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But if that person has died and has no near relative to whom payment can be made, it shall be given to the Lord for the priest. This payment is in addition to the ram used to perform the ritual of purification for the guilty person.


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Also every special contribution which the Israelites offer to the Lord belongs to the priest to whom they present it.


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to give the Israelites the following instructions. It may happen that a man becomes suspicious that his wife is unfaithful to him and has defiled herself by having intercourse with another man. But the husband may not be certain, for his wife may have kept it secret—there was no witness, and she was not caught in the act. Or it may happen that a husband becomes suspicious of his wife, even though she has not been unfaithful.


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In either case the man shall take his wife to the priest. He shall also take the required offering of two pounds of barley flour, but he shall not pour any olive oil on it or put any incense on it, because it is an offering from a suspicious husband, made to bring the truth to light.


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He shall pour some holy water into a clay bowl and take some of the earth that is on the floor of the Tent of the Lord's presence and put it in the water to make it bitter.


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Then he shall loosen the woman's hair and put the offering of flour in her hands. In his hands the priest shall hold the bowl containing the bitter water that brings a curse.


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Then the priest shall make the woman agree to this oath spoken by the priest: “If you have not committed adultery, you will not be harmed by the curse that this water brings.


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may the Lord make your name a curse among your people. May he cause your genital organs to shrink and your stomach to swell up.


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May this water enter your stomach and cause it to swell up and your genital organs to shrink.”
The woman shall respond, “I agree; may the Lord do so.”


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the priest shall take the offering of flour out of the woman's hands, hold it out in dedication to the Lord, and present it on the altar.


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Then he shall take a handful of it as a token offering and burn it on the altar. Finally, he shall make the woman drink the water.


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If she has committed adultery, the water will cause bitter pain; her stomach will swell up and her genital organs will shrink. Her name will become a curse among her people.


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This is the law in cases where a man is jealous and becomes suspicious that his wife has committed adultery. The woman shall be made to stand in front of the altar, and the priest shall perform this ritual.


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to give the following instructions to the people of Israel. Any of you, male or female, who make a special vow to become a nazirite and dedicate yourself to the Lord


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shall abstain from wine and beer. You shall not drink any kind of drink made from grapes or eat any grapes or raisins.


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As long as you are a nazirite, you shall not eat anything that comes from a grapevine, not even the seeds or skins of grapes.


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As long as you are under the nazirite vow, you must not cut your hair or shave. You are bound by the vow for the full time that you are dedicated to the Lord, and you shall let your hair grow.


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Your hair is the sign of your dedication to God, and so you must not defile yourself by going near a corpse, not even that of your father, mother, brother, or sister.


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If your consecrated hair is defiled because you are right beside someone who suddenly dies, you must wait seven days and then shave your head; and so you become ritually clean.


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On the eighth day you shall bring two doves or two pigeons to the priest at the entrance of the Tent of the Lord's presence.


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The priest shall offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, to perform the ritual of purification for you because of your contact with a corpse. On the same day you shall reconsecrate your hair


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and rededicate to the Lord your time as a nazirite. The previous period of time doesn't count, because your consecrated hair was defiled. As a repayment offering you shall bring a one-year-old lamb.


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When you complete your nazirite vow, you shall perform this ritual. You shall go to the entrance of the Tent


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and present to the Lord three animals without any defects: a one-year-old male lamb for a burnt offering, a one-year-old ewe lamb for a sin offering, and a ram for a fellowship offering.


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You shall also offer a basket of bread made without yeast: thick loaves made of flour mixed with olive oil and thin cakes brushed with olive oil, and in addition the required offerings of grain and wine.


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He shall sacrifice the ram to the Lord as a fellowship offering, and offer it with the basket of bread; he shall also present the offerings of grain and wine.


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At the entrance of the Tent you nazirites shall shave off your hair and put it on the fire on which the fellowship offering is being burned.


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Then, when the shoulder of the ram is boiled, the priest shall take it and put it, together with one thick loaf of bread and one thin cake from the basket, into the hands of the nazirite.


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Next, the priest shall present them as a special gift to the Lord; they are a sacred offering for the priest, in addition to the breast and the leg of the ram which by law belong to the priest. After that, the nazirite may drink wine.


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These are the regulations for you nazirites; but if you promise an offering beyond what your vow requires you to give, you must fulfill exactly the promise you made.


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And the Lord said, “If they pronounce my name as a blessing upon the people of Israel, I will bless them.”


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The Offerings of the Leaders
On the day Moses finished setting up the Tent of the Lord's presence, he anointed and dedicated the Tent and all its equipment, and the altar and all its equipment.


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Then the clan chiefs who were leaders in the tribes of Israel, the same men who were in charge of the census,


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brought their offerings to the Lord: six wagons and twelve oxen, a wagon for every two leaders and an ox for each leader. After they had presented them,


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“Accept these gifts for use in the work to be done for the Tent; give them to the Levites according to the work they have to do.”


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and four wagons and eight oxen to the Merarites. All their work was to be done under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron.


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But Moses gave no wagons or oxen to the Kohathites, because the sacred objects they took care of had to be carried on their shoulders.


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The leaders also brought offerings to celebrate the dedication of the altar. When they were ready to present their gifts at the altar,


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the Lord said to Moses, “Tell them that each day for a period of twelve days one of the leaders is to present his gifts for the dedication of the altar.”


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They presented their offerings in the following order:
Day
Tribe
Leader
1st
Judah
Nahshon son of Amminadab
2nd
Issachar
Nethanel son of Zuar
3rd
Zebulun
Eliab son of Helon
4th
Reuben
Elizur son of Shedeur
5th
Simeon
Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai
6th
Gad
Eliasaph son of Deuel
7th
Ephraim
Elishama son of Ammihud
8th
Manasseh
Gamaliel son of Pedahzur
9th
Benjamin
Abidan son of Gideoni
10th
Dan
Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai
11th
Asher
Pagiel son of Ochran
12th
Naphtali
Ahira son of Enan
The offerings each one brought were identical: one silver bowl weighing 50 ounces and one silver basin weighing 30 ounces, by the official standard, both of them full of flour mixed with oil for the grain offering; one gold dish weighing 4 ounces, full of incense; one young bull, one ram, and a one-year-old lamb, for the burnt offering; one goat for the sin offering; and two bulls, five rams, five goats, and five one-year-old lambs, for the fellowship offering.


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The totals of the offerings brought by the twelve leaders for the dedication of the altar were as follows:
twelve silver bowls and twelve silver basins weighing a total of 60 pounds
twelve gold dishes weighing a total of 48 ounces, filled with incense
twelve bulls, twelve rams, and twelve one-year-old lambs, plus the grain offerings that go with them, for the burnt offerings
twelve goats for the sin offerings
twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty goats, sixty one-year-old lambs, for the fellowship offerings


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When Moses went into the Tent to talk with the Lord, he heard the Lord speaking to him from above the lid on the Covenant Box, between the two winged creatures.


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“Tell Aaron that when he puts the seven lamps on the lampstand, he should place them so that the light shines toward the front.”


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From top to bottom the lampstand was made of hammered gold, according to the pattern that the Lord had shown Moses.


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in the following way: sprinkle them with the water of purification and have them shave their whole bodies and have them wash their clothes. Then they will be ritually clean.


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Then they are to take a young bull and the required grain offering of flour mixed with olive oil; and you are to take another bull for the sin offering.


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Then assemble the whole community of Israel and have the Levites stand in front of the Tent of my presence.


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and then Aaron shall dedicate the Levites to me as a special gift from the Israelites, so that they may do my work.


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The Levites shall then put their hands on the heads of the two bulls; one is to be offered as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, in order to perform the ritual of purification for the Levites.


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I have claimed them in the place of all the first-born sons of the Israelites, and they belong to me alone.


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When I killed all the first-born in Egypt, I consecrated as my own the oldest son of each Israelite family and the first-born of every animal.


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and I assign the Levites to Aaron and his sons, as a gift from the Israelites, to work in the Tent for the people of Israel and to protect the Israelites from the disaster that would strike them if they came too near the Holy Place.”


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The Levites purified themselves and washed their clothes, and Aaron dedicated them as a special gift to the Lord. He also performed the ritual of purification for them.


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The people did everything the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites. And so the Levites were qualified to work in the Tent under Aaron and his sons.


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After that, he may help his fellow Levites in performing their duties in the Tent, but he must not perform any service by himself. This is how you are to regulate the duties of the Levites.”


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The Second Passover
The Lord spoke to Moses in the Sinai Desert in the first month of the second year after the people of Israel had left Egypt. He said,


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“On the fourteenth day of this month, beginning at sunset, the people of Israel are to observe the Passover according to all the rules and regulations for it.”


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and on the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month they did so in the Sinai Desert. The people did everything just as the Lord had commanded Moses.


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But there were some people who were ritually unclean because they had touched a corpse, and they were not able to keep the Passover on that day. They went to Moses and Aaron


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and said, “We are unclean because we have touched a corpse, but why should we be excluded from presenting the Lord's offering with the rest of the Israelites?”


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to say to the people of Israel, “When any of you or your descendants are unclean from touching a corpse or are far away on a journey, but still want to keep the Passover,


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you are permitted to observe it one month later instead, on the evening of the fourteenth day of the second month. Celebrate it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.


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Do not leave any of the food until the following morning and do not break any of the animal's bones. Observe the Passover according to all the regulations.


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But if any of you are ritually clean and not away on a journey and do not observe the Passover, you shall no longer be considered my people, because you did not present the offering to me at the appointed time. You must suffer the consequences of your sin.


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“If foreigners living among you want to keep the Passover, they must observe it according to all the rules and regulations. The same law applies to everyone, whether native or foreigner.”


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The Fiery Cloud
On the day the Tent of the Lord's presence was set up, a cloud came and covered it. At night the cloud looked like fire.


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Whenever the cloud lifted, the people of Israel broke camp, and they set up camp again in the place where the cloud came down.


