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25:1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment,
 that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous,
 and condemn the wicked.
25:2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the
 judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face,
 according to his fault, by a certain number.
25:3 Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed:  lest, if he should
 exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should
 seem vile unto thee.
25:4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
25:5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the
 wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger:  her husband's
 brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the
 duty of an husband's brother unto her.
25:6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed
 in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of
 Israel.
25:7 And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his
 brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's
 brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not
 perform the duty of my husband's brother.
25:8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him:  and
 if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;
25:9 Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the
 elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and
 shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build
 up his brother's house.
25:10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his
 shoe loosed.
25:11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one
 draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth
 him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:
25:12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.
25:13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
25:14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a
 small.
25:15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just
 measure shalt thou have:  that thy days may be lengthened in the land which
 the LORD thy God giveth thee.
25:16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an
 abomination unto the LORD thy God.
25:17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth
 out of Egypt;
25:18 How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all
 that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he
 feared not God.
25:19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from
 all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth
 thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the
 remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.

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26:1 And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the LORD
 thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest
 therein;
26:2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which
 thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt
 put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God
 shall choose to place his name there.
26:3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say
 unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the
 country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us.
26:4 And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down
 before the altar of the LORD thy God.
26:5 And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to
 perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there
 with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
26:6 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us
 hard bondage:
26:7 And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our
 voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:
26:8 And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with
 an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with
 wonders:
26:9 And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land,
 even a land that floweth with milk and honey.
26:10 And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which
 thou, O LORD, hast given me.  And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy
 God, and worship before the LORD thy God:
26:11 And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God
 hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the
 stranger that is among you.
26:12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase
 the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto
 the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat
 within thy gates, and be filled;
26:13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the
 hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the
 Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow,
 according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me:  I have not
 transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:
26:14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away
 ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the
 dead:  but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have
 done according to all that thou hast commanded me.
26:15 Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people
 Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our
 fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
26:16 This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and
 judgments:  thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and
 with all thy soul.
26:17 Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his
 ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments,
 and to hearken unto his voice:
26:18 And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as
 he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;
26:19 And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise,
 and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the
 LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.

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27:1 And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep
 all the commandments which I command you this day.
27:2 And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land
 which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great
 stones, and plaster them with plaster:
27:3 And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art
 passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God
 giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of
 thy fathers hath promised thee.
27:4 Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set
 up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou
 shalt plaster them with plaster.
27:5 And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of
 stones:  thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.
27:6 Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones: and
 thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God:
27:7 And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice
 before the LORD thy God.
27:8 And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very
 plainly.
27:9 And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying,
 Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of
 the LORD thy God.
27:10 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his
 commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.
27:11 And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,
27:12 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are
 come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph,
 and Benjamin:
27:13 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and
 Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
27:14 And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a
 loud voice,
27:15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an
 abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and
 putteth it in a secret place.  And all the people shall answer and
 say, Amen.
27:16 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother.  And
 all the people shall say, Amen.
27:17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark.  And all the
 people shall say, Amen.
27:18 Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way.  And
 all the people shall say, Amen.
27:19 Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger,
 fatherless, and widow.  And all the people shall say, Amen.
27:20 Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he
 uncovereth his father's skirt.  And all the people shall say, Amen.
27:21 Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast.  And all the
 people shall say, Amen.
27:22 Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father,
 or the daughter of his mother.  And all the people shall say, Amen.
27:23 Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law.  And all the people
 shall say, Amen.
27:24 Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly.  And all the
 people shall say, Amen.
27:25 Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person.  And all
 the people shall say, Amen.
27:26 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do
 them.  And all the people shall say, Amen.

