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+ <!DOCTYPE crossway-bible SYSTEM "schema/crossway.bibles.dtd">
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+ <crossway-bible translation="English Standard Version" revision="2006-10-26" xmlns="http://www.crosswaybibles.org" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="schema/crossway.bibles.xsd">
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+ <book title="Deuteronomy" num="5">
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001001"/>
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+ <chapter num="1">
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+ <heading>The Command to Leave Horeb</heading>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="1">These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in <crossref let="a" cid="c05001001.1"/>the Arabah opposite <crossref let="b" cid="c05001001.2"/>Suph, between <crossref let="c" cid="c05001001.3"/>Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001002"/>
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+ <verse num="2">It is eleven days&apos; journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to <crossref let="d" cid="c05001002.1"/>Kadesh-barnea.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001003"/>
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+ <verse num="3"><crossref let="e" cid="c05001003.1"/>In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the people of Israel according to all that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had given him in commandment to them,</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001004"/>
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+ <verse num="4">after <crossref let="f" cid="c05001004.1"/>he had defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and <crossref let="g" cid="c05001004.2"/>Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth and in <crossref let="h" cid="c05001004.3"/>Edrei.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001005"/>
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+ <verse num="5">Beyond the Jordan, <crossref let="i" cid="c05001005.1"/>in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to explain this law, saying,</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001006"/>
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+ <verse num="6"><q class="begin-double" qid="05001006.1" from="05001006.1" to="05004040.1"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God said to us in Horeb, <crossref let="j" cid="c05001006.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05001006.2" from="05001006.2" to="05001008.1"/>You have stayed long enough at this mountain.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001007"/>
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+ <verse num="7">Turn and take your journey, and go to <crossref let="k" cid="c05001007.1"/>the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighbors in <crossref let="a" cid="c05001007.2"/>the Arabah, <crossref let="l" cid="c05001007.3"/>in the hill country and in the lowland and in the Negeb and <crossref let="l" cid="c05001007.4"/>by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001008"/>
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+ <verse num="8">See, I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> swore to your fathers, <crossref let="m" cid="c05001008.1"/>to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.<q class="end-single" qid="05001008.1" from="05001006.2" to="05001008.1"/></verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001009"/>
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+ <heading>Leaders Appointed</heading>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="9"><q class="continue-double" qid="05001009.1" from="05001006.1" to="05004040.1"/>At that time <crossref let="n" cid="c05001009.1"/>I said to you, <q class="begin-single" qid="05001009.2" from="05001009.2" to="05001013.1"/>I am not able to bear you by myself.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001010"/>
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+ <verse num="10">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has multiplied you, and behold, <crossref let="o" cid="c05001010.1"/>you are today as numerous as the stars of heaven.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001011"/>
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+ <verse num="11"><crossref let="p" cid="c05001011.1"/>May the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, <crossref let="q" cid="c05001011.2"/>as he has promised you!</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001012"/>
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+ <verse num="12"><crossref let="r" cid="c05001012.1"/>How can I bear by myself the weight and burden of you and your strife?</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001013"/>
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+ <verse num="13"><crossref let="s" cid="c05001013.1"/>Choose for your tribes wise, understanding, and experienced men, and I will appoint them as your heads.<q class="end-single" qid="05001013.1" from="05001009.2" to="05001013.1"/></verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001014"/>
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+ <verse num="14">And you answered me, <q class="begin-single" qid="05001014.1" from="05001014.1" to="05001014.2"/>The thing that you have spoken is good for us to do.<q class="end-single" qid="05001014.2" from="05001014.1" to="05001014.2"/></verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001015"/>
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+ <verse num="15">So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, <crossref let="t" cid="c05001015.1"/>and set them as heads over you, commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, commanders of tens, and officers, throughout your tribes.</verse>
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+ <verse num="16">And I charged your judges at that time, <q class="begin-single" qid="05001016.1" from="05001016.1" to="05001017.1"/>Hear the cases between your brothers, and <crossref let="u" cid="c05001016.1"/>judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him.</verse>
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+ <verse num="17"><crossref let="v" cid="c05001017.1"/>You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for <crossref let="w" cid="c05001017.2"/>the judgment is God&apos;s. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall <crossref let="x" cid="c05001017.3"/>bring to me, and I will hear it.<q class="end-single" qid="05001017.1" from="05001016.1" to="05001017.1"/></verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001018"/>
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+ <verse num="18">And I commanded you at that time all the things that you should do.</verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001019"/>
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+ <heading>Israel&apos;s Refusal to Enter the Land</heading>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="19"><q class="continue-double" qid="05001019.1" from="05001006.1" to="05004040.1"/>Then we set out from Horeb and <crossref let="y" cid="c05001019.1"/>went through all that great and terrifying wilderness that you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God commanded us. And <crossref let="z" cid="c05001019.2"/>we came to Kadesh-barnea.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001020"/>
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+ <verse num="20">And I said to you, <q class="begin-single" qid="05001020.1" from="05001020.1" to="05001021.1"/>You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God is giving us.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001021"/>
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+ <verse num="21">See, the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of your fathers, has told you. <crossref let="a" cid="c05001021.1"/>Do not fear or be dismayed.<q class="end-single" qid="05001021.1" from="05001020.1" to="05001021.1"/></verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001022"/>
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+ <verse num="22">Then all of you came near me and said, <q class="begin-single" qid="05001022.1" from="05001022.1" to="05001022.2"/>Let us send men before us, that they may explore the land for us and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up and the cities into which we shall come.<q class="end-single" qid="05001022.2" from="05001022.1" to="05001022.2"/></verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001023"/>
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+ <verse num="23">The thing seemed good to me, and <crossref let="b" cid="c05001023.1"/>I took twelve men from you, one man from each tribe.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001024"/>
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+ <verse num="24">And <crossref let="c" cid="c05001024.1"/>they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied it out.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001025"/>
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+ <verse num="25">And they took in their hands some of the fruit of the land and brought it down to us, and brought us word again and said, <q class="begin-single" qid="05001025.1" from="05001025.1" to="05001025.2"/>It is a good land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God is giving us.<q class="end-single" qid="05001025.2" from="05001025.1" to="05001025.2"/></verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001026"/>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="26"><q class="continue-double" qid="05001026.1" from="05001006.1" to="05004040.1"/>Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001027"/>
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+ <verse num="27">And <crossref let="d" cid="c05001027.1"/>you murmured in your tents and said, <q class="begin-single" qid="05001027.1" from="05001027.1" to="05001028.3"/>Because the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="e" cid="c05001027.2"/>hated us he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, <crossref let="f" cid="c05001027.3"/>to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001028"/>
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+ <verse num="28">Where are we going up? <crossref let="g" cid="c05001028.1"/>Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, <crossref let="h" cid="c05001028.2"/><q class="begin-inner-double" qid="05001028.1" from="05001028.1" to="05001028.2"/>The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen <crossref let="i" cid="c05001028.3"/>the sons of the Anakim there.<q class="end-inner-double" qid="05001028.2" from="05001028.1" to="05001028.2"/><q class="end-single" qid="05001028.3" from="05001027.1" to="05001028.3"/></verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001029"/>
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+ <verse num="29">Then I said to you, <q class="begin-single" qid="05001029.1" from="05001029.1" to="05001031.1"/>Do not be in dread or afraid of them.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001030"/>
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+ <verse num="30">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God who goes before you <crossref let="j" cid="c05001030.1"/>will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001031"/>
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+ <verse num="31">and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God <crossref let="k" cid="c05001031.1"/>carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.<q class="end-single" qid="05001031.1" from="05001029.1" to="05001031.1"/></verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001032"/>
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+ <verse num="32">Yet in spite of this word <crossref let="l" cid="c05001032.1"/>you did not believe the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God,</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001033"/>
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+ <verse num="33"><crossref let="m" cid="c05001033.1"/>who went before you in the way <crossref let="n" cid="c05001033.2"/>to seek you out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night and in the cloud by day, to show you by what way you should go.</verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001034"/>
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+ <heading>The Penalty for Israel&apos;s Rebellion</heading>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="34"><q class="continue-double" qid="05001034.1" from="05001006.1" to="05004040.1"/>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> heard your words and was angered, and he swore,</verse>
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+ <verse num="35"><crossref let="o" cid="c05001035.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05001035.1" from="05001035.1" to="05001036.1"/>Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers,</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001036"/>
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+ <verse num="36"><crossref let="p" cid="c05001036.1"/>except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land on which he has trodden, because he has wholly followed the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>!<q class="end-single" qid="05001036.1" from="05001035.1" to="05001036.1"/></verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001037"/>
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+ <verse num="37">Even with me <crossref let="q" cid="c05001037.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was angry on your account and said, <q class="begin-single" qid="05001037.1" from="05001037.1" to="05001040.1"/>You also shall not go in there.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001038"/>
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+ <verse num="38"><crossref let="r" cid="c05001038.1"/>Joshua the son of Nun, <crossref let="r" cid="c05001038.2"/>who stands before you, he shall enter. <crossref let="s" cid="c05001038.3"/>Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001039"/>
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+ <verse num="39">And as for <crossref let="t" cid="c05001039.1"/>your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today <crossref let="u" cid="c05001039.2"/>have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there. And to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001040"/>
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+ <verse num="40">But as for you, <crossref let="v" cid="c05001040.1"/>turn, and journey into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.<q class="end-single" qid="05001040.1" from="05001037.1" to="05001040.1"/></verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001041"/>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="41"><q class="continue-double" qid="05001041.1" from="05001006.1" to="05004040.1"/>Then you answered me, <crossref let="w" cid="c05001041.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05001041.2" from="05001041.2" to="05001041.3"/>We have sinned against the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. We ourselves will go up and fight, just as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God commanded us.<q class="end-single" qid="05001041.3" from="05001041.2" to="05001041.3"/> And every one of you fastened on his weapons of war and thought it easy to go up into the hill country.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001042"/>
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+ <verse num="42">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to me, <crossref let="x" cid="c05001042.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05001042.1" from="05001042.1" to="05001042.2"/>Say to them, Do not go up or fight, <crossref let="y" cid="c05001042.2"/>for I am not in your midst, lest you be defeated before your enemies.<q class="end-single" qid="05001042.2" from="05001042.1" to="05001042.2"/></verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001043"/>
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+ <verse num="43">So I spoke to you, and you would not listen; but you rebelled against the command of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and <crossref let="z" cid="c05001043.1"/>presumptuously went up into the hill country.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001044"/>
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+ <verse num="44"><crossref let="a" cid="c05001044.1"/>Then the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you <crossref let="b" cid="c05001044.2"/>as bees do and beat you down in Seir as far as <crossref let="c" cid="c05001044.3"/>Hormah.</verse>
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+ <verse num="45">And you returned and wept before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, but the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> did not listen to your voice or give ear to you.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05001046"/>
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+ <verse num="46">So <crossref let="d" cid="c05001046.1"/>you remained at Kadesh many days, the days that you remained there.</verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ </chapter>
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+ <chapter num="2">
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+ <heading>The Wilderness Years</heading>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="1"><q class="continue-double" qid="05002001.1" from="05001006.1" to="05004040.1"/>Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea, <crossref let="e" cid="c05002001.1"/>as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> told me. And for many days we traveled around Mount Seir.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002002"/>
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+ <verse num="2">Then the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to me,</verse>
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+ <verse num="3"><q class="begin-single" qid="05002003.1" from="05002003.1" to="05002007.2"/>You have been traveling around this mountain country <crossref let="f" cid="c05002003.1"/>long enough. Turn northward</verse>
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+ <verse num="4">and command the people, <q class="begin-inner-double" qid="05002004.1" from="05002004.1" to="05002007.1"/>You are about to pass through the territory of <crossref let="g" cid="c05002004.1"/>your brothers, the people of Esau, <crossref let="h" cid="c05002004.2"/>who live in Seir; and <crossref let="i" cid="c05002004.3"/>they will be afraid of you. So be very careful.</verse>
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+ <verse num="5">Do not contend with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because <crossref let="h" cid="c05002005.1"/>I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.</verse>
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+ <verse num="6"><crossref let="j" cid="c05002006.1"/>You shall purchase food from them with money, that you may eat, and you shall also buy water from them with money, that you may drink.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002007"/>
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+ <verse num="7">For the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. <crossref let="k" cid="c05002007.1"/>He knows your going through this great wilderness. <crossref let="l" cid="c05002007.2"/>These forty years the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.<q class="end-inner-double" qid="05002007.1" from="05002004.1" to="05002007.1"/><q class="end-single" qid="05002007.2" from="05002003.1" to="05002007.2"/></verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002008"/>
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+ <verse num="8">So <crossref let="m" cid="c05002008.1"/>we went on, away from our brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir, away from <crossref let="n" cid="c05002008.2"/>the Arabah road from <crossref let="o" cid="c05002008.3"/>Elath and <crossref let="p" cid="c05002008.4"/>Ezion-geber.
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <begin-paragraph/><q class="continue-double" qid="05002008.1" from="05001006.1" to="05004040.1"/>And we turned and went in the direction of the wilderness of Moab.
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+ </verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002009"/>
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+ <verse num="9">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to me, <crossref let="q" cid="c05002009.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05002009.1" from="05002009.1" to="05002009.2"/>Do not harass Moab or contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land for a possession, because I have given <crossref let="r" cid="c05002009.2"/>Ar to <crossref let="s" cid="c05002009.3"/>the people of Lot for a possession.<q class="end-single" qid="05002009.2" from="05002009.1" to="05002009.2"/></verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002010"/>
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+ <verse num="10">(<crossref let="t" cid="c05002010.1"/>The Emim formerly lived there, <crossref let="u" cid="c05002010.2"/>a people great and many, and tall <crossref let="v" cid="c05002010.3"/>as the Anakim.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002011"/>
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+ <verse num="11">Like the Anakim they are also counted as <crossref let="w" cid="c05002011.1"/>Rephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002012"/>
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+ <verse num="12"><crossref let="x" cid="c05002012.1"/>The Horites also lived in Seir formerly, but the people of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their place, <crossref let="y" cid="c05002012.2"/>as Israel did to the land of their possession, which the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> gave to them.)</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002013"/>
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+ <verse num="13"><q class="begin-single" qid="05002013.1" from="05002013.1" to="05002013.2"/>Now rise up and go over <crossref let="z" cid="c05002013.1"/>the brook Zered.<q class="end-single" qid="05002013.2" from="05002013.1" to="05002013.2"/> So we went over <crossref let="z" cid="c05002013.2"/>the brook Zered.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002014"/>
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+ <verse num="14">And the time from our leaving <crossref let="a" cid="c05002014.1"/>Kadesh-barnea until we crossed <crossref let="b" cid="c05002014.2"/>the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, <crossref let="c" cid="c05002014.3"/>until the entire generation, that is, the men of war, had perished from the camp, as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had sworn to them.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002015"/>
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+ <verse num="15">For indeed the hand of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was against them, to destroy them from the camp, until they had perished.</verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002016"/>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="16"><q class="continue-double" qid="05002016.1" from="05001006.1" to="05004040.1"/>So as soon as all the men of war had perished and were dead from among the people,</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002017"/>
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+ <verse num="17">the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to me,</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002018"/>
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+ <verse num="18"><q class="begin-single" qid="05002018.1" from="05002018.1" to="05002019.1"/>Today you are to cross the border of Moab at Ar.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002019"/>
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+ <verse num="19">And when you approach the territory of the people of Ammon, <crossref let="d" cid="c05002019.1"/>do not harass them or contend with them, for I will not give you any of the land of the people of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to <crossref let="e" cid="c05002019.2"/>the sons of Lot for a possession.<q class="end-single" qid="05002019.1" from="05002018.1" to="05002019.1"/></verse>
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+ <verse num="20">(It is also counted as a land of <crossref let="f" cid="c05002020.1"/>Rephaim. Rephaim formerly lived there&emdash;but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim&emdash;</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002021"/>
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+ <verse num="21"><crossref let="g" cid="c05002021.1"/>a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim; but the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> destroyed them before the Ammonites,<note nid="n05002021.1"/> and they dispossessed them and settled in their place,</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002022"/>
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+ <verse num="22">as he did for the people of Esau, who live in Seir, when he destroyed <crossref let="h" cid="c05002022.1"/>the Horites before them and they dispossessed them and settled in their place even to this day.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002023"/>
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+ <verse num="23">As for <crossref let="i" cid="c05002023.1"/>the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as <crossref let="j" cid="c05002023.2"/>Gaza, <crossref let="k" cid="c05002023.3"/>the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and settled in their place.)</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002024"/>
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+ <verse num="24"><q class="begin-single" qid="05002024.1" from="05002024.1" to="05002025.1"/>Rise up, set out on your journey and <crossref let="l" cid="c05002024.1"/>go over the Valley of the Arnon. Behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of <crossref let="m" cid="c05002024.2"/>Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession, and <crossref let="n" cid="c05002024.3"/>contend with him in battle.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002025"/>
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+ <verse num="25">This day I will begin to put <crossref let="o" cid="c05002025.1"/>the dread and fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.<q class="end-single" qid="05002025.1" from="05002024.1" to="05002025.1"/></verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002026"/>
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+ <heading>The Defeat of King Sihon</heading>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="26"><q class="continue-double" qid="05002026.1" from="05001006.1" to="05004040.1"/>So I sent messengers from the wilderness of <crossref let="p" cid="c05002026.1"/>Kedemoth to Sihon the king of <crossref let="m" cid="c05002026.2"/>Heshbon, <crossref let="q" cid="c05002026.3"/>with words of peace, saying,</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002027"/>
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+ <verse num="27"><crossref let="r" cid="c05002027.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05002027.1" from="05002027.1" to="05002029.1"/>Let me pass through your land. I will go only by the road; I will turn aside neither to the right nor to the left.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002028"/>
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+ <verse num="28"><crossref let="s" cid="c05002028.1"/>You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink. Only let me pass through on foot,</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002029"/>
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+ <verse num="29"><crossref let="t" cid="c05002029.1"/>as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I go over the Jordan into the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God is giving to us.<q class="end-single" qid="05002029.1" from="05002027.1" to="05002029.1"/></verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002030"/>
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+ <verse num="30">But <crossref let="u" cid="c05002030.1"/>Sihon the king of <crossref let="m" cid="c05002030.2"/>Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God <crossref let="v" cid="c05002030.3"/>hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as he is this day.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002031"/>
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+ <verse num="31">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to me, <q class="begin-single" qid="05002031.1" from="05002031.1" to="05002031.2"/>Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to take possession, that you may occupy his land.<q class="end-single" qid="05002031.2" from="05002031.1" to="05002031.2"/></verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002032"/>
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+ <verse num="32">Then <crossref let="w" cid="c05002032.1"/>Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002033"/>
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+ <verse num="33">And <crossref let="x" cid="c05002033.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God gave him over to us, and <crossref let="y" cid="c05002033.2"/>we defeated him and his sons and all his people.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002034"/>
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+ <verse num="34">And we captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction<note nid="n05002034.1"/> every <crossref let="z" cid="c05002034.1"/>city, men, women, and children. We left no survivors.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002035"/>
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+ <verse num="35">Only the livestock we took as spoil for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities that we captured.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002036"/>
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+ <verse num="36"><crossref let="a" cid="c05002036.1"/>From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from <crossref let="b" cid="c05002036.2"/>the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. <crossref let="c" cid="c05002036.3"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God gave all into our hands.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05002037"/>
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+ <verse num="37">Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not draw near, that is, to all the banks of the river <crossref let="d" cid="c05002037.1"/>Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, whatever the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God had forbidden us.</verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ </chapter>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003001"/>
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+ <chapter num="3">
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+ <heading>The Defeat of King Og</heading>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="1"><q class="continue-double" qid="05003001.1" from="05001006.1" to="05004040.1"/>Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan. And <crossref let="e" cid="c05003001.1"/>Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at <crossref let="f" cid="c05003001.2"/>Edrei.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003002"/>
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+ <verse num="2">But the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to me, <q class="begin-single" qid="05003002.1" from="05003002.1" to="05003002.2"/>Do not fear him, for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hand. And you shall do to him as you did to <crossref let="g" cid="c05003002.1"/>Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.<q class="end-single" qid="05003002.2" from="05003002.1" to="05003002.2"/></verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003003"/>
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+ <verse num="3">So the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God gave into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people, <crossref let="h" cid="c05003003.1"/>and we struck him down until he had no survivor left.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003004"/>
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+ <verse num="4">And we took all his cities at that time&emdash;there was not a city that we did not take from them&emdash;sixty cities, <crossref let="i" cid="c05003004.1"/>the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003005"/>
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+ <verse num="5">All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled villages.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003006"/>
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+ <verse num="6">And <crossref let="j" cid="c05003006.1"/>we devoted them to destruction,<note nid="n05003006.1"/> as we did to Sihon the king of Heshbon, devoting to destruction every <crossref let="k" cid="c05003006.2"/>city, men, women, and children.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003007"/>
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+ <verse num="7">But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities we took as our plunder.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003008"/>
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+ <verse num="8">So we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the Valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003009"/>
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+ <verse num="9">(the Sidonians call <crossref let="l" cid="c05003009.1"/>Hermon <crossref let="m" cid="c05003009.2"/>Sirion, while the Amorites call it <crossref let="n" cid="c05003009.3"/>Senir),</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003010"/>
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+ <verse num="10">all the cities of the <crossref let="o" cid="c05003010.1"/>tableland and all Gilead and all Bashan, as far as <crossref let="p" cid="c05003010.2"/>Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003011"/>
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+ <verse num="11">(For <crossref let="q" cid="c05003011.1"/>only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of <crossref let="r" cid="c05003011.2"/>the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in <crossref let="s" cid="c05003011.3"/>Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits<note nid="n05003011.1"/> was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the <crossref let="t" cid="c05003011.4"/>common cubit.<note nid="n05003011.2"/>)</verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003012"/>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="12"><q class="continue-double" qid="05003012.1" from="05001006.1" to="05004040.1"/>When we took possession of this land at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory beginning <crossref let="u" cid="c05003012.1"/>at Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with <crossref let="v" cid="c05003012.2"/>its cities.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003013"/>
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+ <verse num="13"><crossref let="w" cid="c05003013.1"/>The rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, that is, <crossref let="x" cid="c05003013.2"/>all the region of Argob, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (All that portion of Bashan is called the land of <crossref let="r" cid="c05003013.3"/>Rephaim.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003014"/>
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+ <verse num="14"><crossref let="y" cid="c05003014.1"/>Jair the Manassite took all the region of Argob, that is, Bashan, as far as the border of <crossref let="z" cid="c05003014.2"/>the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called the villages <crossref let="a" cid="c05003014.3"/>after his own name, Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.)</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003015"/>
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+ <verse num="15">To Machir <crossref let="b" cid="c05003015.1"/>I gave Gilead,</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003016"/>
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+ <verse num="16">and to the Reubenites <crossref let="c" cid="c05003016.1"/>and the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the Valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a border, as far over as the river Jabbok, <crossref let="d" cid="c05003016.2"/>the border of the Ammonites;</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003017"/>
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+ <verse num="17">the Arabah also, with the Jordan as the border, from <crossref let="e" cid="c05003017.1"/>Chinnereth as far as <crossref let="f" cid="c05003017.2"/>the Sea of the Arabah, <crossref let="g" cid="c05003017.3"/>the Salt Sea, under <crossref let="h" cid="c05003017.4"/>the slopes of Pisgah on the east.</verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003018"/>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="18"><q class="continue-double" qid="05003018.1" from="05001006.1" to="05004040.1"/>And I commanded you at that time, saying, <q class="begin-single" qid="05003018.2" from="05003018.2" to="05003020.1"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has given you this land to possess. <crossref let="i" cid="c05003018.1"/>All your men of valor shall cross over armed before your brothers, the people of Israel.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003019"/>
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+ <verse num="19">Only your wives, your little ones, and your livestock <crossref let="j" cid="c05003019.1"/>(I know that you have much livestock) shall remain in the cities that I have given you,</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003020"/>
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+ <verse num="20"><crossref let="k" cid="c05003020.1"/>until the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also occupy the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God gives them beyond the Jordan. Then each of you may return to his possession which I have given you.<q class="end-single" qid="05003020.1" from="05003018.2" to="05003020.1"/></verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003021"/>
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+ <verse num="21">And I commanded <crossref let="l" cid="c05003021.1"/>Joshua at that time, <q class="begin-single" qid="05003021.1" from="05003021.1" to="05003022.1"/>Your eyes have seen all that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has done to these two kings. So will the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> do to all the kingdoms into which you are crossing.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003022"/>
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+ <verse num="22">You shall not fear them, for it is <crossref let="m" cid="c05003022.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God who fights for you.<q class="end-single" qid="05003022.1" from="05003021.1" to="05003022.1"/></verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003023"/>
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+ <heading>Moses Forbidden to Enter the Land</heading>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="23"><q class="continue-double" qid="05003023.1" from="05001006.1" to="05004040.1"/>And I pleaded with the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> at that time, saying,</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003024"/>
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+ <verse num="24"><q class="begin-single" qid="05003024.1" from="05003024.1" to="05003025.1"/>O Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>, you have only begun to show your servant <crossref let="n" cid="c05003024.1"/>your greatness and your mighty hand. For <crossref let="o" cid="c05003024.2"/>what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as yours?</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003025"/>
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+ <verse num="25">Please let me go over and see <crossref let="p" cid="c05003025.1"/>the good land beyond the Jordan, that good hill country and <crossref let="q" cid="c05003025.2"/>Lebanon.<q class="end-single" qid="05003025.1" from="05003024.1" to="05003025.1"/></verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003026"/>
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+ <verse num="26">But <crossref let="r" cid="c05003026.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was angry with me because of you and would not listen to me. And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to me, <crossref let="s" cid="c05003026.2"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05003026.1" from="05003026.1" to="05003028.1"/>Enough from you; do not speak to me of this matter again.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003027"/>
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+ <verse num="27"><crossref let="t" cid="c05003027.1"/>Go up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward, and look at it with your eyes, for you shall not go over this Jordan.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003028"/>
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+ <verse num="28">But <crossref let="u" cid="c05003028.1"/>charge Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he shall go over at the head of this people, and he shall put them in possession of the land that you shall see.<q class="end-single" qid="05003028.1" from="05003026.1" to="05003028.1"/></verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05003029"/>
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+ <verse num="29">So we remained in <crossref let="v" cid="c05003029.1"/>the valley opposite Beth-peor.</verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ </chapter>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004001"/>
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+ <chapter num="4">
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+ <heading>Moses Commands Obedience</heading>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="1"><q class="continue-double" qid="05004001.1" from="05001006.1" to="05004040.1"/>And now, O Israel, listen to <crossref let="w" cid="c05004001.1"/>the statutes and the rules<note nid="n05004001.1"/> that I am teaching you, and do them, <crossref let="x" cid="c05004001.2"/>that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of your fathers, is giving you.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004002"/>
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+ <verse num="2"><crossref let="y" cid="c05004002.1"/>You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God that I command you.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004003"/>
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+ <verse num="3">Your eyes have seen what the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> did <crossref let="z" cid="c05004003.1"/>at Baal-peor, for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God destroyed from among you all the men who followed the Baal of Peor.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004004"/>
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+ <verse num="4">But you who held fast to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God are all alive today.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004005"/>
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+ <verse num="5">See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004006"/>
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+ <verse num="6"><crossref let="a" cid="c05004006.1"/>Keep them and do them, for <crossref let="b" cid="c05004006.2"/>that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, <q class="begin-single" qid="05004006.1" from="05004006.1" to="05004006.2"/>Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.<q class="end-single" qid="05004006.2" from="05004006.1" to="05004006.2"/></verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004007"/>
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+ <verse num="7">For <crossref let="c" cid="c05004007.1"/>what great nation is there that has <crossref let="d" cid="c05004007.2"/>a god so near to it as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004008"/>
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+ <verse num="8">And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so <crossref let="e" cid="c05004008.1"/>righteous as all this law that I set before you today?</verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004009"/>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="9"><crossref let="f" cid="c05004009.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05004009.1" from="05001006.1" to="05004040.1"/>Only take care, and <crossref let="g" cid="c05004009.2"/>keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. <crossref let="h" cid="c05004009.3"/>Make them known to your children and your children&apos;s children&emdash;</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004010"/>
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+ <verse num="10">how on <crossref let="i" cid="c05004010.1"/>the day that you stood before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God at Horeb, the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to me, <crossref let="j" cid="c05004010.2"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05004010.1" from="05004010.1" to="05004010.2"/>Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, <crossref let="k" cid="c05004010.3"/>so that they may learn to fear <crossref let="l" cid="c05004010.4"/>me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.<q class="end-single" qid="05004010.2" from="05004010.1" to="05004010.2"/></verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004011"/>
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+ <verse num="11">And <crossref let="m" cid="c05004011.1"/>you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while <crossref let="n" cid="c05004011.2"/>the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, wrapped in darkness, cloud, and gloom.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004012"/>
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+ <verse num="12">Then <crossref let="o" cid="c05004012.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of words, <crossref let="p" cid="c05004012.2"/>but saw no form; <crossref let="q" cid="c05004012.3"/>there was only a voice.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004013"/>
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+ <verse num="13"><crossref let="r" cid="c05004013.1"/>And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, that is, <crossref let="s" cid="c05004013.2"/>the Ten Commandments,<note nid="n05004013.1"/> <crossref let="t" cid="c05004013.3"/>and he wrote them on two tablets of stone.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004014"/>
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+ <verse num="14">And <crossref let="u" cid="c05004014.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules, that you might do them in the land that you are going over to possess.</verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004015"/>
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+ <heading>Idolatry Forbidden</heading>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="15"><crossref let="v" cid="c05004015.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05004015.1" from="05001006.1" to="05004040.1"/>Therefore watch yourselves very carefully. Since <crossref let="w" cid="c05004015.2"/>you saw no form on the day that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire,</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004016"/>