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The people broke camp at the command of the Lord, and at his command they set up camp. As long as the cloud stayed over the Tent, they stayed in the same camp.


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Sometimes the cloud remained over the Tent for only a few days; in any case, they remained in camp or moved, according to the command of the Lord.


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Sometimes the cloud remained only from evening until morning, and they moved on as soon as the cloud lifted. Whenever the cloud lifted, they moved on.


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Whether it was two days, a month, a year, or longer, as long as the cloud remained over the Tent, they did not move on; but when it lifted, they moved.


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When long blasts are sounded on both trumpets, the whole community is to gather around you at the entrance to the Tent of my presence.


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When short blasts are sounded a second time, the tribes on the south will move out. So short blasts are to be sounded to break camp,


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The trumpets are to be blown by Aaron's sons, the priests.
“The following rule is to be observed for all time to come.


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When you are at war in your land, defending yourselves against an enemy who has attacked you, sound the signal for battle on these trumpets. I, the Lord your God, will help you and save you from your enemies.


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Also on joyful occasions—at your New Moon Festivals and your other religious festivals—you are to blow the trumpets when you present your burnt offerings and your fellowship offerings. Then I will help you. I am the Lord your God.”


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The Israelites Break Camp
On the twentieth day of the second month in the second year after the people left Egypt, the cloud over the Tent of the Lord's presence lifted,


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and the Israelites started on their journey out of the Sinai Desert. The cloud came to rest in the wilderness of Paran.


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and each time they moved, they were in the same order. Those under the banner of the division led by the tribe of Judah started out first, company by company, with Nahshon son of Amminadab in command.


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Then the Tent would be taken down, and the clans of Gershon and Merari, who carried it, would start out.


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Next, those under the banner of the division led by the tribe of Reuben would start out, company by company, with Elizur son of Shedeur in command.


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Then the Levite clan of Kohath would start out, carrying the sacred objects. By the time they arrived at the next camp, the Tent had been set up again.


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Next, those under the banner of the division led by the tribe of Ephraim would start out, company by company, with Elishama son of Ammihud in command.


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Finally, those under the banner of the division led by the tribe of Dan, serving as the rear guard of all the divisions, would start out, company by company, with Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai in command.


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This, then, was the order of march, company by company, whenever the Israelites broke camp and set out.


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Moses said to his brother-in-law Hobab son of Jethro the Midianite, “We are about to start out for the place which the Lord said he would give us. He has promised to make Israel prosperous, so come with us, and we will share our prosperity with you.”


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“Please don't leave us,” Moses said. “You know where we can camp in the wilderness, and you can be our guide.


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The People Set Out
When the people left Sinai, the holy mountain, they traveled three days. The Lord's Covenant Box always went ahead of them to find a place for them to camp.


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Whenever the Covenant Box started out, Moses would say, “Arise, Lord; scatter your enemies and put to flight those who hate you!”


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The Place Named Taberah
The people began to complain to the Lord about their troubles. When the Lord heard them, he became angry and sent fire on the people. It burned among them and destroyed one end of the camp.


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Moses Chooses Seventy Leaders
There were foreigners traveling with the Israelites. They had a strong craving for meat, and even the Israelites themselves began to complain: “If only we could have some meat!


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In Egypt we used to eat all the fish we wanted, and it cost us nothing. Remember the cucumbers, the watermelons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic we had?


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It fell on the camp at night along with the dew. The next morning the people would go around and gather it, grind it or pound it into flour, and then boil it and make it into flat cakes. It tasted like bread baked with olive oil.)


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Moses heard all the people complaining as they stood around in groups at the entrances of their tents. He was distressed because the Lord had become angry with them,


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and he said to the Lord, “Why have you treated me so badly? Why are you displeased with me? Why have you given me the responsibility for all these people?


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I didn't create them or bring them to birth! Why should you ask me to act like a nurse and carry them in my arms like babies all the way to the land you promised to their ancestors?


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If you are going to treat me like this, have pity on me and kill me, so that I won't have to endure your cruelty any longer.”


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The Lord said to Moses, “Assemble seventy respected men who are recognized as leaders of the people, bring them to me at the Tent of my presence, and tell them to stand there beside you.


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I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the spirit I have given you and give it to them. Then they can help you bear the responsibility for these people, and you will not have to bear it alone.


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Now tell the people, ‘Purify yourselves for tomorrow; you will have meat to eat. The Lord has heard you whining and saying that you wished you had some meat and that you were better off in Egypt. Now the Lord will give you meat, and you will have to eat it.


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but for a whole month, until it comes out of your ears, until you are sick of it. This will happen because you have rejected the Lord who is here among you and have complained to him that you should never have left Egypt.’”


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Moses said to the Lord, “Here I am leading 600,000 people, and you say that you will give them enough meat for a month?


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Could enough cattle and sheep be killed to satisfy them? Are all the fish in the sea enough for them?”


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“Is there a limit to my power?” the Lord answered. “You will soon see whether what I have said will happen or not!”


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So Moses went out and told the people what the Lord had said. He assembled seventy of the leaders and placed them around the Tent.


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Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him. He took some of the spirit he had given to Moses and gave it to the seventy leaders. When the spirit came on them, they began to shout like prophets, but not for long.


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Two of the seventy leaders, Eldad and Medad, had stayed in the camp and had not gone out to the Tent. There in the camp the spirit came on them, and they too began to shout like prophets.


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Then Joshua son of Nun, who had been Moses' helper since he was a young man, spoke up and said to Moses, “Stop them, sir!”


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Moses answered, “Are you concerned about my interests? I wish that the Lord would give his spirit to all his people and make all of them shout like prophets!”


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The Lord Sends Quails
Suddenly the Lord sent a wind that brought quails from the sea, flying three feet above the ground. They settled on the camp and all around it for miles and miles in every direction.


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So all that day, all night, and all the next day, the people worked catching quails; no one gathered less than fifty bushels. They spread them out to dry all around the camp.


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While there was still plenty of meat for them to eat, the Lord became angry with the people and caused an epidemic to break out among them.


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That place was named Kibroth Hattaavah (which means “Graves of Craving”), because there they buried the people who had craved meat.


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They said, “Has the Lord spoken only through Moses? Hasn't he also spoken through us?” The Lord heard what they said.


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Suddenly the Lord said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “I want the three of you to come out to the Tent of my presence.” They went,


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and the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud, stood at the entrance of the Tent, and called out, “Aaron! Miriam!” The two of them stepped forward,


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and the Lord said, “Now hear what I have to say! When there are prophets among you, I reveal myself to them in visions and speak to them in dreams.


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It is different when I speak with my servant Moses; I have put him in charge of all my people Israel.


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So I speak to him face-to-face, clearly and not in riddles; he has even seen my form! How dare you speak against my servant Moses?”


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and the cloud left the Tent, Miriam's skin was suddenly covered with a dreaded disease and turned as white as snow. When Aaron looked at her and saw that she was covered with the disease,


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The Lord answered, “If her father had spit in her face, she would have to bear her disgrace for seven days. So let her be shut out of the camp for a week, and after that she can be brought back in.”


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Miriam was shut out of the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until she was brought back in.


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“Choose one of the leaders from each of the twelve tribes and send them as spies to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites.”


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Moses obeyed and from the wilderness of Paran he sent out leaders, as follows:
Tribe
Leader
Reuben
Shammua son of Zaccur
Simeon
Shaphat son of Hori
Judah
Caleb son of Jephunneh
Issachar
Igal son of Joseph
Ephraim
Hoshea son of Nun
Benjamin
Palti son of Raphu
Zebulun
Gaddiel son of Sodi
Manasseh
Gaddi son of Susi
Dan
Ammiel son of Gemalli
Asher
Sethur son of Michael
Naphtali
Nahbi son of Vophsi
Gad
Geuel son of Machi


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These are the spies Moses sent to explore the land. He changed the name of Hoshea son of Nun to Joshua.


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When Moses sent them out, he said to them, “Go north from here into the southern part of the land of Canaan and then on into the hill country.


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Find out whether the land is good or bad and whether the people live in open towns or in fortified cities.


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Find out whether the soil is fertile and whether the land is wooded. And be sure to bring back some of the fruit that grows there.” (It was the season when grapes were beginning to ripen.)


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So the men went north and explored the land from the wilderness of Zin in the south all the way to Rehob, near Hamath Pass in the north.


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They went first into the southern part of the land and came to Hebron, where the clans of Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of a race of giants called the Anakim, lived. (Hebron was founded seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)


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They came to Eshcol Valley, and there they cut off a branch which had one bunch of grapes on it so heavy that it took two men to carry it on a pole between them. They also brought back some pomegranates and figs.


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to Moses, Aaron, and the whole community of Israel at Kadesh in the wilderness of Paran. They reported what they had seen and showed them the fruit they had brought.


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They told Moses, “We explored the land and found it to be rich and fertile; and here is some of its fruit.


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But the people who live there are powerful, and their cities are very large and well fortified. Even worse, we saw the descendants of the giants there.


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Amalekites live in the southern part of the land; Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and Canaanites live by the Mediterranean Sea and along the Jordan River.”


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Caleb silenced the people who were complaining against Moses, and said, “We should attack now and take the land; we are strong enough to conquer it.”


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But the men who had gone with Caleb said, “No, we are not strong enough to attack them; the people there are more powerful than we are.”


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So they spread a false report among the Israelites about the land they had explored. They said, “That land doesn't even produce enough to feed the people who live there. Everyone we saw was very tall,


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and we even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak. We felt as small as grasshoppers, and that is how we must have looked to them.”


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They complained against Moses and Aaron, and said, “It would have been better to die in Egypt or even here in the wilderness!


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Why is the Lord taking us into that land? We will be killed in battle, and our wives and children will be captured. Wouldn't it be better to go back to Egypt?”


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Do not rebel against the Lord and don't be afraid of the people who live there. We will conquer them easily. The Lord is with us and has defeated the gods who protected them; so don't be afraid.”


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The whole community was threatening to stone them to death, but suddenly the people saw the dazzling light of the Lord's presence appear over the Tent.


