# bible

book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, any swarming thing that swarms on the ground, you shall not eat, for they are detestable.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  You shall not make yourselves detestable with any swarming thing that swarms, and you shall not defile yourselves with them, and become unclean through them.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  For I am the LORD your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  For I am the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.”


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  This is the law about beast and bird and every living creature that moves through the waters and every creature that swarms on the ground,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean and between the living creature that may be eaten and the living creature that may not be eaten. 


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If a woman conceives and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days. As at the time of her menstruation, she shall be unclean.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  Then she shall continue for thirty-three days in the blood of her purifying. She shall not touch anything holy, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation. And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying for sixty-six days.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “And when the days of her purifying are completed, whether for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting a lamb a year old for a burnt offering, and a pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  and he shall offer it before the LORD and make atonement for her. Then she shall be clean from the flow of her blood. This is the law for her who bears a child, either male or female.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And if she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.” 


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “When a person has on the skin of his body a swelling or an eruption or a spot, and it turns into a case of leprous disease on the skin of his body, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  and the priest shall examine the diseased area on the skin of his body. And if the hair in the diseased area has turned white and the disease appears to be deeper than the skin of his body, it is a case of leprous disease. When the priest has examined him, he shall pronounce him unclean.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  But if the spot is white in the skin of his body and appears no deeper than the skin, and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest shall shut up the diseased person for seven days.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day, and if in his eyes the disease is checked and the disease has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall shut him up for another seven days.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And the priest shall examine him again on the seventh day, and if the diseased area has faded and the disease has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only an eruption. And he shall wash his clothes and be clean.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  But if the eruption spreads in the skin, after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall appear again before the priest.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And the priest shall look, and if the eruption has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a leprous disease.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  and the priest shall look. And if there is a white swelling in the skin that has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  it is a chronic leprous disease in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not shut him up, for he is unclean.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And if the leprous disease breaks out in the skin, so that the leprous disease covers all the skin of the diseased person from head to foot, so far as the priest can see,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  then the priest shall look, and if the leprous disease has covered all his body, he shall pronounce him clean of the disease; it has all turned white, and he is clean.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And the priest shall examine the raw flesh and pronounce him unclean. Raw flesh is unclean, for it is a leprous disease.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  and the priest shall examine him, and if the disease has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce the diseased person clean; he is clean.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  and in the place of the boil there comes a white swelling or a reddish-white spot, then it shall be shown to the priest.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And the priest shall look, and if it appears deeper than the skin and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a case of leprous disease that has broken out in the boil.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  But if the priest examines it and there is no white hair in it and it is not deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall shut him up seven days.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  But if the spot remains in one place and does not spread, it is the scar of the boil, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “Or, when the body has a burn on its skin and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a spot, reddish-white or white,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  the priest shall examine it, and if the hair in the spot has turned white and it appears deeper than the skin, then it is a leprous disease. It has broken out in the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a case of leprous disease.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  But if the priest examines it and there is no white hair in the spot and it is no deeper than the skin, but has faded, the priest shall shut him up seven days,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  and the priest shall examine him the seventh day. If it is spreading in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a case of leprous disease.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  But if the spot remains in one place and does not spread in the skin, but has faded, it is a swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is the scar of the burn.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  the priest shall examine the disease. And if it appears deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is an itch, a leprous disease of the head or the beard.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And if the priest examines the itching disease and it appears no deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall shut up the person with the itching disease for seven days,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  and on the seventh day the priest shall examine the disease. If the itch has not spread, and there is in it no yellow hair, and the itch appears to be no deeper than the skin,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  then he shall shave himself, but the itch he shall not shave; and the priest shall shut up the person with the itching disease for another seven days.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And on the seventh day the priest shall examine the itch, and if the itch has not spread in the skin and it appears to be no deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. And he shall wash his clothes and be clean.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  then the priest shall examine him, and if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest need not seek for the yellow hair; he is unclean.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  But if in his eyes the itch is unchanged and black hair has grown in it, the itch is healed and he is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  the priest shall look, and if the spots on the skin of the body are of a dull white, it is leukoderma that has broken out in the skin; he is clean.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  But if there is on the bald head or the bald forehead a reddish-white diseased area, it is a leprous disease breaking out on his bald head or his bald forehead.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  Then the priest shall examine him, and if the diseased swelling is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprous disease in the skin of the body,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  he is a leprous man, he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean; his disease is on his head.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “The leprous person who has the disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose, and he shall cover his upper lip and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean.’


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease. He is unclean. He shall live alone. His dwelling shall be outside the camp.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  if the disease is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin or in the warp or the woof or in any article made of skin, it is a case of leprous disease, and it shall be shown to the priest.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  Then he shall examine the disease on the seventh day. If the disease has spread in the garment, in the warp or the woof, or in the skin, whatever be the use of the skin, the disease is a persistent leprous disease; it is unclean.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And he shall burn the garment, or the warp or the woof, the wool or the linen, or any article made of skin that is diseased, for it is a persistent leprous disease. It shall be burned in the fire.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “And if the priest examines, and if the disease has not spread in the garment, in the warp or the woof or in any article made of skin,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which is the disease, and he shall shut it up for another seven days.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And the priest shall examine the diseased thing after it has been washed. And if the appearance of the diseased area has not changed, though the disease has not spread, it is unclean. You shall burn it in the fire, whether the rot is on the back or on the front.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “But if the priest examines, and if the diseased area has faded after it has been washed, he shall tear it out of the garment or the skin or the warp or the woof.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  Then if it appears again in the garment, in the warp or the woof, or in any article made of skin, it is spreading. You shall burn with fire whatever has the disease.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  But the garment, or the warp or the woof, or any article made of skin from which the disease departs when you have washed it, shall then be washed a second time, and be clean.”


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  This is the law for a case of leprous disease in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp or the woof, or in any article made of skin, to determine whether it is clean or unclean. 


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “This shall be the law of the leprous person for the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  and the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall look. Then, if the case of leprous disease is healed in the leprous person,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two live clean birds and cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And the priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthenware vessel over fresh water.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  He shall take the live bird with the cedarwood and the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, and dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And he shall sprinkle it seven times on him who is to be cleansed of the leprous disease. Then he shall pronounce him clean and shall let the living bird go into the open field.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And he who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and bathe himself in water, and he shall be clean. And after that he may come into the camp, but live outside his tent seven days.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And on the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair from his head, his beard, and his eyebrows. He shall shave off all his hair, and then he shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he shall be clean.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, and one log of oil.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And the priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed and these things before the LORD, at the entrance of the tent of meeting.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And the priest shall take one of the male lambs and offer it for a guilt offering, along with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And he shall kill the lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary. For the guilt offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest; it is most holy.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  The priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  and dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand and sprinkle some oil with his finger seven times before the LORD.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And some of the oil that remains in his hand the priest shall put on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed. Then the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  The priest shall offer the sin offering, to make atonement for him who is to be cleansed from his uncleanness. And afterward he shall kill the burnt offering.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “But if he is poor and cannot afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a guilt offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and a log of oil;


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  also two turtledoves or two pigeons, whichever he can afford. The one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And on the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, before the LORD.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And the priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And he shall kill the lamb of the guilt offering. And the priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  and shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, in the place where the blood of the guilt offering was put.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, along with a grain offering. And the priest shall make atonement before the LORD for him who is being cleansed.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  This is the law for him in whom is a case of leprous disease, who cannot afford the offerings for his cleansing.”


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put a case of leprous disease in a house in the land of your possession,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, ‘There seems to me to be some case of disease in my house.’


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  Then the priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest goes to examine the disease, lest all that is in the house be declared unclean. And afterward the priest shall go in to see the house.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And he shall examine the disease. And if the disease is in the walls of the house with greenish or reddish spots, and if it appears to be deeper than the surface,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house and shut up the house seven days.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And the priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look. If the disease has spread in the walls of the house,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the disease and throw them into an unclean place outside the city.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And he shall have the inside of the house scraped all around, and the plaster that they scrape off they shall pour out in an unclean place outside the city.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  Then they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he shall take other plaster and plaster the house.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  “If the disease breaks out again in the house, after he has taken out the stones and scraped the house and plastered it,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  then the priest shall go and look. And if the disease has spread in the house, it is a persistent leprous disease in the house; it is unclean.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And he shall break down the house, its stones and timber and all the plaster of the house, and he shall carry them out of the city to an unclean place.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  and whoever sleeps in the house shall wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house shall wash his clothes.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “But if the priest comes and looks, and if the disease has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, for the disease is healed.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And for the cleansing of the house he shall take two small birds, with cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  and shall take the cedarwood and the hyssop and the scarlet yarn, along with the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed and in the fresh water and sprinkle the house seven times.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  Thus he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the fresh water and with the live bird and with the cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And he shall let the live bird go out of the city into the open country. So he shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.”


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And this is the law of his uncleanness for a discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body is blocked up by his discharge, it is his uncleanness.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  Every bed on which the one with the discharge lies shall be unclean, and everything on which he sits shall be unclean.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And anyone who touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And whoever sits on anything on which the one with the discharge has sat shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And whoever touches the body of the one with the discharge shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And if the one with the discharge spits on someone who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. And whoever carries such things shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  Anyone whom the one with the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And an earthenware vessel that the one with the discharge touches shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  “And when the one with a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes. And he shall bathe his body in fresh water and shall be clean.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And on the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons and come before the LORD to the entrance of the tent of meeting and give them to the priest.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And the priest shall use them, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD for his discharge.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  “If a man has an emission of semen, he shall bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until the evening.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And every garment and every skin on which the semen comes shall be washed with water and be unclean until the evening.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe themselves in water and be unclean until the evening.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  “When a woman has a discharge, and the discharge in her body is blood, she shall be in her menstrual impurity for seven days, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And everything on which she lies during her menstrual impurity shall be unclean. Everything also on which she sits shall be unclean.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And whoever touches anything on which she sits shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  Whether it is the bed or anything on which she sits, when he touches it he shall be unclean until the evening.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And if any man lies with her and her menstrual impurity comes upon him, he shall be unclean seven days, and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  “If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, not at the time of her menstrual impurity, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her impurity, all the days of the discharge she shall continue in uncleanness. As in the days of her impurity, she shall be unclean.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  Every bed on which she lies, all the days of her discharge, shall be to her as the bed of her impurity. And everything on which she sits shall be unclean, as in the uncleanness of her menstrual impurity.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  But if she is cleansed of her discharge, she shall count for herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And on the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons and bring them to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And the priest shall use one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. And the priest shall make atonement for her before the LORD for her unclean discharge.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  “Thus you shall keep the people of Israel separate from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle that is in their midst.”


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  This is the law for him who has a discharge and for him who has an emission of semen, becoming unclean thereby;


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  also for her who is unwell with her menstrual impurity, that is, for anyone, male or female, who has a discharge, and for the man who lies with a woman who is unclean. 


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  The LORD spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before the LORD and died,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  and the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat that is on the ark, so that he may not die. For I will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  But in this way Aaron shall come into the Holy Place: with a bull from the herd for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  He shall put on the holy linen coat and shall have the linen undergarment on his body, and he shall tie the linen sash around his waist, and wear the linen turban; these are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water and then put them on.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And he shall take from the congregation of the people of Israel two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  “Aaron shall offer the bull as a sin offering for himself and shall make atonement for himself and for his house.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  Then he shall take the two goats and set them before the LORD at the entrance of the tent of meeting.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  but the goat on which the lot fell for Azazel shall be presented alive before the LORD to make atonement over it, that it may be sent away into the wilderness to Azazel.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  “Aaron shall present the bull as a sin offering for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house. He shall kill the bull as a sin offering for himself.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and he shall bring it inside the veil


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  and put the incense on the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is over the testimony, so that he does not die.


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label: Lev
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  And he shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the front of the mercy seat on the east side, and in front of the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.


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label: Lev
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  “Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people and bring its blood inside the veil and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull, sprinkling it over the mercy seat and in front of the mercy seat.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  Thus he shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleannesses of the people of Israel and because of their transgressions, all their sins. And so he shall do for the tent of meeting, which dwells with them in the midst of their uncleannesses.


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label: Lev
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  No one may be in the tent of meeting from the time he enters to make atonement in the Holy Place until he comes out and has made atonement for himself and for his house and for all the assembly of Israel.


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label: Lev
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  Then he shall go out to the altar that is before the LORD and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and put it on the horns of the altar all around.


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label: Lev
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  And he shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it and consecrate it from the uncleannesses of the people of Israel.


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label: Lev
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  “And when he has made an end of atoning for the Holy Place and the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall present the live goat.


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label: Lev
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  And Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the people of Israel, and all their transgressions, all their sins. And he shall put them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  The goat shall bear all their iniquities on itself to a remote area, and he shall let the goat go free in the wilderness.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “Then Aaron shall come into the tent of meeting and shall take off the linen garments that he put on when he went into the Holy Place and shall leave them there.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And he shall bathe his body in water in a holy place and put on his garments and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people and make atonement for himself and for the people.


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label: Lev
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  And he who lets the goat go to Azazel shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.


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label: Lev
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  And the bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried outside the camp. Their skin and their flesh and their dung shall be burned up with fire.


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label: Lev
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  And he who burns them shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “And it shall be a statute to you forever that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict yourselves and shall do no work, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you.


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label: Lev
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  For on this day shall atonement be made for you to cleanse you. You shall be clean before the LORD from all your sins.


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label: Lev
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  And the priest who is anointed and consecrated as priest in his father’s place shall make atonement, wearing the holy linen garments.


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label: Lev
content:
  He shall make atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make atonement for the tent of meeting and for the altar, and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And this shall be a statute forever for you, that atonement may be made for the people of Israel once in the year because of all their sins.” And Aaron did as the LORD commanded Moses. 


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the people of Israel and say to them, This is the thing that the LORD has commanded.


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label: Lev
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  If any one of the house of Israel kills an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or kills it outside the camp,


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label: Lev
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  and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to offer it as a gift to the LORD in front of the tabernacle of the LORD, bloodguilt shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood, and that man shall be cut off from among his people.


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label: Lev
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  This is to the end that the people of Israel may bring their sacrifices that they sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to the LORD, to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and sacrifice them as sacrifices of peace offerings to the LORD.


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label: Lev
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  And the priest shall throw the blood on the altar of the LORD at the entrance of the tent of meeting and burn the fat for a pleasing aroma to the LORD.


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label: Lev
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  So they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to goat demons, after whom they whore. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.


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label: Lev
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  “And you shall say to them, Any one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice


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label: Lev
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  and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to offer it to the LORD, that man shall be cut off from his people.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.


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label: Lev
content:
  For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.


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label: Lev
content:
  Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “Any one also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth.


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label: Lev
content:
  For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And every person who eats what dies of itself or what is torn by beasts, whether he is a native or a sojourner, shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening; then he shall be clean.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the LORD.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether brought up in the family or in another home.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter or of your daughter’s daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, brought up in your father’s family, since she is your sister.


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label: Lev
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  You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.


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label: Lev
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  You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness.


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label: Lev
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  You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are relatives; it is depravity.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And you shall not take a woman as a rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,


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label: Lev
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  and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.