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+ <verse num="16">beware <crossref let="x" cid="c05004016.1"/>lest you act corruptly <crossref let="y" cid="c05004016.2"/>by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, <crossref let="z" cid="c05004016.3"/>the likeness of male or female,</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004017"/>
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+ <verse num="17">the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004018"/>
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+ <verse num="18">the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004019"/>
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+ <verse num="19">And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see <crossref let="a" cid="c05004019.1"/>the sun and the moon and the stars, <crossref let="b" cid="c05004019.2"/>all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004020"/>
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+ <verse num="20">But the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has taken you and <crossref let="c" cid="c05004020.1"/>brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, <crossref let="d" cid="c05004020.2"/>to be a people of his own inheritance, as you are this day.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004021"/>
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+ <verse num="21">Furthermore, <crossref let="e" cid="c05004021.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was angry with me because of you, and he swore that I should not cross the Jordan, and that I should not enter the good land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you for an inheritance.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004022"/>
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+ <verse num="22">For I must die in this land; <crossref let="f" cid="c05004022.1"/>I must not go over the Jordan. But you shall go over and take possession of <crossref let="g" cid="c05004022.2"/>that good land.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004023"/>
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+ <verse num="23"><crossref let="h" cid="c05004023.1"/>Take care, lest you forget the covenant of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, which he made with you, and <crossref let="i" cid="c05004023.2"/>make a carved image, the form of anything that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has forbidden you.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004024"/>
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+ <verse num="24">For <crossref let="j" cid="c05004024.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is a consuming fire, <crossref let="k" cid="c05004024.2"/>a jealous God.</verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004025"/>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="25"><q class="continue-double" qid="05004025.1" from="05001006.1" to="05004040.1"/>When you father children and children&apos;s children, and have grown old in the land, <crossref let="l" cid="c05004025.1"/>if you act corruptly by making a carved image in the form of anything, and <crossref let="m" cid="c05004025.2"/>by doing what is evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, so as to provoke him to anger,</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004026"/>
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+ <verse num="26">I <crossref let="n" cid="c05004026.1"/>call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004027"/>
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+ <verse num="27">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="o" cid="c05004027.1"/>will scatter you among the peoples, <crossref let="p" cid="c05004027.2"/>and you will be left few in number among the nations where the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will drive you.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004028"/>
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+ <verse num="28">And <crossref let="q" cid="c05004028.1"/>there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, <crossref let="r" cid="c05004028.2"/>that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004029"/>
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+ <verse num="29"><crossref let="s" cid="c05004029.1"/>But from there you will seek the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004030"/>
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+ <verse num="30">When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you <crossref let="t" cid="c05004030.1"/>in the latter days, you will return to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God and obey his voice.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004031"/>
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+ <verse num="31">For the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is <crossref let="u" cid="c05004031.1"/>a merciful God. <crossref let="v" cid="c05004031.2"/>He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.</verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004032"/>
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+ <heading>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> Alone Is God</heading>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="32"><q class="continue-double" qid="05004032.1" from="05001006.1" to="05004040.1"/>For <crossref let="w" cid="c05004032.1"/>ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004033"/>
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+ <verse num="33"><crossref let="x" cid="c05004033.1"/>Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live?</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004034"/>
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+ <verse num="34">Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, <crossref let="y" cid="c05004034.1"/>by signs, by wonders, and <crossref let="z" cid="c05004034.2"/>by war, <crossref let="a" cid="c05004034.3"/>by a mighty hand and <crossref let="b" cid="c05004034.4"/>an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004035"/>
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+ <verse num="35">To you it was shown, <crossref let="c" cid="c05004035.1"/>that you might know that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is God; <crossref let="d" cid="c05004035.2"/>there is no other besides him.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004036"/>
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+ <verse num="36"><crossref let="e" cid="c05004036.1"/>Out of heaven he let you hear his voice, that he might discipline you. And on earth he let you see his great fire, and <crossref let="x" cid="c05004036.2"/>you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004037"/>
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+ <verse num="37">And because <crossref let="f" cid="c05004037.1"/>he loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them<note nid="n05004037.1"/> and brought you out of Egypt <crossref let="g" cid="c05004037.2"/>with his own presence, by his great power,</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004038"/>
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+ <verse num="38"><crossref let="h" cid="c05004038.1"/>driving out before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day,</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004039"/>
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+ <verse num="39">know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that <crossref let="i" cid="c05004039.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; <crossref let="j" cid="c05004039.2"/>there is no other.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004040"/>
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+ <verse num="40"><crossref let="k" cid="c05004040.1"/>Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, <crossref let="l" cid="c05004040.2"/>that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you for all time.<q class="end-double" qid="05004040.1" from="05001006.1" to="05004040.1"/></verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004041"/>
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+ <heading>Cities of Refuge</heading>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="41">Then Moses <crossref let="m" cid="c05004041.1"/>set apart three cities in the east beyond the Jordan,</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004042"/>
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+ <verse num="42">that <crossref let="n" cid="c05004042.1"/>the manslayer might flee there, anyone who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without being at enmity with him in time past; he may flee to one of these cities and save his life:</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004043"/>
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+ <verse num="43"><crossref let="o" cid="c05004043.1"/>Bezer in the wilderness on the <crossref let="p" cid="c05004043.2"/>tableland for the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.</verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004044"/>
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+ <heading>Introduction to the Law</heading>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="44">This is the law that Moses set before the people of Israel.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004045"/>
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+ <verse num="45">These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the rules, which Moses spoke to the people of Israel when they came out of Egypt,</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004046"/>
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+ <verse num="46">beyond the Jordan <crossref let="q" cid="c05004046.1"/>in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, <crossref let="r" cid="c05004046.2"/>whom Moses and the people of Israel defeated when they came out of Egypt.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004047"/>
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+ <verse num="47">And they took possession of his land and the land <crossref let="s" cid="c05004047.1"/>of Og, the king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who lived to the east beyond the Jordan;</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004048"/>
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+ <verse num="48"><crossref let="t" cid="c05004048.1"/>from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, as far as Mount <crossref let="u" cid="c05004048.2"/>Sirion<note nid="n05004048.1"/> (that is, <crossref let="v" cid="c05004048.3"/>Hermon),</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05004049"/>
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+ <verse num="49">together with all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as <crossref let="w" cid="c05004049.1"/>the Sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.</verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ </chapter>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005001"/>
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+ <chapter num="5">
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+ <heading>The Ten Commandments</heading>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="1">And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, <q class="begin-double" qid="05005001.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/>Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005002"/>
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+ <verse num="2"><crossref let="x" cid="c05005002.1"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005003"/>
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+ <verse num="3"><crossref let="y" cid="c05005003.1"/>Not with our fathers did the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005004"/>
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+ <verse num="4">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> spoke with you <crossref let="z" cid="c05005004.1"/>face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire,</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005005"/>
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+ <verse num="5"><crossref let="a" cid="c05005005.1"/>while I stood between the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. For <crossref let="b" cid="c05005005.2"/>you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up into the mountain. He said:</verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005006"/>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="6"><crossref let="c" cid="c05005006.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05005006.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05005006.2" from="05005006.2" to="05005021.3"/>I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.</verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005007"/>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="7"><q class="continue-double" qid="05005007.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/><q class="continue-single" qid="05005007.2" from="05005006.2" to="05005021.3"/>You shall have no other gods before<note nid="n05005007.1"/> me.</verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005008"/>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="8"><q class="continue-double" qid="05005008.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/><q class="continue-single" qid="05005008.2" from="05005006.2" to="05005021.3"/>You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005009"/>
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+ <verse num="9">You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005010"/>
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+ <verse num="10">but showing steadfast love to <crossref let="d" cid="c05005010.1"/>thousands<note nid="n05005010.1"/> of those who love me and keep my commandments.</verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005011"/>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="11"><q class="continue-double" qid="05005011.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/><q class="continue-single" qid="05005011.2" from="05005006.2" to="05005021.3"/>You shall not take the name of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God in vain, for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.</verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005012"/>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="12"><q class="continue-double" qid="05005012.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/><q class="continue-single" qid="05005012.2" from="05005006.2" to="05005021.3"/>Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God commanded you.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005013"/>
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+ <verse num="13">Six days you shall labor and do all your work,</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005014"/>
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+ <verse num="14">but <crossref let="e" cid="c05005014.1"/>the seventh day is a Sabbath to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God. On it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, <crossref let="f" cid="c05005014.2"/>that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005015"/>
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+ <verse num="15"><crossref let="g" cid="c05005015.1"/>You shall remember that you were a slave<note nid="n05005015.1"/> in the land of Egypt, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God brought you out from there <crossref let="h" cid="c05005015.2"/>with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.</verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005016"/>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="16"><q class="continue-double" qid="05005016.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/><q class="continue-single" qid="05005016.2" from="05005006.2" to="05005021.3"/>Honor your father and your mother, as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God commanded you, <crossref let="i" cid="c05005016.1"/>that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you.</verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005017"/>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="17"><crossref let="j" cid="c05005017.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05005017.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/><q class="continue-single" qid="05005017.2" from="05005006.2" to="05005021.3"/>You shall not murder.<note nid="n05005017.1"/></verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005018"/>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="18"><crossref let="j" cid="c05005018.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05005018.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/><q class="continue-single" qid="05005018.2" from="05005006.2" to="05005021.3"/>And you shall not commit adultery.</verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005019"/>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="19"><q class="continue-double" qid="05005019.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/><q class="continue-single" qid="05005019.2" from="05005006.2" to="05005021.3"/>And you shall not steal.</verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005020"/>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="20"><q class="continue-double" qid="05005020.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/><q class="continue-single" qid="05005020.2" from="05005006.2" to="05005021.3"/>And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.</verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005021"/>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="21"><q class="continue-double" qid="05005021.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/><q class="continue-single" qid="05005021.2" from="05005006.2" to="05005021.3"/>And you shall not covet your neighbor&apos;s wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor&apos;s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor&apos;s.<q class="end-single" qid="05005021.3" from="05005006.2" to="05005021.3"/></verse>
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+ <end-paragraph/>
459
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005022"/>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
461
+ <verse num="22"><q class="continue-double" qid="05005022.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/>These words the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> spoke to all your assembly <crossref let="k" cid="c05005022.1"/>at the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and he added no more. And <crossref let="l" cid="c05005022.2"/>he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005023"/>
463
+ <verse num="23">And <crossref let="m" cid="c05005023.1"/>as soon as you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005024"/>
465
+ <verse num="24">And you said, <q class="begin-single" qid="05005024.1" from="05005024.1" to="05005027.1"/>Behold, the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God has shown us his glory and <crossref let="n" cid="c05005024.1"/>greatness, and <crossref let="o" cid="c05005024.2"/>we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire. This day we have seen God speak with man, and man <crossref let="p" cid="c05005024.3"/>still live.</verse>
466
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005025"/>
467
+ <verse num="25">Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. <crossref let="q" cid="c05005025.1"/>If we hear the voice of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God any more, we shall die.</verse>
468
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005026"/>
469
+ <verse num="26"><crossref let="p" cid="c05005026.1"/>For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire as we have, and has still lived?</verse>
470
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005027"/>
471
+ <verse num="27">Go near and hear all that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God will say, and <crossref let="r" cid="c05005027.1"/>speak to us all that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God will speak to you, and we will hear and do it.<q class="end-single" qid="05005027.1" from="05005024.1" to="05005027.1"/></verse>
472
+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005028"/>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
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+ <verse num="28"><q class="continue-double" qid="05005028.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> heard your words, when you spoke to me. And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to me, <q class="begin-single" qid="05005028.2" from="05005028.2" to="05005031.1"/>I have heard the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. <crossref let="s" cid="c05005028.1"/>They are right in all that they have spoken.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005029"/>
477
+ <verse num="29"><crossref let="t" cid="c05005029.1"/>Oh that they had such a heart as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, <crossref let="u" cid="c05005029.2"/>that it might go well with them and with their descendants<note nid="n05005029.1"/> forever!</verse>
478
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005030"/>
479
+ <verse num="30">Go and say to them, <q class="begin-inner-double" qid="05005030.1" from="05005030.1" to="05005030.2"/>Return to your tents.<q class="end-inner-double" qid="05005030.2" from="05005030.1" to="05005030.2"/></verse>
480
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005031"/>
481
+ <verse num="31">But you, stand here by me, and <crossref let="v" cid="c05005031.1"/>I will tell you the whole commandment and the statutes and the rules that you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.<q class="end-single" qid="05005031.1" from="05005028.2" to="05005031.1"/></verse>
482
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005032"/>
483
+ <verse num="32">You shall be careful therefore to do as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has commanded you. <crossref let="w" cid="c05005032.1"/>You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05005033"/>
485
+ <verse num="33"><crossref let="x" cid="c05005033.1"/>You shall walk in all the way that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has commanded you, that you may live, and <crossref let="y" cid="c05005033.2"/>that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess.</verse>
486
+ <end-paragraph/>
487
+ </chapter>
488
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05006001"/>
489
+ <chapter num="6">
490
+ <heading>The Greatest Commandment</heading>
491
+ <begin-paragraph/>
492
+ <verse num="1"><q class="continue-double" qid="05006001.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/>Now this is <crossref let="z" cid="c05006001.1"/>the commandment&emdash;the statutes and the rules<note nid="n05006001.1"/>&emdash;that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it,</verse>
493
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05006002"/>
494
+ <verse num="2">that <crossref let="a" cid="c05006002.1"/>you may fear the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, you and your son and your son&apos;s son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and <crossref let="b" cid="c05006002.2"/>that your days may be long.</verse>
495
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05006003"/>
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+ <verse num="3">Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, <crossref let="c" cid="c05006003.1"/>as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.</verse>
497
+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05006004"/>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
500
+ <verse num="4"><q class="continue-double" qid="05006004.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/>Hear, O Israel: <crossref let="d" cid="c05006004.1"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God, the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is one.<note nid="n05006004.1"/></verse>
501
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05006005"/>
502
+ <verse num="5">You <crossref let="e" cid="c05006005.1"/>shall love the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.</verse>
503
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05006006"/>
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+ <verse num="6">And <crossref let="f" cid="c05006006.1"/>these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05006007"/>
506
+ <verse num="7"><crossref let="g" cid="c05006007.1"/>You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.</verse>
507
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05006008"/>
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+ <verse num="8"><crossref let="h" cid="c05006008.1"/>You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05006009"/>
510
+ <verse num="9"><crossref let="i" cid="c05006009.1"/>You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.</verse>
511
+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05006010"/>
513
+ <begin-paragraph/>
514
+ <verse num="10"><q class="continue-double" qid="05006010.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/>And when the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you&emdash;with great and good cities <crossref let="j" cid="c05006010.1"/>that you did not build,</verse>
515
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05006011"/>
516
+ <verse num="11">and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant&emdash;and when you eat and are full,</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05006012"/>
518
+ <verse num="12"><crossref let="k" cid="c05006012.1"/>then take care lest you forget the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.</verse>
519
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05006013"/>
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+ <verse num="13">It is <crossref let="l" cid="c05006013.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and <crossref let="m" cid="c05006013.2"/>by his name you shall swear.</verse>
521
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05006014"/>
522
+ <verse num="14">You shall not <crossref let="n" cid="c05006014.1"/>go after other gods, <crossref let="o" cid="c05006014.2"/>the gods of the peoples who are around you&emdash;</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05006015"/>
524
+ <verse num="15">for <crossref let="p" cid="c05006015.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God in your midst <crossref let="q" cid="c05006015.2"/>is a jealous God&emdash;<crossref let="r" cid="c05006015.3"/>lest the anger of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.</verse>
525
+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05006016"/>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
528
+ <verse num="16"><crossref let="s" cid="c05006016.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05006016.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/>You shall not put the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God to the test, <crossref let="t" cid="c05006016.2"/>as you tested him at Massah.</verse>
529
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05006017"/>
530
+ <verse num="17">You shall <crossref let="u" cid="c05006017.1"/>diligently keep the commandments of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you.</verse>
531
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05006018"/>
532
+ <verse num="18"><crossref let="v" cid="c05006018.1"/>And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, that it may go well with you, and that you may go in and take possession of the good land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> swore to give to your fathers</verse>
533
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05006019"/>
534
+ <verse num="19"><crossref let="w" cid="c05006019.1"/>by thrusting out all your enemies from before you, as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has promised.</verse>
535
+ <end-paragraph/>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05006020"/>
537
+ <begin-paragraph/>
538
+ <verse num="20"><crossref let="x" cid="c05006020.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05006020.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/>When your son asks you in time to come, <q class="begin-single" qid="05006020.2" from="05006020.2" to="05006020.3"/>What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God has commanded you?<q class="end-single" qid="05006020.3" from="05006020.2" to="05006020.3"/></verse>
539
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05006021"/>
540
+ <verse num="21">then you shall say to your son, <crossref let="y" cid="c05006021.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05006021.1" from="05006021.1" to="05006025.1"/>We were Pharaoh&apos;s slaves in Egypt. And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.</verse>
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+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05006022"/>
542
+ <verse num="22">And <crossref let="z" cid="c05006022.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and all his household, before our eyes.</verse>
543
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05006023"/>
544
+ <verse num="23">And he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in and give us the land that he swore to give to our fathers.</verse>
545
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05006024"/>
546
+ <verse num="24">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> commanded us to do all these statutes, <crossref let="a" cid="c05006024.1"/>to fear the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God, <crossref let="b" cid="c05006024.2"/>for our good always, that <crossref let="c" cid="c05006024.3"/>he might preserve us alive, as we are this day.</verse>
547
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05006025"/>
548
+ <verse num="25">And <crossref let="d" cid="c05006025.1"/>it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God, as he has commanded us.<q class="end-single" qid="05006025.1" from="05006021.1" to="05006025.1"/></verse>
549
+ <end-paragraph/>
550
+ </chapter>
551
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05007001"/>
552
+ <chapter num="7">
553
+ <heading>A Chosen People</heading>
554
+ <begin-paragraph/>
555
+ <verse num="1"><q class="continue-double" qid="05007001.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/>When the <crossref let="e" cid="c05007001.1"/><span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, <crossref let="f" cid="c05007001.2"/>the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations <crossref let="g" cid="c05007001.3"/>more numerous and mightier than you,</verse>
556
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05007002"/>
557
+ <verse num="2"><crossref let="h" cid="c05007002.1"/>and when the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must <crossref let="i" cid="c05007002.2"/>devote them to complete destruction.<note nid="n05007002.1"/> <crossref let="j" cid="c05007002.3"/>You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.</verse>
558
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05007003"/>
559
+ <verse num="3"><crossref let="k" cid="c05007003.1"/>You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,</verse>
560
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05007004"/>
561
+ <verse num="4">for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. <crossref let="l" cid="c05007004.1"/>Then the anger of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you <crossref let="m" cid="c05007004.2"/>quickly.</verse>
562
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05007005"/>
563
+ <verse num="5">But thus shall you deal with them: <crossref let="n" cid="c05007005.1"/>you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their <crossref let="n" cid="c05007005.2"/>pillars and chop down their <crossref let="n" cid="c05007005.3"/>Asherim and <crossref let="o" cid="c05007005.4"/>burn their carved images with fire.</verse>
564
+ <end-paragraph/>
565
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05007006"/>
566
+ <begin-paragraph/>
567
+ <verse num="6"><q class="continue-double" qid="05007006.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/>For <crossref let="p" cid="c05007006.1"/>you are a people holy to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God. The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has chosen you to be <crossref let="p" cid="c05007006.2"/>a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.</verse>
568
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05007007"/>
569
+ <verse num="7">It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples,</verse>
570
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05007008"/>
571
+ <verse num="8">but <crossref let="q" cid="c05007008.1"/>it is because the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> loves you and is keeping <crossref let="r" cid="c05007008.2"/>the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.</verse>
572
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05007009"/>
573
+ <verse num="9">Know therefore that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is God, <crossref let="s" cid="c05007009.1"/>the faithful God <crossref let="t" cid="c05007009.2"/>who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,</verse>
574
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05007010"/>
575
+ <verse num="10">and <crossref let="u" cid="c05007010.1"/>repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. <crossref let="v" cid="c05007010.2"/>He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face.</verse>
576
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05007011"/>
577
+ <verse num="11"><crossref let="w" cid="c05007011.1"/>You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.</verse>
578
+ <end-paragraph/>
579
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05007012"/>
580
+ <begin-paragraph/>
581
+ <verse num="12"><crossref let="x" cid="c05007012.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05007012.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/>And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will keep with you <crossref let="y" cid="c05007012.2"/>the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers.</verse>
582
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05007013"/>
583
+ <verse num="13">He will <crossref let="z" cid="c05007013.1"/>love you, bless you, and multiply you. <crossref let="a" cid="c05007013.2"/>He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you.</verse>
584
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05007014"/>
585
+ <verse num="14">You shall be blessed above all peoples. <crossref let="b" cid="c05007014.1"/>There shall not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock.</verse>
586
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05007015"/>
587
+ <verse num="15">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil <crossref let="c" cid="c05007015.1"/>diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you.</verse>
588
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05007016"/>
589
+ <verse num="16">And <crossref let="d" cid="c05007016.1"/>you shall consume all the peoples that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will give over to you. <crossref let="e" cid="c05007016.2"/>Your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be <crossref let="f" cid="c05007016.3"/>a snare to you.</verse>
590
+ <end-paragraph/>
591
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05007017"/>
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+ <begin-paragraph/>
593
+ <verse num="17"><q class="continue-double" qid="05007017.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/>If you say in your heart, <q class="begin-single" qid="05007017.2" from="05007017.2" to="05007017.3"/>These nations are greater than I. How can I dispossess them?<q class="end-single" qid="05007017.3" from="05007017.2" to="05007017.3"/></verse>
594
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05007018"/>
595
+ <verse num="18"><crossref let="g" cid="c05007018.1"/>you shall not be afraid of them but you shall <crossref let="h" cid="c05007018.2"/>remember what the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt,</verse>
596
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05007019"/>
597
+ <verse num="19">the great trials that your eyes saw, <crossref let="i" cid="c05007019.1"/>the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God brought you out. So will the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.</verse>
598
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05007020"/>
599
+ <verse num="20">Moreover, <crossref let="j" cid="c05007020.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed.</verse>
600
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05007021"/>
601
+ <verse num="21">You shall not be in dread of them, for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is <crossref let="k" cid="c05007021.1"/>in your midst, <crossref let="l" cid="c05007021.2"/>a great and awesome God.</verse>
602
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05007022"/>
603
+ <verse num="22"><crossref let="m" cid="c05007022.1"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once,<note nid="n05007022.1"/> lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.</verse>
604
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05007023"/>
605
+ <verse num="23"><crossref let="n" cid="c05007023.1"/>But the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.</verse>
606
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05007024"/>
607
+ <verse num="24">And <crossref let="o" cid="c05007024.1"/>he will give their kings into your hand, and you shall <crossref let="p" cid="c05007024.2"/>make their name perish from under heaven. <crossref let="q" cid="c05007024.3"/>No one shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.</verse>
608
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05007025"/>
609
+ <verse num="25">The carved images of their gods <crossref let="r" cid="c05007025.1"/>you shall burn with fire. You <crossref let="s" cid="c05007025.2"/>shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be <crossref let="t" cid="c05007025.3"/>ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God.</verse>
610
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05007026"/>
611
+ <verse num="26">And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destruction<note nid="n05007026.1"/> like it. You shall utterly detest and abhor it, <crossref let="u" cid="c05007026.1"/>for it is devoted to destruction.</verse>
612
+ <end-paragraph/>
613
+ </chapter>
614
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05008001"/>
615
+ <chapter num="8">
616
+ <heading>Remember the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> Your God</heading>
617
+ <begin-paragraph/>
618
+ <verse num="1"><q class="continue-double" qid="05008001.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/>The whole commandment that I command you today <crossref let="v" cid="c05008001.1"/>you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> swore to give to your fathers.</verse>
619
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05008002"/>
620
+ <verse num="2">And you shall remember the whole way that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has led you <crossref let="w" cid="c05008002.1"/>these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, <crossref let="x" cid="c05008002.2"/>testing you <crossref let="y" cid="c05008002.3"/>to know what was in your heart, <crossref let="z" cid="c05008002.4"/>whether you would keep his commandments or not.</verse>
621
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05008003"/>
622
+ <verse num="3">And he humbled you and <crossref let="a" cid="c05008003.1"/>let you hunger and <crossref let="b" cid="c05008003.2"/>fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that <crossref let="c" cid="c05008003.3"/>man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word<note nid="n05008003.1"/> that comes from the mouth of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
623
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05008004"/>
624
+ <verse num="4"><crossref let="d" cid="c05008004.1"/>Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years.</verse>
625
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05008005"/>
626
+ <verse num="5">Know then in your heart that, <crossref let="e" cid="c05008005.1"/>as a man disciplines his son, the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God disciplines you.</verse>
627
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05008006"/>
628
+ <verse num="6">So you shall keep the commandments of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him.</verse>
629
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05008007"/>
630
+ <verse num="7">For the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is bringing you into a good land, <crossref let="f" cid="c05008007.1"/>a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills,</verse>
631
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05008008"/>
632
+ <verse num="8">a land of wheat and barley, <crossref let="g" cid="c05008008.1"/>of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey,</verse>
633
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05008009"/>
634
+ <verse num="9">a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.</verse>
635
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05008010"/>
636
+ <verse num="10">And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God for the good land he has given you.</verse>
637
+ <end-paragraph/>
638
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05008011"/>
639
+ <begin-paragraph/>
640
+ <verse num="11"><q class="continue-double" qid="05008011.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/>Take care lest you forget the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today,</verse>
641
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05008012"/>
642
+ <verse num="12"><crossref let="h" cid="c05008012.1"/>lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them,</verse>
643
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05008013"/>
644
+ <verse num="13">and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied,</verse>
645
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05008014"/>
646
+ <verse num="14"><crossref let="i" cid="c05008014.1"/>then your heart be lifted up, and you <crossref let="j" cid="c05008014.2"/>forget the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery,</verse>
647
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05008015"/>
648
+ <verse num="15">who <crossref let="k" cid="c05008015.1"/>led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, <crossref let="l" cid="c05008015.2"/>with its fiery serpents and scorpions <crossref let="m" cid="c05008015.3"/>and thirsty ground where there was no water, <crossref let="n" cid="c05008015.4"/>who brought you water out of the flinty rock,</verse>
649
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05008016"/>
650
+ <verse num="16">who fed you in the wilderness with <crossref let="o" cid="c05008016.1"/>manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, <crossref let="p" cid="c05008016.2"/>to do you good in the end.</verse>
651
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05008017"/>
652
+ <verse num="17">Beware <crossref let="q" cid="c05008017.1"/>lest you say in your heart, <q class="begin-single" qid="05008017.1" from="05008017.1" to="05008017.2"/>My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.<q class="end-single" qid="05008017.2" from="05008017.1" to="05008017.2"/></verse>
653
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05008018"/>
654
+ <verse num="18">You shall remember the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, for <crossref let="r" cid="c05008018.1"/>it is he who gives you power to get wealth, <crossref let="s" cid="c05008018.2"/>that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.</verse>
655
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05008019"/>
656
+ <verse num="19">And if you forget the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, <crossref let="t" cid="c05008019.1"/>I solemnly warn you today that you shall surely perish.</verse>
657
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05008020"/>
658
+ <verse num="20">Like the nations that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> makes to perish before you, <crossref let="u" cid="c05008020.1"/>so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God.</verse>
659
+ <end-paragraph/>
660
+ </chapter>
661
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009001"/>
662
+ <chapter num="9">
663
+ <heading>Not Because of Righteousness</heading>
664
+ <begin-paragraph/>
665
+ <verse num="1"><q class="continue-double" qid="05009001.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/>Hear, O Israel: you are <crossref let="v" cid="c05009001.1"/>to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations <crossref let="w" cid="c05009001.2"/>greater and mightier than you, cities great and fortified up to heaven,</verse>
666
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009002"/>
667
+ <verse num="2">a people great and tall, <crossref let="x" cid="c05009002.1"/>the sons of the Anakim, <crossref let="y" cid="c05009002.2"/>whom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, <q class="begin-single" qid="05009002.1" from="05009002.1" to="05009002.2"/>Who can stand before the sons of Anak?<q class="end-single" qid="05009002.2" from="05009002.1" to="05009002.2"/></verse>
668
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009003"/>
669
+ <verse num="3">Know therefore today that he who <crossref let="z" cid="c05009003.1"/>goes over before you <crossref let="a" cid="c05009003.2"/>as a consuming fire is the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God. He will destroy them and subdue them before you. <crossref let="b" cid="c05009003.3"/>So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has promised you.</verse>
670
+ <end-paragraph/>
671
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009004"/>
672
+ <begin-paragraph/>
673
+ <verse num="4"><crossref let="c" cid="c05009004.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05009004.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/>Do not say in your heart, after the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has thrust them out before you, <q class="begin-single" qid="05009004.2" from="05009004.2" to="05009004.3"/>It is because of my righteousness that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has brought me in to possess this land,<q class="end-single" qid="05009004.3" from="05009004.2" to="05009004.3"/> whereas it is <crossref let="d" cid="c05009004.2"/>because of the wickedness of these nations that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is driving them out before you.</verse>
674
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009005"/>
675
+ <verse num="5"><crossref let="e" cid="c05009005.1"/>Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm <crossref let="f" cid="c05009005.2"/>the word that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.</verse>
676
+ <end-paragraph/>
677
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009006"/>
678
+ <begin-paragraph/>
679
+ <verse num="6"><q class="continue-double" qid="05009006.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/>Know, therefore, that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are <crossref let="g" cid="c05009006.1"/>a stubborn people.</verse>
680
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009007"/>
681
+ <verse num="7">Remember and do not forget how you provoked the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God to wrath in the wilderness. <crossref let="h" cid="c05009007.1"/>From the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
682
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009008"/>
683
+ <verse num="8">Even <crossref let="i" cid="c05009008.1"/>at Horeb you provoked the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> to wrath, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was so angry with you that he was ready to destroy you.</verse>
684
