yourselves from the tents of these stubborn men, and touch nothing that belongs to them, lest you° be consumed with them in all their sin.


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And they stood aloof from the tent of Core round about; and Dathan and Abiron went forth and stood by the doors of their tents, and their wives and their children and their store.


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And Moses said, Hereby shall you° know that the Lord has sent me to perform all these works, that <i>I have</i> not <i>done them</i> of myself.


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If these men shall die according to the death of all men, if also their visitation shall be according to the visitation of all men, then the Lord has not sent me.


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But if the Lord shall show by a <n>[[Or, ]] vision. Some copies read χάσματι </n> wonder, and the earth shall open her mouth and swallow them up, and their houses, and their tents, and all that belongs to them, and they shall go down alive into Hades, then you° shall know that these men have provoked the Lord.


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And the ground opened, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that were with Core, and their cattle.


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And they went down and all that they had, alive into Hades; and the ground covered them, and they perished from the midst of the congregation.


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And all Israel round about them fled from the sound of them, for <n>[[Gr. ]] saying. </n> they said, Lest the earth swallow us up <i>also</i>.


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and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, Take up the brazen censers out of the midst of the men that have been burnt, and scatter the strange fire yonder, for they have sanctified the censers


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of these sinners against their own souls, and do you make them beaten plates a covering to the altar, because they were brought before the Lord and hallowed; and they became a sign to the children of Israel.


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And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest took the brazen censers, which the men who had been burnt brought near, and they put them as a covering on the altar:


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a memorial to the children of Israel that no stranger might draw near, who is not of the seed of Aaron, to offer incense before the Lord; so he shall not be as Core and as they that conspired with him, as the Lord spoke to him by the hand of Moses.


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And the children of Israel murmured the next day against Moses and Aaron, saying, You° have killed the people of the Lord.


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And it came to pass when the congregation combined against Moses and Aaron, that they ran impetuously to the tabernacle of witness; and the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.


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Depart out of the midst of this congregation, and I will consume them at once: and they fell upon their faces.


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And Moses said to Aaron, Take a censer, and put on it fire from the altar, and put incense on it, and carry it away quickly into the camp, and make atonement for them; for wrath is gone forth from the presence of the Lord, it has begun to destroy the people.


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And Aaron took as Moses spoke to him, and ran among the congregation, for already the plague had begun among the people; and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.


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And they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those that died on account of Core.


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Speak to the children of Israel, and take <n>[[Gr. ]] a rod </n> rods of them, according to the houses of their families, a rod from all their princes, according to the houses of their families, twelve rods, and write the name of each on his rod.


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And write the name of Aaron on the rod of Levi; for it is one rod <i>for each</i>: they shall give <i>them</i> according to the tribe of the house of their families.


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And you shall put them in the tabernacle of witness, before the testimony, where I will be made known to you.


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And it shall be, the man whom I shall choose, his rod shall blossom; and I will remove from me the murmuring of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you.


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And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and all their chiefs gave him a rod <i>each</i>, for one chief a rod, according to the house of their families, twelve rods; and the rod of Aaron <i>was</i> in the midst of the rods.


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And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi blossomed, and put forth a bud, and bloomed blossoms and produced almonds.


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And Moses brought forth all the rods from before the Lord to all the sons of Israel; and they looked, and each one took his rod.


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And the Lord said to Moses, Lay up the rod of Aaron before the testimonies to be kept as a sign for the children of the disobedient; and let their murmuring cease from me, and they shall not die.


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And the children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we are cut off, we are destroyed, we are consumed.


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And the Lord spoke to Aaron, saying, You and your sons and your father's house shall bear the sins of the holy things, and you and your sons shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.


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And take to yourself your brethren the tribe of Levi, the family of your father, and let them be joined to you, and let them minister to you; and you and your sons with you <i>shall minister</i> before the tabernacle of witness.


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And they shall keep your charges, and the charges of the tabernacle; only they shall not approach the holy vessels and the altar, so both they and you shall not die.


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And they shall be joined to you, and shall keep the charges of the tabernacle of witness, in all the services of the tabernacle; and a stranger shall not approach to you.


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And you° shall keep the charges of the holy things, and the charges of the altar, and <i>so</i> there shall not be anger <n>[[Gr. ]] in. </n> among the children of Israel.


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And I have taken your brethren the Levites out of the midst of the children of Israel, a present given to the Lord, to minister in the services of the tabernacle of witness.


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And you and your sons after you shall keep up your priestly ministration, according to the whole manner of the altar, and that which is within the veil; and you° shall minister in the services as the office of your priesthood; and the stranger that comes near shall die.


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And the Lord said to Aaron, And, behold, I have given you the charge of the first fruits of all things consecrated to me by the children of Israel; and I have given them to you as an honor, and to your sons after you for a perpetual ordinance.


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And let this be to you from all the holy things that are consecrated <i>to me, even</i> the burnt offerings, from all their gifts, and from all their sacrifices, and from every trespass-offering of theirs, and from all their sin-offerings, whatever things they give to me of all their holy things, they shall be yours and your sons'.


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In the most holy place shall you° eat them; every male shall eat them, you and your sons: they shall be holy to you.


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And this shall be to you of the first fruits of their gifts, of all the <n><i>Heb. חנפה. Such appears its general meaning. </i></n> wave-offerings of the children of Israel; to you have I given them and to your sons and your daughters with you, a perpetual ordinance; every clean person in your house shall eat them.


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Every first-offering of oil, and every first-offering of wine, their first fruits of corn, whatever they may give to the Lord, to you have I given them.


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All the first fruits that are in their land, whatever they shall offer to the Lord, shall be yours: every clean person in your house shall eat them.


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And every thing that opens the womb of all flesh, whatever they bring to the Lord, whether man or beast, shall be yours: only the firstborn of men shall be surely redeemed, and you shall redeem the firstborn of unclean cattle.


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And the redemption of them <i>shall be</i> from a month old; their valuation of five shekels—it is twenty oboli according to the holy shekel.


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But you shall not redeem the firstborn <n>[[i. e. ]] among. But μόσχος is used elsewhere in the LXX. for horned cattle old enough to breed. </n> of calves and the firstborn of sheep and the firstborn of goats; they are holy: and you shall pour their blood upon the altar, and you shall offer the fat as a burnt offering for a smell of sweet savor to the Lord.


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And the flesh shall be yours, as also the breast of the wave-offering and as the right shoulder, it shall be yours.


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Every special offering of the holy things, whatever the children of Israel shall specially offer to the Lord, I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters with you, a perpetual ordinance: it is a covenant <n>[[Gr. ]] of perpetual salt. </n> of salt for ever before the Lord, for you and your seed after you.


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And the Lord said to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them; for I <i>am</i> your portion and your inheritance in the midst of the children of Israel.


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And, behold, I have given to the sons of Levi every tithe in Israel for an inheritance for their services, whenever they perform ministry in the tabernacle of witness.


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And the children of Israel shall no more draw near to the tabernacle of witness to incur fatal guilt.


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And the Levite himself shall perform the service of the tabernacle of witness; and they shall bear their iniquities, it is a perpetual statute throughout their generations; and in the midst of the children of Israel they shall not receive an inheritance.


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Because I have given as a distinct portion to the Levites for an inheritance the tithes of the children of Israel, whatever they shall offer to the Lord; therefore I said to them, In the midst of the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.


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You shall also speak to the Levites, and shall say to them, If you° take the tithe from the children of Israel, which I have given you from them for an inheritance, then shall you° separate from it a heave-offering to the Lord, a tenth of the tenth.


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And your heave-offerings shall be reckoned to you as corn from the floor, and an offering from the wine-press.


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So shall you° also separate them from all the offerings of the Lord out of all your tithes, whatever you° shall receive from the children of Israel; and you° shall give of them an offering to the Lord to Aaron the priest.


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Of all your gifts you° shall offer an offering to the Lord, and of every first-fruit the consecrated part from it.


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And you shall say to them, When you° shall offer the first fruits from it, then shall it be reckoned to the Levites as produce from the threshing floor, and as produce from the wine-press.


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And you° shall eat it in any place, you° and your families; for this is your reward for your services in the tabernacle of witness.


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And you° shall not bear sin by reason of it, <n>[[Or, ]] because you° shall </n> for you° shall have offered an offering of first fruits from it, and you° shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that you° die not.<pb/>


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This is the constitution of the law, as the Lord has commanded, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, and let them take for you a red heifer without spot, which has no spot on her, and on which no yoke has been put.


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And you shall give her to Eleazar the priest; and they shall bring her out of the camp into a clean place, and shall kill her before his face.


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And Eleazar shall take of her blood, and sprinkle of her blood seven times in front of the tabernacle of witness.


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And they shall burn her to ashes before him; and her skin and her flesh and her blood, with her dung, shall be consumed.


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And the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet wool, and they shall cast them into the midst of the burning of the heifer.


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And the priest shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and afterwards he shall go into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean till evening.


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And he that burns her shall wash his garments, and bathe his body, and shall be unclean till evening.


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And a clean man shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up in a clean place outside the camp; and they shall be for the congregation of the children of Israel to keep: it is the water of sprinkling, a purification.


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And he that gathers up the ashes of the heifer shall wash his garments, and shall be unclean until evening; and it shall be a perpetual statute for the children of Israel and for the strangers joined to them.


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He shall be purified on the third day and the seventh day, and shall be clean; but if he be not purged on the third day and the seventh day, he shall not be clean.


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Every one that touches the carcase of the person of a man, if he should have died, and <i>the other</i> not have been purified, has defiled the tabernacle of the Lord: that soul shall be cut off from Israel, because the water of sprinkling has not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.


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And this <i>is</i> the law; if a man die in a house, every one that goes into the house, and all things in the house, shall be unclean seven days.


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And every one who shall touch a man slain by violence, or a corpse, or human bone, or sepulchre, shall be unclean seven days.


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And they shall take for the unclean of the burnt ashes of purification, and they shall pour upon them running water into a vessel.


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And a clean man shall take hyssop, and dip it into the water, and sprinkle it upon the house, and the furniture, and all the souls that are therein, and upon him that touched the human bone, or the slain man, or the corpse, or the tomb.


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And the clean man shall sprinkle <i>the water</i> on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day, and on the seventh day he shall purify himself; and <i>the other</i> shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean until evening.


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And whatever man shall be defiled and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the congregation, because he has defiled the holy things of the Lord, because the water of sprinkling has not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.


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And it shall be to you a perpetual statute; and he that sprinkles the water of sprinkling shall wash his garments; and he that touches the water of sprinkling shall be unclean until evening.


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And whatever the unclean man shall touch shall be unclean, and the soul that touches it shall be unclean till evening.<pb/>


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And the children of Israel, <i>even</i> the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Sin, in the first month, and the people abode in Cades; and Mariam died there, and was buried there.


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And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron.


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And the people reviled Moses, saying, Would we had died in the destruction of our brethren before the Lord!


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And therefore have you° brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, to kill us and our cattle?


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And therefore <i>is</i> this? You° have brought us up out of Egypt, that we should come into this evil place; a place where there is no sowing, neither figs, nor vines, nor pomegranates, neither is there water to drink.


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And Moses and Aaron went from before the assembly to the door of the tabernacle of witness, and they fell upon their faces; and the glory of the Lord appeared to them.


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Take your rod, and call the assembly, you and Aaron your brother, and speak you° to the rock before them, and it shall give forth its waters; and you° shall bring forth for them water out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their cattle.


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And Moses and Aaron assembled the congregation before the rock, and said to them, Hear me, you° disobedient ones; must we bring you water out of this rock?


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And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his rod twice; and much water came forth, and the congregation drank, and their cattle.


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And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Because you° have not believed me to sanctify me before the children of Israel, therefore you° shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.


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This is the water of Strife, because the children of Israel spoke insolently before the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.


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And Moses sent messengers from Cades to the king of Edom, saying, Thus says your brother Israel; You know all the distress that has <n>[[Gr. ]] found us </n> come upon us.


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And <i>how</i> our fathers went down into Egypt, and we sojourned in Egypt many days, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.


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And we cried to the Lord, and the Lord heard our voice, and sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt; and now we are in the city of Cades, at the extremity of your coasts.


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We will pass through your land: we will not go through the fields, nor through the vineyards, nor will we drink water out of your cistern: we will go by the king's highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left, until we have passed your borders.


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And Edom said to him, You shall not pass through me, and if otherwise, I will go forth to meet you in war.


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And the children of Israel say to him, We will pass by the mountain; and if I and my cattle drink of your water, I will pay you: but it is no matter of importance, we will go by the mountain.


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And he said, You shall not pass through me; and Edom went forth to meet him with a great host, and a mighty hand.


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And they departed from Cades; and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Or.


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Let Aaron be added to his people; for you° shall certainly not go into the land which I have given the children of Israel, because you° provoked me at the water of strife.


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and take Aaron's apparel from off him, and put it on Eleazar his son: and let Aaron die there and be added to <i>his people</i>.


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And he took Aaron's garments off him, and put them on Eleazar his son, and Aaron died on the top of the mountain; and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.


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And all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead: and they wept for Aaron thirty days, <i>even</i> all the house of Israel.<pb/>


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And Arad the Chananitish king who lived by the wilderness, heard that Israel came by the way of Atharin; and he made war on Israel, and carried off <n>[[Gr. ]] a captivity of them. </n> some of them captives.


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And Israel vowed a vow to the Lord, and said, If you will deliver this people into my power, I will devote it and its cities <i>to you</i>.


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And the Lord listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered the Chananite into his power; and <i>Israel</i> devoted him and his cities, and they called the name of that place <n>[[Gr. ]] devoted thing. </n> Anathema.


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And having departed from mount Or by the way <i>leading</i> to the Red Sea, they compassed the land of Edom, and the people lost courage by the way.


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And the people spoke against God and against Moses, saying, Why is this? Hast you brought us ought of Egypt to kill us in the wilderness? for there is not bread nor water; and our soul loathes this light bread.


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And the Lord sent among the people deadly serpents, and they bit the people, and much people of the children of Israel died.


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And the people came to Moses and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against you: pray therefore to the Lord, and let him take away the serpent from us.


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And Moses prayed to the Lord for the people; and the Lord said to Moses, Make you a serpent, and put it on a signal-<i>staff</i>; and it shall come to pass that whenever a serpent shall bite a man, every one <i>so</i> bitten that looks upon it shall live.


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And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a signal-<i>staff</i>: and it came to pass that whenever a serpent bit a man, and he looked on the brazen serpent, he lived.


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And having departed from Oboth, they encamped in Achalgai, on the farther side in the wilderness, which is opposite Moab, toward the east.


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And they departed thence and encamped on the other side of Arnon in the wilderness, <i>the country</i> which extends from the coasts of the <n>[[Gr. ]] Amorite </n> Amorites; for Arnon is the borders of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.


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And he has appointed brooks to cause Er to dwell <i>there</i>; and it lies near to the coasts of Moab.


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And thence <i>they came to</i> the well; this <i>is</i> the well of which the Lord said to Moses, Gather the people, and I will give them water to drink.


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Then Israel sang this song at the well, Begin <i>to sing</i> <n>[[Gr. ]] of the well for it </n> of the well;


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the princes digged it, the kings of the nations in their kingdom, in their lordship sank it in the rock: and <i>they went</i> from the well to Manthanain,


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and from Manthanain to Naaliel, and from Naaliel to Bamoth, and from Bamoth to <n>[[Or, ]] Jané but the reading is uncertain. </n> Janen, which is in the plain of Moab <i>as seen</i> from the top of the quarried <i>rock</i> that looks toward the wilderness.


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We will pass through your land, we will go by the road; we will not turn aside to the field or to the vineyard.


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We will not drink water out of your well; we will go by the king's highway, until we have past your boundaries.


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And Seon did not allow Israel to pass through his borders, and Seon gathered all his people, and went out to set the battle in array against Israel into the wilderness; and he came to Jassa, and set the battle in array against Israel.


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And Israel struck him with the slaughter of the sword, and they became possessors of his land, from Arnon to Jaboc, as far as the children of Amman, for Jazer is the borders of the children of Amman.


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And Israel took all their cities, and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Esebon, and in all cities belonging to it.


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For Esebon is the city of Seon king of the Amorites; and he before fought against the king of Moab, and they took all his land, from Aroer to Arnon.


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Therefore say they who deal in dark speeches, Come to Esebon, that the city of Seon may be built and prepared.


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For a fire has gone forth from Esebon, a flame from the city of Seon, and has consumed as far as Moab, and devoured the pillars of Arnon.


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Woe to you, Moab; you are lost, you people of Chamos: their sons are sold for preservation, and their daughters are captives to Seon king of the Amorites.


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And their seed shall perish <i>from</i> Esebon to Daebon; and their women have yet farther kindled a fire against Moab.


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And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took it, and its villages, and cast out the Amorite that lived there.


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And having returned, they went up the road that leads to Basan; and Og the king of Basan went forth to meet them, and all his people to war to Edrain.


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And the Lord said to Moses, Fear him not; for I have delivered him and all his people, and all his land, into your hands; and you shall do to him as you did to Seon king of the Amorites, who lived in Esebon.


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And he struck him and his sons, and all his people, until he left none of his to be taken alive; and they inherited his land.<pb/>


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then Moab feared the people exceedingly because they were many; and Moab was grieved <n>[[q. d. ]] because of [[hebraism.]]</n> before the face of the children of Israel.


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And Moab said to the elders of Madiam, Now shall this assembly lick up all that are round about us, as a calf would lick up the green <i>herbs</i> of the field:—and Balac son of Sepphor was king of Moab at that time.


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And he sent ambassadors to Balaam the son of Beor, to Phathura, which is on a river of the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, a people is come out of Egypt, and behold it has covered the face of the earth, and it has encamped close to me.


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And now come, curse me this people, for it is stronger than we; if we may be able to strike some of them, and I will cast them out of the land: for I know that whoever you do bless, they are blessed, and whoever you do curse, they are cursed.


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And the elders of Moab went, and the elders of Madiam, and their divining <i>instruments were</i> in their hands; and they came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balac.


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And he said to them, Tarry here the night, and I will answer you the things which the Lord shall say to me; and the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.


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Behold, a people has come forth out of Egypt, and has covered the face of the land, and it has encamped near to me; and now come, curse it for me, if indeed I shall be able to strike it, and cast it out of the land.


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And God said to Balaam, You shall not go with them, neither shall you curse the people; for they are blessed.


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And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balac, Depart quickly to your lord; God does not permit me to go with you.


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And they came to Balaam, and they say to him, Thus says Balac the son of Sepphor: I beseech you, delay not to come to me.


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For I will greatly honor you, and will do for you whatever you shall say; come then, curse me this people.


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And Balaam answered and said to the princes of Balac, If Balac would give me his house full of silver and gold, I shall not be able to go beyond the word of the Lord God, to make it little or great in my mind.


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And God came to Balaam by night, and said to him, If these men are come to call you, rise and follow them; nevertheless the word which I shall speak to you, it shall you do.


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And God was very angry because he went; and the angel of the Lord rose up to withstand him. Now he had mounted his ass, and his two servants were with him.


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And when the ass saw the angel of God standing opposite in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand, then the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field; and <i>Balaam</i> struck the ass with his staff to direct her in the way.


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And the angel of the Lord stood in the avenues of the vines, a fence <i>being</i> on this side and a fence on that.


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And when the ass saw the angel of God, she thrust herself against the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall, and he struck her again.


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And the angel of the Lord went farther, and came and stood in a narrow place where it was impossible to turn to the right or the left.


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And when the ass saw the angel of God, she <n>[[Gr. ]] sat down. </n> lay down under Balaam; and Balaam was angry, and struck the ass with his staff.


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And God opened the mouth of the ass, and she says to Balaam, What have I done to you, that you have struck me this third time?


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And Balaam said to the ass, Because you have mocked me; and if I <i>had</i> had a sword in my hand, I would now have killed you.


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And the ass says to Balaam, <i>Am</i> not I your ass on which you have ridden since your youth till this day? did I ever do thus to you, utterly disregarding <i>you</i>? and he said, No.


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And God opened the eyes of Balaam, and he sees the angel of the Lord withstanding <i>him</i> in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand, and he stooped down and worshipped on his face.


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And the angel of God said to him, Why have you struck your ass this third time? and, behold, I came out to withstand you, for your way was not seemly before me; and when the ass saw me, she turned away from me this third time.


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And if she had not turned out of the way, surely now, I should have slain you, and should have saved her alive.


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And Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, I have sinned, for I did not know that you were standing opposite in the way to meet <i>me</i>; and now if it shall not be pleasing to you <i>for me to go on</i>, I will return.


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And the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, Go with the men: nevertheless the word which I shall speak to you, that you shall take heed to speak. And Balaam went with the princes of Balac.


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And when Balac heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him, to a city of Moab, which is on the borders of Arnon, which is on the <i>extreme</i> part of the borders.


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And Balac said to Balaam, Did I not send to you to call you? why have you not come to me? shall I not indeed be able to honor you?


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And Balaam said to Balac, Behold, I am now come to you: shall I be able to say anything? the word which God shall put into my mouth, that I shall speak.


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And Balaam went with Balac, and they came to <n>[[Or, ]] cities of villages. <i>Heb. </i></n> the cities of streets.


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And it was morning; and Balac took Balaam, and brought him up to the pillar of Baal, and showed him thence a part of the people.<pb/>


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And Balaam said to Balac, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven calves, and seven rams.


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And Balaam said to Balac, Stand by your sacrifice, and I will go and see if God <n>[[Gr. ]] appear to me in meeting </n> will appear to me and meet me, and the word which he shall show me, I will report to you. And Balac stood by his sacrifice.


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And Balaam went to enquire of God; and he went straight forward, and God appeared to Balaam; and Balaam said to him, I have prepared the seven altars, and have offered a calf and a ram on <i>every</i> altar.


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And God put a word into the mouth of Balaam, and said, you shall return to Balac, and thus shall you speak.


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And he returned to him, and moreover he stood over his whole burnt offerings, and all the princes of Moab with him; and the Spirit of God came upon him.


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And he took up his parable, and said, Balac king of Moab sent for me out of Mesopotamia, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and Come, call for a curse for me upon Israel.


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For from the top of the mountains I shall see him, and from the hills I shall observe him: behold, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.


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Who has exactly calculated the seed of Jacob, and who shall number the families of Israel? let my soul die with the souls of the righteous, and let my seed be as their seed.


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And Balac said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I called you to curse my enemies, and behold you have greatly blessed <i>them</i>.


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And Balaam said to Balac, Whatsoever the Lord shall put into my mouth, shall I not take heed to speak this?


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And Balac said to him, Come yet with me to another place where you shall not see <n>[[Gr. ]] him [[or ]] it </n> the people, but only you shall see a part of them, and shall not see them all; and curse me them from thence.


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And he took him to a high place of the field to the top of the quarried <i>rock</i>, and he built there seven altars, and offered a calf and a ram on <i>every</i> altar.


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And God met Balaam, and put a word into his mouth, and said, return to Balac, and thus shall you speak.


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And he returned to him: and he also was standing by his whole burnt sacrifice, and all the princes of Moab with him; and Balac said to him, What has the Lord spoken?


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And he took up his parable, and said, rise up, Balac, and hear; listen as a witness, you son of Sepphor.


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God is not as man to waver, nor as the son of man to be threatened; shall he say and not perform? shall he speak and not keep <i>to his word</i>?


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There shall not be trouble in Jacob, neither shall sorrow be seen in Israel: the Lord his God <i>is</i> with him, the glories of rulers <i>are</i> in him.


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For there is no divination <n>against </n> in Jacob, nor enchantment in Israel; in season it shall be told to Jacob and Israel <n>[[or, ]] what shall God perform? </n> what God shall perform.


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Behold, the people shall rise up as a lion's whelp, and shall exalt himself as a lion; he shall not lie down till he have eaten the prey, and he shall drink the blood of the slain.


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And Balac said to Balaam, Neither curse <n>[[Gr. ]] him. </n> the people at all for me, nor bless them at all.


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And Balaam answered and said to Balac, Spoke I not to you, saying, Whatsoever thing God shall speak to me, that will I do?


