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<verse num="7"><transChange type="added">There</transChange> shall not be for you other gods {besides me}.<note>Literally "before my face"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="8">'You shall not make for yourself a divine image of any <transChange type="added">type</transChange> of form that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the heaven above or that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on the earth beneath or that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the water under the earth. </verse>


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<verse num="9">'You shall not bow down to them, and you shall not serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, <transChange type="added">am</transChange> a jealous God, punishing the guilt of fathers upon <transChange type="added">their</transChange> children and upon <transChange type="added">the</transChange> third and upon <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fourth generation of <transChange type="added">those</transChange> hating me,</verse>


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<verse num="10">but showing loyal love to thousands of <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> love me and of <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> keep my commandments. </verse>


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<verse num="11">'You shall not take up the name of Yahweh your God for <transChange type="added">a</transChange> worthless purpose, for Yahweh will not leave unpunished <transChange type="added">anyone</transChange> who uses his name for <transChange type="added">a</transChange> worthless purpose. </verse>


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<verse num="12">'Observe the {Sabbath day}<note>Literally "the day of the Sabbath"</note> to make it holy,<note>Or "to sanctify it"</note> <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as Yahweh your God has commanded you.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Six days you shall work, and you shall do all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> your work,</verse>


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<verse num="14">but the seventh day <transChange type="added">is</transChange> <transChange type="added">a</transChange> Sabbath unto Yahweh your God; you shall not do any work, or your son, or your daughter, or your slave, or your slave woman, or your ox, or your donkey, or any of your domestic animals, or your <transChange type="added">resident</transChange> alien who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in your {towns},<note>Literally "gates"</note> so that your slave and your slave woman may rest as you <transChange type="added">rest</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm; therefore, Yahweh your God commanded you to keep {the Sabbath}.<note>Literally "the day of the Sabbath"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="16">'Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you, so that it will be good for you<note>Or "it may go well for you"</note> {in the land}<note>Literally "on the ground"</note> that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you. </verse>


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<verse num="21">'And you shall not covet the wife of your neighbor, and you shall not crave the house of your neighbor, his field or his slave or his slave woman or his ox and his donkey or anything {that belongs to your neighbor}.'<note>Literally "that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for your neighbor"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="22">"These words Yahweh spoke to your whole assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire and the very thick cloud <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a loud voice, and {he did not add anything},<note>Literally "and not he added"</note> and <transChange type="added">then</transChange> he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.</verse>


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<verse num="23">{And then}<note>Literally "And it happened"</note> {when you heard}<note>Literally "and as/when you heard" or "<transChange type="added">at</transChange> the moment of your hearing"</note> the voice from the midst of the darkness, and <transChange type="added">as</transChange> the mountain <transChange type="added">was</transChange> burning with fire, and <transChange type="added">and</transChange> all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me,</verse>


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<verse num="24">you said, 'Look, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice from the midst of the fire; this day we have seen<note>Or "saw"</note> that God can speak with a human being, {yet he remains alive}.<note>Literally "and <transChange type="added">he</transChange> lives"</note></verse>


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<verse num="25">And so then why shall we die, for this great fire will consume us if {we continue}<note>Literally "we do again to hear"; or "we are doing again to hear"</note> to hear the voice of Yahweh our God <transChange type="added">any</transChange> longer, and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> we shall die?</verse>


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<verse num="26">For who <transChange type="added">is there of</transChange> all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire as we <transChange type="added">have heard it</transChange> {and remained alive}?<note>Literally "and lives"</note></verse>


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<verse num="27"><transChange type="added">You</transChange> go near and hear {everything}<note>Literally "all of <transChange type="added">that</transChange> which"</note> that Yahweh our God will say; and <transChange type="added">then</transChange> you tell us all that Yahweh our God tells you, and we will listen, and we will do <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.' </verse>


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<verse num="28">"And Yahweh heard the sound of your words {when you spoke to me},<note>Literally "in/at you to speak to me"</note> and Yahweh said to me, 'I have heard the sound of the words of this people that they have spoken to you; <transChange type="added">they</transChange> are right <transChange type="added">with respect to</transChange> all that they have spoken.</verse>


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<verse num="29">{If only}<note>Literally "Who gives/will give"</note> {they had such a mind}';<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">it</transChange> would be their heart this to them"</note> <transChange type="added">that is</transChange>, to fear me and to keep all my commandments {at all times},<note>Literally "all the days"</note> so that {it will go well}<note>Literally "he/it is good"</note> for them and for their children {forever}.<note>Literally "to eternity"</note></verse>


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<verse num="31">But you stand here with me, and let me tell you all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the commandments and the rules and the regulations that you shall teach them, so that they may do <transChange type="added">them</transChange> in the land that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> giving to them to take possession of it.' </verse>


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<verse num="32">"<transChange type="added">So</transChange> you must be careful to do <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as Yahweh your God commanded you; you shall not turn <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> right or <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> left.</verse>


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<verse num="33">{In exactly the path}<note>Literally "In all the way/path"</note> that Yahweh your God has commanded, you must go, so that you may live and {it will go well}<note>Literally "and good <transChange type="added">it is</transChange>"</note> for you and {you may live long}<note>Literally "you may make long"</note> in the land that you will take possession of." </verse>


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<verse num="1">"Now this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the commandment, the rules and the regulations, that Yahweh your God charged to teach <transChange type="added">to</transChange> you <transChange type="added">for you</transChange> {to observe}<note>Literally "to do"</note> in the land that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> about to cross <transChange type="added">over</transChange> into<note>Or "there"</note> to take possession of it,</verse>


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<verse num="2">so that you may revere Yahweh your God by keeping all his statutes and his commandments that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you, you and your children and {grandchildren},<note>Literally "the children of your children"</note> all the days of your life and so you may live long<note>Literally "they may be long your days"</note> <transChange type="added">lives</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And you shall hear, Israel, and be careful to observe <transChange type="added">these instructions</transChange>, so that {it may go well for you}<note>Literally "it/he may be good"</note> and that you may multiply greatly, <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as Yahweh, the God of your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> {promised}<note>Literally "spoke"</note> you, <transChange type="added">in</transChange> a land with milk and honey. </verse>


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<verse num="4">"Hear, Israel, Yahweh our God, Yahweh is unique.<note>Or "one"; or possibly "one Lord"</note></verse>


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<verse num="5">And you shall love Yahweh your God with all of your heart<note>Or "mind"</note> and with all of your soul<note>Or "inner self"</note> and with all of your might.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And these words that I am commanding you {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> shall be on<note>Or "in"</note> your heart.<note>Or "mind"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">And you shall recite them to your children, and you shall talk about them at <transChange type="added">the time of</transChange> your living in your house and at <transChange type="added">the time of</transChange> your going on the road and at <transChange type="added">the time of</transChange> your lying down and at <transChange type="added">the time of</transChange> your rising <transChange type="added">up</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as an emblem between your eyes.</verse>


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<verse num="10">"And then it will happen <transChange type="added">that</transChange> when Yahweh your God will bring you to the land that he swore to your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to you large and fine cities that you did not build,</verse>


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<verse num="11">and houses full of all <transChange type="added">sorts</transChange> of good things<note>Hebrew "thing"</note> that you did not fill, and hewn cisterns that you did not hew, vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant, and {you have eaten your fill},<note>Literally "you have eaten and you are satisfied"</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">then take care for yourself, so that you <transChange type="added">do</transChange> not forget Yahweh, who brought you out from the land of Egypt from the house of slavery. </verse>


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<verse num="13">"You shall fear Yahweh your God, and you shall serve him, and by his name you shall swear.</verse>


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<verse num="14">You shall not go after other gods from the gods of the peoples who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> all around you,</verse>


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<verse num="15">for Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a jealous god in your midst, {so that the anger of Yahweh your God would be kindled},<note>Literally "so that not/lest the nose of Yahweh your God would become hot"</note> and he would destroy you from the face of the earth.</verse>


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<verse num="16">You shall not put Yahweh your God to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> test, as you tested <transChange type="added">him</transChange> at Massah.</verse>


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<verse num="17">You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God and his legal provisions and his rules that he has commanded you.</verse>


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<verse num="18">And you shall do <transChange type="added">what is</transChange> right and good in the eyes of Yahweh, so that {it shall go well}<note>Literally "he/it shall be good"</note> for you and <transChange type="added">so that</transChange> you may go and you may take possession of the good land that Yahweh swore for your ancestors,<note>Or "your fathers"</note></verse>


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<verse num="19">by driving out all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> your enemies {before you},<note>Literally "the face of you"</note> <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as Yahweh {has promised}.<note>Literally "had spoken"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="20">"When your child<note>Or "son"</note> asks you in the future, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'What <transChange type="added">is the meaning of</transChange> the legal provisions and the rules and the regulations that Yahweh our God commanded for you?'</verse>


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<verse num="21">Then you shall say to your child,<note>Or "son"</note> 'We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, and Yahweh brought us out from Egypt with a strong hand.</verse>


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<verse num="22">And Yahweh gave great and awesome signs and wonders in Egypt against Pharaoh and against his entire household {in our presence}.<note>Literally "before our eyes"</note></verse>


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<verse num="23">But <transChange type="added">he</transChange> brought us out from there in order to bring us <transChange type="added">here</transChange> to give us the land that he swore to our ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


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<verse num="24">And <transChange type="added">so</transChange> Yahweh commanded us to observe all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> these rules <transChange type="added">and</transChange> to revere Yahweh our God {for our benefit}<note>Literally "for good for us"</note> {all the days that we live},<note>Literally "all the days for our living"</note> {as it is today}.<note>Literally "as the day the this"</note></verse>


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<verse num="25">And it shall be righteousness for us if we diligently observe <transChange type="added">and</transChange> do all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> this commandment {before}<note>Literally "in the faces of"</note> Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.' </verse>


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<verse num="1">"When Yahweh your God brings you into the land that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> about to enter {into it}<note>Literally "there"</note> to take possession of it, and he drives<note>Or "he will drive out"</note> out many nations {before you},<note>Literally "from your faces"</note> the Hittites<note>Hebrew "Hittite"</note> and the Girgashites<note>Hebrew "Girgashite"</note> and the Amorites<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> and the Canaanites<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> and the Hivites<note>Hebrew "Hivite"</note> and the Jebusites,<note>Hebrew "Jebusite"</note> seven nations mightier and more numerous than you,</verse>


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<verse num="2">and Yahweh your God will give them {over to you}<note>Literally "to your faces" or "before you"</note> and you defeat them, you must {utterly destroy them};<note>Literally "set them aside for destruction"</note> you shall not make a covenant with them, and you shall not show mercy <transChange type="added">to them</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughter to their son; and you shall not take his daughter for your son.<note>Grammatically singular pronominal suffixes here can also be rendered "their"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">For their<note>Or "his"</note> sons and daughters will cause your son<note>Or "sons"</note> to turn away {from following me},<note>Literally from "behind/after me"</note> and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> they will serve other gods, and {the anger of Yahweh would be kindled}<note>Literally "and <transChange type="added">it</transChange> would become hot the nose of Yahweh"</note> against you, and he would quickly destroy you.</verse>


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<verse num="5">But this is what you must do to them: you shall break down their altars, and their stone pillars you shall smash, and their Asherah poles you shall hew down, and you shall burn their idols with fire.</verse>


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<verse num="6">For you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a holy people for Yahweh your God; Yahweh your God has chosen you to be for him a people, a treasured possession from <transChange type="added">among</transChange> all the peoples that <transChange type="added">are</transChange> on the face<note>Or "surface"</note> of the earth. </verse>


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<verse num="7">"Yahweh loved you and chose you not {because of your great number}<note>Literally "from your multitude/abundance"</note> exceeding all <transChange type="added">other</transChange> peoples, for you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> fewer than all of the peoples,</verse>


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<verse num="8">but<note>Or "for"</note> {because of}<note>Literally "from"</note> the love of Yahweh <transChange type="added">for</transChange> you and because of his keeping <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the sworn oath that he swore to your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> Yahweh brought you <transChange type="added">out</transChange> with a strong hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt.</verse>


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<verse num="9"><transChange type="added">So</transChange> know that Yahweh your God, he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> God, the trustworthy God, maintaining his<note>Hebrew "the"</note> covenant and his<note>Hebrew "the"</note> loyal love with those who love him and with those who keep his commandments to a thousand generations,<note>Hebrew "generation"</note></verse>


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<verse num="10">but repaying those<note>Hebrew "the one"</note> who hate him {in their own person}<note>Literally "to their faces"</note> to destroy them;<note>Hebrew "him"; "them" in sense</note> he is not slow with those who hate him {in their own person};<note>Literally "to their faces"</note> he repays them.<note>Hebrew "him"</note></verse>


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<verse num="11">And <transChange type="added">so</transChange> you shall keep the commandment and the rules and the regulations that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> to observe them. </verse>


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<verse num="12">"{And then}<note>Literally "And it will happen"</note> because you listen <transChange type="added">to</transChange> these regulations and you diligently keep and you do them, then Yahweh your God will maintain his<note>Hebrew "the"</note> covenant and his<note>Or "fathers"</note> loyal love that he swore to your ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


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<verse num="13">And he will love you, and he will bless you, and he will multiply you, and he will bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your soil, your grain, your wine, and your olive oil, and <transChange type="added">newborn</transChange> calves of your cattle, and the <transChange type="added">newborn</transChange> lambs<note>Or "increase of"</note> of your flocks in the land that he swore to your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> to give you.</verse>


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<verse num="14">You shall be blessed more than all of the peoples; among you there shall not be sterility and bareness, even<note>Hebrew "and"</note> among domestic animals.<note>Hebrew "animal"</note></verse>


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<verse num="15">And Yahweh will turn away from you all the illness and all the harmful diseases of Egypt that you experienced; he will not lay them on you, but he will lay them on all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> those who hate you.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And you shall devour all of the peoples <transChange type="added">that</transChange> Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you; {you shall not pity them},<note>Literally "your eye shall not take pity on them"</note> and you shall not serve their gods, <transChange type="added">which</transChange> will be a snare for you. </verse>


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<verse num="17">"If you think in your heart, 'These nations <transChange type="added">are</transChange> more numerous than I, so how can I dispossess them?'</verse>


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<verse num="18"><transChange type="added">then remember</transChange> you must not be afraid of them; you must well remember what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh and to all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Egypt:</verse>


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<verse num="19">the great trials that your eyes saw and the signs and the wonders and the <transChange type="added">workings of</transChange> the strong hand and the outstretched arm <transChange type="added">by</transChange> which Yahweh your God brought you out; so Yahweh your God will do to all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the peoples {because of whom}<note>Literally "from them"</note> you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in fear {before them}.<note>Literally "from their presence"</note></verse>


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<verse num="20">And, moreover, Yahweh your God will send the hornets<note>Hebrew "hornet"</note> among them until <transChange type="added">both</transChange> the survivors and the fugitives {are destroyed}<note>Literally "the destroying of"</note> {before you}.<note>Literally "from your faces"</note></verse>


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<verse num="21">You must not <transChange type="added">be in dread</transChange> from the presence of them, because Yahweh your God, <transChange type="added">who is</transChange> in your midst, <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a great and awesome God.</verse>


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<verse num="22">And Yahweh your God will clear away these nations {from before you}<note>Literally "from your faces"</note> little by little; you will not be able to finish them off quickly, {lest}<note>Literally "so that not"</note> the {wild animals}<note>Literally "animals of the field"</note> {multiply}<note>Literally "will become numerous"</note> {against you}.<note>Literally "on you"</note></verse>


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<verse num="23">But Yahweh your God will {give them to you},<note>Literally "give them to your face"</note> and he will throw them into great panic {until they are destroyed}.<note>Literally "until their destroying"</note></verse>


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<verse num="24">And he will give their kings into your hand, and you shall blot out their names<note>Hebrew "name"</note> from under the heaven; anyone will not <transChange type="added">be able to</transChange> stand {against you}<note>Literally "in your faces"</note> {until you destroy them}.<note>Literally "until your destroying them"</note></verse>


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<verse num="25">You shall burn the images of their gods with fire; you shall not covet <transChange type="added">the</transChange> silver or gold <transChange type="added">that is</transChange> on them, and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> you take <transChange type="added">it</transChange> for yourself, so that you are not ensnared by it, for it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a detestable thing to Yahweh your God.</verse>


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<verse num="26">And you must not bring a detestable thing into your house, or you will become a thing devoted to destruction like it; you must utterly detest it, and you must utterly abhor it, for it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> <transChange type="added">an</transChange> object devoted to destruction. </verse>


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<verse num="1">"All of the commandments<note>Or "every commandment"</note> that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you today you must diligently observe, so that you may live and multiply, and you may go and take possession of the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors.<note>Or "your fathers"</note></verse>


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<verse num="2">And you shall remember all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the way that Yahweh your God led you <transChange type="added">during</transChange> these forty years in the desert in order to humble you and to test you to know what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in your heart, whether you would <transChange type="added">diligently</transChange> keep his commandments or not.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And he humbled you and let you go hungry, and <transChange type="added">then</transChange> he fed you with that which you did not know nor did your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> know, in order to make you know that not by bread alone but by all <transChange type="added">that</transChange> goes out<note>Or "by all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the going out of"</note> of the mouth of Yahweh humankind shall live.</verse>


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<verse num="4">Your clothing did not wear out {on you},<note>Literally "from on you"</note> and your feet did not swell <transChange type="added">during</transChange> these forty years.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And you should know with your heart that as a man disciplines his son, <transChange type="added">so</transChange> Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> disciplining you.<note>Or "has disciplined you"</note></verse>


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<verse num="6">So you must keep the commandments of Yahweh your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him.</verse>


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<verse num="7">For Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> bringing you to a good land <transChange type="added">with</transChange> streams of water, springs and underground water, welling up in the valleys<note>Hebrew "valley"</note> and in the hills,<note>Hebrew "hill"</note></verse>


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<verse num="8"><transChange type="added">to</transChange> a land of wheat and barley and vines<note>Hebrew "vine"</note> and fig trees<note>Hebrew "fig tree"</note> and pomegranate trees,<note>Hebrew "pomegranate tree"</note> a land of olive trees,<note>Hebrew "olive tree"</note> olive oil and honey;</verse>


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<verse num="9"><transChange type="added">to</transChange> a land where you may eat food in it {without scarcity};<note>Literally "not in scarcity"</note> you will not find anything lacking in it, a land where its stones <transChange type="added">are</transChange> iron and from its mountains you can mine copper.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And you will eat, and {you will be satisfied},<note>Literally "you will eat your fill"</note> and you will bless Yahweh your God because <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the good land that he has given to you. </verse>


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<verse num="11">"Take care for yourself so that you not forget Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">by</transChange> not keeping his commandments and his regulations and his statutes that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you {today},<note>Literally "the day"</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">lest <transChange type="added">when</transChange> you have eaten and you are satisfied and you have built good houses and you live <transChange type="added">in them</transChange>,</verse>


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<verse num="13">and your herds and your flocks have multiplied, and {you have accumulated silver and gold},<note>Literally "and silver and gold has multiplied for you"</note> and all that {you have}<note>Literally "is for you"</note> has multiplied,</verse>


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<verse num="14">then your heart {becomes proud}<note>Literally "raises up"</note> and you forget Yahweh your God, {the one who brought you out}<note>Literally "the one bringing you out"</note> from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery,</verse>


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<verse num="15">the one leading you in the great and terrible desert <transChange type="added">infested</transChange> with {dangerous}<note>Literally "burning"</note> snakes<note>Hebrew "snake"</note> and scorpions<note>Hebrew "scorpion"</note> and parched ground, where there is<note>Or "was"</note> no water, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> the one bringing out water for you from flint rock,</verse>


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<verse num="16">the one {feeding you}<note>Literally "causing you to eat"</note> manna in the desert, <transChange type="added">food</transChange> that your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> did not know, in order to humble you and in order to test you <transChange type="added">so that he could</transChange> do good to you {in the future}.<note>Literally "in the end/later"</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">And you may think<note>Or "say"</note> in your heart, 'My strength and the might of my hand {acquired this wealth for}<note>Literally "gave this wealth to"</note> me.'</verse>


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<verse num="18">But you must remember Yahweh your God, for he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the <transChange type="added">one</transChange> giving you strength to acquire wealth in order to confirm his covenant that he swore to your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> {as it is today}.<note>Literally "as the day the this"</note></verse>


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<verse num="19">And it will happen <transChange type="added">that</transChange> if you indeed forget Yahweh your God and you go after other gods and you serve them and you bow down before them, I warn you today that you will surely perish.</verse>


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<verse num="20">As <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the nations that Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> destroying {before you},<note>Literally "from your faces"</note> so you shall perish because you would not obey the voice of Yahweh your God. </verse>


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<verse num="1">"Hear, Israel, you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> about to cross the Jordan today to go to dispossess nations larger and more numerous than you, great cities fortified {with high walls},<note>Literally "in heaven/the sky"</note></verse>


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<verse num="2">a great and tall people, the sons of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Anakites, whom you know and <transChange type="added">of whom you</transChange> have heard <transChange type="added">it said</transChange>, 'Who could stand before the sons of Anak?'</verse>


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<verse num="3">You should know {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> that Yahweh your God is the one crossing {ahead of you}<note>Literally "to your faces"</note> <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will subdue them before you; so you will dispossess them, and you will destroy them quickly, {just as}<note>Literally "as that"</note> Yahweh {promised}<note>Literally "spoke"</note> you. </verse>


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<verse num="4">"You shall not say {to yourself}<note>Literally "in your heart"</note> {when Yahweh your God is driving them out}<note>Literally "at the driving out of Yahweh, your God, them"</note> {before you},<note>Literally "from before your faces"</note> {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'Because of my righteousness Yahweh brought me to take possession of this land'; but because of the wickedness of these nations Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> driving them out {before you}.<note>Literally "from your faces"</note></verse>


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<verse num="5"><transChange type="added">It is</transChange> not because of your righteousness and because of the uprightness of your heart <transChange type="added">that</transChange> you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> coming to take possession of their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> driving them {before you},<note>Literally "from your faces"</note> and in order to confirm the {promise}<note>Literally "word"</note> that Yahweh swore to your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. </verse>


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<verse num="6">"So you should understand that <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> not because of your righteousness <transChange type="added">that</transChange> Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving you this good land to take possession of it, because {you are a stubborn people}. <note>Literally "a people stiff of neck you"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">Remember, {do not forget},<note>Literally "not you shall forget"</note> that you provoked Yahweh your God in the desert, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> from the day that you went out from the land of Egypt until {you came to this place}<note>Literally "your coming up to this place the this" = until arrived at this location</note> you were rebelling against Yahweh. </verse>


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<verse num="8">"And <transChange type="added">remember</transChange> at Horeb you provoked Yahweh, and Yahweh became angry <transChange type="added">enough</transChange> to destroy you.</verse>


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<verse num="9">{When I went up the mountain}<note>Literally "In/At my going up the mountain"</note> to receive {the stone tablets},<note>Literally "the tablets of stones"</note> the tablets of the covenant that Yahweh {made}<note>Literally "cut"</note> with you, and remained on the mountain forty days<note>Hebrew "day"</note> and forty nights,<note>Hebrew "night"</note> I did not eat food and I did not drink water.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And Yahweh gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them <transChange type="added">was writing</transChange> according to all the words that Yahweh spoke with you at the mountain, from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.</verse>


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<verse num="11">{And then}<note>Literally "And it happened"</note> at the end of forty days<note>Hebrew "day"</note> and forty nights,<note>Hebrew "night"</note> Yahweh gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And Yahweh said to me, 'Come <transChange type="added">now</transChange>, go down quickly from this mountain because your people behave corruptly whom you brought out from Egypt, <transChange type="added">for</transChange> they turned quickly from the way that I commanded them <transChange type="added">to follow</transChange>; they have made for themselves a cast image.'</verse>


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<verse num="13">And Yahweh spoke to me, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'I have seen this people, and look! {They are a stubborn people}.<note>Literally "It is a people stiff of neck"</note></verse>


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<verse num="14">Leave me alone, and let me destroy them, and let me blot out their name from under heaven, and let me make you into a nation mightier and more numerous than they!' </verse>


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<verse num="15">"And I turned, and I went down the mountain, as the mountain was burning with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in my two hands.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And I looked,<note>Or "saw"</note> and indeed you had sinned against Yahweh your God; you <transChange type="added">had</transChange> made for yourselves an image of a calf <transChange type="added">of</transChange> cast metal; <note>Or "molten calf"</note> you <transChange type="added">had</transChange> turned quickly from the way that Yahweh had commanded <transChange type="added">for</transChange> you.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And I took hold of the two tablets, and I threw them out {of}<note>Literally "from"</note> my two hands and smashed them before your eyes.</verse>


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<verse num="18">And <transChange type="added">then</transChange> I lay prostrate {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> Yahweh, as earlier, forty days<note>Hebrew "day"</note> and forty nights;<note>Hebrew "night"</note> I did not eat food and I did not drink water because of all your sins that you committed, by doing evil in the eyes of Yahweh <transChange type="added">and so</transChange> provoking him.</verse>


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<verse num="19">For {I was in dread}<note>Literally "I dreaded"</note> from <transChange type="added">being in</transChange> the presence of the anger and the wrath <transChange type="added">with</transChange> which Yahweh was angry with you <transChange type="added">so as</transChange> to destroy you, but Yahweh listened to me also {at that time}.<note>Literally "the occurrence the that"</note></verse>


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<verse num="20">And with Aaron Yahweh was {angry enough}<note>Literally "very angry"</note> to destroy him, and I prayed also for Aaron at that time.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And your sinful thing that you had made, the molten calf, I took and I burned it with fire, and I crushed it, grinding it thoroughly until it was crushed to dust, and I threw its dust into {the stream that flowed down the mountain}.<note>Literally "the stream the <transChange type="added">one</transChange> going down from the mountain"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="22">"And <transChange type="added">also</transChange> at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked Yahweh to anger.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And when Yahweh sent you <transChange type="added">out</transChange> from Kadesh Barnea, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'Go up and take possession of the land that I have given you,' you rebelled against the command of Yahweh your God, and you did not believe him, and you did not listen to his voice.</verse>


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<verse num="24">You have been rebellious toward Yahweh {from the day I have known you}.<note>Literally "from the day of my knowing you"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="25">"And I lay prostrate before Yahweh through forty days,<note>Hebrew "day"</note> and through forty nights<note>Hebrew "night"</note> I prostrated myself, because Yahweh intended to kill you.</verse>


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<verse num="26">And I prayed to Yahweh, and I said, 'Lord Yahweh, you must not destroy your people and your inheritance whom you redeemed in your greatness,<note>Or "your great act"</note> whom you brought out from Egypt with a strong hand.</verse>


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<verse num="27">Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; you must not {pay attention to}<note>Literally "turn toward"</note> the stubbornness of this people, to their wickedness and to their sin,</verse>


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<verse num="28">lest <transChange type="added">the people of</transChange> the land from which you brought us out from there say, "Because Yahweh was not able to bring them to the land that he {promised}<note>Literally "spoken"</note> to them and because of his hatred <transChange type="added">toward</transChange> them, he has brought them out to kill them in the desert."</verse>


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<verse num="29">For they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> your people and your inheritance whom you brought with your great power and with your outstretched arm.' </verse>


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<verse num="1">"At that time Yahweh said to me, 'Carve for yourself two tablets of stone <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as the former <transChange type="added">ones</transChange>, and come up the mountain to me, and you shall make for yourself an ark of wood.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former <transChange type="added">tablets</transChange>, which you smashed, and you must put them in the ark.'</verse>


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<verse num="3">And <transChange type="added">so</transChange> I made an ark {of acacia wood},<note>Literally "of wood of acacia trees"</note> and I carved two tablets of stone like the former <transChange type="added">ones</transChange>, and I went up the mountain <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the two tablets in my hand.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And he wrote upon the tablets {according to the first writing},<note>Literally "as the writing the first"</note> the ten words that Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly, and Yahweh gave them to me.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And I turned, and I came down from the mountain, and I put the tablets in the ark that I had made, and they are there, <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as Yahweh commanded me. </verse>


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<verse num="6">"And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> journeyed from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wells of Bene-Yaqan <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Moserah; there Aaron died and was buried, and Eleazar, his son, served as a priest in place of him.</verse>


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<verse num="7">From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land <transChange type="added">flowing with</transChange> streams of water.</verse>


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<verse num="8">At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to stand {before}<note>Literally "the faces of"</note> Yahweh, to serve him and to bless <transChange type="added">the people</transChange> in his name until this day.</verse>


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<verse num="9">Therefore {there was not}<note>Literally "it/he was not"</note> for Levi an allotment or an inheritance <transChange type="added">along</transChange> with his brothers; <transChange type="added">rather</transChange> Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his inheritance <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as Yahweh your God {promised}<note>Literally "spoke"</note> to him. </verse>


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<verse num="10">And I stayed on the mountain <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as <transChange type="added">during</transChange> the former forty days<note>Hebrew "day"</note> and forty nights,<note>Hebrew "night"</note> and Yahweh listened to me also on that occasion;<note>Or "occurrence" or "that time"</note> Yahweh was not willing to destroy you.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And Yahweh said to me, '{Come, continue}<note>Literally "Arise, go"</note> your journey {before the people}, <note>Literally "in the faces of the people"</note> so that you may go and take possession of the land that I swore to their ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> to give to them.' </verse>


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<verse num="12">And now, Israel, what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Yahweh your God asking<note>Or "requiring"</note> from you, except<note>Or "but only"</note> to revere Yahweh your God, to go<note>Or "to walk"</note> in all his ways and to love him and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,<note>Or "inner self"</note></verse>


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<verse num="13">to keep the commandments of Yahweh and his statutes that I am commanding you today {for your own good}.<note>Literally "for good to you"</note></verse>


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<verse num="14">Look! For to Yahweh your God {belong}<note>Literally "is"</note> heaven and the {highest heavens},<note>Literally "heavens of the heavens"</note> the earth and all that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in it.</verse>


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<verse num="15">{Yet}<note>Literally "Only"</note> to your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> Yahweh was very attached, <transChange type="added">so as to</transChange> love them, and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> he chose their offspring after them, <transChange type="added">namely</transChange> you, from all the peoples, as it is {today}.<note>Literally "the day the this"</note></verse>


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<verse num="16">So you shall circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and {do not be stubborn}.<note>Literally "your neck you shall not make stiff <transChange type="added">any</transChange> longer"</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">For Yahweh your God, he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> God of the gods and Lord of the lords, the great and mighty God, the awesome <transChange type="added">one</transChange> who {is not partial},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">does</transChange> not lift up faces"</note> and he does not take bribes.</verse>


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<verse num="18"><transChange type="added">And he</transChange> executes justice for the orphan and widow, and <transChange type="added">he is</transChange> one who loves <transChange type="added">the</transChange> alien, to give to them food and clothing.</verse>


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<verse num="20">Yahweh your God, you shall revere him, you shall serve him, and to him you shall cling, and by his name you shall swear.</verse>


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<verse num="21">He <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your praise, and he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your God, who has done with you these great and awesome <transChange type="added">things</transChange> that your eyes have seen.</verse>


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<verse num="22">With <transChange type="added">only</transChange> seventy persons your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> went down to Egypt, but now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the heaven {with respect to multitude}.<note>Literally "as far as number"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1">"And you shall love Yahweh your God, and you shall keep his obligations and his statutes and his regulations and his commandments {always}.<note>Literally "all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the days"</note></verse>


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<verse num="2">And you shall realize {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> that <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> not <transChange type="added">with</transChange> your children who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of Yahweh your God--his greatness, his strong hand, and his outstretched arm,</verse>


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<verse num="3">and his signs and his deeds that he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> his land,</verse>


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<verse num="4">and what he did to the army of Egypt and to their horses and to their chariots, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> how he made the water of the {Red Sea}<note>Literally "sea of reed"</note> flow over them, {when they pursued after them},<note>Literally "in/at their pursuing after them"</note> and so Yahweh has destroyed them, {as is the case today},<note>Literally "until the day the this"</note></verse>


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<verse num="6">and what he did to Dathan and to Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth wide and swallowed them, their households and their tents, and all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the living creatures<note>Hebrew "creature"</note> that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in their possession <transChange type="added">and that were</transChange> {following along with them}<note>Literally "in their feet" = "living things traveling along with them"</note> in the midst of all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="7">The fact of the matter is, {your own eyes have seen}<note>Literally "your eyes that are seeing"</note> all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the great deeds<note>Hebrew "deed"</note> of Yahweh that he did. </verse>


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<verse num="8">"And you must keep all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the commandments<note>Hebrew "commandment"</note> that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you {today},<note>Literally "the day"</note> so that you may have strength and <transChange type="added">you may</transChange> go and <transChange type="added">you may</transChange> take possession of that land {to which you are crossing}<note>Literally "you are crossing there"</note> to take possession of it,</verse>


