# bible

id: 99fcc645-2fbd-4cdb-98db-87dc5d82ab8d
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 2c02b65b-9b48-4565-bd4e-cac5ebf386cd
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.


id: 8a277c3b-7050-49a9-be7c-95b639da387f
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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?


id: 6980a279-3a1d-40f1-a21d-6455ed15519b
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.’


id: 169c3501-7c89-432a-ab80-2741150c6ac1
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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.


id: 92aa0697-1f57-4c38-833e-6d4d26153638
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!


id: 65bf5f27-1d0a-4613-8d2c-c8c87599a78c
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.’


id: 29f2df6b-e12b-4b05-b81c-7b89e80d0b28
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.


id: 97c0f4bd-3fb5-45fe-97db-6c3307ec0cd2
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. 


id: 26bd3eec-91ef-41e9-ae68-6af3e3158f52
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,


id: 6d3077c3-ab54-4d71-b5f2-9458e85969ba
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 4b8548c9-9f8d-4762-ac81-c0fcde97b8c6
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.


id: d6b58d5f-345c-4748-82dd-6da5ebe136e6
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.


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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.


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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,


id: e105d33e-63c9-49af-8ec8-eba84adc767c
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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,


id: 30b927c0-9025-4729-9794-cd15279c0d27
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.


id: 9decb06b-5187-449b-861c-6c7f42720f4d
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.


id: eafe51a4-ba4d-40a2-b5e9-81bac4893c3c
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.


id: e2427a85-1638-43fc-8f06-0dbce181b708
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


id: 290fac7f-8c22-4ed1-abcd-b83e22203494
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?’


id: 779047ec-90fa-465e-bb84-614dec1e5a17
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


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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.


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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.


id: 0b1abb63-5e93-4158-b8d2-9e467a5b5a1b
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.


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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.’ 


id: 2fcf73c3-5b70-46d1-b35e-5bbd0751933e
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,


id: 4e6151a0-149c-4341-bf4e-d1e581b44b85
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.


id: dd75c275-4955-4326-9c0c-90604141ca8e
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.


id: 85526f22-448c-4a9b-97d7-1d820529ef6b
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.


id: 1d775d06-7467-4013-80a1-572a483f5d07
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,


id: dfa6a996-6002-4579-9987-e4f6d8b4f7ea
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: d49ce8f5-1e54-4a14-ac63-a922b38739d9
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,


id: 0b493cb8-abd0-45e2-b85a-4fa3f09051b9
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.


id: a698ed7e-0b09-4b92-b194-ff8b0606ea2d
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.


id: b1827c98-c547-4a42-adfa-4bd94a7f34b6
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.


id: a090e2ba-fbc4-4f27-aef3-700e1d60f126
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.


id: 88c94924-a642-40c1-b0fc-bb42ce600a83
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.


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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.


id: 0c4caf79-75a8-49c7-8619-aaeca5b0ff6c
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.


id: 11091200-6b67-4452-a491-f9aec84efac4
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,


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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 276db83b-6a2c-4110-b1ea-78289354b362
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.


id: 8a4e4eac-fe9e-4b0b-8765-e4c9e78e6ac6
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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


id: 6d565f12-1243-4254-b5cf-0a1f08c1a89d
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. 


id: 70fc82f2-81d0-4858-a52d-295eb65ba9b8
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.


id: c2a36792-d9b4-4863-8daa-03277c962e7b
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.


id: 9adce602-6595-4c0a-a38f-c4f536f42a9a
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 185df967-f087-4cb2-a361-0865f89f298e
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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,


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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey,


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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.


id: 34f8d707-cadd-477e-b00d-d4cdc6245850
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.


id: 716b1eee-f494-41c7-8e0c-ea67930d3fc5
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,


id: 4d14cb2f-7f43-49d7-8d01-11fff62cb8a9
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,


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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,


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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,


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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.


id: c8f5f588-1e6c-4a59-827a-f0ab950ab1c6
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.


id: a3878e83-362a-4e32-8565-cc768fcec06d
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.


id: 338c5567-19d7-4333-8522-b1d63cc34a99
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. 


id: 067f6c3a-77d8-4f17-9686-727c223b576e
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,


id: 0a18055b-5e9a-49f1-9e4b-f8b784a837a1
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?’


id: dce7e3fd-5c2f-479d-96fd-4ebe800597e8
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.


id: e298c9fa-8d06-420d-8e83-e997ff31da90
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.


id: eeec0023-a0fd-442e-8168-f394b96e8f9b
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.


id: b6e5eda8-0f51-4215-8f3f-81aec7120bee
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.


id: c2a199aa-6483-4eda-83f7-0e41d51b4577
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.


id: 142bdbe4-abde-471d-a812-3b9a8c4d1cfa
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.


id: 6d5742be-7613-4cd0-8ff4-6dddc5cc6b09
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.


id: cb609818-b9d6-47f5-9625-5655d502da03
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.


id: c4345cf5-40e0-4075-8a1a-3f2bc6fb1c2d
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.


id: e31b9866-80ba-40b5-8c18-f715f99d981b
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.’


id: 77d8e8bb-b00e-49c4-b81a-c8c09d58bd09
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.’


id: 80881a75-0dc2-4834-ae4e-6137aa1c23d0
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.


id: 2cd7e18f-3966-40c7-a4c5-ca1118ead92e
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.


id: 6fa80eec-c493-48d3-b93f-18e87eb56d27
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.


id: a82e1493-d5e5-4a7a-b0f3-2a3153a30b9a
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.


id: d05ea8f4-ca25-43b0-b701-78a704ffd3c4
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.


id: 6ec6b477-f90e-43d6-8ac1-e533080e3f4b
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.


id: 05bca450-75ee-48a1-b5d2-fca3f2cec695
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.


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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.


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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.


id: 2381c97c-8367-4ee4-a568-261e1ba91372
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.


id: a10b2e3d-1701-4403-b55d-926d227d518f
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,


id: b9b17332-2614-4c9c-b007-46f2af40c03b
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.”


id: eec29547-0492-416a-a067-3022c645026e
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.’ 


id: 116df5d8-1d50-4d89-9fca-a5eeb8253ccb
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.


id: ef1ee550-4933-459a-ba06-7978f7609b8f
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.’


id: 7a2145e2-5fa5-4991-8dea-c5614fb8c2be
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.


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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.


id: 3960d0b5-85ad-4993-b17d-114f5c4dfb8e
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.”


id: 37624188-b6a5-4321-a68a-98b1e6283f57
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.


id: 99fe6394-33a4-40bb-9916-f398662ffcb3
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.


id: 2d2f38a1-d208-4d6a-9e0d-b71b19029e04
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.)


id: 4aa9875d-87af-4dfb-ae26-14cde88357de
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.


id: 7eb2f7e2-e9a0-4831-b560-c9f96056808f
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.’


id: ac44dbeb-2dcb-4476-934d-cb92f2f8da43
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,


id: 2a4b0fc7-12e3-46df-b286-2d55d2a27998
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD, which I am commanding you today for your good?


id: b0a101d0-753a-4b53-9552-910e98fd8683
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.


id: aac7b480-5ef2-46c7-acd4-c44ca36c98c5
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.


id: 19cc2330-2fe3-47eb-945c-e3c7418cf9a8
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.


id: 0590fb46-8d24-432c-8d89-322ab927326f
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.


id: 573b3ad1-7c4a-4703-af88-577e9a01aeb1
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.


id: a0b91b8c-6796-41d4-b2ef-6b30c9e7b73e
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.


id: a87e44a0-905b-48e8-ba7d-408737dae17f
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. 


id: 6ed8f01d-1a80-4f04-a208-1a429fc43be3
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.


id: 77c7d97f-270d-4b82-9ac1-066edede5511
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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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: eb7014f2-0cf8-4aae-aa68-3aacaf226823
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 8cd78fbd-50f0-4ea0-81c9-7de34fe0303c
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 9b066793-72c9-4b96-8a3a-60b292d0606b
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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,


id: 9e3d640a-bab1-47a2-9035-4cb67de6c363
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 0090a456-7f21-4cb9-8cb3-3f5b3b3dd80d
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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,


id: 8699e382-9030-461d-8f66-2311b8794c52
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 748d6497-b0e3-4ea1-93b5-4fea2e79bbb5
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: f13d8544-0088-425d-8b28-ed240d7e2086
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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.


id: 9e69984c-23d0-4898-8ccd-6492dba9f7bd
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: ef29d87a-dd2e-414f-bb58-83b84f279c9c
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 1a8af572-b517-446d-b367-9384c9a4f292
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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,


id: da5fe533-a282-4a84-9149-c6e3807a4d8e
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.


id: 6b171fdf-9d44-4bcf-b7cf-499b3ba77d30
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 3b97bcae-701e-4545-8c37-6178e817b94d
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 8c3318ef-7bb3-456e-aa77-fd5c3c555206
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 3af9d773-598e-44b2-ba15-899481c85e72
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 1de5fca9-e84d-44ad-bfc3-c38900ee2dcf
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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?


id: 0c72018c-d8a6-4ba1-a1d0-27170c13e04a
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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,


id: 4541fd1b-48cd-4898-82c9-88dd6242f552
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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.


id: eb63333e-09fd-4bfa-8a05-509e21063389
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 97261e24-2cdf-4aab-9495-1fc2148948b9
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 448b25c0-fc7f-49f4-a491-d76f8f9d14d3
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: ce9eb059-7e97-4520-9bfb-e6aed8f67965
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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,


id: 1a2ef34c-7643-4af8-a3a1-d17c4d4a1cf9
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 616d973b-0183-45b4-b6bc-439bbbb3cf81
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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.


id: bf7390b4-11c3-446b-9d4b-aa2b6d0f11a2
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 4a9c8628-2e22-4883-a4c7-32bda5f55c70
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 3d724970-7323-4969-8222-c7b711c447d1
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 2a23d3ea-ad6d-4a36-bbd3-eb168b9d15d5
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 5b3acc5a-dd0f-42ae-bd11-f26170b1c969
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 20a9fa09-1f43-4059-ae1d-492aa29d9b3b
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 9c4437d6-b222-42ce-bfed-423a1a28b3ae
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 25f56783-8875-4677-a2f9-b17c2c60199a
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it. 


id: bdd06472-6f39-42ba-bc06-48e9683e2e18
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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,’


id: 57bd4e1b-a49d-410d-8b23-4f5b4b8aafd5
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: fc724ef5-26e3-4b66-96e9-4311d412660a
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 63f6d91c-d4da-4e9e-b022-f55c2d374d12
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: ff2fcb8e-cd93-41be-8fba-28bf39c56265
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: b01f3a18-3dc1-4a59-ad49-8611f955603c
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: a27efcbf-e32e-4e71-abb9-3b99de4b589d
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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,


id: 4cc29b39-c5fc-4b14-b5a3-87b9888a6305
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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,


id: e3aa54c7-9826-4a96-8761-ca64c90d877e
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: ede6f3f1-738f-4e1d-bf96-1f5977f921cd
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 1ead6f1e-54f5-4e55-96eb-0be9b9b34b5a
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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,


id: b205e7c0-5437-4926-b066-854eb8c73fd8
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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. 


id: 5eaa1c0c-c8ae-4ab3-a7e7-a43a5fae39b7
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “You are the sons of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.


id: 83042e0b-0f2e-4d70-a6b7-28a8213cb6f4
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: f611a144-5d89-436a-a0da-5fe97e602c51
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.


id: 214a9d35-5d55-4c04-8b80-301c8f4fe21a
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: e5324e8c-c45c-4020-8783-7e69d350accd
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 6983f790-2fbb-42d4-913f-faf86a96eb2f
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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.


id: f9478356-0ab0-4005-96f4-b81cf4aca9a6
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: b7484264-aa05-4e41-bccf-0eca9b992417
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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,


id: 9b4c9e27-706e-47f5-a7bb-89069de96662
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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


id: c3bf9fc6-c5a2-4761-8e2f-c0d8cbaf0bbd
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 6a2062c6-4a0e-4959-9672-e8d483c51a0d
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And you shall not neglect the Levite who is within your towns, for he has no portion or inheritance with you.


id: 9b8507fa-ab19-4993-9e54-18dd17d7fafe
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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.


id: 73465802-eb06-429e-b5a5-b07da050e306
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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. 


id: eee085bf-5445-4dd3-a9b7-38b012295136
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 77937368-35f3-4eee-8c07-f810dbd51d25
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Of a foreigner you may exact it, but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand shall release.


id: 818af25d-c115-4851-8221-bce80686a194
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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—


id: a4346959-27a0-41f0-ac53-5b3075371d9d
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 8d0223de-f71b-4931-a213-8550093f5f1e
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 204925e9-4bf5-4f2d-8d50-b7f797a27db8
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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,


id: b100afcb-c116-49f2-815f-038accd90ce1
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: ad17b6cb-64c6-49c9-a0c7-cee1b0b73d9f
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 4bb0dc78-eeed-476d-82dc-3c97e06e09b9
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.’


id: a6abeccf-6932-42bc-8527-e6bd04e35939
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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.


id: 243e7c4d-5121-4c63-9bae-2d447cab8e23
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: d6eec1ae-b2cd-407a-bac2-0d6aba372381
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: da95ba0e-0196-48e1-8e46-3f33b9a68978
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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,


id: ee172c91-088d-497b-9745-046fd27fdbe7
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 6965e3d1-8b93-4d0c-838e-c20f47cb2e80
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: c378c264-aa57-4a5e-85f9-eb8ed1a27192
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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.


id: 2fcc03af-2543-4041-a31d-d007c0a67233
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall eat it, you and your household, before the LORD your God year by year at the place that the LORD will choose.


id: 3434c845-3cc0-408d-b772-c2f25377b058
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: f5088251-183c-4221-a871-d1e93e0ce537
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 1560aa8e-69b6-4ab9-9011-afec3e785024
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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.


id: b7c51a88-cdb0-46a0-9bf5-2bd0762b82ef
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: e850feb5-d565-438b-94a6-6b53dbac4b4d
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 66fb430a-1f31-4cf4-9b19-68e57dc2f33b
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: d83a3530-d922-4046-9a6c-df77627e2d7f
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You may not offer the Passover sacrifice within any of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you,


id: fdc6d393-aacd-41ba-90e4-37a7706bb3fa
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 39f9b451-f06d-49b9-855e-1e8b82347147
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: c612ae90-4ffa-407a-8985-ac53d3b5d909
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 48fa965c-0a08-4ced-9013-87259fda7ff3
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “You shall count seven weeks. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain.


id: 0d15beff-bea8-47e5-86a7-0e2f7c357073
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 8f74087c-326f-46e1-9170-fd8edeb37bf2
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 7ba708ee-5400-4eb0-8620-a8c37121a100
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.


id: 700b1f6e-e7ac-4eeb-b9e0-3a31bd58ffd1
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “You shall keep the Feast of Booths seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress.


id: 7a098d00-5ace-47ce-a1aa-147f27556203
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: d279c138-9785-4c1d-a145-440925f28107
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 1b474d26-f3df-4b36-9564-9d04b9677f6f
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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.


id: 8c44eabb-7713-4aa2-9fae-47b08ee8585a
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you.


id: f937c4ee-1a67-489a-986a-38d1efc3ba55
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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.


id: 8dcefa22-3b94-447f-9391-f1183569088c
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: a242728f-1788-40dd-8fa5-c2382b4ed875
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Justice, and only justice, you shall follow, that you may live and inherit the land that the LORD your God is giving you.


id: 97763b99-61fc-4c39-9975-f38d0600ad11
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “You shall not plant any tree as an Asherah beside the altar of the LORD your God that you shall make.


id: 2af423c7-7aeb-4f53-8f39-a4ab8b91b7c9
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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.


id: c7a08f7b-637d-40c5-b4b5-6e11675f81b7
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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,


id: 20ded37c-9c43-4b20-8ca3-7daa462c95be
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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,


id: e88309b2-32e4-437c-a04a-dc3637ec1fb5
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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,


id: a87e2e44-3984-4b0e-b27b-2cbd046193cf
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 8f223bb4-3767-4ab4-a55e-cfee5d536bb6
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 0d3701d9-371d-422f-bb05-a7e37799dcdb
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: fc6390c4-c358-4b82-a59f-62cdeaaa9336
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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.


id: f1a36b90-42f7-4c9e-a14b-1521490574c7
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 4de6d283-53b6-4d9d-a366-bb4c350f4d82
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: ee824909-cf64-4ae1-8f4b-723237b038dc
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 6738f177-d067-4f59-b3d2-c7df51473abb
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: cfe3b0a8-268c-4b07-8c6d-602accbd4211
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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,’


id: 37021877-66d9-4e82-8e32-03f05e572828
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: b9fcd481-0d50-464c-81cd-52adc5434c2a
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.’