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And Balac said to Balaam, Come <i>and</i> I will remove you to another place, if it shall please God, and curse me them from thence.


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And Balaam said to Balac, build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven calves, and seven rams.


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And when Balaam saw that it pleased God to bless Israel, he did not go according to his custom to meet the omens, but turned his face toward the wilderness.


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And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and sees Israel encamped by their tribes; and the Spirit of God came upon him.


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he says who hears the oracle of the Mighty One, who saw a vision of God in sleep; his eyes were opened:


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as shady groves, and as gardens by a river, and as tents which God pitched, and as cedars by the waters.


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There shall come a man out of his seed, and he shall rule over many nations; and the kingdom of Gog shall be exalted, and his kingdom shall be increased.


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God led him out of Egypt; he has as it were the glory of a unicorn: he shall consume the nations of his enemies, and he shall <n>[[Gr. ]] suck the marrow out of their fat <i>bones</i></n> drain their marrow, and with his darts he shall shoot through the enemy.


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He lay down, he rested as a lion, and as a young lion; who shall stir him up? they that bless you are blessed, and they that curse you are cursed.


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And Balac was angry with Balaam, and clapped his hands together; and Balac said to Balaam, I called you to curse my enemy, and behold you have decidedly blessed <i>him</i> this third time.


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Now therefore flee to your place: I said, I will honor you, but now the Lord has deprived you of glory.


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If Balac should give me his house full of silver and gold, I shall not be able to <n>[[or, ]] go beyond </n> transgress the word of the Lord to make it good or bad by myself; whatever things God shall say, them will I speak.


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And now, behold, I return to my place; come, I will advise you of what this people shall do to your people in the last days.


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hearing the oracles of God, <n>[[Gr. ]] knowing knowledge </n> receiving knowledge from the Most High, and having seen a vision of God in sleep; his eyes were <n>[[Or, ]] unveiled </n> opened.


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I will point to him, but not now; I bless him, but he draws not near: a star shall rise out of Jacob, a man shall spring out of Israel; and shall crush the princes of Moab, and shall spoil all the sons of Seth.


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And Edom shall be an inheritance, and Esau his enemy shall be an inheritance <i>of Israel</i>, and Israel wrought valiantly.


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And having seen Amalec, he took up his parable and said, Amalec <i>is</i> the first of the nations; yet his seed shall perish.


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And having seen the Kenite, he took up his parable and said, your dwelling-place <i>is</i> strong; yet though you should put your nest in a rock,


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and though Beor should have a <n>[[Gr. ]] nest of cunning </n> skillfully contrived hiding-place, the Assyrians shall carry you away captive.


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And he looked upon Og, and took up his parable and said, Oh, oh, who shall live, when God shall <n>[[Gr. ]] put </n> do these things?


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And one shall come forth from the hands of the Citians, and shall afflict Assur, and shall afflict the <n>[[Or, ]] men of Heber. </n> Hebrews, and they shall perish together.


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And Balaam rose up and departed and returned to his place, and Balac went <n>[[Gr. q. d. ]] chez lui </n> to his own home.<pb/>


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And Israel sojourned in Sattin, and the people <n><i>Heb. חלל to begin and to profane etc. </i></n> profaned itself by going a-whoring after the daughters of Moab.


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And they called them to the sacrifices of their idols; and the people ate of their sacrifices, and worshipped their idols.


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And the Lord said to Moses, Take all the princes of the people, and <n>[[Or, ]] put them to shame. See Heb. 6.6 </n> make them examples <i>of judgment</i> for the Lord in the face of the sun, and the anger of the Lord shall be turned away from Israel.


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And Moses said to the tribes of Israel, Slay you° every one his friend that is consecrated to Beel-phegor.


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And, behold, a man of the children of Israel came and brought his brother to a Madianitish woman before Moses, and before all the congregation of the children of Israel; and they were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of witness.


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And Phinees the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, and rose out of the midst of the congregation, and took a <n>[[Gr. ]] dagger. </n> javelin in his hand,


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and went in after the Israelitish man into the <n>[[Gr. ]] furnace, κάμινον. Trom renders <i>lupanar. </i>[[Heb. ]] הקכה. </n> chamber, and pierced them both through, both the Israelitish man, and the woman through her womb; and the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.


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Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest has caused my wrath to cease from the children of Israel, when I was exceedingly jealous <n>[[Or, ]] with [[Or, ]] against them. [[Hebraism]]</n> among them, and I did not consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.


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and he and his seed after him shall have a perpetual covenant of priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.


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Now the name of the struck Israelitish man, who was struck with the Madianitish woman, <i>was</i> Zambri son of Salmon, prince of a house of the tribe of Symeon.


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And the name of the Madianitish woman who was struck, <i>was</i> Chasbi, daughter of Sur, a prince of the nation of Ommoth: it is a chief house among the people of Madiam.


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for they are enemies to you by the treachery wherein they ensnare you through Phogor, and through Chasbi their sister, daughter of a prince of Madiam, who was struck in the day of the plague because of Phogor.<pb/>


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Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, according to the houses <n>[[Gr. ]] of their fathers' families. </n> of their lineage, every one that goes forth <n>[[Gr. ]] to set himself in array. </n> to battle in Israel.


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<i>This is the numbering</i> from twenty years old and upward as the Lord commanded Moses. And the sons of Israel that came out of Egypt <i>are as follows</i>:


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Ruben <i>was</i> the firstborn of Israel: and the sons of Ruben, Enoch, and the family of Enoch; to Phallu belongs the family of the Phalluites.


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These <i>are</i> the families of Ruben; and their numbering was forty-three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.


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and the sons of Eliab, Namuel, and Dathan, and Abiron: these <i>are</i> renowned men of the congregation; these are they that rose up against Moses and Aaron in the gathering of Core, in the rebellion against the Lord.


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And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up them and Core, when their assembly perished, when the fire devoured the two hundred and fifty, and they were <n>[[Or. ]] for a sign. </n> made a sign.


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And the sons of Symeon:—the family of the sons of Symeon: to Namuel, <i>belonged</i> the family of the Namuelites; to Jamin the family of the Jaminites; to Jachin the family of the Jachinites.


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These <i>are</i> the families of Symeon according to their numbering, two and twenty thousand and two hundred.


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And these were the sons of Juda, according to their families: to Selom <i>belonged</i> the family of the Selonites; to Phares, the family of the Pharesites; to Zara, the family of the Zaraites.


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And the sons of Phares were, to Asron, the family of the Asronites; to Jamun, the family of the Jamunites.


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These <i>are</i> the families of Juda according to their numbering, seventy-six thousand and five hundred.


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And the sons of Issachar according to their families: to Thola, the family of the Tholaites; to Phua, the family of the Phuaites.


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These <i>are</i> the families of Issachar according to their numbering, sixty-four thousand and four hundred.


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The sons of Zabulon according to their families: to Sared, the family of the Saredites; to Allon, the family of the Allonites; to Allel, the family of the Allelites.


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These <i>are</i> the families of Zabulon according to their numbering, sixty thousand and five hundred.


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The sons of Gad according to their families: to Saphon, the family of the Saphonites; to Angi, the family of the Angites; to Suni, the family of the Sunites;


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These <i>are</i> the families of the children of Gad according to their numbering, forty-four thousand and five hundred.


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The sons of Aser according to their families; to Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; to Jesu, the family of the Jesusites; to Baria, the family of the Bariaites.


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These <i>are</i> the families of Aser according to their numbering, forty-three thousand and <n>[[Alex. ]] 600 </n> four hundred.


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The sons of Manasse. To Machir the family of the Machirites; and Machir begot Galaad: to Galaad, the family of the Galaadites.


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And these <i>are</i> the sons of Galaad; to Achiezer, the family of the Achiezerites; to Cheleg, the family of the Chelegites.


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And to Salpaad the son of Opher there were no sons, but daughters: and these <i>were</i> the names of the daughters of Salpaad; Mala, and Nua, and Egla, and Melcha, and Thersa.


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These <i>are</i> the families of Manasse according to their numbering, <n>[[Alex. ]] 62500 </n> fifty-two thousand and seven hundred.


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And these <i>are</i> the children of Ephraim; to Suthala, the family of the Suthalanites; to Tanach, the family of the Tanachites.


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These <i>are</i> the families of Ephraim according to their numbering, thirty-two thousand and five hundred: these <i>are</i> the families of the children of Joseph according to their families.


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The sons of Benjamin according to their families; to Bale, the family of the Balites; to Asyber, the family of the Asyberites; to Jachiran, the family of the Jachiranites.


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And the sons of Bale were Adar and Noeman; to Adar, the family of the Adarites; and to Noeman, the family of the Noemanites.


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These <i>are</i> the sons of Benjamin by their families according to their numbering, thirty-five thousand and five hundred.


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And the sons of Dan according to their families; to Same, the family of the Sameites; these <i>are</i> the families of Dan according to their families.


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All the families of Samei according to their numbering, sixty-four thousand and <n>[[Alex. ]] 600 </n> four hundred.


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The sons of Nephthali according to their families; to Asiel, the family of the Asielites; to Gauni, the family of the Gaunites.


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These <i>are</i> the families of Nephthali, according to their numbering, forty thousand and three hundred.


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This <i>is</i> the numbering of the children of Israel, six hundred and one thousand and seven hundred and thirty.


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To the greater number you shall give the greater inheritance, and to the less number you shall give the less inheritance: to each one, as they have been numbered, shall their inheritance be given.


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The land shall be divided to the names by lot, they shall inherit according to the tribes of their families.


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And the sons of Levi according to their families; to Gedson, the family of the Gedsonites; to Caath, the family of the Caathites; to Merari, the family of the Merarites.


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These <i>are</i> the families of the sons of Levi; the family of the Lobenites, the family of the Chebronites, the family of the Coreites, and the family of the Musites; and Caath begot Amram.


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And the name of his wife <i>was</i> Jochabed, daughter of Levi, who bore these to Levi in Egypt, and she bore to Amram, Aaron and Moses, and Mariam their sister.


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And there were according to their numbering, twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because they have no inheritance in the midst of the children of Israel.


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And this <i>is</i> the numbering of Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in Araboth of Moab, at Jordan by Jericho.


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And among these there was not a man numbered by Moses and Aaron, whom, <i>even</i> the children of Israel, they numbered in the wilderness of Sinai.


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For the Lord said to them, They shall surely die in the wilderness; and there was not left even one of them, except Chaleb the son of Jephonne, and Joshua the <i>son</i> of Naue.<pb/>


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And the daughters of Salpaad the son of Opher, the son of Galaad, the son of Machir, of the tribe of Manasse, of the sons of Joseph, came near; and these were their names, Maala, and Nua, and Egla, and Melcha, and Thersa;


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and they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes, and before all the congregation at the door of the tabernacle of witness, saying,


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Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the midst of the congregation that rebelled against the Lord in the gathering of Core; for he died for his own sin, and he had no sons. Let not the name of our father be blotted out of the midst of his people, because he has no son: give us an inheritance in the midst of our father's brethren.


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The daughters of Salpaad have spoken rightly: you shall surely give them a possession of inheritance in the midst of their father's brethren, and you shall assign their father's inheritance to them.


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And if there be no brethren of his father, you° shall give the inheritance to his nearest relation of his tribe, to inherit his possessions; and this shall be to the children of Israel an ordinance of judgment, as the Lord commanded Moses.


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And the Lord said to Moses, Go up to the mountain that is in the country beyond Jordan, this mount Nabau, and behold the land Chanaan, which I give to the sons of Israel for a possession.


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And you shall see it, and you also shall be added to your people, as Aaron your brother was added <i>to them</i> in mount Or:


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because you° transgressed my commandment in the wilderness of Sin, when the congregation resisted <i>and refused</i> to sanctify me; you° sanctified me not at the water before them. This is the water of Strife in Cades in the wilderness of Sin.


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who shall go out before them, and who shall come in before them, and who shall lead them out, and who shall bring them in; so the congregation of the Lord shall not be as sheep without a shepherd.


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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Take to yourself Joshua the son of Naue, a man who has the Spirit in him, and you shall lay your hands upon him.


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And you shall set him before Eleazar the priest, and you shall give him a charge before all the congregation, and you shall give a charge concerning him before them.


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And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, and they shall ask of him before the Lord the judgment of the Urim: they shall go forth at his word, and at his word they shall come in, he and the children of Israel with one accord, and all the congregation.


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And Moses did as the Lord commanded him; and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation.


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Charge the children of Israel, and you shall speak to them, saying, You° shall observe to offer to me in my feasts my gifts, my presents, my burnt offerings for a sweet smelling savor.


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And you shall say to them, These are the burnt offerings, all that you° shall bring to the Lord; two lambs of a year old without blemish daily, for a whole burnt offering perpetually.


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And you shall offer the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat-offering, mingled with oil, with the fourth part of a hin.


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<i>It is</i> a perpetual whole burnt offering, a sacrifice offered in the mount of Sina for a sweet smelling savor to the Lord.


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And its drink-offering, the fourth part of a hin to each lamb; in the holy place shall you pour strong drink as a drink-offering to the Lord.


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And the second lamb you shall offer toward evening; you shall offer it according to its meat-offering and according to its drink-offering for a smell of sweet savor to the Lord.


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And on the sabbath-day you° shall offer two lambs of a year old without blemish, and two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat-offering, and a drink-offering.


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<i>It is</i> a whole burnt offering of the sabbaths on the sabbath days, besides the continued whole burnt offering, and its drink offering.


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And at the new moons you° shall bring a whole burnt offering to the Lord, two calves of the herd, and one ram, seven lambs of a year old without blemish.


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Three tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil for one calf, and two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil for one ram.


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A tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for each lamb, as a meat-offering, a sweet smelling savor, a <n>This seems to be the general meaning of κάρπωμα in LXX </n> burnt offering to the Lord.


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Their drink-offering shall be the half of a hin for one calf; and the third of a hin for one ram; and the fourth part of a hin of wine for one lamb: this <i>is</i> the whole burnt offering monthly throughout the months of the year.


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And <i>he shall offer</i> one kid of the goats for a sin-offering to the Lord; it shall be offered beside the continual whole burnt offering and its drink-offering.


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And on the fifteenth day of this month <i>is</i> a feast; seven days you° shall eat unleavened bread.


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And you° shall bring whole burnt offerings, a sacrifice to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, seven lambs of a year old; they shall be to you without blemish.


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And their meat-offering shall be fine flour mingled with oil; three tenth deals for one calf, and two tenth deals for one ram.


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Beside the perpetual whole burnt offering in the morning, which is a whole burnt sacrifice for a continuance,


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these shall you° thus offer daily for <n>[[Alex. ]] two days. </n> seven days, a gift, a sacrifice for a sweet smelling savor to the Lord; beside the continual whole burnt offering, you shall offer its drink-offering.


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And on the day of the new corn, when you° shall offer a new sacrifice <i>at the festival</i> of weeks to the Lord, there shall be to you a holy convocation; you° shall do no servile work,


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and you° shall bring whole burnt offerings for a sweet smelling savor to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, seven lambs without blemish.


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Their meat-offering <i>shall be</i> fine flour mingled with oil; there shall be three tenth deals for one calf, and two tenth deals for one ram.


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you° shall offer to me their meat-offering. They shall be to you unblemished, and you° shall offer their drink-offerings.<pb/>


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And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, there shall be to you a holy convocation: you° shall do no servile work: it shall be to you a day of blowing the trumpets.


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And you° shall offer whole burnt offerings for a sweet savor to the Lord, one calf of the herd, one ram, seven lambs of a year old without blemish.


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Their meat-offering shall be fine flour mingled with oil; three tenth deals for one calf, and two tenth deals for one ram:


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Beside the whole burnt offerings for the new moon, and their meat-offerings, and their drink-offerings, and their perpetual whole burnt offering; and their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings according to their ordinance for a sweet smelling savor to the Lord.


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And on the tenth of this month there shall be to you a holy convocation; and you° shall afflict your souls, and you° shall do no work.


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And you° shall bring near whole burnt offerings for a sweet smelling savor to the Lord; burnt sacrifices to the Lord, one calf of the herd, one ram, seven lambs of a year old; they shall be to you without blemish.


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Their meat-offering shall be fine flour mingled with oil; three tenth deals for one calf, and two tenth deals for one ram.


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And one kid of the goats for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you; beside the sin-offering for atonement, and the continual whole burnt offering, its meat-offering, and its drink-offering according to its ordinance for a smell of sweet savor, a burnt sacrifice to the Lord.


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And on the fifteenth day of this seventh month you° shall have a holy convocation; you° shall do no servile work; and you° shall keep it a feast to the Lord seven days.


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And you° shall bring near whole burnt offerings, a sacrifice for a smell of sweet savor to the Lord, on the first day thirteen calves of the herd, two rams, fourteen lambs of a year old; they shall be without blemish.


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their meat-offerings <i>shall be</i> fine flour mingled with oil; there shall be three tenth deals for one calf, for the thirteen calves; and two tenth deals for one ram, for the two rams.


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And one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; beside the continual whole burnt offering: there shall be their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings.


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Their meat-offering and their drink-offering shall be for the calves and the rams and the lambs according to their number, according to their ordinance.


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And one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; beside the perpetual whole burnt offering; their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings.


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Their meat-offering and their drink-offering shall be to the calves and to the rams and to the lambs according to their number, according to their ordinance.


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And one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; beside the continual whole burnt offering; <i>there shall be</i> their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings.


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There shall be their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings to the calves and the rams and the lambs according to their number, according to their ordinance.


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And one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; beside the continual whole burnt offering <i>there shall be</i> their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings.


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Their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings <i>shall be</i> to the calves and the rams and the lambs according to their number, according to their ordinance.


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And one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; beside the perpetual whole burnt offering; <i>there shall be</i> their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings.


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There shall be their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings to the calves and rams and lambs according to their number, according to their ordinance.


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Their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings shall be to the calves and the rams and the lambs according to their number, according to their ordinance.


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And on the eighth day there shall be to you <n>[[Or, ]] solemn assembly. See Lev. 23. 36. </n> a release: you° shall do no servile work in it.


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And you° shall offer whole burnt offerings <i>as</i> sacrifices to the Lord, one calf, one ram, seven lambs of a year old without spot.


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<i>There shall be</i> their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings for the calf and the ram and the lambs according to their number, according to their ordinance.


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And Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, This <i>is</i> the thing which the Lord has commanded.


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Whatsoever man shall vow a vow to the Lord, or swear an oath, or bind himself with an obligation upon his soul, he shall not <n>[[Gr. ]] profane </n> break his word; all that shall come out of his mouth he shall do.


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And if a woman shall vow a vow to the Lord, or bind herself with an obligation in her youth in her father's house; and her father should hear her vows and her obligations, wherewith she has bound her soul, and her father should hold his peace at her, then all her vows shall stand,


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But if her father straitly forbid <i>her</i> in the day in which he shall hear all her vows and her obligations, which she has contracted upon her soul, they shall not stand; and the Lord shall hold her guiltless, because her father forbade her.


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But if she should be indeed married, and her vows be upon her according to the utterance of her lips, <n>It would seem that the relative in respect of οὓς must refer to ὸρισμοὺς, understood. </n> <i>the obligations</i> which she has contracted upon her soul;


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and her husband should hear, and hold his peace at her in the day in which he should hear, then thus shall all her vows be binding, and her obligations, which she has contracted upon her soul shall stand.


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But if her husband should <n>[[Or, ]] in any wise. </n> straitly forbid <i>her</i> in the day in which he should hear her, none of her vows or obligations which she has contracted upon her soul shall stand, because her husband has disallowed her, and the Lord shall hold her guiltless.


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And the vow of a widow and of her that is put away, whatever she shall <n>[[Gr. ]] vow. </n> bind upon her soul, shall stand to her.


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And if her vow <i>be made</i> in the house of her husband, or the obligation upon her soul with an oath,


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and her husband should hear, and hold his peace at her, and not disallow her, then all her vows shall stand, and all the obligations which she contracted against her soul, shall stand against her.


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But if her husband should utterly <n>[[Or. ]] forbid; [[lit. ]] take away. </n> cancel the vow in the day in which he shall hear it, none of the things which shall proceed out of her lips in her vows, and in the obligations <i>contracted</i> upon her soul, shall stand to her; her husband has cancelled them, and the Lord shall hold her guiltless.


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Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict her soul, her husband shall confirm it to her, or her husband shall cancel it.


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But if he be wholly silent at her from day to day, then shall he bind upon her all her vows; and he shall confirm to her the obligations <i>which she has bound</i> upon herself, because he held his peace at her in the day in which he heard her.


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And if her husband should <n>[[Or. ]] utterly. </n> in any wise cancel <i>them</i> after the day in which he heard <i>them</i>, then he shall bear his iniquity.<pb/>


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Avenge the <n>[[Gr. ]] vengeance. </n> wrongs of the children of Israel on the Madianites, and <n>[[Gr. ]] last. </n> afterwards you shall be added to your people.


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And Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm <n>[[Gr. ]] men. </n> some of you, and set yourselves in array before the Lord against Madian, to inflict vengeance on Madian from the Lord.


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Send a thousand of each tribe from all the tribes of the children of Israel to set themselves in array.


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And they numbered of the thousands of Israel a thousand of <i>each</i> tribe, twelve thousands; <i>these were</i> armed for war.


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And Moses sent them away a thousand of every tribe with their forces, and Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest: and the holy instruments, and the signal trumpets <i>were</i> in their hands.


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And they set themselves in array against Madian, as the Lord commanded Moses; and they killed every male.


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And they killed the kings of Madian together with their slain <i>subjects</i>; even Evi and Rocon, and Sur, and Ur, and Roboc, five kings of Madian; and they killed with the sword Balaam the son of Beor with their <i>other</i> slain.


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And they made a prey of the women of Madian, and their store, and their cattle, and all their possessions: and they spoiled their forces.


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And they burnt with fire all their cities in the places of their habitation and they burnt their villages with fire.


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And they brought to Moses and to Eleazar the priest, and to all the children of Israel, the captives, and the spoils, and the plunder, to the camp to Araboth Moab, which is at Jordan by Jericho.


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And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the rulers of the synagogue went forth out of the camp to meet them.


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And Moses was angry with the captains of the host, the heads of thousands and the heads of hundreds who came from the battle-array.


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For they were <i>the occasion</i> to the children of Israel by the word of Balaam of their revolting and despising the word of the Lord, because of Phogor; and there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord.


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And you° shall encamp outside the <i>great</i> camp seven days; every one who has slain and who touches a <n>[[i. e. ]] of a slain man </n> dead body, <n>[[Or, ]] shall purify himself. </n> shall be purified on the third day, and you° and your captivity <i>shall purify yourselves</i> on the seventh day.


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And you° shall purify every garment and every leather utensil, and <n>[[Gr. ]] every work. </n> all furniture of goat skin, and every wooden vessel.


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And Eleazar the priest said to the men of the host that came from the battle-array, This <i>is</i> the ordinance of the law which the Lord has commanded Moses.


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every thing that shall pass through the fire shall so be clean, nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of sanctification; and whatever will not pass through the fire shall pass through water.


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And on the seventh day you° shall wash your garments, and be clean; and afterwards you° shall come into the camp.


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Take the sum of the spoils of the captivity both of man and beast, you and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the families of the congregation.


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And you° shall divide the spoils between the warriors that went out to battle, and the whole congregation.


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And you° shall take a tribute for the Lord from the warriors that went out to battle; one soul out of five hundred, from the men, and from the cattle, even from the oxen, and from the sheep, and from the asses; and you° shall take from their half.


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And from the half belonging to the children of Israel you shall take one <n>[[Gr. ]] from [[or ]] of </n> in fifty from the men, and from the oxen, and from the sheep, and from the asses, and from all the cattle; and you shall give them to the Levites that keep the charges in the tabernacle of the Lord.


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And that which remained of the spoil which the warriors took, was—of the sheep, six hundred and seventy-five thousand:


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And the half, <i>even</i> the portion of them that went out to war, from the number of the sheep, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand and five hundred.


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And Moses gave the tribute to the Lord, the heave-offering of God, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses;


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And the half <i>taken</i> from the sheep, belonging to the congregation, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand and five hundred.