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label: Lev
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  But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you


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label: Lev
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  (for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean),


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label: Lev
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  lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.


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label: Lev
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  For everyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: I am the LORD your God.” 


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.


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label: Lev
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  It shall be eaten the same day you offer it or on the day after, and anything left over until the third day shall be burned up with fire.


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label: Lev
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  and everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned what is holy to the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from his people.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the LORD your God.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired worker shall not remain with you all night until the morning.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the LORD.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  “If a man lies sexually with a woman who is a slave, assigned to another man and not yet ransomed or given her freedom, a distinction shall be made. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free;


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label: Lev
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  but he shall bring his compensation to the LORD, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, a ram for a guilt offering.


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label: Lev
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  And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the LORD for his sin that he has committed, and he shall be forgiven for the sin that he has committed.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, then you shall regard its fruit as forbidden. Three years it shall be forbidden to you; it must not be eaten.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  But in the fifth year you may eat of its fruit, to increase its yield for you: I am the LORD your God.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, lest the land fall into prostitution and the land become full of depravity.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the LORD your God.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the LORD.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “Say to the people of Israel, Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.


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label: Lev
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  I myself will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, to make my sanctuary unclean and to profane my holy name.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And if the people of the land do at all close their eyes to that man when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death,


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label: Lev
content:
  then I will set my face against that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in whoring after Molech.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “If a person turns to mediums and necromancers, whoring after them, I will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have committed perversion; their blood is upon them.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  If a man takes a woman and her mother also, it is depravity; he and they shall be burned with fire, that there may be no depravity among you.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness, and he shall bear his iniquity.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  If a man lies with a woman during her menstrual period and uncovers her nakedness, he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister or of your father’s sister, for that is to make naked one’s relative; they shall bear their iniquity.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness; they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is impurity. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them.


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label: Lev
content:
  But I have said to you, ‘You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.’ I am the LORD your God, who has separated you from the peoples.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  You shall therefore separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the unclean bird from the clean. You shall not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground crawls, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  You shall be holy to me, for I the LORD am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones; their blood shall be upon them.” 


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, No one shall make himself unclean for the dead among his people,


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label: Lev
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  or his virgin sister (who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may make himself unclean).


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label: Lev
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  They shall not make bald patches on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts on their body.


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label: Lev
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  They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. For they offer the LORD’s food offerings, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled, neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.


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label: Lev
content:
  You shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for I, the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy.


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label: Lev
content:
  And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by whoring, profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  “The priest who is chief among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil is poured and who has been consecrated to wear the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose nor tear his clothes.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  He shall not go in to any dead bodies nor make himself unclean, even for his father or for his mother.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  He shall not go out of the sanctuary, lest he profane the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him: I am the LORD.


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label: Lev
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  A widow, or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry. But he shall take as his wife a virgin of his own people,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “Speak to Aaron, saying, None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a blemish may approach to offer the bread of his God.


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label: Lev
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  For no one who has a blemish shall draw near, a man blind or lame, or one who has a mutilated face or a limb too long,


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label: Lev
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  or a hunchback or a dwarf or a man with a defect in his sight or an itching disease or scabs or crushed testicles.


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label: Lev
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  No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a blemish shall come near to offer the LORD’s food offerings; since he has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.


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label: Lev
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  but he shall not go through the veil or approach the altar, because he has a blemish, that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.”


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “Speak to Aaron and his sons so that they abstain from the holy things of the people of Israel, which they dedicate to me, so that they do not profane my holy name: I am the LORD.


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label: Lev
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  Say to them, ‘If any one of all your offspring throughout your generations approaches the holy things that the people of Israel dedicate to the LORD, while he has an uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.


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label: Lev
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  None of the offspring of Aaron who has a leprous disease or a discharge may eat of the holy things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean through contact with the dead or a man who has had an emission of semen,


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label: Lev
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  and whoever touches a swarming thing by which he may be made unclean or a person from whom he may take uncleanness, whatever his uncleanness may be—


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label: Lev
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  the person who touches such a thing shall be unclean until the evening and shall not eat of the holy things unless he has bathed his body in water.


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label: Lev
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  When the sun goes down he shall be clean, and afterward he may eat of the holy things, because they are his food.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  He shall not eat what dies of itself or is torn by beasts, and so make himself unclean by it: I am the LORD.’


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it and die thereby when they profane it: I am the LORD who sanctifies them.


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label: Lev
content:
  “A lay person shall not eat of a holy thing; no foreign guest of the priest or hired worker shall eat of a holy thing,


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label: Lev
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  but if a priest buys a slave as his property for money, the slave may eat of it, and anyone born in his house may eat of his food.


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label: Lev
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  But if a priest’s daughter is widowed or divorced and has no child and returns to her father’s house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s food; yet no lay person shall eat of it.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And if anyone eats of a holy thing unintentionally, he shall add the fifth of its value to it and give the holy thing to the priest.


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label: Lev
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  and so cause them to bear iniquity and guilt, by eating their holy things: for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.”


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the people of Israel and say to them, When any one of the house of Israel or of the sojourners in Israel presents a burnt offering as his offering, for any of their vows or freewill offerings that they offer to the LORD,


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label: Lev
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  if it is to be accepted for you it shall be a male without blemish, of the bulls or the sheep or the goats.


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label: Lev
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  And when anyone offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering from the herd or from the flock, to be accepted it must be perfect; there shall be no blemish in it.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  Animals blind or disabled or mutilated or having a discharge or an itch or scabs you shall not offer to the LORD or give them to the LORD as a food offering on the altar.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  You may present a bull or a lamb that has a part too long or too short for a freewill offering, but for a vow offering it cannot be accepted.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  Any animal that has its testicles bruised or crushed or torn or cut you shall not offer to the LORD; you shall not do it within your land,


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label: Lev
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  neither shall you offer as the bread of your God any such animals gotten from a foreigner. Since there is a blemish in them, because of their mutilation, they will not be accepted for you.”


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label: Lev
content:
  “When an ox or sheep or goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as a food offering to the LORD.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the LORD, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And you shall not profane my holy name, that I may be sanctified among the people of Israel. I am the LORD who sanctifies you,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, These are the appointed feasts of the LORD that you shall proclaim as holy convocations; they are my appointed feasts.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the LORD in all your dwelling places.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “These are the appointed feasts of the LORD, the holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at the time appointed for them.


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label: Lev
content:
  And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  But you shall present a food offering to the LORD for seven days. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work.”


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  and he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, so that you may be accepted. On the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.


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label: Lev
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  And on the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb a year old without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD.


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label: Lev
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  And the grain offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, a food offering to the LORD with a pleasing aroma, and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, a fourth of a hin.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And you shall eat neither bread nor grain parched or fresh until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  “You shall count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath. Then you shall present a grain offering of new grain to the LORD.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  You shall bring from your dwelling places two loaves of bread to be waved, made of two tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour, and they shall be baked with leaven, as firstfruits to the LORD.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And you shall present with the bread seven lambs a year old without blemish, and one bull from the herd and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to the LORD, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And you shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old as a sacrifice of peace offerings.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And you shall make a proclamation on the same day. You shall hold a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work. It is a statute forever in all your dwelling places throughout your generations.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  “And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the LORD your God.”


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  “Now on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It shall be for you a time of holy convocation, and you shall afflict yourselves and present a food offering to the LORD.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And you shall not do any work on that very day, for it is a Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the LORD your God.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  You shall not do any work. It is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  It shall be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict yourselves. On the ninth day of the month beginning at evening, from evening to evening shall you keep your Sabbath.”


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Booths to the LORD.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  For seven days you shall present food offerings to the LORD. On the eighth day you shall hold a holy convocation and present a food offering to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you shall not do any ordinary work.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “These are the appointed feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim as times of holy convocation, for presenting to the LORD food offerings, burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its proper day,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  besides the LORD’s Sabbaths and besides your gifts and besides all your vow offerings and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to the LORD.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  “On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of the LORD seven days. On the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And you shall take on the first day the fruit of splendid trees, branches of palm trees and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  You shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  that your generations may know that I made the people of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.”


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil from beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning regularly.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall arrange it from evening to morning before the LORD regularly. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “You shall take fine flour and bake twelve loaves from it; two tenths of an ephah shall be in each loaf.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And you shall put pure frankincense on each pile, that it may go with the bread as a memorial portion as a food offering to the LORD.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  Every Sabbath day Aaron shall arrange it before the LORD regularly; it is from the people of Israel as a covenant forever.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, since it is for him a most holy portion out of the LORD’s food offerings, a perpetual due.”


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  Now an Israelite woman’s son, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the people of Israel. And the Israelite woman’s son and a man of Israel fought in the camp,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  and the Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the Name, and cursed. Then they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  “Bring out of the camp the one who cursed, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him. The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever injury he has given a person shall be given to him.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  So Moses spoke to the people of Israel, and they brought out of the camp the one who had cursed and stoned him with stones. Thus the people of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses. 


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall keep a Sabbath to the LORD.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the LORD. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  You shall not reap what grows of itself in your harvest, or gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  The Sabbath of the land shall provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves and for your hired worker and the sojourner who lives with you,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  and for your cattle and for the wild animals that are in your land: all its yield shall be for food.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “You shall count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall give you forty-nine years.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his clan.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of itself nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  You shall pay your neighbor according to the number of years after the jubilee, and he shall sell to you according to the number of years for crops.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  If the years are many, you shall increase the price, and if the years are few, you shall reduce the price, for it is the number of the crops that he is selling to you.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “Therefore you shall do my statutes and keep my rules and perform them, and then you will dwell in the land securely.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating some of the old crop; you shall eat the old until the ninth year, when its crop arrives.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his property, then his nearest redeemer shall come and redeem what his brother has sold.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  If a man has no one to redeem it and then himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  let him calculate the years since he sold it and pay back the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and then return to his property.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  But if he does not have sufficient means to recover it, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, he may redeem it within a year of its sale. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  If it is not redeemed within a full year, then the house in the walled city shall belong in perpetuity to the buyer, throughout his generations; it shall not be released in the jubilee.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  But the houses of the villages that have no wall around them shall be classified with the fields of the land. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the jubilee.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem at any time the houses in the cities they possess.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And if one of the Levites exercises his right of redemption, then the house that was sold in a city they possess shall be released in the jubilee. For the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the people of Israel.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  But the fields of pastureland belonging to their cities may not be sold, for that is their possession forever.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:


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label: Lev
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  he shall be with you as a hired worker and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return to the possession of his fathers.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession forever. You may make slaves of them, but over your brothers the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another ruthlessly.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with you or to a member of the stranger’s clan,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
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  or his uncle or his cousin may redeem him, or a close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he grows rich he may redeem himself.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  He shall calculate with his buyer from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his sale shall vary with the number of years. The time he was with his owner shall be rated as the time of a hired worker.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  If there are still many years left, he shall pay proportionately for his redemption some of his sale price.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he shall calculate and pay for his redemption in proportion to his years of service.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  He shall treat him as a worker hired year by year. He shall not rule ruthlessly over him in your sight.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he and his children with him shall be released in the year of jubilee.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  For it is to me that the people of Israel are servants. They are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. 


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the LORD your God.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And I will remove harmful beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through your land.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down before your enemies. Those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again sevenfold for your sins,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And I will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that your roads shall be deserted.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  When I break your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And I will lay your cities waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing aromas.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And I myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be appalled at it.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, the rest that it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling in it.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And those of you who are left shall rot away in your enemies’ lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  But the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes.


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label: Lev
content:
  Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am the LORD their God.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.”


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  These are the statutes and rules and laws that the LORD made between himself and the people of Israel through Moses on Mount Sinai. 


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, If anyone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the valuation of persons,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  then the valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, the valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  If the person is from a month old up to five years old, the valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female the valuation shall be three shekels of silver.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And if the person is sixty years old or over, then the valuation for a male shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And if someone is too poor to pay the valuation, then he shall be made to stand before the priest, and the priest shall value him; the priest shall value him according to what the vower can afford.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “If the vow is an animal that may be offered as an offering to the LORD, all of it that he gives to the LORD is holy.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  He shall not exchange it or make a substitute for it, good for bad, or bad for good; and if he does in fact substitute one animal for another, then both it and the substitute shall be holy.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And if it is any unclean animal that may not be offered as an offering to the LORD, then he shall stand the animal before the priest,


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “When a man dedicates his house as a holy gift to the LORD, the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And if the donor wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a fifth to the valuation price, and it shall be his.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “If a man dedicates to the LORD part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation shall be in proportion to its seed. A homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall calculate the price according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from the valuation.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth to its valuation price, and it shall remain his.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  But the field, when it is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the LORD, like a field that has been devoted. The priest shall be in possession of it.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  then the priest shall calculate the amount of the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the valuation on that day as a holy gift to the LORD.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  Every valuation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall make a shekel.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “But a firstborn of animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the LORD, no man may dedicate; whether ox or sheep, it is the LORD’s.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back at the valuation, and add a fifth to it; or, if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at the valuation.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the LORD, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the LORD.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  No one devoted, who is to be devoted for destruction from mankind, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  “Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the LORD’s; it is holy to the LORD.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  And every tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that pass under the herdsman’s staff, shall be holy to the LORD.


book: Leviticus
label: Lev
content:
  One shall not differentiate between good or bad, neither shall he make a substitute for it; and if he does substitute for it, then both it and the substitute shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war, you and Aaron shall list them, company by company.


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label: Num
content:
  And there shall be with you a man from each tribe, each man being the head of the house of his fathers.


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label: Num
content:
  from the sons of Joseph, from Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud, and from Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur;


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  These were the ones chosen from the congregation, the chiefs of their ancestral tribes, the heads of the clans of Israel.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and on the first day of the second month, they assembled the whole congregation together, who registered themselves by clans, by fathers’ houses, according to the number of names from twenty years old and upward, head by head,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The people of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Of the people of Simeon, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, those of them who were listed, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Of the people of Gad, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Of the people of Judah, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Of the people of Issachar, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Of the people of Zebulun, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Of the people of Joseph, namely, of the people of Ephraim, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Of the people of Manasseh, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Of the people of Benjamin, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Of the people of Dan, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Of the people of Asher, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Of the people of Naphtali, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  These are those who were listed, whom Moses and Aaron listed with the help of the chiefs of Israel, twelve men, each representing his fathers’ house.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  So all those listed of the people of Israel, by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war in Israel—


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Only the tribe of Levi you shall not list, and you shall not take a census of them among the people of Israel.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They are to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings, and they shall take care of it and shall camp around the tabernacle.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  When the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down, and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up. And if any outsider comes near, he shall be put to death.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The people of Israel shall pitch their tents by their companies, each man in his own camp and each man by his own standard.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the people of Israel. And the Levites shall keep guard over the tabernacle of the testimony.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “The people of Israel shall camp each by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers’ houses. They shall camp facing the tent of meeting on every side.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Those to camp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah by their companies, the chief of the people of Judah being Nahshon the son of Amminadab,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Those to camp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar, the chief of the people of Issachar being Nethanel the son of Zuar,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  All those listed of the camp of Judah, by their companies, were 186,400. They shall set out first on the march.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben by their companies, the chief of the people of Reuben being Elizur the son of Shedeur,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And those to camp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon, the chief of the people of Simeon being Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  All those listed of the camp of Reuben, by their companies, were 151,450. They shall set out second.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Then the tent of meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps; as they camp, so shall they set out, each in position, standard by standard.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim by their companies, the chief of the people of Ephraim being Elishama the son of Ammihud,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh, the chief of the people of Manasseh being Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  All those listed of the camp of Ephraim, by their companies, were 108,100. They shall set out third on the march.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan by their companies, the chief of the people of Dan being Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And those to camp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher, the chief of the people of Asher being Pagiel the son of Ochran,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  These are the people of Israel as listed by their fathers’ houses. All those listed in the camps by their companies were 603,550.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Thus did the people of Israel. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so they camped by their standards, and so they set out, each one in his clan, according to his fathers’ house. 