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<verse num="9">so that {you may live long}<note>Literally "you may make long days"</note> on the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> to give <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.</verse>


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<verse num="10">For the fact is <transChange type="added">that</transChange> the land {that you are about to go into}<note>Literally "you are about to go there"</note> to take possession of it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not like the land of Egypt, <transChange type="added">from</transChange> which you have {come out of},<note>Literally "come out from there"</note> where you sow your seed and you give water by <transChange type="added">your</transChange> foot, {as in a vegetable garden}.<note>Literally "as <transChange type="added">the</transChange> garden of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> vegetables"</note></verse>


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<verse num="11">But the land that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> about to cross into to take possession of it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a land of hills and valleys, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> by the rain of the heaven it drinks water,</verse>


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<verse num="12">a land that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> caring for it; continually the eyes of Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">are</transChange> on it, from the beginning of the year up to the end of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> year. </verse>


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<verse num="13">"And it will happen <transChange type="added">that</transChange> if you listen carefully to my commandments that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you {today},<note>Literally "the day"</note> to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> your heart and with all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> your soul,<note>Or "inner self"</note></verse>


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<verse num="14">then 'I will send the rain for your land in its season, early rain and later rain, and you will gather your grain and your wine and your olive oil.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And I will give vegetation in your field for your livestock, and {you will eat your fill}.'<note>Literally "you will eat and you will be satisfied"</note></verse>


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<verse num="16">{Take care}<note>Literally "Watch for yourself"</note> so that your heart is not easily deceived, and you turn away, and you serve other gods, and you bow down to them.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And <transChange type="added">then</transChange> {the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you},<note>Literally "the nose of Yahweh become hot against you"</note> and he will shut up the heavens,<note>Or "sky"</note> and there shall not be rain, and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> the ground will not give its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land that Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you. </verse>


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<verse num="18">"And you shall put these, my words, on your heart and on your inner self,<note>Or "soul"</note> and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be as an emblem between your eyes.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And you shall teach them to your children<note>Or "sons"</note> by talking about them when you sit in your house and when you travel on the road and when you lie down and when you get up.</verse>


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<verse num="21">so that <transChange type="added">they</transChange> may multiply your days and the days of your children on the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> to give <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to them {as long as heaven endures over the earth}.<note>Literally "like the days of heaven above the earth"</note></verse>


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<verse num="22">Yes, if you diligently keep all<note>Or "every one of"</note> this commandment that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you {to observe it}, <note>Literally "to do it"</note> by loving Yahweh your God {by walking in}<note>Literally "to walk in"</note> all his ways and by holding fast to him,</verse>


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<verse num="23">then Yahweh will drive out all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> these nations {before you},<note>Literally "to the face of you"</note> and you will dispossess nations larger and more numerous than you.</verse>


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<verse num="24">Every place on which the sole of your foot treads, it shall be yours; your boundary shall be from the desert and Lebanon from the river, the river Euphrates, on up to the western sea.<note>That is, the Mediterranean Sea</note></verse>


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<verse num="25">No one can take a stand {against you};<note>Literally "to your faces"</note> your dread and your fear Yahweh your God will put on the {surface}<note>Literally "faces"</note> of all the land {where you tread},<note>Literally "which you tread in it"</note> <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as he {promised}<note>Literally "spoke"</note> to you. </verse>


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<verse num="26">"See, I am setting {before you}<note>Literally "to the face of you"</note> {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> a blessing and a curse:</verse>


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<verse num="27">the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you {today},<note>Literally "the day"</note></verse>


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<verse num="28">and the curse, if you <transChange type="added">do</transChange> not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but <transChange type="added">rather</transChange> you turn from the way that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> to go after other gods that you have not known. </verse>


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<verse num="29">"And it will happen <transChange type="added">that</transChange> when Yahweh your God has brought you to {the land that you are going to},<note>Literally "the land that you are going there"</note> to take possession of it, then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> you shall pronounce the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.</verse>


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<verse num="30">(Are they not beyond the Jordan, {toward the west},<note>Literally "after the way of the descent of the sun"</note> in the land of the Canaanites living in the Jordan Valley,<note>Hebrew "in the Arabah"</note> opposite Gilgal beside the terebinth<note>Or "oaks"</note> of Moreh?)</verse>


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<verse num="31">For you are <transChange type="added">now</transChange> about to cross the Jordan to go to take possession of the land that Yahweh, your God, <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you, and you will take possession of it and live in it,</verse>


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<verse num="32">and you must diligently {observe}<note>Literally "observe to do"</note> all the rules and the regulations that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> setting {before you}<note>Literally "before your face"</note> {today}."<note>Literally "the day"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1">"These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the rules and the regulations {that you must diligently observe}<note>Literally "that you must observe to do"</note> in the land that Yahweh, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> God of your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> has given to you to take possession of it, <transChange type="added">during</transChange> all the days that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> living on the land. </verse>


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<verse num="2">You must completely demolish all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the places there where <transChange type="added">they</transChange> served their gods, <transChange type="added">that is</transChange>, the nations whom you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> about to dispossess, on the high mountains, and on the hills and under each leafy green tree.<note>Or "spreading tree"</note></verse>


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<verse num="3">And you shall break down their altars, and you shall smash their stone pillars, and their Asherah poles you must burn with fire, and the images of their gods you shall hew down, and you shall blot out their names from that place.</verse>


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<verse num="5">{But only}<note>Literally "But if"</note> to the place that Yahweh your God will choose from all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> your tribes to place his name there as his dwelling shall you seek, and there you shall go.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And you shall bring there your burnt offerings and your sacrifices and your tithes and {your donations}<note>Literally "the contributions of your hand"</note> and your votive gifts and your freewill offerings and the firstling of your herd and your flock.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And you shall eat there {before}<note>Literally "before the faces of"</note> Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice {in all your endeavors},<note>Literally "in all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the sending of your hand"</note> you and your family <transChange type="added">in</transChange> which Yahweh your God has blessed you. </verse>


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<verse num="8">"You must not do <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as we <transChange type="added">are</transChange> doing here {today},<note>Literally "the day"</note> {each according to all that is right in his eyes}.<note>Literally "each <transChange type="added">man</transChange> all of the right in his eyes"</note></verse>


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<verse num="9">For you have not come up to now to the resting place and to the inheritance that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you.</verse>


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<verse num="10">But you will cross the Jordan, and you will settle in the land that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving you as an inheritance, and he will give rest to you from all your enemies from all around, and you will live securely,</verse>


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<verse num="11">{and then}<note>Literally "and it will happen"</note> <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the place that Yahweh your God will choose, to let his name dwell there, there you shall bring all <transChange type="added">the things</transChange> I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you, your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and {your donations},<note>Literally "the contribution of your hand"</note> and all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the choice <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, your votive gifts that you vow to Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And you shall rejoice {before}<note>Literally "the face of"</note> Yahweh your God, you and your sons and your daughters and your slaves and your slave women and the Levite who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in your {towns},<note>Literally "gates"</note> because there is not for him a plot of ground and an inheritance with you. </verse>


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<verse num="13">"Take care for yourself so that you do not offer your burnt offerings at <transChange type="added">just</transChange> any place that you happen to see,</verse>


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<verse num="14">{but only}<note>Literally "but <transChange type="added">only</transChange> if"</note> at the place that Yahweh will choose among one of your tribes; there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all <transChange type="added">the things</transChange> that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you. </verse>


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<verse num="15">"But {whenever you desire}<note>Literally "in all the wanting of your soul/inner self"</note> you may slaughter, and you may eat meat according to the blessing of Yahweh your God that he has given to you in all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> your {towns};<note>Literally "gates"</note> the unclean and the clean may eat it <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as <transChange type="added">they would</transChange> the gazelle and as the deer.</verse>


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<verse num="16">Only the blood you must not eat, <transChange type="added">but</transChange> on the ground you must pour it like water.</verse>


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<verse num="17">You are not allowed to eat in your {towns}<note>Literally "gates"</note> the tithe of your grain and your wine and your olive oil and the firstborn of your herd and your flock and all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> your votive gifts that you vowed and your freewill offering and {your donations}.<note>Literally "the contribution of your hand"</note></verse>


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<verse num="18">But only {before}<note>Literally "before the face of"</note> Yahweh your God you shall eat it, at the place that Yahweh your God will choose,<note>Hebrew "choose it"</note> you and your son and your daughter and your slave and your slave woman and the Levite who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in your {towns},<note>Literally "gate"</note> and you must rejoice {before}<note>Literally "before the face of"</note> your God {in all your undertakings}.<note>Literally "in all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the sending of your hand"</note></verse>


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<verse num="19">{Take care}<note>Literally "Watch for yourself"</note> so that you do not neglect the Levite all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> your days on your land. </verse>


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<verse num="20">"When Yahweh your God enlarges your territory <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as he has {promised}<note>Literally "spoken"</note> to you, and you say 'I want to eat <transChange type="added">some</transChange> meat,' {because you want it},<note>Literally "because your soul/inner self desires it"</note> {whenever you desire}<note>Literally "at/in all the wanting of your soul/inner self"</note> you may eat meat.</verse>


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<verse num="21">If the place that<note>Or "where"</note> Yahweh your God will choose to put his name there is <transChange type="added">too</transChange> far from you, and you slaughter any of your herd and any of your flock that Yahweh has given to you <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as I have commanded you, then you may eat whenever you desire in your {towns}.<note>Literally "gates"</note></verse>


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<verse num="22">Surely <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as the gazelle and the deer is eaten, so <transChange type="added">both</transChange> the unclean and the clean together may eat it.</verse>


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<verse num="23">Only, be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat.</verse>


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<verse num="24">You shall not eat it, <transChange type="added">but</transChange> on the ground you shall pour it out like water.</verse>


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<verse num="25">You shall not eat it, so that {it will go well}<note>Literally "it/he is good"</note> for you <transChange type="added">and</transChange> your children after you, because <transChange type="added">then</transChange> you will <transChange type="added">be</transChange> doing what is<note>Hebrew "the"</note> right in the eyes of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="26">Only your holy objects {that are yours}<note>Literally "that are for you"</note> and your votive gifts you must carry and you must bring to the place that Yahweh will choose.</verse>


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<verse num="27">And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood on the altar of Yahweh your God, and the blood of your sacrifices you shall pour out on the altar of Yahweh your God, but the meat you may eat.</verse>


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<verse num="28">{Be careful to obey}<note>Literally "Watch carefully and listen"</note> all these things that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you, so that {it will go well}<note>Literally "he/it is good"</note> for you and for your children after you {forever},<note>Literally "until ever"</note> because then you will <transChange type="added">be</transChange> doing what is<note>Hebrew "the"</note> good and right<note>Hebrew "the right"</note> in the eyes of Yahweh your God. </verse>


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<verse num="29">"When Yahweh your God has cut off the nations whom you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> {about to go to},<note>Literally "about to go to there"</note> to dispossess them {before you},<note>Literally "from the face of you"</note> and you have dispossessed them, and you live in their land,</verse>


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<verse num="30">{take care}<note>Literally "Watch for yourself"</note> so that you are not ensnared {into imitating them}<note>Literally "after them"</note> after their being destroyed from {before you},<note>Literally "from the face of you"</note> and so that you not enquire concerning their gods, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'How did these nations serve their gods, and <transChange type="added">thus</transChange> {I myself}<note>Emphatic use of the pronoun</note> want to do also.'</verse>


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<verse num="31">You must not do so toward Yahweh your God, because of every detestable thing they have done for their gods Yahweh hates, for even their sons and their daughters they would burn in the fire to their gods.</verse>


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<verse num="32"><note>Deuteronomy 12:32-13:18 in the English Bible is 13:1-19 in the Hebrew Bible</note> All of the things<note>Hebrew "thing"</note> that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you, {you must diligently observe};<note>Literally "you must observe to do <transChange type="added">it</transChange>"</note> you shall not add to it, and you shall not take away from it." </verse>


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<verse num="1">"If a prophet stands up in your midst or a dreamer of dreams<note>Hebrew "dream"</note> and he gives to you a sign or wonder,</verse>


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<verse num="2">and the sign or<note>Hebrew "and"</note> the wonder comes <transChange type="added">about</transChange> that he spoke<note>Or "promised/declared"</note> to you, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'Let us go after other gods (those whom you have not known), and let us serve them,'</verse>


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<verse num="3">you must not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer, for Yahweh your God {is testing you to know whether you love}<note>Literally "a testing of Yahweh your God concerning you <transChange type="added">in order</transChange> to know whether there is you loving"</note> Yahweh your God with all of your heart and with all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> your inner self.<note>Or "soul"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">You shall go after Yahweh your God, and him you shall revere, and his commandment you shall keep, and to his voice you shall listen, and him you shall serve, and to him you shall hold fast.</verse>


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<verse num="5">But that prophet or the dreamer of that dream shall be executed, for he spoke falsely about Yahweh your God, the <transChange type="added">one</transChange> bringing you out from the land of Egypt and the <transChange type="added">one</transChange> redeeming you from the house of slavery, in order to seduce you from the way that Yahweh your God commanded you to go in it; so <transChange type="added">in this way</transChange> you shall purge the evil from your midst. </verse>


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<verse num="6">"If your brother, the son of your mother or your son or your daughter {or your wife whom you embrace}<note>Literally "or the wife of your embrace"</note> or {your intimate friend}<note>Literally "your friend who is like your soul/inner self"</note> in secrecy {says},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'Let us go and let us serve other gods!' <transChange type="added">gods</transChange> that you and your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> have not known,</verse>


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<verse num="7">from <transChange type="added">among</transChange> the gods of the people who are around you, {those near you or those far from you},<note>Literally "the near ones to you or the distant ones from you"</note> from <transChange type="added">one</transChange> end of the earth and up to the <transChange type="added">other</transChange> end of the earth,</verse>


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<verse num="8">you must not give in to him, and you shall not listen to him, and your eye shall not take pity on him, and you shall not have compassion, and you shall not cover <transChange type="added">up</transChange><note>Or "conceal" him</note> for him.</verse>


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<verse num="9">But you shall certainly kill him; your hand shall be first against him to kill him and next the hand of all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the people.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And you shall stone him with stones and let him die, for he tried to seduce you from Yahweh your God, the <transChange type="added">one</transChange> bringing you from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Israel shall hear, and they shall fear, and {they shall not continue to act}<note>Literally "they shall not add to do"</note> according to this evil thing in your midst. </verse>


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<verse num="12">"If you hear in one of your towns which Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you to live in, <transChange type="added">someone</transChange> {saying that}<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


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<verse num="13">{worthless men}<note>Literally "sons of Belial"</note> have gone out from your midst and have seduced the inhabitants of their town, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'Let us go and serve other gods!' whom you have not known,</verse>


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<verse num="14">then you shall inquire and examine and interrogate thoroughly, and, look! <transChange type="added">It is</transChange> true; the thing has actually been done, this detestable thing in your midst,</verse>


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<verse num="15"><transChange type="added">then</transChange> you shall certainly strike down the inhabitants of that town with the {edge}<note>Literally "mouth"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword; you shall destroy it and everything in it, its domestic animals with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {edge}<note>Literally "mouth"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And <transChange type="added">then</transChange> you shall gather all of its booty into the middle of its public square, and you shall burn the town and all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> its war-booty totally for Yahweh your God, and it shall be {a pile of rubble forever};<note>Literally "a tell/ruin forever"</note> it shall not be built again.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And let not something cling to your hand from the things devoted to destruction, so that Yahweh may turn back {from his burning anger},<note>Literally "from the burning of his nose"</note> and he may show compassion to you and he may <transChange type="added">continue</transChange> to show compassion and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> multiply you {just as he swore}<note>Literally "as that he swore"</note> to your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


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<verse num="18">if you listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> his commandments that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding <transChange type="added">to</transChange> you {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> <transChange type="added">so as</transChange> to do the right <transChange type="added">thing</transChange> in the eyes of Yahweh your God." </verse>


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<verse num="1">"You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> children<note>Or "sons"</note> of Yahweh your God; <transChange type="added">therefore</transChange> you must not gash<note>Or "cut"</note> yourself, and {you must not make your forehead bald}<note>Literally "you shall not make/place baldness between your eyes"</note> for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dead.</verse>


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<verse num="2">For you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a people holy to Yahweh your God, and you Yahweh has chosen to be a treasured possession from <transChange type="added">among</transChange> all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the peoples that are on the surface<note>Or "face"</note> of the earth. </verse>


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<verse num="4">These are the animals you may eat: ox, {sheep, goats},<note>Literally "small livestock of the sheep and a small livestock of the goats"</note></verse>


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<verse num="6">And any animal having a split hoof<note>Or "divides the hoof"</note> and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> {a dividing of the hoof into two parts}<note>Literally "a dividing cleft <transChange type="added">creating</transChange> two hoofs"</note> {and that chews the cud}<note>Literally "and that brings up the cud"</note> among the animals<note>Hebrew "animal"</note>--that <transChange type="added">animal</transChange> you may eat.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Only these you may not eat from {those chewing the cud}<note>Literally "bringing up the cud"</note> and from {those having a division of the hoof}:<note>Literally "those having a division of the hoof divided"</note> the camel and the hare and the coney, because {they chew the cud},<note>Literally "they bringing up of the cud"</note> but they <transChange type="added">do</transChange> not divide the hoof; they are <transChange type="added">therefore</transChange> unclean for you.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And <transChange type="added">also</transChange> the pig {because it has a division of the hoof}<note>Literally "because a division of the hoof"</note> {but does not chew the cud};<note>Literally "but not a <transChange type="added">chewing</transChange> cud"</note> it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> unclean for you; from their meat you shall not eat, and you shall not touch their {carcasses}.<note>Literally "dead body"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="9">"This <transChange type="added">is what</transChange> you shall eat from all that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the water: {everything}<note>Literally "all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> that"</note> {that has fins and scales}<note>Literally "for it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> fins and scales," showing possession of these features</note> you may eat.</verse>


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<verse num="10">But {anything that does not have}<note>Literally "all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> that there is not for it," showing lack of possession of these features</note> fins and scales, you may not eat, <transChange type="added">for</transChange> it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> unclean for you. </verse>


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<verse num="11">"All <transChange type="added">of</transChange> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> birds <transChange type="added">that</transChange> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> clean you may eat.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Now these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the ones you shall not eat {any of them}:<note>Literally "from them"</note> the eagle and the vulture and the short-toed eagle,<note>This list of birds is difficult to translate since the terms are not definitely known: e.g., some translations render the last bird as a "buzzard" (NASV); other translations give different names for all three: griffon vulture, black vulture, bearded vulture (NEB)</note></verse>


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<verse num="13">and the red kite<note>Various options are available: large bird, kite, red kite, glede, buzzard</note> and the black kite or {any kind of falcon},<note>Literally "or the falcon according to its kind"; other options for falcon: bird, falcon, kite (others as carrion-bird), vulture, crow or raven, buzzard</note></verse>


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<verse num="14">and any <transChange type="added">kind</transChange> of crow<note>Or others translate as "raven"</note> according to its kind,</verse>


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<verse num="15">and the {ostrich}<note>Literally "daughter of the ostrich"; others "desert owl"</note> and the short-eared owl and the seagull<note>Or "long-eared owl"</note> and the hawk according to its kind,</verse>


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<verse num="16">the little owl and the great owl and the barn owl,<note>Or "white owl"</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">and the desert owl<note>Or "large bird" or "horned-owl"</note> and the carrion vulture<note>Or "large bird"</note> and the cormorant,<note>Or "large bird," or "fisher-owl"</note></verse>


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<verse num="18">and the stork and the heron according to its kind and the hoopoe and the bat.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And <transChange type="added">also</transChange> all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> {the winged insects};<note>Literally "the swarmer<transChange type="added">s</transChange> of the flyer<transChange type="added">s</transChange>" or "all the swarms <transChange type="added">of things</transChange> that fly"</note> they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> unclean for you; you shall not eat <transChange type="added">them</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="21">"You shall not eat any carcass;<note>Or "corpse"</note> you may give it to the alien who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in your {towns},<note>Literally "gates"</note> and he may eat it, or you may sell <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to a foreigner, for you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a holy people for Yahweh your God; you may not boil a kid in its mother's milk. </verse>


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<verse num="22">"Certainly you must give a tithe <transChange type="added">of</transChange> all the yield of your seed, {which comes forth from your field year after year}.<note>Literally "the going forth of the field year <transChange type="added">by</transChange> year"</note></verse>


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<verse num="23">And you shall eat {before}<note>Literally "before the faces of"</note> Yahweh your God in the place that he will choose to make to dwell his name there the tithe of your grain, your wine and your olive oil and the firstling of your herd and your flock, so that you may learn to revere Yahweh your God {always}.<note>Literally "all of the days"</note></verse>


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<verse num="24">But if {the distance is too great for you},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">it</transChange> is great from you the journey that"</note> <transChange type="added">so</transChange> that you are not able to transport<note>Or "carry"</note> it, because the place that Yahweh your God will choose to set his name there, it is <transChange type="added">too</transChange> far from you, when Yahweh your God will bless you,</verse>


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<verse num="25">then <transChange type="added">in that case</transChange> {you may exchange for money},<note>Literally "you may give it <transChange type="added">in</transChange> for the money/silver"</note> and you shall take<note>Or "bind"</note> the money to your hand and go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose.</verse>


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<verse num="26">You may spend the money for anything {that you desire},<note>Literally "that your soul/inner self desires"</note> for oxen or for sheep or for wine or for strong drink or for anything {that you desire},<note>Literally "that your soul/inner self desires"</note> and you shall eat <transChange type="added">it</transChange> there {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.</verse>


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<verse num="27">And <transChange type="added">as to</transChange> the Levite who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in your {towns},<note>Literally "gates"</note> you shall not neglect him, because there is not a plot of ground for him and an inheritance <transChange type="added">along</transChange> with you. </verse>


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<verse num="28">"At the end of three years you shall bring out all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the tithe of your yield for that year, and you shall store <transChange type="added">it</transChange> in your {towns}.<note>Literally "gates"</note></verse>


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<verse num="29">And <transChange type="added">so</transChange> the Levite may come, because there is no plot of ground for him or an inheritance with you, and the alien <transChange type="added">also may come</transChange> and the orphan and the widow that <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in your {towns},<note>Literally "gates"</note> and {they may eat their fill},<note>Literally "they may eat and they may be satisfied"</note> so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the work of your hand that you undertake." </verse>


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<verse num="1">"At the end of seven years you shall grant <transChange type="added">a</transChange> remission of debt.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the manner of the remission of debt: every {creditor}<note>Literally "owner of the loan of his hand"</note> shall remit his claim that he holds against his neighbor, and he shall not exact payment <transChange type="added">from</transChange> his brother because there<note>Hebrew "it"</note> <transChange type="added">a</transChange> remission of debt has been proclaimed unto<note>Hebrew "for"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="3"><transChange type="added">With respect to</transChange> the foreigner you may exact payment, but {you must remit}<note>Literally "your hand shall remit"</note> what shall be <transChange type="added">owed</transChange> to you <transChange type="added">with respect to</transChange> your brother.</verse>


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<verse num="4">Nevertheless, there<note>Hebrew "it"</note> shall not be among you a poor <transChange type="added">person</transChange>, because Yahweh will certainly bless you in the land that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you <transChange type="added">as</transChange> an inheritance, to take possession of it.</verse>


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<verse num="5">If only you listen well to the voice of Yahweh your God {by observing diligently}<note>Literally "to observe <transChange type="added">so as</transChange> to do"</note> all of these commandments<note>Hebrew "commandment"</note> that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you {today}.<note>Literally "the day"</note></verse>


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<verse num="6">When Yahweh your God has blessed you, <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as he {promised}<note>Literally "spoke"</note> to you, then you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow <transChange type="added">from them</transChange>, and you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.</verse>


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<verse num="7">If <transChange type="added">there</transChange> is a poor <transChange type="added">person</transChange> among you from <transChange type="added">among</transChange> one of your brothers in one of your {towns}<note>Literally "gates"</note> that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you, you shall not harden your heart, and you shall not shut your hand toward {your brother who is poor}.<note>Literally "from among your brothers, the poor one"</note></verse>


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<verse num="8">But you shall certainly open your hand for him, and {you shall willingly lend}<note>Literally "lending you shall lend"</note> <transChange type="added">to</transChange> him enough to meet his need, {whatever it is}.<note>Literally "whatever is lacking for him"</note></verse>


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<verse num="9">{Take care}<note>Literally "Watch for yourself"</note> so that there<note>Hebrew "it"</note> will not be {a thought of wickedness}<note>Literally "a thing in your heart wickedness"</note> in your heart, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'The seventh year, the year of the remission of debt is near,' {and you view your needy neighbor with hostility},<note>Literally "is bad your eye against your brother who is needy"</note> and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> you <transChange type="added">do</transChange> not give to him, and he might cry <transChange type="added">out</transChange> against you to Yahweh, and {you would incur guilt against yourself}.<note>Literally "it will be against you a sin"</note></verse>


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<verse num="10">By all means you must give to him, and {you must not be discontented}<note>Literally "and not shall be bad/evil your heart at/when"</note> at your giving to him, because on account of this <transChange type="added">very</transChange> thing, Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and {in all that you undertake}.<note>Literally "in all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the sending/putting forth of your hand"</note></verse>


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<verse num="11">For the poor<note>Or "the needy person"</note> will not cease to be {among you}<note>Literally "from the midst of "</note> <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the land; therefore I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'You shall willingly open your hand to your brother, to your needy and to your poor <transChange type="added">that are</transChange> in your land.' </verse>


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<verse num="12">If your relative<note>Or "brother"</note> who is a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman is sold to you, and <transChange type="added">he or she</transChange> has served you six years, then in the seventh year you shall send that person <transChange type="added">out</transChange> {free}.<note>Literally "free from with you"</note></verse>


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<verse num="13">And when you send him <transChange type="added">out</transChange> free from you, you shall not send him <transChange type="added">away</transChange> empty-handed.</verse>


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<verse num="14">You shall generously supply him from <transChange type="added">among</transChange> your flocks and from your threshing floor and from your press; <transChange type="added">according to</transChange> that <transChange type="added">with which</transChange> Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you; therefore I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you thus {today}.<note>Literally "the day"</note></verse>


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<verse num="16">And then <transChange type="added">if</transChange> it will happen <transChange type="added">that</transChange> he says to you, '{I do not want to go out}<note>Literally "I will not go out"</note> from you,' because he loves you and your family, because it is good for him <transChange type="added">to be</transChange> with you;</verse>


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<verse num="17">then you shall take an awl, and you shall thrust <transChange type="added">it</transChange> through his earlobe and into the door, and he shall be to you {a slave forever};<note>Literally "a slave of eternity"</note> and you shall also do likewise for your slave woman.</verse>


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<verse num="18">It shall not be hard in your eyes {when you send him forth free},<note>Literally "in/at you to send him forth free from <transChange type="added">being</transChange> with you"</note> because for six years he has served you <transChange type="added">worth</transChange> twice the wage of a hired worker; and Yahweh your God will bless you {in whatever you will do}.<note>Literally "in all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> that you will do"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="19">"Every firstling male that is born of your herd and of your flock you shall consecrate to Yahweh your God; you shall not do work with the firstling of your ox, and you shall not shear the firstling of your flock.</verse>


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<verse num="20"><transChange type="added">Rather</transChange> {before Yahweh}<note>Literally "in the face of Yahweh"</note> your God you shall eat it year by year at the place Yahweh will choose, you and your household.</verse>


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<verse num="21">But if there is a physical defect in it, <transChange type="added">such as</transChange> lameness or blindness, any serious defect, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.</verse>


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<verse num="22">In your {towns}<note>Literally "gates"</note> you shall eat it, the unclean and the clean together <transChange type="added">may eat it</transChange>, <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as <transChange type="added">they eat</transChange> the gazelle and as <transChange type="added">they eat</transChange> the deer.</verse>


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<verse num="23">But you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it on the ground like water." </verse>


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<verse num="1">"Observe the month of Abib, and you shall keep <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Passover to Yahweh your God, for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out from Egypt <transChange type="added">by</transChange> night.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And you shall offer the Passover sacrifice to Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">from among</transChange> <transChange type="added">your</transChange> flock and herd at the place that Yahweh will choose, to let his name dwell there.</verse>


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<verse num="3">You shall not eat {with it}<note>Literally "in addition to" or "upon it"</note> anything leavened; seven days you shall eat {with it}<note>Literally "in addition to" or "upon it"</note> unleavened bread of affliction, because in haste you went out from the land of Egypt, so that you will remember the day of your going out from the land of Egypt all the days of your life.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And leaven shall not be seen with<note>Or "for"</note> you in any of your territory<note>Or "all <transChange type="added">of</transChange>" your territory</note> for seven days, and none of the meat that you will slaughter on the evening on the first day shall remain overnight until morning.</verse>


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<verse num="5">You are not allowed to offer the Passover sacrifice in one of your {towns}<note>Literally "gates"</note> that Yahweh your God is giving to you,</verse>


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<verse num="6">but only at the place that Yahweh your God will choose, to let his name dwell there; you shall offer the Passover sacrifice {in the evening at sunset},<note>Literally "in the evening as the sun goes/sets"</note> <transChange type="added">at the</transChange> designated time<note>The Hebrew word here indicates the specific time that God had chosen to bring Israel out of Egypt</note> of your going out from Egypt.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And you shall cook, and you shall eat <transChange type="added">it</transChange> at the place that Yahweh your God will choose; and you may turn in the morning and go to your tents.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day <transChange type="added">there shall be</transChange> an assembly for Yahweh your God; you shall not do work. </verse>


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<verse num="9">"You shall count <transChange type="added">off</transChange> seven weeks for you; {from the time you begin to harvest the standing grain}<note>Literally "from the beginning of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sickle against the standing grain"</note> you shall begin to count seven weeks.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And <transChange type="added">then</transChange> you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks for Yahweh your God with the measure of the freewill offering of your hand that you shall give <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as Yahweh your God has blessed you.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you and your son and your daughter and your slave and your slave woman and the Levite that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in your {towns}<note>Literally "gates"</note> and the alien and the orphan and the widow who are in your midst in the place that Yahweh your God will choose to let his name dwell there.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> {you shall diligently observe}<note>Literally "you shall observe and do"</note> these rules. </verse>


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<verse num="13">"You shall celebrate the Feast of Booths for yourselves<note>Hebrew "for you"</note> seven days {at the gathering in of the produce}<note>Literally "at your gathering <transChange type="added">of the produce</transChange>"</note> from your threshing floor and from your press;</verse>


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<verse num="14">and you shall rejoice at your feast, you and your son and your daughter and your slave and your slave woman and the Levite and the orphan and the widow that <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in your {towns}.<note>Literally "gates"</note></verse>


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<verse num="15">Seven days you shall celebrate <transChange type="added">your</transChange> feast to Yahweh your God at the place Yahweh will choose, for Yahweh your God shall bless you in all of your produce<note>Or "increase"</note> and in all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the work of your hand, and you shall surely <transChange type="added">be</transChange> rejoicing.<note>Or "joyful"</note></verse>


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<verse num="16">Three times in the year all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> your males shall appear {before }<note>Literally "with the face of"</note> Yahweh your God at the place that he will choose, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Booths, and they shall not appear {before Yahweh}<note>Literally "with the face of Yahweh"</note> empty-handed.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Each <transChange type="added">person</transChange> {shall give as he is able},<note>Literally "according to the gift of his hand"</note> <transChange type="added">that is</transChange>, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God that he has given to you. </verse>


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<verse num="18">"You shall appoint judges and officials for you in all your {towns}<note>Literally "gates"</note> that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you throughout your tribes, and you shall render <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the people {righteous judgments}.<note>Literally "a judgment <transChange type="added">based on</transChange> righteousness"</note></verse>


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<verse num="19">You shall not subvert<note>Or "distort/pervert"</note> justice; you shall not {show partiality};<note>Literally "recognize faces"</note> and you shall not take a bribe, for the bribe makes blind <transChange type="added">the</transChange> eyes of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wise and misrepresents <transChange type="added">the</transChange> words of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous.</verse>


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<verse num="20">{Justice, only justice}<note>Literally "justice justice"</note> you shall pursue, so that you may live, and you shall take possession of the land that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you.</verse>


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<verse num="21">You shall not plant for yourselves<note>Hebrew "for/to you" but with collective meaning</note> {an Asherah pole}<note>Literally "an Asherah of any wood/tree"</note> beside the altar of Yahweh your God that you make for yourselves.<note>Hebrew "for/to you" but with collective meaning</note></verse>


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<verse num="22">And you shall not set up for yourselves a stone pillar, <transChange type="added">a thing</transChange> that Yahweh your God hates. </verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="1">"You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox or sheep {that has a physical defect}<note>Literally "that is on it a physical defect"</note> {of anything seriously wrong},<note>Literally "of any thing bad/evil"</note> for that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a detestable thing to Yahweh your God.</verse>