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And Moses took of the half belonging to the children of Israel <n>[[Gr. ]] the one out of the fifty. </n> the fifties part, of men and of cattle, and he gave them to the Levites who keep the charges of the tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.


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And all those who were appointed to be officers of thousands of the host, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, approached Moses, and said to Moses,


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And we have brought our gift to the Lord, <i>every</i> man who has found an article of gold, whether an armlet, or a chain, or a ring, or a bracelet, or a clasp for hair, to make atonement for us before the Lord.


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And all the wrought gold, even the offering that they offered to the Lord, was sixteen thousand and seven hundred and fifty shekels from the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds.


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And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and brought the <n>[[Gr. ]] them. </n> vessels into the tabernacle of witness, a memorial of the children of Israel before the Lord.<pb/>


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And the children of Ruben and the children of Gad had <n>[[Gr. ]] cattle, a multitude, greatly a multitude. </n> a multitude of cattle, very great; and they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Galaad; and the place was a place for cattle:


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and the children of Ruben and the children of Gad came, and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying,


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Ataroth, and Daebon, and Jazer, and Namra, and Esebon, and Eleale, and Sebama, and Nabau, and Baean,


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the land which the Lord has delivered up before the children of Israel, is pasture land, and your servants have cattle.


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And they said, If we have found grace in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession, and do not cause us to pass over Jordan.


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And Moses said to the sons of Gad and the sons of Ruben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall you° sit here?


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And why do you° pervert the minds of the children of Israel, that they should not cross over into the land, which the Lord gives them?


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And they went up to the valley of the cluster, and spied the land, and turned aside the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land, which the Lord gave them.


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Surely these men who came up out of Egypt from twenty years old and upward, who know good and evil, shall not see the land which I sware <i>to give</i> to Abraam and Isaac and Jacob, for they have not closely followed after me:


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save Caleb the son of Jephonne, who was set apart, and Joshua the son of Naue, for they closely followed after the Lord.


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And the Lord was very angry with Israel; and for forty years he caused them to wander in the wilderness, until all the generation which did evil <n>[[Or, ]] before. </n> in the sight of the Lord was extinct.


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Behold, you° are risen up in the room of your fathers, a <n>[[Or, ]] an evil race, [[lit ]] a destruction, but some read, σύστρεμμα. </n> combination of sinful men, to increase yet farther the fierce wrath of the Lord against Israel.


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For you° will turn away from him to desert him yet once more in the wilderness, and you° will sin against this whole congregation.


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And they came to him, and said, We will build here folds for our cattle, and cities for our possessions;


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and we will arm ourselves and go as an advanced guard before the children of Israel, until we shall have brought them into their place; and our possessions shall remain in walled cities because of the inhabitants of the land.


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We will not return to our houses till the children of Israel shall have been distributed, each to his own inheritance.


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And we will not any longer inherit with them from the other side of Jordan and onwards, because we have our full inheritance on the side beyond Jordan eastward.


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And Moses said to them, If you° will do according to <n>[[Gr. ]] this word. </n> these words, if you° will arm yourselves before the Lord for battle,


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and every one of you will pass over Jordan fully armed before the Lord, until his enemy be destroyed from before his face,


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and the land shall be subdued before the Lord, then afterwards you° shall return, and be guiltless before the Lord, and as regards Israel; and this land shall be to you for a possession before the Lord.


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But if you° will not do so, you° will sin against the Lord; and you° shall know your sin, when afflictions shall come upon you.


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And you° shall build for yourselves cities for your store, and folds for your cattle; and you° shall do that which proceeds out of your mouth.


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And the sons of Ruben and the sons of Gad spoke to Moses, saying, Your servants will do as our lord commands.


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But your servants will go over all armed and set in order before the Lord to battle, as <i>our</i> lord says.


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And Moses appointed to them <i>for judges</i> Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Naue, and the chiefs of the families of the tribes of Israel.


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And Moses said to them, If the sons of Ruben and the sons of Gad will pass over Jordan with you, every one armed for war before the Lord, and you° shall subdue the land before you, then you° shall give to them the land of Galaad for a possession.


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But if they will not pass over armed with you to war before the Lord, then shall you° cause to pass over their possessions and their wives and their cattle before you into the land of Chanaan, and they shall inherit with you in the land of Chanaan.


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And the sons of Ruben and the sons of Gad answered, saying, Whatsoever <n>[[Or, ]] our Lord, or, our master, [[i. e. ]] Moses. </n> the Lord says to his servants, that will we do.


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We will go over armed before the Lord into the land of Chanaan, and you° shall give us our inheritance beyond Jordan.


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And Moses gave to them, even to the sons of Gad and the sons of Ruben, and to the half tribe of Manasse of the sons of Joseph, the kingdom of Seon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Basan, the land and <n>[[Gr. ]] the cities. </n> its cities with its coasts, the cities of the land round about.


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and Beelmeon, surrounded <i>with walls</i>, and Sebama; and they called the names of the cities which they built, after their own names.


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And a son of Machir the son of Manasse went to Galaad, and took it, and destroyed the Amorite who lived in it.


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And Jair the <i>son</i> of Manasse went and took their <n>[[Or, ]] folds. </n> villages, and called them the villages of Jair.


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And these are the stages of the children of Israel, as they went out from the land of Egypt with their host by the hand of Moses and Aaron.


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And Moses wrote their removals and their stages, by the word of the Lord: and these are the stages of their journeying.


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They departed from Ramesses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the passover the children of Israel went forth with a high hand before all the Egyptians.


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And the Egyptians buried those that died of them, even all that the Lord struck, every firstborn in the land of Egypt; also the Lord executed vengeance on their gods.


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And they departed from Buthan and encamped at the mouth of Iroth, which is opposite Beel-sepphon, and encamped opposite Magdol.


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And they departed from before Iroth, and crossed the middle of the sea into the wilderness; and they went a journey of three days through the wilderness, and encamped in Picriae.


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And they departed from Picriae, and came to Aelim; and in Aelim <i>were</i> twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm-trees, and they encamped there by the water.


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And they departed from Aelus, and encamped in Raphidin; and there was no water there for the people to drink.


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And they departed from the wilderness of Sina, and encamped at the <n><i>Heb. Kibroth-hattaavah. </i></n> Graves of Lust.


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And they departed from Gesion Gaber, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin; and they departed from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in the wilderness of Pharan; this is Cades.


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And Aaron the priest went up by the command of the Lord, and died there in the forties year of the departure of the children of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first <i>day</i> of the month.


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And Arad the Chananitish king (he too lived in the land of Chanaan) having heard when the children of Israel were entering <i>the land</i>—


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And they departed from Oboth, and encamped in Gai, on the other side <i>Jordan</i> on the borders of Moab.


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And they departed from Gelmon Deblathaim, and encamped on the mountains of Abarim, over against Nabau.


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And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped on the west of Moab, at Jordan by Jericho.


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Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them, You° are to pass over Jordan into the land of Chanaan.


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And you° shall destroy all that dwell in the land before your face, and you° shall abolish their high places, and all their molten images you° shall destroy, and you° shall demolish all their pillars.


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And you° shall destroy all the inhabitants of the land, and you° shall dwell in it, for I have given their land to you for an inheritance.


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And you° shall inherit their land according to your tribes; to the greater number you° shall give the larger possession, and to the smaller you° shall give the less possession; to whatever <i>part</i> <n>[[Gr. ]] his </n> a man's name shall go forth <i>by lot</i>, there shall be his <i>property</i>: you° shall inherit according to the tribes of your families.


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But if you° will not destroy the dwellers in the land from before you, then it shall come to pass that whoever of them you° shall leave shall be thorns in your eyes, and darts in your sides, and they shall be enemies to you on the land on which you° shall dwell;


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Charge the children of Israel, and you shall say to them, You° are entering into the land of Chanaan: it shall be to you for an inheritance, the land of Chanaan with its boundaries.


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And your southern side shall be from the wilderness of Sin to the border of Edom, and your border southward shall <n>[[Gr. ]] be. </n> extend on the side of the salt sea eastward.


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And your border shall go round you from the south to the ascent of Acrabin, and shall proceed by Ennac, and the going forth of it shall be southward to Cades Barne, and it shall go forth to the village of Arad, and shall proceed by Asemona.


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And the border shall compass from Asemona to the river of Egypt, and the sea shall be the termination.


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And you° shall have your border on the <n>[[Gr. ]] sea </n> west, the great sea shall be the boundary: this shall be to you the border on the west.


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And this shall be your northern border; from the great sea you° shall measure to yourselves, by the side of <n>[[Gr. ]] the mountain, the mountain. By this repetition is perhaps meant mount Hor. </n> the mountain.


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And you° shall measure to yourselves the mountain from mount <i>Hor</i> at the entering in to Emath, and the termination of it shall be the coasts of Saradac.


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And the border shall go out to Dephrona, and its termination shall be at Arsenain; this shall be your border from the north.


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And the border shall go down from Sepphamar to Bela eastward to the fountains, and the border shall go down from Bela behind the sea Chenereth eastward.


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And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the termination shall be the salt sea; this shall be your land and its borders round about.


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And Moses charged the children of Israel, saying, This <i>is</i> the land which you° shall inherit by lot, even as the Lord commanded us to give it to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasse.


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For the tribe of the children of Ruben, and the tribe of the children of Gad have received <i>their inheritance</i> according to their <n>[[Gr. ]] the houses of their families. </n> families; and the half-tribe of Manasse have received their inheritances.


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Two tribes and half a tribe have received their inheritance beyond Jordan by Jericho from the south eastwards.


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These <i>are</i> the names of the men who shall <n>[[Gr. ]] inherit the land for you. </n> divide the land to you for an inheritance; Eleazar the priest and Joshua the <i>son</i> of Naue.


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These did the Lord command to distribute <i>the inheritances</i> to the children of Israel in the land of Chanaan.<pb/>


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Give orders to the children of Israel, and they shall give to the Levites cities to dwell in from the <n>[[Or, ]] lots. </n> lot of their possession, and they shall give to the Levites the suburbs of the cities round about <n>[[i. e. ]] the Levites. </n> them.


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And the cities shall be for them to dwell in, and their <n>[[Or, ]] districts, [[i. e. ]] spaces marked off. [[Gr. ]] special offerings of land,  q. d.  glebe lands. This latter sense is probably the right one here. </n> enclosures shall be for their cattle and all their beasts.


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And the suburbs of the cities which you° shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outwards two thousand cubits round about.


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And you shall measure outside the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and your city shall be in the midst of this, and the suburbs of the cities <i>as described</i>.


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And you° shall give the cities to the Levites, the six cities of refuge which you° shall give for the slayer to flee there, and in addition to these, forty-two cities.


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And as for the cities which you° shall give out of the possession of the children of Israel, from those <i>that have</i> much <i>you° shall give</i> much, and from those that have less you° shall give less: they shall give of their cities to the Levites each one according to his inheritance which they shall inherit.


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Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them, You° are to cross over Jordan into the land of Chanaan.


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And you° shall appoint to yourselves cities: they shall be to you cities of refuge for the slayer to flee to, every one who has <n>[[Gr. ]] struck a life. </n> killed another unintentionally.


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And the cities shall be to you places of refuge from <n>[[Gr. ]] him that as kinsman represents the blood. </n> the avenger of blood, and the slayer shall not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.


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And the cities which you° shall assign, <i>even</i> the six cities, shall be places of refuge for you.


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You° shall assign three cities on the other side of Jordan, and you° shall assign three cities in the land of Chanaan.


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It shall be a place of refuge for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for him that sojourns among you; these cities shall be for a place of refuge, for every one to flee there who has killed a man unintentionally.


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And if he should strike him with an iron instrument, and the man should die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death.


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And if he should strike him with a stone <i>thrown</i> from his hand, whereby a man may die, and he <i>thus</i> die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death.


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And if he should strike him with an instrument of wood from his hand, whereby he may die, and he <i>thus</i> die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death.


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And if he should thrust him through enmity, or cast any thing upon him from an ambuscade, and the man should die,


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or if he have struck him with his hand through anger, and the man should die, let the man that struck him be put to death by all means, he is a murderer: let the murderer by all means be put to death: the avenger of blood shall kill the murderer when he meets him.


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But if he should thrust him suddenly, not through enmity, or cast <n>[[Gr. ]] any vessel [[or ]] weapon. </n> any thing upon him, not from an ambuscade,


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or <i>strike him</i> with any stone, whereby a man may die, unawares, and it should fall upon him, and he should die, but he was not his enemy, nor sought to hurt him;


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then the assembly shall judge between the smiter and the avenger of blood, according to these judgments.


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And the congregation shall rescue the slayer from the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, whither he fled for refuge; and he shall dwell there till the death of the high-priest, whom they anointed with the holy oil.


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But if the slayer should in any wise go out beyond the bounds of the city whither he fled for refuge,


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and the avenger of blood should find him without the bounds of the city of his refuge, and the avenger of blood should kill the slayer, he is not guilty.


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For <n>[[Gr. ]] let him remain. </n> he ought to have remained in the city of refuge till the high-priest died; and after the death of the high-priest the slayer shall return to the land of his possession.


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And these things shall be to you for an ordinance of judgment throughout your generations in all your dwellings.


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Whoever <n>[[Gr. ]] smites a life. </n> kills a man, you shall kill the murderer <n>[[Gr. ]] by witnesses. </n> on the testimony of witnesses; and one witness shall not testify against a soul that he should die.


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And you° shall not accept ransoms for life from a murderer who is worthy of death, for he shall be surely put to death.


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You° shall not accept a ransom <i>to excuse</i> his fleeing to the city of refuge, so that he should again dwell in the land, until the death of the high-priest.


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So shall you° not pollute with murder the land in which you° dwell; for this blood pollutes the land, and the land shall not be purged from the blood shed upon it, but by the blood of him that shed it.


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And you° shall not defile the land whereon you° dwell, on which I dwell in the midst of you; for I am the Lord dwelling in the midst of the children of Israel.<pb/>


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And the heads of the tribe of the sons of Galaad the son of Machir the son of Manasse, of the tribe of the sons of Joseph, drew near, and spoke before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the heads of the houses of the families of the children of Israel:


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and they said, The Lord commanded our lord to render the land of inheritance by lot to the children of Israel; and the Lord appointed our lord to give the inheritance of Salpaad our brother to his daughters.


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And they will become wives in one of the tribes of the children of Israel; so their inheritance shall be taken away from the possession of our fathers, and shall be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which the women shall marry, and shall be taken away from the portion of our inheritance.


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And if there shall be a release of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which the women marry, and their inheritance, shall be taken away from the inheritance of our family's tribe.


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And Moses charged the children of Israel by the commandment of the Lord, saying, Thus <n>[[Gr. ]] say. </n> says the tribe of the children of Joseph.


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This <i>is</i> the thing which the Lord has appointed the daughters of Salpaad, saying, Let them <n>[[Gr. ]] be wives. </n> marry where they please, only let them marry <i>men</i> of their father's tribe.


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So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel go about from tribe to tribe, for the children of Israel shall <n>[[Gr. ]] be cemented. See Matt. 19. 5. Acts 5. 26. </n> steadfastly continue each in the inheritance of his family's tribe.


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And whatever daughter is heiress to a property of the tribes of the children Israel, <i>such</i> women shall be married each to one of her father's tribe, that the sons of Israel may each inherit the property of his father's tribe.


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And the inheritance shall not go about from one tribe to another, but the children of Israel shall steadfastly continue each in his own inheritance.


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So Thersa, and Egla, and Melcha, and Nua, and Malaa, the daughters of Salpaad, married their cousins;


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they were married <i>to men</i> of the tribe of Manasse of the sons of Joseph; and their inheritance was attached to the tribe of their father's family.


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These <i>are</i> the commandments, and the ordinances, and the judgments, which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, at the west of Moab, at Jordan by Jericho.


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These <i>are</i> the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side Jordan in the desert towards the west near the Red Sea, between Pharan Tophol, and Lobon, and Aulon, and the gold works.


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And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first <i>day</i> of the month, Moses spoke to all the children of Israel, according to all things which the Lord commanded him for them:


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after he had struck Seon king of the Amorites who lived in Esebon, and Og the king of Basan who lived in Astaroth and in Edrain;


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The Lord your God spoke to us in Choreb, saying, Let it suffice you <n>[[Gr. ]] to dwell. </n> to have lived <i>so long</i> in this mountain.


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Turn you° and depart and enter into the mountain of the Amorites, and <i>go</i> to all that dwell near about Araba, to the mountain and the plain and to the south, and the land of the Chananites near the sea, and Antilibanus, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.


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Behold, <i>God</i> has delivered the land before you; go in and inherit the land, which I sware to your fathers, Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob, to give it to them and to their seed after them.


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The Lord your God has multiplied you, and, behold, you° are today as the stars of heaven for multitude.


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The Lord God of your fathers <n>[[Or, ]] increase you. </n> add to you a thousand-fold more than you are, and bless you as he has spoken to you.


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<n>[[Gr. ]] give. </n> Take to yourselves wise and understanding and prudent men for your tribes, and I will set your leaders over you.


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So I took of you wise and understanding and prudent men, and I set them to rule over you as rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, and rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens, and <n>Perhaps, recorders: [[more lit. ]] instructors in reading and writing. </n> officers to your judges.


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And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear <i>causes</i> between your brethren, and judge rightly between a man and <i>his</i> brother, and the <n>[[Gr. ]] his stranger. </n> stranger that is with him.


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You shall not have respect to <n>[[Gr. ]] a face. </n> persons in judgment, you shall judge <n>[[Gr. ]] according to small and great. </n> small and great equally; you shall not shrink from before the person of a man, for the judgment is God's; and whatever matter shall be too hard for you, you° shall bring it to me, and I will hear it.


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And we departed from Choreb, and went through all that great wilderness and terrible, which you° saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite, as the Lord our God charged us, and we came as far as Cades Barne.


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And I said to you, You° have come as far as the mountain of the Amorite, which the Lord our God gives to you:


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behold, the Lord your God has delivered to us the land before you: go up and inherit it as the Lord God of your fathers said to you; fear not, neither be afraid.


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And you° all came to me, and said, Let us send men before us, and let them go up to the land for us; and let them bring back to us a report of the way by which we shall go up, and of the cities into which we shall enter.


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And they turned and went up to the mountain, and they came as far as the valley of the cluster, and surveyed it.


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And they took in their hands of the fruit of the land, and brought it to you, and said, The land is good which the Lord our God gives us.


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And you° murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us.


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Whither do we go up? and your brethren drew away your heart, saying, <i>It is a</i> great nation and populous, and mightier than we; and <i>there are</i> cities great and walled up to heaven: moreover we saw there the sons of the giants.


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the Lord your God who goes before your face, he shall fight against them together with you effectually, according to all that he wrought for you in the land of Egypt;


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and in this wilderness which you° saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite; <n>See Acts 13. 18, and note in the margin of English Bible on ἐτροφόρησεν. </n> how the Lord your God will bear you as a nursling, as if any man should nurse his child, through all the way which you° have gone until you° came to this place.


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who goes before you in the way to choose you a place, guiding you in fire by night, showing you the way by which you° go, and a cloud by day.


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<n>[[Gr. ]] If one. </n> Not one of these men shall see this good land, which I sware to their fathers,


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except Chaleb the son of Jephonne, he shall see it; and to him I will give the land on which he went up, and to his sons, because he <n>[[Or, ]] followed closely after the Lord. </n> attended to the things of the Lord.


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Joshua the son of Naue, who stands by you, he shall enter in there; do you strengthen him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.


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And every young child who this day knows not good or evil, —they shall enter therein, and to them I will give it, and they shall inherit it.


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And you° answered and said, We have sinned before the Lord our God; we will go up and fight according to all that the Lord our God has commanded us: and having taken every one his weapons of war, and being gathered together, you° <n>[[Gr. ]] go up. </n> went up to the mountain.


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And the Lord said to me, Tell them, You° shall not go up, neither shall you° fight, for I am not with you; thus shall you° not be destroyed before your enemies.


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And I spoke to you, and you° did not listen to me; and you° transgressed the commandment of the Lord; and you° forced your way and went up into the mountain.


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And the Amorite who lived in that mountain came out to meet you, and pursued you as bees do, and wounded you from Seir to Herma.


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And you° sat down and wept before the Lord our God, and the Lord listened not to your voice, neither did he take heed to you.


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And we turned and departed into the wilderness, by the way of the Red Sea, as the Lord spoke to me, and we compassed mount Seir many days.


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<n>[[Or, ]] Let it suffice you to compass. </n> You° have compassed this mount long enough; turn therefore toward the north.


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And charge the people, saying, You° are going through the borders of your brethren the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they shall fear you, and dread you greatly.


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Do not engage in war against them, for I will not give you of their land even enough to set your foot upon, for I have given mount Seir to the children of Esau as an inheritance.


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Buy food of them for money and eat, and you° shall receive water of them by measure for money, and drink.


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For the Lord our God has blessed you in every work of your hands. Consider how you went through that great and terrible wilderness: behold, the Lord your God <i>has been</i> with you forty years; you did not lack any thing.


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And we passed by our brethren the children of Esau, who lived in Seir, by the way of Araba from Aelon and from Gesion Gaber; and we turned and passed by the way of the desert of Moab.


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And the Lord said to me, Do not you° quarrel with the Moabites, and do not engage in war with them; for I will not give you of their land for an inheritance, for I have given Aroer to the children of Lot to inherit.


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These also shall be accounted <n><i>Heb. giants. </i></n> Raphain like the Enakim; and the Moabites call them Ommin.


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And the Chorrhite lived in Seir before, and the sons of Esau destroyed them, and utterly consumed them from before them; and they lived in their place, as Israel did to the land of his inheritance, which the Lord gave to them.


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And the days in which we traveled from Cades Barne till we crossed the valley of Zaret, <i>were</i> thirty and eight years, until the whole generation of the men of war failed, dying out of the camp, as the Lord God sware to them.


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And the hand of the Lord was upon them to destroy them out of the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.


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and you° shall draw near to the children of Amman: do not quarrel with them, nor wage war with them; for I will not give you of the land of the children of Amman for an inheritance, because I have given it to the children of Lot for an inheritance.


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It shall be accounted a land of Raphain, for the Raphain lived there before, and the Ammanites call them Zochommin.


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A great nation and populous, and mightier than you, as also the Enakim: yet the Lord destroyed them from before them, and they inherited <i>their land</i>, and they lived <i>there</i> instead of them until this day.


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As they did to the children of Esau that dwell in Seir, even as they destroyed the Chorrhite from before them, and inherited <n>[[Gr. ]] them. </n> their country, and lived <i>therein</i> instead of them until this day.


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And the Evites who dwell in Asedoth to Gaza, and the Cappadocians who came out of Cappadocia, destroyed them, and lived in their room.


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Now then arise and depart, and pass over the valley of Arnon: behold, I have delivered into your hands Seon the king of Esebon the Amorite, and his land: begin to inherit <i>it</i>: engage in war with him this day.


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Begin to put your terror and your fear on the face of all the nations under heaven, who shall be troubled when they have heard your name, and shall be in anguish <n>[[Or, ]] for fear of you. [[Hebraism. ]]</n> before you.


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And I sent ambassadors from the wilderness of Kedamoth to Seon king of Esebon with peaceful words, saying,


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I will pass through your land: I will go by the road, I will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.


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You shall give me food for money, and I will eat; and you shall give me water for money, and I will drink; I will only go through on my feet:


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as the sons of Esau did to me, who lived in Seir, and the Moabites who lived in Aroer, until I shall have passed Jordan into the land which the Lord our God gives us.


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And Seon king of Esebon would not that we should pass by him, because the Lord our God hardened his spirit, and made his heart stubborn, that he might be delivered into your hands, as on this day.


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And the Lord said to me, Behold, I have begun to deliver before you Seon the king of Esebon the Amorite, and his land, and do you begin to inherit his land.


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And the Lord our God delivered him before our face, and we struck him, and his sons, and all his people.


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And we took possession of all his cities at that time, and we utterly destroyed every city in succession, and their wives, and their children; we left no living prey.


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From Aroer, which is by the brink of the brook of Arnon, and the city which is in the valley, and as far as the mount of Galaad; there was not a city which escaped us: the Lord our God delivered all of them into our hands.