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Moses Prays for the People
The Lord said to Moses, “How much longer will these people reject me? How much longer will they refuse to trust in me, even though I have performed so many miracles among them?


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I will send an epidemic and destroy them, but I will make you the father of a nation that is larger and more powerful than they are!”


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But Moses said to the Lord, “You brought these people out of Egypt by your power. When the Egyptians hear what you have done to your people,


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they will tell it to the people who live in this land. These people have already heard that you, Lord, are with us, that you appear in plain sight when your cloud stops over us, and that you go before us in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.


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that you killed your people in the wilderness because you were not able to bring them into the land you promised to give them.


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‘I, the Lord, am not easily angered, and I show great love and faithfulness and forgive sin and rebellion. Yet I will not fail to punish children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation for the sins of their parents.’


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And now, Lord, according to the greatness of your unchanging love, forgive, I pray, the sin of these people, just as you have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.”


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none of these people will live to enter that land. They have seen the dazzling light of my presence and the miracles that I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, but they have tried my patience over and over again and have refused to obey me.


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They will never enter the land which I promised to their ancestors. None of those who have rejected me will ever enter it.


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But because my servant Caleb has a different attitude and has remained loyal to me, I will bring him into the land which he explored, and his descendants will possess the land


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in whose valleys the Amalekites and the Canaanites now live. Turn back tomorrow and go into the wilderness in the direction of the Gulf of Aqaba.”


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“How much longer are these wicked people going to complain against me? I have heard enough of these complaints!


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Now give them this answer: ‘I swear that as surely as I live, I will do to you just what you have asked. I, the Lord, have spoken.


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You will die and your corpses will be scattered across this wilderness. Because you have complained against me, none of you over twenty years of age will enter that land.


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You said that your children would be captured, but I will bring them into the land that you rejected, and it will be their home.


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Your children will wander in the wilderness for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last one of you dies.


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You will suffer the consequences of your sin for forty years, one year for each of the forty days you spent exploring the land. You will know what it means to have me against you!


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I swear that I will do this to you wicked people who have gathered together against me. Here in the wilderness every one of you will die. I, the Lord, have spoken.’”


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The men Moses had sent to explore the land brought back a false report which caused the people to complain against the Lord. And so the Lord struck them with a disease, and they died.


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The First Attempt to Invade the Land
When Moses told the Israelites what the Lord had said, they mourned bitterly.


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Early the next morning they started out to invade the hill country, saying, “Now we are ready to go to the place which the Lord told us about. We admit that we have sinned.”


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When you face the Amalekites and the Canaanites, you will die in battle; the Lord will not be with you, because you have refused to follow him.”


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Yet they still dared to go up into the hill country, even though neither the Lord's Covenant Box nor Moses left the camp.


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Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived there attacked and defeated them, and pursued them as far as Hormah.


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the following regulations for the people of Israel to observe in the land that he was going to give them.


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A bull, a ram, a sheep, or a goat may be presented to the Lord as a burnt offering or as a sacrifice in fulfillment of a vow or as a freewill offering or as an offering at your regular religious festivals; the odor of these food offerings is pleasing to the Lord.


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Whoever presents a sheep or a goat as a burnt offering to the Lord is to bring with each animal 2 pounds of flour mixed with 2 pints of olive oil as a grain offering, together with 2 pints of wine.


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When a ram is offered, 4 pounds of flour mixed with 3 pints of olive oil are to be presented as a grain offering,


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When a bull is offered to the Lord as a burnt offering or as a sacrifice in fulfillment of a vow or as a fellowship offering,


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All native Israelites are to do this when they present a food offering, an odor pleasing to the Lord.


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And if at any time foreigners living among you, whether on a temporary or a permanent basis, make a food offering, an odor that pleases the Lord, they are to observe the same regulations.


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For all time to come, the same rules are binding on you and on the foreigners who live among you. You and they are alike in the Lord's sight;


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When any food produced there is eaten, some of it is to be set aside as a special contribution to the Lord.


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When you bake bread, the first loaf of the first bread made from the new grain is to be presented as a special contribution to the Lord. This is to be presented in the same way as the special contribution you make from the grain you thresh.


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But suppose someone unintentionally fails to keep some of these regulations which the Lord has given Moses.


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And suppose that in the future the community fails to do everything that the Lord commanded through Moses.


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If the mistake was made because of the ignorance of the community, they are to offer a bull as a burnt offering, an odor that pleases the Lord, with the proper grain offering and wine offering. In addition, they are to offer a male goat as a sin offering.


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The priest shall perform the ritual of purification for the community, and they will be forgiven, because the mistake was unintentional and they brought their sin offering as a food offering to the Lord.


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The whole community of Israel and the foreigners living among them will be forgiven, because everyone was involved in the mistake.


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At the altar the priest shall perform the ritual of purification to purify you from your sin, and you will be forgiven.


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The same regulation applies to all who unintentionally commit a sin, whether they are native Israelites or resident foreigners.


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But any who sin deliberately, whether they are natives or foreigners, are guilty of treating the Lord with contempt, and they shall be put to death,


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because they have rejected what the Lord said and have deliberately broken one of his commands. They are responsible for their own death.


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The Man Who Broke the Sabbath
Once, while the Israelites were still in the wilderness, a man was found gathering firewood on the Sabbath.


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Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man must be put to death; the whole community is to stone him to death outside the camp.”


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So the whole community took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the Lord had commanded.


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to say to the people of Israel: “Make tassels on the corners of your garments and put a blue cord on each tassel. You are to do this for all time to come.


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The tassels will serve as reminders, and each time you see them you will remember all my commands and obey them; then you will not turn away from me and follow your own wishes and desires.


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The Rebellion of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram
Korah son of Izhar, from the Levite clan of Kohath, rebelled against the leadership of Moses. He was joined by three members of the tribe of Reuben—Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth—and by 250 other Israelites, well-known leaders chosen by the community.


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They assembled before Moses and Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! All the members of the community belong to the Lord, and the Lord is with all of us. Why, then, Moses, do you set yourself above the Lord's community?”


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Then he said to Korah and his followers, “Tomorrow morning the Lord will show us who belongs to him; he will let the one who belongs to him, that is, the one he has chosen, approach him at the altar.


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Tomorrow morning you and your followers take fire pans, put live coals and incense on them, and take them to the altar. Then we will see which of us the Lord has chosen. You Levites are the ones who have gone too far!”


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Do you consider it a small matter that the God of Israel has set you apart from the rest of the community, so that you can approach him, perform your service in the Lord's Tent, and minister to the community and serve them?


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He has let you and all the other Levites have this honor—and now you are trying to get the priesthood too!


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When you complain against Aaron, it is really against the Lord that you and your followers are rebelling.”


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Isn't it enough that you have brought us out of the fertile land of Egypt to kill us here in the wilderness? Do you also have to lord it over us?


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You certainly have not brought us into a fertile land or given us fields and vineyards as our possession, and now you are trying to deceive us. We will not come!”


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Moses became angry and said to the Lord, “Do not accept any offerings these men bring. I have not wronged any of them; I have not even taken one of their donkeys.”


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Moses said to Korah, “Tomorrow you and your 250 followers must come to the Tent of the Lord's presence; Aaron will also be there.


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So they each took their fire pans, put live coals and incense on them, and stood at the entrance of the Tent with Moses and Aaron.


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Then Korah gathered the whole community, and they stood facing Moses and Aaron at the entrance of the Tent. Suddenly the dazzling light of the Lord's presence appeared to the whole community,


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But Moses and Aaron bowed down with their faces to the ground and said, “O God, you are the source of all life. When one of us sins, do you become angry with the whole community?”


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He said to the people, “Get away from the tents of these wicked men and don't touch anything that belongs to them. Otherwise, you will be wiped out with them for all their sins.”


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So they moved away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
Dathan and Abiram had come out and were standing at the entrance of their tents, with their wives and children.


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Moses said to the people, “This is how you will know that the Lord has sent me to do all these things and that it is not by my own choice that I have done them.


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But if the Lord does something unheard of, and the earth opens up and swallows them with all they own, so that they go down alive to the world of the dead, you will know that these men have rejected the Lord.”


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and swallowed them and their families, together with all of Korah's followers and their possessions.


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So they went down alive to the world of the dead, with their possessions. The earth closed over them, and they vanished.


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All the people of Israel who were there fled when they heard their cry. They shouted, “Run! The earth might swallow us too!”


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“Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to remove the bronze fire pans from the remains of those who have been burned, and scatter the coals from the fire pans somewhere else, because the fire pans are holy.


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They became holy when they were presented at the Lord's altar. So take the fire pans of these who were put to death for their sin, beat them into thin plates, and make a covering for the altar. It will be a warning to the people of Israel.”


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So Eleazar the priest took the fire pans and had them beaten into thin plates to make a covering for the altar.


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This was a warning to the Israelites that no one who was not a descendant of Aaron should come to the altar to burn incense for the Lord. Otherwise he would be destroyed like Korah and his men. All this was done as the Lord had commanded Eleazar through Moses.


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Aaron Saves the People
The next day the whole community complained against Moses and Aaron and said, “You have killed some of the Lord's people.”


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After they had all gathered to protest to Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the Tent and saw that the cloud was covering it and that the dazzling light of the Lord's presence had appeared.


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“Move back from these people, and I will destroy them on the spot!”
The two of them bowed down with their faces to the ground,


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and Moses said to Aaron, “Take your fire pan, put live coals from the altar in it, and put some incense on the coals. Then hurry with it to the people and perform the ritual of purification for them. Hurry! The Lord's anger has already broken out and an epidemic has already begun.”


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Aaron obeyed, took his fire pan and ran into the middle of the assembled people. When he saw that the plague had already begun, he put the incense on the coals and performed the ritual of purification for the people.


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“Tell the people of Israel to give you twelve walking sticks, one from the leader of each tribe. Write each man's name on his stick


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and then write Aaron's name on the stick representing Levi. There will be one stick for each tribal leader.