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  These are the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time when the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to serve as priests.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests in the lifetime of Aaron their father.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  They shall keep guard over him and over the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, as they minister at the tabernacle.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  They shall guard all the furnishings of the tent of meeting, and keep guard over the people of Israel as they minister at the tabernacle.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And you shall give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they are wholly given to him from among the people of Israel.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall guard their priesthood. But if any outsider comes near, he shall be put to death.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the people of Israel instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the people of Israel. The Levites shall be mine,


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label: Num
content:
  for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated for my own all the firstborn in Israel, both of man and of beast. They shall be mine: I am the LORD.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “List the sons of Levi, by fathers’ houses and by clans; every male from a month old and upward you shall list.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the sons of Merari by their clans: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites, by their fathers’ houses.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  To Gershon belonged the clan of the Libnites and the clan of the Shimeites; these were the clans of the Gershonites.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the guard duty of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting involved the tabernacle, the tent with its covering, the screen for the entrance of the tent of meeting,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  the hangings of the court, the screen for the door of the court that is around the tabernacle and the altar, and its cords—all the service connected with these.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  To Kohath belonged the clan of the Amramites and the clan of the Izharites and the clan of the Hebronites and the clan of the Uzzielites; these are the clans of the Kohathites.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were 8,600, keeping guard over the sanctuary.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And their guard duty involved the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which the priests minister, and the screen; all the service connected with these.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest was to be chief over the chiefs of the Levites, and to have oversight of those who kept guard over the sanctuary.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  To Merari belonged the clan of the Mahlites and the clan of the Mushites: these are the clans of Merari.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the chief of the fathers’ house of the clans of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They were to camp on the north side of the tabernacle.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the appointed guard duty of the sons of Merari involved the frames of the tabernacle, the bars, the pillars, the bases, and all their accessories; all the service connected with these;


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Those who were to camp before the tabernacle on the east, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrise, were Moses and Aaron and his sons, guarding the sanctuary itself, to protect the people of Israel. And any outsider who came near was to be put to death.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  All those listed among the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron listed at the commandment of the LORD, by clans, all the males from a month old and upward, were 22,000.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the LORD said to Moses, “List all the firstborn males of the people of Israel, from a month old and upward, taking the number of their names.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And you shall take the Levites for me—I am the LORD—instead of all the firstborn among the people of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the cattle of the people of Israel.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And all the firstborn males, according to the number of names, from a month old and upward as listed were 22,273.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the people of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle. The Levites shall be mine: I am the LORD.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And as the redemption price for the 273 of the firstborn of the people of Israel, over and above the number of the male Levites,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  you shall take five shekels per head; you shall take them according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel of twenty gerahs),


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  So Moses took the redemption money from those who were over and above those redeemed by the Levites.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  From the firstborn of the people of Israel he took the money, 1,365 shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses. 


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their clans and their fathers’ houses,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  from thirty years old up to fifty years old, all who can come on duty, to do the work in the tent of meeting.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  When the camp is to set out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and take down the veil of the screen and cover the ark of the testimony with it.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then they shall put on it a covering of goatskin and spread on top of that a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its poles.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And over the table of the bread of the Presence they shall spread a cloth of blue and put on it the plates, the dishes for incense, the bowls, and the flagons for the drink offering; the regular showbread also shall be on it.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then they shall spread over them a cloth of scarlet and cover the same with a covering of goatskin, and shall put in its poles.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And they shall take a cloth of blue and cover the lampstand for the light, with its lamps, its tongs, its trays, and all the vessels for oil with which it is supplied.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And they shall put it with all its utensils in a covering of goatskin and put it on the carrying frame.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And over the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue and cover it with a covering of goatskin, and shall put in its poles.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And they shall take all the vessels of the service that are used in the sanctuary and put them in a cloth of blue and cover them with a covering of goatskin and put them on the carrying frame.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And they shall put on it all the utensils of the altar, which are used for the service there, the fire pans, the forks, the shovels, and the basins, all the utensils of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of goatskin, and shall put in its poles.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as the camp sets out, after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry these, but they must not touch the holy things, lest they die. These are the things of the tent of meeting that the sons of Kohath are to carry.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall have charge of the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the regular grain offering, and the anointing oil, with the oversight of the whole tabernacle and all that is in it, of the sanctuary and its vessels.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  but deal thus with them, that they may live and not die when they come near to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint them each to his task and to his burden,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  From thirty years old up to fifty years old, you shall list them, all who can come to do duty, to do service in the tent of meeting.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the tent of meeting with its covering and the covering of goatskin that is on top of it and the screen for the entrance of the tent of meeting


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and the hangings of the court and the screen for the entrance of the gate of the court that is around the tabernacle and the altar, and their cords and all the equipment for their service. And they shall do all that needs to be done with regard to them.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  All the service of the sons of the Gershonites shall be at the command of Aaron and his sons, in all that they are to carry and in all that they have to do. And you shall assign to their charge all that they are to carry.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  This is the service of the clans of the sons of the Gershonites in the tent of meeting, and their guard duty is to be under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  From thirty years old up to fifty years old, you shall list them, everyone who can come on duty, to do the service of the tent of meeting.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And this is what they are charged to carry, as the whole of their service in the tent of meeting: the frames of the tabernacle, with its bars, pillars, and bases,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and the pillars around the court with their bases, pegs, and cords, with all their equipment and all their accessories. And you shall list by name the objects that they are required to carry.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  This is the service of the clans of the sons of Merari, the whole of their service in the tent of meeting, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the congregation listed the sons of the Kohathites, by their clans and their fathers’ houses,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  from thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who could come on duty, for service in the tent of meeting;


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  This was the list of the clans of the Kohathites, all who served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron listed according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  from thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who could come on duty for service in the tent of meeting—


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  This was the list of the clans of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron listed according to the commandment of the LORD.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  from thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who could come on duty, for service in the tent of meeting—


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  This was the list of the clans of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron listed according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  All those who were listed of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of Israel listed, by their clans and their fathers’ houses,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  from thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who could come to do the service of ministry and the service of bearing burdens in the tent of meeting,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  According to the commandment of the LORD through Moses they were listed, each one with his task of serving or carrying. Thus they were listed by him, as the LORD commanded Moses. 


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Command the people of Israel that they put out of the camp everyone who is leprous or has a discharge and everyone who is unclean through contact with the dead.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  You shall put out both male and female, putting them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the people of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp; as the LORD said to Moses, so the people of Israel did.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Speak to the people of Israel, When a man or woman commits any of the sins that people commit by breaking faith with the LORD, and that person realizes his guilt,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  he shall confess his sin that he has committed. And he shall make full restitution for his wrong, adding a fifth to it and giving it to him to whom he did the wrong.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But if the man has no next of kin to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution for wrong shall go to the LORD for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement with which atonement is made for him.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And every contribution, all the holy donations of the people of Israel, which they bring to the priest, shall be his.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  if a man lies with her sexually, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, since she was not taken in the act,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and if the spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife who has defiled herself, or if the spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not defiled herself,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  then the man shall bring his wife to the priest and bring the offering required of her, a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He shall pour no oil on it and put no frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of remembrance, bringing iniquity to remembrance.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the priest shall take holy water in an earthenware vessel and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD and unbind the hair of the woman’s head and place in her hands the grain offering of remembrance, which is the grain offering of jealousy. And in his hand the priest shall have the water of bitterness that brings the curse.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then the priest shall make her take an oath, saying, ‘If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness while you were under your husband’s authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings the curse.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But if you have gone astray, though you are under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself, and some man other than your husband has lain with you,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  then’ (let the priest make the woman take the oath of the curse, and say to the woman) ‘the LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD makes your thigh fall away and your body swell.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  May this water that brings the curse pass into your bowels and make your womb swell and your thigh fall away.’ And the woman shall say, ‘Amen, Amen.’


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings the curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand and shall wave the grain offering before the LORD and bring it to the altar.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the priest shall take a handful of the grain offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And when he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and has broken faith with her husband, the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain, and her womb shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away, and the woman shall become a curse among her people.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, then she shall be free and shall conceive children.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “This is the law in cases of jealousy, when a wife, though under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  or when the spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife. Then he shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall carry out for her all this law.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, not even the seeds or the skins.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “All the days of his vow of separation, no razor shall touch his head. Until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the LORD, he shall be holy. He shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Not even for his father or for his mother, for brother or sister, if they die, shall he make himself unclean, because his separation to God is on his head.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “And if any man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his consecrated head, then he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two pigeons to the priest to the entrance of the tent of meeting,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and the priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead body. And he shall consecrate his head that same day


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and separate himself to the LORD for the days of his separation and bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering. But the previous period shall be void, because his separation was defiled.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “And this is the law for the Nazirite, when the time of his separation has been completed: he shall be brought to the entrance of the tent of meeting,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and he shall bring his gift to the LORD, one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish as a sin offering, and one ram without blemish as a peace offering,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and a basket of unleavened bread, loaves of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and their grain offering and their drink offerings.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and he shall offer the ram as a sacrifice of peace offering to the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its grain offering and its drink offering.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the Nazirite shall shave his consecrated head at the entrance of the tent of meeting and shall take the hair from his consecrated head and put it on the fire that is under the sacrifice of the peace offering.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the priest shall take the shoulder of the ram, when it is boiled, and one unleavened loaf out of the basket and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaved the hair of his consecration,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD. They are a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed. And after that the Nazirite may drink wine.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “This is the law of the Nazirite. But if he vows an offering to the LORD above his Nazirite vow, as he can afford, in exact accordance with the vow that he takes, then he shall do in addition to the law of the Nazirite.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, Thus you shall bless the people of Israel: you shall say to them,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  On the day when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle and had anointed and consecrated it with all its furnishings and had anointed and consecrated the altar with all its utensils,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  the chiefs of Israel, heads of their fathers’ houses, who were the chiefs of the tribes, who were over those who were listed, approached


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and brought their offerings before the LORD, six wagons and twelve oxen, a wagon for every two of the chiefs, and for each one an ox. They brought them before the tabernacle.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Accept these from them, that they may be used in the service of the tent of meeting, and give them to the Levites, to each man according to his service.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And four wagons and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because they were charged with the service of the holy things that had to be carried on the shoulder.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the chiefs offered offerings for the dedication of the altar on the day it was anointed; and the chiefs offered their offering before the altar.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the LORD said to Moses, “They shall offer their offerings, one chief each day, for the dedication of the altar.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  He offered for his offering one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  This was the dedication offering for the altar on the day when it was anointed, from the chiefs of Israel: twelve silver plates, twelve silver basins, twelve golden dishes,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  each silver plate weighing 130 shekels and each basin 70, all the silver of the vessels 2,400 shekels according to the shekel of the sanctuary,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  the twelve golden dishes, full of incense, weighing 10 shekels apiece according to the shekel of the sanctuary, all the gold of the dishes being 120 shekels;


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  all the cattle for the burnt offering twelve bulls, twelve rams, twelve male lambs a year old, with their grain offering; and twelve male goats for a sin offering;


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and all the cattle for the sacrifice of peace offerings twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the male lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication offering for the altar after it was anointed.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim; and it spoke to him. 


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Speak to Aaron and say to him, When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And this was the workmanship of the lampstand, hammered work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was hammered work; according to the pattern that the LORD had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Thus you shall do to them to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of purification upon them, and let them go with a razor over all their body, and wash their clothes and cleanse themselves.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then let them take a bull from the herd and its grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, and you shall take another bull from the herd for a sin offering.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And you shall bring the Levites before the tent of meeting and assemble the whole congregation of the people of Israel.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  When you bring the Levites before the LORD, the people of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the people of Israel, that they may do the service of the LORD.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then the Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to the LORD to make atonement for the Levites.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And you shall set the Levites before Aaron and his sons, and shall offer them as a wave offering to the LORD.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the people of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And after that the Levites shall go in to serve at the tent of meeting, when you have cleansed them and offered them as a wave offering.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  For they are wholly given to me from among the people of Israel. Instead of all who open the womb, the firstborn of all the people of Israel, I have taken them for myself.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  For all the firstborn among the people of Israel are mine, both of man and of beast. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I consecrated them for myself,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the people of Israel, to do the service for the people of Israel at the tent of meeting and to make atonement for the people of Israel, that there may be no plague among the people of Israel when the people of Israel come near the sanctuary.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Thus did Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the people of Israel to the Levites. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, the people of Israel did to them.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the Levites purified themselves from sin and washed their clothes, and Aaron offered them as a wave offering before the LORD, and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And after that the Levites went in to do their service in the tent of meeting before Aaron and his sons; as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “This applies to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall come to do duty in the service of the tent of meeting.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  They minister to their brothers in the tent of meeting by keeping guard, but they shall do no service. Thus shall you do to the Levites in assigning their duties.” 


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its rules you shall keep it.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And they kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the people of Israel did.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And there were certain men who were unclean through touching a dead body, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And those men said to him, “We are unclean through touching a dead body. Why are we kept from bringing the LORD’s offering at its appointed time among the people of Israel?”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If any one of you or of your descendants is unclean through touching a dead body, or is on a long journey, he shall still keep the Passover to the LORD.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight they shall keep it. They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break any of its bones; according to all the statute for the Passover they shall keep it.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But if anyone who is clean and is not on a journey fails to keep the Passover, that person shall be cut off from his people because he did not bring the LORD’s offering at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And if a stranger sojourns among you and would keep the Passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony. And at evening it was over the tabernacle like the appearance of fire until morning.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And whenever the cloud lifted from over the tent, after that the people of Israel set out, and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the people of Israel camped.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  At the command of the LORD the people of Israel set out, and at the command of the LORD they camped. As long as the cloud rested over the tabernacle, they remained in camp.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Even when the cloud continued over the tabernacle many days, the people of Israel kept the charge of the LORD and did not set out.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Sometimes the cloud was a few days over the tabernacle, and according to the command of the LORD they remained in camp; then according to the command of the LORD they set out.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And sometimes the cloud remained from evening until morning. And when the cloud lifted in the morning, they set out, or if it continued for a day and a night, when the cloud lifted they set out.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Whether it was two days, or a month, or a longer time, that the cloud continued over the tabernacle, abiding there, the people of Israel remained in camp and did not set out, but when it lifted they set out.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  At the command of the LORD they camped, and at the command of the LORD they set out. They kept the charge of the LORD, at the command of the LORD by Moses. 


