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as you spoke by your servant Moses on the day when you commanded him to write your law in the presence of the people of Israel, saying,
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"If you will not obey my voice, this very great multitude will surely turn into a small number among the nations, where I will scatter them.
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For I know that they will not obey me, for they are a stiff-necked people. But in the land of their exile they will come to themselves
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and know that I am the Lord their God. I will give them a heart that obeys and ears that hear;
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they will praise me in the land of their exile, and will remember my name
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and turn from their stubbornness and their wicked deeds; for they will remember the ways of their ancestors, who sinned before the Lord.
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I will bring them again into the land that I swore to give to their ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they will rule over it; and I will increase them, and they will not be diminished.
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I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their God and they shall be my people; and I will never again remove my people Israel from the land that I have given them."