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<verse num="2">If <transChange type="added">there</transChange> is found in one of your {towns}<note>Literally "gates"</note> that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you a man or a woman that does evil in the eyes of Yahweh your God to transgress his covenant</verse>


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<verse num="3">and by going and serving other gods and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> he bows down to them and to the sun or to the moon or to any <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the host of heaven {which I have forbidden},<note>Literally "which not I <transChange type="added">have</transChange> commanded"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">and it is reported to you or you hear <transChange type="added">about it</transChange> and you enquire <transChange type="added">about it</transChange> thoroughly and, indeed,<note>Or "look!"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> trustworthiness of the deed<note>Hebrew "the thing"</note> <transChange type="added">has</transChange> been established, it {has occurred},<note>Literally "has been done"</note> this detestable thing, in Israel,</verse>


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<verse num="5">then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has<note>Hebrew "have"</note> done this evil thing to your gates; that is, the man or the woman, and you shall stone them with stones {to death}.<note>Literally "and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> they die"</note></verse>


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<verse num="6">{On the evidence of}<note>Literally "By the mouth of"</note> two or three witnesses {the person shall be put to death}.<note>Literally "he/she shall be put to death, the dead person"</note> The person<note>Hebrew "he/she"</note> shall not be put to death by the mouth of one witness.</verse>


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<verse num="7">The hand of the witnesses shall be first against the person<note>Hebrew "him"</note> to kill the person,<note>Hebrew "him"</note> and afterward the hands<note>Hebrew "hand"</note> <transChange type="added">of</transChange> all the people, and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> you shall purge the evil from your midst. </verse>


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<verse num="8">"{If a matter is too difficult for you},<note>Literally "If is difficult/wonderful from you a thing for judgment"</note> <transChange type="added">for example disputes</transChange> between blood and blood,<note>Or "between one homicide and another"</note> between legal claim and legal claim<note>Or "one kind of lawsuit and another"</note> and between assault and assault<note>Or "one kind of abuse and another"</note> <transChange type="added">and between</transChange> matters of discernment in your {towns},<note>Literally "gates"</note> then you shall get up and you shall go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose;</verse>


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<verse num="9">then you shall go to the priests and the Levites and to the judge who will be <transChange type="added">in office</transChange> in those days, and you shall enquire, and they shall announce to you {the verdict}.<note>Literally "the word of the decision"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="10">"And {you shall carry out exactly the decision}<note>Literally "and you shall do according to the mouth of the word"</note> that they announced to you from that place that Yahweh will choose, and {you shall diligently observe}<note>Literally "and you shall observe and do"</note> according to all that they instruct you.</verse>


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<verse num="11"><transChange type="added">And so</transChange> according to {the instruction of the law}<note>Literally "mouth of the law"</note> that they teach you and according to the decisions that they say to you, you shall do; you shall not turn from the word that they tell you to the right or <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> left.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And the man who treats with contempt<note>Or "acts presumptuously"</note> <transChange type="added">so as</transChange> not to listen to the priest <transChange type="added">who</transChange> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> standing to minister on behalf of Yahweh your God or to the judge, that man shall die; so you shall purge the evil from Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And all the people will hear and will be afraid, and they will not behave presumptuously again. </verse>


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<verse num="14">"When you have come to that land that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you and you have taken possession of it and you have settled in it, and you say, 'I will set over me a king like all the nations that <transChange type="added">are</transChange> around me,'</verse>


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<verse num="15">indeed, you may set a king over you whom Yahweh your God will choose, from the midst of your countrymen<note>Or "brothers"</note> you must set a king over you; you are not allowed to appoint over you a man, a foreigner, who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not your countryman.<note>Or "brother"</note></verse>


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<verse num="16">Except, he may {not make numerous}<note>Literally "not multiply"</note> for himself horses, and he may not allow the people to <transChange type="added">to go</transChange> to Egypt {in order to increase horses},<note>Literally "in order to make numerous horse"</note> for Yahweh has said to you that {you may never return}.<note>Literally "not you may do again to return"</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">And he must not {acquire many}<note>Or "make numerous"</note> wives for himself, so that his heart <transChange type="added">would</transChange> turn aside; and {he must not accumulate silver and gold for himself excessively}.<note>Literally "gold and silver not he must make numerous for him very"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="18">"{And then}<note>Literally "And it shall happen"</note> {when he is sitting}<note>Literally "as/when his sitting"</note> on the throne of his kingdom, then he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> the Levitical priests.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And it shall be with him, and he shall read it<note>Hebrew "in it"</note> all the days of his life, so that he may learn to revere Yahweh your God by {diligently observing}<note>Literally "by keeping ... to do them"</note> all the word of this law and these rules,</verse>


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<verse num="20"><transChange type="added">so as</transChange> not to exalt his heart above his countrymen<note>Or "brothers"</note> and not to turn aside from the commandment to the right or to the left, so that {he may reign long over his kingdom},<note>Literally "he may make long <transChange type="added">his</transChange> days over his kingdom"</note> he and his children in the midst of Israel." </verse>


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<verse num="1">"And there shall not be for the Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, a plot of ground and an inheritance with Israel, <transChange type="added">rather</transChange> they may eat an offering made by fire <transChange type="added">as</transChange> their inheritance,<note>The meaning of the Hebrew text here is uncertain; possibly it reads: "<transChange type="added">rather</transChange> an offering by fire then they will eat as <transChange type="added">their</transChange> inheritance/patrimony"</note> for Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And there shall not be for them<note>Hebrew "him"</note> an inheritance <transChange type="added">of land</transChange> in the midst of his brothers; <transChange type="added">rather</transChange> Yahweh is his inheritance, <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as he {promised}<note>Literally "spoke"</note> to them.<note>Hebrew "him"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="3">Now this shall be the share of the priest from the people, from {those who sacrifice the sacrifice},<note>Literally "the sacrificers of the sacrifice"</note> <transChange type="added">whether it is</transChange> an ox, sheep, or goat, and they shall give the priest the shoulder and the jawbones and the stomach.</verse>


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<verse num="4">The firstfruits<note>Hebrew "firstfruit"</note> of your grain, your wine, and your olive oil and the firstfruits<note>Hebrew "firstfruit"</note> of the fleece of your sheep you shall give to him.</verse>


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<verse num="5">For Yahweh your God has chosen him from <transChange type="added">among</transChange> all your tribes to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, he and his sons {forever}.<note>Literally "all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the days"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="6">And if a<note>Hebrew "the"</note> Levite comes from one of your {towns}<note>Literally "gates"</note> from {anywhere in Israel}<note>Literally "all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Israel"</note> where he is residing, {he may come whenever he desires},<note>Literally "he may come in all the desire of his soul/inner self"</note> to the place that Yahweh will choose,</verse>


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<verse num="7">and he may minister in the name of Yahweh his God, <transChange type="added">just</transChange> like all his brothers, {the Levites who stand there}<note>Literally "the Levites the ones standing there"</note> {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="8">They shall eat {equal portions},<note>Literally "a portion like a portion"</note> apart from what he may receive from the sale of his patrimony.<note>Hebrew meaning of these phrases/words is not certain; also could translate as "except <transChange type="added">what they receive</transChange> from the sale of their fathers' <transChange type="added">estates</transChange>" (NASB); or "what he may inherit from his father's family"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="9">"When you come to the land that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you, you must not learn to do like the detestable practices of those nations.</verse>


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<verse num="10"><transChange type="added">There</transChange> shall not be found among you one who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, <transChange type="added">or</transChange> {one who practices divination},<note>Literally "a diviner of divination"</note> <transChange type="added">or</transChange> an interpreter of signs,<note>Or "soothsayer"</note> or an augur,<note>Or "an interpreter of omens"</note> or sorcerer,</verse>


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<verse num="11">or one who casts magic spells, or one who consults <transChange type="added">a</transChange> spirit of the dead,<note>Or "medium"</note> or spiritist, or one who inquires of the dead.<note>Or "necromancer"</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">For everyone doing these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> detestable to Yahweh, and because of these detestable things Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> driving them out from {before you}.<note>Literally "the face of you"</note></verse>


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<verse num="14">For these nations that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> about to dispossess listen to interpreters of signs<note>Or "practice witchcraft"</note> and to diviners, but Yahweh your God has not allowed you to do the same. </verse>


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<verse num="15">"Yahweh your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your midst, from your countrymen,<note>Or "your brothers"</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange> to him you shall listen.</verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="16"><transChange type="added">This is</transChange> {according to all that you asked}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">just</transChange> as all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> that you asked"</note> from Yahweh your God at Horeb, on the day of the assembly, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> '{I do not want again to hear}<note>Literally "not I want to do again to hear"</note> the voice of Yahweh my God, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> I do not want to see again this great fire, so that I may not die!'</verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="17">And Yahweh said to me, 'They are right <transChange type="added">in</transChange> what they have said.</verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="18">I will raise up a prophet for them {from among their countrymen}<note>Literally "from the midst of their brothers"</note> like you, and I will place<note>Or "give"</note> my words into his mouth, and he shall speak to them {everything that I command him}.<note>Literally "all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> what I command him"</note></verse>


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<verse num="19">{And then}<note>Literally "And it will happen"</note> the man that will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I will hold accountable.</verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="20">However, the prophet that behaves presumptuously by speaking a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, and who speaks in the name of other gods, then that prophet shall die.'</verse>


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<verse num="21">And if you say {to yourself},<note>Literally "in your heart"</note> 'How can we know the word that Yahweh has not spoken to him?'</verse>


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<verse num="22"><transChange type="added">Whenever</transChange> what the prophet spoke in the name of Yahweh, the thing does not take place and <transChange type="added">does</transChange> not come <transChange type="added">about</transChange>, that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the thing that Yahweh has not spoken to him.<note>Or "that Yahweh has not spoken it"</note> Presumptuously the prophet spoke it; you shall not fear that<note>Hebrew "the"</note> prophet." </verse>


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<verse num="1">"When Yahweh your God has {exterminated}<note>Literally "cut off"</note> the nations <transChange type="added">concerning whom</transChange> Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you their land, and you have dispossessed them, and you have settled in their towns and in their houses,</verse>


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<verse num="2">you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you to take possession of it.</verse>


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<verse num="3">You shall prepare the roads<note>Hebrew "road"</note> for yourselves, and you shall divide the regions of your land into thirds that Yahweh your God gives you as a possession, so that {it will be available for any manslayer to flee there}.<note>Literally "it shall be to flee there all/anyone killing"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="4">"Now this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the case of the manslayer who may flee there and live <transChange type="added">there</transChange> who has killed his neighbor {unintentionally},<note>Literally "with no knowledge"</note> and he did not hate him {previously}.<note>Literally "from yesterday <transChange type="added">and the</transChange> day before"</note></verse>


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<verse num="5">{For example},<note>Literally "And as"</note> when somebody goes with his neighbor into the forest to cut wood, and the iron <transChange type="added">head</transChange> slips from the handle <transChange type="added">of the tool</transChange> and strikes his neighbor and he dies, <transChange type="added">then</transChange> he may flee to one of these cities, and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> he may live.</verse>


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<verse num="6"><transChange type="added">He does this</transChange> lest the avenger of blood might pursue after the killer, because {he is hot with anger}<note>Literally "is hot his heart"</note> and he overtakes him, because it is a long distance <transChange type="added">to the city of refuge</transChange>, and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> {he kills him},<note>Literally "he strikes him down as to his life/soul"</note> but {he did not deserve a death sentence},<note>Literally "for him there was not a judgment of death"</note> because he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> not hating him {before}.<note>Literally "from yesterday <transChange type="added">and the</transChange> day before"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">Therefore I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'You shall set apart three cities.'</verse>


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<verse num="8">Then if Yahweh your God enlarges your territory <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as he swore to your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> and gives<note>Hebrew "will give"</note> to you all the land that he {promised}<note>Literally "spoke"</note> to give to your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


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<verse num="9"><transChange type="added">then</transChange> {if you diligently observe this entire commandment}<note>Literally "if you observe all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the commandment the this to do it"</note> that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> by loving Yahweh your God and by going<note>Or "walking"</note> in his ways {at all times},<note>Literally "all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the days"</note> then you shall add three more cities for yourselves to these three.</verse>


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<verse num="10"><transChange type="added">Do this</transChange> so that innocent blood will not be shed<note>Hebrew "is not shed"</note> in the midst of your land that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you <transChange type="added">as an</transChange> inheritance and <transChange type="added">thereby</transChange> bloodguilt would be on you.<note>Hebrew "shall be on you," but conditional sense of imperfect is clear</note> </verse>


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<verse num="11">But if someone hates<note>Hebrew "<transChange type="added">is</transChange> hating"</note> his neighbor and lies in wait for him and rises up<note>Or "gets up"</note> against him {and murders him},<note>Literally "and strikes him mortally <transChange type="added">with regard to his life</transChange> and he dies"</note> and <transChange type="added">the murderer</transChange> flees to one of these cities,</verse>


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<verse num="12">then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and they shall give him into the hand of the avenger of blood, and he shall be put to death.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Your eye shall not take pity on him, and you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, {so that good will be directed toward you}.<note>Literally "and good shall be for you" or "it shall be good for you"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="14">"You shall not move the boundary <transChange type="added">marker</transChange> of your neighbor that {former generations}<note>Literally "the first settlers/ancestors"</note> set up on your property in the land that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you to take possession of it.</verse>


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<verse num="15">{The testimony of a single witness may not be used to convict}<note>Literally "Not shall get up <transChange type="added">only</transChange> a single witness against a man"</note> <transChange type="added">with respect to</transChange> any crime and for any wrongdoing in any offense that a person<note>Hebrew "he"</note> committed; on the {evidence}<note>Literally "mouth"</note> of two witnesses or on the {evidence}<note>Literally "mouth"</note> of three witnesses {a charge shall be sustained}.<note>Literally "shall be established a case/charge"</note></verse>


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<verse num="16">If {a malicious witness}<note>Literally "a witness of violence"</note> gets up {to accuse}<note>Literally "against"</note> anyone to testify against him falsely,</verse>


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<verse num="17">then the two men {to whom the legal dispute pertains}<note>Literally "who for them <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the legal dispute"</note> shall stand {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> Yahweh, {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> the priests and the judges who are <transChange type="added">in office</transChange> in those days.</verse>


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<verse num="18">Then judges shall make a thorough inquiry, and <transChange type="added">if</transChange> it turns out<note>Or "in fact"</note> that the witness is a false witness <transChange type="added">and</transChange> he testified falsely against his brother,</verse>


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<verse num="19">then you shall do to him as he meant<note>Or "planned"</note> to do to his brother, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.</verse>


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<verse num="20">{And the rest}<note>Literally "and those remaining"</note> shall hear and shall fear, and {they shall not continue to do such a thing again}<note>Literally "and they shall not do again to do again"</note> as this evil thing in your midst.</verse>


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<verse num="21">{You must show no pity}:<note>Literally "And not take pity your eye"</note> life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." </verse>


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<verse num="1">"If you go out to war against your enemies and you see a horse and a chariot, {an army}<note>Literally "a people"</note> larger that you, you shall not be afraid because of them; for Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with you, the one who brought you from the land of Egypt.</verse>


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<verse num="2">{And then}<note>Literally "And it will happen"</note> when you approach the battle, then the priest shall come near and speak to the troops.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And he shall say to them, 'Hear, Israel, you are near {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> to the battle against your enemies; {do not lose heart};<note>Literally "do not be faint/tender-hearted"</note> you shall not be afraid, and you shall not panic, and you shall not be terrified {because of them},<note>Literally "from their faces"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">for Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> going with you to fight for you against your enemies to help you.'</verse>


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<verse num="5">And the officials shall speak to the troops, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to this house, so that he does not die in battle and {another man}<note>Literally "a man other"</note> dedicates it.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the man that has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed it? Let him go and let him return to his house, so that he does not die in battle and {another man}<note>Literally "a man other"</note> enjoys it.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the man who got engaged to a woman and <transChange type="added">has</transChange> not married her? Let him go and let him return to his house, so that he does not die in battle and {another man}<note>Literally "a man other"</note> marries her.'</verse>


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<verse num="8">And the officials shall continue to speak to the troops, and they shall say, '{What man}<note>Literally "Who is the man"</note> is afraid {and disheartened}?<note>Literally "and soft/weak of the heart"</note> Let him go, and let him return to his house, and let him not cause the heart of his brothers to melt<note>The verb has a causal meaning here</note> like his.'</verse>


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<verse num="9">And {when the officials have finished speaking}<note>Literally "it will happen as to finish the officials to speak"</note> to the army troops, then they shall appoint commanders of divisions at the head of the troops. </verse>


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<verse num="10">"When you approach a city to fight against it, {you must offer it peace}.<note>Literally "you should call it for peace"</note></verse>


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<verse num="11">{And then}<note>Literally "And it will happen"</note> if {they accept your terms of peace}<note>Literally "if peace they reply to you"</note> and {they surrender to you},<note>Literally "they open to you"</note> {and then}<note>Literally "and it will happen"</note> all the people {inhabiting it}<note>Literally "being found in it"</note> shall be forced labor for you, and they shall serve you.</verse>


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<verse num="12">But if they {do not accept your terms of peace}<note>Literally "not they make peace with you"</note> and they want to make war with you, then you shall lay siege against it.<note>That is, the city</note></verse>


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<verse num="13">And Yahweh your God will give it into your hand, and you shall kill all its males with the {edge}<note>Literally "mouth"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword.</verse>


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<verse num="14">Only the women and the little children and the domestic animals<note>Hebrew "animal"</note> and all that shall be in the city, all of its spoil you may loot for yourselves, and you may enjoy the spoil of your enemies that Yahweh you God has given to you.</verse>


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<verse num="15">Thus you shall do to all the far<note>Or "distant"</note> cities from you, which <transChange type="added">are</transChange> not from the cities of these nations located {nearby}.<note>Literally "here"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="16">But from the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you as an inheritance, you shall not let anything live that breathes.<note>Or "is alive"</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">Rather, you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittites<note>Hebrew "Hittite"</note> and the Amorites,<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> the Canaanites<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> and the Perizzites,<note>Hebrew "Perizzite"</note> the Hivites,<note>Hebrew "Hivite"</note> and the Jebusites,<note>Hebrew "Jebusite"</note> <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as Yahweh your God has commanded you,</verse>


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<verse num="18">so that they may not teach you to do like all their detestable things that they do for their gods and <transChange type="added">thereby</transChange> you sin against Yahweh your God. </verse>


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<verse num="19">"If<note>Or "when"</note> you besiege a town <transChange type="added">for</transChange> many days to make war against it <transChange type="added">in order to</transChange> seize it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them,<note>Hebrew "it"</note> for you may eat from them,<note>Hebrew "it"</note> and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> you must not cut them<note>Hebrew "it"</note> down. Are the trees of the field humans that they should come in siege {against you}?<note>Literally "from your face"</note></verse>


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<verse num="20">Only<note>Or "But"</note> the trees<note>Hebrew "tree"</note> that you know {are not fruit trees}<note>Literally "not a tree of food"</note> you may destroy and you may cut down, and you may build siege works against that city that is making war with you {until it falls}."<note>Literally "it to fall"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1">"If someone slain is found in the land that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you to take possession of it <transChange type="added">and</transChange> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> lying in the field, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> it is not known who {killed him},<note>Literally "struck/smote him"</note></verse>


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<verse num="2">then your elders and your judges shall go out and shall measure <transChange type="added">the distance</transChange> to the cities that <transChange type="added">are</transChange> around the slain one.</verse>


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<verse num="3">{And then}<note>Literally "And it will happen"</note> the nearest city to the slain one, the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd that has not been worked with <transChange type="added">in the field</transChange>, that has not pulled a yoke,</verse>


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<verse num="4">and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a {wadi that flows with water all year}<note>Literally "an ever-flowing wadi"</note> and <transChange type="added">that</transChange> has not been plowed and has not been sown; <transChange type="added">then</transChange> {there they shall break the neck of the heifer in the wadi}.<note>Literally "they shall break there <transChange type="added">the neck</transChange> with respect to the heifer in the ever-flowing wadi"; the Hebrew verb carries the meaning "to break the neck of"</note></verse>


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<verse num="5">Then the priests, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Levi, shall come near, for Yahweh your God has chosen them to bless in the name of Yahweh, and every legal dispute and every <transChange type="added">case of</transChange> assault will be {subject to their ruling}.<note>Literally "on their mouth"</note></verse>


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<verse num="6">And all of the elders of that city nearest to the slain person shall wash their hands over the heifer <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the broken neck in the wadi.<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">And they shall declare, and they shall say, 'Our hands did not shed this blood, and our eyes did not see <transChange type="added">what was done</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Forgive your people, Israel, whom you redeemed, Yahweh, and <transChange type="added">do</transChange> not {allow}<note>Literally "place/put"</note> the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel, and let them be forgiven <transChange type="added">with regard to</transChange> blood.'</verse>


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<verse num="9">And <transChange type="added">so</transChange> you shall purge the innocent blood from your midst, because you must do the right thing in the eyes of Yahweh. </verse>


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<verse num="10">"When you go out for battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God gives them into your hand, and you lead the captives<note>Hebrew "his captive" but singular pronoun refers to the many captives taken with plural sense</note> away,</verse>


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<verse num="11">and you see among the captives<note>Hebrew "captive"</note> a woman beautiful in appearance, and you become attached to her and you want to take her as <transChange type="added">a</transChange> wife,</verse>


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<verse num="12">then you shall bring her into your household, and she shall shave her head, and she shall trim her nails.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And she shall remove the clothing of her captivity from her, and she shall remain in your house, and she shall mourn her father and her mother {a full month},<note>Literally "a month of days"</note> and after this {you may have sex with her},<note>Literally "you may go into her"</note> and you may marry her, and she may {become your wife}.<note>Literally "become for you as wife"</note></verse>


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<verse num="14">And then if you do not take delight in her, then you shall let her go {to do whatever she wants},<note>Literally "according to her desire/soul"</note> but you shall not treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored<note>Or "humbled"</note> her. </verse>


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<verse num="15">"If a man has two wives, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> the one <transChange type="added">is</transChange> loved and the <transChange type="added">other</transChange> one <transChange type="added">is</transChange> disliked and the one loved and the one that is disliked have borne for him sons, if it happens <transChange type="added">that</transChange> the firstborn son {belongs to the one that is disliked},<note>Literally "is to the wife who is hated"</note></verse>


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<verse num="16"><transChange type="added">nevertheless</transChange> {it will be the case that}<note>Literally "it will happen"</note> on the day of bestowing his inheritance upon his sons, he will not be allowed to treat as <transChange type="added">the</transChange> firstborn son the son of the beloved <transChange type="added">wife</transChange> {in preference to}<note>Literally "over the faces of"</note> the son of the disliked <transChange type="added">wife</transChange>, <transChange type="added">who is</transChange> the firstborn <transChange type="added">son</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="17">But he shall acknowledge the firstborn son of the disliked <transChange type="added">wife</transChange> {by giving}<note>Literally "to give"</note> him a double portion of {all that he has},<note>Literally "all that is found for him"</note> for he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the firstfruit of his vigor;<note>Or "the beginning of his strength"</note> to him <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the legal claim of the birthright.<note>Or "the just claim of the firstborn"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="18">"{If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son}<note>Literally "If shall be for a man, a son stubborn and rebellious"</note> <transChange type="added">who</transChange> {does not listen to}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">and</transChange> there is no listening/obedience"</note> the voice of his father and to the voice of his mother, and they discipline him, and he does not obey<note>Or "listen to"</note> them,</verse>


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<verse num="19">then his father and his mother shall take hold of him, and they shall bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his {town},<note>Literally "place"</note></verse>


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<verse num="20">and they shall say to the elders of his city, 'This our son <transChange type="added">is</transChange> stubborn and rebellious; {he does not obey us},<note>Literally "there is no listening to our voice"</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange> he is a glutton and a drunkard.'</verse>


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<verse num="21">Then all the men of his city shall stone him with stones and let him die; and so you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all of Israel will hear, and they will fear. </verse>


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<verse num="22">"And {if a man commits a sin punishable by death},<note>Literally "when shall be against a man a sin of judgment of death"</note> and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> he is put to death and you hang him on a tree,</verse>


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<verse num="23">his dead body shall not hang on the tree, but certainly you shall bury him on that day, for cursed by God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> one that is <transChange type="added">being</transChange> hung; so you shall not defile your land<note>Or "ground"</note> that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you <transChange type="added">as an</transChange> inheritance." </verse>


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<verse num="1">"You shall not watch the ox of your neighbor or his sheep or goat straying and ignore them; certainly you shall return them to your neighbor.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And if your countryman<note>Or "brother"</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not near you or you do not know {who he is},<note>Literally "him"</note> then you shall bring it {to your household},<note>Literally "to the midst of your house"</note> and it shall be<note>Or "remain"</note> with you {until your countryman seeks after it},<note>Literally "the seeking of your countryman after it"</note> and you shall return it to him.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And thus <transChange type="added">also</transChange> you shall do regarding<note>Or "to"</note> his donkey, and thus you shall do concerning<note>Or "to"</note> his garment, and so you shall do with respect to<note>Or "to"</note> all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the lost property of your countryman<note>Or "brother"</note> that is lost from him and you find it; you are not allowed to withhold help. </verse>


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<verse num="4">"You shall not see the donkey of your neighbor or his ox fallen on the road and you ignore them; certainly you must help them <transChange type="added">get</transChange> up <transChange type="added">along</transChange> with him. </verse>


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<verse num="5">"The apparel of a man shall not be <transChange type="added">put</transChange> on<note>Literally "on"</note> a woman, and a man shall not wear the clothing of a woman, because everyone who does these things is detestable to Yahweh your God. </verse>


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<verse num="6">"If a bird's nest is found {before you}<note>Literally "before your face"</note> on the road in any tree or on the ground, <transChange type="added">and there are</transChange> chicks or eggs, and the mother <transChange type="added">is</transChange> lying down on the chicks or the eggs, you shall not take the mother along with the young;</verse>


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<verse num="7">you shall certainly let the mother go, but you may take the young for yourselves;<note>Hebrew "for you"</note> <transChange type="added">do this</transChange> {so that it may go well}<note>Literally "he/it is good"</note> for you and {you may live long in the land}.<note>Literally "and you may make long/extend days"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="8">"When you build a new house then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> you shall make a parapet wall<note>Or "fence/rail"</note> for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house {if anyone should fall from it}.<note>Literally "if should fall the falling from it"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="9">"You shall not sow your vineyard <transChange type="added">with</transChange> differing kinds <transChange type="added">of seed</transChange>, so that you shall not forfeit {the whole harvest},<note>Literally "the entire fullness"</note> <transChange type="added">both</transChange> the seed that you sowed and the yield of the vineyard. </verse>


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<verse num="10">"You shall not plow with an ox and with a donkey <transChange type="added">yoked</transChange> together. </verse>


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<verse num="11">"You shall not wear woven material <transChange type="added">made of</transChange> wool and linen <transChange type="added">mixed</transChange> together. </verse>


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<verse num="12">"You shall make tassels for yourselves<note>Hebrew "for you"</note> on the four corners of your clothing with which you cover <transChange type="added">yourself</transChange>. </verse>


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<verse num="13">"If a man takes a woman and {he has sex with her},<note>Literally "and he goes unto her"</note> but <transChange type="added">he</transChange> then {dislikes her},<note>Literally "hates her"</note></verse>


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<verse num="14">and {he accuses her falsely},<note>Literally "he puts to her deeds of words"</note> and {he defames her},<note>Literally "he brings forth against her a bad name"</note> and he says 'This woman I took and I lay with her and {I discovered that she was not a virgin},'<note>Literally "I found not with her virginity"</note></verse>


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<verse num="15">then <transChange type="added">in defense</transChange> the father of the young woman shall take, along with her mother, and <transChange type="added">together</transChange> they must bring out the <transChange type="added">evidence of</transChange> the virginity of the young woman <transChange type="added">to display it</transChange> to the elders of the city {at the city gate}.<note>Literally "toward the city gate"</note></verse>


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<verse num="16">And <transChange type="added">then</transChange> the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, 'I gave my daughter to this man as wife, but he <transChange type="added">now</transChange> {dislikes}<note>Literally "hates"</note> her,</verse>


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<verse num="17">and now look {he has accused her falsely},<note>Literally "he put deeds of words"</note> saying, "I did not find {your daughter a virgin},"<note>Literally "to your daughter virginity"</note> but here <transChange type="added">is</transChange> <transChange type="added">evidence of</transChange> the virginity of my daughter'; and they shall spread the cloth <transChange type="added">out</transChange> {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> the elders of the city.</verse>


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<verse num="18">Then the elders of that city shall take the man, and they shall discipline him.</verse>


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<verse num="19">Then they shall fine him <transChange type="added">a</transChange> hundred <transChange type="added">shekels of</transChange> silver, and they shall give <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to the father of the young woman, for {he defamed an Israelite young woman},<note>Literally "for he brought out a bad name against the virgin of Israel"</note> and {she shall become his wife};<note>Literally "and for him she shall become as wife"</note> he will not be allowed {to divorce her}<note>Literally "to send her out"</note> all his days. </verse>


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<verse num="20">"But if {this charge}<note>Literally "the thing"</note> was true, {and the signs of virginity were not found}<note>Literally "and they were not found <transChange type="added">evidence of</transChange> virginity"</note> for the young woman,</verse>


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<verse num="21">and <transChange type="added">then</transChange> they shall bring out the young woman to the doorway of the house of her father, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones, and she shall die, because she did a disgraceful thing in Israel {by playing the harlot}<note>Literally "to play the harlot/to prostitute <transChange type="added">herself</transChange>"</note> <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the house of her father, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst. </verse>


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<verse num="22">"If a man is found lying {with a married woman},<note>Literally "with a woman, a young woman of a husband"</note> then they shall both die; {both of them},<note>Literally "also/even the two of them"</note> the man who lay with the woman and the woman <transChange type="added">also</transChange>, so you shall purge the evil from Israel. </verse>


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<verse num="23">"If it happens <transChange type="added">that</transChange> a young woman, a virgin, <transChange type="added">is</transChange> engaged to a man, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> a man finds her in the town and lies with her,</verse>


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<verse num="24">then you shall bring out {both of them}<note>Literally "the two of them"</note> to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones so that they shall die, the young woman because she did not cry out in the town, and the man because<note>Literally "because of the fact that"</note> he violated his neighbor's wife; and so you shall purge the evil from your midst. </verse>


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<verse num="25">"But if the man finds the young engaged woman in the field and the man overpowers her and {he has sex with her},<note>Literally "he lies down with her"</note> then the man only<note>Or "alone"</note> must die who lay<note>Or "slept"</note> with her.</verse>


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<verse num="26">But you shall not do anything<note>Hebrew "a thing"</note> to the young woman, <transChange type="added">for</transChange> there is not <transChange type="added">reckoned</transChange> against<note>Hebrew "to"</note> the young woman {a sin deserving death};<note>Literally "a sin of death"</note> {it is similar to when}<note>Literally "for as that"</note> a man rises up against his neighbor and murders him, {a fellow human being},<note>Literally "a soul/individual person"</note> <transChange type="added">just</transChange> so <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this {case},<note>Literally "thing/matter"</note></verse>


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<verse num="27">for he found her in the field, the engaged young woman cried out, but there was no<note>Hebrew "there was not"</note> rescuer {to help her}.<note>Literally "for her"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="28">"If a man finds a young woman, a virgin <transChange type="added">who</transChange> is not engaged, and he seizes her and {he has sex with her}<note>Literally "he lies with her"</note> and they are caught,</verse>


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<verse num="29">then {the man who lay with her}<note>Literally "the man the <transChange type="added">one</transChange> lying with her"</note> shall give to the father of the young woman fifty <transChange type="added">shekels</transChange> of silver, and she shall become {his wife}<note>Literally "for/as a wife"</note> {because}<note>Literally "in place of"</note> he violated her, and he is not allowed to divorce her {during his lifetime}.<note>Literally "all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> his days"</note></verse>


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<verse num="30"><note>Deuteronomy 22:30-23:25 in the English Bible is 23:1-26 in the Hebrew Bible</note> A man may not take the wife of his father, and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> {he may not dishonor his father}.<note>Literally "not he may reveal the skirt of the garment of his father"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1">"No man {with crushed testicles}<note>Literally "bruised of crushing"</note> or <transChange type="added">whose</transChange> {male organ is cut off}<note>Literally "cut off of male organ"</note> may come into the assembly of Yahweh. </verse>


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<verse num="2">An illegitimate child may not come into the assembly of Yahweh; even <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the tenth generation none {of his descendants}<note>Literally "to him"</note> may come into the assembly of Yahweh. </verse>