id: 7895d487-3666-42b7-8890-1d7816728aa7
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold.


id: 9be24fae-f168-48ec-a7f7-6c1da16ce58d
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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.


id: 35018d06-17e7-49f5-868a-261f3990d8f5
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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,


id: a4a5a76d-3952-4fbb-957d-2f67652c4aad
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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. 


id: 8a424e13-ae82-4ff1-b8f8-8112abe806d6
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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.


id: 3fc76eb9-17ed-448d-9314-d4fd74c001ee
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the LORD is their inheritance, as he promised them.


id: b996f7f1-859d-4b02-aff7-2e63022560ba
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: cdfb8722-d68a-4f06-8406-a83ef83340e6
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.


id: f4e9f7a4-0f9a-4ba1-972b-dd519f2c8188
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.


id: 891b8e96-6e55-4517-9a35-280330bc2275
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,


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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,


id: 71369b78-05d0-49b6-8171-055202898112
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.


id: 0f7f451c-fbdf-4da7-b256-09f63786961a
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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


id: b49244ce-a0fe-4c3d-82d2-824cce3b4f49
book: Deuteronomy
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.


id: 0d35625f-eac3-4f7f-932a-1e2367e36ef3
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 1e9e9644-6778-467e-8b14-69ad7e838501
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—


id: 01a6e335-9ebf-428d-b2ff-6e7db8994d7f
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.’


id: 1ae4307f-c37b-42db-afde-b9252b523833
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 3cec43c9-dd9a-4822-a0b7-b62ef1076ed6
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.


id: 39a5dc7c-ac27-4806-bb6c-0a1ffcd008cc
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.’


id: 97688b17-f05d-4273-8e19-a126da79acd6
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. 


id: 2438391c-d84f-46ad-a43c-6705cc0c99a8
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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,


id: 066e18dc-7dc4-4195-9424-1fd7d6f06ea5
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.


id: c195863b-fc81-4b7f-befd-6a4389fcdf81
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.


id: e3970c08-e78c-4f85-bad0-a63a81752b11
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—


id: 0ce1fecf-99e3-43a0-813b-f5fbefb7312b
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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,


id: 431b4727-17e0-4347-9b80-730f7018d060
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: c691264c-59d1-4be5-b219-340d51110785
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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—


id: 3aee38f8-f572-435e-8fb1-f931f70388e8
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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,


id: 4899d51d-ed6a-4ef8-905e-85297c6be131
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 4e03083f-29ea-41d8-b6c9-9cba9461d0c5
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,


id: 5a56758f-f5ad-4180-8c0f-a537b97f3052
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: b2716cfa-c1b0-4104-acc6-089aa301afa2
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 33290fa3-d205-4f42-82a7-154ca0ca2255
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.


id: 13561f8a-d724-4113-86a6-53f83ca74b60
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.


id: 31f5dff2-9edc-47d3-9861-ebe5babdf969
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days.


id: 5945906c-9721-41d4-9ce6-dad10ad2fe28
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  The judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely,


id: 28cb4593-a73d-4dc7-a0a4-00a4a8f9fdbb
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.


id: beddc720-2bc5-498c-aae1-6af3c4a104c8
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. 


id: a6df927e-b4ed-432e-a275-817590caacd1
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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.


id: fa1c34d0-16a5-461a-8f7c-4d5f551639a7
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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
content:
  for the LORD your God is he who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.’


id: a620f1d6-82b4-4516-83ad-2ca8814c4744
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 3e6ed3af-3016-4fbe-a825-cf2dd030d173
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.’


id: e9b0ce4d-113d-44bb-801a-7ce3fdae052f
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.’


id: 6a8a88a4-f85e-411b-832f-c28054fb1a08
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  And when the officers have finished speaking to the people, then commanders shall be appointed at the head of the people.


id: 7f99b05f-781b-4952-a0e5-aef3ec9f52d9
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 8ece69be-02b7-4aab-86e3-cd127fcc3978
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here.


id: 1cabd287-123d-4a7b-84f0-9d37426f0253
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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,


id: f418ce9b-df5a-4684-89de-b654bb349752
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 183902dd-3009-4811-847e-aa9ac67ddd7e
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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?


id: 110e5ada-42f7-4825-bb5c-e9a5856699c6
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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. 


id: cadc7ce2-fd70-499e-a7ca-a5a1681f8f7d
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,


id: b0b5e7ae-c3b5-4f1c-ab6b-37d55fcf639a
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label: Deut
content:
  then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure the distance to the surrounding cities.


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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.


id: 0b1baa9b-dfae-4992-9f38-790bf96f0192
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 2ad5696c-fc24-42d5-8e2f-dbfa68c574ea
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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,


id: 5b1b0ffc-7779-4982-ab24-125dad8eb41a
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.’


id: 19fe10eb-a1dd-4784-819f-616bc9b76019
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.


id: 346e8fed-a0cf-4119-abc1-95ee13439ee2
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “When you go out to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive,


id: 515d07bb-7729-491e-bf8d-e876ff1ec5b1
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: b84dece1-79dd-42aa-925c-008b4e98f924
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 5b66366a-c2c4-4daf-8c47-78d94e600156
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,


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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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,


id: a672bd67-8b02-4b4b-a891-91eb14c824c1
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: a92da865-07cc-4003-8ff6-610e10aa501d
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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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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,


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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.’


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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: f8627546-c7f3-4b60-abc4-230de5c227ea
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,


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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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. 


id: 920428ce-f992-4bb0-a3a1-0cceeb6e38c0
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.


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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


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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.


id: acd91a77-dfde-4bbb-b61f-b41ef8153185
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.


id: 7fbb9b3f-6a4b-49ae-bd49-2202f2322bfb
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.


id: d2924e61-e5d5-4e5e-9651-6fcbbb891cbc
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.


id: beb828e2-c676-418d-8133-7ea740a2ba05
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.


id: 89605f92-644e-4382-b562-b260692069eb
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.


id: dfd78b3a-964f-49a9-b89c-bc91c8ea47c8
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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,’


id: 9002c84e-e7a4-4f4e-a39b-e56938fd36e0
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.


id: 1eb46889-0bfa-416d-9bd6-04e915e4817b
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;


id: 8d392e38-12fb-49da-b582-4a2702d54118
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: da14bdae-f4c1-4fec-b9ad-7a4f64a0a440
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: ecfa014f-01ba-4e70-b9fc-5f33a8c730d3
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.


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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: e0c2a6ee-0b47-448a-af49-378dbc9e571c
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.


id: 9fe38f55-9b95-4c0e-85bd-aa2931aa65b9
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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,


id: 881f5e26-bd22-4375-ab5f-571803d36bc8
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  because he met her in the open country, and though the betrothed young woman cried for help there was no one to rescue her.


id: 461f40ee-e998-4101-890e-d5c85fa85939
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,


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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 72ba3799-1d9e-4e5f-89d6-b23d1d3a7074
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.


id: 6b238aa5-316e-4d23-89a6-1d2f68523dfd
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.


id: b6ca9296-bd71-4029-865e-e3511b5e67bb
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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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 4a600b27-91bb-456e-b1f7-27006c8d9b8b
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.


id: 25e01717-f2da-42f0-b912-86ef680df016
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.


id: 82e01af1-2dda-47b1-9a77-a042a2a94484
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,


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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  but when evening comes, he shall bathe himself in water, and as the sun sets, he may come inside the camp.


id: c15cbaaa-1e52-4040-9fa0-42340273ed84
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.


id: d496580b-f93f-4aa2-bdfc-de031449eda1
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.


id: 7a080c93-a2dc-4331-86e7-9c6a630869d9
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: db49bfc7-73de-4bfc-b01e-9ea298901638
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.


id: b0fba636-0c14-484c-8a1f-8b28d3b4c88a
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.


id: 3987e3c3-9f2c-4b6b-affb-0ba2d47aaac1
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.


id: 841f9452-c935-47ed-82f3-958d3ba27f6f
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.


id: ca9485d3-dbdf-47ef-84a7-26e259ad217f
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.


id: e2073d20-50f3-4341-a887-0dc8d3f61126
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.


id: aabdc5e9-62fe-4b85-b8cd-ad81a73e7135
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.


id: 6435e36d-5b05-4f0e-972a-7d5ac0a744fa
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. 


id: 08370d2c-c740-480c-871e-cd9c4fb36a7a
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,


id: c83b6cca-6ae5-47ea-93fa-1d95264208cd
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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,


id: d14e164f-37ea-4be2-9a0a-b60a78a83116
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 4385fa7f-970d-422b-8868-b70ba28cb639
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.


id: 285dc440-0910-474f-b238-cfe1c4d0b02c
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.


id: 81162df5-90f7-4220-9464-36b62cf47165
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.


id: 2e69352d-171e-4f17-a04e-56fac9119f4b
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.


id: 1390b1d0-27b8-4636-84ef-514955561f4b
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.


id: 04f3478c-ed54-4e0f-b150-bef0af19ebdc
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.


id: b4435557-4226-4aed-a400-e32d1071d481
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.


id: eeb4b92d-9bf3-4272-b8b0-b7557f8b9f17
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.


id: 84153311-0ca1-48a9-b413-cc9e1f545185
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.


id: 07a5951b-7fb5-428e-b92e-c5d6fab39bb2
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,


id: d80cac4c-339f-403e-8980-9a447b7ccd3b
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.


id: 82d55561-9b2e-4bfe-acd9-e1f6e3134d85
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.


id: 568a0d58-b035-4da6-b89b-57cb71f3a54a
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.


id: 1bea2a54-4748-4347-9e2e-d216d4b8fbd7
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.


id: 7551cfd9-7f86-46d0-b1eb-2828b8e117f4
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,


id: 8bfabfec-dd41-4009-b92d-c24c2fca94f5
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.


id: f92e7d92-4775-47e3-802e-0a1f220c25d1
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.


id: f7139dac-23e1-4300-9d83-051f405bb5cb
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.


id: 4189d19c-e68a-4066-9e15-4fc9d4c1f1d7
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 74c2939d-522b-44a7-9955-b893cf2fa6a1
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.’


id: e718fb8f-f0c1-45fb-aa5e-afcc64cf48b7
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,’


id: fd1de627-ca9a-4655-bcd6-3d8ec612e4da
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.’


id: 9163aa86-f617-485b-851c-d238c95945d6
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.’


id: b143a97b-7e1e-4224-96f5-34639393591c
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,


id: 60355db4-5082-48f2-85f0-4d0d0efbbac7
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.


id: eca7b7e7-e31b-4f86-aa37-1def5bc330a1
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.


id: 22789eb7-6664-40bd-9af5-507d4e57fd83
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. 


id: ada6acfb-08cd-4011-ab32-9c5809bd8fa8
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,


id: 485eb219-5b83-4b65-9948-8b774d4d0bdc
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 952dcfad-0352-4452-8363-35bab46cbe42
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.’


id: e0502388-ce8c-4820-9dcb-8a1a0e465dcb
book: Deuteronomy
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.


id: b4cc943d-47eb-4e5d-9a31-116c03b08335
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.


id: 94a8e643-f449-4819-b5fc-58281c7c0b9b
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.


id: 560cbf1d-9a01-4ab3-8cb5-9c89ca1e3ef9
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.


id: 6541ba82-ee64-4df9-b842-d85c46094841
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.


id: 1c670561-de35-431f-b736-0a0a2cf1bc11
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.


id: 63b5f779-06c0-4ad5-aff1-2321c4d62bd0
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,


id: e5fc004f-76de-42d3-87a3-b020869f78f2
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.


id: 409a2156-b004-40d4-ac98-e1b6ae5a8392
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.


id: 1c8b53db-3b0f-4a8a-a1ab-0887c4ea9082
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.’


id: 4b504d80-7409-475c-adfd-2356cfcf633c
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.


id: c1cffd75-0b3a-48cc-a14b-a8d0c1592494
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.


id: 1c51e0d3-5b18-477f-82b9-d909724ce42b
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,


id: 6fed38e5-cb5b-4b71-a261-0438a4ee1bad
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.” 


id: 44623bb8-e9dd-4108-bc9e-71d72d3b0024
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.


id: a6762bdf-ca2e-44d7-afaa-b716e55ee228
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.


id: 9b26229d-07c1-4e81-9c8c-5f0c81530ec3
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.


id: 6c0a25fe-eec2-4238-9baf-3ef0bb51bcd8
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.


id: e33471e1-6de7-4421-a526-a878fe1be92b
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;


id: 6ba3a473-9da1-48d5-9083-26417cb72730
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,


id: 80319dcf-5538-4caa-a807-0a512e6ac532
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  and you shall sacrifice peace offerings and shall eat there, and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God.


id: ef89b015-4765-4d8c-95ff-15f10ec71a4a
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.


id: f25b1137-71a9-422c-b374-7b4d0f286783
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.”


id: 60ae649a-a5eb-4b25-912a-dc39f0a3865e
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.


id: 1e2e8c34-7a31-4b5e-aafb-1c06c46123aa
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.’


id: 2e5d87e4-007e-4fcb-bcc1-8f3864e04e44
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.’


id: 86f81027-9854-469d-8e2b-ca88a1ab2a2a
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.’


id: bfb01671-ff74-4bc2-a908-f8325e3d8eee
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.’


id: f2d98250-e5e4-4f3f-a705-1e18afb0b266
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.’ 


id: 87c0af87-9a0d-4f5d-a4a1-b3a9a8884cfe
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.


id: 4bbca00c-f4a6-41a6-87be-0a50b62be758
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.


id: 31f34b10-5451-4b52-9e8d-333462baeadc
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.


id: 68c3871a-762c-42ff-8a36-c9cdb9382f74
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.


id: 1deb4274-e0d9-46b8-9cb8-bd9ca7ddb313
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.


id: d8986170-8a9c-4810-b3cd-7c7b699b257e
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.


id: 24a3b15d-e9e6-459b-a018-433afdbf3767
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.


id: a8659092-16f6-428c-a4ed-7d98f50922b6
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.


id: 66d9e19f-2519-4ada-99bb-4477d3a0b7f0
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.


id: 9cb8307c-309d-4278-aeea-ad998191d87c
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,


id: 31963f72-08e5-4461-b424-a1709414d93f
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.


id: a76aada9-7af6-4047-8c77-cf1adda3e88c
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.


id: 39f12f48-649d-4385-8c43-64cd044c12b8
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.


id: 11c5b765-d558-4017-91b2-f97a2d52eae5
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.


id: 46d98197-105a-4ce6-9a11-81e113e735c5
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.


id: 18d3ab5a-d815-484b-a307-33918d9f6860
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.


id: f2a3b7c0-381f-46d6-9ceb-fb2163399567
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.


id: ee04ec9c-2444-4ac6-84e3-009db68e068d
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.


id: e28bdf17-9cca-4660-bc76-a79895d904b5
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.


id: 3d263b89-ae23-4957-9840-7f0965e13727
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.


id: 7b3a4108-5890-4b01-ad30-61b8e79f6755
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.


id: e1d92051-d6d9-4f0a-a428-7d7603722565
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.


id: fc2615b8-9fdf-4e76-97ad-81bb6eeb0261
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.


id: 4fb35b4e-fd64-45ab-86e8-8997e41ea8ed
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.


id: 9b06b832-3fab-4d14-9133-1ade185922b0
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,


id: 398e8a05-8022-4da0-9658-4fb0bd4a8562
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.


id: dce89a33-23eb-4ba7-9ef3-097023604587
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.


id: da01622a-5522-46b1-94d4-0139f8cd738e
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.


id: a2f7d6d9-e9d8-4890-b198-21ce7e4c6ead
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for the locust shall consume it.


id: 75b5d8ed-f319-4de6-a16a-7e24fb477a88
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.


id: a03a273e-0c68-4f2c-9688-be6514fa6d73
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.


id: 8d4dac0d-1d87-4bd4-b83c-147ea90bf059
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.


id: 9542089e-1931-405e-9b6f-c3bea92e45c7
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.


id: 21361f6e-fe42-42e6-b608-135a13c80007
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.


id: 092c0a8a-2528-4ad2-9532-d408a64007c2
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,


id: 2b13ef97-ef26-4ba2-9e34-8caf87d8c57e
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.


id: 199d971f-450a-4c6b-8743-4153757efa48
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,


id: b563d7ce-87f3-4b13-9311-9b4d0f5d6f68
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.


id: da549b0b-e79f-44f4-acad-d6ae752e3fa6
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.


id: ee273aeb-7c63-4aaa-91e2-400a37bc0e46
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.


id: 0d873d44-7fa0-457e-82e0-949df69b534f
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,


id: f3417169-ca68-4c10-bb2c-5e13787c54e1
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.


id: c793f3f9-e162-4952-90f4-b7cb52b609cd
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,


id: d18a0e9e-d15b-448b-9839-46d248953e2c
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.


id: 1b19c3f2-3a21-4327-8116-5cfe1d81f298
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,


id: 25044552-ce28-4b44-b945-ff795cc6d0ad
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.


id: 876bde32-e2e7-4a94-a7f8-84dbe313b06d
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.


id: 7926f849-b683-4236-98cd-b2c9f43a4e70
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.


id: 8f7408b3-e072-41ff-b921-f13095788ef6
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.


id: 8c95b897-253d-4c37-aca1-c2bcde288b0e
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.


id: 0d479eb7-6e0b-496f-b430-c1e27d6a75d7
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.


id: 5d89b7d7-9bc7-4994-94d1-30d23d04ba21
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.


