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<pb/> <f>[9†]</f>‘If he is not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring to the LORD, for his trespass which he has committed, two <f>[10†]</f>turtledoves or two young pigeons: one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering.


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And he shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin offering first, and <f>[11†]</f>wring off its head from its neck, but shall not divide it completely.


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Then he shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, and the <f>[12†]</f>rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering.


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And he shall offer the second as a burnt offering according to the <f>[13†]</f>prescribed manner. So <f>[14†]</f>the priest shall make atonement on his behalf for his sin which he has committed, and it shall be forgiven him.


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<pb/>‘But if he is <f>[15†]</f>not able to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he who sinned shall bring for his offering one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering. <f>[16†]</f>He shall put no oil on it, nor shall he put frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.


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Then he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it <f>[17†]</f>as a memorial portion, and burn it on the altar <f>[18†]</f>according to the offerings made by fire to the LORD. It is a sin offering.


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<f>[19†]</f>The priest shall make atonement for him, for his sin that he has committed in any of these matters; and it shall be forgiven him. <f>[20†]</f>The rest shall be the priest’s as a grain offering.’ ”


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<f>[21†]</f>“If a person commits a trespass, and sins unintentionally in regard to the holy things of the LORD, then <f>[22†]</f>he shall bring to the LORD as his trespass offering a ram without blemish from the flocks, with your valuation in shekels of silver according to <f>[23†]</f>the shekel of the sanctuary, as a trespass offering.


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And he shall make restitution for the harm that he has done in regard to the holy thing, <f>[24†]</f>and shall add one-fifth to it and give it to the priest. <f>[25†]</f>So the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.


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<pb/>“If a person sins, and commits any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD, <f>[26†]</f>though he does not know it, yet he is <f>[27†]</f>guilty and shall bear his iniquity.


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<f>[28†]</f>And he shall bring to the priest a ram without blemish from the flock, with your valuation, as a trespass offering. So the priest shall make atonement for him regarding his ignorance in which he erred and did not know it, and it shall be forgiven him.


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“If a person sins and <f>[1†]</f>commits a trespass against the LORD by <f>[2†]</f>lying to his neighbor about <f>[3†]</f>what was delivered to him for safekeeping, or about a pledge, or about a robbery, or if he has <f>[4†]</f>extorted from his neighbor,


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or if he <f>[5†]</f>has found what was lost and lies concerning it, and <f>[6†]</f>swears falsely—in any one of these things that a man may do in which he sins:


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then it shall be, because he has sinned and is guilty, that he shall restore <f>[7†]</f>what he has stolen, or the thing which he has extorted, or what was delivered to him for safekeeping, or the lost thing which he found,


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or all that about which he has sworn falsely. He shall <f>[8†]</f>restore its full value, add one-fifth more to it, and give it to whomever it belongs, on the day of his trespass offering.


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And he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD, <f>[9†]</f>a ram without blemish from the flock, with your valuation, as a trespass offering, to the priest.


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<f>[10†]</f>So the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD, and he shall be forgiven for any one of these things that he may have done in which he trespasses.”


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“Command Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the <f>[11†]</f>law of the burnt offering: The burnt offering shall be on the hearth upon the altar all night until morning, and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it.


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<f>[12†]</f>And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen trousers he shall put on his body, and take up the ashes of the burnt offering which the fire has consumed on the altar, and he shall put them <f>[13†]</f>beside the altar.


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Then <f>[14†]</f>he shall take off his garments, put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp <f>[15†]</f>to a clean place.


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And the fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not be put out. And the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order on it; and he shall burn on it the <f>[16†]</f>fat of the peace offerings.


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<pb/>‘This is the law of the grain offering: The sons of Aaron shall offer it on the altar before the LORD.


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He shall take from it his handful of the fine flour of the grain offering, with its oil, and all the frankincense which is on the grain offering, and shall burn it on the altar for a sweet aroma, as a memorial to the LORD.


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And the remainder of it Aaron and his sons shall eat; with unleavened bread it shall be eaten in a holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of meeting they shall eat it.


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It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of My offerings made by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the <f>[18†]</f>trespass offering.


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<f>[19†]</f>All the males among the children of Aaron may eat it. <f>[20†]</f>It shall be a statute forever in your generations concerning the offerings made by fire to the LORD. <f>[21†]</f>Everyone who touches them must be holy.’ ”


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<f>[22†]</f>“This is the offering of Aaron and his sons, which they shall offer to the LORD, beginning on the day when he is anointed: one-tenth of an <f>[23†]</f>ephah of fine flour as a daily grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it at night.


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It shall be made in a <f>[24†]</f>pan with oil. When it is mixed, you shall bring it in. The baked pieces of the grain offering you shall offer for a sweet aroma to the LORD.


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The priest from among his sons, <f>[25†]</f>who is anointed in his place, shall offer it. It is a statute forever to the LORD. <f>[26†]</f>It shall be wholly burned.


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“Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the sin offering: <f>[27†]</f>In the place where the burnt offering is killed, the sin offering shall be killed before the LORD. It is most holy.


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<f>[28†]</f>The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. In a holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of meeting.


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<f>[29†]</f>Everyone who touches its flesh must be holy. And when its blood is sprinkled on any garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled, in a holy place.


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But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled <f>[30†]</f>shall be broken. And if it is boiled in a bronze pot, it shall be both scoured and rinsed in water.


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<f>[31†]</f>But no sin offering from which any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of meeting, to make atonement in the holy <f>[32†]</f>place, shall be <f>[33†]</f>eaten. It shall be <f>[34†]</f>burned in the fire.


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In the place where they kill the burnt offering they shall kill the trespass offering. And its blood he shall sprinkle all around on the altar.


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and the priest shall burn them on the altar as an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a trespass offering.


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<f>[2†]</f>Every male among the priests may eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. <f>[3†]</f>It is most holy.


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<f>[4†]</f>The trespass offering is like the sin offering; there is one law for them both: the priest who makes atonement with it shall have it.


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And the priest who offers anyone’s burnt offering, that priest shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered.


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Also <f>[5†]</f>every grain offering that is baked in the oven and all that is prepared in the covered pan, or in a pan, shall be the priest’s who offers it.


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Every grain offering, whether mixed with oil or dry, shall belong to all the sons of Aaron, to one as much as the other.


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<pb/> <f>[6†]</f>‘This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings which he shall offer to the LORD:


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If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer, with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, unleavened wafers <f>[7†]</f>anointed with oil, or cakes of blended flour mixed with oil.


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Besides the cakes, as his offering he shall offer <f>[8†]</f>leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offering.


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And from it he shall offer one cake from each offering as a heave offering to the LORD. <f>[9†]</f>It shall belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offering.


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<pb/> <f>[10†]</f>‘The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day it is offered. He shall not leave any of it until morning.


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But <f>[11†]</f>if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offers his sacrifice; but on the next day the remainder of it also may be eaten;


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And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering is eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, nor shall it be <f>[12†]</f>imputed to him; it shall be an <f>[13†]</f>abomination to him who offers it, and the person who eats of it shall bear guilt.


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<pb/>‘The flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. And as for the clean flesh, all who are clean may eat of it.


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But the person who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering that belongs to the <f>[14†]</f>LORD, <f>[15†]</f>while he is unclean, that person <f>[16†]</f>shall be cut off from his people.


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Moreover the person who touches any unclean thing, such as <f>[17†]</f>human uncleanness, an <f>[18†]</f>unclean animal, or any <f>[19†]</f>abominable unclean thing, and who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person <f>[20†]</f>shall be cut off from his people.’ ”


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“Speak to the children of Israel, saying: <f>[21†]</f>‘You shall not eat any fat, of ox or sheep or goat.


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And the fat of an animal that dies naturally, and the fat of what is torn by wild beasts, may be used in any other way; but you shall by no means eat it.


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For whoever eats the fat of the animal of which men offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, the person who eats it shall be cut off from his people.


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<f>[22†]</f>Moreover you shall not eat any blood in any of your dwellings, whether of bird or beast.


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“Speak to the children of Israel, saying: <f>[23†]</f>‘He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offering to the LORD shall bring his offering to the LORD from the sacrifice of his peace offering.


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<f>[24†]</f>His own hands shall bring the offerings made by fire to the LORD. The fat with the breast he shall bring, that the <f>[25†]</f>breast may be waved as a wave offering before the LORD.


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<f>[26†]</f>And the priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the <f>[27†]</f>breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.


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<f>[28†]</f>Also the right thigh you shall give to the priest as a heave offering from the sacrifices of your peace offerings.


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He among the sons of Aaron, who offers the blood of the peace offering and the fat, shall have the right thigh for his part.


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For <f>[29†]</f>the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering I have taken from the children of Israel, from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons from the children of Israel by a statute forever.’ ”


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<pb/>This is the consecrated portion for Aaron and his sons, from the offerings made by fire to the LORD, on the day when Moses presented them to minister to the LORD as priests.


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The LORD commanded this to be given to them by the children of Israel, <f>[30†]</f>on the day that He anointed them, by a statute forever throughout their generations.


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<pb/>This is the law <f>[31†]</f>of the burnt offering, <f>[32†]</f>the grain offering, <f>[33†]</f>the sin offering, <f>[34†]</f>the trespass offering, <f>[35†]</f>the consecrations, and <f>[36†]</f>the sacrifice of the peace offering,


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which the LORD commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day when He commanded the children of Israel <f>[37†]</f>to offer their offerings to the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai.


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<f>[1†]</f>“Take Aaron and his sons with him, and <f>[2†]</f>the garments, <f>[3†]</f>the anointing oil, a <f>[4†]</f>bull as the sin offering, two <f>[5†]</f>rams, and a basket of unleavened bread;


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<pb/>So Moses did as the LORD commanded him. And the congregation was gathered together at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.


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And he <f>[7†]</f>put the tunic on him, girded him with the sash, clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him; and he girded him with the intricately woven band of the ephod, and with it tied the ephod on him.


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Then he put the breastplate on him, and he <f>[8†]</f>put the Urim and the Thummim in the breastplate.


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<f>[9†]</f>And he put the turban on his head. Also on the turban, on its front, he put the golden plate, the holy crown, as the LORD had commanded Moses.


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<pb/> <f>[10†]</f>Also Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.


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He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the laver and its base, to consecrate them.


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And he <f>[11†]</f>poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him, to consecrate him.


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<pb/> <f>[12†]</f>Then Moses brought Aaron’s sons and put tunics on them, girded them with sashes, and put hats on them, as the LORD had commanded Moses.


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<pb/> <f>[13†]</f>And he brought the bull for the sin offering. Then Aaron and his sons <f>[14†]</f>laid their hands on the head of the bull for the sin offering,


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and Moses killed it. <f>[15†]</f>Then he took the blood, and put some on the horns of the altar all around with his finger, and purified the altar. And he poured the blood at the base of the altar, and consecrated it, to make atonement for it.


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<f>[16†]</f>Then he took all the fat that was on the entrails, the fatty lobe attached to the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and Moses burned them on the altar.


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But the bull, its hide, its flesh, and its offal, he burned with fire outside the camp, as the LORD <f>[17†]</f>had commanded Moses.


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<pb/> <f>[18†]</f>Then he brought the ram as the burnt offering. And Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram,


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Then he washed the entrails and the legs in water. And Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt sacrifice for a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD, <f>[20†]</f>as the LORD had commanded Moses.


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<pb/>And <f>[21†]</f>he brought the second ram, the ram of consecration. Then Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram,


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and Moses killed it. Also he took some of <f>[22†]</f>its blood and put it on the tip of Aaron’s right ear, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.


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Then he brought Aaron’s sons. And Moses put some of the <f>[23†]</f>blood on the tips of their right ears, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. And Moses sprinkled the blood all around on the altar.


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<f>[24†]</f>Then he took the fat and the fat tail, all the fat that was on the entrails, the fatty lobe attached to the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh;


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<f>[25†]</f>and from the basket of unleavened bread that was before the LORD he took one unleavened cake, a cake of bread anointed with oil, and one wafer, and put them on the fat and on the right thigh;


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and he put all these <f>[26†]</f>in Aaron’s hands and in his sons’ hands, and waved them as a wave offering before the LORD.


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<f>[27†]</f>Then Moses took them from their hands and burned them on the altar, on the burnt offering. They were consecration offerings for a sweet aroma. That was an offering made by fire to the LORD.


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And <f>[28†]</f>Moses took the <f>[29†]</f>breast and waved it as a wave offering before the LORD. It was Moses’ <f>[30†]</f>part of the ram of consecration, as the LORD had commanded Moses.


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<pb/>Then <f>[31†]</f>Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him; and he consecrated Aaron, his garments, his sons, and the garments of his sons with him.


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<pb/>And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, <f>[32†]</f>“Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket of consecration offerings, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’


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And you shall not go outside the door of the tabernacle of meeting for seven days, until the days of your consecration are ended. For <f>[34†]</f>seven days he shall consecrate you.


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Therefore you shall stay at the door of the tabernacle of meeting day and night for seven days, and <f>[36†]</f>keep the charge of the LORD, so that you may not die; for so I have been commanded.”


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<pb/>It came to pass on the <f>[1†]</f>eighth day that Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel.


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And he said to Aaron, “Take for yourself a young <f>[2†]</f>bull as a sin offering and a ram as a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the LORD.


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And to the children of Israel you shall speak, saying, <f>[3†]</f>‘Take a kid of the goats as a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, as a burnt offering,


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also a bull and a ram as peace offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD, and <f>[4†]</f>a grain offering mixed with oil; for <f>[5†]</f>today the LORD will appear to you.’ ”


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<pb/>So they brought what Moses commanded before the tabernacle of meeting. And all the congregation drew near and stood before the LORD.


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Then Moses said, “This is the thing which the LORD commanded you to do, and the glory of the LORD will appear to you.”


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And Moses said to Aaron, “Go to the altar, <f>[6†]</f>offer your sin offering and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself and for the people. <f>[7†]</f>Offer the offering of the people, and make atonement for them, as the LORD commanded.”


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<pb/>Aaron therefore went to the altar and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.


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Then the sons of Aaron brought the blood to him. And he dipped his finger in the blood, put it on the horns of the altar, and poured the blood at the base of the altar.


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<f>[8†]</f>But the fat, the kidneys, and the fatty lobe from the liver of the sin offering he burned on the altar, as the LORD had commanded Moses.


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<pb/>And he killed the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons presented to him the blood, <f>[10†]</f>which he sprinkled all around on the altar.


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<f>[11†]</f>Then they presented the burnt offering to him, with its pieces and head, and he burned them on the altar.


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<f>[12†]</f>And he washed the entrails and the legs, and burned them with the burnt offering on the altar.


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<pb/> <f>[13†]</f>Then he brought the people’s offering, and took the goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and killed it and offered it for sin, like the first one.


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Then he brought the grain offering, took a handful of it, and burned it on the altar, <f>[15†]</f>besides the burnt sacrifice of the morning.


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<pb/>He also killed the bull and the ram as <f>[16†]</f>sacrifices of peace offerings, which were for the people. And Aaron’s sons presented to him the blood, which he sprinkled all around on the altar,


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and the fat from the bull and the ram—the fatty tail, what covers the entrails and the kidneys, and the fatty lobe attached to the liver;


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but the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved <f>[18†]</f>as a wave offering before the LORD, as Moses had commanded.


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<pb/>Then Aaron lifted his hand toward the people, <f>[19†]</f>blessed them, and came down from offering the sin offering, the burnt offering, and peace offerings.


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And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of meeting, and came out and blessed the people. Then the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people,


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and <f>[20†]</f>fire came out from before the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. When all the people saw it, they <f>[21†]</f>shouted and fell on their <f>[22†]</f>faces.


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<pb/>Then <f>[1†]</f>Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, <f>[2†]</f>each took his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered <f>[3†]</f>profane fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them.


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And Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD spoke, saying: <pb/><t>‘By those <f>[5†]</f>who come near Me </t><t>I must be regarded as holy; </t><t>And before all the people </t><t>I must be glorified.’ ” </t> <pb/>So Aaron held his peace.


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<pb/>Then Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, “Come near, <f>[6†]</f>carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.”


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<pb/>And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons, “Do not uncover your heads nor tear your clothes, lest you die, and <f>[7†]</f>wrath come upon all the people. But let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD has kindled.


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<f>[8†]</f>You shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of meeting, lest you die, <f>[9†]</f>for the anointing oil of the LORD is upon you.” And they did according to the word of Moses.


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<f>[10†]</f>“Do not drink wine or intoxicating drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations,


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<f>[12†]</f>and that you may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD has spoken to them by the hand of Moses.”


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<pb/>And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons who were left: <f>[13†]</f>“Take the grain offering that remains of the offerings made by fire to the LORD, and eat it without leaven beside the altar; <f>[14†]</f>for it is most holy.


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You shall eat it in a <f>[15†]</f>holy place, because it is your due and your sons’ due, of the sacrifices made by fire to the LORD; for <f>[16†]</f>so I have been commanded.


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<f>[17†]</f>The breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering you shall eat in a clean place, you, your sons, and your <f>[18†]</f>daughters with you; for they are your due and your sons’ <f>[19†]</f>due, which are given from the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.


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<f>[20†]</f>The thigh of the heave offering and the breast of the wave offering they shall bring with the offerings of fat made by fire, to offer as a wave offering before the LORD. And it shall be yours and your sons’ with you, by a statute forever, as the LORD has commanded.”


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<pb/>Then Moses made careful inquiry about <f>[21†]</f>the goat of the sin offering, and there it was—burned up. And he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying,


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<f>[22†]</f>“Why have you not eaten the sin offering in a holy place, since it is most holy, and God has given it to you to bear <f>[23†]</f>the guilt of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?


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See! <f>[24†]</f>Its blood was not brought inside the holy place; indeed you should have eaten it in a holy place, <f>[25†]</f>as I commanded.”


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<pb/>And Aaron said to Moses, “Look, <f>[26†]</f>this day they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD, and such things have befallen me! If I had eaten the sin offering today, <f>[27†]</f>would it have been accepted in the sight of the LORD?”


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“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, <f>[1†]</f>‘These are the animals which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth:


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Among the animals, whatever divides the hoof, having cloven hooves and chewing the cud—that you may eat.


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Nevertheless these you shall <f>[2†]</f>not eat among those that chew the cud or those that have cloven hooves: the camel, because it chews the cud but does not have cloven hooves, is unclean to you;


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and the swine, though it divides the hoof, having cloven hooves, yet does not chew the cud, <f>[3†]</f>is unclean to you.


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Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch. <f>[4†]</f>They are unclean to you.


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<pb/> <f>[5†]</f>‘These you may eat of all that are in the water: whatever in the water has fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the rivers—that you may eat.


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But all in the seas or in the rivers that do not have fins and scales, all that move in the water or any living thing which is in the water, they are an <f>[6†]</f>abomination to you.


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They shall be an abomination to you; you shall not eat their flesh, but you shall regard their carcasses as an abomination.


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<pb/> <f>[7†]</f>‘And these you shall regard as an abomination among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard,


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Yet these you may eat of every flying insect that creeps on all fours: those which have jointed legs above their feet with which to leap on the earth.


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These you may eat: <f>[8†]</f>the locust after its kind, the destroying locust after its kind, the cricket after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind.


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<pb/>‘By these you shall become unclean; whoever touches the carcass of any of them shall be unclean until evening;


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whoever carries part of the carcass of any of them <f>[9†]</f>shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening:


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The carcass of any animal which divides the foot, but is not cloven-hoofed or does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches it shall be unclean.


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And whatever goes on its paws, among all kinds of animals that go on all fours, those are unclean to you. Whoever touches any such carcass shall be unclean until evening.


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Whoever carries any such carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. It is unclean to you.


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<pb/>‘These also shall be unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the mole, <f>[10†]</f>the mouse, and the large lizard after its kind;


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These are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever <f>[11†]</f>touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.


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Anything on which any of them falls, when they are dead shall be unclean, whether it is any item of wood or clothing or skin or sack, whatever item it is, in which any work is done, <f>[12†]</f>it must be put in water. And it shall be unclean until evening; then it shall be clean.


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Any <f>[13†]</f>earthen vessel into which any of them falls <f>[14†]</f>you shall break; and whatever is in it shall be unclean:


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in such a vessel, any edible food upon which water falls becomes unclean, and any drink that may be drunk from it becomes unclean.


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And everything on which a part of any such carcass falls shall be unclean; whether it is an oven or cooking stove, it shall be broken down; for they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.


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Nevertheless a spring or a cistern, in which there is plenty of water, shall be clean, but whatever touches any such carcass becomes unclean.


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But if water is put on the seed, and if a part of any such carcass falls on it, it becomes unclean to you.


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<pb/>‘And if any animal which you may eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be <f>[15†]</f>unclean until evening.


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<f>[16†]</f>He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening.


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<pb/>‘And every creeping thing that creeps on the earth shall be an abomination. It shall not be eaten.


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Whatever crawls on its belly, whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet among all creeping things that creep on the earth—these you shall not eat, for they are an abomination.


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<f>[17†]</f>You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps; nor shall you make yourselves unclean with them, lest you be defiled by them.


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For I am the LORD your <f>[18†]</f>God. You shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and <f>[19†]</f>you shall be holy; for I am holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves with any creeping thing that creeps on the earth.


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<f>[20†]</f>For I am the LORD who brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. <f>[21†]</f>You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.


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<pb/>‘This is the law of the animals and the birds and every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth,


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<f>[22†]</f>to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, and between the animal that may be eaten and the animal that may not be eaten.’ ”


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“Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘If a <f>[1†]</f>woman has conceived, and borne a male child, then <f>[2†]</f>she shall be unclean seven days; <f>[3†]</f>as in the days of her customary impurity she shall be unclean.


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She shall then continue in the blood of her purification thirty-three days. She shall not touch any hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary until the days of her purification are fulfilled.


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<pb/>‘But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her customary impurity, and she shall continue in the blood of her purification sixty-six days.


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<pb/> <f>[5†]</f>‘When the days of her purification are fulfilled, whether for a son or a daughter, she shall bring to the priest a <f>[6†]</f>lamb of the first year as a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove as a <f>[7†]</f>sin offering, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting.


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Then he shall offer it before the LORD, and make atonement for her. And she shall be clean from the flow of her blood. This is the law for her who has borne a male or a female.


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<pb/> <f>[8†]</f>‘And if she is not able to bring a lamb, then she may bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons—one as a burnt offering and the other as a sin offering. <f>[9†]</f>So the priest shall make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’ ”


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“When a man has on the skin of his body a swelling, <f>[1†]</f>a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes on the skin of his body like a leprous sore, <f>[2†]</f>then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests.


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The priest shall examine the sore on the skin of the body; and if the hair on the sore has turned white, and the sore appears to be deeper than the skin of his body, it is a leprous sore. Then the priest shall examine him, and pronounce him unclean.


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But if the bright spot is white on the skin of his body, and does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and its hair has not turned white, then the priest shall isolate the one who has the sore <f>[3†]</f>seven days.


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And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day; and indeed if the sore appears to be as it was, and the sore has not spread on the skin, then the priest shall isolate him another seven days.


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Then the priest shall examine him again on the seventh day; and indeed if the sore has faded, and the sore has not spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only a scab, and he <f>[4†]</f>shall wash his clothes and be clean.


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But if the scab should at all spread over the skin, after he has been seen by the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen by the priest again.


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And if the priest sees that the scab has indeed spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy.


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<f>[5†]</f>And the priest shall examine him; and indeed if the swelling on the skin is white, and it has turned the hair white, and there is a spot of raw flesh in the swelling,


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it is an old leprosy on the skin of his body. The priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not isolate him, for he is unclean.


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<pb/>“And if leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the one who has the sore, from his head to his foot, wherever the priest looks,


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then the priest shall consider; and indeed if the leprosy has covered all his body, he shall pronounce him clean who has the sore. It has all turned <f>[6†]</f>white. He is clean.


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And the priest shall examine the raw flesh and pronounce him to be unclean; for the raw flesh is unclean. It is leprosy.


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And the priest shall examine him; and indeed if the sore has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean who has the sore. He is clean.


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and in the place of the boil there comes a white swelling or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be shown to the priest;


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and if, when the priest sees it, it indeed appears deeper than the skin, and its hair has turned white, the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a leprous sore which has broken out of the boil.


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But if the priest examines it, and indeed there are no white hairs in it, and it is not deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall isolate him seven days;


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and if it should at all spread over the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a leprous sore.


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But if the bright spot stays in one place, and has not spread, it is the scar of the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.


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<pb/>“Or if the body receives a <f>[8†]</f>burn on its skin by fire, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white or white,


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then the priest shall examine it; and indeed if the hair of the bright spot has turned white, and it appears deeper than the skin, it is leprosy broken out in the burn. Therefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a leprous sore.


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But if the priest examines it, and indeed there are no white hairs in the bright spot, and it is not deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall isolate him seven days.


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And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day. If it has at all spread over the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a leprous sore.


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But if the bright spot stays in one place, and has not spread on the skin, but has faded, it is a swelling from the burn. The priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is the scar from the burn.


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then the priest shall examine the sore; and indeed if it appears deeper than the skin, and there is in it thin yellow hair, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a scaly leprosy of the head or beard.


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But if the priest examines the scaly sore, and indeed it does not appear deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall isolate the one who has the scale seven days.


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And on the seventh day the priest shall examine the sore; and indeed if the scale has not spread, and there is no yellow hair in it, and the scale does not appear deeper than the skin,


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he shall shave himself, but the scale he shall not shave. And the priest shall isolate the one who has the scale another seven days.


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On the seventh day the priest shall examine the scale; and indeed if the scale has not spread over the skin, and does not appear deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall wash his clothes and be clean.


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then the priest shall examine him; and indeed if the scale has spread over the skin, the priest need not seek for yellow hair. He is unclean.


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But if the scale appears to be at a standstill, and there is black hair grown up in it, the scale has healed. He is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.


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<pb/>“If a man or a woman has bright spots on the skin of the body, specifically white bright spots,


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then the priest shall look; and indeed if the bright spots on the skin of the body are dull white, it is a white spot that grows on the skin. He is clean.


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And if there is on the bald head or bald <f>[9†]</f>forehead a reddish-white sore, it is leprosy breaking out on his bald head or his bald forehead.


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Then the priest shall examine it; and indeed if the swelling of the sore is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, as the appearance of leprosy on the skin of the body,


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he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his sore is on his <f>[10†]</f>head.


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<pb/>“Now the leper on whom the sore is, his clothes shall be torn and his head <f>[11†]</f>bare; and he shall <f>[12†]</f>cover his mustache, and cry, <f>[13†]</f>‘Unclean! Unclean!’


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He shall be unclean. All the days he has the sore he shall be unclean. He is unclean, and he shall dwell alone; his dwelling shall be <f>[14†]</f>outside the camp.


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<pb/>“Also, if a garment has a leprous plague in it, whether it is a woolen garment or a linen garment,


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whether it is in the warp or woof of linen or wool, whether in leather or in anything made of leather,


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and if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment or in the leather, whether in the warp or in the woof, or in anything made of leather, it is a leprous plague and shall be shown to the priest.


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And he shall examine the plague on the seventh day. If the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, in the leather or in anything made of leather, the plague is an <f>[15†]</f>active leprosy. It is unclean.


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He shall therefore burn that garment in which is the plague, whether warp or woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of leather, for it is an active leprosy; the garment shall be burned in the fire.


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<pb/>“But if the priest examines it, and indeed the plague has not spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in anything made of leather,


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then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which is the plague; and he shall isolate it another seven days.


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Then the priest shall examine the plague after it has been washed; and indeed if the plague has not changed its color, though the plague has not spread, it is unclean, and you shall burn it in the fire; it continues eating away, whether the damage is outside or inside.


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If the priest examines it, and indeed the plague has faded after washing it, then he shall tear it out of the garment, whether out of the warp or out of the woof, or out of the leather.


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But if it appears again in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in anything made of leather, it is a spreading plague; you shall burn with fire that in which is the plague.


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And if you wash the garment, either warp or woof, or whatever is made of leather, if the plague has disappeared from it, then it shall be washed a second time, and shall be clean.


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<pb/>“This is the law of the leprous plague in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp or woof, or in anything made of leather, to pronounce it clean or to pronounce it unclean.”


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“This shall be the law of the leper for the day of his cleansing: He <f>[1†]</f>shall be brought to the priest.


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And the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall examine him; and indeed, if the leprosy is healed in the leper,


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then the priest shall command to take for him who is to be cleansed two living and clean birds, <f>[2†]</f>cedar wood, <f>[3†]</f>scarlet, and <f>[4†]</f>hyssop.


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And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water.


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As for the living bird, he shall take it, the cedar wood and the scarlet and the hyssop, and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water.


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And he shall <f>[5†]</f>sprinkle it <f>[6†]</f>seven times on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose in the open field.


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He who is to be cleansed <f>[7†]</f>shall wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and <f>[8†]</f>wash himself in water, that he may be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, and <f>[9†]</f>shall stay outside his tent seven days.


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But on the <f>[10†]</f>seventh day he shall shave all the hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows—all his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes and wash his body in water, and he shall be clean.


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<pb/>“And on the eighth day <f>[11†]</f>he shall take two male lambs without blemish, one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as <f>[12†]</f>a grain offering, and one log of oil.


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Then the priest who makes him clean shall present the man who is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.


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And the priest shall take one male lamb and <f>[13†]</f>offer it as a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and <f>[14†]</f>wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.


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Then he shall kill the lamb <f>[15†]</f>in the place where he kills the sin offering and the burnt offering, in a holy place; for <f>[16†]</f>as the sin offering is the priest’s, so is the trespass offering. <f>[17†]</f>It is most holy.


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The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it <f>[18†]</f>on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.


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Then the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall <f>[19†]</f>sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD.


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And of the rest of the oil in his hand, the priest shall put some on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the blood of the trespass offering.


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The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed. <f>[20†]</f>So the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD.


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<pb/>“Then the priest shall offer <f>[21†]</f>the sin offering, and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed from his uncleanness. Afterward he shall kill the burnt offering.


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And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. So the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be <f>[22†]</f>clean.


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<pb/>“But <f>[23†]</f>if he is poor and cannot afford it, then he shall take one male lamb as a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, a log of oil,


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<f>[24†]</f>and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford: one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.


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<f>[25†]</f>He shall bring them to the priest on the eighth day for his cleansing, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, before the LORD.


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<f>[26†]</f>And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering and the log of oil, <f>[27†]</f>and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.


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Then he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.


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Then the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD.


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And the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, on the thumb of the right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass offering.


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The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD.


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such as he is able to afford, the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, with the grain offering. So the priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before the LORD.


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<f>[30†]</f>“When you have come into the land of Canaan, which I give you as a possession, and <f>[31†]</f>I put the leprous plague in a house in the land of your possession,


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and he who owns the house comes and tells the priest, saying, ‘It seems to me that there is <f>[32†]</f>some plague in the house,’


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then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes into it to examine the plague, that all that is in the house may not be made unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to examine the house.


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And he shall examine the plague; and indeed if the plague is on the walls of the house with ingrained streaks, greenish or reddish, which appear to be deep in the wall,


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then the priest shall go out of the house, to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.


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And the priest shall come again on the seventh day and look; and indeed if the plague has spread on the walls of the house,


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then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which is the plague, and they shall cast them into an unclean place outside the city.


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And he shall cause the house to be scraped inside, all around, and the dust that they scrape off they shall pour out in an unclean place outside the city.


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Then they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he shall take other mortar and plaster the house.


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<pb/>“Now if the plague comes back and breaks out in the house, after he has taken away the stones, after he has scraped the house, and after it is plastered,


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then the priest shall come and look; and indeed if the plague has spread in the house, it is <f>[33†]</f>an active leprosy in the house. It is unclean.


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And he shall break down the house, its stones, its timber, and all the plaster of the house, and he shall carry them outside the city to an unclean place.


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Moreover he who goes into the house at all while it is shut up shall be unclean until <f>[34†]</f>evening.


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And he who lies down in the house shall <f>[35†]</f>wash his clothes, and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.


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<pb/>“But if the priest comes in and examines it, and indeed the plague has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.


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and he shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.


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And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and the running water and the living bird, with the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the scarlet.


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Then he shall let the living bird loose outside the city in the open field, and <f>[37†]</f>make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.


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“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: <f>[1†]</f>‘When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.


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And this shall be his uncleanness in regard to his discharge—whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body is stopped up by his discharge, it is his uncleanness.


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Every bed is unclean on which he who has the discharge lies, and everything on which he sits shall be unclean.


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And whoever <f>[2†]</f>touches his bed shall <f>[3†]</f>wash his clothes and <f>[4†]</f>bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.


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He who sits on anything on which he who has the <f>[5†]</f>discharge sat shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.


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And he who touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.


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If he who has the discharge <f>[6†]</f>spits on him who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.


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Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until evening. He who carries any of those things shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.


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And whomever the one who has the discharge touches, and has not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.


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The <f>[7†]</f>vessel of earth that he who has the discharge touches shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.


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<pb/>‘And when he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then <f>[8†]</f>he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing, wash his clothes, and bathe his body in running water; then he shall be clean.


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On the eighth day he shall take for himself <f>[9†]</f>two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and give them to the priest.


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Then the priest shall offer them, <f>[10†]</f>the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. <f>[11†]</f>So the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD because of his discharge.


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<pb/> <f>[12†]</f>‘If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall wash all his body in water, and be unclean until evening.


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And any garment and any leather on which there is semen, it shall be washed with water, and be unclean until evening.


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Also, when a woman lies with a man, and there is an emission of semen, they shall bathe in water, and <f>[13†]</f>be unclean until evening.


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<pb/> <f>[14†]</f>‘If a woman has a discharge, and the discharge from her body is blood, she shall be set apart seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening.


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Everything that she lies on during her impurity shall be unclean; also everything that she sits on shall be unclean.


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And whoever touches anything that she sat on shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.


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If anything is on her bed or on anything on which she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until evening.


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And <f>[15†]</f>if any man lies with her at all, so that her impurity is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.


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<pb/>‘If <f>[16†]</f>a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, other than at the time of her customary impurity, or if it runs beyond her usual time of impurity, all the days of her unclean discharge shall be as the days of her customary impurity. She shall be unclean.


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Every bed on which she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her impurity; and whatever she sits on shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her impurity.


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Whoever touches those things shall be unclean; he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.