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Only we did not draw near to the children of Amman, even all the parts bordering on the brook Jaboc, and the cities in the mountain country, as the Lord our God charged us.<pb/>


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And we turned and went by the way leading to Basan; and Og the king of Basan came out to meet us, he and all his people, to battle at Edraim.


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And the Lord said to me, Fear him not, for I have delivered him, and all his people, and all his land, into your hands; and you shall do to him as you did to Seon king of the Amorites who lived in Esebon.


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And the Lord our God delivered him into our hands, even Og the king of Basan, and all his people; and we struck him until we left none of his seed.


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And we mastered all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we took not from them; sixty cities, all the country round about Argob, belonging to king Og in Basan:


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We utterly destroyed <i>them</i> as we dealt with Seon the king of Esebon, so we utterly destroyed every city in order, and the women and the children,


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And we took at that time the land out of the hands of the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond Jordan, <i>extending</i> from the brook of Arnon even to Aermon.


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All the cities of Misor, and all Galaad, and all Basan as far as Elcha and Edraim, cities of the kingdom of Og in Basan.


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For only Og the king of Basan was left of the Raphain: behold, his bed <i>was</i> a bed of iron; behold, <i>it is</i> in the <n>[[Or, ]] acropolis, citadel: or extremity of the land of the Ammonites. </n> chief city of the children of Ammon; the length of it <i>is</i> nine cubits, and the breadth of it four cubits, according to the cubit of a man.


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And we inherited that land at that time from Aroer, which is by the border of the torrent Arnon, and half the mount of Galaad; and I gave his cities to Ruben and to Gad.


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And the rest of Galaad, and all Basan the kingdom of Og I gave to the half-tribe of Manasse, and all the country round about Argob, all that Basan; it shall be accounted the land of Raphain.


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And Jair the son of Manasse took all the country round about Argob as far as the borders of Gargasi and Machathi: he called them by his name Basan Thavoth Jair until this day.


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And to Ruben and to Gad I gave <i>the land</i> under Galaad as far as the brook of Arnon, the border between the brook and as far as Jaboc; the brook <i>is</i> the border to the children Amman.


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And Araba and Jordan <i>are</i> the boundary of Machanareth, even to the sea of Araba, the salt sea under Asedoth Phasga eastward.


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And I charged you at that time, saying, The Lord your God has given you this land by lot; arm yourselves, every one <i>that is</i> powerful, and go before your brethren the children of Israel.


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Only your wives and your children and your cattle (I know that you° have much cattle), let them dwell in your cities which I have given you;


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until the Lord your God give your brethren rest, as also he has given to you, and they also shall inherit the land, which the Lord our God gives them on the other side of Jordan; then you° shall return, each one to his inheritance which I have given you.


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And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen all things, which the Lord our God did to these two kings: so shall the Lord our God do to all the kingdoms against which you cross over there.


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Lord God, you have begun to show to your servant your strength, and your power, and your mighty hand, and your high arm: for what God is there in heaven or on the earth, who will do as you have done, and according to your might?


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I will therefore go over and see this good land that is beyond Jordan, this good mountain and Antilibanus.


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And the Lord because of you did not regard me, and listened not to me; and the Lord said to me, Let it suffice you, speak not of this matter to me any more.


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Go up to the top of the <n>[[i. e. ]] Pisgah. </n> quarried rock, and look with your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold <i>it</i> with your eyes, for you shall not go over this Jordan.


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And charge Joshua, and strengthen him, and encourage him; for he shall go before the face of this people, and he shall give them the inheritance of all the land which you have seen.


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And now, Israel, hear the ordinances and judgments, all that I teach you this day to do: that you° may live, and be multiplied, and that you° may go in and inherit the land, which the Lord God of your fathers gives you.


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You° shall not add to the word which I command you, and you° shall not take from it: keep the commandments of the Lord our God, all that I command you this day.


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Your eyes have seen all that the Lord our God did in <i>the case of</i> Beel-phegor; for every man that went after Beel-phegor, the Lord your God has utterly destroyed him from among you.


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Behold, I have shown you ordinances and judgments as the Lord commanded me, that you° should do so in the land into which you° go to inherit it.


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And you° shall keep and do them: for this is your wisdom and understanding before all nations, as many as shall hear all these ordinances; and they shall say, Behold, this great nation <i>is</i> a wise and understanding people.


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For what manner of nation <i>is so</i> great, which has God so near to them as the Lord our God <i>is</i> in all things in whatever we may call upon him?


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And what manner of nation <i>is so</i> great, which has righteous ordinances and judgments according to all this law, which I set before you this day?


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Take heed to yourself, and keep your <n>[[Gr. ]] soul. </n> heart diligently: forget not any of the things, which your eyes have seen, and let them not depart from your heart all the days of your life; and you shall teach your sons and your sons' sons,


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<i>even the things that happened in</i> the day in which you° stood before the Lord our God in Choreb in the day of the assembly; for the Lord said to me, Gather the people to me, and let them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days which they live upon the earth, and they shall teach their sons.


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And you° drew near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire up to heaven: <i>there was</i> darkness, blackness, <i>and</i> tempest.


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And the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire a voice of words, which you° heard: and you° saw no likeness, only <i>you° heard</i> a voice.


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And he announced to you his covenant, which he commanded you to keep, even the ten <n>[[Gr. ]] words or sayings. </n> commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.


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And the Lord commanded me at that time, to teach you ordinances and judgments, that you° should do them on the land, into which you° go to inherit it.


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And take good heed to your hearts, for you° saw no similitude in the day in which the Lord spoke to you in Choreb in the mountain out of the midst of the fire:


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lest you° transgress, and make to yourselves a carved image, any kind of figure, the likeness of male or female,


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the likeness of any beast of those that are on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird which flies under heaven,


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the likeness of any reptile which creeps on the earth, the likeness of any fish of those which are in the waters under the earth;


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and lest having looked up to the sky, and having seen the sun and the moon and the stars, and all the <n>[[Gr. ]] order of heaven. </n> heavenly bodies, you should go astray and worship them, and serve them, which the Lord your God has distributed to all the nations under heaven.


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But God took you, and led you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.


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And the Lord God was angry with me for the things said by you, and sware that I should not go over this Jordan, and that I should not enter into the land, which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance.


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For <n>[[Gr. ]] I die. </n> I am to die in this land, and shall not pass over this Jordan; but you° are to pass over, and shall inherit this good land.


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Take heed to yourselves, lest you° forget the covenant of the Lord our God, which he made with you, and you° transgress, and make to yourselves a graven image of any of the things concerning which the Lord your God commanded you.


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And when you shall have begotten sons, and shall have sons' sons, and you° shall have lived a long time on the land, and shall have transgressed, and made a graven image of any thing, and shall have done wickedly before the Lord your God to provoke him;


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I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you, that you° shall surely perish from off the land, into which you° go across Jordan to inherit it there; you° shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall be utterly cut off.


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And the Lord shall scatter you among all nations, and you° shall be left few in number among all the nations, among which the Lord shall bring you.


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And you° shall there serve other gods, the works of the hands of men, wood and stones, which <n>[[Gr. ]] shall not see, etc. </n> can’t see, nor can they hear, nor eat, nor smell.


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And there you° shall seek the Lord your God, and you° shall find him whenever you° shall seek him with all your heart, and with all <n>[[Gr. ]] your. </n> your soul in your affliction.


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And <n>[[Gr. ]] all these words shall find you. [[Hebraism.]]</n> all these things shall come upon you in the last days, and you shall turn to the Lord your God, and shall listen to his voice.


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Because the Lord your God <i>is</i> a God of pity: he will not forsake you, nor destroy you; he will not forget the covenant of your fathers, which the Lord sware to them.


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Ask of the former days which were before you, from the day when God created man upon the earth, and <i>beginning</i> at the <i>one</i> end of heaven to the other end of heaven, if there has happened any thing like to this great event, if such a thing has been heard:


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if a nation have heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard and have lived;


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if God has assayed to go and take to himself a nation out of the midst of <i>another</i> nation with trial, and with signs, and with wonders, and with war, and with a mighty hand, and with a high arm, and with great sights, according to all the things which the Lord our God did in Egypt <n>[[Gr. ]] before you seeing. </n> in your sight.


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His voice was made audible from heaven to instruct you, and he showed you upon the earth his great fire, and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.


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Because he loved your fathers, he also chose you their seed after them, and he brought you himself with his great strength out of Egypt,


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to destroy nations <n>[[Or, ]] greater. </n> great and stronger than you before your face, to bring you in, to give you their land to inherit, as you have it this day.


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And you shall know this day, and shall consider in your heart, that the Lord your God he <i>is</i> God in heaven above, and on the earth beneath, and there is none else but he.


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And keep you° his commandments, and his ordinances, all that I command you this day; that it may be well with you, and with your sons after you, that you° may be long-lived upon the earth, which the Lord your God gives you for ever.


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that the slayer might flee there, who should have slain his neighbor unintentionally, and should not have hated him <n>[[Gr. ]] before yesterday and the third day. [[Hebraism.]]</n> in times past, and he shall flee to one of these cities and live:


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Bosor in the wilderness, in the plain country of Ruben, and Ramoth in Galaad <i>belonging to</i> <n>[[Or, ]] the Gaddite </n> Gad, and Gaulon in Basan <i>belonging to</i> Manasse.


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These <i>are</i> the testimonies, and the ordinances, and the judgments, which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt:


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on <n>[[i. e. ]] the east side. </n> the other side of Jordan, in the valley near the house of Phogor, in the land of Seon king of the Amorites, who lived in Esebon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel struck when they came out of the land of Egypt.


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And they inherited his land, and the land of Og king of Basan, two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond Jordan eastward.


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All <n><i>Heb. the plain. </i></n> Araba beyond Jordan eastward under Asedoth <n>[[Or, ]] the quarried rock. <i>Heb. Ashdoth Pisgah. </i></n> hewn in the rock.<pb/>


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And Moses called all Israel, and said to them, Hear, Israel, the ordinances and judgments, all that I speak in your ears this day, and you° shall learn them, and observe to do them.


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The Lord did not make this covenant with your fathers, but with you: you° are all here alive this day.


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And I stood between the Lord and you at that time to report to you the words of the Lord, (because you° were afraid before the fire, and you° went not up to the mountain) saying,


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You shall not make to yourself an image, nor likeness of any thing, whatever things <i>are</i> in the heaven above, and whatever <i>are</i> in the earth beneath, and whatever <i>are</i> in the waters under the earth.


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You shall not bow down to them, nor shall you serve them; for I am the Lord your God, a jealous God, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation to them that hate me,


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and doing mercifully to <n>[[Gr. ]] to them that love, etc. to  [[d the number of ]][[d* thousands. ]]</n> thousands of them that love me, and that keep my commandments.


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You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord your God will certainly not acquit him that takes his name in vain.


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but on the seventh day <i>is</i> the sabbath of the Lord your God: you shall do in it no work, you, and your son, and your daughter, your man-servant, and your maidservant, your ox, and your ass, and all your cattle, and the stranger that sojourns in the midst of you; that your man-servant may rest, and your maid, and your ox, as well as you.


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And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out thence with a mighty hand, and a high arm: therefore the Lord appointed you to keep the sabbath day and to sanctify it.


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Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you; that it may be well with you, and that you may live long upon the land, which the Lord your God gives you.


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You shall not covet your neighbor's wife; you shall not covet your neighbor's house, nor his field, nor his man-servant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any beast of his, nor any thing that is your neighbor's.


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These words the Lord spoke to all the assembly of you in the mountain out of the midst of the fire—<i>there was</i> darkness, blackness, storm, a loud voice—and he added no more, and he wrote them on two tables of stone, and he gave them to me.


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And it came to pass when you° heard the voice out of the midst of the fire, for the mountain burned with fire, that you° came to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders:


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and you° said, Behold, the Lord our God has shown us his glory, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: <n>[[Or, ]] by this day. </n> this day we have seen that God shall speak to man, and he shall live.


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And now let us not die, for this great fire will consume us, if we shall hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, and we shall die.


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For what flesh <i>is there</i> which has heard the voice of the living God, speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we <i>have heard</i>, and shall live?


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Do you draw near, and hear all that the Lord our God shall say, and you shall speak to us all things whatever the Lord our God shall speak to you, and we will hear, and do.


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And the Lord heard the voice of your words as you° spoke to me; and the Lord said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, even all things that they have said to you. <i>They have</i> well <i>said</i> all that they have spoken.


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<n>[[Gr. ]] Who will give that there should be so an heart, etc. </n> O that there were such a heart in them, that they should fear me and keep my commands always, that it might be well with them and with their sons for ever.


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but stand you here with me, and I will tell you all the commands, and the ordinances, and the judgments, which you shall teach them, and let them do so in the land which I give them for an inheritance.


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And you° shall take heed to do as the Lord your God commanded you; you° shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left,


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according to all the way which the Lord your God commanded you to walk in it, that he may give you rest; and that it may be well with you, and you° may prolong your days on the land which you° shall inherit.<pb/>


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And these <i>are</i> the commands, and the ordinances, and the judgments, as many as the Lord our God gave commandment to teach you to do so in the land on which you° enter to inherit it.


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That you° may fear the Lord your God, keep you° all his ordinances, and his commandments, which I command you today, you, and your sons, and your sons' sons, all the days of your life, that you° may live many days.


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Hear, therefore, O Israel, and observe to do them, that it may be well with you, and that you° may be greatly multiplied, as the Lord God of your fathers said that he would give you a land flowing with milk and honey: and these <i>are</i> the ordinances, and the judgments, which the Lord commanded the children of Israel in the wilderness, when they had gone forth from the land of Egypt.


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And you shall love the Lord your God with all your mind, and with all your soul, and all your strength.


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And you shall teach them to your children, and you shall speak of them sitting in the house, and walking by the way, and lying down, and rising up.


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And it shall come to pass when the Lord your God shall have brought you into the land which he sware to your fathers, to Abraam, and to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you great and beautiful cities which you did not build,


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houses full of all good things which you did not fill, <n>[[Or, ]] pits or pools. </n> wells dug in the rock which you did not dig, vineyards and olive yards which you did not plant, then having eaten and been filled,


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beware lest you forget the Lord your God that brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.


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You shall fear the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve; and you shall cleave to him, and by his name you shall swear.


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for the Lord your God in the midst of you <i>is</i> a jealous God, lest the Lord your God be very angry with you, and destroy you from off the face of the earth.


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You shall by all means keep the commands of the Lord your God, the testimonies, and the ordinances, which he commanded you.


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And you shall do that which is pleasing and good before the Lord your God, that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and inherit the good land, which the Lord sware to your fathers,


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And it shall come to pass when your son shall ask you <n>[[Gr. ]] to-morrow. </n> at a future time, saying, What are the testimonies, and the ordinances, and the judgments, which the Lord our God has commanded us?


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Then shall you say to your son, We were slaves to Pharao in the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought us forth thence with a mighty hand, and with a high arm.


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And the Lord <n>[[Gr. ]] gave. </n> wrought signs and great and <n>[[Gr. ]] evil. </n> grievous wonders in Egypt, on Pharao and on his house before us.


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And the Lord charged us to observe all these ordinances; to fear the Lord our God, that it may be well with us for ever, that we may live, as even today.


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And there shall be mercy to us, if we take heed to keep all these commands before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.<pb/>


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And when the Lord your God shall bring you into the land, into which you go to possess it, and shall remove great nations from before you, the Chettite, and Gergesite, and Amorite, and Chananite, and Pherezite, and Evite, and Jebusite, seven nations <i>more</i> numerous and stronger than you,


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and the Lord your God shall deliver them into your hands, then you shall strike them: you shall utterly destroy them: you shall not make a covenant with them, neither shall you° pity them:


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neither shall you° contract marriages with them: you shall not give your daughter to his son, and you shall not take his daughter to your son.


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For he will draw away your son from me, and he will serve other gods; and the Lord will be very angry with you, and will soon utterly destroy you.


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But thus shall you° do to them; you° shall destroy their altars, and shall break down their pillars, and shall cut down their groves, and shall burn with fire the graven images of their gods.


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For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; and the Lord your God chose you to be to him a peculiar people beyond all nations that <i>are</i> upon the face of the earth.


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It was not because you° are more numerous than all <i>other</i> nations that the Lord preferred you, and the Lord made choice of you: for you° are fewer in number than all <i>other</i> nations.


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But because the Lord loved you, and as keeping the oath which he sware to your fathers, the Lord brought you out with a strong hand, and the Lord redeemed you from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharao king of Egypt.


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You shall know therefore, that the Lord your God, he <i>is</i> God, a faithful God, who keeps covenant and mercy for them that love him, and for those that keep his commandments to a thousand generations,


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and who recompenses them that hate him to their face, to destroy them utterly; and will not be slack with them that hate him: he will recompense them to their face.


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You shall keep therefore the commands, and the ordinances, and these judgments, which I command you this day to do.


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And it shall come to pass when you° shall have heard these ordinances, and shall have kept and done them, that the Lord your God shall keep for you the covenant and the mercy, which he sware to your fathers.


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And he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; and he will bless the off-spring of your <n>[[Gr. ]] belly. </n> body, and the fruit of your land, your corn, and your wine, and your oil, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep, on the land which the Lord sware to your fathers to give to you.


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You shall be blessed beyond all nations; there shall not be among you an impotent or barren one, <n>[[Gr. ]] and. </n> or among your cattle.


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And the Lord your God shall remove from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you have seen, and all that you have known, will he lay upon you; but he will lay them upon all that hate you.


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And you shall eat all the spoils of the nations which the Lord your God gives you; your eye shall not spare them, and you shall not serve their gods; for this is an offense to you.


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But if you should say in your heart, This nation <i>is</i> <n>[[Gr. ]] more. </n> greater than I, how shall I be able to destroy them utterly?


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you shall not fear them; you shall surely remember all that the Lord your God did to Pharao and to all the Egyptians:


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the great temptations which your eyes have seen, those signs and great wonders, the strong hand, and the high arm; how the Lord your God brought you forth: so the Lord your God will do to all the nations, whom you fear in their presence.


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And the Lord your God shall send against them the hornets, until they that are left and they that are hidden from you be utterly destroyed.


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You shall not be wounded before them, because the Lord your God in the midst of you <i>is</i> a great and powerful God.


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And the Lord your God shall consume these nations before you by little and little: you shall not be able to consume them speedily, lest the land become desert, and the wild beasts of the field be multiplied against you.


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And the Lord your God shall deliver them into your hands, and you shall destroy them with a great destruction, until you° shall have utterly destroyed them.


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And he shall deliver their kings into your hands, and you° shall destroy their name from that place; none shall stand up in opposition before you, until you shall have utterly destroyed them.


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You° shall burn with fire the graven images of their gods: you shall not covet <i>their</i> silver, neither shall you take to yourself gold from them, lest you should offend thereby, because it is an abomination to the Lord your God.


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And you shall not bring an abomination into your house, so <n>[[Gr. ]] shall. </n> should you be an accursed thing like it; you shall utterly hate it, and altogether abominate it, because it is an accursed thing.<pb/>


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You° shall observe to do all the commands which I charge you today, that you° may live and be multiplied, and enter in and inherit the land, which the Lord your God sware <i>to give</i> to your fathers.


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And you shall remember all the way which the Lord your God led you in the wilderness, that he might afflict you, and try you, and that the things in your heart might be made manifest, whether you would keep his commandments or no.


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And he afflicted you and straitened you with hunger, and fed you with manna, which your fathers knew not; that he might teach you that  man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God shall man live.


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Your garments grew not old from off you, your shoes were not worn from off you, your feet were not <i>painfully</i> hardened, behold! these forty years.


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And you shall know in your heart, that as if any man should chasten his son, so the Lord your God will chasten you.


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For the Lord your God will bring you into a good and extensive land, where there are torrents of waters, and fountains <n>[[Or, ]] issuing from deep places. </n> of deep places issuing through the plains and through the mountains:


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a land of wheat and barley, <i>wherein are</i> vines, figs, pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;


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a land on which you shall not eat your bread with poverty, and you shall not lack any thing upon it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of its mountains you shall dig brass.


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And you shall eat and be filled, and shall bless the Lord your God on the good land, which he has given you.


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Take heed to yourself that you forget not the Lord your God, so as not to keep his commands, and his judgments, and ordinances, which I command you this day:


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and your oxen and your sheep are multiplied to you, and your silver and your gold are multiplied to you, and all your possessions are multiplied to you,


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you should be exalted in heart, and forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage:


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who brought you through that great and terrible wilderness, where <i>is</i> the biting serpent, and scorpion, and drought, where there was no water; who brought you a fountain of water out of the flinty rock:


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who fed you with manna in the wilderness, which you knew not, and your fathers knew not; that he might afflict you, and thoroughly try you, and do you good in your latter days.


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Lest you should say in your heart, My strength, and the power of my hand have wrought for me this great wealth.


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But you shall remember the Lord your God, that he gives you strength to get wealth; even that he may establish his covenant, which the Lord sware to your fathers, as at this day.


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And it shall come to pass if you do at all forget the Lord your God, and should go after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you° shall surely perish.


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As also the other nations which the Lord God destroys before your face, so shall you° perish, because you° listened not to the voice of the Lord your God.<pb/>


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Hear, O Israel: You go this day across Jordan to inherit nations greater and stronger than yourselves, cities great and walled up to heaven;


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a people great and many and tall, the sons of Enac, whom you know, and concerning whom you have heard <i>say</i>, Who can stand before the children of Enac?


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And you shall know today, that the Lord your God he shall go before your face: he is a consuming fire; he shall destroy them, and he shall turn them back before you, and shall destroy them quickly, as the Lord said to you.


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Speak not in your heart, when the Lord your God has destroyed these nations before your face, saying, For my righteousness the Lord brought me in to inherit this good land.


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Not for your righteousness, nor for the holiness of your heart, do you go in to inherit their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord will destroy them from before you, and that he may establish the covenant, which the Lord sware to our fathers, to Abraam, and to Isaac, and to Jacob.


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And you shall know today, that <i>it is</i> not for your righteousnesses the Lord your God gives you this good land to inherit, for you are a stiff-necked people.


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Remember, forget not, how much you provoked the Lord your God in the wilderness: from the day that you° came forth out of Egypt, even till you° came into this place, you° continued to be disobedient toward the Lord.


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when I went up into the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant, which the Lord made with you, and I was in the mountain forty days and forty nights, I ate no bread and drank no water.


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And the Lord gave me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God, and on them there had been written all the words which the Lord spoke to you in the mountain in the day of the assembly.


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And it came to pass after forty days and forty nights, the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant.


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And the Lord said to me, Arise, go down quickly from hence, for your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have transgressed; they have gone aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them, and have made themselves a molten image.


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And the Lord spoke to me, saying, I have spoken to you once and again, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people.


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And now suffer me utterly to destroy them, and I will blot out their name from under heaven, and will make of you a nation great and strong, and more numerous than this.


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And I turned and went down from the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to heaven; and the two tables of the testimonies <i>were</i> <n>[[Gr. ]] on. </n> in my two hands.


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And when I saw that you° had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made to yourselves a molten image, and had gone astray out of the way, which the Lord commanded you to <n>[[Gr. ]] to do. </n> keep;


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And I made my petition before the Lord as also at the first forty days and forty nights: I ate no bread and drank no water, on account of all your sins which you° sinned in doing evil before the Lord God to provoke him.


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And I <n>[[Gr. ]] am. </n> was greatly terrified because of the wrath and anger, because the Lord was provoked with you utterly to destroy you; yet the Lord listened to me at this time also.


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And your sin which you° had made, <i>even</i> the calf, I took, and burnt it with fire, and pounded it and ground it down till it became fine; and it became like dust, and I cast the dust into the brook that descended from the mountain.


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And when the Lord sent you forth from Cades Barne, saying, Go up and inherit the land which I give to you, then you° disobeyed the word of the Lord your God, and believed him not, and listened not to his voice.


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You° were disobedient <n>[[Or, ]] towards the Lord. </n> in the things relating to the Lord from the day in which he became known to you.


