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You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you;


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for Yahweh your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.


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You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.


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You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.


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You shall do that which is right and good in the sight of Yahweh; that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,


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to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.


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When your son asks you in time to come, saying, “What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you mean?”


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then you shall tell your son, “We were Pharaoh’s bondservants in Egypt: and Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;


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and Yahweh showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;


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and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers.


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Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day.


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It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”


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When Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you;


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and when Yahweh your God shall deliver them up before you, and you shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;


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neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.


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For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so the anger of Yahweh would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.


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But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, and dash their pillars in pieces, and cut down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.


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For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God: Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.


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Yahweh didn’t set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:


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but because Yahweh loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, has Yahweh brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.


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Know therefore that Yahweh your God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,


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and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him who hates him, he will repay him to his face.


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You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.


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It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers:


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and he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.


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You shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.


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Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, he will put on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you.


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You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you.


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If you shall say in your heart, “These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?”


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you shall not be afraid of them: you shall well remember what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt;


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the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out: so shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.


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Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.


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You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is in the midst of you, a great and awesome God.


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Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.


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But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they be destroyed.


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He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name to perish from under the sky: no man shall be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.


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You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.


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You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.


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You shall observe to do all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.


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You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.


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He humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh does man live.


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Your clothing didn’t grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.


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You shall consider in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so Yahweh your God chastens you.


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You shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.


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For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills;


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a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;


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a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.


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You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.


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Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you this day:


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lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;


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and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;


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then your heart be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;


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who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, [in which were] fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint;


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who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:


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and [lest] you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”


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But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day.


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It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.


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As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you wouldn’t listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.


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Hear, Israel: you are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,


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a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, “Who can stand before the sons of Anak?”


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Know therefore this day, that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you: so you shall drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you.


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Don’t say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, “For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land;” because Yahweh drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.


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Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.


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Know therefore, that Yahweh your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.


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Remember, don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you went forth out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.


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Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you.


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When I was gone up onto the mountain to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water.


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Yahweh delivered to me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them [was written] according to all the words, which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.


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It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that Yahweh gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.


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Yahweh said to me, “Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.”


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Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people:


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let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.”


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So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.


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I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God; you had made yourselves a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly out of the way which Yahweh had commanded you.


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I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.


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I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.


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For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also.


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Yahweh was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.


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I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.


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At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath.


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When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you;” then you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn’t believe him, nor listen to his voice.


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You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you.


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So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.


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I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance, that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.


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Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; don’t look to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin,


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lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’


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Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”


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At that time Yahweh said to me, “Cut two tables of stone like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood.


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I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.”


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So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two tables of stone like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tables in my hand.


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He wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and Yahweh gave them to me.


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I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me.


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(The children of Israel traveled from Beeroth Bene Jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest’s office in his place.


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From there they traveled to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water.


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At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, to stand before Yahweh to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.


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Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance, according as Yahweh your God spoke to him.)


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I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and Yahweh listened to me that time also; Yahweh would not destroy you.


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Yahweh said to me, “Arise, take your journey before the people; and they shall go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give to them.”


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Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,


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to keep the commandments of Yahweh, and his statutes, which I command you this day for your good?