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<pb/>‘But <f>[17†]</f>if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count for herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.


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


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Then the priest shall offer the one as a sin offering and the other as a <f>[18†]</f>burnt offering, and the priest shall make atonement for her before the LORD for the discharge of her uncleanness.


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<pb/>‘Thus you shall <f>[19†]</f>separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness when they <f>[20†]</f>defile My tabernacle that is among them.


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<f>[21†]</f>This is the law for one who has a discharge, <f>[22†]</f>and for him who emits semen and is unclean thereby,


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<f>[23†]</f>and for her who is indisposed because of her customary impurity, and for one who has a discharge, either man <f>[24†]</f>or woman, <f>[25†]</f>and for him who lies with her who is unclean.’ ”


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<pb/>Now the LORD spoke to Moses after <f>[1†]</f>the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered profane fire before the LORD, and died;


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and the LORD said to Moses: “Tell Aaron your brother <f>[2†]</f>not to come at just any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark, lest he die; for <f>[3†]</f>I will appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.


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<pb/>“Thus Aaron shall <f>[4†]</f>come into the Holy Place: <f>[5†]</f>with the blood of a young bull as a sin offering, and of a ram as a burnt offering.


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He shall put the <f>[6†]</f>holy linen tunic and the linen trousers on his body; <f>[7†]</f>he shall be girded with a linen sash, and with the linen turban he shall be attired. These are holy garments. Therefore he shall wash his body in water, and put them on.


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And he shall take from <f>[8†]</f>the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats as a sin offering, and one ram as a burnt offering.


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<pb/>“Aaron shall offer the bull as a sin offering, which is for himself, and <f>[9†]</f>make atonement for himself and for his house.


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He shall take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.


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Then Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats: one lot for the LORD and the other lot for the scapegoat.


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But the goat on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make <f>[10†]</f>atonement upon it, and to let it go as the scapegoat into the wilderness.


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<pb/>“And Aaron shall bring the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for <f>[11†]</f>himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull as the sin offering which is for himself.


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Then he shall take <f>[12†]</f>a censer full of burning coals of fire from the altar before the LORD, with his hands full of <f>[13†]</f>sweet incense beaten fine, and bring it inside the veil.


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<f>[14†]</f>And he shall put the incense on the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of incense may cover the <f>[15†]</f>mercy seat that is on the Testimony, lest he <f>[16†]</f>die.


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<f>[17†]</f>He shall take some of the blood of the bull and <f>[18†]</f>sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east side; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.


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<pb/> <f>[19†]</f>“Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering, which is for the people, bring its blood <f>[20†]</f>inside the veil, do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat.


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So he shall <f>[21†]</f>make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions, for all their sins; and so he shall do for the tabernacle of meeting which remains among them in the midst of their uncleanness.


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There shall be <f>[22†]</f>no man in the tabernacle of meeting when he goes in to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes out, that he may make atonement for himself, for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel.


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And he shall go out to the altar that is before the LORD, and make atonement for <f>[23†]</f>it, and shall take some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and put it on the horns of the altar all around.


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Then he shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, cleanse it, and <f>[24†]</f>consecrate it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.


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<pb/>“And when he has made an end of atoning for the Holy Place, the tabernacle of meeting, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat.


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Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, <f>[25†]</f>confess over it all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, concerning all their sins, <f>[26†]</f>putting them on the head of the goat, and shall send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a suitable man.


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The goat shall <f>[27†]</f>bear on itself all their iniquities to an uninhabited land; and he shall <f>[28†]</f>release the goat in the wilderness.


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<pb/>“Then Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of meeting, <f>[29†]</f>shall take off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the Holy Place, and shall leave them there.


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And he shall wash his body with water in a holy place, put on his garments, come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people.


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And he who released the goat as the scapegoat shall wash his clothes <f>[31†]</f>and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.


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<f>[32†]</f>The bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried outside the camp. And they shall burn in the fire their skins, their flesh, and their offal.


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


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<pb/>“This shall be a statute forever for you: <f>[33†]</f>In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether a native of your own country or a stranger who dwells among you.


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For on that day the priest shall make atonement for you, to <f>[34†]</f>cleanse you, that you may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.


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<f>[35†]</f>It is a sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever.


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<f>[36†]</f>And the priest, who is anointed and <f>[37†]</f>consecrated to minister as priest in his father’s place, shall make atonement, and put on the linen clothes, the holy garments;


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then he shall make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary, and he shall make atonement for the tabernacle of meeting and for the altar, and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.


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<f>[38†]</f>This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel, for all their sins, <f>[39†]</f>once a year.” And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.


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“Speak to Aaron, to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘This is the thing which the LORD has commanded, saying:


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“Whatever man of the house of Israel who <f>[1†]</f>kills an ox or lamb or goat in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp,


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and does not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of meeting to offer an offering to the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD, the guilt of bloodshed shall be <f>[2†]</f>imputed to that man. He has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people,


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to the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices <f>[3†]</f>which they offer in the open field, that they may bring them to the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of meeting, to the priest, and offer them as peace offerings to the LORD.


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And the priest <f>[4†]</f>shall sprinkle the blood on the altar of the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and <f>[5†]</f>burn the fat for a sweet aroma to the LORD.


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They shall no more offer their sacrifices <f>[6†]</f>to demons, after whom they <f>[7†]</f>have played the harlot. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.” ’


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<pb/>“Also you shall say to them: ‘Whatever man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell among you, <f>[8†]</f>who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,


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and does not <f>[9†]</f>bring it to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, to offer it to the LORD, that man shall be cut off from among his people.


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<pb/> <f>[10†]</f>‘And whatever man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell among you, who eats any blood, <f>[11†]</f>I will set My face against that person who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.


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For the <f>[12†]</f>life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar <f>[13†]</f>to make atonement for your souls; for <f>[14†]</f>it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.’


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Therefore I said to the children of Israel, ‘No one among you shall eat blood, nor shall any stranger who dwells among you eat blood.’


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<pb/>“Whatever man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell among you, who <f>[15†]</f>hunts and catches any animal or bird that may be eaten, he shall <f>[16†]</f>pour out its blood and <f>[17†]</f>cover it with dust;


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<f>[18†]</f>for it is the life of all flesh. Its blood sustains its life. Therefore I said to the children of Israel, ‘You shall not eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.’


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<pb/> <f>[19†]</f>“And every person who eats what died naturally or what was torn by beasts, whether he is a native of your own country or a stranger, <f>[20†]</f>he shall both wash his clothes and <f>[21†]</f>bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. Then he shall be clean.


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<f>[2†]</f>According to the doings of the land of Egypt, where you dwelt, you shall not do; and <f>[3†]</f>according to the doings of the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you, you shall not do; nor shall you walk in their ordinances.


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<f>[4†]</f>You shall observe My judgments and keep My ordinances, to walk in them: I am the LORD your God.


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You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, which if a man does, he shall live by them: I am the LORD.


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<pb/>‘None of you shall approach anyone who is near of kin to him, to uncover his nakedness: I am the LORD.


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The nakedness of your father or the nakedness of your mother you shall not uncover. She is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness.


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The nakedness of your <f>[5†]</f>father’s wife you shall not uncover; it is your father’s nakedness.


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<f>[6†]</f>The nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home or elsewhere, their nakedness you shall not uncover.


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The nakedness of your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, their nakedness you shall not uncover; for theirs is your own nakedness.


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The nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, begotten by your father—she is your sister—you shall not uncover her nakedness.


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<f>[7†]</f>You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is near of kin to your father.


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<f>[8†]</f>You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother. You shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.


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


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You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her <f>[9†]</f>daughter, nor shall you take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness. They are near of kin to her. It is wickedness.


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Nor shall you take a woman <f>[10†]</f>as a rival to her sister, to uncover her nakedness while the other is alive.


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<pb/>‘Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness as <f>[11†]</f>long as she is in her <f>[12†]</f>customary impurity.


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<f>[13†]</f>Moreover you shall not lie carnally with your <f>[14†]</f>neighbor’s wife, to defile yourself with her.


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And you shall not let any of your descendants <f>[15†]</f>pass through <f>[16†]</f>the fire to <f>[17†]</f>Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.


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Nor shall you mate with any <f>[19†]</f>animal, to defile yourself with it. Nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it. It is perversion.


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<pb/> <f>[20†]</f>‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; <f>[21†]</f>for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you.


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For <f>[22†]</f>the land is defiled; therefore I <f>[23†]</f>visit the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land <f>[24†]</f>vomits out its inhabitants.


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<f>[25†]</f>You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations, either any of your own nation or any stranger who dwells among you


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(for all these abominations the men of the land have done, who were before you, and thus the land is defiled),


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lest <f>[26†]</f>the land vomit you out also when you defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you.


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For whoever commits any of these abominations, the persons who commit them shall be cut off from among their people.


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<pb/>‘Therefore you shall keep My ordinance, so <f>[27†]</f>that you do not commit any of these abominable customs which were committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves by them: <f>[28†]</f>I am the LORD your God.’ ”


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“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them: <f>[1†]</f>‘You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.


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<pb/> <f>[2†]</f>‘Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and <f>[3†]</f>keep My Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.


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<pb/> <f>[4†]</f>‘Do not turn to idols, <f>[5†]</f>nor make for yourselves molded gods: I am the LORD your God.


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<pb/>‘And <f>[6†]</f>if you offer a sacrifice of a peace offering to the LORD, you shall offer it of your own free will.


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It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, and on the next day. And if any remains until the third day, it shall be burned in the fire.


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Therefore everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the hallowed offering of the LORD; and that person shall be cut off from his people.


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<pb/> <f>[7†]</f>‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.


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And you shall not glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather every grape of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger: I am the LORD your God.


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And you shall not <f>[10†]</f>swear by My name falsely, <f>[11†]</f>nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.


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<pb/> <f>[12†]</f>‘You shall not cheat your neighbor, nor rob him. <f>[13†]</f>The wages of him who is hired shall not remain with you all night until morning.


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You shall not curse the deaf, <f>[14†]</f>nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but shall fear your God: I am the LORD.


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<pb/>‘You shall do no injustice in <f>[15†]</f>judgment. You shall not <f>[16†]</f>be partial to the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty. In righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.


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You shall not go about as a <f>[17†]</f>talebearer among your people; nor shall you <f>[18†]</f>take a stand against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD.


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<pb/> <f>[19†]</f>‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. <f>[20†]</f>You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.


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<f>[21†]</f>You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, <f>[22†]</f>but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.


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<pb/>‘You shall keep My statutes. You shall not let your livestock breed with another kind. You shall not sow your field with mixed seed. Nor shall a garment of mixed linen and wool come upon you.


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<pb/>‘Whoever lies carnally with a woman who is <f>[23†]</f>betrothed to a man as a concubine, and who has not at all been redeemed nor given her freedom, for this there shall be scourging; but they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.


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And he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, a ram as a trespass offering.


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The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he has committed. And the sin which he has committed shall be forgiven him.


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<pb/>‘When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as uncircumcised. Three years it shall be as uncircumcised to you. It shall not be eaten.


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And in the fifth year you may eat its fruit, that it may yield to you its increase: I am the LORD your God.


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You shall not <f>[24†]</f>make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the LORD.


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<pb/> <f>[25†]</f>‘Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry, and the land become full of wickedness.


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<pb/>‘Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after <f>[27†]</f>them, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.


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<pb/> <f>[28†]</f>‘You shall rise before the gray headed and honor the presence of an old man, and <f>[29†]</f>fear your God: I am the LORD.


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<f>[31†]</f>The stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as one born among you, and <f>[32†]</f>you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.


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You shall have <f>[33†]</f>honest scales, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.


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<pb/> <f>[34†]</f>‘Therefore you shall observe all My statutes and all My judgments, and perform them: I am the LORD.’ ”


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<f>[1†]</f>“Again, you shall say to the children of Israel: <f>[2†]</f>‘Whoever of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell in Israel, who gives any of his descendants to Molech, he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall <f>[3†]</f>stone him with stones.


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<f>[4†]</f>I will set My face against that man, and will cut him off from his people, because he has given some of his descendants to Molech, to defile My sanctuary and profane My holy name.


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And if the people of the land should in any way hide their eyes from the man, when he gives some of his descendants to Molech, and they do not kill him,


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then I will set My face against that man and against his family; and I will cut him off from his people, and all who prostitute themselves with him to commit harlotry with Molech.


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<pb/>‘And <f>[5†]</f>the person who turns to mediums and familiar spirits, to prostitute himself with them, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.


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And you shall keep <f>[7†]</f>My statutes, and perform them: <f>[8†]</f>I am the LORD who sanctifies you.


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<pb/>‘For <f>[9†]</f>everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. <f>[10†]</f>His blood shall be upon him.


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<pb/> <f>[11†]</f>‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress, shall surely be put to death.


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The man who lies with his <f>[12†]</f>father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.


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If a man lies with his <f>[13†]</f>daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death. They have committed perversion. Their blood shall be upon them.


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<f>[14†]</f>If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.


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If a man marries a woman and her <f>[15†]</f>mother, it is wickedness. They shall be burned with fire, both he and they, that there may be no wickedness among you.


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If a man mates with an <f>[16†]</f>animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal.


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If a woman approaches any animal and mates with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood is upon them.


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<pb/>‘If a man takes his <f>[17†]</f>sister, his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter, and sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a wicked thing. And they shall be cut off in the sight of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness. He shall bear his guilt.


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<f>[18†]</f>If a man lies with a woman during her sickness and uncovers her nakedness, he has exposed her flow, and she has uncovered the flow of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from their people.


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<pb/>‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your <f>[19†]</f>mother’s sister nor of your <f>[20†]</f>father’s sister, for that would uncover his near of kin. They shall bear their guilt.


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If a man lies with his <f>[21†]</f>uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness. They shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.


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If a man takes his <f>[22†]</f>brother’s wife, it is an unclean thing. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They shall be childless.


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<pb/>‘You shall therefore keep all My <f>[23†]</f>statutes and all My judgments, and perform them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell <f>[24†]</f>may not vomit you out.


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<f>[25†]</f>And you shall not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they commit all these things, and <f>[26†]</f>therefore I abhor them.


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But <f>[27†]</f>I have said to you, “You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am the LORD your God, <f>[28†]</f>who has separated you from the peoples.


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<f>[29†]</f>You shall therefore distinguish between clean animals and unclean, between unclean birds and clean, <f>[30†]</f>and you shall not make yourselves abominable by beast or by bird, or by any kind of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.


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And you shall be holy to Me, <f>[31†]</f>for I the LORD am holy, and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be Mine.


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<pb/> <f>[32†]</f>‘A man or a woman who is a medium, or who has familiar spirits, shall surely be put to death; they shall stone them with stones. Their blood shall be upon them.’ ”


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<pb/>And the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: <f>[1†]</f>‘None shall defile himself for the dead among his people,


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except for his relatives who are nearest to him: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, and his brother;


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<pb/> <f>[2†]</f>‘They shall not make any bald place on their heads, nor shall they shave the edges of their beards nor make any cuttings in their flesh.


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They shall be <f>[3†]</f>holy to their God and not profane the name of their God, for they offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the <f>[4†]</f>bread of their God; <f>[5†]</f>therefore they shall be holy.


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<f>[6†]</f>They shall not take a wife who is a harlot or a defiled woman, nor shall they take a woman <f>[7†]</f>divorced from her husband; for the priest is holy to his God.


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Therefore you shall consecrate him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for <f>[8†]</f>I the LORD, who <f>[9†]</f>sanctify you, am holy.


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The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the harlot, she profanes her father. She shall be <f>[10†]</f>burned with fire.


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<pb/>‘He who is the high priest among his brethren, on whose head the anointing oil was <f>[11†]</f>poured and who is consecrated to wear the garments, shall not <f>[12†]</f>uncover his head nor tear his clothes;


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<f>[14†]</f>nor shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the <f>[15†]</f>consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.


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A widow or a divorced woman or a defiled woman or a harlot—these he shall not marry; but he shall take a virgin of his own people as wife.


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“Speak to Aaron, saying: ‘No man of your descendants in succeeding generations, who has any defect, may approach to offer the bread of his God.


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For any man who has a <f>[16†]</f>defect shall not approach: a man blind or lame, who has a marred face or any limb <f>[17†]</f>too long,


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or is a hunchback or a dwarf, or a man who has a defect in his eye, or eczema or scab, or is a eunuch.


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No man of the descendants of Aaron the priest, who has a defect, shall come near to offer the offerings made by fire to the LORD. He has a defect; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.


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only he shall not go near the <f>[18†]</f>veil or approach the altar, because he has a defect, lest <f>[19†]</f>he profane My sanctuaries; for I the LORD sanctify them.’ ”


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“Speak to Aaron and his sons, that they <f>[1†]</f>separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they <f>[2†]</f>do not profane My holy name by what they <f>[3†]</f>dedicate to Me: I am the LORD.


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Say to them: ‘Whoever of all your descendants throughout your generations, who goes near the holy things which the children of Israel dedicate to the LORD, <f>[4†]</f>while he has uncleanness upon him, that person shall be cut off from My presence: I am the LORD.


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<pb/>‘Whatever man of the descendants of Aaron, who is a <f>[5†]</f>leper or has <f>[6†]</f>a discharge, shall not eat the holy offerings <f>[7†]</f>until he is clean. And <f>[8†]</f>whoever touches anything made unclean by a corpse, or <f>[9†]</f>a man who has had an emission of semen,


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or <f>[10†]</f>whoever touches any creeping thing by which he would be made unclean, or <f>[11†]</f>any person by whom he would become unclean, whatever his uncleanness may be—


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the person who has touched any such thing shall be unclean until evening, and shall not eat the holy offerings unless he <f>[12†]</f>washes his body with water.


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And when the sun goes down he shall be clean; and afterward he may eat the holy offerings, because <f>[13†]</f>it is his food.


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<f>[14†]</f>Whatever dies naturally or is torn by beasts he shall not eat, to defile himself with it: I am the LORD.


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<pb/>‘They shall therefore keep <f>[15†]</f>My ordinance, <f>[16†]</f>lest they bear sin for it and die thereby, if they profane it: I the LORD sanctify them.


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<pb/> <f>[17†]</f>‘No outsider shall eat the holy offering; one who dwells with the priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat the holy thing.


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But if the priest <f>[18†]</f>buys a person with his money, he may eat it; and one who is born in his house may eat his food.


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But if the priest’s daughter is a widow or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father’s house as in her youth, she may eat her father’s food; but no outsider shall eat it.


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<pb/>‘And if a man eats the <f>[19†]</f>holy offering unintentionally, then he shall restore a holy offering to the priest, and add one-fifth to it.


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or allow them to bear the guilt of trespass when they eat their holy offerings; for I the LORD sanctify them.’ ”


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“Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them: <f>[20†]</f>‘Whatever man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, who offers his sacrifice for any of his vows or for any of his freewill offerings, which they offer to the LORD as a burnt offering—


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<f>[21†]</f>you shall offer of your own free will a male without blemish from the cattle, from the sheep, or from the goats.


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<f>[22†]</f>Whatever has a defect, you shall not offer, for it shall not be acceptable on your behalf.


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And <f>[23†]</f>whoever offers a sacrifice of a peace offering to the LORD, <f>[24†]</f>to fulfill his vow, or a freewill offering from the cattle or the sheep, it must be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no defect in it.


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<f>[25†]</f>Those that are blind or broken or maimed, or have an ulcer or eczema or scabs, you shall not offer to the LORD, nor make <f>[26†]</f>an offering by fire of them on the altar to the LORD.


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Either a bull or a lamb that has any limb <f>[27†]</f>too long or too short you may offer as a freewill offering, but for a vow it shall not be accepted.


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<pb/>‘You shall not offer to the LORD what is bruised or crushed, or torn or cut; nor shall you make any offering of them in your land.


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Nor <f>[28†]</f>from a foreigner’s hand shall you offer any of these as <f>[29†]</f>the bread of your God, because their <f>[30†]</f>corruption is in them, and defects are in them. They shall not be accepted on your behalf.’ ”


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<f>[31†]</f>“When a bull or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall be seven days with its mother; and from the eighth day and thereafter it shall be accepted as an offering made by fire to the LORD.


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And when you <f>[33†]</f>offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the LORD, offer it of your own free will.


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On the same day it shall be eaten; you shall leave <f>[34†]</f>none of it until morning: I am the LORD.


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<f>[36†]</f>You shall not profane My holy name, but <f>[37†]</f>I will be hallowed among the children of Israel. I am the LORD who <f>[38†]</f>sanctifies you,


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“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘The feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be <f>[1†]</f>holy convocations, these are My feasts.


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<pb/> <f>[2†]</f>‘Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work on it; it is the Sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.


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<pb/> <f>[3†]</f>‘These are the feasts of the LORD, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed times.


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And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; seven days you must eat unleavened bread.


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<f>[5†]</f>On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it.


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But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD for seven days. The seventh day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it.’ ”


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“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: <f>[6†]</f>‘When you come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of <f>[7†]</f>the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.


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He shall <f>[8†]</f>wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted on your behalf; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.


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And you shall offer on that day, when you wave the sheaf, a male lamb of the first year, without blemish, as a burnt offering to the LORD.


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Its grain offering shall be two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the LORD, for a sweet aroma; and its drink offering shall be of wine, one-fourth of a hin.


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You shall eat neither bread nor parched grain nor fresh grain until the same day that you have brought an offering to your God; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.


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<pb/>‘And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed.


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Count <f>[9†]</f>fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer <f>[10†]</f>a new grain offering to the LORD.


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You shall bring from your dwellings two wave loaves of two-tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven. They are <f>[11†]</f>the firstfruits to the LORD.


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And you shall offer with the bread seven lambs of the first year, without blemish, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be as a burnt offering to the LORD, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering made by fire for a sweet aroma to the LORD.


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Then you shall sacrifice <f>[12†]</f>one kid of the goats as a sin offering, and two male lambs of the first year as a sacrifice of a <f>[13†]</f>peace offering.


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The priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs. <f>[14†]</f>They shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.


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And you shall proclaim on the same day that it is a holy convocation to you. You shall do no customary work on it. It shall be a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.


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<pb/> <f>[15†]</f>‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field when you reap, nor shall you gather any gleaning from your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the stranger: I am the LORD your God.’ ”


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“Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘In the <f>[16†]</f>seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath-rest, <f>[17†]</f>a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.


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<f>[18†]</f>“Also the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement. It shall be a holy convocation for you; you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.


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And you shall do no work on that same day, for it is the Day of Atonement, <f>[19†]</f>to make atonement for you before the LORD your God.


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For any person who is not <f>[20†]</f>afflicted in soul on that same day <f>[21†]</f>shall be cut off from his people.


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And any person who does any work on that same day, <f>[22†]</f>that person I will destroy from among his people.


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You shall do no manner of work; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.


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It shall be to you a sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict your souls; on the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall celebrate your sabbath.”


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“Speak to the children of Israel, saying: <f>[23†]</f>‘The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the LORD.


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For seven days you shall offer an <f>[24†]</f>offering made by fire to the LORD. <f>[25†]</f>On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a <f>[26†]</f>sacred assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it.


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<pb/> <f>[27†]</f>‘These are the feasts of the LORD which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering and a grain offering, a sacrifice and drink offerings, everything on its day—


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<f>[28†]</f>besides the Sabbaths of the LORD, besides your gifts, besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings which you give to the LORD.


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<pb/>‘Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have <f>[29†]</f>gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the LORD for seven days; on the first day there shall be a sabbath-rest, and on the eighth day a sabbath-rest.


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And <f>[30†]</f>you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; <f>[31†]</f>and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.


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<f>[32†]</f>You shall keep it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month.


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<f>[33†]</f>You shall dwell in booths for seven days. <f>[34†]</f>All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths,


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<f>[35†]</f>that your generations may <f>[36†]</f>know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when <f>[37†]</f>I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.’ ”


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<f>[1†]</f>“Command the children of Israel that they bring to you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to make the lamps burn continually.


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Outside the veil of the Testimony, in the tabernacle of meeting, Aaron shall be in charge of it from evening until morning before the LORD continually; it shall be a statute forever in your generations.


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He shall be in charge of the lamps on <f>[2†]</f>the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.


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<pb/>“And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve <f>[3†]</f>cakes with it. Two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.


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And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be on the bread for a <f>[5†]</f>memorial, an offering made by fire to the LORD.


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<f>[6†]</f>Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.


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And <f>[7†]</f>it shall be for Aaron and his sons, <f>[8†]</f>and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the offerings of the LORD made by fire, by a perpetual statute.”


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<pb/>Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and this Israelite woman’s son and a man of Israel fought each other in the camp.


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And the Israelite woman’s son <f>[9†]</f>blasphemed the name of the LORD and <f>[10†]</f>cursed; and so they <f>[11†]</f>brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)


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Then they <f>[12†]</f>put him in custody, <f>[13†]</f>that the mind of the LORD might be shown to them.


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“Take outside the camp him who has cursed; then let all who heard him <f>[14†]</f>lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.


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<pb/>“Then you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘Whoever curses his God <f>[15†]</f>shall bear his sin.


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And whoever <f>[16†]</f>blasphemes the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him, the stranger as well as him who is born in the land. When he blasphemes the name of the LORD, he shall be put to death.


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<pb/>‘If a man causes disfigurement of his neighbor, as <f>[19†]</f>he has done, so shall it be done to him—


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fracture for <f>[20†]</f>fracture, <f>[21†]</f>eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has caused disfigurement of a man, so shall it be done to him.


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You shall have <f>[22†]</f>the same law for the stranger and for one from your own country; for I am the LORD your God.’ ”


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<pb/>Then Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they took outside the camp him who had cursed, and stoned him with stones. So the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.


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“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall <f>[2†]</f>keep a sabbath to the LORD.


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Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather its fruit;


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but in the <f>[3†]</f>seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn <f>[4†]</f>rest for the land, a sabbath to the LORD. You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard.


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<f>[5†]</f>What grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine, for it is a year of rest for the land.


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And the sabbath produce of the land shall be food for you: for you, your male and female servants, your hired man, and the stranger who dwells with you,


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<pb/>‘And you shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years.


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Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; <f>[6†]</f>on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land.


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And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and <f>[7†]</f>proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, <f>[8†]</f>and each of you shall return to his family.


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That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you; in it <f>[9†]</f>you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of its own accord, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine.


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For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you; <f>[10†]</f>you shall eat its produce from the field.


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And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor’s hand, you shall not <f>[12†]</f>oppress one another.


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<f>[13†]</f>According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the number of years of crops he shall sell to you.


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According to the multitude of years you shall increase its price, and according to the fewer number of years you shall diminish its price; for he sells to you according to the number of the years of the crops.


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Therefore <f>[14†]</f>you shall not oppress one another, <f>[15†]</f>but you shall fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.


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<pb/> <f>[16†]</f>‘So you shall observe My statutes and keep My judgments, and perform them; <f>[17†]</f>and you will dwell in the land in safety.


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Then the land will yield its fruit, and <f>[18†]</f>you will eat your fill, and dwell there in safety.


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<pb/>‘And if you say, <f>[19†]</f>“What shall we eat in the seventh year, since <f>[20†]</f>we shall not sow nor gather in our produce?”


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Then I will <f>[21†]</f>command My blessing on you in the <f>[22†]</f>sixth year, and it will bring forth produce enough for three years.


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<f>[23†]</f>And you shall sow in the eighth year, and eat <f>[24†]</f>old produce until the ninth year; until its produce comes in, you shall eat of the old harvest.


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<pb/>‘The land shall not be sold permanently, for <f>[25†]</f>the land is Mine; for you are <f>[26†]</f>strangers and sojourners with Me.


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<pb/> <f>[27†]</f>‘If one of your brethren becomes poor, and has sold some of his possession, and if <f>[28†]</f>his redeeming relative comes to redeem it, then he may redeem what his brother sold.


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then <f>[29†]</f>let him count the years since its sale, and restore the remainder to the man to whom he sold it, that he may return to his possession.


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But if he is not able to have it restored to himself, then what was sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the Year of Jubilee; <f>[30†]</f>and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his possession.


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<pb/>‘If a man sells a house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year he may redeem it.


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But if it is not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the Jubilee.


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However the houses of villages which have no wall around them shall be counted as the fields of the country. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.


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Nevertheless <f>[31†]</f>the cities of the Levites, and the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.


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And if a man purchases a house from the Levites, then the house that was sold in the city of his possession shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.


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But <f>[32†]</f>the field of the common-land of their cities may not be <f>[33†]</f>sold, for it is their perpetual possession.


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<pb/>‘If one of your brethren becomes poor, and falls into poverty among you, then you shall <f>[34†]</f>help him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you.


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<f>[35†]</f>Take no usury or interest from him; but <f>[36†]</f>fear your God, that your brother may live with you.


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<f>[37†]</f>I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.


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<pb/>‘And if one of your brethren who dwells by you becomes poor, and sells himself to you, you shall not compel him to serve as a slave.


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As a hired servant and a sojourner he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the Year of Jubilee.


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And then he shall depart from you—he and his children <f>[38†]</f>with him—and shall return to his own family. He shall return to the possession of his fathers.


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For they are <f>[39†]</f>My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.


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<f>[40†]</f>You shall not rule over him <f>[41†]</f>with rigor, but you <f>[42†]</f>shall fear your God.


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And as for your male and female slaves whom you may have—from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.


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Moreover you may buy <f>[43†]</f>the children of the strangers who dwell among you, and their families who are with you, which they beget in your land; and they shall become your property.


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And <f>[44†]</f>you may take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them as a possession; they shall be your permanent slaves. But regarding your brethren, the children of Israel, you shall not rule over one another with rigor.


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<pb/>‘Now if a sojourner or stranger close to you becomes rich, and one of your brethren who dwells by him becomes poor, and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner close to you, or to a member of the stranger’s family,


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or his uncle or his uncle’s son may redeem him; or anyone who is near of kin to him in his family may redeem him; or if he is able he may redeem himself.


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Thus he shall reckon with him who bought him: The price of his release shall be according to the number of years, from the year that he was sold to him until the Year of Jubilee; it shall be <f>[45†]</f>according to the time of a hired servant for him.


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If there are still many years remaining, according to them he shall repay the price of his redemption from the money with which he was bought.


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And if there remain but a few years until the Year of Jubilee, then he shall reckon with him, and according to his years he shall repay him the price of his redemption.


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He shall be with him as a yearly hired servant, and he shall not rule with rigor over him in your sight.


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And if he is not redeemed in these years, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee—he and his children with him.


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For the children of Israel are servants to Me; they are My servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.


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<pb/><t>‘You shall <f>[1†]</f>not make idols for yourselves; </t><t>neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar shall you rear up for yourselves; </t><t>nor shall you set up an engraved stone in your land, to bow down to it; </t><t>for I am the LORD your God.</t>


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<t> <f>[4†]</f>then I will give you rain in its season, <f>[5†]</f>the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.</t>


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<t> <f>[6†]</f>Your threshing shall last till the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last till the time of sowing; </t><t>you shall eat your bread to the full, and <f>[7†]</f>dwell in your land safely.</t>


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<t> <f>[8†]</f>I will give peace in the land, and <f>[9†]</f>you shall lie down, and none will make you afraid; </t><t>I will rid the land of <f>[10†]</f>evil beasts, </t><t>and <f>[11†]</f>the sword will not go through your land.</t>


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<t> <f>[12†]</f>Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; </t><t>your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.</t>


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<t>‘For I will <f>[13†]</f>look on you favorably and <f>[14†]</f>make you fruitful, multiply you and confirm My <f>[15†]</f>covenant with you.</t>


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<t>I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; </t><t>I have broken the bands of your <f>[19†]</f>yoke and made you walk upright.</t>


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<t>and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant,</t>


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<t>I also will do this to you: </t><t>I will even appoint terror over you, <f>[20†]</f>wasting disease and fever which shall <f>[21†]</f>consume the eyes and <f>[22†]</f>cause sorrow of heart. </t><t>And <f>[23†]</f>you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.</t>


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<t>I will set <f>[24†]</f>My face against you, and <f>[25†]</f>you shall be defeated by your enemies. </t><t> <f>[26†]</f>Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall <f>[27†]</f>flee when no one pursues you.</t>


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<t>‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you <f>[28†]</f>seven times more for your sins.</t>


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<t>I will <f>[29†]</f>break the pride of your power; </t><t>I <f>[30†]</f>will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.</t>


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<t>And your <f>[31†]</f>strength shall be spent in vain; </t><t>for your <f>[32†]</f>land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.</t>


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<t>‘Then, if you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to obey Me, I will bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins.</t>


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<t> <f>[33†]</f>I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; </t><t>and <f>[34†]</f>your highways shall be desolate.</t>


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<t> <f>[36†]</f>then I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins.</t>


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<t>And <f>[37†]</f>I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; </t><t>when you are gathered together within your cities <f>[38†]</f>I will send pestilence among you; </t><t>and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.</t>


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<t> <f>[39†]</f>When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, <f>[40†]</f>and you shall eat and not be satisfied.</t>


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<t>then I also will walk contrary to you in fury; </t><t>and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.</t>


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<t> <f>[41†]</f>You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.</t>


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<t> <f>[42†]</f>I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols; </t><t>and My soul shall abhor you.</t>


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<t>I will lay your <f>[43†]</f>cities waste and <f>[44†]</f>bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not <f>[45†]</f>smell the fragrance of your sweet aromas.</t>


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<t> <f>[46†]</f>I will bring the land to desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.</t>


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<t> <f>[47†]</f>I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you; </t><t>your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.</t>


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<t> <f>[48†]</f>Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land; </t><t>then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.</t>


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<t>As long as it lies desolate it shall rest— </t><t>for the time it did not rest on your <f>[49†]</f>sabbaths when you dwelt in it.</t>


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<t>‘And as for those of you who are left, I will send <f>[50†]</f>faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; </t><t>the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee; </t><t>they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.</t>


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<t> <f>[51†]</f>They shall stumble over one another, as it were before a sword, when no one pursues; </t><t>and <f>[52†]</f>you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.</t>


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<t>You shall <f>[53†]</f>perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.</t>


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<t>And those of you who are left <f>[54†]</f>shall waste away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; </t><t>also in their <f>[55†]</f>fathers’ iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away.</t>


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<t>‘But <f>[56†]</f>if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,</t>


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<t>and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; </t><t>if their <f>[57†]</f>uncircumcised hearts are <f>[58†]</f>humbled, and they <f>[59†]</f>accept their guilt—</t>


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<t>then I will <f>[60†]</f>remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember; </t><t>I will <f>[61†]</f>remember the land.</t>


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<t> <f>[62†]</f>The land also shall be left empty by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; </t><t>they will accept their guilt, because they <f>[63†]</f>despised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes.</t>


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<t>Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, <f>[64†]</f>I will not cast them away, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them; </t><t>for I am the LORD their God.</t>


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<t>But <f>[65†]</f>for their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, <f>[66†]</f>whom I brought out of the land of Egypt <f>[67†]</f>in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: </t><t>I am the LORD.’ ”</t>


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<pb/> <f>[68†]</f>These are the statutes and judgments and laws which the LORD made between Himself and the children of Israel <f>[69†]</f>on Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.