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009009"/>
685
+ <verse num="9"><crossref let="j" cid="c05009009.1"/>When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> made with you, I remained on the mountain <crossref let="k" cid="c05009009.2"/>forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.</verse>
686
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009010"/>
687
+ <verse num="10">And <crossref let="l" cid="c05009010.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had spoken with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire <crossref let="m" cid="c05009010.2"/>on the day of the assembly.</verse>
688
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009011"/>
689
+ <verse num="11">And at the end of forty days and forty nights the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.</verse>
690
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009012"/>
691
+ <verse num="12">Then the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to me, <crossref let="n" cid="c05009012.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05009012.1" from="05009012.1" to="05009012.2"/>Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly. They have <crossref let="o" cid="c05009012.2"/>turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them; they have made themselves a metal image.<q class="end-single" qid="05009012.2" from="05009012.1" to="05009012.2"/></verse>
692
+ <end-paragraph/>
693
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009013"/>
694
+ <heading>The Golden Calf</heading>
695
+ <begin-paragraph/>
696
+ <verse num="13"><crossref let="p" cid="c05009013.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05009013.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/>Furthermore, the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to me, <q class="begin-single" qid="05009013.2" from="05009013.2" to="05009014.1"/>I have seen this people, and behold, it is <crossref let="g" cid="c05009013.2"/>a stubborn people.</verse>
697
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009014"/>
698
+ <verse num="14"><crossref let="q" cid="c05009014.1"/>Let me alone, that I may destroy them and <crossref let="r" cid="c05009014.2"/>blot out their name from under heaven. And <crossref let="s" cid="c05009014.3"/>I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.<q class="end-single" qid="05009014.1" from="05009013.2" to="05009014.1"/></verse>
699
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009015"/>
700
+ <verse num="15"><crossref let="t" cid="c05009015.1"/>So I turned and came down from the mountain, and <crossref let="u" cid="c05009015.2"/>the mountain was burning with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.</verse>
701
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009016"/>
702
+ <verse num="16">And <crossref let="v" cid="c05009016.1"/>I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God. You had made yourselves a golden<note nid="n05009016.1"/> calf. <crossref let="w" cid="c05009016.2"/>You had turned aside quickly from the way that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had commanded you.</verse>
703
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009017"/>
704
+ <verse num="17">So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes.</verse>
705
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009018"/>
706
+ <verse num="18">Then I <crossref let="x" cid="c05009018.1"/>lay prostrate before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="y" cid="c05009018.2"/>as before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, <crossref let="z" cid="c05009018.3"/>in doing what was evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> to provoke him to anger.</verse>
707
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009019"/>
708
+ <verse num="19">For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> bore against you, so that he was ready to destroy you. <crossref let="a" cid="c05009019.1"/>But the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> listened to me that time also.</verse>
709
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009020"/>
710
+ <verse num="20">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him. And I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.</verse>
711
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009021"/>
712
+ <verse num="21">Then <crossref let="b" cid="c05009021.1"/>I took the sinful thing, the calf that you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. And I threw the dust of it into the brook that ran down from the mountain.</verse>
713
+ <end-paragraph/>
714
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009022"/>
715
+ <begin-paragraph/>
716
+ <verse num="22"><q class="continue-double" qid="05009022.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/>At <crossref let="c" cid="c05009022.1"/>Taberah also, and at <crossref let="d" cid="c05009022.2"/>Massah and at <crossref let="e" cid="c05009022.3"/>Kibroth-hattaavah you provoked the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> to wrath.</verse>
717
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009023"/>
718
+ <verse num="23">And <crossref let="f" cid="c05009023.1"/>when the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, <q class="begin-single" qid="05009023.1" from="05009023.1" to="05009023.2"/>Go up and take possession of the land that I have given you,<q class="end-single" qid="05009023.2" from="05009023.1" to="05009023.2"/> then you rebelled against the commandment of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God and <crossref let="g" cid="c05009023.2"/>did not believe him or obey his voice.</verse>
719
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009024"/>
720
+ <verse num="24"><crossref let="h" cid="c05009024.1"/>You have been rebellious against the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> from the day that I knew you.</verse>
721
+ <end-paragraph/>
722
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009025"/>
723
+ <begin-paragraph/>
724
+ <verse num="25"><crossref let="x" cid="c05009025.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05009025.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/>So I lay prostrate before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> for these forty days and forty nights, because the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had said he would destroy you.</verse>
725
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009026"/>
726
+ <verse num="26"><crossref let="i" cid="c05009026.1"/>And I prayed to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <q class="begin-single" qid="05009026.1" from="05009026.1" to="05009029.1"/>O Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>, do not destroy your people and your heritage, whom you have redeemed through your greatness, whom you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.</verse>
727
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009027"/>
728
+ <verse num="27">Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not regard the stubbornness of this people, or their wickedness or their sin,</verse>
729
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009028"/>
730
+ <verse num="28">lest the land from which you brought us say, <crossref let="j" cid="c05009028.1"/><q class="begin-inner-double" qid="05009028.1" from="05009028.1" to="05009028.2"/>Because the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was not able to bring them into the land that he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.<q class="end-inner-double" qid="05009028.2" from="05009028.1" to="05009028.2"/></verse>
731
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05009029"/>
732
+ <verse num="29"><crossref let="k" cid="c05009029.1"/>For they are your people and your heritage, whom you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.<q class="end-single" qid="05009029.1" from="05009026.1" to="05009029.1"/></verse>
733
+ <end-paragraph/>
734
+ </chapter>
735
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05010001"/>
736
+ <chapter num="10">
737
+ <heading>New Tablets of Stone</heading>
738
+ <begin-paragraph/>
739
+ <verse num="1"><q class="continue-double" qid="05010001.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/>At that time the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to me, <crossref let="l" cid="c05010001.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05010001.2" from="05010001.2" to="05010002.1"/>Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mountain and <crossref let="m" cid="c05010001.2"/>make an ark of wood.</verse>
740
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05010002"/>
741
+ <verse num="2">And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you broke, and <crossref let="n" cid="c05010002.1"/>you shall put them in the ark.<q class="end-single" qid="05010002.1" from="05010001.2" to="05010002.1"/></verse>
742
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05010003"/>
743
+ <verse num="3">So I made an ark <crossref let="o" cid="c05010003.1"/>of acacia wood, and <crossref let="p" cid="c05010003.2"/>cut two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.</verse>
744
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05010004"/>
745
+ <verse num="4">And <crossref let="q" cid="c05010004.1"/>he wrote on the tablets, in the same writing as before, the Ten Commandments<note nid="n05010004.1"/> <crossref let="r" cid="c05010004.2"/>that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire <crossref let="s" cid="c05010004.3"/>on the day of the assembly. And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> gave them to me.</verse>
746
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05010005"/>
747
+ <verse num="5">Then I turned and <crossref let="t" cid="c05010005.1"/>came down from the mountain and <crossref let="u" cid="c05010005.2"/>put the tablets in the ark that I had made. <crossref let="v" cid="c05010005.3"/>And there they are, as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> commanded me.<q class="end-double" qid="05010005.1" from="05005001.1" to="05010005.1"/></verse>
748
+ <end-paragraph/>
749
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05010006"/>
750
+ <begin-paragraph/>
751
+ <verse num="6">(The people of Israel <crossref let="w" cid="c05010006.1"/>journeyed from Beeroth Bene-jaakan<note nid="n05010006.1"/> to Moserah. <crossref let="x" cid="c05010006.2"/>There Aaron died, and there he was buried. And his son Eleazar ministered as priest in his place.</verse>
752
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05010007"/>
753
+ <verse num="7"><crossref let="y" cid="c05010007.1"/>From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with brooks of water.</verse>
754
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05010008"/>
755
+ <verse num="8">At that time <crossref let="z" cid="c05010008.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> set apart the tribe of Levi <crossref let="a" cid="c05010008.2"/>to carry the ark of the covenant of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="b" cid="c05010008.3"/>to stand before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> to minister to him and <crossref let="c" cid="c05010008.4"/>to bless in his name, to this day.</verse>
756
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05010009"/>
757
+ <verse num="9"><crossref let="d" cid="c05010009.1"/>Therefore Levi has no portion or inheritance with his brothers. The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is his inheritance, as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God said to him.)</verse>
758
+ <end-paragraph/>
759
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05010010"/>
760
+ <begin-paragraph/>
761
+ <verse num="10"><crossref let="e" cid="c05010010.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="05010010.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>I myself stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights, <crossref let="f" cid="c05010010.2"/>and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> listened to me that time also. The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was unwilling to destroy you.</verse>
762
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05010011"/>
763
+ <verse num="11"><crossref let="g" cid="c05010011.1"/>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to me, <q class="begin-single" qid="05010011.1" from="05010011.1" to="05010011.2"/>Arise, go on your journey at the head of the people, so that they may go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give them.<q class="end-single" qid="05010011.2" from="05010011.1" to="05010011.2"/></verse>
764
+ <end-paragraph/>
765
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05010012"/>
766
+ <heading>Circumcise Your Heart</heading>
767
+ <begin-paragraph/>
768
+ <verse num="12"><q class="continue-double" qid="05010012.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>And now, Israel, <crossref let="h" cid="c05010012.1"/>what does the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God require of you, but <crossref let="i" cid="c05010012.2"/>to fear the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, <crossref let="j" cid="c05010012.3"/>to walk in all his ways, <crossref let="k" cid="c05010012.4"/>to love him, to serve the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God with all your heart and with all your soul,</verse>
769
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05010013"/>
770
+ <verse num="13">and <crossref let="l" cid="c05010013.1"/>to keep the commandments and statutes of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, which I am commanding you today <crossref let="m" cid="c05010013.2"/>for your good?</verse>
771
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05010014"/>
772
+ <verse num="14">Behold, <crossref let="n" cid="c05010014.1"/>to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, <crossref let="o" cid="c05010014.2"/>the earth with all that is in it.</verse>
773
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05010015"/>
774
+ <verse num="15">Yet <crossref let="p" cid="c05010015.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day.</verse>
775
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05010016"/>
776
+ <verse num="16">Circumcise therefore <crossref let="q" cid="c05010016.1"/>the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer <crossref let="r" cid="c05010016.2"/>stubborn.</verse>
777
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05010017"/>
778
+ <verse num="17">For the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is <crossref let="s" cid="c05010017.1"/>God of gods and <crossref let="t" cid="c05010017.2"/>Lord of lords, <crossref let="u" cid="c05010017.3"/>the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is <crossref let="v" cid="c05010017.4"/>not partial and takes no bribe.</verse>
779
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05010018"/>
780
+ <verse num="18"><crossref let="w" cid="c05010018.1"/>He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.</verse>
781
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05010019"/>
782
+ <verse num="19"><crossref let="x" cid="c05010019.1"/>Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.</verse>
783
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05010020"/>
784
+ <verse num="20"><crossref let="i" cid="c05010020.1"/>You shall fear the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God. You shall serve him and <crossref let="y" cid="c05010020.2"/>hold fast to him, and <crossref let="z" cid="c05010020.3"/>by his name you shall swear.</verse>
785
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05010021"/>
786
+ <verse num="21"><crossref let="a" cid="c05010021.1"/>He is your praise. He is your God, <crossref let="b" cid="c05010021.2"/>who has done for you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen.</verse>
787
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05010022"/>
788
+ <verse num="22">Your fathers went down to Egypt <crossref let="c" cid="c05010022.1"/>seventy persons, and now the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has made you <crossref let="d" cid="c05010022.2"/>as numerous as the stars of heaven.</verse>
789
+ <end-paragraph/>
790
+ </chapter>
791
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011001"/>
792
+ <chapter num="11">
793
+ <heading>Love and Serve the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span></heading>
794
+ <begin-paragraph/>
795
+ <verse num="1"><crossref let="e" cid="c05011001.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05011001.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>You shall therefore love the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God and <crossref let="f" cid="c05011001.2"/>keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always.</verse>
796
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011002"/>
797
+ <verse num="2">And consider today (since I am not speaking to <crossref let="g" cid="c05011002.1"/>your children who have not known or seen it), consider the discipline<note nid="n05011002.1"/> of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, <crossref let="h" cid="c05011002.2"/>his greatness, <crossref let="i" cid="c05011002.3"/>his mighty hand and his outstretched arm,</verse>
798
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011003"/>
799
+ <verse num="3"><crossref let="j" cid="c05011003.1"/>his signs and his deeds that he did in Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land,</verse>
800
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011004"/>
801
+ <verse num="4">and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots, <crossref let="k" cid="c05011004.1"/>how he made the water of the Red Sea flow over them as they pursued after you, and how the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has destroyed them to this day,</verse>
802
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011005"/>
803
+ <verse num="5">and <crossref let="l" cid="c05011005.1"/>what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place,</verse>
804
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011006"/>
805
+ <verse num="6">and <crossref let="m" cid="c05011006.1"/>what he did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel.</verse>
806
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011007"/>
807
+ <verse num="7">For your eyes have seen <crossref let="n" cid="c05011007.1"/>all the great work of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> that he did.</verse>
808
+ <end-paragraph/>
809
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011008"/>
810
+ <begin-paragraph/>
811
+ <verse num="8"><q class="continue-double" qid="05011008.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>You shall therefore keep the whole commandment that I command you today, that you may <crossref let="o" cid="c05011008.1"/>be strong, and go in and take possession of the land that you are going over to possess,</verse>
812
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011009"/>
813
+ <verse num="9">and <crossref let="p" cid="c05011009.1"/>that you may live long in the land <crossref let="q" cid="c05011009.2"/>that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, <crossref let="r" cid="c05011009.3"/>a land flowing with milk and honey.</verse>
814
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011010"/>
815
+ <verse num="10">For the land that you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated it,<note nid="n05011010.1"/> like a garden of vegetables.</verse>
816
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011011"/>
817
+ <verse num="11"><crossref let="s" cid="c05011011.1"/>But the land that you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven,</verse>
818
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011012"/>
819
+ <verse num="12">a land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God cares for. <crossref let="t" cid="c05011012.1"/>The eyes of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.</verse>
820
+ <end-paragraph/>
821
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011013"/>
822
+ <begin-paragraph/>
823
+ <verse num="13"><q class="continue-double" qid="05011013.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, <crossref let="u" cid="c05011013.1"/>to love the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,</verse>
824
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011014"/>
825
+ <verse num="14"><crossref let="v" cid="c05011014.1"/>he<note nid="n05011014.1"/> will give the rain for your land in its season, <crossref let="w" cid="c05011014.2"/>the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.</verse>
826
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011015"/>
827
+ <verse num="15"><crossref let="x" cid="c05011015.1"/>And he will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and <crossref let="y" cid="c05011015.2"/>you shall eat and be full.</verse>
828
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011016"/>
829
+ <verse num="16">Take care <crossref let="z" cid="c05011016.1"/>lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and <crossref let="a" cid="c05011016.2"/>serve other gods and worship them;</verse>
830
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011017"/>
831
+ <verse num="17">then <crossref let="b" cid="c05011017.1"/>the anger of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will be kindled against you, and he <crossref let="c" cid="c05011017.2"/>will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and <crossref let="d" cid="c05011017.3"/>you will perish quickly off the good land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is giving you.</verse>
832
+ <end-paragraph/>
833
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011018"/>
834
+ <begin-paragraph/>
835
+ <verse num="18"><crossref let="e" cid="c05011018.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05011018.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and <crossref let="f" cid="c05011018.2"/>you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.</verse>
836
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011019"/>
837
+ <verse num="19">You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.</verse>
838
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011020"/>
839
+ <verse num="20"><crossref let="g" cid="c05011020.1"/>You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,</verse>
840
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011021"/>
841
+ <verse num="21"><crossref let="h" cid="c05011021.1"/>that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> swore to your fathers to give them, <crossref let="i" cid="c05011021.2"/>as long as the heavens are above the earth.</verse>
842
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011022"/>
843
+ <verse num="22">For if <crossref let="j" cid="c05011022.1"/>you will be careful to do all this commandment that I command you to do, loving the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, walking in all his ways, and <crossref let="k" cid="c05011022.2"/>holding fast to him,</verse>
844
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011023"/>
845
+ <verse num="23">then the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="l" cid="c05011023.1"/>will drive out all these nations before you, and you will <crossref let="m" cid="c05011023.2"/>dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.</verse>
846
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011024"/>
847
+ <verse num="24"><crossref let="n" cid="c05011024.1"/>Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Your territory shall be <crossref let="o" cid="c05011024.2"/>from the wilderness to<note nid="n05011024.1"/> the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea.</verse>
848
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011025"/>
849
+ <verse num="25"><crossref let="p" cid="c05011025.1"/>No one shall be able to stand against you. The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will lay <crossref let="q" cid="c05011025.2"/>the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread, <crossref let="r" cid="c05011025.3"/>as he promised you.</verse>
850
+ <end-paragraph/>
851
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011026"/>
852
+ <begin-paragraph/>
853
+ <verse num="26"><crossref let="s" cid="c05011026.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05011026.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:</verse>
854
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011027"/>
855
+ <verse num="27"><crossref let="t" cid="c05011027.1"/>the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, which I command you today,</verse>
856
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011028"/>
857
+ <verse num="28">and <crossref let="u" cid="c05011028.1"/>the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, <crossref let="v" cid="c05011028.2"/>to go after other gods that you have not known.</verse>
858
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011029"/>
859
+ <verse num="29">And when the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, you shall set <crossref let="w" cid="c05011029.1"/>the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.</verse>
860
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011030"/>
861
+ <verse num="30">Are they not beyond the Jordan, west of the road, toward the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the <crossref let="x" cid="c05011030.1"/>Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside <crossref let="y" cid="c05011030.2"/>the oak<note nid="n05011030.1"/> of Moreh?</verse>
862
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011031"/>
863
+ <verse num="31">For you are <crossref let="z" cid="c05011031.1"/>to cross over the Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you. And when you possess it and live in it,</verse>
864
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05011032"/>
865
+ <verse num="32">you shall be careful <crossref let="a" cid="c05011032.1"/>to do all the statutes and the rules that I am setting before you today.</verse>
866
+ <end-paragraph/>
867
+ </chapter>
868
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012001"/>
869
+ <chapter num="12">
870
+ <heading>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>&apos;s Chosen Place of Worship</heading>
871
+ <begin-paragraph/>
872
+ <verse num="1"><crossref let="b" cid="c05012001.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05012001.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>These are the statutes and rules that you shall be careful to do in the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, <crossref let="c" cid="c05012001.2"/>all the days that you live on the earth.</verse>
873
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012002"/>
874
+ <verse num="2"><crossref let="d" cid="c05012002.1"/>You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, <crossref let="e" cid="c05012002.2"/>on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.</verse>
875
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012003"/>
876
+ <verse num="3">You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces <crossref let="f" cid="c05012003.1"/>their pillars and burn their <crossref let="g" cid="c05012003.2"/>Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and <crossref let="h" cid="c05012003.3"/>destroy their name out of that place.</verse>
877
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012004"/>
878
+ <verse num="4"><crossref let="i" cid="c05012004.1"/>You shall not worship the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God in that way.</verse>
879
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012005"/>
880
+ <verse num="5">But you shall seek <crossref let="j" cid="c05012005.1"/>the place that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation<note nid="n05012005.1"/> there. There you shall go,</verse>
881
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012006"/>
882
+ <verse num="6">and there you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, <crossref let="k" cid="c05012006.1"/>your tithes and the contribution that you present, your vow offerings, your freewill offerings, and the <crossref let="l" cid="c05012006.2"/>firstborn of your herd and of your flock.</verse>
883
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012007"/>
884
+ <verse num="7">And <crossref let="m" cid="c05012007.1"/>there you shall eat before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, and <crossref let="n" cid="c05012007.2"/>you shall rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has blessed you.</verse>
885
+ <end-paragraph/>
886
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012008"/>
887
+ <begin-paragraph/>
888
+ <verse num="8"><q class="continue-double" qid="05012008.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>You shall not do according to all that we are doing here today, <crossref let="o" cid="c05012008.1"/>everyone doing whatever is right in his own eyes,</verse>
889
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012009"/>
890
+ <verse num="9">for you have not as yet come to <crossref let="p" cid="c05012009.1"/>the rest and to the inheritance that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you.</verse>
891
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012010"/>
892
+ <verse num="10">But when <crossref let="q" cid="c05012010.1"/>you go over the Jordan and live in the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you to inherit, <crossref let="r" cid="c05012010.2"/>and when he gives you rest from all your enemies around, so that you live in safety,</verse>
893
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012011"/>
894
+ <verse num="11">then to <crossref let="j" cid="c05012011.1"/>the place that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will choose, to make his name dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, <crossref let="k" cid="c05012011.2"/>your tithes and the contribution that you present, and all your finest vow offerings that you vow to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
895
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012012"/>
896
+ <verse num="12">And <crossref let="n" cid="c05012012.1"/>you shall rejoice before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male servants and your female servants, and the Levite that is within your towns, since <crossref let="s" cid="c05012012.2"/>he has no portion or inheritance with you.</verse>
897
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012013"/>
898
+ <verse num="13"><crossref let="t" cid="c05012013.1"/>Take care that you do not offer your burnt offerings at any place that you see,</verse>
899
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012014"/>
900
+ <verse num="14">but at <crossref let="j" cid="c05012014.1"/>the place that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I am commanding you.</verse>
901
+ <end-paragraph/>
902
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012015"/>
903
+ <begin-paragraph/>
904
+ <verse num="15"><q class="continue-double" qid="05012015.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, as much as you desire, <crossref let="u" cid="c05012015.1"/>according to the blessing of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God that he has given you. <crossref let="v" cid="c05012015.2"/>The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the deer.</verse>
905
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012016"/>
906
+ <verse num="16"><crossref let="w" cid="c05012016.1"/>Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.</verse>
907
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012017"/>
908
+ <verse num="17">You may not eat within your towns <crossref let="k" cid="c05012017.1"/>the tithe of your grain or of your wine or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, or any of your vow offerings that you vow, or your freewill offerings or the contribution that you present,</verse>
909
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012018"/>
910
+ <verse num="18">but <crossref let="m" cid="c05012018.1"/>you shall eat them before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God in <crossref let="j" cid="c05012018.2"/>the place that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your towns. And <crossref let="n" cid="c05012018.3"/>you shall rejoice before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God in all that you undertake.</verse>
911
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012019"/>
912
+ <verse num="19"><crossref let="x" cid="c05012019.1"/>Take care that you do not neglect the Levite as long as you live in your land.</verse>
913
+ <end-paragraph/>
914
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012020"/>
915
+ <begin-paragraph/>
916
+ <verse num="20"><q class="continue-double" qid="05012020.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>When the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God <crossref let="y" cid="c05012020.1"/>enlarges your territory, <crossref let="z" cid="c05012020.2"/>as he has promised you, and you say, <q class="begin-single" qid="05012020.2" from="05012020.2" to="05012020.3"/>I will eat meat,<q class="end-single" qid="05012020.3" from="05012020.2" to="05012020.3"/> because you crave meat, you may eat meat whenever you desire.</verse>
917
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012021"/>
918
+ <verse num="21">If <crossref let="a" cid="c05012021.1"/>the place that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will choose to put his name there is too far from you, <crossref let="b" cid="c05012021.2"/>then you may kill any of your herd or your flock, which the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat within your towns whenever you desire.</verse>
919
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012022"/>
920
+ <verse num="22">Just <crossref let="c" cid="c05012022.1"/>as the gazelle or the deer is eaten, so you may eat of it. <crossref let="c" cid="c05012022.2"/>The unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.</verse>
921
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012023"/>
922
+ <verse num="23"><crossref let="d" cid="c05012023.1"/>Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, <crossref let="e" cid="c05012023.2"/>for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.</verse>
923
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012024"/>
924
+ <verse num="24">You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.</verse>
925
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012025"/>
926
+ <verse num="25">You shall not eat it, <crossref let="f" cid="c05012025.1"/>that all may go well with you and with your children after you, <crossref let="g" cid="c05012025.2"/>when you do what is right in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
927
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012026"/>
928
+ <verse num="26">But the <crossref let="h" cid="c05012026.1"/>holy things that are due from you, and <crossref let="i" cid="c05012026.2"/>your vow offerings, you shall take, and you shall go to <crossref let="a" cid="c05012026.3"/>the place that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will choose,</verse>
929
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012027"/>
930
+ <verse num="27">and <crossref let="j" cid="c05012027.1"/>offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God. The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, but the flesh you may eat.</verse>
931
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012028"/>
932
+ <verse num="28">Be careful to obey all these words that I command you, <crossref let="f" cid="c05012028.1"/>that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God.</verse>
933
+ <end-paragraph/>
934
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012029"/>
935
+ <heading>Warning Against Idolatry</heading>
936
+ <begin-paragraph/>
937
+ <verse num="29"><q class="continue-double" qid="05012029.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>When <crossref let="k" cid="c05012029.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,</verse>
938
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012030"/>
939
+ <verse num="30">take care <crossref let="l" cid="c05012030.1"/>that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, <q class="begin-single" qid="05012030.1" from="05012030.1" to="05012030.2"/>How did these nations serve their gods?&emdash;that I also may do the same.<q class="end-single" qid="05012030.2" from="05012030.1" to="05012030.2"/></verse>
940
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012031"/>
941
+ <verse num="31"><crossref let="m" cid="c05012031.1"/>You shall not worship the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God in that way, for every <crossref let="n" cid="c05012031.2"/>abominable thing that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> hates they have done for their gods, for <crossref let="o" cid="c05012031.3"/>they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.</verse>
942
+ <end-paragraph/>
943
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05012032"/>
944
+ <begin-paragraph/>
945
+ <verse num="32"><note nid="n05012032.1"/> <q class="continue-double" qid="05012032.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. <crossref let="p" cid="c05012032.1"/>You shall not add to it or take from it.</verse>
946
+ <end-paragraph/>
947
+ </chapter>
948
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05013001"/>
949
+ <chapter num="13">
950
+ <begin-paragraph/>
951
+ <verse num="1"><q class="continue-double" qid="05013001.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>If a prophet or <crossref let="q" cid="c05013001.1"/>a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder,</verse>
952
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05013002"/>
953
+ <verse num="2">and <crossref let="r" cid="c05013002.1"/>the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, <q class="begin-single" qid="05013002.1" from="05013002.1" to="05013002.2"/>Let us go after other gods,<q class="end-single" qid="05013002.2" from="05013002.1" to="05013002.2"/> which you have not known, <q class="begin-single" qid="05013002.3" from="05013002.3" to="05013002.4"/>and let us serve them,<q class="end-single" qid="05013002.4" from="05013002.3" to="05013002.4"/></verse>
954
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05013003"/>
955
+ <verse num="3">you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God <crossref let="s" cid="c05013003.1"/>is testing you, to know whether you love the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God with all your heart and with all your soul.</verse>
956
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05013004"/>
957
+ <verse num="4">You shall <crossref let="t" cid="c05013004.1"/>walk after the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and <crossref let="u" cid="c05013004.2"/>hold fast to him.</verse>
958
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05013005"/>
959
+ <verse num="5">But <crossref let="v" cid="c05013005.1"/>that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God commanded you to walk. <crossref let="w" cid="c05013005.2"/>So you shall purge the evil<note nid="n05013005.1"/> from your midst.</verse>
960
+ <end-paragraph/>
961
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05013006"/>
962
+ <begin-paragraph/>
963
+ <verse num="6"><crossref let="x" cid="c05013006.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05013006.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or <crossref let="y" cid="c05013006.2"/>the wife you embrace<note nid="n05013006.1"/> or your friend <crossref let="z" cid="c05013006.3"/>who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, <q class="begin-single" qid="05013006.2" from="05013006.2" to="05013006.3"/>Let us go and serve other gods,<q class="end-single" qid="05013006.3" from="05013006.2" to="05013006.3"/> <crossref let="a" cid="c05013006.4"/>which neither you nor your fathers have known,</verse>
964
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05013007"/>
965
+ <verse num="7">some <crossref let="b" cid="c05013007.1"/>of the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other,</verse>
966
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05013008"/>
967
+ <verse num="8">you shall <crossref let="c" cid="c05013008.1"/>not yield to him or listen to him, nor <crossref let="d" cid="c05013008.2"/>shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him.</verse>
968
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05013009"/>
969
+ <verse num="9">But you shall kill him. <crossref let="e" cid="c05013009.1"/>Your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people.</verse>
970
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05013010"/>
971
+ <verse num="10"><crossref let="f" cid="c05013010.1"/>You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.</verse>
972
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05013011"/>
973
+ <verse num="11">And <crossref let="g" cid="c05013011.1"/>all Israel shall hear and fear and never again do any such wickedness as this among you.</verse>
974
+ <end-paragraph/>
975
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05013012"/>
976
+ <begin-paragraph/>
977
+ <verse num="12"><q class="continue-double" qid="05013012.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>If you hear in one of your cities, which the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you to dwell there,</verse>
978
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05013013"/>
979
+ <verse num="13">that certain <crossref let="h" cid="c05013013.1"/>worthless fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, <q class="begin-single" qid="05013013.1" from="05013013.1" to="05013013.2"/>Let us go and serve other gods,<q class="end-single" qid="05013013.2" from="05013013.1" to="05013013.2"/> which you have not known,</verse>
980
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05013014"/>
981
+ <verse num="14">then you shall inquire and make search and ask <crossref let="i" cid="c05013014.1"/>diligently. And behold, if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you,</verse>
982
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05013015"/>
983
+ <verse num="15">you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, devoting it to destruction,<note nid="n05013015.1"/> all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword.</verse>
984
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05013016"/>
985
+ <verse num="16">You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square and <crossref let="j" cid="c05013016.1"/>burn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God. It shall be a <crossref let="k" cid="c05013016.2"/>heap forever. It shall not be built again.</verse>
986
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05013017"/>
987
+ <verse num="17"><crossref let="l" cid="c05013017.1"/>None of the devoted things shall stick to your hand, <crossref let="m" cid="c05013017.2"/>that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy and have compassion on you and multiply you, <crossref let="n" cid="c05013017.3"/>as he swore to your fathers,</verse>
988
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05013018"/>
989
+ <verse num="18">if you obey the voice of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, <crossref let="o" cid="c05013018.1"/>keeping all his commandments that I am commanding you today, and doing what is right in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God.</verse>
990
+ <end-paragraph/>
991
+ </chapter>
992
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014001"/>
993
+ <chapter num="14">
994
+ <heading>Clean and Unclean Food</heading>
995
+ <begin-paragraph/>
996
+ <verse num="1"><q class="continue-double" qid="05014001.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>You are <crossref let="p" cid="c05014001.1"/>the sons of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God. <crossref let="q" cid="c05014001.2"/>You shall not cut yourselves or make any <crossref let="r" cid="c05014001.3"/>baldness on your foreheads for the dead.</verse>
997
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014002"/>
998
+ <verse num="2">For <crossref let="s" cid="c05014002.1"/>you are a people holy to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.</verse>
999
+ <end-paragraph/>
1000
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014003"/>
1001
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1002
+ <verse num="3"><crossref let="t" cid="c05014003.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05014003.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>You shall not eat any abomination.</verse>
1003
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014004"/>
1004
+ <verse num="4"><crossref let="u" cid="c05014004.1"/>These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,</verse>
1005
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014005"/>
1006
+ <verse num="5">the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex,<note nid="n05014005.1"/> the antelope, and the mountain sheep.</verse>
1007
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014006"/>
1008
+ <verse num="6">Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.</verse>
1009
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014007"/>
1010
+ <verse num="7">Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cloven you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the <crossref let="v" cid="c05014007.1"/>rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, are unclean for you.</verse>
1011
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014008"/>
1012
+ <verse num="8">And the pig, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and <crossref let="w" cid="c05014008.1"/>their carcasses you shall not touch.</verse>
1013
+ <end-paragraph/>
1014
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014009"/>
1015
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1016
+ <verse num="9"><q class="continue-double" qid="05014009.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>Of all that are in the waters you may eat these: whatever has fins and scales you may eat.</verse>
1017
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014010"/>
1018
+ <verse num="10">And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.</verse>
1019
+ <end-paragraph/>
1020
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014011"/>
1021
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1022
+ <verse num="11"><q class="continue-double" qid="05014011.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>You may eat all clean birds.</verse>
1023
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014012"/>
1024
+ <verse num="12">But these are the ones that you shall not eat: the eagle,<note nid="n05014012.1"/> the bearded vulture, the black vulture,</verse>
1025
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014013"/>
1026
+ <verse num="13">the kite, the falcon of any kind;</verse>
1027
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014014"/>
1028
+ <verse num="14">every raven of any kind;</verse>
1029
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014015"/>
1030
+ <verse num="15">the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind;</verse>
1031
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014016"/>
1032
+ <verse num="16">the little owl and the short-eared owl, the barn owl</verse>
1033
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014017"/>
1034
+ <verse num="17">and the tawny owl, the carrion vulture and the cormorant,</verse>
1035
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014018"/>
1036
+ <verse num="18">the stork, the heron of any kind; the hoopoe and the bat.</verse>
1037
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014019"/>
1038
+ <verse num="19">And all winged insects are unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.</verse>
1039
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014020"/>
1040
+ <verse num="20">All clean winged things you may eat.</verse>
1041
+ <end-paragraph/>
1042
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014021"/>
1043
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1044
+ <verse num="21"><crossref let="x" cid="c05014021.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05014021.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>You shall not eat anything that has died naturally. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For <crossref let="y" cid="c05014021.2"/>you are a people holy to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God.