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Make two silver trumpets. Of hammered work you shall make them, and you shall use them for summoning the congregation and for breaking camp.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And when both are blown, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the entrance of the tent of meeting.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But if they blow only one, then the chiefs, the heads of the tribes of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And when you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that are on the south side shall set out. An alarm is to be blown whenever they are to set out.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow a long blast, but you shall not sound an alarm.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. The trumpets shall be to you for a perpetual statute throughout your generations.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And when you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the LORD your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  On the day of your gladness also, and at your appointed feasts and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings. They shall be a reminder of you before your God: I am the LORD your God.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud lifted from over the tabernacle of the testimony,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and the people of Israel set out by stages from the wilderness of Sinai. And the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The standard of the camp of the people of Judah set out first by their companies, and over their company was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And when the tabernacle was taken down, the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who carried the tabernacle, set out.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the standard of the camp of Reuben set out by their companies, and over their company was Elizur the son of Shedeur.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy things, and the tabernacle was set up before their arrival.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the standard of the camp of the people of Ephraim set out by their companies, and over their company was Elishama the son of Ammihud.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then the standard of the camp of the people of Dan, acting as the rear guard of all the camps, set out by their companies, and over their company was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will do good to you, for the LORD has promised good to Israel.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And he said, “Please do not leave us, for you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you will serve as eyes for us.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  So they set out from the mount of the LORD three days’ journey. And the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them three days’ journey, to seek out a resting place for them.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And whenever the ark set out, Moses said, “Arise, O LORD, and let your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate you flee before you.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the people complained in the hearing of the LORD about their misfortunes, and when the LORD heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, “Oh that we had meat to eat!


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The people went about and gathered it and ground it in handmills or beat it in mortars and boiled it in pots and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked with oil.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Moses heard the people weeping throughout their clans, everyone at the door of his tent. And the anger of the LORD blazed hotly, and Moses was displeased.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Moses said to the LORD, “Why have you dealt ill with your servant? And why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child,’ to the land that you swore to give their fathers?


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me and say, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Gather for me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And I will come down and talk with you there. And I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them, and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you may not bear it yourself alone.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And say to the people, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was better for us in Egypt.” Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you shall eat.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have rejected the LORD who is among you and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt?”’”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But Moses said, “The people among whom I am number six hundred thousand on foot, and you have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month!’


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, and be enough for them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, and be enough for them?”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the LORD said to Moses, “Is the LORD’s hand shortened? Now you shall see whether my word will come true for you or not.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD. And he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the tent.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. And as soon as the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied. But they did not continue doing it.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Now two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other named Medad, and the Spirit rested on them. They were among those registered, but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the LORD’s people were prophets, that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then a wind from the LORD sprang up, and it brought quail from the sea and let them fall beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and a day’s journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the ground.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the people rose all that day and all night and all the next day, and gathered the quail. Those who gathered least gathered ten homers. And they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  While the meat was yet between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck down the people with a very great plague.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Therefore the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had the craving.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And they said, “Has the LORD indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?” And the LORD heard it.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And suddenly the LORD said to Moses and to Aaron and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tent of meeting.” And the three of them came out.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent and called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And he said, “Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the LORD make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  When the cloud removed from over the tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, like snow. And Aaron turned toward Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, do not punish us because we have done foolishly and have sinned.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But the LORD said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be shamed seven days? Let her be shut outside the camp seven days, and after that she may be brought in again.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  So Miriam was shut outside the camp seven days, and the people did not set out on the march till Miriam was brought in again.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a chief among them.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the LORD, all of them men who were heads of the people of Israel.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, “Go up into the Negeb and go up into the hill country,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and see what the land is, and whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad, and whether the cities that they dwell in are camps or strongholds,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there are trees in it or not. Be of good courage and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And they came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them; they also brought some pomegranates and figs.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  That place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster that the people of Israel cut down from there.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And they told him, “We came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country. And the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.” 


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Why is the LORD bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the people of Israel.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  If the LORD delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Only do not rebel against the LORD. And do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection is removed from them, and the LORD is with us; do not fear them.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then all the congregation said to stone them with stones. But the glory of the LORD appeared at the tent of meeting to all the people of Israel.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them?


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But Moses said to the LORD, “Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for you brought up this people in your might from among them,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and they will tell the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, O LORD, are in the midst of this people. For you, O LORD, are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  ‘It is because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to give to them that he has killed them in the wilderness.’


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  ‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.’


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Please pardon the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt until now.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed my voice,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Now, since the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valleys, turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “How long shall this wicked congregation grumble against me? I have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have rejected.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  I, the LORD, have spoken. Surely this will I do to all this wicked congregation who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing up a bad report about the land—


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Of those men who went to spy out the land, only Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And they rose early in the morning and went up to the heights of the hill country, saying, “Here we are. We will go up to the place that the LORD has promised, for we have sinned.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  For there the Amalekites and the Canaanites are facing you, and you shall fall by the sword. Because you have turned back from following the LORD, the LORD will not be with you.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But they presumed to go up to the heights of the hill country, although neither the ark of the covenant of the LORD nor Moses departed out of the camp.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down and defeated them and pursued them, even to Hormah. 


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving you,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and you offer to the LORD from the herd or from the flock a food offering or a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or at your appointed feasts, to make a pleasing aroma to the LORD,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  then he who brings his offering shall offer to the LORD a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil;


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and you shall offer with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, a quarter of a hin of wine for the drink offering for each lamb.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Or for a ram, you shall offer for a grain offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And when you offer a bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or for peace offerings to the LORD,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  then one shall offer with the bull a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with half a hin of oil.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Every native Israelite shall do these things in this way, in offering a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And if a stranger is sojourning with you, or anyone is living permanently among you, and he wishes to offer a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD, he shall do as you do.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you, a statute forever throughout your generations. You and the sojourner shall be alike before the LORD.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Of the first of your dough you shall present a loaf as a contribution; like a contribution from the threshing floor, so shall you present it.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Some of the first of your dough you shall give to the LORD as a contribution throughout your generations.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “But if you sin unintentionally, and do not observe all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  all that the LORD has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the LORD gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  then if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, all the congregation shall offer one bull from the herd for a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the rule, and one male goat for a sin offering.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the people of Israel, and they shall be forgiven, because it was a mistake, and they have brought their offering, a food offering to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD for their mistake.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And all the congregation of the people of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger who sojourns among them, because the whole population was involved in the mistake.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the priest shall make atonement before the LORD for the person who makes a mistake, when he sins unintentionally, to make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  You shall have one law for him who does anything unintentionally, for him who is native among the people of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, reviles the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from among his people.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Because he has despised the word of the LORD and has broken his commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the LORD said to Moses, “The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, as the LORD commanded Moses.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Speak to the people of Israel, and tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel of each corner.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the LORD, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore after.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the LORD your God.” 


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Now Korah the son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And they rose up before Moses, with a number of the people of Israel, 250 chiefs of the congregation, chosen from the assembly, well-known men.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! For all in the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and he said to Korah and all his company, “In the morning the LORD will show who is his, and who is holy, and will bring him near to him. The one whom he chooses he will bring near to him.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  put fire in them and put incense on them before the LORD tomorrow, and the man whom the LORD chooses shall be the holy one. You have gone too far, sons of Levi!”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  is it too small a thing for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do service in the tabernacle of the LORD and to stand before the congregation to minister to them,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and that he has brought you near him, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? And would you seek the priesthood also?


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Therefore it is against the LORD that you and all your company have gathered together. What is Aaron that you grumble against him?”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also make yourself a prince over us?


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Moses was very angry and said to the LORD, “Do not respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, and I have not harmed one of them.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Moses said to Korah, “Be present, you and all your company, before the LORD, you and they, and Aaron, tomorrow.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And let every one of you take his censer and put incense on it, and every one of you bring before the LORD his censer, 250 censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  So every man took his censer and put fire in them and laid incense on them and stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then Korah assembled all the congregation against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And the glory of the LORD appeared to all the congregation.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And they fell on their faces and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And he spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be swept away with all their sins.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  So they got away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. And Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the door of their tents, together with their wives, their sons, and their little ones.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, and that it has not been of my own accord.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  If these men die as all men die, or if they are visited by the fate of all mankind, then the LORD has not sent me.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But if the LORD creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the LORD.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the people who belonged to Korah and all their goods.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And all Israel who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Tell Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers out of the blaze. Then scatter the fire far and wide, for they have become holy.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  As for the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they offered them before the LORD, and they became holy. Thus they shall be a sign to the people of Israel.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned had offered, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  to be a reminder to the people of Israel, so that no outsider, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, should draw near to burn incense before the LORD, lest he become like Korah and his company—as the LORD said to him through Moses.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But on the next day all the congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed the people of the LORD.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And when the congregation had assembled against Moses and against Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting. And behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Get away from the midst of this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.” And they fell on their faces.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, and put fire on it from off the altar and lay incense on it and carry it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  So Aaron took it as Moses said and ran into the midst of the assembly. And behold, the plague had already begun among the people. And he put on the incense and made atonement for the people.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Speak to the people of Israel, and get from them staffs, one for each fathers’ house, from all their chiefs according to their fathers’ houses, twelve staffs. Write each man’s name on his staff,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and write Aaron’s name on the staff of Levi. For there shall be one staff for the head of each fathers’ house.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the staff of the man whom I choose shall sprout. Thus I will make to cease from me the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against you.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Moses spoke to the people of Israel. And all their chiefs gave him staffs, one for each chief, according to their fathers’ houses, twelve staffs. And the staff of Aaron was among their staffs.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  On the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony, and behold, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted and put forth buds and produced blossoms, and it bore ripe almonds.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then Moses brought out all the staffs from before the LORD to all the people of Israel. And they looked, and each man took his staff.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the LORD said to Moses, “Put back the staff of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebels, that you may make an end of their grumblings against me, lest they die.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of the LORD, shall die. Are we all to perish?” 


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  So the LORD said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your father’s house with you shall bear iniquity connected with the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you shall bear iniquity connected with your priesthood.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And with you bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may join you and minister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  They shall keep guard over you and over the whole tent, but shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary or to the altar lest they, and you, die.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  They shall join you and keep guard over the tent of meeting for all the service of the tent, and no outsider shall come near you.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And you shall keep guard over the sanctuary and over the altar, that there may never again be wrath on the people of Israel.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the people of Israel. They are a gift to you, given to the LORD, to do the service of the tent of meeting.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And you and your sons with you shall guard your priesthood for all that concerns the altar and that is within the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood as a gift, and any outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then the LORD spoke to Aaron, “Behold, I have given you charge of the contributions made to me, all the consecrated things of the people of Israel. I have given them to you as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual due.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  This shall be yours of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, every grain offering of theirs and every sin offering of theirs and every guilt offering of theirs, which they render to me, shall be most holy to you and to your sons.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  This also is yours: the contribution of their gift, all the wave offerings of the people of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  All the best of the oil and all the best of the wine and of the grain, the firstfruits of what they give to the LORD, I give to you.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The first ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the LORD, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Everything that opens the womb of all flesh, whether man or beast, which they offer to the LORD, shall be yours. Nevertheless, the firstborn of man you shall redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals you shall redeem.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And their redemption price (at a month old you shall redeem them) you shall fix at five shekels in silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar and shall burn their fat as a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  All the holy contributions that the people of Israel present to the LORD I give to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. It is a covenant of salt forever before the LORD for you and for your offspring with you.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the LORD said to Aaron, “You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the people of Israel.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service that they do, their service in the tent of meeting,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the people of Israel they shall have no inheritance.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  For the tithe of the people of Israel, which they present as a contribution to the LORD, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said of them that they shall have no inheritance among the people of Israel.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Moreover, you shall speak and say to the Levites, ‘When you take from the people of Israel the tithe that I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present a contribution from it to the LORD, a tithe of the tithe.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And your contribution shall be counted to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  So you shall also present a contribution to the LORD from all your tithes, which you receive from the people of Israel. And from it you shall give the LORD’s contribution to Aaron the priest.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Out of all the gifts to you, you shall present every contribution due to the LORD; from each its best part is to be dedicated.’


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Therefore you shall say to them, ‘When you have offered from it the best of it, then the rest shall be counted to the Levites as produce of the threshing floor, and as produce of the winepress.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And you may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And you shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have contributed the best of it. But you shall not profane the holy things of the people of Israel, lest you die.’” 


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, and on which a yoke has never come.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And you shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and it shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered before him.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of its blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the heifer shall be burned in his sight. Its skin, its flesh, and its blood, with its dung, shall be burned.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the priest shall take cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn, and throw them into the fire burning the heifer.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then the priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp. But the priest shall be unclean until evening.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The one who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water and shall be unclean until evening.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place. And they shall be kept for the water for impurity for the congregation of the people of Israel; it is a sin offering.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. And this shall be a perpetual statute for the people of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  He shall cleanse himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so be clean. But if he does not cleanse himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not become clean.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Whoever touches a dead person, the body of anyone who has died, and does not cleanse himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not thrown on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is still on him.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “This is the law when someone dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent shall be unclean seven days.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Whoever in the open field touches someone who was killed with a sword or who died naturally, or touches a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  For the unclean they shall take some ashes of the burnt sin offering, and fresh water shall be added in a vessel.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then a clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the persons who were there and on whoever touched the bone, or the slain or the dead or the grave.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the clean person shall sprinkle it on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day. Thus on the seventh day he shall cleanse him, and he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and at evening he shall be clean.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “If the man who is unclean does not cleanse himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, since he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. Because the water for impurity has not been thrown on him, he is unclean.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And it shall be a statute forever for them. The one who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean, and anyone who touches it shall be unclean until evening.” 


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh. And Miriam died there and was buried there.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Now there was no water for the congregation. And they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Would that we had perished when our brothers perished before the LORD!


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Why have you brought the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, that we should die here, both we and our cattle?


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And why have you made us come up out of Egypt to bring us to this evil place? It is no place for grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, and there is no water to drink.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance of the tent of meeting and fell on their faces. And the glory of the LORD appeared to them,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Take the staff, and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water. So you shall bring water out of the rock for them and give drink to the congregation and their cattle.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels: shall we bring water for you out of this rock?”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice, and water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe in me, to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  These are the waters of Meribah, where the people of Israel quarreled with the LORD, and through them he showed himself holy.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom: “Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the hardship that we have met:


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. And the Egyptians dealt harshly with us and our fathers.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And when we cried to the LORD, he heard our voice and sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt. And here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or vineyard, or drink water from a well. We will go along the King’s Highway. We will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your territory.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the people of Israel said to him, “We will go up by the highway, and if we drink of your water, I and my livestock, then I will pay for it. Let me only pass through on foot, nothing more.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But he said, “You shall not pass through.” And Edom came out against them with a large army and with a strong force.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And they journeyed from Kadesh, and the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Let Aaron be gathered to his people, for he shall not enter the land that I have given to the people of Israel, because you rebelled against my command at the waters of Meribah.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And strip Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son. And Aaron shall be gathered to his people and shall die there.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son. And Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And when all the congregation saw that Aaron had perished, all the house of Israel wept for Aaron thirty days. 