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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.


id: d67f12f7-c2a5-46ed-afe3-0257741161cf
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.


id: 4fca1db9-6ce0-4718-b8a0-74572abbe841
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.” 


id: fcced5db-4094-4524-b29c-91ac94039bcc
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.


id: 8b8cb1eb-a5e2-4733-a110-819814132f69
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,


id: 60e5c596-9e31-43e5-8994-00269865b4d8
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.


id: 4f93c40a-c735-4d29-8a82-79d0607291a6
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.


id: bcc8ca91-fc3b-467a-b4ba-373a7c7bcfa1
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.


id: 7520461b-3f0b-4cdb-a4c8-a1a50e9fc3e6
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.


id: fe26267a-401d-4509-be71-b525d9c5e868
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,


id: b36cae49-ebc7-4f41-ad28-78f502fb99ee
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,


id: 66b0ec4a-6831-4ddb-8ca0-2a0bfcb4d272
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,


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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.


id: 9104d136-d30e-477c-9e05-c873ab94c11a
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.


id: 781644ad-244b-47a2-b99d-b5123749da3b
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.


id: 30874d91-5223-436a-b338-fce11a4ccf7c
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.


id: 5a952aa2-0807-46de-a2c9-4bbb4c5773ff
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,


id: 843a956e-dd68-473a-a291-8ebf39236dc1
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.


id: 5ccaff33-b158-4edf-afc0-2c7780fb9d3f
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.


id: cb218bec-6220-4041-9dc7-fd7e6bd7df4d
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.


id: 57113eae-01a6-40c7-a4a0-d0912856af1a
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—


id: 90edba38-816c-427c-aa7a-f7e224fd46a8
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?’


id: cb9fef86-829a-4fcb-a3bf-4bbe07637bd6
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,


id: a1811af8-f72e-48e3-b390-5431ff9be55f
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.


id: 8a367496-e149-4747-8c3a-e714e3c3a028
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,


id: e11cd8a5-fb61-4214-bf28-12f1c1f9b01c
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.’


id: 11d0b7d5-2c66-402f-8792-95b7469fe829
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. 


id: 351c31db-f073-4a59-abef-754fdb99ae9d
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,


id: 94c49d6b-83a5-4c17-9f40-50189d572b0b
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,


id: 7bbc9dc2-3b1d-4f70-8456-50f2be60ae8d
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.


id: f858368c-f63d-4e3f-a1ba-e2a35706f4a8
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.


id: 235a1459-42e2-4ec9-9868-c5cdcb74f073
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.


id: 74f3d8e6-3dea-4ace-b623-d36e052f91ba
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.


id: 1e3938b2-c9ff-4f5e-b959-656dba86311c
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.


id: 9eb19021-53da-4405-b60b-900eb87eff6a
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,


id: 7e305fb9-797c-4e96-aa83-5cfa093bd7eb
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.


id: bbab844c-ed90-49fe-b8a8-edd55f2986b1
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?’


id: db1b852f-d150-4265-9e38-fe65a51a99da
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?’


id: 9cd681f9-537f-46a1-a20d-05f4bdd660d2
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.


id: b905825b-5c62-4dcb-aa10-9f5799cee6cb
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,


id: f9276077-352b-4765-8ab2-d467cea2bf24
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.


id: 2e162ea9-4320-4fe0-9326-181f717d084f
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,


id: e8e28a14-314c-4538-9a59-f1663afe34f4
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.” 


id: e642d330-f2bf-4288-9c16-0096d0d293b2
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.’


id: af6d7650-ca5c-4549-bc94-38df53a2df50
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.


id: bad896fc-2582-4848-82dd-28fa50b3ecf1
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.


id: f1843717-bd42-4226-8d81-13b866e8ade9
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.


id: 16c28dda-8a33-4b5d-9e61-bb290d42aff3
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.”


id: ddef1181-0cd4-4d2e-9a32-faa85d7f7a2e
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.


id: 76413ebf-8a0e-4ef8-9d2b-b0133e9aa340
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.”


id: 53b3afdf-8edb-4295-afe5-0fea0f05e215
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.


id: 6a7d7db6-631f-4b23-9de4-855793b7f4b4
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,


id: 73315a80-fa42-44df-b387-6b360c7b57c9
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.


id: 547ade93-2b3b-483b-a04e-fd16afb1ec51
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,


id: 5e938798-7296-4ebc-adb0-42f65b174473
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.”


id: f0e4d6c1-a5c9-470f-850a-14f735e96dad
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.


id: 1f4c995c-e40f-4891-a967-84686546a88c
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.


id: 731b4496-2c21-42fb-818a-87fe12912b8e
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.


id: fee55805-1bf5-4c1a-b17d-9141e435282b
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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?’


id: 2e2d5308-420f-4bd2-a01e-4f39bc12bc61
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.


id: 6f41ae0b-0c58-4835-a53f-c58220260c9a
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.


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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.


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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.”


id: 4a4c6478-8070-48bf-8caa-7889e2665e4f
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.”


id: 8cc7b2c7-9e53-4b44-8820-12e87e2be2bd
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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.


id: 12bcda3c-4f46-4850-ae35-706ab73a18e9
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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!


id: f7ed2270-38dd-40bc-b2ec-10935033e7bd
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.”


id: f0d2008c-4661-4605-87ce-ac14f5eeae4b
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: 


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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 04083814-9dd5-4d73-80a9-7f3699f82cd0
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.


id: ed86b53c-9262-4f24-8a9a-0ace790b6cb1
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  They have dealt corruptly with him; they are no longer his children because they are blemished; they are a crooked and twisted generation.


id: 5bdd1ccf-ce14-4437-9137-a31a2bf37db8
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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?


id: d67f0f6d-236e-4a42-81f0-df22f1c679d6
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: b241ac3c-5bc5-4f37-a09d-53dc72d1090d
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 0bbf14a1-8795-41a7-91dd-2e34ba8c39b3
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “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.


id: d2a553d2-eb22-4fee-9a24-5751c1eb5159
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, catching them, bearing them on its pinions,


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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: ff0b8a88-943f-4536-b064-32c0b2e011e6
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 0f3424b5-edd1-40b2-8525-7b33c77106f1
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.


id: b189563c-6fcb-453f-8e20-798a2f2a7d60
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: bf091ddb-071f-41ba-8b69-40a7061a4811
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 53aceb35-1d1e-4397-b83b-6258078bc8c5
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 3ec1fc4a-0872-4a83-b40a-d18169bf3c56
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 908a463e-a26a-41ca-9e25-54ec3f18664b
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  Outdoors the sword shall bereave, and indoors terror, for young man and woman alike, the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.


id: 92efd906-e7bf-4091-9c9a-ab6e2919c445
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.”’


id: fe573a44-1b8a-45a9-b7c6-d116ae3b9536
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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?


id: 0bfc4146-df93-458b-9ffc-5e96a419331f
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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;


id: 62e51c4f-a249-444e-b6dd-e1ce4a85abcf
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.’


id: 5dc39f61-52de-494f-81f4-5a0919f1b8f8
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


id: 4903136a-4d3e-4fbe-8543-902f1ecb26fa
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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!


id: e619d801-5f4e-4560-b38a-5de14e72ff40
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  “‘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.


id: eeb4feb8-c6a4-484e-822e-adcf32aebcd5
book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.


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label: Deut
content:
  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.’


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label: Deut
content:
  “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.”


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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.


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label: Deut
content:
  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.


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label: Deut
content:
  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.”


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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.


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label: Deut
content:
  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
content:
  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.


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label: Deut
content:
  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.” 


id: 237c83e4-db2f-4262-941f-b6c5c9f61e06
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label: Deut
content:
  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.


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content:
  Yes, he loved his people, all his holy ones were in his hand; so they followed in your steps, receiving direction from you,


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label: Deut
content:
  Thus the LORD became king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together.


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book: Deuteronomy
label: Deut
content:
  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.”


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label: Deut
content:
  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;


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label: Deut
content:
  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.


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label: Deut
content:
  They shall teach Jacob your rules and Israel your law; they shall put incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.


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label: Deut
content:
  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.”


id: e5473a35-ce52-4554-bd1e-dd572e4f1351
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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.”


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label: Deut
content:
  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,


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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.


id: a70a104c-cb77-473a-ab99-374cf0d0fe4f
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label: Deut
content:
  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.”


id: 1f06c56a-420a-4fba-a78e-10d3c24a307b
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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.”


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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.


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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.”


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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.”


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label: Deut
content:
  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.


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label: Deut
content:
  “There is none like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, through the skies in his majesty.


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label: Deut
content:
  The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy before you and said, ‘Destroy.’


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content:
  So Israel lived in safety, Jacob lived alone, in a land of grain and wine, whose heavens drop down dew.


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content:
  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.” 


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content:
  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,


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label: Deut
content:
  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.”


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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.


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label: Deut
content:
  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.


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label: Deut
content:
  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.


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content:
  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,


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label: Deut
content:
  and for all the mighty power and all the great deeds of terror that Moses did in the sight of all Israel. 


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content:
  After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant,


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content:
  “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.


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content:
  Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses.


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content:
  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.


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content:
  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.


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content:
  Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.


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content:
  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.


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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.


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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.”


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content:
  “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.’”


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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.’


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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,


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label: Josh
content:
  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.”


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  And they answered Joshua, “All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.


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label: Josh
content:
  Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you. Only may the LORD your God be with you, as he was with Moses!


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label: Josh
content:
  Whoever rebels against your commandment and disobeys your words, whatever you command him, shall be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.” 


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book: Joshua
label: Josh
content:
  And Joshua the son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” And they went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and lodged there.


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content:
  And it was told to the king of Jericho, “Behold, men of Israel have come here tonight to search out the land.”


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  Then the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who entered your house, for they have come to search out all the land.”


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  But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. And she said, “True, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from.


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content:
  And when the gate was about to be closed at dark, the men went out. I do not know where the men went. Pursue them quickly, for you will overtake them.”


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content:
  But she had brought them up to the roof and hid them with the stalks of flax that she had laid in order on the roof.


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  So the men pursued after them on the way to the Jordan as far as the fords. And the gate was shut as soon as the pursuers had gone out.


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book: Joshua
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  and said to the men, “I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.


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content:
  For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you devoted to destruction.


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  And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, for the LORD your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath.


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content:
  Now then, please swear to me by the LORD that, as I have dealt kindly with you, you also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and give me a sure sign


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  that you will save alive my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and deliver our lives from death.”


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content:
  And the men said to her, “Our life for yours even to death! If you do not tell this business of ours, then when the LORD gives us the land we will deal kindly and faithfully with you.”


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  Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was built into the city wall, so that she lived in the wall.


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  And she said to them, “Go into the hills, or the pursuers will encounter you, and hide there three days until the pursuers have returned. Then afterward you may go your way.”


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label: Josh
content:
  The men said to her, “We will be guiltless with respect to this oath of yours that you have made us swear.


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label: Josh
content:
  Behold, when we come into the land, you shall tie this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and you shall gather into your house your father and mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.


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content:
  Then if anyone goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we shall be guiltless. But if a hand is laid on anyone who is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head.


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content:
  But if you tell this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless with respect to your oath that you have made us swear.”


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  And she said, “According to your words, so be it.” Then she sent them away, and they departed. And she tied the scarlet cord in the window.


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content:
  They departed and went into the hills and remained there three days until the pursuers returned, and the pursuers searched all along the way and found nothing.


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  Then the two men returned. They came down from the hills and passed over and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and they told him all that had happened to them.


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content:
  And they said to Joshua, “Truly the LORD has given all the land into our hands. And also, all the inhabitants of the land melt away because of us.” 


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  Then Joshua rose early in the morning and they set out from Shittim. And they came to the Jordan, he and all the people of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.


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  and commanded the people, “As soon as you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God being carried by the Levitical priests, then you shall set out from your place and follow it.


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  Yet there shall be a distance between you and it, about 2,000 cubits in length. Do not come near it, in order that you may know the way you shall go, for you have not passed this way before.”


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content:
  Then Joshua said to the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.”


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label: Josh
content:
  And Joshua said to the priests, “Take up the ark of the covenant and pass on before the people.” So they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people.


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label: Josh
content:
  The LORD said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.


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  And as for you, command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, ‘When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.’”


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  And Joshua said, “Here is how you shall know that the living God is among you and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.


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content:
  Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is passing over before you into the Jordan.


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  And when the soles of the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off from flowing, and the waters coming down from above shall stand in one heap.”


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label: Josh
content:
  So when the people set out from their tents to pass over the Jordan with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people,


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  and as soon as those bearing the ark had come as far as the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (now the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest),


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  the waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far away, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the people passed over opposite Jericho.


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  Now the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firmly on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all Israel was passing over on dry ground until all the nation finished passing over the Jordan. 


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  and command them, saying, ‘Take twelve stones from here out of the midst of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests’ feet stood firmly, and bring them over with you and lay them down in the place where you lodge tonight.’”


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content:
  Then Joshua called the twelve men from the people of Israel, whom he had appointed, a man from each tribe.


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  And Joshua said to them, “Pass on before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up each of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel,


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  that this may be a sign among you. When your children ask in time to come, ‘What do those stones mean to you?’


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content:
  then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall be to the people of Israel a memorial forever.”


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  And the people of Israel did just as Joshua commanded and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel, just as the LORD told Joshua. And they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged and laid them down there.


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  And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant had stood; and they are there to this day.


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  For the priests bearing the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan until everything was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to tell the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua. The people passed over in haste.


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  And when all the people had finished passing over, the ark of the LORD and the priests passed over before the people.


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  The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh passed over armed before the people of Israel, as Moses had told them.


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  On that day the LORD exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they stood in awe of him just as they had stood in awe of Moses, all the days of his life.


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  And when the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the LORD came up from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet were lifted up on dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed all its banks, as before.


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  The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they encamped at Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.


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  And he said to the people of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in times to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’


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  For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we passed over,


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  so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, that you may fear the LORD your God forever.” 


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  As soon as all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan for the people of Israel until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and there was no longer any spirit in them because of the people of Israel.


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  At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel a second time.”


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  And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way after they had come out of Egypt.


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  Though all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people who were born on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised.


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  For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; the LORD swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.


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  So it was their children, whom he raised up in their place, that Joshua circumcised. For they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way.


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  When the circumcising of the whole nation was finished, they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed.


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  And the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” And so the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day.


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  While the people of Israel were encamped at Gilgal, they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening on the plains of Jericho.


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  And the day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain.


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  And the manna ceased the day after they ate of the produce of the land. And there was no longer manna for the people of Israel, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.


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  When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our adversaries?”


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  And he said, “No; but I am the commander of the army of the LORD. Now I have come.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped and said to him, “What does my lord say to his servant?”


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  And the commander of the LORD’s army said to Joshua, “Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so. 


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  Now Jericho was shut up inside and outside because of the people of Israel. None went out, and none came in.


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  And the LORD said to Joshua, “See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and mighty men of valor.


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  You shall march around the city, all the men of war going around the city once. Thus shall you do for six days.


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  Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. On the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.


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  And when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, when you hear the sound of the trumpet, then all the people shall shout with a great shout, and the wall of the city will fall down flat, and the people shall go up, everyone straight before him.”


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  So Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the LORD.”


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  And he said to the people, “Go forward. March around the city and let the armed men pass on before the ark of the LORD.”


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  And just as Joshua had commanded the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the LORD went forward, blowing the trumpets, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD following them.


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  The armed men were walking before the priests who were blowing the trumpets, and the rear guard was walking after the ark, while the trumpets blew continually.


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  But Joshua commanded the people, “You shall not shout or make your voice heard, neither shall any word go out of your mouth, until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout.”


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  So he caused the ark of the LORD to circle the city, going about it once. And they came into the camp and spent the night in the camp.


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  And the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the LORD walked on, and they blew the trumpets continually. And the armed men were walking before them, and the rear guard was walking after the ark of the LORD, while the trumpets blew continually.