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“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: <f>[1†]</f>‘When a man consecrates by a vow certain persons to the LORD, according to your valuation,


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if your valuation is of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, <f>[2†]</f>according to the shekel of the sanctuary.


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and if from five years old up to twenty years old, then your valuation for a male shall be twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels;


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and if from a month old up to five years old, then your valuation for a male shall be five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver;


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and if from sixty years old and above, if it is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.


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<pb/>‘But if he is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall set a value for <f>[3†]</f>him; according to the ability of him who vowed, the priest shall value him.


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<pb/>‘If it is an animal that men may bring as an offering to the LORD, all that anyone gives to the LORD shall be holy.


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He shall not substitute it or exchange it, good for bad or bad for good; and if he at all exchanges animal for animal, then both it and the one exchanged for it shall be <f>[4†]</f>holy.


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If it is an unclean animal which they do not offer as a sacrifice to the LORD, then he shall present the animal before the priest;


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and the priest shall set a value for it, whether it is good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so it shall be.


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<pb/>‘And when a man dedicates his house to be holy to the LORD, then the priest shall set a value for it, whether it is good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.


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If he who dedicated it wants to redeem his house, then he must add one-fifth of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall be his.


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<pb/>‘If a man dedicates to the LORD part of a field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. A homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.


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But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall <f>[6†]</f>reckon to him the money due according to the years that remain till the Year of Jubilee, and it shall be deducted from your valuation.


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And if he who dedicates the field ever wishes to redeem it, then he must add one-fifth of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall belong to him.


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But if he does not want to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore;


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but the field, <f>[7†]</f>when it is released in the Jubilee, shall be holy to the LORD, as a <f>[8†]</f>devoted field; it shall be <f>[9†]</f>the possession of the priest.


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<pb/>‘And if a man dedicates to the LORD a field which he has bought, which is not the field of <f>[10†]</f>his possession,


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then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation, up to the Year of Jubilee, and he shall give your valuation on that day as a holy offering to the LORD.


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<f>[11†]</f>In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to the one who owned the land as a possession.


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And all your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: <f>[12†]</f>twenty gerahs to the shekel.


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<pb/>‘But the <f>[13†]</f>firstborn of the animals, which should be the LORD’s firstborn, no man shall dedicate; whether it is an ox or sheep, it is the LORD’s.


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And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall redeem it according to your valuation, and <f>[14†]</f>shall add one-fifth to it; or if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.


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<pb/> <f>[15†]</f>‘Nevertheless no devoted offering that a man may devote to the LORD of all that he has, both man and beast, or the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted offering is most holy to the LORD.


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<f>[16†]</f>No person under the ban, who may become doomed to destruction among men, shall be redeemed, but shall surely be put to death.


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And <f>[17†]</f>all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD’s. It is holy to the LORD.


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And concerning the tithe of the herd or the flock, of whatever <f>[19†]</f>passes under the rod, the tenth one shall be holy to the LORD.


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He shall not inquire whether it is good or bad, <f>[20†]</f>nor shall he exchange it; and if he exchanges it at all, then both it and the one exchanged for it shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.’ ”


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<pb/> <f>[21†]</f>These are the commandments which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount <f>[22†]</f>Sinai.


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<pb/>Now the LORD spoke to Moses <f>[1†]</f>in the Wilderness of Sinai, <f>[2†]</f>in the tabernacle of meeting, on the <f>[3†]</f>first <i>day</i> of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying:


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<f>[4†]</f>“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male <f>[5†]</f>individually,


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from <f>[6†]</f>twenty years old and above—all who <i>are</i> <i>able</i> <i>to</i> go to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their armies.


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<pb/>“These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: from Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur;


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from the sons of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur;


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<f>[8†]</f>These <i>were</i> <f>[9†]</f>chosen from the congregation, leaders of their fathers’ tribes, <f>[10†]</f>heads of the divisions in Israel.


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and they assembled all the congregation together on the first <i>day</i> of the second month; and they recited their <f>[12†]</f>ancestry by families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, each one individually.


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<pb/>Now the <f>[13†]</f>children of Reuben, Israel’s oldest son, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, every male individually, from twenty years old and above, all who <i>were</i> <i>able</i> <i>to</i> go to war:


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<pb/>From the <f>[14†]</f>children of Simeon, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, of those who were numbered, according to the number of names, every male individually, from twenty years old and above, all who <i>were</i> <i>able</i> <i>to</i> go to war:


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<pb/>From the <f>[15†]</f>children of Gad, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who <i>were</i> <i>able</i> <i>to</i> go to war:


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<pb/>From the <f>[16†]</f>children of Judah, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who <i>were</i> <i>able</i> <i>to</i> go to war:


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those who were numbered of the tribe of Judah <i>were</i> <f>[17†]</f>seventy-four thousand six hundred.


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<pb/>From the <f>[18†]</f>children of Issachar, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who <i>were</i> <i>able</i> <i>to</i> go to war:


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<pb/>From the <f>[19†]</f>children of Zebulun, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who <i>were</i> <i>able</i> <i>to</i> go to war:


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<pb/>From the sons of Joseph, the <f>[20†]</f>children of Ephraim, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who <i>were</i> <i>able</i> <i>to</i> go to war:


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<pb/>From the <f>[21†]</f>children of Manasseh, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who <i>were</i> <i>able</i> <i>to</i> go to war:


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<pb/>From the <f>[22†]</f>children of Benjamin, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who <i>were</i> <i>able</i> <i>to</i> go to war:


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<pb/>From the <f>[23†]</f>children of Dan, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who <i>were</i> <i>able</i> <i>to</i> go to war:


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<pb/>From the <f>[24†]</f>children of Asher, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who <i>were</i> <i>able</i> <i>to</i> go to war:


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<pb/>From the children of Naphtali, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who <i>were</i> <i>able</i> <i>to</i> go to war:


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<pb/> <f>[25†]</f>These are the ones who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, with the leaders of Israel, twelve men, each one representing his father’s house.


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So all who were numbered of the children of Israel, by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and above, all who <i>were</i> <i>able</i> <i>to</i> go to war in Israel—


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<f>[28†]</f>“Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, nor take a census of them among the children of Israel;


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<f>[29†]</f>but you shall appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony, over all its furnishings, and over all things that belong to it; they shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; they shall attend to it <f>[30†]</f>and camp around the tabernacle.


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<f>[31†]</f>And when the tabernacle is to go forward, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it <f>[32†]</f>up. <f>[33†]</f>The outsider who comes near shall be put to death.


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The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, everyone by his own camp, <f>[34†]</f>everyone by his own standard, according to their armies;


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<f>[35†]</f>but the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no <f>[36†]</f>wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel; and the Levites shall <f>[37†]</f>keep charge of the tabernacle of the Testimony.”


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<f>[1†]</f>“Everyone of the children of Israel shall camp by his own standard, beside the emblems of his father’s house; they shall camp <f>[2†]</f>some distance from the tabernacle of meeting.


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On the <f>[3†]</f>east side, toward the rising of the sun, those of the standard of the forces with Judah shall camp according to their armies; and <f>[4†]</f>Nahshon the son of Amminadab <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> the leader of the children of Judah.”


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<pb/>“Those who camp next to him <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> the tribe of Issachar, and Nethanel the son of Zuar <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> the leader of the children of Issachar.”


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<pb/>“Then <i>comes</i> the tribe of Zebulun, and Eliab the son of Helon <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> the leader of the children of Zebulun.”


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“All who were numbered according to their armies of the forces with Judah, one hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred— <f>[5†]</f>these shall break camp first.


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<pb/>“On the <f>[6†]</f>south side <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> the standard of the forces with Reuben according to their armies, and the leader of the children of Reuben <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> Elizur the son of Shedeur.”


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<pb/>“Those who camp next to him <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> the tribe of Simeon, and the leader of the children of Simeon <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.”


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<pb/>“Then <i>comes</i> the tribe of Gad, and the leader of the children of Gad <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> Eliasaph the son of Reuel.”


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“All who were numbered according to their armies of the forces with Reuben, one hundred and fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifty— <f>[7†]</f>they shall be the second to break camp.


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<pb/> <f>[8†]</f>“And the tabernacle of meeting shall move out with the camp of the Levites <f>[9†]</f>in the middle of the camps; as they camp, so they shall move out, everyone in his place, by their standards.


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<pb/>“On the west side <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> the standard of the forces with Ephraim according to their armies, and the leader of the children of Ephraim <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> Elishama the son of Ammihud.”


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<pb/>“Next to him <i>comes</i> the tribe of Manasseh, and the leader of the children of Manasseh <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.”


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<pb/>“Then <i>comes</i> the tribe of Benjamin, and the leader of the children of Benjamin <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> Abidan the son of Gideoni.”


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“All who were numbered according to their armies of the forces with Ephraim, one hundred and eight thousand one hundred— <f>[10†]</f>they shall be the third to break camp.


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<pb/>“The standard of the forces with Dan <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> on the north side according to their armies, and the leader of the children of Dan <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.”


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<pb/>“Those who camp next to him <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> the tribe of Asher, and the leader of the children of Asher <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> Pagiel the son of Ocran.”


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<pb/>“Then <i>comes</i> the tribe of Naphtali, and the leader of the children of Naphtali <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> Ahira the son of Enan.”


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“All who were numbered of the forces with Dan, one hundred and fifty-seven thousand six hundred— <f>[11†]</f>they shall break camp last, with their standards.”


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<pb/>These <i>are</i> the ones who were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses. <f>[12†]</f>All who were numbered according to their armies of the forces <i>were</i> six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.


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But <f>[13†]</f>the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel, just as the LORD commanded Moses.


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<pb/>Thus the children of Israel <f>[14†]</f>did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses; <f>[15†]</f>so they camped by their standards and so they broke camp, each one by his family, according to their fathers’ houses.


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<pb/>Now these <i>are</i> the <f>[1†]</f>records of Aaron and Moses when the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.


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And these <i>are</i> the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab, the <f>[2†]</f>firstborn, and <f>[3†]</f>Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.


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These <i>are</i> the names of the sons of Aaron, <f>[4†]</f>the anointed priests, whom he consecrated to minister as priests.


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<f>[5†]</f>Nadab and Abihu had died before the LORD when they offered profane fire before the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai; and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar ministered as priests in the presence of Aaron their father.


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<f>[6†]</f>“Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may serve him.


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And they shall attend to his needs and the needs of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of meeting, to do <f>[7†]</f>the work of the tabernacle.


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Also they shall attend to all the furnishings of the tabernacle of meeting, and to the needs of the children of Israel, to do the work of the tabernacle.


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And <f>[8†]</f>you shall give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they <i>are</i> given entirely to him from among the children of Israel.


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So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, <f>[9†]</f>and they shall attend to their priesthood; <f>[10†]</f>but the outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”


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“Now behold, <f>[11†]</f>I Myself have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the children of Israel. Therefore the Levites shall be <f>[12†]</f>Mine,


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because <f>[13†]</f>all the firstborn <i>are</i> Mine. <f>[14†]</f>On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified to Myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast. They shall be Mine: I <i>am</i> the LORD.”


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“Number the children of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families; you shall number <f>[15†]</f>every male from a month old and above.”


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And these <i>are</i> the names of the sons of <f>[17†]</f>Gershon by their families: <f>[18†]</f>Libni and Shimei.


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And the sons of <f>[19†]</f>Kohath by their families: <f>[20†]</f>Amram, Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.


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<f>[21†]</f>And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These <i>are</i> the families of the Levites by their fathers’ houses.


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<pb/>From Gershon <i>came</i> the family of the Libnites and the family of the Shimites; these <i>were</i> the families of the Gershonites.


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Those who were numbered, according to the number of all the males from a month old and above—of those who were numbered <i>there</i> <i>were</i> seven thousand five hundred.


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<f>[23†]</f>The duties of the children of Gershon in the tabernacle of meeting <i>included</i> <f>[24†]</f>the tabernacle, <f>[25†]</f>the tent with <f>[26†]</f>its covering, the <f>[27†]</f>screen for the door of the tabernacle of meeting,


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<f>[28†]</f>the screen for the door of the court, <f>[29†]</f>the hangings of the court which <i>are</i> around the tabernacle and the altar, and <f>[30†]</f>their cords, according to all the work relating to them.


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<pb/> <f>[31†]</f>From Kohath <i>came</i> the family of the Amramites, the family of the Izharites, the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites; these <i>were</i> the families of the Kohathites.


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According to the number of all the males, from a month old and above, <i>there</i> <i>were</i> eight thousand six hundred keeping charge of the sanctuary.


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<f>[32†]</f>The families of the children of Kohath were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle.


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And the leader of the fathers’ house of the families of the Kohathites <i>was</i> Elizaphan the son of <f>[33†]</f>Uzziel.


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<f>[34†]</f>Their duty <i>included</i> <f>[35†]</f>the ark, <f>[36†]</f>the table, <f>[37†]</f>the lampstand, <f>[38†]</f>the altars, the utensils of the sanctuary with which they ministered, <f>[39†]</f>the screen, and all the work relating to them.


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<pb/>And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest <i>was</i> <i>to</i> <i>be</i> chief over the leaders of the Levites, <i>with</i> oversight of those who kept charge of the sanctuary.


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<pb/>From Merari <i>came</i> the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites; these <i>were</i> the families of Merari.


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And those who were numbered, according to the number of all the males from a month old and above, <i>were</i> six thousand two hundred.


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The leader of the fathers’ house of the families of Merari <i>was</i> Zuriel the son of Abihail. <f>[40†]</f>These <i>were</i> to camp on the north side of the tabernacle.


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And <f>[41†]</f>the appointed duty of the children of Merari <i>included</i> the boards of the tabernacle, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, its utensils, all the work relating to them,


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<pb/> <f>[42†]</f>Moreover those who were to camp before the tabernacle on the east, before the tabernacle of meeting, <i>were</i> Moses, Aaron, and his sons, <f>[43†]</f>keeping charge of the sanctuary, <f>[44†]</f>to meet the needs of the children of Israel; but <f>[45†]</f>the outsider who came near was to be put to death.


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<f>[46†]</f>All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, by their families, all the males from a month old and above, <i>were</i> twenty-two thousand.


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<pb/>Then the LORD said to Moses: <f>[47†]</f>“Number all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and above, and take the number of their names.


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<f>[48†]</f>And you shall take the Levites for Me—I <i>am</i> the LORD—instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the livestock of the children of Israel.”


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And all the firstborn males, according to the number of names from a month old and above, of those who were numbered of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.


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<f>[49†]</f>“Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock. The Levites shall be Mine: I <i>am</i> the LORD.


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And for <f>[50†]</f>the redemption of the two hundred and seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, <f>[51†]</f>who are more than the number of the Levites,


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you shall take <f>[52†]</f>five shekels for each one <f>[53†]</f>individually; you shall take <i>them</i> in the currency of the shekel of the sanctuary, <f>[54†]</f>the shekel of twenty gerahs.


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And you shall give the money, with which the excess number of them is redeemed, to Aaron and his sons.”


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<pb/>So Moses took the redemption money from those who were over and above those who were redeemed by the Levites.


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From the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, <f>[55†]</f>one thousand three hundred and sixty-five <i>shekels,</i> according to the shekel of the sanctuary.


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And Moses <f>[56†]</f>gave their redemption money to Aaron and his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.


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“Take a census of the sons of <f>[1†]</f>Kohath from among the children of Levi, by their families, by their fathers’ house,


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<f>[2†]</f>from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, all who enter the service to do the work in the tabernacle of meeting.


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<pb/> <f>[3†]</f>“This <i>is</i> the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of meeting, <i>relating</i> <i>to</i> <f>[4†]</f>the most holy things:


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When the camp prepares to journey, Aaron and his sons shall come, and they shall take down <f>[5†]</f>the covering veil and cover the <f>[6†]</f>ark of the Testimony with it.


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Then they shall put on it a covering of badger skins, and spread over <i>that</i> a cloth entirely of <f>[7†]</f>blue; and they shall insert <f>[8†]</f>its poles.


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<pb/>“On the <f>[9†]</f>table of showbread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the pans, the bowls, and the pitchers for pouring; and the <f>[10†]</f>showbread shall be on it.


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They shall spread over them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of badger skins; and they shall insert its poles.


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And they shall take a blue cloth and cover the <f>[11†]</f>lampstand of the light, <f>[12†]</f>with its lamps, its wick-trimmers, its trays, and all its oil vessels, with which they service it.


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Then they shall put it with all its utensils in a covering of badger skins, and put <i>it</i> on a carrying beam.


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<pb/>“Over <f>[13†]</f>the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of badger skins; and they shall insert its poles.


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Then they shall take all the <f>[14†]</f>utensils of service with which they minister in the sanctuary, put <i>them</i> in a blue cloth, cover them with a covering of badger skins, and put <i>them</i> on a carrying beam.


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They shall put on it all its implements with which they minister there—the firepans, the forks, the shovels, the basins, and all the utensils of the altar—and they shall spread on it a covering of badger skins, and insert its poles.


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And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, when the camp is set to go, then <f>[15†]</f>the sons of Kohath shall come to carry <i>them;</i> <f>[16†]</f>but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. <pb/>“ <f>[17†]</f>These <i>are</i> the things in the tabernacle of meeting which the sons of Kohath are to carry.


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<pb/>“The appointed duty of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest <i>is</i> <f>[18†]</f>the oil for the light, the <f>[19†]</f>sweet incense, <f>[20†]</f>the daily grain offering, the <f>[21†]</f>anointing oil, the oversight of all the tabernacle, of all that <i>is</i> in it, with the sanctuary and its furnishings.”


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but do this in regard to them, that they may live and not die when they approach <f>[22†]</f>the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint each of them to his service and his task.


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<f>[23†]</f>But they shall not go in to watch while the holy things are being covered, lest they die.” <f>[24†]</f>


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<f>[25†]</f>From thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, you shall number them, all who enter to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of meeting.


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<f>[27†]</f>They shall carry the <f>[28†]</f>curtains of the tabernacle and the tabernacle of meeting <i>with</i> its covering, the covering of <f>[29†]</f>badger skins that <i>is</i> on it, the screen for the door of the tabernacle of meeting,


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the screen for the door of the gate of the court, the hangings of the court which <i>are</i> around the tabernacle and altar, and their cords, all the furnishings for their service and all that is made for these things: so shall they serve.


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<pb/>“Aaron and his sons shall assign all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, all their tasks and all their service. And you shall appoint to them all their tasks as their duty.


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This <i>is</i> the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of meeting. And their duties <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> <f>[30†]</f>under the authority of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.


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<pb/>“<i>As</i> <i>for</i> the sons of <f>[31†]</f>Merari, you shall number them by their families and by their fathers’ house.


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<f>[32†]</f>From thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, you shall number them, everyone who enters the service to do the work of the tabernacle of meeting.


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And <f>[33†]</f>this <i>is</i> <f>[34†]</f>what they must carry as all their service for the tabernacle of meeting: <f>[35†]</f>the boards of the tabernacle, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,


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and the pillars around the court with their sockets, pegs, and cords, with all their furnishings and all their service; and you shall <f>[36†]</f>assign <i>to</i> <i>each</i> <i>man</i> by name the items he must carry.


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This <i>is</i> the service of the families of the sons of Merari, as all their service for the tabernacle of meeting, under the authority of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.”


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<pb/> <f>[37†]</f>And Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites by their families and by their fathers’ house,


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from thirty <f>[38†]</f>years old and above, even to fifty years old, everyone who entered the service for work in the tabernacle of meeting;


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These <i>were</i> the ones who were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all who might serve in the tabernacle of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.


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<pb/>And those who were numbered of the sons of Gershon, by their families and by their fathers’ house,


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from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, everyone who entered the service for work in the tabernacle of meeting—


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those who were numbered by their families, by their fathers’ house, were two thousand six hundred and thirty.


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<f>[39†]</f>These <i>are</i> the ones who were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all who might serve in the tabernacle of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD.


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<pb/>Those of the families of the sons of Merari who were numbered, by their families, by their fathers’ house,


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These <i>are</i> the ones who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered <f>[40†]</f>according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.


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<pb/>All who were <f>[41†]</f>numbered of the Levites, whom Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel numbered, by their families and by their fathers’ houses,


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<f>[42†]</f>from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, everyone who came to do the work of service and the work of bearing burdens in the tabernacle of meeting—


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<pb/>According to the commandment of the LORD they were numbered by the hand of Moses, <f>[43†]</f>each according to his service and according to his task; thus were they numbered by him, <f>[44†]</f>as the LORD commanded Moses.


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“Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every <f>[1†]</f>leper, everyone who has a <f>[2†]</f>discharge, and whoever becomes <f>[3†]</f>defiled by a corpse.


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You shall put out both male and female; you shall put them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camps <f>[4†]</f>in the midst of which I dwell.”


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And the children of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp; as the LORD spoke to Moses, so the children of Israel did.


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“Speak to the children of Israel: <f>[5†]</f>‘When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit in unfaithfulness against the LORD, and that person is guilty,


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<f>[6†]</f>then he shall confess the sin which he has committed. He shall make restitution for his trespass <f>[7†]</f>in full, plus one-fifth of it, and give <i>it</i> to the one he has wronged.


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But if the man has no relative to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution for the wrong <i>must</i> <i>go</i> to the LORD for the priest, in addition to <f>[8†]</f>the ram of the atonement with which atonement is made for him.


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Every <f>[9†]</f>offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring to the priest, shall be <f>[10†]</f>his.


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And every man’s holy things shall be <f>[11†]</f>his; whatever any man gives the priest shall be his.’ ”


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“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him,


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and a man <f>[12†]</f>lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and it is concealed that she has defiled herself, and <i>there</i> <i>was</i> no witness against her, nor was she <f>[13†]</f>caught—


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if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he becomes <f>[14†]</f>jealous of his wife, who has defiled herself; or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he becomes jealous of his wife, although she has not defiled herself—


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then the man shall bring his wife to the priest. He shall <f>[15†]</f>bring the offering required for her, one-tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil on it and put no frankincense on it, because it <i>is</i> a grain offering of jealousy, an offering for remembering, for <f>[16†]</f>bringing iniquity to remembrance.


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The priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put <i>it</i> into the water.


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Then the priest shall stand the woman before the LORD, uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering for remembering in her hands, which <i>is</i> the grain offering of jealousy. And the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that brings a curse.


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And the priest shall put her under oath, and say to the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone astray to uncleanness <i>while</i> under your husband’s <i>authority,</i> be free from this bitter water that brings a curse.


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But if you have gone astray <i>while</i> under your husband’s <i>authority,</i> and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has lain with you”—


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then the priest shall <f>[18†]</f>put the woman under the oath of the curse, and he shall say to the woman— <f>[19†]</f>“the LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD makes your thigh rot and your belly swell;


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and may this water that causes the curse <f>[20†]</f>go into your stomach, and make <i>your</i> belly swell and <i>your</i> thigh rot.” <pb/>‘ <f>[21†]</f>Then the woman shall say, “Amen, so be it.”


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<pb/>‘Then the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall scrape <i>them</i> off into the bitter water.


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And he shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter her <i>to</i> <i>become</i> bitter.


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<f>[22†]</f>Then the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman’s hand, shall <f>[23†]</f>wave the offering before the LORD, and bring it to the altar;


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and the priest shall take a handful of the offering, <f>[24†]</f>as its memorial portion, burn <i>it</i> on the altar, and afterward make the woman drink the water.


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When he has made her drink the water, then it shall be, if she has defiled herself and behaved unfaithfully toward her husband, that the water that brings a <f>[25†]</f>curse will enter her <i>and</i> <i>become</i> bitter, and her belly will swell, her thigh will rot, and the woman <f>[26†]</f>will become a curse among her people.


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But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she shall be free and may conceive children.


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<pb/>‘This <i>is</i> the law of jealousy, when a wife, <i>while</i> under her husband’s <i>authority,</i> <f>[27†]</f>goes astray and defiles herself,


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or when the spirit of jealousy comes upon a man, and he becomes jealous of his wife; then he shall stand the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute all this law upon her.


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“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When either a man or woman consecrates an offering to take the vow of a Nazirite, <f>[1†]</f>to separate himself to the LORD,


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<f>[2†]</f>he shall separate himself from wine and <i>similar</i> drink; he shall drink neither vinegar made from wine nor vinegar made from <i>similar</i> drink; neither shall he drink any grape juice, nor eat fresh grapes or raisins.


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All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, from seed to skin.


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<pb/>‘All the days of the vow of his separation no <f>[3†]</f>razor shall come upon his head; until the days are fulfilled for which he separated himself to the LORD, he shall be holy. <i>Then</i> he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.


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<f>[5†]</f>He shall not make himself unclean even for his father or his mother, for his brother or his sister, when they die, because his separation to God <i>is</i> on his head.


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<pb/>‘And if anyone dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles his consecrated head, then he shall <f>[7†]</f>shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it.


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Then <f>[8†]</f>on the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting;


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and the priest shall offer one as a sin offering and <i>the</i> other as a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned in regard to the corpse; and he shall sanctify his head that same day.


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He shall consecrate to the LORD the days of his separation, and bring a male lamb in its first year <f>[9†]</f>as a trespass offering; but the former days shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.


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<pb/>‘Now this <i>is</i> the law of the Nazirite: <f>[10†]</f>When the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the tabernacle of meeting.


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And he shall present his offering to the LORD: one male lamb in its first year without blemish as a burnt offering, one ewe lamb in its first year without blemish <f>[11†]</f>as a sin offering, one ram without blemish <f>[12†]</f>as a peace offering,


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a basket of unleavened bread, <f>[13†]</f>cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, unleavened wafers <f>[14†]</f>anointed with oil, and their grain offering with their <f>[15†]</f>drink offerings.


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<pb/>Then the priest shall bring <i>them</i> before the LORD and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering;


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and he shall offer the ram as a sacrifice of a peace offering to the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread; the priest shall also offer its grain offering and its drink offering.


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<f>[16†]</f>Then the Nazirite shall shave his consecrated head <i>at</i> the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and shall take the hair from his consecrated head and put <i>it</i> on the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offering.


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<pb/>‘And the priest shall take the <f>[17†]</f>boiled shoulder of the ram, one <f>[18†]</f>unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and <f>[19†]</f>put <i>them</i> upon the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his consecrated <i>hair,</i>


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and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before the LORD; <f>[20†]</f>they <i>are</i> holy for the priest, together with the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering. After that the Nazirite may drink wine.’


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<pb/>“This is the law of the Nazirite who vows to the LORD the offering for his separation, and besides that, whatever else his hand is able to provide; according to the vow which he takes, so he must do according to the law of his separation.”


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“Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the way you shall bless the children of Israel. Say to them:


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<t>The LORD <f>[23†]</f>make His face shine upon you, </t><t>And <f>[24†]</f>be gracious to you;</t>


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<t> <f>[25†]</f>The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, </t><t>And <f>[26†]</f>give you peace.” ’</t>


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<pb/> <f>[27†]</f>“So they shall put My name on the children of Israel, and <f>[28†]</f>I will bless them.”


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<pb/>Now it came to pass, when Moses had finished <f>[1†]</f>setting up the tabernacle, that he <f>[2†]</f>anointed it and consecrated it and all its furnishings, and the altar and all its utensils; so he anointed them and consecrated them.


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Then <f>[3†]</f>the leaders of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ houses, who <i>were</i> the leaders of the tribes and over those who were numbered, made an offering.


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And they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered carts and twelve oxen, a cart for <i>every</i> two of the leaders, and for each one an ox; and they presented them before the tabernacle.


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“Accept <i>these</i> from them, that they may be used in doing the work of the tabernacle of meeting; and you shall give them to the Levites, <i>to</i> every man according to his service.”


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<f>[5†]</f>and four carts and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the authority of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.


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But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because theirs <i>was</i> <f>[6†]</f>the service of the holy things, <f>[7†]</f><i>which</i> they carried on their shoulders.


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<pb/>Now the leaders offered <f>[8†]</f>the dedication <i>offering</i> for the altar when it was anointed; so the leaders offered their offering before the altar.


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For the LORD said to Moses, “They shall offer their offering, one leader each day, for the dedication of the altar.”


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<pb/>And the one who offered his offering on the first day <i>was</i> <f>[9†]</f>Nahshon the son of Amminadab, from the tribe of Judah.


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His offering <i>was</i> one silver platter, the weight of which <i>was</i> one hundred and thirty <i>shekels,</i> and one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to <f>[10†]</f>the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a <f>[11†]</f>grain offering;


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<f>[13†]</f>one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb <f>[14†]</f>in its first year, as a burnt offering;


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and for <f>[16†]</f>the sacrifice of peace offerings: two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This <i>was</i> the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.


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<pb/>On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, leader of Issachar, presented <i>an</i> <i>offering.</i>


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<i>For</i> his offering he offered one silver platter, the weight of which <i>was</i> one hundred and thirty <i>shekels,</i> and one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;


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and as the sacrifice of peace offerings: two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This <i>was</i> the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.


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<pb/>On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, leader of the children of Zebulun, <i>presented</i> <i>an</i> <i>offering.</i>


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His offering <i>was</i> one silver platter, the weight of which <i>was</i> one hundred and thirty <i>shekels,</i> and one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;


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and for the sacrifice of peace offerings: two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This <i>was</i> the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.


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<pb/>On the fourth day <f>[17†]</f>Elizur the son of Shedeur, leader of the children of Reuben, <i>presented</i> <i>an</i> <i>offering.</i>


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and as the sacrifice of peace offerings: two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This <i>was</i> the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.


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<pb/>On the fifth day <f>[18†]</f>Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, leader of the children of Simeon, <i>presented</i> <i>an</i> <i>offering.</i>


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and as the sacrifice of peace offerings: two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This <i>was</i> the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.


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<pb/>On the sixth day <f>[19†]</f>Eliasaph the son of Deuel, leader of the children of Gad, <i>presented</i> <i>an</i> <i>offering.</i>


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and as the sacrifice of peace offerings: two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This <i>was</i> the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.


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<pb/>On the seventh day <f>[21†]</f>Elishama the son of Ammihud, leader of the children of Ephraim, <i>presented</i> <i>an</i> <i>offering.</i>


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and as the sacrifice of peace offerings: two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This <i>was</i> the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.


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<pb/>On the eighth day <f>[22†]</f>Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, leader of the children of Manasseh, <i>presented</i> <i>an</i> <i>offering.</i>


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and as the sacrifice of peace offerings: two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This <i>was</i> the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.


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<pb/>On the ninth day <f>[23†]</f>Abidan the son of Gideoni, leader of the children of Benjamin, <i>presented</i> <i>an</i> <i>offering.</i>


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and as the sacrifice of peace offerings: two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This <i>was</i> the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.


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<pb/>On the tenth day <f>[24†]</f>Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, leader of the children of Dan, <i>presented</i> <i>an</i> <i>offering.</i>


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and as the sacrifice of peace offerings: two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This <i>was</i> the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.


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<pb/>On the eleventh day <f>[25†]</f>Pagiel the son of Ocran, leader of the children of Asher, <i>presented</i> <i>an</i> <i>offering.</i>


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and as the sacrifice of peace offerings: two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This <i>was</i> the offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran.


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<pb/>On the twelfth day <f>[26†]</f>Ahira the son of Enan, leader of the children of Naphtali, <i>presented</i> <i>an</i> <i>offering.</i>


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and as the sacrifice of peace offerings: two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This <i>was</i> the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.


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<pb/>This <i>was</i> <f>[27†]</f>the dedication <i>offering</i> for the altar from the leaders of Israel, when it was anointed: twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, and twelve gold pans.


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Each silver platter <i>weighed</i> one hundred and thirty <i>shekels</i> and each bowl seventy <i>shekels.</i> All the silver of the vessels <i>weighed</i> two thousand four hundred <i>shekels,</i> according to the shekel of the sanctuary.


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The twelve gold pans full of incense <i>weighed</i> ten <i>shekels</i> apiece, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the pans <i>weighed</i> one hundred and twenty <i>shekels.</i>


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All the oxen for the burnt offering <i>were</i> twelve young bulls, the rams twelve, the male lambs in their first year twelve, with their grain offering, and the kids of the goats as a sin offering twelve.


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And all the oxen for the sacrifice of peace offerings were twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, and the lambs in their first year sixty. This <i>was</i> the dedication <i>offering</i> for the altar after it was <f>[28†]</f>anointed.


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<pb/>Now when Moses went into the tabernacle of meeting <f>[29†]</f>to speak with Him, he heard <f>[30†]</f>the voice of One speaking to him from above the mercy seat that <i>was</i> on the ark of the Testimony, from <f>[31†]</f>between the two cherubim; thus He spoke to him.


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“Speak to Aaron, and say to him, ‘When you <f>[1†]</f>arrange the lamps, the seven <f>[2†]</f>lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand.’ ”


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And Aaron did so; he arranged the lamps to face toward the front of the lampstand, as the LORD commanded Moses.


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<f>[3†]</f>Now this workmanship of the lampstand <i>was</i> hammered gold; from its shaft to its flowers it <i>was</i> <f>[4†]</f>hammered work. <f>[5†]</f>According to the pattern which the LORD had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.


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Thus you shall do to them to cleanse them: <f>[6†]</f>Sprinkle water of purification on them, and <f>[7†]</f>let them shave all their body, and let them wash their clothes, and <i>so</i> make themselves clean.


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Then let them take a young bull with <f>[8†]</f>its grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, and you shall take another young bull as a sin offering.


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<f>[9†]</f>And you shall bring the Levites before the tabernacle of meeting, <f>[10†]</f>and you shall gather together the whole congregation of the children of Israel.


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So you shall bring the Levites before the LORD, and the children of Israel <f>[11†]</f>shall lay their hands on the Levites;


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and Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD <i>like</i> a <f>[12†]</f>wave offering from the children of Israel, that they may perform the work of the LORD.