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb, heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Israel vowed a vow to the LORD and said, “If you will indeed give this people into my hand, then I will devote their cities to destruction.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the LORD heeded the voice of Israel and gave over the Canaanites, and they devoted them and their cities to destruction. So the name of the place was called Hormah.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient on the way.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And they set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness that is opposite Moab, toward the sunrise.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  From there they set out and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that extends from the border of the Amorites, for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD, “Waheb in Suphah, and the valleys of the Arnon,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And from there they continued to Beer; that is the well of which the LORD said to Moses, “Gather the people together, so that I may give them water.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  the well that the princes made, that the nobles of the people dug, with the scepter and with their staffs.” And from the wilderness they went on to Mattanah,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and from Bamoth to the valley lying in the region of Moab by the top of Pisgah that looks down on the desert.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into field or vineyard. We will not drink the water of a well. We will go by the King’s Highway until we have passed through your territory.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his territory. He gathered all his people together and went out against Israel to the wilderness and came to Jahaz and fought against Israel.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Israel defeated him with the edge of the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as to the Ammonites, for the border of the Ammonites was strong.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Israel took all these cities, and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land out of his hand, as far as the Arnon.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Therefore the ballad singers say, “Come to Heshbon, let it be built; let the city of Sihon be established.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  For fire came out from Heshbon, flame from the city of Sihon. It devoured Ar of Moab, and swallowed the heights of the Arnon.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Woe to you, O Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons fugitives, and his daughters captives, to an Amorite king, Sihon.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  So we overthrew them; Heshbon, as far as Dibon, perished; and we laid waste as far as Nophah; fire spread as far as Medeba.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then they turned and went up by the way to Bashan. And Og the king of Bashan came out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But the LORD said to Moses, “Do not fear him, for I have given him into your hand, and all his people, and his land. And you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  So they defeated him and his sons and all his people, until he had no survivor left. And they possessed his land. 


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Moab was in great dread of the people, because they were many. Moab was overcome with fear of the people of Israel.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Moab said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will now lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field.” So Balak the son of Zippor, who was king of Moab at that time,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor at Pethor, which is near the River in the land of the people of Amaw, to call him, saying, “Behold, a people has come out of Egypt. They cover the face of the earth, and they are dwelling opposite me.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Come now, curse this people for me, since they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall be able to defeat them and drive them from the land, for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the fees for divination in their hand. And they came to Balaam and gave him Balak’s message.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And he said to them, “Lodge here tonight, and I will bring back word to you, as the LORD speaks to me.” So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  ‘Behold, a people has come out of Egypt, and it covers the face of the earth. Now come, curse them for me. Perhaps I shall be able to fight against them and drive them out.’”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  So Balaam rose in the morning and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your own land, for the LORD has refused to let me go with you.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And they came to Balaam and said to him, “Thus says Balak the son of Zippor: ‘Let nothing hinder you from coming to me,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  for I will surely do you great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Come, curse this people for me.’”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, “Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the command of the LORD my God to do less or more.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise, go with them; but only do what I tell you.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But God’s anger was kindled because he went, and the angel of the LORD took his stand in the way as his adversary. Now he was riding on the donkey, and his two servants were with him.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road, with a drawn sword in his hand. And the donkey turned aside out of the road and went into the field. And Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the road.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, with a wall on either side.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And when the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she pushed against the wall and pressed Balaam’s foot against the wall. So he struck her again.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then the angel of the LORD went ahead and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right or to the left.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she lay down under Balaam. And Balaam’s anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey with his staff.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then the LORD opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have made a fool of me. I wish I had a sword in my hand, for then I would kill you.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Is it my habit to treat you this way?” And he said, “No.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, with his drawn sword in his hand. And he bowed down and fell on his face.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the angel of the LORD said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to oppose you because your way is perverse before me.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The donkey saw me and turned aside before me these three times. If she had not turned aside from me, surely just now I would have killed you and let her live.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, “I have sinned, for I did not know that you stood in the road against me. Now therefore, if it is evil in your sight, I will turn back.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the angel of the LORD said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but speak only the word that I tell you.” So Balaam went on with the princes of Balak.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him at the city of Moab, on the border formed by the Arnon, at the extremity of the border.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Balak said to Balaam, “Did I not send to you to call you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to honor you?”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you! Have I now any power of my own to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that must I speak.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And in the morning Balak took Balaam and brought him up to Bamoth-baal, and from there he saw a fraction of the people. 


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Balaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet me, and whatever he shows me I will tell you.” And he went to a bare height,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and God met Balaam. And Balaam said to him, “I have arranged the seven altars and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And he returned to him, and behold, he and all the princes of Moab were standing beside his burnt offering.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Balaam took up his discourse and said, “From Aram Balak has brought me, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains: ‘Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, denounce Israel!’


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  For from the top of the crags I see him, from the hills I behold him; behold, a people dwelling alone, and not counting itself among the nations!


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, and let my end be like his!”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have done nothing but bless them.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, from which you may see them. You shall see only a fraction of them and shall not see them all. Then curse them for me from there.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the LORD met Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And he came to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, “What has the LORD spoken?”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  He has not beheld misfortune in Jacob, nor has he seen trouble in Israel. The LORD their God is with them, and the shout of a king is among them.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  For there is no enchantment against Jacob, no divination against Israel; now it shall be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘What has God wrought!’


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Behold, a people! As a lioness it rises up and as a lion it lifts itself; it does not lie down until it has devoured the prey and drunk the blood of the slain.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me here seven altars and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  When Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not go, as at other times, to look for omens, but set his face toward the wilderness.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Balaam lifted up his eyes and saw Israel camping tribe by tribe. And the Spirit of God came upon him,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and he took up his discourse and said, “The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is opened,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  the oracle of him who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down with his eyes uncovered:


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Like palm groves that stretch afar, like gardens beside a river, like aloes that the LORD has planted, like cedar trees beside the waters.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Water shall flow from his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters; his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  God brings him out of Egypt and is for him like the horns of the wild ox; he shall eat up the nations, his adversaries, and shall break their bones in pieces and pierce them through with his arrows.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  He crouched, he lay down like a lion and like a lioness; who will rouse him up? Blessed are those who bless you, and cursed are those who curse you.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Balak’s anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together. And Balak said to Balaam, “I called you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them these three times.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Therefore now flee to your own place. I said, ‘I will certainly honor you,’ but the LORD has held you back from honor.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  ‘If Balak should give me his house full of silver and gold, I would not be able to go beyond the word of the LORD, to do either good or bad of my own will. What the LORD speaks, that will I speak’?


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And now, behold, I am going to my people. Come, I will let you know what this people will do to your people in the latter days.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And he took up his discourse and said, “The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is opened,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  the oracle of him who hears the words of God, and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down with his eyes uncovered:


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near: a star shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel; it shall crush the forehead of Moab and break down all the sons of Sheth.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Edom shall be dispossessed; Seir also, his enemies, shall be dispossessed. Israel is doing valiantly.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then he looked on Amalek and took up his discourse and said, “Amalek was the first among the nations, but its end is utter destruction.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And he looked on the Kenite, and took up his discourse and said, “Enduring is your dwelling place, and your nest is set in the rock.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But ships shall come from Kittim and shall afflict Asshur and Eber; and he too shall come to utter destruction.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the LORD said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people and hang them in the sun before the LORD, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you kill those of his men who have yoked themselves to Baal of Peor.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And behold, one of the people of Israel came and brought a Midianite woman to his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the people of Israel, while they were weeping in the entrance of the tent of meeting.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation and took a spear in his hand


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on the people of Israel was stopped.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and it shall be to him and to his descendants after him the covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the people of Israel.’”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The name of the slain man of Israel, who was killed with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, chief of a father’s house belonging to the Simeonites.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, who was the tribal head of a father’s house in Midian.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  for they have harassed you with their wiles, with which they beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the chief of Midian, their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague on account of Peor.” 


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all in Israel who are able to go to war.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Take a census of the people, from twenty years old and upward,” as the LORD commanded Moses. The people of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt were:


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the clan of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the clan of the Palluites;


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are the Dathan and Abiram, chosen from the congregation, who contended against Moses and Aaron in the company of Korah, when they contended against the LORD


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured 250 men, and they became a warning.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The sons of Simeon according to their clans: of Nemuel, the clan of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the clan of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the clan of the Jachinites;


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The sons of Gad according to their clans: of Zephon, the clan of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the clan of the Haggites; of Shuni, the clan of the Shunites;


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the sons of Judah according to their clans were: of Shelah, the clan of the Shelanites; of Perez, the clan of the Perezites; of Zerah, the clan of the Zerahites.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the clan of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the clan of the Hamulites.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The sons of Issachar according to their clans: of Tola, the clan of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the clan of the Punites;


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The sons of Zebulun, according to their clans: of Sered, the clan of the Seredites; of Elon, the clan of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the clan of the Jahleelites.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the clan of the Machirites; and Machir was the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the clan of the Gileadites.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the clan of the Iezerites; of Helek, the clan of the Helekites;


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Now Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters. And the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  These are the sons of Ephraim according to their clans: of Shuthelah, the clan of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the clan of the Becherites; of Tahan, the clan of the Tahanites.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  These are the clans of the sons of Ephraim as they were listed, 32,500. These are the sons of Joseph according to their clans.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The sons of Benjamin according to their clans: of Bela, the clan of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the clan of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the clan of the Ahiramites;


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the clan of the Ardites; of Naaman, the clan of the Naamites.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  These are the sons of Dan according to their clans: of Shuham, the clan of the Shuhamites. These are the clans of Dan according to their clans.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The sons of Asher according to their clans: of Imnah, the clan of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the clan of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the clan of the Beriites.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the clan of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the clan of the Malchielites.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The sons of Naphtali according to their clans: of Jahzeel, the clan of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the clan of the Gunites;


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance; every tribe shall be given its inheritance in proportion to its list.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But the land shall be divided by lot. According to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  This was the list of the Levites according to their clans: of Gershon, the clan of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the clan of the Kohathites; of Merari, the clan of the Merarites.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  These are the clans of Levi: the clan of the Libnites, the clan of the Hebronites, the clan of the Mahlites, the clan of the Mushites, the clan of the Korahites. And Kohath was the father of Amram.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. And she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses and Miriam their sister.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And those listed were 23,000, every male from a month old and upward. For they were not listed among the people of Israel, because there was no inheritance given to them among the people of Israel.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  These were those listed by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who listed the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But among these there was not one of those listed by Moses and Aaron the priest, who had listed the people of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  For the LORD had said of them, “They shall die in the wilderness.” Not one of them was left, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. 


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then drew near the daughters of Zelophehad the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, from the clans of Manasseh the son of Joseph. The names of his daughters were: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And they stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the chiefs and all the congregation, at the entrance of the tent of meeting, saying,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah, but died for his own sin. And he had no sons.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Why should the name of our father be taken away from his clan because he had no son? Give to us a possession among our father’s brothers.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “The daughters of Zelophehad are right. You shall give them possession of an inheritance among their father’s brothers and transfer the inheritance of their father to them.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And you shall speak to the people of Israel, saying, ‘If a man dies and has no son, then you shall transfer his inheritance to his daughter.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to the nearest kinsman of his clan, and he shall possess it. And it shall be for the people of Israel a statute and rule, as the LORD commanded Moses.’”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The LORD said to Moses, “Go up into this mountain of Abarim and see the land that I have given to the people of Israel.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin when the congregation quarreled, failing to uphold me as holy at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  who shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the LORD may not be as sheep that have no shepherd.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  So the LORD said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Make him stand before Eleazar the priest and all the congregation, and you shall commission him in their sight.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  You shall invest him with some of your authority, that all the congregation of the people of Israel may obey.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the LORD. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Moses did as the LORD commanded him. He took Joshua and made him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole congregation,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Command the people of Israel and say to them, ‘My offering, my food for my food offerings, my pleasing aroma, you shall be careful to offer to me at its appointed time.’


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And you shall say to them, This is the food offering that you shall offer to the LORD: two male lambs a year old without blemish, day by day, as a regular offering.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  also a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with a quarter of a hin of beaten oil.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  It is a regular burnt offering, which was ordained at Mount Sinai for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Its drink offering shall be a quarter of a hin for each lamb. In the Holy Place you shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to the LORD.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The other lamb you shall offer at twilight. Like the grain offering of the morning, and like its drink offering, you shall offer it as a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “On the Sabbath day, two male lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering:


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  this is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “At the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD: two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  also three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for each bull, and two tenths of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram;


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and a tenth of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for every lamb; for a burnt offering with a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, a third of a hin for a ram, and a quarter of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of each month throughout the months of the year.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Also one male goat for a sin offering to the LORD; it shall be offered besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  but offer a food offering, a burnt offering to the LORD: two bulls from the herd, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; see that they are without blemish;


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  also their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil; three tenths of an ephah shall you offer for a bull, and two tenths for a ram;


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  You shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a regular burnt offering.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  In the same way you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD. It shall be offered besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “On the day of the firstfruits, when you offer a grain offering of new grain to the LORD at your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  but offer a burnt offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD: two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old;


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  also their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for each bull, two tenths for one ram,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Besides the regular burnt offering and its grain offering, you shall offer them and their drink offering. See that they are without blemish. 


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “On the first day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work. It is a day for you to blow the trumpets,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and you shall offer a burnt offering, for a pleasing aroma to the LORD: one bull from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  also their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for the bull, two tenths for the ram,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and its grain offering, and the regular burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offering, according to the rule for them, for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation and afflict yourselves. You shall do no work,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  but you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma: one bull from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old: see that they are without blemish.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And their grain offering shall be of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for the bull, two tenths for the one ram,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the sin offering of atonement, and the regular burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offerings.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work, and you shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And you shall offer a burnt offering, a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD, thirteen bulls from the herd, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish;


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for each of the thirteen bulls, two tenths for each of the two rams,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering and its drink offering.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “On the second day twelve bulls from the herd, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offerings.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering and its grain offering and its drink offering.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  also one male goat for a sin offering; besides the regular burnt offering and its grain offering and its drink offering.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  also one male goat for a sin offering; besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offerings.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  also one male goat for a sin offering; besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  but you shall offer a burnt offering, a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “These you shall offer to the LORD at your appointed feasts, in addition to your vow offerings and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your grain offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the people of Israel, saying, “This is what the LORD has commanded.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  If a man vows a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “If a woman vows a vow to the LORD and binds herself by a pledge, while within her father’s house in her youth,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and her father hears of her vow and of her pledge by which she has bound herself and says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But if her father opposes her on the day that he hears of it, no vow of hers, no pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand. And the LORD will forgive her, because her father opposed her.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “If she marries a husband, while under her vows or any thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she has bound herself,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and her husband hears of it and says nothing to her on the day that he hears, then her vows shall stand, and her pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But if, on the day that her husband comes to hear of it, he opposes her, then he makes void her vow that was on her, and the thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she bound herself. And the LORD will forgive her.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  (But any vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, anything by which she has bound herself, shall stand against her.)


