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that they may not teach you to do all their abominations, which they did to their gods, and so ye should sin before the Lord your God.

And turn not away thy face from thy servant; for I am afflicted: hear me speedily.

And if any man has a disobedient and contentious son, who hearkens not to the voice of his father and the voice of his mother, and they should correct him, and he should not hearken to them;

And I will surely turn away my face from them in that day, because of all their evil doings which they have done, because they turned aside after strange gods.

As Sodom was overthrown and Gomorrha and they that sojourned in her, saith the Lord Almighty, no man shall dwell there, nor shall any son of man inhabit there.

and the Lord will take away the glory of their raiment, the curls and the fringes, and the crescents,

And thou shalt do that which is pleasing and good before the Lord thy God, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and inherit the good land, which the Lord sware to your fathers,

We will not return to our houses till the children of Israel shall have been distributed, each to his own inheritance.

The chariots of God are ten thousand fold, thousands of rejoicing ones: the Lord is among them, in Sina, in the holy place.

And the elders of that city shall take that man, and shall chastise him,

I declare to you this day, that ye shall utterly perish, and ye shall by no means live long upon the land, into which ye go over Jordan to inherit it.

And they shall hide all idols made with hands,

And as for all the captivity of women, who have not known the lying with man, save ye them alive.

And I took the Levites in the place of every first-born among the children of Israel.

I cried to him with my mouth, and exalted him with my tongue.

Why then didst thou bring me out of the womb? and why did I not die, and no eye see me,

There the sparrows will build their nests; and the house of the heron takes the lead among them.

Lest there be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart has turned aside from the Lord your God, having gone to serve the gods of these nations; lest there be in you a root springing up with gall and bitterness.

And ye shall store these words in your heart and in your soul, and ye shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and it shall be fixed before your eyes.

O Lord, let me not be ashamed, for I have called upon thee: let the ungodly be ashamed, and brought down to Hades.

And his house is gone like moths, and like a spider's web.

The children of Israel shall encamp by the command of the Lord, and by the command of the Lord they shall remove: all the days in which the cloud overshadows the tabernacle, the children of Israel shall encamp. And whenever the cloud shall be drawn over the tabernacle for many days, then the children of Israel shall keep the charge of God, and they shall not remove.

He seats kings upon thrones, and girds their loins with a girdle.

And the order of the camp of Ruben set forward with their host; and over their host was Elisur the son of Sediur.

thou shalt not fear them; thou shalt surely remember all that the Lord thy God did to Pharao and to all the Egyptians:

Coral and fine pearl shall not be mentioned: but do thou esteem wisdom above the most precious things.

He is ungodly that says to a king, Thou art a transgressor, that says to princes, O most ungodly one.

And to the people thou shalt say, Purify yourselves for the morrow, and ye shall eat flesh; for ye wept before the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: and the Lord shall allow you to eat flesh, and ye shall eat flesh.

In her season she will lift herself on high; she will scorn the horse and his rider.

Their meat-offering and their drink-offering shall be for the calves and the rams and the lambs according to their number, according to their ordinance.

And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Chanaan, and said to them, Go up by this wilderness; and ye shall go up to the mountain,

A horse is vain for safety; neither shall he be delivered by the greatness of his power.

I will give thanks to the Lord according to his righteousness; I will sing to the name of the Lord most high.

And the first day shall be to you a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.

Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, nor the price of a dog into the house of the Lord thy God, for any vow; because even both are an abomination to the Lord thy God.

The Lord is long-suffering and merciful, and true, removing transgressions and iniquities and sins, and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation.

He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a slave.

Cursed shall be the offspring of thy body, and the fruits of thy land, the herds of thine oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep.

and the holy garments of Aaron the priest, and the garments in which they shall do service;

Evening, and morning, and at noon I will declare and make known my wants: and he shall hear my voice.

and delivered them out of all their afflictions.

But before the Lord thy God thou shalt eat it, in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose for himself, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the stranger that is within thy gates; and thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, on whatsoever thou shalt lay thine hand.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Take to thyself Joshua the son of Naue, a man who has the Spirit in him, and thou shalt lay thy hands upon him.

And come, let us reason together, saith the Lord: and though your sins be as purple, I will make them white as snow; and though they be as scarlet, I will make them white as wool.

He helped them out of the way of their iniquity; for they were brought low because of their iniquities.

For he suffers me not to take breath, but he has filled me with bitterness.

O Lord, when wilt thou look upon me? Deliver my soul from their mischief, mine only-begotten one from the lions.