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<f>[13†]</f>Then the Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the young bulls, and you shall offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to the LORD, to make atonement for the Levites.


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<pb/>“And you shall stand the Levites before Aaron and his sons, and then offer them <i>like</i> a wave offering to the LORD.


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Thus you shall <f>[14†]</f>separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be <f>[15†]</f>Mine.


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After that the Levites shall go in to service the tabernacle of meeting. So you shall cleanse them and <f>[16†]</f>offer them <i>like</i> a wave offering.


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For they <i>are</i> <f>[17†]</f>wholly given to Me from among the children of Israel; I have taken them for Myself <f>[18†]</f>instead of all who open the womb, the firstborn of all the children of Israel.


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<f>[19†]</f>For all the firstborn among the children of Israel <i>are</i> Mine, <i>both</i> man and beast; on the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them to Myself.


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And <f>[20†]</f>I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the work for the children of Israel in the tabernacle of meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel, <f>[21†]</f>that there be no plague among the children of Israel when the children of Israel come near the sanctuary.”


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<pb/>Thus Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel did to the Levites; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them.


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<f>[22†]</f>And the Levites purified themselves and washed their clothes; then Aaron presented them <i>like</i> a wave offering before the LORD, and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.


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<f>[23†]</f>After that the Levites went in to do their work in the tabernacle of meeting before Aaron and his sons; <f>[24†]</f>as the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.


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“This <i>is</i> what <i>pertains</i> to the Levites: <f>[25†]</f>From twenty-five years old and above one may enter to perform service in the work of the tabernacle of meeting;


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They may minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of meeting, <f>[26†]</f>to attend to needs, but they <i>themselves</i> shall do no work. Thus you shall do to the Levites regarding their duties.”


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<pb/>Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying:


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On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time. According to all its rites and ceremonies you shall keep it.”


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And <f>[3†]</f>they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month, at twilight, in the Wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.


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<pb/>Now there were <i>certain</i> men who were <f>[4†]</f>defiled by a human corpse, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day; <f>[5†]</f>and they came before Moses and Aaron that day.


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And those men said to him, “We <i>became</i> defiled by a human corpse. Why are we kept from presenting the offering of the LORD at its appointed time among the children of Israel?”


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<pb/>And Moses said to them, “Stand still, that <f>[6†]</f>I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you.”


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“Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘If anyone of you or your posterity is unclean because of a corpse, or <i>is</i> far away on a journey, he may still keep the LORD’s Passover.


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On <f>[7†]</f>the fourteenth day of the second month, at twilight, they may keep it. They shall <f>[8†]</f>eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.


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<f>[9†]</f>They shall leave none of it until morning, <f>[10†]</f>nor break one of its bones. <f>[11†]</f>According to all the ordinances of the Passover they shall keep it.


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But the man who <i>is</i> clean and is not on a journey, and ceases to keep the Passover, that same person <f>[12†]</f>shall be cut off from among his people, because he <f>[13†]</f>did not bring the offering of the LORD at its appointed time; that man shall <f>[14†]</f>bear his sin.


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<pb/>‘And if a stranger dwells among you, and would keep the LORD’s Passover, he must do so according to the rite of the Passover and according to its ceremony; <f>[15†]</f>you shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger and the native of the land.’ ”


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<pb/>Now <f>[16†]</f>on the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud <f>[17†]</f>covered the tabernacle, the tent of the Testimony; <f>[18†]</f>from evening until morning it was above the tabernacle like the appearance of fire.


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Whenever the cloud <f>[19†]</f>was taken up from above the tabernacle, after that the children of Israel would journey; and in the place where the cloud settled, there the children of Israel would pitch their tents.


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At the command of the LORD the children of Israel would journey, and at the command of the LORD they would camp; <f>[20†]</f>as long as the cloud stayed above the tabernacle they remained encamped.


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Even when the cloud continued long, many days above the tabernacle, the children of Israel <f>[21†]</f>kept the charge of the LORD and did not journey.


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So it was, when the cloud was above the tabernacle a few days: according to the command of the LORD they would remain encamped, and according to the command of the LORD they would journey.


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So it was, when the cloud remained only from evening until morning: when the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they would journey; whether by day or by night, whenever the cloud was taken up, they would journey.


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<i>Whether</i> <i>it</i> <i>was</i> two days, a month, or a year that the cloud remained above the tabernacle, the children of Israel <f>[22†]</f>would remain encamped and not journey; but when it was taken up, they would journey.


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At the command of the LORD they remained encamped, and at the command of the LORD they journeyed; they <f>[23†]</f>kept the charge of the LORD, at the command of the LORD by the hand of Moses.


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“Make two silver trumpets for yourself; you shall make them of hammered work; you shall use them for <f>[1†]</f>calling the congregation and for directing the movement of the camps.


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When <f>[2†]</f>they blow both of them, all the congregation shall gather before you at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.


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But if they blow <i>only</i> one, then the leaders, the <f>[3†]</f>heads of the divisions of Israel, shall gather to you.


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When you sound the <f>[4†]</f>advance, the camps that lie on the east side shall then begin their journey.


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When you sound the advance the second time, then <f>[5†]</f>the camps that lie <f>[6†]</f>on the south side shall begin their journey; they shall sound the call for them to begin their journeys.


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And when the assembly is to be gathered together, <f>[7†]</f>you shall blow, but not <f>[8†]</f>sound the advance.


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<f>[9†]</f>The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and these shall be to you as an ordinance forever throughout your generations.


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<pb/> <f>[10†]</f>“When you go to war in your land against the enemy who <f>[11†]</f>oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, and you will be <f>[12†]</f>remembered before the LORD your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.


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Also <f>[13†]</f>in the day of your gladness, in your appointed feasts, and at the beginning of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be <f>[14†]</f>a memorial for you before your God: I <i>am</i> the LORD your God.”


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<pb/>Now it came to pass on the twentieth <i>day</i> of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud <f>[15†]</f>was taken up from above the tabernacle of the Testimony.


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And the children of Israel set out from <f>[16†]</f>the Wilderness of Sinai on <f>[17†]</f>their journeys; then the cloud settled down in the <f>[18†]</f>Wilderness of Paran.


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So they started out for the first time <f>[19†]</f>according to the command of the LORD by the hand of Moses.


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<pb/>The standard of the camp of the children of Judah <f>[20†]</f>set out first according to their armies; over their army was <f>[21†]</f>Nahshon the son of Amminadab.


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<pb/>Then <f>[22†]</f>the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set out, <f>[23†]</f>carrying the tabernacle.


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<pb/>And <f>[24†]</f>the standard of the camp of Reuben set out according to their armies; over their army <i>was</i> Elizur the son of Shedeur.


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<pb/>Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the <f>[25†]</f>holy things. (The tabernacle would be prepared for their arrival.)


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<pb/>And <f>[26†]</f>the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set out according to their armies; over their army <i>was</i> Elishama the son of Ammihud.


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<pb/>Then <f>[27†]</f>the standard of the camp of the children of Dan (the rear guard of all the camps) set out according to their armies; over their army <i>was</i> Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.


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<pb/> <f>[28†]</f>Thus <i>was</i> the order of march of the children of Israel, according to their armies, when they began their journey.


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<pb/>Now Moses said to <f>[29†]</f>Hobab the son of <f>[30†]</f>Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said, <f>[31†]</f>‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and <f>[32†]</f>we will treat you well; for <f>[33†]</f>the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”


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<pb/>And he said to him, “I will not go, but I will depart to my <i>own</i> land and to my relatives.”


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<pb/>So <i>Moses</i> said, “Please do not leave, inasmuch as you know how we are to camp in the wilderness, and you can be our <f>[34†]</f>eyes.


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And it shall be, if you go with us—indeed it shall be—that <f>[35†]</f>whatever good the LORD will do to us, the same we will do to you.”


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<pb/>So they departed from <f>[36†]</f>the mountain of the LORD on a journey of three days; and the ark of the covenant of the LORD <f>[37†]</f>went before them for the three days’ journey, to search out a resting place for them.


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And <f>[38†]</f>the cloud of the LORD <i>was</i> above them by day when they went out from the camp.


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<pb/>So it was, whenever the ark set out, that Moses said: <pb/><t> <f>[39†]</f>“Rise up, O LORD! </t><t>Let Your enemies be scattered, </t><t>And let those who hate You flee before You.”</t>


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<pb/>And when it rested, he said: <pb/><t>“Return, O LORD, </t><t><i>To</i> the many thousands of Israel.”</t>


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<pb/>Now <f>[1†]</f><i>when</i> the people complained, it displeased the LORD; <f>[2†]</f>for the LORD heard <i>it,</i> and His anger was aroused. So the <f>[3†]</f>fire of the LORD burned among them, and consumed <i>some</i> in the outskirts of the camp.


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Then the people <f>[4†]</f>cried out to Moses, and when Moses <f>[5†]</f>prayed to the LORD, the fire was quenched.


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<pb/>Now the <f>[6†]</f>mixed multitude who were among them yielded to <f>[7†]</f>intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: <f>[8†]</f>“Who will give us meat to eat?


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<f>[9†]</f>We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic;


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but now <f>[10†]</f>our whole being <i>is</i> dried up; <i>there</i> <i>is</i> nothing at all except this manna <i>before</i> our eyes!”


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<pb/>Now <f>[11†]</f>the manna <i>was</i> like coriander seed, and its color like the color of bdellium.


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The people went about and gathered <i>it,</i> ground <i>it</i> on millstones or beat <i>it</i> in the mortar, cooked <i>it</i> in pans, and made cakes of it; and <f>[12†]</f>its taste was like the taste of pastry prepared with oil.


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<pb/>Then Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent; and <f>[14†]</f>the anger of the LORD was greatly aroused; Moses also was displeased.


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<f>[15†]</f>So Moses said to the LORD, “Why have You afflicted Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid the burden of all these people on me?


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Did I conceive all these people? Did I beget them, that You should say to me, <f>[16†]</f>‘Carry them in your bosom, as a <f>[17†]</f>guardian carries a nursing child,’ to the land which You <f>[18†]</f>swore to their fathers?


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<f>[19†]</f>Where am I to get meat to give to all these people? For they weep all over me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’


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<f>[20†]</f>I am not able to bear all these people alone, because the burden <i>is</i> too heavy for me.


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If You treat me like this, please kill me here and now—if I have found favor in Your sight—and <f>[21†]</f>do not let me see my wretchedness!”


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<pb/>So the LORD said to Moses: “Gather to Me <f>[22†]</f>seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and <f>[23†]</f>officers over them; bring them to the tabernacle of meeting, that they may stand there with you.


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Then I will come down and talk with you there. <f>[24†]</f>I will take of the Spirit that <i>is</i> upon you and will put <i>the</i> <i>same</i> upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you may not bear <i>it</i> yourself alone.


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Then you shall say to the people, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept <f>[25†]</f>in the hearing of the LORD, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For <i>it</i> <i>was</i> well with us in Egypt.” Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you shall eat.


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<f>[26†]</f>but <i>for</i> a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have <f>[27†]</f>despised the LORD who is among you, and have wept before Him, saying, <f>[28†]</f>“Why did we ever come up out of Egypt?” ’ ”


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<pb/>And Moses said, <f>[29†]</f>“The people whom I <i>am</i> among <i>are</i> six hundred thousand men on foot; yet You have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat <i>for</i> a whole month.’


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<f>[30†]</f>Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to provide enough for them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to provide enough for them?”


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<pb/>And the LORD said to Moses, <f>[31†]</f>“Has the LORD’s arm been shortened? Now you shall see whether <f>[32†]</f>what I say will happen to you or not.”


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<pb/>So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD, and he <f>[33†]</f>gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the tabernacle.


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Then the LORD came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that <i>was</i> upon him, and placed <i>the</i> <i>same</i> upon the seventy elders; and it happened, <f>[34†]</f>when the Spirit rested upon them, that <f>[35†]</f>they prophesied, although they never did <i>so</i> again.


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<pb/>But two men had remained in the camp: the name of one <i>was</i> Eldad, and the name of the other Medad. And the Spirit rested upon them. Now they <i>were</i> among those listed, but who <f>[36†]</f>had not gone out to the tabernacle; yet they prophesied in the camp.


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<pb/>So Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, <i>one</i> of his choice men, answered and said, “Moses my lord, <f>[37†]</f>forbid them!”


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<pb/>Then Moses said to him, “Are you zealous for my sake? <f>[38†]</f>Oh, that all the LORD’s people were prophets <i>and</i> that the LORD would put His Spirit upon them!”


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<pb/>Now a <f>[39†]</f>wind went out from the LORD, and it brought quail from the sea and left <i>them</i> fluttering near the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and about a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the ground.


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And the people stayed up all that day, all night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail (he who gathered least gathered ten <f>[40†]</f>homers); and they spread <i>them</i> out for themselves all around the camp.


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But while the <f>[41†]</f>meat <i>was</i> still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was aroused against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.


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So he called the name of that place Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had yielded to craving.


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<pb/>Then <f>[1†]</f>Miriam and Aaron spoke <f>[2†]</f>against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married; for <f>[3†]</f>he had married an Ethiopian woman.


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So they said, “Has the LORD indeed spoken only through <f>[4†]</f>Moses? <f>[5†]</f>Has He not spoken through us also?” And the LORD <f>[6†]</f>heard <i>it.</i>


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(Now the man Moses <i>was</i> very humble, more than all men who <i>were</i> on the face of the earth.)


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<pb/> <f>[7†]</f>Suddenly the LORD said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tabernacle of meeting!” So the three came out.


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<f>[8†]</f>Then the LORD came down in the pillar of cloud and stood <i>in</i> the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam. And they both went forward.


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Then He said, <pb/><t>“Hear now My words: </t><t>If there is a prophet among you, </t><t><i>I</i>, the LORD, make Myself known to him <f>[9†]</f>in a vision; </t><t>I speak to him <f>[10†]</f>in a dream.</t>


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<t>Not so with <f>[11†]</f>My servant Moses; </t><t> <f>[12†]</f>He <i>is</i> faithful in all <f>[13†]</f>My house.</t>


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<t>I speak with him <f>[14†]</f>face to face, </t><t>Even <f>[15†]</f>plainly, and not in dark sayings; </t><t>And he sees <f>[16†]</f>the form of the LORD. </t><t>Why then <f>[17†]</f>were you not afraid </t><t>To speak against My servant Moses?”</t>


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And when the cloud departed from above the tabernacle, <f>[18†]</f>suddenly Miriam <i>became</i> <f>[19†]</f>leprous, as <i>white</i> <i>as</i> snow. Then Aaron turned toward Miriam, and there she was, a leper.


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So Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord! Please <f>[20†]</f>do not lay <i>this</i> sin on us, in which we have done foolishly and in which we have sinned.


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Please <f>[21†]</f>do not let her be as one dead, whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb!”


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<pb/>Then the LORD said to Moses, “If her father had but <f>[23†]</f>spit in her face, would she not be shamed seven days? Let her be <f>[24†]</f>shut out of the camp seven days, and afterward she may be received <i>again.</i>”


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<f>[25†]</f>So Miriam was shut out of the camp seven days, and the people did not journey till Miriam was brought in <i>again.</i>


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<f>[1†]</f>“Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a leader among them.”


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<pb/>So Moses sent them <f>[2†]</f>from the Wilderness of Paran according to the command of the LORD, all of them men who <i>were</i> heads of the children of Israel.


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<pb/>These <i>are</i> the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called <f>[5†]</f>Hoshea the son of Nun, Joshua.


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<pb/>Then Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this <i>way</i> into the South, and go up to <f>[6†]</f>the mountains,


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and see what the land is like: whether the people who dwell in it <i>are</i> strong or weak, few or many;


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whether the land they dwell in <i>is</i> good or bad; whether the cities they inhabit <i>are</i> like camps or strongholds;


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whether the land <i>is</i> rich or poor; and whether there are forests there or not. <f>[7†]</f>Be of good courage. And bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time <i>was</i> the season of the first ripe grapes.


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<pb/>So they went up and spied out the land <f>[8†]</f>from the Wilderness of Zin as far as <f>[9†]</f>Rehob, near the entrance of <f>[10†]</f>Hamath.


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And they went up through the South and came to <f>[11†]</f>Hebron; Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of <f>[12†]</f>Anak, <i>were</i> there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)


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<f>[13†]</f>Then they came to the Valley of Eshcol, and there cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes; they carried it between two of them on a pole. <i>They</i> also <i>brought</i> some of the pomegranates and figs.


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The place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the men of Israel cut down there.


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<pb/>Now they departed and came back to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran, at <f>[14†]</f>Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.


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Then they told him, and said: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with <f>[15†]</f>milk and honey, <f>[16†]</f>and this <i>is</i> its fruit.


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Nevertheless the <f>[17†]</f>people who dwell in the land <i>are</i> strong; the cities <i>are</i> fortified <i>and</i> very large; moreover we saw the descendants of <f>[18†]</f>Anak there.


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<f>[19†]</f>The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.”


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<pb/>Then <f>[20†]</f>Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.”


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<pb/> <f>[21†]</f>But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they <i>are</i> stronger than we.”


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<f>[22†]</f>And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies <i>is</i> a land that devours its inhabitants, and <f>[23†]</f>all the people whom we saw in it <i>are</i> men of <i>great</i> stature.


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There we saw the giants ( <f>[24†]</f>the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were <f>[25†]</f>like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were <f>[26†]</f>in their sight.”


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<pb/>So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people <f>[1†]</f>wept that night.


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<f>[2†]</f>And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!


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Why has the LORD brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and <f>[3†]</f>children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”


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<pb/>Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.


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<pb/>But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, <i>who</i> <i>were</i> among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes;


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and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying: <f>[6†]</f>“The land we passed through to spy out <i>is</i> an exceedingly good land.


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If the LORD <f>[7†]</f>delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, <f>[8†]</f>‘a land which flows with milk and honey.’


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Only <f>[9†]</f>do not rebel against the LORD, <f>[10†]</f>nor fear the people of the land, for <f>[11†]</f>they <i>are</i> our bread; their protection has departed from them, <f>[12†]</f>and the LORD <i>is</i> with us. Do not fear them.”


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<pb/> <f>[13†]</f>And all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Now <f>[14†]</f>the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of meeting before all the children of Israel.


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<pb/>Then the LORD said to Moses: “How long will these people <f>[15†]</f>reject Me? And how long will they not <f>[16†]</f>believe Me, with all the signs which I have performed among them?


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I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will <f>[17†]</f>make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”


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<pb/>And <f>[18†]</f>Moses said to the LORD: <f>[19†]</f>“Then the Egyptians will hear <i>it,</i> for by Your might You brought these people up from among them,


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and they will tell <i>it</i> to the inhabitants of this land. They have <f>[20†]</f>heard that You, LORD, <i>are</i> among these people; that You, LORD, are seen face to face and Your cloud stands above them, and You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.


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Now <i>if</i> You kill these people as one man, then the nations which have heard of Your fame will speak, saying,


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‘Because the LORD was not <f>[21†]</f>able to bring this people to the land which He swore to give them, therefore He killed them in the wilderness.’


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<f>[22†]</f>‘The LORD is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He by no means clears <i>the</i> <i>guilty,</i> <f>[23†]</f>visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth <i>generation.</i>’


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<f>[24†]</f>Pardon the iniquity of this people, I pray, <f>[25†]</f>according to the greatness of Your mercy, just <f>[26†]</f>as You have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”


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<f>[29†]</f>because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now <f>[30†]</f>these ten times, and have not heeded My voice,


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they certainly shall not <f>[31†]</f>see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it.


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But My servant <f>[32†]</f>Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and <f>[33†]</f>has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.


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Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley; tomorrow turn and <f>[34†]</f>move out into the wilderness by the Way of the Red Sea.”


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<f>[35†]</f>“How long <i>shall</i> <i>I</i> <i>bear</i> <i>with</i> this evil congregation who complain against Me? <f>[36†]</f>I have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me.


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<f>[37†]</f>Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you:


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The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, <f>[38†]</f>all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above.


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<f>[39†]</f>Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.


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<f>[40†]</f>But your little ones, whom you said would be victims, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which <f>[41†]</f>you have despised.


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And your sons shall <f>[43†]</f>be shepherds in the wilderness <f>[44†]</f>forty years, and <f>[45†]</f>bear the brunt of your infidelity, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness.


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<f>[46†]</f>According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, <f>[47†]</f>forty days, for each day you shall bear your guilt one year, <i>namely</i> forty years, <f>[48†]</f>and you shall know My rejection.


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<f>[49†]</f>I the LORD have spoken this. I will surely do so to all <f>[50†]</f>this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.’ ”


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<pb/>Now the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation complain against him by bringing a bad report of the land,


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those very men who brought the evil report about the land, <f>[51†]</f>died by the plague before the LORD.


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<f>[52†]</f>But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive, of the men who went to spy out the land.


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<pb/>Then Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, <f>[53†]</f>and the people mourned greatly.


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And they rose early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, <f>[54†]</f>“Here we are, and we will go up to the place which the LORD has promised, for we have sinned!”


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<f>[55†]</f>Do not go up, lest you be defeated by your enemies, for the LORD <i>is</i> not among you.


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For the Amalekites and the Canaanites <i>are</i> there before you, and you shall fall by the sword; <f>[56†]</f>because you have turned away from the LORD, the LORD will not be with you.”


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<pb/> <f>[57†]</f>But they presumed to go up to the mountaintop. Nevertheless, neither the ark of the covenant of the LORD nor Moses departed from the camp.


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Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who dwelt in that mountain came down and attacked them, and drove them back as far as <f>[58†]</f>Hormah.


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<f>[1†]</f>“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you have come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving to you,


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and you <f>[2†]</f>make an offering by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering or a sacrifice, <f>[3†]</f>to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or <f>[4†]</f>in your appointed feasts, to make a <f>[5†]</f>sweet aroma to the LORD, from the herd or the flock,


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then <f>[6†]</f>he who presents his offering to the LORD shall bring <f>[7†]</f>a grain offering of one-tenth <i>of</i> <i>an</i> <i>ephah</i> of fine flour mixed <f>[8†]</f>with one-fourth of a hin of oil;


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<f>[9†]</f>and one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering you shall prepare with the burnt offering or the sacrifice, for each <f>[10†]</f>lamb.


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<f>[11†]</f>Or for a ram you shall prepare as a grain offering two-tenths <i>of</i> <i>an</i> <i>ephah</i> of fine flour mixed with one-third of a hin of oil;


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And when you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering, or as a sacrifice to fulfill a vow, or as a <f>[12†]</f>peace offering to the LORD,


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then shall be offered <f>[13†]</f>with the young bull a grain offering of three-tenths <i>of</i> <i>an</i> <i>ephah</i> of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil;


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and you shall bring as the drink offering half a hin of wine as an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.


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<pb/> <f>[14†]</f>‘Thus it shall be done for each young bull, for each ram, or for each lamb or young goat.


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All who are native-born shall do these things in this manner, in presenting an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.


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And if a stranger dwells with you, or whoever <i>is</i> among you throughout your generations, and would present an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD, just as you do, so shall he do.


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<f>[15†]</f>One ordinance <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> for you of the assembly and for the stranger who dwells <i>with</i> <i>you,</i> an ordinance forever throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.


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<f>[16†]</f>“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land to which I bring you,


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then it will be, when you eat of <f>[17†]</f>the bread of the land, that you shall offer up a heave offering to the LORD.


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<f>[18†]</f>You shall offer up a cake of the first of your ground meal <i>as</i> <f>[19†]</f>a heave offering; as a heave offering of the threshing floor, so shall you offer it up.


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Of the first of your ground meal you shall give to the LORD a heave offering throughout your generations.


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<pb/> <f>[20†]</f>‘If you sin unintentionally, and do not observe all these commandments which the LORD has spoken to Moses—


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all that the LORD has commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day the LORD gave commandment and onward throughout your generations—


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then it will be, <f>[21†]</f>if it is unintentionally committed, without the knowledge of the congregation, that the whole congregation shall offer one young bull as a burnt offering, as a sweet aroma to the LORD, <f>[22†]</f>with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and <f>[23†]</f>one kid of the goats as a sin offering.


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<f>[24†]</f>So the priest shall make atonement for the whole congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them, for it was unintentional; they shall bring their offering, an offering made by fire to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their unintended sin.


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It shall be forgiven the whole congregation of the children of Israel and the stranger who dwells among them, because all the people <i>did</i> <i>it</i> unintentionally.


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<pb/>‘And <f>[25†]</f>if a person sins unintentionally, then he shall bring a female goat in its first year as a sin offering.


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<f>[26†]</f>So the priest shall make atonement for the person who sins unintentionally, when he sins unintentionally before the LORD, to make atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.


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<f>[27†]</f>You shall have one law for him who sins unintentionally, <i>for</i> him who is native-born among the children of Israel and for the stranger who dwells among them.


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<pb/> <f>[28†]</f>‘But the person who does <i>anything</i> presumptuously, <i>whether</i> <i>he</i> <i>is</i> native-born or a stranger, that one brings reproach on the LORD, and he shall be cut off from among his people.


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Because he has <f>[29†]</f>despised the word of the LORD, and has broken His commandment, that person shall be completely cut off; his guilt <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> upon him.’ ”


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<pb/>Now while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, <f>[30†]</f>they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.


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And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.


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<pb/>Then the LORD said to Moses, <f>[32†]</f>“The man must surely be put to death; all the congregation shall <f>[33†]</f>stone him with stones outside the camp.”


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So, as the LORD commanded Moses, all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones, and he died.


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“Speak to the children of Israel: Tell <f>[34†]</f>them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a blue thread in the tassels of the corners.


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And you shall have the tassel, that you may look upon it and <f>[35†]</f>remember all the commandments of the LORD and do them, and that you <f>[36†]</f><i>may</i> not <f>[37†]</f>follow the harlotry to which your own heart and your own eyes are inclined,


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I <i>am</i> the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I <i>am</i> the LORD your God.”


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<pb/>Now <f>[1†]</f>Korah the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with <f>[2†]</f>Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took <i>men;</i>


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and they rose up before Moses with some of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation, <f>[3†]</f>representatives of the congregation, men of renown.


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<f>[4†]</f>They gathered together against Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “<i>You</i> take too much upon yourselves, for <f>[5†]</f>all the congregation <i>is</i> holy, every one of them, <f>[6†]</f>and the LORD <i>is</i> among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?”


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and he spoke to Korah and all his company, saying, “Tomorrow morning the LORD will show who <i>is</i> <f>[8†]</f>His and <i>who</i> <i>is</i> <f>[9†]</f>holy, and will cause <i>him</i> to <f>[10†]</f>come near to Him. That one whom He chooses He will cause to come near to Him.


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put fire in them and put incense in them before the LORD tomorrow, and it shall be <i>that</i> the man whom the LORD chooses <i>is</i> the holy one. <i>You</i> <i>take</i> too much upon yourselves, you sons of Levi!”


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<i>Is</i> <i>it</i> <f>[11†]</f>a small thing to you that the God of Israel has <f>[12†]</f>separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to Himself, to do the work of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to serve them;


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and that He has brought you near <i>to</i> <i>Himself,</i> you and all your brethren, the sons of Levi, with you? And are you seeking the priesthood also?


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Therefore you and all your company <i>are</i> gathered together against the LORD. <f>[13†]</f>And what <i>is</i> Aaron that you complain against him?”


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<pb/>And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, but they said, “We will not come up!


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<i>Is</i> <i>it</i> a small thing that you have brought us up out of <f>[14†]</f>a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you should <f>[15†]</f>keep acting like a prince over us?


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Moreover <f>[16†]</f>you have not brought us into <f>[17†]</f>a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up!”


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<pb/>Then Moses was very angry, and said to the LORD, <f>[18†]</f>“Do not respect their offering. <f>[19†]</f>I have not taken one donkey from them, nor have I hurt one of them.”


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<pb/>And Moses said to Korah, “Tomorrow, you and all your company be present <f>[20†]</f>before the LORD—you and they, as well as Aaron.


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Let each take his censer and put incense in it, and each of you bring his censer before the LORD, two hundred and fifty censers; both you and Aaron, each <i>with</i> his censer.”


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So every man took his censer, put fire in it, laid incense on it, and stood at the door of the tabernacle of meeting with Moses and Aaron.


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And Korah gathered all the congregation against them at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. Then <f>[21†]</f>the glory of the LORD appeared to all the congregation.


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<f>[22†]</f>“Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may <f>[23†]</f>consume them in a moment.”


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<pb/>Then they <f>[24†]</f>fell on their faces, and said, “O God, <f>[25†]</f>the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and You be angry with all the <f>[26†]</f>congregation?”


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And he spoke to the congregation, saying, <f>[27†]</f>“Depart now from the tents of these wicked men! Touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins.”


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So they got away from around the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram; and Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the door of their tents, with their wives, their sons, and their little <f>[28†]</f>children.


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<pb/>And Moses said: <f>[29†]</f>“By this you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, for <i>I</i> <i>have</i> not <i>done</i> <i>them</i> <f>[30†]</f>of my own will.


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If these men die naturally like all men, or if they are <f>[31†]</f>visited by the common fate of all men, <i>then</i> the LORD has not sent me.


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But if the LORD creates <f>[32†]</f>a new thing, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they <f>[33†]</f>go down alive into the pit, then you will understand that these men have rejected the LORD.”


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<pb/> <f>[34†]</f>Now it came to pass, as he finished speaking all these words, that the ground split apart under them,


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and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and <f>[35†]</f>all the men with Korah, with all <i>their</i> goods.


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So they and all those with them went down alive into the pit; the earth closed over them, and they perished from among the assembly.


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Then all Israel who <i>were</i> around them fled at their cry, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up <i>also!</i>”


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<pb/>And <f>[36†]</f>a fire came out from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering incense.


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“Tell Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, to pick up the censers out of the blaze, for <f>[37†]</f>they are holy, and scatter the fire some distance away.


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The censers of <f>[38†]</f>these men who sinned against their own souls, let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar. Because they presented them before the LORD, therefore they are holy; <f>[39†]</f>and they shall be a sign to the children of Israel.”


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So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned up had presented, and they were hammered out as a covering on the altar,


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<i>to</i> <i>be</i> a memorial to the children of Israel <f>[40†]</f>that no outsider, who <i>is</i> not a descendant of Aaron, should come near to offer incense before the LORD, that he might not become like Korah and his companions, just as the LORD had said to him through Moses.


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<pb/>On the next day <f>[41†]</f>all the congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the people of the LORD.”


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Now it happened, when the congregation had gathered against Moses and Aaron, that they turned toward the tabernacle of meeting; and suddenly <f>[42†]</f>the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.


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“Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.” <pb/>And they fell on their faces.


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<pb/>So Moses said to Aaron, “Take a censer and put fire in it from the altar, put incense <i>on</i> <i>it,</i> and take it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them; <f>[43†]</f>for wrath has gone out from the LORD. The plague has begun.”


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Then Aaron took <i>it</i> as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and already the plague had begun among the people. So he put in the incense and made atonement for the people.


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Now those who died in the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died in the Korah incident.


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“Speak to the children of Israel, and get from them a rod from each father’s house, all their leaders according to their fathers’ houses—twelve rods. Write each man’s name on his rod.


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And you shall write Aaron’s name on the rod of Levi. For there shall be one rod for the head of <i>each</i> father’s house.


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Then you shall place them in the tabernacle of meeting before <f>[1†]</f>the Testimony, <f>[2†]</f>where I meet with you.


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And it shall be <i>that</i> the rod of the man <f>[3†]</f>whom I choose will blossom; thus I will rid Myself of the complaints of the children of Israel, <f>[4†]</f>which they make against you.”


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<pb/>So Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and each of their leaders gave him a rod apiece, for each leader according to their fathers’ houses, twelve rods; and the rod of Aaron <i>was</i> among their rods.


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<pb/>Now it came to pass on the next day that Moses went into the tabernacle of witness, and behold, the <f>[6†]</f>rod of Aaron, of the house of Levi, had sprouted and put forth buds, had produced blossoms and yielded ripe almonds.


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Then Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD to all the children of Israel; and they looked, and each man took his rod.


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<pb/>And the LORD said to Moses, “Bring <f>[7†]</f>Aaron’s rod back before the Testimony, to be kept <f>[8†]</f>as a sign against the rebels, <f>[9†]</f>that you may put their complaints away from Me, lest they die.”


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<pb/>Then the LORD said to Aaron: <f>[1†]</f>“You and your sons and your father’s house with you shall <f>[2†]</f>bear the iniquity <i>related</i> <i>to</i> the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity <i>associated</i> <i>with</i> your priesthood.


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Also bring with you your brethren of the <f>[3†]</f>tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may be <f>[4†]</f>joined with you and serve you while you and your sons <i>are</i> with you before the tabernacle of witness.


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They shall attend to your needs and <f>[5†]</f>all the needs of the tabernacle; <f>[6†]</f>but they shall not come near the articles of the sanctuary and the altar, <f>[7†]</f>lest they die—they and you also.


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They shall be joined with you and attend to the needs of the tabernacle of meeting, for all the work of the tabernacle; <f>[8†]</f>but an outsider shall not come near you.


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And you shall attend to the duties of the sanctuary and <f>[9†]</f>the duties of the altar, <f>[10†]</f>that there <i>may</i> be no more wrath on the children of Israel.


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Behold, I Myself have <f>[11†]</f>taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel; <f>[12†]</f><i>they</i> <i>are</i> a gift to you, given by the LORD, to do the work of the tabernacle of meeting.


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Therefore <f>[13†]</f>you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for everything at the altar and <f>[14†]</f>behind the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood <i>to</i> <i>you</i> as a <f>[15†]</f>gift for service, but the outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”


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<pb/>And the LORD spoke to Aaron: “Here, <f>[16†]</f>I Myself have also given you charge of My heave offerings, all the holy gifts of the children of Israel; I have given them <f>[17†]</f>as a portion to you and your sons, as an ordinance forever.


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This shall be yours of the most holy things <i>reserved</i> from the fire: every offering of theirs, every <f>[18†]</f>grain offering and every <f>[19†]</f>sin offering and every <f>[20†]</f>trespass offering which they render to Me, <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> most holy for you and your sons.


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<f>[21†]</f>In a most holy <i>place</i> you shall eat it; every male shall eat it. It shall be holy to you.


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<pb/>“This also <i>is</i> yours: <f>[22†]</f>the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel; I have given them to you, and your sons and daughters with you, as an ordinance forever. <f>[23†]</f>Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.