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label: Num
content:
  and her husband heard of it and said nothing to her and did not oppose her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she bound herself shall stand.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But if her husband makes them null and void on the day that he hears them, then whatever proceeds out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning her pledge of herself shall not stand. Her husband has made them void, and the LORD will forgive her.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Any vow and any binding oath to afflict herself, her husband may establish, or her husband may make void.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows or all her pledges that are upon her. He has established them, because he said nothing to her on the day that he heard of them.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  These are the statutes that the LORD commanded Moses about a man and his wife and about a father and his daughter while she is in her youth within her father’s house. 


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  So Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian to execute the LORD’s vengeance on Midian.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  So there were provided, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand from each tribe, together with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. And they also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the people of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones, and they took as plunder all their cattle, their flocks, and all their goods.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then they brought the captives and the plunder and the spoil to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the people of Israel, at the camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the chiefs of the congregation went to meet them outside the camp.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, who had come from service in the war.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Behold, these, on Balaam’s advice, caused the people of Israel to act treacherously against the LORD in the incident of Peor, and so the plague came among the congregation of the LORD.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Encamp outside the camp seven days. Whoever of you has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  You shall purify every garment, every article of skin, all work of goats’ hair, and every article of wood.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then Eleazar the priest said to the men in the army who had gone to battle: “This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded Moses:


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  everything that can stand the fire, you shall pass through the fire, and it shall be clean. Nevertheless, it shall also be purified with the water for impurity. And whatever cannot stand the fire, you shall pass through the water.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. And afterward you may come into the camp.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Take the count of the plunder that was taken, both of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the congregation,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and divide the plunder into two parts between the warriors who went out to battle and all the congregation.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And levy for the LORD a tribute from the men of war who went out to battle, one out of five hundred, of the people and of the oxen and of the donkeys and of the flocks.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And from the people of Israel’s half you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the people, of the oxen, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the cattle, and give them to the Levites who keep guard over the tabernacle of the LORD.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Moses gave the tribute, which was the contribution for the LORD, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  From the people of Israel’s half, which Moses separated from that of the men who had served in the army—


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  from the people of Israel’s half Moses took one of every 50, both of persons and of beasts, and gave them to the Levites who kept guard over the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, came near to Moses


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and said to Moses, “Your servants have counted the men of war who are under our command, and there is not a man missing from us.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And we have brought the LORD’s offering, what each man found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and beads, to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And all the gold of the contribution that they presented to the LORD, from the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, was 16,750 shekels.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting, as a memorial for the people of Israel before the LORD. 


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Now the people of Reuben and the people of Gad had a very great number of livestock. And they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and behold, the place was a place for livestock.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  So the people of Gad and the people of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the congregation,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  the land that the LORD struck down before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And they said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Do not take us across the Jordan.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But Moses said to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to the war while you sit here?


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Why will you discourage the heart of the people of Israel from going over into the land that the LORD has given them?


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the people of Israel from going into the land that the LORD had given them.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  ‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  none except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the LORD.’


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the LORD’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was gone.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And behold, you have risen in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the LORD against Israel!


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  For if you turn away from following him, he will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all this people.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then they came near to him and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  but we will take up arms, ready to go before the people of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. And our little ones shall live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan to the east.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  So Moses said to them, “If you will do this, if you will take up arms to go before the LORD for the war,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before the LORD, until he has driven out his enemies from before him


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and the land is subdued before the LORD; then after that you shall return and be free of obligation to the LORD and to Israel, and this land shall be your possession before the LORD.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD, and be sure your sin will find you out.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the people of Gad and the people of Reuben said to Moses, “Your servants will do as my lord commands.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Our little ones, our wives, our livestock, and all our cattle shall remain there in the cities of Gilead,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord orders.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  So Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the people of Israel.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Moses said to them, “If the people of Gad and the people of Reuben, every man who is armed to battle before the LORD, will pass with you over the Jordan and the land shall be subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  However, if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the people of Gad and the people of Reuben answered, “What the LORD has said to your servants, we will do.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Moses gave to them, to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land and its cities with their territories, the cities of the land throughout the country.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Nebo, and Baal-meon (their names were changed), and Sibmah. And they gave other names to the cities that they built.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and captured it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  These are the stages of the people of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt by their companies under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Moses wrote down their starting places, stage by stage, by command of the LORD, and these are their stages according to their starting places.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  They set out from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the day after the Passover, the people of Israel went out triumphantly in the sight of all the Egyptians,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck down among them. On their gods also the LORD executed judgments.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And they set out from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which is east of Baal-zephon, and they camped before Migdol.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And they set out from before Hahiroth and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and they went a three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And they set out from Marah and came to Elim; at Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And they set out from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor at the command of the LORD and died there, in the fortieth year after the people of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the people of Israel.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And they set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho;


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their figured stones and destroy all their metal images and demolish all their high places.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And you shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given the land to you to possess it.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  You shall inherit the land by lot according to your clans. To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance. Wherever the lot falls for anyone, that shall be his. According to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Command the people of Israel, and say to them, When you enter the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan as defined by its borders),


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  your south side shall be from the wilderness of Zin alongside Edom, and your southern border shall run from the end of the Salt Sea on the east.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And your border shall turn south of the ascent of Akrabbim, and cross to Zin, and its limit shall be south of Kadesh-barnea. Then it shall go on to Hazar-addar, and pass along to Azmon.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “For the western border, you shall have the Great Sea and its coast. This shall be your western border.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Then the border shall extend to Ziphron, and its limit shall be at Hazar-enan. This shall be your northern border.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain. And the border shall go down and reach to the shoulder of the Sea of Chinnereth on the east.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the border shall go down to the Jordan, and its limit shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land as defined by its borders all around.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Moses commanded the people of Israel, saying, “This is the land that you shall inherit by lot, which the LORD has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  For the tribe of the people of Reuben by fathers’ houses and the tribe of the people of Gad by their fathers’ houses have received their inheritance, and also the half-tribe of Manasseh.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, toward the sunrise.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  These are the men whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance for the people of Israel in the land of Canaan. 


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “Command the people of Israel to give to the Levites some of the inheritance of their possession as cities for them to dwell in. And you shall give to the Levites pasturelands around the cities.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The cities shall be theirs to dwell in, and their pasturelands shall be for their cattle and for their livestock and for all their beasts.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The pasturelands of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city outward a thousand cubits all around.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  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, the city being in the middle. This shall belong to them as pastureland for their cities.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “The cities that you give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, where you shall permit the manslayer to flee, and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And as for the cities that you shall give from the possession of the people of Israel, from the larger tribes you shall take many, and from the smaller tribes you shall take few; each, in proportion to the inheritance that it inherits, shall give of its cities to the Levites.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person without intent may flee there.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities in the land of Canaan, to be cities of refuge.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  These six cities shall be for refuge for the people of Israel, and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, that anyone who kills any person without intent may flee there.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “But if he struck him down with an iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And if he struck him down with a stone tool that could cause death, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Or if he struck him down with a wooden tool that could cause death, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he shall put him to death.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  or in enmity struck him down with his hand, so that he died, then he who struck the blow shall be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  or used a stone that could cause death, and without seeing him dropped it on him, so that he died, though he was not his enemy and did not seek his harm,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he had fled, and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the boundaries of his city of refuge to which he fled,


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  and the avenger of blood finds him outside the boundaries of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the manslayer, he shall not be guilty of blood.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  For he must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest, but after the death of the high priest the manslayer may return to the land of his possession.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And these things shall be for a statute and rule for you throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  “If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the evidence of witnesses. But no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  Moreover, you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall be put to death.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And you shall accept no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the high priest.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  You shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, for I the LORD dwell in the midst of the people of Israel.” 


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The heads of the fathers’ houses of the clan of the people of Gilead the son of Machir, son of Manasseh, from the clans of the people of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the chiefs, the heads of the fathers’ houses of the people of Israel.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  They said, “The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the people of Israel, and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  But if they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the people of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And when the jubilee of the people of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry, and their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And Moses commanded the people of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, “The tribe of the people of Joseph is right.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  This is what the LORD commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: ‘Let them marry whom they think best, only they shall marry within the clan of the tribe of their father.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  The inheritance of the people of Israel shall not be transferred from one tribe to another, for every one of the people of Israel shall hold on to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  And every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the people of Israel shall be wife to one of the clan of the tribe of her father, so that every one of the people of Israel may possess the inheritance of his fathers.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  So no inheritance shall be transferred from one tribe to another, for each of the tribes of the people of Israel shall hold on to its own inheritance.’”


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to sons of their father’s brothers.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  They were married into the clans of the people of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father’s clan.


book: Numbers
label: Num
content:
  These are the commandments and the rules that the LORD commanded through Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. 


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the people of Israel according to all that the LORD had given him in commandment to them,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  after he had defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth and in Edrei.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Turn and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland and in the Negeb and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  See, I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  May the LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you!


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Choose for your tribes wise, understanding, and experienced men, and I will appoint them as your heads.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, and set them as heads over you, commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, commanders of tens, and officers, throughout your tribes.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And I charged your judges at that time, ‘Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God’s. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “Then we set out from Horeb and went through all that great and terrifying wilderness that you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us. And we came to Kadesh-barnea.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And I said to you, ‘You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  See, the LORD your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not fear or be dismayed.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Then all of you came near me and said, ‘Let us send men before us, that they may explore the land for us and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up and the cities into which we shall come.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied it out.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And they took in their hands some of the fruit of the land and brought it down to us, and brought us word again and said, ‘It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And you murmured in your tents and said, ‘Because the LORD hated us he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, “The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.”’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  The LORD your God who goes before you will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  who went before you in the way to seek you out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night and in the cloud by day, to show you by what way you should go.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  ‘Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land on which he has trodden, because he has wholly followed the LORD!’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall enter. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And as for your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there. And to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “Then you answered me, ‘We have sinned against the LORD. We ourselves will go up and fight, just as the LORD our God commanded us.’ And every one of you fastened on his weapons of war and thought it easy to go up into the hill country.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the LORD said to me, ‘Say to them, Do not go up or fight, for I am not in your midst, lest you be defeated before your enemies.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  So I spoke to you, and you would not listen; but you rebelled against the command of the LORD and presumptuously went up into the hill country.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Then the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do and beat you down in Seir as far as Hormah.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And you returned and wept before the LORD, but the LORD did not listen to your voice or give ear to you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea, as the LORD told me. And for many days we traveled around Mount Seir.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  and command the people, “You are about to pass through the territory of your brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. So be very careful.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Do not contend with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall purchase food from them with money, that you may eat, and you shall also buy water from them with money, that you may drink.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.”’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  So we went on, away from our brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road from Elath and Ezion-geber. “And we turned and went in the direction of the wilderness of Moab.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the LORD said to me, ‘Do not harass Moab or contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the people of Lot for a possession.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  The Horites also lived in Seir formerly, but the people of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their place, as Israel did to the land of their possession, which the LORD gave to them.)


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the time from our leaving Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until the entire generation, that is, the men of war, had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from the camp, until they had perished.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And when you approach the territory of the people of Ammon, do not harass them or contend with them, for I will not give you any of the land of the people of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot for a possession.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  (It is also counted as a land of Rephaim. Rephaim formerly lived there—but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim—


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim; but the LORD destroyed them before the Ammonites, and they dispossessed them and settled in their place,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  as he did for the people of Esau, who live in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites before them and they dispossessed them and settled in their place even to this day.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  As for the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and settled in their place.)


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  ‘Rise up, set out on your journey and go over the Valley of the Arnon. Behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession, and contend with him in battle.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon the king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  ‘Let me pass through your land. I will go only by the road; I will turn aside neither to the right nor to the left.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink. Only let me pass through on foot,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I go over the Jordan into the land that the LORD our God is giving to us.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as he is this day.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the LORD said to me, ‘Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to take possession, that you may occupy his land.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And we captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction every city, men, women, and children. We left no survivors.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. The LORD our God gave all into our hands.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not draw near, that is, to all the banks of the river Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, whatever the LORD our God had forbidden us. 


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan. And Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  But the LORD said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hand. And you shall do to him as you did to Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  So the LORD our God gave into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people, and we struck him down until he had no survivor left.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And we took all his cities at that time—there was not a city that we did not take from them—sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled villages.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And we devoted them to destruction, as we did to Sihon the king of Heshbon, devoting to destruction every city, men, women, and children.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  So we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the Valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  all the cities of the tableland and all Gilead and all Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  (For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit.)


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “When we took possession of this land at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory beginning at Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  The rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, that is, all the region of Argob, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (All that portion of Bashan is called the land of Rephaim.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Jair the Manassite took all the region of Argob, that is, Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called the villages after his own name, Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.)


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  and to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the Valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a border, as far over as the river Jabbok, the border of the Ammonites;


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  the Arabah also, with the Jordan as the border, from Chinnereth as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “And I commanded you at that time, saying, ‘The LORD your God has given you this land to possess. All your men of valor shall cross over armed before your brothers, the people of Israel.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Only your wives, your little ones, and your livestock (I know that you have much livestock) shall remain in the cities that I have given you,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  until the LORD gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also occupy the land that the LORD your God gives them beyond the Jordan. Then each of you may return to his possession which I have given you.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And I commanded Joshua at that time, ‘Your eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings. So will the LORD do to all the kingdoms into which you are crossing.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  ‘O Lord GOD, you have only begun to show your servant your greatness and your mighty hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as yours?


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  But the LORD was angry with me because of you and would not listen to me. And the LORD said to me, ‘Enough from you; do not speak to me of this matter again.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Go up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward, and look at it with your eyes, for you shall not go over this Jordan.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  But charge Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he shall go over at the head of this people, and he shall put them in possession of the land that you shall see.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all the men who followed the Baal of Peor.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children—


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  how on the day that you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, ‘Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, wrapped in darkness, cloud, and gloom.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Then the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of words, but saw no form; there was only a voice.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, that is, the Ten Commandments, and he wrote them on two tablets of stone.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules, that you might do them in the land that you are going over to possess.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “Therefore watch yourselves very carefully. Since you saw no form on the day that the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  beware lest you act corruptly by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  But the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of his own inheritance, as you are this day.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Furthermore, the LORD was angry with me because of you, and he swore that I should not cross the Jordan, and that I should not enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  For I must die in this land; I must not go over the Jordan. But you shall go over and take possession of that good land.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Take care, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make a carved image, the form of anything that the LORD your God has forbidden you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “When you father children and children’s children, and have grown old in the land, if you act corruptly by making a carved image in the form of anything, and by doing what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, so as to provoke him to anger,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.


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label: Deut
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  But from there you will seek the LORD your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to the LORD your God and obey his voice.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  For the LORD your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  “For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live?


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  Out of heaven he let you hear his voice, that he might discipline you. And on earth he let you see his great fire, and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And because he loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them and brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  driving out before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.”


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label: Deut
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  that the manslayer might flee there, anyone who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without being at enmity with him in time past; he may flee to one of these cities and save his life:


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland for the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the rules, which Moses spoke to the people of Israel when they came out of Egypt,


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label: Deut
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  beyond the Jordan in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the people of Israel defeated when they came out of Egypt.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  And they took possession of his land and the land of Og, the king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who lived to the east beyond the Jordan;


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label: Deut
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  from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, as far as Mount Sirion (that is, Hermon),


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  together with all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah. 


