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This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law, that is for ever: all they that keep it, shall come to life: but they that have forsaken it, to death.
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Return, O Jacob, and take hold of it, walk in the way by its brightness, in the presence of the light thereof.
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Give not thy honour to another, nor thy dignity to a strange nation.
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We are happy, O Israel: because the things that are pleasing to God, are made known to us.
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Be of good comfort, O people of God, the memorial of Israel:
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You have been sold to the Gentiles, not for your destruction: but because you provoked God to wrath, you are delivered to your adversaries.
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For you have provoked him who made you, the eternal God, offering sacrifice to devils, and not to God.