1045
+ <end-paragraph/>
1046
+ <begin-paragraph/><crossref let="z" cid="c05014021.3"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05014021.2" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>You shall not boil a young goat in its mother&apos;s milk.
1047
+ </verse>
1048
+ <end-paragraph/>
1049
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014022"/>
1050
+ <heading>Tithes</heading>
1051
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1052
+ <verse num="22"><crossref let="a" cid="c05014022.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05014022.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>You shall tithe all the yield of your seed that comes from the field year by year.</verse>
1053
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014023"/>
1054
+ <verse num="23">And before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, in the place that he will choose, to make his name dwell there, <crossref let="b" cid="c05014023.1"/>you shall eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, <crossref let="c" cid="c05014023.2"/>and the firstborn of your herd and flock, <crossref let="d" cid="c05014023.3"/>that you may learn to fear the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God always.</verse>
1055
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014024"/>
1056
+ <verse num="24">And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, when the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God blesses you, because <crossref let="e" cid="c05014024.1"/>the place is too far from you, which the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God chooses, to set his name there,</verse>
1057
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014025"/>
1058
+ <verse num="25">then you shall turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and go to the place that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God chooses</verse>
1059
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014026"/>
1060
+ <verse num="26">and spend the money for whatever you desire&emdash;oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And <crossref let="b" cid="c05014026.1"/>you shall eat there before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God and rejoice, you and your household.</verse>
1061
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014027"/>
1062
+ <verse num="27">And you shall not neglect <crossref let="f" cid="c05014027.1"/>the Levite who is within your towns, for <crossref let="g" cid="c05014027.2"/>he has no portion or inheritance with you.</verse>
1063
+ <end-paragraph/>
1064
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014028"/>
1065
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1066
+ <verse num="28"><crossref let="h" cid="c05014028.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05014028.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>At the end of every three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in the same year and lay it up within your towns.</verse>
1067
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05014029"/>
1068
+ <verse num="29">And the Levite, because <crossref let="g" cid="c05014029.1"/>he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that <crossref let="i" cid="c05014029.2"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.</verse>
1069
+ <end-paragraph/>
1070
+ </chapter>
1071
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05015001"/>
1072
+ <chapter num="15">
1073
+ <heading>The Sabbatical Year</heading>
1074
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1075
+ <verse num="1"><q class="continue-double" qid="05015001.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>At the end of <crossref let="j" cid="c05015001.1"/>every seven years you shall grant a release.</verse>
1076
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05015002"/>
1077
+ <verse num="2">And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>&apos;s release has been proclaimed.</verse>
1078
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05015003"/>
1079
+ <verse num="3"><crossref let="k" cid="c05015003.1"/>Of a foreigner you may exact it, but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand shall release.</verse>
1080
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05015004"/>
1081
+ <verse num="4"><crossref let="l" cid="c05015004.1"/>But there will be no poor among you; <crossref let="m" cid="c05015004.2"/>for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will bless you in the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess&emdash;</verse>
1082
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05015005"/>
1083
+ <verse num="5"><crossref let="n" cid="c05015005.1"/>if only you will strictly obey the voice of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, being careful to do all this commandment that I command you today.</verse>
1084
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05015006"/>
1085
+ <verse num="6">For the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will bless you, <crossref let="o" cid="c05015006.1"/>as he promised you, and <crossref let="p" cid="c05015006.2"/>you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, and <crossref let="q" cid="c05015006.3"/>you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.</verse>
1086
+ <end-paragraph/>
1087
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05015007"/>
1088
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1089
+ <verse num="7"><q class="continue-double" qid="05015007.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you, <crossref let="r" cid="c05015007.1"/>you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother,</verse>
1090
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05015008"/>
1091
+ <verse num="8">but <crossref let="s" cid="c05015008.1"/>you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.</verse>
1092
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05015009"/>
1093
+ <verse num="9">Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, <q class="begin-single" qid="05015009.1" from="05015009.1" to="05015009.2"/>The seventh year, the year of release is near,<q class="end-single" qid="05015009.2" from="05015009.1" to="05015009.2"/> and your <crossref let="t" cid="c05015009.1"/>eye look grudgingly<note nid="n05015009.1"/> on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he <crossref let="u" cid="c05015009.2"/>cry to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> against you, and <crossref let="v" cid="c05015009.3"/>you be guilty of sin.</verse>
1094
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05015010"/>
1095
+ <verse num="10">You shall give to him freely, and <crossref let="w" cid="c05015010.1"/>your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because <crossref let="x" cid="c05015010.2"/>for this the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.</verse>
1096
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05015011"/>
1097
+ <verse num="11">For <crossref let="y" cid="c05015011.1"/>there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, <crossref let="s" cid="c05015011.2"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05015011.1" from="05015011.1" to="05015011.2"/>You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.<q class="end-single" qid="05015011.2" from="05015011.1" to="05015011.2"/></verse>
1098
+ <end-paragraph/>
1099
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05015012"/>
1100
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1101
+ <verse num="12"><crossref let="z" cid="c05015012.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05015012.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold<note nid="n05015012.1"/> to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.</verse>
1102
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05015013"/>
1103
+ <verse num="13">And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed.</verse>
1104
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05015014"/>
1105
+ <verse num="14">You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress. <crossref let="a" cid="c05015014.1"/>As the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.</verse>
1106
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05015015"/>
1107
+ <verse num="15"><crossref let="b" cid="c05015015.1"/>You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today.</verse>
1108
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05015016"/>
1109
+ <verse num="16">But <crossref let="c" cid="c05015016.1"/>if he says to you, <q class="begin-single" qid="05015016.1" from="05015016.1" to="05015016.2"/>I will not go out from you,<q class="end-single" qid="05015016.2" from="05015016.1" to="05015016.2"/> because he loves you and your household, since he is well-off with you,</verse>
1110
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05015017"/>
1111
+ <verse num="17">then you shall take an awl, and put it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your slave<note nid="n05015017.1"/> forever. And to your female slave<note nid="n05015017.2"/> you shall do the same.</verse>
1112
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05015018"/>
1113
+ <verse num="18">It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for at half the cost of a hired worker he has served you six years. So the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will bless you in all that you do.</verse>
1114
+ <end-paragraph/>
1115
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05015019"/>
1116
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1117
+ <verse num="19"><crossref let="d" cid="c05015019.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05015019.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and flock you shall dedicate to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.</verse>
1118
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05015020"/>
1119
+ <verse num="20"><crossref let="e" cid="c05015020.1"/>You shall eat it, you and your household, before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God year by year at the place that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will choose.</verse>
1120
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05015021"/>
1121
+ <verse num="21"><crossref let="f" cid="c05015021.1"/>But if it has any blemish, if it is lame or blind or has any serious blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God.</verse>
1122
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05015022"/>
1123
+ <verse num="22">You shall eat it within your towns. <crossref let="g" cid="c05015022.1"/>The unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as though it were a gazelle or a deer.</verse>
1124
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05015023"/>
1125
+ <verse num="23"><crossref let="h" cid="c05015023.1"/>Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.</verse>
1126
+ <end-paragraph/>
1127
+ </chapter>
1128
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05016001"/>
1129
+ <chapter num="16">
1130
+ <heading>Passover</heading>
1131
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1132
+ <verse num="1"><q class="continue-double" qid="05016001.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>Observe the <crossref let="i" cid="c05016001.1"/>month of Abib and keep the Passover to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, for <crossref let="j" cid="c05016001.2"/>in the month of Abib the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God brought you out of Egypt by night.</verse>
1133
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05016002"/>
1134
+ <verse num="2">And you shall offer the Passover sacrifice to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, from the flock or <crossref let="k" cid="c05016002.1"/>the herd, <crossref let="l" cid="c05016002.2"/>at the place that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will choose, to make his name dwell there.</verse>
1135
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05016003"/>
1136
+ <verse num="3">You shall eat no leavened bread with it. <crossref let="m" cid="c05016003.1"/>Seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction&emdash;for you came out of the land of Egypt <crossref let="n" cid="c05016003.2"/>in haste&emdash;that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt.</verse>
1137
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05016004"/>
1138
+ <verse num="4"><crossref let="o" cid="c05016004.1"/>No leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory for seven days, <crossref let="p" cid="c05016004.2"/>nor shall any of the flesh that you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain all night until morning.</verse>
1139
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05016005"/>
1140
+ <verse num="5">You may not offer the Passover sacrifice within any of your towns that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you,</verse>
1141
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05016006"/>
1142
+ <verse num="6">but at the place that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will choose, to make his name dwell in it, there you shall offer the Passover sacrifice, in the evening at sunset, at the time you came out of Egypt.</verse>
1143
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05016007"/>
1144
+ <verse num="7">And you shall cook it and eat it at the place that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will choose. And in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.</verse>
1145
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05016008"/>
1146
+ <verse num="8">For <crossref let="q" cid="c05016008.1"/>six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be <crossref let="r" cid="c05016008.2"/>a solemn assembly to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God. You shall do no work on it.</verse>
1147
+ <end-paragraph/>
1148
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05016009"/>
1149
+ <heading>The Feast of Weeks</heading>
1150
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1151
+ <verse num="9"><crossref let="s" cid="c05016009.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05016009.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>You shall count seven weeks. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain.</verse>
1152
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05016010"/>
1153
+ <verse num="10">Then you shall keep <crossref let="t" cid="c05016010.1"/>the Feast of Weeks to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God with <crossref let="u" cid="c05016010.2"/>the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give <crossref let="v" cid="c05016010.3"/>as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God blesses you.</verse>
1154
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05016011"/>
1155
+ <verse num="11">And <crossref let="w" cid="c05016011.1"/>you shall rejoice before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will choose, to make his name dwell there.</verse>
1156
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05016012"/>
1157
+ <verse num="12"><crossref let="x" cid="c05016012.1"/>You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.</verse>
1158
+ <end-paragraph/>
1159
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05016013"/>
1160
+ <heading>The Feast of Booths</heading>
1161
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1162
+ <verse num="13"><crossref let="y" cid="c05016013.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05016013.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>You shall keep the Feast of Booths seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress.</verse>
1163
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05016014"/>
1164
+ <verse num="14"><crossref let="z" cid="c05016014.1"/>You shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns.</verse>
1165
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05016015"/>
1166
+ <verse num="15">For <crossref let="a" cid="c05016015.1"/>seven days you shall keep the feast to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God at the place that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will choose, because the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful.</verse>
1167
+ <end-paragraph/>
1168
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05016016"/>
1169
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1170
+ <verse num="16"><crossref let="b" cid="c05016016.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05016016.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>Three times a year all your males shall appear before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God at the place that he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths. <crossref let="c" cid="c05016016.2"/>They shall not appear before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> empty-handed.</verse>
1171
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05016017"/>
1172
+ <verse num="17">Every man <crossref let="d" cid="c05016017.1"/>shall give as he is able, <crossref let="v" cid="c05016017.2"/>according to the blessing of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God that he has given you.</verse>
1173
+ <end-paragraph/>
1174
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05016018"/>
1175
+ <heading>Justice</heading>
1176
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1177
+ <verse num="18"><q class="continue-double" qid="05016018.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>You shall appoint <crossref let="e" cid="c05016018.1"/>judges and officers in all your towns that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.</verse>
1178
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05016019"/>
1179
+ <verse num="19"><crossref let="f" cid="c05016019.1"/>You shall not pervert justice. <crossref let="g" cid="c05016019.2"/>You shall not show partiality, <crossref let="h" cid="c05016019.3"/>and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.</verse>
1180
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05016020"/>
1181
+ <verse num="20">Justice, and only justice, you shall follow, that you may live and inherit the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you.</verse>
1182
+ <end-paragraph/>
1183
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05016021"/>
1184
+ <heading>Forbidden Forms of Worship</heading>
1185
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1186
+ <verse num="21"><q class="continue-double" qid="05016021.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>You shall not plant any tree as <crossref let="i" cid="c05016021.1"/>an Asherah beside the altar of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God that you shall make.</verse>
1187
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05016022"/>
1188
+ <verse num="22">And you shall not set up a pillar, which the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God hates.</verse>
1189
+ <end-paragraph/>
1190
+ </chapter>
1191
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05017001"/>
1192
+ <chapter num="17">
1193
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1194
+ <verse num="1"><crossref let="j" cid="c05017001.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05017001.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>You shall not sacrifice to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God an ox or a sheep in which is a blemish, any defect whatever, for that is an abomination to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God.</verse>
1195
+ <end-paragraph/>
1196
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05017002"/>
1197
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1198
+ <verse num="2"><crossref let="k" cid="c05017002.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05017002.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, <crossref let="l" cid="c05017002.2"/>in transgressing his covenant,</verse>
1199
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05017003"/>
1200
+ <verse num="3">and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or <crossref let="m" cid="c05017003.1"/>the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, <crossref let="n" cid="c05017003.2"/>which I have forbidden,</verse>
1201
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05017004"/>
1202
+ <verse num="4">and it is told you and you hear of it, then you shall inquire <crossref let="o" cid="c05017004.1"/>diligently, and if it is true and certain that such an abomination has been done in Israel,</verse>
1203
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05017005"/>
1204
+ <verse num="5">then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you <crossref let="p" cid="c05017005.1"/>shall stone that man or woman to death with stones.</verse>
1205
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05017006"/>
1206
+ <verse num="6"><crossref let="q" cid="c05017006.1"/>On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses the one who is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness.</verse>
1207
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05017007"/>
1208
+ <verse num="7"><crossref let="r" cid="c05017007.1"/>The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So <crossref let="s" cid="c05017007.2"/>you shall purge<note nid="n05017007.1"/> the evil<note nid="n05017007.2"/> from your midst.</verse>
1209
+ <end-paragraph/>
1210
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05017008"/>
1211
+ <heading>Legal Decisions by Priests and Judges</heading>
1212
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1213
+ <verse num="8"><q class="continue-double" qid="05017008.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to <crossref let="t" cid="c05017008.1"/>the place that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will choose.</verse>
1214
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05017009"/>
1215
+ <verse num="9"><crossref let="u" cid="c05017009.1"/>And you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and <crossref let="v" cid="c05017009.2"/>they shall declare to you the decision.</verse>
1216
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05017010"/>
1217
+ <verse num="10">Then you shall do according to what they declare to you from that place that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will choose. And you shall be careful to do according to all that they direct you.</verse>
1218
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05017011"/>
1219
+ <verse num="11">According to the instructions that they give you, and according to the decision which they pronounce to you, you shall do. You shall not turn aside from the verdict that they declare to you, either to the right hand or to the left.</verse>
1220
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05017012"/>
1221
+ <verse num="12">The man who <crossref let="w" cid="c05017012.1"/>acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest <crossref let="x" cid="c05017012.2"/>who stands to minister there before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So <crossref let="s" cid="c05017012.3"/>you shall purge the evil from Israel.</verse>
1222
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05017013"/>
1223
+ <verse num="13">And all the people <crossref let="y" cid="c05017013.1"/>shall hear and fear and not act presumptuously again.</verse>
1224
+ <end-paragraph/>
1225
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05017014"/>
1226
+ <heading>Laws Concerning Israel&apos;s Kings</heading>
1227
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1228
+ <verse num="14"><q class="continue-double" qid="05017014.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>When you come to the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, <crossref let="z" cid="c05017014.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05017014.2" from="05017014.2" to="05017014.3"/>I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,<q class="end-single" qid="05017014.3" from="05017014.2" to="05017014.3"/></verse>
1229
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05017015"/>
1230
+ <verse num="15">you may indeed set a king over you <crossref let="a" cid="c05017015.1"/>whom the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will choose. One <crossref let="b" cid="c05017015.2"/>from among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.</verse>
1231
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05017016"/>
1232
+ <verse num="16">Only he must not acquire many <crossref let="c" cid="c05017016.1"/>horses for himself or cause the people <crossref let="d" cid="c05017016.2"/>to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has said to you, <crossref let="e" cid="c05017016.3"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05017016.1" from="05017016.1" to="05017016.2"/>You shall never return that way again.<q class="end-single" qid="05017016.2" from="05017016.1" to="05017016.2"/></verse>
1233
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05017017"/>
1234
+ <verse num="17">And he <crossref let="f" cid="c05017017.1"/>shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, <crossref let="g" cid="c05017017.2"/>nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold.</verse>
1235
+ <end-paragraph/>
1236
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05017018"/>
1237
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1238
+ <verse num="18"><q class="continue-double" qid="05017018.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, <crossref let="h" cid="c05017018.1"/>he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, <crossref let="i" cid="c05017018.2"/>approved by<note nid="n05017018.1"/> the Levitical priests.</verse>
1239
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05017019"/>
1240
+ <verse num="19">And <crossref let="j" cid="c05017019.1"/>it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, <crossref let="k" cid="c05017019.2"/>that he may learn to fear the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them,</verse>
1241
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05017020"/>
1242
+ <verse num="20">that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he <crossref let="l" cid="c05017020.1"/>may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left, <crossref let="m" cid="c05017020.2"/>so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel.</verse>
1243
+ <end-paragraph/>
1244
+ </chapter>
1245
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05018001"/>
1246
+ <chapter num="18">
1247
+ <heading>Provision for Priests and Levites</heading>
1248
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1249
+ <verse num="1"><q class="continue-double" qid="05018001.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, <crossref let="n" cid="c05018001.1"/>shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They <crossref let="o" cid="c05018001.2"/>shall eat the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>&apos;s food offerings<note nid="n05018001.1"/> as their<note nid="n05018001.2"/> inheritance.</verse>
1250
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05018002"/>
1251
+ <verse num="2">They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is their inheritance, as he promised them.</verse>
1252
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05018003"/>
1253
+ <verse num="3">And this shall be the priests&apos; due from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep: <crossref let="p" cid="c05018003.1"/>they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach.</verse>
1254
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05018004"/>
1255
+ <verse num="4"><crossref let="q" cid="c05018004.1"/>The firstfruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.</verse>
1256
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05018005"/>
1257
+ <verse num="5">For the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has chosen him out of all your tribes <crossref let="r" cid="c05018005.1"/>to stand and minister in the name of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, him and his sons for all time.</verse>
1258
+ <end-paragraph/>
1259
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05018006"/>
1260
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1261
+ <verse num="6"><q class="continue-double" qid="05018006.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, <crossref let="s" cid="c05018006.1"/>where he lives&emdash;and he may come when he desires<note nid="n05018006.1"/>&emdash;<crossref let="t" cid="c05018006.2"/>to the place that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will choose,</verse>
1262
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05018007"/>
1263
+ <verse num="7">and ministers in the name of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> his God, <crossref let="u" cid="c05018007.1"/>like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</verse>
1264
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05018008"/>
1265
+ <verse num="8">then he may have equal <crossref let="v" cid="c05018008.1"/>portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony.<note nid="n05018008.1"/></verse>
1266
+ <end-paragraph/>
1267
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05018009"/>
1268
+ <heading>Abominable Practices</heading>
1269
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1270
+ <verse num="9"><q class="continue-double" qid="05018009.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>When you come into the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you, <crossref let="w" cid="c05018009.1"/>you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.</verse>
1271
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05018010"/>
1272
+ <verse num="10">There shall not be found among you anyone <crossref let="x" cid="c05018010.1"/>who burns his son or his daughter as an offering,<note nid="n05018010.1"/> anyone who <crossref let="y" cid="c05018010.2"/>practices divination or <crossref let="z" cid="c05018010.3"/>tells fortunes or interprets omens, or <crossref let="a" cid="c05018010.4"/>a sorcerer</verse>
1273
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05018011"/>
1274
+ <verse num="11">or a charmer or <crossref let="b" cid="c05018011.1"/>a medium or a necromancer or <crossref let="c" cid="c05018011.2"/>one who inquires of the dead,</verse>
1275
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05018012"/>
1276
+ <verse num="12"><crossref let="d" cid="c05018012.1"/>for whoever does these things is an abomination to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. And <crossref let="e" cid="c05018012.2"/>because of these abominations the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is driving them out before you.</verse>
1277
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05018013"/>
1278
+ <verse num="13">You shall be blameless before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God,</verse>
1279
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05018014"/>
1280
+ <verse num="14">for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has not allowed you to do this.</verse>
1281
+ <end-paragraph/>
1282
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05018015"/>
1283
+ <heading>A New Prophet like Moses</heading>
1284
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1285
+ <verse num="15"><crossref let="f" cid="c05018015.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05018015.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers&emdash;it is to him you shall listen&emdash;</verse>
1286
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05018016"/>
1287
+ <verse num="16">just as you desired of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God at Horeb <crossref let="g" cid="c05018016.1"/>on the day of the assembly, when you said, <crossref let="h" cid="c05018016.2"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05018016.1" from="05018016.1" to="05018016.2"/>Let me not hear again the voice of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.<q class="end-single" qid="05018016.2" from="05018016.1" to="05018016.2"/></verse>
1288
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05018017"/>
1289
+ <verse num="17">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to me, <crossref let="i" cid="c05018017.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05018017.1" from="05018017.1" to="05018020.1"/>They are right in what they have spoken.</verse>
1290
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05018018"/>
1291
+ <verse num="18"><crossref let="f" cid="c05018018.1"/>I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. <crossref let="j" cid="c05018018.2"/>And I will put my words in his mouth, and <crossref let="k" cid="c05018018.3"/>he shall speak to them all that I command him.</verse>
1292
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05018019"/>
1293
+ <verse num="19"><crossref let="l" cid="c05018019.1"/>And whoever will <crossref let="m" cid="c05018019.2"/>not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him.</verse>
1294
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05018020"/>
1295
+ <verse num="20"><crossref let="n" cid="c05018020.1"/>But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or<note nid="n05018020.1"/> who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.<q class="end-single" qid="05018020.1" from="05018017.1" to="05018020.1"/></verse>
1296
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05018021"/>
1297
+ <verse num="21">And if you say in your heart, <q class="begin-single" qid="05018021.1" from="05018021.1" to="05018021.2"/>How may we know the word that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has not spoken?<q class="end-single" qid="05018021.2" from="05018021.1" to="05018021.2"/>&emdash;</verse>
1298
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05018022"/>
1299
+ <verse num="22"><crossref let="o" cid="c05018022.1"/>when a prophet speaks in the name of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has not spoken; <crossref let="n" cid="c05018022.2"/>the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.</verse>
1300
+ <end-paragraph/>
1301
+ </chapter>
1302
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05019001"/>
1303
+ <chapter num="19">
1304
+ <heading>Laws Concerning Cities of Refuge</heading>
1305
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1306
+ <verse num="1"><q class="continue-double" qid="05019001.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>When <crossref let="p" cid="c05019001.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God cuts off the nations whose land the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,</verse>
1307
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05019002"/>
1308
+ <verse num="2"><crossref let="q" cid="c05019002.1"/>you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you to possess.</verse>
1309
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05019003"/>
1310
+ <verse num="3">You shall measure the distances<note nid="n05019003.1"/> and divide into three parts the area of the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God gives you as a possession, so that any manslayer can flee to them.</verse>
1311
+ <end-paragraph/>
1312
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05019004"/>
1313
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1314
+ <verse num="4"><q class="continue-double" qid="05019004.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>This is the provision for <crossref let="r" cid="c05019004.1"/>the manslayer, who by fleeing there may save his life. If anyone kills his neighbor unintentionally without having hated him in the past&emdash;</verse>
1315
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05019005"/>
1316
+ <verse num="5">as when someone goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies&emdash;he may flee to one of these cities and live,</verse>
1317
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05019006"/>
1318
+ <verse num="6">lest <crossref let="s" cid="c05019006.1"/>the avenger of blood in hot anger pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him fatally, though the man did not deserve to die, since he had not hated his neighbor in the past.</verse>
1319
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05019007"/>
1320
+ <verse num="7">Therefore I command you, You shall set apart three cities.</verse>
1321
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05019008"/>
1322
+ <verse num="8"><crossref let="t" cid="c05019008.1"/>And if the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God enlarges your territory, <crossref let="u" cid="c05019008.2"/>as he has sworn to your fathers, and <crossref let="v" cid="c05019008.3"/>gives you all the land that he promised to give to your fathers&emdash;</verse>
1323
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05019009"/>
1324
+ <verse num="9">provided you are careful to keep all this commandment, which I command you today, by loving the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God and by walking ever in his ways&emdash;<crossref let="w" cid="c05019009.1"/>then you shall add three other cities to these three,</verse>
1325
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05019010"/>
1326
+ <verse num="10">lest innocent blood be shed in your land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you for an inheritance, and so the guilt of bloodshed be upon you.</verse>
1327
+ <end-paragraph/>
1328
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05019011"/>
1329
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1330
+ <verse num="11"><q class="continue-double" qid="05019011.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>But if anyone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and attacks him <crossref let="x" cid="c05019011.1"/>and strikes him fatally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities,</verse>
1331
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05019012"/>
1332
+ <verse num="12">then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die.</verse>
1333
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05019013"/>
1334
+ <verse num="13"><crossref let="y" cid="c05019013.1"/>Your eye shall not pity him, <crossref let="z" cid="c05019013.2"/>but you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood<note nid="n05019013.1"/> from Israel, so that it may be well with you.</verse>
1335
+ <end-paragraph/>
1336
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05019014"/>
1337
+ <heading>Property Boundaries</heading>
1338
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1339
+ <verse num="14"><crossref let="a" cid="c05019014.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05019014.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>You shall not move your neighbor&apos;s landmark, which the men of old have set, in the inheritance that you will hold in the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you to possess.</verse>
1340
+ <end-paragraph/>
1341
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05019015"/>
1342
+ <heading>Laws Concerning Witnesses</heading>
1343
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1344
+ <verse num="15"><q class="continue-double" qid="05019015.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>A single witness shall not suffice against a person for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed. <crossref let="b" cid="c05019015.1"/>Only on the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall a charge be established.</verse>
1345
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05019016"/>
1346
+ <verse num="16">If <crossref let="c" cid="c05019016.1"/>a malicious witness arises to accuse a person of wrongdoing,</verse>
1347
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05019017"/>
1348
+ <verse num="17">then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="d" cid="c05019017.1"/>before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days.</verse>
1349
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05019018"/>
1350
+ <verse num="18">The judges shall <crossref let="e" cid="c05019018.1"/>inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely,</verse>
1351
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05019019"/>
1352
+ <verse num="19"><crossref let="f" cid="c05019019.1"/>then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother. So you shall purge the evil<note nid="n05019019.1"/> from your midst.</verse>
1353
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05019020"/>
1354
+ <verse num="20">And the rest <crossref let="g" cid="c05019020.1"/>shall hear and fear, and shall never again commit any such evil among you.</verse>
1355
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05019021"/>
1356
+ <verse num="21"><crossref let="y" cid="c05019021.1"/>Your eye shall not pity. <crossref let="h" cid="c05019021.2"/>It shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.</verse>
1357
+ <end-paragraph/>
1358
+ </chapter>
1359
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05020001"/>
1360
+ <chapter num="20">
1361
+ <heading>Laws Concerning Warfare</heading>
1362
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1363
+ <verse num="1"><q class="continue-double" qid="05020001.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>When you go out to war against your enemies, and see <crossref let="i" cid="c05020001.1"/>horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you shall not be afraid of them, for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is <crossref let="j" cid="c05020001.2"/>with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.</verse>
1364
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05020002"/>
1365
+ <verse num="2">And when you draw near to the battle, <crossref let="k" cid="c05020002.1"/>the priest shall come forward and speak to the people</verse>