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<verse num="3">An Ammonite or a Moabite may not come into the assembly of Yahweh; even <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the tenth generation none {of his descendants}<note>Literally "to him"</note> may come into the assembly of Yahweh {forever},<note>Literally "until eternity"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">{because}<note>Literally "because of the event when"</note> they did not come to meet you with food and with water {when you came out of Egypt},<note>Literally "at your going out of Egypt"</note> and <transChange type="added">also</transChange> {because}<note>Literally "because of the event when"</note> they<note>Hebrew "he," but with plural meaning</note> hired Balaam, son of Beor, from Pethor, in Aram Naharaim<note>Or "Mesopotamia" = "between the rivers"</note> <transChange type="added">to act</transChange> against you to curse you.</verse>


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<verse num="5">But Yahweh your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, and Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because Yahweh your God loved you.</verse>


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<verse num="6">You shall not promote their welfare or their prosperity all your days {forever}.<note>Literally "until eternity"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="7">"You shall not abhor an Edomite, because he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your brother; you shall not abhor an Egyptian because you were an alien in his land.</verse>


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<verse num="8">The children<note>Or "sons"</note> <transChange type="added">that</transChange> are born to them <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the third generation may come {representing them}<note>Literally "for them" or possibly "become members of"</note> in the assembly of Yahweh. </verse>


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<verse num="9">"If<note>Or "when"</note> you go out to encamp against your enemies, then you shall guard against <transChange type="added">doing</transChange> anything evil. </verse>


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<verse num="10">"If <transChange type="added">there</transChange> is among you a man that is not clean because of a seminal emission {during the night},<note>Literally "of the night"</note> he shall go outside the camp; he shall not come within the camp.</verse>


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<verse num="11">{And then}<note>Literally "And it will happen/come about that"</note> toward the {coming}<note>Literally "turning"</note> of the evening, he shall bathe with<note>Hebrew "in" but this is instrumental use of this preposition</note> water, and at the going down<note>The verb can mean "coming/going" and here it means "going"</note> of the sun, he may come to the midst of the camp. </verse>


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<verse num="12">"And there shall be for you a designated place outside the camp; {and you shall go there to relieve yourself},<note>Literally "and you shall go out there, outside <transChange type="added">to relieve yourself</transChange>"</note></verse>


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<verse num="13">and a digging tool<note>Or "spade"</note> shall <transChange type="added">be included</transChange> in addition to your <transChange type="added">other</transChange> utensils<note>Hebrew "utensil"</note> for yourself; {and then}<note>Literally "and it will happen"</note> {when you relieve yourself}<note>Literally "at your sitting"</note> outside <transChange type="added">the camp</transChange> you shall dig with it, and <transChange type="added">then</transChange> you shall turn, and you shall cover your excrement.</verse>


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<verse num="14">For Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> walking about in the midst of your camp to deliver you and {to hand your enemies over to you before you},<note>Literally "to give your enemies to the face of you"</note> and so let your camp be holy, so that he shall not see in it {anything indecent},<note>Literally "nakedness of a thing"</note> and he shall turn away {from going with you}.<note>Literally "from behind/after you"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="15">"And you shall not hand over a slave to his master who has escaped <transChange type="added">and fled</transChange> to you from his master.</verse>


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<verse num="16">He shall reside with you in your midst in the place that he chooses in one of {your towns wherever he pleases};<note>Literally "in your gates good for him"</note> you shall not oppress him. </verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="17">"No woman {of Israel}<note>Literally "from the daughters of Israel"</note> shall be a temple prostitute, and no man {of Israel}<note>Literally "from the sons of Israel"</note> shall be a male shrine prostitute.</verse>


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<verse num="18">You may not bring the {hire}<note>Literally "gift"</note> of a prostitute or {the earnings of a male prostitute}<note>Literally "the earnings of a dog"</note> <transChange type="added">into</transChange> the house of Yahweh your God, for any vow offerings, because {both}<note>Literally "both, the two of them"</note> are a detestable thing to Yahweh your God. </verse>


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<verse num="19">"{You shall not charge your brother interest on money},<note>Literally "You shall not lend on interest to your brother, interest of money"</note> interest on<note>Hebrew "of"</note> food, or interest on<note>Hebrew "of"</note> anything that one could lend<note>Or "can lend"</note> on interest.</verse>


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<verse num="20">You may lend on interest to the foreigner, but to your countryman<note>Or "brother"</note> you may not lend on interest, so that Yahweh your God may bless you {in all your undertakings}<note>Literally "in all the sending<transChange type="added">s</transChange> out of your hand"</note> in {the land where you are going},<note>Literally "the land that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> going there"</note> {in order to take possession of it}.<note>Literally "to take possession"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="21">"{When you make a vow}<note>Literally "When/if you vow a vow"</note> to Yahweh your God, you shall not postpone {fulfillment of it},<note>Literally "to fulfill it"</note> <transChange type="added">for</transChange> certainly Yahweh your God shall require it from you and <transChange type="added">if postponed</transChange> {you will incur guilt}.<note>Literally "it shall become against you <transChange type="added">as</transChange> sin"</note></verse>


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<verse num="22">And {if you refrain from vowing},<note>Literally "if you refrain to make a vow"</note> {you shall not incur guilt}.<note>Literally "it shall not become against you <transChange type="added">as</transChange> sin"</note></verse>


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<verse num="23">The utterance of your lips {you must perform diligently}<note>Literally "you must observe and you shall do"</note> <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as you have vowed freely to Yahweh your God whatever <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> that you promised<note>Or "spoke"</note> with your mouth. </verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="24">"When<note>Or "If"</note> you come into the vineyard of your neighbor, then you may eat grapes {as you please}<note>Literally "according to your desire"</note> and {until you are full},<note>Literally "to your satiation"</note> but you shall not put <transChange type="added">any</transChange> into your container. </verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="25">"When<note>Or "If"</note> you come into the standing grain of your neighbor, then you may pluck ears with your hand, but you may not {swing}<note>Literally "wave"</note> a sickle among the standing grain of your neighbor." </verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="1">"When<note>Or "If"</note> a man takes a wife and he marries her {and then}<note>Literally "and it will happen"</note> {she does not please him},<note>Literally "if not she finds favor in his eyes"</note> because he found {something objectionable}<note>Literally "shameful/repulsive thing"</note> and writes her a letter of divorce and puts <transChange type="added">it</transChange> in her hand and sends her <transChange type="added">away</transChange> from his house,</verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="2">and she goes from his house, and she goes <transChange type="added">out</transChange> and becomes <transChange type="added">a wife</transChange> {for another man},<note>Literally "for a man other"</note></verse>


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<verse num="3">and <transChange type="added">then</transChange> the second man dislikes her and he writes her a letter of divorce and places <transChange type="added">it</transChange> into her hand and sends her from his house, or if the second man dies who took her {to himself}<note>Literally "to for him"</note> as a wife,</verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="4">her first husband who sent her <transChange type="added">away</transChange> is not allowed {to take her again}<note>Literally "to return to take her"</note> to become a wife to him after she has {been defiled},<note>Literally "become unclean"</note> for that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a detestable thing {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> Yahweh, and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> you shall not mislead into sin the land that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you <transChange type="added">as an</transChange> inheritance. </verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="5">"When<note>Or "If"</note> a man takes a new wife he shall not go out with the army, and {he shall not be obligated with anything};<note>Literally "he shall not come across <transChange type="added">come over</transChange> upon him to anything"</note> he shall be free from obligation, {to stay at home}<note>Literally "for his house"</note> for one year, and he shall bring joy <transChange type="added">to</transChange> his wife that he took. </verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="6">"A person<note>Hebrew "he"</note> shall not take<note>Or "require"</note> a pair of millstones or an upper millstone, for {he is taking necessities of life as a pledge}.<note>Literally "for a life <transChange type="added">he</transChange> is taking as a pledge"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="7">"If a man is {caught}<note>Literally "found"</note> kidnapping somebody from <transChange type="added">among</transChange> his countrymen,<note>Or "brothers"</note> the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and he treats him as a slave or he sells him, then that kidnapper shall die, and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> you shall purge the evil {from among you}.<note>Literally "from your midst"</note> </verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="8">Be watchful<note>Or "Be careful"</note> {with respect to}<note>Literally "against"</note> <transChange type="added">an</transChange> outbreak of <transChange type="added">any</transChange> infectious skin disease, by being very careful and by acting<note>Or "doing"</note> according to all that the priests and the Levites have instructed you, <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as I have commanded them, {so you shall diligently observe}.<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">so</transChange> you shall observe to do"</note></verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="9"><transChange type="added">So</transChange> remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam on the journey {when you went out from Egypt}.<note>Literally "in you to go out from Egypt"</note> </verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="10">"When you make a loan to your neighbor, a loan of any kind, you shall not go into his house {to take his pledge}.<note>Literally "to pledge <transChange type="added">with respect to</transChange> his pledge"</note></verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="11">You shall wait outside, and the man <transChange type="added">to</transChange> whom you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> lending, he shall bring the pledge outside to you.</verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="12">And if <transChange type="added">he is</transChange> a needy man, you shall not sleep in his pledge.<note>"His pledge" refers to "a garment given as pledge"</note></verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="13">You shall certainly return the pledge to him {as the sun sets},<note>Literally "as/at the moment of the going <transChange type="added">out</transChange> of the sun"</note> so that he may sleep in his cloak and may bless you, and it shall be <transChange type="added">considered</transChange> righteousness {on your behalf}<note>Literally "to you"</note> {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> Yahweh your God. </verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="14">"You shall not exploit a hired worker, <transChange type="added">who is</transChange> needy and poor, from among your fellow men or from <transChange type="added">among</transChange> your aliens<note>Hebrew "alien"</note> who are in your land <transChange type="added">and</transChange> in your {towns}.<note>Literally "gates"</note></verse>


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<verse num="15">On his day you shall give his wage, and the sun shall not go {down},<note>Literally "over him"</note> because <transChange type="added">he is</transChange> poor and {his life depends on it};<note>Literally "and to him it is a lifting up with respect to his life/soul"</note> <transChange type="added">do this</transChange> so that he does not cry out against you to Yahweh, {and you incur guilt}.<note>Literally "and it becomes against you <transChange type="added">as</transChange> sin</note> </verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="16">"Fathers shall not be put to death because of <transChange type="added">their</transChange> children, and children shall not be put to death because of <transChange type="added">their</transChange> fathers; each one shall be put to death for his <transChange type="added">own</transChange> sin.</verse>


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<verse num="17">You shall not subvert the rights of an alien <transChange type="added">or</transChange> an orphan, and you shall not take as pledge <transChange type="added">the</transChange> garment of a widow.</verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="18">And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt and <transChange type="added">that</transChange> Yahweh your God redeemed you from there; therefore I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you to do this commandment. </verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="19">"When<note>Or "If"</note> you reap your harvest in your field and you forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not return to get it, for it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.</verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="20">When you beat off the fruit of your olive trees you shall not search through the branches afterward, for it<note>That is, what is left</note> shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow. </verse>


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<verse num="21">When you harvest <transChange type="added">grapes</transChange>, you shall not glean your vineyards {again};<note>Literally "behind/after you"</note> it<note>That is, what is left</note> shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.</verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="22">And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, therefore I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you to do this thing." </verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="1">"When a legal dispute {takes place}<note>Literally "shall be"</note> between men and they come near to the court, and <transChange type="added">the judges</transChange> judge <transChange type="added">with respect to</transChange> them, then they shall declare the righteous <transChange type="added">to be</transChange> in the right and they shall condemn the wicked,</verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="2">then it will happen if the guilty <transChange type="added">one</transChange> {deserves beating},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">is</transChange> a son <transChange type="added">of</transChange> beating"</note> then the judge shall make him lie, and he shall beat him {before him},<note>Literally "to the face of him"</note> {according to}<note>Literally "as"</note> {the prescribed number of lashes proportionate to the offense}.<note>Literally "as is sufficient/necessary, with respect to number, for his wickedness/wicked behavior"</note></verse>


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<verse num="3">He may beat him <transChange type="added">with</transChange> forty lashes, and he shall not do more <transChange type="added">than these</transChange>, so that he <transChange type="added">will</transChange> not beat more in addition to these many blows,<note>Hebrew "blow"</note> and your countryman<note>Or "brother"</note> would be<note>Hebrew "is"</note> degraded before your eyes. </verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="4">"You shall not muzzle an ox {when he is threshing}.<note>Literally "at his threshing"</note> </verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="5">"When brothers dwell together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not become the wife of a {man of another family};<note>Others: "strange man," "man outside the family" (NEB)</note> her brother-in-law {shall have sex with her},<note>Literally "shall go to her"</note> and he shall take her {to himself}<note>Literally "to/for him"</note> as <transChange type="added">a</transChange> wife, and he shall perform his duty as <transChange type="added">a</transChange> brother-in-law <transChange type="added">with respect to</transChange> her.</verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="6">And then the firstborn that she bears {shall represent his dead brother},<note>Literally "he shall stand upon the name of his brother the deceased"</note> so that his name is not blotted out from Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="7">But if the man <transChange type="added">does</transChange> not want to take his sister-in-law, then his sister-in-law shall go up to the gate, to the elders, and she shall say, 'My brother-in-law refused {to perpetuate his brother's name}<note>Literally "to cause a name to stand for his brother"</note> in Israel, <transChange type="added">for</transChange> he is not willing {to marry me}.'<note>Literally "to consummate the marriage with the widow of a <transChange type="added">his</transChange> brother"</note></verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="8">Then the elders of his town shall summon him and speak to him, and <transChange type="added">if</transChange> he persists and says, '{I do not desire to}<note>Literally "I do not delight in"</note> marry her'</verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="9"><transChange type="added">then</transChange> his sister-in-law shall go near him before the eyes of the elders, and she shall pull off his sandal from his foot, and she shall spit in his face, and she shall {declare}<note>Literally "respond/answer"</note> and she shall say, 'This is how it is done to the man who does not build the house of his brother.'</verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="10">And his {family}<note>Literally "name"</note> shall be called in Israel, 'The house where the sandal was pulled off.'<note>Or "the house <transChange type="added">of the man whose</transChange> sandal was pulled off"</note> </verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="11">"If a man and his brother fight each other and the wife of the one <transChange type="added">man</transChange> comes near to rescue her husband from the hand of his attacker and she stretches <transChange type="added">out</transChange> her hand and she seizes his genitals,</verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="13">"There shall not be {for your use}<note>Literally "to you"</note> in your bag {two kinds of stone weights, a large one and a small one}.<note>Literally "stone and stone large and small"</note></verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="14">There shall not be in your house {for your use}<note>Literally "for you"</note> {two kinds of measures}.<note>Literally "ephah and ephah large and small"</note></verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="15"><transChange type="added">Rather</transChange> a full and honest weight shall be {for your use};<note>Literally "for you"</note> there shall be for you a full and honest {measure},<note>Literally "an ephah"</note> so that your days on the land that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you may be long.</verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="16">For detestable to<note>Or "for"</note> Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> everyone who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> doing such things,<note>Or "<transChange type="added">are</transChange> all <transChange type="added">who</transChange><transChange type="added">are</transChange> doing"</note> everyone who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> acting<note>Or "all <transChange type="added">who</transChange><transChange type="added">are</transChange> acting"</note> dishonestly. </verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="17">"Remember what Amalek did to you on the journey when<note>Or "at/in"</note> you went out from Egypt,</verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="18">that he met you on the journey and attacked you, all those lagging behind you and <transChange type="added">when</transChange> you were weary and worn out, and he did not fear God.</verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="19">{And when}<note>Literally "And it will happen when"</note> Yahweh your God gives rest to you from all your enemies from around <transChange type="added">about you</transChange> in the land that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you <transChange type="added">as an</transChange> inheritance to take possession of it, you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens; you shall not forget!" </verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="1">"{And then}<note>Literally "And it shall happen"</note> when you come to the land that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you <transChange type="added">as an</transChange> inheritance, and you take possession of it and you settle in it,</verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="2">then you shall take from the firstfruit of all the fruit of the ground that you harvest from your land that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you, and you shall put <transChange type="added">it</transChange> in a basket, and you shall go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose to make his name to dwell there.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And you shall go to the priest who is <transChange type="added">in office</transChange> in those days, and you shall say, 'I declare {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> to Yahweh your God that I have come into the land that Yahweh swore to our ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> to give to us.'</verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="4">Then the priest takes the basket from your hand and places it {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> the altar of Yahweh your God.</verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="5">And {you shall declare}<note>Literally "answer"</note> and you shall say {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> your God, 'My ancestor<note>Or "father"</note> <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt, and there he dwelt as an alien {few in number},<note>Literally "in people <transChange type="added">only</transChange> a few"</note> and there he became a great nation, mighty and numerous.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And the Egyptians treated us badly, and they oppressed us and imposed on us hard labor.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And we cried to Yahweh, the God of our ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and Yahweh heard our voice and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And Yahweh brought us <transChange type="added">out</transChange> from Egypt with a strong hand and an outstretched arm and with great terror and with signs and with wonders.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And he brought us to this place and gave to us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And now, look, I am bringing<note>Hebrew "I bring"</note> the firstfruit of the fruit of the ground that you gave to me, Yahweh,' and you shall place it {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> Yahweh your God, and you shall bow down {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> Yahweh your God.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And you shall celebrate with all of the bounty that Yahweh your God gave to you and to your family, you and the Levite and the alien who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in your midst. </verse>


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<verse num="12">"When you are finished {giving a tithe},<note>Literally "to give a tenth"</note> all of the tithe of your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, then you shall give to the Levite, to the alien, to the orphan, and to the widow, so that they may eat in your towns and they may be satisfied.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And you shall say {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> Yahweh your God, 'I have removed the sacred portion from the<note>Or "my" house since the definite article can show possession here</note> house and, moreover, I have given it to the Levite and to the alien and to the orphan and to the widow according to all your commandment that you commanded me; I have not transgressed any of your commandments, and I have not forgotten <transChange type="added">any of them</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="14">I have not eaten during my <transChange type="added">time of</transChange> mourning, and I have not removed <transChange type="added">anything</transChange> from it while <transChange type="added">being</transChange> unclean, and I have not offered {any of it}<note>Literally "from it"</note> to someone who <transChange type="added">has</transChange> died. I have listened to the voice of Yahweh my God; I have done all that you commanded me <transChange type="added">to do</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="15">Look down from the dwelling place of your holiness, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the land that you have given to us, as you swore to our ancestors,<note>Or "our fathers"</note> a land flowing with milk and honey.' </verse>


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<verse num="16">"This day Yahweh your God is commanding you to do these rules and regulations, {and you must observe them diligently}<note>Literally "and you shall observe and you shall do them"</note> with all your heart and with all your soul.<note>Or "inner self"</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">Yahweh you <transChange type="added">have</transChange> declared {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> to be for you as <transChange type="added">your</transChange> God, and to go<note>Or "to walk"</note> in his ways and to observe his rules and his commandments and his regulations and to listen to his voice.</verse>


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<verse num="18">And Yahweh <transChange type="added">has</transChange> declared you {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> to be for him as a people, a treasured possession, as he {promised}<note>Literally "spoke"</note> to you, and <transChange type="added">that you are</transChange> to observe all his commandments,</verse>


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<verse num="19">{and that he then will set you}<note>Literally "and to set you"</note> high above all the nations that he has made for his praise and {for fame}<note>Literally "for a name"</note> and for honor and {for you to be a holy people}<note>Literally "for you to be/your being a people holy"</note> to Yahweh your God, as he {promised}."<note>Literally "spoke"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1">Then Moses and the elders of Israel charged the people, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "Keep all of the commandment that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you {today}.<note>Literally "the day"</note></verse>


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<verse num="2">And then on the day that you cross the Jordan to the land that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you, then you shall set up {for yourselves}<note>Literally "for you"</note> large stones, and you shall paint<note>Or "coat/cover them"</note> them with lime,</verse>


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<verse num="3">and you shall write on them all the words of this law at your crossing, so that you may come into the land that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> {promised}<note>Literally "spoke"</note> to you.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And {when you cross the Jordan},<note>Literally "at/in your crossing the Jordan"</note> you shall set up these stones that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you <transChange type="added">about</transChange> {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> on Mount Ebal, and you shall paint<note>Or "coat/cover"</note> them with lime.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And you shall build an altar there for Yahweh your God, an altar of stone, but<note>Or "and"</note> {you shall not use an iron tool to shape the stones}.<note>Literally "and you shall not wave to and fro over them an iron tool"</note></verse>


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<verse num="6">You must build the altar of your God <transChange type="added">with</transChange> unhewn stones, and you shall sacrifice on it burnt offerings to Yahweh your God.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And you shall sacrifice fellowship offerings, and you shall eat <transChange type="added">them</transChange> there, and you shall rejoice {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> Yahweh your God.</verse>


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<verse num="9">Then Moses and the priests, the Levites, spoke to all Israel, saying,<note>Literally "to say"</note> "Be silent and hear, Israel, <transChange type="added">for</transChange> this day you have become {a people}<note>Literally "for a people"</note> for Yahweh your God.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and observe his commandments and his rules that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you {today}."<note>Literally "the day"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="11">And Moses charged the people on that day, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">"These <transChange type="added">tribes</transChange> shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people {when you cross}<note>Literally "at/in crossing your"</note> the Jordan: Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Joseph and Benjamin.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And these shall stand on Mount Ebal for <transChange type="added">delivering</transChange> the curse: Reuben, Gad and Asher and Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And {the Levites shall declare},<note>Literally "they shall answer the Levites"</note> and they shall say to each man of Israel <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a loud voice,</verse>


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<verse num="15">'Cursed be the man that makes a divine image or a cast image, <transChange type="added">which is</transChange> a detestable thing for Yahweh, the work of the hand of a skilled craftsman, and <transChange type="added">then</transChange> sets <transChange type="added">it</transChange> in a hiding place.'<note>Or "a secret place"</note> And {all the people shall respond},<note>Literally "and they shall answer all of the people"</note> 'Amen.' </verse>


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<verse num="16">'Cursed be the one who dishonors his father or his mother.' And all of the people shall say, 'Amen.' </verse>


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<verse num="17">'Cursed be the one who moves the boundary <transChange type="added">marker</transChange> of his neighbor.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' </verse>


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<verse num="18">'Cursed be the one who misleads a blind person on the road.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' </verse>


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<verse num="19">'Cursed be the one who deprives <transChange type="added">the</transChange> alien, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> orphan, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> widow of justice.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' </verse>


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<verse num="20">'Cursed be the one who lies with the wife of his father, because {he has dishonored his father's bed}.'<note>Literally "because he uncovered the hem of his father"</note> And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' </verse>


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<verse num="21">'Cursed be the one who lies with any <transChange type="added">kind</transChange> of animal.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' </verse>


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<verse num="22">'Cursed be the one who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' </verse>


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<verse num="23">'Cursed be the one who lies with his mother-in-law.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' </verse>


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<verse num="24">'Cursed be the one who strikes down his neighbor in secret.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' </verse>


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<verse num="25">'Cursed be the one who takes a bribe {to murder an innocent person}.'<note>Literally "to strike down an individual person in blood"</note> And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' </verse>


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<verse num="26">'Cursed be <transChange type="added">the one</transChange> {who does not keep}<note>Literally "who not keeps"</note> the words of this law, to observe them.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'" </verse>


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<verse num="1">"And it will happen <transChange type="added">that</transChange> if you indeed listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, {to diligently observe}<note>Literally "to observe to do"</note> all his commandments that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you {today},<note>Literally "the day"</note> then Yahweh your God will set you above all the nations of the earth.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And all of these blessings shall come upon you, and {they shall have an effect on you}<note>Literally "they shall overtake you"</note> if you listen to the voice of Yahweh your God: </verse>


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<verse num="4">"Blessed will be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your livestock, {the calf of your cattle and the lambs of your flock}.<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">what</transChange> is dropped of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="6">"Blessed will you be {when you come in and blessed will you be when you go out}.<note>Literally "in/at your coming and you will be blessed in/at your going out"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="7">"Yahweh will cause your enemies {who rise up against you to be defeated before you};<note>Literally "the ones rising against you being defeated to the face of you"</note> on one road<note>Or "way"</note> they shall come out <transChange type="added">against</transChange> you, but on seven roads<note>Or "ways"</note> they shall flee {before you}.<note>Literally "to the face of you"</note></verse>


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<verse num="8">Yahweh will command {concerning you}<note>Literally "with you"</note> the blessing <transChange type="added">to be</transChange> in your barns and {in all your endeavors};<note>Literally "in all of the sending <transChange type="added">forth</transChange> of your hand"</note> and he will bless you in the land that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you.</verse>


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<verse num="9">Yahweh will establish you for {himself}<note>Literally "to/for him"</note> as a holy people as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of Yahweh your God and you walk in his ways.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And all of the peoples of the earth shall see that {by the name of Yahweh you are called},<note>Literally "that the name of Yahweh is called/assigned upon you"</note> and {they shall fear you}.<note>Literally "they shall be afraid/fearful from you"</note></verse>


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<verse num="11">And {Yahweh will make you successful and prosperous},<note>Literally "Yahweh will cause for you goodness"</note> in the fruit of your womb and on the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> to give to you.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Yahweh shall open for you his {rich}<note>Literally "good"</note> storehouse, <transChange type="added">even</transChange> the heavens, to give the rain for<note>Hebrew "of"</note> your land in its time and to bless all of the work of your hand, and you will lend to many nations; you will not borrow <transChange type="added">from them</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And Yahweh shall make you<note>Literally "place/set you up"</note> as head and not the tail, and you shall be only at the top <transChange type="added">of the nations</transChange>, and you shall not be at the bottom, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> {and diligently observe them}.<note>Literally "to observe them and to do them"</note></verse>


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<verse num="14">And you <transChange type="added">shall</transChange> not turn aside from {any of}<note>Literally "all of"</note> the words that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> right or left by going after other gods to serve them. </verse>


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<verse num="15">"{And then}<note>Literally "and it will happen"</note> if you do not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God {by diligently observing}<note>Literally "to observe and to do"</note> all of his commandments and his statutes that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you {today},<note>Literally "the day"</note> then all of these curses shall come upon you, and they shall overtake you: </verse>


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<verse num="16">"You <transChange type="added">shall</transChange><note>All of these curses have a future orientation that points to Israel in the land of Canaan</note> be cursed in the city, and <transChange type="added">you shall</transChange> be cursed in the field. </verse>


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<verse num="17">"Your basket <transChange type="added">shall</transChange> be cursed and your kneading trough. </verse>


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<verse num="18">"The fruit of your womb <transChange type="added">shall</transChange> be cursed and the fruit of you ground, the calves of your cattle and the lambs of your flock. </verse>


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<verse num="19">"You shall be cursed {when you come in},<note>Literally "at/in your coming"</note> and you <transChange type="added">shall</transChange> be cursed {when you go out}.<note>Literally "at/in your going out"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="20">"Yahweh will send upon you<note>Others translate as a wish: "may Yahweh send upon you ..."</note> the curse,<note>These words are translated variously, e.g., "starvation," "thirst," "rebuke/dysentery" (NEB) or "curses," "confusion," "frustration" (NLT)</note> the panic,<note>Or "confusion"</note> and the threat<note>Or "rebuke"</note> {in everything that you undertake},<note>Literally "in all the sending out of your hand that you do"</note> {until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly}<note>Literally "until your to be destroyed and until your to perish quickly"</note> {because of}<note>Literally "from the face of the evil of your deeds"</note> the evil of your deeds in that<note>Literally "which"</note> you have forsaken me.</verse>


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<verse num="21">Yahweh will cause the plague to cling to you {until it consumes you}<note>Literally "it to consume to"</note> from the land that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> going to,<note>Hebrew "to there"</note> to take possession of it.</verse>


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<verse num="22">Yahweh will afflict you with the wasting diseases and with the fever and with the inflammation and with the scorching heat and with the sword<note>Others translate "drought" (NLT, NEB)</note> and with the blight and with the mildew, and they shall pursue you {until you perish}.<note>Literally "until your/you to perish"</note></verse>


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<verse num="23">And your heavens that <transChange type="added">are</transChange> over your heads shall be <transChange type="added">like</transChange> bronze, and the earth that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> under you <transChange type="added">shall be like</transChange> iron.</verse>


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<verse num="24">Yahweh will change the rain of your land <transChange type="added">to</transChange> fine dust and <transChange type="added">to</transChange> sand; from the heaven it shall come down upon you {until you are destroyed}.<note>Literally "until your being destroyed"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="25">"Yahweh shall cause you to be defeated {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> your enemies; on one road you shall go {against}<note>Literally "to/toward"</note> them,<note>Hebrew "him"</note> but you will flee on seven roads {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> them,<note>Hebrew "him"</note> and you shall become a thing of horror to all of the kingdoms of the earth.</verse>


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<verse num="26">And your dead bodies shall be as food for all of the birds of the heaven and to the animals of the earth, and there shall not be {anyone to frighten them away}.<note>Literally "one causing fright <transChange type="added">to them</transChange>"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="27">"Yahweh shall afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scurvy and with {the skin rash that cannot be healed}.<note>Literally "the skin rash that not it is able it to be healed"</note></verse>


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<verse num="28">Yahweh shall afflict you with madness and with blindness and with confusion of heart.</verse>


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<verse num="29">And you shall be groping at noon just as the blind person gropes in the dark, and you shall not succeed <transChange type="added">in finding</transChange> your way, and you shall only be abused and robbed {all the time},<note>Literally "all the days"</note> and there will not be {anyone who will rescue you}. <note>Literally "one who delivers/rescues <transChange type="added">you</transChange>"</note></verse>


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<verse num="30">You shall become engaged to a woman, but another man shall sleep<note>Or "ravish/violate"</note> with her; you shall build a house, but you shall not live in it; a vineyard you shall plant, but you shall not enjoy it.</verse>


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<verse num="31">Your ox <transChange type="added">shall</transChange> <transChange type="added">be</transChange> slaughtered before your eyes, and you shall not eat it; your donkey <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> stolen <transChange type="added">right</transChange> {before you},<note>Literally "to the face of you"</note> and it shall not be returned to you; your sheep and your goats <transChange type="added">shall</transChange> be given to your enemies, and {there shall not be anyone who rescues you}.<note>Literally "there shall not be for you one who rescues"</note></verse>


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<verse num="32">Your sons and your daughters <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> given to other people, and {you will be looking on}<note>Literally "your eyes <transChange type="added">will</transChange> see/look"</note> {longingly}<note>Literally "wearing out"</note> for<note>Hebrew "to"</note> them all day, {but you will be powerless to do anything}.<note>Literally "but there will not be for power of your hand"</note></verse>


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<verse num="33">A people that you do not know shall consume the harvest of your land and all your labor, and you will be only oppressed and crushed {for the rest of your lives}.<note>Literally "all of the days"</note></verse>


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<verse num="34">You shall become mad {because of what your eyes shall see}.<note>Literally "from/by the sight of your eyes"</note></verse>


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<verse num="35">Yahweh shall strike you with grievous boils on the knees and on the upper thighs <transChange type="added">from which</transChange> {you will not be able to be healed},<note>Literally "which not you are able to heal"</note> from the sole of your foot and up to your crown.</verse>


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<verse num="36">Yahweh will bring you and your king whom you set up over you to a nation that you or your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> have not known, and there you will serve other gods <transChange type="added">of</transChange> wood and stone.</verse>


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<verse num="37">And you will become a horror and a proverb and ridicule among all the peoples where Yahweh drives you there. </verse>


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<verse num="38">"You shall carry out much seed to the field, but you shall gather little <transChange type="added">produce</transChange>, for the locust shall devour it.</verse>


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<verse num="39">You shall plant vineyards and you shall dress<note>Or "cultivate"</note> <transChange type="added">them</transChange>, but you shall not drink wine and you shall not gather grapes, for the worm shall eat it.<note>That is, the produce</note></verse>


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<verse num="40">There shall be olive trees for you in all of your territory, but you shall not anoint <transChange type="added">yourself</transChange>, for your olives<note>Hebrew "olive"</note> shall drop off.</verse>


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<verse num="41">You shall bear sons and daughters, but they shall not be {yours},<note>Literally "for you"</note> for they shall go into captivity.</verse>


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<verse num="42">The cricket shall take possession of all your trees and the fruit of your ground.</verse>


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<verse num="43">The alien that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in your midst shall ascend over you, higher <transChange type="added">and</transChange> higher, but you shall go down lower <transChange type="added">and</transChange> lower.</verse>


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<verse num="44">He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be <transChange type="added">the</transChange> head, but you shall be <transChange type="added">the</transChange> tail. </verse>