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28:1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the
 voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments
 which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high
 above all nations of the earth:
28:2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou
 shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
28:3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in
 the field.
28:4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground,
 and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of
 thy sheep.
28:5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
28:6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou
 be when thou goest out.
28:7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be
 smitten before thy face:  they shall come out against thee one way, and
 flee before thee seven ways.
28:8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and
 in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the
 land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
28:9 The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath
 sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God,
 and walk in his ways.
28:10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name
 of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.
28:11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy
 body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in
 the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
28:12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give
 the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine
 hand:  and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
28:13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou
 shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken
 unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day,
 to observe and to do them:
28:14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee
 this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to
 serve them.
28:15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of
 the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes
 which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee,
 and overtake thee:
28:16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in
 the field.
28:17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
28:18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land,
 the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
28:19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou
 be when thou goest out.
28:20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all
 that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and
 until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby
 thou hast forsaken me.
28:21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have
 consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
28:22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and
 with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and
 with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou
 perish.
28:23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth
 that is under thee shall be iron.
28:24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust:  from heaven
 shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
28:25 The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies:  thou
 shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them:  and
 shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
28:26 And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the
 beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.
28:27 The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the
 emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be
 healed.
28:28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and
 astonishment of heart:
28:29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and
 thou shalt not prosper in thy ways:  and thou shalt be only oppressed and
 spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
28:30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her:  thou
 shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein:  thou shalt plant a
 vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
28:31 Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat
 thereof:  thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face,
 and shall not be restored to thee:  thy sheep shall be given unto thine
 enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.
28:32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and
 thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: 
 and there shall be no might in thine hand.
28:33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou
 knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
28:34 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt
 see.
28:35 The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore
 botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy
 head.
28:36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over
 thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and
 there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.
28:37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among
 all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
28:38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but
 little in; for the locust shall consume it.
28:39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink
 of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
28:40 Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt
 not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.
28:41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them;
 for they shall go into captivity.
28:42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
28:43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high;
 and thou shalt come down very low.
28:44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him:  he shall be
 the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
28:45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee,
 and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not
 unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his
 statutes which he commanded thee:
28:46 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy
 seed for ever.
28:47 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with
 gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
28:48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send
 against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of
 all things:  and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have
 destroyed thee.
28:49 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of
 the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt
 not understand;
28:50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of
 the old, nor show favour to the young:
28:51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land,
 until thou be destroyed:  which also shall not leave thee either corn,
 wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until
 he have destroyed thee.
28:52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced
 walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land:  and he
 shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD
 thy God hath given thee.
28:53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons
 and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege,
 and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:
28:54 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his
 eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and
 toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
28:55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children
 whom he shall eat:  because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in
 the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy
 gates.
28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to
 set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness,
 her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son,
 and toward her daughter,
28:57 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and
 toward her children which she shall bear:  for she shall eat them for want
 of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy
 shall distress thee in thy gates.
28:58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are
 written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name,
 THE LORD THY GOD;
28:59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy
 seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses,
 and of long continuance.
28:60 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou
 wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
28:61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the
 book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be
 destroyed.
28:62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of
 heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD
 thy God.
28:63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do
 you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy
 you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land
 whither thou goest to possess it.
28:64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of
 the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which
 neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
28:65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the
 sole of thy foot have rest:  but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling
 heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
28:66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day
 and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
28:67 In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even!  and at even
 thou shalt say, Would God it were morning!  for the fear of thine heart
 wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt
 see.
28:68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way
 whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again:  and there ye
 shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall
 buy you.

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29:1 These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses
 to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the
 covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
29:2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all
 that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and
 unto all his servants, and unto all his land;
29:3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those
 great miracles:
29:4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see,
 and ears to hear, unto this day.
29:5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness:  your clothes are not
 waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
29:6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: 
 that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
29:7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the
 king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:
29:8 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the
 Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
29:9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may
 prosper in all that ye do.
29:10 Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains
 of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of
 Israel,
29:11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp,
 from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
29:12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and
 into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:
29:13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and
 that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath
 sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
29:14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
29:15 But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our
 God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:
29:16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came
 through the nations which ye passed by;
29:17 And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone,
 silver and gold, which were among them: )
29:18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe,
 whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve
 the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that
 beareth gall and wormwood;
29:19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he
 bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in
 the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
29:20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his
 jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written
 in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from
 under heaven.
29:21 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of
 Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in
 this book of the law:
29:22 So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up
 after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say,
 when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD
 hath laid upon it;
29:23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and
 burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein,
 like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the
 LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
29:24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto
 this land?  what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
29:25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the
 LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them
 forth out of the land of Egypt:
29:26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom
 they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:
29:27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon
 it all the curses that are written in this book:
29:28 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and
 in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
29:29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God:  but those things
 which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that
 we may do all the words of this law.

