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1 I am the Lord your God. You shall not make to yourselves any idol or graven thing: neither shall you erect pillars, nor set up a remarkable stone in your land, to adore it. For I am the Lord your God.
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You shall make for yourselves no idols and erect no carved images or pillars, and you shall not place figured stones in your land, to worship at them; for I am the Lord your God.
2 Keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord.
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You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
3 If you walk in my precepts, and keep my commandments, and do them, I will give you rain in due seasons.
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If you follow my statutes and keep my commandments and observe them faithfully,
4 And the ground shall bring forth its increase: and the trees shall be filled with fruit.
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I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
5 The threshing of your harvest shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land without fear.
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Your threshing shall overtake the vintage, and the vintage shall overtake the sowing; you shall eat your bread to the full, and live securely in your land.
6 I will give peace in your coasts: you shall sleep, and there shall be none to make you afraid. I will take away evil beasts: and the sword shall not pass through your quarters.
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And I will grant peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one shall make you afraid; I will remove dangerous animals from the land, and no sword shall go through your land.
7 You shall pursue your enemies: and they shall fall before you.
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You shall give chase to your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
8 Five of yours shall pursue a hundred others: and a hundred of you ten thousand. Your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
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Five of you shall give chase to a hundred, and a hundred of you shall give chase to ten thousand; your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
9 I will look on you, and make you increase: you shall be multiplied, and I will establish my covenant with you.
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I will look with favor upon you and make you fruitful and multiply you; and I will maintain my covenant with you.
10 You shall eat the oldest of the old store: and, new coming on, you shall cast away the old.
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You shall eat old grain long stored, and you shall have to clear out the old to make way for the new.
11 I will set my tabernacle in the midst of you: and my soul shall not cast you off.
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I will place my dwelling in your midst, and I shall not abhor you.
12 I will walk among you, and will be your God: and you shall 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 am the Lord your God: who have brought you out of the land of the Egyptians, that you should not serve them: and who have broken the chains of your necks, that you might go upright.
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I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be their slaves no more; I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.
14 But if you will not hear me, nor do all my commandments:
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But if you will not obey me, and do not observe all these commandments,
15 If you despise my laws, and contemn my judgments so as not to do those things which are appointed by me, and to make void my covenant:
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if you spurn my statutes, and abhor my ordinances, so that you will not observe all my commandments, and you break my covenant,
16 I also will do these things to you. I will quickly visit you with poverty, and burning heat, which shall waste your eyes, and consume your lives. You shall sow your seed in vain, which shall be devoured by your enemies.
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I in turn will do this to you: I will bring terror on you; consumption and fever that waste the eyes and cause life to pine away. You shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
17 I will set my face against you, and you shall fall down before your enemies: and shall be made subject to them that hate you. You shall flee when no man pursueth you.
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I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down by your enemies; your foes shall rule over you, and you shall flee though no one pursues you.
18 But if you will not yet for all this obey me: I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.
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And if in spite of this you will not obey me, I will continue to punish you sevenfold for your sins.
19 And I will break the pride of your stubbornness: and I will make to you the heaven above as iron, and the earth as brass.
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I will break your proud glory, and I will make your sky like iron and your earth like copper.
20 Your labour shall be spent in vain: the ground shall not bring forth her increase: nor the trees yield their fruit.
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Your strength shall be spent to no purpose: your land shall not yield its produce, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
21 If you walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you for your sins.
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If you continue hostile to me, and will not obey me, I will continue to plague you sevenfold for your sins.
22 And I will send in upon you the beasts of the field, to destroy you and your cattle, and make you few in number: and that your highways may be desolate.
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I will let loose wild animals against you, and they shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock; they shall make you few in number, and your roads shall be deserted.
23 And if even so you will not amend, but will walk contrary to me:
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If in spite of these punishments you have not turned back to me, but continue hostile to me,
24 I also will walk contrary to you, and will strike you seven times for your sins.
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then I too will continue hostile to you: I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins.