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<pb/> <f>[24†]</f>“All the best of the oil, all the best of the new wine and the grain, <f>[25†]</f>their firstfruits which they offer to the LORD, I have given them to you.


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Whatever first ripe fruit is in their land, <f>[26†]</f>which they bring to the LORD, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.


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<pb/>“Everything that first opens <f>[28†]</f>the womb of all flesh, which they bring to the LORD, whether man or beast, shall be yours; nevertheless the firstborn of man you shall surely redeem, and <f>[29†]</f>the firstborn of unclean animals you shall redeem.


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And those redeemed of the devoted things you shall redeem when one month old, <f>[30†]</f>according to your valuation, for five shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which <i>is</i> <f>[31†]</f>twenty gerahs.


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<f>[32†]</f>But the firstborn of a cow, the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat you shall not redeem; they <i>are</i> holy. <f>[33†]</f>You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and burn their fat <i>as</i> an offering made by fire for a sweet aroma to the LORD.


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<pb/>“All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to the LORD, I have given to you and your sons and daughters with you as an ordinance forever; <f>[35†]</f>it <i>is</i> a covenant of salt forever before the LORD with you and your descendants with you.”


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<pb/>Then the LORD said to Aaron: “You shall have <f>[36†]</f>no inheritance in their land, nor shall you have any portion among them; <f>[37†]</f>I <i>am</i> your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.


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<pb/>“Behold, <f>[38†]</f>I have given the children of Levi all the tithes in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work which they perform, <f>[39†]</f>the work of the tabernacle of meeting.


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<f>[40†]</f>Hereafter the children of Israel shall not come near the tabernacle of meeting, <f>[41†]</f>lest they bear sin and die.


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But the Levites shall perform the work of the tabernacle of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity; <i>it</i> <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> a statute forever, throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.


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For the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer up <i>as</i> a heave offering to the LORD, I have given to the Levites as an inheritance; therefore I have said to them, ‘Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.’ ”


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“Speak thus to the Levites, and say to them: ‘When you take from the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you shall offer up a heave offering of it to the LORD, <f>[42†]</f>a tenth of the tithe.


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And your heave offering shall be reckoned to you as though <i>it</i> <i>were</i> the grain of the <f>[43†]</f>threshing floor and as the fullness of the winepress.


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Thus you shall also offer a heave offering to the LORD from all your tithes which you receive from the children of Israel, and you shall give the LORD’s heave offering from it to Aaron the priest.


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Of all your gifts you shall offer up every heave offering due to the LORD, from all the best of them, the consecrated part of them.’


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Therefore you shall say to them: ‘When you have lifted up the best of it, then <i>the</i> <i>rest</i> shall be accounted to the Levites as the produce of the threshing floor and as the produce of the winepress.


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You may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it <i>is</i> <f>[44†]</f>your reward for your work in the tabernacle of meeting.


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And you shall <f>[45†]</f>bear no sin because of it, when you have lifted up the best of it. But you shall not <f>[46†]</f>profane the holy gifts of the children of Israel, lest you die.’ ”


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“This <i>is</i> the ordinance of the law which the LORD has commanded, saying: ‘Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without blemish, in which there <i>is</i> no <f>[1†]</f>defect <f>[2†]</f><i>and</i> on which a yoke has never come.


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You shall give it to Eleazar the priest, that he may take it <f>[3†]</f>outside the camp, and it shall be slaughtered before him;


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and Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and <f>[4†]</f>sprinkle some of its blood seven times directly in front of the tabernacle of meeting.


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Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight: <f>[5†]</f>its hide, its flesh, its blood, and its offal shall be burned.


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And the priest shall take <f>[6†]</f>cedar wood and <f>[7†]</f>hyssop and scarlet, and cast <i>them</i> into the midst of the fire burning the heifer.


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<f>[8†]</f>Then the priest shall wash his clothes, he shall bathe in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp; the priest shall be unclean until evening.


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And the one who burns it shall wash his clothes in water, bathe in water, and shall be unclean until evening.


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Then a man <i>who</i> <i>is</i> clean shall gather up <f>[9†]</f>the ashes of the heifer, and store <i>them</i> outside the camp in a clean place; and they shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel <f>[10†]</f>for the water of purification; it <i>is</i> for purifying from sin.


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And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until evening. It shall be a statute forever to the children of Israel and to the stranger who dwells among them.


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<f>[12†]</f>He shall purify himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day; <i>then</i> he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not be clean.


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Whoever touches the body of anyone who has died, and <f>[13†]</f>does not purify himself, <f>[14†]</f>defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. That person shall be cut off from Israel. He shall be unclean, because <f>[15†]</f>the water of purification was not sprinkled on him; <f>[16†]</f>his uncleanness <i>is</i> still on him.


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<pb/>‘This <i>is</i> the law when a man dies in a tent: All who come into the tent and all who <i>are</i> in the tent shall be unclean seven days;


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<f>[18†]</f>Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain by a sword or who has died, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.


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<pb/>‘And for an unclean <i>person</i> they shall take some of the <f>[19†]</f>ashes of the heifer burnt for purification from sin, and running water shall be put on them in a vessel.


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A clean person shall take <f>[20†]</f>hyssop and dip <i>it</i> in the water, sprinkle <i>it</i> on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, the slain, the dead, or a grave.


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The clean <i>person</i> shall sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; <f>[21†]</f>and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, wash his clothes, and bathe in water; and at evening he shall be clean.


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<pb/>‘But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from among the assembly, because he has <f>[22†]</f>defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water of purification has not been sprinkled on him; he <i>is</i> unclean.


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It shall be a perpetual statute for them. He who sprinkles the water of purification shall wash his clothes; and he who touches the water of purification shall be unclean until evening.


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<f>[23†]</f>Whatever the unclean <i>person</i> touches shall be unclean; and <f>[24†]</f>the person who touches <i>it</i> shall be unclean until evening.’ ”


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<pb/>Then <f>[1†]</f> the children of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the Wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in <f>[2†]</f>Kadesh; and <f>[3†]</f>Miriam died there and was buried there.


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<pb/> <f>[4†]</f>Now there was no water for the congregation; <f>[5†]</f>so they gathered together against Moses and Aaron.


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And the people <f>[6†]</f>contended with Moses and spoke, saying: “If only we had died <f>[7†]</f>when our brethren died before the LORD!


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<f>[8†]</f>Why have you brought up the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our animals should die here?


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And why have you made us come up out of Egypt, to bring us to this evil place? It <i>is</i> not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates; nor <i>is</i> there any water to drink.”


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So Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and <f>[9†]</f>they fell on their faces. And <f>[10†]</f>the glory of the LORD appeared to them.


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<f>[11†]</f>“Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus <f>[12†]</f>you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.”


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<pb/>And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock; and he said to them, <f>[14†]</f>“Hear now, you rebels! Must we bring water for you out of this rock?”


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Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; <f>[15†]</f>and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank.


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<pb/>Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because <f>[16†]</f>you did not believe Me, to <f>[17†]</f>hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”


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<pb/> <f>[18†]</f>This <i>was</i> the water of Meribah, because the children of Israel contended with the LORD, and He was hallowed among them.


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<pb/> <f>[19†]</f>Now Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of <f>[20†]</f>Edom. <f>[21†]</f>“Thus says your brother Israel: ‘You know all the hardship that has befallen us,


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<f>[22†]</f>how our fathers went down to Egypt, <f>[23†]</f>and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, <f>[24†]</f>and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.


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<f>[25†]</f>When we cried out to the LORD, He heard our voice and <f>[26†]</f>sent the Angel and brought us up out of Egypt; now here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your border.


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Please <f>[27†]</f>let us pass through your country. We will not pass through fields or vineyards, nor will we drink water from wells; we will go along the King’s Highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your territory.’ ”


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<pb/>Then <f>[28†]</f>Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through my <i>land,</i> lest I come out against you with the sword.”


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<pb/>So the children of Israel said to him, “We will go by the Highway, and if I or my livestock drink any of your water, <f>[29†]</f>then I will pay for it; let me only pass through on foot, nothing <i>more.</i>”


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<pb/>Then he said, <f>[30†]</f>“You shall not pass through.” So Edom came out against them with many men and with a strong hand.


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Thus Edom <f>[31†]</f>refused to give Israel passage through his territory; so Israel <f>[32†]</f>turned away from him.


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<pb/>Now the children of Israel, the whole congregation, journeyed from <f>[33†]</f>Kadesh <f>[34†]</f>and came to Mount Hor.


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“Aaron shall be <f>[35†]</f>gathered to his people, for he shall not enter the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against My word at the water of Meribah.


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and strip Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son; for Aaron shall be gathered <i>to</i> <i>his</i> <i>people</i> and die there.”


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So Moses did just as the LORD commanded, and they went up to Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.


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<f>[37†]</f>Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son; and <f>[38†]</f>Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.


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Now when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, all the house of Israel mourned for Aaron <f>[39†]</f>thirty days.


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<pb/>The <f>[1†]</f>king of Arad, the Canaanite, who dwelt in the South, heard that Israel was coming on the road to Atharim. Then he fought against Israel and took <i>some</i> of them prisoners.


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<f>[2†]</f>So Israel made a vow to the LORD, and said, “If You will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then <f>[3†]</f>I will utterly destroy their cities.”


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And the LORD listened to the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites, and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. So the name of that place was called Hormah.


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<pb/>Then they journeyed from Mount Hor by the Way of the Red Sea, to <f>[4†]</f>go around the land of Edom; and the soul of the people became very discouraged on the way.


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And the people <f>[5†]</f>spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no food and no water, and our soul loathes this worthless bread.”


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So <f>[6†]</f>the LORD sent <f>[7†]</f>fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many of the people of Israel died.


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<pb/> <f>[8†]</f>Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, “We have <f>[9†]</f>sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you; <f>[10†]</f>pray to the LORD that He take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.


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<pb/>Then the LORD said to Moses, <f>[11†]</f>“Make a <f>[12†]</f>fiery <i>serpent,</i> and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.”


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So <f>[13†]</f>Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.


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And they journeyed from Oboth and camped at Ije Abarim, in the wilderness which <i>is</i> east of Moab, toward the sunrise.


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From there they moved and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which <i>is</i> in the wilderness that extends from the border of the Amorites; for <f>[16†]</f>the Arnon <i>is</i> the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.


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Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD: <pb/><t>“Waheb in Suphah, </t><t>The brooks of the Arnon,</t>


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<t>And the slope of the brooks </t><t>That reaches to the dwelling of <f>[17†]</f>Ar, </t><t>And lies on the border of Moab.”</t>


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<pb/>From there <i>they</i> <i>went</i> <f>[18†]</f>to Beer, which <i>is</i> the well where the LORD said to Moses, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.”


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Then Israel sang this song: <pb/><t> <f>[19†]</f>“Spring up, O well! </t><t>All of you sing to it—</t>


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<t>The well the leaders sank, </t><t>Dug by the nation’s nobles, </t><t>By the <f>[20†]</f>lawgiver, with their staves.” </t> <pb/>And from the wilderness <i>they</i> <i>went</i> to Mattanah,


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and from Bamoth, <i>in</i> the valley that <i>is</i> in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah which looks <f>[21†]</f>down on the wasteland.


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<f>[23†]</f>“Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into fields or vineyards; we will not drink water from wells. We will go by the King’s Highway until we have passed through your territory.”


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<f>[24†]</f>But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his territory. So Sihon gathered all his people together and went out against Israel in the wilderness, <f>[25†]</f>and he came to Jahaz and fought against Israel.


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Then <f>[26†]</f>Israel defeated him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the people of Ammon; for the border of the people of Ammon <i>was</i> fortified.


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So Israel took all these cities, and Israel <f>[27†]</f>dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all its villages.


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For Heshbon <i>was</i> the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and had taken all his land from his hand as far as the Arnon.


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Therefore those who speak in proverbs say: <pb/><t>“Come to Heshbon, let it be built; </t><t>Let the city of Sihon be repaired.</t>


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<t>“For <f>[28†]</f>fire went out from Heshbon, </t><t>A flame from the city of Sihon; </t><t>It consumed <f>[29†]</f>Ar of Moab, </t><t>The lords of the <f>[30†]</f>heights of the Arnon.</t>


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<t>Woe to you, <f>[31†]</f>Moab! </t><t>You have perished, O people of <f>[32†]</f>Chemosh! </t><t>He has given his <f>[33†]</f>sons as fugitives, </t><t>And his <f>[34†]</f>daughters into captivity, </t><t>To Sihon king of the Amorites.</t>


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<t>“But we have shot at them; </t><t>Heshbon has perished <f>[35†]</f>as far as Dibon. </t><t>Then we laid waste as far as Nophah, </t><t>Which <i>reaches</i> to <f>[36†]</f>Medeba.”</t>


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Then Moses sent to spy out <f>[37†]</f>Jazer; and they took its villages and drove out the Amorites who <i>were</i> there.


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<pb/> <f>[38†]</f>And they turned and went up by the way to <f>[39†]</f>Bashan. So Og king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle <f>[40†]</f>at Edrei.


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Then the LORD said to Moses, <f>[41†]</f>“Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, with all his people and his land; and <f>[42†]</f>you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.”


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<f>[43†]</f>So they defeated him, his sons, and all his people, until there was no survivor left him; and they took possession of his land.


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<pb/>Then <f>[1†]</f>the children of Israel moved, and camped in the plains of Moab on the side of the Jordan <i>across</i> <i>from</i> Jericho.


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And <f>[3†]</f>Moab was exceedingly afraid of the people because they <i>were</i> many, and Moab was sick with dread because of the children of Israel.


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So Moab said to <f>[4†]</f>the elders of Midian, “Now this company will lick up everything around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.” And Balak the son of Zippor <i>was</i> king of the Moabites at that time.


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Then <f>[5†]</f>he sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor at <f>[6†]</f>Pethor, which <i>is</i> near the River in the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying: “Look, a people has come from Egypt. See, they cover the face of the earth, and are settling next to me!


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<f>[7†]</f>Therefore please come at once, <f>[8†]</f>curse this people for me, for they <i>are</i> too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land, for I know that he whom you bless <i>is</i> blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”


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<pb/>So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the <f>[9†]</f>diviner’s fee in their hand, and they came to Balaam and spoke to him the words of Balak.


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And he said to them, <f>[10†]</f>“Lodge here tonight, and I will bring back word to you, as the LORD speaks to me.” So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.


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‘Look, a people has come out of Egypt, and they cover the face of the earth. Come now, curse them for me; perhaps I shall be able to overpower them and drive them out.’ ”


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<pb/>And God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for <f>[12†]</f>they <i>are</i> blessed.”


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<pb/>So Balaam rose in the morning and said to the princes of Balak, “Go back to your land, for the LORD has refused to give me permission to go with you.”


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And they came to Balaam and said to him, “Thus says Balak the son of Zippor: ‘Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me;


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for I will certainly <f>[13†]</f>honor you greatly, and I will do whatever you say to me. <f>[14†]</f>Therefore please come, curse this people for me.’ ”


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<pb/>Then Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, <f>[15†]</f>“Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, <f>[16†]</f>I could not go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.


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Now therefore, please, you also <f>[17†]</f>stay here tonight, that I may know what more the LORD will say to me.”


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<pb/> <f>[18†]</f>And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, “If the men come to call you, rise <i>and</i> go with them; but <f>[19†]</f>only the word which I speak to you—that you shall do.”


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<pb/>Then God’s anger was aroused because he went, <f>[20†]</f>and the Angel of the LORD took His stand in the way as an adversary against him. And he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants <i>were</i> with him.


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Now <f>[21†]</f>the donkey saw the Angel of the LORD standing in the way with His drawn sword in His hand, and the donkey turned aside out of the way and went into the field. So Balaam struck the donkey to turn her back onto the road.


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Then the Angel of the LORD stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, <i>with</i> a wall on this side and a wall on that side.


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And when the donkey saw the Angel of the LORD, she pushed herself against the wall and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall; so he struck her again.


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Then the Angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place where there <i>was</i> no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.


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And when the donkey saw the Angel of the LORD, she lay down under Balaam; so Balaam’s anger was aroused, and he struck the donkey with his staff.


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<pb/>Then the LORD <f>[22†]</f>opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”


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<pb/>And Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have abused me. I wish there were a sword in my hand, <f>[23†]</f>for now I would kill you!”


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<pb/> <f>[24†]</f>So the donkey said to Balaam, “<i>Am</i> I not your donkey on which you have ridden, ever since <i>I</i> <i>became</i> yours, to this day? Was I ever disposed to do this to you?” <pb/>And he said, “No.”


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<pb/>Then the LORD <f>[25†]</f>opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the Angel of the LORD standing in the way with His drawn sword in His hand; and he bowed his head and fell flat on his face.


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And the Angel of the LORD said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to stand against you, because <i>your</i> way is <f>[26†]</f>perverse before Me.


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The donkey saw Me and turned aside from Me these three times. If she had not turned aside from Me, surely I would also have killed you by now, and let her live.”


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<pb/>And Balaam said to the Angel of the LORD, <f>[27†]</f>“I have sinned, for I did not know You stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases You, I will turn back.”


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<pb/>Then the Angel of the LORD said to Balaam, “Go with the men, <f>[28†]</f>but only the word that I speak to you, that you shall speak.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.


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<pb/>Now when Balak heard that Balaam was coming, <f>[29†]</f>he went out to meet him at the city of Moab, <f>[30†]</f>which <i>is</i> on the border at the Arnon, the boundary of the territory.


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Then Balak said to Balaam, “Did I not earnestly send to you, calling for you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able <f>[31†]</f>to honor you?”


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<pb/>And Balaam said to Balak, “Look, I have come to you! Now, have I any power at all to say anything? <f>[32†]</f>The word that God puts in my mouth, that I must speak.”


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Then Balak offered oxen and sheep, and he sent <i>some</i> to Balaam and to the princes who <i>were</i> with him.


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<pb/>So it was, the next day, that Balak took Balaam and brought him up to the <f>[33†]</f>high places of Baal, that from there he might observe the extent of the people.


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<pb/>Then Balaam said to Balak, <f>[1†]</f>“Build seven altars for me here, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.”


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<pb/>And Balak did just as Balaam had spoken, and Balak and Balaam <f>[2†]</f>offered a bull and a ram on <i>each</i> altar.


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Then Balaam said to Balak, <f>[3†]</f>“Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps the LORD will come <f>[4†]</f>to meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you.” So he went to a desolate height.


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<f>[5†]</f>And God met Balaam, and he said to Him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered on <i>each</i> altar a bull and a ram.”


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<pb/>Then the LORD <f>[6†]</f>put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”


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So he returned to him, and there he was, standing by his burnt offering, he and all the princes of Moab.


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<pb/>And he <f>[7†]</f>took up his oracle and said: <pb/><t>“Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, </t><t>From the mountains of the east. </t><t> <f>[8†]</f>‘Come, curse Jacob for me, </t><t>And come, <f>[9†]</f>denounce Israel!’</t>


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<t>“How <f>[10†]</f> shall I curse whom God has not cursed? </t><t>And how shall I denounce <i>whom</i> the LORD has not denounced?</t>


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<t>For from the top of the rocks I see him, </t><t>And from the hills I behold him; </t><t>There! <f>[11†]</f>A people dwelling alone, </t><t> <f>[12†]</f>Not reckoning itself among the nations.</t>


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<t>“Who <f>[13†]</f> can count the dust of Jacob, </t><t>Or number one-fourth of Israel? </t><t>Let me die <f>[14†]</f>the death of the righteous, </t><t>And let my end be like his!”</t>


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<pb/>Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? <f>[15†]</f>I took you to curse my enemies, and look, you have blessed <i>them</i> bountifully!”


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<pb/>So he answered and said, <f>[16†]</f>“Must I not take heed to speak what the LORD has put in my mouth?”


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<pb/>Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place from which you may see them; you shall see only the outer part of them, and shall not see them all; curse them for me from there.”


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So he brought him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, <f>[17†]</f>and built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on <i>each</i> altar.


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<pb/>And he said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering while I meet <i>the</i> <i>LORD</i> over there.”


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<pb/>Then the LORD met Balaam, and <f>[18†]</f>put a word in his mouth, and said, “Go back to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”


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So he came to him, and there he was, standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab were with him. And Balak said to him, “What has the LORD spoken?”


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<pb/>Then he took up his oracle and said: <pb/><t> <f>[19†]</f>“Rise up, Balak, and hear! </t><t>Listen to me, son of Zippor!</t>


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<t>“God <f>[20†]</f> <i>is</i> not a man, that He should lie, </t><t>Nor a son of man, that He should repent. </t><t>Has He <f>[21†]</f>said, and will He not do? </t><t>Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?</t>


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<t>Behold, I have received <i>a</i> <i>command</i> to bless; </t><t> <f>[22†]</f>He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.</t>


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<t>“He <f>[23†]</f> has not observed iniquity in Jacob, </t><t>Nor has He seen wickedness in Israel. </t><t>The LORD his God <i>is</i> with him, </t><t> <f>[24†]</f>And the shout of a King <i>is</i> among them.</t>


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<t> <f>[25†]</f>God brings them out of Egypt; </t><t>He has <f>[26†]</f>strength like a wild ox.</t>


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<t>“For <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no sorcery against Jacob, </t><t>Nor any divination against Israel. </t><t>It now must be said of Jacob </t><t>And of Israel, ‘Oh, <f>[27†]</f>what God has done!’</t>


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<t>Look, a people rises <f>[28†]</f>like a lioness, </t><t>And lifts itself up like a lion; </t><t> <f>[29†]</f>It shall not lie down until it devours the prey, </t><t>And drinks the blood of the slain.”</t>


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<pb/>So Balaam answered and said to Balak, “Did I not tell you, saying, <f>[30†]</f>‘All that the LORD speaks, that I must do’?”


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<pb/>Then Balak said to Balaam, “Please come, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.”


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Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.”


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<pb/>Now when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not go as at <f>[1†]</f>other times, to seek to use sorcery, but he set his face toward the wilderness.


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And Balaam raised his eyes, and saw Israel <f>[2†]</f>encamped according to their tribes; and <f>[3†]</f>the Spirit of God came upon him.


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<pb/> <f>[4†]</f>Then he took up his oracle and said: <pb/><t>“The utterance of Balaam the son of Beor, </t><t>The utterance of the man whose eyes are opened,</t>


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<t>The utterance of him who hears the words of God, </t><t>Who sees the vision of the Almighty, </t><t>Who <f>[5†]</f>falls down, with eyes wide open:</t>


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<t>Like valleys that stretch out, </t><t> <f>[6†]</f>Like gardens by the riverside, </t><t>Like aloes <f>[7†]</f>planted by the LORD, </t><t>Like cedars beside the waters.</t>


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<t>He shall pour water from his buckets, </t><t>And his seed <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> <f>[8†]</f>in many waters. </t><t>“His king shall be higher than <f>[9†]</f>Agag, </t><t>And his <f>[10†]</f>kingdom shall be exalted.</t>


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<t>“God <f>[11†]</f> brings him out of Egypt; </t><t>He has strength like a wild ox; </t><t>He shall <f>[12†]</f>consume the nations, his enemies; </t><t>He shall <f>[13†]</f>break their bones </t><t>And <f>[14†]</f>pierce <i>them</i> with his arrows.</t>


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<t>‘He <f>[15†]</f> bows down, he lies down as a lion; </t><t>And as a lion, who shall rouse him?’ </t><t> <f>[16†]</f>“Blessed <i>is</i> he who blesses you, </t><t>And cursed <i>is</i> he who curses you.”</t>


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<pb/>Then Balak’s anger was aroused against Balaam, and he <f>[17†]</f>struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, <f>[18†]</f>“I called you to curse my enemies, and look, you have bountifully blessed <i>them</i> these three times!


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Now therefore, flee to your place. <f>[19†]</f>I said I would greatly honor you, but in fact, the LORD has kept you back from honor.”


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‘If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the word of the LORD, to do good or bad of my own will. What the LORD says, that I must speak’?


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And now, indeed, I am going to my people. Come, <f>[20†]</f>I will advise you what this people will do to your people in the <f>[21†]</f>latter days.”


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<pb/>So he took up his oracle and said: <pb/><t>“The utterance of Balaam the son of Beor, </t><t>And the utterance of the man whose eyes are opened;</t>


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<t>The utterance of him who hears the words of God, </t><t>And has the knowledge of the Most High, </t><t><i>Who</i> sees the vision of the Almighty, </t><t><i>Who</i> falls down, with eyes wide open:</t>


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<t>“I <f>[22†]</f> see Him, but not now; </t><t>I behold Him, but not near; </t><t> <f>[23†]</f>A Star shall come out of Jacob; </t><t> <f>[24†]</f>A Scepter shall rise out of Israel, </t><t>And batter the brow of Moab, </t><t>And destroy all the sons of tumult.</t>


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<t>“And <f>[25†]</f>Edom shall be a possession; </t><t>Seir also, his enemies, shall be a possession, </t><t>While Israel does valiantly.</t>


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<t> <f>[26†]</f>Out of Jacob One shall have dominion, </t><t>And destroy the remains of the city.”</t>


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<pb/>Then he looked on Amalek, and he took up his oracle and said: <pb/><t>“Amalek <i>was</i> first among the nations, </t><t>But <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> last until he perishes.”</t>


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<pb/>Then he looked on the Kenites, and he took up his oracle and said: <pb/><t>“Firm is your dwelling place, </t><t>And your nest is set in the rock;</t>


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<t>But ships <i>shall</i> <i>come</i> from the coasts of <f>[27†]</f>Cyprus, </t><t>And they shall afflict Asshur and afflict <f>[28†]</f>Eber, </t><t>And so shall <i>Amalek,</i> until he perishes.”</t>


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<pb/>Now Israel remained in <f>[1†]</f>Acacia Grove, and the <f>[2†]</f>people began to commit harlotry with the women of Moab.


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<f>[3†]</f>They invited the people to <f>[4†]</f>the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and <f>[5†]</f>bowed down to their gods.


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So Israel was joined to Baal of Peor, and <f>[6†]</f>the anger of the LORD was aroused against Israel.


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<pb/>Then the LORD said to Moses, <f>[7†]</f>“Take all the leaders of the people and hang the offenders before the LORD, out in the sun, <f>[8†]</f>that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel.”


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<pb/>So Moses said to <f>[9†]</f>the judges of Israel, <f>[10†]</f>“Every one of you kill his men who were joined to Baal of Peor.”


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<pb/>And indeed, one of the children of Israel came and presented to his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, <f>[11†]</f>who <i>were</i> weeping at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.


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Now <f>[12†]</f>when Phinehas <f>[13†]</f>the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw <i>it,</i> he rose from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand;


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and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So <f>[14†]</f>the plague was <f>[15†]</f>stopped among the children of Israel.


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<f>[17†]</f>“Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the children of Israel, because he was zealous with My zeal among them, so that I did not consume the children of Israel in <f>[18†]</f>My zeal.


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and it shall be to him and <f>[21†]</f>his descendants after him a covenant of <f>[22†]</f>an everlasting priesthood, because he was <f>[23†]</f>zealous for his God, and <f>[24†]</f>made atonement for the children of Israel.’ ”


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<pb/>Now the name of the Israelite who was killed, who was killed with the Midianite woman, <i>was</i> Zimri the son of Salu, a leader of a father’s house among the Simeonites.


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And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed <i>was</i> Cozbi the daughter of <f>[25†]</f>Zur; he <i>was</i> head of the people of a father’s house in Midian.


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for they harassed you with their <f>[27†]</f>schemes by which they seduced you in the matter of Peor and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a leader of Midian, their sister, who was killed in the day of the plague because of Peor.”


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<pb/>And it came to pass, after the <f>[1†]</f>plague, that the LORD spoke to Moses and Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying:


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<f>[2†]</f>“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel <f>[3†]</f>from twenty years old and above, by their fathers’ houses, all who are able to go to war in Israel.”


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So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them <f>[4†]</f>in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, <i>across</i> <i>from</i> Jericho, saying:


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“<i>Take</i> <i>a</i> <i>census</i> <i>of</i> <i>the</i> <i>people</i> from twenty years old and above, just as the LORD <f>[5†]</f>commanded Moses and the children of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt.”


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<pb/> <f>[6†]</f>Reuben <i>was</i> the firstborn of Israel. The children of Reuben <i>were: of</i> Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; <i>of</i> Pallu, the family of the Palluites;


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These <i>are</i> the families of the Reubenites: those who were numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.


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The sons of Eliab <i>were</i> Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These <i>are</i> the Dathan and Abiram, <f>[7†]</f>representatives of the congregation, who contended against Moses and Aaron in the company of Korah, when they contended against the LORD;


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<f>[8†]</f>and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died, when the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men; <f>[9†]</f>and they became a sign.


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<pb/>The sons of Simeon according to their families <i>were: of</i> Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; <i>of</i> Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; <i>of</i> Jachin, the family of the Jachinites;


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<pb/>The sons of Gad according to their families <i>were: of</i> Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; <i>of</i> Haggi, the family of the Haggites; <i>of</i> Shuni, the family of the Shunites;


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These <i>are</i> the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were numbered of them: forty thousand five hundred.


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<pb/> <f>[11†]</f>The sons of Judah <i>were</i> Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.


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And <f>[12†]</f>the sons of Judah according to their families were: <i>of</i> Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; <i>of</i> Perez, the family of the Parzites; <i>of</i> Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.


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And the sons of Perez were: <i>of</i> Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; <i>of</i> Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.


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These <i>are</i> the families of Judah according to those who were numbered of them: seventy-six thousand five hundred.


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<pb/>The sons of Issachar according to their families <i>were: of</i> Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puah, the family of the Punites;


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These <i>are</i> the families of Issachar according to those who were numbered of them: sixty-four thousand three hundred.


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<pb/> <f>[13†]</f>The sons of Zebulun according to their families <i>were:</i> of Sered, the family of the Sardites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.


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These <i>are</i> the families of the Zebulunites according to those who were numbered of them: sixty thousand five hundred.


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<pb/> <f>[14†]</f>The sons of Joseph according to their families, by Manasseh and Ephraim, <i>were:</i>


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The sons of <f>[15†]</f>Manasseh: of <f>[16†]</f>Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir begot Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.


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These <i>are</i> the sons of Gilead: <i>of</i> Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites;


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Now <f>[17†]</f>Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad <i>were</i> Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.


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These <i>are</i> the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them <i>were</i> fifty-two thousand seven hundred.


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<pb/>These <i>are</i> the sons of Ephraim according to their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites; of Becher, the family of the Bachrites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.


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These <i>are</i> the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were numbered of them: thirty-two thousand five hundred. <pb/>These <i>are</i> the sons of Joseph according to their families.


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<pb/> <f>[18†]</f>The sons of Benjamin according to their families were: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of <f>[19†]</f>Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;


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And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: <f>[21†]</f><i>of</i> <i>Ard,</i> the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.


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These <i>are</i> the sons of Benjamin according to their families; and those who were numbered of them <i>were</i> forty-five thousand six hundred.


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<pb/>These <i>are</i> the sons of Dan according to their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These <i>are</i> the families of Dan according to their families.


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All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were numbered of them, <i>were</i> sixty-four thousand four hundred.


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<pb/> <f>[22†]</f>The sons of Asher according to their families <i>were:</i> of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites; of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites; of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.


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Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.


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These <i>are</i> the families of the sons of Asher according to those who were numbered of them: fifty-three thousand four hundred.


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<pb/> <f>[23†]</f>The sons of Naphtali according to their families <i>were:</i> of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;


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These <i>are</i> the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who were numbered of them <i>were</i> forty-five thousand four hundred.


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<pb/> <f>[25†]</f>These <i>are</i> those who were numbered of the children of Israel: six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty.


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<f>[26†]</f>“To these the land shall be <f>[27†]</f>divided as an inheritance, according to the number of names.


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<f>[28†]</f>To a large <i>tribe</i> you shall give a larger inheritance, and to a small <i>tribe</i> you shall give a smaller inheritance. Each shall be given its inheritance according to those who were numbered of them.


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But the land shall be <f>[29†]</f>divided by lot; they shall inherit according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.


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<pb/> <f>[30†]</f>And these <i>are</i> those who were numbered of the Levites according to their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.


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These <i>are</i> the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, and the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begot Amram.


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The name of Amram’s wife <i>was</i> <f>[31†]</f>Jochebed the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt; and to Amram she bore Aaron and Moses and their sister Miriam.


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<pb/> <f>[34†]</f>Now those who were numbered of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and above; <f>[35†]</f>for they were not numbered among the other children of Israel, because there was <f>[36†]</f>no inheritance given to them among the children of Israel.


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<pb/>These <i>are</i> those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel <f>[37†]</f>in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, <i>across</i> <i>from</i> Jericho.


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<f>[38†]</f>But among these there was not a man of those who were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the children of Israel in the <f>[39†]</f>Wilderness of Sinai.


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For the LORD had said of them, “They <f>[40†]</f>shall surely die in the wilderness.” So there was not left a man of them, <f>[41†]</f>except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.


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<pb/>Then came the daughters of <f>[1†]</f>Zelophehad the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, from the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph; and these <i>were</i> the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.


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And they stood before Moses, before Eleazar the priest, and before the leaders and all the congregation, <i>by</i> the doorway of the tabernacle of meeting, saying:


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“Our father <f>[2†]</f>died in the wilderness; but he was not in the company of those who gathered together against the LORD, <f>[3†]</f>in company with Korah, but he died in his own sin; and he had no sons.


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Why should the name of our father be <f>[4†]</f>removed from among his family because he had no son? <f>[5†]</f>Give us a possession among our father’s brothers.”


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“The daughters of Zelophehad speak <i>what</i> <i>is</i> right; <f>[7†]</f>you shall surely give them a possession of inheritance among their father’s brothers, and cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.


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And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘If a man dies and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.


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And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to the relative closest to him in his family, and he shall possess it.’ ” And it shall be to the children of Israel <f>[8†]</f>a statute of judgment, just as the LORD commanded Moses.


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<pb/>Now the LORD said to Moses: <f>[9†]</f>“Go up into this Mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.


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And when you have seen it, you also <f>[10†]</f>shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered.


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For in the Wilderness of Zin, during the strife of the congregation, you <f>[11†]</f>rebelled against My command to hallow Me at the waters before their eyes.” (These <i>are</i> the <f>[12†]</f>waters of Meribah, at Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin.)


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<f>[14†]</f>who may go out before them and go in before them, who may lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the LORD may not be <f>[15†]</f>like sheep which have no shepherd.”


