The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
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1 "'You are not to make yourselves any idols, erect a carved statue or a standing-stone, or place any carved stone anywhere in your land in order to bow down to it. I am ADONAI your God.
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Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
2 "'Keep my Shabbats, and revere my sanctuary; I am ADONAI.
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Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
3 "'If you live by my regulations, observe my mitzvot and obey them;
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If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
4 then I will provide the rain you need in its season, the land will yield its produce, and the trees in the field will yield their fruit.
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Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
5 Your threshing time will extend until the grape harvest, and your grape harvesting will extend until the time for sowing seed. You will eat as much food as you want and live securely in your land.
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And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
6 "'I will give shalom in the land -you will lie down to sleep unafraid of anyone. I will rid the land of wild animals. The sword will not go through your land.
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And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
7 You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall before your sword.
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And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
8 Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand -your enemies will fall before your sword.
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And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
9 "'I will turn toward you, make you productive, increase your numbers and uphold my covenant with you.
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For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
10 You will eat all you want from last year's harvest and throw out what remains of the old to make room for the new.
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And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
11 I will put my tabernacle among you, and I will not reject you,
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And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
12 but I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people.
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And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
13 I am ADONAI your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, so that you would not be their slaves. I have broken the bars of your yoke, so that you can walk upright.
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I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
14 "'But if you will not listen to me and obey all these mitzvot,
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But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
15 if you loathe my regulations and reject my rulings, in order not to obey all my mitzvot but cancel my covenant;
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And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
16 then I, for my part, will do this to you: I will bring terror upon you -wasting disease and chronic fever to dim your sight and sap your strength. You will sow your seed for nothing, because your enemies will eat the crops.
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I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
17 I will set my face against you - your enemies will defeat you, those who hate you will hound you, and you will flee when no one is pursuing you.
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And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
18 If these things don't make you listen to me, then I will discipline you seven times over for your sins.
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And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
19 I will break the pride you have in your own power. I will make your sky like iron, your soil like bronze -
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And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
20 you will spend your strength in vain, because the land will not yield its produce or the trees in the field their fruit.
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And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
21 "'Yes, if you go against me and don't listen to me, I will increase your calamities sevenfold, according to your sins.
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And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
22 I will send wild animals among you; they will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock and reduce your numbers, until your roads are deserted.
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I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
23 "'If, in spite of all this, you refuse my correction and still go against me;
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And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;
24 then I too will go against you; and I, yes I, will strike you seven times over for your sins.
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Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
25 I will bring a sword against you which will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be huddled inside your cities, I will send sickness among you, and you will be handed over to the power of the enemy.
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And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
26 I will cut off your supply of bread, so that ten women will bake your bread in one oven and dole out your bread by weight, and you will eat but not be satisfied.
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And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
27 "'And if, for all this, you still will not listen to me, but go against me;
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And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;
28 then I will go against you furiously, and I also will chastise you yet seven times more for your sins.
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Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
29 You will eat the flesh of your own sons, you will eat the flesh of your own daughters.
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And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your pillars for sun-worship, and throw your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols; and I will detest you.
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And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
31 I will lay waste to your cities and make your sanctuaries desolate, so as not to smell your fragrant aromas.
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And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
32 I will desolate the land, so that your enemies living in it will be astounded by it.
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And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
33 You I will disperse among the nations, and I will draw out the sword in pursuit after you; your land will be a desolation and your cities a wasteland.
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And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
34 Then, at last, the land will be paid its Shabbats. As long as it lies desolate and you are in the lands of your enemies, the land will rest and be repaid its Shabbats.
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Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
35 Yes, as long as it lies desolate it will have rest, the rest it did not have during your Shabbats, when you lived there.
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As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
36 As for those of you who are left, I will fill their hearts with anxiety in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will frighten them, so that they will flee as one flees from the sword and fall when no one is pursuing.
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And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
37 Yes, with no one pursuing they will stumble over each other as if fleeing the sword - you will have no power to stand before your enemies.
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And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
38 And among the nations you will perish; the land of your enemies will devour you.
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And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
39 Those of you who remain will pine away in the lands of your enemies from guilt over your misdeeds and those of your ancestors.
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And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
40 Then they will confess their misdeeds and those of their ancestors which they committed against me in their rebellion; they will admit that they went against me.
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If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
41 At that time I will be going against them, bringing them into the lands of their enemies. But if their uncircumcised hearts will grow humble, and they are paid the punishment for their misdeeds;
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And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
42 then I will remember my covenant with Ya'akov, also my covenant with Yitz'chak and my covenant with Avraham; and I will remember the land.
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Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
43 For the land will lie abandoned without them, and it will be paid its Shabbats while it lies desolate without them; and they will be paid the punishment for their misdeeds, because they rejected my rulings and loathed my regulations.
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The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
44 Yet, in spite of all that, I will not reject them when they are in the lands of their enemies, nor will I loathe them to the point of utterly destroying them and thus break my covenant with them, because I am ADONAI their God.
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And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
45 Rather, for their sakes, I will remember the covenant of their ancestors whom I brought out of the land of Egypt -with the nations watching -so that I might be their God; I am ADONAI.'"
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But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.
46 These are the laws, rulings and teachings that ADONAI himself gave to the people of Isra'el on Mount Sinai through Moshe.
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These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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