1366
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05020003"/>
1367
+ <verse num="3">and shall say to them, <q class="begin-single" qid="05020003.1" from="05020003.1" to="05020004.1"/>Hear, O Israel, today you are drawing near for battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint. Do not fear or panic or be in dread of them,</verse>
1368
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05020004"/>
1369
+ <verse num="4">for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is he who goes with you <crossref let="l" cid="c05020004.1"/>to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.<q class="end-single" qid="05020004.1" from="05020003.1" to="05020004.1"/></verse>
1370
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05020005"/>
1371
+ <verse num="5">Then the officers shall speak to the people, saying, <q class="begin-single" qid="05020005.1" from="05020005.1" to="05020007.1"/>Is there any man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.</verse>
1372
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05020006"/>
1373
+ <verse num="6">And is there any man who has planted a vineyard and has not <crossref let="m" cid="c05020006.1"/>enjoyed its fruit? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man enjoy its fruit.</verse>
1374
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05020007"/>
1375
+ <verse num="7"><crossref let="n" cid="c05020007.1"/>And is there any man who has betrothed a wife and has not taken her? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her.<q class="end-single" qid="05020007.1" from="05020005.1" to="05020007.1"/></verse>
1376
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05020008"/>
1377
+ <verse num="8">And the officers shall speak further to the people, and say, <crossref let="o" cid="c05020008.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05020008.1" from="05020008.1" to="05020008.2"/>Is there any man who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go back to his house, lest he make the heart of his fellows melt like his own.<q class="end-single" qid="05020008.2" from="05020008.1" to="05020008.2"/></verse>
1378
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05020009"/>
1379
+ <verse num="9">And when the officers have finished speaking to the people, then commanders shall be appointed at the head of the people.</verse>
1380
+ <end-paragraph/>
1381
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05020010"/>
1382
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1383
+ <verse num="10"><q class="continue-double" qid="05020010.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>When you draw near to a city to fight against it, <crossref let="p" cid="c05020010.1"/>offer terms of peace to it.</verse>
1384
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05020011"/>
1385
+ <verse num="11">And if it responds to you peaceably and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you.</verse>
1386
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05020012"/>
1387
+ <verse num="12">But if it makes no peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it.</verse>
1388
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05020013"/>
1389
+ <verse num="13">And when the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God gives it into your hand, <crossref let="q" cid="c05020013.1"/>you shall put all its males to the sword,</verse>
1390
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05020014"/>
1391
+ <verse num="14"><crossref let="r" cid="c05020014.1"/>but the women and the little ones, the livestock, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you <crossref let="s" cid="c05020014.2"/>shall take as plunder for yourselves. And <crossref let="t" cid="c05020014.3"/>you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has given you.</verse>
1392
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05020015"/>
1393
+ <verse num="15">Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here.</verse>
1394
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05020016"/>
1395
+ <verse num="16">But <crossref let="u" cid="c05020016.1"/>in the cities of these peoples that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes,</verse>
1396
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05020017"/>
1397
+ <verse num="17">but <crossref let="v" cid="c05020017.1"/>you shall devote them to complete destruction,<note nid="n05020017.1"/> the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has commanded,</verse>
1398
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05020018"/>
1399
+ <verse num="18">that <crossref let="w" cid="c05020018.1"/>they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices that they have done for their gods, and so you <crossref let="x" cid="c05020018.2"/>sin against the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God.</verse>
1400
+ <end-paragraph/>
1401
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05020019"/>
1402
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1403
+ <verse num="19"><q class="continue-double" qid="05020019.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>When you besiege a city for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, <crossref let="y" cid="c05020019.1"/>you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them. You may eat from them, but you shall not cut them down. Are the trees in the field human, that they should be besieged by you?</verse>
1404
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05020020"/>
1405
+ <verse num="20">Only the trees that you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down, that you may build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.</verse>
1406
+ <end-paragraph/>
1407
+ </chapter>
1408
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05021001"/>
1409
+ <chapter num="21">
1410
+ <heading>Atonement for Unsolved Murders</heading>
1411
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1412
+ <verse num="1"><q class="continue-double" qid="05021001.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>If in the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you to possess someone is found slain, lying in the open country, and it is not known who killed him,</verse>
1413
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05021002"/>
1414
+ <verse num="2">then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure the distance to the surrounding cities.</verse>
1415
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05021003"/>
1416
+ <verse num="3">And the elders of the city that is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer <crossref let="z" cid="c05021003.1"/>that has never been worked and that has not pulled in a yoke.</verse>
1417
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05021004"/>
1418
+ <verse num="4">And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer&apos;s neck there in the valley.</verse>
1419
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05021005"/>
1420
+ <verse num="5">Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come forward, for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has chosen <crossref let="a" cid="c05021005.1"/>them to minister to him and to bless in the name of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and <crossref let="b" cid="c05021005.2"/>by their word every dispute and every assault shall be settled.</verse>
1421
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05021006"/>
1422
+ <verse num="6">And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man <crossref let="c" cid="c05021006.1"/>shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley,</verse>
1423
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05021007"/>
1424
+ <verse num="7">and they shall testify, <q class="begin-single" qid="05021007.1" from="05021007.1" to="05021008.1"/>Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it shed.</verse>
1425
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05021008"/>
1426
+ <verse num="8">Accept atonement, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and <crossref let="d" cid="c05021008.1"/>do not set the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel, so that their blood guilt be atoned for.<q class="end-single" qid="05021008.1" from="05021007.1" to="05021008.1"/></verse>
1427
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05021009"/>
1428
+ <verse num="9">So <crossref let="e" cid="c05021009.1"/>you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
1429
+ <end-paragraph/>
1430
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05021010"/>
1431
+ <heading>Marrying Female Captives</heading>
1432
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1433
+ <verse num="10"><q class="continue-double" qid="05021010.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>When you go out to war against your enemies, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive,</verse>
1434
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05021011"/>
1435
+ <verse num="11">and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire to take her to be your wife,</verse>
1436
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05021012"/>
1437
+ <verse num="12">and you bring her home to your house, she shall shave her head and pare her nails.</verse>
1438
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05021013"/>
1439
+ <verse num="13">And she shall take off the clothes in which she was captured and shall remain in your house and <crossref let="f" cid="c05021013.1"/>lament her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.</verse>
1440
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05021014"/>
1441
+ <verse num="14">But if you no longer delight in her, you shall <crossref let="g" cid="c05021014.1"/>let her go where she wants. But you shall not sell her for money, nor shall you <crossref let="h" cid="c05021014.2"/>treat her as a slave, since you have humiliated her.</verse>
1442
+ <end-paragraph/>
1443
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05021015"/>
1444
+ <heading>Inheritance Rights of the Firstborn</heading>
1445
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1446
+ <verse num="15"><q class="continue-double" qid="05021015.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>If a man has two wives, <crossref let="i" cid="c05021015.1"/>the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him children, and if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved,<note nid="n05021015.1"/></verse>
1447
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05021016"/>
1448
+ <verse num="16">then on the day when <crossref let="j" cid="c05021016.1"/>he assigns his possessions as an inheritance to his sons, he may not treat the son of the loved as the firstborn in preference to the son of the unloved, who is the firstborn,</verse>
1449
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05021017"/>
1450
+ <verse num="17">but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is <crossref let="k" cid="c05021017.1"/>the firstfruits of his strength. <crossref let="l" cid="c05021017.2"/>The right of the firstborn is his.</verse>
1451
+ <end-paragraph/>
1452
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05021018"/>
1453
+ <heading>A Rebellious Son</heading>
1454
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1455
+ <verse num="18"><q class="continue-double" qid="05021018.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them,</verse>
1456
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05021019"/>
1457
+ <verse num="19">then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives,</verse>
1458
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05021020"/>
1459
+ <verse num="20">and they shall say to the elders of his city, <q class="begin-single" qid="05021020.1" from="05021020.1" to="05021020.2"/>This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.<q class="end-single" qid="05021020.2" from="05021020.1" to="05021020.2"/></verse>
1460
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05021021"/>
1461
+ <verse num="21"><crossref let="m" cid="c05021021.1"/>Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. <crossref let="n" cid="c05021021.2"/>So you shall purge the evil from your midst, <crossref let="o" cid="c05021021.3"/>and all Israel shall hear, and fear.</verse>
1462
+ <end-paragraph/>
1463
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05021022"/>
1464
+ <heading>A Man Hanged on a Tree Is Cursed</heading>
1465
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1466
+ <verse num="22"><q class="continue-double" qid="05021022.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,</verse>
1467
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05021023"/>
1468
+ <verse num="23"><crossref let="p" cid="c05021023.1"/>his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for <crossref let="q" cid="c05021023.2"/>a hanged man is cursed by God. <crossref let="r" cid="c05021023.3"/>You shall not defile your land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you for an inheritance.</verse>
1469
+ <end-paragraph/>
1470
+ </chapter>
1471
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022001"/>
1472
+ <chapter num="22">
1473
+ <heading>Various Laws</heading>
1474
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1475
+ <verse num="1"><q class="continue-double" qid="05022001.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>You <crossref let="s" cid="c05022001.1"/>shall not see your brother&apos;s ox or his sheep going astray and ignore them. You shall take them back to your brother.</verse>
1476
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022002"/>
1477
+ <verse num="2">And if he does not live near you and you do not know who he is, you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall stay with you until your brother seeks it. Then you shall restore it to him.</verse>
1478
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022003"/>
1479
+ <verse num="3">And you shall do the same with his donkey or with his garment, or with any lost thing of your brother&apos;s, which he loses and you find; you may not ignore it.</verse>
1480
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022004"/>
1481
+ <verse num="4"><crossref let="t" cid="c05022004.1"/>You shall not see your brother&apos;s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way and ignore them. You shall help him to lift them up again.</verse>
1482
+ <end-paragraph/>
1483
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022005"/>
1484
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1485
+ <verse num="5"><q class="continue-double" qid="05022005.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>A woman shall not wear a man&apos;s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman&apos;s cloak, <crossref let="u" cid="c05022005.1"/>for whoever does these things is an abomination to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God.</verse>
1486
+ <end-paragraph/>
1487
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022006"/>
1488
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1489
+ <verse num="6"><q class="continue-double" qid="05022006.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>If you come across a bird&apos;s nest in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, <crossref let="v" cid="c05022006.1"/>you shall not take the mother with the young.</verse>
1490
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022007"/>
1491
+ <verse num="7">You shall let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, <crossref let="w" cid="c05022007.1"/>that it may go well with you, and that you may live long.</verse>
1492
+ <end-paragraph/>
1493
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022008"/>
1494
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1495
+ <verse num="8"><q class="continue-double" qid="05022008.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house, if anyone should fall from it.</verse>
1496
+ <end-paragraph/>
1497
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022009"/>
1498
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1499
+ <verse num="9"><crossref let="x" cid="c05022009.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05022009.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole yield be forfeited,<note nid="n05022009.1"/> the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard.</verse>
1500
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022010"/>
1501
+ <verse num="10">You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.</verse>
1502
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022011"/>
1503
+ <verse num="11">You shall not wear cloth of wool and linen mixed together.</verse>
1504
+ <end-paragraph/>
1505
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022012"/>
1506
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1507
+ <verse num="12"><crossref let="y" cid="c05022012.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05022012.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of the garment with which you cover yourself.</verse>
1508
+ <end-paragraph/>
1509
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022013"/>
1510
+ <heading>Laws Concerning Sexual Immorality</heading>
1511
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1512
+ <verse num="13"><q class="continue-double" qid="05022013.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>If any man takes a wife and <crossref let="z" cid="c05022013.1"/>goes in to her and then hates her</verse>
1513
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022014"/>
1514
+ <verse num="14">and accuses her of misconduct and brings a bad name upon her, saying, <q class="begin-single" qid="05022014.1" from="05022014.1" to="05022014.2"/>I took this woman, and when I came near her, I did not find in her evidence of virginity,<q class="end-single" qid="05022014.2" from="05022014.1" to="05022014.2"/></verse>
1515
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022015"/>
1516
+ <verse num="15">then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.</verse>
1517
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022016"/>
1518
+ <verse num="16">And the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, <q class="begin-single" qid="05022016.1" from="05022016.1" to="05022017.3"/>I gave my daughter to this man to marry, and he hates her;</verse>
1519
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022017"/>
1520
+ <verse num="17">and behold, he has accused her of misconduct, saying, <q class="begin-inner-double" qid="05022017.1" from="05022017.1" to="05022017.2"/>I did not find in your daughter evidence of virginity.<q class="end-inner-double" qid="05022017.2" from="05022017.1" to="05022017.2"/> And yet this is the evidence of my daughter&apos;s virginity.<q class="end-single" qid="05022017.3" from="05022016.1" to="05022017.3"/> And they shall spread the cloak before the elders of the city.</verse>
1521
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022018"/>
1522
+ <verse num="18">Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip<note nid="n05022018.1"/> him,</verse>
1523
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022019"/>
1524
+ <verse num="19">and they shall fine him a hundred shekels<note nid="n05022019.1"/> of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a bad name upon a virgin<note nid="n05022019.2"/> of Israel. And she shall be his wife. <crossref let="a" cid="c05022019.1"/>He may not divorce her all his days.</verse>
1525
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022020"/>
1526
+ <verse num="20">But if the thing is true, that evidence of virginity was not found in the young woman,</verse>
1527
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022021"/>
1528
+ <verse num="21">then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father&apos;s house, and <crossref let="b" cid="c05022021.1"/>the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has <crossref let="c" cid="c05022021.2"/>done an outrageous thing in Israel by whoring in her father&apos;s house. <crossref let="d" cid="c05022021.3"/>So you shall purge the evil from your midst.</verse>
1529
+ <end-paragraph/>
1530
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022022"/>
1531
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1532
+ <verse num="22"><crossref let="e" cid="c05022022.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05022022.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. <crossref let="d" cid="c05022022.2"/>So you shall purge the evil from Israel.</verse>
1533
+ <end-paragraph/>
1534
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022023"/>
1535
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1536
+ <verse num="23"><q class="continue-double" qid="05022023.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>If there is a <crossref let="f" cid="c05022023.1"/>betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her,</verse>
1537
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022024"/>
1538
+ <verse num="24">then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor&apos;s wife. <crossref let="d" cid="c05022024.1"/>So you shall purge the evil from your midst.</verse>
1539
+ <end-paragraph/>
1540
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022025"/>
1541
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1542
+ <verse num="25"><q class="continue-double" qid="05022025.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.</verse>
1543
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022026"/>
1544
+ <verse num="26">But you shall do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no offense punishable by death. For this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor,</verse>
1545
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022027"/>
1546
+ <verse num="27">because he met her in the open country, and though the betrothed young woman cried for help there was no one to rescue her.</verse>
1547
+ <end-paragraph/>
1548
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022028"/>
1549
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1550
+ <verse num="28"><crossref let="g" cid="c05022028.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05022028.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,</verse>
1551
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022029"/>
1552
+ <verse num="29">then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days.</verse>
1553
+ <end-paragraph/>
1554
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05022030"/>
1555
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1556
+ <verse num="30"><note nid="n05022030.1"/> <crossref let="h" cid="c05022030.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05022030.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>A man shall not take his father&apos;s wife, so that he does not <crossref let="i" cid="c05022030.2"/>uncover his father&apos;s nakedness.<note nid="n05022030.2"/></verse>
1557
+ <end-paragraph/>
1558
+ </chapter>
1559
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05023001"/>
1560
+ <chapter num="23">
1561
+ <heading>Those Excluded from the Assembly</heading>
1562
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1563
+ <verse num="1"><q class="continue-double" qid="05023001.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
1564
+ <end-paragraph/>
1565
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05023002"/>
1566
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1567
+ <verse num="2"><crossref let="j" cid="c05023002.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05023002.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>No one born of a forbidden union may enter the assembly of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. Even to the tenth generation, none of his descendants may enter the assembly of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
1568
+ <end-paragraph/>
1569
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05023003"/>
1570
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1571
+ <verse num="3"><crossref let="k" cid="c05023003.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05023003.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. Even to the tenth generation, none of them may enter the assembly of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> forever,</verse>
1572
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05023004"/>
1573
+ <verse num="4"><crossref let="l" cid="c05023004.1"/>because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they <crossref let="m" cid="c05023004.2"/>hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of <crossref let="n" cid="c05023004.3"/>Mesopotamia, to curse you.</verse>
1574
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05023005"/>
1575
+ <verse num="5">But the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God would not listen to Balaam; instead the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God turned <crossref let="o" cid="c05023005.1"/>the curse into a blessing for you, because the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God loved you.</verse>
1576
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05023006"/>
1577
+ <verse num="6">You <crossref let="p" cid="c05023006.1"/>shall not seek their peace or their prosperity all your days forever.</verse>
1578
+ <end-paragraph/>
1579
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05023007"/>
1580
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1581
+ <verse num="7"><q class="continue-double" qid="05023007.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>You shall not abhor an Edomite, for <crossref let="q" cid="c05023007.1"/>he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because <crossref let="r" cid="c05023007.2"/>you were a sojourner in his land.</verse>
1582
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05023008"/>
1583
+ <verse num="8">Children born to them in the third generation may enter the assembly of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
1584
+ <end-paragraph/>
1585
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05023009"/>
1586
+ <heading>Uncleanness in the Camp</heading>
1587
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1588
+ <verse num="9"><q class="continue-double" qid="05023009.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every evil thing.</verse>
1589
+ <end-paragraph/>
1590
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05023010"/>
1591
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1592
+ <verse num="10"><q class="continue-double" qid="05023010.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>If any man among you becomes <crossref let="s" cid="c05023010.1"/>unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he shall go outside the camp. He shall not come inside the camp,</verse>
1593
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05023011"/>
1594
+ <verse num="11">but when evening comes, he shall <crossref let="t" cid="c05023011.1"/>bathe himself in water, and as the sun sets, he may come inside the camp.</verse>
1595
+ <end-paragraph/>
1596
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05023012"/>
1597
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1598
+ <verse num="12"><q class="continue-double" qid="05023012.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>You shall have a place outside the camp, and you shall go out to it.</verse>
1599
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05023013"/>
1600
+ <verse num="13">And you shall have a trowel with your tools, and when you sit down outside, you shall dig a hole with it and turn back and cover up your excrement.</verse>
1601
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05023014"/>
1602
+ <verse num="14">Because <crossref let="u" cid="c05023014.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy, so that he may not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.</verse>
1603
+ <end-paragraph/>
1604
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05023015"/>
1605
+ <heading>Miscellaneous Laws</heading>
1606
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1607
+ <verse num="15"><crossref let="v" cid="c05023015.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05023015.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>You shall not give up to his master a slave<note nid="n05023015.1"/> who has escaped from his master to you.</verse>
1608
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05023016"/>
1609
+ <verse num="16">He shall dwell with you, in your midst, in the place that he shall choose within one of your towns, wherever it suits him. You shall not wrong him.</verse>
1610
+ <end-paragraph/>
1611
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05023017"/>
1612
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1613
+ <verse num="17"><q class="continue-double" qid="05023017.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>None of the <crossref let="w" cid="c05023017.1"/>daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, and none <crossref let="x" cid="c05023017.2"/>of the sons of Israel shall be a cult prostitute.</verse>
1614
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05023018"/>
1615
+ <verse num="18">You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a dog<note nid="n05023018.1"/> into the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God in payment for any vow, for both of these are an abomination to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God.</verse>
1616
+ <end-paragraph/>
1617
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05023019"/>
1618
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1619
+ <verse num="19"><crossref let="y" cid="c05023019.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05023019.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>You shall not charge interest on loans to your brother, <crossref let="z" cid="c05023019.2"/>interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest.</verse>
1620
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05023020"/>
1621
+ <verse num="20"><crossref let="a" cid="c05023020.1"/>You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, <crossref let="b" cid="c05023020.2"/>that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.</verse>
1622
+ <end-paragraph/>
1623
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05023021"/>
1624
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1625
+ <verse num="21"><crossref let="c" cid="c05023021.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05023021.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>If you make a vow to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, you shall not delay fulfilling it, for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin.</verse>
1626
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05023022"/>
1627
+ <verse num="22">But if you refrain from vowing, you will not be guilty of sin.</verse>
1628
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05023023"/>
1629
+ <verse num="23">You shall be careful to do what has passed your lips, for you have voluntarily vowed to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God what you have promised with your mouth.</verse>
1630
+ <end-paragraph/>
1631
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05023024"/>
1632
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1633
+ <verse num="24"><q class="continue-double" qid="05023024.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>If you go into your neighbor&apos;s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, as many as you wish, but you shall not put any in your bag.</verse>
1634
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05023025"/>
1635
+ <verse num="25">If you go into your neighbor&apos;s standing grain, <crossref let="d" cid="c05023025.1"/>you may pluck the ears with your hand, but you shall not put a sickle to your neighbor&apos;s standing grain.</verse>
1636
+ <end-paragraph/>
1637
+ </chapter>
1638
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05024001"/>
1639
+ <chapter num="24">
1640
+ <heading>Laws Concerning Divorce</heading>
1641
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1642
+ <verse num="1"><q class="continue-double" qid="05024001.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and <crossref let="e" cid="c05024001.1"/>he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house,</verse>
1643
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05024002"/>
1644
+ <verse num="2">and if she goes and becomes another man&apos;s wife,</verse>
1645
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05024003"/>
1646
+ <verse num="3">and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife,</verse>
1647
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05024004"/>
1648
+ <verse num="4">then <crossref let="f" cid="c05024004.1"/>her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you for an inheritance.</verse>
1649
+ <end-paragraph/>
1650
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05024005"/>
1651
+ <heading>Miscellaneous Laws</heading>
1652
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1653
+ <verse num="5"><crossref let="g" cid="c05024005.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05024005.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year <crossref let="h" cid="c05024005.2"/>to be happy with his wife<note nid="n05024005.1"/> whom he has taken.</verse>
1654
+ <end-paragraph/>
1655
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05024006"/>
1656
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1657
+ <verse num="6"><q class="continue-double" qid="05024006.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge.</verse>
1658
+ <end-paragraph/>
1659
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05024007"/>
1660
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1661
+ <verse num="7"><crossref let="i" cid="c05024007.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05024007.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>If a man is found stealing one of his brothers of the people of Israel, and if he <crossref let="j" cid="c05024007.2"/>treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief shall die. <crossref let="k" cid="c05024007.3"/>So you shall purge the evil from your midst.</verse>
1662
+ <end-paragraph/>
1663
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05024008"/>
1664
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1665
+ <verse num="8"><q class="continue-double" qid="05024008.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>Take care, in <crossref let="l" cid="c05024008.1"/>a case of leprous<note nid="n05024008.1"/> disease, to be very careful to do according to all that the Levitical priests shall direct you. As I commanded them, so you shall be careful to do.</verse>
1666
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05024009"/>
1667
+ <verse num="9">Remember what the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God did to <crossref let="m" cid="c05024009.1"/>Miriam <crossref let="n" cid="c05024009.2"/>on the way as you came out of Egypt.</verse>
1668
+ <end-paragraph/>
1669
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05024010"/>
1670
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1671
+ <verse num="10"><q class="continue-double" qid="05024010.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you shall not go into his house to collect his pledge.</verse>
1672
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05024011"/>
1673
+ <verse num="11">You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge out to you.</verse>
1674
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05024012"/>
1675
+ <verse num="12">And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep in his pledge.</verse>
1676
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05024013"/>
1677
+ <verse num="13"><crossref let="o" cid="c05024013.1"/>You shall restore to him the pledge as the sun sets, that he may sleep in his cloak and <crossref let="p" cid="c05024013.2"/>bless you. And <crossref let="q" cid="c05024013.3"/>it shall be righteousness for you before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God.</verse>
1678
+ <end-paragraph/>
1679
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05024014"/>
1680
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1681
+ <verse num="14"><q class="continue-double" qid="05024014.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>You shall not <crossref let="r" cid="c05024014.1"/>oppress a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns.</verse>
1682
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05024015"/>
1683
+ <verse num="15"><crossref let="s" cid="c05024015.1"/>You shall give him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets (for he is poor and counts on it), <crossref let="t" cid="c05024015.2"/>lest he cry against you to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and you be guilty of sin.</verse>
1684
+ <end-paragraph/>
1685
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05024016"/>
1686
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1687
+ <verse num="16"><crossref let="u" cid="c05024016.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05024016.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.</verse>
1688
+ <end-paragraph/>
1689
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05024017"/>
1690
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1691
+ <verse num="17"><crossref let="v" cid="c05024017.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05024017.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, <crossref let="w" cid="c05024017.2"/>or take a widow&apos;s garment in pledge,</verse>
1692
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05024018"/>
1693
+ <verse num="18">but <crossref let="x" cid="c05024018.1"/>you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this.</verse>
1694
+ <end-paragraph/>
1695
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05024019"/>
1696
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1697
+ <verse num="19"><crossref let="y" cid="c05024019.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05024019.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, <crossref let="z" cid="c05024019.2"/>that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.</verse>
1698
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05024020"/>
1699
+ <verse num="20">When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over them again. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.</verse>
1700
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05024021"/>
1701
+ <verse num="21">When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not strip it afterward. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.</verse>
1702
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05024022"/>
1703
+ <verse num="22"><crossref let="x" cid="c05024022.1"/>You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this.</verse>
1704
+ <end-paragraph/>
1705
+ </chapter>
1706
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05025001"/>
1707
+ <chapter num="25">
1708
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1709
+ <verse num="1"><q class="continue-double" qid="05025001.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>If there is a <crossref let="a" cid="c05025001.1"/>dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, <crossref let="b" cid="c05025001.2"/>acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,</verse>
1710
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05025002"/>
1711
+ <verse num="2">then if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with a number of stripes in proportion to his offense.</verse>
1712
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05025003"/>
1713
+ <verse num="3"><crossref let="c" cid="c05025003.1"/>Forty stripes may be given him, but not more, lest, if one should go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother be degraded in your sight.</verse>
1714
+ <end-paragraph/>
1715
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05025004"/>
1716
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1717
+ <verse num="4"><crossref let="d" cid="c05025004.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05025004.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.</verse>
1718
+ <end-paragraph/>
1719
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05025005"/>
1720
+ <heading>Laws Concerning Levirate Marriage</heading>
1721
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1722
+ <verse num="5"><crossref let="e" cid="c05025005.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05025005.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her <crossref let="f" cid="c05025005.2"/>husband&apos;s brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband&apos;s brother to her.</verse>
1723
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05025006"/>
1724
+ <verse num="6">And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his dead brother, that <crossref let="g" cid="c05025006.1"/>his name may not be blotted out of Israel.</verse>
1725
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05025007"/>
1726
+ <verse num="7">And if the man does not wish to take his brother&apos;s wife, then his brother&apos;s wife shall <crossref let="h" cid="c05025007.1"/>go up to the gate to the elders and say, <q class="begin-single" qid="05025007.1" from="05025007.1" to="05025007.2"/>My husband&apos;s brother refuses to perpetuate his brother&apos;s name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband&apos;s brother to me.<q class="end-single" qid="05025007.2" from="05025007.1" to="05025007.2"/></verse>
1727
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05025008"/>
1728
+ <verse num="8">Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him, and if he persists, saying, <crossref let="i" cid="c05025008.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05025008.1" from="05025008.1" to="05025008.2"/>I do not wish to take her,<q class="end-single" qid="05025008.2" from="05025008.1" to="05025008.2"/></verse>
1729
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05025009"/>
1730
+ <verse num="9">then his brother&apos;s wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders and <crossref let="j" cid="c05025009.1"/>pull his sandal off his foot and <crossref let="k" cid="c05025009.2"/>spit in his face. And she shall answer and say, <q class="begin-single" qid="05025009.1" from="05025009.1" to="05025009.2"/>So shall it be done to the man who does not <crossref let="l" cid="c05025009.3"/>build up his brother&apos;s house.<q class="end-single" qid="05025009.2" from="05025009.1" to="05025009.2"/></verse>
1731
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05025010"/>
1732
+ <verse num="10">And the name of his house<note nid="n05025010.1"/> shall be called in Israel, <q class="begin-single" qid="05025010.1" from="05025010.1" to="05025010.2"/>The house of him who had his sandal pulled off.<q class="end-single" qid="05025010.2" from="05025010.1" to="05025010.2"/></verse>
1733
+ <end-paragraph/>
1734
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05025011"/>
1735
+ <heading>Miscellaneous Laws</heading>
1736
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1737
+ <verse num="11"><q class="continue-double" qid="05025011.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>When men fight with one another and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts,</verse>
1738
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05025012"/>
1739
+ <verse num="12">then you shall cut off her hand. <crossref let="m" cid="c05025012.1"/>Your eye shall have no pity.</verse>
1740
+ <end-paragraph/>
1741
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05025013"/>
1742
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1743
+ <verse num="13"><q class="continue-double" qid="05025013.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>You <crossref let="n" cid="c05025013.1"/>shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small.</verse>
1744
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05025014"/>
1745
+ <verse num="14">You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small.</verse>
1746
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05025015"/>
1747
+ <verse num="15">A full and fair<note nid="n05025015.1"/> weight you shall have, a full and fair measure you shall have, <crossref let="o" cid="c05025015.1"/>that your days may be long in the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you.</verse>
1748
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05025016"/>
1749
+ <verse num="16">For <crossref let="p" cid="c05025016.1"/>all who do such things, all who act dishonestly, <crossref let="q" cid="c05025016.2"/>are an abomination to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God.</verse>
1750
+ <end-paragraph/>
1751
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05025017"/>
1752
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1753
+ <verse num="17"><crossref let="r" cid="c05025017.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05025017.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>Remember what Amalek did to you <crossref let="s" cid="c05025017.2"/>on the way as you came out of Egypt,</verse>
1754
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05025018"/>
1755
+ <verse num="18">how he attacked you on the way when you were faint and weary, and <crossref let="t" cid="c05025018.1"/>cut off your tail, those who were lagging behind you, and he did not fear God.</verse>
1756
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05025019"/>
1757
+ <verse num="19">Therefore <crossref let="u" cid="c05025019.1"/>when the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has given you rest from all your enemies around you, in the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, you shall <crossref let="v" cid="c05025019.2"/>blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget.</verse>
1758
+ <end-paragraph/>
1759
+ </chapter>
1760
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05026001"/>
1761
+ <chapter num="26">
1762
+ <heading>Offerings of Firstfruits and Tithes</heading>
1763
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1764
+ <verse num="1"><q class="continue-double" qid="05026001.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>When you come into the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and live in it,</verse>
1765
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05026002"/>
1766
+ <verse num="2"><crossref let="w" cid="c05026002.1"/>you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall <crossref let="x" cid="c05026002.2"/>go to the place that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will choose, to make his name to dwell there.</verse>
1767
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05026003"/>
1768
+ <verse num="3">And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, <q class="begin-single" qid="05026003.1" from="05026003.1" to="05026003.2"/>I declare today to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God that I have come into the land <crossref let="y" cid="c05026003.1"/>that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> swore to our fathers to give us.<q class="end-single" qid="05026003.2" from="05026003.1" to="05026003.2"/></verse>
1769
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05026004"/>
1770
+ <verse num="4">Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God.</verse>
1771
+ <end-paragraph/>
1772
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05026005"/>
1773
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1774
+ <verse num="5"><q class="continue-double" qid="05026005.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>And you shall make response before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, <q class="begin-single" qid="05026005.2" from="05026005.2" to="05026010.1"/>A <crossref let="z" cid="c05026005.1"/>wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, <crossref let="a" cid="c05026005.2"/>few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.</verse>
1775
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05026006"/>
1776
+ <verse num="6">And <crossref let="b" cid="c05026006.1"/>the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor.</verse>
1777
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05026007"/>
1778
+ <verse num="7">Then <crossref let="c" cid="c05026007.1"/>we cried to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of our fathers, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.</verse>
1779
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05026008"/>
1780
+ <verse num="8">And <crossref let="d" cid="c05026008.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> brought us out of Egypt <crossref let="e" cid="c05026008.2"/>with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great deeds of terror,<note nid="n05026008.1"/> with signs and wonders.</verse>
1781
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05026009"/>
1782
+ <verse num="9">And he brought us into this place and gave us this land, <crossref let="f" cid="c05026009.1"/>a land flowing with milk and honey.</verse>
1783
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05026010"/>
1784
+ <verse num="10">And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, have given me.<q class="end-single" qid="05026010.1" from="05026005.2" to="05026010.1"/> And you shall set it down before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God and worship before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God.</verse>
1785
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05026011"/>
1786
+ <verse num="11">And <crossref let="g" cid="c05026011.1"/>you shall rejoice in all the good that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you.</verse>
1787
+ <end-paragraph/>
1788
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05026012"/>
1789
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1790
+ <verse num="12"><q class="continue-double" qid="05026012.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>When you have finished paying all <crossref let="h" cid="c05026012.1"/>the tithe of your produce in the third year, which is <crossref let="i" cid="c05026012.2"/>the year of tithing, giving it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your towns and be filled,</verse>
1791
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05026013"/>
1792
+ <verse num="13">then you shall say before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, <q class="begin-single" qid="05026013.1" from="05026013.1" to="05026015.1"/>I have removed the sacred portion out of my house, and moreover, I have given it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all your commandment that you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, <crossref let="j" cid="c05026013.1"/>nor have I forgotten them.</verse>
1793
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05026014"/>
1794
+ <verse num="14"><crossref let="k" cid="c05026014.1"/>I have not eaten of the tithe while I was mourning, or removed any of it while I was unclean, or offered any of it <crossref let="l" cid="c05026014.2"/>to the dead. I have obeyed the voice of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> my God. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.</verse>
1795
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05026015"/>
1796
+ <verse num="15"><crossref let="m" cid="c05026015.1"/>Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel and the ground that you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.<q class="end-single" qid="05026015.1" from="05026013.1" to="05026015.1"/></verse>
1797
+ <end-paragraph/>
1798
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05026016"/>
1799
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1800
+ <verse num="16"><q class="continue-double" qid="05026016.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/>This day the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God commands you to do these statutes and rules. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul.</verse>
1801
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05026017"/>
1802
+ <verse num="17"><crossref let="n" cid="c05026017.1"/>You have declared today that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice.</verse>
1803
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05026018"/>
1804
+ <verse num="18">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has declared today that you are <crossref let="o" cid="c05026018.1"/>a people for his treasured possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments,</verse>
1805
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05026019"/>
1806
+ <verse num="19">and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor <crossref let="p" cid="c05026019.1"/>high above all nations <crossref let="q" cid="c05026019.2"/>that he has made, and that you shall be <crossref let="r" cid="c05026019.3"/>a people holy to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, as he promised.<q class="end-double" qid="05026019.1" from="05010010.1" to="05026019.1"/></verse>
1807
+ <end-paragraph/>
1808
+ </chapter>
1809
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05027001"/>
1810
+ <chapter num="27">
1811
+ <heading>The Altar on Mount Ebal</heading>
1812
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1813
+ <verse num="1">Now Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="05027001.1" from="05027001.1" to="05027008.1"/>Keep the whole commandment that I command you today.</verse>
1814
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05027002"/>
1815
+ <verse num="2">And on the day <crossref let="s" cid="c05027002.1"/>you cross over the Jordan to the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you, you shall set up large stones and plaster them with plaster.</verse>
1816
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05027003"/>
1817
+ <verse num="3"><crossref let="t" cid="c05027003.1"/>And you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you cross over to enter the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you, <crossref let="u" cid="c05027003.2"/>a land flowing with milk and honey, as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of your fathers, has promised you.</verse>
1818
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05027004"/>
1819
+ <verse num="4">And when you have crossed over the Jordan, you shall set up these stones, concerning which I command you today, <crossref let="v" cid="c05027004.1"/>on Mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster.</verse>
1820
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05027005"/>
1821
+ <verse num="5">And there you shall build an altar to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, an altar of stones. <crossref let="w" cid="c05027005.1"/>You shall wield no iron tool on them;</verse>
1822
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05027006"/>
1823
+ <verse num="6">you shall build an altar to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God of uncut<note nid="n05027006.1"/> stones. And you shall offer burnt offerings on it to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God,</verse>
1824
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05027007"/>
1825
+ <verse num="7">and you shall sacrifice peace offerings and <crossref let="x" cid="c05027007.1"/>shall eat there, and you <crossref let="x" cid="c05027007.2"/>shall rejoice before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God.</verse>
1826
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05027008"/>
1827
+ <verse num="8">And <crossref let="y" cid="c05027008.1"/>you shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly.<q class="end-double" qid="05027008.1" from="05027001.1" to="05027008.1"/></verse>
1828
+ <end-paragraph/>
1829
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05027009"/>
1830
+ <heading>Curses from Mount Ebal</heading>
1831
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1832
+ <verse num="9">Then Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel, <q class="begin-double" qid="05027009.1" from="05027009.1" to="05027010.1"/>Keep silence and hear, O Israel: <crossref let="z" cid="c05027009.1"/>this day you have become the people of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God.</verse>
1833
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05027010"/>
1834
+ <verse num="10">You shall therefore obey the voice of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, keeping his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today.<q class="end-double" qid="05027010.1" from="05027009.1" to="05027010.1"/></verse>
1835
+ <end-paragraph/>
1836
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05027011"/>
1837
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1838
+ <verse num="11">That day Moses charged the people, saying,</verse>
1839
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05027012"/>
1840
+ <verse num="12"><q class="begin-double" qid="05027012.1" from="05027012.1" to="05028068.1"/>When you have crossed over the Jordan, <crossref let="a" cid="c05027012.1"/>these shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.</verse>
1841
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05027013"/>
1842
+ <verse num="13">And these shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.</verse>
1843
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05027014"/>
1844
+ <verse num="14">And <crossref let="b" cid="c05027014.1"/>the Levites shall declare to all the men of Israel in a loud voice:</verse>
1845
+ <end-paragraph/>
1846
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05027015"/>
1847
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1848
+ <verse num="15"><crossref let="c" cid="c05027015.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05027015.1" from="05027012.1" to="05028068.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05027015.2" from="05027015.2" to="05027015.3"/>Cursed be the man who makes a carved or cast metal image, an abomination to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.<q class="end-single" qid="05027015.3" from="05027015.2" to="05027015.3"/> <crossref let="d" cid="c05027015.2"/>And all the people shall answer and say, <q class="begin-single" qid="05027015.4" from="05027015.4" to="05027015.5"/>Amen.<q class="end-single" qid="05027015.5" from="05027015.4" to="05027015.5"/></verse>
1849
+ <end-paragraph/>
1850
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05027016"/>
1851
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1852
+ <verse num="16"><crossref let="e" cid="c05027016.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05027016.1" from="05027012.1" to="05028068.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05027016.2" from="05027016.2" to="05027016.3"/>Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.<q class="end-single" qid="05027016.3" from="05027016.2" to="05027016.3"/> And all the people shall say, <q class="begin-single" qid="05027016.4" from="05027016.4" to="05027016.5"/>Amen.<q class="end-single" qid="05027016.5" from="05027016.4" to="05027016.5"/></verse>
1853
+ <end-paragraph/>
1854
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05027017"/>
1855
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1856
+ <verse num="17"><crossref let="f" cid="c05027017.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05027017.1" from="05027012.1" to="05028068.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05027017.2" from="05027017.2" to="05027017.3"/>Cursed be anyone who moves his neighbor&apos;s landmark.<q class="end-single" qid="05027017.3" from="05027017.2" to="05027017.3"/> And all the people shall say, <q class="begin-single" qid="05027017.4" from="05027017.4" to="05027017.5"/>Amen.<q class="end-single" qid="05027017.5" from="05027017.4" to="05027017.5"/></verse>
1857
+ <end-paragraph/>
1858
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05027018"/>
1859
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1860
+ <verse num="18"><crossref let="g" cid="c05027018.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05027018.1" from="05027012.1" to="05028068.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05027018.2" from="05027018.2" to="05027018.3"/>Cursed be anyone who misleads a blind man on the road.<q class="end-single" qid="05027018.3" from="05027018.2" to="05027018.3"/> And all the people shall say, <q class="begin-single" qid="05027018.4" from="05027018.4" to="05027018.5"/>Amen.<q class="end-single" qid="05027018.5" from="05027018.4" to="05027018.5"/></verse>
1861
+ <end-paragraph/>
1862
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05027019"/>
1863
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1864
+ <verse num="19"><crossref let="h" cid="c05027019.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05027019.1" from="05027012.1" to="05028068.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05027019.2" from="05027019.2" to="05027019.3"/>Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.<q class="end-single" qid="05027019.3" from="05027019.2" to="05027019.3"/> And all the people shall say, <q class="begin-single" qid="05027019.4" from="05027019.4" to="05027019.5"/>Amen.<q class="end-single" qid="05027019.5" from="05027019.4" to="05027019.5"/></verse>
1865
+ <end-paragraph/>
1866
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05027020"/>
1867
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1868
+ <verse num="20"><crossref let="i" cid="c05027020.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05027020.1" from="05027012.1" to="05028068.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05027020.2" from="05027020.2" to="05027020.3"/>Cursed be anyone who lies with his father&apos;s wife, because he has <crossref let="j" cid="c05027020.2"/>uncovered his father&apos;s nakedness.<q class="end-single" qid="05027020.3" from="05027020.2" to="05027020.3"/><note nid="n05027020.1"/> And all the people shall say, <q class="begin-single" qid="05027020.4" from="05027020.4" to="05027020.5"/>Amen.<q class="end-single" qid="05027020.5" from="05027020.4" to="05027020.5"/></verse>
1869
+ <end-paragraph/>
1870
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05027021"/>
1871
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1872
+ <verse num="21"><crossref let="k" cid="c05027021.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05027021.1" from="05027012.1" to="05028068.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05027021.2" from="05027021.2" to="05027021.3"/>Cursed be anyone who lies with any kind of animal.<q class="end-single" qid="05027021.3" from="05027021.2" to="05027021.3"/> And all the people shall say, <q class="begin-single" qid="05027021.4" from="05027021.4" to="05027021.5"/>Amen.<q class="end-single" qid="05027021.5" from="05027021.4" to="05027021.5"/></verse>
1873
+ <end-paragraph/>
1874
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05027022"/>
1875
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1876
+ <verse num="22"><crossref let="l" cid="c05027022.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05027022.1" from="05027012.1" to="05028068.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05027022.2" from="05027022.2" to="05027022.3"/>Cursed be anyone who lies with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.<q class="end-single" qid="05027022.3" from="05027022.2" to="05027022.3"/> And all the people shall say, <q class="begin-single" qid="05027022.4" from="05027022.4" to="05027022.5"/>Amen.<q class="end-single" qid="05027022.5" from="05027022.4" to="05027022.5"/></verse>
1877
+ <end-paragraph/>
1878
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05027023"/>
1879
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1880
+ <verse num="23"><crossref let="m" cid="c05027023.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05027023.1" from="05027012.1" to="05028068.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05027023.2" from="05027023.2" to="05027023.3"/>Cursed be anyone who lies with his mother-in-law.<q class="end-single" qid="05027023.3" from="05027023.2" to="05027023.3"/> And all the people shall say, <q class="begin-single" qid="05027023.4" from="05027023.4" to="05027023.5"/>Amen.<q class="end-single" qid="05027023.5" from="05027023.4" to="05027023.5"/></verse>
1881
+ <end-paragraph/>
1882
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05027024"/>
1883
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1884
+ <verse num="24"><crossref let="n" cid="c05027024.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05027024.1" from="05027012.1" to="05028068.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05027024.2" from="05027024.2" to="05027024.3"/>Cursed be anyone who strikes down his neighbor in secret.<q class="end-single" qid="05027024.3" from="05027024.2" to="05027024.3"/> And all the people shall say, <q class="begin-single" qid="05027024.4" from="05027024.4" to="05027024.5"/>Amen.<q class="end-single" qid="05027024.5" from="05027024.4" to="05027024.5"/></verse>
1885
+ <end-paragraph/>
1886
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05027025"/>
1887
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1888
+ <verse num="25"><crossref let="o" cid="c05027025.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05027025.1" from="05027012.1" to="05028068.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05027025.2" from="05027025.2" to="05027025.3"/>Cursed be anyone who takes a bribe to shed innocent blood.<q class="end-single" qid="05027025.3" from="05027025.2" to="05027025.3"/> And all the people shall say, <q class="begin-single" qid="05027025.4" from="05027025.4" to="05027025.5"/>Amen.<q class="end-single" qid="05027025.5" from="05027025.4" to="05027025.5"/></verse>
1889
+ <end-paragraph/>
1890
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05027026"/>
1891
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1892
+ <verse num="26"><crossref let="p" cid="c05027026.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05027026.1" from="05027012.1" to="05028068.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05027026.2" from="05027026.2" to="05027026.3"/>Cursed be anyone who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.<q class="end-single" qid="05027026.3" from="05027026.2" to="05027026.3"/> And all the people shall say, <q class="begin-single" qid="05027026.4" from="05027026.4" to="05027026.5"/>Amen.<q class="end-single" qid="05027026.5" from="05027026.4" to="05027026.5"/></verse>
1893
+ <end-paragraph/>
1894
+ </chapter>
1895
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028001"/>
1896
+ <chapter num="28">
1897
+ <heading>Blessings for Obedience</heading>
1898
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1899
+ <verse num="1"><q class="continue-double" qid="05028001.1" from="05027012.1" to="05028068.1"/>And <crossref let="q" cid="c05028001.1"/>if you faithfully obey the voice of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will set you <crossref let="r" cid="c05028001.2"/>high above all the nations of the earth.</verse>
1900
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028002"/>
1901
+ <verse num="2">And all these blessings shall come upon you and <crossref let="s" cid="c05028002.1"/>overtake you, if you obey the voice of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God.</verse>
1902
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028003"/>
1903
+ <verse num="3">Blessed shall you be in the city, and <crossref let="t" cid="c05028003.1"/>blessed shall you be in the field.</verse>
1904
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028004"/>
1905
+ <verse num="4">Blessed shall be <crossref let="u" cid="c05028004.1"/>the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.</verse>
1906
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028005"/>
1907
+ <verse num="5">Blessed shall be your basket and your <crossref let="v" cid="c05028005.1"/>kneading bowl.</verse>
1908
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028006"/>
1909
+ <verse num="6">Blessed shall you be <crossref let="w" cid="c05028006.1"/>when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.</verse>
1910
+ <end-paragraph/>
1911
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028007"/>
1912
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1913
+ <verse num="7"><q class="continue-double" qid="05028007.1" from="05027012.1" to="05028068.1"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="x" cid="c05028007.1"/>will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.</verse>
1914
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028008"/>
1915
+ <verse num="8">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="y" cid="c05028008.1"/>will command the blessing on you in your barns and <crossref let="z" cid="c05028008.2"/>in all that you undertake. <crossref let="a" cid="c05028008.3"/>And he will bless you in the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you.</verse>
1916
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028009"/>
1917
+ <verse num="9"><crossref let="b" cid="c05028009.1"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will establish you as a people holy to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God and walk in his ways.</verse>
1918
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028010"/>
1919
+ <verse num="10">And <crossref let="c" cid="c05028010.1"/>all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are <crossref let="d" cid="c05028010.2"/>called by the name of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and they shall be <crossref let="e" cid="c05028010.3"/>afraid of you.</verse>
1920
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028011"/>
1921
+ <verse num="11">And <crossref let="f" cid="c05028011.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will make you abound in prosperity, in <crossref let="u" cid="c05028011.2"/>the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground, within the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> swore to your fathers to give you.</verse>
1922
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028012"/>
1923
+ <verse num="12">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, <crossref let="g" cid="c05028012.1"/>to give the rain to your land in its season and <crossref let="h" cid="c05028012.2"/>to bless all the work of your hands. And <crossref let="i" cid="c05028012.3"/>you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.</verse>
1924
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028013"/>
1925
+ <verse num="13">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will make you <crossref let="j" cid="c05028013.1"/>the head and not the tail, and you shall only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, which I command you today, being careful to do them,</verse>
1926
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028014"/>
1927
+ <verse num="14"><crossref let="k" cid="c05028014.1"/>and if you do not turn aside from any of the words that I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.</verse>
1928
+ <end-paragraph/>
1929
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028015"/>
1930
+ <heading>Curses for Disobedience</heading>
1931
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1932
+ <verse num="15"><q class="continue-double" qid="05028015.1" from="05027012.1" to="05028068.1"/>But <crossref let="l" cid="c05028015.1"/>if you will not obey the voice of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and <crossref let="m" cid="c05028015.2"/>overtake you.</verse>
1933
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028016"/>
1934
+ <verse num="16">Cursed shall you be <crossref let="n" cid="c05028016.1"/>in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.</verse>
1935
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028017"/>
1936
+ <verse num="17">Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.</verse>
1937
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028018"/>
1938
+ <verse num="18">Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.</verse>
1939
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028019"/>
1940
+ <verse num="19">Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.</verse>
1941
+ <end-paragraph/>
1942
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028020"/>
1943
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1944
+ <verse num="20"><q class="continue-double" qid="05028020.1" from="05027012.1" to="05028068.1"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="o" cid="c05028020.1"/>will send on you curses, confusion, and <crossref let="p" cid="c05028020.2"/>frustration in all that you undertake to do, <crossref let="q" cid="c05028020.3"/>until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me.</verse>
1945
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028021"/>
1946
+ <verse num="21">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will make <crossref let="r" cid="c05028021.1"/>the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.</verse>
1947
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028022"/>
1948
+ <verse num="22"><crossref let="s" cid="c05028022.1"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought<note nid="n05028022.1"/> and with <crossref let="t" cid="c05028022.2"/>blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish.</verse>
1949
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028023"/>
1950
+ <verse num="23">And <crossref let="u" cid="c05028023.1"/>the heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron.</verse>
1951
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028024"/>
1952
+ <verse num="24">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.</verse>
1953
+ <end-paragraph/>
1954
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028025"/>
1955
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1956
+ <verse num="25"><crossref let="v" cid="c05028025.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05028025.1" from="05027012.1" to="05028068.1"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you <crossref let="w" cid="c05028025.2"/>shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.</verse>
1957
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028026"/>
1958
+ <verse num="26">And <crossref let="x" cid="c05028026.1"/>your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and <crossref let="y" cid="c05028026.2"/>there shall be no one to frighten them away.</verse>
1959
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028027"/>
1960
+ <verse num="27">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will strike you <crossref let="z" cid="c05028027.1"/>with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and <crossref let="a" cid="c05028027.2"/>scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed.</verse>
1961
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028028"/>
1962
+ <verse num="28">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will strike you with <crossref let="b" cid="c05028028.1"/>madness and blindness and confusion of mind,</verse>
1963
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028029"/>
1964
+ <verse num="29">and you shall <crossref let="c" cid="c05028029.1"/>grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways.<note nid="n05028029.1"/> And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you.</verse>
1965
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028030"/>
1966
+ <verse num="30"><crossref let="d" cid="c05028030.1"/>You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. <crossref let="e" cid="c05028030.2"/>You shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. <crossref let="f" cid="c05028030.3"/>You shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit.</verse>
1967
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028031"/>
1968
+ <verse num="31">Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat any of it. Your donkey shall be seized before your face, but shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies, but there shall be no one to help you.</verse>
1969
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028032"/>
1970
+ <verse num="32"><crossref let="g" cid="c05028032.1"/>Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, <crossref let="h" cid="c05028032.2"/>but you shall be helpless.</verse>
1971
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028033"/>
1972
+ <verse num="33">A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually,</verse>
1973
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028034"/>
1974
+ <verse num="34">so that you are driven mad <crossref let="i" cid="c05028034.1"/>by the sights that your eyes see.</verse>
1975
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028035"/>
1976
+ <verse num="35">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will strike you on the knees and on the legs <crossref let="j" cid="c05028035.1"/>with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.</verse>
1977
+ <end-paragraph/>
1978
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028036"/>
1979
+ <begin-paragraph/>
1980
+ <verse num="36"><q class="continue-double" qid="05028036.1" from="05027012.1" to="05028068.1"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will <crossref let="k" cid="c05028036.1"/>bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you <crossref let="l" cid="c05028036.2"/>nor your fathers have known. And <crossref let="m" cid="c05028036.3"/>there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.</verse>
1981
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028037"/>
1982
+ <verse num="37">And you shall become <crossref let="n" cid="c05028037.1"/>a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will lead you away.</verse>
1983
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028038"/>
1984
+ <verse num="38"><crossref let="o" cid="c05028038.1"/>You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for <crossref let="p" cid="c05028038.2"/>the locust shall consume it.</verse>
1985
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028039"/>
1986
+ <verse num="39"><crossref let="q" cid="c05028039.1"/>You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them.</verse>
1987
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028040"/>
1988
+ <verse num="40">You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you <crossref let="r" cid="c05028040.1"/>shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off.</verse>
1989
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028041"/>
1990
+ <verse num="41">You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for <crossref let="s" cid="c05028041.1"/>they shall go into captivity.</verse>
1991
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028042"/>
1992
+ <verse num="42"><crossref let="p" cid="c05028042.1"/>The cricket<note nid="n05028042.1"/> shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground.</verse>
1993
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028043"/>
1994
+ <verse num="43"><crossref let="t" cid="c05028043.1"/>The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.</verse>
1995
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028044"/>
1996
+ <verse num="44"><crossref let="u" cid="c05028044.1"/>He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. <crossref let="t" cid="c05028044.2"/>He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.</verse>
1997
+ <end-paragraph/>
1998
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028045"/>
1999
+ <begin-paragraph/>
2000
+ <verse num="45"><crossref let="v" cid="c05028045.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05028045.1" from="05027012.1" to="05028068.1"/>All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you.</verse>
2001
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028046"/>
2002
+ <verse num="46">They shall be <crossref let="w" cid="c05028046.1"/>a sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever.</verse>
2003
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028047"/>
2004
+ <verse num="47"><crossref let="x" cid="c05028047.1"/>Because you did not serve the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things,</verse>
2005
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028048"/>
2006
+ <verse num="48">therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he <crossref let="y" cid="c05028048.1"/>will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.</verse>
2007
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028049"/>
2008
+ <verse num="49"><crossref let="z" cid="c05028049.1"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, <crossref let="a" cid="c05028049.2"/>swooping down like the eagle, a nation <crossref let="b" cid="c05028049.3"/>whose language you do not understand,</verse>
2009
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028050"/>
2010
+ <verse num="50">a hard-faced nation <crossref let="c" cid="c05028050.1"/>who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young.</verse>
2011
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028051"/>
2012
+ <verse num="51">It shall <crossref let="d" cid="c05028051.1"/>eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.</verse>
2013
+ <end-paragraph/>
2014
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028052"/>
2015
+ <begin-paragraph/>
2016
+ <verse num="52"><q class="continue-double" qid="05028052.1" from="05027012.1" to="05028068.1"/>They shall <crossref let="e" cid="c05028052.1"/>besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has given you.</verse>
2017
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028053"/>
2018
+ <verse num="53">And <crossref let="f" cid="c05028053.1"/>you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has given you, <crossref let="g" cid="c05028053.2"/>in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.</verse>
2019
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028054"/>
2020
+ <verse num="54">The man who is the most tender and refined among you will <crossref let="h" cid="c05028054.1"/>begrudge food to his brother, to <crossref let="i" cid="c05028054.2"/>the wife he embraces,<note nid="n05028054.1"/> and to the last of the children whom he has left,</verse>
2021
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028055"/>
2022
+ <verse num="55">so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, <crossref let="j" cid="c05028055.1"/>in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns.</verse>
2023
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028056"/>
2024
+ <verse num="56"><crossref let="k" cid="c05028056.1"/>The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces,<note nid="n05028056.1"/> to her son and to her daughter,</verse>
2025
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028057"/>
2026
+ <verse num="57">her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, <crossref let="j" cid="c05028057.1"/>in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.</verse>
2027
+ <end-paragraph/>
2028
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028058"/>
2029
+ <begin-paragraph/>
2030
+ <verse num="58"><q class="continue-double" qid="05028058.1" from="05027012.1" to="05028068.1"/>If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, <crossref let="l" cid="c05028058.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God,</verse>
2031
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028059"/>
2032
+ <verse num="59">then the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting.</verse>
2033
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028060"/>
2034
+ <verse num="60">And he will bring upon you again all <crossref let="m" cid="c05028060.1"/>the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you.</verse>
2035
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028061"/>
2036