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<verse num="45">"And all of these curses shall come over you, and they shall pursue you, and they shall overtake you {until you are destroyed},<note>Literally "until you to be destroyed"</note> because {you did not listen}<note>Literally "not you listened"</note> to the voice of Yahweh your God, {by observing}<note>Literally "to observe"</note> his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you.</verse>


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<verse num="46">And they shall be among you as a sign and as a wonder and among your offspring {forever}.<note>Literally "until eternity," but not in a timeless, philosophic sense</note> </verse>


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<verse num="47">"{Because}<note>Literally "Under"</note> <transChange type="added">of the fact</transChange> that you did not serve Yahweh your God with joy and with gladness of heart for the abundance of everything,</verse>


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<verse num="48">then you shall serve your enemies, whom Yahweh will send against you <transChange type="added">under conditions of</transChange> famine, in thirst, in nakedness, and in <transChange type="added">a</transChange> lack of everything; and he shall place<note>Literally "give"</note> a yoke of iron on your neck {until he has destroyed you}.<note>Literally "until his destroying of you"</note></verse>


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<verse num="49">Yahweh will raise <transChange type="added">up</transChange> against you a nation from far <transChange type="added">off</transChange>, from the end of the earth, <transChange type="added">attacking</transChange> as the eagle swoops <transChange type="added">down</transChange>, {a nation whose language you will not understand},<note>Literally "a nation who not you will understand its language"</note></verse>


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<verse num="50">{a grim-faced nation}<note>Literally "a nation fierce/determined of face"</note> {who does not show respect}<note>Literally "who not lifts up face<transChange type="added">s</transChange>"</note> to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> old and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> young <transChange type="added">and</transChange> does not show pity.</verse>


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<verse num="51">And it<note>That is, the invading nation</note> shall consume the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground {until you are destroyed},<note>Literally "until your destroying"</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange> who will not leave for you <transChange type="added">any</transChange> grain, wine, and olive oil, {calves of your herds},<note>Literally "what is dropped of your herds"</note> and {lambs of}<note>Literally "the offspring of small animals"</note> your flock {until it has destroyed you}.<note>Literally "until his to destroy you"</note></verse>


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<verse num="52">And it shall besiege you in all your towns {until your high and fortified walls fall},<note>Literally "until the coming down of your walls, high and fortified"</note> which you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> trusting in<note>Hebrew "in them," which is redundant</note> {throughout your land};<note>Literally "in all of your land"</note> and it shall besiege you in all of your towns in all of your land that Yahweh your God has given to you.</verse>


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<verse num="53">And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and your daughters, whom Yahweh your God gave to you, {during the siege and during the distress}<note>Literally "in siege and in distress"</note> your enemy inflicts upon you.</verse>


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<verse num="54">The most refined and the very sensitive<note>Or "kindly disposed"</note> man among you {shall be mean with his brother}<note>Literally "shall be bad/evil his eye against his brother"</note> and {against his beloved wife}<note>Literally "against the wife of his lap"</note> and against the rest<note>Or "remainder"</note> of his children that he has left over,</verse>


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<verse num="55">{by refraining from giving}<note>Literally "from giving"</note> to <transChange type="added">even</transChange> one of them any of the meat of his children that he eats, because <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> not anything <transChange type="added">that is</transChange> left over for him {during the siege and distress}<note>Literally "in the siege and distress"</note> that your enemy inflicts upon you.</verse>


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<verse num="56">The most refined and the <transChange type="added">most</transChange> delicate <transChange type="added">woman</transChange> among you, who shall<note>Or "would"</note> not venture to put the sole of her foot on the ground from being <transChange type="added">so</transChange> delicate and from <transChange type="added">such</transChange> gentleness, {shall be mean to her beloved husband}<note>Literally "shall be bad her eye against the husband of her lap"</note> and against her son and against her daughter,</verse>


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<verse num="57">and <transChange type="added">even</transChange> concerning her afterbirth {that goes out}<note>Literally "the going out"</note> from between her feet and <transChange type="added">also</transChange> concerning her children that she bears, because she eats them for lack of anything in secret {during the siege and during the distress}<note>Literally "in the siege and in the distress"</note> that your enemy inflicts upon her in your {towns}.<note>Literally "gates"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="58">"If {you do not diligently observe}<note>Literally "you observe to do"</note> all the words of this law written in this scroll by revering this glorious and awesome name, Yahweh your God,</verse>


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<verse num="59">then Yahweh shall overwhelm <transChange type="added">you</transChange> with your plagues and the plagues of your offspring, severe plagues and lasting illnesses, grievous and enduring.</verse>


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<verse num="60">And he shall bring back upon you all the diseases of Egypt <transChange type="added">concerning</transChange> which {you were in dread}<note>Literally "you dreaded"</note> {because of them}.<note>Literally "from their presence"</note></verse>


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<verse num="61">Also any illness and any plague<note>Or "each illness and each plague"</note> that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not written in the scroll of this law, he shall bring them, Yahweh, upon you until you are destroyed.</verse>


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<verse num="62">And you shall remain {only a few people}<note>Literally "with people of few"</note> in place of <transChange type="added">the fact</transChange> you were <transChange type="added">formerly</transChange> as the stars of heaven as far as number <transChange type="added">is concerned</transChange>, because you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.</verse>


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<verse num="63">{And then}<note>Literally "And it will happen"</note> as Yahweh delighted over you {to make you prosperous}<note>Literally "to do good with you"</note> to make you numerous, so Yahweh shall delight over you to exterminate you<note>Or "to cause you to perish"</note> and to destroy you, and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> you shall be plucked from the land that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> going there to take possession of it.</verse>


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<verse num="64">And Yahweh shall scatter you among all the nations from <transChange type="added">one</transChange> end of the earth up to the <transChange type="added">other</transChange> end of the earth, and there you shall serve other gods that you have not known nor<note>Hebrew "and"</note> your ancestors,<note>Or "your fathers"</note> <transChange type="added">gods of</transChange> wood and stone.</verse>


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<verse num="65">And among these nations you shall not find rest, and <transChange type="added">there</transChange> shall not be a resting place for the sole of your foot, and Yahweh shall give you there an anxious heart and a weakening of eyes<note>Or "a failure of eyes"</note> and a languishing of <transChange type="added">your</transChange> inner self.<note>Or "soul"</note></verse>


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<verse num="66">And {your life shall hang in doubt before you},<note>Literally "they shall be your life hanging for you in front"</note> and you shall be startled<note>Or "in fear"</note> night and day, and you shall not be confident of your life.</verse>


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<verse num="67">In the morning you shall say, '{If only it was evening}!'<note>Literally "Who shall give evening?"</note> and in the evening you shall say '{If only it was morning}!'<note>Literally "Who shall give morning?"</note> because of the dread of your heart that you shall feel, and because of the sight of your eyes that you shall see.</verse>


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<verse num="68">And Yahweh shall bring you back <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Egypt in ships by the route that I {promised}<note>Literally "spoke"</note> to you <transChange type="added">that</transChange> '{You shall not see it again}!'<note>Literally "you shall not do again further to see it/her"</note> And you shall sell yourself there to your enemies as slaves and as female slaves, but there will not be a buyer." </verse>


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<verse num="1"><note>Deuteronomy 29:1-29 in the English Bible is 28.69-29:28 in the Hebrew Bible</note> These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the words of the covenant that Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> in the land of Moab {besides}<note>Literally "from to alone"</note> the covenant that he made with them at Horeb. </verse>


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<verse num="2">And Moses summoned all of Israel and said to them, "You saw all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt and to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land;</verse>


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<verse num="3"><transChange type="added">that is</transChange>, the great trials that your eyes saw, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> those great signs and wonders.</verse>


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<verse num="4">But Yahweh has not given to you a heart to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear, <transChange type="added">even</transChange> {to this day}.<note>Literally "until the day the this"</note></verse>


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<verse num="5">And I have led you forty years<note>Hebrew "year"</note> in the desert; your clothes <transChange type="added">have</transChange> not worn out {on you},<note>Literally "from on you"</note> and your sandal has not worn out {on your foot}.<note>Literally "from on your foot"</note></verse>


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<verse num="6">You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine and strong drink, so that you may know that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh your God.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And <transChange type="added">when</transChange> you came to this place <transChange type="added">then</transChange> Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out to meet you for battle, and we defeated them.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And we took their land and gave it as <transChange type="added">an</transChange> inheritance to the Reubenites<note>Hebrew "Reubenite"</note> and to the Gadites<note>Hebrew "Gadite"</note> and to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> half-tribe of Manasseh.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And {you must diligently observe the words of this covenant},<note>Literally "you must keep the words of the covenant the this and you must do them"</note> so that you may succeed in all that you do. </verse>


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<verse num="10">"You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> standing {today},<note>Literally "the day"</note> all of you, {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> Yahweh your God, your leaders, your tribes, your elders, and your officials, all the men of Israel,</verse>


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<verse num="11">your little children, your women and your aliens<note>Hebrew "alien"</note> who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in the midst of your camp, from the choppers<note>Hebrew "chopper"</note> of your wood to the drawers<note>Hebrew "drawer"</note> of your water,</verse>


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<verse num="12">{in order for you to enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God},<note>Literally "for you to go over into the covenant of Yahweh your God"</note> and into<note>Or "with"</note> his oath that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {making with you}<note>Literally "cutting with you"</note> {today},<note>Literally "the day"</note></verse>


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<verse num="13">in order to establish you {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> {to himself}<note>Literally "for him"</note> as a people and <transChange type="added">so that</transChange> he may be for you <transChange type="added">as</transChange> God, <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as he {promised}<note>Literally "spoke"</note> to you and {just as}<note>Literally "according to that which"</note> he swore to your ancestors,<note>Or "your fathers"</note> to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. </verse>


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<verse num="14">"Now I am not {making this covenant}<note>Literally "cutting this covenant"</note> and this oath {with you alone}.<note>Literally "with you to alone you"</note></verse>


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<verse num="15">But with {whoever is standing here}<note>Literally "with who he is here with us standing"</note> with us {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> Yahweh our God, and with {whoever is not standing here}<note>Literally "with who he is not standing here with us"</note> with us {today}.<note>Literally "the day"</note></verse>


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<verse num="16">For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we traveled through the midst of the nations that you traveled<note>Or "journeyed"</note> through.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And you have seen their detestable things and their idols of wood and stone, silver, and gold that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> among them,</verse>


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<verse num="18">so that {there is not}<note>Literally "lest there be/develop"</note> among you a man or a woman or a clan or a tribe {whose heart}<note>Literally "his heart"</note> turns {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> from <transChange type="added">being</transChange> with Yahweh our God to go to serve the gods of these nations, so that there is not among you a root sprouting poison and wormwood.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And then when he hears the words of this oath, then<note>Or "and"</note> {he will assure himself}<note>Literally "he will bless himself"; HALOT 160 suggests "to consider oneself fortunate"</note> in his heart, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> '{Safety shall be mine even though I go in the stubbornness of my heart},'<note>Literally "Peace shall happen/be for me, although/even if in the stubbornness of my heart I go"</note> thereby destroying the well-watered <transChange type="added">land</transChange> <transChange type="added">along</transChange> with the parched.<note>Some translators prefer to include the last clause as a part of the words of the wicked man (NASV vs. NEB)</note></verse>


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<verse num="20">Yahweh will not be willing to forgive him, for <transChange type="added">by then</transChange> the anger of Yahweh will smoke, and his passion against that man and all the curses written in this scroll will descend on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under heaven.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And Yahweh will single him out for calamity out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in the scroll of this law. </verse>


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<verse num="22">"And the next generation, <transChange type="added">that is</transChange>, your children who will rise <transChange type="added">up</transChange> after you, and the foreigner who will come from a distant land, when<note>Hebrew "and"</note> they will see the plagues of that land and its diseases that Yahweh has inflicted upon it, will say,</verse>


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<verse num="23">'All its land is brimstone and salt left by fire, {none of its land will be sown},<note>Literally "all of its land will not be sown"</note> and it will not make plants sprout out and it will not grow any vegetation; <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> as the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Adman and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overturned in his anger and in his wrath.'</verse>


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<verse num="24">And all the nations will say, '{Why}<note>Literally "On what <transChange type="added">basis</transChange>"</note> has Yahweh done {such a thing}<note>Literally "so"</note> to this land? What <transChange type="added">caused</transChange> the fierceness of this great anger?'</verse>


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<verse num="25">And they will say,<note>Or "answer/respond"</note> '<transChange type="added">It is</transChange> because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> which he {made}<note>Literally "cut"</note> with them {when he brought them out}<note>Literally "at/in his to bring them out from the land of Egypt"</note> from the land of Egypt.</verse>


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<verse num="26">And they went and served other gods and bowed down to them, gods whom they did not know them and he<note>That is, Yahweh</note> had not allotted to them.</verse>


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<verse num="27">So {the anger of Yahweh was kindled}<note>Literally "became hot the nose of Yahweh"</note> against that land to bring upon it all the curses written in this scroll,</verse>


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<verse num="28">and Yahweh uprooted them from their land in anger and in wrath and in great fury, and he cast them into another land, {just as it is today}.'<note>Literally "as the day the this"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="29">"The hidden <transChange type="added">things</transChange> {belong to Yahweh}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">are</transChange> for Yahweh"</note> our God, but the revealed <transChange type="added">things</transChange> {belong to us}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">are</transChange> for us"</note> <transChange type="added">to know</transChange> and to our children {forever},<note>Literally "until eternity"</note> <transChange type="added">in order</transChange> to do all the words of this law." </verse>


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<verse num="1">"And then when all of these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse that I have set {before you}<note>Literally "to the face of you"</note> {and you call them to mind}<note>Literally "and you bring <transChange type="added">them</transChange> back to your heart"</note> among the nations there where Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">has</transChange> scattered you,</verse>


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<verse num="2">and you return to Yahweh and you listen to his voice according to all that I am commanding you {today},<note>Literally "the day"</note> <transChange type="added">both</transChange> you and your children,<note>Or "sons"</note> with all your heart and with all your inner self,<note>Or "soul"</note></verse>


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<verse num="3">and Yahweh your God will restore your fortunes, and he will have compassion <transChange type="added">upon</transChange> you, and {he will again gather you together}<note>Literally "he will do again and he will gather you together"</note> from all the peoples where Yahweh your God scattered you there. </verse>


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<verse num="4">"<transChange type="added">Even</transChange> if {you are outcasts}<note>Literally "he/it shall be outcasting your"</note> at the end of the heavens, <transChange type="added">even</transChange> from there Yahweh your God shall gather you, and from there {he shall bring you back}.<note>Literally "he shall take/fetch you"</note></verse>


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<verse num="5">And Yahweh your God will bring you to the land that your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> had taken possession of,<note>Hebrew "of it"</note> and he will make you successful, and he will make you more numerous than your ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="6">"And Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your inner self<note>Or "soul"</note> {so that you may live}.<note>Literally "for the sake of your life"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">And Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies and {on those who hate you},<note>Literally "the haters of you"</note> <transChange type="added">on</transChange> {those who harassed you}.<note>Literally "who pursued after/persecuted you"</note></verse>


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<verse num="8">And {you will again listen}<note>Literally "you will return and you will listen"</note> to the voice of Yahweh, and you will do all his commandments that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you {today}.<note>Literally "the day"</note></verse>


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<verse num="9">And Yahweh your God will make you prosperous {in all your undertakings},<note>Literally "in all of the work of your hand"</note> and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground {abundantly},<note>Literally "to/for good"</note> for Yahweh {will again rejoice}<note>Literally "he will return ... to rejoice"</note> over you, <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as he rejoiced over your ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


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<verse num="10"><transChange type="added">He will do this</transChange> if you listen to<note>Or "if you obey/hearken to"</note> the voice of Yahweh your God by keeping his commandment and his statutes written in the scroll of this law <transChange type="added">and</transChange> if you return to Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your inner self.<note>Or "soul"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="11">"For this commandment that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {not too wonderful for you},<note>Literally "not <transChange type="added">is</transChange> wonderful it from you"</note> and it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not <transChange type="added">too</transChange> far <transChange type="added">from you</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="12">It is not in the heavens {so that you might say},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'Who will go up for us to the heavens and get it for us and cause us to hear it, so that we may do it?'</verse>


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<verse num="13">And <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> {not beyond the sea},<note>Literally "is not from beyond the sea"</note> {so that you might say},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'Who will cross for us to the other side of the sea and take it for us and cause us to hear it, so that we may do it?'</verse>


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<verse num="14">But the word is very near you, <transChange type="added">even</transChange> in your mouth and in your heart, {so that you may do it}.<note>Literally "to do it"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="15">"See, I am setting {before you}<note>Literally "to the face of you"</note> {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> life and prosperity and death and disaster;</verse>


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<verse num="16">what I am commanding you {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> to love Yahweh your God by going<note>Or "walking"</note> in his ways and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his regulations, and then you will live, and you will become numerous, and Yahweh your God will bless you in the {land where you are going}.<note>Literally "the land where you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> going there"</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">However, if your heart turns aside and you <transChange type="added">do</transChange> not listen and you are lured away and you bow down to other gods and you serve them,</verse>


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<verse num="18">I declare to you {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> that you will certainly perish; {you will not extend your time}<note>Literally "you will not make long days"</note> on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to go there to take possession of it.</verse>


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<verse num="19">I invoke as a witness against you {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> the heaven and the earth: life and death I have set {before you},<note>Literally "to the face of you"</note> blessing and curse. So choose life, so that you may live, you and your offspring,<note>Or "seed"</note></verse>


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<verse num="20">by loving Yahweh your God by listening to his voice and by clinging to him, for he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your life and the length of your days <transChange type="added">in order for you</transChange> to live on the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them." </verse>


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<verse num="2">And he said to them, "I am <transChange type="added">a</transChange> hundred and twenty years old {today};<note>Literally "the day"</note> I am not able to go out and to come <transChange type="added">in</transChange> <transChange type="added">any</transChange> longer, and Yahweh said to me, 'You may not cross this Jordan.'</verse>


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<verse num="3">Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is about to</transChange> cross {before you};<note>Literally "to the face of you"</note> he will destroy these nations {before you},<note>Literally "to the face of you"</note> and you shall dispossess them. Joshua <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> crossing {before you},<note>Literally "to the face of you"</note> <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as Yahweh {promised}.<note>Literally "spoke"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">And Yahweh will do to them <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and to their land, which he destroyed with them.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And Yahweh {will deliver them to you before you},<note>Literally "will give them Yahweh to the face of you"</note> and you shall do to them according to every commandment that I have commanded you.</verse>


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<verse num="6">Be strong and be courageous; you should not be afraid, and you {should not be in dread from their presence},<note>Literally "not you should dread from their face"</note> for Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the <transChange type="added">one</transChange> going with you; he will not leave you alone and he will not forsake you." </verse>


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<verse num="7">Then Moses summoned Joshua, and he said to him {in the presence of all Israel},<note>Literally "before the eyes of all Israel"</note> "Be strong and be courageous, for you will go with this people into the land that Yahweh swore to their ancestors<note>Or "their fathers"</note> to give to them, and you will give it to them as an inheritance.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the <transChange type="added">one</transChange> going {before you};<note>Literally "to the face of you"</note> he will be with you, and he will not leave you alone, and he will not forsake you; you shall not be afraid, and you shall not be discouraged."</verse>


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<verse num="9">So Moses wrote this law, and he gave it to the priests, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Levi, the <transChange type="added">ones</transChange> carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and to all the elders of Israel. </verse>


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<verse num="10">Then Moses commanded them, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "At the end of seven years, in the time of the year for canceling debts during the Feast of Booths,</verse>


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<verse num="11">{when all Israel comes to appear before}<note>Literally "at/in the coming of all of Israel to see"</note> Yahweh their God at the place that he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel {in their hearing}.<note>Literally "in their ears"</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little children and your aliens that are in your {towns},<note>Literally "gates"</note> so that they may hear and so that they may learn and they may revere Yahweh your God, and {they shall diligently observe}<note>Literally "they shall keep to do"</note> all the words of this law.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And <transChange type="added">then</transChange> their children,<note>Hebrew "child"</note> who have not known, they <transChange type="added">too</transChange> may hear, and they may learn to revere Yahweh their God all the days {that you live}<note>Literally "that you are alive"</note> on the land that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> crossing the Jordan {to get there}<note>Literally "there"</note> to take possession of it." </verse>


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<verse num="14">Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Look, {you are about to die};<note>Literally "are near your days to die"</note> call Joshua and present yourselves in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> tent of assembly,<note>Or "meeting"</note> so that I may instruct him." So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in<note>Or "at"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> tent of assembly.<note>Or "meeting"</note></verse>


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<verse num="15">And Yahweh appeared in the tent in a column of cloud, and the column of the cloud stood at the entrance of the tent.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And Yahweh said to Moses, "Look, you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> about to lie <transChange type="added">down</transChange> with your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and this people will arise and they<note>Hebrew "he"</note> will play the prostitute after {the foreign gods}<note>Literally "the gods of the foreigner/foreign person of the land"</note> of the land {to which they are going}.<note>Literally "which he is going to"</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">And {my anger shall flare up against them}<note>Literally "shall become my nose against it/him"</note> on that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they<note>Hebrew "he"</note> shall become as prey, and disasters and troubles shall find<note>Or "encounter"</note> them,<note>Hebrew "him"</note> and they<note>Hebrew "he"</note> shall say on that day, '<transChange type="added">Is it</transChange> not because our<note>Hebrew "my" but represents all the people</note> God is not in our<note>Hebrew "my"</note> midst <transChange type="added">that</transChange> these disasters have found<note>Or "encountered"</note> us?'<note>Hebrew "me"</note></verse>


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<verse num="18">But I will certainly hide my face on that day, because <transChange type="added">of</transChange> all of the evil that they<note>Hebrew "he"</note> did because they<note>Hebrew "he"</note> turned to other gods. </verse>


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<verse num="19">"And so then write this song for yourselves and teach it to the {Israelites};<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> put it in their mouth, so that this song may be for me as a witness against the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


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<verse num="20">For when I bring them<note>Hebrew "him," referring to the people</note> into the land that I swore to their<note>Hebrew "his"</note> ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> a land flowing with milk and honey, {they will eat their fill},<note>Literally "he will eat and he will be satisfied"</note> and they<note>Hebrew "he"</note> will become fat, and <transChange type="added">then</transChange> they<note>Hebrew "he"</note> will turn to other gods, and they will serve them, and they will spurn me, and they<note>Hebrew "he"</note> will break my covenant.</verse>


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<verse num="21">{And then}<note>Literally "And it shall happen"</note> many disasters and troubles will come upon them,<note>Hebrew "him"</note> and this song will give evidence before them<note>Hebrew "him"</note> as a witness, because it will not be forgotten from <transChange type="added">out of</transChange> the mouth of their descendants,<note>Hebrew "his offspring/descendant"</note> for I know their<note>Hebrew "his"</note> inclination that they<note>Hebrew "he"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> having {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> before I have brought them<note>Hebrew "him"</note> into the land that I swore."</verse>


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<verse num="22">And Moses wrote this song on that day and taught it <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="23">Then he<note>That is, Yahweh</note> told Joshua the son of Nun, and said <transChange type="added">to him</transChange>, "Be strong and be courageous, for you shall bring the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> into the land that I swore to them, and I will be with you." </verse>


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<verse num="24">{And then when Moses finished writing}<note>Literally "And it happened as/when to finish Moses to write"</note> the words of this law on the scroll {until they were complete},<note>Literally "until their to be complete/"</note></verse>


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<verse num="25">then Moses commanded the Levites carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


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<verse num="26">"Take the scroll of this law and put it at the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, and it will be there as a witness against you.</verse>


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<verse num="27">For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck <transChange type="added">even now</transChange> while I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> still alive with you {today},<note>Literally "the day"</note> rebelling against Yahweh, and {how much more}<note>Literally "and also for/indeed"</note> after my death.</verse>


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<verse num="28">Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officials, so that I may speak in their ears these words, and <transChange type="added">that</transChange> I may call as witness against them heaven and earth.</verse>


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<verse num="29">For I know that after my death you will certainly act corruptly, and you will turn aside from the way that I have commanded you, and the disaster in the future days will befall you, because you will do evil<note>Hebrew "the evil"; the definite article indicates the general concept of evil</note> in the eyes of Yahweh, {provoking him with the work of your hands}."<note>Literally "to provoke him with/by the work of your hands"</note></verse>


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<verse num="30">So Moses spoke into the ears of the assembly of Israel the words of this song {until they were complete}.<note>Literally "until their to be complete"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1">"Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak, and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.</verse>


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<verse num="2">May my teaching trickle like the dew, my words like rain showers on tender grass, and like spring showers on new growth.</verse>


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<verse num="4">The Rock, his work <transChange type="added">is</transChange> perfect, for all his ways <transChange type="added">are</transChange> just; <transChange type="added">he is</transChange> a faithful God, and {without injustice};<note>Literally "there is not injustice"</note> righteous and upright <transChange type="added">is</transChange> he.</verse>


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<verse num="5">They <transChange type="added">have</transChange> behaved corruptly toward<note>Or "with"</note> him; <transChange type="added">they are</transChange> not his children; <transChange type="added">this is</transChange> their flaw, a generation crooked and perverse.</verse>


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<verse num="6"><transChange type="added">Like</transChange> this do you treat Yahweh, foolish and {unwise}<note>Literally "not wise"</note> people? <transChange type="added">Has</transChange> he not, your father, created you? He made you, and he established you.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Remember <transChange type="added">the</transChange> old days, {the years long past};<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> years of <transChange type="added">from</transChange> generation to generation"</note> ask your father, and he will inform you, your elders and they will tell you.<note>Hebrew "to you"</note></verse>


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<verse num="8">{When the Most High apportioned}<note>Literally "In/at the apportioning of the Most High"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations, at his dividing <transChange type="added">up</transChange> of the sons of humankind, he fixed the boundaries of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> peoples, according to the number of the children of Israel.<note>LXX reads "the number of the angels of God"; Dead Sea Scrolls reads "the number of the sons of God"</note></verse>


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<verse num="9">For Yahweh's portion <transChange type="added">was</transChange> his people, Jacob the share of his inheritance.</verse>


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<verse num="10">He found him in a desert land, and in a howling, desert wasteland; he {encircled him},<note>Literally "moved around him"</note> he cared for him, he protected him like the {apple}<note>Literally "pupil"</note> of his eye.</verse>


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<verse num="11">As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, spreads out its wings, takes them,<note>Hebrew "it" but used poetically and with plural sense in context</note> carries them<note>Hebrew "it" but used poetically and with plural sense in context</note> on its pinions,<note>Hebrew "pinion"</note></verse>


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<verse num="12"><transChange type="added">so</transChange> Yahweh alone guided him,<note>That is, Jacob, standing for Israel</note> and {there was no foreign god accompanying him}.<note>Literally "and there was not with him a god foreign/strange"</note></verse>


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<verse num="13">And he set him on the high places of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land, and he fed <transChange type="added">him</transChange> the crops<note>Hebrew "crop"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> field, and he nursed him with honey from crags,<note>Hebrew "crag"</note> and <transChange type="added">with</transChange> oil from flinty rock,</verse>


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<verse num="14"><transChange type="added">With</transChange> curds<note>Hebrew "curd"</note> from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> herd, and <transChange type="added">with</transChange> milk from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> flock, with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fat of young rams, and rams, the offspring of Bashan, and with goats <transChange type="added">along</transChange> with the finest kernels of wheat, and <transChange type="added">from</transChange> the blood of grapes<note>Hebrew "grape"</note> you drank fermented wine.<note>Or "partially fermented wine"; others translate simply as wine (NASB, NEB); HALOT 330, "still fermenting wine"</note></verse>


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<verse num="15">And Jeshurun grew fat, and he kicked; you grew fat, you bloated, and you became obstinate; and he abandoned God, his maker, and he scoffed <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the rock of his salvation.</verse>


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<verse num="16">They made him jealous with strange <transChange type="added">gods</transChange>; with detestable things they provoked him.</verse>


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<verse num="17">They sacrificed to the demons, not God, <transChange type="added">to</transChange> gods whom<note>Hebrew "them"</note> they had not known, new <transChange type="added">gods</transChange> <transChange type="added">who</transChange><note>Hebrew "they," understood in the verb form</note> came from recent times; {their ancestors had not known them}.<note>Literally "their fathers not knew them"</note></verse>


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<verse num="18"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> rock who<note>Hebrew "he," understood in verb form</note> bore you, you neglected, and you forgot God, <transChange type="added">the one</transChange> giving you birth.</verse>


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<verse num="19">Then Yahweh saw, and he spurned <transChange type="added">them</transChange>, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.</verse>


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<verse num="20">So he said, 'I will hide my face from them; I will see what <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> their end, for they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a generation of perversity, {children in whom there is no faithfulness}.<note>Literally "sons not faithfulness <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in them"</note></verse>


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<verse num="21">They annoyed me with <transChange type="added">what is</transChange> not a god; they provoked me with their idols. So I will make them jealous with <transChange type="added">those</transChange> not a people, with a foolish nation I will provoke them.</verse>


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<verse num="22">For a fire was kindled<note>Or "ignited"</note> by my anger, and it burned {up to the depths of Sheol},<note>Literally "up to Sheol depths"</note> and it devoured <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth and its produce, and it set afire the foundation of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mountains.</verse>


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<verse num="24"><transChange type="added">They will become</transChange> weakened by famine, and consumed by plague and bitter pestilence; and the teeth of wild animals I will send against them, with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poison of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> creeping <transChange type="added">things</transChange> in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dust;</verse>


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<verse num="25">From outside <transChange type="added">her boundaries</transChange> the sword will make <transChange type="added">her</transChange> childless, and from inside, terror; both <transChange type="added">for</transChange> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> young man <transChange type="added">and</transChange> also the young woman, the infant <transChange type="added">along with</transChange> the gray-headed man.</verse>


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<verse num="26">I thought, "I will wipe them out; {I will make people forget they ever existed}."<note>Literally "I will blot out from among human being their remembrance"</note></verse>


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<verse num="27">If I had not feared a provocation of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> enemy, lest their foes might misunderstand, <note>Or "so that they not make a false construal" of what has happened</note> lest they should say, <note>Or "so that they might not"</note> "Our hand is {triumphant},<note>Literally "raised/held high"</note> and Yahweh <transChange type="added">did</transChange> not do all this." '</verse>


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<verse num="28">For {they are a nation void of sense},<note>Literally "they a nation perishing of counsel"</note> and there is not <transChange type="added">any</transChange> understanding in them.</verse>


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<verse num="29">If only they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern {for themselves their end}.<note>Literally "they would discern for end their"</note></verse>


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<verse num="30">How could one chase a thousand and two could cause a myriad to flee, if their Rock had not sold them, and Yahweh had <transChange type="added">not</transChange> given them up?</verse>


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<verse num="31">For the fact of the matter is, their rock <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not like our Rock, and our enemies recognize<note>The meaning of this expression is uncertain, but "discerns" or "judges" seem good choices; see HALOT 932, which allows for "judges" or "in the estimation of our enemies"</note> <transChange type="added">this</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="32">For their vine <transChange type="added">is</transChange> from the vine of Sodom, and from the terraces of Gomorrah; their grapes <transChange type="added">are</transChange> grapes of poison; {their clusters are bitter}.<note>Literally "clusters of bitter <transChange type="added">are</transChange> for them"</note></verse>


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<verse num="33">Their wine <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the poison of snakes, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> deadly poison of horned vipers.</verse>


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<verse num="34">'<transChange type="added">Is</transChange> not this stored up with me, sealed in my treasuries?'<note>Or "storehouses</note></verse>


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<verse num="35">{Vengeance belongs to me}<note>Literally "To me <transChange type="added">is</transChange> vengeance"</note> and <transChange type="added">also</transChange> recompense, {for at the time their foot slips},<note>Literally "at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> time <transChange type="added">when</transChange> it shall slip foot their"</note> because the day of their disaster <transChange type="added">is</transChange> near, {and fate comes quickly for them}.'<note>Literally "and comes quickly/hurries events to come to them"</note></verse>


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<verse num="36">For Yahweh will judge <transChange type="added">on behalf of</transChange> his people, and concerning his servants; he will change his mind when he sees that <transChange type="added">their</transChange> power has disappeared, and <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> no one left, confined<note>Or "bond/bound"</note> or free.<note>Or "freed"</note></verse>


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<verse num="37">And he will say, 'Where <transChange type="added">are</transChange> their gods, <transChange type="added">their</transChange> rock in whom<note>Hebrew "in him"</note> they took refuge?</verse>


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<verse num="38">Who ate the fat of their sacrifices <transChange type="added">and</transChange> drank the wine of their libations? Let them rise <transChange type="added">up</transChange>, and let them help you; {Let them be to you a refuge}.<note>Literally "let there be/him/them unto you <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a shelter"</note></verse>


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<verse num="39">See, now, that I, <transChange type="added">even</transChange> I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> he, and there is not a god besides me; I put to death and I give life; I wound and I heal; there is not <transChange type="added">one</transChange> who delivers from my hand!</verse>