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<pb/>And the LORD said to Moses: “Take Joshua the son of Nun with you, a man <f>[16†]</f>in whom <i>is</i> the Spirit, and <f>[17†]</f>lay your hand on him;


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set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation, and <f>[18†]</f>inaugurate him in their sight.


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And <f>[19†]</f>you shall give <i>some</i> of your authority to him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel <f>[20†]</f>may be obedient.


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<f>[21†]</f>He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire before the LORD for him <f>[22†]</f>by the judgment of the Urim. <f>[23†]</f>At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, he and all the children of Israel with him—all the congregation.”


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<pb/>So Moses did as the LORD commanded him. He took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation.


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And he laid his hands on him <f>[24†]</f>and inaugurated him, just as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.


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“Command the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘My offering, <f>[1†]</f>My food for My offerings made by fire as a sweet aroma to Me, you shall be careful to offer to Me at their appointed time.’


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<pb/>“And you shall say to them, <f>[2†]</f>‘This <i>is</i> the offering made by fire which you shall offer to the LORD: two male lambs in their first year without blemish, day by day, as a regular burnt offering.


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and <f>[3†]</f>one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a <f>[4†]</f>grain offering mixed with one-fourth of a hin of pressed oil.


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<i>It</i> <i>is</i> <f>[5†]</f>a regular burnt offering which was ordained at Mount Sinai for a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.


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And its drink offering <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> one-fourth of a hin for each lamb; <f>[6†]</f>in a holy <i>place</i> you shall pour out the drink to the LORD as an offering.


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The other lamb you shall offer in the evening; as the morning grain offering and its drink offering, you shall offer <i>it</i> as an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.


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<pb/>‘And on the Sabbath day two lambs in their first year, without blemish, and two-tenths <i>of</i> <i>an</i> <i>ephah</i> of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil, with its drink offering—


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<i>this</i> <i>is</i> <f>[7†]</f>the burnt offering for every Sabbath, besides the regular burnt offering with its drink offering.


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<pb/> <f>[8†]</f>‘At the beginnings of your months you shall present a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year, without blemish;


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<f>[9†]</f>three-tenths <i>of</i> <i>an</i> <i>ephah</i> of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil, for each bull; two-tenths <i>of</i> <i>an</i> <i>ephah</i> of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram;


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and one-tenth <i>of</i> <i>an</i> <i>ephah</i> of fine flour, mixed with oil, as a grain offering for each lamb, as a burnt offering of sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.


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Their drink offering shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, one-third of a hin for a ram, and one-fourth of a hin for a lamb; this <i>is</i> the burnt offering for each month throughout the months of the year.


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Also <f>[10†]</f>one kid of the goats as a sin offering to the LORD shall be offered, besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.


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<f>[12†]</f>And on the fifteenth day of this month <i>is</i> the feast; unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days.


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On the <f>[13†]</f>first day <i>you</i> <i>shall</i> <i>have</i> a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work.


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And you shall present an offering made by fire as a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year. <f>[14†]</f>Be sure they are without blemish.


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Their grain offering shall be of fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths <i>of</i> <i>an</i> <i>ephah</i> you shall offer for a bull, and two-tenths for a ram;


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You shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which <i>is</i> for a regular burnt offering.


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In this manner you shall offer the food of the offering made by fire daily for seven days, as a sweet aroma to the LORD; it shall be offered besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.


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And <f>[16†]</f>on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work.


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<pb/>‘Also <f>[17†]</f>on the day of the firstfruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the LORD at your <i>Feast</i> <i>of</i> Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work.


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You shall present a burnt offering as a sweet aroma to the LORD: <f>[18†]</f>two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year,


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with their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths <i>of</i> <i>an</i> <i>ephah</i> for each bull, two-tenths for the one ram,


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<f>[19†]</f>Be sure they are without blemish. You shall present <i>them</i> with their drink offerings, besides the regular burnt offering with its grain offering.


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<pb/>‘And in the seventh month, on the first <i>day</i> of the month, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work. For you <f>[1†]</f>it is a day of blowing the trumpets.


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You shall offer a burnt offering as a sweet aroma to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, <i>and</i> seven lambs in their first year, without blemish.


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Their grain offering <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths <i>of</i> <i>an</i> <i>ephah</i> for the bull, two-tenths for the ram,


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besides <f>[2†]</f>the burnt offering with its grain offering for the New Moon, <f>[3†]</f>the regular burnt offering with its grain offering, and their drink offerings, <f>[4†]</f>according to their ordinance, as a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.


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<pb/> <f>[5†]</f>‘On the tenth <i>day</i> of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall <f>[6†]</f>afflict your souls; you shall not do any work.


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You shall present a burnt offering to the LORD <i>as</i> a sweet aroma: one young bull, one ram, <i>and</i> seven lambs in their first year. <f>[7†]</f>Be sure they are without blemish.


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Their grain offering <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> <i>of</i> fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths <i>of</i> <i>an</i> <i>ephah</i> for the bull, two-tenths for the one ram,


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also one kid of the goats <i>as</i> a sin offering, besides <f>[8†]</f>the sin offering for atonement, the regular burnt offering with its grain offering, and their drink offerings.


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<pb/> <f>[9†]</f>‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work, and you shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days.


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<f>[10†]</f>You shall present a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a sweet aroma to the LORD: thirteen young bulls, two rams, <i>and</i> fourteen lambs in their first year. They shall be without blemish.


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Their grain offering <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> <i>of</i> fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths <i>of</i> <i>an</i> <i>ephah</i> for each of the thirteen bulls, two-tenths for each of the two rams,


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also one kid of the goats <i>as</i> a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering.


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<pb/>‘On the <f>[11†]</f>second day <i>present</i> twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs in their first year without blemish,


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and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, <f>[12†]</f>according to the ordinance;


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also one kid of the goats <i>as</i> a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering with its grain offering, and their drink offerings.


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<pb/>‘On the third day <i>present</i> eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs in their first year without blemish,


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and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, <f>[13†]</f>according to the ordinance;


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also one goat <i>as</i> a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering.


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<pb/>‘On the fourth day <i>present</i> ten bulls, two rams, <i>and</i> fourteen lambs in their first year, without blemish,


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and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the ordinance;


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<pb/>‘On the fifth day <i>present</i> nine bulls, two rams, <i>and</i> fourteen lambs in their first year without blemish,


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<pb/>‘On the sixth day <i>present</i> eight bulls, two rams, <i>and</i> fourteen lambs in their first year without blemish,


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<pb/>‘On the seventh day <i>present</i> seven bulls, two rams, <i>and</i> fourteen lambs in their first year without blemish,


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<pb/>‘On the eighth day you shall have a <f>[14†]</f>sacred assembly. You shall do no customary work.


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You shall present a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a sweet aroma to the LORD: one bull, one ram, seven lambs in their first year without blemish,


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and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the ordinance;


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<pb/>‘These you shall present to the LORD at <f>[15†]</f>your appointed feasts (besides your <f>[16†]</f>vowed offerings and your freewill offerings) as your burnt offerings and your grain offerings, as your drink offerings and your peace offerings.’ ”


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<pb/>Then Moses spoke to <f>[1†]</f>the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, “This <i>is</i> the thing which the LORD has commanded:


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<f>[2†]</f>If a man makes a vow to the LORD, or <f>[3†]</f>swears an oath to bind himself by some agreement, he shall not break his word; he shall <f>[4†]</f>do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.


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<pb/>“Or if a woman makes a vow to the LORD, and binds <i>herself</i> by some agreement while in her father’s house in her youth,


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and her father hears her vow and the agreement by which she has bound herself, and her father holds his peace, then all her vows shall stand, and every agreement with which she has bound herself shall stand.


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But if her father overrules her on the day that he hears, then none of her vows nor her agreements by which she has bound herself shall stand; and the LORD will release her, because her father overruled her.


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<pb/>“If indeed she takes a husband, while bound by her vows or by a rash utterance from her lips by which she bound herself,


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and her husband hears <i>it,</i> and makes no response to her on the day that he hears, then her vows shall stand, and her agreements by which she bound herself shall stand.


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But if her husband <f>[5†]</f>overrules her on the day that he hears <i>it,</i> he shall make void her vow which she took and what she uttered with her lips, by which she bound herself, and the LORD will release her.


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<pb/>“Also any vow of a widow or a divorced woman, by which she has bound herself, shall stand against her.


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and her husband heard <i>it,</i> and made no response to her <i>and</i> did not overrule her, then all her vows shall stand, and every agreement by which she bound herself shall stand.


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But if her husband truly made them void on the day he heard <i>them,</i> then whatever proceeded from her lips concerning her vows or concerning the agreement binding her, it shall not stand; her husband has made them void, and the LORD will release her.


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Every vow and every binding oath to afflict her soul, her husband may confirm it, or her husband may make it void.


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Now if her husband makes no response whatever to her from day to day, then he confirms all her vows or all the agreements that bind her; he confirms them, because he made no response to her on the day that he heard <i>them.</i>


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<pb/>These <i>are</i> the statutes which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, and between a father and his daughter in her youth in her father’s house.


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<f>[1†]</f>“Take vengeance on the Midianites for the children of Israel. Afterward you shall <f>[2†]</f>be gathered to your people.”


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<pb/>So Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm some of yourselves for war, and let them go against the Midianites to take vengeance for the LORD on <f>[3†]</f>Midian.


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<pb/>So there were recruited from the divisions of Israel one thousand from <i>each</i> tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.


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Then Moses sent them to the war, one thousand from <i>each</i> tribe; he sent them to the war with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, with the holy articles and <f>[4†]</f>the signal trumpets in his hand.


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And they warred against the Midianites, just as the LORD commanded Moses, and <f>[5†]</f>they killed all the <f>[6†]</f>males.


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They killed the kings of Midian with <i>the</i> <i>rest</i> <i>of</i> those who were killed— <f>[7†]</f>Evi, Rekem, <f>[8†]</f>Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. <f>[9†]</f>Balaam the son of Beor they also killed with the sword.


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<pb/>And the children of Israel took the women of Midian captive, with their little ones, and took as spoil all their cattle, all their flocks, and all their goods.


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<pb/>Then they brought the captives, the booty, and the spoil to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, <i>across</i> <i>from</i> Jericho.


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And Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the congregation, went to meet them outside the camp.


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But Moses was angry with the officers of the army, <i>with</i> the captains over thousands and captains over hundreds, who had come from the battle.


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Look, <f>[12†]</f>these <i>women</i> caused the children of Israel, through the <f>[13†]</f>counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the LORD in the incident of Peor, and <f>[14†]</f>there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.


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Now therefore, <f>[15†]</f>kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man intimately.


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And as for you, <f>[17†]</f>remain outside the camp seven days; whoever has killed any person, and <f>[18†]</f>whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.


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Purify every garment, everything made of leather, everything woven of goats’ <i>hair,</i> and everything made of wood.”


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<pb/>Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone to the battle, “This <i>is</i> the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses:


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everything that can endure fire, you shall put through the fire, and it shall be clean; and it shall be purified <f>[19†]</f>with the water of purification. But all that cannot endure fire you shall put through water.


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<f>[20†]</f>And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day and be clean, and afterward you may come into the camp.”


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“Count up the plunder that was taken—of man and beast—you and Eleazar the priest and the chief fathers of the congregation;


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and <f>[21†]</f>divide the plunder into two parts, between those who took part in the war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.


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And levy a tribute for the LORD on the men of war who went out to battle: <f>[22†]</f>one of every five hundred of the persons, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep;


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take <i>it</i> from their half, and <f>[23†]</f>give <i>it</i> to Eleazar the priest as a heave offering to the LORD.


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And from the children of Israel’s half you shall take <f>[24†]</f>one of every fifty, drawn from the persons, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep, from all the livestock, and give them to the Levites <f>[25†]</f>who keep charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.”


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<pb/>The booty remaining from the plunder, which the men of war had taken, was six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,


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And the half, the portion for those who had gone out to war, was in number three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep;


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The donkeys <i>were</i> thirty thousand five hundred, of which the LORD’s tribute <i>was</i> sixty-one.


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The persons <i>were</i> sixteen thousand, of which the LORD’s tribute <i>was</i> thirty-two persons.


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So Moses gave the tribute <i>which</i> <i>was</i> the LORD’s heave offering to Eleazar the priest, <f>[26†]</f>as the LORD commanded Moses.


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now the half belonging to the congregation was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,


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and <f>[27†]</f>from the children of Israel’s half Moses took one of every fifty, drawn from man and beast, and gave them to the Levites, who kept charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.


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<pb/>Then the officers who <i>were</i> over thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, came near to Moses;


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and they said to Moses, “Your servants have taken a count of the men of war who <i>are</i> under our command, and not a man of us is missing.


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Therefore we have brought an offering for the LORD, what every man found of ornaments of gold: armlets and bracelets and signet rings and earrings and necklaces, <f>[28†]</f>to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”


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And all the gold of the offering that they offered to the LORD, from the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.


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And Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of meeting <f>[30†]</f>as a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.


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<pb/>Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock; and when they saw the land of <f>[1†]</f>Jazer and the land of <f>[2†]</f>Gilead, that indeed the region <i>was</i> a place for livestock,


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the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the leaders of the congregation, saying,


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“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, <f>[3†]</f>Nimrah, <f>[4†]</f>Heshbon, Elealeh, <f>[5†]</f>Shebam, Nebo, and <f>[6†]</f>Beon,


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the country <f>[7†]</f>which the LORD defeated before the congregation of Israel, <i>is</i> a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.”


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Therefore they said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not take us over the Jordan.”


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<pb/>And Moses said to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben: “Shall your brethren go to war while you sit here?


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Now why will you <f>[8†]</f>discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them?


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Thus your fathers did <f>[9†]</f>when I sent them away from Kadesh Barnea <f>[10†]</f>to see the land.


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For <f>[11†]</f>when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, so that they did not go into the land which the LORD had given them.


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‘Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, <f>[13†]</f>from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because <f>[14†]</f>they have not wholly followed Me,


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except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, <f>[15†]</f>for they have wholly followed the LORD.’


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So the LORD’s anger was aroused against Israel, and He made them <f>[16†]</f>wander in the wilderness forty years, until <f>[17†]</f>all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was gone.


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And look! You have risen in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the <f>[18†]</f>fierce anger of the LORD against Israel.


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For if you <f>[19†]</f>turn away from following Him, He will once again leave them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all these people.”


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<pb/>Then they came near to him and said: “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones,


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but <f>[20†]</f>we ourselves will be armed, ready <i>to</i> <i>go</i> before the children of Israel until we have brought them to their place; and our little ones will dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.


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<f>[21†]</f>We will not return to our homes until every one of the children of Israel has received his inheritance.


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For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, <f>[22†]</f>because our inheritance has fallen to us on this eastern side of the Jordan.”


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<pb/>Then <f>[23†]</f>Moses said to them: “If you do this thing, if you arm yourselves before the LORD for the war,


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and all your armed men cross over the Jordan before the LORD until He has driven out His enemies from before Him,


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and <f>[24†]</f>the land is subdued before the LORD, then afterward <f>[25†]</f>you may return and be blameless before the LORD and before Israel; and <f>[26†]</f>this land shall be your possession before the LORD.


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But if you do not do so, then take note, you have sinned against the LORD; and be sure <f>[27†]</f>your sin will find you out.


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<f>[28†]</f>Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do what has proceeded out of your mouth.”


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<pb/>And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying: “Your servants will do as my lord commands.


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<f>[29†]</f>Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock will be there in the cities of Gilead;


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<f>[30†]</f>but your servants will cross over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, just as my lord says.”


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<pb/>So Moses gave command <f>[31†]</f>concerning them to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel.


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And Moses said to them: “If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben cross over the Jordan with you, every man armed for battle before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead as a possession.


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But if they do not cross over armed with you, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.”


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<pb/>Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying: “As the LORD has said to your servants, so we will do.


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We will cross over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, but the possession of our inheritance <i>shall</i> <i>remain</i> with us on this side of the Jordan.”


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<pb/>So <f>[32†]</f>Moses gave to the children of Gad, to the children of Reuben, and to half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, <f>[33†]</f>the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land with its cities within the borders, the cities of the surrounding country.


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<f>[40†]</f>Nebo and <f>[41†]</f>Baal Meon <f>[42†]</f>(<i>their</i> names being changed) and Shibmah; and they gave <i>other</i> names to the cities which they built.


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<pb/>And the children of <f>[43†]</f>Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who <i>were</i> in it.


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Also <f>[45†]</f>Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its small towns, and called them <f>[46†]</f>Havoth Jair.


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<pb/>These <i>are</i> the journeys of the children of Israel, who went out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the <f>[1†]</f>hand of Moses and Aaron.


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Now Moses wrote down the starting points of their journeys at the command of the LORD. And these <i>are</i> their journeys according to their starting points:


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<pb/>They <f>[2†]</f>departed from Rameses in <f>[3†]</f>the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the children of Israel went out <f>[4†]</f>with boldness in the sight of all the Egyptians.


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For the Egyptians were burying all <i>their</i> firstborn, <f>[5†]</f>whom the LORD had killed among them. Also <f>[6†]</f>on their gods the LORD had executed judgments.


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They departed from <f>[8†]</f>Succoth and camped at Etham, which <i>is</i> on the edge of the wilderness.


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<f>[9†]</f>They moved from Etham and turned back to Pi Hahiroth, which <i>is</i> east of Baal Zephon; and they camped near Migdol.


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They departed from before Hahiroth and <f>[10†]</f>passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, went three days’ journey in the Wilderness of Etham, and camped at Marah.


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They moved from Marah and <f>[11†]</f>came to Elim. At Elim <i>were</i> twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees; so they camped there.


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They moved from Alush and camped at <f>[13†]</f>Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.


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They moved from Ezion Geber and camped in the <f>[22†]</f>Wilderness of Zin, which <i>is</i> Kadesh.


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<pb/>Then <f>[24†]</f>Aaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the command of the LORD, and died there in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first <i>day</i> of the fifth month.


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<pb/>Now <f>[25†]</f>the king of Arad, the Canaanite, who dwelt in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.


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They departed from the mountains of Abarim and <f>[31†]</f>camped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, <i>across</i> <i>from</i> Jericho.


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They camped by the Jordan, from Beth Jesimoth as far as the <f>[32†]</f>Abel Acacia Grove in the plains of Moab.


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<pb/>Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, <i>across</i> <i>from</i> Jericho, saying,


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“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: <f>[33†]</f>‘When you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan,


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<f>[34†]</f>then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their engraved stones, destroy all their molded images, and demolish all their high places;


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you shall dispossess <i>the</i> <i>inhabitants</i> <i>of</i> the land and dwell in it, for I have given you the land to <f>[35†]</f>possess.


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And <f>[36†]</f>you shall divide the land by lot as an inheritance among your families; to the larger you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give a smaller inheritance; there everyone’s <i>inheritance</i> shall be whatever falls to him by lot. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.


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But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall be that those whom you let remain <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> <f>[37†]</f>irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land where you dwell.


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“Command the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into <f>[1†]</f>the land of Canaan, this <i>is</i> the land that shall fall to you as an inheritance—the land of Canaan to its boundaries.


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<f>[2†]</f>Your southern border shall be from the Wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom; then your southern border shall extend eastward to the end of <f>[3†]</f>the Salt Sea;


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your border shall turn from the southern side of <f>[4†]</f>the Ascent of Akrabbim, continue to Zin, and be on the south of <f>[5†]</f>Kadesh Barnea; then it shall go on to <f>[6†]</f>Hazar Addar, and continue to Azmon;


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<pb/>‘As for the <f>[8†]</f>western border, you shall have the Great Sea for a border; this shall be your western border.


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<pb/>‘And this shall be your northern border: From the Great Sea you shall mark out your <i>border</i> line to <f>[9†]</f>Mount Hor;


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from Mount Hor you shall mark out <i>your</i> <i>border</i> <f>[10†]</f>to the entrance of Hamath; then the direction of the border shall be toward <f>[11†]</f>Zedad;


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the border shall proceed to Ziphron, and it shall end at <f>[12†]</f>Hazar Enan. This shall be your northern border.


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the border shall go down from Shepham to <f>[13†]</f>Riblah on the east side of Ain; the border shall go down and reach to the eastern side of the Sea <f>[14†]</f>of Chinnereth;


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the border shall go down along the Jordan, and it shall end at <f>[15†]</f>the Salt Sea. This shall be your land with its surrounding boundaries.’ ”


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<pb/>Then Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying: <f>[16†]</f>“This <i>is</i> the land which you shall inherit by lot, which the LORD has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe.


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<f>[17†]</f>For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received <i>their</i> <i>inheritance;</i> and the half-tribe of Manasseh has received its inheritance.


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The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance on this side of the Jordan, <i>across</i> <i>from</i> Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.”


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“These <i>are</i> the names of the men who shall divide the land among you as an inheritance: <f>[18†]</f>Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun.


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from the sons of Joseph: a leader from the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod,


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<pb/>These <i>are</i> the ones the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance among the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.


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<pb/>And the LORD spoke to Moses in <f>[1†]</f>the plains of Moab by the Jordan <i>across</i> <i>from</i> Jericho, saying:


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<f>[2†]</f>“Command the children of Israel that they give the Levites cities to dwell in from the inheritance of their possession, and you shall <i>also</i> give the Levites <f>[3†]</f>common-land around the cities.


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They shall have the cities to dwell in; and their common-land shall be for their cattle, for their herds, and for all their animals.


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The common-land of the cities which you will give the Levites <i>shall</i> <i>extend</i> from the wall of the city outward a thousand cubits all around.


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And you shall measure outside the city on the east side two thousand cubits, on the south side two thousand cubits, on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits. The city <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> in the middle. This shall belong to them as common-land for the cities.


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<pb/>“Now among the cities which you will give to the Levites <i>you</i> <i>shall</i> <i>appoint</i> <f>[4†]</f>six cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. And to these you shall add forty-two cities.


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So all the cities you will give to the Levites <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> <f>[5†]</f>forty-eight; these <i>you</i> <i>shall</i> <i>give</i> with their common-land.


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And the cities which you will give <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> <f>[6†]</f>from the possession of the children of Israel; <f>[7†]</f>from the larger <i>tribe</i> you shall give many, from the smaller you shall give few. Each shall give some of its cities to the Levites, in proportion to the inheritance that each receives.”


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“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: <f>[8†]</f>‘When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,


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then <f>[9†]</f>you shall appoint cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person accidentally may flee there.


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<f>[10†]</f>They shall be cities of refuge for you from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation in judgment.


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<f>[12†]</f>You shall appoint three cities on this side of the Jordan, and three cities you shall appoint in the land of Canaan, <i>which</i> will be cities of refuge.


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These six cities shall be for refuge for the children of Israel, <f>[13†]</f>for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them, that anyone who kills a person accidentally may flee there.


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<pb/> <f>[14†]</f>‘But if he strikes him with an iron implement, so that he dies, he <i>is</i> a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.


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And if he strikes him with a stone in the hand, by which one could die, and he does die, he <i>is</i> a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.


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Or <i>if</i> he strikes him with a wooden hand weapon, by which one could die, and he does die, he <i>is</i> a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.


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<f>[15†]</f>The avenger of blood himself shall put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he shall put him to death.


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<f>[16†]</f>If he pushes him out of hatred or, <f>[17†]</f>while lying in wait, hurls something at him so that he dies,


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or in enmity he strikes him with his hand so that he dies, the one who struck <i>him</i> shall surely be put to death. He <i>is</i> a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.


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<pb/>‘However, if he pushes him suddenly <f>[18†]</f>without enmity, or throws anything at him without lying in wait,


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or uses a stone, by which a man could die, throwing <i>it</i> at him without seeing <i>him,</i> so that he dies, while he was not his enemy or seeking his harm,


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then <f>[19†]</f>the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood according to these judgments.


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So the congregation shall deliver the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall return him to the city of refuge where he had fled, and <f>[20†]</f>he shall remain there until the death of the high priest <f>[21†]</f>who was anointed with the holy oil.


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and the avenger of blood finds him outside the limits of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the manslayer, he shall not be guilty of blood,


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because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest the manslayer may return to the land of his possession.


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<pb/>‘And these <i>things</i> shall be <f>[22†]</f>a statute of judgment to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.


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Whoever kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the <f>[23†]</f>testimony of witnesses; but one witness is not <i>sufficient</i> testimony against a person for the death <i>penalty.</i>


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Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who <i>is</i> guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death.


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And you shall take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the priest.


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So you shall not pollute the land where you <i>are;</i> for blood <f>[24†]</f>defiles the land, and no atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it, except <f>[25†]</f>by the blood of him who shed it.


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Therefore <f>[26†]</f>do not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell; for <f>[27†]</f>I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.’ ”


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<pb/>Now the chief fathers of the families of the <f>[1†]</f>children of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near and <f>[2†]</f>spoke before Moses and before the leaders, the chief fathers of the children of Israel.


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And they said: <f>[3†]</f>“The LORD commanded my lord <i>Moses</i> to give the land as an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel, and <f>[4†]</f>my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.


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Now if they are married to any of the sons of the <i>other</i> tribes of the children of Israel, then their inheritance will be <f>[5†]</f>taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and it will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry; so it will be taken from the lot of our inheritance.


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And when <f>[6†]</f>the Jubilee of the children of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry; so their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”


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<pb/>Then Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying: <f>[7†]</f>“What the tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks is right.


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This <i>is</i> what the LORD commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them marry whom they think best, <f>[8†]</f>but they may marry only within the family of their father’s tribe.’


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So the inheritance of the children of Israel shall not change hands from tribe to tribe, for every one of the children of Israel shall <f>[9†]</f>keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.


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And <f>[10†]</f>every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be the wife of one of the family of her father’s tribe, so that the children of Israel each may possess the inheritance of his fathers.


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Thus no inheritance shall change hands from <i>one</i> tribe to another, but every tribe of the children of Israel shall keep its own inheritance.”


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<f>[11†]</f>for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to the sons of their father’s brothers.


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They were married into the families of the children of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father’s family.


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<pb/>These <i>are</i> the commandments and the judgments which the LORD commanded the children of Israel by the hand of Moses <f>[12†]</f>in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, <i>across</i> <i>from</i> Jericho.


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<pb/>These <i>are</i> the words which Moses spoke to all Israel <f>[1†]</f>on this side of the Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain opposite Suph, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.


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<i>It</i> <i>is</i> eleven days’ <i>journey</i> from Horeb by way of Mount Seir <f>[2†]</f>to Kadesh Barnea.


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Now it came to pass <f>[3†]</f>in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first <i>day</i> of the month, <i>that</i> Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the LORD had given him as commandments to them,


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<f>[4†]</f>after he had killed Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth <f>[5†]</f>in Edrei.


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“The LORD our God spoke to us <f>[6†]</f>in Horeb, saying: ‘You have dwelt long <f>[7†]</f>enough at this mountain.


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Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring <i>places</i> in the plain, in the mountains and in the lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates.


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See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers—to <f>[8†]</f>Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to them and their descendants after them.’


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The LORD your God has multiplied you, <f>[10†]</f>and here you <i>are</i> today, as the stars of heaven in multitude.


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<f>[11†]</f>May the LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times more numerous than you are, and bless you <f>[12†]</f>as He has promised you!


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Choose wise, understanding, and knowledgeable men from among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.’


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So I took <f>[14†]</f>the heads of your tribes, wise and knowledgeable men, and made them heads over you, leaders of thousands, leaders of hundreds, leaders of fifties, leaders of tens, and officers for your tribes.


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<pb/>“Then I commanded your judges at that time, saying, ‘Hear <i>the</i> <i>cases</i> between your brethren, and <f>[15†]</f>judge righteously between a man and his <f>[16†]</f>brother or the stranger who is with him.


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<f>[17†]</f>You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid in any man’s presence, for <f>[18†]</f>the judgment <i>is</i> God’s. The case that is too hard for you, <f>[19†]</f>bring to me, and I will hear it.’


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<pb/>“So we departed from Horeb, <f>[20†]</f>and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw on the way to the mountains of the Amorites, as the LORD our God had commanded us. Then <f>[21†]</f>we came to Kadesh Barnea.


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And I said to you, ‘You have come to the mountains of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.


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Look, the LORD your God has set the land before you; go up <i>and</i> possess <i>it,</i> as the LORD God of your fathers has spoken to you; <f>[22†]</f>do not fear or be discouraged.’


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<pb/>“And every one of you came near to me and said, ‘Let us send men before us, and let them search out the land for us, and bring back word to us of the way by which we should go up, and of the cities into which we shall come.’


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<pb/>“The plan pleased me well; so <f>[23†]</f>I took twelve of your men, one man from <i>each</i> tribe.


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<f>[24†]</f>And they departed and went up into the mountains, and came to the Valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.


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They also took <i>some</i> of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought <i>it</i> down to us; and they brought back word to us, saying, ‘<i>It</i> <i>is</i> a <f>[25†]</f>good land which the LORD our God is giving us.’


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<pb/> <f>[26†]</f>“Nevertheless you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the LORD your God;


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and you <f>[27†]</f>complained in your tents, and said, ‘Because the LORD <f>[28†]</f>hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.


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Where can we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts, saying, <f>[29†]</f>“The people <i>are</i> greater and taller than we; the cities <i>are</i> great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the <f>[30†]</f>Anakim there.” ’


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<f>[32†]</f>The LORD your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,


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and in the wilderness where you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a <f>[33†]</f>man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.’


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<f>[35†]</f>who went in the way before you <f>[36†]</f>to search out a place for you to pitch your tents, to show you the way you should go, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day.


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<pb/>“And the LORD heard the sound of your words, and was angry, <f>[37†]</f>and took an oath, saying,


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<f>[38†]</f>‘Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see that good land of which I swore to give to your fathers,


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<f>[39†]</f>except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and his children I am giving the land on which he walked, because <f>[40†]</f>he wholly followed the LORD.’


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<f>[41†]</f>The LORD was also angry with me for your sakes, saying, ‘Even you shall not go in there.


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<f>[42†]</f>Joshua the son of Nun, <f>[43†]</f>who stands before you, he shall go in there. <f>[44†]</f>Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.


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<pb/> <f>[45†]</f>‘Moreover your little ones and your children, who <f>[46†]</f>you say will be victims, who today <f>[47†]</f>have no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.


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<f>[48†]</f>But <i>as</i> <i>for</i> you, turn and take your journey into the wilderness by the Way of the Red Sea.’


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<pb/>“Then you answered and said to me, <f>[49†]</f>‘We have sinned against the LORD; we will go up and fight, just as the LORD our God commanded us.’ And when everyone of you had girded on his weapons of war, you were ready to go up into the mountain.


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<pb/>“And the LORD said to me, ‘Tell them, <f>[50†]</f>“Do not go up nor fight, for I <i>am</i> not among you; lest you be defeated before your enemies.”


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So I spoke to you; yet you would not listen, but <f>[51†]</f>rebelled against the command of the LORD, and <f>[52†]</f>presumptuously went up into the mountain.


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And the Amorites who dwelt in that mountain came out against you and chased you <f>[53†]</f>as bees do, and drove you back from Seir to Hormah.


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Then you returned and wept before the LORD, but the LORD would not listen to your voice nor give ear to you.


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<pb/> <f>[54†]</f>“So you remained in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you spent <i>there.</i>


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<pb/> <f>[1†]</f>“Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness of the Way of the Red Sea, <f>[2†]</f>as the LORD spoke to me, and we skirted Mount Seir for many days.


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And command the people, saying, <f>[4†]</f>“You <i>are</i> <i>about</i> <i>to</i> pass through the territory of <f>[5†]</f>your brethren, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Therefore watch yourselves carefully.


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Do not meddle with them, for I will not give you <i>any</i> of their land, no, not so much as one footstep, <f>[6†]</f>because I have given Mount Seir to Esau <i>as</i> a possession.


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You shall buy food from them with money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water from them with money, that you may drink.


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<pb/>“For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He knows your trudging through this great wilderness. <f>[7†]</f>These forty years the LORD your God <i>has</i> <i>been</i> with you; you have lacked nothing.” ’


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<pb/>“And when we passed beyond our brethren, the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir, away from the road of the plain, away from <f>[8†]</f>Elath and Ezion Geber, we <f>[9†]</f>turned and passed by way of the Wilderness of Moab.


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Then the LORD said to me, ‘Do not harass Moab, nor contend with them in battle, for I will not give you <i>any</i> of their land <i>as</i> a possession, because I have given <f>[10†]</f>Ar to <f>[11†]</f>the descendants of Lot <i>as</i> a possession.’ ”


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<pb/> <f>[12†]</f>(The Emim had dwelt there in times past, a people as great and numerous and tall as <f>[13†]</f>the Anakim.


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<f>[14†]</f>The Horites formerly dwelt in Seir, but the descendants of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their place, just as Israel did to the land of their possession which the LORD gave them.)


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<pb/>“ ‘Now rise and cross over <f>[15†]</f>the Valley of the Zered.’ So we crossed over the Valley of the Zered.


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And the time we took to come <f>[16†]</f>from Kadesh Barnea until we crossed over the Valley of the Zered <i>was</i> thirty-eight years, <f>[17†]</f>until all the generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, <f>[18†]</f>just as the LORD had sworn to them.


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For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp until they were consumed.


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And <i>when</i> you come near the people of Ammon, do not harass them or meddle with them, for I will not give you <i>any</i> of the land of the people of Ammon <i>as</i> a possession, because I have given it to <f>[19†]</f>the descendants of Lot <i>as</i> a possession.’ ”


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<pb/>(That was also regarded as a land of giants; giants formerly dwelt there. But the Ammonites call them <f>[20†]</f>Zamzummim,


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<f>[21†]</f>a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anakim. But the LORD destroyed them before them, and they dispossessed them and dwelt in their place,


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just as He had done for the descendants of Esau, <f>[22†]</f>who dwelt in Seir, when He destroyed <f>[23†]</f>the Horites from before them. They dispossessed them and dwelt in their place, even to this day.


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And <f>[24†]</f>the Avim, who dwelt in villages as far as Gaza— <f>[25†]</f>the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and dwelt in their place.)


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<pb/>“ ‘Rise, take your journey, and <f>[26†]</f>cross over the River Arnon. Look, I have given into your hand <f>[27†]</f>Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to possess <i>it,</i> and engage him in battle.


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<f>[28†]</f>This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the nations under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you, and shall <f>[29†]</f>tremble and be in anguish because of you.’