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Then the stick of the man I have chosen will sprout. In this way I will put a stop to the constant complaining of these Israelites against you.”


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So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and each of their leaders gave him a stick, one for each tribe, twelve in all, and Aaron's stick was put with them.


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The next day, when Moses went into the Tent, he saw that Aaron's stick, representing the tribe of Levi, had sprouted. It had budded, blossomed, and produced ripe almonds!


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Moses took all the sticks and showed them to the Israelites. They saw what had happened, and each leader took his own stick back.


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The Lord said to Moses, “Put Aaron's stick back in front of the Covenant Box. It is to be kept as a warning to the rebel Israelites that they will die unless their complaining stops.”


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Duties of Priests and Levites
The Lord said to Aaron, “You, your sons, and the Levites must suffer the consequences of any guilt connected with serving in the Tent of my presence; but only you and your sons will suffer the consequences of service in the priesthood.


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Bring in your relatives, the tribe of Levi, to work with you and help you while you and your sons are serving at the Tent.


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They are to fulfill their duties to you and their responsibilities for the Tent, but they must not have any contact with sacred objects in the Holy Place or with the altar. If they do, both they and you will be put to death.


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They are to work with you and fulfill their responsibilities for all the service in the Tent, but no unqualified person may work with you.


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You and your sons alone must fulfill the responsibilities for the Holy Place and the altar, so that my anger will not again break out against the people of Israel.


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I am the one who has chosen your relatives the Levites from among the Israelites as a gift to you. They are dedicated to me, so that they can carry out their duties in the Tent.


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But you and your sons alone shall fulfill all the responsibilities of the priesthood that concern the altar and what is in the Most Holy Place. These things are your responsibility, because I have given you the gift of the priesthood. Any unqualified person who comes near the sacred objects shall be put to death.”


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The Share of the Priests
The Lord said to Aaron, “Remember that I am giving you all the special contributions made to me that are not burned as sacrifices. I am giving them to you and to your descendants as the part assigned to you forever.


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Of the most sacred offerings not burned on the altar, the following belong to you: the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the repayment offerings. Everything that is presented to me as a sacred offering belongs to you and your sons.


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“In addition, any other special contributions that the Israelites present to me shall be yours. I am giving them to you, your sons, and your daughters for all time to come. Every member of your family who is ritually clean may eat them.


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“I am giving you all the best of the first produce which the Israelites give me each year: olive oil, wine, and grain.


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“Every first-born child or animal that the Israelites present to me belongs to you. But you must accept payment to buy back every first-born child, and must also accept payment for every first-born animal that is ritually unclean.


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Children shall be bought back at the age of one month for the fixed price of five pieces of silver, according to the official standard.


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But the first-born of cows, sheep, and goats are not to be bought back; they belong completely to me and are to be sacrificed. Throw their blood against the altar and burn their fat as a food offering, an odor pleasing to me.


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“I am giving to you, to your sons, and to your daughters, for all time to come, all the special contributions which the Israelites present to me. This is an unbreakable covenant that I have made with you and your descendants.”


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The Lord said to Aaron, “You will not receive any property that can be inherited, and no part of the land of Israel will be assigned to you. I, the Lord, am all you need.”


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The Share of the Levites
The Lord said, “I have given to the Levites every tithe that the people of Israel present to me. This is in payment for their service in taking care of the Tent of my presence.


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The other Israelites must no longer approach the Tent and in this way bring on themselves the penalty of death.


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From now on only the Levites will take care of the Tent and bear the full responsibility for it. This is a permanent rule that applies also to your descendants. The Levites shall have no permanent property in Israel,


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because I have given to them as their possession the tithe which the Israelites present to me as a special contribution. That is why I told them that they would have no permanent property in Israel.”


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to say to the Levites: “When you receive from the Israelites the tithe that the Lord gives you as your possession, you must present a tenth of it as a special contribution to the Lord.


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This special contribution will be considered as the equivalent of the offering which the farmer makes of new grain and new wine.


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In this way you also will present the special contribution that belongs to the Lord from all the tithes which you receive from the Israelites. You are to give this special contribution for the Lord to Aaron the priest.


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When you have presented the best part, you may keep the rest, just as the farmer keeps what is left after he makes his offering.


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You and your families may eat the rest anywhere, because it is your wages for your service in the Tent.


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You will not become guilty when you eat it, as long as you have presented the best of it to the Lord. But be sure not to profane the sacred gifts of the Israelites by eating any of the gifts before the best part is offered; if you do, you will be put to death.”


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to give the Israelites the following regulations. Bring to Moses and Aaron a red cow which has no defects and which has never been worked,


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and they will give it to Eleazar the priest. It is to be taken outside the camp and killed in his presence.


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Then Eleazar is to take some of its blood and with his finger sprinkle it seven times in the direction of the Tent.


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The whole animal, including skin, meat, blood, and intestines, is to be burned in the presence of the priest.


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After that, he is to wash his clothes and pour water over himself, and then he may enter the camp; but he remains ritually unclean until evening.


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The one who burned the cow must also wash his clothes and pour water over himself, but he also remains unclean until evening.


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Then someone who is ritually clean is to collect the ashes of the cow and put them in a ritually clean place outside the camp, where they are to be kept for the Israelite community to use in preparing the water for removing ritual uncleanness. This ritual is performed to remove sin.


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The one who collected the ashes must wash his clothes, but he remains unclean until evening. This regulation is valid for all time to come, both for the Israelites and for the foreigners living among them.


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They must purify themselves with the water for purification on the third day and on the seventh day, and then they will be clean. But if they do not purify themselves on both the third and the seventh day, they will not be clean.


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Those who touch a corpse and do not purify themselves remain unclean, because the water for purification has not been thrown over them. They defile the Lord's Tent, and they will no longer be considered God's people.


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In the case of a person who dies in a tent, anyone who is in the tent at the time of death or who enters it becomes ritually unclean for seven days.


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If any touch a person who has been killed or has died a natural death outdoors or if any touch a human bone or a grave, they become unclean for seven days.


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To remove the uncleanness, some ashes from the red cow which was burned to remove sin shall be taken and put in a pot, and fresh water added.


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In the first case, someone who is ritually clean is to take a sprig of hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, everything in it, and the people who were there. In the second case, someone who is ritually clean is to sprinkle the water on those who had touched the human bone or the dead body or the grave.


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On the third day and on the seventh the person who is ritually clean is to sprinkle the water on the unclean persons. On the seventh day he is to purify those, who, after washing their clothes and pouring water over themselves, become ritually clean at sunset.


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Those who have become ritually unclean and do not purify themselves remain unclean, because the water for purification has not been thrown over them. They defile the Lord's Tent and will no longer be considered God's people.


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You are to observe this rule for all time to come. The person who sprinkles the water for purification must also wash his clothes; anyone who touches the water remains ritually unclean until evening.


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Whatever an unclean person touches is unclean, and anyone else who touches it remains unclean until evening.


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Events at Kadesh
In the first month the whole community of Israel came to the wilderness of Zin and camped at Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.


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and complained: “It would have been better if we had died in front of the Lord's Tent along with the other Israelites.


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Why did you bring us out of Egypt into this miserable place where nothing will grow? There's no grain, no figs, no grapes, no pomegranates. There is not even any water to drink!”


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Moses and Aaron moved away from the people and stood at the entrance of the Tent. They bowed down with their faces to the ground, and the dazzling light of the Lord's presence appeared to them.


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“Take the stick that is in front of the Covenant Box, and then you and Aaron assemble the whole community. There in front of them all speak to that rock over there, and water will gush out of it. In this way you will bring water out of the rock for the people, for them and their animals to drink.”


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He and Aaron assembled the whole community in front of the rock, and Moses said, “Listen, you rebels! Do we have to get water out of this rock for you?”


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Then Moses raised the stick and struck the rock twice with it, and a great stream of water gushed out, and all the people and animals drank.


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But the Lord reprimanded Moses and Aaron. He said, “Because you did not have enough faith to acknowledge my holy power before the people of Israel, you will not lead them into the land that I promised to give them.”


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This happened at Meribah, where the people of Israel complained against the Lord and where he showed them that he is holy.


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The King of Edom Refuses to Let Israel Pass
Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom. They said, “This message is from your kinsmen, the tribes of Israel. You know the hardships we have suffered,


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how our ancestors went to Egypt, where we lived many years. The Egyptians mistreated our ancestors and us,


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and we cried to the Lord for help. He heard our cry and sent an angel, who led us out of Egypt. Now we are at Kadesh, a town at the border of your territory.


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Please permit us to pass through your land. We and our cattle will not leave the road or go into your fields or vineyards, and we will not drink from your wells. We will stay on the main road until we are out of your territory.”


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But the Edomites answered, “We refuse to let you pass through our country! If you try, we will march out and attack you.”


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The people of Israel said, “We will stay on the main road, and if we or our animals drink any of your water, we will pay for it—all we want is to pass through.”


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The Edomites repeated, “We refuse!” and they marched out with a powerful army to attack the people of Israel.


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Because the Edomites would not let the Israelites pass through their territory, the Israelites turned and went another way.


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“Aaron is not going to enter the land which I promised to give to Israel; he is going to die, because the two of you rebelled against my command at Meribah.


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and Moses removed Aaron's priestly robes and put them on Eleazar. There on the top of the mountain Aaron died, and Moses and Eleazar came back down.


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Victory over the Canaanites
When the Canaanite king of Arad in the southern part of Canaan heard that the Israelites were coming by way of Atharim, he attacked them and captured some of them.


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Then the Israelites made a vow to the Lord: “If you will let us conquer these people, we will unconditionally dedicate them and their cities to you and will destroy them.”


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The Lord heard them and helped them conquer the Canaanites. So the Israelites completely destroyed them and their cities, and named the place Hormah.


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The Snake Made of Bronze
The Israelites left Mount Hor by the road that leads to the Gulf of Aqaba, in order to go around the territory of Edom. But on the way the people lost their patience


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and spoke against God and Moses. They complained, “Why did you bring us out of Egypt to die in this desert, where there is no food or water? We can't stand any more of this miserable food!”