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<verse num="40">For <transChange type="added">indeed</transChange> I lift up my hand to heaven, And I promise {as I live forever},<note>Literally "live I to eternity"</note></verse>


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<verse num="41">When I sharpen<note>Or "have sharpened"</note> {my flashing sword},<note>Literally "the flashing of my sword"</note> and my hand takes hold<note>Or "seizes"</note> <transChange type="added">of it</transChange> in judgment, {I will take reprisals against my foes},<note>Literally "I will let return vengeance to foes my"</note> and my haters I will repay.</verse>


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<verse num="42">I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain, and captives<note>Hebrew "captive"</note> from the heads<note>Hebrew "head"</note> of the leaders of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> enemy.'</verse>


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<verse num="43">Call for songs of joy, O nations, <transChange type="added">concerning</transChange> his people,<note>Dead Sea Scrolls reads: "Rejoice, O heavenly ones, with him! Bow down, all you gods, before him!"</note> for the blood of his servants he will avenge, {and he will take reprisals against his foes},<note>Literally "vengeance he will let return to his foes"</note> and he will make atonement <transChange type="added">for</transChange> his land, his people."</verse>


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<verse num="44">And Moses came, and he spoke<note>Or "recited"</note> all the words of this song in the ears of the people; <transChange type="added">that is</transChange>, he and Joshua the son of Nun.</verse>


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<verse num="45">{And when Moses finished speaking}<note>Literally "And <transChange type="added">he</transChange> finished Moses to speak"</note> all these words to all Israel,</verse>


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<verse num="46">then he said to them, "{Take to heart all the words}<note>Literally "Put heart your to all the words"</note> that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> admonishing <transChange type="added">against</transChange> you {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> <transChange type="added">concerning</transChange> which you should instruct them <transChange type="added">with respect to</transChange> your children<note>Or "sons"</note> {so that they will observe diligently}<note>Literally "to keep to do"</note> all the words of this law,</verse>


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<verse num="47">for it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not a trifling matter among you, but it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your life, and through this word {you will live long in the land}<note>Literally "you will make long days on the land"</note> that you <transChange type="added">are about</transChange> to cross the Jordan <transChange type="added">to get</transChange> there to take possession of it." </verse>


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<verse num="48">And Yahweh said to Moses on exactly this day, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


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<verse num="49">"Go up to this mountain of the Abarim <transChange type="added">range</transChange>, Mount Nebo, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {opposite Jericho},<note>Literally "on the face of Jericho"</note> and see the land of Canaan that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> giving to the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> as <transChange type="added">a</transChange> possession.</verse>


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<verse num="50">You shall die on that mountain that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> about to go up there, and <transChange type="added">you will</transChange> be gathered to your people, <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as your brother Aaron died on {Mount Hor}<note>Literally "on Hor the mountain"</note> and he was gathered to his people,</verse>


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<verse num="51">because <transChange type="added">of the fact</transChange> that you broke faith with me in the midst of Israel at the waters of Meribah Kadesh, <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the desert of Zin, because {you did not treat me as holy}<note>Literally "that not you treated me as holy"</note> in the midst of the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


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<verse num="52">Yes, from afar you may view the land, but there you shall not enter there, <transChange type="added">that is</transChange>, into the land that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> giving to the {Israelites}."<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now<note>Or "And"</note> this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the blessing <transChange type="added">with</transChange> which Moses, the man of God, blessed the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> his death. </verse>


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<verse num="3">Moreover,<note>Or "Indeed"</note> {he loves his people},<note>Literally "a lover of peoples"</note> all the holy ones <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in your hand, and they bowed down to<note>Or "at"</note> your feet, {each one accepted directions from you}.<note>Literally "he takes up from your words"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">A law Moses instructed for us, <transChange type="added">as a</transChange> possession <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the assembly of Jacob.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And <transChange type="added">then</transChange> a king arose in Jeshurun, at the gathering of the leaders of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> people, {united were the tribes of Israel}.<note>Literally "together the tribes of Israel"</note></verse>


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<verse num="6">"May Reuben live, and may he not die, {and let his number not be few}."<note>Literally "let he be his people <transChange type="added">of</transChange> number"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">{And he said this of Judah},<note>Literally "and this concerning/to Judah, and he said"</note> "Hear, O Yahweh, the voice of Judah, and bring him to his people; his own hands strive<note>Or "is/are great" on his behalf</note> for him, and may you be a help {against}<note>Literally "from"</note> his foes."</verse>


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<verse num="8">And of Levi he said, "Your Thummim and your Urim <transChange type="added">are</transChange> for {your faithful one},<note>Literally "man, your faithful one"</note> {whom you tested at Massah};<note>Literally "whom you tested him at Massah"</note> you contended <transChange type="added">with</transChange> him at the waters of Meribah.</verse>


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<verse num="9">The <transChange type="added">one</transChange> saying of his father and of his mother, 'I have not regarded them,' and his brothers he <transChange type="added">did</transChange> not acknowledge, and his children<note>Or "sons"</note> <transChange type="added">he did</transChange> not know, but <transChange type="added">rather</transChange> they observed your word, and your covenant they kept.</verse>


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<verse num="10">They taught<note>Or "teach/will teach"</note> your regulations to Jacob, and your law to Israel; they placed incense smoke {before you},<note>Literally "in your nose"</note> and whole burnt offerings on your altar.</verse>


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<verse num="11">Bless, O Yahweh, his substance, and with the work of his hands you must be pleased; smite the loins of those who attack him, and those hating him, {so that they cannot arise}."<note>Literally "so that not they stand up"</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">Of Benjamin he said, "The beloved of Yahweh dwells {securely},<note>Literally "in confidence"</note> the Most High<note>This is the most likely reading in context (Most High God). Literally the Hebrew text reads "upon him," so the NASV translates the first line as: dwell in security "by him"</note> shields <transChange type="added">all</transChange> around him, all the day, and between his shoulders he dwells."</verse>


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<verse num="13">And of Joseph he said, "Blessed by Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his land, with<note>Hebrew "from"</note> the choice things of heaven, with<note>Hebrew "from"</note> dew, and with<note>Hebrew "from"</note> the deep lying down beneath,</verse>


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<verse num="14">and with<note>Hebrew "from"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> choice things of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fruits<note>Or "produce of"</note> of the <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sun, and with the choice things of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> yield of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {seasons},<note>Literally "months"</note></verse>


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<verse num="15">and with<note>Hebrew "from"</note> the finest things of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ancient mountains, and with<note>Hebrew "from"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> choice things of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {eternal hills},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> hills of eternity <transChange type="added">never ending ages</transChange>"</note></verse>


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<verse num="16">and with<note>Hebrew "from"</note> the choice things of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth and its fullness, and the favor of <transChange type="added">the one</transChange> {who dwelt}<note>Literally "dwells" but context puts the event into the past; literally "dweller of the bush"</note> in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bush.<note>Some scholars suggest that this expression must be read as: on Sinai</note> Let them come to the head of Joseph, and to the crown of the prince among his brothers.</verse>


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<verse num="17"><transChange type="added">As</transChange> the firstborn of his ox, majesty {belongs to him},<note>Literally "is for him"</note> and his horns <transChange type="added">are</transChange> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> horns of a wild ox; with them he drives people together,<note>Or "all at once" (NASB)</note> and they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the myriads of Ephraim, and they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the thousands of Manasseh."</verse>


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<verse num="18">And of Zebulun he said, "Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out, and <transChange type="added">rejoice</transChange>, Issachar, in your tents;</verse>


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<verse num="19">They summon people <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> mountains;<note>Hebrew "mountain"</note> there they sacrifice the sacrifices of righteousness, because the affluence of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> seas they suck <transChange type="added">out</transChange>, and {the most hidden treasures of the sand}."<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> covered of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hidden of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sand"</note></verse>


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<verse num="20">And of Gad he said, "Blessed <transChange type="added">be</transChange> {the one who enlarges Gad};<note>Literally "the enlarger of Gad"</note> like a lion he dwells, and he tears an arm as well as a scalp.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And he selected<note>Or "provided"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> best <transChange type="added">part</transChange> for himself, <note>Hebrew "for him"</note> for there <transChange type="added">the</transChange> portion of a ruler <transChange type="added">is</transChange> included, and he came <transChange type="added">with the</transChange> heads of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> people;<note>Or possibly, "the heads of the people came/assembled" (compare NEB)</note> he did<note>Or "worked"</note> the righteousness of Yahweh, and his regulations for Israel."</verse>


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<verse num="22">And of Dan he said, "Dan <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a cub of <transChange type="added">a</transChange> lion; he leaps from Bashan."<note>Hebrew "the Bashan," referring to a well-known geographical and agricultural area</note></verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="23">And of Naphtali, he said, "Oh, Naphtali, sated of favor, and full of the blessing of Yahweh; take possession of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lake, and <transChange type="added">the land to the</transChange> south."</verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="24">And of Asher he said, "Blessed {more than sons}<note>Literally "blessed from/of sons <transChange type="added">is</transChange>" features the comparative use the Hebrew preposition min, "than"</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Asher; {may he be the favorite}<note>Literally "may he be favored"</note> of his brothers, {dipping his feet in the oil}.<note>Literally "and dipping in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> oil his feet"</note></verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="25">Your bars <transChange type="added">are</transChange><note>Or "will be"</note> iron and bronze, and as your days, <transChange type="added">so is</transChange><note>Or "so will be/may be"</note> your strength."</verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="26">"There is no <transChange type="added">one</transChange> like God, O, Jeshurun, who rides <transChange type="added">through</transChange> the heavens to your help, and with his majesty <transChange type="added">through the</transChange> skies.</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="27">The God of {ancient time}<note>Literally "before/earlier time<transChange type="added">s</transChange>"</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a hiding place, and underneath <transChange type="added">are</transChange> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> arms of eternity,<note>Or "everlasting ages" or "everlasting arms"</note> and he drove out {from before}<note>Literally "from your face"</note> you your enemy, and he said, 'Destroy <transChange type="added">them</transChange>!'</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="28">So Israel dwells alone <transChange type="added">and</transChange> carefree, the spring of Jacob in a land of grain and wine; his heavens even drip dew.</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="29">Blessed <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you, O Israel. Who is like you, a people who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, and who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the sword of your triumph, and your enemies, they shall fawn before you,<note>Hebrew "to you"</note> and you shall tread on their backs."</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="1">Then Moses went up from the desert plateau<note>Or "plains/lowlands"</note> of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, {which is opposite}<note>Literally "which is on the face of"</note> Jericho, and Yahweh showed him all of the land, Gilead <transChange type="added">all the way</transChange> up to Dan,</verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="2">and all of Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh and all of the land of Judah, up to the western sea,<note>That is, the Mediterranean Sea</note></verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="3">and the Negev and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palms, <transChange type="added">on</transChange> up to Zoar.</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="4">And Yahweh said to him, "This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the land that I swore to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'To your offspring I will give it.' I have let you see <transChange type="added">it</transChange> with your eyes, but you shall not cross {into it}."<note>Literally "to there"</note></verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="5">Then Moses, the servant of Yahweh, died there in the land of Moab {according to the command of Yahweh}.<note>Literally "at the mouth of Yahweh"</note></verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="6">And he<note>That is, Yahweh</note> buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor. But until this day no one knows his burial site.</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="7">{Now Moses was a hundred and twenty years old}<note>Literally "and Moses <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a son of <transChange type="added">a</transChange> hundred and twenty year"</note> {when he died};<note>Literally "at/in his dying"</note> {his sight was not impaired and his vigor had not abated}.<note>Literally "not faded his eyes and not had fled away his vitality"</note></verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="8">And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> wept <transChange type="added">concerning</transChange> Moses thirty days; <transChange type="added">finally</transChange> the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were completed. </verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="9">Now<note>Or "And"</note> Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom because Moses had placed his hands on him, and the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> listened to him, and they did as Yahweh had commanded Moses.</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="10">And not again<note>Or "since then"</note> has a prophet arisen in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew<note>Hebrew "knew him"</note> face to face,</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="11">as far as all the signs and the wonders Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt, against<note>Hebrew "to"</note> Pharaoh and all of his servants and against<note>Hebrew "to"</note> all of his land,</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="12">and as far as all of {the mighty deeds}<note>Literally "the hand the strong"</note> and as far as {the great awesome wonders}<note>Literally "the terrifying the great <transChange type="added">actions</transChange>"</note> Moses did before the eyes of all Israel. </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="1">After the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh, Yahweh said to Joshua son of Nun, the assistant<note>Or "servant"</note> of Moses, saying,</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="2">"My servant Moses <transChange type="added">is</transChange> dead. Get up and cross the Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> giving to them, to the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="3">Every place that the soles of your feet will tread, I have given it to you, as I promised<note>Or "spoke"</note> to Moses.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="4">From the wilderness {and the Lebanon},<note>Literally "this Lebanon"; "Lebanon" in Hebrew means "white mountain"</note> up to the great river, the river Euphrates, all of the land of the Hittites, and up to {the great sea in the west},<note>Literally "the great sea of the setting sun"</note> will be your territory.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="5">No one will stand before you<note>Or "in your presence"</note> all the days of your life. <transChange type="added">Just</transChange> as I was with Moses, <transChange type="added">so</transChange> will I be with you; I will not fail you, and I will not forsake you.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="6">Be strong and courageous, for you will give the people this land as an inheritance that I swore to their ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> to give them.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="7">Only be strong and very courageous {to observe diligently the whole law}<note>Literally "to keep <transChange type="added">and</transChange> to act according to the whole law"</note> that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn aside from it, <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the right or left, so that you may succeed {wherever you go}.<note>Literally "in all that you go"</note></verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="8">The scroll of this law will not depart from your mouth; you will meditate on it day and night so that {you may observe diligently all that is written}<note>Literally "to keep <transChange type="added">and</transChange> to act according to all that is written"</note> in it. For then you will succeed <transChange type="added">in</transChange> your ways and prosper.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="9">Did I not command you? Be strong and courageous! Do not fear or be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you {wherever you go}."<note>Literally "in all that you go"</note></verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="11">"Pass through the midst of the camp and command the people: 'Prepare your provisions;<note>Hebrew "provision"</note> {in}<note>Literally "for in still"</note> three days you <transChange type="added">are to</transChange> cross the Jordan to go possess the land that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving you to possess.'" </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="13">"Remember the word that Moses Yahweh's servant commanded you, saying, 'Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving rest to you, and he is giving<note>Hebrew "he gave"</note> you this land.'</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="14">Your wives, your little children, and your livestock, they will remain in the land that Moses gave to you beyond the Jordan. {All of the best fighting men}<note>Literally "All the mighty warriors of the troop"</note> will cross armed in front of your families; they will help you</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="15">until Yahweh gives rest to your families as well as to you. They will take possession of the land that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to them. Then you will return to your own land and take possession of it, <transChange type="added">the land</transChange> that Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan {to the east}."<note>Literally "to the sunrise"</note></verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="16">And they answered Joshua, saying, "All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you will send us we will go.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="17">Just as we obeyed Moses, so will we obey you. Only may Yahweh your God be with you, as he was with Moses.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="18">Whoever {rebels against your orders}<note>Literally "defiles against your mouth"</note> and does not obey your words according to what you commanded us will be put to death. Only be strong and courageous." </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="1">Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two men from Acacia Grove<note>Hebrew "Shittim"</note> <transChange type="added">as</transChange> spies, saying, "Go, view the land, especially Jericho." So they went, and entered the house of a prostitute whose name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Rahab, and {spent the night}<note>Literally "lay down"</note> there.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="2">The king of Jericho was told, "Look, <transChange type="added">some</transChange> men from the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> have come here tonight to search out the land."</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="3">And the king of Jericho sent <transChange type="added">for</transChange> Rahab, saying, "Bring out the men who came to you, the ones who have entered your house, for they have come to search out the whole land."</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="4">But the woman took the two men and hid them. And she said, "Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> from.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="5">And when <transChange type="added">it was time</transChange> to shut the gate {for the night},<note>Literally "in the darkness" or "at dark"</note> the men left, and I do not know where they went. Chase after them quickly, for you may catch up <transChange type="added">to</transChange> them."</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="6">(But she had taken them to the roof and had hidden them {in the stalks of flax}<note>Literally "in the flaxes of the plant stalk"</note> that she {had spread out}<note>Literally "had been arranged"</note> on the roof.)</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="7">So the men chased after them on {the way to the Jordan}<note>Literally "the road of the Jordan"</note> at the fords; and they shut the gate behind the pursuers that had gone out after them. </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="8">Before {they went to sleep},<note>Literally "they lay down"</note> she came up to them on the roof</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="9">and said to the men, "I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that dread of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away <transChange type="added">in fear</transChange> because of your presence.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="10">For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the waters of the {Red Sea}<note>Literally "sea of reeds"</note> before you when you went out from Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> beyond the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="11">We heard <transChange type="added">this</transChange>, and our hearts<note>Hebrew "heart"</note> melted, and {no courage was left in anyone}<note>Literally "a spirit no longer stood in anyone"</note> because of your presence. For Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> God in the heavens above and on the earth below.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="12">So then please swear to me by Yahweh, because {I have shown loyalty to you},<note>Literally "I have done with you a loyal love"</note> and {you will also show loyalty}<note>Literally "you will do ... loyal love"</note> {to my family}.<note>Literally "with the house of my father"</note> You must give me a sign of good faith,<note>Or "faithfulness"</note></verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="13">and you will spare my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all that belongs to them; you will deliver our lives from death."</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="14">And the men said to her, "{Our lives for yours}.<note>Literally "Our lives in place of yours to die"</note> If you do not report this business of ours, {we will show you loyalty and faithfulness}<note>Literally "we will do with you loyal love and faithfulness"</note> when Yahweh gives us the land." </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="15">Then she lowered them with a rope through the window, as her house <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on the outer side of the wall, and she <transChange type="added">was</transChange> residing in the wall.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="16">And she said to them, "Go to the mountain, so that the pursuers will not find you, and hide yourselves there three days until the pursuers return, and afterward you may go {on your way}."<note>Literally "to your way"</note></verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="17">The men said to her, "We <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> released from this oath of yours that you made us swear.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="18"><transChange type="added">When</transChange> we come to the land, you must tie this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and you must gather your father and mother, and your brothers, and your whole family to your house.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="19">If anyone goes outside the doors of your house, {they will be responsible for their own death},<note>Literally "his blood <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> on his head"</note> and we <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> innocent. Anyone who will be with you in the house, {we will be responsible for their death}<note>Literally "his blood <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> on our head"</note> {if a hand is laid on them}.<note>Literally "if a hand will be against him"</note></verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="20">But if you report this business of ours, we will be released from your oath that you made us swear."</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="21">And she said, "According to your word it <transChange type="added">will be</transChange>." Then she sent them away, and they went, and she tied the scarlet cord in the window. </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="22">They departed and came to the mountain, and they stayed there three days until the pursuers returned. The pursuers searched {all along the way}<note>Literally "on all of the road"</note> but did not find <transChange type="added">them</transChange>.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="23">The two men returned and went down from the mountain, and they crossed <transChange type="added">over</transChange> and came to Joshua son of Nun, and they told him everything that happened to them.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="24">They said to Joshua, "Surely Yahweh has given all the land into our hand; also, all the inhabitants of the land melt away <transChange type="added">in fear</transChange> because of our presence." </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="1">Joshua rose early in the morning, and they set out from Acacia Grove.<note>Hebrew "Shittim"</note> And they came up to the Jordan, he and all the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and they spent the night there before they crossed <transChange type="added">over</transChange>.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="2">At the end of the three days the officers passed through the midst of the camp,</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="3">and they commanded the people: "When you see the Levitical priests carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God you must set out from your place and go after it.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="4"><transChange type="added">But</transChange> there will be a distance between you and it of about two thousand cubits in measurement.<note>That is, about 1 km</note> Do not come near it, so that you may know the way that you must go, for you have not passed on <transChange type="added">this</transChange> way {before}."<note>Literally "from yesterday three days before"</note></verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="5">And Joshua said to the people, "Sanctify yourselves, because tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders in your midst."</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="6">And Joshua said to the priests, "Take up the ark of the covenant and cross <transChange type="added">over</transChange> {ahead of the people}."<note>Literally "before the presence of the people"</note> And they took up the ark of the covenant and went {ahead of the people}.<note>Literally "before the presence of the people"</note> </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="7">Then Yahweh said to Joshua, "This day I will begin exalting you {in the sight}<note>Literally "in the eyes"</note> of all Israel, that they may know that I was with Moses, and I will be with you.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="8">You will command the priests carrying the ark of the covenant, saying, 'At the moment that you come to the edge of the waters of the Jordan, you will stand <transChange type="added">still</transChange> in the Jordan.'"</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="9">And Joshua said to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> "Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God."</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="10">Joshua said, "By this you will know that <transChange type="added">the</transChange> living God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in your midst, and he will certainly drive out the Canaanites {from before you},<note>Or "from your presence"</note> and the Hittites, Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="11">Look! The ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth<note>Or "world"</note> <transChange type="added">is about to</transChange> cross <transChange type="added">over</transChange> ahead of you into the Jordan.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="12">So then, take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, {one from each tribe}.<note>Literally "one man for the tribe"</note></verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="13">When the soles of the feet of the priests carrying the ark of Yahweh, Lord of all the earth,<note>Or "world"</note> rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan will be cut off {upstream},<note>Literally "going down from above"</note> and they will stand <transChange type="added">still in</transChange> one heap. </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="14">And it happened, when the people set out from their tents to cross <transChange type="added">over</transChange> the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant were {ahead of the people}.<note>Literally "before the presence of the people"</note></verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="15">When those carrying the ark came up to the Jordan, and the priests carrying the ark dipped their feet in the edge of the water (the Jordan was flowing over its banks during all the days of harvest),</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="16">the waters flowing down from above stood <transChange type="added">still</transChange>; they stood up <transChange type="added">in</transChange> one heap very far from Adam, the city that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> beside Zarethan, while <transChange type="added">the waters</transChange> flowing down to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea,<note>That is, the Dead Sea</note> {were completely cut off};<note>Literally "they were completed they were cut off"</note> and the people crossed <transChange type="added">over</transChange> opposite Jericho.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="17">And the priests carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh stood firmly on the dry land in the middle of the Jordan while all Israel crossed on dry ground, until all the nation finished crossing the Jordan. </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="2">"Take twelve men from the people, {one man from each tribe},<note>Literally "man one man one from tribe"</note></verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="3">and command them, saying, 'Take for yourselves twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan where the priests' feet stood firmly, and bring them over with you, and set them up in {the place where you will camp tonight}.'"<note>Literally "the lodging place where you will lodge tonight"</note></verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="4">So Joshua summoned the twelve men whom he had appointed from the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> one from each tribe.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="5">And Joshua said to them, "Cross <transChange type="added">over</transChange> before<note>Or "the presence"</note> the ark of Yahweh your God to the middle of the Jordan, and each one of you lift up a stone on your<note>Hebrew "his"</note> shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="6">so that this may be a reminder<note>Or "sign"</note> among you. When your children ask in the future, saying, '{What do these stones mean to you}?'<note>Literally "What are these stones for you?"</note></verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="7">you will say to them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off {from before}<note>Or "the presence of"</note> the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones will be as a memorial for the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> for eternity." </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="8">Thus the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> did as Joshua commanded. They took twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan as Yahweh told Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and they carried them over with them to {the camp},<note>Literally "the place of overnight lodging"</note> and they put them there.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="9">Then Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests carrying the ark of the covenant <transChange type="added">stood</transChange>, and they are there to this day.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="10">The priests carrying the ark remained standing in the middle of the Jordan until everything that Yahweh commanded Joshua to tell the people was finished, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua. And the people hastily crossed <transChange type="added">over</transChange>. </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="11">And it happened, when all the people had finished crossing, the ark of Yahweh and the priests crossed <transChange type="added">over</transChange> in front of<note>Or "before the presence"</note> the people.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="12">The children of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed <transChange type="added">over</transChange> armed before the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> as Moses told them.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="13">About forty thousand armed for fighting crossed <transChange type="added">over</transChange> before the presence of Yahweh to the plains of Jericho for battle.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="14">On that day Yahweh exalted Joshua {in the sight}<note>Literally "in the eyes"</note> of all Israel, and they respected him<note>Or "feared him"</note> as they respected<note>Or "feared"</note> Moses all the days of his life. </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="16">"Command the priests carrying the ark of the testimony<note>That is, the ark of the covenant</note> {to come up}<note>Literally "and let them come up"</note> from the Jordan."</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="18">And it happened that when the priests carrying the ark came up from the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet {touched dry land},<note>Literally "were raised from the ground to dry land"</note> the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and flowed over all its banks as before. </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="19">And the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth <transChange type="added">day</transChange> of the first month, and they camped in Gilgal on the eastern edge<note>That is, border</note> of Jericho.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="20">And those twelve stones that they took from the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="21">And he said to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> "When your children ask in the future {their parents},<note>Literally "their fathers"</note> '{What is the meaning of these stones}?'<note>Literally "What <transChange type="added">are</transChange> these stones?"</note></verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="22">you will let your children know <transChange type="added">by</transChange> saying, 'Israel crossed this Jordan on dry ground.'</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="23">For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you, until you had crossed, just as Yahweh your God did to the {Red Sea},<note>Literally "sea of reeds"</note> which he dried up before us until we had crossed over,</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="24">so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> strong, so that you may fear Yahweh your God {forever}."<note>Literally "all the days"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1">And it happened, when all the kings of the Amorites who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> by the sea heard that Yahweh dried up the waters of the Jordan in front of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> until they crossed <transChange type="added">over</transChange>, their hearts melted, and {there was no courage left in them}<note>Literally "a spirit was no longer in them"</note> because of the presence of the {Israelites}. <note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="2">At that time Yahweh said to Joshua, "Make for yourself knives of flint, and circumcise the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> a second time."</verse>


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<verse num="3">So Joshua made knives of flint, and he circumcised the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> at the hill of the foreskins.<note>Hebrew "Gibeath-haaraloth"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the reason why Joshua circumcised all the people: all the males who went out from Egypt, all the warriors, died in the wilderness as they went out from Egypt {on the journey}.<note>Literally "on the road"</note></verse>


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<verse num="5">For all the people who left were circumcised, but all the people born in the wilderness {on the journey}<note>Literally "on the road"</note> <transChange type="added">after</transChange> they left from Egypt were not circumcised.</verse>


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<verse num="6">For forty years the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> traveled in the wilderness until all the nation, the warriors that left Egypt, perished, because they did not listen to the voice of Yahweh. To them Yahweh swore that they would not see the land that he<note>Hebrew "Yahweh"</note> swore to their ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And it was their children <transChange type="added">whom</transChange> he raised in their place that Joshua circumcised, for they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised {on the journey}.<note>Literally "on the road"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="8">And it happened, when all the nation had finished circumcising, they remained where they were in the camp until they recovered.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And Yahweh said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the disgrace of Egypt from you." Therefore, the name of that place is called Gilgal<note>Hebrew "rolling"</note> to this day.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> camped at Gilgal, and they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, on the plains of Jericho.</verse>


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<verse num="11">On the next day after the Passover, on that<note>Literally "this"</note> very day, they ate from the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and roasted corn.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And the manna ceased the day after, when they <transChange type="added">started</transChange> eating the produce of the land, and there was no longer manna for the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> They ate from the crop of the land of Canaan in that year. </verse>


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<verse num="13">And it happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, {he looked up},<note>Literally "he lifted up his eyes"</note> and he saw a man standing {opposite him}<note>Literally "against him"</note> <transChange type="added">with</transChange> his sword drawn in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said, "Are you with us, or with our adversaries?"</verse>


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<verse num="14">And he said, "Neither. I have come now <transChange type="added">as</transChange> the commander of Yahweh's army." And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and {he bowed down}<note>Or "he worshiped"</note> and said to him, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my lord commanding his servant?"</verse>


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<verse num="15">The commander of Yahweh's army said to Joshua, "Take off your sandals<note>Hebrew "sandal"</note> from your feet,<note>Hebrew "foot"</note> for the place where you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> standing <transChange type="added">is</transChange> holy." And Joshua did so. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now Jericho <transChange type="added">was</transChange> shut up inside and out because of the presence of the {Israelites};<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> no one was going out or coming in.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And Yahweh said to Joshua, "Look, I am giving Jericho into your hand, its king and the soldiers of the army.</verse>


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<verse num="3">You will march around the city, all the warriors circling the city once; you will do so for six days.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And seven priests will bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark. On the seventh day you will march around the city seven times, and the priests will blow on the trumpets.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And when they blow long on the horn of the ram, when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people will shout <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a great war cry, and the wall of the city will fall flat,<note>Or "in its place"</note> and {the people will charge, each one straight ahead}."<note>Literally "the people will go up, each before him"</note></verse>


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<verse num="6">So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and said to them, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests carry the trumpets of the rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh."</verse>


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<verse num="7">And he said<note>Hebrew "they said"</note> to the people, "Go forward and march around the city, and let the armed <transChange type="added">men</transChange> pass before the ark of Yahweh. </verse>


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<verse num="8">{And when Joshua spoke}<note>Literally "And it happened the moment of the saying of Joshua"</note> to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the presence of Yahweh went forward and they blew the trumpets; and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh followed behind them.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And the armed <transChange type="added">men</transChange> went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard came after the ark, while they were blowing the trumpets.</verse>


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<verse num="10">But Joshua commanded the people, saying, "You will not shout, and you will not let your voice be heard; a word will not go out from your mouth until the day I say to you 'Shout!' Then you will shout."</verse>


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<verse num="11">And the ark of Yahweh went around the city, {circling once},<note>Literally "circling one occurrence"</note> and they came <transChange type="added">into</transChange> the camp and spent the night in the camp.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Then Joshua got up early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="13">The seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of the rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh went on continually, and they blew on the trumpets. And the armed <transChange type="added">men</transChange> went before them, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rear guard came after the ark of Yahweh, while the trumpets blew continually.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And they marched around the city once on the second day, and they returned <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the camp. They did <transChange type="added">this</transChange> for six days. </verse>


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<verse num="15">Then on the seventh day they rose early at dawn, and they marched around the city in this manner seven times. <transChange type="added">It was</transChange> only on that day that they marched around the city seven times.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And at the seventh time the priests blew on the trumpets, and Joshua said to the people, "Shout! For Yahweh has given you the city.</verse>


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<verse num="17">The city and all that is in it will be devoted to Yahweh; only Rahab the prostitute and all who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> with her in the house will live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent.</verse>


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<verse num="18">As for you, keep <transChange type="added">away</transChange> from the things<note>Hebrew "thing"</note> devoted to destruction so that you do not take them and bring about your own destruction, making the camp of Israel an object for destruction, bringing trouble upon it.</verse>


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<verse num="19">But all of the silver and gold, and the items of bronze and iron, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> holy to Yahweh, and they must go to Yahweh's treasury."</verse>


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<verse num="20">So the people shouted, and they<note>That is, the priests</note> blew on the trumpets. And when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, they raised a great shout, and the wall fell flat. {The people charged, each one straight ahead into the city},<note>Literally "The people went up, each before him"</note> and they captured it.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And they utterly destroyed {by the edge of the sword}<note>Literally "by the mouth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword"</note> all who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the city, both men and women, young and old, ox, sheep, and donkey. </verse>


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<verse num="22">Then Joshua said to the two men who spied on the land, "Go <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the prostitute's house and bring out from there the woman and all who belong to her, just as you swore to her."</verse>


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<verse num="23">So the young men who were spies went and brought Rahab and her father and mother, her brothers, and all who were with her. And they brought all her family out and set them outside the camp of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="24">And they burned the city and all that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in it with fire; they put only the silver and gold, and the items of copper and iron, <transChange type="added">into</transChange> the treasury of the house of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="25">But Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute {and her family}<note>Literally "and the house of her father"</note> and all who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with her, and she has lived in the midst of Israel until this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. </verse>


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<verse num="26">And Joshua swore at that time, saying, "Cursed <transChange type="added">is</transChange> anyone before Yahweh who gets up and builds Jericho, this city. At the cost of his firstborn he will lay its foundation, and at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates."</verse>


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<verse num="1">But the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> broke faith concerning the devoted things.<note>Or "consecrated possession<transChange type="added">s</transChange>"</note> Achan son of Carmi son of Zabdi son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took from the devoted things;<note>Hebrew "thing" or "consecrated possession"</note> and {Yahweh's anger was kindled}<note>Literally "the nose of Yahweh became hot"</note> against the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="2">Now Joshua sent men from Jericho <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Ai, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> near Beth Aven, east of Bethel, and he said to them, "Go up and spy out Ai." And the men went up and spied out Ai.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And they returned to Joshua and said to him, "Do not let all the people go up and attack Ai; <transChange type="added">only</transChange> two or three thousand men should go up because they<note>That is, the people of Ai</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> few. Do not make all the people weary <transChange type="added">up</transChange> there."</verse>