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<pb/>“And I <f>[30†]</f>sent messengers from the Wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon, <f>[31†]</f>with words of peace, saying,


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<f>[32†]</f>‘Let me pass through your land; I will keep strictly to the road, and I will turn neither to the right nor to the left.


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You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink; <f>[33†]</f>only let me pass through on foot,


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<f>[34†]</f>just as the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir and the Moabites who dwell in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan to the land which the LORD our God is giving us.’


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<pb/> <f>[35†]</f>“But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for <f>[36†]</f>the LORD your God <f>[37†]</f>hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as <i>it</i> <i>is</i> this day.


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<pb/>“And the LORD said to me, ‘See, I have begun to <f>[38†]</f>give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to possess <i>it,</i> that you may inherit his land.’


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And <f>[40†]</f>the LORD our God delivered him over to us; so <f>[41†]</f>we defeated him, his sons, and all his people.


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We took all his cities at that time, and we <f>[42†]</f>utterly destroyed the men, women, and little ones of every city; we left none remaining.


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<f>[43†]</f>From Aroer, which <i>is</i> on the bank of the River Arnon, and <i>from</i> <f>[44†]</f>the city that <i>is</i> in the ravine, as far as Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us; <f>[45†]</f>the LORD our God delivered all to us.


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Only you did not go near the land of the people of Ammon—anywhere along the River <f>[46†]</f>Jabbok, or to the cities of the mountains, or <f>[47†]</f>wherever the LORD our God had forbidden us.


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<pb/>“Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan; and <f>[1†]</f>Og king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle <f>[2†]</f>at Edrei.


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And the LORD said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land into your hand; you shall do to him as you did to <f>[3†]</f>Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.’


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<pb/>“So the LORD our God also delivered into our hands Og king of Bashan, with all his people, and we attacked him until he had no survivors remaining.


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And we took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we did not take from them: sixty cities, <f>[4†]</f>all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.


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All these cities <i>were</i> fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a great many rural towns.


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And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king <f>[5†]</f>of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.


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<pb/>“And at that time we took the <f>[6†]</f>land from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who <i>were</i> on this side of the Jordan, from the River Arnon to Mount <f>[7†]</f>Hermon


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<f>[9†]</f>all the cities of the plain, all Gilead, and <f>[10†]</f>all Bashan, as far as Salcah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.


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<pb/> <f>[11†]</f>“For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of <f>[12†]</f>the giants. Indeed his bedstead <i>was</i> an iron bedstead. (<i>Is</i> it not in <f>[13†]</f>Rabbah of the people of Ammon?) Nine cubits <i>is</i> its length and four cubits its width, according to the standard cubit.


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<pb/>“And this <f>[14†]</f>land, <i>which</i> we possessed at that time, <f>[15†]</f>from Aroer, which <i>is</i> by the River Arnon, and half the mountains of Gilead and <f>[16†]</f>its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites.


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<f>[17†]</f>The rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh. (All the region of Argob, with all Bashan, was called the land of the giants.


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<f>[18†]</f>Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, <f>[19†]</f>as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and <f>[20†]</f>called Bashan after his own name, Havoth Jair, to this day.)


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And to the Reubenites <f>[22†]</f>and the Gadites I gave from Gilead as far as the River Arnon, the middle of the river as <i>the</i> border, as far as the River Jabbok, <f>[23†]</f>the border of the people of Ammon;


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the plain also, with the Jordan as <i>the</i> border, from Chinnereth <f>[24†]</f>as far as the east side of the Sea of the Arabah <f>[25†]</f>(the Salt Sea), below the slopes of Pisgah.


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<pb/>“Then I commanded you at that time, saying: ‘The LORD your God has given you this land to possess. <f>[26†]</f>All you men of valor shall cross over armed before your brethren, the children of Israel.


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But your wives, your little ones, and your livestock (I know that you have much livestock) shall stay in your cities which I have given you,


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until the LORD has given <f>[27†]</f>rest to your brethren as to you, and they also possess the land which the LORD your God is giving them beyond the Jordan. Then each of you may <f>[28†]</f>return to his possession which I have given you.’


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<pb/>“And <f>[29†]</f>I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, ‘Your eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings; so will the LORD do to all the kingdoms through which you pass.


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‘O Lord GOD, You have begun to show Your servant <f>[32†]</f>Your greatness and Your mighty hand, for <f>[33†]</f>what god <i>is</i> <i>there</i> in heaven or on earth who can do <i>anything</i> like Your works and Your mighty <i>deeds?</i>


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I pray, let me cross over and see <f>[34†]</f>the good land beyond the Jordan, those pleasant mountains, and Lebanon.’


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<pb/>“But the LORD <f>[35†]</f>was angry with me on your account, and would not listen to me. So the LORD said to me: ‘Enough of that! Speak no more to Me of this matter.


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<f>[36†]</f>Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift your eyes toward the west, the north, the south, and the east; behold <i>it</i> with your eyes, for you shall not cross over this Jordan.


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But <f>[37†]</f>command Joshua, and encourage him and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you will see.’


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<pb/>“Now, O Israel, listen to <f>[1†]</f>the statutes and the judgments which I teach you to observe, that you may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers is giving you.


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<f>[2†]</f>You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.


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Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at <f>[3†]</f>Baal Peor; for the LORD your God has destroyed from among you all the men who followed Baal of Peor.


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<pb/>“Surely I have taught you statutes and judgments, just as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should act according <i>to</i> <i>them</i> in the land which you go to possess.


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Therefore be careful to observe <i>them;</i> for this <i>is</i> <f>[4†]</f>your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes, and say, ‘Surely this great nation <i>is</i> a wise and understanding people.’


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<pb/>“For <f>[5†]</f>what great nation <i>is</i> <i>there</i> that has <f>[6†]</f>God <i>so</i> near to it, as the LORD our God <i>is</i> to us, for whatever <i>reason</i> we may call upon Him?


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And what great nation <i>is</i> <i>there</i> that has <i>such</i> statutes and righteous judgments as are in all this law which I set before you this day?


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Only take heed to yourself, and diligently <f>[7†]</f>keep yourself, lest you <f>[8†]</f>forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. And <f>[9†]</f>teach them to your children and your grandchildren,


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<i>especially</i> <i>concerning</i> <f>[10†]</f>the day you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, ‘Gather the people to Me, and I will let them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and <i>that</i> they may teach their children.’


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<pb/>“Then you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire to the midst of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.


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<f>[11†]</f>And the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of the words, but saw no form; <f>[12†]</f><i>you</i> only <i>heard</i> a voice.


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<f>[13†]</f>So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, <f>[14†]</f>the Ten Commandments; and <f>[15†]</f>He wrote them on two tablets of stone.


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And <f>[16†]</f>the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might observe them in the land which you cross over to possess.


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<pb/> <f>[17†]</f>“Take careful heed to yourselves, for you saw no <f>[18†]</f>form when the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire,


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lest you <f>[19†]</f>act corruptly and <f>[20†]</f>make for yourselves a carved image in the form of any figure: <f>[21†]</f>the likeness of male or female,


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the likeness of any animal that <i>is</i> on the earth or the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,


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the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground or the likeness of any fish that <i>is</i> in the water beneath the earth.


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And <i>take</i> <i>heed,</i> lest you <f>[22†]</f>lift your eyes to heaven, and <i>when</i> you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, <f>[23†]</f>all the host of heaven, you feel driven to <f>[24†]</f>worship them and serve them, which the LORD your God has given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage.


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But the LORD has taken you and <f>[25†]</f>brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be <f>[26†]</f>His people, an inheritance, as you are this day.


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Furthermore <f>[27†]</f>the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that <f>[28†]</f>I would not cross over the Jordan, and that I would not enter the good land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.


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But <f>[29†]</f>I must die in this land, <f>[30†]</f>I must not cross over the Jordan; but you shall cross over and possess <f>[31†]</f>that good land.


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Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God which He made with you, <f>[32†]</f>and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which the LORD your God has forbidden you.


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<pb/>“When you beget children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, and act corruptly and make a carved image in the form of anything, and <f>[35†]</f>do evil in the sight of the LORD your God to provoke Him to anger,


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<f>[36†]</f>I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess; you will not prolong <i>your</i> days in it, but will be utterly destroyed.


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And the LORD <f>[37†]</f>will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you.


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And <f>[38†]</f>there you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, <f>[39†]</f>which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.


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<f>[40†]</f>But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find <i>Him</i> if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.


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When you are in distress, and all these things come upon you in the <f>[41†]</f>latter days, when you <f>[42†]</f>turn to the LORD your God and obey His voice


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(for the LORD your God <i>is</i> a merciful God), He will not forsake you nor <f>[43†]</f>destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.


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<pb/>“For <f>[44†]</f>ask now concerning the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and <i>ask</i> <f>[45†]</f>from one end of heaven to the other, whether <i>any</i> great <i>thing</i> like this has happened, or <i>anything</i> like it has been heard.


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<f>[46†]</f>Did <i>any</i> people <i>ever</i> hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?


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Or did God <i>ever</i> try to go <i>and</i> take for Himself a nation from the midst of <i>another</i> nation, <f>[47†]</f>by trials, <f>[48†]</f>by signs, by wonders, by war, <f>[49†]</f>by a mighty hand and <f>[50†]</f>an outstretched arm, <f>[51†]</f>and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?


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To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD Himself <i>is</i> God; <f>[52†]</f><i>there</i> <i>is</i> none other besides Him.


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<f>[53†]</f>Out of heaven He let you hear His voice, that He might instruct you; on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire.


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And because <f>[54†]</f>He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them; and <f>[55†]</f>He brought you out of Egypt with His Presence, with His mighty power,


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<f>[56†]</f>driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land <i>as</i> an inheritance, as <i>it</i> <i>is</i> this day.


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Therefore know this day, and consider <i>it</i> in your heart, that <f>[57†]</f>the LORD Himself <i>is</i> God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no other.


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<f>[58†]</f>You shall therefore keep His statutes and His commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong <i>your</i> days in the land which the LORD your God is giving you for all time.”


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<pb/>Then Moses <f>[59†]</f>set apart three cities on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun,


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<f>[60†]</f>that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without having hated him in time past, and that by fleeing to one of these cities he might live:


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<f>[61†]</f>Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau for the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.


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These <i>are</i> the testimonies, the statutes, and the judgments which Moses spoke to the children of Israel after they came out of Egypt,


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on this side of the Jordan, <f>[62†]</f>in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel <f>[63†]</f>defeated after they came out of Egypt.


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And they took possession of his land and the land <f>[64†]</f>of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, who <i>were</i> on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun,


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<f>[65†]</f>from Aroer, which <i>is</i> on the bank of the River Arnon, even to Mount Sion (that is, <f>[66†]</f>Hermon),


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and all the plain on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below the <f>[67†]</f>slopes of Pisgah.


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<pb/>And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your hearing today, that you may learn them and be careful to observe them.


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The LORD <f>[2†]</f>did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, those who <i>are</i> here today, all of us who <i>are</i> alive.


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<f>[4†]</f>I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD; for <f>[5†]</f>you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up the mountain. <i>He</i> said:


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<pb/><t> <f>[6†]</f>‘I <i>am</i> the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.</t>


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<t> <f>[8†]</f>‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness <i>of</i> <i>anything</i> that <i>is</i> in heaven above, or that <i>is</i> in the earth beneath, or that <i>is</i> in the water under the earth; </t>


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<t>you shall not <f>[9†]</f>bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, <i>am</i> a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth <i>generations</i> of those who hate Me,</t>


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<t> <f>[11†]</f>‘You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold <i>him</i> guiltless who takes His name in vain.</t>


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<t>but the seventh day <i>is</i> the <f>[14†]</f>Sabbath of the LORD your God. <i>In</i> <i>it</i> you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who <i>is</i> within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.</t>


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<t> <f>[15†]</f>And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there <f>[16†]</f>by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.</t>


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<t> <f>[17†]</f>‘Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, <f>[18†]</f>that your days may be long, and that it may be well with <f>[19†]</f>you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.</t>


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<t> <f>[24†]</f>‘You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife; and you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field, his male servant, his female servant, his ox, his donkey, or anything that <i>is</i> your neighbor’s.’</t>


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<pb/>“These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly, in the mountain from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and He added no more. And <f>[25†]</f>He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.


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<pb/> <f>[26†]</f>“So it was, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders.


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And you said: ‘Surely the LORD our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and <f>[27†]</f>we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire. We have seen this day that God speaks with man; yet he <f>[28†]</f><i>still</i> lives.


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Now therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; <f>[29†]</f>if we hear the voice of the LORD our God anymore, then we shall die.


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<f>[30†]</f>For who <i>is</i> <i>there</i> of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we <i>have,</i> and lived?


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You go near and hear all that the LORD our God may say, and <f>[31†]</f>tell us all that the LORD our God says to you, and we will hear and do <i>it.</i>’


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<pb/>“Then the LORD heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me, and the LORD said to me: ‘I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. <f>[32†]</f>They are right <i>in</i> all that they have spoken.


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<f>[33†]</f>Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear Me and <f>[34†]</f>always keep all My commandments, <f>[35†]</f>that it might be well with them and with their children forever!


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But as for you, stand here by Me, <f>[36†]</f>and I will speak to you all the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which you shall teach them, that they may observe <i>them</i> in the land which I am giving them to possess.’


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<pb/>“Therefore you shall be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; <f>[37†]</f>you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.


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You shall walk in <f>[38†]</f>all the ways which the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live <f>[39†]</f>and <i>that</i> <i>it</i> <i>may</i> <i>be</i> well with you, and <i>that</i> you may prolong <i>your</i> days in the land which you shall possess.


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<pb/>“Now this <i>is</i> <f>[1†]</f>the commandment, <i>and</i> <i>these</i> <i>are</i> the statutes and judgments which the LORD your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe <i>them</i> in the land which you are crossing over to possess,


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<f>[2†]</f>that you may fear the LORD your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, <f>[3†]</f>and that your days may be prolonged.


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Therefore hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe <i>it,</i> that it may be well with you, and that you may <f>[4†]</f>multiply greatly <f>[5†]</f>as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you— <f>[6†]</f>‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’


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<f>[8†]</f>You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, <f>[9†]</f>with all your soul, and with all your strength.


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<f>[11†]</f>You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.


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<f>[12†]</f>You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.


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<pb/>“So it shall be, when the LORD your God brings you into the land of which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you large and beautiful cities <f>[14†]</f>which you did not build,


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houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, hewn-out wells which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant— <f>[15†]</f>when you have eaten and are full—


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<i>then</i> beware, lest you forget the <f>[16†]</f>LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.


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You shall <f>[17†]</f>fear the LORD your God and serve Him, and <f>[18†]</f>shall take oaths in His name.


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You shall not go after other gods, <f>[19†]</f>the gods of the peoples who <i>are</i> all around you


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(for <f>[20†]</f>the LORD your God <i>is</i> a jealous God <f>[21†]</f>among you), lest the anger of the LORD your God be aroused against you and destroy you from the face of the earth.


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<pb/> <f>[22†]</f>“You shall not tempt the LORD your God <f>[23†]</f>as you tempted <i>Him</i> in Massah.


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You shall <f>[24†]</f>diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you.


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And you <f>[25†]</f>shall do <i>what</i> <i>is</i> right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land of which the LORD swore to your fathers,


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<pb/> <f>[27†]</f>“When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What <i>is</i> <i>the</i> <i>meaning</i> <i>of</i> the testimonies, the statutes, and the judgments which the LORD our God has commanded you?’


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then you shall say to your son: ‘We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, and the LORD brought us out of Egypt <f>[28†]</f>with a mighty hand;


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and the LORD showed signs and wonders before our eyes, great and severe, against Egypt, Pharaoh, and all his household.


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Then He brought us out from there, that He might bring us in, to give us the land of which He swore to our fathers.


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And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes, <f>[29†]</f>to fear the LORD our God, <f>[30†]</f>for our good always, that <f>[31†]</f>He might preserve us alive, as <i>it</i> <i>is</i> this day.


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Then <f>[32†]</f>it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to observe all these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us.’


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<pb/>“When the LORD your God brings you into the land which you go to <f>[1†]</f>possess, and has cast out many <f>[2†]</f>nations before you, <f>[3†]</f>the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you,


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and when the LORD your God delivers <f>[4†]</f>them over to you, you shall conquer them <i>and</i> utterly destroy them. <f>[5†]</f>You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them.


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<f>[6†]</f>Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son.


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For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; <f>[7†]</f>so the anger of the LORD will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.


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But thus you shall deal with them: you shall <f>[8†]</f>destroy their altars, and break down their <i>sacred</i> pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.


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<pb/>“For you <i>are</i> a holy people to the LORD your God; <f>[9†]</f>the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.


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The LORD did not set His <f>[10†]</f>love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were <f>[11†]</f>the least of all peoples;


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but <f>[12†]</f>because the LORD loves you, and because He would keep <f>[13†]</f>the oath which He swore to your fathers, <f>[14†]</f>the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.


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<pb/>“Therefore know that the LORD your God, He <i>is</i> God, <f>[15†]</f>the faithful God <f>[16†]</f>who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments;


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and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be <f>[17†]</f>slack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face.


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Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.


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<pb/>“Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers.


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And He will <f>[18†]</f>love you and bless you and multiply you; <f>[19†]</f>He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He swore to your fathers to give you.


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You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female <f>[20†]</f>barren among you or among your livestock.


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And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the <f>[21†]</f>terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay <i>them</i> on all those who hate you.


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Also you shall destroy all the peoples whom the LORD your God delivers over to you; your eye shall have no pity on them; nor shall you serve their gods, for that <f>[22†]</f><i>will</i> <i>be</i> a snare to you.


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<pb/>“If you should say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?’—


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you shall not be afraid of them, <i>but</i> you shall <f>[23†]</f>remember well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:


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<f>[24†]</f>the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs and the wonders, the mighty hand and the outstretched arm, by which the LORD your God brought you out. So shall the LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.


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<f>[25†]</f>Moreover the LORD your God will send the hornet among them until those who are left, who hide themselves from you, are destroyed.


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You shall not be terrified of them; for the LORD your God, the great and awesome God, <i>is</i> among you.


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And the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you <f>[26†]</f>little by little; you will be unable to destroy them at once, lest the beasts of the field become <i>too</i> numerous for you.


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But the LORD your God will deliver them over to you, and will inflict defeat upon them until they are destroyed.


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And <f>[27†]</f>He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you will destroy their name from under heaven; <f>[28†]</f>no one shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.


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You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you shall not <f>[29†]</f>covet the silver or gold <i>that</i> <i>is</i> on them, nor take <i>it</i> for yourselves, lest you be snared by it; for it <i>is</i> an abomination to the LORD your God.


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Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be doomed to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, <f>[30†]</f>for it <i>is</i> an accursed thing.


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<pb/>“Every commandment which I command you today <f>[1†]</f>you must be careful to observe, that you may live and <f>[2†]</f>multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers.


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And you shall remember that the LORD your God <f>[3†]</f>led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you <i>and</i> <f>[4†]</f>test you, <f>[5†]</f>to know what <i>was</i> in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.


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So He humbled you, <f>[6†]</f>allowed you to hunger, and <f>[7†]</f>fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall <f>[8†]</f>not live by bread alone; but man lives by every <i>word</i> that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD.


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<f>[10†]</f>You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, <i>so</i> the LORD your God chastens you.


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<pb/>“Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, <f>[11†]</f>to walk in His ways and to fear Him.


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For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, <f>[12†]</f>a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills;


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a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones <i>are</i> iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper.


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<f>[13†]</f>When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you.


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<pb/>“Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today,


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<f>[14†]</f>lest—<i>when</i> you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell <i>in</i> <i>them;</i>


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and <i>when</i> your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;


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<f>[15†]</f>when your heart is lifted up, and you <f>[16†]</f>forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;


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who <f>[17†]</f>led you through that great and terrible wilderness, <f>[18†]</f><i>in</i> <i>which</i> <i>were</i> fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; <f>[19†]</f>who brought water for you out of the flinty rock;


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who fed you in the wilderness with <f>[20†]</f>manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, <f>[21†]</f>to do you good in the end—


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<pb/>“And you shall remember the LORD your God, <f>[22†]</f>for <i>it</i> <i>is</i> He who gives you power to get wealth, <f>[23†]</f>that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as <i>it</i> <i>is</i> this day.


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Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the LORD your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship them, <f>[24†]</f>I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.


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As the nations which the LORD destroys before you, <f>[25†]</f>so you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the LORD your God.


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<pb/>“Hear, O Israel: You <i>are</i> to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,


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a people great and tall, the <f>[1†]</f>descendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and <i>of</i> <i>whom</i> you heard <i>it</i> <i>said,</i> ‘Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?’


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Therefore understand today that the LORD your God <i>is</i> He who <f>[2†]</f>goes over before you <i>as</i> a <f>[3†]</f>consuming fire. <f>[4†]</f>He will destroy them and bring them down before you; <f>[5†]</f>so you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said to you.


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<pb/> <f>[6†]</f>“Do not think in your heart, after the LORD your God has cast them out before you, saying, ‘Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land’; but <i>it</i> <i>is</i> <f>[7†]</f>because of the wickedness of these nations <i>that</i> the LORD is driving them out from before you.


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<f>[8†]</f><i>It</i> <i>is</i> not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart <i>that</i> you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations <i>that</i> the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that He may fulfill the <f>[9†]</f>word which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.


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Therefore understand that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you <i>are</i> a <f>[10†]</f>stiff-necked people.


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<pb/>“Remember! Do not forget how you <f>[11†]</f>provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. <f>[12†]</f>From the day that you departed from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.


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Also <f>[13†]</f>in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry <i>enough</i> with you to have destroyed you.


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<f>[14†]</f>When I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and <f>[15†]</f>forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.


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<f>[16†]</f>Then the LORD delivered to me two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them <i>were</i> all the words which the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire <f>[17†]</f>in the day of the assembly.


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And it came to pass, at the end of forty days and forty nights, <i>that</i> the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.


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<pb/>“Then the LORD said to me, <f>[18†]</f>‘Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly; they have <f>[19†]</f>quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molded image.’


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<pb/>“Furthermore <f>[20†]</f>the LORD spoke to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed <f>[21†]</f>they are a stiff-necked people.


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<f>[22†]</f>Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and <f>[23†]</f>blot out their name from under heaven; <f>[24†]</f>and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’


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<pb/> <f>[25†]</f>“So I turned and came down from the mountain, and <f>[26†]</f>the mountain burned with fire; and the two tablets of the covenant <i>were</i> in my two hands.


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And <f>[27†]</f>I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God—had made for yourselves a molded calf! You had turned aside quickly from the way which the LORD had commanded you.


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Then I took the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and <f>[28†]</f>broke them before your eyes.


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And I <f>[29†]</f>fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you committed in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger.


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<f>[30†]</f>For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the LORD was angry with you, to destroy you. <f>[31†]</f>But the LORD listened to me at that time also.


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And the LORD was very angry with Aaron <i>and</i> would have destroyed him; so I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.


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Then I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it <i>and</i> ground <i>it</i> very small, until it was as fine as dust; and I <f>[32†]</f>threw its dust into the brook that descended from the mountain.


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<pb/>“Also at <f>[33†]</f>Taberah and <f>[34†]</f>Massah and <f>[35†]</f>Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked the LORD to wrath.


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Likewise, <f>[36†]</f>when the LORD sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, ‘Go up and possess the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and <f>[37†]</f>you did not believe Him nor obey His voice.


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<pb/> <f>[39†]</f>“Thus I prostrated myself before the LORD; forty days and forty nights I kept prostrating myself, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.


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Therefore I prayed to the LORD, and said: ‘O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people and <f>[40†]</f>Your inheritance whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.


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Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look on the stubbornness of this people, or on their wickedness or their sin,


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lest the land from which You brought us should say, “Because the LORD was not able to bring them to the land which He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.”


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Yet they <i>are</i> Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched arm.’


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<pb/>“At that time the LORD said to me, ‘Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain and make yourself an <f>[1†]</f>ark of wood.


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And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and <f>[2†]</f>you shall put them in the ark.’


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<pb/>“So I made an ark of acacia wood, hewed two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand.


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And He wrote on the tablets according to the first writing, the Ten Commandments, <f>[3†]</f>which the LORD had spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the LORD gave them to me.


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Then I turned and <f>[4†]</f>came down from the mountain, and <f>[5†]</f>put the tablets in the ark which I had made; <f>[6†]</f>and there they are, just as the LORD commanded me.”


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<pb/>(Now the children of Israel journeyed from the wells of Bene Jaakan to Moserah, where Aaron <f>[7†]</f>died, and where he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered as priest in his stead.


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<f>[8†]</f>From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of rivers of water.


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At that time <f>[9†]</f>the LORD separated the tribe of Levi <f>[10†]</f>to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, <f>[11†]</f>to stand before the LORD to minister to Him and <f>[12†]</f>to bless in His name, to this day.


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<f>[13†]</f>Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD <i>is</i> his inheritance, just as the LORD your God promised him.)


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<pb/>“As at the first time, <f>[14†]</f>I stayed in the mountain forty days and forty nights; <f>[15†]</f>the LORD also heard me at that time, <i>and</i> the LORD chose not to destroy you.


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<f>[16†]</f>Then the LORD said to me, ‘Arise, begin <i>your</i> journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.’


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<pb/>“And now, Israel, <f>[17†]</f>what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and to <f>[18†]</f>love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,


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<i>and</i> to keep the commandments of the LORD and His statutes which I command you today <f>[19†]</f>for your good?


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Indeed heaven and the highest heavens belong to the <f>[20†]</f>LORD your God, <i>also</i> the earth with all that <i>is</i> in it.


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The LORD delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as <i>it</i> <i>is</i> this day.


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Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your <f>[21†]</f>heart, and be <f>[22†]</f>stiff-necked no longer.


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For the LORD your God <i>is</i> <f>[23†]</f>God of gods and <f>[24†]</f>Lord of lords, the great God, <f>[25†]</f>mighty and awesome, who <f>[26†]</f>shows no partiality nor takes a bribe.


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<f>[27†]</f>He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.


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<f>[28†]</f>You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve Him, and to Him you shall hold fast, and take oaths in His name.


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He <i>is</i> your praise, and He <i>is</i> your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen.


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Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.


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<pb/>“Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always.


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Know today that <i>I</i> <i>do</i> not <i>speak</i> with your children, who have not known and who have not seen the chastening of the LORD your God, His greatness and His mighty hand and His outstretched arm—


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His signs and His acts which He did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to all his land;


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what He did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and their chariots: <f>[1†]</f>how He made the waters of the Red Sea overflow them as they pursued you, and <i>how</i> the LORD has destroyed them to this day;


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and what He did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, their households, their tents, and all the substance that <i>was</i> in their possession, in the midst of all Israel—


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<pb/>“Therefore you shall keep every commandment which I command you today, that you may <f>[4†]</f>be strong, and go in and possess the land which you cross over to possess,


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and <f>[5†]</f>that you may prolong <i>your</i> days in the land <f>[6†]</f>which the LORD swore to give your fathers, to them and their descendants, <f>[7†]</f>‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’


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For the land which you go to possess <i>is</i> not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered <i>it</i> by foot, as a vegetable garden;


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<f>[8†]</f>but the land which you cross over to possess <i>is</i> a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain of heaven,


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a land for which the LORD your God cares; <f>[9†]</f>the eyes of the LORD your God <i>are</i> always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year.


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<pb/>‘And it shall be that if you earnestly obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the LORD your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,


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then <f>[10†]</f>I will give <i>you</i> the rain for your land in its season, <f>[11†]</f>the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.


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<f>[12†]</f>And I will send grass in your fields for your livestock, that you may <f>[13†]</f>eat and be filled.’


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“Take heed to yourselves, <f>[14†]</f>lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and <f>[15†]</f>serve other gods and worship them,


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lest <f>[16†]</f>the LORD’s anger be aroused against you, and He <f>[17†]</f>shut up the heavens so that there be no rain, and the land yield no produce, and <f>[18†]</f>you perish quickly from the good land which the LORD is giving you.


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<pb/>“Therefore <f>[19†]</f>you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your <f>[20†]</f>soul, and <f>[21†]</f>bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.


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<f>[22†]</f>You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.


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that <f>[24†]</f>your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, like <f>[25†]</f>the days of the heavens above the earth.


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<pb/>“For if <f>[26†]</f>you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and <f>[27†]</f>to hold fast to Him—


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then the LORD will <f>[28†]</f>drive out all these nations from before you, and you will <f>[29†]</f>dispossess greater and mightier nations than yourselves.


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<f>[30†]</f>Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: <f>[31†]</f>from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the Western Sea, shall be your territory.


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No man shall be able to <f>[32†]</f>stand against you; the LORD your God will put the <f>[33†]</f>dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land where you tread, just as He has said to you.


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<f>[35†]</f>the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you today;


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and the <f>[36†]</f>curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.


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Now it shall be, when the LORD your God has brought you into the land which you go to possess, that you shall put the <f>[37†]</f>blessing on Mount Gerizim and the <f>[38†]</f>curse on Mount Ebal.


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<i>Are</i> they not on the other side of the Jordan, toward the setting sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the plain opposite Gilgal, <f>[39†]</f>beside the terebinth trees of Moreh?


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For you will cross over the Jordan and go in to possess the land which the LORD your God is giving you, and you will possess it and dwell in it.


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<pb/>“These <f>[1†]</f><i>are</i> the statutes and judgments which you shall be careful to observe in the land which the LORD God of your fathers is giving you to possess, <f>[2†]</f>all the days that you live on the earth.


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<f>[3†]</f>You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you shall dispossess served their gods, <f>[4†]</f>on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.


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And <f>[5†]</f>you shall destroy their altars, break their <i>sacred</i> pillars, and burn their wooden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place.


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<pb/>“But you shall seek the <f>[7†]</f>place where the LORD your God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for His <f>[8†]</f>dwelling place; and there you shall go.


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<f>[9†]</f>There you shall take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, your vowed offerings, your freewill offerings, and the <f>[10†]</f>firstborn of your herds and flocks.


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And <f>[11†]</f>there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and <f>[12†]</f>you shall rejoice in all to which you have put your hand, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.


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<pb/>“You shall not at all do as we are doing here today— <f>[13†]</f>every man doing whatever <i>is</i> right in his own eyes—


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for as yet you have not come to the <f>[14†]</f>rest and the inheritance which the LORD your God is giving you.


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But <i>when</i> you cross over the Jordan and dwell in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you <f>[15†]</f>rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety,


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then there will be the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide. There you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, and all your choice offerings which you vow to the LORD.


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And <f>[16†]</f>you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female servants, and the <f>[17†]</f>Levite who <i>is</i> within your gates, since he has no portion nor inheritance with you.


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but in the place which the LORD chooses, in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.


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<pb/>“However, <f>[18†]</f>you may slaughter and eat meat within all your gates, whatever your heart desires, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you; <f>[19†]</f>the unclean and the clean may eat of it, <f>[20†]</f>of the gazelle and the deer alike.


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You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or your new wine or your oil, of the firstborn of your herd or your flock, of any of your offerings which you vow, of your freewill offerings, or of the heave offering of your hand.


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But you must eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God chooses, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who <i>is</i> within your gates; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all to which you put your hands.


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<pb/>“When the LORD your God <f>[22†]</f>enlarges your border as He has promised you, and you say, ‘Let me eat meat,’ because you long to eat meat, you may eat as much meat as your heart desires.


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If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from <f>[23†]</f>you, then you may slaughter from your herd and from your flock which the LORD has given you, just as I have commanded you, and you may eat within your gates as much as your heart desires.


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Just as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you may eat them; the unclean and the clean alike may eat them.


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Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, <f>[24†]</f>for the blood <i>is</i> the life; you may not eat the life with the meat.


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You shall not eat it, <f>[25†]</f>that it may go well with you and your children after you, <f>[26†]</f>when you do <i>what</i> <i>is</i> right in the sight of the LORD.


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Only the <f>[27†]</f>holy things which you have, and your vowed offerings, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD chooses.


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And <f>[28†]</f>you shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, and you shall eat the meat.


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Observe and obey all these words which I command you, <f>[29†]</f>that it may go well with you and your children after you forever, when you do <i>what</i> <i>is</i> good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.


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<pb/>“When <f>[30†]</f>the LORD your God cuts off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you displace them and dwell in their land,


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take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.’


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<f>[31†]</f>You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way; for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for <f>[32†]</f>they burn even their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.


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<pb/>“Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; <f>[33†]</f>you shall not add to it nor take away from it.


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<pb/>“If there arises among you a prophet or a <f>[1†]</f>dreamer of dreams, <f>[2†]</f>and he gives you a sign or a wonder,


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and <f>[3†]</f>the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods’—which you have not known—‘and let us serve them,’


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you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the LORD your God <f>[4†]</f>is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.


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You shall <f>[5†]</f>walk after the LORD your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice; you shall serve Him and <f>[6†]</f>hold fast to Him.


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But <f>[7†]</f>that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken in order to turn <i>you</i> away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of bondage, to entice you from the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. <f>[8†]</f>So you shall put away the evil from your midst.


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<pb/> <f>[9†]</f>“If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, <f>[10†]</f>the wife of your bosom, or your friend <f>[11†]</f>who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers,


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of the gods of the people which <i>are</i> all around you, near to you or far off from you, from <i>one</i> end of the earth to the <i>other</i> end of the earth,


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you shall <f>[12†]</f>not consent to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him or conceal him;


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but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to <f>[13†]</f>death, and afterward the hand of all the people.


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And you shall stone him with stones until he dies, because he sought to entice you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.


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<pb/> <f>[15†]</f>“If you hear someone in one of your cities, which the LORD your God gives you to dwell in, saying,


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‘Corrupt men have gone out from among you and enticed the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” ’—which you have not known—


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then you shall inquire, search out, and ask diligently. And <i>if</i> <i>it</i> <i>is</i> indeed true <i>and</i> certain <i>that</i> such an abomination was committed among you,


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you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it, all that is in it and its livestock—with the edge of the sword.


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And you shall gather all its plunder into the middle of the street, and completely <f>[16†]</f>burn with fire the city and all its plunder, for the LORD your God. It shall be <f>[17†]</f>a heap forever; it shall not be built again.


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<f>[18†]</f>So none of the accursed things shall remain in your hand, that the LORD may <f>[19†]</f>turn from the fierceness of His anger and show you mercy, have compassion on you and multiply you, just as He swore to your fathers,


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because you have listened to the voice of the LORD your God, <f>[20†]</f>to keep all His commandments which I command you today, to do <i>what</i> <i>is</i> right in the eyes of the LORD your God.