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The people came to Moses and said, “We sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Now pray to the Lord to take these snakes away.” So Moses prayed for the people.


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Then the Lord told Moses to make a metal snake and put it on a pole, so that anyone who was bitten could look at it and be healed.


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So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole. Anyone who had been bitten would look at the bronze snake and be healed.


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After leaving that place, they camped at the ruins of Abarim in the wilderness east of Moabite territory.


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From there they moved again and camped on the north side of the Arnon River, in the wilderness which extends into Amorite territory. (The Arnon was the border between the Moabites and the Amorites.)


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That is why The Book of the Lord's Battles speaks of “… the town of Waheb in the area of Suphah, and the valleys; the Arnon River,


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From there they went on to a place called Wells, where the Lord said to Moses, “Bring the people together, and I will give them water.”


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At that time the people of Israel sang this song:
“Wells, produce your water;
And we will greet it with a song—


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The well dug by princes
And by leaders of the people,
Dug with a royal scepter
And with their walking sticks.”
They moved from the wilderness to Mattanah,


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and from Bamoth to the valley in the territory of the Moabites, below the top of Mount Pisgah, looking out over the desert.


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Victory over King Sihon and King Og
Then the people of Israel sent messengers to the Amorite king Sihon to say:


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“Let us pass through your land. We and our cattle will not leave the road and go into your fields or vineyards, and we will not drink water from your wells; we will stay on the main road until we are out of your territory.”


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But Sihon would not permit the people of Israel to pass through his territory. He gathered his army and went out to Jahaz in the wilderness and attacked the Israelites.


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But the Israelites killed many of the enemy in battle and occupied their land from the Arnon River north to the Jabbok, that is, to the Ammonites, because the Ammonite border was strongly defended.


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So the people of Israel captured all the Amorite cities, including Heshbon and all the surrounding towns, and settled in them.


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Heshbon was the capital city of the Amorite king Sihon, who had fought against the former king of Moab and had captured all his land as far as the Arnon River.


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That is why the poets sing,
“Come to Heshbon, to King Sihon's city!
We want to see it rebuilt and restored.


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Once from this city of Heshbon
Sihon's army went forth like a fire;
It destroyed the city of Ar in Moab
And devoured the hills of the upper Arnon.


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How terrible for you, people of Moab!
You worshipers of Chemosh are brought to ruin!
Your god let the men become refugees,
And the women became captives of the Amorite king.


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But now their descendants are destroyed,
All the way from Heshbon to Dibon,
From Nashim to Nophah, near Medeba.”


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and Moses sent men to find the best way to attack the city of Jazer. The Israelites captured it and its surrounding towns and drove out the Amorites living there.


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Then the Israelites turned and took the road to Bashan, and King Og of Bashan marched out with his army to attack them at Edrei.


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The Lord said to Moses, “Do not be afraid of him. I will give you victory over him, all his people, and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon, the Amorite king who ruled at Heshbon.”


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So the Israelites killed Og, his sons, and all his people, leaving no survivors, and then they occupied his land.


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The King of Moab Sends for Balaam
The Israelites moved on and set up camp in the plains of Moab east of the Jordan and opposite Jericho.


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When the king of Moab, Balak son of Zippor, heard what the Israelites had done to the Amorites and how many Israelites there were,


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The Moabites said to the leaders of the Midianites, “This horde will soon destroy everything around us, like a bull eating the grass in a pasture.” So King Balak


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sent messengers to summon Balaam son of Beor, who was at Pethor near the Euphrates River in the land of Amaw. They brought him this message from Balak: “I want you to know that a whole nation has come from Egypt; its people are spreading out everywhere and threatening to take over our land.


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They outnumber us, so please come and put a curse on them for me. Then perhaps we will be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land. I know that when you pronounce a blessing, people are blessed, and when you pronounce a curse, they are placed under a curse.”


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So the Moabite and Midianite leaders took with them the payment for the curse, went to Balaam, and gave him Balak's message.


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Balaam said to them, “Spend the night here, and tomorrow I will report to you whatever the Lord tells me.” So the Moabite leaders stayed with Balaam.


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that a people who came from Egypt has spread out over the whole land. He wants me to curse them for him, so that he can fight them and drive them out.”


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God said to Balaam, “Do not go with them, and do not put a curse on the people of Israel, because they have my blessing.”


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The next morning Balaam went to Balak's messengers and said, “Go back home; the Lord has refused to let me go with you.”


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They went to Balaam and gave him this message from Balak: “Please don't let anything prevent you from coming to me!


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But Balaam answered, “Even if Balak gave me all the silver and gold in his palace, I could not disobey the command of the Lord my God in even the smallest matter.


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But please spend the night, as the others did, so that I may learn whether or not the Lord has something else to tell me.”


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That night God came to Balaam and said, “If these men have come to ask you to go with them, get ready and go, but do only what I tell you.”


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Balaam and His Donkey
God was angry that Balaam was going, and as Balaam was riding along on his donkey, accompanied by his two servants, the angel of the Lord stood in the road to bar his way.


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When the donkey saw the angel standing there holding a sword, it left the road and turned into the fields. Balaam beat the donkey and brought it back onto the road.


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Then the angel stood where the road narrowed between two vineyards and had a stone wall on each side.


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When the donkey saw the angel, it moved over against the wall and crushed Balaam's foot against it. Again Balaam beat the donkey.


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Once more the angel moved ahead; he stood in a narrow place where there was no room at all to pass on either side.


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This time, when the donkey saw the angel, it lay down. Balaam lost his temper and began to beat the donkey with his stick.


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Then the Lord gave the donkey the power of speech, and it said to Balaam, “What have I done to you? Why have you beaten me these three times?”


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The donkey replied, “Am I not the same donkey on which you have ridden all your life? Have I ever treated you like this before?”
“No,” he answered.


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Then the Lord let Balaam see the angel standing there with his sword; and Balaam threw himself face downward on the ground.


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The angel demanded, “Why have you beaten your donkey three times like this? I have come to bar your way, because you should not be making this journey.


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But your donkey saw me and turned aside three times. If it hadn't, I would have killed you and spared the donkey.”


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Balaam replied, “I have sinned. I did not know that you were standing in the road to oppose me; but now if you think it is wrong for me to go on, I will return home.”


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But the angel said, “Go on with these men, but say only what I tell you to say.” So Balaam went on with them.


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Balak Welcomes Balaam
When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went to meet him at Ar, a city on the Arnon River at the border of Moab.


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Balak said to him, “Why didn't you come when I sent for you the first time? Did you think I wasn't able to reward you enough?”


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Balaam answered, “I came, didn't I? But now, what power do I have? I can say only what God tells me to say.”


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where Balak slaughtered cattle and sheep and gave some of the meat to Balaam and the leaders who were with him.


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Balaam's First Prophecy
The next morning Balak took Balaam up to Bamoth Baal, from where Balaam could see a part of the people of Israel.


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Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I go to see whether or not the Lord will meet me. I will tell you whatever he reveals to me.” So he went alone to the top of a hill,


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and God met him. Balaam said to him, “I have built the seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each.”


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Balaam uttered this prophecy:
“Balak king of Moab has brought me
From Syria, from the eastern mountains.
‘Come speak for me,’ he said.
‘Put a curse on the people of Israel.’


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From the high rocks I can see them;
I can watch them from the hills.
They are a nation that lives alone;
They know they are blessed more than other nations.


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The descendants of Israel are like the dust—
There are too many of them to be counted.
Let me end my days like one of God's people;
Let me die in peace like the righteous.”


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Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you here to curse my enemies, but all you have done is bless them.”


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Balaam's Second Prophecy
Then Balak said to Balaam, “Come with me to another place from which you can see only some of the Israelites. Curse them for me from there.”


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He took him to the field of Zophim on the top of Mount Pisgah. There also he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each of them.


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So he went back and found Balak still standing by his burnt offering, with the leaders of Moab. Balak asked what the Lord had said,


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God is not like people, who lie;
He is not a human who changes his mind.
Whatever he promises, he does;
He speaks, and it is done.


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I foresee that Israel's future
Will bring her no misfortune or trouble.
The Lord their God is with them;
They proclaim that he is their king.


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There is no magic charm, no witchcraft,
That can be used against the nation of Israel.
Now people will say about Israel,
‘Look what God has done!’


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The nation of Israel is like a mighty lion:
It doesn't rest until it has torn and devoured,
Until it has drunk the blood of those it has killed.”


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Then Balak said to Balaam, “You refuse to curse the people of Israel, but at least don't bless them!”


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Balaam's Third Prophecy
Balak said, “Come with me, and I will take you to another place. Perhaps God will be willing to let you curse them for me from there.”


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By now Balaam knew that the Lord wanted him to bless the people of Israel, so he did not go to look for omens, as he had done before. He turned toward the desert


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and he uttered this prophecy:
“The message of Balaam son of Beor,
The words of the man who can see clearly,


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Like long rows of palms
Or gardens beside a river,
Like aloes planted by the Lord
Or cedars beside the water.


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They will have abundant rainfall
And plant their seed in well-watered fields.
Their king shall be greater than Agag,
And his rule shall be extended far and wide.


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God brought them out of Egypt;
He fights for them like a wild ox.
They devour their enemies,
Crush their bones, smash their arrows.


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The nation is like a mighty lion;
When it is sleeping, no one dares wake it.
Whoever blesses Israel will be blessed,
And whoever curses Israel will be cursed.”


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Balak clenched his fists in anger and said to Balaam, “I called you to curse my enemies, but three times now you have blessed them instead.


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even if you gave me all the silver and gold in your palace, I could not disobey the command of the Lord by doing anything of myself. I will say only what the Lord tells me to say.”


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Balaam's Final Prophecies
Balaam said to Balak, “Now I am going back to my own people, but before I go, I am warning you what the people of Israel will do to your people in the future.”