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  And the second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. So they did for six days.


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  On the seventh day they rose early, at the dawn of day, and marched around the city in the same manner seven times. It was only on that day that they marched around the city seven times.


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  And at the seventh time, when the priests had blown the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout, for the LORD has given you the city.


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  And the city and all that is within it shall be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent.


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  But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel a thing for destruction and bring trouble upon it.


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  But all silver and gold, and every vessel of bronze and iron, are holy to the LORD; they shall go into the treasury of the LORD.”


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  So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown. As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they captured the city.


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  Then they devoted all in the city to destruction, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys, with the edge of the sword.


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  But to the two men who had spied out the land, Joshua said, “Go into the prostitute’s house and bring out from there the woman and all who belong to her, as you swore to her.”


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  So the young men who had been spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and mother and brothers and all who belonged to her. And they brought all her relatives and put them outside the camp of Israel.


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  And they burned the city with fire, and everything in it. Only the silver and gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.


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  But Rahab the prostitute and her father’s household and all who belonged to her, Joshua saved alive. And she has lived in Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.


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  Joshua laid an oath on them at that time, saying, “Cursed before the LORD be the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho. “At the cost of his firstborn shall he lay its foundation, and at the cost of his youngest son shall he set up its gates.”


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  But the people of Israel broke faith in regard to the devoted things, for Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. And the anger of the LORD burned against the people of Israel.


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  Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” And the men went up and spied out Ai.


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  And they returned to Joshua and said to him, “Do not have all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai. Do not make the whole people toil up there, for they are few.”


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  and the men of Ai killed about thirty-six of their men and chased them before the gate as far as Shebarim and struck them at the descent. And the hearts of the people melted and became as water.


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  Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put dust on their heads.


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  And Joshua said, “Alas, O Lord GOD, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan!


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  For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and will surround us and cut off our name from the earth. And what will you do for your great name?”


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  Israel has sinned; they have transgressed my covenant that I commanded them; they have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen and lied and put them among their own belongings.


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  Therefore the people of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will be with you no more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.


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  Get up! Consecrate the people and say, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow; for thus says the LORD, God of Israel, “There are devoted things in your midst, O Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted things from among you.”


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  In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. And the tribe that the LORD takes by lot shall come near by clans. And the clan that the LORD takes shall come near by households. And the household that the LORD takes shall come near man by man.


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  And he who is taken with the devoted things shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he has done an outrageous thing in Israel.’”


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  So Joshua rose early in the morning and brought Israel near tribe by tribe, and the tribe of Judah was taken.


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  And he brought near the clans of Judah, and the clan of the Zerahites was taken. And he brought near the clan of the Zerahites man by man, and Zabdi was taken.


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  And he brought near his household man by man, and Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.


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  Then Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the LORD God of Israel and give praise to him. And tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me.”


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  And Achan answered Joshua, “Truly I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and this is what I did:


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  when I saw among the spoil a beautiful cloak from Shinar, and 200 shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing 50 shekels, then I coveted them and took them. And see, they are hidden in the earth inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”


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  So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and behold, it was hidden in his tent with the silver underneath.


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  And they took them out of the tent and brought them to Joshua and to all the people of Israel. And they laid them down before the LORD.


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  And Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver and the cloak and the bar of gold, and his sons and daughters and his oxen and donkeys and sheep and his tent and all that he had. And they brought them up to the Valley of Achor.


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  And Joshua said, “Why did you bring trouble on us? The LORD brings trouble on you today.” And all Israel stoned him with stones. They burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.


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  And they raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Then the LORD turned from his burning anger. Therefore, to this day the name of that place is called the Valley of Achor. 


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  And the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not fear and do not be dismayed. Take all the fighting men with you, and arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, his city, and his land.


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  And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its livestock you shall take as plunder for yourselves. Lay an ambush against the city, behind it.”


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  So Joshua and all the fighting men arose to go up to Ai. And Joshua chose 30,000 mighty men of valor and sent them out by night.


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  And he commanded them, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you remain ready.


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  And I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out against us just as before, we shall flee before them.


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  And they will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city. For they will say, ‘They are fleeing from us, just as before.’ So we will flee before them.


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  Then you shall rise up from the ambush and seize the city, for the LORD your God will give it into your hand.


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  And as soon as you have taken the city, you shall set the city on fire. You shall do according to the word of the LORD. See, I have commanded you.”


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  So Joshua sent them out. And they went to the place of ambush and lay between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai, but Joshua spent that night among the people.


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  Joshua arose early in the morning and mustered the people and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.


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  And all the fighting men who were with him went up and drew near before the city and encamped on the north side of Ai, with a ravine between them and Ai.


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  So they stationed the forces, the main encampment that was north of the city and its rear guard west of the city. But Joshua spent that night in the valley.


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  And as soon as the king of Ai saw this, he and all his people, the men of the city, hurried and went out early to the appointed place toward the Arabah to meet Israel in battle. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.


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  And Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten before them and fled in the direction of the wilderness.


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  So all the people who were in the city were called together to pursue them, and as they pursued Joshua they were drawn away from the city.


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  Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. They left the city open and pursued Israel.


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  Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” And Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.


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  And the men in the ambush rose quickly out of their place, and as soon as he had stretched out his hand, they ran and entered the city and captured it. And they hurried to set the city on fire.


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  So when the men of Ai looked back, behold, the smoke of the city went up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that, for the people who fled to the wilderness turned back against the pursuers.


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  And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had captured the city, and that the smoke of the city went up, then they turned back and struck down the men of Ai.


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  And the others came out from the city against them, so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. And Israel struck them down, until there was left none that survived or escaped.


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  When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the open wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them to the very last had fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it down with the edge of the sword.


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  But Joshua did not draw back his hand with which he stretched out the javelin until he had devoted all the inhabitants of Ai to destruction.


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  Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as their plunder, according to the word of the LORD that he commanded Joshua.


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  And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening. And at sunset Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city and raised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day.


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  just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the people of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, “an altar of uncut stones, upon which no man has wielded an iron tool.” And they offered on it burnt offerings to the LORD and sacrificed peace offerings.


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  And there, in the presence of the people of Israel, he wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written.


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  And all Israel, sojourner as well as native born, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded at the first, to bless the people of Israel.


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  And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law.


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  There was not a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners who lived among them. 


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  As soon as all the kings who were beyond the Jordan in the hill country and in the lowland all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, heard of this,


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  they on their part acted with cunning and went and made ready provisions and took worn-out sacks for their donkeys, and wineskins, worn-out and torn and mended,


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  with worn-out, patched sandals on their feet, and worn-out clothes. And all their provisions were dry and crumbly.


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  And they went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant country, so now make a covenant with us.”


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  But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live among us; then how can we make a covenant with you?”


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  They said to Joshua, “We are your servants.” And Joshua said to them, “Who are you? And where do you come from?”


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  They said to him, “From a very distant country your servants have come, because of the name of the LORD your God. For we have heard a report of him, and all that he did in Egypt,


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  and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon the king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth.


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  So our elders and all the inhabitants of our country said to us, ‘Take provisions in your hand for the journey and go to meet them and say to them, “We are your servants. Come now, make a covenant with us.”’


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  Here is our bread. It was still warm when we took it from our houses as our food for the journey on the day we set out to come to you, but now, behold, it is dry and crumbly.


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  These wineskins were new when we filled them, and behold, they have burst. And these garments and sandals of ours are worn out from the very long journey.”


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  And Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them, to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore to them.


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  At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors and that they lived among them.


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  And the people of Israel set out and reached their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.


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  But the people of Israel did not attack them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by the LORD, the God of Israel. Then all the congregation murmured against the leaders.


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  But all the leaders said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by the LORD, the God of Israel, and now we may not touch them.


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  This we will do to them: let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath that we swore to them.”


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  And the leaders said to them, “Let them live.” So they became cutters of wood and drawers of water for all the congregation, just as the leaders had said of them.


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  Joshua summoned them, and he said to them, “Why did you deceive us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you dwell among us?


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  Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you shall never be anything but servants, cutters of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.”


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  They answered Joshua, “Because it was told to your servants for a certainty that the LORD your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you—so we feared greatly for our lives because of you and did this thing.


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  And now, behold, we are in your hand. Whatever seems good and right in your sight to do to us, do it.”


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  So he did this to them and delivered them out of the hand of the people of Israel, and they did not kill them.


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  But Joshua made them that day cutters of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the LORD, to this day, in the place that he should choose. 


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  As soon as Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, heard how Joshua had captured Ai and had devoted it to destruction, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them,


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  he feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were warriors.


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  So Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,


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  “Come up to me and help me, and let us strike Gibeon. For it has made peace with Joshua and with the people of Israel.”


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  Then the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered their forces and went up with all their armies and encamped against Gibeon and made war against it.


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  And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, saying, “Do not relax your hand from your servants. Come up to us quickly and save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the hill country are gathered against us.”


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  So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor.


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  And the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not fear them, for I have given them into your hands. Not a man of them shall stand before you.”


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  And the LORD threw them into a panic before Israel, who struck them with a great blow at Gibeon and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon and struck them as far as Azekah and Makkedah.


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  And as they fled before Israel, while they were going down the ascent of Beth-horon, the LORD threw down large stones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died. There were more who died because of the hailstones than the sons of Israel killed with the sword.


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  At that time Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD gave the Amorites over to the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still at Gibeon, and moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.”


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  And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped in the midst of heaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day.


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  There has been no day like it before or since, when the LORD heeded the voice of a man, for the LORD fought for Israel.


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  but do not stay there yourselves. Pursue your enemies; attack their rear guard. Do not let them enter their cities, for the LORD your God has given them into your hand.”


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  When Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished striking them with a great blow until they were wiped out, and when the remnant that remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,


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  then all the people returned safe to Joshua in the camp at Makkedah. Not a man moved his tongue against any of the people of Israel.


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  And they did so, and brought those five kings out to him from the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.


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  And when they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua summoned all the men of Israel and said to the chiefs of the men of war who had gone with him, “Come near; put your feet on the necks of these kings.” Then they came near and put their feet on their necks.


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  And Joshua said to them, “Do not be afraid or dismayed; be strong and courageous. For thus the LORD will do to all your enemies against whom you fight.”


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  And afterward Joshua struck them and put them to death, and he hanged them on five trees. And they hung on the trees until evening.


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  But at the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves, and they set large stones against the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.


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  As for Makkedah, Joshua captured it on that day and struck it, and its king, with the edge of the sword. He devoted to destruction every person in it; he left none remaining. And he did to the king of Makkedah just as he had done to the king of Jericho.


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  And the LORD gave it also and its king into the hand of Israel. And he struck it with the edge of the sword, and every person in it; he left none remaining in it. And he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.


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  Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Libnah to Lachish and laid siege to it and fought against it.


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  And the LORD gave Lachish into the hand of Israel, and he captured it on the second day and struck it with the edge of the sword, and every person in it, as he had done to Libnah.


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  Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish. And Joshua struck him and his people, until he left none remaining.


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  Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Lachish to Eglon. And they laid siege to it and fought against it.


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  And they captured it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword. And he devoted every person in it to destruction that day, as he had done to Lachish.


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  and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword, and its king and its towns, and every person in it. He left none remaining, as he had done to Eglon, and devoted it to destruction and every person in it.


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  and he captured it with its king and all its towns. And they struck them with the edge of the sword and devoted to destruction every person in it; he left none remaining. Just as he had done to Hebron and to Libnah and its king, so he did to Debir and to its king.


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  So Joshua struck the whole land, the hill country and the Negeb and the lowland and the slopes, and all their kings. He left none remaining, but devoted to destruction all that breathed, just as the LORD God of Israel commanded.


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  And Joshua struck them from Kadesh-barnea as far as Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, as far as Gibeon.


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  And Joshua captured all these kings and their land at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.


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  When Jabin, king of Hazor, heard of this, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,


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  and to the kings who were in the northern hill country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in Naphoth-dor on the west,


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  to the Canaanites in the east and the west, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill country, and the Hivites under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.


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  And they came out with all their troops, a great horde, in number like the sand that is on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.


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  And all these kings joined their forces and came and encamped together at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel.


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  And the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, for tomorrow at this time I will give over all of them, slain, to Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”


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  So Joshua and all his warriors came suddenly against them by the waters of Merom and fell upon them.


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  And the LORD gave them into the hand of Israel, who struck them and chased them as far as Great Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of Mizpeh. And they struck them until he left none remaining.


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  And Joshua did to them just as the LORD said to him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.


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  And Joshua turned back at that time and captured Hazor and struck its king with the sword, for Hazor formerly was the head of all those kingdoms.


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  And they struck with the sword all who were in it, devoting them to destruction; there was none left that breathed. And he burned Hazor with fire.


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  And all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua captured, and struck them with the edge of the sword, devoting them to destruction, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.


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  But none of the cities that stood on mounds did Israel burn, except Hazor alone; that Joshua burned.


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  And all the spoil of these cities and the livestock, the people of Israel took for their plunder. But every person they struck with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them, and they did not leave any who breathed.


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  Just as the LORD had commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and so Joshua did. He left nothing undone of all that the LORD had commanded Moses.


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  So Joshua took all that land, the hill country and all the Negeb and all the land of Goshen and the lowland and the Arabah and the hill country of Israel and its lowland


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  from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. And he captured all their kings and struck them and put them to death.


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  There was not a city that made peace with the people of Israel except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. They took them all in battle.


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  For it was the LORD’s doing to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be devoted to destruction and should receive no mercy but be destroyed, just as the LORD commanded Moses.


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  And Joshua came at that time and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua devoted them to destruction with their cities.


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  There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the people of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod did some remain.


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  So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal allotments. And the land had rest from war. 


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  Now these are the kings of the land whom the people of Israel defeated and took possession of their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the Valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, with all the Arabah eastward:


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  Sihon king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the middle of the valley as far as the river Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites, that is, half of Gilead,


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  and the Arabah to the Sea of Chinneroth eastward, and in the direction of Beth-jeshimoth, to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, southward to the foot of the slopes of Pisgah;


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  and ruled over Mount Hermon and Salecah and all Bashan to the boundary of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and over half of Gilead to the boundary of Sihon king of Heshbon.


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  Moses, the servant of the LORD, and the people of Israel defeated them. And Moses the servant of the LORD gave their land for a possession to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.


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  And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the people of Israel defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, that rises toward Seir (and Joshua gave their land to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their allotments,


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  in the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negeb, the land of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites):


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  Now Joshua was old and advanced in years, and the LORD said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to possess.


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  This is the land that yet remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites


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  (from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, it is counted as Canaanite; there are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron), and those of the Avvim,


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  in the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the boundary of the Amorites,


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  and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath,


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  all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians. I myself will drive them out from before the people of Israel. Only allot the land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.


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  Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh.”


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  With the other half of the tribe of Manasseh the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them:


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  from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland of Medeba as far as Dibon;


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  and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the boundary of the Ammonites;


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  and Gilead, and the region of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;


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  all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he alone was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); these Moses had struck and driven out.


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  Yet the people of Israel did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites, but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day.


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  To the tribe of Levi alone Moses gave no inheritance. The offerings by fire to the LORD God of Israel are their inheritance, as he said to him.


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  So their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by Medeba;


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  with Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the tableland; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon,


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  that is, all the cities of the tableland, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses defeated with the leaders of Midian, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.


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  Balaam also, the son of Beor, the one who practiced divination, was killed with the sword by the people of Israel among the rest of their slain.


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  And the border of the people of Reuben was the Jordan as a boundary. This was the inheritance of the people of Reuben, according to their clans with their cities and villages.


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  Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to Aroer, which is east of Rabbah,


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  and in the valley Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, having the Jordan as a boundary, to the lower end of the Sea of Chinnereth, eastward beyond the Jordan.


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  This is the inheritance of the people of Gad according to their clans, with their cities and villages.


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  And Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was allotted to the half-tribe of the people of Manasseh according to their clans.


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  Their region extended from Mahanaim, through all Bashan, the whole kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities,


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  and half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. These were allotted to the people of Machir the son of Manasseh for the half of the people of Machir according to their clans.


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  These are the inheritances that Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan east of Jericho.


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  But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the LORD God of Israel is their inheritance, just as he said to them. 


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  These are the inheritances that the people of Israel received in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the people of Israel gave them to inherit.


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  Their inheritance was by lot, just as the LORD had commanded by the hand of Moses for the nine and one-half tribes.


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  For Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.


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  For the people of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion was given to the Levites in the land, but only cities to dwell in, with their pasturelands for their livestock and their substance.


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  Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me.


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  I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.


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  But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the LORD my God.


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  And Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.’


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  And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.


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  I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming.