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Not with our fathers did the LORD make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  while I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD. For you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up into the mountain. He said:


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “‘You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “‘Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “‘And you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  “These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly at the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and he added no more. And he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  And as soon as you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  And you said, ‘Behold, the LORD our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire. This day we have seen God speak with man, and man still live.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, we shall die.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire as we have, and has still lived?


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  Go near and hear all that the LORD our God will say, and speak to us all that the LORD our God will speak to you, and we will hear and do it.’


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label: Deut
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  “And the LORD heard your words, when you spoke to me. And the LORD said to me, ‘I have heard the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They are right in all that they have spoken.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Oh that they had such a heart as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants forever!


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you the whole commandment and the statutes and the rules that you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall be careful therefore to do as the LORD your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall walk in all the way that the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess. 


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  that you may fear the LORD your God, you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities that you did not build,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—and when you eat and are full,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  then take care lest you forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  for the LORD your God in your midst is a jealous God—lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may go well with you, and that you may go in and take possession of the good land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the LORD our God has commanded you?’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  then you shall say to your son, ‘We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and all his household, before our eyes.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in and give us the land that he swore to give to our fathers.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are this day.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.’ 


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  “When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you,


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label: Deut
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  and when the LORD your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and chop down their Asherim and burn their carved images with fire.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  but it is because the LORD loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  and repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall be blessed above all peoples. There shall not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And you shall consume all the peoples that the LORD your God will give over to you. Your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  you shall not be afraid of them but you shall remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the LORD your God brought you out. So will the LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Moreover, the LORD your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  But the LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And he will give their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under heaven. No one shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  The carved images of their gods you shall burn with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest and abhor it, for it is devoted to destruction. 


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “Take care lest you forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And if you forget the LORD your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly warn you today that you shall surely perish.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God. 


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, cities great and fortified up to heaven,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the sons of Anak?’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Know therefore today that he who goes over before you as a consuming fire is the LORD your God. He will destroy them and subdue them before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as the LORD has promised you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out before you, ‘It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,’ whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “Know, therefore, that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Remember and do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Even at Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was so angry with you that he was ready to destroy you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words that the LORD had spoken with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And at the end of forty days and forty nights the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Then the LORD said to me, ‘Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly. They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them; they have made themselves a metal image.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God. You had made yourselves a golden calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Then I lay prostrate before the LORD as before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke him to anger.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure that the LORD bore against you, so that he was ready to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me that time also.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the LORD was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him. And I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Then I took the sinful thing, the calf that you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. And I threw the dust of it into the brook that ran down from the mountain.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Go up and take possession of the land that I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God and did not believe him or obey his voice.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “So I lay prostrate before the LORD for these forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said he would destroy you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And I prayed to the LORD, ‘O Lord GOD, do not destroy your people and your heritage, whom you have redeemed through your greatness, whom you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not regard the stubbornness of this people, or their wickedness or their sin,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  lest the land from which you brought us say, “Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land that he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.”


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  For they are your people and your heritage, whom you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.’ 


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “At that time the LORD said to me, ‘Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mountain and make an ark of wood.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And he wrote on the tablets, in the same writing as before, the Ten Commandments that the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. And the LORD gave them to me.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Then I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the ark that I had made. And there they are, as the LORD commanded me.”


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  (The people of Israel journeyed from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried. And his son Eleazar ministered as priest in his place.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD to stand before the LORD to minister to him and to bless in his name, to this day.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Therefore Levi has no portion or inheritance with his brothers. The LORD is his inheritance, as the LORD your God said to him.)


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “I myself stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights, and the LORD listened to me that time also. The LORD was unwilling to destroy you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the LORD said to me, ‘Arise, go on your journey at the head of the people, so that they may go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give them.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD, which I am commanding you today for your good?


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Behold, to the LORD your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Yet the LORD set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall fear the LORD your God. You shall serve him and hold fast to him, and by his name you shall swear.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  He is your praise. He is your God, who has done for you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven. 


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “You shall therefore love the LORD your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And consider today (since I am not speaking to your children who have not known or seen it), consider the discipline of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm,


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label: Deut
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  and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots, how he made the water of the Red Sea flow over them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD has destroyed them to this day,


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  and what he did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel.


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  “You shall therefore keep the whole commandment that I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and take possession of the land that you are going over to possess,


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  and that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.


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  For the land that you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated it, like a garden of vegetables.


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  But the land that you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven,


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  a land that the LORD your God cares for. The eyes of the LORD your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.


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  “And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,


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  he will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.


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  then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and you will perish quickly off the good land that the LORD is giving you.


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  “You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.


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  You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.


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  that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.


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  For if you will be careful to do all this commandment that I command you to do, loving the LORD your God, walking in all his ways, and holding fast to him,


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  then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.


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  Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Your territory shall be from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea.


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  No one shall be able to stand against you. The LORD your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread, as he promised you.


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  and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known.


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  And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.


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  Are they not beyond the Jordan, west of the road, toward the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oak of Moreh?


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  For you are to cross over the Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving you. And when you possess it and live in it,


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  “These are the statutes and rules that you shall be careful to do in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.


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  You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.


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label: Deut
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  You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and destroy their name out of that place.


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  But you shall seek the place that the LORD your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there. There you shall go,


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  and there you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you present, your vow offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.


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  And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.


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  “You shall not do according to all that we are doing here today, everyone doing whatever is right in his own eyes,


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  for you have not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.


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  But when you go over the Jordan and live in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies around, so that you live in safety,


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  then to the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make his name dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you present, and all your finest vow offerings that you vow to the LORD.


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  And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male servants and your female servants, and the Levite that is within your towns, since he has no portion or inheritance with you.


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  but at the place that the LORD will choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I am commanding you.


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  “However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the deer.


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  You may not eat within your towns the tithe of your grain or of your wine or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, or any of your vow offerings that you vow, or your freewill offerings or the contribution that you present,


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  but you shall eat them before the LORD your God in the place that the LORD your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your towns. And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you undertake.


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  “When the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised you, and you say, ‘I will eat meat,’ because you crave meat, you may eat meat whenever you desire.


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  If the place that the LORD your God will choose to put his name there is too far from you, then you may kill any of your herd or your flock, which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat within your towns whenever you desire.


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  Just as the gazelle or the deer is eaten, so you may eat of it. The unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.


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  Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.


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label: Deut
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  You shall not eat it, that all may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.


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  But the holy things that are due from you, and your vow offerings, you shall take, and you shall go to the place that the LORD will choose,


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  and offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God. The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, but the flesh you may eat.


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  Be careful to obey all these words that I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.


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  “When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,


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  take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods?—that I also may do the same.’


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label: Deut
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  You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the LORD hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.


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label: Deut
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  “Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it. 


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  and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’


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  you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.


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label: Deut
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  You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him.


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  But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.


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  “If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which neither you nor your fathers have known,


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  some of the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other,


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  you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him.


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  But you shall kill him. Your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people.


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label: Deut
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  You shall stone him to death with stones, 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 slavery.


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  that certain worthless fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known,


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label: Deut
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  then you shall inquire and make search and ask diligently. And behold, if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you,


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  you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, devoting it to destruction, all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword.


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  You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square and burn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. It shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again.


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  None of the devoted things shall stick to your hand, that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy and have compassion on you and multiply you, as he swore to your fathers,


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  if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, keeping all his commandments that I am commanding you today, and doing what is right in the sight of the LORD your God. 


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  “You are the sons of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.


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  For you are a people holy to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.


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  Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.


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  Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cloven you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, are unclean for you.


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  And the pig, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.


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  “You shall not eat anything that has died naturally. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.


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  And before the LORD your God, in the place that he will choose, to make his name dwell there, you shall eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.


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  And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, when the LORD your God blesses you, because the place is too far from you, which the LORD your God chooses, to set his name there,


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  then you shall turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and go to the place that the LORD your God chooses


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label: Deut
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  and spend the money for whatever you desire—oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And you shall eat there before the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household.


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label: Deut
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  And you shall not neglect the Levite who is within your towns, for he has no portion or inheritance with you.


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  “At the end of every three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in the same year and lay it up within your towns.


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  And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do. 


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label: Deut
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  And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the LORD’s release has been proclaimed.


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label: Deut
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  Of a foreigner you may exact it, but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand shall release.


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label: Deut
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  But there will be no poor among you; for the LORD will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess—


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  if only you will strictly obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all this commandment that I command you today.


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label: Deut
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  For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you, and 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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  “If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother,


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  Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the LORD against you, and you be guilty of sin.


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label: Deut
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  You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.


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label: Deut
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  For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’


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label: Deut
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  “If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.


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label: Deut
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  You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress. As the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.


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label: Deut
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  You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today.


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label: Deut
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  But if he says to you, ‘I will not go out from you,’ because he loves you and your household, since he is well-off with you,


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  then you shall take an awl, and put it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your slave forever. And to your female slave you shall do the same.


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  It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for at half the cost of a hired worker he has served you six years. So the LORD your God will bless you in all that you do.


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  “All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and flock you shall dedicate to the LORD your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.


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label: Deut
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  You shall eat it, you and your household, before the LORD your God year by year at the place that the LORD will choose.


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label: Deut
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  But if it has any blemish, if it is lame or blind or has any serious blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.


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label: Deut
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  You shall eat it within your towns. The unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as though it were a gazelle or a deer.


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label: Deut
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  “Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.


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  And you shall offer the Passover sacrifice to the LORD your God, from the flock or the herd, at the place that the LORD will choose, to make his name dwell there.


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  You shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction—for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste—that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt.


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  No leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory for seven days, nor shall any of the flesh that you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain all night until morning.


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  You may not offer the Passover sacrifice within any of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you,


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label: Deut
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  but at the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make his name dwell in it, there you shall offer the Passover sacrifice, in the evening at sunset, at the time you came out of Egypt.


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label: Deut
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  And you shall cook it and eat it at the place that the LORD your God will choose. And in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.


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label: Deut
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  For six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God. You shall do no work on it.


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label: Deut
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  “You shall count seven weeks. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain.


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label: Deut
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  Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as the LORD your God blesses you.


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label: Deut
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  And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make his name dwell there.


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label: Deut
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  You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.


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label: Deut
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  “You shall keep the Feast of Booths seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress.


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label: Deut
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  You shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns.


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  For seven days you shall keep the feast to the LORD your God at the place that the LORD will choose, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful.


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  “Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God at the place that he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths. They shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed.


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label: Deut
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  Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you.


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label: Deut
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  “You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.


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label: Deut
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  You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality, and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.


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label: Deut
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  Justice, and only justice, you shall follow, that you may live and inherit the land that the LORD your God is giving you.


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label: Deut
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  “You shall not plant any tree as an Asherah beside the altar of the LORD your God that you shall make.


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label: Deut
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  “You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep in which is a blemish, any defect whatever, for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.


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  “If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, in transgressing his covenant,


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  and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden,


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label: Deut
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  and it is told you and you hear of it, then you shall inquire diligently, and if it is true and certain that such an abomination has been done in Israel,


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label: Deut
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  then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you shall stone that man or woman to death with stones.


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label: Deut
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  On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses the one who is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness.


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label: Deut
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  The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.


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label: Deut
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  “If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to the place that the LORD your God will choose.


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  And you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and they shall declare to you the decision.


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label: Deut
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  Then you shall do according to what they declare to you from that place that the LORD will choose. And you shall be careful to do according to all that they direct you.


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label: Deut
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  According to the instructions that they give you, and according to the decision which they pronounce to you, you shall do. You shall not turn aside from the verdict that they declare to you, either to the right hand or to the left.


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label: Deut
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  The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.


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label: Deut
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  “When you come to the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, ‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,’


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label: Deut
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  you may indeed set a king over you whom the LORD your God will choose. One from among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.


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label: Deut
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  Only he must not acquire many horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the LORD has said to you, ‘You shall never return that way again.’


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label: Deut
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  And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold.


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label: Deut
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  “And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests.


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label: Deut
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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 his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them,


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  that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left, so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel. 


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label: Deut
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  “The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the LORD’s food offerings as their inheritance.


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label: Deut
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  They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the LORD is their inheritance, as he promised them.


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label: Deut
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  And this shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  The firstfruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for all time.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, where he lives—and he may come when he desires—to the place that the LORD will choose,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  and ministers in the name of the LORD his God, like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the LORD,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer


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label: Deut
content:
  for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD. And because of these abominations the LORD your God is driving them out before you.


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label: Deut
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  for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do this.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen—


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him. 


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  “When the LORD your God cuts off the nations whose land the LORD your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,


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label: Deut
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  you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall measure the distances and divide into three parts the area of the land that the LORD your God gives you as a possession, so that any manslayer can flee to them.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “This is the provision for the manslayer, who by fleeing there may save his life. If anyone kills his neighbor unintentionally without having hated him in the past—


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label: Deut
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  as when someone goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and live,


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  lest the avenger of blood in hot anger pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him fatally, though the man did not deserve to die, since he had not hated his neighbor in the past.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  And if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land that he promised to give to your fathers—


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  provided you are careful to keep all this commandment, which I command you today, by loving the LORD your God and by walking ever in his ways—then you shall add three other cities to these three,


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label: Deut
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  lest innocent blood be shed in your land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance, and so the guilt of bloodshed be upon you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “But if anyone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and attacks him and strikes him fatally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities,


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label: Deut
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  then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may be well with you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “You shall not move your neighbor’s landmark, which the men of old have set, in the inheritance that you will hold in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “A single witness shall not suffice against a person for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed. Only on the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall a charge be established.


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label: Deut
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  then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  The judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely,


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label: Deut
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  then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Your eye shall not pity. It shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. 


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  “When you go out to war against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you shall not be afraid of them, for the LORD your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.


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label: Deut
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  and shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Israel, today you are drawing near for battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint. Do not fear or panic or be in dread of them,


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label: Deut
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  for the LORD your God is he who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.’


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label: Deut
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  Then the officers shall speak to the people, saying, ‘Is there any man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  And is there any man who has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed its fruit? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man enjoy its fruit.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  And is there any man who has betrothed a wife and has not taken her? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her.’


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label: Deut
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  And the officers shall speak further to the people, and say, ‘Is there any man who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go back to his house, lest he make the heart of his fellows melt like his own.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  And when the officers have finished speaking to the people, then commanders shall be appointed at the head of the people.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  And if it responds to you peaceably and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you.


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label: Deut
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  but the women and the little ones, the livestock, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as plunder for yourselves. And you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here.


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label: Deut
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  But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes,


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label: Deut
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  but you shall devote them to complete destruction, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the LORD your God has commanded,


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label: Deut
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  that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices that they have done for their gods, and so you sin against the LORD your God.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  “When you besiege a city for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them. You may eat from them, but you shall not cut them down. Are the trees in the field human, that they should be besieged by you?


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  Only the trees that you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down, that you may build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls. 


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “If in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess someone is found slain, lying in the open country, and it is not known who killed him,


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label: Deut
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  then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure the distance to the surrounding cities.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the elders of the city that is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer that has never been worked and that has not pulled in a yoke.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to minister to him and to bless in the name of the LORD, and by their word every dispute and every assault shall be settled.