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30:1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee,
 the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt
 call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath
 driven thee,
30:2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice
 according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with
 all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
30:3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion
 upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither
 the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
30:4 If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven,
 from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he
 fetch thee:
30:5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers
 possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and
 multiply thee above thy fathers.
30:6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy
 seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul,
 that thou mayest live.
30:7 And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and
 on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.
30:8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his
 commandments which I command thee this day.
30:9 And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine
 hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the
 fruit of thy land, for good:  for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for
 good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
30:10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his
 commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law,
 and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all
 thy soul.
30:11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden
 from thee, neither is it far off.
30:12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us
 to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
30:13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go
 over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
30:14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart,
 that thou mayest do it.
30:15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and
 evil;
30:16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in
 his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments,
 that thou mayest live and multiply:  and the LORD thy God shall bless thee
 in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
30:17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be
 drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
30:18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that
 ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over
 Jordan to go to possess it.
30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have
 set before you life and death, blessing and cursing:  therefore choose
 life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
30:20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey
 his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him:  for he is thy life, and
 the length of thy days:  that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD
 sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

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31:1 And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.
31:2 And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day;
 I can no more go out and come in:  also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou
 shalt not go over this Jordan.
31:3 The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy
 these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua,
 he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said.
31:4 And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of
 the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.
31:5 And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto
 them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.
31:6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them:  for
 the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee,
 nor forsake thee.
31:7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all
 Israel, Be strong and of a good courage:  for thou must go with this people
 unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them;
 and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.
31:8 And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with
 thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee:  fear not, neither be
 dismayed.
31:9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of
 Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the
 elders of Israel.
31:10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years,
 in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,
31:11 When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place
 which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their
 hearing.
31:12 Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy
 stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may
 learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this
 law:
31:13 And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear,
 and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither
 ye go over Jordan to possess it.
31:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must
 die:  call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the
 congregation, that I may give him a charge.  And Moses and Joshua went, and
 presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.
31:15 And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud:  and
 the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
31:16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy
 fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of
 the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will
 forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
31:17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will
 forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be
 devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will
 say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not
 among us?
31:18 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which
 they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.
31:19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of
 Israel:  put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me
 against the children of Israel.
31:20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto
 their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten
 and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods,
 and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
31:21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen
 them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall
 not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed:  for I know their
 imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into
 the land which I sware.
31:22 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the
 children of Israel.
31:23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of
 a good courage:  for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land
 which I sware unto them:  and I will be with thee.
31:24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words
 of this law in a book, until they were finished,
31:25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant
 of the LORD, saying,
31:26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the
 covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against
 thee.
31:27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck:  behold, while I am yet
 alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how
 much more after my death?
31:28 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that
 I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record
 against them.
31:29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves,
 and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will
 befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the
 LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
31:30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the
 words of this song, until they were ended.