25 And I will bring in upon you the sword that shall avenge my covenant. And when you shall flee into the cities, I will send the pestilence in the midst of you. And you shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies,
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I will bring the sword against you, executing vengeance for the covenant; and if you withdraw within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into enemy hands.
26 After I shall have broken the staff of your bread: so that ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and give it out by weight: and you shall eat, and shall not be filled,
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When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven, and they shall dole out your bread by weight; and though you eat, you shall not be satisfied.
27 But if you will not for all this hearken to me, but will walk against me
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But if, despite this, you disobey me, and continue hostile to me,
28 I will also go against you with opposite fury: and I will chastise you with seven plagues for your sins,
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I will continue hostile to you in fury; I in turn will punish you myself sevenfold for your sins.
29 So that you shall eat the flesh of your sons and of your daughters.
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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 high places, and break your idols. You shall fall among the ruins of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
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I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars; I will heap your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols. I will abhor you.
31 Insomuch that I will bring your cities to be a wilderness: and I will make your sanctuaries desolate: and will receive no more your sweet odours.
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I will lay your cities waste, will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing odors.
32 And I will destroy your land: and your enemies shall be astonished at it, when they shall be the inhabitants thereof.
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I will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to settle in it shall be appalled at it.
33 And I will scatter you among the Gentiles: and I will draw out the sword after you. And your land shall be desert, and your cities destroyed.
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And you I will scatter among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword against you; your land shall be a desolation, and your cities a waste.
34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths all the days of her desolation. When you shall be
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Then the land shall enjoy its sabbath years as long as it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its sabbath years.
35 In the enemy’s land, she shall keep a sabbath, and rest in the sabbaths of her desolation: because she did not rest in your sabbaths, when you dwelt therein.
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As long as it lies desolate, it shall have the rest it did not have on your sabbaths when you were living on it.
36 And as to them that shall remain of you I will send fear in their hearts in the countries of their enemies. The sound of a flying leaf shall terrify them: and they shall flee as it were from the sword. They shall fall, when no man pursueth them.
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And as for those of you who survive, 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 though no one pursues.
37 And they shall every one fall upon their brethren as fleeing from wars: none of you shall dare to resist your enemies.
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They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though no one pursues; and you shall have no power to stand against your enemies.
38 You shall perish among the Gentiles: and an enemy’s land shall consume you.
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You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall devour you.
39 And if of them also some remain, they shall pine away in their iniquities, in the land of their enemies: and they shall be afflicted for the sins of their fathers, and their own.
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And those of you who survive shall languish in the land of your enemies because of their iniquities; also they shall languish because of the iniquities of their ancestors.
40 Until they confess their iniquities, and the iniquities of their ancestors, whereby they have transgressed against me, and walked contrary unto me.
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But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their ancestors, in that they committed treachery against me and, moreover, that they continued hostile to me—
41 Therefore I also will walk against them, and bring them into their enemies’ land until their uncircumcised mind be ashamed. Then shall they pray for their sins.
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so that I, in turn, continued hostile 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 And I will remember my covenant, that I made with Jacob, and Isaac, and Abraham. I will remember also the land:
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then will I remember my covenant with Jacob; I will remember also my covenant with Isaac and also my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
43 Which when she shall be left by them, shall enjoy her sabbaths, being desolate for them. But they shall pray for their sins, because they rejected my judgments, and despised my laws.
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For the land shall be deserted by them, and enjoy its sabbath years by lying desolate without them, while they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they dared to spurn my ordinances, and they abhorred my statutes.
44 And yet for all that when they were in the land of their enemies, I did not cast them off altogether. Neither did I so despise them that they should be quite consumed: and I should make void my covenant with them. For 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, or abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God;
45 And I will remember my former covenant, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, in the sight of the Gentiles, to be their God. I am the Lord.
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but I will remember in their favor the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, to be their God: I am the Lord.
46 (26-45) These are the judgments, and precepts, and laws, which the Lord gave between him and the children of Israel, in mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.
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These are the statutes and ordinances and laws that the Lord established between himself and the people of Israel on Mount Sinai through Moses.
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