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label: Deut
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  And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  Accept atonement, O LORD, for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and do not set the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel, so that their blood guilt be atoned for.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  So you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  “When you go out to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  And she shall take off the clothes in which she was captured and shall remain in your house and lament her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  But if you no longer delight in her, you shall let her go where she wants. But you shall not sell her for money, nor shall you treat her as a slave, since you have humiliated her.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him children, and if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  then on the day when he assigns his possessions as an inheritance to his sons, he may not treat the son of the loved as the firstborn in preference to the son of the unloved, who is the firstborn,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the firstfruits of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them,


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label: Deut
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  then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God. You shall not defile your land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance. 


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep going astray and ignore them. You shall take them back to your brother.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  And if he does not live near you and you do not know who he is, you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall stay with you until your brother seeks it. Then you shall restore it to him.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  And you shall do the same with his donkey or with his garment, or with any lost thing of your brother’s, which he loses and you find; you may not ignore it.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way and ignore them. You shall help him to lift them up again.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “If you come across a bird’s nest in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house, if anyone should fall from it.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole yield be forfeited, the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard.


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label: Deut
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  and accuses her of misconduct and brings a bad name upon her, saying, ‘I took this woman, and when I came near her, I did not find in her evidence of virginity,’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man to marry, and he hates her;


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  and behold, he has accused her of misconduct, saying, “I did not find in your daughter evidence of virginity.” And yet this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the cloak before the elders of the city.


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label: Deut
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  and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a bad name upon a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife. He may not divorce her all his days.


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label: Deut
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  then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done an outrageous thing in Israel by whoring in her father’s house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor’s wife. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  But you shall do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no offense punishable by death. For this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor,


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label: Deut
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  because he met her in the open country, and though the betrothed young woman cried for help there was no one to rescue her.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the LORD.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “No one born of a forbidden union may enter the assembly of the LORD. Even to the tenth generation, none of his descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of the LORD. Even to the tenth generation, none of them may enter the assembly of the LORD forever,


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label: Deut
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  because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  But the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam; instead the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loved you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were a sojourner in his land.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he shall go outside the camp. He shall not come inside the camp,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  but when evening comes, he shall bathe himself in water, and as the sun sets, he may come inside the camp.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And you shall have a trowel with your tools, and when you sit down outside, you shall dig a hole with it and turn back and cover up your excrement.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Because the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy, so that he may not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  He shall dwell with you, in your midst, in the place that he shall choose within one of your towns, wherever it suits him. You shall not wrong him.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, and none of the sons of Israel shall be a cult prostitute.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a dog into the house of the LORD your God in payment for any vow, for both of these are an abomination to the LORD your God.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “You shall not charge interest on loans to your brother, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “If you make a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay fulfilling it, for the LORD your God will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall be careful to do what has passed your lips, for you have voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God what you have promised with your mouth.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “If you go into your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, as many as you wish, but you shall not put any in your bag.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  If you go into your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck the ears with your hand, but you shall not put a sickle to your neighbor’s standing grain. 


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house,


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label: Deut
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  and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the LORD. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year to be happy with his wife whom he has taken.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “If a man is found stealing one of his brothers of the people of Israel, and if he treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “Take care, in a case of leprous disease, to be very careful to do according to all that the Levitical priests shall direct you. As I commanded them, so you shall be careful to do.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you shall not go into his house to collect his pledge.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall restore to him the pledge as the sun sets, that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you. And it shall be righteousness for you before the LORD your God.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “You shall not oppress a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall give him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets (for he is poor and counts on it), lest he cry against you to the LORD, and you be guilty of sin.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow’s garment in pledge,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over them again. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not strip it afterward. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  then if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with a number of stripes in proportion to his offense.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Forty stripes may be given him, but not more, lest, if one should go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother be degraded in your sight.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And if the man does not wish to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to perpetuate his brother’s name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him, and if he persists, saying, ‘I do not wish to take her,’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  then his brother’s wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face. And she shall answer and say, ‘So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the name of his house shall be called in Israel, ‘The house of him who had his sandal pulled off.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “When men fight with one another and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  A full and fair weight you shall have, a full and fair measure you shall have, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  how he attacked you on the way when you were faint and weary, and cut off your tail, those who were lagging behind you, and he did not fear God.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Therefore when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies around you, in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget. 


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and live in it,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall go to the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make his name to dwell there.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, ‘I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come into the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.’


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label: Deut
content:
  Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “And you shall make response before the LORD your God, ‘A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Then we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great deeds of terror, with signs and wonders.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, O LORD, have given me.’ And you shall set it down before the LORD your God and worship before the LORD your God.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And you shall rejoice in all the good that the LORD your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce in the third year, which is the year of tithing, giving it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your towns and be filled,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  then you shall say before the LORD your God, ‘I have removed the sacred portion out of my house, and moreover, I have given it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all your commandment that you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, nor have I forgotten them.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  I have not eaten of the tithe while I was mourning, or removed any of it while I was unclean, or offered any of it to the dead. I have obeyed the voice of the LORD my God. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel and the ground that you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and rules. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You have declared today that the LORD is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the LORD has declared today that you are a people for his treasured possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised.” 


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Now Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, “Keep the whole commandment that I command you today.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And on the day you cross over the Jordan to the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall set up large stones and plaster them with plaster.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you cross over to enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And when you have crossed over the Jordan, you shall set up these stones, concerning which I command you today, on Mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And there you shall build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You shall wield no iron tool on them;


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  you shall build an altar to the LORD your God of uncut stones. And you shall offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  and you shall sacrifice peace offerings and shall eat there, and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Then Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel, “Keep silence and hear, O Israel: this day you have become the people of the LORD your God.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God, keeping his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today.”


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “When you have crossed over the Jordan, these shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “‘Cursed be the man who makes a carved or cast metal image, an abomination to the LORD, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “‘Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “‘Cursed be anyone who lies with his father’s wife, because he has uncovered his father’s nakedness.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “‘Cursed be anyone who lies with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “‘Cursed be anyone who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ 


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the LORD your God.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “The LORD will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  The LORD will command the blessing on you in your barns and in all that you undertake. And he will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  The LORD will establish you as a people holy to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in his ways.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they shall be afraid of you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground, within the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  The LORD will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you shall only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today, being careful to do them,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  and if you do not turn aside from any of the words that I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “The LORD will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  The LORD will make the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  The LORD will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought and with blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  The LORD will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and there shall be no one to frighten them away.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. You shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. You shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat any of it. Your donkey shall be seized before your face, but shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies, but there shall be no one to help you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, but you shall be helpless.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  The LORD will strike you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “The LORD will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the LORD will lead you away.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for the locust shall consume it.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  It shall eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “They shall besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  The man who is the most tender and refined among you will begrudge food to his brother, to the wife he embraces, and to the last of the children whom he has left,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces, to her son and to her daughter,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, the LORD your God,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  then the LORD will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And he will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Every sickness also and every affliction that is not recorded in the book of this law, the LORD will bring upon you, until you are destroyed.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And as the LORD took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the LORD will take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you. And you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “And the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and a languishing soul.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Your life shall hang in doubt before you. Night and day you shall be in dread and have no assurance of your life.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  In the morning you shall say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and at evening you shall say, ‘If only it were morning!’ because of the dread that your heart shall feel, and the sights that your eyes shall see.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the LORD will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.” 


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant that he had made with them at Horeb.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: “You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And when you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us to battle, but we defeated them.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  We took their land and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “You are standing today, all of you, before the LORD your God: the heads of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  your little ones, your wives, and the sojourner who is in your camp, from the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  so that you may enter into the sworn covenant of the LORD your God, which the LORD your God is making with you today,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he promised you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  but with whoever is standing here with us today before the LORD our God, and with whoever is not here with us today.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “You know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And you have seen their detestable things, their idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were among them.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.’ This will lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  The LORD will not be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and the curses written in this book will settle upon him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the LORD will single him out from all the tribes of Israel for calamity, in accordance with all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, will say, when they see the afflictions of that land and the sicknesses with which the LORD has made it sick—


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  the whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and wrath—all the nations will say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Then people will say, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, bringing upon it all the curses written in this book,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  and the LORD uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as they are this day.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. 


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  and return to the LORD your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there the LORD your God will gather you, and from there he will take you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the LORD your God will bring you into the land that your fathers possessed, that you may possess it. And he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And you shall again obey the voice of the LORD and keep all his commandments that I command you today.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  The LORD your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground. For the LORD will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  when you obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, when you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will ascend to heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you today, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  loving the LORD your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.” 


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And he said to them, “I am 120 years old today. I am no longer able to go out and come in. The LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  The LORD your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, as the LORD has spoken.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the LORD will do to them as he did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when he destroyed them.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the LORD will give them over to you, and you shall do to them according to the whole commandment that I have commanded you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land that the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall put them in possession of it.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  It is the LORD who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Then Moses wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the set time in the year of release, at the Feast of Booths,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God at the place that he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, the days approach when you must die. Call Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may commission him.” And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the LORD appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud. And the pillar of cloud stood over the entrance of the tent.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And I will surely hide my face in that day because of all the evil that they have done, because they have turned to other gods.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “Now therefore write this song and teach it to the people of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the people of Israel.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to give to their fathers, and they have eaten and are full and grown fat, they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise me and break my covenant.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  And when many evils and troubles have come upon them, this song shall confront them as a witness (for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their offspring). For I know what they are inclined to do even today, before I have brought them into the land that I swore to give.”


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  And the LORD commissioned Joshua the son of Nun and said, “Be strong and courageous, for you shall bring the people of Israel into the land that I swore to give them. I will be with you.”


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  “Take this Book of the Law and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  For I know how rebellious and stubborn you are. Behold, even today while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against the LORD. How much more after my death!


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears and call heaven and earth to witness against them.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  For I know that after my death you will surely act corruptly and turn aside from the way that I have commanded you. And in the days to come evil will befall you, because you will do what is evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger through the work of your hands.”


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Then Moses spoke the words of this song until they were finished, in the ears of all the assembly of Israel: 


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  May my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, like gentle rain upon the tender grass, and like showers upon the herb.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  “The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  They have dealt corruptly with him; they are no longer his children because they are blemished; they are a crooked and twisted generation.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  Do you thus repay the LORD, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  “He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, catching them, bearing them on its pinions,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  He made him ride on the high places of the land, and he ate the produce of the field, and he suckled him with honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of Bashan and goats, with the very finest of the wheat— and you drank foaming wine made from the blood of the grape.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  They sacrificed to demons that were no gods, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come recently, whom your fathers had never dreaded.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  And he said, ‘I will hide my face from them; I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  For a fire is kindled by my anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  they shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured by plague and poisonous pestilence; I will send the teeth of beasts against them, with the venom of things that crawl in the dust.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  Outdoors the sword shall bereave, and indoors terror, for young man and woman alike, the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  had I not feared provocation by the enemy, lest their adversaries should misunderstand, lest they should say, “Our hand is triumphant, it was not the LORD who did all this.”’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  How could one have chased a thousand, and two have put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had given them up?


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison; their clusters are bitter;


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone and there is none remaining, bond or free.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you; let them be your protection!


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  “‘See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  if I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and will repay those who hate me.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh— with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired heads of the enemy.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  “Rejoice with him, O heavens; bow down to him, all gods, for he avenges the blood of his children and takes vengeance on his adversaries. He repays those who hate him and cleanses his people’s land.”


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  he said to them, “Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  For it is no empty word for you, but your very life, and by this word you shall live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel for a possession.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  And die on the mountain which you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people,


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label: Deut
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  because you broke faith with me in the midst of the people of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, and because you did not treat me as holy in the midst of the people of Israel.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  For you shall see the land before you, but you shall not go there, into the land that I am giving to the people of Israel.” 


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  He said, “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned from Seir upon us; he shone forth from Mount Paran; he came from the ten thousands of holy ones, with flaming fire at his right hand.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  Yes, he loved his people, all his holy ones were in his hand; so they followed in your steps, receiving direction from you,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  Thus the LORD became king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  And this he said of Judah: “Hear, O LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him in to his people. With your hands contend for him, and be a help against his adversaries.”


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  And of Levi he said, “Give to Levi your Thummim, and your Urim to your godly one, whom you tested at Massah, with whom you quarreled at the waters of Meribah;


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  who said of his father and mother, ‘I regard them not’; he disowned his brothers and ignored his children. For they observed your word and kept your covenant.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  They shall teach Jacob your rules and Israel your law; they shall put incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  Bless, O LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands; crush the loins of his adversaries, of those who hate him, that they rise not again.”


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Of Benjamin he said, “The beloved of the LORD dwells in safety. The High God surrounds him all day long, and dwells between his shoulders.”


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  And of Joseph he said, “Blessed by the LORD be his land, with the choicest gifts of heaven above, and of the deep that crouches beneath,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  with the best gifts of the earth and its fullness and the favor of him who dwells in the bush. May these rest on the head of Joseph, on the pate of him who is prince among his brothers.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  A firstborn bull—he has majesty, and his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he shall gore the peoples, all of them, to the ends of the earth; they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.”


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  They shall call peoples to their mountain; there they offer right sacrifices; for they draw from the abundance of the seas and the hidden treasures of the sand.”


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And of Gad he said, “Blessed be he who enlarges Gad! Gad crouches like a lion; he tears off arm and scalp.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  He chose the best of the land for himself, for there a commander’s portion was reserved; and he came with the heads of the people, with Israel he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments for Israel.”


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And of Naphtali he said, “O Naphtali, sated with favor, and full of the blessing of the LORD, possess the lake and the south.”


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  And of Asher he said, “Most blessed of sons be Asher; let him be the favorite of his brothers, and let him dip his foot in oil.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  “There is none like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, through the skies in his majesty.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy before you and said, ‘Destroy.’


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  So Israel lived in safety, Jacob lived alone, in a land of grain and wine, whose heavens drop down dew.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD, the shield of your help, and the sword of your triumph! Your enemies shall come fawning to you, and you shall tread upon their backs.” 


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And the LORD showed him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  And the LORD said to him, “This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.”


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  and he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor; but no one knows the place of his burial to this day.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  And the people of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. So the people of Israel obeyed him and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  none like him for all the signs and the wonders that the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land,


book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
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  and for all the mighty power and all the great deeds of terror that Moses did in the sight of all Israel. 


book: Joshua
label: Josh
content:
  After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant,


book: Joshua
label: Josh
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  “Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel.


book: Joshua
label: Josh
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  Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses.


book: Joshua
label: Josh
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  From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.


book: Joshua
label: Josh
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  No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.


book: Joshua
label: Josh
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  Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.


book: Joshua
label: Josh
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  Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.


book: Joshua
label: Josh
content:
  This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.


book: Joshua
label: Josh
content:
  Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”


book: Joshua
label: Josh
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  “Pass through the midst of the camp and command the people, ‘Prepare your provisions, for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.’”


book: Joshua
label: Josh
content:
  “Remember the word that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, ‘The LORD your God is providing you a place of rest and will give you this land.’


book: Joshua
label: Josh
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  Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall remain in the land that Moses gave you beyond the Jordan, but all the men of valor among you shall pass over armed before your brothers and shall help them,


book: Joshua
label: Josh
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  until the LORD gives rest to your brothers as he has to you, and they also take possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and shall possess it, the land that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.”