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And I prayed before the Lord forty days and forty nights, the number that I prayed <i>before</i>, for the Lord said that he would utterly destroy you.


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And I prayed to God, and said, O Lord, King of gods, destroy not your people and your <n>[[Or, ]] portion or part. </n> inheritance, whom you did redeem, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with your great power, and with your strong hand, and with your high arm.


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Remember Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob your servants, to whom you sware by yourself: look not upon the hardness of heart of this people, and their impieties, and their sins.


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Lest the inhabitants of the land whence you brought us out speak, saying, Because the Lord could not bring them into the land of which he spoke to them, and because he hated them, has he brought them forth to kill them in the wilderness.


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And these <i>are</i> your people and your portion, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with your great strength, and with your mighty hand, and with your high arm.<pb/>


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At that time the Lord said to me, Hew for yourself two stone tables as the first, and come up to me into the mountain, and you shall make for yourself an ark of wood.


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And you shall write upon the tables the words which were on the first tables which you did break, and you shall put them into the ark.


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So I made an ark of boards of incorruptible wood, and I hewed tables of stone like the first, and I went up to the mountain, and the two tables were in my hand.


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And he wrote upon the tables according to the first writing the ten commandments, which the Lord spoke to you in the mountain out of the midst of the fire, and the Lord gave them to me.


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And I turned and came down from the mountain, and I put the tables into the ark which I had made; and there they were, as the Lord commanded me.


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And the children of Israel departed from Beeroth of the sons of Jakim <i>to</i> Misadai: there Aaron died, and there he was buried, and Eleazar his son was priest in his stead.


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Thence they departed to Gadgad; and from Gadgad to Etebatha, a land <i>wherein are</i> torrents of water.


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At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand near before the Lord, to minister and bless in his name to this day.


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Therefore the Levites have no part nor inheritance among their brethren; the Lord himself <i>is</i> their inheritance, as he said to them.


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And I <n>[[Gr. ]] stood. </n> remained in the mount forty days and forty nights: and the Lord heard me at that time also, and the Lord would not destroy you.


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And the Lord said to me, Go, set out before this people, and let them go in and inherit the land, which I sware to their fathers to give to them.


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And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul;


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to keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his ordinances, all that I charge you today, that it may be well with you?


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Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens belong to the Lord your God, the earth and all things that are in it.


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Only the Lord chose your fathers to love them, and he chose out their seed after them, <i>even</i> you, beyond all nations, as at this day.


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<n>[[Gr. ]] and. </n> Therefore you° shall circumcise the hardness of your heart, and you° shall not harden your neck.


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For the Lord your God, he <i>is</i> God of gods, and the Lord of lords, the great, and strong, and terrible God, who does not <n>[[Gr. ]] wonder at or admire a face. </n> accept persons, nor will he by any means accept a bribe:


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executing judgment for the stranger and orphan and widow, and he loves the stranger to give him food and raiment.


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You shall fear the Lord your God, and serve him, and shall cleave to him, and shall swear by his name.


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He <i>is</i> your boast, and he <i>is</i> your God, who has wrought in the midst of you these great and glorious things, which your eyes have seen.


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With seventy souls your fathers went down into Egypt; but the Lord your God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.<pb/>


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Therefore you shall love the Lord your God, and shall observe his appointments, and his ordinances, and his commandments, and his judgments, always.


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And you° shall know this day; for <i>I speak</i> not to your children, who know not and have not seen the discipline of the Lord your God, and his wonderful works, and his strong hand, and his high arm,


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and his miracles, and his wonders, which he wrought in the midst of Egypt on Pharao king of Egypt, and all his land;


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and what he did to the host of the Egyptians, and to their chariots, and their cavalry, and their host; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overwhelm the face of them as they pursued after you, and the Lord destroyed them until this day;


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and all the things that he did to Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab the son of Ruben, whom the earth opening her mouth swallowed up, and their houses, and their tents, and all their substance that was with them, in the midst of all Israel:


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And you° shall keep all his commandments, as many as I command you today, that you° may live, and be multiplied, and that you° may go in and inherit the land, into which you° go across Jordan to inherit it:


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that you° may live long upon the land, which the Lord sware to your fathers to give to them, and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.


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For the land into which you go to inherit it, is not as the land of Egypt, whence you° came out, whenever they sow the seed, and water it with their feet, as a garden of herbs:


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but the land into which you go to inherit it, is a land of mountains and plains; it shall drink water of the rain of heaven.


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A land which the Lord your God surveys continually, the eyes of the Lord your God are upon it from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.


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Now if you° will indeed listen to all the commands which I charge you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul,


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then he shall give to your land the early and latter rain in its season, and you shall bring in your corn, and your wine, and your oil.


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take heed to yourself that your heart be not <n>  [[ Gr. ]][[* made broad. ]]</n> puffed up, and you° transgress, and serve other gods, and worship them:


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and the Lord be angry with you, and restrain the heaven; and there shall not be rain, and the earth shall not yield its fruit, and you° shall perish quickly from off the good land, which the Lord has given you.


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And you° shall store these words in your heart and in your soul, and you° shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and it shall be fixed before your eyes.


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And you° shall teach them to your children, so as to speak about them when you sit in the house, and when you walk by the way, and when you sleep, and when you rise up.


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And you° shall write them on the <n>[[Or, ]] thresholds. </n> lintels of your houses, and on your gates;


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that your days may be long, and the days of your children, upon the land which the Lord sware to your fathers to give to them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.


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And it shall come to pass that if you° will indeed listen to all these commands, which I charge you to observe this day, to love the Lord our God, and to walk in all his ways, and to cleave close to him;


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then the Lord shall cast out all these nations before you, and you° shall inherit great nations and stronger than yourselves.


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Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours; from the wilderness and Antilibanus, and from the great river, the river Euphrates, even as far as the west sea shall be your coasts.


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No one shall stand before you; and the Lord your God will put the fear of you and the dread of you on the face of all the land, on which you° shall tread, as he told you.


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and the curse, if you° do not listen to the commands of the Lord our God, as many as I command you this day, and you° wander from the way which I have commanded you, having gone to serve other gods, which you° know not.


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And it shall come to pass when the Lord your God shall have brought you into the land into which you go over to inherit it, then you shall put blessing on mount Garizin, and the curse upon mount Gaebal.


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Behold! are not these beyond Jordan, behind, westward in the land of Chanaan, which lies westward near Golgol, by the high oak?


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For you° are passing over Jordan, to go in and inherit the land, which the Lord our God gives you to inherit always, and you° shall dwell in it.


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And you° shall take heed to do all his ordinances, and these judgments, as many as I set before you today.<pb/>


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And these <i>are</i> the ordinances and the judgments, which you° shall observe to do in the land, which the Lord God of your fathers gives you for an inheritance, all the days which you° live upon the land.


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You° shall utterly destroy all the places in which they served their gods, whose <i>land</i> you° inherit, on the high mountains and on the hills, and under the thick tree.


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And you° shall destroy their altars, and break in pieces their pillars, and you° shall cut down their groves, and you° shall burn with fire the graven images of their gods, and you° shall abolish their name out of that place.


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But in the place which the Lord your God shall choose in one of your cities to name his name there, and to be called upon, you° shall even seek <i>him</i> out and go there.


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And you° shall carry there your whole burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your first fruits, and your <n>[[Gr. ]] vows. </n> vowed-offerings, and your free will offerings, and your offerings of thanksgiving, the firstborn of your herds, and of your flocks.


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And you° shall eat there before the Lord your God, and you° shall rejoice in all the things on which you° shall lay your hand, you° and your houses, as the Lord your God has blessed you.


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You° shall not do altogether as we do here today, every man that which is pleasing in his own sight.


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For hitherto you° have not arrived at the rest and the inheritance, which the Lord our God gives you.


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And you° shall go over Jordan, and shall dwell in the land, which the Lord our God takes as an inheritance for you; and he shall give you rest from all your enemies round about, and you° shall dwell safely.


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And there shall be a place which the Lord your God shall choose for his name to be called there, there shall you° bring all things that I order you today; your whole burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the first fruits of your hands, and every choice gift of yours, whatever you° shall vow to the Lord your God.


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And you° shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you° and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants and your maidservants, and the Levite that is at your gates; because he has no portion or inheritance with you.


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Take heed to yourself that you offer not your whole burnt offerings in any place which you shall see;


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save in the place which the Lord your God shall choose, in one of your tribes, there shall you° offer your whole burnt offerings, and there shall you do all things whatever I charge you this day.


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But you shall kill according to all your desire, and shall eat flesh according to the blessing of the Lord your God, which he has given you in every city; the unclean that is within you and the clean shall eat it on equal terms, as the doe or the stag.


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You shall not be able to eat in your cities the tithe of your corn, and of your wine, and of your oil, the firstborn of your herd and of your flock, and all <i>your</i> vows as many as you° shall have vowed, and your thank-offerings, and the first fruits of your hands.


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But before the Lord your God you shall eat it, in the place which the Lord your God shall choose for himself, you, and your son, and your daughter, your man-servant, and your maidservant, and the stranger that is within your gates; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, on whatever you shall lay your hand.


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And if the Lord your God shall enlarge your borders, as he said to you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh; if your soul should desire to eat flesh, you shall eat flesh <n>[[Gr. ]] in all. </n> according to all the desire of your soul.


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And if the place be far from you, which the Lord your God shall choose for himself, that his name be called upon it, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock which God shall have given you, even as I commanded you, and you shall eat in your cities according to the desire of your soul.


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As the doe and the stag are eaten, so shall you eat it; the unclean in you and the clean shall eat it in like manner.


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Take diligent heed that you eat no blood, for blood <i>is</i> the life of it; the life shall not be eaten with the flesh.


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You shall not eat it, that it may be well with you and with your sons after you, if you shall do that which is good and pleasing before the Lord your God.


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But you shall take your holy things, if you have any, and your vowed-offerings, and come to the place which the Lord your God shall choose to have his name named upon it.


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And you shall sacrifice your whole burnt offerings, you shall offer the flesh upon the altar of the Lord your God; but the blood of your sacrifices you shall pour out at the foot of the altar of the Lord your God, but the flesh you shall eat.


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Beware and listen, and you shall do all the commands which I charge you, that it may be well with you and with your sons for ever, if you shall do that which is pleasing and good before the Lord your God.


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And if the Lord your God shall utterly destroy the nations, to whom you go in there to inherit their land, from before you, and you shall inherit it, and dwell in their land;


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take heed to yourself that you seek not to follow them after they are destroyed before you, saying, How do these nations act towards their gods? I will do likewise.


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You shall not do so to your God; for they have sacrificed <n>[[Gr. ]] in, or, among. </n> to their gods the abominations of the Lord which he hates, for they burn their sons and their daughters in fire to their gods.


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Every word that I command you this day, it shall you observe to do: you shall not add to it, nor diminish from it.<pb/>


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And if there arise within you a prophet, or one who dreams a dream, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,


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and the sign or the wonder come to pass which he spoke to you, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you° know not;


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you° shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or the dreamer of that dream, because the Lord your God tries you, to know whether you° love your God with all your heart and with all your soul.


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You° shall follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and you° shall hear his voice, and attach yourselves to him.


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And that prophet or that dreamer of a dream, shall die; for he has spoken to make you err from the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, who redeemed you from bondage, to thrust you out of the way which the Lord your God commanded you to walk in: so shall you abolish the evil from among you.


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And if your brother by your father or mother, or your son, or daughter, or your wife in your bosom, or friend who is equal to your own soul, entreat you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known,


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of the gods of the nations that are round about you, who are near you or at a distance from you, from one end of the earth to the other;


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you shall not consent to him, neither shall you listen to him; and your eye shall not spare him, you shall feel no regret for him, neither shall you at all protect him:


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you shall surely report concerning him, and your hands shall be upon him among the first to kill him, and the hands of all the people at the last.


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And they shall stone him with stones, and he shall die, because he sought to draw you away from the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.


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And if in one of your cities which the Lord God gives you to dwell therein, you shall hear men saying,


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Evil men have gone out from you, and have caused all the inhabitants of their land to fall away, saying, Let us go and worship other gods, whom you° knew not,


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then you shall enquire and ask, and search diligently, and behold, <i>if</i> the thing is clearly true, and this abomination has taken place among you,


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you shall utterly destroy all the dwellers in that land with the edge of the sword; you° shall solemnly curse it, and all things in it.


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And all its spoils you shall gather into its public ways, and you shall burn the city with fire, and all its spoils publicly before the Lord your God; and it shall be uninhabited for ever, it shall not be built again.


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And there shall nothing of the cursed thing cleave to your hand, that the Lord may turn from his fierce anger, and <n><i>Heb. give. </i></n> show you mercy, and pity you, and multiply you, as he sware to your fathers;


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if you will hear the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments, all that I charge you this day, to do that which is good and pleasing before the Lord your God.<pb/>


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You° are the children of the Lord your God: you° shall not make any baldness between you eyes for the dead.


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For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord your God has chosen you to be a peculiar people to himself of all the nations on the face of the earth.


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These <i>are</i> the beasts which you° shall eat; the calf of the herd, and lamb of the sheep, and kid of the goats;


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Every beast that divides the hoofs, and makes claws of two divisions, and that chews the cud among beasts, these you° shall eat.


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And these you° shall not eat of them that chew the cud, and of those that divide the hoofs, and make distinct claws; the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the cud, and do not divide the hoof, these are unclean to you.


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And as for the swine, because he divides the hoof, and makes claws of the hoof, yet he chews not the cud, he is unclean to you; you° shall not eat of their flesh, you° shall not touch their dead bodies.


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And these you° shall eat of all that are in the water, you° shall eat all that have fins and scales.


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And these of <n>[[i.e. ]] birds. </n> them you° shall not eat; the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the sea-eagle,


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and the pelican, and the <n>[[Or, ]] heron. </n> diver and the like to it, and the <n>[[Or, ]] flamingo. </n> red-bill and the bat.


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You° shall eat nothing that dies of itself; it shall be given to the sojourner in your cities and he shall eat it, or you shall sell it to a stranger, because you are a holy people to the Lord your God. You shall not boil a lamb in his mother's milk.


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And you shall eat it in the place which the Lord your God shall choose to have his name called there; you° shall bring the tithe of your corn and of your wine, and of your oil, the firstborn of your herd and of your flock, that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always.


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And if the journey be too far for you, and you are not able to bring them, because the place <i>is</i> far from you which the Lord your God shall choose to have his name called there, because the Lord your God will bless you;


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then you shall sell them for money, and you shall take the money in your hands, and you shall go to the place which the Lord your God shall choose.


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And you shall give the money for whatever your soul shall desire, for oxen or for sheep, or for wine, or <i>you shall lay it out</i> on strong drink, or on whatever your soul may desire, and you shall eat there before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice and your house,


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After three years you shall bring out all the tithes of your fruits, in that year you shall lay it up in your cities.


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And the Levite shall come, because he has no part or lot with you, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which is in your cities; and they shall eat and be filled, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works which you shall do.<pb/>


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And this <i>is</i> the ordinance of the release: you shall remit every private debt which your neighbor owes you, and you shall not ask payment of it from your brother; for it has been called a release to the Lord your God.


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Of a stranger you shall ask again whatever he has of yours, but to your brother you shall remit his debt to you.


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For <i>thus</i> there shall not be a poor person in the midst of you, for the Lord your God will surely bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you by inheritance, that you should inherit it.


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And if you° shall indeed listen to the voice of the Lord your God, to keep and do all these commandments, as many as I charge you this day,


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(for the Lord your God has blessed you in the way of which he spoke to you,) then you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.


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And if there shall be in the midst of you a poor <i>man</i> of your brethren in one of your cities in the land, which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, neither shall you by any means close up your hand from your brother who is in lack.


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You shall surely open your hands to him, and shall lend to him as much as he wants according to his need.


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Take heed to yourself that there be not a secret thing in your heart, an iniquity, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, draws near; and your eye shall be evil to your brother that is in lack, and you shall not give to him, and he shall cry against you to the Lord, and there shall be great sin in you.


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You shall surely give to him, and you shall lend him as much as he wants, according as he is in need; and you shall not grudge in your heart as you give to him, because on this account the Lord your God will bless you in all your works, and in all things on which you shall lay your hand.


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For the poor shall not fail off your land, therefore I charge you to do this thing, saying, You shall surely open your hands to your poor brother, and to him that is distressed upon your land.


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And if your brother <i>or sister</i>, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, be sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall send him out free from you.


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You shall give him provision for the way from your flock, and from your corn, and from your wine; as the Lord your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.


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And you shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you from thence; therefore I charge you to do this thing.


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And if he should say to you, I will not go out from you, because he continues to love you and your house, because he is well with you;


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then you shall take an awl, and bore his ear through to the door, and he shall be your servant for ever; and in like manner shall you do to your maidservant.


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It shall not seem hard to you when they are sent out free from you, because <i>your servant</i> has served you six years according to the annual hire of a hireling; so the Lord your God shall bless you in all things whatever you may do.


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Every firstborn that shall be born among your kine and your sheep, you shall sanctify the males to the Lord your God; you shall not work with your firstborn calf, and you shall not shear the firstborn of your sheep.


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You shall eat it before the Lord year by year in the place which the Lord your God shall choose, you and your house.


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And if there be in it a blemish, if it be lame or blind, an evil blemish, you shall not sacrifice it to the Lord your God.


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You shall eat it in your cities; the unclean in you and the clean shall eat it in like manner, as the doe or the stag.


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Observe the month of new <i>corn</i>, and you shall sacrifice the passover to the Lord your God; because in the month of new corn you came out of Egypt by night.


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And you shall sacrifice the passover to the Lord your God, sheep and oxen in the place which the Lord your God shall choose to have his name called upon it.


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You shall not eat leaven with it; seven days shall you eat unleavened <i>bread</i> with it, bread of affliction, because you° came forth out of Egypt in haste; that you° may remember the day of your coming forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.


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Leaven shall not be seen with you in all your borders for seven days, and there shall not be left of the flesh which you shall sacrifice at even on the first day until the morning.


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you shall not have power to sacrifice the passover in any of the cities, which the Lord your God gives you.


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But in the place which the Lord your God shall choose, to have his name called there, you shall sacrifice the passover at even at the setting of the sun, at the time when you came out of Egypt.


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And you shall boil and roast and eat it in the place, which the Lord your God shall choose; and you shall return in the morning, and go to your <n>[[Gr. ]] houses. </n> house.


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Six days shall you eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day is <n>See Lev 23. 6. Num 29. 35. 2 Chron 7. 9. </n> a holiday, a feast to the Lord your God: you shall not do in it any work, save what <n>[[Gr. ]] shall etc. </n> must be done <n>[[Gr. ]] for or by a soul. </n> by any one.


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Seven weeks shall you number to yourself; when you have begun <i>to put</i> the sickle to the corn, you shall begin to number seven weeks.


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And you shall keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God, accordingly as your hand has power in as many things as the Lord your God shall give you.


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And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son, and your daughter, your man-servant and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which dwells among you, in whatever place the Lord your God shall choose, that his name should be called there.


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And you shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and you shall observe and do these commands.


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You shall keep for yourself the feast of tabernacles seven days, when you gather in <i>your produce</i> from your corn-floor and your wine-press.


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And you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, your man-servant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow that is in your cities.


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Seven days shall you keep a feast to the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God shall choose for himself; and if the Lord your God shall bless you in all your fruits, and in every work of your hands, then you shall rejoice.


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Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord shall choose in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: you shall not appear before the Lord your God empty.


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Each one according to <n>[[Gr. ]] your. </n> his ability, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you.


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You shall make for yourself judges and officers in your cities, which the Lord your God gives you in <i>your</i> tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment:


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they shall not wrest judgment, nor favor persons, nor receive a gift; for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.


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You shall justly pursue justice, that you° may live, and go in and inherit the land which the Lord your God gives you.


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You shall not <n>[[Gr. ]] make. </n> plant for yourself a grove; you shall not plant for yourself any tree near the altar of your God.


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You shall not sacrifice to the Lord your God a calf or a sheep, in which there is a blemish, <i>or</i> any evil thing; for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.


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And if there should be found in any one of your cities, which the Lord your God gives you, a man or a woman who shall do that which is evil before the Lord your God, so as to transgress his covenant,


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and they should go and serve other gods, and worship them, the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which he commanded you not to do,


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and it be told you, and you shall have enquired diligently, and, behold, the thing really took place, this abomination has been done in Israel;


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then shall you bring out that man, or that woman, and you° shall stone them with stones, and they shall die.


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He shall die on the testimony of two or three witnesses; a man who <n>[[Gr. ]] dies shall not die. </n> is put to death shall not be put to death for one witness.


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And the hand of the witnesses shall be upon him among the first to put him to death, and the hand of the people at the last; so shall you remove the evil one from among yourselves.


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And if a matter shall be too hard for you in judgment, <n>[[Gr. ]] blood between blood, etc. </n> between blood and blood, and between cause and cause, and between stroke and stroke, and between contradiction and contradiction, matters of judgment in your cities;


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then you shall arise and go up to the place which the Lord your God shall choose, and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days, and they shall search out <i>the matter</i> and report the judgment to you.


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And you shall act according to the thing which they shall report to you out of the place which the Lord your God shall choose, and you shall observe to do all whatever shall have been by law appointed to you.


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You shall do according to the law and to the judgment which they shall declare to you: you shall not swerve to the right hand or to the left from any sentence which they shall report to you.


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And the man whoever shall act in haughtiness, so as not to listen to the priest who stands to minister in the name of the Lord your God, or the judge who shall preside in those days, that man shall die, and you shall remove the evil one out of Israel.


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And when you shall enter into the land which the Lord your God gives you, and shall inherit it and dwell in it, and shall say, I will set a ruler over me, as also the other nations round about me;


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you shall surely set over you the ruler whom the Lord God shall choose: of your brethren you shall set over you a ruler; you shall not have power to set over you a stranger, because he is not your brother.


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For he shall not multiply to himself horses, and he shall by no means turn the people back to Egypt, lest he should multiply to himself horses; for the Lord said, You° shall not any more turn back by that way.


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And he shall not multiply to himself wives, lest his heart <n>[[Gr. ]] change. </n> turn away; and he shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.


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And when he shall be established in his government, then shall he write for himself this repetition of the law into a book by the hands of the priests the Levites;


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and it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord your God, and to keep all these commandments, and to observe these ordinances:


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that his heart be not lifted up <n>[[Gr. ]] from. <i>Heb.- ס. </i></n> above his brethren, that he depart not from the commandments on the right hand or on the left; that he and his sons may reign long in his dominion among the children of Israel.<pb/>


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The priests, the Levites, even the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; the burnt offerings of the Lord <i>are</i> their inheritance, they shall eat them.


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And they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the Lord himself <i>is</i> his portion, as he said to him.


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And this <i>is</i> the due of the priests in the things coming from the people from those who offer sacrifices, whether it be a calf or a sheep; and you shall give the shoulder to the priest, and the cheeks, and the great intestine:


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and the first fruits of your corn, and of your wine, and of your oil; and you shall give to him the first fruits of the fleeces of your sheep:


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because the Lord has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand before the Lord your God, to minister and bless in his name, himself and his sons among the children of Israel.


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And if a Levite come from one of the cities of all the children of Israel, where he himself dwells, accordingly as his mind desires, to the place which <n>[[i.e. ]] God. </n> he shall have chosen,


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he shall minister to the name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Levites, who stand there present before the Lord your God.


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And when you shall have entered into the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.


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There shall not be found in you one who purges his son or his daughter with fire, one who <n>[[Gr. ]] divines. </n> uses divination, who deals with omens, and augury,


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a sorcerer employing incantation, one who has in him a divining spirit, an observer of signs, questioning the dead.


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For every one that does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God; for because of these abominations the Lord will destroy them from before your face.


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For all these nations whose <i>land</i> you shall inherit, they will listen to omens and divinations; but the Lord your God has not permitted you so <i>to do</i>.


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according to all things which you did desire of the Lord your God in Choreb in the day of the assembly, saying, We will not again hear the voice of the Lord your God, and we will not any more see this great fire, and <i>so</i> we shall not die.


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I will raise up to them a prophet of their brethren, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them as I shall command him.