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Then he uttered this prophecy:
“The message of Balaam son of Beor,
The words of the man who can see clearly,


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Who can hear what God is saying
And receive the knowledge that comes from the Most High.
With staring eyes I see in a trance
A vision from Almighty God.


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I look into the future,
And I see the nation of Israel.
A king, like a bright star, will arise in that nation.
Like a comet he will come from Israel.
He will strike the leaders of Moab
And beat down all the people of Seth.


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He will conquer his enemies in Edom
And make their land his property,
While Israel continues victorious.


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Then in his vision Balaam saw the Amalekites and uttered this prophecy:
“Amalek was the most powerful nation of all,
But at the end it will perish forever.”


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In his vision he saw the Kenites, and uttered this prophecy:
“The place where you live is secure,
Safe as a nest set high on a cliff,


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Invaders will sail from Cyprus;
They will conquer Assyria and Eber,
But they, in turn, will perish forever.”


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The People of Israel at Peor
When the Israelites were camped at Acacia Valley, the men began to have sexual intercourse with the Moabite women who were there.


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These women invited them to sacrificial feasts, where the god of Moab was worshiped. The Israelites ate the food and worshiped the god


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and said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of Israel and, in obedience to me, execute them in broad daylight, and then I will no longer be angry with the people.”


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Moses said to the officials, “Each of you is to kill every man in your tribe who has become a worshiper of Baal of Peor.”


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One of the Israelites took a Midianite woman into his tent in the sight of Moses and the whole community, while they were mourning at the entrance of the Tent of the Lord's presence.


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When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest, saw this, he got up and left the assembly. He took a spear,


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followed the man and the woman into the tent, and drove the spear through both of them. In this way the epidemic that was destroying Israel was stopped,


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“Because of what Phinehas has done, I am no longer angry with the people of Israel. He refused to tolerate the worship of any god but me, and that is why I did not destroy them in my anger.


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He and his descendants are permanently established as priests, because he did not tolerate any rivals to me and brought about forgiveness for the people's sin.”


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The name of the Israelite who was killed with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the head of a family in the tribe of Simeon.


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because of the evil they did to you when they deceived you at Peor, and because of Cozbi, who was killed at the time of the epidemic at Peor.”


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“Take a census by families of the whole community of Israel, of all men twenty years old or older who are fit for military service.”


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Moses and Eleazar obeyed and called together all the men of that age group. They assembled in the plains of Moab across the Jordan River from Jericho.
These were the Israelites who came out of Egypt:


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and his sons Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. (These are the Dathan and Abiram who were chosen by the community. They defied Moses and Aaron and joined the followers of Korah when they rebelled against the Lord.


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The ground opened and swallowed them, and they died with Korah and his followers when fire destroyed 250 men; they became a warning to the people.


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The tribe of Judah: the clans of Shelah, Perez, Zerah, Hezron, and Hamul. (Two of Judah's sons, Er and Onan, had died in the land of Canaan.)


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The tribe of Manasseh. Machir son of Manasseh was the father of Gilead, and the following clans traced their ancestry to Gilead:


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Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons, but only daughters; their names were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.


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Divide the land by drawing lots, and give a large share to a large tribe and a small one to a small tribe.”


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Their descendants included the subclans of Libni, Hebron, Mahli, Mushi, and Korah. Kohath was the father of Amram,


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who was married to Levi's daughter Jochebed, who was born in Egypt. She bore Amram two sons, Aaron and Moses, and a daughter, Miriam.


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The male Levites who were one month old or older numbered 23,000. They were listed separately from the rest of the Israelites, because they were not given any property in Israel.


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All these clans were listed by Moses and Eleazar when they took a census of the Israelites in the plains of Moab across the Jordan River from Jericho.


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There was not even one man left among those whom Moses and Aaron had listed in the first census in the Sinai Desert.


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The Lord had said that all of them would die in the wilderness, and except for Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun they all did.


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The Daughters of Zelophehad
Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah were the daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, son of Joseph.


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They went and stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders, and the whole community at the entrance of the Tent of the Lord's presence and said,


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“Our father died in the wilderness without leaving any sons. He was not among the followers of Korah, who rebelled against the Lord; he died because of his own sin.


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Just because he had no sons, why should our father's name disappear from Israel? Give us property among our father's relatives.”


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“What the daughters of Zelophehad request is right; give them property among their father's relatives. Let his inheritance pass on to them.


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Tell the people of Israel that whenever a man dies without leaving a son, his daughter is to inherit his property.


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If he has no brothers or uncles, then his nearest relative is to inherit it and hold it as his own property. The people of Israel are to observe this as a legal requirement, just as I, the Lord, have commanded you.”


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Joshua Is Chosen as Successor to Moses
The Lord said to Moses, “Go up the Abarim Mountains and look out over the land that I am giving to the Israelites.


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because both of you rebelled against my command in the wilderness of Zin. When the whole community complained against me at Meribah, you refused to acknowledge my holy power before them.” (Meribah is the spring at Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)


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Have him stand in front of Eleazar the priest and the whole community, and there before them all proclaim him as your successor.


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He will depend on Eleazar the priest, who will learn my will by using the Urim and Thummim. In this way Eleazar will direct Joshua and the whole community of Israel in all their affairs.”


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Moses did as the Lord had commanded him. He had Joshua stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole community.


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As the Lord had commanded, Moses put his hands on Joshua's head and proclaimed him as his successor.


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to instruct the Israelites to present to God at the appointed times the required food offerings that are pleasing to him.


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These are the food offerings that are to be presented to the Lord: for the daily burnt offering, two one-year-old male lambs without any defects.


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This is the daily offering that is completely burned, which was first offered at Mount Sinai as a food offering, an odor pleasing to the Lord.


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In the evening offer the second lamb in the same way as the morning offering, together with its wine offering. It also is a food offering, an odor pleasing to the Lord.


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The Sabbath Offering
On the Sabbath day offer two one-year-old male lambs without any defects, 4 pounds of flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering, and the wine offering.


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This burnt offering is to be offered every Sabbath in addition to the daily offering with its wine offering.


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The Offering on the First Day of the Month
Present a burnt offering to the Lord at the beginning of each month: two young bulls, one ram, seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.


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As a grain offering, offer flour mixed with olive oil: with each bull, 6 pounds of flour; with the ram, 4 pounds;


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and with each lamb, 2 pounds. These burnt offerings are food offerings, an odor pleasing to the Lord.


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The proper wine offering is 4 pints of wine with each bull, 3 pints with the ram, and 2 pints with each lamb. This is the regulation for the burnt offering for the first day of each month throughout the year.


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And in addition to the daily burnt offering with its wine offering, offer one male goat as a sin offering.


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The Offerings at the Festival of Unleavened Bread
The Passover Festival in honor of the Lord is to be held on the fourteenth day of the first month.


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On the fifteenth day a religious festival begins which lasts seven days, during which only bread prepared without yeast is to be eaten.


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Offer a burnt offering as a food offering to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.


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Offer the proper grain offering of flour mixed with olive oil: 6 pounds with each bull, 4 pounds with the ram,


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Also offer one male goat as a sin offering, and in this way perform the ritual of purification for the people.


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In the same way, for seven days offer to the Lord a food offering, an odor pleasing to him. Offer this in addition to the daily burnt offering and wine offering.


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The Offerings at the Harvest Festival
On the first day of the Harvest Festival, when you present the offering of new grain to the Lord, you are to gather for worship, and no work is to be done.


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Offer a burnt offering as an odor pleasing to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.


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The Offerings at the New Year Festival
On the first day of the seventh month you are to gather for worship, and no work is to be done. On that day trumpets are to be blown.


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Present a burnt offering to the Lord, an odor pleasing to him: one young bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.


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Offer the proper grain offering of flour mixed with olive oil: 6 pounds of flour with the bull, 4 pounds with the ram,


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Offer these in addition to the regular burnt offering for the first day of the month with its grain offering, and the daily burnt offering with its grain offering and wine offering. These food offerings are an odor pleasing to the Lord.


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The Offerings at the Day of Atonement
Gather for worship on the tenth day of the seventh month; eat no food and do no work.


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Offer a burnt offering to the Lord, an odor pleasing to him: one young bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.


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Also offer one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the goat offered in the ritual of purification for the people, and the daily burnt offering with its grain offering and wine offering.


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The Offerings at the Festival of Shelters
Gather for worship on the fifteenth day of the seventh month. Celebrate this festival in honor of the Lord for seven days and do no work.


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On this first day offer a food offering to the Lord, an odor pleasing to him: thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.


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Offer the proper grain offering of flour mixed with olive oil: 6 pounds of flour with each bull, 4 pounds with each ram,


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Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. Offer these in addition to the daily burnt offering with its grain offering and wine offering.


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On the second day offer twelve young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.


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On the third day offer eleven young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.


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On the fourth day offer ten young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.


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On the fifth day offer nine young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.


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On the sixth day offer eight young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.


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On the seventh day offer seven young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.


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Offer a burnt offering as a food offering to the Lord, an odor pleasing to him: one young bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.


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These are the regulations concerning the burnt offerings, grain offerings, wine offerings, and fellowship offerings that you are to make to the Lord at your appointed festivals. These are in addition to the offerings you give in fulfillment of a vow or as freewill offerings.


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When a man makes a vow to give something to the Lord or takes an oath to abstain from something, he must not break his promise, but must do everything that he said he would.


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When a young woman still living in her father's house makes a vow to give something to the Lord or promises to abstain from something,


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she must do everything that she vowed or promised unless her father raises an objection when he hears about it.


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But if her father forbids her to fulfill the vow when he hears about it, she is not required to keep it. The Lord will forgive her, because her father refused to let her keep it.


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If an unmarried woman makes a vow, whether deliberately or carelessly, or promises to abstain from something, and then marries,


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she must do everything that she vowed or promised unless her husband raises an objection when he hears about it.


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But if her husband forbids her to fulfill the vow when he hears about it, she is not required to keep it. The Lord will forgive her.