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<pb/>“You <i>are</i> <f>[1†]</f>the children of the LORD your God; <f>[2†]</f>you shall not cut yourselves nor shave the front of your head for the dead.


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<f>[3†]</f>For you <i>are</i> a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples who <i>are</i> on the face of the earth.


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the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the mountain goat, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.


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And you may eat every animal with cloven hooves, having the hoof split into two parts, <i>and</i> <i>that</i> chews the cud, among the animals.


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Nevertheless, of those that chew the cud or have cloven hooves, you shall not eat, <i>such</i> <i>as</i> these: the camel, the hare, and the rock hyrax; for they chew the cud but do not have cloven hooves; they <i>are</i> unclean for you.


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Also the swine is unclean for you, because it has cloven hooves, yet <i>does</i> not <i>chew</i> the cud; you shall not eat their flesh <f>[6†]</f>or touch their dead carcasses.


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<pb/> <f>[7†]</f>“These you may eat of all that <i>are</i> in the waters: you may eat all that have fins and scales.


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<pb/>“Also <f>[9†]</f>every creeping thing that flies is unclean for you; <f>[10†]</f>they shall not be eaten.


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<pb/> <f>[11†]</f>“You shall not eat anything that dies <i>of</i> <i>itself;</i> you may give it to the alien who <i>is</i> within your gates, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner; <f>[12†]</f>for you <i>are</i> a holy people to the LORD your God. <pb/>“ <f>[13†]</f>You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.


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<pb/> <f>[14†]</f>“You shall truly tithe all the increase of your grain that the field produces year by year.


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<f>[15†]</f>And you shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place where He chooses to make His name abide, the tithe of your grain and your new wine and your oil, of <f>[16†]</f>the firstborn of your herds and your flocks, that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.


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But if the journey is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry <i>the</i> <i>tithe, or</i> <f>[17†]</f>if the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, when the LORD your God has blessed you,


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then you shall exchange <i>it</i> for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place which the LORD your God chooses.


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And you shall spend that money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen or sheep, for wine or similar drink, for whatever your heart desires; you shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall <f>[18†]</f>rejoice, you and your household.


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You shall not forsake the <f>[19†]</f>Levite who <i>is</i> within your gates, for he has no part nor inheritance with you.


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<pb/> <f>[20†]</f>“At the end of <i>every</i> third year you shall bring out the <f>[21†]</f>tithe of your produce of that year and store <i>it</i> up within your gates.


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And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who <i>are</i> within your gates, may come and eat and be satisfied, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.


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<pb/>“At the end of <f>[1†]</f><i>every</i> seven years you shall grant a release <i>of</i> <i>debts.</i>


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And this <i>is</i> the form of the release: Every creditor who has lent <i>anything</i> to his neighbor shall release <i>it;</i> he shall not require <i>it</i> of his neighbor or his brother, because it is called the LORD’s release.


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Of a foreigner you may require <i>it;</i> but you shall give up your claim to what is owed by your brother,


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except when there may be no poor among you; for the LORD will greatly <f>[2†]</f>bless you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess <i>as</i> an inheritance—


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only if you carefully obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe with care all these commandments which I command you today.


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For the LORD your God will bless you just as He promised you; <f>[3†]</f>you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; you shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over you.


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<pb/>“If there is among you a poor man of your brethren, within any of the gates in your land which the LORD your God is giving you, <f>[4†]</f>you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother,


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but <f>[5†]</f>you shall open your hand wide to him and willingly lend him sufficient for his need, whatever he needs.


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Beware lest there be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,’ and your <f>[6†]</f>eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing, and <f>[7†]</f>he cry out to the LORD against you, and <f>[8†]</f>it become sin among you.


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You shall surely give to him, and <f>[9†]</f>your heart should not be grieved when you give to him, because <f>[10†]</f>for this thing the LORD your God will bless you in all your works and in all to which you put your hand.


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For <f>[11†]</f>the poor will never cease from the land; therefore I command you, saying, ‘You shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor and your needy, in your land.’


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<pb/> <f>[12†]</f>“If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is <f>[13†]</f>sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.


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you shall supply him liberally from your flock, from your threshing floor, and from your winepress. <i>From</i> <i>what</i> the LORD your God has <f>[14†]</f>blessed you with, you shall give to him.


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<f>[15†]</f>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 thing today.


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<f>[16†]</f>And if it happens that he says to you, ‘I will not go away from you,’ because he loves you and your house, since he prospers with you,


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then you shall take an awl and thrust <i>it</i> through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.


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It shall not seem hard to you when you send him away free from you; for he has been worth <f>[17†]</f>a double hired servant in serving you six years. Then the LORD your God will bless you in all that you do.


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<pb/> <f>[18†]</f>“All the firstborn males that come from your herd and your flock you shall sanctify to the LORD your God; you shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.


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<f>[19†]</f>You and your household shall eat <i>it</i> before the LORD your God year by year in the place which the LORD chooses.


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<f>[20†]</f>But if there is a defect in it, <i>if</i> <i>it</i> <i>is</i> lame or blind <i>or</i> <i>has</i> any serious defect, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.


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You may eat it within your gates; <f>[21†]</f>the unclean and the clean <i>person</i> alike <i>may</i> <i>eat</i> <i>it,</i> as <i>if</i> <i>it</i> <i>were</i> a gazelle or a deer.


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<pb/>“Observe the <f>[1†]</f>month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the LORD your God, for <f>[2†]</f>in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.


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Therefore you shall sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your God, from the flock and <f>[3†]</f>the herd, in the <f>[4†]</f>place where the LORD chooses to put His name.


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You shall eat no leavened bread with it; <f>[5†]</f>seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, <i>that</i> <i>is,</i> the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), that you may <f>[6†]</f>remember the day in which you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.


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<f>[7†]</f>And no leaven shall be seen among you in all your territory for seven days, nor shall <i>any</i> of the meat which you sacrifice the first day at twilight remain overnight until <f>[8†]</f>morning.


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<pb/>“You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you;


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but at the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide, there you shall sacrifice the Passover <f>[9†]</f>at twilight, at the going down of the sun, at the time you came out of Egypt.


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And you shall roast and eat <i>it</i> in the place which the LORD your God chooses, and <f>[10†]</f>in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.


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Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and <f>[11†]</f>on the seventh day there <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> a sacred assembly to the LORD your God. You shall do no work <i>on</i> <i>it.</i>


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<pb/>“You shall count seven weeks for yourself; begin to count the seven weeks from <i>the</i> <i>time</i> you begin <i>to</i> <i>put</i> the sickle to the grain.


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Then you shall keep the <f>[12†]</f>Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give <f>[13†]</f>as the LORD your God blesses you.


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<f>[14†]</f>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 <i>is</i> within your gates, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who <i>are</i> among you, at the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide.


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<f>[15†]</f>And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.


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<pb/> <f>[16†]</f>“You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, when you have gathered from your threshing floor and from your winepress.


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And <f>[17†]</f>you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant and the Levite, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, who <i>are</i> within your gates.


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<f>[18†]</f>Seven days you shall keep a sacred feast to the LORD your God in the place which the LORD chooses, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you surely rejoice.


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<pb/> <f>[19†]</f>“Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles; and <f>[20†]</f>they shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed.


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Every man <i>shall</i> <i>give</i> as he is able, <f>[21†]</f>according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you.


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<pb/>“You shall appoint <f>[22†]</f>judges and officers in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with just judgment.


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<f>[23†]</f>You shall not pervert justice; <f>[24†]</f>you shall not show partiality, <f>[25†]</f>nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.


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You shall follow what is altogether just, that you may <f>[26†]</f>live and inherit the land which the LORD your God is giving you.


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<pb/> <f>[27†]</f>“You shall not plant for yourself any tree, as a wooden image, near the altar which you build for yourself to the LORD your God.


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<pb/>“You <f>[1†]</f>shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God a bull or sheep which has any blemish <i>or</i> defect, for that <i>is</i> an abomination to the LORD your God.


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<pb/> <f>[2†]</f>“If there is found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, a man or a woman who has been wicked in the sight of the LORD your God, <f>[3†]</f>in transgressing His covenant,


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who has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, either <f>[4†]</f>the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven, <f>[5†]</f>which I have not commanded,


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<f>[6†]</f>and it is told you, and you hear <i>of</i> <i>it,</i> then you shall inquire diligently. And if <i>it</i> <i>is</i> indeed true <i>and</i> certain that such an abomination has been committed in Israel,


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then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has committed that wicked thing, and <f>[7†]</f>shall stone <f>[8†]</f>to death that man or woman with stones.


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Whoever is deserving of death shall be put to death on the testimony of two or three <f>[9†]</f>witnesses; he shall not be put to death on the testimony of one witness.


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The hands of the witnesses shall be the first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from among <f>[10†]</f>you.


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<pb/> <f>[11†]</f>“If a matter arises which is too hard for you to judge, between degrees of guilt for bloodshed, between one judgment or another, or between one punishment or another, matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the <f>[12†]</f>place which the LORD your God chooses.


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And <f>[13†]</f>you shall come to the priests, the Levites, and <f>[14†]</f>to the judge <i>there</i> in those days, and inquire <i>of</i> <i>them;</i> <f>[15†]</f>they shall pronounce upon you the sentence of judgment.


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You shall do according to the sentence which they pronounce upon you in that place which the LORD chooses. And you shall be careful to do according to all that they order you.


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According to the sentence of the law in which they instruct you, according to the judgment which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside <i>to</i> the right hand or <i>to</i> the left from the sentence which they pronounce upon you.


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Now <f>[16†]</f>the man who acts presumptuously and will not heed the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall put away the evil from Israel.


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<pb/>“When you come to the land which the LORD your God is giving you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, <f>[18†]</f>‘I will set a king over me like all the nations that <i>are</i> around me,’


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you shall surely set a king over you <f>[19†]</f>whom the LORD your God chooses; <i>one</i> <f>[20†]</f>from among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not set a foreigner over you, who <i>is</i> not your brother.


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But he shall not multiply <f>[21†]</f>horses for himself, nor cause the people <f>[22†]</f>to return to Egypt to multiply horses, for <f>[23†]</f>the LORD has said to you, <f>[24†]</f>‘You shall not return that way again.’


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Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply silver and <f>[25†]</f>gold for himself.


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<pb/>“Also it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book, from <i>the</i> <i>one</i> <f>[26†]</f>before the priests, the Levites.


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And <f>[27†]</f>it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God and be careful to observe all the words of this law and these statutes,


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that his heart may not be lifted above his brethren, that he <f>[28†]</f>may not turn aside from the commandment <i>to</i> the right hand or <i>to</i> the left, and that he may prolong <i>his</i> days in his kingdom, he and his children in the midst of Israel.


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<pb/>“The priests, the Levites—all the tribe of Levi—shall have no part nor <f>[1†]</f>inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and His portion.


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Therefore they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the LORD is their inheritance, as He said to them.


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<pb/>“And this shall be the priest’s <f>[2†]</f>due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether <i>it</i> <i>is</i> bull or sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder, the cheeks, and the stomach.


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<f>[3†]</f>The firstfruits of your grain and your new wine and your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.


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For <f>[4†]</f>the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes <f>[5†]</f>to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons forever.


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<pb/>“So if a Levite comes from any of your gates, from where he <f>[6†]</f>dwells among all Israel, and comes with all the desire of his mind <f>[7†]</f>to the place which the LORD chooses,


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then he may serve in the name of the LORD his God <f>[8†]</f>as all his brethren the Levites <i>do,</i> who stand there before the LORD.


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They shall have equal <f>[9†]</f>portions to eat, besides what comes from the sale of his inheritance.


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<pb/>“When you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you, <f>[10†]</f>you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations.


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There shall not be found among you <i>anyone</i> who makes his son or his daughter <f>[11†]</f>pass through the fire, <f>[12†]</f><i>or</i> <i>one</i> who practices witchcraft, <i>or</i> a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,


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<f>[13†]</f>or <f>[14†]</f>one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.


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For all who do these things <i>are</i> an abomination to the LORD, and <f>[15†]</f>because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you.


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For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not appointed such for you.


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<pb/> <f>[16†]</f>“The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear,


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according to all you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb <f>[17†]</f>in the day of the assembly, saying, <f>[18†]</f>‘Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die.’


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<f>[20†]</f>I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and <f>[21†]</f>will put My words in His mouth, <f>[22†]</f>and He shall speak to them all that I command Him.


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<f>[23†]</f>And it shall be <i>that</i> whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require <i>it</i> of him.


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But <f>[24†]</f>the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or <f>[25†]</f>who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’


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<f>[26†]</f>when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, <f>[27†]</f>if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that <i>is</i> the thing which the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it <f>[28†]</f>presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.


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<pb/>“When the LORD your God <f>[1†]</f>has cut off the nations whose land the LORD your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,


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<f>[2†]</f>you shall separate three cities for yourself in the midst of your land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess.


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You shall prepare roads for yourself, and divide into three parts the territory of your land which the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, that any manslayer may flee there.


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<pb/>“And <f>[3†]</f>this <i>is</i> the case of the manslayer who flees there, that he may live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, not having hated him in time past—


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as when <i>a</i> <i>man</i> goes to the woods with his neighbor to cut timber, and his hand swings a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live;


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<f>[4†]</f>lest the avenger of blood, while his anger is hot, pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and kill him, though he <i>was</i> not deserving of death, since he had not hated the victim in time past.


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<pb/>“Now if the LORD your God <f>[5†]</f>enlarges your territory, as He swore to <f>[6†]</f>your fathers, and gives you the land which He promised to give to your fathers,


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and if you keep all these commandments and do them, which I command you today, to love the LORD your God and to walk always in His ways, <f>[7†]</f>then you shall add three more cities for yourself besides these three,


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<f>[8†]</f>lest innocent blood be shed in the midst of your land which the LORD your God is giving you <i>as</i> an inheritance, and <i>thus</i> guilt of bloodshed be upon you.


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<pb/>“But <f>[9†]</f>if anyone hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises against him and strikes him mortally, so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities,


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then the elders of his city shall send and bring him from there, and deliver him over to the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.


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<f>[10†]</f>Your eye shall not pity him, <f>[11†]</f>but you shall put away <i>the</i> <i>guilt</i> <i>of</i> innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.


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<pb/> <f>[12†]</f>“You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which the men of old have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.


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<pb/> <f>[13†]</f>“One witness shall not rise against a man concerning any iniquity or any sin that he commits; by the mouth of two or three witnesses the matter shall be established.


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then both men in the controversy shall stand before the LORD, <f>[15†]</f>before the priests and the judges who serve in those days.


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And the judges shall make careful inquiry, and indeed, <i>if</i> the witness <i>is</i> a false witness, who has testified falsely against his brother,


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<f>[16†]</f>then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother; so <f>[17†]</f>you shall put away the evil from among you.


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<f>[18†]</f>And those who remain shall hear and fear, and hereafter they shall not again commit such evil among you.


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<f>[19†]</f>Your eye shall not pity: <f>[20†]</f>life <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.


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<pb/>“When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see <f>[1†]</f>horses and chariots <i>and</i> people more numerous than you, do not be <f>[2†]</f>afraid of them; for the LORD your God <i>is</i> <f>[3†]</f>with you, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.


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So it shall be, when you are on the verge of battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people.


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And he shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Israel: Today you are on the verge of battle with your enemies. Do not let your heart faint, do not be afraid, and do not tremble or be terrified because of them;


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for the LORD your God <i>is</i> He who goes with you, <f>[4†]</f>to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’


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<pb/>“Then the officers shall speak to the people, saying: ‘What man <i>is</i> <i>there</i> who has built a new house and has not <f>[5†]</f>dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.


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Also what man <i>is</i> <i>there</i> who has planted a vineyard and has not eaten of it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man eat of it.


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<f>[6†]</f>And what man <i>is</i> <i>there</i> who is betrothed to a woman and has not married her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man marry her.’


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<pb/>“The officers shall speak further to the people, and say, <f>[7†]</f>‘What man <i>is</i> <i>there</i> <i>who</i> <i>is</i> fearful and fainthearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest the heart of his brethren faint like his heart.’


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And so it shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.


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<pb/>“When you go near a city to fight against it, <f>[8†]</f>then proclaim an offer of peace to it.


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And it shall be that if they accept your offer of peace, and open to you, then all the people <i>who</i> <i>are</i> found in it shall be placed under tribute to you, and serve you.


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Now if <i>the</i> <i>city</i> will not make peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it.


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And when the LORD your God delivers it into your hands, <f>[9†]</f>you shall strike every male in it with the edge of the sword.


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But the women, the little ones, <f>[10†]</f>the livestock, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall plunder for yourself; and <f>[11†]</f>you shall eat the enemies’ plunder which the LORD your God gives you.


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Thus you shall do to all the cities <i>which</i> <i>are</i> very far from you, which <i>are</i> not of the cities of these nations.


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<pb/>“But <f>[12†]</f>of the cities of these peoples which the LORD your God gives you <i>as</i> an inheritance, you shall let nothing that breathes remain alive,


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but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as the LORD your God has commanded you,


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lest <f>[13†]</f>they teach you to do according to all their abominations which they have done for their gods, and you <f>[14†]</f>sin against the LORD your God.


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<pb/>“When you besiege a city for a long time, while making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; if you can eat of them, do not cut them down to use in the siege, for the tree of the field <i>is</i> man’s <i>food.</i>


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Only the trees which you know <i>are</i> not trees for food you may destroy and cut down, to build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it is subdued.


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<pb/>“If <i>anyone</i> is found slain, lying in the field in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess, <i>and</i> it is not known who killed him,


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then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure <i>the</i> <i>distance</i> from the slain man to the surrounding cities.


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And it shall be <i>that</i> the elders of the city nearest to the slain man will take a heifer which has not been worked <i>and</i> which has not pulled with a <f>[1†]</f>yoke.


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The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with flowing water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and they shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.


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Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come near, for <f>[2†]</f>the LORD your God has chosen them to minister to Him and to bless in the name of the LORD; <f>[3†]</f>by their word every controversy and every assault shall be <i>settled.</i>


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And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain <i>man</i> <f>[4†]</f>shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.


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Then they shall answer and say, ‘Our hands have not shed this blood, nor have our eyes seen <i>it.</i>


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Provide atonement, O LORD, for Your people Israel, whom You have redeemed, <f>[5†]</f>and do not lay innocent blood to the charge of Your people Israel.’ And atonement shall be provided on their behalf for the blood.


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So <f>[6†]</f>you shall put away the <i>guilt</i> <i>of</i> innocent blood from among you when you do <i>what</i> <i>is</i> right in the sight of the LORD.


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<pb/>“When you go out to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God delivers them into your hand, and you take them captive,


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and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and desire her and would take her for your <f>[7†]</f>wife,


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then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall <f>[8†]</f>shave her head and trim her nails.


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She shall put off the clothes of her captivity, remain in your house, and <f>[9†]</f>mourn her father and her mother a full month; after that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.


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And it shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall set her free, but you certainly shall not sell her for money; you shall not treat her brutally, because you have <f>[10†]</f>humbled her.


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<pb/>“If a man has two wives, one loved <f>[11†]</f>and the other unloved, and they have borne him children, <i>both</i> the loved and the unloved, and <i>if</i> the firstborn son is of her who is unloved,


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then it shall be, <f>[12†]</f>on the day he bequeaths his possessions to his sons, <i>that</i> he must not bestow firstborn status on the son of the loved wife in preference to the son of the unloved, the <i>true</i> firstborn.


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But he shall acknowledge the son of the unloved wife <i>as</i> the firstborn <f>[13†]</f>by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he <f>[14†]</f><i>is</i> the beginning of his strength; <f>[15†]</f>the right of the firstborn <i>is</i> his.


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<pb/>“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 <i>who,</i> when they have chastened him, will not heed them,


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then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his city.


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And they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’


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Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones; <f>[16†]</f>so you shall put away the evil from among you, <f>[17†]</f>and all Israel shall hear and fear.


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<pb/>“If a man has committed a sin <f>[18†]</f>deserving of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,


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<f>[19†]</f>his body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, so that <f>[20†]</f>you do not defile the land which the LORD your God is giving you <i>as</i> an inheritance; for <f>[21†]</f>he who is hanged <i>is</i> accursed of God.


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<pb/>“You <f>[1†]</f>shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep going astray, and hide yourself from them; you shall certainly bring them back to your brother.


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And if your brother <i>is</i> not near you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring it to your own house, and it shall remain with you until your brother seeks it; then you shall restore it to him.


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You shall do the same with his donkey, and so shall you do with his garment; with any lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost and you have found, you shall do likewise; you must not hide yourself.


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<pb/> <f>[2†]</f>“You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fall down along the road, and hide yourself from them; you shall surely help him lift <i>them</i> up again.


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<pb/>“A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman’s garment, for all who do so <i>are</i> an abomination to the LORD your God.


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<pb/>“If a bird’s nest happens to be before you along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, with the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, <f>[3†]</f>you shall not take the mother with the young;


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you shall surely let the mother go, and take the young for yourself, <f>[4†]</f>that it may be well with you and <i>that</i> you may prolong <i>your</i> days.


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<pb/>“When you build a new house, then you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring guilt of bloodshed on your household if anyone falls from it.


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<pb/> <f>[5†]</f>“You shall not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seed, lest the yield of the seed which you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard be defiled.


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<pb/> <f>[7†]</f>“You shall not wear a garment of different sorts, <i>such</i> <i>as</i> wool and linen mixed together.


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<pb/>“You shall make <f>[8†]</f>tassels on the four corners of the clothing with which you cover <i>yourself.</i>


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and charges her with shameful conduct, and brings a bad name on her, and says, ‘I took this woman, and when I came to her I found she <i>was</i> not a virgin,’


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then the father and mother of the young woman shall take and bring out <i>the</i> <i>evidence</i> <i>of</i> the young woman’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.


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And the young woman’s father shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as wife, and he detests her.


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Now he has charged her with shameful conduct, saying, “I found your daughter <i>was</i> not a virgin,” and yet these <i>are</i> <i>the</i> <i>evidences</i> <i>of</i> my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.


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and they shall fine him one hundred <i>shekels</i> of silver and give <i>them</i> to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a bad name on a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife; he cannot divorce her all his days.


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<pb/>“But if the thing is true, <i>and</i> <i>evidences</i> <i>of</i> virginity are not found for the young woman,


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then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with <f>[10†]</f>stones, because she has <f>[11†]</f>done a disgraceful thing in Israel, to play the harlot in her father’s house. <f>[12†]</f>So you shall put away the evil from among you.


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<pb/> <f>[13†]</f>“If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then both of them shall die—the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; so you shall put away the evil from Israel.


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<pb/>“If a young woman <i>who</i> <i>is</i> a virgin is <f>[14†]</f>betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her,


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then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he <f>[15†]</f>humbled his neighbor’s wife; <f>[16†]</f>so you shall put away the evil from among you.


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<pb/>“But if a man finds a betrothed young woman in the countryside, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.


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But you shall do nothing to the young woman; <i>there</i> <i>is</i> in the young woman no sin <i>deserving</i> of death, for just as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so <i>is</i> this matter.


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For he found her in the countryside, <i>and</i> the betrothed young woman cried out, but <i>there</i> <i>was</i> no one to save her.


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<pb/> <f>[17†]</f>“If a man finds a young woman <i>who</i> <i>is</i> a virgin, who is not betrothed, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are found out,


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then the man who lay with her shall give to the young woman’s father <f>[18†]</f>fifty <i>shekels</i> of silver, and she shall be his wife <f>[19†]</f>because he has humbled her; he shall not be permitted to divorce her all his days.


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<pb/> <f>[20†]</f>“A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor <f>[21†]</f>uncover his father’s bed.


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<pb/>“He who is emasculated by crushing or mutilation shall <f>[1†]</f>not enter the assembly of the LORD.


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<pb/>“One of illegitimate birth shall not enter the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation none of his <i>descendants</i> shall enter the assembly of the LORD.


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<pb/> <f>[2†]</f>“An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation none of his <i>descendants</i> shall enter the assembly of the LORD forever,


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<f>[3†]</f>because they did not meet you with bread and water on the road when you came out of Egypt, and <f>[4†]</f>because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.


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Nevertheless the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God <f>[5†]</f>loves you.


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<pb/>“You shall not abhor an Edomite, <f>[7†]</f>for he <i>is</i> your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because <f>[8†]</f>you were an alien in his land.


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<f>[9†]</f>If there is any man among you who becomes unclean by some occurrence in the night, then he shall go outside the camp; he shall not come inside the camp.


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But it shall be, when evening comes, that <f>[10†]</f>he shall wash with water; and when the sun sets, he may come into the camp.


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and you shall have an implement among your equipment, and when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and turn and cover your refuse.


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For the LORD your God <f>[11†]</f>walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and give your enemies over to you; therefore your camp shall be holy, that He may see no unclean thing among you, and turn away from you.


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<pb/> <f>[12†]</f>“You shall not give back to his master the slave who has escaped from his master to you.


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He may dwell with you in your midst, in the place which he chooses within one of your gates, where it seems best to him; <f>[13†]</f>you shall not oppress him.


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<pb/>“There shall be no <i>ritual</i> harlot of the daughters of Israel, or a <f>[14†]</f>perverted one of the sons of Israel.


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You shall not bring the wages of a harlot or the price of a dog to the house of the LORD your God for any vowed offering, for both of these <i>are</i> an abomination to the LORD your God.


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<pb/> <f>[15†]</f>“You shall not charge interest to your brother—interest on money <i>or</i> food <i>or</i> anything that is lent out at interest.


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<f>[16†]</f>To a foreigner you may charge interest, but to your brother you shall not charge interest, <f>[17†]</f>that the LORD your God may bless you in all to which you set your hand in the land which you are entering to possess.


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<pb/> <f>[18†]</f>“When you make a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay to pay it; for the LORD your God will surely require it of you, and it would be sin to you.


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<f>[19†]</f>That which has gone from your lips you shall keep and perform, for you voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God what you have promised with your mouth.


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<pb/>“When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes at your pleasure, but you shall not put <i>any</i> in your container.


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When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, <f>[20†]</f>you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not use a sickle on your neighbor’s standing grain.


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<pb/>“When a <f>[1†]</f>man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some uncleanness in her, and he writes her a <f>[2†]</f>certificate of divorce, puts <i>it</i> in her hand, and sends her out of his house,


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<i>if</i> the latter husband detests her and writes her a certificate of divorce, puts <i>it</i> in her hand, and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her as his wife,


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<f>[3†]</f><i>then</i> her former husband who divorced her must not take her back to be his wife after she has been defiled; for that <i>is</i> an abomination before the LORD, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the LORD your God is giving you <i>as</i> an inheritance.


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<pb/> <f>[4†]</f>“When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war or be charged with any business; he shall be free at home one year, and <f>[5†]</f>bring happiness to his wife whom he has taken.


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<pb/>“No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge, for he takes <i>one’s</i> living in pledge.


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<pb/>“If a man is <f>[6†]</f>found kidnapping any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and mistreats him or sells him, then that kidnapper shall die; <f>[7†]</f>and you shall put away the evil from among you.


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<pb/>“Take heed in <f>[8†]</f>an outbreak of leprosy, that you carefully observe and do according to all that the priests, the Levites, shall teach you; just as I commanded them, <i>so</i> you shall be careful to do.


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<f>[9†]</f>Remember what the LORD your God did <f>[10†]</f>to Miriam on the way when you came out of Egypt!


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<pb/>“When you <f>[11†]</f>lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.


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<f>[12†]</f>You shall in any case return the pledge to him again when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own garment and <f>[13†]</f>bless you; and <f>[14†]</f>it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.


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<pb/>“You shall not <f>[15†]</f>oppress a hired servant <i>who</i> <i>is</i> poor and needy, <i>whether</i> one of your brethren or one of the aliens who <i>is</i> in your land within your gates.


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Each day <f>[16†]</f>you shall give <i>him</i> his wages, and not let the sun go down on it, for he <i>is</i> poor and has set his heart on it; <f>[17†]</f>lest he cry out against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you.


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<pb/> <f>[18†]</f>“Fathers shall not be put to death for <i>their</i> children, nor shall children be put to death for <i>their</i> fathers; a person shall be put to death for his own sin.


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<pb/> <f>[19†]</f>“You shall not pervert justice due the stranger or the fatherless, <f>[20†]</f>nor take a widow’s garment as a pledge.


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But <f>[21†]</f>you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this thing.


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<pb/> <f>[22†]</f>“When you reap your harvest in your field, and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that the LORD your God may <f>[23†]</f>bless you in all the work of your hands.


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When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.


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When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean <i>it</i> afterward; it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.


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And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this thing.


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<pb/>“If there is a <f>[1†]</f>dispute between men, and they come to court, that <i>the</i> <i>judges</i> may judge them, and they <f>[2†]</f>justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,


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then it shall be, if the wicked man <f>[3†]</f>deserves to be beaten, that the judge will cause him to lie down <f>[4†]</f>and be beaten in his presence, according to his guilt, with a certain number of blows.


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<f>[5†]</f>Forty blows he may give him <i>and</i> no more, lest he should exceed this and beat him with many blows above these, and your brother <f>[6†]</f>be humiliated in your sight.


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<pb/> <f>[8†]</f>“If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the widow of the dead man shall not be <i>married</i> to a stranger outside <i>the</i> <i>family;</i> her husband’s brother shall go in to her, take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.


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And it shall be <i>that</i> the firstborn son which she bears <f>[9†]</f>will succeed to the name of his dead brother, that <f>[10†]</f>his name may not be blotted out of Israel.


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But if the man does not want to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the <f>[11†]</f>gate to the elders, and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to raise up a name to his brother in Israel; he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother.’


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Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him. But <i>if</i> he stands firm and says, <f>[12†]</f>‘I do not want to take her,’


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then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, <f>[13†]</f>remove his sandal from his foot, spit in his face, and answer and say, ‘So shall it be done to the man who will not <f>[14†]</f>build up his brother’s house.’


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<pb/>“If <i>two</i> men fight together, and the wife of one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one attacking him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the genitals,


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You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, <f>[17†]</f>that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.


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For <f>[18†]</f>all who do such things, all who behave unrighteously, <i>are</i> an abomination to the LORD your God.


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how he met you on the way and attacked your rear ranks, all the stragglers at your rear, when you <i>were</i> tired and weary; and he <f>[20†]</f>did not fear God.


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Therefore it shall be, <f>[21†]</f>when the LORD your God has given you rest from your enemies all around, in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess <i>as</i> an inheritance, <i>that</i> you will <f>[22†]</f>blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. You shall not forget.


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<pb/>“And it shall be, when you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you <i>as</i> an inheritance, and you possess it and dwell in it,


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<f>[1†]</f>that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground, which you shall bring from your land that the LORD your God is giving you, and put <i>it</i> in a basket and <f>[2†]</f>go to the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide.


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And you shall go to the one who is priest in those days, and say to him, ‘I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come to the country which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.’


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<pb/>“Then the priest shall take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.


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And you shall answer and say before the LORD your God: ‘My father <i>was</i> <f>[3†]</f>a Syrian, <f>[4†]</f>about to perish, and <f>[5†]</f>he went down to Egypt and dwelt there, <f>[6†]</f>few in number; and there he became a nation, <f>[7†]</f>great, mighty, and populous.


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<f>[9†]</f>Then we cried out to the LORD God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and looked on our affliction and our labor and our oppression.


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So <f>[10†]</f>the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm, <f>[11†]</f>with great terror and with signs and wonders.


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He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, <f>[12†]</f>“a land flowing with milk and honey”;


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and now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land which you, O LORD, have given me.’ <pb/>“Then you shall set it before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God.


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So <f>[13†]</f>you shall rejoice in every good <i>thing</i> which the LORD your God has given to you and your house, you and the Levite and the stranger who <i>is</i> among you.


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<pb/>“When you have finished laying aside all the <f>[14†]</f>tithe of your increase in the third year— <f>[15†]</f>the year of tithing—and have given <i>it</i> to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your gates and be filled,


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then you shall say before the LORD your God: ‘I have removed the holy <i>tithe</i> from <i>my</i> house, and also have given them to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me; I have not transgressed Your commandments, <f>[16†]</f>nor have I forgotten <i>them.</i>


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<f>[17†]</f>I have not eaten any of it when in mourning, nor have I removed <i>any</i> of it for an unclean <i>use,</i> nor given <i>any</i> of it for the dead. I have obeyed the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that You have commanded me.


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<f>[18†]</f>Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land which You have given us, just as You swore to our fathers, <f>[19†]</f>“a land flowing with milk and honey.” ’


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<pb/>“This day the LORD your God commands you to observe these statutes and judgments; therefore you shall be careful to observe them with all your heart and with all your soul.


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Today you have <f>[20†]</f>proclaimed the LORD to be your God, and that you will walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and that you will <f>[21†]</f>obey His voice.


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Also today <f>[22†]</f>the LORD has proclaimed you to be His special people, just as He promised you, that <i>you</i> should keep all His commandments,


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and that He will set you <f>[23†]</f>high above all nations which He has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be <f>[24†]</f>a holy people to the LORD your God, just as He has spoken.”


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<pb/>Now Moses, with the elders of Israel, commanded the people, saying: “Keep all the commandments which I command you today.


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And it shall be, on the day <f>[1†]</f>when you cross over the Jordan to the land which the LORD your God is giving you, that <f>[2†]</f>you shall set up for yourselves large stones, and whitewash them with lime.


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You shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have crossed over, that you may enter the land which the LORD your God is giving you, <f>[3†]</f>‘a land flowing with milk and honey,’ just as the LORD God of your fathers promised you.


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Therefore it shall be, when you have crossed over the Jordan, <i>that</i> <f>[4†]</f>on Mount Ebal you shall set up these stones, which I command you today, and you shall whitewash them with lime.


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And there you shall build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones; <f>[5†]</f>you shall not use an iron <i>tool</i> on them.


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You shall build with whole stones the altar of the LORD your God, and offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God.


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You shall offer peace offerings, and shall eat there, and <f>[6†]</f>rejoice before the LORD your God.


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<pb/>Then Moses and the priests, the Levites, spoke to all Israel, saying, “Take heed and listen, O Israel: <f>[8†]</f>This day you have become the people of the LORD your God.


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Therefore you shall obey the voice of the LORD your God, and observe His commandments and His statutes which I command you today.”