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And whatever man shall not listen to whatever words that prophet shall speak in my name, I will take vengeance on him.


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But the prophet whoever shall impiously speak in my name a word which I have not commanded him to speak, and whoever shall speak in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.


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Whatsoever words that prophet shall speak in the name of the Lord, and they shall not come true, and not come to pass, this <i>is</i> the thing which the Lord has not spoken; that prophet has spoken wickedly: you° shall not spare him.<pb/>


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And when the Lord your God shall have destroyed the nations, which God gives you, <i>even</i> the land, and you° shall inherit them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses,


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you shall separate for yourself three cities in the midst of your land, which the Lord your God gives you.


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Take a survey of your way, and you shall divide the coasts of your land, which the Lord your God apportions to you, into three parts, and there shall be there a refuge for every manslayer.


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And this shall be the ordinance of the manslayer, who shall flee there, and shall live, whoever shall have struck his neighbor ignorantly, whereas he hated him not <n>[[Gr. ]] before yesterday and the third day. </n> in times past.


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And whoever shall enter with his neighbor into the thicket, to gather wood, if the hand of him that cuts wood with the axe should be violently shaken, and the axe head falling off from the handle should light on his neighbor, and he should die, he shall flee to one of these cities, and live.


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Lest the avenger of blood pursue after the slayer, because his heart is hot, and overtake him, if the way be too long, and <n>[[Gr. ]] strike his life. </n> kill him, though there is to this man no sentence of death, because he hated him not in time past.


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And if the Lord shall enlarge your borders, as he sware to your fathers, and the Lord shall give to you all the land which he said he would give to your fathers;


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if you shall listen to do all these commands, which I charge you this day, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways continually; you shall add for yourself yet three cities to these three.


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So innocent blood shall not be spilled in the land, which the Lord your God gives you to inherit, and there shall not be in you one guilty of blood.


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But if there should be in you a man hating his neighbor, and he should lay wait for him, and rise up against him, and strike him, that he die, and he should flee to one of these cities,


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then shall the elders of his city send, and take him thence, and they shall deliver him into the hands of the avengers of blood, and he shall die.


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Your eye shall not spare him; so shall you purge innocent blood from Israel, and it shall be well with you.


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You shall not move the landmarks of your neighbor, which your fathers set in the inheritance, in which you have obtained a share in the land, which the Lord your God gives you to inherit.


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One witness shall not <n>[[Gr. ]] remain. </n> stand to testify against a man for any iniquity, or for any fault, or for any sin which he may commit;  by the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses, shall every word be established.


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then shall the two men between whom the controversy is, stand before the Lord, and before the priests, and before the judges, who may be in those days.


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And the judges shall make diligent inquiry, and, behold, <i>if</i> and unjust witness has borne unjust testimony; <i>and</i> has stood up against his brother;


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then shall you° do to him as he wickedly devised to do against his brother, and you shall remove the evil from yourselves.


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Your eye shall not spare him: <i>you shall exact</i> life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.<pb/>


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And if you should go forth to war against your enemies, and should see horse, and rider, and a people more numerous than yourself; you shall not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God <i>is</i> with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.


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And it shall come to pass whenever you shall draw near to battle, that the priest shall draw near and speak to the people, and shall say to them,


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Hear, O Israel; you° are going this day to battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint, fear not, neither be confounded, neither turn aside from their face.


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For <i>it is</i> the Lord your God who advances with you, to fight with you against your enemies, <i>and</i> to save you.


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And the scribes shall speak to the people, saying, What man <i>is</i> he that has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the war, and another man dedicate it.


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And what man <i>is</i> he that has planted a vineyard, and not been made merry with it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man be made merry with it.


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And what man <i>is</i> he that has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.


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And the scribes shall speak further to the people, and say, What man <i>is</i> he that fears and is cowardly in his heart? Let him go and return to his house, lest he make the heart of his brother fail, as his own.


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And it shall come to pass when the scribes shall have ceased speaking to the people, that they shall appoint generals of the army to be leaders of the people.


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If then they should answer peaceably to you, and open to you, it shall be that all the people found in it shall be tributary and subject to you.


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until the Lord your God shall deliver it into your hands, and you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:


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except the women and the stuff: and all the cattle, and whatever shall be in the city, and all the plunder you shall take as spoil for yourself, and shall eat all the plunder of your enemies whom the Lord your God gives you.


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Thus shall you do to all the cities that are very far off from you, not <i>being</i> of the cities of these nations which the Lord your God gives you to inherit their land.


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but you° shall surely curse them, the Chettite, and the Amorite, and the Chananite, and the Pherezite, and the Evite, and the Jebusite, and the Gergesite; as the Lord your God commanded you:


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that they may not teach you to do all their abominations, which they did to their gods, and <i>so</i> you° should sin before the Lord your God.


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And if you should besiege <n>[[Gr. ]] one city. </n> a city many days to prevail against it by war to take it, you shall not destroy its trees, by applying an iron tool to them, but you shall eat of it, and shall not cut it down: Is the tree that is in the field a man, to enter <n>[[Gr. ]] against you. </n> before you into <n>[[Gr. ]] the trench. See Matt. 3. 10. </n> the work of the siege?


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But the tree which you know to be not fruit-bearing, this you shall destroy and cut down; and you shall construct a mound against the city, which makes war against you, until it be delivered up.<pb/>


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And if one be found slain with the sword in the land, which the Lord your God gives you to inherit, having fallen in the field, and they do not know who has struck <i>him</i>;


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your elders and your judges shall come forth, and shall measure the distances of the cities round about the slain man:


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and it shall be that the city which is nearest to the slain man the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which has not laboured, and which has not <n>[[Gr. ]] drawn. </n> borne a yoke.


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And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer into a rough valley, which has not been tilled and is not sown, and they shall <n>[[Gr. ]] cut the sinews. [[i.e. ]] of the neck. </n> kill the heifer in the valley.


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And the priests the Levites shall come, because the Lord God has chosen them to stand by him, and to <n>[[Gr. ]] his name. [[Hebraism.]]</n> bless in his name, and <n>[[Gr. ]] at their mouth. </n> by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be <i>decided</i>.


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And all the elders of that city who draw near to the slain man shall wash their hands over the head of the heifer which was slain in the valley;


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and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen <i>it</i>.


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Be merciful to your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, O Lord, that innocent blood <n>[[Gr. ]] may not be in your people. </n> may not be charged on your people Israel: and the blood shall be atoned for to them.


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And you shall take away innocent blood from among you, if you should do that which is good and pleasing before the Lord your God.


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And if when you go out to war against your enemies, the Lord your God should deliver them into your hands, and you should take their spoil,


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and should see among the spoil a woman beautiful in countenance, and should <n>[[Gr. ]] think about her. </n> desire her, and take her to yourself for a wife,


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and shall take away her garments of captivity from off her, and she shall abide in your house, and shall bewail her father and mother the days of a month; and afterwards you shall go in to her and dwell with her, and she shall be your wife.


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And it shall be if you do not delight in her, you shall send her out free; and she shall not by any means be sold for money, you shall not treat her contemptuously, because you have humbled her.


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And if a man have two wives, the one loved and <n>[[Gr. ]] one of them. </n> the other hated, and both the loved and the hated should have born him <i>children</i>, and the son of the hated should be firstborn;


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then it shall be that whenever he shall divide by inheritance his goods to his sons, he shall not be able to give the right of the firstborn to the son of the loved one, having overlooked the son of the hated, which is the firstborn.


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But he shall acknowledge the firstborn of the hated one to give to him double of all things which shall be found by him, because he is the <n>[[Gr. ]] the beginning or chief. </n> first of his children, and to him belongs the birthright.


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And if any man has a disobedient and contentious son, who hearkens not to the voice of his father and the voice of his mother, and they should correct him, and he should not listen to them;


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then shall his father and his mother take hold of him, and bring him forth to the elders of his city, and to the gate of the place:


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and they shall say to the men of their city, This our son is disobedient and contentious, he hearkens not to our voice, he is a reveler and a drunkard.


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And the men of his city shall stone him with stones, and he shall die; and you shall remove the evil one from yourselves, and the rest shall hear and fear.


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And if there be sin in any one, <i>and</i> the judgment of death <i>be upon him</i>, and he be put to death, and you° hang him on a tree:


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his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you° shall by all means bury it in that day; for  every one that is hanged on a tree is cursed of God; and you° shall by no means defile the land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance.<pb/>


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When you see the calf of your brother or his sheep wandering in the way, you shall not overlook them; you shall by all means turn them back to your brother, and you shall restore them to him.


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And if your brother do not come near you, and you do not know him, you shall bring it into your house within; and it shall be with you until your brother shall seek them, and you shall restore them to him.


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Thus shall you do to his ass, and thus shall you do to his garment, and thus shall you do to every thing that your brother has lost; whatever shall have been lost by him, and you shall have found, you shall not have power to overlook.


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You shall not see the ass of your brother, or his calf, fallen in the way: you shall not overlook them, you shall surely help him to raise them up.


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The apparel of a man shall not be on a woman, neither shall a man put on a woman's dress; for every one that does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.


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And if you should come upon a brood of birds before your face in the way or upon any tree, or upon the earth, young or eggs, and the mother be brooding on the young or the eggs, you shall not take the dam with the young ones.


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You shall by all means let the mother go, but you shall take the young to yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may live long.


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If you should build a new house, then shall you make a parapet to your house; so you shall not bring blood-guiltiness upon your house, if one should in any wise fall from it.


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You shall not sow your vineyard with diverse seed, lest the fruit be devoted, and whatever seed you may sow, with the fruit of your vineyard.


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You shall not wear a <n>[[Gr. ]] false or adulterated or drossy. </n> mingled <i>garment</i>, woollen and linen together.


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and attach to her reproachful words, and bring against her an evil name, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her I found not her tokens of virginity:


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then the father and the mother of the damsel shall take and bring out the damsel's tokens of virginity to the elders of the city to the gate.


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And the father of the damsel shall say to the elders, I gave this my daughter to this man for a wife;


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and now he has hated her, and attaches reproachful words to her, saying, I have not found tokens of virginity with your daughter; and these <i>are</i> the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall unfold the garment before the elders of the city.


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and shall fine him a hundred shekels, and shall give <i>them</i> to the father of the damsel, because he has brought forth an evil name against a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife: he shall never be able to put her away.


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then shall they bring out the damsel to the doors of her father's house, and shall stone her with stones, and she shall die; because she has wrought folly among the children of Israel, to defile the house of her father by whoring: so you shall remove the evil one from among you.


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And if a man be found lying with a woman married to a man, you° shall kill them both, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shall you remove the wicked one out of Israel.


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And if there be a young damsel espoused to a man, and a man should have found her in the city and have lain with her;


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you° shall bring them both out to the gate of their city, and they shall be stoned with stones, and they shall die; the damsel, because she cried not in the city; and the man, because he humbled his neighbor's spouse: so shall you remove the evil one from yourselves.


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But if a man find in the field a damsel that is betrothed, and he should force her and lie with her, you° shall kill the man that lay with her only.


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And the damsel has not <i>committed</i> a sin worthy of death; as if a man should rise up against his neighbor, and kill <n>[[Gr. ]] his life. </n> him, so <i>is</i> this thing;


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And if any one should find a young virgin who has not been betrothed, and should force <i>her</i> and lie with her, and be found,


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the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the damsel fifty silver didrachmas, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he shall never be able to put her away.


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He that is fractured or mutilated in his private parts shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord.


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The Ammanite and Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord, even until the tenth generation he shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord, even for ever:


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because they met you not with bread and water by the way, when you° went out of Egypt; and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor of Mesopotamia to curse you.


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But the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam; and the Lord your God changed the curses into blessings, because the Lord your God loved you.


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You shall not abhor an Edomite, because he is your brother; you shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were a stranger in his land.


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And if you should go forth to engage with your enemies, then you shall keep you from every wicked thing.


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If there should be in you a man who is not clean by reason of his issue by night, then he shall go forth out of the camp, and he shall not enter into the camp.


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And it shall come to pass toward evening he shall wash his body with water, and when the sun has gone down, he shall go into the camp.


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and you shall have a trowel on your girdle; and it shall come to pass when you would relieve yourself abroad, that you shall dig with it, and shall bring back the earth and cover your nuisance.


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Because the Lord your God walks in your camp to deliver you, and to give up your enemy before your face; and your camp shall be holy, and there shall not appear in you a disgraceful thing, and <i>so</i> he <n>[[i.e. ]] would if you wort disobedient. </n> shall turn away from you.


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You shall not deliver a servant to his master, who <i>coming</i> from his master attaches himself to you.


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There shall not be a harlot of the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be a fornicator of the sons of Israel; there shall not be an <n>[[Or, ]] sodomitess or harlot. </n> idolatress of the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be an <n>[[Or, ]] sodomite. </n> initiated person of the sons of Israel.


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You shall not bring the hire of a harlot, nor the price of a dog into the house of the Lord your God, for any vow; because even both are an abomination to the Lord your God.


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You shall not lend to your brother on usury of silver, or usury of meat, or usury of any thing which you may lend out.


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You may lend on usury to a stranger, but to your brother you shall not lend on usury; that the Lord your God may bless you in all your works upon the land, into which you are entering to inherit it.


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And if you will vow 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 <i>otherwise</i> it shall be sin in you.


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And if you should go into the corn field of your neighbor, then you may gather the ears with your hands; but you shall not put the sickle to your neighbor's corn.


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And if you should go into the vineyard of your neighbor, you shall eat grapes sufficient to satisfy your desire; but you may not put them into a vessel.


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And if any one should take a wife, and should dwell with her, then it shall come to pass if she should not have found favor before him, because he has found some unbecoming thing in her, that he shall write for her a <n>[[Or, ]] book. </n> bill of divorcement, and give it into her hands, and he shall send her away out of his house.


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and the last husband should hate her, and write for her a bill of divorcement; and should give it into her hands, and send her away out of his house, and the last husband should die, who took her to himself for a wife;


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the former husband who sent her away shall not be able to return and take her to himself for a wife, after she has been defiled; because it is an abomination before the Lord your God, and you° shall not defile the land, which the Lord your God gives you to inherit.


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And if any one should have recently taken a wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall any thing be laid upon him; he shall be <n>[[Lit. ]] guiltless. </n> free in his house; for one year he shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.


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You shall not take for a pledge the under millstone, nor the upper millstone; for <n>[[Gr. ]] this man. </n> he who does so takes life for a pledge.


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And if a man should be caught stealing <n>[[Gr. ]] a soul. </n> one of his brethren of the children of Israel, and having overcome him he should sell him, that thief shall die; so shall you remove that evil one from yourselves.


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Take heed to yourself in <i>regard of</i> the plague of leprosy: you shall take great heed to do according to all the law, which the priests the Levites shall report to you; take heed to do, as I have charged you.


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If your neighbor owe you a debt, any debt whatever, you shall not go into his house to take his pledge:


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You shall surely restore his pledge at sunset, and he shall sleep in his garment, and he shall bless you; and it shall be <n>[[ie. ]] mercy shown by you. </n> mercy to you before the Lord your God.


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You shall not unjustly withhold the wages of the poor and needy of your brethren, or of the strangers who are in your cities.


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You shall pay him his wages the same day, the sun shall not go down upon it, because he is poor and he trusts in it; and he shall cry against you to the Lord, and it shall be sin in you.


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The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, and the sons shall not be put to death for the fathers; every one shall <n>[[Gr. ]] die in his own sin. </n> be put to death for his own sin.


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You shall not wrest the judgment of the stranger and the fatherless, and widow; you shall not take the widow's garment for a pledge.


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And you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you from thence; therefore I charge you to do this thing.


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And when you shall have reaped corn in your field, and shall have forgotten a sheaf in your field, you shall not return to take it; it shall be for the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works of your hands.


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And if you should gather your olives, you shall not return to collect the remainder; it shall be for the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, and you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this thing.<pb/>


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And if there should be a dispute between men, and they should come forward to judgment, and <i>the judges</i> judge, and justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked:


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then it shall come to pass, if the unrighteous should be worthy of stripes, you shall lay him down before the judges, and they shall scourge him before them according to his iniquity.


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And they shall scourge him with forty stripes in number, they shall not inflict more; for if you should scourge him <i>with</i> more stripes beyond these stripes, your brother will be disgraced before you.


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And  if brethren should live together, and one of them should die, and should not have seed, the wife of the deceased shall not marry out <i>of the family</i> to a man not related: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and shall take her to himself for a wife, and shall dwell with her.


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And it shall come to pass that the child which she shall bear, shall be <n>[[Gr. ]] constituted. </n> named by the name of the deceased, and his name shall not be blotted out of Israel.


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And if the man should not be willing to take his brother's wife, then shall the woman go up to the gate to the elders, and she shall say, My husband's brother will not raise up the name of his brother in Israel, my husband's brother <n>[[Gr. ]] has not been willing. </n> has refused.


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And the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him; and if he stand and say, I will not take her:


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then his brother's wife shall come forward before the elders, and shall loose one shoe from off his foot, and shall spit in his face, and shall answer and say, Thus shall they do to the man who will not build his brother's house in Israel.


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And if men should strive together, a man with his brother, and the wife of one of them should advance to rescue her husband out of the hand of him that smites him, and she should stretch forth her hand, and take hold of his private parts;


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You shall have a true and just weight, and a true and just measure, that you may live long upon the land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance.


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For every one that does this <i>is</i> an abomination to the Lord your God, even every one that does injustice.


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how he withstood you in the way, and harassed your rear, <i>even</i> those that were weary behind you, and you did hunger and was weary; and he did not fear God.


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And it shall come to pass whenever the Lord your God shall have given you rest from all your enemies round about you, in the land which the Lord your God gives you to inherit, you shall blot out the name of Amalec from under heaven, and shall not forget <i>to do it</i>.<pb/>


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And it shall be when you shall have entered into the land, which the Lord your God gives you to inherit it, and you shall have inherited it, and you shall have lived upon it,


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that you shall take of the first of the fruits of your land, which the Lord your God gives you, and you shall put them into a basket, and you shall go to the place which the Lord your God shall choose to have his name called there.


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And you shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and you shall say to him, I testify this day to the Lord my God, that I am come into the land which the Lord sware to our fathers to give to us.


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And the priest shall take the basket out of your hands, and shall set it before the altar of the Lord your God:


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and he shall answer and say before the Lord your God, My father abandoned Syria, and went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a small number, and became there a mighty nation and a great multitude.


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and we cried to the Lord our God, and the Lord heard our voice, and saw our humiliation, and our labor, and our affliction.


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And the Lord brought us out of Egypt himself with his great strength, and his mighty hand, and his high arm, and with great visions, and with signs, and with wonders.


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And now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruits of the land, which you gave me, O Lord, a land flowing with milk and honey: and you shall leave it before the Lord your God, and you shall worship before the Lord your God;


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and you shall rejoice in all the good <i>things</i>, which the Lord your God has given you, <i>you</i> and your family, and the Levite, and the stranger that is within you.


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And when you shall have completed all the tithings of your fruits in the third year, you shall give the second tenth to the Levite, and stranger, and fatherless, and widow; and they shall eat it in your cities, and be merry.


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And you shall say before the Lord your God, I have fully collected the holy things out of my house, and I have given them to the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, according to all commands which you did command me: I did not transgress your command, and I did not forget it.


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And in my distress I did not eat of them, I have not gathered of them for an unclean <n>[[Or, ]] person. </n> purpose, I have not given of them to the dead; I have listened to the voice of the Lord our God, I have done as you have commanded me.


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Look down from your holy house, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the land which you have given them, as you did swear to our fathers, to give to us a land flowing with milk and honey.


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On this day the Lord your God charged you to keep all the ordinances and judgments; and you° shall observe and do them, with all your heart, and with all your soul.


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You have chosen God this day to be your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to observe his ordinances and judgments, and to listen to his voice.


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And the Lord has chosen you this day that you should be to him a peculiar people, as he said, to keep his commands;


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and that you should be above all nations, as he has made you renowned, and a boast, and glorious, that you should be a holy people to the Lord your God, as he has spoken.<pb/>


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And Moses and the elders of Israel commanded, saying, Keep all these commands, all that I command you this day.


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And it shall come to pass in the day when you° shall cross over Jordan into the land which the Lord your God gives you, that you shall set up for yourself great stones, and shall plaster them with plaster.


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And you shall write on these stones all the words of this law, as soon as you° have crossed Jordan, when you° are entered into the land, which the Lord God of your fathers gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, according as the Lord God of your fathers said to you.


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And it shall be as soon as you° are gone over Jordan, you° shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, on mount Gaebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster.


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And you shall build there an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones; you shall not lift up iron upon it.


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Of whole stones shall you build an altar to the Lord your God, and you shall offer upon it whole burnt offerings to the Lord your God.


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And you shall there offer a peace-offering; and you shall eat and be filled, and rejoice before the Lord your God.


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And Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, Be silent and hear, O Israel; this day you are become a people to the Lord your God.


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And you shall listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and shall do all his commands, and his ordinances, as many as I command you this day.


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These shall stand to bless the people on mount Garizin having gone over Jordan; Symeon, Levi, Judas, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.


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And these shall stand for cursing on mount Gaebal; Ruben, Gad, and Aser, Zabulon, Dan, and Nephthali.


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Cursed <i>is</i> the man whoever shall make a graven or molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of craftsmen, and shall put it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer and say, So be it.


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Cursed is every one that shall pervert the judgment of the stranger, and orphan, and widow: and all the people shall say, So be it.


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Cursed is he that lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt: and all the people shall say, So be it.


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Cursed is he that lies with his sister by his father or his mother: and all the people shall say, So be it.


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Cursed is he that lies with his daughter-in-law: and all the people shall say, So be it. Cursed is he that lies with his wife's sister: and all the people shall say, So be it.


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Cursed is he whoever shall have taken a bribe to <n>[[Gr. ]] to strike the life of innocent blood. </n> kill an innocent man: and all the people shall say, So be it.


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Cursed is every man that continues not in all the words of this law to do them: and all the people shall say, So be it.<pb/>


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And it shall come to pass, if you will indeed hear the voice of the Lord your God, to observe and do all these commands, which I charge you this day, that the Lord your God shall set you on high above all the nations of the earth;


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and all these blessings shall come upon you, and shall find you. If you will indeed hear the voice of the Lord your God,


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Blessed shall be the offspring of your <n>[[Gr. ]] belly. </n> body, and the fruits of your land, and the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep.


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The Lord deliver your enemies that withstand you utterly broken before your face: they shall come out against you one way, and they shall flee seven ways from before you.


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The Lord send upon you his blessing in your barns, and on all on which you shall put your hand, in the land which the Lord your God gives you.


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The Lord raise you up for himself a holy people, as he sware to your fathers; if you will hear the voice of the Lord your God, and walk in all his ways.


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And all the nations of the earth shall see <n>[[Or, ]] see that the name, etc. </n> you, that the name of the Lord is called upon you, and they shall stand in awe of you.


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And the Lord your God shall multiply you for good in the offspring of your <n>[[Gr. ]] belly. </n> body, and in the offspring of your cattle, and in the fruits of your land, on your land which the Lord sware to your fathers to give to you.


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May the Lord open to you his good treasure, the heaven, to give rain to your land in season: may he bless all the works of your hands: so shall you lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.


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The Lord your God make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall then be above and you shall not be below, if you will listen to the voice of the Lord your God, in all things that I charge you this day to observe.


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You shall not turn aside from any of the commandments, which I charge you this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.


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But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of the Lord your God, to observe all his commandments, as many as I charge you this day, then all these curses shall come on you, and overtake you.


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Cursed shall be the offspring of your body, and the fruits of your land, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep.


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The Lord send upon you lack, and famine, and consumption of all things on which you shall put your hand, until he shall have utterly destroyed you, and until he shall have consumed you quickly because of your evil devices, because you have forsaken me.


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<n>[[Gr. ]] may the Lord. </n> The Lord cause the pestilence to cleave to you, until he shall have consumed you off the land into which you go to inherit it.


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The Lord strike you with distress, and fever, and cold, and inflammation, and blighting, and paleness, and they shall pursue you until they have destroyed you.


