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These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suf, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

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It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.

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In the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that The LORD had given him in commandment to them;

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after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.

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Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying,

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"The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, 'You have lived long enough at this mountain.

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Turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all the places near there, in the Arabah, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the seashore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

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Behold , I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.'"

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I spoke to you at that time, saying, "I am not able to bear you myself alone.

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The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the stars of the sky for multitude.

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The LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!

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How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?

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Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you."

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You answered me, and said, "The thing which you have spoken is good to do."

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So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.

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I commanded your judges at that time, saying, "Hear cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.

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You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it."

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I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.

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We traveled from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.

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I said to you, "You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God gives to us.

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Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as The LORD, the God of your fathers, has spoken to you. Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed."

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You came near to me, everyone of you, and said, "Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come."

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The thing pleased me well. I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe.

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They turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.

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They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, "It is a good land which the LORD our God gives to us."

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Yet you wouldn't go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God.

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You murmured in your tents, and said, "Because the LORD hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

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Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, 'The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there!'"

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Then I said to you, "Don't dread, neither be afraid of them.

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The LORD your God who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,

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and in the wilderness, where you have seen how that the LORD your God bore you, as a man does bear his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place."

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Yet in this thing you didn't believe the LORD your God,

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who went before you on the way, to seek out a place for you to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.

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The LORD heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying,

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"Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land, which I swore to give to your fathers,

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except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it. I will give the land that he has trodden on to him, and to his children, because he has wholly followed The LORD."

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Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, "You also shall not go in there.

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Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, shall go in there. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

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Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be captured or killed, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there. I will give it to them, and they shall possess it.

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But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea."

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Then you answered and said to me, "We have sinned against The LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us." Every man of you put on his weapons of war, and presumed to go up into the hill country.

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The LORD said to me, "Tell them, 'Don't go up and don't fight; for I am not among you; lest you be struck before your enemies.'"

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So I spoke to you, and you didn't listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of The LORD, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill country.

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The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah.

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You returned and wept before The LORD; but the LORD didn't listen to your voice, nor turn his ear to you.

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So you stayed in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you remained.

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Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as the LORD spoke to me; and we encircled Mount Seir many days.

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The LORD spoke to me, saying,

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"You have encircled this mountain long enough. Turn northward.

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Command the people, saying, 'You are to pass through the border of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Therefore be careful.

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Don't contend with them; for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.

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You shall purchase food from them for money, that you may eat. You shall also buy water from them for money, that you may drink.'"

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For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He has known your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years, the LORD your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.

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So we passed by from our brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

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The LORD said to me, "Don't bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you any of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession."

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(The Emim lived therein before, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim.

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These also are considered to be Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.

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The Horites also lived in Seir before, but the children of Esau succeeded them. They destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which the LORD gave to them.)

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"Now rise up, and cross over the brook Zered." We went over the brook Zered.

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The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea, until we had come over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the middle of the camp, as the LORD swore to them.

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Moreover The LORD's hand was against them, to destroy them from the middle of the camp, until they were consumed.

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So, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

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The LORD spoke to me, saying,

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"You are to pass over Ar, the border of Moab, today.

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When you come near the border of the children of Ammon, don't bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you any of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession; because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession."

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(That also is considered a land of Rephaim: Rephaim lived there before; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,

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a great people, many, and tall, as the Anakim; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place;

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as he did for the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day:

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and the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and lived in their place.)

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"Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon: behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.

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Today I will begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of you."

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I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

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"Let me pass through your land. I will go along by the highway, I will turn neither to the right hand 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. Just let me pass through on my feet,

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as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I pass over the Jordan into the land which the LORD our God gives us."

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But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for the LORD your God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as it is today.

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The LORD said to me, "Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before you. Begin to possess, that you may inherit his land."

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Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz.

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The LORD our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, his sons, and all his people.

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We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. We left no one remaining.

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Only the livestock we took for plunder for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities which we had taken.

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From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. the LORD our God delivered up all before us.

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Only to the land of the children of Ammon you didn't come near; all the banks of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill country, and wherever the LORD our God forbade us.

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Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan. Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

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The LORD said to me, "Don't fear him; for I have delivered him, with all his people, and his land, into your hand. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon."

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So the LORD our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people. We struck him until no one was left to him remaining.

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We took all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we didn't take from them; sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

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All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides a great many villages without walls.

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We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.

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But all the livestock, and the plunder of the cities, we took for plunder for ourselves.

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We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon.

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(The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir.)

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We took all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

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(For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron. Isn't it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its width, after the cubit of a man.)

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This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead, and its cities, gave I to the Reubenites and to the Gadites:

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and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, gave I to the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim.

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Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.)

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I gave Gilead to Machir.

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To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and its border, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;

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the Arabah also, and the Jordan and its border, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.

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I commanded you at that time, saying, "The LORD your God has given you this land to possess it. You shall pass over armed before your brothers the children of Israel, all the men of valor.

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But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you have much livestock), shall live in your cities which I have given you,

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until the LORD gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also possess the land which the LORD your God gives them beyond the Jordan. Then you shall each return to his own possession, which I have given you."

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I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, "Your eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings. So shall the LORD do to all the kingdoms where you go over.

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You shall not fear them; for the LORD your God himself fights for you."

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I begged the LORD at that time, saying,

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"Lor d The LORD, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or in earth that can do works like yours, and mighty acts like yours?

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Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that fine mountain, and Lebanon."

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But the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and didn't listen to me. the LORD said to me, "Let this satisfy you. Speak no more to me of this matter.

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Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes; for you shall not go over this Jordan.

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But commission 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 shall see."

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So we stayed in the valley near Beth Peor.

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Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which The LORD, the God of your fathers, gives you.

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You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away 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 because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, the LORD your God has destroyed them from among you.

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But you who were faithful to the LORD your God are all alive today.

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Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.

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Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, "Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people."

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For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as the LORD our God is whenever we call on him?

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What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you today?

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Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children's children;

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the day that you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, "Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children."

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You came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.

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The LORD spoke to you out of the middle of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; you only heard a voice.

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He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets.

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The LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.

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Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that the LORD spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,

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lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

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the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,

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the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;

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and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.

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But the LORD has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.

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Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance;

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but I must die in this land. I must not go over the Jordan; but you shall go over, and possess that good land.

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Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves an engraved image in the form of anything which the LORD your God has forbidden you.

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For the LORD your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

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When you shall father children, and children's children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the LORD your God's sight, to provoke him to anger;

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I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.

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The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations, where the LORD will lead you away.

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There you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

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But from there you shall seek the LORD your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

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When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to the LORD your God, and listen to his voice.

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For the LORD your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.

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For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?

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Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live?

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Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

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It was shown to you so that you might know that the LORD is God. There is no one else besides him.

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Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.

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Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;

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to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.

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Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that the LORD himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.

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You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD your God gives you, forever.

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Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;

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that the man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:

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Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.