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A widow or a divorced woman must keep every vow she makes and every promise to abstain from something.


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But if her husband forbids her to fulfill the vow when he hears about it, she is not required to keep it. The Lord will forgive her, because her husband prevented her from keeping her vow.


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But if, by the day after he hears of the vow, he has raised no objection, she must do everything that she has vowed or promised. He has affirmed the vow by not objecting on the day he heard of it.


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These are the rules that the Lord gave Moses concerning vows made by an unmarried woman living in her father's house or by a married woman.


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“Punish the Midianites for what they did to the people of Israel. After you have done that, you will die.”


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So Moses said to the people, “Get ready for war, so that you can attack Midian and punish them for what they did to the Lord.


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Moses sent them to war under the command of Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, who took charge of the sacred objects and the trumpets for giving signals.


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including the five kings of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba. They also killed Balaam son of Beor.


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The people of Israel captured the Midianite women and children, took their cattle and their flocks, plundered all their wealth,


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and brought them to Moses and Eleazar and to the community of the people of Israel, who were at the camp on the plains of Moab across the Jordan from Jericho.


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The Army Returns
Moses, Eleazar, and all the other leaders of the community went out of the camp to meet the army.


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Moses became angry with the officers, the commanders of battalions and companies, who had returned from the war.


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Remember that it was the women who followed Balaam's instructions and at Peor led the people to be unfaithful to the Lord. That was what brought the epidemic on the Lord's people.


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Now all of you who have killed anyone or have touched a corpse must stay outside the camp for seven days. On the third day and on the seventh day purify yourselves and the women you have captured.


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Eleazar the priest said to the men who had returned from battle, “These are the regulations that the Lord has given to Moses.


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Everything that will not burn, such as gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, or lead, is to be purified by passing it through fire. Everything else is to be purified by the water for purification.


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On the seventh day you must wash your clothes; then you will be ritually clean and will be permitted to enter the camp.”


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“You and Eleazar, together with the other leaders of the community, are to count everything that has been captured, including the prisoners and the animals.


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Divide what was taken into two equal parts, one part for the soldiers and the other part for the rest of the community.


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From the part that belongs to the soldiers, withhold as a tax for the Lord one out of every five hundred prisoners and the same proportion of the cattle, donkeys, sheep, and goats.


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From the part given to the rest of the people, take one out of every fifty prisoners and the same proportion of the cattle, donkeys, sheep, and goats. Give them to the Levites who are in charge of the Lord's Tent.”


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The following is a list of what was captured by the soldiers, in addition to what they kept for themselves: 675,000 sheep and goats, 72,000 cattle, 61,000 donkeys, and 32,000 virgins.


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The half share of the soldiers was 337,500 sheep and goats, of which 675 were the tax for the Lord; 36,000 cattle for the soldiers, of which 72 were the tax for the Lord; 30,500 donkeys for the soldiers, of which 61 were the tax for the Lord; and 16,000 virgins for the soldiers, of which 32 were the tax for the Lord.


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The share of the community was the same as that for the soldiers: 337,500 sheep and goats, 36,000 cattle, 30,500 donkeys, and 16,000 virgins.


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From this share Moses took one out of every fifty prisoners and animals, and as the Lord had commanded, gave them to the Levites who were in charge of the Lord's Tent.


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So we are bringing the gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces that each of us has taken. We offer them to the Lord as a payment for our lives, so that he will protect us.”


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So Moses and Eleazar took the gold to the Tent, so that the Lord would protect the people of Israel.


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The Tribes East of the Jordan
The tribes of Reuben and Gad had a lot of livestock. When they saw how suitable the land of Jazer and Gilead was for cattle,


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“This region which the Lord has helped the Israelites occupy—the towns of Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sibmah, Nebo, and Beon—is good land for livestock, and we have so much livestock.


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Please give us this land as our property, and do not make us cross the Jordan River and settle there.”


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How dare you try to discourage the people of Israel from crossing the Jordan into the land which the Lord has given them?


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They went as far as Eshcol Valley and saw the land, but when they returned, they discouraged the people from entering the land which the Lord had given them.


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‘I swear that because they did not remain loyal to me, none of the men twenty years old or older who came out of Egypt will enter the land that I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’


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This included everyone, except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun; they remained loyal to the Lord.


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The Lord became angry with the people and made them wander in the wilderness forty years until that whole generation that had displeased him was dead.


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And now you have taken your ancestors' place, a new generation of sinful people ready to bring down the fierce anger of the Lord on Israel again.


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If you people of Reuben and Gad refuse to follow him now, he will once again abandon all these people in the wilderness, and you will be responsible for their destruction.”


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They approached Moses and said, “First, allow us to build stone enclosures here for our sheep and fortified towns for our dependents.


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Then we will be ready to go with the other Israelites into battle and lead the attack until we have settled them in the land that will be theirs. In the meantime, our dependents can live here in the fortified towns, safe from the people of this land.


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We will not return to our homes until all the other Israelites have taken possession of the land assigned to them.


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We will not take possession of any property among them on the other side of the Jordan, because we have received our share here east of the Jordan.”


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Moses answered, “If you really mean what you say, then here in the presence of the Lord get ready to go into battle.


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All your fighting men are to cross the Jordan and under the command of the Lord they are to attack our enemies until the Lord defeats them


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and takes possession of the land. After that, you may return, because you will have fulfilled your obligation to the Lord and to the other Israelites. Then the Lord will acknowledge that this land east of the Jordan is yours.


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But if you do not keep your promise, I warn you that you will be sinning against the Lord. Make no mistake about it; you will be punished for your sin.


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But all of us are ready to go into battle under the Lord's command. We will cross the Jordan and fight, just as you have said.”


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“If the men of Gad and Reuben cross the Jordan ready for battle at the Lord's command and if with their help you are able to conquer the land, then give them the land of Gilead as their property.


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But if they do not cross the Jordan and go into battle with you, they are to receive their share of the property in the land of Canaan, as you do.”


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Under his command we will cross into the land of Canaan and go into battle, so that we can retain our property here east of the Jordan.”


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So Moses assigned to the tribes of Gad and Reuben and to half the tribe of Manasseh all the territory of King Sihon of the Amorites and King Og of Bashan, including the towns and the country around them.


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The clan of Machir son of Manasseh invaded the land of Gilead, occupied it, and drove out the Amorites who were there.


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Jair, of the tribe of Manasseh, attacked and captured some villages and named them “Villages of Jair.”


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The Journey from Egypt to Moab
The following account gives the names of the places where the Israelites set up camp after they left Egypt in their tribes under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.


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The people of Israel left Egypt on the fifteenth day of the first month of the year, the day after the first Passover. Under the Lord's protection they left the city of Rameses in full view of the Egyptians,


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who were burying the first-born sons that the Lord had killed. By doing this, the Lord showed that he was more powerful than the gods of Egypt.


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They left Pi Hahiroth and passed through the Red Sea into the desert of Shur; after a three days' march they camped at Marah.


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From there they went to Elim, where they camped, because there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees there.


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From Rephidim to Mount Hor they set up camp at the following places: the Sinai Desert, Kibroth Hattaavah (or “Graves of Craving”), Hazeroth, Rithmah, Rimmon Perez, Libnah, Rissah, Kehelathah, Mount Shepher, Haradah, Makheloth, Tahath, Terah, Mithkah, Hashmonah, Moseroth, Bene Jaakan, Hor Haggidgad, Jotbathah, Abronah, Eziongeber, the wilderness of Zin (that is, Kadesh), and Mount Hor, at the edge of the land of Edom.


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At the command of the Lord, Aaron the priest climbed Mount Hor. At the age of 123 he died there on the first day of the fifth month of the fortieth year after the Israelites had left Egypt.


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From Mount Hor to the plains of Moab the Israelites set up camp at the following places: Zalmonah, Punon, Oboth, the ruins of Abarim in the territory of Moab, Dibon Gad, Almon Diblathaim, the Abarim Mountains near Mount Nebo, and in the plains of Moab across the Jordan River from Jericho, between Beth Jeshimoth and Acacia Valley.


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Instructions before Crossing the Jordan
There in the plains of Moab across the Jordan from Jericho the Lord gave Moses


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you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land. Destroy all their stone and metal idols and all their places of worship.


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Divide the land among the various tribes and clans by drawing lots, giving a large piece of property to a large clan and a small one to a small clan.


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But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those that are left will be as troublesome as splinters in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they will fight against you.


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the following instructions for the people of Israel: “When you enter Canaan, the land which I am giving you, the borders of your territory will be as follows.


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The southern border will extend from the wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom. It will begin on the east at the southern end of the Dead Sea.


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Then it will turn southward toward Akrabbim Pass and continue on through Zin as far south as Kadesh Barnea. Then it will turn northwest to Hazar Addar and on to Azmon,


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It will then go south to Harbel, east of Ain, and on to the hills on the eastern shore of Lake Galilee,


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So Moses said to the Israelites, “This is the land that you will receive by drawing lots, the land that the Lord has assigned to the nine and one-half tribes.


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The tribes of Reuben and Gad and the eastern half of Manasseh have received their property, divided according to their families,


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These are the men the Lord chose:
Tribe
Leader
Judah
Caleb son of Jephunneh
Simeon
Shelumiel son of Ammihud
Benjamin
Elidad son of Chislon
Dan
Bukki son of Jogli
Manasseh
Hanniel son of Ephod
Ephraim
Kemuel son of Shiphtan
Zebulun
Elizaphan son of Parnach
Issachar
Paltiel son of Azzan
Asher
Ahihud son of Shelomi
Naphtali
Pedahel son of Ammihud


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These are the men that the Lord assigned to divide the property for the people of Israel in the land of Canaan.


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The Cities Assigned to the Levites
In the plains of Moab across the Jordan from Jericho the Lord said to Moses,


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“Tell the Israelites that from the property they receive they must give the Levites some cities to live in and pasture land around the cities.


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These cities will belong to the Levites, and they will live there. The pasture land will be for their cattle and all their other animals.