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  So now give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the LORD said.”


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  Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.


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  Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba. (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.) And the land had rest from war. 


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  The allotment for the tribe of the people of Judah according to their clans reached southward to the boundary of Edom, to the wilderness of Zin at the farthest south.


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  It goes out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, passes along to Zin, and goes up south of Kadesh-barnea, along by Hezron, up to Addar, turns about to Karka,


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  passes along to Azmon, goes out by the Brook of Egypt, and comes to its end at the sea. This shall be your south boundary.


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  And the east boundary is the Salt Sea, to the mouth of the Jordan. And the boundary on the north side runs from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan.


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  And the boundary goes up to Beth-hoglah and passes along north of Beth-arabah. And the boundary goes up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.


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  And the boundary goes up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, and so northward, turning toward Gilgal, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the valley. And the boundary passes along to the waters of En-shemesh and ends at En-rogel.


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  Then the boundary goes up by the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the southern shoulder of the Jebusite (that is, Jerusalem). And the boundary goes up to the top of the mountain that lies over against the Valley of Hinnom, on the west, at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim.


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  Then the boundary extends from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and from there to the cities of Mount Ephron. Then the boundary bends around to Baalah (that is, Kiriath-jearim).


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  And the boundary circles west of Baalah to Mount Seir, passes along to the northern shoulder of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), and goes down to Beth-shemesh and passes along by Timnah.


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  The boundary goes out to the shoulder of the hill north of Ekron, then the boundary bends around to Shikkeron and passes along to Mount Baalah and goes out to Jabneel. Then the boundary comes to an end at the sea.


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  And the west boundary was the Great Sea with its coastline. This is the boundary around the people of Judah according to their clans.


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  According to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, he gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the people of Judah, Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron (Arba was the father of Anak).


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  And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak, Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, the descendants of Anak.


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  And he went up from there against the inhabitants of Debir. Now the name of Debir formerly was Kiriath-sepher.


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  And Caleb said, “Whoever strikes Kiriath-sepher and captures it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife.”


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  And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.


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  When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she got off her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?”


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  She said to him, “Give me a blessing. Since you have given me the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water.” And he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.


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  The cities belonging to the tribe of the people of Judah in the extreme south, toward the boundary of Edom, were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,


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  Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the Brook of Egypt, and the Great Sea with its coastline.


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  But the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out, so the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day. 


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  The allotment of the people of Joseph went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel.


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  Then it goes down westward to the territory of the Japhletites, as far as the territory of Lower Beth-horon, then to Gezer, and it ends at the sea.


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  The territory of the people of Ephraim by their clans was as follows: the boundary of their inheritance on the east was Ataroth-addar as far as Upper Beth-horon,


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  and the boundary goes from there to the sea. On the north is Michmethath. Then on the east the boundary turns around toward Taanath-shiloh and passes along beyond it on the east to Janoah,


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  From Tappuah the boundary goes westward to the brook Kanah and ends at the sea. Such is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Ephraim by their clans,


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  together with the towns that were set apart for the people of Ephraim within the inheritance of the Manassites, all those towns with their villages.


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  However, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have been made to do forced labor. 


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  Then allotment was made to the people of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. To Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, were allotted Gilead and Bashan, because he was a man of war.


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  And allotments were made to the rest of the people of Manasseh by their clans, Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These were the male descendants of Manasseh the son of Joseph, by their clans.


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  Now Zelophehad the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, had no sons, but only daughters, and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.


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  They approached Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the leaders and said, “The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance along with our brothers.” So according to the mouth of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father.


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  Thus there fell to Manasseh ten portions, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is on the other side of the Jordan,


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  because the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance along with his sons. The land of Gilead was allotted to the rest of the people of Manasseh.


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  The territory of Manasseh reached from Asher to Michmethath, which is east of Shechem. Then the boundary goes along southward to the inhabitants of En-tappuah.


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  The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but the town of Tappuah on the boundary of Manasseh belonged to the people of Ephraim.


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  Then the boundary went down to the brook Kanah. These cities, to the south of the brook, among the cities of Manasseh, belong to Ephraim. Then the boundary of Manasseh goes on the north side of the brook and ends at the sea,


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  the land to the south being Ephraim’s and that to the north being Manasseh’s, with the sea forming its boundary. On the north Asher is reached, and on the east Issachar.


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  Also in Issachar and in Asher Manasseh had Beth-shean and its villages, and Ibleam and its villages, and the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its villages, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; the third is Naphath.


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  Yet the people of Manasseh could not take possession of those cities, but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.


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  Now when the people of Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not utterly drive them out.


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  Then the people of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me but one lot and one portion as an inheritance, although I am a numerous people, since all along the LORD has blessed me?”


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  And Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up by yourselves to the forest, and there clear ground for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”


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  The people of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us. Yet all the Canaanites who dwell in the plain have chariots of iron, both those in Beth-shean and its villages and those in the Valley of Jezreel.”


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  Then Joshua said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, “You are a numerous people and have great power. You shall not have one allotment only,


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  but the hill country shall be yours, for though it is a forest, you shall clear it and possess it to its farthest borders. For you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.” 


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  Then the whole congregation of the people of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The land lay subdued before them.


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  There remained among the people of Israel seven tribes whose inheritance had not yet been apportioned.


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  So Joshua said to the people of Israel, “How long will you put off going in to take possession of the land, which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you?


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  Provide three men from each tribe, and I will send them out that they may set out and go up and down the land. They shall write a description of it with a view to their inheritances, and then come to me.


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  They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah shall continue in his territory on the south, and the house of Joseph shall continue in their territory on the north.


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  And you shall describe the land in seven divisions and bring the description here to me. And I will cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.


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  The Levites have no portion among you, for the priesthood of the LORD is their heritage. And Gad and Reuben and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.”


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  So the men arose and went, and Joshua charged those who went to write the description of the land, saying, “Go up and down in the land and write a description and return to me. And I will cast lots for you here before the LORD in Shiloh.”


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  So the men went and passed up and down in the land and wrote in a book a description of it by towns in seven divisions. Then they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh,


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  and Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD. And there Joshua apportioned the land to the people of Israel, to each his portion.


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  The lot of the tribe of the people of Benjamin according to its clans came up, and the territory allotted to it fell between the people of Judah and the people of Joseph.


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  On the north side their boundary began at the Jordan. Then the boundary goes up to the shoulder north of Jericho, then up through the hill country westward, and it ends at the wilderness of Beth-aven.


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  From there the boundary passes along southward in the direction of Luz, to the shoulder of Luz (that is, Bethel), then the boundary goes down to Ataroth-addar, on the mountain that lies south of Lower Beth-horon.


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  Then the boundary goes in another direction, turning on the western side southward from the mountain that lies to the south, opposite Beth-horon, and it ends at Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a city belonging to the people of Judah. This forms the western side.


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  And the southern side begins at the outskirts of Kiriath-jearim. And the boundary goes from there to Ephron, to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.


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  Then the boundary goes down to the border of the mountain that overlooks the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is at the north end of the Valley of Rephaim. And it then goes down the Valley of Hinnom, south of the shoulder of the Jebusites, and downward to En-rogel.


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  Then it bends in a northerly direction going on to En-shemesh, and from there goes to Geliloth, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim. Then it goes down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,


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  Then the boundary passes on to the north of the shoulder of Beth-hoglah. And the boundary ends at the northern bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan: this is the southern border.


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  The Jordan forms its boundary on the eastern side. This is the inheritance of the people of Benjamin, according to their clans, boundary by boundary all around.


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  Now the cities of the tribe of the people of Benjamin according to their clans were Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-keziz,


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  Zela, Haeleph, Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah and Kiriath-jearim—fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the people of Benjamin according to its clans. 


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  The second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of the people of Simeon, according to their clans, and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the people of Judah.


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  together with all the villages around these cities as far as Baalath-beer, Ramah of the Negeb. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Simeon according to their clans.


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  The inheritance of the people of Simeon formed part of the territory of the people of Judah. Because the portion of the people of Judah was too large for them, the people of Simeon obtained an inheritance in the midst of their inheritance.


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  The third lot came up for the people of Zebulun, according to their clans. And the territory of their inheritance reached as far as Sarid.


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  Then their boundary goes up westward and on to Mareal and touches Dabbesheth, then the brook that is east of Jokneam.


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  From Sarid it goes in the other direction eastward toward the sunrise to the boundary of Chisloth-tabor. From there it goes to Daberath, then up to Japhia.


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  From there it passes along on the east toward the sunrise to Gath-hepher, to Eth-kazin, and going on to Rimmon it bends toward Neah,


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  This is the inheritance of the people of Zebulun, according to their clans—these cities with their villages.


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  The boundary also touches Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth-shemesh, and its boundary ends at the Jordan—sixteen cities with their villages.


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  This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Issachar, according to their clans—the cities with their villages.


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  then it turns eastward, it goes to Beth-dagon, and touches Zebulun and the Valley of Iphtahel northward to Beth-emek and Neiel. Then it continues in the north to Cabul,


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  Then the boundary turns to Ramah, reaching to the fortified city of Tyre. Then the boundary turns to Hosah, and it ends at the sea; Mahalab, Achzib,


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  This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Asher according to their clans—these cities with their villages.


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  The sixth lot came out for the people of Naphtali, for the people of Naphtali, according to their clans.


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  And their boundary ran from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, and Adami-nekeb, and Jabneel, as far as Lakkum, and it ended at the Jordan.


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  Then the boundary turns westward to Aznoth-tabor and goes from there to Hukkok, touching Zebulun at the south and Asher on the west and Judah on the east at the Jordan.


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  This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Naphtali according to their clans—the cities with their villages.


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  When the territory of the people of Dan was lost to them, the people of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and after capturing it and striking it with the sword they took possession of it and settled in it, calling Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor.


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  This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Dan, according to their clans—these cities with their villages.


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  When they had finished distributing the several territories of the land as inheritances, the people of Israel gave an inheritance among them to Joshua the son of Nun.


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  By command of the LORD they gave him the city that he asked, Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim. And he rebuilt the city and settled in it.


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  These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the people of Israel distributed by lot at Shiloh before the LORD, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. So they finished dividing the land. 


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  that the manslayer who strikes any person without intent or unknowingly may flee there. They shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood.


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  He shall flee to one of these cities and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and explain his case to the elders of that city. Then they shall take him into the city and give him a place, and he shall remain with them.


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  And if the avenger of blood pursues him, they shall not give up the manslayer into his hand, because he struck his neighbor unknowingly, and did not hate him in the past.


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  And he shall remain in that city until he has stood before the congregation for judgment, until the death of him who is high priest at the time. Then the manslayer may return to his own town and his own home, to the town from which he fled.’”


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  So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.


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  And beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, they appointed Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland, from the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead, from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan, from the tribe of Manasseh.


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  These were the cities designated for all the people of Israel and for the stranger sojourning among them, that anyone who killed a person without intent could flee there, so that he might not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, till he stood before the congregation. 


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  Then the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites came 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.


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  And they said to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, “The LORD commanded through Moses that we be given cities to dwell in, along with their pasturelands for our livestock.”


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  So by command of the LORD the people of Israel gave to the Levites the following cities and pasturelands out of their inheritance.


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  The lot came out for the clans of the Kohathites. So those Levites who were descendants of Aaron the priest received by lot from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin, thirteen cities.


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  And the rest of the Kohathites received by lot from the clans of the tribe of Ephraim, from the tribe of Dan and the half-tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.


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  The Gershonites received by lot from the clans of the tribe of Issachar, from the tribe of Asher, from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.


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  The Merarites according to their clans received from the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad, and the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.


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  These cities and their pasturelands the people of Israel gave by lot to the Levites, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.


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  Out of the tribe of the people of Judah and the tribe of the people of Simeon they gave the following cities mentioned by name,


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  which went to the descendants of Aaron, one of the clans of the Kohathites who belonged to the people of Levi; since the lot fell to them first.


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  They gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba being the father of Anak), that is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with the pasturelands around it.


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  But the fields of the city and its villages had been given to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession.


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  And to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands, Libnah with its pasturelands,


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  Ain with its pasturelands, Juttah with its pasturelands, Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands—nine cities out of these two tribes;


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  The cities of the descendants of Aaron, the priests, were in all thirteen cities with their pasturelands.


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  As to the rest of the Kohathites belonging to the Kohathite clans of the Levites, the cities allotted to them were out of the tribe of Ephraim.


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  To them were given Shechem, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands,


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  and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its pasturelands, and Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands—two cities.


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  And to the Gershonites, one of the clans of the Levites, were given out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Beeshterah with its pasturelands—two cities;


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  and out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its pasturelands, the city of refuge for the manslayer, Hammoth-dor with its pasturelands, and Kartan with its pasturelands—three cities.


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  The cities of the several clans of the Gershonites were in all thirteen cities with their pasturelands.


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  And to the rest of the Levites, the Merarite clans, were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its pasturelands, Kartah with its pasturelands,


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  and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, the city of refuge for the manslayer, Mahanaim with its pasturelands,


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  As for the cities of the several Merarite clans, that is, the remainder of the clans of the Levites, those allotted to them were in all twelve cities.


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  The cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the people of Israel were in all forty-eight cities with their pasturelands.


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  Thus the LORD gave to Israel all the land that he swore to give to their fathers. And they took possession of it, and they settled there.


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  And the LORD gave them rest on every side just as he had sworn to their fathers. Not one of all their enemies had withstood them, for the LORD had given all their enemies into their hands.


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  Not one word of all the good promises that the LORD had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass. 


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  and said to them, “You have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you and have obeyed my voice in all that I have commanded you.


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  You have not forsaken your brothers these many days, down to this day, but have been careful to keep the charge of the LORD your God.


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  And now the LORD your God has given rest to your brothers, as he promised them. Therefore turn and go to your tents in the land where your possession lies, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side of the Jordan.


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  Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”


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  Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given a possession in Bashan, but to the other half Joshua had given a possession beside their brothers in the land west of the Jordan. And when Joshua sent them away to their homes and blessed them,


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  he said to them, “Go back to your tents with much wealth and with very much livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, and iron, and with much clothing. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.”


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  So the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned home, parting from the people of Israel at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, their own land of which they had possessed themselves by command of the LORD through Moses.


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  And when they came to the region of the Jordan that is in the land of Canaan, the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, an altar of imposing size.


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  And the people of Israel heard it said, “Behold, the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built the altar at the frontier of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that belongs to the people of Israel.”


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  And when the people of Israel heard of it, the whole assembly of the people of Israel gathered at Shiloh to make war against them.


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  Then the people of Israel sent to the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,


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  and with him ten chiefs, one from each of the tribal families of Israel, every one of them the head of a family among the clans of Israel.


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  And they came to the people of Reuben, the people of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, and they said to them,


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  “Thus says the whole congregation of the LORD, ‘What is this breach of faith that you have committed against the God of Israel in turning away this day from following the LORD by building yourselves an altar this day in rebellion against the LORD?


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  Have we not had enough of the sin at Peor from which even yet we have not cleansed ourselves, and for which there came a plague upon the congregation of the LORD,


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  that you too must turn away this day from following the LORD? And if you too rebel against the LORD today then tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.


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  But now, if the land of your possession is unclean, pass over into the LORD’s land where the LORD’s tabernacle stands, and take for yourselves a possession among us. Only do not rebel against the LORD or make us as rebels by building for yourselves an altar other than the altar of the LORD our God.


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  Did not Achan the son of Zerah break faith in the matter of the devoted things, and wrath fell upon all the congregation of Israel? And he did not perish alone for his iniquity.’”


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  Then the people of Reuben, the people of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh said in answer to the heads of the families of Israel,


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  “The Mighty One, God, the LORD! The Mighty One, God, the LORD! He knows; and let Israel itself know! If it was in rebellion or in breach of faith against the LORD, do not spare us today


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  for building an altar to turn away from following the LORD. Or if we did so to offer burnt offerings or grain offerings or peace offerings on it, may the LORD himself take vengeance.


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  No, but we did it from fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, ‘What have you to do with the LORD, the God of Israel?


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  For the LORD has made the Jordan a boundary between us and you, you people of Reuben and people of Gad. You have no portion in the LORD.’ So your children might make our children cease to worship the LORD.


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  but to be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we do perform the service of the LORD in his presence with our burnt offerings and sacrifices and peace offerings, so your children will not say to our children in time to come, “You have no portion in the LORD.”’


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  And we thought, ‘If this should be said to us or to our descendants in time to come, we should say, “Behold, the copy of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifice, but to be a witness between us and you.”’


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  Far be it from us that we should rebel against the LORD and turn away this day from following the LORD by building an altar for burnt offering, grain offering, or sacrifice, other than the altar of the LORD our God that stands before his tabernacle!”