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<verse num="4">So about three thousand from the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai.</verse>


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<verse num="5">The men of Ai killed about thirty-six of them, and they chased them from the gate up to Shebarim and killed them on the slope. And the hearts<note>Hebrew "heart"</note> of the people melted and became like water. </verse>


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<verse num="6">And Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the ground on his face before the ark of Yahweh until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.<note>Hebrew "head"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">And Joshua said, "Ah, my Lord! Why did you bring this people across the Jordan to give us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us? If only we had been content and stayed beyond the Jordan.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Please, my Lord! What can I say after {Israel has fled from its enemies}?<note>Literally "Israel has turned its neck before its enemies"</note></verse>


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<verse num="9">The Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear <transChange type="added">of this</transChange>, and they will surround us and cut off our name from the land. What will you do, for your great name?" </verse>


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<verse num="10">And Yahweh said to Joshua, "Stand up! {Why}<note>Literally "For what this"</note> <transChange type="added">have</transChange> you fallen on your face?</verse>


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<verse num="11">Israel has sinned and {transgressed my covenant}<note>Literally "crossed my covenant"</note> that I commanded them. They have taken from the devoted things;<note>Hebrew "thing" or "from the consecrated possession"</note> they have stolen and acted deceitfully, and they have put <transChange type="added">them</transChange> among their belongings.</verse>


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<verse num="12">The {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> were unable to stand before their enemies; {they fled from their enemies}<note>Literally "they turned <transChange type="added">their</transChange> neck before their enemies"</note> because they have become a thing devoted<note>Or "consecrated"</note> for destruction. {I will be with you no more}<note>Literally "I will not do again to be with you"</note> unless you destroy the devoted things<note>Hebrew "thing" or "consecrated possession"</note> from among you.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Get up, sanctify the people, and say, 'Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow. Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: "<transChange type="added">There are</transChange> devoted things<note>Hebrew "thing" or "consecrated possession"</note> in your midst, O Israel. You will be unable to stand before you enemies until you remove the devoted things<note>Hebrew "thing" or "consecrated possession"</note> from your midst."</verse>


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<verse num="14">In the morning you will come forward, {tribe by tribe},<note>Literally "according to your tribes"</note> and the tribe that Yahweh will select by lot will come forward by clans, and the clan that Yahweh selects by lot will come forward by families, and the family that Yahweh selects by lot will come forward one by one.</verse>


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<verse num="15">The one caught with the devoted things<note>Hebrew "thing" or "consecrated possession"</note> will be burned with fire, he and all that belongs to him, because {he transgressed the covenant}<note>Literally "he crossed the covenant"</note> of Yahweh, and because he did a disgraceful thing in Israel." '" </verse>


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<verse num="16">So<note>Or "And"</note> Joshua rose early in the morning and brought forward Israel, {tribe by tribe},<note>Literally "according to its tribes"</note> and the tribe of Judah was selected by lot.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And he brought forward the clans of Judah and selected the clan of the Zerahites<note>Hebrew "Zerahite"</note> by lot. Then he brought forward the clan of the Zerahites,<note>Hebrew "Zerahite"</note> one by one, and Zabdi was selected by lot.</verse>


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<verse num="18">He brought forward his family, one by one, and Achan son of Carmi son of Zabdi son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was selected by lot.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And Joshua said to Achan, "My son, please, give glory to Yahweh the God of Israel, and give him a doxology in court.<note>Some interpret "make a confession"</note> Tell me, please, what you have done; do not hide <transChange type="added">it</transChange> from me."</verse>


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<verse num="20">And Achan answered Joshua and said, "It is true. I have sinned against Yahweh the God of Israel, and this is what I did:</verse>


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<verse num="21">I saw among the spoil a beautiful robe from Shinar,<note>"Shinar" refers to Babylonia</note> two hundred shekels of silver, and one bar of gold <transChange type="added">that</transChange> weighed fifty shekels; I coveted them and took them. They <transChange type="added">are</transChange> hidden in the ground inside my tent, and the silver <transChange type="added">is</transChange> under it." </verse>


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<verse num="22">Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and there <transChange type="added">they were</transChange>, hidden in his tent, and the silver <transChange type="added">was</transChange> under it.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And they took them from the tent and brought them to Joshua and all the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> And they spread them out before the presence of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="24">Then Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the bar of gold, his sons and daughters, his cattle and donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and everything that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> his, and they brought them <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the valley of Achor.<note>Hebrew "trouble"; a valley in the Jericho region</note></verse>


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<verse num="25">And Joshua said, "Why did you bring us trouble? Yahweh will bring you trouble on this day." And all Israel stoned them<note>Hebrew "him"</note> <transChange type="added">with</transChange> stones;<note>Hebrew "stone"</note> and they burned them with fire <transChange type="added">after</transChange> they stoned them with stones.</verse>


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<verse num="26">Then {they placed}<note>Literally "they raised up"</note> on top of him a great pile of stones <transChange type="added">that remains</transChange> to this day. And Yahweh {turned from his burning anger},<note>Literally "turned from his burning nose"</note> and thus the name of that place to this day is called the valley of Achor.<note>Hebrew "trouble"; a valley in the Jericho region</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1">Then Yahweh said to Joshua, "Do not fear or be dismayed. Take {all the fighting men}<note>Literally "all the people of war"</note> with you {and go up immediately to Ai}.<note>Literally "get up and go up to Ai"</note> Look, I am giving into your hand the king of Ai, his city, and his land.</verse>


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<verse num="2">You will do to Ai and its king that which you did to Jericho and its king; you may take only its spoils<note>Hebrew "spoil"</note> and livestock as booty for yourself. Set for yourself an ambush against the city <transChange type="added">from</transChange> behind <transChange type="added">it</transChange>." </verse>


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<verse num="3">So Joshua and {all the fighting men}<note>Literally "all the people of war"</note> went up immediately to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand of the best fighting men and sent them <transChange type="added">by</transChange> night.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And he commanded them, saying, "Look, you are to lay an ambush against the city from behind. Do not go very far from the city and be ready.</verse>


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<verse num="5">Then I and all of the people who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> with me will approach the city. And when they go out to meet us {as before},<note>Literally "as that at the first <transChange type="added">occasion</transChange>"</note> we will flee from them.<note>Or "before their presence"</note></verse>


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<verse num="6">They will come out after us until we draw them away from the city, because they will think, '<transChange type="added">They are</transChange> fleeing from us<note>Or "before our presence"</note> {as before}.'<note>Literally "as that at the first <transChange type="added">occasion</transChange>"</note> So we will flee from them.<note>Or "before their presence"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">Then you will rise up from the ambush and take possession of the city, for Yahweh your God will give it into your hand.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And when you capture the city you will set it on fire as Yahweh commanded. Look, I have commanded you."</verse>


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<verse num="9">So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the <transChange type="added">place of the</transChange> ambush, and they sat between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai; but Joshua spent the night {with the people}.<note>Literally "in the middle of the people"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="10">Joshua rose early in the morning and mustered the people, and he went up <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the elders of Israel before the people of Ai.<note>Or "before the presence of the people of Ai"</note></verse>


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<verse num="11">{All the fighting men}<note>Literally "All the people of war"</note> who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him {went up and drew near before the city}<note>Literally "went up, drew near, and came before the city"</note> and camped north of Ai; <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> a valley between him and Ai.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And he took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.</verse>


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<verse num="13">So they stationed the forces; all the army <transChange type="added">was</transChange> north of the city while {the rear guard was west}.<note>Literally "while its rear guard <transChange type="added">was</transChange> west of the city"</note> But Joshua went that night to the middle of the valley.</verse>


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<verse num="14">When the king of Ai saw <transChange type="added">this</transChange>, the men of the city hurried and rose early and went out to meet Israel for battle--he<note>That is, the king</note> and all his army--to the meeting place before the Arabah.<note>A dry region that runs south of the Sea of Galilee along the Jordan Valley</note> He did not know that <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> an ambush for him behind the city.</verse>


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<verse num="15">Then Joshua and all Israel acted like they were beaten before them, and they fled {in the direction of the wilderness}.<note>Literally "the way of the wilderness"</note></verse>


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<verse num="16">All of the people who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the city were called to pursue after them. As they pursued after Joshua, they were drawn away from the city.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Not a man remained in Ai or Bethel who had not gone out after Israel; they left the city open and pursued after Israel. </verse>


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<verse num="18">And Yahweh said to Joshua, "Stretch out the sword<note>Or "spear"</note> that is in your hand to Ai, because I will give it into your hand." And Joshua stretched out the sword that was in his hand to the city.</verse>


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<verse num="19">The moment he stretched out his hand, those in the ambush stood up quickly from their place and ran. And they went <transChange type="added">into</transChange> the city and captured it, quickly setting the city ablaze with fire.</verse>


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<verse num="20">Then the men of Ai looked behind them, and they saw smoke from the city rising to the sky; {they had no power to flee this way or that},<note>Literally "it was not in their hands to flee here and here"</note> and the people fleeing the wilderness turned around to the pursuers.<note>Hebrew "pursuer"</note></verse>


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<verse num="21">And Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had captured the city and that the smoke of the city was rising; they returned and struck down the men of Ai.</verse>


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<verse num="22">Then the others from the city came out to meet them, {and they found themselves surrounded by Israel},<note>Literally "they were in the middle of Israel"</note> {some on one side, and others on the other side}.<note>Literally "these from these, and these from this"</note> And they<note>That is, Israel</note> struck them down until no survivor or fugitive <transChange type="added">was</transChange> left.</verse>


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<verse num="24">When Israel finished slaughtering all the inhabitants of Ai in the open field, in the wilderness where they pursued them, and when all of them had fallen by {the edge of the sword}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> mouth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword"</note> until they all had perished, all Israel returned <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Ai and attacked it with {the edge of the sword}.<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> mouth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword"</note></verse>


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<verse num="25">All the people that fell on that day, both men and women, <transChange type="added">were</transChange> twelve thousand--all the inhabitants of Ai.</verse>


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<verse num="26">For Joshua did not draw back his hand that was stretched out with the sword until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.</verse>


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<verse num="27">Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as booty for themselves, according to the word of Yahweh that Joshua commanded.</verse>


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<verse num="28">So Joshua burned Ai and made it an everlasting heap of rubbish, a desolate place until this day.</verse>


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<verse num="29">The king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the time of evening, and as the sun went down Joshua commanded <transChange type="added">them</transChange>, and they brought down his dead body from the tree. Then they threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and they raised over it a great heap of stones <transChange type="added">that remains</transChange> to this day. </verse>


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<verse num="31">as Moses Yahweh's servant commanded the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> as <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> written in the scroll of the law of Moses: "an altar of unhewn<note>Or "whole"</note> stones <transChange type="added">on</transChange> which no one has {wielded}<note>Literally "waved over them"</note> an iron implement."<note>See Exod 20:25</note> And they offered burnt offerings on it and sacrificed fellowship offerings.</verse>


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<verse num="32">And there Joshua wrote on the stones <transChange type="added">a</transChange> copy of the law of Moses, which he<note>That is, Moses</note> had written, in the presence of the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


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<verse num="33">Then all Israel, {foreigner as well as native},<note>Literally "as the alien as the native"</note> with the elders, officials, and judges stood {on either side}<note>Literally "from this and from this"</note> of the ark before the priests and the Levites, who carried the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. Half of them <transChange type="added">stood</transChange> in front of Mount Gerizim, and the other half in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses Yahweh's servant had commanded before to bless the people of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="34">And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings<note>Hebrew "blessing"</note> and the curses,<note>Hebrew "curse"</note> according to all that was written in the scroll of the law.</verse>


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<verse num="35">There was not a word from all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before the assembly of all Israel, and the women, the little children, and the traveling foreigners<note>Hebrew "foreigner"</note> among them. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now<note>Or "And it happened"</note> when all the kings who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> beyond the Jordan in the hill country and in the Shephelah,<note>Or "lowlands"; a geographical region on the western edge of the hills of Judea</note> and on all the coast of the great sea toward Lebanon<note>Literally "white mountain"</note>--the Hittites,<note>Hebrew "Hittite"</note> the Amorites,<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> the Canaanites,<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> the Perizzites,<note>Hebrew "Perizzite"</note> the Hivites,<note>Hebrew "Hivite"</note> and the Jebusites<note>Hebrew "Jebusite"</note>--heard of <transChange type="added">this</transChange>,</verse>


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<verse num="2">they gathered themselves together to fight with one accord against<note>Hebrew "with"</note> Joshua and Israel. </verse>


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<verse num="4">and they acted on their part with cunning: they went and prepared provisions,<note>The Hebrew is difficult here. Some ancient manuscripts read, "they sent out a delegation/an envoy"</note> and took worn-out sacks<note>Or "sackcloths"</note> for their donkeys and old wineskins <transChange type="added">that were</transChange> torn and mended.</verse>


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<verse num="5">The sandals on their feet <transChange type="added">were</transChange> patched and old, their clothes <transChange type="added">were</transChange> old, and their food was dry and crumbled.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And they went to Joshua at the camp <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Gilgal and said to him and to the men of Israel, "We have come from a far land; so then {make a covenant with us}."<note>Literally "cut for us a covenant"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">And the men of Israel said to the Hivites,<note>Hebrew "Hivite"</note> "Perhaps you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> living among us; how can we {make a covenant}<note>Literally "cut a covenant"</note> with you?"</verse>


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<verse num="8">They said to Joshua, "We <transChange type="added">are</transChange> your servants." And Joshua said to them, "Who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you, and from where do you come?"</verse>


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<verse num="9">And they said to him, "Your servants have come from a very far land because of the name of Yahweh your God; we have heard of his reputation, of all that he did in Egypt,</verse>


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<verse num="10">and of all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> beyond the Jordan--to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan, who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in Ashtaroth.</verse>


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<verse num="11">So our elders said to us and all the inhabitants of our land, 'Take in your hand provisions for the journey, and go to meet them, and say to them, "We <transChange type="added">are</transChange> your servants; so then {make a covenant with us}." '<note>Literally "cut for us a covenant"</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> our bread; <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> hot <transChange type="added">when</transChange> we took it from our houses as provisions on the day we set out to come to you. But now, look, it is dry and crumbled.</verse>


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<verse num="13">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the wineskins that we filled new, but look, they have burst; and these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> our clothes and sandals that have worn out from the very long journey."</verse>


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<verse num="14">So the leaders<note>Or "men"</note> took from their provisions, but {they did not ask direction from Yahweh}.<note>Literally "the mouth of Yahweh they did not ask"</note></verse>


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<verse num="15">And Joshua made peace with them, and {he made a covenant with them}<note>Literally "he cut a covenant with them"</note> to allow them to live happily, and the leaders of the congregation swore <transChange type="added">an oath</transChange> to them. </verse>


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<verse num="16">And it happened that at the end of three days, after they made a covenant with them, they heard that {they were their neighbors}<note>Literally "they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> near them"</note> and living among them.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> set out and went to their cities on the third day (their cities <transChange type="added">were</transChange> Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim).</verse>


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<verse num="18">But the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> did not attack them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh the God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured {against their leaders}.<note>Literally "against the leaders of the congregation"</note></verse>


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<verse num="19">But all the leaders of the congregation said, "We have sworn to them by Yahweh the God of Israel, and so we cannot touch them.</verse>


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<verse num="20">This we will do to them: <transChange type="added">we will</transChange> let them live so that wrath will not be on us because of the oath we swore to them."</verse>


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<verse num="21">And the leaders<note>Or "men"</note> said to them, "Let them live." So they became woodcutters and water carriers for all the congregation, just as the leaders had said to them. </verse>


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<verse num="22">And Joshua summoned them and said, "Why have you deceived us saying, 'We <transChange type="added">are</transChange> very far from you' when you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> living among us?</verse>


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<verse num="23">Therefore you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> cursed; some of you will always be slaves as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God."</verse>


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<verse num="24">And they answered Joshua and said, "Because it was told with certainty to your servants that Yahweh your God commanded Moses his servant to give to you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land before you, so we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and so we did this thing.</verse>


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<verse num="25">So then, look, we <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in your hand; do with us whatever seems good and right in your eyes."</verse>


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<verse num="26">So he did this to them: he saved them from the hand of the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and they did not kill them.</verse>


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<verse num="27">And that day Joshua made them woodcutters and water carriers for the congregation and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, in the place that he should choose. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And it happened that when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua captured Ai and had utterly destroyed it (just as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he did to Ai and its king) and that the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them,</verse>


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<verse num="2">he<note>Hebrew "they"</note> became very afraid because Gibeon <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a very large city, {like one of the royal cities},<note>Literally "like one of the cities of the kingship"</note> and because it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> larger than Ai, and all its men <transChange type="added">were</transChange> mighty warriors.</verse>


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<verse num="3">So Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent <transChange type="added">word</transChange> to Hohman king of Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,</verse>


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<verse num="4">"Come up and help me, and let us attack Gibeon, because it has made peace with Joshua and the {Israelites}."<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


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<verse num="5">And the five kings of the Amorites,<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered <transChange type="added">together</transChange> and went up, they and all their forces, and {they laid siege to Gibeon}<note>Literally "they camped against Gibeon"; see Josh 10:31</note> and made war against it. </verse>


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<verse num="6">And the men of Gibeon sent <transChange type="added">word</transChange> to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, "{Do not abandon}<note>Literally "do not release your hands from"</note> your servant. Come up to us quickly and save us! Help us, for all the kings of the Amorites<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> who dwell in the hill country have gathered against us."</verse>


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<verse num="7">So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and {all the fighting men}<note>Literally "all the people of the war"</note> with him, {all the best warriors}.<note>Literally "all the mighty warriors of the army"</note></verse>


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<verse num="8">And Yahweh said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid of them, for I have given them into your hand; {no one will withstand you}.<note>Literally "not a man of them will stand in your presence"</note></verse>


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<verse num="9">Joshua came upon them suddenly {by marching up}<note>Literally "he went up"</note> all night from Gilgal.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And Yahweh threw them into panic before Israel, who<note>Hebrew "he"</note> struck them <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a great blow at Gibeon and pursued them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon and struck them as far as Azekah and Makkedah.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And as they were fleeing from Israel, <transChange type="added">they were</transChange> on the slope of Beth-horon, and Yahweh threw huge stones from the heavens on them as far as Azekah; and more died by the hail stones than those whom the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> killed by the sword. </verse>


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<verse num="12">Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh, on the day Yahweh gave the Amorites<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> over to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and he said in the sight of Israel, </verse>


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<verse num="13">And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nation took vengeance <transChange type="added">on</transChange> its enemies.</verse>


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<verse num="14">There has not been a day like this before it or after, that Yahweh listened to the voice of <transChange type="added">a</transChange> man; for Yahweh fought for Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And it was told to Joshua, saying, "The five kings were found hidden in the cave at Makkedah."</verse>


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<verse num="18">And Joshua said, "Roll large stones against the mouth of the cave, and set men in front of it to guard them.</verse>


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<verse num="19">But do not stay <transChange type="added">there</transChange>; pursue after your enemies and attack them from the rear. Do not allow them to go into their cities, for Yahweh your God has given them into your hand."</verse>


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<verse num="20">When Joshua and the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> had finished striking them <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a very great blow, until they perished, {those of them who survived}<note>Literally "the survivors <transChange type="added">who</transChange> survived"</note> went into the fortified cities,</verse>


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<verse num="21">and all the people returned to the camp safely<note>Or "in peace"</note> to Joshua <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Makkedah. {No one spoke}<note>Literally "No one moved his tongue"</note> against the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="22">And Joshua said, "Open the mouth of the cave, and bring to me those five kings from the cave."</verse>


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<verse num="23">And they did so, and brought him these five kings from the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.</verse>


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<verse num="24">And when they brought these kings to Joshua, Joshua called all the men of Israel and said to the commanders of {the fighting men}<note>Literally "the men of war"</note> who had gone with him, "Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings." So they came near and put their feet on their necks.</verse>


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<verse num="25">And Joshua said to them, "Do not be afraid or dismayed! Be strong and bold, for thus Yahweh will do to all your enemies whom you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> about to fight.</verse>


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<verse num="26">And after this Joshua struck them down and killed them, and he hanged them on five trees. And they were hanging on the trees until the evening.</verse>


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<verse num="27">And it happened {at the time of sunset},<note>Literally "at the time of the going of the sun"</note> Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves, and they put large stones against the mouth of the cave, <transChange type="added">which are there</transChange> to this very day. </verse>


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<verse num="28">Joshua captured Makkedah on that day, and he struck it and its king with {the edge of the sword};<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> mouth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword"</note> he utterly destroyed it and everyone that was in it. He did not leave behind a survivor. So he did to the king of Makkedah just as he did to the king of Jericho. </verse>


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<verse num="29">And Joshua passed on, and all of Israel with him, from Makkedah <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Libnah, and he fought against Libnah.</verse>


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<verse num="30">And Yahweh also gave it into the hand of Israel, and its king and all the people in it he struck with {the edge of the sword}.<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> mouth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword"</note> He left in it no survivor. He did to its king just as he did to the king of Jericho. </verse>


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<verse num="31">And Joshua passed on, and all of Israel with him, from Libnah to Lachish, and {he laid siege to it}<note>Literally "he camped opposite it"</note> and fought against it.</verse>


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<verse num="32">And Yahweh gave Lachish into the hand of Israel, and he captured it on the second day. He struck it with {the edge of the sword},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> mouth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword"</note> and everyone in it, just as he did to Libnah. </verse>


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<verse num="33">Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish, and Joshua struck him and his people until he left no survivor behind. </verse>


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<verse num="34">And Joshua passed on, and all of Israel with him, from Lachish to Eglon, and {they laid siege to it}<note>Literally "they camped opposite it"</note> and fought against it.</verse>


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<verse num="35">And they captured it on that day, and he struck it with {the edge of the sword},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> mouth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword"</note> and all the people that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in it on that day he utterly destroyed as he had done to Lachish. </verse>


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<verse num="36">And Joshua went up, and all Israel with him, from Eglon to Hebron, and they fought against it</verse>


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<verse num="37">and captured it, and they struck it with {the edge of the sword},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> mouth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword"</note> its king and all its cities, and all the people that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in it; he left behind no survivor, as he had done to Eglon, and he utterly destroyed it and all the people that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in it.</verse>


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<verse num="38">Then Joshua returned to Debir, and all of Israel with him, and they fought against it,</verse>


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<verse num="39">and he captured it and its king and all its cities, and they struck them with {the the edge of the sword},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> mouth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword"</note> and they utterly destroyed all the people that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in it; he left behind no survivor, just as he had done to Hebron. Thus he did to Debir and its king what he had done to Libnah and its king. </verse>


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<verse num="40">So Joshua struck all the land--the hill country, the Negev,<note>An arid region south of the Judaean hills</note> the Shephelah,<note>Or "lowlands"; a geographical region on the western edge of the hills of Judea</note> and the slopes<note>The slopes of the hills of the western Jordan to the Dead Sea region</note>--and all their kings; he left behind no survivor, and {all that breathed}<note>Literally "all of the breath"</note> he utterly destroyed as Yahweh the God of Israel commanded.</verse>


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<verse num="41">Joshua struck them from Kadesh Barnea to Gaza, and all the land of Goshen up to Gibeon;</verse>


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<verse num="42">all of these kings and their land Joshua captured at one time, because Yahweh the God of Israel fought for Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="1">And it happened, when Jabin king of Hazor heard <transChange type="added">this</transChange>, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Acshaph,</verse>


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<verse num="2">and to the kings who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the north in the hill country, in the Arabah<note>A dry region that runs south of the Sea of Galilee along the Jordan valley</note> south of Kinnereth,<note>That is, the Sea of Galilee</note> in the Shephelah,<note>Or "lowlands"; a geographical region on the western edge of the hills of Judea</note> and in Naphoth Dor<note>Or "the heights of Dor"</note> in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> west,</verse>


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<verse num="3">to the Canaanites<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east and <transChange type="added">west</transChange>, the Amorites,<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> the Hittites,<note>Hebrew "Hittite"</note> the Perizzites,<note>Hebrew "Perizzite"</note> and the Jebusites<note>Hebrew "Jebusite"</note> in the hill country, and the Hivites<note>Hebrew "Hivite"</note> {at the foot of}<note>Literally "under"</note> Hermon in the land of Mizpah.</verse>


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<verse num="4">They came out, they and all their armies with them, <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a great army like the sand on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And all these kings joined forces, and they came and camped together by the waters of Merom to fight with Israel. </verse>


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<verse num="6">And Yahweh said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid because of their presence, for tomorrow at this time I <transChange type="added">will</transChange> hand them over slain to Israel; you will hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire."</verse>


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<verse num="7">So Joshua, and {all the fighting men}<note>Literally "all the people of war"</note> with him, came against them suddenly at the waters of Merom, and {they attacked them}.<note>Literally "they fell upon them"</note></verse>


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<verse num="8">And Yahweh gave them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them and pursued them up to Great Sidon and Misrephoth Maim, and eastward up to the valley of Mizpeh. And they struck them until they left behind no survivor.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And Joshua did to them as Yahweh commanded him; he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire. </verse>


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<verse num="10">Then Joshua turned back at that time, and he captured Hazor and struck its king with the sword, because Hazor formerly <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the head of all these kingdoms.</verse>


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<verse num="11">He struck all the people that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in it with {the edge of the sword},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> mouth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword"</note> utterly destroying them. {There was no one left who breathed},<note>Literally "No one was left over of any breath"</note> and he burned Hazor with fire.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And Joshua captured all the cities of these kings, and all their kings, and he utterly destroyed them with {the edge of the sword},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> mouth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword"</note> as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Israel did not burn the cities standing on their mounds,<note>Hebrew "mound"</note> except Hazor alone, <transChange type="added">which</transChange> Joshua burned.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And all the spoil and livestock of these cities the {Israelites} took as booty; they struck the people with {the edge of the sword},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> mouth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword"</note> until they had destroyed them--they left behind no one who breathed.</verse>


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<verse num="15">Just as Yahweh commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and Joshua did; he left nothing undone that Yahweh had commanded Moses. </verse>


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<verse num="16">So Joshua took all this land: the hill country, all the Negev,<note>An arid region south of the Judaean hills</note> all the land of Goshen,<note>A southern region; the name means "on the mountains"</note> the Shephelah,<note>Or "lowlands"; a geographical region on the western edge of the hills of Judea</note> the Arabah,<note>A dry region that runs south of the Sea of Galilee along the Jordan valley</note> and the hill country of Israel and its Shephelah,<note>Or "lowlands"; a geographical region on the western edge of the hills of Judea</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">from Mount Halak <transChange type="added">that</transChange> rises to Seir and to Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon<note>Or "white mountain"</note> {at the foot of}<note>Literally "under"</note> Mount Hermon; he captured all their kings, struck them, and killed them.</verse>


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<verse num="18"><transChange type="added">For</transChange> many days Joshua made war with all these kings.</verse>


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<verse num="19">There was not a city that made peace with the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> besides the Hivites<note>Hebrew "Hivite"</note> and the inhabitants of Gibeon--{all were taken in battle}.<note>Literally "the all they took in the battle"</note></verse>


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<verse num="20">For it was Yahweh that {hardened their hearts},<note>Literally "made their heart<transChange type="added">s</transChange> strong"</note> to meet Israel in war in order to utterly destroy them without mercy, that they would destroy them just as Yahweh commanded Moses. </verse>


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<verse num="21">At that time Joshua came and exterminated the Anakites from the hill country, from Hebron, Debir, Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel; Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.</verse>


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<verse num="22">None of the Anakites were left in the land of the {Israelites};<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> some remained only in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod.</verse>


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<verse num="23">Joshua took all the land according to all that Yahweh had spoken to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel, according to their tribal divisions, and the land rested from war. </verse>


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<verse num="1">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the kings of the land whom the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> defeated, and of whose land they took possession beyond the Jordon {to the east},<note>Literally "to the rising of the sun"</note> from the wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> of Arnon up to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah<note>A dry region that runs south of the Sea of Galilee along the Jordan Valley</note> to the east:</verse>


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<verse num="2">Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on the edge of the wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> of Arnon, <transChange type="added">from</transChange> the middle of the valley and half of Gilead, up to the {Jabbok River},<note>Literally "Jabbok the wadi"</note> <transChange type="added">which marks</transChange> the border of the {Ammonites};<note>Literally "sons of Ammon" or "children of Ammon"</note></verse>


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<verse num="3">and the Arabah<note>A dry region that runs south of the Sea of Galilee along the Jordan Valley</note> up to the Kinnereth Sea<note>That is, the Sea of Galilee</note> to the east, and as far as the sea of Arabah, the Salt Sea<note>That is, the Dead Sea</note> to the east, {in the direction of}<note>Literally "the way of"</note> Beth Jeshimoth, and to <transChange type="added">the area</transChange> southward, {at the foot of}<note>Literally "under"</note> the slopes of Pisgah;<note>Or Ashdoth Pisgah</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">the territory of Og king of Bashan, one of the last of the Rephaites, who lived at Ashtaroth and Edrei</verse>


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<verse num="5">and ruled over Mount Hermon and Salecah and over all Bashan up to the border of the Geshurites<note>Hebrew "Geshurite"</note> and the Maacathites,<note>Hebrew "Maacathite"</note> and half of Gilead, as far as the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.</verse>


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<verse num="6">Moses Yahweh's servant and the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> defeated them; and Moses Yahweh's servant gave it <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a possession to the Reubenites,<note>Hebrew "Reubenite"</note> the Gadites,<note>Hebrew "Gadite"</note> and the half-tribe of Manasseh. </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="7">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the kings of the land whom Joshua and the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> defeated beyond to the Jordan to the west, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon,<note>Or "white mountain"</note> and up to Mount Halak, <transChange type="added">which</transChange> rises to Seir. And Joshua gave it <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a possession to the tribes of Israel according to their allotments,</verse>


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<verse num="8">in the hill country, the Shephelah,<note>Or "lowlands"; a geographical region on the western edge of the hills of Judea</note> the Arabah,<note>A dry region that runs south of the Sea of Galilee along the Jordan Valley</note> on the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negev;<note>An arid region south of the Judaean hills</note> the Hittites,<note>Hebrew "Hittite"</note> the Amorites,<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> the Canaanites,<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> the Perizzites,<note>Hebrew "Perizzite"</note> the Hivites,<note>Hebrew "Hivite"</note> and the Jebusites:<note>Hebrew "Jebusite"</note> </verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="9">the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> beside Bethel, one; </verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="1">Now Joshua was old <transChange type="added">and</transChange> {advanced in years},<note>Literally "he went in the days"</note> and Yahweh said to him, "You are old <transChange type="added">and</transChange> {advanced in years},<note>Literally "you went in the days"</note> and very much of the land remains to be possessed.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="2">This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the remaining land: all the regions of the Philistines, and all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the Geshurites,<note>Hebrew "Geshurite"</note></verse>


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<verse num="3">from the Shihor, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {east of Egypt},<note>Literally "on the face of Egypt"</note> up to the border of Ekron to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north, which is reckoned as Canaanite; <transChange type="added">there are</transChange> five Philistine rulers: the Gazites,<note>Hebrew "Gazite"</note> Ashdodites,<note>Hebrew "Ashdodite"</note> Ashkelonites,<note>Hebrew "Ashkelonite"</note> Gittites,<note>Hebrew "Gittite"</note> Ekronites,<note>Hebrew "Ekronite"</note> and the Avvim.</verse>


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<verse num="4">In <transChange type="added">the</transChange> south; all the land of the Canaanites,<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> and Mearah, which <transChange type="added">belongs</transChange> to the Sidonians up to Aphek, to the border of the Amorites,<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note></verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="5">and the land of the Gebalites, and all the Lebanon,<note>Or "white mountain"</note> {toward the east},<note>Literally "the rise of the sun"</note> from Baal Gad {at the foot of}<note>Or "below" or "under"</note> Mount Hermon up to Lebo-Hamath;</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="6">all the inhabitants of the hill country, from the Lebanon<note>Or "white mountain"</note> up to Misrephoth Maim, and all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Sidonians. I will drive them out from before the {Israelites};<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> only allocate it to Israel as an inheritance just as I have commanded you.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="7">Therefore, divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh." </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="8">With it<note>That is, the other half-tribe of Manasseh</note> the Reubenites,<note>Hebrew "Reubenite"</note> and the Gadites<note>Hebrew "Gadite"</note> received their inheritance, which Moses gave them beyond the Jordan to the east, just as Moses Yahweh's servant gave to them:</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="9">from Aroer, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on the edge of the wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> of Arnon, and the city which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the middle of the wadi, and all the plateau <transChange type="added">from</transChange> Medeba up to Dibon;</verse>


