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This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that endureth for ever: all they that keep it shall come to life; but such as leave it shall die.
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Turn thee, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk in the presence of the light thereof, that thou mayest be illuminated.
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Give not thine honour to another, nor the things that are profitable unto thee to a strange nation.
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O Israel, happy are we: for things that are pleasing to God are made known unto us.
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Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel.
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Ye were sold to the nations, not for destruction: but because ye moved God to wrath, ye were delivered unto the enemies.
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For ye provoked him that made you by sacrificing unto devils, and not to God.
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Ye have forgotten the everlasting God, that brought you up; and ye have grieved Jerusalem, that nursed you.
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For when she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, she said, Hearken, O ye that dwell about Sion: God hath brought upon me great mourning;