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  When Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the congregation, the heads of the families of Israel who were with him, heard the words that the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the people of Manasseh spoke, it was good in their eyes.


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  And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the people of Manasseh, “Today we know that the LORD is in our midst, because you have not committed this breach of faith against the LORD. Now you have delivered the people of Israel from the hand of the LORD.”


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  Then Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the chiefs, returned from the people of Reuben and the people of Gad in the land of Gilead to the land of Canaan, to the people of Israel, and brought back word to them.


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  And the report was good in the eyes of the people of Israel. And the people of Israel blessed God and spoke no more of making war against them to destroy the land where the people of Reuben and the people of Gad were settled.


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  The people of Reuben and the people of Gad called the altar Witness, “For,” they said, “it is a witness between us that the LORD is God.” 


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  A long time afterward, when the LORD had given rest to Israel from all their surrounding enemies, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,


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  Joshua summoned all Israel, its elders and heads, its judges and officers, and said to them, “I am now old and well advanced in years.


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  And you have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the LORD your God who has fought for you.


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  Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.


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  The LORD your God will push them back before you and drive them out of your sight. And you shall possess their land, just as the LORD your God promised you.


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  Therefore, be very strong to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, turning aside from it neither to the right hand nor to the left,


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  that you may not mix with these nations remaining among you or make mention of the names of their gods or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them,


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  For the LORD has driven out before you great and strong nations. And as for you, no man has been able to stand before you to this day.


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  One man of you puts to flight a thousand, since it is the LORD your God who fights for you, just as he promised you.


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  For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,


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  know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the LORD your God has given you.


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  “And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things that the LORD your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.


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  But just as all the good things that the LORD your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the LORD will bring upon you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land that the LORD your God has given you,


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  if you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them. Then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land that he has given to you.” 


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  Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And they presented themselves before God.


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  And Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Long ago, your fathers lived beyond the Euphrates, Terah, the father of Abraham and of Nahor; and they served other gods.


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  Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land of Canaan, and made his offspring many. I gave him Isaac.


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  And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. And I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.


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  And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt with what I did in the midst of it, and afterward I brought you out.


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  “‘Then I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea. And the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea.


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  And when they cried to the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians and made the sea come upon them and cover them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. And you lived in the wilderness a long time.


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  Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites, who lived on the other side of the Jordan. They fought with you, and I gave them into your hand, and you took possession of their land, and I destroyed them before you.


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  Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. And he sent and invited Balaam the son of Beor to curse you,


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  And you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho, and the leaders of Jericho fought against you, and also the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. And I gave them into your hand.


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  And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out before you, the two kings of the Amorites; it was not by your sword or by your bow.


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  I gave you a land on which you had not labored and cities that you had not built, and you dwell in them. You eat the fruit of vineyards and olive orchards that you did not plant.’


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  “Now therefore fear the LORD and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.


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  And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”


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  for it is the LORD our God who brought us and our fathers up from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, and who did those great signs in our sight and preserved us in all the way that we went, and among all the peoples through whom we passed.


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  And the LORD drove out before us all the peoples, the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve the LORD, for he is our God.”


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  But Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the LORD, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.


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  If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm and consume you, after having done you good.”


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  Then Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the LORD, to serve him.” And they said, “We are witnesses.”


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  He said, “Then put away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your heart to the LORD, the God of Israel.”


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  So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and put in place statutes and rules for them at Shechem.


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  And Joshua wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God. And he took a large stone and set it up there under the terebinth that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.


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  And Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of the LORD that he spoke to us. Therefore it shall be a witness against you, lest you deal falsely with your God.”


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  And they buried him in his own inheritance at Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash.


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  Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua and had known all the work that the LORD did for Israel.


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  As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.


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  And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of Phinehas his son, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim. 


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  After the death of Joshua, the people of Israel inquired of the LORD, “Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”


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  And Judah said to Simeon his brother, “Come up with me into the territory allotted to me, that we may fight against the Canaanites. And I likewise will go with you into the territory allotted to you.” So Simeon went with him.


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  Then Judah went up and the LORD gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand, and they defeated 10,000 of them at Bezek.


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  They found Adoni-bezek at Bezek and fought against him and defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.


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  And Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table. As I have done, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.


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  And the men of Judah fought against Jerusalem and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire.


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  And afterward the men of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, in the Negeb, and in the lowland.


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  And Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba), and they defeated Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.


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  From there they went against the inhabitants of Debir. The name of Debir was formerly Kiriath-sepher.


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  And Caleb said, “He who attacks Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give him Achsah my daughter for a wife.”


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  And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter for a wife.


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  When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?”


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  She said to him, “Give me a blessing. Since you have set me in the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water.” And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.


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  And the descendants of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the Negeb near Arad, and they went and settled with the people.


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  And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they defeated the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath and devoted it to destruction. So the name of the city was called Hormah.


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  Judah also captured Gaza with its territory, and Ashkelon with its territory, and Ekron with its territory.


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  And the LORD was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country, but he could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain because they had chariots of iron.


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  But the people of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem, so the Jebusites have lived with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.


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  And the spies saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him, “Please show us the way into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.”


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  And he showed them the way into the city. And they struck the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go.


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  And the man went to the land of the Hittites and built a city and called its name Luz. That is its name to this day.


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  Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages, for the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.


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  When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not drive them out completely.


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  And Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.


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  Zebulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, or the inhabitants of Nahalol, so the Canaanites lived among them, but became subject to forced labor.


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  Asher did not drive out the inhabitants of Acco, or the inhabitants of Sidon or of Ahlab or of Achzib or of Helbah or of Aphik or of Rehob,


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  so the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, for they did not drive them out.


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  Naphtali did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, or the inhabitants of Beth-anath, so they lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land. Nevertheless, the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became subject to forced labor for them.


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  The Amorites pressed the people of Dan back into the hill country, for they did not allow them to come down to the plain.


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  The Amorites persisted in dwelling in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim, but the hand of the house of Joseph rested heavily on them, and they became subject to forced labor.


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  Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, “I brought you up from Egypt and brought you into the land that I swore to give to your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you,


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  and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done?


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  So now I say, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.”


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  As soon as the angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the people of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept.


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  When Joshua dismissed the people, the people of Israel went each to his inheritance to take possession of the land.


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  And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work that the LORD had done for Israel.


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  And they buried him within the boundaries of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash.


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  And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD or the work that he had done for Israel.


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  And they abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed down to them. And they provoked the LORD to anger.


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  So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.


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  Whenever they marched out, the hand of the LORD was against them for harm, as the LORD had warned, and as the LORD had sworn to them. And they were in terrible distress.


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  Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the LORD, and they did not do so.


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  Whenever the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.


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  But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.


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  So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he said, “Because this people have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice,


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  in order to test Israel by them, whether they will take care to walk in the way of the LORD as their fathers did, or not.”


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  So the LORD left those nations, not driving them out quickly, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua. 


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  Now these are the nations that the LORD left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan.


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  It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known it before.


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  These are the nations: the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.


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  They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.


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  So the people of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.


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  And their daughters they took to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.


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  And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. They forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth.


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  Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.


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  But when the people of Israel cried out to the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.


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  The Spirit of the LORD was upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and the LORD gave Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. And his hand prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim.


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  And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the LORD.


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  He gathered to himself the Ammonites and the Amalekites, and went and defeated Israel. And they took possession of the city of palms.


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  Then the people of Israel cried out to the LORD, and the LORD raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.


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  And Ehud made for himself a sword with two edges, a cubit in length, and he bound it on his right thigh under his clothes.


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  But he himself turned back at the idols near Gilgal and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” And he commanded, “Silence.” And all his attendants went out from his presence.


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  And Ehud came to him as he was sitting alone in his cool roof chamber. And Ehud said, “I have a message from God for you.” And he arose from his seat.


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  And Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly.


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  And the hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not pull the sword out of his belly; and the dung came out.


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  Then Ehud went out into the porch and closed the doors of the roof chamber behind him and locked them.


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  When he had gone, the servants came, and when they saw that the doors of the roof chamber were locked, they thought, “Surely he is relieving himself in the closet of the cool chamber.”


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  And they waited till they were embarrassed. But when he still did not open the doors of the roof chamber, they took the key and opened them, and there lay their lord dead on the floor.


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  When he arrived, he sounded the trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim. Then the people of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he was their leader.


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  And he said to them, “Follow after me, for the LORD has given your enemies the Moabites into your hand.” So they went down after him and seized the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites and did not allow anyone to pass over.


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  And they killed at that time about 10,000 of the Moabites, all strong, able-bodied men; not a man escaped.


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  After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed 600 of the Philistines with an oxgoad, and he also saved Israel. 


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  And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.


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  Then the people of Israel cried out to the LORD for help, for he had 900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.


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  She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment.


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  She sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali and said to him, “Has not the LORD, the God of Israel, commanded you, ‘Go, gather your men at Mount Tabor, taking 10,000 from the people of Naphtali and the people of Zebulun.


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  And I will draw out Sisera, the general of Jabin’s army, to meet you by the river Kishon with his chariots and his troops, and I will give him into your hand’?”


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  Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, I will go, but if you will not go with me, I will not go.”


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  And she said, “I will surely go with you. Nevertheless, the road on which you are going will not lead to your glory, for the LORD will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.” Then Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh.


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  And Barak called out Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh. And 10,000 men went up at his heels, and Deborah went up with him.


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  Now Heber the Kenite had separated from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far away as the oak in Zaanannim, which is near Kedesh.


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  Sisera called out all his chariots, 900 chariots of iron, and all the men who were with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the river Kishon.


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  And Deborah said to Barak, “Up! For this is the day in which the LORD has given Sisera into your hand. Does not the LORD go out before you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with 10,000 men following him.


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  And the LORD routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army before Barak by the edge of the sword. And Sisera got down from his chariot and fled away on foot.


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  And Barak pursued the chariots and the army to Harosheth-hagoyim, and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not a man was left.


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  But Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.


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  And Jael came out to meet Sisera and said to him, “Turn aside, my lord; turn aside to me; do not be afraid.” So he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.


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  And he said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.” So she opened a skin of milk and gave him a drink and covered him.


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  And he said to her, “Stand at the opening of the tent, and if any man comes and asks you, ‘Is anyone here?’ say, ‘No.’”


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  But Jael the wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand. Then she went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple until it went down into the ground while he was lying fast asleep from weariness. So he died.


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  And behold, as Barak was pursuing Sisera, Jael went out to meet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking.” So he went in to her tent, and there lay Sisera dead, with the tent peg in his temple.


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  And the hand of the people of Israel pressed harder and harder against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they destroyed Jabin king of Canaan. 


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  “That the leaders took the lead in Israel, that the people offered themselves willingly, bless the LORD!


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  “Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes; to the LORD I will sing; I will make melody to the LORD, the God of Israel.


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  “LORD, when you went out from Seir, when you marched from the region of Edom, the earth trembled and the heavens dropped, yes, the clouds dropped water.


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  “In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned, and travelers kept to the byways.


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  The villagers ceased in Israel; they ceased to be until I arose; I, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel.


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  When new gods were chosen, then war was in the gates. Was shield or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?


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  My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless the LORD.


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  “Tell of it, you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets and you who walk by the way.


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  To the sound of musicians at the watering places, there they repeat the righteous triumphs of the LORD, the righteous triumphs of his villagers in Israel. “Then down to the gates marched the people of the LORD.


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  “Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, break out in a song! Arise, Barak, lead away your captives, O son of Abinoam.


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  Then down marched the remnant of the noble; the people of the LORD marched down for me against the mighty.


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  From Ephraim their root they marched down into the valley, following you, Benjamin, with your kinsmen; from Machir marched down the commanders, and from Zebulun those who bear the lieutenant’s staff;


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  the princes of Issachar came with Deborah, and Issachar faithful to Barak; into the valley they rushed at his heels. Among the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.


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  Why did you sit still among the sheepfolds, to hear the whistling for the flocks? Among the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.


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  Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why did he stay with the ships? Asher sat still at the coast of the sea, staying by his landings.


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  Zebulun is a people who risked their lives to the death; Naphtali, too, on the heights of the field.


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  “The kings came, they fought; then fought the kings of Canaan, at Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo; they got no spoils of silver.


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  The torrent Kishon swept them away, the ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon. March on, my soul, with might!


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  “Curse Meroz, says the angel of the LORD, curse its inhabitants thoroughly, because they did not come to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.


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  She sent her hand to the tent peg and her right hand to the workmen’s mallet; she struck Sisera; she crushed his head; she shattered and pierced his temple.


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  Between her feet he sank, he fell, he lay still; between her feet he sank, he fell; where he sank, there he fell—dead.


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  “Out of the window she peered, the mother of Sisera wailed through the lattice: ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the hoofbeats of his chariots?’


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  ‘Have they not found and divided the spoil?— A womb or two for every man; spoil of dyed materials for Sisera, spoil of dyed materials embroidered, two pieces of dyed work embroidered for the neck as spoil?’


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  “So may all your enemies perish, O LORD! But your friends be like the sun as he rises in his might.” And the land had rest for forty years. 


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  The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD gave them into the hand of Midian seven years.


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  And the hand of Midian overpowered Israel, and because of Midian the people of Israel made for themselves the dens that are in the mountains and the caves and the strongholds.


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  For whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them.


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  They would encamp against them and devour the produce of the land, as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel and no sheep or ox or donkey.


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  For they would come up with their livestock and their tents; they would come like locusts in number—both they and their camels could not be counted—so that they laid waste the land as they came in.


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  And Israel was brought very low because of Midian. And the people of Israel cried out for help to the LORD.


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  the LORD sent a prophet to the people of Israel. And he said to them, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I led you up from Egypt and brought you out of the house of slavery.


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  And I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out before you and gave you their land.


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  And I said to you, ‘I am the LORD your God; you shall not fear the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell.’ But you have not obeyed my voice.”


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  Now the angel of the LORD came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites.


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  And the angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, “The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor.”


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  And Gideon said to him, “Please, my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our fathers recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian.”


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  And the LORD turned to him and said, “Go in this might of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian; do not I send you?”


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  And he said to him, “Please, Lord, how can I save Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”


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  And he said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, then show me a sign that it is you who speak with me.


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  Please do not depart from here until I come to you and bring out my present and set it before you.” And he said, “I will stay till you return.”


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label: Judg
content:
  So Gideon went into his house and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes from an ephah of flour. The meat he put in a basket, and the broth he put in a pot, and brought them to him under the terebinth and presented them.


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content:
  And the angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and put them on this rock, and pour the broth over them.” And he did so.


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  Then the angel of the LORD reached out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes. And fire sprang up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. And the angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.


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  Then Gideon perceived that he was the angel of the LORD. And Gideon said, “Alas, O Lord GOD! For now I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face.”


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  Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD and called it, The LORD Is Peace. To this day it still stands at Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites.


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  That night the LORD said to him, “Take your father’s bull, and the second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it


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  and build an altar to the LORD your God on the top of the stronghold here, with stones laid in due order. Then take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah that you shall cut down.”


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  So Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as the LORD had told him. But because he was too afraid of his family and the men of the town to do it by day, he did it by night.


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  When the men of the town rose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah beside it was cut down, and the second bull was offered on the altar that had been built.


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  And they said to one another, “Who has done this thing?” And after they had searched and inquired, they said, “Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing.”


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  Then the men of the town said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die, for he has broken down the altar of Baal and cut down the Asherah beside it.”


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  But Joash said to all who stood against him, “Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? Whoever contends for him shall be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because his altar has been broken down.”


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  Therefore on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, “Let Baal contend against him,” because he broke down his altar.


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  Now all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East came together, and they crossed the Jordan and encamped in the Valley of Jezreel.


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  But the Spirit of the LORD clothed Gideon, and he sounded the trumpet, and the Abiezrites were called out to follow him.


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  And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, and they too were called out to follow him. And he sent messengers to Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, and they went up to meet them.


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  behold, I am laying a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece alone, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said.”


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  And it was so. When he rose early next morning and squeezed the fleece, he wrung enough dew from the fleece to fill a bowl with water.


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  Then Gideon said to God, “Let not your anger burn against me; let me speak just once more. Please let me test just once more with the fleece. Please let it be dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground let there be dew.”


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  Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.


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  The LORD said to Gideon, “The people with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel boast over me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’


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  Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return home and hurry away from Mount Gilead.’” Then 22,000 of the people returned, and 10,000 remained.


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  And the LORD said to Gideon, “The people are still too many. Take them down to the water, and I will test them for you there, and anyone of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ shall go with you, and anyone of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ shall not go.”


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  So he brought the people down to the water. And the LORD said to Gideon, “Every one who laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set by himself. Likewise, every one who kneels down to drink.”