Speak to the sons of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, When ye are entering into the land, into which I bring you,

And each man took his censer, and they put on them fire, and laid incense on them; and Moses and Aaron stood by the doors of the tabernacle of witness.

Sacrifice to God is a broken spirit: a broken and humbled heart God will not despise.

If God should destroy him, his place shall deny him. Hast thou not seen such things,

and the pelican, and the diver and the like to it, and the red-bill and the bat.

Whereas thou hast hated instruction, and hast cast my words behind thee.

Cursed is he that makes the blind to wander in the way: and all the people shall say, So be it.

Thou hast forsaken God that begot thee, and forgotten God who feeds thee.

These are the families of Juda according to their numbering, seventy-six thousand and five hundred.

He spares also his soul from death, and suffers him not to fall in war.

With great force my disease has taken hold of my garment: it has compassed me as the collar of my coat.

For the arms of sinners shall be broken; but the Lord supports the righteous.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

For he shall take nothing when he dies; neither shall his glory descend with him.

And the flesh shall be thine, as also the breast of the wave-offering and as the right shoulder, it shall be thine.

And a clean man shall take hyssop, and dip it into the water, and sprinkle it upon the house, and the furniture, and all the souls that are therein, and upon him that touched the human bone, or the slain man, or the corpse, or the tomb.

And the Lord has chosen thee this day that thou shouldest be to him a peculiar people, as he said, to keep his commands;

the great temptations which thine eyes have seen, those signs and great wonders, the strong hand, and the high arm; how the Lord thy God brought thee forth: so the Lord your God will do to all the nations, whom thou fearest in their presence.

For the poor shall not be forgotten for ever: the patience of the needy ones shall not perish for ever.

to chase all thine enemies from before thy face, as the Lord said.

Hast thou invested the horse with strength, and clothed his neck with terror?

And the Lord saw, and was jealous; and was provoked by the anger of his sons and daughters,

Thou shalt not steal.

they shall not wrest judgment, nor favour persons, nor receive a gift; for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

Let those who make them be made like to them; and all those who trust in them.

and lest having looked up to the sky, and having seen the sun and the moon and the stars, and all the heavenly bodies, thou shouldest go astray and worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God has distributed to all the nations under heaven.

and it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord thy God, and to keep all these commandments, and to observe these ordinances:

Only your wives and your children and your cattle (I know that ye have much cattle), let them dwell in your cities which I have given you;

And in what kind of a land does the light dwell? and of what kind is the place of darkness?

They prevented me in the day of mine affliction: but the Lord was my stay against them.

Yea, he put on cursing as a garment, and it is come as water into his bowels, and as oil into his bones.

and ye shall draw nigh to the children of Amman: do not quarrel with them, nor wage war with them; for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Amman for an inheritance, because I have given it to the children of Lot for an inheritance.

And whatever man shall not hearken to whatsoever words that prophet shall speak in my name, I will take vengeance on him.

and slew mighty kings; for his mercy endures for ever:

then it shall come to pass, when ye shall eat of the bread of the land, ye shall separate a wave-offering, a special offering to the Lord, the first-fruits of your dough.

And Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet with water from it.

And we departed from Choreb, and went through all that great wilderness and terrible, which ye saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite, as the Lord our God charged us, and we came as far as Cades Barne.

Wherefore teach me, what shall we say to him? and let us cease from saying much.

then shall ye do to him as he wickedly devised to do against his brother, and thou shalt remove the evil from yourselves.

They parted my garments among themselves, and cast lots upon my raiment.

The righteous have seen it, and laughed, and the blameless one has derided them.

The avenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: whensoever he shall meet him he shall slay him.

And these are the names of the men; of the tribe of Juda Chaleb the son of Jephonne.

The Lord has chastened me sore: but he has not given me up to death.

Let not thy mind willingly turn thee aside from the petition of the feeble that are in distress.

Look upon mine affliction and my trouble; and forgive all my sins.

I will number them, and they shall be multiplied beyond the sand; I awake, and am still with thee.

And they departed from Rathama, and encamped in Remmon Phares.

And if thou shouldest besiege a city many days to prevail against it by war to take it, thou shalt not destroy its trees, by applying an iron tool to them, but thou shalt eat of it, and shalt not cut it down: Is the tree that is in the field a man, to enter before thee into the work of the siege?

then shall his father and his mother take hold of him, and bring him forth to the elders of his city, and to the gate of the place: