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"And you, son of man, take for yourself onestick and write on it, 'For Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions '; then takeanotherstick and write on it, 'For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.'
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say to them, 'Thussays the LordGOD, "Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them onestick, and they will be one in My hand."'
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"Say to them, 'Thussays the LordGOD, "Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nationswhere* they have gone, and I will gather them from everyside and bring them into their own land;
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and I will make them onenation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and oneking will be king for all of them; and they will nolonger be twonations and nolonger be divided into twokingdoms.
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"They will nolongerdefile themselves with their idols, or with their detestablethings, or with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwellingplaces in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God.
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"My servantDavid will be kingover them, and they will allhaveoneshepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances and keep My statutes and observe them.
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"They will live on the land that I gave to Jacob My servant, in which your fatherslived; and they will live on it, they, and their sons and their sons'sons, forever*; and David My servant will be their princeforever.
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"I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlastingcovenant with them. And I will place them and multiply them, and will set My sanctuary in their midstforever.