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  And the number of those who lapped, putting their hands to their mouths, was 300 men, but all the rest of the people knelt down to drink water.


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content:
  And the LORD said to Gideon, “With the 300 men who lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hand, and let all the others go every man to his home.”


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  So the people took provisions in their hands, and their trumpets. And he sent all the rest of Israel every man to his tent, but retained the 300 men. And the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.


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  That same night the LORD said to him, “Arise, go down against the camp, for I have given it into your hand.


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  And you shall hear what they say, and afterward your hands shall be strengthened to go down against the camp.” Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outposts of the armed men who were in the camp.


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  And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the East lay along the valley like locusts in abundance, and their camels were without number, as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance.


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  When Gideon came, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade. And he said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and came to the tent and struck it so that it fell and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”


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  And his comrade answered, “This is no other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has given into his hand Midian and all the camp.”


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  As soon as Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he worshiped. And he returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for the LORD has given the host of Midian into your hand.”


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  And he divided the 300 men into three companies and put trumpets into the hands of all of them and empty jars, with torches inside the jars.


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  And he said to them, “Look at me, and do likewise. When I come to the outskirts of the camp, do as I do.


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  When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp and shout, ‘For the LORD and for Gideon.’”


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  So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just set the watch. And they blew the trumpets and smashed the jars that were in their hands.


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  Then the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the jars. They held in their left hands the torches, and in their right hands the trumpets to blow. And they cried out, “A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!”


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  When they blew the 300 trumpets, the LORD set every man’s sword against his comrade and against all the army. And the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.


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  And the men of Israel were called out from Naphtali and from Asher and from all Manasseh, and they pursued after Midian.


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  Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against the Midianites and capture the waters against them, as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.” So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and they captured the waters as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.


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  And they captured the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb. Then they pursued Midian, and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon across the Jordan. 


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  Then the men of Ephraim said to him, “What is this that you have done to us, not to call us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they accused him fiercely.


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  And he said to them, “What have I done now in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?


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  God has given into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. What have I been able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger against him subsided when he said this.


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  And Gideon came to the Jordan and crossed over, he and the 300 men who were with him, exhausted yet pursuing.


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  So he said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me, for they are exhausted, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”


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  And the officials of Succoth said, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?”


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  So Gideon said, “Well then, when the LORD has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will flail your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.”


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  And from there he went up to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way, and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.


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  Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army, about 15,000 men, all who were left of all the army of the people of the East, for there had fallen 120,000 men who drew the sword.


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  And Gideon went up by the way of the tent dwellers east of Nobah and Jogbehah and attacked the army, for the army felt secure.


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  And Zebah and Zalmunna fled, and he pursued them and captured the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and he threw all the army into a panic.


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  And he captured a young man of Succoth and questioned him. And he wrote down for him the officials and elders of Succoth, seventy-seven men.


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  And he came to the men of Succoth and said, “Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are exhausted?’”


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  And he took the elders of the city, and he took thorns of the wilderness and briers and with them taught the men of Succoth a lesson.


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  Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “Where are the men whom you killed at Tabor?” They answered, “As you are, so were they. Every one of them resembled the son of a king.”


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  And he said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As the LORD lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.”


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  So he said to Jether his firstborn, “Rise and kill them!” But the young man did not draw his sword, for he was afraid, because he was still a young man.


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  Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Rise yourself and fall upon us, for as the man is, so is his strength.” And Gideon arose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent ornaments that were on the necks of their camels.


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  Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, you and your son and your grandson also, for you have saved us from the hand of Midian.”


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  Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the LORD will rule over you.”


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  And Gideon said to them, “Let me make a request of you: every one of you give me the earrings from his spoil.” (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)


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  And they answered, “We will willingly give them.” And they spread a cloak, and every man threw in it the earrings of his spoil.


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  And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was 1,700 shekels of gold, besides the crescent ornaments and the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian, and besides the collars that were around the necks of their camels.


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  And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel whored after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.


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  So Midian was subdued before the people of Israel, and they raised their heads no more. And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.


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  And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, at Ophrah of the Abiezrites.


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  As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and whored after the Baals and made Baal-berith their god.


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  And the people of Israel did not remember the LORD their God, who had delivered them from the hand of all their enemies on every side,


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  and they did not show steadfast love to the family of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) in return for all the good that he had done to Israel. 


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  Now Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s relatives and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother’s family,


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  “Say in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”


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  And his mother’s relatives spoke all these words on his behalf in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, “He is our brother.”


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  And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him.


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  And he went to his father’s house at Ophrah and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.


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  And all the leaders of Shechem came together, and all Beth-millo, and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar at Shechem.


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  When it was told to Jotham, he went and stood on top of Mount Gerizim and cried aloud and said to them, “Listen to me, you leaders of Shechem, that God may listen to you.


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  The trees once went out to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’


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  But the olive tree said to them, ‘Shall I leave my abundance, by which gods and men are honored, and go hold sway over the trees?’


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  But the fig tree said to them, ‘Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruit and go hold sway over the trees?’


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  But the vine said to them, ‘Shall I leave my wine that cheers God and men and go hold sway over the trees?’


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  And the bramble said to the trees, ‘If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade, but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’


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  “Now therefore, if you acted in good faith and integrity when you made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house and have done to him as his deeds deserved—


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  and you have risen up against my father’s house this day and have killed his sons, seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the leaders of Shechem, because he is your relative—


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  if you then have acted in good faith and integrity with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you.


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  But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo; and let fire come out from the leaders of Shechem and from Beth-millo and devour Abimelech.”


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  And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem, and the leaders of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech,


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  that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.


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  And the leaders of Shechem put men in ambush against him on the mountaintops, and they robbed all who passed by them along that way. And it was told to Abimelech.


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  And Gaal the son of Ebed moved into Shechem with his relatives, and the leaders of Shechem put confidence in him.


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  And they went out into the field and gathered the grapes from their vineyards and trod them and held a festival; and they went into the house of their god and ate and drank and reviled Abimelech.


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  And Gaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who are we of Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and is not Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem; but why should we serve him?


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  Would that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech. I would say to Abimelech, ‘Increase your army, and come out.’”


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  And he sent messengers to Abimelech secretly, saying, “Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his relatives have come to Shechem, and they are stirring up the city against you.


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  Then in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, rise early and rush upon the city. And when he and the people who are with him come out against you, you may do to them as your hand finds to do.”


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  So Abimelech and all the men who were with him rose up by night and set an ambush against Shechem in four companies.


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  And Gaal the son of Ebed went out and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city, and Abimelech and the people who were with him rose from the ambush.


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  And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Look, people are coming down from the mountaintops!” And Zebul said to him, “You mistake the shadow of the mountains for men.”


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content:
  Gaal spoke again and said, “Look, people are coming down from the center of the land, and one company is coming from the direction of the Diviners’ Oak.”


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  Then Zebul said to him, “Where is your mouth now, you who said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Are not these the people whom you despised? Go out now and fight with them.”


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  And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him. And many fell wounded, up to the entrance of the gate.


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  And Abimelech lived at Arumah, and Zebul drove out Gaal and his relatives, so that they could not dwell at Shechem.


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label: Judg
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  He took his people and divided them into three companies and set an ambush in the fields. And he looked and saw the people coming out of the city. So he rose against them and killed them.


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  Abimelech and the company that was with him rushed forward and stood at the entrance of the gate of the city, while the two companies rushed upon all who were in the field and killed them.


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  And Abimelech fought against the city all that day. He captured the city and killed the people who were in it, and he razed the city and sowed it with salt.


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  When all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered the stronghold of the house of El-berith.


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label: Judg
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  And Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him. And Abimelech took an axe in his hand and cut down a bundle of brushwood and took it up and laid it on his shoulder. And he said to the men who were with him, “What you have seen me do, hurry and do as I have done.”


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  So every one of the people cut down his bundle and following Abimelech put it against the stronghold, and they set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the Tower of Shechem also died, about 1,000 men and women.


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  But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the men and women and all the leaders of the city fled to it and shut themselves in, and they went up to the roof of the tower.


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  And Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it and drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.


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label: Judg
content:
  Then he called quickly to the young man his armor-bearer and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” And his young man thrust him through, and he died.


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content:
  Thus God returned the evil of Abimelech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers.


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label: Judg
content:
  And God also made all the evil of the men of Shechem return on their heads, and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal. 


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label: Judg
content:
  After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, and he lived at Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.


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  And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities, called Havvoth-jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.


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book: Judges
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content:
  The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook the LORD and did not serve him.


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content:
  So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites,


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  and they crushed and oppressed the people of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the people of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.


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  And the Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah and against Benjamin and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was severely distressed.


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  And the people of Israel cried out to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against you, because we have forsaken our God and have served the Baals.”


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  And the LORD said to the people of Israel, “Did I not save you from the Egyptians and from the Amorites, from the Ammonites and from the Philistines?


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  The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you, and you cried out to me, and I saved you out of their hand.


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  And the people of Israel said to the LORD, “We have sinned; do to us whatever seems good to you. Only please deliver us this day.”


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  So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and he became impatient over the misery of Israel.


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  Then the Ammonites were called to arms, and they encamped in Gilead. And the people of Israel came together, and they encamped at Mizpah.


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  And the people, the leaders of Gilead, said one to another, “Who is the man who will begin to fight against the Ammonites? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.” 


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  Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute. Gilead was the father of Jephthah.


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label: Judg
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  And Gilead’s wife also bore him sons. And when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You shall not have an inheritance in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”


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  Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob, and worthless fellows collected around Jephthah and went out with him.


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  And when the Ammonites made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah from the land of Tob.


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book: Judges
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content:
  But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and drive me out of my father’s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?”


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book: Judges
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content:
  And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “That is why we have turned to you now, that you may go with us and fight against the Ammonites and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”


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  Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me home again to fight against the Ammonites, and the LORD gives them over to me, I will be your head.”


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  And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The LORD will be witness between us, if we do not do as you say.”


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  So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and leader over them. And Jephthah spoke all his words before the LORD at Mizpah.


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label: Judg
content:
  Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites and said, “What do you have against me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?”


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And the king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel on coming up from Egypt took away my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan; now therefore restore it peaceably.”


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  and said to him, “Thus says Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites,


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label: Judg
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  but when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.


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label: Judg
content:
  Israel then sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let us pass through your land,’ but the king of Edom would not listen. And they sent also to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel remained at Kadesh.


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  “Then they journeyed through the wilderness and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab and arrived on the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab.


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book: Judges
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content:
  Israel then sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, king of Heshbon, and Israel said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land to our country,’


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  but Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory, so Sihon gathered all his people together and encamped at Jahaz and fought with Israel.


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book: Judges
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content:
  And the LORD, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them. So Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites, who inhabited that country.


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book: Judges
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content:
  And they took possession of all the territory of the Amorites from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.


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  So then the LORD, the God of Israel, dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel; and are you to take possession of them?


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label: Judg
content:
  Will you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? And all that the LORD our God has dispossessed before us, we will possess.


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content:
  Now are you any better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever contend against Israel, or did he ever go to war with them?


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  While Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, 300 years, why did you not deliver them within that time?


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content:
  I therefore have not sinned against you, and you do me wrong by making war on me. The LORD, the Judge, decide this day between the people of Israel and the people of Ammon.”


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label: Judg
content:
  Then the Spirit of the LORD was upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh and passed on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the Ammonites.


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  then whatever comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites shall be the LORD’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.”


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content:
  So Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them, and the LORD gave them into his hand.


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  And he struck them from Aroer to the neighborhood of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim, with a great blow. So the Ammonites were subdued before the people of Israel.


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content:
  Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And as soon as he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you have become the cause of great trouble to me. For I have opened my mouth to the LORD, and I cannot take back my vow.”


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label: Judg
content:
  And she said to him, “My father, you have opened your mouth to the LORD; do to me according to what has gone out of your mouth, now that the LORD has avenged you on your enemies, on the Ammonites.”


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content:
  So she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me: leave me alone two months, that I may go up and down on the mountains and weep for my virginity, I and my companions.”


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label: Judg
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  So he said, “Go.” Then he sent her away for two months, and she departed, she and her companions, and wept for her virginity on the mountains.


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content:
  And at the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow that he had made. She had never known a man, and it became a custom in Israel


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label: Judg
content:
  that the daughters of Israel went year by year to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year. 


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label: Judg
content:
  The men of Ephraim were called to arms, and they crossed to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, “Why did you cross over to fight against the Ammonites and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house over you with fire.”


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content:
  And Jephthah said to them, “I and my people had a great dispute with the Ammonites, and when I called you, you did not save me from their hand.


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content:
  And when I saw that you would not save me, I took my life in my hand and crossed over against the Ammonites, and the LORD gave them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day to fight against me?”


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content:
  Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim and Manasseh.”


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  And the Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, “Let me go over,” the men of Gilead said to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” When he said, “No,”


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  they said to him, “Then say Shibboleth,” and he said, “Sibboleth,” for he could not pronounce it right. Then they seized him and slaughtered him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time 42,000 of the Ephraimites fell.


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content:
  Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in his city in Gilead.


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content:
  He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters he gave in marriage outside his clan, and thirty daughters he brought in from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.


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content:
  He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys, and he judged Israel eight years.


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label: Judg
content:
  Then Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died and was buried at Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites. 


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content:
  And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, so the LORD gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.


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content:
  There was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. And his wife was barren and had no children.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And the angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “Behold, you are barren and have not borne children, but you shall conceive and bear a son.


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label: Judg
content:
  for behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”


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  Then the woman came and told her husband, “A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome. I did not ask him where he was from, and he did not tell me his name,


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label: Judg
content:
  but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. So then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  Then Manoah prayed to the LORD and said, “O Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us and teach us what we are to do with the child who will be born.”


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content:
  And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field. But Manoah her husband was not with her.


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label: Judg
content:
  So the woman ran quickly and told her husband, “Behold, the man who came to me the other day has appeared to me.”


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And Manoah arose and went after his wife and came to the man and said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to this woman?” And he said, “I am.”


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label: Judg
content:
  And Manoah said, “Now when your words come true, what is to be the child’s manner of life, and what is his mission?”


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label: Judg
content:
  She may not eat of anything that comes from the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing. All that I commanded her let her observe.”


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And the angel of the LORD said to Manoah, “If you detain me, I will not eat of your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, then offer it to the LORD.” (For Manoah did not know that he was the angel of the LORD.)


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label: Judg
content:
  And Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “What is your name, so that, when your words come true, we may honor you?”


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label: Judg
content:
  So Manoah took the young goat with the grain offering, and offered it on the rock to the LORD, to the one who works wonders, and Manoah and his wife were watching.


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  And when the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the angel of the LORD went up in the flame of the altar. Now Manoah and his wife were watching, and they fell on their faces to the ground.


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  The angel of the LORD appeared no more to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the LORD.


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label: Judg
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  But his wife said to him, “If the LORD had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering at our hands, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us such things as these.”


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book: Judges
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  And the woman bore a son and called his name Samson. And the young man grew, and the LORD blessed him.


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  Then he came up and told his father and mother, “I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. Now get her for me as my wife.”


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”


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label: Judg
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  His father and mother did not know that it was from the LORD, for he was seeking an opportunity against the Philistines. At that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.


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label: Judg
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  Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and they came to the vineyards of Timnah. And behold, a young lion came toward him roaring.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  Then the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and although he had nothing in his hand, he tore the lion in pieces as one tears a young goat. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  After some days he returned to take her. And he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.


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  He scraped it out into his hands and went on, eating as he went. And he came to his father and mother and gave some to them, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey from the carcass of the lion.


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label: Judg
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  His father went down to the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, for so the young men used to do.


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label: Judg
content:
  And Samson said to them, “Let me now put a riddle to you. If you can tell me what it is, within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes,


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  but if you cannot tell me what it is, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes.” And they said to him, “Put your riddle, that we may hear it.”


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  And he said to them, “Out of the eater came something to eat. Out of the strong came something sweet.” And in three days they could not solve the riddle.


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content:
  On the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?”


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label: Judg
content:
  And Samson’s wife wept over him and said, “You only hate me; you do not love me. You have put a riddle to my people, and you have not told me what it is.” And he said to her, “Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?”


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label: Judg
content:
  She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted, and on the seventh day he told her, because she pressed him hard. Then she told the riddle to her people.


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label: Judg
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  And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” And he said to them, “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle.”


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck down thirty men of the town and took their spoil and gave the garments to those who had told the riddle. In hot anger he went back to his father’s house.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
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  After some days, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife with a young goat. And he said, “I will go in to my wife in the chamber.” But her father would not allow him to go in.


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label: Judg
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  And her father said, “I really thought that you utterly hated her, so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”


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label: Judg
content:
  And Samson said to them, “This time I shall be innocent in regard to the Philistines, when I do them harm.”