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The Lord your God make the rain of your land dust; and dust shall come down from heaven, until it shall have destroyed you, and until it shall have quickly consumed you.


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The Lord give you up for slaughter before your enemies: you shall go out against them one way, and flee from their face seven ways; and you shall be a dispersion in all the kingdoms of the earth.


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And your dead men shall be food to the birds of the sky, and to the beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to scare them away.


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The Lord strike you with the botch of Egypt in the seat, and with a malignant scab, and itch, so that you can not be healed.


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And you shall grope at mid-day, as a blind man would grope in the darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways; and then you shall be unjustly treated, and plundered continually, and there shall be no helper.


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you shall take a wife, and another man shall have her; you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes of it.


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Your calf <i>shall be</i> slain before you, and you shall not eat of it; your ass shall be violently taken away from you, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no helper.


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Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another nation, and your eyes wasting away shall look for them: your hand shall have no strength.


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A nation which you know not shall eat the produce of your land, and all your labors; and you shall be injured and crushed always.


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The Lord strike you with an evil sore, on the knees and the legs, so that you shall not be able to be healed from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.


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The Lord carry away you and your princes, whom you shall set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers know; and you shall there serve other gods, wood and stone.


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An you shall be there for a wonder, and a parable, and a tale, among all the nations, to which the Lord your God shall carry you away.


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You shall carry forth much seed into the field, and you shall bring in little, because the locust shall devour it.


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You shall plant a vineyard, and dress it, and shall not drink the wine, neither shall you delight yourself with it, because the worm shall devour <n>[[Gr. ]] them. [[i.e. ]] the fruits of it. </n> it.


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You shall have olive trees in all your borders, and you shall not anoint you with oil, because your olive shall utterly <n>[[Lit. ]] flow, or fall down. </n> cast <i>its fruit</i>.


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You shall beget sons and daughters, and they shall not be <i>yours</i>, for they shall depart into captivity.


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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 upon you, and shall pursue you, and shall overtake you, until he shall have consumed you, and until he shall have destroyed you; because you did not listen to the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commands, and his ordinances which he has commanded you.


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because you did not serve the Lord your God with gladness and a good heart, because of the abundance of all things.


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And you shall serve your enemies, which the Lord will send forth against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and you shall wear upon your neck a yoke of iron until he shall have destroyed you.


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The Lord shall bring upon you a nation from the extremity of the earth, like the swift flying of an eagle, a nation whose voice you shall not <n>[[Gr. ]] bear. </n> understand;


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a nation bold in countenance, which shall not <n>[[Gr. ]] wonder at. </n> respect the person of the aged and shall not pity the young.


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And it shall eat up the young of your cattle, and the fruits of your land, so as not to leave to you corn, wine, oil, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep, until it shall have destroyed you;


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and have utterly crushed you in your cities, until the high and strong walls be destroyed, in which you trust, in all your land; and it shall afflict you in your cities, which he has given to you.


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And you shall eat the fruit of your <n>[[Gr. ]] belly. </n> body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, all that he has given you, in your straitness and your affliction, with which your enemy shall afflict you.


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He that is tender and very delicate within you shall look with an evil eye upon his brother, and the wife in his bosom, and the children that are left, which may have been left to him;


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so as <i>not</i> to give to one of them of the flesh of his children, whom he shall eat, because of his having nothing left him in your straitness, and in your affliction, with which your enemies shall afflict you in all your cities.


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And she that is tender and delicate among you, whose foot has not assayed to go upon the earth for delicacy and tenderness, shall look with an evil eye on her husband in her bosom, and her son and her daughter,


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and her <n>[[Lit. ]] afterbirth. </n> offspring that comes out between her feet, and the child which she shall bear; for she shall eat them because of the lack of all things, secretly in your straitness, and in your affliction, with which your enemy shall afflict you in your cities.


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If you will not listen to do all the words of this law, which have been written in this book, to fear this glorious and wonderful name, the Lord your God;


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then the Lord shall magnify your plagues, and the plagues of your seed, great and wonderful plagues, and evil and dwelling diseases.


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And he shall bring upon you all the evil pain of Egypt, <n>[[Gr. ]] which you feardst before their face. [[Hebraism.]]</n> of which you were afraid, and they shall cleave to you.


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And the Lord shall bring upon you every sickness, and every plague that is not written, and every one that is written in the book of this law, until he shall have destroyed you.


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And you° shall be left few in number, whereas you° were as the stars of the sky in multitude; because you did not listen to the voice of the Lord your God.


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And it shall come to pass that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you; and you° shall be quickly removed from the land, into which you° go to inherit it.


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And the Lord your God shall scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other; and you shall there serve other gods, wood and stone, which you have not known, nor your fathers.


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Moreover among those nations he will not give you quiet, neither by any means shall the sole of your foot have rest; and the Lord shall give you there another and a misgiving heart, and failing eyes, and a wasting soul.


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And your life shall be in suspense before your eyes; and you shall be afraid by day and by night, and you shall have no assurance of your life.


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In the morning you shall say, Would it were evening! and in the evening you shall say, Would it were morning! for the fear of your heart with which you shall fear, and for the sights of your eyes which you shall see.


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And the Lord shall bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said, You shall not see it again; and you° shall be sold there to your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and none shall buy you.<pb/>


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These <i>are</i> 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 Choreb.


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And Moses called all the sons of Israel and said to them, You° have seen all things that the Lord did in the land of Egypt before you to Pharao and his servants, and all his land;


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Yet the Lord God has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.


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And he led you forty years in the wilderness; your garments did not grow old, and your sandals were not worn away off your feet.


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You° did not eat bread, you° did not drink wine or strong drink, that you° might know that I <i>am</i> the Lord your God.


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And you° came as far as this place; and there came forth Seon king of Esebon, and Og king of Basan, to meet us in war.


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And we struck them and took their land, and I gave it for an inheritance to Ruben and Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasse.


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And you° shall take heed to do all the words of this covenant, that you° may understand all things that you° shall do.


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You° all stand today before the Lord your God, the heads of your tribes, and your elders, and your judges, and your officers, every man of Israel,


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your wives, and your children, and the stranger who is in the midst of your camp, from your hewer of wood even to your drawer of water,


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that you should enter into the covenant of the Lord your God and into his oaths, as many as the Lord your God appoints you this day;


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that he may appoint you to himself for a people, and he shall be your God, as he said to you, and as he sware to your fathers, Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob.


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but to those also who are here with you today before the Lord your God, and to those who are not here with you today.


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For you° know how we lived in the land of Egypt, how we came through the midst of the nations through whom you° came.


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And you° [*]saw their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which are among them.


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Lest there be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart has turned aside from the Lord your God, having gone to serve the gods of these nations; lest there be in you a root springing up with gall and bitterness.


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And it shall be if one shall hear the words of this curse, and shall flatter himself in his heart, saying, <n>[[Lit. ]] May holy things happen to me. See the use of ὅσια in Isaiah 55. 3, Acts 13. 34. </n> Let good happen to me, for I will walk in the error of my heart, lest the sinner destroy the guiltless with <i>him</i>:


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God shall by no means be willing to pardon him, but then the wrath of the Lord and his jealousy shall flame out against that man; and all the curses of this covenant shall attach themselves to him, which are written in this book, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.


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And the Lord shall separate that man for evil of all the children of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in the book of this law.


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And another generation shall say—even your sons who shall rise up after you, and the stranger who shall come from a land afar off, and shall see the plagues of that land and their diseases, which the Lord has sent upon it,


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brimstone and burning salt, (the whole land shall not be sown, neither shall any green thing spring, nor rise upon it, as Sodom and Gomorrha were overthrown, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord overthrew in his wrath and anger:)—


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and all the nations shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land? what <i>is</i> this great fierceness of anger?


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And <i>men</i> shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, the things which he appointed to their fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt:


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and they went and served other gods, which they knew not, neither did he assign <i>them</i> to them.


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And the Lord was exceedingly angry with that land to bring upon it according to all the curses which are written in the book of this law.


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And the Lord removed them from their land in anger, and wrath, and very great indignation, and cast them out into another land as at present.


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The secret things <i>belong</i> to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed <i>belong</i> to us and to our children for ever, to do all the words of this law.<pb/>


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And it shall come to pass when all these things shall have come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before your face, and you shall <n>[[Gr. ]] receive them into your heart. </n> call <i>them</i> to mind among all the nations, wherein the Lord shall have scattered you,


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and shall return to the Lord your God, and shall listen to his voice, according to all things which I charge you this day, with all your heart, and with all your soul;


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then the Lord shall heal your iniquities, and shall pity you, and shall again gather you out from all the nations, among which the Lord has scattered you.


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If your dispersion be from one end of heaven to the other, thence will the Lord your God gather you, and thence will the Lord your God take you.


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And the Lord your God shall bring you in from thence into the land which your fathers have inherited, and you shall inherit it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers.


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And the Lord shall purge your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.


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And the Lord your God will put these curses upon your enemies, and upon those that hate you, who have persecuted you.


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And you shall return and listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and shall keep his commands, all that I charge you this day.


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And the Lord your God shall bless you in every work of your hands, in the offspring of your <n>[[Gr. ]] belly. </n> body, and in the offspring of your cattle, and in the fruits of your land, because the Lord your God will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers:


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if you will listen to the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments, and his ordinances, and his judgments written in the book of this law, if you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.


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<n>See Rom 6, 7, 8. </n> For this command which I give you this day is not grievous, neither is it far from you.


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It is not in heaven above, <i>as if there were one</i> saying, Who shall go up for us into heaven, and shall take it for us, and we will hear and do it?


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Neither is it beyond the sea, saying, Who will go over for us to the other side of the sea, and take it for us, and make it audible to us, and we will do it?


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If you will listen to the commands of the Lord your God, which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his ordinances, and his judgments; then you° shall live, and shall be many in number, and the Lord your God shall bless you in all the land into which you go to inherit it.


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But if your heart change, and you will not listen, and you shall go astray and worship other gods, and serve them,


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I declare to you this day, that you° shall utterly perish, and you° shall by no means live long upon the land, into which you° go over Jordan to inherit it.


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I call both heaven and earth to witness this day against you, I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: choose you life, that you and your seed may live;


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to love the Lord your God, to listen to his voice, and cleave to him; for this <i>is</i> your life, and the length of your days, that you should dwell upon the land, which the Lord sware to your fathers, Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them.<pb/>


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and said to them, I am this day a hundred and twenty years <i>old</i>; I shall not be able any longer to come in or go out; and the Lord said to me, You shall not go over this Jordan.


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The Lord your God who goes before you, he shall destroy these nations before you, and you shall inherit them: and <i>it shall be</i> Joshua that goes before your face, as the Lord has spoken.


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And the Lord your God shall do to them as he did to Seon and Og the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond Jordan, and to their land, as he destroyed them.


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And the Lord has delivered <n>[[i.e. ]] the nations. </n> them to you; and you° shall do to them, as I charged you.


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Be courageous and strong, fear not, neither be cowardly neither be afraid before them; for <i>it is</i> the Lord your God that advances with you in the midst of you,  neither will he by any means forsake you, nor desert you.


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And Moses called Joshua, and said to him before all Israel, Be courageous and strong; for you shall go in before this people into the land which the Lord sware to your fathers to give to them, and you shall give it to them for an inheritance.


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And Moses wrote the words of this law in a book, and gave it to the priests the sons of Levi who bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to the elders of the sons of Israel.


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And Moses charged them in that day, saying, After seven years, in the time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,


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when all Israel come together to appear before the Lord your God, in the place which the Lord shall choose, you° shall read this law before all Israel in their ears,


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having assembled the people, the men, and the women, and the children, and the stranger that is in your cities, that they may hear, and that they may learn to fear the Lord your God; and they shall listen to do all the words of this law.


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And their sons who have not known shall hear, and shall learn to fear the Lord your God all the days that they live upon the land, into which you° go over Jordan to inherit it.


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And the Lord said to Moses, Behold, the days of your death are at hand; call Joshua, and stand you° by the doors of the tabernacle of testimony, and I will give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went to the tabernacle of testimony, and stood by the doors of the tabernacle of testimony.


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And the Lord descended in a cloud, and stood by the doors of the tabernacle of testimony; and the pillar of the cloud stood by the doors of the tabernacle of testimony.


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And the Lord said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers, and this people will arise and go a whoring after the strange gods of the land, into which they are entering: and they will forsake me, and break my covenant, which I made with them.


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And I will be very angry with them in that day, and I will leave them and turn my face away from them, and they shall be devoured; and many evils and afflictions shall come upon them; and they shall say in that day, Because the Lord my God is not with me, these evils have come upon me.


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And I will surely turn away my face from them in that day, because of all their evil doings which they have done, because they turned aside after strange gods.


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And now write the words of this song, and teach it to the children of Israel, and you° shall put it into their mouth, that this song may witness for me among the children of Israel to their face.


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For I will bring them into the good land, which I sware to their fathers, to give to them a land flowing with milk and honey: and they shall eat and be filled and satisfy <i>themselves</i>; then will they turn aside after other gods, and serve them, and they will provoke me, and break my covenant.


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And this song shall stand up to witness against them; for they shall not forget it out of their mouth, or out of the mouth of their seed; for I know their wickedness, what they are doing here this day, before I have brought them into the good land, which I sware to their fathers.


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And he charged Joshua, and said, Be courageous and strong, for you shall bring the sons of Israel into the land, which the Lord sware to them, and he shall be with you.


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Take the book of this law, and you° shall put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God; and it shall be there <n>[[Gr. ]] within you. </n> among you for a testimony.


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For I know your provocation, and your stiff neck; for yet during my life with you at this day, you° have been provoking in your conduct toward God: how shall you° not also be so after my death?


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Gather together to me the heads of your tribes, and your elders, and your judges, and your officers, that I may speak in their ears all these words; and I call both heaven and earth to witness against them.


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Let my speech be looked for as the rain, and my words come down as dew, as the shower upon the herbage, and as snow upon the grass.


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<i>As for God</i>, his works <i>are</i> true, and all his ways <i>are</i> <n>[[Gr. ]] judgments. </n> judgment: God <i>is</i> faithful, and there is no unrighteousness <i>in him</i>; just and holy <i>is</i> the Lord.


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Do you° thus recompense the Lord? <i>is the</i> people thus foolish and unwise? did not he himself your father purchase you, and make you, and form you?


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Remember the days of old, consider the years <n>[[Gr. ]] in ages of ages. </n> for past ages: ask your father, and he shall relate to you, your elders, and they shall tell you.


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When the Most High divided the nations, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels of God.


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He maintained him in the wilderness, in burning thirst and a dry land: he led him about and instructed him, and kept him as the apple of an eye.


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As an eagle would watch over his brood, and yearns over his young, receives them having spread his wings, and takes them up on his back:


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He brought them up on the strength of the land; he fed them with the fruits of the fields; they sucked honey out of the rock, and oil out of the solid rock.


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Butter of cows, and milk of sheep, with the fat of lambs and rams, of calves and kids, with fat of kidneys of wheat; and he drank wine, the blood of the grape.


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So Jacob ate and was filled, and the beloved one kicked; he grew fat, he became thick and broad: then he forsook the God that made him, and departed from God his Saviour.


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They sacrificed to devils, and not to God; to gods whom they knew not: new and fresh <i>gods</i> came in, whom their fathers knew not.


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and said, I will turn away my face from them, and will show what shall happen to them in the last days; for it is a perverse generation, sons in whom is no faith.


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They have provoked me to jealousy with <i>that which is</i> not God, they have exasperated me with their idols; and I will provoke them to jealousy with them that are no nation, I will anger them with a nation void of understanding.


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For a fire has been kindled out of my wrath, it shall burn to hell below; it shall devour the land, and the fruits of it; it shall set on fire the foundations of the mountains.


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I will gather evils upon them, and will <n>[[Gr. ]] cause my weapons to war together against them. </n> fight with my weapons against them.


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<i>They shall be</i> consumed with hunger and the devouring of birds, and there shall be irremediable <n>[[Gr. ]] downfall [[or ]] falling away. </n> destruction: I will send forth against them the teeth of wild beasts, with the rage of <i>serpents</i> creeping on the ground.


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Without, the sword shall bereave them of children, and terror <i>shall issue</i> out of the secret chambers; the young man shall perish with the virgin, the suckling with him who has grown old.


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Were it not for the wrath of the enemy, lest they should live long, lest their enemies should combine against them; lest they should say, Our own high arm, and not the Lord, has done all these things.


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How <n>[[Gr. ]] shall. </n> should one pursue a thousand, and two rout tens of thousands, if God had not sold them, and the Lord delivered them up?


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For their vine <i>is</i> of the vine of Sodom, and their vine-branch of Gomorrha: their grape <i>is</i> a grape of gall, their cluster <i>is</i> one of bitterness.


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In the day of vengeance  I will recompense, whenever their foot shall be tripped up; for the day of their destruction <i>is</i> near to them, and the judgments at hand are close upon you.


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For the Lord shall judge his people, and shall be comforted over his servants; for he saw that they were <n>[[Gr. ]] paralysed. </n> utterly weakened, and failed in the hostile invasion, and were become feeble:


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the fat of whose sacrifices you° ate, and you° drank the wine of their drink-offerings? let them arise and help you, and be your protectors.


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Behold, behold that I am <i>he</i>, and there is no god beside me: I kill, and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal; and there is none who shall deliver out of my hands.


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For I will sharpen my sword like lightning, and my hand shall take hold of judgment; and I will render judgment to my enemies, and will recompense them that hate me.


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I will make my weapons drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, <i>it shall glut itself</i> with the blood of the wounded, and from the captivity of the <n>[[Alex. ]] ἐθνῶν, Gentiles. </n> heads of <i>their</i> enemies that rule over them.


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Rejoice, you° heavens, with him, and let all the angels of God worship him;  rejoice you° Gentiles, with his people, and let all the sons of God strengthen themselves in him; for he will avenge the blood of his sons, and he will render vengeance, and recompense justice to his enemies, and will reward them that hate him; and the Lord shall purge the land of his people.


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And Moses wrote this song in that day, and taught it to the children of Israel; and Moses went in and spoke all the words of this law in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the <i>son</i> of Naue.


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And he said to them, Take heed with your heart to all these words, which I testify to you this day, which you° shall command your sons, to observe and do all the words of this law.


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For this <i>is</i> no vain word to you; for it <i>is</i> your life, and because of this word you° shall live long upon the land, into which you° go over Jordan to inherit it.


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Go up to the mount Abarim, this mountain Nabau which is in the land of Moab over against Jericho, and behold the land of Chanaan, which I give to the sons of Israel:


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and die in the mount whither you go up, and be added to your people; as Aaron your brother died in mount Or, and was added to his people.


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Because you° disobeyed my word among the children of Israel, at the waters of strife of Cades in the wilderness of Sin; because you° sanctified me not among the sons of Israel.


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And this <i>is</i> the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.


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And he said, The Lord is come from Sina, and has appeared from Seir to us, and has hasted out of the mount of Pharan, with the ten thousands of <n><i>Heb. קרש, saints. </i></n> Cades; on his right hand <i>were</i> his angels with him.


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And he spared his people, and all his sanctified ones <i>are</i> under your hands; and they are under you; and he received of his words


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And he shall be prince with the beloved one, when the princes of the people are gathered together with the tribes of Israel.


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And this <i>is the blessing</i> of Juda; Hear, Lord, the voice of Juda, and do you visit his people: his hands shall contend for him, and you shall be a help from his enemies.


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And to Levi he said, Give to Levi his manifestations, and his truth to the holy man, whom they tempted in the temptation; they reviled him at the water of strife.


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Who says to his father and mother, I have not seen you; and he knew not his brethren, and he refused to know his sons: he kept your oracles, and observed your covenant.


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They shall declare your ordinances to Jacob, and your law to Israel: they shall place incense in <i>the time of</i> your wrath continually upon your altar.


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Bless, Lord, his strength, and accept the works of his hands; break the loins of his enemies that have risen up against him, and let not them that hate him rise up.


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And to Benjamin he said, The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in confidence, and God overshadows him always, and he rested between his shoulders.


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And to Joseph he said, His land <i>is</i> of the blessing of the Lord, of the seasons of sky and dew, and of the deeps of wells below,


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and of the fullness of the land in season: and let the things pleasing to him that lived in the bush come on the head of Joseph, and on the crown <i>of him who was</i> glorified above his brethren.


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His beauty <i>is as</i> the firstling of his bull, his horns <i>are</i> the horns of a unicorn; with them he shall thrust the nations at once, even from the end of the earth: these <i>are</i> the ten thousands of Ephraim, and these <i>are</i> the thousands of Manasse.


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They shall utterly destroy the nations, and you° shall call <i>men</i> there, and there offer the sacrifice of righteousness; for the wealth of the sea shall suckle you, and so shall the marts of them that dwell by the sea-coast.


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And to Gad he said, Blessed <i>be</i> he that enlarges Gad: as a lion he rested, having broken the arm and the ruler.


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And he saw his first fruits, that there the land of the princes gathered with the chiefs of the people was divided; the Lord wrought righteousness, and his judgment with Israel.


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And to Nephthali he said, Nephthali <i>has</i> the fulness of good things; and let him be filled with blessing from the Lord: he shall inherit the west and the south.


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And to Aser he said, Aser <i>is</i> blessed with children; and he shall be acceptable to his brethren: he shall dip his foot in oil.


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There is not <i>any such</i> as the God of the beloved; he who rides upon the heaven <i>is</i> your helper, and the magnificent One of the firmament.


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And the rule of God shall protect you, and <i>that</i> under the strength of the everlasting arms; and he shall cast forth the enemy from before your face, saying, Perish.


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And Israel shall dwell in confidence alone on the land of Jacob, with corn and wine; and the sky <i>shall be</i> misty with dew upon you.


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Blessed <i>are</i> you, O Israel; who <i>is</i> like to you, O people saved by the Lord? your helper shall hold his shield over you, and <i>his</i> sword <i>is</i> your boast; and your enemies shall speak falsely to you, and you shall tread upon their neck.<pb/>


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And Moses went up from Araboth Moab to the mount of Nabau, to the top of Phasga, which is before Jericho; and the Lord showed him all the mount of Galaad to Dan, and all the land of Nephthali,


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And the Lord said to Moses, This <i>is</i> the land of which I sware to Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob, saying, To your seed will I give it: and I have showed it to your eyes, but you shall not go in there.


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And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old at his death; his eyes were not dimmed, nor were his natural powers destroyed.


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And the children of Israel wept for Moses in Araboth of Moab at Jordan near Jericho thirty days; and the days of the sad mourning for Moses were completed.


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And Joshua the son of Naue was filled with the spirit of knowledge, for Moses had laid his hands upon him; and the children of Israel listened to him; and they did as the Lord commanded Moses.


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in all the signs and wonders, which the Lord sent him to work in Egypt on Pharao, and his servants, and all his land;


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And it came to pass after the death of Moses, that the Lord spoke to Joshua the son of Naue, the minister of Moses, saying,


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Moses my servant is dead; now then arise, go over Jordan, you and all this people, into the land, which I give them.


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The wilderness and Antilibanus, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, and as far as the <n>[[Or, ]] last, [[or, ]] farthest sea. </n> extremity of the sea; your coasts shall be from the setting of the sun.


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Not a man shall stand against you all the days of your life; and as I was with Moses, so will I also be with you, and  I will not fail you, or neglect you.


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Be strong and 'quit yourself like a man, for you shall divide the land to this people, which I sware to give to <n>[[Gr. ]] to your fathers, to give them. </n> your fathers.


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Be strong, therefore, and quit yourself like a man, to observe and do as Moses my servant commanded you; and you shall not turn <n>[[Gr. ]] from them, [[sc. ]] the commands. </n> therefrom to the right hand or to the left, that you may be wise in whatever you may do.


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And the book of this law shall not depart out of your mouth, and you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may know how to do all the things that are written <i>in it</i>; then shall you prosper, and make your ways prosperous, and then shall you be wise.


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Behold! I have commanded you; be strong and courageous, be not cowardly nor fearful, for the Lord your God is with you in all places whither you go.