+ <verse num="61">Every sickness also and every affliction that is not recorded in the book of this law, the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will bring upon you, until you are destroyed.</verse>
2037
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028062"/>
2038
+ <verse num="62">Whereas <crossref let="n" cid="c05028062.1"/>you were as numerous <crossref let="o" cid="c05028062.2"/>as the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God.</verse>
2039
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028063"/>
2040
+ <verse num="63">And as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="p" cid="c05028063.1"/>took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will <crossref let="q" cid="c05028063.2"/>take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you. And you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.</verse>
2041
+ <end-paragraph/>
2042
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028064"/>
2043
+ <begin-paragraph/>
2044
+ <verse num="64"><q class="continue-double" qid="05028064.1" from="05027012.1" to="05028068.1"/>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="r" cid="c05028064.1"/>will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and <crossref let="s" cid="c05028064.2"/>there you shall serve other gods <crossref let="t" cid="c05028064.3"/>of wood and stone, <crossref let="u" cid="c05028064.4"/>which neither you nor your fathers have known.</verse>
2045
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028065"/>
2046
+ <verse num="65">And <crossref let="v" cid="c05028065.1"/>among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but <crossref let="w" cid="c05028065.2"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and <crossref let="x" cid="c05028065.3"/>a languishing soul.</verse>
2047
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028066"/>
2048
+ <verse num="66">Your life shall hang in doubt before you. Night and day you shall be in dread and have no assurance of your life.</verse>
2049
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028067"/>
2050
+ <verse num="67"><crossref let="y" cid="c05028067.1"/>In the morning you shall say, <q class="begin-single" qid="05028067.1" from="05028067.1" to="05028067.2"/>If only it were evening!<q class="end-single" qid="05028067.2" from="05028067.1" to="05028067.2"/> and at evening you shall say, <q class="begin-single" qid="05028067.3" from="05028067.3" to="05028067.4"/>If only it were morning!<q class="end-single" qid="05028067.4" from="05028067.3" to="05028067.4"/> because of the dread that your heart shall feel, and <crossref let="z" cid="c05028067.2"/>the sights that your eyes shall see.</verse>
2051
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05028068"/>
2052
+ <verse num="68">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="a" cid="c05028068.1"/>will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that <crossref let="b" cid="c05028068.2"/>you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.<q class="end-double" qid="05028068.1" from="05027012.1" to="05028068.1"/></verse>
2053
+ <end-paragraph/>
2054
+ </chapter>
2055
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029001"/>
2056
+ <chapter num="29">
2057
+ <heading>The Covenant Renewed in Moab</heading>
2058
+ <begin-paragraph/>
2059
+ <verse num="1"><note nid="n05029001.1"/> These are the words of the covenant that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel <crossref let="c" cid="c05029001.1"/>in the land of Moab, besides <crossref let="d" cid="c05029001.2"/>the covenant that he had made with them at Horeb.</verse>
2060
+ <end-paragraph/>
2061
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029002"/>
2062
+ <begin-paragraph/>
2063
+ <verse num="2"><note nid="n05029002.1"/> And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: <crossref let="e" cid="c05029002.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="05029002.1" from="05029002.1" to="05030020.1"/>You have seen all that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land,</verse>
2064
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029003"/>
2065
+ <verse num="3">the great <crossref let="f" cid="c05029003.1"/>trials that your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.</verse>
2066
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029004"/>
2067
+ <verse num="4">But to this day <crossref let="g" cid="c05029004.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.</verse>
2068
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029005"/>
2069
+ <verse num="5"><crossref let="h" cid="c05029005.1"/>I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet.</verse>
2070
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029006"/>
2071
+ <verse num="6"><crossref let="i" cid="c05029006.1"/>You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God.</verse>
2072
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029007"/>
2073
+ <verse num="7">And when you came to this place, <crossref let="j" cid="c05029007.1"/>Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us to battle, but we defeated them.</verse>
2074
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029008"/>
2075
+ <verse num="8">We took their land and <crossref let="k" cid="c05029008.1"/>gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites.</verse>
2076
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029009"/>
2077
+ <verse num="9"><crossref let="l" cid="c05029009.1"/>Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper<note nid="n05029009.1"/> in all that you do.</verse>
2078
+ <end-paragraph/>
2079
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029010"/>
2080
+ <begin-paragraph/>
2081
+ <verse num="10"><q class="continue-double" qid="05029010.1" from="05029002.1" to="05030020.1"/>You are standing today, all of you, before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God: the heads of your tribes,<note nid="n05029010.1"/> your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,</verse>
2082
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029011"/>
2083
+ <verse num="11">your little ones, your wives, and the <crossref let="m" cid="c05029011.1"/>sojourner who is in your camp, from <crossref let="n" cid="c05029011.2"/>the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water,</verse>
2084
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029012"/>
2085
+ <verse num="12">so that you may enter into the <crossref let="o" cid="c05029012.1"/>sworn covenant of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, which the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is making with you today,</verse>
2086
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029013"/>
2087
+ <verse num="13">that he may <crossref let="p" cid="c05029013.1"/>establish you today as his people, and that <crossref let="q" cid="c05029013.2"/>he may be your God, as he promised you, and <crossref let="r" cid="c05029013.3"/>as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.</verse>
2088
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029014"/>
2089
+ <verse num="14">It is not with you alone <crossref let="s" cid="c05029014.1"/>that I am making this sworn covenant,</verse>
2090
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029015"/>
2091
+ <verse num="15">but with whoever is standing here with us today before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God, <crossref let="t" cid="c05029015.1"/>and with whoever is not here with us today.</verse>
2092
+ <end-paragraph/>
2093
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029016"/>
2094
+ <begin-paragraph/>
2095
+ <verse num="16"><q class="continue-double" qid="05029016.1" from="05029002.1" to="05030020.1"/>You know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed.</verse>
2096
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029017"/>
2097
+ <verse num="17">And you have seen their detestable things, their idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were among them.</verse>
2098
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029018"/>
2099
+ <verse num="18">Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you <crossref let="u" cid="c05029018.1"/>a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit,</verse>
2100
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029019"/>
2101
+ <verse num="19">one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, <q class="begin-single" qid="05029019.1" from="05029019.1" to="05029019.2"/>I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.<q class="end-single" qid="05029019.2" from="05029019.1" to="05029019.2"/> This will lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike.</verse>
2102
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029020"/>
2103
+ <verse num="20">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will not be willing to forgive him, but rather <crossref let="v" cid="c05029020.1"/>the anger of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and <crossref let="w" cid="c05029020.2"/>his jealousy will smoke against that man, and the curses written in this book will settle upon him, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="x" cid="c05029020.3"/>will blot out his name from under heaven.</verse>
2104
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029021"/>
2105
+ <verse num="21">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will single him out from all the tribes of Israel for calamity, in accordance with all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.</verse>
2106
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029022"/>
2107
+ <verse num="22">And the next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, <crossref let="y" cid="c05029022.1"/>will say, when they see the afflictions of that land and the sicknesses with which the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has made it sick&emdash;</verse>
2108
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029023"/>
2109
+ <verse num="23">the whole land burned out with brimstone and <crossref let="z" cid="c05029023.1"/>salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, <crossref let="a" cid="c05029023.2"/>an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, <crossref let="b" cid="c05029023.3"/>Admah, and Zeboiim, which the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> overthrew in his anger and wrath&emdash;</verse>
2110
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029024"/>
2111
+ <verse num="24">all the nations <crossref let="c" cid="c05029024.1"/>will say, <crossref let="d" cid="c05029024.2"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05029024.1" from="05029024.1" to="05029024.2"/>Why has the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?<q class="end-single" qid="05029024.2" from="05029024.1" to="05029024.2"/></verse>
2112
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029025"/>
2113
+ <verse num="25">Then people will say, <q class="begin-single" qid="05029025.1" from="05029025.1" to="05029028.1"/>It is because they abandoned the covenant of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,</verse>
2114
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029026"/>
2115
+ <verse num="26">and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them.</verse>
2116
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029027"/>
2117
+ <verse num="27">Therefore the anger of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was kindled against this land, <crossref let="e" cid="c05029027.1"/>bringing upon it all the curses written in this book,</verse>
2118
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029028"/>
2119
+ <verse num="28">and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="f" cid="c05029028.1"/>uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and <crossref let="g" cid="c05029028.2"/>cast them into another land, as they are this day.<q class="end-single" qid="05029028.1" from="05029025.1" to="05029028.1"/></verse>
2120
+ <end-paragraph/>
2121
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05029029"/>
2122
+ <begin-paragraph/>
2123
+ <verse num="29"><q class="continue-double" qid="05029029.1" from="05029002.1" to="05030020.1"/>The secret things belong to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.</verse>
2124
+ <end-paragraph/>
2125
+ </chapter>
2126
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05030001"/>
2127
+ <chapter num="30">
2128
+ <heading>Repentance and Forgiveness</heading>
2129
+ <begin-paragraph/>
2130
+ <verse num="1"><crossref let="h" cid="c05030001.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05030001.1" from="05029002.1" to="05030020.1"/>And <crossref let="i" cid="c05030001.2"/>when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and <crossref let="j" cid="c05030001.3"/>you call them to mind among all the nations where the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has driven you,</verse>
2131
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05030002"/>
2132
+ <verse num="2">and <crossref let="k" cid="c05030002.1"/>return to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul,</verse>
2133
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05030003"/>
2134
+ <verse num="3">then the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God <crossref let="l" cid="c05030003.1"/>will restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will <crossref let="m" cid="c05030003.2"/>gather you again from all the peoples where the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has scattered you.</verse>
2135
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05030004"/>
2136
+ <verse num="4"><crossref let="n" cid="c05030004.1"/>If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will gather you, and from there he will take you.</verse>
2137
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05030005"/>
2138
+ <verse num="5">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will bring you into the land that your fathers possessed, that you may possess it. <crossref let="o" cid="c05030005.1"/>And he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers.</verse>
2139
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05030006"/>
2140
+ <verse num="6">And <crossref let="p" cid="c05030006.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, <crossref let="q" cid="c05030006.2"/>so that you will love the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.</verse>
2141
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05030007"/>
2142
+ <verse num="7">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will put all these curses on your foes and enemies who persecuted you.</verse>
2143
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05030008"/>
2144
+ <verse num="8">And you shall again obey the voice of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and keep all his commandments that I command you today.</verse>
2145
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05030009"/>
2146
+ <verse num="9"><crossref let="r" cid="c05030009.1"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground. <crossref let="s" cid="c05030009.2"/>For the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers,</verse>
2147
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05030010"/>
2148
+ <verse num="10">when you obey the voice of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, when you turn to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God with all your heart and with all your soul.</verse>
2149
+ <end-paragraph/>
2150
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05030011"/>
2151
+ <heading>The Choice of Life and Death</heading>
2152
+ <begin-paragraph/>
2153
+ <verse num="11"><q class="continue-double" qid="05030011.1" from="05029002.1" to="05030020.1"/>For this commandment that I command you today <crossref let="t" cid="c05030011.1"/>is not too hard for you, neither is it far off.</verse>
2154
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05030012"/>
2155
+ <verse num="12"><crossref let="u" cid="c05030012.1"/>It is not in heaven, that you should say, <q class="begin-single" qid="05030012.1" from="05030012.1" to="05030012.2"/>Who will ascend to heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?<q class="end-single" qid="05030012.2" from="05030012.1" to="05030012.2"/></verse>
2156
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05030013"/>
2157
+ <verse num="13">Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, <q class="begin-single" qid="05030013.1" from="05030013.1" to="05030013.2"/>Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?<q class="end-single" qid="05030013.2" from="05030013.1" to="05030013.2"/></verse>
2158
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05030014"/>
2159
+ <verse num="14">But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it.</verse>
2160
+ <end-paragraph/>
2161
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05030015"/>
2162
+ <begin-paragraph/>
2163
+ <verse num="15"><q class="continue-double" qid="05030015.1" from="05029002.1" to="05030020.1"/>See, <crossref let="v" cid="c05030015.1"/>I have set before you today life and good, death and evil.</verse>
2164
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05030016"/>
2165
+ <verse num="16">If you obey the commandments of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God<note nid="n05030016.1"/> that I command you today, <crossref let="w" cid="c05030016.1"/>by loving the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules,<note nid="n05030016.2"/> then you shall live and multiply, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.</verse>
2166
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05030017"/>
2167
+ <verse num="17">But if <crossref let="x" cid="c05030017.1"/>your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them,</verse>
2168
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05030018"/>
2169
+ <verse num="18"><crossref let="y" cid="c05030018.1"/>I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess.</verse>
2170
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05030019"/>
2171
+ <verse num="19">I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, <crossref let="z" cid="c05030019.1"/>blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,</verse>
2172
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05030020"/>
2173
+ <verse num="20">loving the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, obeying his voice <crossref let="a" cid="c05030020.1"/>and holding fast to him, for <crossref let="b" cid="c05030020.2"/>he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in <crossref let="c" cid="c05030020.3"/>the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.<q class="end-double" qid="05030020.1" from="05029002.1" to="05030020.1"/></verse>
2174
+ <end-paragraph/>
2175
+ </chapter>
2176
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031001"/>
2177
+ <chapter num="31">
2178
+ <heading>Joshua to Succeed Moses</heading>
2179
+ <begin-paragraph/>
2180
+ <verse num="1">So Moses continued to speak these words to all Israel.</verse>
2181
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031002"/>
2182
+ <verse num="2">And he said to them, <q class="begin-double" qid="05031002.1" from="05031002.1" to="05031006.1"/>I am <crossref let="d" cid="c05031002.1"/>120 years old today. I am no longer able to <crossref let="e" cid="c05031002.2"/>go out and come in. The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has said to me, <crossref let="f" cid="c05031002.3"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05031002.2" from="05031002.2" to="05031002.3"/>You shall not go over this Jordan.<q class="end-single" qid="05031002.3" from="05031002.2" to="05031002.3"/></verse>
2183
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031003"/>
2184
+ <verse num="3">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God <crossref let="g" cid="c05031003.1"/>himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, <crossref let="h" cid="c05031003.2"/>as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has spoken.</verse>
2185
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031004"/>
2186
+ <verse num="4">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will do to them <crossref let="i" cid="c05031004.1"/>as he did to Sihon <crossref let="j" cid="c05031004.2"/>and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when he destroyed them.</verse>
2187
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031005"/>
2188
+ <verse num="5">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will give them over to you, and you shall do to them <crossref let="k" cid="c05031005.1"/>according to the whole commandment that I have commanded you.</verse>
2189
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031006"/>
2190
+ <verse num="6"><crossref let="l" cid="c05031006.1"/>Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, <crossref let="m" cid="c05031006.2"/>for it is the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God who goes with you. <crossref let="n" cid="c05031006.3"/>He will not leave you or forsake you.<q class="end-double" qid="05031006.1" from="05031002.1" to="05031006.1"/></verse>
2191
+ <end-paragraph/>
2192
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031007"/>
2193
+ <begin-paragraph/>
2194
+ <verse num="7">Then <crossref let="o" cid="c05031007.1"/>Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, <crossref let="l" cid="c05031007.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="05031007.1" from="05031007.1" to="05031008.1"/>Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall put them in possession of it.</verse>
2195
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031008"/>
2196
+ <verse num="8">It is the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="p" cid="c05031008.1"/>who goes before you. He will be with you; <crossref let="n" cid="c05031008.2"/>he will not leave you or forsake you. <crossref let="q" cid="c05031008.3"/>Do not fear or be dismayed.<q class="end-double" qid="05031008.1" from="05031007.1" to="05031008.1"/></verse>
2197
+ <end-paragraph/>
2198
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031009"/>
2199
+ <heading>The Reading of the Law</heading>
2200
+ <begin-paragraph/>
2201
+ <verse num="9">Then Moses <crossref let="r" cid="c05031009.1"/>wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, <crossref let="s" cid="c05031009.2"/>who carried the ark of the covenant of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and to all the elders of Israel.</verse>
2202
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031010"/>
2203
+ <verse num="10">And Moses commanded them, <crossref let="t" cid="c05031010.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="05031010.1" from="05031010.1" to="05031013.1"/>At the end of every seven years, at the set time in the year of release, at <crossref let="u" cid="c05031010.2"/>the Feast of Booths,</verse>
2204
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031011"/>
2205
+ <verse num="11">when all Israel comes <crossref let="v" cid="c05031011.1"/>to appear before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God at the place that he will choose, <crossref let="w" cid="c05031011.2"/>you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.</verse>
2206
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031012"/>
2207
+ <verse num="12"><crossref let="x" cid="c05031012.1"/>Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law,</verse>
2208
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031013"/>
2209
+ <verse num="13">and that their children, <crossref let="y" cid="c05031013.1"/>who have not known it, <crossref let="z" cid="c05031013.2"/>may hear and learn to fear the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, <crossref let="a" cid="c05031013.3"/>as long as you live in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.<q class="end-double" qid="05031013.1" from="05031010.1" to="05031013.1"/></verse>
2210
+ <end-paragraph/>
2211
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031014"/>
2212
+ <heading>Joshua Commissioned to Lead Israel</heading>
2213
+ <begin-paragraph/>
2214
+ <verse num="14">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Moses, <crossref let="b" cid="c05031014.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="05031014.1" from="05031014.1" to="05031014.2"/>Behold, the days approach when you must die. Call Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that <crossref let="c" cid="c05031014.2"/>I may commission him.<q class="end-double" qid="05031014.2" from="05031014.1" to="05031014.2"/> And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.</verse>
2215
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031015"/>
2216
+ <verse num="15">And <crossref let="d" cid="c05031015.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud. And the pillar of cloud stood over the entrance of the tent.</verse>
2217
+ <end-paragraph/>
2218
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031016"/>
2219
+ <begin-paragraph/>
2220
+ <verse num="16">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Moses, <crossref let="b" cid="c05031016.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="05031016.1" from="05031016.1" to="05031021.1"/>Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and <crossref let="e" cid="c05031016.2"/>whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will <crossref let="f" cid="c05031016.3"/>forsake me and <crossref let="g" cid="c05031016.4"/>break my covenant that I have made with them.</verse>
2221
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031017"/>
2222
+ <verse num="17">Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and <crossref let="h" cid="c05031017.1"/>I will forsake them and <crossref let="i" cid="c05031017.2"/>hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, <crossref let="j" cid="c05031017.3"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05031017.1" from="05031017.1" to="05031017.2"/>Have not these evils come upon us because <crossref let="k" cid="c05031017.4"/>our God is not among us?<q class="end-single" qid="05031017.2" from="05031017.1" to="05031017.2"/></verse>
2223
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031018"/>
2224
+ <verse num="18">And I will surely hide my face in that day because of all the evil that they have done, because <crossref let="l" cid="c05031018.1"/>they have turned to other gods.</verse>
2225
+ <end-paragraph/>
2226
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031019"/>
2227
+ <begin-paragraph/>
2228
+ <verse num="19"><q class="continue-double" qid="05031019.1" from="05031016.1" to="05031021.1"/>Now therefore write <crossref let="m" cid="c05031019.1"/>this song and <crossref let="n" cid="c05031019.2"/>teach it to the people of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be <crossref let="o" cid="c05031019.3"/>a witness for me against the people of Israel.</verse>
2229
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031020"/>
2230
+ <verse num="20">For when I have brought them into the land <crossref let="p" cid="c05031020.1"/>flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to give to their fathers, and they have eaten and are full and <crossref let="q" cid="c05031020.2"/>grown fat, <crossref let="r" cid="c05031020.3"/>they will turn to other gods and serve them, and <crossref let="s" cid="c05031020.4"/>despise me and <crossref let="g" cid="c05031020.5"/>break my covenant.</verse>
2231
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031021"/>
2232
+ <verse num="21">And when many evils and troubles have come upon them, this song shall confront them as <crossref let="t" cid="c05031021.1"/>a witness (for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their offspring). For <crossref let="u" cid="c05031021.2"/>I know what they are inclined to do even today, before I have brought them into the land that I swore to give.<q class="end-double" qid="05031021.1" from="05031016.1" to="05031021.1"/></verse>
2233
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031022"/>
2234
+ <verse num="22">So Moses wrote this song the same day and taught it to the people of Israel.</verse>
2235
+ <end-paragraph/>
2236
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031023"/>
2237
+ <begin-paragraph/>
2238
+ <verse num="23"><crossref let="v" cid="c05031023.1"/>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span><note nid="n05031023.1"/> commissioned Joshua the son of Nun and said, <crossref let="w" cid="c05031023.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="05031023.1" from="05031023.1" to="05031023.2"/>Be strong and courageous, for you shall bring the people of Israel into the land that I swore to give them. <crossref let="x" cid="c05031023.3"/>I will be with you.<q class="end-double" qid="05031023.2" from="05031023.1" to="05031023.2"/></verse>
2239
+ <end-paragraph/>
2240
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031024"/>
2241
+ <begin-paragraph/>
2242
+ <verse num="24">When Moses had finished <crossref let="y" cid="c05031024.1"/>writing the words of this law in a book to the very end,</verse>
2243
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031025"/>
2244
+ <verse num="25">Moses commanded <crossref let="z" cid="c05031025.1"/>the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</verse>
2245
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031026"/>
2246
+ <verse num="26"><q class="begin-double" qid="05031026.1" from="05031026.1" to="05031029.1"/>Take this Book of the Law <crossref let="a" cid="c05031026.1"/>and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, that it may be there for <crossref let="b" cid="c05031026.2"/>a witness against you.</verse>
2247
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031027"/>
2248
+ <verse num="27">For I know how rebellious and <crossref let="c" cid="c05031027.1"/>stubborn you are. Behold, even today while I am yet alive with you, <crossref let="d" cid="c05031027.2"/>you have been rebellious against the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. How much more after my death!</verse>
2249
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031028"/>
2250
+ <verse num="28">Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak <crossref let="e" cid="c05031028.1"/>these words in their ears and <crossref let="f" cid="c05031028.2"/>call heaven and earth to witness against them.</verse>
2251
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031029"/>
2252
+ <verse num="29">For I know that after my death <crossref let="g" cid="c05031029.1"/>you will surely act corruptly and turn aside from the way that I have commanded you. And <crossref let="h" cid="c05031029.2"/>in the days to come <crossref let="i" cid="c05031029.3"/>evil will befall you, because you will do what is evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="j" cid="c05031029.4"/>provoking him to anger through the work of your hands.<q class="end-double" qid="05031029.1" from="05031026.1" to="05031029.1"/></verse>
2253
+ <end-paragraph/>
2254
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05031030"/>
2255
+ <heading>The Song of Moses</heading>
2256
+ <begin-paragraph/>
2257
+ <verse num="30">Then Moses spoke the words of this song until they were finished, in the ears of all the assembly of Israel:</verse>
2258
+ <end-paragraph/>
2259
+ </chapter>
2260
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032001"/>
2261
+ <chapter num="32">
2262
+ <begin-block-indent/>
2263
+ <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
2264
+ <verse num="1">
2265
+ <begin-line/><q class="begin-double" qid="05032001.1" from="05032001.1" to="05032043.2"/>Give ear, <crossref let="k" cid="c05032001.1"/>O heavens, and I will speak,<end-line class="br"/>
2266
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and let <crossref let="l" cid="c05032001.2"/>the earth hear the words of my mouth.<end-line class="br"/>
2267
+ </verse>
2268
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032002"/>
2269
+ <verse num="2">
2270
+ <begin-line/>May <crossref let="m" cid="c05032002.1"/>my teaching drop as the rain,<end-line class="br"/>
2271
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>my speech distill as the dew,<end-line class="br"/>
2272
+ <begin-line/>like gentle rain upon the tender grass,<end-line class="br"/>
2273
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and <crossref let="n" cid="c05032002.2"/>like showers upon the herb.<end-line class="br"/>
2274
+ </verse>
2275
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032003"/>
2276
+ <verse num="3">
2277
+ <begin-line/>For I will proclaim the name of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>;<end-line class="br"/>
2278
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>ascribe <crossref let="o" cid="c05032003.1"/>greatness to our God!<end-line/>
2279
+ </verse>
2280
+ <end-paragraph/>
2281
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032004"/>
2282
+ <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
2283
+ <verse num="4">
2284
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="p" cid="c05032004.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05032004.1" from="05032001.1" to="05032043.2"/>The Rock, <crossref let="q" cid="c05032004.2"/>his work is perfect,<end-line class="br"/>
2285
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>for <crossref let="r" cid="c05032004.3"/>all his ways are justice.<end-line class="br"/>
2286
+ <begin-line/>A God of faithfulness and <crossref let="s" cid="c05032004.4"/>without iniquity,<end-line class="br"/>
2287
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>just and upright is he.<end-line class="br"/>
2288
+ </verse>
2289
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032005"/>
2290
+ <verse num="5">
2291
+ <begin-line/>They have dealt corruptly with him;<end-line class="br"/>
2292
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>they are no longer his children <crossref let="t" cid="c05032005.1"/>because they are blemished;<end-line class="br"/>
2293
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>they are <crossref let="u" cid="c05032005.2"/>a crooked and twisted generation.<end-line class="br"/>
2294
+ </verse>
2295
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032006"/>
2296
+ <verse num="6">
2297
+ <begin-line/>Do you thus repay the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,<end-line class="br"/>
2298
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>you foolish and senseless people?<end-line class="br"/>
2299
+ <begin-line/>Is not he <crossref let="v" cid="c05032006.1"/>your father, who <crossref let="w" cid="c05032006.2"/>created you,<end-line class="br"/>
2300
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>who <crossref let="x" cid="c05032006.3"/>made you and established you?<end-line class="br"/>
2301
+ </verse>
2302
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032007"/>
2303
+ <verse num="7">
2304
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="y" cid="c05032007.1"/>Remember the days of old;<end-line class="br"/>
2305
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>consider the years of many generations;<end-line class="br"/>
2306
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="z" cid="c05032007.2"/>ask your father, and he will show you,<end-line class="br"/>
2307
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>your elders, and they will tell you.<end-line class="br"/>
2308
+ </verse>
2309
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032008"/>
2310
+ <verse num="8">
2311
+ <begin-line/>When the Most High <crossref let="a" cid="c05032008.1"/>gave to the nations their inheritance,<end-line class="br"/>
2312
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>when he <crossref let="b" cid="c05032008.2"/>divided mankind,<end-line class="br"/>
2313
+ <begin-line/>he fixed the borders<note nid="n05032008.1"/> of the peoples<end-line class="br"/>
2314
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>according to the number of the sons of God.<note nid="n05032008.2"/><end-line class="br"/>
2315
+ </verse>
2316
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032009"/>
2317
+ <verse num="9">
2318
+ <begin-line/>But the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>&apos;s portion is his people,<end-line class="br"/>
2319
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>Jacob his allotted heritage.<end-line/>
2320
+ </verse>
2321
+ <end-paragraph/>
2322
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032010"/>
2323
+ <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
2324
+ <verse num="10">
2325
+ <begin-line/><q class="continue-double" qid="05032010.1" from="05032001.1" to="05032043.2"/>He found him <crossref let="c" cid="c05032010.1"/>in a desert land,<end-line class="br"/>
2326
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and in the howling waste of the wilderness;<end-line class="br"/>
2327
+ <begin-line/>he <crossref let="d" cid="c05032010.2"/>encircled him, he cared for him,<end-line class="br"/>
2328
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>he <crossref let="e" cid="c05032010.3"/>kept him as the apple of his eye.<end-line class="br"/>
2329
+ </verse>
2330
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032011"/>
2331
+ <verse num="11">
2332
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="f" cid="c05032011.1"/>Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,<end-line class="br"/>
2333
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>that flutters over its young,<end-line class="br"/>
2334
+ <begin-line/>spreading out its wings, catching them,<end-line class="br"/>
2335
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>bearing them on its pinions,<end-line class="br"/>
2336
+ </verse>
2337
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032012"/>
2338
+ <verse num="12">
2339
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="g" cid="c05032012.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> alone guided him,<end-line class="br"/>
2340
+ <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="h" cid="c05032012.2"/>no foreign god was with him.<end-line class="br"/>
2341
+ </verse>
2342
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032013"/>
2343
+ <verse num="13">
2344
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="i" cid="c05032013.1"/>He made him ride on the high places of the land,<end-line class="br"/>
2345
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and he ate the produce of the field,<end-line class="br"/>
2346
+ <begin-line/>and he suckled him with <crossref let="j" cid="c05032013.2"/>honey out of the rock,<end-line class="br"/>
2347
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and <crossref let="k" cid="c05032013.3"/>oil out of <crossref let="l" cid="c05032013.4"/>the flinty rock.<end-line class="br"/>
2348
+ </verse>
2349
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032014"/>
2350
+ <verse num="14">
2351
+ <begin-line/>Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock,<end-line class="br"/>
2352
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>with fat<note nid="n05032014.1"/> of lambs,<end-line class="br"/>
2353
+ <begin-line/>rams of Bashan and goats,<end-line class="br"/>
2354
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>with the very finest<note nid="n05032014.2"/> of the wheat&emdash;<end-line class="br"/>
2355
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and you drank foaming wine made from <crossref let="m" cid="c05032014.1"/>the blood of the grape.<end-line/>
2356
+ </verse>
2357
+ <end-paragraph/>
2358
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032015"/>
2359
+ <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
2360
+ <verse num="15">
2361
+ <begin-line/><q class="continue-double" qid="05032015.1" from="05032001.1" to="05032043.2"/>But <crossref let="n" cid="c05032015.1"/>Jeshurun grew fat, and <crossref let="o" cid="c05032015.2"/>kicked;<end-line class="br"/>
2362
+ <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="p" cid="c05032015.3"/>you grew fat, stout, and sleek;<end-line class="br"/>
2363
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="q" cid="c05032015.4"/>then he forsook God <crossref let="r" cid="c05032015.5"/>who made him<end-line class="br"/>
2364
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and scoffed at <crossref let="s" cid="c05032015.6"/>the Rock of his salvation.<end-line class="br"/>
2365
+ </verse>
2366
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032016"/>
2367
+ <verse num="16">
2368
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="t" cid="c05032016.1"/>They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;<end-line class="br"/>
2369
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>with abominations they provoked him to anger.<end-line class="br"/>
2370
+ </verse>
2371
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032017"/>
2372
+ <verse num="17">
2373
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="u" cid="c05032017.1"/>They sacrificed to demons that were no gods,<end-line class="br"/>
2374
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>to gods they had never known,<end-line class="br"/>
2375
+ <begin-line/>to <crossref let="v" cid="c05032017.2"/>new gods that had come recently,<end-line class="br"/>
2376
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>whom your fathers had never dreaded.<end-line class="br"/>
2377
+ </verse>
2378
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032018"/>
2379
+ <verse num="18">
2380
+ <begin-line/>You were unmindful of <crossref let="w" cid="c05032018.1"/>the Rock that bore<note nid="n05032018.1"/> you,<end-line class="br"/>
2381
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and you <crossref let="x" cid="c05032018.2"/>forgot the God who gave you birth.<end-line/>
2382
+ </verse>
2383
+ <end-paragraph/>
2384
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032019"/>
2385
+ <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
2386
