Good News Translation GNT
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1 The Lord said, "Do not make idols or set up statues, stone pillars, or carved stones to worship. I am the Lord your God.
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“You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God.
2 Keep the religious festivals and honor the place where I am worshiped. I am the Lord.
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You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
3 "If you live according to my laws and obey my commands,
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“If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them,
4 I will send you rain at the right time, so that the land will produce crops and the trees will bear fruit.
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then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
5 Your crops will be so plentiful that you will still be harvesting grain when it is time to pick grapes, and you will still be picking grapes when it is time to plant grain. You will have all that you want to eat, and you can live in safety in your land.
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Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely.
6 "I will give you peace in your land, and you can sleep without being afraid of anyone. I will get rid of the dangerous animals in the land, and there will be no more war there.
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I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And I will remove harmful beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through your land.
7 You will be victorious over your enemies;
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You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
8 five of you will be able to defeat a hundred, and a hundred will be able to defeat ten thousand.
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Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
9 I will bless you and give you many children; I will keep my part of the covenant that I made with you.
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I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you.
10 Your harvests will be so plentiful that they will last for a year, and even then you will have to throw away what is left of the old harvest to make room for the new.
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You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new.
11 I will live among you in my sacred Tent, and I will never turn away from you.
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I will make my dwelling among you, and my soul shall not abhor you.
12 I will be with you; I will 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 you shall be my people.
13 I, the Lord your God, brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves. I broke the power that held you down and I let you walk with your head held high."
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I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.
14 The Lord said, "If you will not obey my commands, you will be punished.
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“But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments,
15 If you refuse to obey my laws and commands and break the covenant I have made with you,
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if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,
16 I will punish you. I will bring disaster on you - incurable diseases and fevers that will make you blind and cause your life to waste away. You will plant your crops, but it will do you no good, because your enemies will conquer you and eat what you have grown.
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then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
17 I will turn against you, so that you will be defeated, and those who hate you will rule over you; you will be so terrified that you will run when no one is chasing you.
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I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down before your enemies. Those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.
18 "If even after all of this you still do not obey me, I will increase your punishment seven times.
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And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again sevenfold for your sins,
19 I will break your stubborn pride; there will be no rain, and your land will be dry and as hard as iron.
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and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
20 All your hard work will do you no good, because your land will not produce crops and the trees will not bear fruit.
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And your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
21 "If you still continue to resist me and refuse to obey me, I will again increase your punishment seven times.
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“Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins.
22 I will send dangerous animals among you, and they will kill your children, destroy your livestock, and leave so few of you that your roads will be deserted.
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And I will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that your roads shall be deserted.
23 "If after all of this punishment you still do not listen to me, but continue to defy me,
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“And if by this discipline you are not turned to me but walk contrary to me,
24 then I will turn on you and punish you seven times harder than before.
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then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins.
25 I will bring war on you to punish you for breaking our covenant, and if you gather in your cities for safety, I will send incurable diseases among you, and you will be forced to surrender to your enemies.
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And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
26 I will cut off your food supply, so that ten women will need only one oven to bake all the bread they have. They will ration it out, and when you have eaten it all, you will still be hungry.
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When I break your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
27 "If after all of this you still continue to defy me and refuse to obey me,
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“But if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me,
28 then in my anger I will turn on you and again make your punishment seven times worse than before.
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then I will walk contrary to you in fury, and I myself will discipline you sevenfold for your sins.
29 Your hunger will be so great that you will eat your own children.
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You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.
30 I will destroy your places of worship on the hills, tear down your incense altars, and throw your dead bodies on your fallen idols. In utter disgust
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And I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you.
31 I will turn your cities into ruins, destroy your places of worship, and refuse to accept your sacrifices.
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And I will lay your cities waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing aromas.
32 I will destroy your land so completely that the enemies who occupy it will be shocked at the destruction.
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And I myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be appalled at it.
33 I will bring war on you and scatter you in foreign lands. Your land will be deserted, and your cities left in ruins.
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And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
34 Then the land will enjoy the years of complete rest that you would not give it; it will lie abandoned and get its rest while you are in exile in the land of your enemies.
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“Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths.
36 "I will make those of you who are in exile so terrified that the sound of a leaf blowing in the wind will make you run. You will run as if you were being pursued in battle, and you will fall when there is no enemy near you.
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And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.
37 You will stumble over one another when no one is chasing you, and you will be unable to fight against any enemy.
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They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
38 You will die in exile, swallowed up by the land of your enemies.
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And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
39 The few of you who survive in the land of your enemies will waste away because of your own sin and the sin of your ancestors.
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And those of you who are left shall rot away in your enemies’ lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.
40 "But your descendants will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors, who resisted me and rebelled against me,
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“But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me,
41 and caused me to turn against them and send them into exile in the land of their enemies. At last, when your descendants are humbled and they have paid the penalty for their sin and rebellion,
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so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity,
42 I will remember my covenant with Jacob and with Isaac and with Abraham, and I will renew my promise to give my people the land.
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then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
43 First, however, the land must be rid of its people, so that it can enjoy its complete rest, and they must pay the full penalty for having rejected my laws and my commands.
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But the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes.
44 But even then, when they are still in the land of their enemies, I will not completely abandon them or destroy them. That would put an end to my covenant with them, and I am the Lord their God.
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Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God.
45 I will renew the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I showed all the nations my power by bringing my people out of Egypt, in order that I, the Lord, might be their God."
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But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord. ”
46 All these are the laws and commands that the Lord gave to Moses on Mount Sinai for the people of Israel.
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These are the statutes and rules and laws that the Lord made between himself and the people of Israel through Moses on Mount Sinai.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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