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Go into the midst of the camp of the people, and command the people, saying, Prepare provisions; for yet three days and you° <n>[[Gr. ]] do go over. </n> shall go over this Jordan, entering in to take possession of the land, which the Lord God of your fathers gives to you.


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Remember the word which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, the Lord your God has caused you to rest, and has given you this land.


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Let your wives and your children and your cattle dwell in the land, which he has given you; and you° shall go over <n>[[Or, ]] in good order. </n> well armed before your brethren, every one of you who is strong; and you° shall fight on their side;


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until the Lord your God shall have given your brethren rest, as also to you, and they also shall have inherited the land, which the Lord your God gives them; then you° shall depart each one to his inheritance, which Moses gave you beyond Jordan eastward.


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And they answered Joshua and said, We will do all things which you command us, and we will go to every place whither you shall send us.


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Whereinsoever we listened to Moses we will listen to you; only let the Lord our God be with you, as he was with Moses.


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And whoever shall disobey you, and whoever shall not listen to your words as you shall command him, let him die; but be you strong and courageous.<pb/>


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And Joshua the son of Naue sent out of Sattin two young men to spy <i>the land</i>, saying, Go up and view the land and Jericho: and the two young men went and entered into Jericho; and they entered into the house of a harlot, whose name <i>was</i> Raab, and lodged there.


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An it was reported to the king of Jericho, saying, Men of the sons of Israel have come in hither to spy the land.


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And the king of Jericho sent and spoke to Raab, saying, Bring out the men that entered into your house this night; for they are come to spy out the land.


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And the woman took the two men and hid them; and she spoke to <n>[[Gr. ]] them. </n> the messengers, saying, The men came in to me,


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but when the gate was shut in the <n>[[Gr. ]] dark. </n> evening, the men went out; I know not whither they are gone: follow after them, if you° <n>[[Gr. ]] shall. </n> may overtake them.


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But she <i>had</i> brought them up upon the house, and hid them in the flax-stalks that were spread by her on the house.


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And it came to pass when the men who pursued after them were gone forth, and before the spies had lain down to sleep, that she came up to them on the top of the house;


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and she said to them, I know that the Lord has given you the land; for the fear of you has fallen upon us.


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For we have heard that the Lord God dried up the Red Sea before you, when you° came out of the land of Egypt, and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond Jordan, to Seon and Og, whom you° utterly destroyed.


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And when we heard it we were amazed in our heart, and there was no longer any spirit in any of us because of you, for the Lord your god <i>is</i> God in heaven above, and on the earth beneath.


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And now swear to me by the Lord God; since I deal mercifully with you, so do you° also deal mercifully with the house of my father:


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and save alive the house of my father, my mother, and my brethren, and all my house, and all that they have, and you° shall rescue my soul from death.


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And the men said to her, Our life for yours <i>even</i> to death: and she said, When the Lord shall have delivered the city to you, you° shall deal mercifully and truly with me.


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and she said to them, Depart into the hill-country, lest the pursuers meet you, and you° shall be hidden there three days until your pursuers return from after you, and afterwards you° shall depart on your way.


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Behold, <n>[[Gr. ]] do enter. </n> we shall enter into a part of the city, and you shall set <n>[[Gr. ]] the sign. </n> a sign; you shall bind this scarlet cord in the window, by which you have let us down, and you shall bring in to yourself, into your house, your father, and your mother, and your brethren, and all the family of your father.


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And it shall come to pass that whoever shall go outside the door of your house, his guilt shall be upon him, and we shall be quit of this your oath; and we will be responsible for all that shall be found with you in your house.


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And they came to the hill-country, and remained there three days; and the pursuers searched all the roads, and found them not.


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And the two young men returned, and came down out of the mountain; and they went over to Joshua the son of Naue, and told him all things that had happened to them.


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And they said to Joshua, The Lord has delivered all the land into our power, and all the inhabitants of that land tremble because of us.<pb/>


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And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and departed from Sattin; and they came as far as Jordan, and lodged there before they crossed over.


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and they charged the people, saying, When you° shall see the ark of the covenant of the Lord our God, and our priests and the Levites bearing it, you° shall depart from your places, and you° shall go after it.


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But let there be a distance between you and it; you° shall stand as much as two thousand cubits <i>from it</i>. Do not draw near to it, that you° may know the way which you° are to go; for you° have not gone the way <n>[[Gr. ]] from yesterday and the third day. A frequent Hebraism. </n> before.


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And Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow, for to-morrow the Lord will do wonders among you.


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And Joshua said to the priests, Take up the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and go before the people: and the priests took up the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and went before the people.


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And the Lord said to Joshua, This day do I begin to exalt you before all the children of Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so will I also be with you.


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And now charge the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, As soon as you° shall enter on a part of the water of Jordan, then you° shall stand in Jordan.


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And Joshua said to the children of Israel, <n>[[Gr. ]] bring hither. [[sc. ]] yourselves. </n> Come hither, and listen to the word of the Lord our God.


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Hereby you° shall know that the living God <i>is</i> among you, and will utterly destroy from before our face the Chananite, and the Chettite and Pherezite, and the Evite, and the Amorite, and the Gergesite, and the Jebusite.


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And it shall come to pass, when the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord of the whole earth rest in the water of Jordan, the water of Jordan <i>below</i> shall fail, and the water coming down from above shall stop.


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And the people removed from their tents to cross over Jordan, and the priests bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord before the people.


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And when the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord entered upon Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord were dipped in part of the water of Jordan; (now Jordan <n>[[Gr. ]] its whole channel. </n> overflowed all its banks <n>[[Gr. ]] as on the days. </n> about the time of wheat harvest:)


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then the waters that came down from above stopped; there stood one solid heap very far off, as far as <n>[[Gr. ]] a part. </n> the region of Kariathiarim, and <n>[[Gr. ]] that which came down. </n> the lower part came down to the sea of Araba, the salt sea, till it completely failed; and the people stood opposite Jericho.


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And the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood on dry land in the midst of Jordan; and all the children of Israel went through on dry land, until all the people had completely gone over Jordan.<pb/>


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and charge them; and you° shall take out of the midst of Jordan twelve <n>[[Gr. ]] ready. <i>Heb. הכיך. </i>[[A.V. firm, ]]<i>applied to the foot of the priests. </i></n> fit stones, and having carried them across together with yourselves, place them in your camp, where you° shall encamp for the night.


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And Joshua having called twelve men <n>[[Gr. ]] of the distinguished, or, illustrious. </n> of distinction among the children of Israel, one of each tribe,


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said to them, Advance before me in the presence of the Lord into the midst of Jordan, and each having taken up a stone from thence, let him carry it on his shoulders, according to the number of the twelve tribes of Israel:


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that these may be to you continually for an appointed sign, that when your son asks you <n>[[Gr. ]] of the distinguished, or, illustrious. </n> in future, saying, What are these stones to us?


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then you may explain to your son, saying, The river Jordan was <n>[[Gr. ]] failed. </n> dried up from before the ark of the covenant of the Lord of the whole earth, when it passed it: and these stones shall be for a memorial for you for the children of Israel for ever.


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And the children of Israel did so, as the Lord commanded Joshua; and they took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, (as the Lord commanded Joshua, when the children of Israel had completely passed over,) and carried these stones with them into the camp, and laid them down there.


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And Joshua set also other twelve stones in Jordan itself, in the place that was under the feet of the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord; and there they are to this day.


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And the priests that bore the ark of the covenant stood in Jordan, until Joshua <i>had</i> finished all that the Lord commanded him to report to the people; and the people hasted and passed over.


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And it came to pass when all the people had passed over, that the ark of the covenant of the Lord passed over, and the stones before them.


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And the sons of Ruben, and the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasse passed over <n>[[Or, ]] equipped. </n> armed before the children of Israel, as Moses commanded them.


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Forty thousand <n>[[Gr. ]] in good order. </n> armed for battle went over before the Lord to war, to the city of Jericho.


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In that day the Lord magnified Joshua before all the people of Israel; and they feared him, as <i>they did</i> Moses, as long as he lived.


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Charge the priests that bear the ark of the covenant of the testimony of the Lord, to go up out of Jordan.


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And it came to pass when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord were gone up out of Jordan, and set their feet upon the land, <i>that</i> the water of Jordan returned impetuously to its place, and went as before over all its banks.


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And the people went up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month; and the children of Israel encamped in Galgala in the region eastward from Jericho.


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when the Lord our God had dried up the water of Jordan from before them, until they had passed over; as the Lord our God did to the Red Sea, which the Lord our God dried up from before us, until we passed over.


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That all the nations of the earth might know, that the power of the Lord is mighty, and that you° might worship the Lord our God in every work.<pb/>


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And it came to pass when the kings of the Amorites who were beyond Jordan heard, and the kings of Phoenicia by the sea, that the Lord God had dried up the river Jordan from before the children of Israel when they passed over, that their hearts failed, and <n>[[Gr. ]] their minds or thoughts melted. </n> they were terror-stricken, and there was no sense in them <n>[[Gr. ]] from the face of. </n> because of the children of Israel.


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And about this time the Lord said to Joshua, Make you stone knives of sharp stone, and sit down and circumcise the children of Israel the second time.


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And Joshua made sharp knives of stone, and circumcised the children of Israel at the place called the “Hill of Foreskins.”


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And <i>this is</i> the way in which Joshua purified the children of Israel; as many as were born in the way, and as many as were uncircumcised of them that came out of Egypt,


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all these Joshua circumcised; for forty and two years Israel wondered in the wilderness of Mabdaris—


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Therefore most of the fighting men that came out of the land of Egypt, were uncircumcised, who disobeyed the commands of God; concerning whom also he determined that they should not see the land, which the Lord sware to give to their fathers, <i>even</i> a land flowing with milk and honey.


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And in their place he raised up their sons, whom Joshua circumcised, because they were uncircumcised, having been born by the way.


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And when they had been circumcised they rested <n>[[Gr. ]] sitting. A frequent Hebraism. </n> continuing there in the camp till they were healed.


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And the Lord said to Joshua the son of Naue, On this day have I removed the reproach of Egypt from you: and he called the name of that place Galgala.


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And the children of Israel kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, to the westward of Jericho on the opposite side of the Jordan in the plain.


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In this day the manna failed, after they had eaten of the corn of the land, and the children of Israel no longer had manna: and they took the fruits of the land of the Phoenicians in that year.


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And it came to pass when Joshua was in Jericho, that he looked up with his eyes and saw a man standing before him, and <i>there was</i> a drawn sword in his hand; and Joshua drew near and said to him, Are you for us or on the side of our enemies?


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And Joshua fell on his face upon the earth, and said to him, Lord, what command you your servant?<pb/>


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And the Lord said to Joshua, Behold, I deliver Jericho into your power, and its king in it, <n>[[Gr. ]] mighty in strength. </n> <i>and its</i> mighty men.


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And it shall be <i>that</i> when you° shall sound with the trumpet, <n>[[Gr. ]] let all the people, etc. </n> all the people shall shout together.


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And when they have shouted, the walls of the city shall fall <n>[[Or, ]] of their own accord. </n> of themselves; and all the people shall enter, each one rushing direct into the city.


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And let seven priests having seven <n><i>Heb. שופרוה היוכליס </i>[[A.V. ]] 'ram's horns.' Only in this place. </n> sacred trumpets proceed thus before the Lord, and let them sound loudly; and let the ark of the covenant of the Lord follow.


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Charge the people to go round, and encompass the city; and let your men of war pass on armed before the Lord.


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And let the men of war proceed before, and the priests bringing up the rear behind the ark of the covenant of the Lord <i>proceed</i> sounding the trumpets.


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And Joshua commanded the people, saying, Cry not out, nor let any one hear your voice, until he himself declare to you the <n>[[Gr. ]] day. </n> time to cry out, and then you° shall cry out.


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And the ark of the covenant of God having gone round immediately returned into the camp, and lodged there.


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And on the second day Joshua rose up in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the covenant of the Lord.


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And the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets went on before the Lord; and afterwards the men of war went on, and the remainder of the multitude went after the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.


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And all the rest of the multitude compassed the city six times from within a short distance, and went back again into the camp; this they did six days.


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And it came to pass at the seventh circuit the priests blew the trumpets; and Joshua said to the children of Israel, Shout, for the Lord has given you the city.


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And the city shall be <n>[[Or, ]] an accursed thing. </n> devoted, it and all things that are in it, to the Lord of Hosts: only do you° save Raab the harlot, and all things in her house.


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But keep yourselves strictly from the accursed thing, lest you° set your mind upon and take of the accursed thing, and you° make the camp of the children of Israel and accursed thing, and destroy us.


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And all the silver, or gold, or brass, or iron, shall be holy to the Lord; it shall be carried into the treasury of the Lord.


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And the priests sounded with the trumpets: and when the people heard the trumpets, all the people shouted at once with a loud and strong shout; and all the wall fell round about, and all the people went up into the city:


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and Joshua devoted it to destruction, and all things that were in the city, man and woman, young man and old, and calf and ass, with the <n>[[Gr. ]] mouth. </n> edge of the sword.


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And Joshua said to the two young men who had acted a spies, Go into the house of the woman, and bring her out thence, and all that she has.


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And the two young men who had spied out the city entered into the house of the woman, and brought out Raab the harlot, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and her kindred, and all that she had; and they set her without the camp of Israel.


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And the city was burnt with fire with all things that were in it; only of the silver, and gold, and brass, and iron, they gave to be brought into the treasury of the Lord.


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And Joshua saved alive Raab the harlot, and all the house of her father, and caused her to dwell in Israel until this day, because she hid the spies which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.


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And Joshua adjured <i>them</i> on that day before the Lord, saying, Cursed <i>be</i> the man who shall build that city: he shall lay the foundation of it in his firstborn, and he shall set up the gates of it in his youngest son. And so did Hozan of Baethel; he laid the foundation in Abiron his firstborn, and set up the gates of it in his youngest <n>[[Gr. ]] saved. </n> surviving son.


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And Joshua sent men to Gai, which is by Baethel, saying, Spy out Gai: and the men went up and spied Gai.


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And they returned to Joshua, and said to him, Let not all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and take the city by siege: carry not up there the whole people, for <i>the enemy</i> are few.


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And the men of Gai killed of them to the number of thirty-six men, and they pursued them from the gate, and destroyed them from the steep hill; and the heart of the people was alarmed and became as water.


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And Joshua tore his garments; and Joshua fell on the earth on his face before the Lord until evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they cast dust on their heads.


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And Joshua said, I pray, Lord, therefore has your servant brought this people over Jordan to deliver them to the Amorite to destroy us? <n>[[Gr. ]] and if we had. </n> would we had remained and settled ourselves beyond Jordan.


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And when the Chananite and all the inhabitants of the land hear it, they shall compass us round and destroy us from off the land: and what will you do <i>for</i> your great name?


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The people has sinned, and transgressed the covenant which I made with them; they have stolen from the cursed thing, and put it into their store.


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And the children of Israel will not be able to stand before their enemies; they will turn their back before their enemies, for they have become an accursed thing: I will not any longer be with you, unless you° remove the cursed thing from yourselves.


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And you° shall all be gathered together by your tribes in the morning, and it shall come to pass that the tribe which the Lord shall show, you° shall bring by families; and the family which the Lord shall show, you° shall bring by households; and the household which the Lord shall show, you° shall bring man by man.


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And the man who shall be pointed out, shall be burnt with fire, and all that he has; because he has transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and has wrought wickedness in Israel.


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And Joshua rose up early, and brought the people by their tribes; and the tribe of Juda was pointed out.


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And Joshua said to Achar, Give glory this day to the Lord God of Israel, and make confession; and tell me what you have done, and hide it not from me.


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And Achar answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel: thus and thus have I done:


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I saw in the spoil an embroidered mantle, and two hundred didrachmas of silver, and one golden wedge of fifty didrachmas, and I desired them and took them; and, behold, they are hid in my tent, and the silver is hid under them.


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And Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent into the camp; and these things were hidden in his tent, and the silver under them.


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And they brought them out of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and the elders of Israel, and they laid them before the Lord.


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And Joshua took Achar the son of Zara, and brought him to the valley of Achor, and his sons, and his daughters, and his calves, and his asses, and all his sheep, and his tent, and all his property, and all the people <i>were</i> with him; and he brought them to <n><i>Heb. צמק צכור valley of trouble. </i></n> Emec Achor.


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And Joshua said to Achar, Why have you destroyed us? the Lord destroy you <n>[[Gr. ]] as also today. </n> as at this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones.


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And they set up over him a great heap of stones; and the Lord ceased from his fierce anger. Therefore he called <n>[[Gr. ]] it. </n> the place Emecachor until this day.<pb/>


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And the Lord said to Joshua, Fear not, nor be timorous: take with you all the men of war, and arise, go up to Gai; behold, I have given into your hands the king of Gai, and his land.


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And you shall do to Gai, as you did to Jericho and its king; and you shall take to yourself the spoil of its cattle; set now for yourself an ambush for the city behind.


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And Joshua and all the men of war rose to go up to Gai; and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men, and he sent them away by night.


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And he charged them, saying, Do you° lie in ambush behind the city: do not go far from the city, and you° shall all be ready.


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I and all with me will draw near to the city: and it shall come to pass when the inhabitants of Gai shall come forth to meet us, as before, that we will flee from before them.


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And when they shall come out after us, we will draw them away from the city; and they will say, These men flee from before us, as also before.


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And Joshua sent them, and they went to lie in ambush; and they lay between Baethel and Gai, westward of Gai.


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And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and <n>[[Gr. ]] reviewed. </n> numbered the people; and he went up, he and the elders before the people to Gai.


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And all the men of war went up with him, and they went forward and came over against the city eastward.


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And it came to pass when the king of Gai saw <i>it</i>, he hasted and went out to meet them direct to the battle, he and all the people <i>that were</i> with him: and he knew not that there was an ambuscade <i>formed</i> against him behind the city.


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And they pursued after the children of Israel, and they themselves went to a distance from the city.


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There was no one left in Gai who did not pursue after Israel; and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.


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And the Lord said to Joshua, Stretch forth your hand with the spear that is in your hand toward the city, for I have delivered it into your hands; and the liers in wait shall rise up quickly out of their place.


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And Joshua stretched out his hand <i>and</i> his spear toward the city, and the ambuscade rose up quickly out of their place; and they came forth when he stretched out his hand; and they entered into the city, and took it; and they hasted and <n>[[Or, ]] set it on fire. </n> burnt the city with fire.


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And when the inhabitants of Gai looked round behind them, then they saw the smoke going up out of the city to heaven, and they were no longer able to flee this way or that way.


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And Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambuscade <n>[[Gr. ]] took. </n> had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city went up to heaven; and they turned and struck the men of Gai.


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And these came forth out of the city to meet them; and they were in the midst of the army, some <i>being</i> on this side, and some on that; and they struck them until there was not left of them one who survived and escaped.


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And when the children of Israel had ceased slaying all that were in Gai, and in the fields, and in the mountain on the descent, from whence they pursued them <i>even</i> to the end, then Joshua returned to Gai, and struck it with the edge of the sword.


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Beside the spoils that were in the city, all things which the children of Israel took as spoil for themselves according to the command of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Joshua.


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And Joshua burnt the city with fire: he made it an uninhabited heap for ever, <i>even</i> to this day.


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And he hanged the king of Gai on a <n>[[Gr. ]] double tree. </n> gallows; and he remained on the tree till evening: and when the sun went down, Joshua gave charge, and they took down his body from the tree, and cast it into <n>[[Gr. ]] the pit or trench. For vv. 30-35, see chap. 8. 2. </n> a pit, and they set over him a heap of stones until this day.


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as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the law of Moses, an altar of unhewn stones, on which iron <n>[[Gr. ]] was not lifted up. </n> had not been lifted up; and he offered there whole burnt offerings to the Lord, and a peace-offering.


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And Joshua wrote upon the stones <n>[[Or, ]] a Deuteronomy. </n> a copy of the law, even the law of Moses, before the children of Israel.


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And all Israel, and their elders, and their judges, and their scribes, passed on one side and on the other before the ark; and the priests and the Levites took up the ark of the covenant of the Lord; and the stranger and the native were there, who were half of them near mount Garizin, and half near mount Gaebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded at first, to bless the people.


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And afterwards Joshua read accordingly all the words of this law, the blessings and the curses, according to all things written in the law of Moses.


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There was not a word of all that Moses charged Joshua, which Joshua read not in the ears of all the assembly of the children of Israel, the men, and the women, and the children, and the strangers that joined themselves to Israel.<pb/>


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<n>[[Note: ]] Brenton does not have vv 1-2 in his text </n> And when the kings of the Amorites on the other side of Jordan, who were in the mountain country, and in the plain, and in all the coast of the great sea, and those who were near Antilibanus, and the Chettites, and the Chananites, and the Pherezites, and the Evites, and the Amorites, and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites, heard <i>of it</i>,


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<n>[[Note: ]] Brenton does not have vv 1-2 in his text </n> they came all together at the same time to make war against Joshua and Israel.


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And they also wrought craftily, and they went and made provision and prepared themselves; and having taken old sacks on their shoulders, and old and torn and patched bottles of wine,


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and the upper part of their shoes and their sandals old and clouted on their feet, and their garments old upon them—and the bread of their provision was dry and moldy and <n>[[Gr. ]] eaten, [[sc. ]] of worms and maggots. </n> corrupt.


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And they came to Joshua into the camp of Israel to Galgala, and said to Joshua and Israel, We are come from a far land: now then make a covenant with us.


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And the children of Israel said to the Chorrhaean, Peradventure you dwell among us; and how should I make a covenant with you?


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And they said to Joshua, We are your servants: and Joshua said to them, Whence are you°, and whence have you° come?


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And they said, Your servants are come from a very far country in the name of the Lord your God: for we have heard his name, and all that he did in Egypt,


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and all that he did to the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond Jordan, to Seon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Basan, who lived in Astaroth and in Edrain.


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And our elders and all that inhabit our land when they heard spoke to us, saying, Take to yourselves provision for the way, and go to meet them; and you° shall say to them, We are your servants, and now make a covenant with us.


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These <i>are</i> the loaves—we took them hot for our journey on the day on which we came out to come to you; and now they are dried and become moldy.


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And these <i>are</i> the skins of wine which we filled when new, and they are torn; and our garments and our shoes are worn out because of the very long journey.


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And Joshua made peace with them, and they made a covenant with them to preserve them; and the princes of the congregation sware to them.


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And it came to pass <n>[[Gr. ]] after three days after, etc. </n> three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were near neighbors, and that they <n>[[Gr. ]] dwell. </n> lived among them.


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And the children of Israel departed and came to their cities; and their cities <i>were</i> Gabaon, and Kephira, and Berot, and the cities of Jarin.


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Land the children of Israel fought not with them, because all the princes sware to them by the Lord God of Israel; and all the congregation murmured at the princes.


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And the princes said to all the congregation: We have sworn to them by the Lord God of Israel, and now we shall not be able to touch them.


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This we will do; take them alive, and we will preserve them: so there shall not be wrath against us by reason of the oath which we swore to them.


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They shall live, and shall be hewers of wood and drawers of water to all the congregation, as the princes said to them.


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And Joshua called them together and said to them, Why have you° deceived me, saying, We live very far from you; whereas you° are fellow-countrymen of those who dwell among us?


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And now you° are cursed: there shall not fail of you a slave, or a hewer of wood, or a drawer of water to me and my God.


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And they answered Joshua, saying, It was reported to us what the Lord your God charged his servant Moses, to give you this land, and to destroy us and all that lived on it from before you; and we feared very much for our lives <n>[[Gr. ]] from before you. </n> because of you, and <i>therefore</i> we did this thing.


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And now, behold, we <i>are</i> in your power; do to us as it is pleasing to you, and as it seems <i>good</i> to you.


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And they did so to them; and Joshua rescued them in that day out of the hands of the children of Israel, and they did not kill them.


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And Joshua made them in that day hewers of wood and drawers of water to the whole congregation, and for the altar of God: therefore the inhabitants of Gabaon became hewers of wood and drawers of water for the altar of God until this day, even for the place which the Lord should choose. <n>The following verses are additions to Brenton's text from the alexandrine codex. Verses after 33 appear only in the Hebrew text. </n><pb/>