+ <verse num="19">
2387
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="y" cid="c05032019.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05032019.1" from="05032001.1" to="05032043.2"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> saw it and spurned them,<end-line class="br"/>
2388
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>because of the provocation of <crossref let="z" cid="c05032019.2"/>his sons and his daughters.<end-line class="br"/>
2389
+ </verse>
2390
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032020"/>
2391
+ <verse num="20">
2392
+ <begin-line/>And he said, <crossref let="a" cid="c05032020.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05032020.1" from="05032020.1" to="05032027.3"/>I will hide my face from them;<end-line class="br"/>
2393
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>I will see what their end will be,<end-line class="br"/>
2394
+ <begin-line/>for they are a perverse generation,<end-line class="br"/>
2395
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>children in whom is no faithfulness.<end-line class="br"/>
2396
+ </verse>
2397
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032021"/>
2398
+ <verse num="21">
2399
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="b" cid="c05032021.1"/>They have made me jealous with what is no god;<end-line class="br"/>
2400
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>they have provoked me to anger <crossref let="c" cid="c05032021.2"/>with their idols.<end-line class="br"/>
2401
+ <begin-line/>So <crossref let="d" cid="c05032021.3"/>I will make them jealous with those who are no people;<end-line class="br"/>
2402
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>I will provoke them to anger with <crossref let="e" cid="c05032021.4"/>a foolish nation.<end-line class="br"/>
2403
+ </verse>
2404
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032022"/>
2405
+ <verse num="22">
2406
+ <begin-line/>For <crossref let="f" cid="c05032022.1"/>a fire is kindled by my anger,<end-line class="br"/>
2407
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and it burns to <crossref let="g" cid="c05032022.2"/>the depths of Sheol,<end-line class="br"/>
2408
+ <begin-line/>devours the earth and its increase,<end-line class="br"/>
2409
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.<end-line/>
2410
+ </verse>
2411
+ <end-paragraph/>
2412
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032023"/>
2413
+ <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
2414
+ <verse num="23">
2415
+ <begin-line/><q class="continue-double" qid="05032023.1" from="05032001.1" to="05032043.2"/><q class="continue-single" qid="05032023.2" from="05032020.1" to="05032027.3"/>And I will heap disasters upon them;<end-line class="br"/>
2416
+ <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="h" cid="c05032023.1"/>I will spend my arrows on them;<end-line class="br"/>
2417
+ </verse>
2418
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032024"/>
2419
+ <verse num="24">
2420
+ <begin-line/>they shall be wasted with hunger,<end-line class="br"/>
2421
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and devoured by plague<end-line class="br"/>
2422
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and poisonous pestilence;<end-line class="br"/>
2423
+ <begin-line/>I will send <crossref let="i" cid="c05032024.1"/>the teeth of beasts against them,<end-line class="br"/>
2424
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>with the venom of <crossref let="j" cid="c05032024.2"/>things that crawl in the dust.<end-line class="br"/>
2425
+ </verse>
2426
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032025"/>
2427
+ <verse num="25">
2428
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="k" cid="c05032025.1"/>Outdoors the sword shall bereave,<end-line class="br"/>
2429
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and indoors terror,<end-line class="br"/>
2430
+ <begin-line/>for young man and woman alike,<end-line class="br"/>
2431
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.<end-line class="br"/>
2432
+ </verse>
2433
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032026"/>
2434
+ <verse num="26">
2435
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="l" cid="c05032026.1"/>I would have said, <q class="begin-inner-double" qid="05032026.1" from="05032026.1" to="05032026.2"/>I will cut them to pieces;<end-line class="br"/>
2436
+ <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="m" cid="c05032026.2"/>I will wipe them from human memory,<q class="end-inner-double" qid="05032026.2" from="05032026.1" to="05032026.2"/><end-line class="br"/>
2437
+ </verse>
2438
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032027"/>
2439
+ <verse num="27">
2440
+ <begin-line/>had I not feared provocation by the enemy,<end-line class="br"/>
2441
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>lest their adversaries should misunderstand,<end-line class="br"/>
2442
+ <begin-line/>lest they should say, <crossref let="n" cid="c05032027.1"/><q class="begin-inner-double" qid="05032027.1" from="05032027.1" to="05032027.2"/>Our hand is triumphant,<end-line class="br"/>
2443
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>it was not the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> who did all this.<q class="end-inner-double" qid="05032027.2" from="05032027.1" to="05032027.2"/><q class="end-single" qid="05032027.3" from="05032020.1" to="05032027.3"/><end-line/>
2444
+ </verse>
2445
+ <end-paragraph/>
2446
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032028"/>
2447
+ <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
2448
+ <verse num="28">
2449
+ <begin-line/><q class="continue-double" qid="05032028.1" from="05032001.1" to="05032043.2"/>For they are a nation void of counsel,<end-line class="br"/>
2450
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and there is <crossref let="o" cid="c05032028.1"/>no understanding in them.<end-line class="br"/>
2451
+ </verse>
2452
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032029"/>
2453
+ <verse num="29">
2454
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="p" cid="c05032029.1"/>If they were wise, they would understand this;<end-line class="br"/>
2455
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>they would <crossref let="q" cid="c05032029.2"/>discern their latter end!<end-line class="br"/>
2456
+ </verse>
2457
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032030"/>
2458
+ <verse num="30">
2459
+ <begin-line/>How could <crossref let="r" cid="c05032030.1"/>one have chased a thousand,<end-line class="br"/>
2460
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and two have put ten thousand to flight,<end-line class="br"/>
2461
+ <begin-line/>unless their Rock <crossref let="s" cid="c05032030.2"/>had sold them,<end-line class="br"/>
2462
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had given them up?<end-line class="br"/>
2463
+ </verse>
2464
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032031"/>
2465
+ <verse num="31">
2466
+ <begin-line/>For <crossref let="t" cid="c05032031.1"/>their rock is not as our Rock;<end-line class="br"/>
2467
+ <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="u" cid="c05032031.2"/>our enemies are by themselves.<end-line class="br"/>
2468
+ </verse>
2469
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032032"/>
2470
+ <verse num="32">
2471
+ <begin-line/>For their vine <crossref let="v" cid="c05032032.1"/>comes from the vine of Sodom<end-line class="br"/>
2472
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and from the fields of Gomorrah;<end-line class="br"/>
2473
+ <begin-line/>their grapes are grapes of <crossref let="w" cid="c05032032.2"/>poison;<end-line class="br"/>
2474
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>their clusters are bitter;<end-line class="br"/>
2475
+ </verse>
2476
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032033"/>
2477
+ <verse num="33">
2478
+ <begin-line/>their wine is the poison of <crossref let="x" cid="c05032033.1"/>serpents<end-line class="br"/>
2479
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and the cruel venom of asps.<end-line/>
2480
+ </verse>
2481
+ <end-paragraph/>
2482
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032034"/>
2483
+ <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
2484
+ <verse num="34">
2485
+ <begin-line/><q class="continue-double" qid="05032034.1" from="05032001.1" to="05032043.2"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05032034.2" from="05032034.2" to="05032035.1"/>Is not this laid up in store with me,<end-line class="br"/>
2486
+ <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="y" cid="c05032034.1"/>sealed up in my treasuries?<end-line class="br"/>
2487
+ </verse>
2488
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032035"/>
2489
+ <verse num="35">
2490
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="z" cid="c05032035.1"/>Vengeance is mine, and recompense,<note nid="n05032035.1"/><end-line class="br"/>
2491
+ <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="a" cid="c05032035.2"/>for the time when their foot shall slip;<end-line class="br"/>
2492
+ <begin-line/>for <crossref let="b" cid="c05032035.3"/>the day of their calamity is at hand,<end-line class="br"/>
2493
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and their doom comes swiftly.<q class="end-single" qid="05032035.1" from="05032034.2" to="05032035.1"/><end-line class="br"/>
2494
+ </verse>
2495
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032036"/>
2496
+ <verse num="36">
2497
+ <begin-line/>For <crossref let="c" cid="c05032036.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will vindicate<note nid="n05032036.1"/> his people<end-line class="br"/>
2498
+ <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="d" cid="c05032036.2"/>and have compassion on his servants,<end-line class="br"/>
2499
+ <begin-line/>when he sees that their power is gone<end-line class="br"/>
2500
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and there is none remaining, <crossref let="e" cid="c05032036.3"/>bond or free.<end-line class="br"/>
2501
+ </verse>
2502
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032037"/>
2503
+ <verse num="37">
2504
+ <begin-line/>Then he will say, <crossref let="f" cid="c05032037.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05032037.1" from="05032037.1" to="05032042.1"/>Where are their gods,<end-line class="br"/>
2505
+ <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="g" cid="c05032037.2"/>the rock in which they took refuge,<end-line class="br"/>
2506
+ </verse>
2507
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032038"/>
2508
+ <verse num="38">
2509
+ <begin-line/>who ate the fat of their sacrifices<end-line class="br"/>
2510
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and drank the wine of their drink offering?<end-line class="br"/>
2511
+ <begin-line/>Let them rise up and help you;<end-line class="br"/>
2512
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>let them be your protection!<end-line/>
2513
+ </verse>
2514
+ <end-paragraph/>
2515
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032039"/>
2516
+ <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
2517
+ <verse num="39">
2518
+ <begin-line/><q class="continue-double" qid="05032039.1" from="05032001.1" to="05032043.2"/><q class="continue-single" qid="05032039.2" from="05032037.1" to="05032042.1"/>See now that <crossref let="h" cid="c05032039.1"/>I, even I, am he,<end-line class="br"/>
2519
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and there is no god beside me;<end-line class="br"/>
2520
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="i" cid="c05032039.2"/>I kill and I make alive;<end-line class="br"/>
2521
+ <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="j" cid="c05032039.3"/>I wound and I heal;<end-line class="br"/>
2522
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.<end-line class="br"/>
2523
+ </verse>
2524
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032040"/>
2525
+ <verse num="40">
2526
+ <begin-line/>For <crossref let="k" cid="c05032040.1"/>I lift up my hand to heaven<end-line class="br"/>
2527
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and swear, As I live forever,<end-line class="br"/>
2528
+ </verse>
2529
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032041"/>
2530
+ <verse num="41">
2531
+ <begin-line/>if I <crossref let="l" cid="c05032041.1"/>sharpen my flashing sword<note nid="n05032041.1"/><end-line class="br"/>
2532
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and my hand takes hold on judgment,<end-line class="br"/>
2533
+ <begin-line/>I will take vengeance on my adversaries<end-line class="br"/>
2534
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and will repay those who hate me.<end-line class="br"/>
2535
+ </verse>
2536
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032042"/>
2537
+ <verse num="42">
2538
+ <begin-line/>I will make my arrows drunk with blood,<end-line class="br"/>
2539
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and <crossref let="m" cid="c05032042.1"/>my sword shall devour flesh&emdash;<end-line class="br"/>
2540
+ <begin-line/>with the blood of the slain and the captives,<end-line class="br"/>
2541
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>from the <crossref let="n" cid="c05032042.2"/>long-haired heads of the enemy.<q class="end-single" qid="05032042.1" from="05032037.1" to="05032042.1"/><end-line/>
2542
+ </verse>
2543
+ <end-paragraph/>
2544
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032043"/>
2545
+ <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
2546
+ <verse num="43">
2547
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="o" cid="c05032043.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05032043.1" from="05032001.1" to="05032043.2"/>Rejoice with him, O heavens;<note nid="n05032043.1"/><end-line class="br"/>
2548
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>bow down to him, all gods,<note nid="n05032043.2"/><end-line class="br"/>
2549
+ <begin-line/>for he <crossref let="p" cid="c05032043.2"/>avenges the blood of his children<note nid="n05032043.3"/><end-line class="br"/>
2550
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and takes vengeance on his adversaries.<end-line class="br"/>
2551
+ <begin-line/>He repays those who hate him<note nid="n05032043.4"/><end-line class="br"/>
2552
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and cleanses<note nid="n05032043.5"/> his people&apos;s land.<q class="end-double" qid="05032043.2" from="05032001.1" to="05032043.2"/><note nid="n05032043.6"/><end-line/>
2553
+ </verse>
2554
+ <end-paragraph/>
2555
+ <end-block-indent/>
2556
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032044"/>
2557
+ <begin-paragraph/>
2558
+ <verse num="44">Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and <crossref let="q" cid="c05032044.1"/>Joshua<note nid="n05032044.1"/> the son of Nun.</verse>
2559
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032045"/>
2560
+ <verse num="45">And when Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel,</verse>
2561
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032046"/>
2562
+ <verse num="46">he said to them, <crossref let="r" cid="c05032046.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="05032046.1" from="05032046.1" to="05032047.1"/>Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, <crossref let="s" cid="c05032046.2"/>that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law.</verse>
2563
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032047"/>
2564
+ <verse num="47">For it is no empty word for you, <crossref let="t" cid="c05032047.1"/>but your very life, and by this word you shall live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.<q class="end-double" qid="05032047.1" from="05032046.1" to="05032047.1"/></verse>
2565
+ <end-paragraph/>
2566
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032048"/>
2567
+ <heading>Moses&apos; Death Foretold</heading>
2568
+ <begin-paragraph/>
2569
+ <verse num="48">That very day the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> spoke to Moses,</verse>
2570
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032049"/>
2571
+ <verse num="49"><q class="begin-double" qid="05032049.1" from="05032049.1" to="05032052.1"/>Go up <crossref let="u" cid="c05032049.1"/>this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel for a possession.</verse>
2572
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032050"/>
2573
+ <verse num="50">And die on the mountain which you go up, and be gathered to your people, as <crossref let="v" cid="c05032050.1"/>Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people,</verse>
2574
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032051"/>
2575
+ <verse num="51"><crossref let="w" cid="c05032051.1"/>because you broke faith with me in the midst of the people of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, and because you did not treat me as holy in the midst of the people of Israel.</verse>
2576
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05032052"/>
2577
+ <verse num="52">For <crossref let="x" cid="c05032052.1"/>you shall see the land before you, but you shall not go there, into the land that I am giving to the people of Israel.<q class="end-double" qid="05032052.1" from="05032049.1" to="05032052.1"/></verse>
2578
+ <end-paragraph/>
2579
+ </chapter>
2580
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033001"/>
2581
+ <chapter num="33">
2582
+ <heading>Moses&apos; Final Blessing on Israel</heading>
2583
+ <begin-paragraph/>
2584
+ <verse num="1">This is the blessing with which Moses <crossref let="y" cid="c05033001.1"/>the man of God blessed the people of Israel before his death.</verse>
2585
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033002"/>
2586
+ <verse num="2">He said,
2587
+ <end-paragraph/>
2588
+ <begin-block-indent/>
2589
+ <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
2590
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="z" cid="c05033002.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="05033002.1" from="05033002.1" to="05033006.2"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came from Sinai<end-line class="br"/>
2591
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and dawned from Seir upon us;<note nid="n05033002.1"/><end-line class="br"/>
2592
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>he shone forth from Mount Paran;<end-line class="br"/>
2593
+ <begin-line/>he came <crossref let="a" cid="c05033002.2"/>from the ten thousands of holy ones,<end-line class="br"/>
2594
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>with flaming fire<note nid="n05033002.2"/> at his right hand.<end-line class="br"/>
2595
+ </verse>
2596
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033003"/>
2597
+ <verse num="3">
2598
+ <begin-line/>Yes, <crossref let="b" cid="c05033003.1"/>he loved his people,<note nid="n05033003.1"/><end-line class="br"/>
2599
+ <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="c" cid="c05033003.2"/>all his holy ones were in his<note nid="n05033003.2"/> hand;<end-line class="br"/>
2600
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="d" cid="c05033003.3"/>so they followed<note nid="n05033003.3"/> in your steps,<end-line class="br"/>
2601
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>receiving direction from you,<end-line class="br"/>
2602
+ </verse>
2603
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033004"/>
2604
+ <verse num="4">
2605
+ <begin-line/>when <crossref let="e" cid="c05033004.1"/>Moses commanded us a law,<end-line class="br"/>
2606
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>as a possession for the assembly of Jacob.<end-line class="br"/>
2607
+ </verse>
2608
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033005"/>
2609
+ <verse num="5">
2610
+ <begin-line/>Thus the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span><note nid="n05033005.1"/> <crossref let="f" cid="c05033005.1"/>became king in <crossref let="g" cid="c05033005.2"/>Jeshurun,<end-line class="br"/>
2611
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>when the heads of the people were gathered,<end-line class="br"/>
2612
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>all the tribes of Israel together.<end-line/>
2613
+ </verse>
2614
+ <end-paragraph/>
2615
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033006"/>
2616
+ <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
2617
+ <verse num="6">
2618
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="h" cid="c05033006.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05033006.1" from="05033002.1" to="05033006.2"/>Let Reuben live, and not die,<end-line class="br"/>
2619
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>but let his men be few.<q class="end-double" qid="05033006.2" from="05033002.1" to="05033006.2"/><end-line/>
2620
+ </verse>
2621
+ <end-paragraph/>
2622
+ <end-block-indent/>
2623
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033007"/>
2624
+ <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>
2625
+ <verse num="7">And this he said of Judah:
2626
+ <end-paragraph/>
2627
+ <begin-block-indent/>
2628
+ <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
2629
+ <begin-line/><q class="begin-double" qid="05033007.1" from="05033007.1" to="05033007.2"/>Hear, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the voice of Judah,<end-line class="br"/>
2630
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and bring him in to his people.<end-line class="br"/>
2631
+ <begin-line/>With your hands contend<note nid="n05033007.1"/> for him,<end-line class="br"/>
2632
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and be a help against his adversaries.<q class="end-double" qid="05033007.2" from="05033007.1" to="05033007.2"/><end-line/>
2633
+ </verse>
2634
+ <end-paragraph/>
2635
+ <end-block-indent/>
2636
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033008"/>
2637
+ <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>
2638
+ <verse num="8">And <crossref let="i" cid="c05033008.1"/>of Levi he said,
2639
+ <end-paragraph/>
2640
+ <begin-block-indent/>
2641
+ <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
2642
+ <begin-line/><q class="begin-double" qid="05033008.1" from="05033008.1" to="05033011.1"/>Give to Levi<note nid="n05033008.1"/> <crossref let="j" cid="c05033008.2"/>your Thummim,<end-line class="br"/>
2643
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and your Urim to your godly one,<end-line class="br"/>
2644
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="k" cid="c05033008.3"/>whom you tested at Massah,<end-line class="br"/>
2645
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>with whom you quarreled at the waters of Meribah;<end-line class="br"/>
2646
+ </verse>
2647
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033009"/>
2648
+ <verse num="9">
2649
+ <begin-line/>who said of his father and mother,<end-line class="br"/>
2650
+ <begin-line class="indent"/><q class="begin-single" qid="05033009.1" from="05033009.1" to="05033009.2"/>I regard them not<q class="end-single" qid="05033009.2" from="05033009.1" to="05033009.2"/>;<end-line class="br"/>
2651
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="l" cid="c05033009.1"/>he disowned his brothers<end-line class="br"/>
2652
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and ignored his children.<end-line class="br"/>
2653
+ <begin-line/>For <crossref let="m" cid="c05033009.2"/>they observed your word<end-line class="br"/>
2654
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and kept your covenant.<end-line class="br"/>
2655
+ </verse>
2656
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033010"/>
2657
+ <verse num="10">
2658
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="n" cid="c05033010.1"/>They shall teach Jacob your rules<end-line class="br"/>
2659
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and Israel your law;<end-line class="br"/>
2660
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="o" cid="c05033010.2"/>they shall put incense before you<end-line class="br"/>
2661
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and <crossref let="p" cid="c05033010.3"/>whole burnt offerings on your altar.<end-line class="br"/>
2662
+ </verse>
2663
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033011"/>
2664
+ <verse num="11">
2665
+ <begin-line/>Bless, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, his substance,<end-line class="br"/>
2666
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and <crossref let="q" cid="c05033011.1"/>accept the work of his hands;<end-line class="br"/>
2667
+ <begin-line/>crush the loins of his adversaries,<end-line class="br"/>
2668
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>of those who hate him, that they rise not again.<q class="end-double" qid="05033011.1" from="05033008.1" to="05033011.1"/><end-line/>
2669
+ </verse>
2670
+ <end-paragraph/>
2671
+ <end-block-indent/>
2672
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033012"/>
2673
+ <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>
2674
+ <verse num="12"><crossref let="r" cid="c05033012.1"/>Of Benjamin he said,
2675
+ <end-paragraph/>
2676
+ <begin-block-indent/>
2677
+ <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
2678
+ <begin-line/><q class="begin-double" qid="05033012.1" from="05033012.1" to="05033012.2"/>The beloved of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> dwells in safety.<end-line class="br"/>
2679
+ <begin-line/>The High God<note nid="n05033012.1"/> surrounds him all day long,<end-line class="br"/>
2680
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and dwells between his shoulders.<q class="end-double" qid="05033012.2" from="05033012.1" to="05033012.2"/><end-line/>
2681
+ </verse>
2682
+ <end-paragraph/>
2683
+ <end-block-indent/>
2684
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033013"/>
2685
+ <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>
2686
+ <verse num="13">And <crossref let="s" cid="c05033013.1"/>of Joseph he said,
2687
+ <end-paragraph/>
2688
+ <begin-block-indent/>
2689
+ <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
2690
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="t" cid="c05033013.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="05033013.1" from="05033013.1" to="05033017.1"/>Blessed by the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> be his land,<end-line class="br"/>
2691
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>with the choicest gifts of heaven <crossref let="u" cid="c05033013.3"/>above,<note nid="n05033013.1"/><end-line class="br"/>
2692
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and of the deep that crouches beneath,<end-line class="br"/>
2693
+ </verse>
2694
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033014"/>
2695
+ <verse num="14">
2696
+ <begin-line/>with the choicest fruits of the sun<end-line class="br"/>
2697
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and the rich yield of the months,<end-line class="br"/>
2698
+ </verse>
2699
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033015"/>
2700
+ <verse num="15">
2701
+ <begin-line/>with the finest produce of the ancient mountains<end-line class="br"/>
2702
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and the abundance of <crossref let="v" cid="c05033015.1"/>the everlasting hills,<end-line class="br"/>
2703
+ </verse>
2704
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033016"/>
2705
+ <verse num="16">
2706
+ <begin-line/>with the best gifts of the earth and <crossref let="w" cid="c05033016.1"/>its fullness<end-line class="br"/>
2707
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and the favor of <crossref let="x" cid="c05033016.2"/>him who dwells in the bush.<end-line class="br"/>
2708
+ <begin-line/>May these rest on the head of Joseph,<end-line class="br"/>
2709
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>on the pate of him who is prince among his brothers.<end-line class="br"/>
2710
+ </verse>
2711
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033017"/>
2712
+ <verse num="17">
2713
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="y" cid="c05033017.1"/>A firstborn bull<note nid="n05033017.1"/>&emdash;he has majesty,<end-line class="br"/>
2714
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and his horns are the horns of a <crossref let="z" cid="c05033017.2"/>wild ox;<end-line class="br"/>
2715
+ <begin-line/>with them <crossref let="a" cid="c05033017.3"/>he shall gore the peoples,<end-line class="br"/>
2716
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>all of them, to the ends of the earth;<end-line class="br"/>
2717
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="b" cid="c05033017.4"/>they are the ten thousands of Ephraim,<end-line class="br"/>
2718
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and they are the thousands of Manasseh.<q class="end-double" qid="05033017.1" from="05033013.1" to="05033017.1"/><end-line/>
2719
+ </verse>
2720
+ <end-paragraph/>
2721
+ <end-block-indent/>
2722
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033018"/>
2723
+ <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>
2724
+ <verse num="18">And of Zebulun he said,
2725
+ <end-paragraph/>
2726
+ <begin-block-indent/>
2727
+ <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
2728
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="c" cid="c05033018.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="05033018.1" from="05033018.1" to="05033019.1"/>Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out,<end-line class="br"/>
2729
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and Issachar, in your tents.<end-line class="br"/>
2730
+ </verse>
2731
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033019"/>
2732
+ <verse num="19">
2733
+ <begin-line/>They shall call peoples <crossref let="d" cid="c05033019.1"/>to their mountain;<end-line class="br"/>
2734
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>there they offer <crossref let="e" cid="c05033019.2"/>right sacrifices;<end-line class="br"/>
2735
+ <begin-line/>for they draw from the abundance of the seas<end-line class="br"/>
2736
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and the hidden treasures of the sand.<q class="end-double" qid="05033019.1" from="05033018.1" to="05033019.1"/><end-line/>
2737
+ </verse>
2738
+ <end-paragraph/>
2739
+ <end-block-indent/>
2740
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033020"/>
2741
+ <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>
2742
+ <verse num="20">And <crossref let="f" cid="c05033020.1"/>of Gad he said,
2743
+ <end-paragraph/>
2744
+ <begin-block-indent/>
2745
+ <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
2746
+ <begin-line/><q class="begin-double" qid="05033020.1" from="05033020.1" to="05033021.1"/>Blessed be he who enlarges Gad!<end-line class="br"/>
2747
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>Gad crouches <crossref let="g" cid="c05033020.2"/>like a lion;<end-line class="br"/>
2748
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>he tears off arm and scalp.<end-line class="br"/>
2749
+ </verse>
2750
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033021"/>
2751
+ <verse num="21">
2752
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="h" cid="c05033021.1"/>He chose the best of the land for himself,<end-line class="br"/>
2753
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>for there a commander&apos;s portion was reserved;<end-line class="br"/>
2754
+ <begin-line/>and <crossref let="i" cid="c05033021.2"/>he came with the heads of the people,<end-line class="br"/>
2755
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>with Israel he executed the justice of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,<end-line class="br"/>
2756
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and his judgments for Israel.<q class="end-double" qid="05033021.1" from="05033020.1" to="05033021.1"/><end-line/>
2757
+ </verse>
2758
+ <end-paragraph/>
2759
+ <end-block-indent/>
2760
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033022"/>
2761
+ <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>
2762
+ <verse num="22">And <crossref let="j" cid="c05033022.1"/>of Dan he said,
2763
+ <end-paragraph/>
2764
+ <begin-block-indent/>
2765
+ <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
2766
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="k" cid="c05033022.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="05033022.1" from="05033022.1" to="05033022.2"/>Dan is a lion&apos;s cub<end-line class="br"/>
2767
+ <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="l" cid="c05033022.3"/>that leaps from Bashan.<q class="end-double" qid="05033022.2" from="05033022.1" to="05033022.2"/><end-line/>
2768
+ </verse>
2769
+ <end-paragraph/>
2770
+ <end-block-indent/>
2771
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033023"/>
2772
+ <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>
2773
+ <verse num="23">And <crossref let="m" cid="c05033023.1"/>of Naphtali he said,
2774
+ <end-paragraph/>
2775
+ <begin-block-indent/>
2776
+ <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
2777
+ <begin-line/><q class="begin-double" qid="05033023.1" from="05033023.1" to="05033023.2"/>O Naphtali, sated with favor,<end-line class="br"/>
2778
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and full of the blessing of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,<end-line class="br"/>
2779
+ <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="n" cid="c05033023.2"/>possess the lake<note nid="n05033023.1"/> and the south.<q class="end-double" qid="05033023.2" from="05033023.1" to="05033023.2"/><end-line/>
2780
+ </verse>
2781
+ <end-paragraph/>
2782
+ <end-block-indent/>
2783
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033024"/>
2784
+ <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>
2785
+ <verse num="24">And <crossref let="o" cid="c05033024.1"/>of Asher he said,
2786
+ <end-paragraph/>
2787
+ <begin-block-indent/>
2788
+ <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
2789
+ <begin-line/><q class="begin-double" qid="05033024.1" from="05033024.1" to="05033029.1"/>Most blessed of sons be Asher;<end-line class="br"/>
2790
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>let him be the favorite of his brothers,<end-line class="br"/>
2791
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and let him <crossref let="p" cid="c05033024.2"/>dip his foot in oil.<end-line class="br"/>
2792
+ </verse>
2793
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033025"/>
2794
+ <verse num="25">
2795
+ <begin-line/>Your bars shall be iron and bronze,<end-line class="br"/>
2796
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and as your days, so shall your strength be.<end-line/>
2797
+ </verse>
2798
+ <end-paragraph/>
2799
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033026"/>
2800
+ <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
2801
+ <verse num="26">
2802
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="q" cid="c05033026.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="05033026.1" from="05033024.1" to="05033029.1"/>There is none like God, O <crossref let="r" cid="c05033026.2"/>Jeshurun,<end-line class="br"/>
2803
+ <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="s" cid="c05033026.3"/>who rides through the heavens to your help,<end-line class="br"/>
2804
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>through the skies in his majesty.<end-line class="br"/>
2805
+ </verse>
2806
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033027"/>
2807
+ <verse num="27">
2808
+ <begin-line/>The eternal God is your <crossref let="t" cid="c05033027.1"/>dwelling place,<note nid="n05033027.1"/><end-line class="br"/>
2809
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and underneath are the everlasting arms.<note nid="n05033027.2"/><end-line class="br"/>
2810
+ <begin-line/>And he thrust out the enemy before you<end-line class="br"/>
2811
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and said, <q class="begin-single" qid="05033027.1" from="05033027.1" to="05033027.2"/>Destroy.<q class="end-single" qid="05033027.2" from="05033027.1" to="05033027.2"/><end-line class="br"/>
2812
+ </verse>
2813
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033028"/>
2814
+ <verse num="28">
2815
+ <begin-line/>So Israel lived in safety,<end-line class="br"/>
2816
+ <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="u" cid="c05033028.1"/>Jacob lived <crossref let="v" cid="c05033028.2"/>alone,<note nid="n05033028.1"/><end-line class="br"/>
2817
+ <begin-line/>in a land of grain and wine,<end-line class="br"/>
2818
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>whose heavens drop down dew.<end-line class="br"/>
2819
+ </verse>
2820
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05033029"/>
2821
+ <verse num="29">
2822
+ <begin-line/>Happy are you, O Israel! <crossref let="w" cid="c05033029.1"/>Who is like you,<end-line class="br"/>
2823
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>a people <crossref let="x" cid="c05033029.2"/>saved by the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,<end-line class="br"/>
2824
+ <begin-line/><crossref let="y" cid="c05033029.3"/>the shield of your help,<end-line class="br"/>
2825
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and the sword of your triumph!<end-line class="br"/>
2826
+ <begin-line/>Your enemies shall come fawning to you,<end-line class="br"/>
2827
+ <begin-line class="indent"/>and you shall tread upon their backs.<q class="end-double" qid="05033029.1" from="05033024.1" to="05033029.1"/><end-line/>
2828
+ </verse>
2829
+ <end-paragraph/>
2830
+ <end-block-indent/>
2831
+ </chapter>
2832
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05034001"/>
2833
+ <chapter num="34">
2834
+ <heading>The Death of Moses</heading>
2835
+ <begin-paragraph/>
2836
+ <verse num="1">Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab <crossref let="a" cid="c05034001.1"/>to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> showed him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan,</verse>
2837
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05034002"/>
2838
+ <verse num="2">all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah <crossref let="b" cid="c05034002.1"/>as far as the western sea,</verse>
2839
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05034003"/>
2840
+ <verse num="3"><crossref let="c" cid="c05034003.1"/>the Negeb, and <crossref let="d" cid="c05034003.2"/>the Plain, that is, the Valley of Jericho <crossref let="e" cid="c05034003.3"/>the city of palm trees, as far as <crossref let="f" cid="c05034003.4"/>Zoar.</verse>
2841
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05034004"/>
2842
+ <verse num="4">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to him, <crossref let="g" cid="c05034004.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="05034004.1" from="05034004.1" to="05034004.4"/>This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, <q class="begin-single" qid="05034004.2" from="05034004.2" to="05034004.3"/>I will give it to your offspring.<q class="end-single" qid="05034004.3" from="05034004.2" to="05034004.3"/> <crossref let="h" cid="c05034004.2"/>I have let you see it with your eyes, but <crossref let="i" cid="c05034004.3"/>you shall not go over there.<q class="end-double" qid="05034004.4" from="05034004.1" to="05034004.4"/></verse>
2843
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05034005"/>
2844
+ <verse num="5">So Moses the servant of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</verse>
2845
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05034006"/>
2846
+ <verse num="6">and he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor; but <crossref let="j" cid="c05034006.1"/>no one knows the place of his burial to this day.</verse>
2847
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05034007"/>
2848
+ <verse num="7"><crossref let="k" cid="c05034007.1"/>Moses was 120 years old when he died. <crossref let="l" cid="c05034007.2"/>His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated.</verse>
2849
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05034008"/>
2850
+ <verse num="8">And the people of Israel <crossref let="m" cid="c05034008.1"/>wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.</verse>
2851
+ <end-paragraph/>
2852
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05034009"/>
2853
+ <begin-paragraph/>
2854
+ <verse num="9">And Joshua the son of Nun was full of <crossref let="n" cid="c05034009.1"/>the spirit of wisdom, for <crossref let="o" cid="c05034009.2"/>Moses had laid his hands on him. So <crossref let="p" cid="c05034009.3"/>the people of Israel obeyed him and did as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had commanded Moses.</verse>
2855
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05034010"/>
2856
+ <verse num="10">And there has not <crossref let="q" cid="c05034010.1"/>arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, <crossref let="r" cid="c05034010.2"/>whom the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> knew face to face,</verse>
2857
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05034011"/>
2858
+ <verse num="11">none like him for all <crossref let="s" cid="c05034011.1"/>the signs and the wonders that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land,</verse>
2859
+ <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v05034012"/>
2860
+ <verse num="12">and for all the mighty power and all the great deeds of terror that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.</verse>
2861
+ <end-paragraph/>
2862
+ </chapter>
2863
+ </book>
2864
+ </crossway-bible>