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  So Samson went and caught 300 foxes and took torches. And he turned them tail to tail and put a torch between each pair of tails.


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label: Judg
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  And when he had set fire to the torches, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines and set fire to the stacked grain and the standing grain, as well as the olive orchards.


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  Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” And they said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” And the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.


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content:
  And Samson said to them, “If this is what you do, I swear I will be avenged on you, and after that I will quit.”


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  And he struck them hip and thigh with a great blow, and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam.


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  And the men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he did to us.”


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  Then 3,000 men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” And he said to them, “As they did to me, so have I done to them.”


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  And they said to him, “We have come down to bind you, that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines.” And Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.”


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label: Judg
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  They said to him, “No; we will only bind you and give you into their hands. We will surely not kill you.” So they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.


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label: Judg
content:
  When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. Then the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands.


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label: Judg
content:
  And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put out his hand and took it, and with it he struck 1,000 men.


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label: Judg
content:
  And Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of a donkey have I struck down a thousand men.”


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content:
  As soon as he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand. And that place was called Ramath-lehi.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And he was very thirsty, and he called upon the LORD and said, “You have granted this great salvation by the hand of your servant, and shall I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”


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label: Judg
content:
  And God split open the hollow place that is at Lehi, and water came out from it. And when he drank, his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore the name of it was called En-hakkore; it is at Lehi to this day.


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label: Judg
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  The Gazites were told, “Samson has come here.” And they surrounded the place and set an ambush for him all night at the gate of the city. They kept quiet all night, saying, “Let us wait till the light of the morning; then we will kill him.”


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label: Judg
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  But Samson lay till midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that is in front of Hebron.


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  And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to humble him. And we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver.”


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label: Judg
content:
  So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and how you might be bound, that one could subdue you.”


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  Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.”


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  Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she bound him with them.


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label: Judg
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  Now she had men lying in ambush in an inner chamber. And she said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he snapped the bowstrings, as a thread of flax snaps when it touches the fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.


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  Then Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me and told me lies. Please tell me how you might be bound.”


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  And he said to her, “If they bind me with new ropes that have not been used, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.”


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  So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And the men lying in ambush were in an inner chamber. But he snapped the ropes off his arms like a thread.


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book: Judges
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  Then Delilah said to Samson, “Until now you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me how you might be bound.” And he said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web and fasten it tight with the pin, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.”


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  So while he slept, Delilah took the seven locks of his head and wove them into the web. And she made them tight with the pin and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he awoke from his sleep and pulled away the pin, the loom, and the web.


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  And she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me where your great strength lies.”


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  And when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death.


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  And he told her all his heart, and said to her, “A razor has never come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If my head is shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak and be like any other man.”


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  When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up again, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hands.


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  She made him sleep on her knees. And she called a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him, and his strength left him.


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  And she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep and said, “I will go out as at other times and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had left him.


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  And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. And he ground at the mill in the prison.


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label: Judg
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  Now the lords of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to rejoice, and they said, “Our god has given Samson our enemy into our hand.”


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  And when the people saw him, they praised their god. For they said, “Our god has given our enemy into our hand, the ravager of our country, who has killed many of us.”


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  And when their hearts were merry, they said, “Call Samson, that he may entertain us.” So they called Samson out of the prison, and he entertained them. They made him stand between the pillars.


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  And Samson said to the young man who held him by the hand, “Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean against them.”


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  Now the house was full of men and women. All the lords of the Philistines were there, and on the roof there were about 3,000 men and women, who looked on while Samson entertained.


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  Then Samson called to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, please remember me and please strengthen me only this once, O God, that I may be avenged on the Philistines for my two eyes.”


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  And Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and he leaned his weight against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other.


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label: Judg
content:
  And Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” Then he bowed with all his strength, and the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those whom he had killed during his life.


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  Then his brothers and all his family came down and took him and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had judged Israel twenty years. 


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  And he said to his mother, “The 1,100 pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it.” And his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the LORD.”


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  And he restored the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother. And his mother said, “I dedicate the silver to the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a metal image. Now therefore I will restore it to you.”


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  So when he restored the money to his mother, his mother took 200 pieces of silver and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into a carved image and a metal image. And it was in the house of Micah.


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  And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household gods, and ordained one of his sons, who became his priest.


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  Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.


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  And the man departed from the town of Bethlehem in Judah to sojourn where he could find a place. And as he journeyed, he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah.


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  And Micah said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I am a Levite of Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to sojourn where I may find a place.”


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  And Micah said to him, “Stay with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year and a suit of clothes and your living.” And the Levite went in.


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  And the Levite was content to dwell with the man, and the young man became to him like one of his sons.


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  In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the people of Dan was seeking for itself an inheritance to dwell in, for until then no inheritance among the tribes of Israel had fallen to them.


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  So the people of Dan sent five able men from the whole number of their tribe, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to explore it. And they said to them, “Go and explore the land.” And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.


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  When they were by the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young Levite. And they turned aside and said to him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?”


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  And he said to them, “This is how Micah dealt with me: he has hired me, and I have become his priest.”


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  And they said to him, “Inquire of God, please, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”


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  And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the LORD.”


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label: Judg
content:
  Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, lacking nothing that is in the earth and possessing wealth, and how they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.


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  And when they came to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers said to them, “What do you report?”


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  They said, “Arise, and let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. And will you do nothing? Do not be slow to go, to enter in and possess the land.


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  As soon as you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people. The land is spacious, for God has given it into your hands, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”


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  and went up and encamped at Kiriath-jearim in Judah. On this account that place is called Mahaneh-dan to this day; behold, it is west of Kiriath-jearim.


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content:
  Then the five men who had gone to scout out the country of Laish said to their brothers, “Do you know that in these houses there are an ephod, household gods, a carved image, and a metal image? Now therefore consider what you will do.”


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  And they turned aside there and came to the house of the young Levite, at the home of Micah, and asked him about his welfare.


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label: Judg
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  And the five men who had gone to scout out the land went up and entered and took the carved image, the ephod, the household gods, and the metal image, while the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the 600 men armed with weapons of war.


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  And when these went into Micah’s house and took the carved image, the ephod, the household gods, and the metal image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”


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label: Judg
content:
  And they said to him, “Keep quiet; put your hand on your mouth and come with us and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and clan in Israel?”


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label: Judg
content:
  And the priest’s heart was glad. He took the ephod and the household gods and the carved image and went along with the people.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  So they turned and departed, putting the little ones and the livestock and the goods in front of them.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  When they had gone a distance from the home of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah’s house were called out, and they overtook the people of Dan.


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content:
  And they shouted to the people of Dan, who turned around and said to Micah, “What is the matter with you, that you come with such a company?”


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And he said, “You take my gods that I made and the priest, and go away, and what have I left? How then do you ask me, ‘What is the matter with you?’”


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content:
  And the people of Dan said to him, “Do not let your voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall upon you, and you lose your life with the lives of your household.”


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  Then the people of Dan went their way. And when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his home.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  But the people of Dan took what Micah had made, and the priest who belonged to him, and they came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword and burned the city with fire.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And there was no deliverer because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone. It was in the valley that belongs to Beth-rehob. Then they rebuilt the city and lived in it.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And they named the city Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor, who was born to Israel; but the name of the city was Laish at the first.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And the people of Dan set up the carved image for themselves, and Jonathan the son of Gershom, son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And his concubine was unfaithful to him, and she went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  Then her husband arose and went after her, to speak kindly to her and bring her back. He had with him his servant and a couple of donkeys. And she brought him into her father’s house. And when the girl’s father saw him, he came with joy to meet him.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And his father-in-law, the girl’s father, made him stay, and he remained with him three days. So they ate and drank and spent the night there.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And on the fourth day they arose early in the morning, and he prepared to go, but the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and after that you may go.”


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  So the two of them sat and ate and drank together. And the girl’s father said to the man, “Be pleased to spend the night, and let your heart be merry.”


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And on the fifth day he arose early in the morning to depart. And the girl’s father said, “Strengthen your heart and wait until the day declines.” So they ate, both of them.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And when the man and his concubine and his servant rose up to depart, his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Behold, now the day has waned toward evening. Please, spend the night. Behold, the day draws to its close. Lodge here and let your heart be merry, and tomorrow you shall arise early in the morning for your journey, and go home.”


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  But the man would not spend the night. He rose up and departed and arrived opposite Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). He had with him a couple of saddled donkeys, and his concubine was with him.


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book: Judges
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content:
  When they were near Jebus, the day was nearly over, and the servant said to his master, “Come now, let us turn aside to this city of the Jebusites and spend the night in it.”


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content:
  And his master said to him, “We will not turn aside into the city of foreigners, who do not belong to the people of Israel, but we will pass on to Gibeah.”


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content:
  And he said to his young man, “Come and let us draw near to one of these places and spend the night at Gibeah or at Ramah.”


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  So they passed on and went their way. And the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin,


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  and they turned aside there, to go in and spend the night at Gibeah. And he went in and sat down in the open square of the city, for no one took them into his house to spend the night.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And behold, an old man was coming from his work in the field at evening. The man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was sojourning in Gibeah. The men of the place were Benjaminites.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And he lifted up his eyes and saw the traveler in the open square of the city. And the old man said, “Where are you going? And where do you come from?”


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And he said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, from which I come. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to the house of the LORD, but no one has taken me into his house.


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label: Judg
content:
  We have straw and feed for our donkeys, with bread and wine for me and your female servant and the young man with your servants. There is no lack of anything.”


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And the old man said, “Peace be to you; I will care for all your wants. Only, do not spend the night in the square.”


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  So he brought him into his house and gave the donkeys feed. And they washed their feet, and ate and drank.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, worthless fellows, surrounded the house, beating on the door. And they said to the old man, the master of the house, “Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him.”


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book: Judges
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content:
  And the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said to them, “No, my brothers, do not act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, do not do this vile thing.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  Behold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine. Let me bring them out now. Violate them and do with them what seems good to you, but against this man do not do this outrageous thing.”


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  But the men would not listen to him. So the man seized his concubine and made her go out to them. And they knew her and abused her all night until the morning. And as the dawn began to break, they let her go.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And as morning appeared, the woman came and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her master was, until it was light.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And her master rose up in the morning, and when he opened the doors of the house and went out to go on his way, behold, there was his concubine lying at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  He said to her, “Get up, let us be going.” But there was no answer. Then he put her on the donkey, and the man rose up and went away to his home.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And when he entered his house, he took a knife, and taking hold of his concubine he divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the territory of Israel.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And all who saw it said, “Such a thing has never happened or been seen from the day that the people of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt until this day; consider it, take counsel, and speak.” 


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  Then all the people of Israel came out, from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead, and the congregation assembled as one man to the LORD at Mizpah.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And the chiefs of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, 400,000 men on foot that drew the sword.


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book: Judges
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content:
  (Now the people of Benjamin heard that the people of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the people of Israel said, “Tell us, how did this evil happen?”


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered and said, “I came to Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And the leaders of Gibeah rose against me and surrounded the house against me by night. They meant to kill me, and they violated my concubine, and she is dead.


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content:
  So I took hold of my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel, for they have committed abomination and outrage in Israel.


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book: Judges
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content:
  And all the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, and none of us will return to his house.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  and we will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand of ten thousand, to bring provisions for the people, that when they come they may repay Gibeah of Benjamin for all the outrage that they have committed in Israel.”


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book: Judges
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  And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What evil is this that has taken place among you?


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  Now therefore give up the men, the worthless fellows in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and purge evil from Israel.” But the Benjaminites would not listen to the voice of their brothers, the people of Israel.


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book: Judges
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content:
  Then the people of Benjamin came together out of the cities to Gibeah to go out to battle against the people of Israel.


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book: Judges
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content:
  And the people of Benjamin mustered out of their cities on that day 26,000 men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who mustered 700 chosen men.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  Among all these were 700 chosen men who were left-handed; every one could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And the men of Israel, apart from Benjamin, mustered 400,000 men who drew the sword; all these were men of war.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  The people of Israel arose and went up to Bethel and inquired of God, “Who shall go up first for us to fight against the people of Benjamin?” And the LORD said, “Judah shall go up first.”


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book: Judges
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content:
  And the men of Israel went out to fight against Benjamin, and the men of Israel drew up the battle line against them at Gibeah.


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book: Judges
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content:
  But the people, the men of Israel, took courage, and again formed the battle line in the same place where they had formed it on the first day.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And the people of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until the evening. And they inquired of the LORD, “Shall we again draw near to fight against our brothers, the people of Benjamin?” And the LORD said, “Go up against them.”


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And Benjamin went against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed 18,000 men of the people of Israel. All these were men who drew the sword.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  Then all the people of Israel, the whole army, went up and came to Bethel and wept. They sat there before the LORD and fasted that day until evening, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And the people of Israel inquired of the LORD (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  and Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, ministered before it in those days), saying, “Shall we go out once more to battle against our brothers, the people of Benjamin, or shall we cease?” And the LORD said, “Go up, for tomorrow I will give them into your hand.”


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book: Judges
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content:
  And the people of Israel went up against the people of Benjamin on the third day and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And the people of Benjamin went out against the people and were drawn away from the city. And as at other times they began to strike and kill some of the people in the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country, about thirty men of Israel.


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book: Judges
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content:
  And the people of Benjamin said, “They are routed before us, as at the first.” But the people of Israel said, “Let us flee and draw them away from the city to the highways.”


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place and set themselves in array at Baal-tamar, and the men of Israel who were in ambush rushed out of their place from Maareh-geba.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And there came against Gibeah 10,000 chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was hard, but the Benjaminites did not know that disaster was close upon them.


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content:
  And the LORD defeated Benjamin before Israel, and the people of Israel destroyed 25,100 men of Benjamin that day. All these were men who drew the sword.


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book: Judges
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content:
  So the people of Benjamin saw that they were defeated. The men of Israel gave ground to Benjamin, because they trusted the men in ambush whom they had set against Gibeah.


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content:
  Then the men in ambush hurried and rushed against Gibeah; the men in ambush moved out and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.


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  Now the appointed signal between the men of Israel and the men in the main ambush was that when they made a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city


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book: Judges
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  the men of Israel should turn in battle. Now Benjamin had begun to strike and kill about thirty men of Israel. They said, “Surely they are defeated before us, as in the first battle.”


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content:
  But when the signal began to rise out of the city in a column of smoke, the Benjaminites looked behind them, and behold, the whole of the city went up in smoke to heaven.


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content:
  Then the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed, for they saw that disaster was close upon them.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel in the direction of the wilderness, but the battle overtook them. And those who came out of the cities were destroying them in their midst.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  Surrounding the Benjaminites, they pursued them and trod them down from Nohah as far as opposite Gibeah on the east.


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book: Judges
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content:
  And they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon. Five thousand men of them were cut down in the highways. And they were pursued hard to Gidom, and 2,000 men of them were struck down.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  But 600 men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon and remained at the rock of Rimmon four months.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And the men of Israel turned back against the people of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword, the city, men and beasts and all that they found. And all the towns that they found they set on fire. 


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  Now the men of Israel had sworn at Mizpah, “No one of us shall give his daughter in marriage to Benjamin.”


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And the people came to Bethel and sat there till evening before God, and they lifted up their voices and wept bitterly.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And they said, “O LORD, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that today there should be one tribe lacking in Israel?”


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And the next day the people rose early and built there an altar and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And the people of Israel said, “Which of all the tribes of Israel did not come up in the assembly to the LORD?” For they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the LORD to Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.”


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And the people of Israel had compassion for Benjamin their brother and said, “One tribe is cut off from Israel this day.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them any of our daughters for wives?”


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And they said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel that did not come up to the LORD to Mizpah?” And behold, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh-gilead, to the assembly.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  So the congregation sent 12,000 of their bravest men there and commanded them, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword; also the women and the little ones.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  This is what you shall do: every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction.”


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with him, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  Then the whole congregation sent word to the people of Benjamin who were at the rock of Rimmon and proclaimed peace to them.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And Benjamin returned at that time. And they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead, but they were not enough for them.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
content:
  And the people had compassion on Benjamin because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.


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book: Judges
label: Judg
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  Then the elders of the congregation said, “What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”


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  And they said, “There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.


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  Yet we cannot give them wives from our daughters.” For the people of Israel had sworn, “Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.”


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book: Judges
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  So they said, “Behold, there is the yearly feast of the LORD at Shiloh, which is north of Bethel, on the east of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”


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  and watch. If the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards and snatch each man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.


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  And when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us, because we did not take for each man of them his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else you would now be guilty.’”


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  And the people of Benjamin did so and took their wives, according to their number, from the dancers whom they carried off. Then they went and returned to their inheritance and rebuilt the towns and lived in them.