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32:1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words
 of my mouth.
32:2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew,
 as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
32:3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD:  ascribe ye greatness unto
 our God.
32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect:  for all his ways are
 judgment:  a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
32:5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his
 children:  they are a perverse and crooked generation.
32:6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he
 thy father that hath bought thee?  hath he not made thee, and established
 thee?
32:7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations:  ask
 thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
32:8 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he
 separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to
 the number of the children of Israel.
32:9 For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his
 inheritance.
32:10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he
 led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
32:11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth
 abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
32:12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with
 him.
32:13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat
 the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock,
 and oil out of the flinty rock;
32:14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the
 breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou
 didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
32:15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked:  thou art waxen fat, thou art
 grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which
 made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
32:16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations
 provoked they him to anger.
32:17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not,
 to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
32:18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten
 God that formed thee.
32:19 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the
 provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
32:20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end
 shall be:  for they are a very froward generation, children in whom
 is no faith.
32:21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have
 provoked me to anger with their vanities:  and I will move them to jealousy
 with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a
 foolish nation.
32:22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest
 hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the
 foundations of the mountains.
32:23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
32:24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and
 with bitter destruction:  I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them,
 with the poison of serpents of the dust.
32:25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man
 and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
32:26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the
 remembrance of them to cease from among men:
32:27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their
 adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say,
 Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
32:28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any
 understanding in them.
32:29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would
 consider their latter end!
32:30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight,
 except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
32:31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves
 being judges.
32:32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of
 Gomorrah:  their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
32:33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
32:34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my
 treasures?
32:35 To me belongeth vengeance, and recompense; their foot shall slide in
 due time:  for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things
 that shall come upon them make haste.
32:36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his
 servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none
 shut up, or left.
32:37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they
 trusted,
32:38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of
 their drink offerings?  let them rise up and help you, and be your
 protection.
32:39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me:  I
 kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal:  neither is there any that
 can deliver out of my hand.
32:40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
32:41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I
 will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
32:42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour
 flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the
 beginning of revengers upon the enemy.
32:43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people:  for he will avenge the
 blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and
 will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
32:44 And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the
 people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.
32:45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:
32:46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I
 testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe
 to do, all the words of this law.
32:47 For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life:  and
 through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go
 over Jordan to possess it.
32:48 And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,
32:49 Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is
 in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of
 Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:
32:50 And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy
 people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his
 people:
32:51 Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the
 waters of Meribah - Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified
 me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
32:52 Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go
 thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.

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33:1 And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the
 children of Israel before his death.
33:2 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them;
 he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints:
  from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
33:3 Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand:  and they
 sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.
33:4 Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of
 Jacob.
33:5 And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the
 tribes of Israel were gathered together.
33:6 Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.
33:7 And this is the blessing of Judah:  and he said, Hear, LORD, the
 voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people:  let his hands be sufficient
 for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies.
33:8 And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy
 one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at
 the waters of Meribah;
33:9 Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him;
 neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children:  for
 they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.
33:10 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law:  they shall
 put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.
33:11 Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands:  smite
 through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him,
 that they rise not again.
33:12 And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in
 safety by him; and the LORD shall cover him all the day long, and he
 shall dwell between his shoulders.
33:13 And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the
 precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth
 beneath,
33:14 And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the
 precious things put forth by the moon,
33:15 And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the
 precious things of the lasting hills,
33:16 And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and
 for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush:  let the blessing come
 upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was
 separated from his brethren.
33:17 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are
 like the horns of unicorns:  with them he shall push the people together
 to the ends of the earth:  and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and
 they are the thousands of Manasseh.
33:18 And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and,
 Issachar, in thy tents.
33:19 They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer
 sacrifices of righteousness:  for they shall suck of the abundance of the
 seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
33:20 And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad; he dwelleth as
 a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.
33:21 And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a
 portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the
 people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.
33:22 And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp:  he shall leap from
 Bashan.
33:23 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full
 with the blessing of the LORD:  possess thou the west and the south.
33:24 And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him
 be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.
33:25 Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy
 strength be.
33:26 There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the
 heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
33:27 The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting
 arms:  and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say,
 Destroy them.
33:28 Israel then shall dwell in safety alone:  the fountain of Jacob shall
 be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.
33:29 Happy art thou, O Israel:  who is like unto thee, O people saved
 by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy
 excellency!  and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou
 shalt tread upon their high places.

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34:1 And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to
 the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho.  And the LORD showed him
 all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,
34:2 And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the
 land of Judah, unto the utmost sea,
34:3 And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm
 trees, unto Zoar.
34:4 And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto
 Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: 
 I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over
 thither.
34:5 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab,
 according to the word of the LORD.
34:6 And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against
 Bethpeor:  but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
34:7 And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died:  his eye
 was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
34:8 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty
 days:  so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
34:9 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses
 had laid his hands upon him:  and the children of Israel hearkened unto
 him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.
34:10 And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom
 the LORD knew face to face,
34:11 In all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the
 land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,
34:12 And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses
 showed in the sight of all Israel.