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<verse num="10">and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites,<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> who reigned in Heshbon up to the border of the {Ammonites};<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note></verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="11">and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurite<note>Hebrew "Geshurite"</note> and the Maacathites,<note>Hebrew "Maacathite"</note> all of {Mount Hermon},<note>Or "the hill country of Hermon"</note> and Bashan up to Salecah;</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="12">all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei--he was left over from the survivors<note>Hebrew "survivor"</note> of the Rephaim; these Moses had defeated and driven out.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="13">But the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> did not drive out the Geshurites<note>Hebrew "Geshurite"</note> or the Maacathites;<note>Hebrew "Maacathite"</note> Geshur and Maacah live among Israel to this day.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="14">Only the tribe of Levites<note>Hebrew "Levite"</note> Moses did not give an inheritance; the offerings made by fire to Yahweh the God of Israel <transChange type="added">are</transChange> their<note>Hebrew "his"</note> inheritance, just as he promised to them.<note>Hebrew "he said to him"</note> </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="15">Moses gave <transChange type="added">an inheritance</transChange> to the tribe of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Reuben according to their families.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="16">Their territory was from Aroer, which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on the edge of the wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> of Arnon, and the city that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the middle of the valley, and all the plateau by Medeba;</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="17">Heshbon and its cities that <transChange type="added">are</transChange> on the plateau; Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="21">all of the cities of the plateau, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites,<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> who reigned in Heshbon and whom Moses defeated with the leaders of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon who dwelled in the land.</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="22"><transChange type="added">In addition</transChange> to their slain, the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> killed with the sword Balaam son of Beor, who practiced divination.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And the border of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Reuben <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the Jordan and <transChange type="added">its</transChange> banks.<note>Hebrew "bank"</note> This <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the inheritance of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Reuben according to their families, the cities, and their villages. </verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="24">Moses gave <transChange type="added">an inheritance</transChange> to the tribe of Gad, to the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Gad, according to their families.</verse>


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<verse num="25">Their territory was Jazer and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> up to Aroer, {which is east of Rabbah};<note>Literally "which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> before Rabbah"</note></verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="26">and from Heshbon up to Ramah-Mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim up to the territory to Debir;</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="27">in the valley of Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, Zaphon, and the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan and <transChange type="added">its</transChange> banks,<note>Hebrew "bank"</note> up to the <transChange type="added">lower</transChange> end of the Kinnereth Sea<note>That is, the Sea of Galilee</note> beyond the Jordan to the east.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="28">This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the inheritance of the {Gadites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Gad"</note> according to their families, the cities, and their villages. </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="29">Moses gave <transChange type="added">an inheritance</transChange> to the half-tribe of Manasseh; it was for the half-tribe of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Manasseh according to their families.</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="30">Their territory was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the settlements<note>Or "tent villages"</note> of Jair, which <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in Bashan, sixty cities,</verse>


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<verse num="31">and half of Gilead, with Ashtaroth, Edrei, and the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan; <transChange type="added">these were allotted</transChange> to the children of Makir son of Manasseh, for half of the children of Makir according to their families.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="32">These <transChange type="added">are the territories</transChange> that Moses gave as an inheritance on the desert-plateau of Moab, beyond the Jordan, east of Jericho.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="33">But to the tribe of Levi Moses did not give an inheritance; Yahweh the God of Israel, he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> their inheritance, just as {he promised them}.<note>Literally "he said to them"</note> </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="1">These <transChange type="added">are the territories</transChange> that the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> gave as an inheritance to them.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="2">Their inheritance <transChange type="added">was</transChange> by lot, just as Yahweh commanded through the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="3">For Moses had given <transChange type="added">an</transChange> inheritance of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="4">For the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim, and they did not give a plot of ground to the Levites in the land, only cities to live <transChange type="added">in</transChange>, with their pastureland for their flocks and for their goods.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="5">Just as Yahweh commanded Moses, so the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> did; and they allotted the land. </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="6">Then the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal; and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, "You know the word that Yahweh said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh Barnea concerning you and me.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="7">{I was forty years old}<note>Literally "I <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a son of forty year<transChange type="added">s</transChange>"</note> when Moses Yahweh's servant sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land, and I returned {with an honest report}.<note>Literally "with a word just as <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with my heart"</note></verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="8">My companions who went up with me made the hearts<note>Hebrew "heart"</note> of the people melt, but I remained true to Yahweh my God.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="9">And Moses swore on that day, saying, 'Surely the land that your foot has trodden on will be an inheritance to you and your sons forever, because you remained true to Yahweh my God.'</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="10">So then, look, Yahweh has kept me alive just as he promised these forty-five years,<note>Hebrew "year"</note> from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses while Israel {wandered}<note>Literally "went"</note> in the wilderness. Now look, today {I am eighty-five years old}.<note>Literally "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> a son of eighty-five year<transChange type="added">s</transChange>"</note></verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="11">Today I am still strong, just as on the day that Moses sent me; as my strength <transChange type="added">was</transChange> then, so now also <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my strength for war {and for daily activities}.<note>Literally "for going out and for coming <transChange type="added">in</transChange>"</note></verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="12">So now give me this hill country that Yahweh spoke <transChange type="added">of</transChange> on that day, for you heard on that day that the Anakites <transChange type="added">were</transChange> there, with great and fortified cities. Perhaps Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with me, and I will drive them out just as Yahweh promised."<note>Or "said"</note> </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="13">And Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to Caleb son of Jephunneh as an inheritance.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="14">Thus Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he remained true to Yahweh the God of Israel.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="15">And the name of Hebron formerly <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Kiriath Arba;<note>Or "the city of Arba"</note> <transChange type="added">Arba was</transChange> the greatest person among the Anakites. And the land rested from war. </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="1">The allotment for the tribe of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Judah according to their families reached to the border of Edom, to the wilderness of Zin, {to the far south}.<note>Literally "to the south at the end of south"</note></verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="2">Their southern border was from the end of the Salt Sea,<note>That is, the Dead Sea</note> from the bay facing southward;</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="3">it continues<note>Hebrew "goes out"</note> to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> south to the ascent of Akrabbim, passes <transChange type="added">along</transChange> to Zin, it goes up south of Kadesh Barnea, passes <transChange type="added">along</transChange> Hezron, goes up to Addar, and makes a turn to Karka;</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="4">{it passes on}<note>Literally "it was to"</note> to Azmon, continues<note>Hebrew "goes out"</note> by the wadi of Egypt, and {it ends}<note>Literally "the goings out of the border were"</note> at the sea. This will be your southern border.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="5"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> eastern border <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the Salt Sea<note>That is, the Dead Sea</note> up to the mouth<note>Or "end"</note> of the Jordan. <transChange type="added">The</transChange> border on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> northern side <transChange type="added">runs</transChange> from the bay of the sea at the mouth<note>Or "end"</note> of the Jordan;</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="6">the border goes up to Beth-hoglah and passes <transChange type="added">along</transChange> north of Beth Arabah; and the border goes up the stone of Bohan son of Reuben;</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="7">and the border goes up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and to the north, turning to Gilgal, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> opposite the ascent of Adummim, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> south of the wadi;<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> and the border passes on to the waters of En Shemesh, and it ends at En Rogel.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="8">Then the border goes up <transChange type="added">by</transChange> the Valley of Ben Hinnom<note>Or "valley of the son of Hinnom"</note> to the slope of the Jebusites<note>Hebrew "Jebusite"</note> from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> south (that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, Jerusalem); and the border goes up to the top of the mountain that <transChange type="added">lies</transChange> opposite the valley of Hinnom to the west, which is at the end of the valley of Rephaim to the north;</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="9">then the border turns from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and continues<note>Hebrew "goes out"</note> from there to the cities of Mount Ephron; the border <transChange type="added">then</transChange> turns <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Baalah (that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, Kiriath Jearim);</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="10">and the border goes around from Baalah to the west, to Mount Seir, and passes on to the slope of Mount Jearim from the north (that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, Kesalon), and goes down <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Beth Shemesh, and passes <transChange type="added">along by</transChange> Timnah.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="11">The border continues<note>"Hebrew "goes out"</note> to the slope of Ekron to the north, <transChange type="added">then</transChange> bends around to Shikkeron, it passes <transChange type="added">on</transChange> to Mount Baalah and continues <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Jabneel; and {the border ends}<note>Literally "the goings out of the border were"</note> at the sea.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="12">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> western border <transChange type="added">is</transChange> to the Great Sea<note>That is, the Mediterranean</note> and its coast. This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the border surrounding the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Judah according to their families. </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="13">{According to the commandment of Yahweh to Joshua},<note>Literally "according to the mouth of Yahweh to Joshua"</note> he gave to Caleb son of Jephunneh a plot of ground among the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Judah, Kiriath Arba,<note>Or "the city of Arba"</note> which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Hebron (<transChange type="added">Arba</transChange> was Anak's father).</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="14">Caleb drove out from there three of Anak's sons, Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the descendants<note>Or "children"</note> of Anak.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="15">And from there he went up against the inhabitants of Debir (the former name of Debir <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Kiriath Sepher).</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="16">And Caleb said, "Whoever attacks Kiriath Sepher and captures it, I will give to him my daughter Acsah as a wife."</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="17">Othniel son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, captured it, and he gave to him Acsah his daughter as a wife.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="18">When she came <transChange type="added">to him</transChange> she urged him to ask her father for a field. So she dismounted from the donkey, and Caleb said to her, "{What do you want}?"<note>Literally "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for you?"</note></verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="19">And she said to him, "Give to me a gift;<note>Or "blessing"</note> you have given me the land of the Negev,<note>An arid region south of the Judaean hills</note> and you must give to me a spring of water." And he gave to her the upper and lower spring.<note>Joshua 15:13-19 is almost identical to Judges 1:11-15</note> </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="20">This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Judah according to their families:</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="21">the cities belonging to the tribe of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Judah to the far south, to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> border of Edom to the south, were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,</verse>


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<verse num="25">Hazor Hadattah, Kerioth Hezron (that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, Hazor),</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="32">Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon; <transChange type="added">in</transChange> all, twenty-nine cities and their villages. </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="33">In the Shephelah:<note>Or "lowlands"; a geographical region on the western edge of the hills of Judea</note> Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="36">Shaaraim, Adithaim, Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities and their villages. </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="41">Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities and their villages. </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="46">from Ekron to the sea, and all that {were near}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">were</transChange> on the hand of"</note> Ashdod and their villages. </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="47">Ashdod, its towns and villages; Gaza, its towns and villages, up to the wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> of Egypt and the Great Sea<note>That is, the Mediterranean</note> and its coast.<note>Literally "border"</note> </verse>


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content:
<verse num="49">Dannah, Kiriath Sanna (that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, Debir),</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="54">Humtah, Kiriath Arba<note>Or "the city of Arba"</note> (that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, Hebron), and Zior; nine cities and their villages. </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="60">Kiriath Baal (that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, Kiriath Jearim) and Rabbah; two cities and their villages. </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="63">But the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Judah were unable to drive out the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so the Jebusites live with the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Judah in Jerusalem to this day. </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="1">The allotment of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Joseph went from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Jordan by Jericho, at the waters of Jericho to the east, <transChange type="added">into</transChange> the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Bethel;</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="2">it continues from Bethel to Luz, and it passes <transChange type="added">along</transChange> to the territory of the Arkites<note>Hebrew "Arkite"</note> at Ataroth.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="3">Then it goes down, to the west, to the territory of the Japhletites,<note>Hebrew "Japhletite"</note> up to the territory of Lower Beth-horon, then to Gezer, and {it ends}<note>Literally "the goings out of it were"</note> at the sea. </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="4">And the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="5"><transChange type="added">This</transChange> was the border of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Ephraim according to their families: the border of their inheritance to the east <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Ataroth Addar, up to Upper Beth-horon.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="6">The border continues to the sea; from Micmethath to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north, the border turns to the east to Taanath Shiloh, and it passes <transChange type="added">along</transChange> it from the east to Janoah.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="7">Then it goes down from Janoah to Ataroth and to Naarah; it touches Jericho and ends <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the Jordan;</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="8">from Tappuah the border goes to the west, <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> of Kanah, and {it ends}<note>Literally "the goings out of it were"</note> at the sea. This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Ephraim according to their families,</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="9">with the cities that were set apart for the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Manasseh, all the cities and their villages.</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="10">But they did not drive out the Canananites<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> who were dwelling in Gezer, and so the Canaanites<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> live in the midst of Ephraim to this day, but they became forced laborers. </verse>


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content:
<verse num="1">Then the allotment was made for the tribe of Manasseh, because he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the firstborn of Joseph. To Makir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, {were allotted}<note>Literally "and there was to him"</note> Gilead and Bashan, because he was a warrior.<note>Literally "a man of war"</note></verse>


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<verse num="2"><transChange type="added">An allotment</transChange> was <transChange type="added">made</transChange> for the remaining descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Manasseh, according to their families: For the children of Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida--these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the male descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Manasseh son of Joseph according to their families. </verse>


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<verse num="3">But Zelophehad son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Makir, son of Manasseh, had no sons, only daughters. These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.</verse>


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<verse num="4">They came before Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders, saying, "Yahweh commanded Moses to give an inheritance to us among our kinsmen."<note>Or "among our brothers"</note> Therefore, according to the {command of Yahweh}<note>Literally "mouth of Yahweh"</note> he gave them an inheritance among the kinsmen<note>Or "brothers"</note> of their father.</verse>


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<verse num="5">Thus ten shares fell to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> beyond the Jordan,</verse>


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<verse num="6">because the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance among his sons. And the land of Gilead was <transChange type="added">allotted</transChange> to the remaining descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Manasseh.</verse>


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<verse num="7">The border of Manasseh was from Asher <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Micmethath, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> opposite Shechem;<note>Or "which faces Shechem"</note> then the border goes to the south, to the inhabitants of En Tappuah.</verse>


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<verse num="8">The land of Tappuah {belonged to Manasseh},<note>Literally "was to Manasseh"</note> but Tuppuah on the border of Manasseh {belonged to the descendants of Ephraim}.<note>Literally "was to the children of Ephraim"</note></verse>


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<verse num="9">Then the border goes down <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> of Kanah to the south of the wadi. These cities <transChange type="added">belong</transChange> to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh. The border of Manasseh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> north of the wadi, and {it ends}<note>Literally "the goings out of it were"</note> at the sea.</verse>


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<verse num="10">The south <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Ephraim's, and the north <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Manasseh's; the sea is their<note>Hebrew "its"</note> border; Asher touches <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north and on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east Issachar.</verse>


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<verse num="11">In Issachar and Asher, Manasseh had Beth-shean and its villages, Ibleam and its villages, the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, the inhabitants of Taanach and its villages, the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; the third is Napheth.</verse>


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<verse num="12">But the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Manasseh were not able to take possession of these towns; the Canaanites<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> were determined to live in this land.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And it happened, when the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> grew strong, they put the Canaanites<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> to forced labor but never drove them out completely. </verse>


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<verse num="14">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Joseph spoke with Joshua, saying, "Why have you given us<note>Hebrew "to me"</note> one allotment and one share <transChange type="added">as</transChange> an inheritance? We are many people, which Yahweh has blessed."</verse>


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<verse num="15">And Joshua said to them, "If you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> many people, go up to the forest and clear <transChange type="added">a place</transChange> there for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites<note>Hebrew "Perizzite"</note> and Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is <transChange type="added">too</transChange> narrow for you."</verse>


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<verse num="16">And the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Joseph said, "The hill country is not enough for us, and all of the Canaanites<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> living in the land of the valley <transChange type="added">have</transChange> chariots<note>Hebrew "chariot"</note> of iron, those in Beth-shean and its villages, and those in the Jezreel Valley."</verse>


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<verse num="17">And Joshua said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, "You are many people and have great power; you will not have one allotment <transChange type="added">only</transChange>;</verse>


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<verse num="18"><transChange type="added">the</transChange> hill country will be yours. Even though it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a forest, you will clear it, and it will be yours <transChange type="added">to</transChange> its farthest borders. You will drive out the Canaanites,<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> even though they have iron chariots and <transChange type="added">are</transChange> strong." </verse>


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<verse num="1">The entire congregation of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> assembled <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Shiloh, and they set up there the tent of meeting, and the land was subdued before them.<note>Or "in their presence"</note></verse>


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<verse num="2">And seven tribes remained among the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> who had not been apportioned their inheritance.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And Joshua said to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> "{How long}<note>Literally "Until when"</note> <transChange type="added">will</transChange> you be slack about going to take possession of the land that Yahweh, the God of your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> has given you?</verse>


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<verse num="4">Provide three men {from each tribe},<note>Literally "according to each tribe"</note> and I will send them so that they may begin to go through the land and write <transChange type="added">a description of</transChange> it {according to their inheritance},<note>Literally "according to the mouth of their inheritance"</note> and let them come to me.</verse>


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<verse num="5">They will divide it among themselves into seven portions; {Judah will maintain its border}<note>Literally "Judah will stand on its border"</note> from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> south, and {the house of Joseph will maintain its border}<note>Literally "the house of Joseph will stand on its border"</note> from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north.</verse>


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<verse num="6">Describe the land <transChange type="added">in</transChange> seven divisions, and bring <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to me here; I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh our God.</verse>


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<verse num="7">The Levites among you have no portion, for their inheritance <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the priesthood of Yahweh; Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh received their inheritance beyond the Jordan to the east, which Moses Yahweh's servant gave to them." </verse>


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<verse num="8">And {the men went immediately},<note>Literally "the men got up and went"</note> and Joshua commanded the ones going to describe the land, saying, "Go and walk about through the land, write <transChange type="added">a description</transChange>, and return to me, and here I will cast a lot for you before<note>Or "in the presence of"</note> Yahweh at Shiloh."</verse>


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<verse num="9">And the men went and passed through the land, and they {described}<note>Literally "wrote it"</note> the cities in seven divisions in a book; and they came to Joshua to the camp <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Shiloh,</verse>


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<verse num="10">and Joshua cast a lot for them at Shiloh before<note>Or "in the presence of"</note> Yahweh, and there he divided the land for the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> {to each a portion}.<note>Literally "according to their allotment"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="11">And the allotment of the tribe of Benjamin came up according to their families, and the border of their allotment fell<note>Literally "went out"</note> between the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Judah and the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Joseph.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Their northern border began at the Jordan and went up to the slope of Jericho on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north and continued into the hill country to the west; {it ends}<note>Literally "the goings out of it were"</note> at the wilderness of Beth Aven.</verse>


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<verse num="13">The border passes <transChange type="added">on</transChange> from there to Luz, to the slope of Luz to the south (that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, Bethel); then the border goes down to Ataroth Addar to the mountain that is south of Lower Beth-Horon.</verse>


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<verse num="14">Then the border changes direction and turns to the western side southward, from the mountain that {is opposite}<note>Literally "against the face of"</note> Beth-Horon to the south. {It ends}<note>Literally "the goings out of it were"</note> at Kiriath Baal (that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, Kiriath Jearim), a town belonging to the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Judah. This <transChange type="added">is the</transChange> western side.</verse>


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<verse num="15"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> southern side <transChange type="added">begins</transChange> on the outskirts of Kiriath Jearim, and the border continues to the west to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah;</verse>


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<verse num="16">the border goes down to the foot<note>Or "to the edge"</note> of the mountain, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> opposite the Valley of Ben Hinnom,<note>Or "valley of the son of-Hinnom"</note> which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the valley of Rephaim to the north; then it does down the valley of Hinnom to the slope of the Jebusites<note>Hebrew "Jebusite"</note> to the south, and then it goes down <transChange type="added">to</transChange> En Rogel.</verse>


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<verse num="17">It changes direction from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north, and it continues <transChange type="added">to</transChange> En Shemesh; it goes out to Geliloth, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> opposite the ascent of Adummim, and it goes down <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the stone of Bohan, son of Reuben.</verse>


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<verse num="18">It passes <transChange type="added">on</transChange> to the slope opposite the Arabah<note>A dry region that runs south of the Sea of Galilee along the Jordan Valley</note> to the north, and it goes down to the Arabah.<note>A dry region that runs south of the Sea of Galilee along the Jordan Valley</note></verse>


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<verse num="19">The border passes <transChange type="added">on</transChange> to the slope of Beth-hoglah to the north and {ends}<note>Literally "the goings out of it were"</note> at the north bay of the Salt Sea<note>That is, the Dead Sea</note> at the south end of the Jordan. This is the southern border.</verse>


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<verse num="20">The Jordan forms its border on the eastern side. This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the inheritance of the tribe of Benjamin, its borders that surrounds <transChange type="added">them</transChange>, according to their families. </verse>


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<verse num="21">Now the towns of the tribes of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Benjamin, according to their families, were Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek Keziz,</verse>


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<verse num="28">Zela, Haeleph, Jebus (that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath; fourteen cities and their villages. This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the inheritance of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Benjamin according to their families. </verse>


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<verse num="1">The second allotment {fell}<note>Literally "went out"</note> for Simeon, for the tribe of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Simeon, according to their families. And their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Judah.</verse>


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<verse num="8">and all the villages that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> around these towns up to Baalat-Beor, Ramath of the Negev.<note>An arid region south of the Judaean hills</note> This <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Simeon according to their families.</verse>


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<verse num="9">Part of the portion <transChange type="added">allotted to</transChange> the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Judah <transChange type="added">became</transChange> the inheritance of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Simeon because the portion for the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Judah was {too large for them},<note>Literally "large from them"</note> so the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Simeon inherited <transChange type="added">from</transChange> their inheritance. </verse>


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<verse num="10">The third allotment came up for the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Zebulun according to their families. The border of their inheritance went up to Sarid.</verse>


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<verse num="11">Their border goes up to the west, to Maralah; it touches<note>Or "reaches to"</note> Dabbesheth, then the wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> opposite Jokneam.</verse>


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<verse num="12">It turns from Sarid to the east to the sunrise, to the border of Kislot-Tabor; it continues to Daberath and goes up <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Japhia.</verse>


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<verse num="13">From there it passes <transChange type="added">along</transChange> to the east toward the sunrise, to Gath Hepher and to Eth Kazin, and continuing <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Rimmon, it turns <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Neah;</verse>


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<verse num="14">it changes direction from the north of Hannathon, and {it ends}<note>Literally "the goings out of it were" </note> at the valley of Yiptah-El;</verse>


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<verse num="15">Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem; twelve cities and their villages.</verse>


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<verse num="16">This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the inheritance of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Zebulun according to their families, these cities and their villages. </verse>


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<verse num="17">The fourth allotment {fell}<note>Literally "came out"</note> for Issachar, for the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Issachar, according to their families.</verse>


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<verse num="22">and the border touches Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh. {Its border ends}<note>Literally "the goings out of their border were"</note> at the Jordan; sixteen cities and their villages.</verse>


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<verse num="23">This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages. </verse>


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<verse num="24">The fifth allotment {fell}<note>Literally "came out" </note> for the tribe of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Asher according to their families.</verse>


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<verse num="26">Allamelech, Amad, and Mishal; it touches Carmel to the west, and Shihor-Libnat.</verse>


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<verse num="27">Then it turns {eastward}<note>Literally "to the rising of the sun"</note> to Beth-dagon and touches Zebulun and the valley of Yiptah-El to the north<note>Literally "left hand/side" </note> to Beth Emeck and Neiel; it continues to Cabul from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north,</verse>


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<verse num="29">then the border turns <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Ramah, and up to the fortified city of Tyre, <transChange type="added">where</transChange> the border turns <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Hosah; {it ends}<note>Literally "the goings out of it were"</note> at the sea, from Hebel to Aczib.</verse>


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<verse num="30"><transChange type="added">Included were</transChange> Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob; twenty-two cities and their villages.</verse>


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<verse num="31">This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Asher according to their families, these cities and their villages. </verse>


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<verse num="32">The sixth allotment {fell}<note>Literally "came out"</note> for the children of Naphtali, for the children of Naphtali according to their families.</verse>


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<verse num="33">Their border was from Heleph, from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> oak in Zaanannim, Adami Nekeb, Jabneel, up to Lakkum; {it ends}<note>Literally "the goings out of it were"</note> at the Jordan;</verse>


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<verse num="34">then the border turns to the west, to Aznoth Tabor, and continues from there to Hukok, and it touches<note>Or "reaches to"</note> Zebulun on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> south, Asher on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> west, and Judah on {the east}<note>Literally "the rising of the sun"</note> <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the Jordan.</verse>


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<verse num="35">{The fortified cities}<note>Literally "the cities of fortification"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Kinnereth,</verse>


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<verse num="38">Yiron, Migdal El, Horem, Beth-anath, Beth Shemesh; nineteen cities and their villages.</verse>


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<verse num="39">This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages. </verse>


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<verse num="40">The seventh lot {fell}<note>Literally "came out"</note> for the tribe of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Dan according to their families.</verse>


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<verse num="41"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir Shemesh,</verse>


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<verse num="47">The border of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Dan continued {beyond them},<note>Literally "from them"</note> because the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Dan went up and fought with Lesham, and they captured and struck it with {the edge of the sword},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> mouth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword"</note> and they took possession of it and settled in it; and they called Leshem Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor.<note>Or "father"</note></verse>


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<verse num="48">This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Dan according to their families, these cities and their villages. </verse>


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<verse num="49">They finished assigning the land according to its borders, and the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> gave an inheritance <transChange type="added">from</transChange> among them to Joshua son of Nun.</verse>


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<verse num="50">{According to the commandment of Yahweh},<note>Literally "On the mouth of Yahweh"</note> they gave him the city that he requested, Timnath Serah, in the hill country of Ephraim, and he rebuilt the city and settled<note>Or "dwelt"</note> in it.</verse>


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<verse num="51">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the inheritances that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes, distributed by allotment <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> at Shiloh {before Yahweh}<note>Or "in the presence of Yahweh"</note> <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the entrance of the tent of meeting. And they finished dividing the land. </verse>


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<verse num="2">"Speak to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> saying, 'Appoint for yourselves cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through the hand of Moses.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Anyone who kills a person by accident or unintentionally<note>Or "by not knowing"</note> may flee there; they will be for yourselves a refuge from the avenger of blood.</verse>


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<verse num="4">The killer will flee to one of these cities, stand <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the entrance of the gate of the city, and {state his case to the elders of that city};<note>Literally "he will speak his words in the ears of the elders of that city"</note> and they will take him<note>Or "they will gather him"</note> into the city and give him a place, and he will dwell among them.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And if the avenger of blood pursues after him, they will not hand over the killer into his hand, because he killed his neighbor unintentionally, and {he did not hate him previously}.<note>Literally "he did not hate him since yesterday and the day before that"</note></verse>


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<verse num="6">The killer will stay in that city until he stands before the congregation for the trial, until the death of the one who is the high priest in those days. Then {the killer will return}<note>Literally "the killer will return and go"</note> to his city and to his house, to the city from which he fled.'" </verse>


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<verse num="7">So {they set apart}<note>Or "consecrated"</note> Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba<note>Or "the city of Arba"</note> (that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, they appointed Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau, from the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead, from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in the Bashan, from the tribe of Manasseh.</verse>


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<verse num="9">These were the cities designated for all the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and for the foreigners<note>Hebrew "foreigner"</note> dwelling among them, for anyone that kills a person unintentionally to flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, {until there is a trial}<note>Literally "until he stands"</note> before the congregation. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Then the heads of the families of the Levites came to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua son of Nun, and to the heads of the families of the tribes of the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


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<verse num="2">And they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, "Yahweh commanded through the hand of Moses to give us cities to live <transChange type="added">in</transChange>, with their pasturelands for our livestock."</verse>


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<verse num="3">So, {by command of Yahweh},<note>Literally "by the mouth of Yahweh"</note> the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> gave the Levites these cities and their pasturelands from their inheritance. </verse>


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<verse num="4">The allotment {fell}<note>Literally "came out"</note> for the families of the Kohathites.<note>Hebrew "Kohathite"</note> The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, {received}<note>Literally "they had"</note> by lot thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin. </verse>


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<verse num="5">The remaining descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Kohath <transChange type="added">received</transChange> by lot ten cities from the families of the tribes of Ephraim, Dan, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. </verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="6">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Gershon <transChange type="added">received</transChange> by lot thirteen cities from the families of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, and Naphtali and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan. </verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="7">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of the Merarites<note>Hebrew "Merarite"</note> according to their families <transChange type="added">received</transChange> twelve cities from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun. </verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="8">The {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> gave to the Levites these cities and their pastureland by lot, just as Yahweh commanded through the hand of Moses. </verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="9">They gave these cities, which are <transChange type="added">here</transChange> mentioned by name, from the tribe of the families of Judah and from the tribe of the families of Simeon;</verse>


book: Josh
content:
<verse num="10">and they were for the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Aaron, from the families of the Kohathites,<note>Hebrew "Kohathite"</note> from the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Levi, because the first lot was theirs.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And they gave to them Kiriath Arba,<note>Or "the city of Arba"</note> <transChange type="added">Arba being</transChange> the father of Anak (that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, Hebron), in the hill country of Judah and the pasturelands surrounding it.</verse>


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<verse num="12">But the field of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his property. </verse>


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content:
<verse num="13">To the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron, the city of refuge <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the killer, and its pasturelands, Libnah and its pasturelands,</verse>


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<verse num="16">Ain and its pasturelands, Juttah and its pasturelands, and Beth Shemesh and its pasturelands; nine cities from these two tribes.</verse>


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<verse num="17">From the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon and its pasturelands, Geba and its pasturelands,</verse>


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<verse num="19">All the cities of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Aaron the priests, thirteen cities and their pasturelands. </verse>


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<verse num="20">For the families of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Kohath, the remaining Levites of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Kohath, they <transChange type="added">received</transChange> the cities of their lot from the tribe of Ephraim.</verse>


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<verse num="21">They gave them Shechem, the city of refuge <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the killer, and its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer and its pasturelands,</verse>


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<verse num="22">Kibzaim and its pasturelands, and Beth-horon and its pasturelands; four cities.</verse>


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<verse num="23">From the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh and its pasturelands, Gibbethon and its pasturelands,</verse>


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<verse num="24">Aijalon and its pasturelands, and Gath Rimmon and its pasturelands; four cities.</verse>


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<verse num="25">From the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and its pasturelands and Gath Rimmon with its pasturelands; two cities.</verse>


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<verse num="26">All the cities and their pasturelands for the remaining families of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Kohath <transChange type="added">were</transChange> ten. </verse>


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<verse num="27">To the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Gershon, one of the families of the Levites, from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan, a city of refuge for the killer, and its pasturelands, and Eshtarah and its pasturelands; two cities.</verse>


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<verse num="28">From the tribe of Issachar, Kishion and its pasturelands, Daberath and its pasturelands,</verse>


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<verse num="30">From the tribe of Asher, Mishal and its pasturelands, Abdon and its pasturelands,</verse>


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<verse num="32">From the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee, the city of refuge for the killer, and its pasturelands, Hammoth Dor and its pasturelands, and Kartan and its pasturelands; three cities.</verse>


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<verse num="33">All the cities of the Gershonites<note>Hebrew "Gershonite"</note> according to their families <transChange type="added">were</transChange> thirteen cities and their pasturelands. </verse>


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<verse num="34">To the families of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Merarite, the remaining Levites, from the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam and its pasturelands, Kartah and its pasturelands,</verse>


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<verse num="36">From the tribe of Reuben, Bezer and its pasturelands, Jahaz and its pasturelands,</verse>


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<verse num="37">Kedemoth and its pasturelands, and Mephaath and its pasturelands; four cities.</verse>


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<verse num="38">From the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead, the city of refuge for the killer, and its pasturelands, Mahanaim and its pasturelands,</verse>


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<verse num="39">Heshbon and its pasturelands, and Jazer and its pasturelands; four cities <transChange type="added">in</transChange> all.</verse>


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<verse num="40">All <transChange type="added">these were</transChange> the cities of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Merarite according to their families, the remaining families of the Levites; their allotment was twelve cities. </verse>


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<verse num="41">All the cities of the Levites among the property of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> <transChange type="added">were</transChange> forty-eight cities and their pasturelands.</verse>


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<verse num="42">Each of these cities had pasturelands surrounding them; so <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> for all of these cities.</verse>


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<verse num="43">And Yahweh gave to Israel all the land that he swore to give to their ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and they took possession of it and {settled in it}.<note>Or "dwelled in it"</note></verse>


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<verse num="44">Yahweh gave them rest on every side, according to all that he had sworn to their ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and nobody from all their enemies withstood them, for Yahweh had given all their enemies into their hand.</verse>


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<verse num="45">And {nothing failed from}<note>Literally "Not a thing fell"</note> all the good things<note>Hebrew "thing"</note> that Yahweh promised to the house of Israel; {everything came to pass}.<note>Literally "everything it came"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1">Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh,</verse>