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so that there is a square area measuring one thousand yards on each side, with the city in the middle.


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You are to give the Levites six cities of refuge to which any of you can escape if you kill someone accidentally. In addition, give them forty-two other cities


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The number of Levite cities in each tribe is to be determined according to the size of its territory.”


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There you will be safe from the dead person's relative who seeks revenge. No one accused of manslaughter is to be put to death without a public trial.


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These will serve as cities of refuge for Israelites and for foreigners who are temporary or permanent residents. Anyone who kills someone accidentally can escape to one of them.


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“If, however, any of you use a weapon of iron or stone or wood to kill someone, you are guilty of murder and are to be put to death.


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The dead person's nearest relative has the responsibility for putting the murderer to death. When he finds you, he is to kill you.


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or by striking him with your fist, you are guilty of murder and are to be put to death. The dead person's nearest relative has the responsibility for putting the murderer to death. When he finds you, he is to kill you.


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“But suppose you accidentally kill someone you do not hate, whether by pushing him down or by throwing something at him.


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Or suppose that, without looking, you throw a stone that kills someone whom you did not intend to hurt and who was not your enemy.


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In such cases the community shall judge in your favor and not in favor of the dead person's relative who is seeking revenge.


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You are guilty only of manslaughter, and the community is to rescue you from the dead person's relative, and they are to return you to the city of refuge to which you had escaped. You must live there until the death of the man who is then High Priest.


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Any of you guilty of manslaughter must remain in the city of refuge until the death of the High Priest, but after that you may return home.


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“Those accused of murder may be found guilty and put to death only on the evidence of two or more witnesses; the evidence of one witness is not sufficient to support an accusation of murder.


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If they have fled to a city of refuge, do not allow them to make a payment in order to return home before the death of the High Priest.


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If you did this, you would defile the land where you are living. Murder defiles the land, and except by the death of the murderer there is no way to perform the ritual of purification for the land where someone has been murdered.


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Do not defile the land where you are living, because I am the Lord and I live among the people of Israel.”


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The Inheritance of Married Women
The heads of the families in the clan of Gilead, the son of Machir and grandson of Manasseh son of Joseph, went to Moses and the other leaders.


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They said, “The Lord commanded you to distribute the land to the people of Israel by drawing lots. He also commanded you to give the property of our relative Zelophehad to his daughters.


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But remember, if they marry men of another tribe, their property will then belong to that tribe, and the total allotted to us will be reduced.


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In the Year of Restoration, when all property that has been sold is restored to its original owners, the property of Zelophehad's daughters will be permanently added to the tribe into which they marry and will be lost to our tribe.”


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So Moses gave the people of Israel the following command from the Lord. He said, “What the tribe of Manasseh says is right,


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and so the Lord says that the daughters of Zelophehad are free to marry anyone they wish but only within their own tribe.


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Every woman who inherits property in an Israelite tribe must marry a man belonging to that tribe. In this way all Israelites will inherit the property of their ancestors,


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and the property will not pass from one tribe to another. Each tribe will continue to possess its own property.”


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So Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, did as the Lord had commanded Moses, and they married their cousins.


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They married within the clans of the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their property remained in their father's tribe.


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These are the rules and regulations that the Lord gave the Israelites through Moses in the plains of Moab across the Jordan River from Jericho.


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Introduction
In this book are the words that Moses spoke to the people of Israel when they were in the wilderness east of the Jordan River. They were in the Jordan Valley near Suph, between the town of Paran on one side and the towns of Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab on the other.


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(It takes eleven days to travel from Mount Sinai to Kadesh Barnea by way of the hill country of Edom.)


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On the first day of the eleventh month of the fortieth year after they had left Egypt, Moses told the people everything the Lord had commanded him to tell them.


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This was after the Lord had defeated King Sihon of the Amorites, who ruled in the town of Heshbon, and King Og of Bashan, who ruled in the towns of Ashtaroth and Edrei.


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It was while the people were east of the Jordan in the territory of Moab that Moses began to explain God's laws and teachings.
He said,


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“When we were at Mount Sinai, the Lord our God said to us, ‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain.


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Break camp and move on. Go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all the surrounding regions—to the Jordan Valley, to the hill country and the lowlands, to the southern region, and to the Mediterranean coast. Go to the land of Canaan and on beyond the Lebanon Mountains as far as the great Euphrates River.


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All of this is the land which I, the Lord, promised to give to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants. Go and occupy it.’”


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Moses Appoints Judges
Moses said to the people, “While we were still at Mount Sinai, I told you, ‘The responsibility for leading you is too much for me. I can't do it alone.


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May the Lord, the God of your ancestors, make you increase a thousand times more and make you prosperous, as he promised!


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Choose some wise, understanding, and experienced men from each tribe, and I will put them in charge of you.’


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So I took the wise and experienced leaders you chose from your tribes, and I placed them in charge of you. Some were responsible for a thousand people, some for a hundred, some for fifty, and some for ten. I also appointed other officials throughout the tribes.


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“At that time I instructed them, ‘Listen to the disputes that come up among your people. Judge every dispute fairly, whether it concerns only your own people or involves foreigners who live among you.


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Show no partiality in your decisions; judge everyone on the same basis, no matter who they are. Do not be afraid of anyone, for the decisions you make come from God. If any case is too difficult for you, bring it to me, and I will decide it.’


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The Spies Are Sent Out from Kadesh Barnea
“We did what the Lord our God commanded us. We left Mount Sinai and went through that vast and fearful desert on the way to the hill country of the Amorites. When we reached Kadesh Barnea,


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I told you, ‘You have now come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God, the God of our ancestors, is giving us. Look, there it is. Go and occupy it as he commanded. Do not hesitate or be afraid.’


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“But you came to me and said, ‘Let's send men ahead of us to spy out the land, so that they can tell us the best route to take and what kind of cities are there.’


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They brought us back some fruit they found there, and reported that the land which the Lord our God was giving us was very fertile.


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You grumbled to one another: ‘The Lord hates us. He brought us out of Egypt just to hand us over to these Amorites, so that they could kill us.


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Why should we go there? We are afraid. The men we sent tell us that the people there are stronger and taller than we are, and that they live in cities with walls that reach the sky. They saw giants there!’


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and in the desert. You saw how he brought you safely all the way to this place, just as a father would carry his son.’


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even though he always went ahead of you to find a place for you to camp. To show you the way, he went in front of you in a pillar of fire by night and in a pillar of cloud by day.


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The Lord Punishes Israel
“The Lord heard your complaints and became angry, and so he solemnly declared,


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‘Not one of you from this evil generation will enter the fertile land that I promised to give your ancestors.


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Only Caleb son of Jephunneh will enter it. He has remained faithful to me, and I will give him and his descendants the land that he has explored.’


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Because of you the Lord also became angry with me and said, ‘Not even you, Moses, will enter the land.


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But strengthen the determination of your helper, Joshua son of Nun. He will lead Israel to occupy the land.’


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“Then the Lord said to all of us, ‘Your children, who are still too young to know right from wrong, will enter the land—the children you said would be seized by your enemies. I will give the land to them, and they will occupy it.


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“You replied, ‘Moses, we have sinned against the Lord. But now we will attack, just as the Lord our God commanded us.’ Then each one of you got ready to fight, thinking it would be easy to invade the hill country.


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“But the Lord said to me, ‘Warn them not to attack, for I will not be with them, and their enemies will defeat them.’


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I told you what the Lord had said, but you paid no attention. You rebelled against him, and in your pride you marched into the hill country.


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Then the Amorites who lived in those hills came out against you like a swarm of bees. They chased you as far as Hormah and defeated you there in the hill country of Edom.


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we finally turned and went into the desert, on the road to the Gulf of Aqaba, as the Lord had commanded, and we spent a long time wandering about in the hill country of Edom.


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He told me to give you the following instructions ‘You are about to go through the hill country of Edom, the territory of your distant relatives, the descendants of Esau. They will be afraid of you,


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but you must not start a war with them, because I am not going to give you so much as a square foot of their land. I have given Edom to Esau's descendants.


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“Remember how the Lord your God has blessed you in everything that you have done. He has taken care of you as you wandered through this vast desert. He has been with you these forty years, and you have had everything you needed.


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“So we moved on and left the road that goes from the towns of Elath and Eziongeber to the Dead Sea, and we turned northeast toward Moab.


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The Lord said to me, ‘Don't trouble the people of Moab, the descendants of Lot, or start a war against them. I have given them the city of Ar, and I am not going to give you any of their land.’”


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(A mighty race of giants called the Emim used to live in Ar. They were as tall as the Anakim, another race of giants.


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The Horites used to live in Edom, but the descendants of Esau chased them out, destroyed their nation, and settled there themselves, just as the Israelites later chased their enemies out of the land that the Lord gave them.)


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This was thirty-eight years after we had left Kadesh Barnea. All the fighting men of that generation had died, as the Lord had said they would.


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You will then be near the land of the Ammonites, the descendants of Lot. Don't trouble them or start a war against them, because I am not going to give you any of the land that I have given them.’”


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(This territory is also known as the land of the Rephaim, the name of the people who used to live there; the Ammonites called them Zamzummim.


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They were as tall as the Anakim. There were many of them, and they were a mighty race. But the Lord destroyed them, so that the Ammonites took over their land and settled there.


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The Lord had done the same thing for the Edomites, the descendants of Esau, who live in the hill country of Edom. He destroyed the Horites, so that the Edomites took over their land and settled there, where they still live.


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The land along the Mediterranean coast had been settled by people from the island of Crete. They had destroyed the Avvim, the original inhabitants, and had taken over all their land as far south as the city of Gaza.)


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“After we had passed through Moab, the Lord told us, ‘Now, start out and cross the Arnon River. I am placing in your power Sihon, the Amorite king of Heshbon, along with his land. Attack him, and begin occupying his land.


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From today on I will make people everywhere afraid of you. Everyone will tremble with fear at the mention of your name.’


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Israel Defeats King Sihon
“Then I sent messengers from the desert of Kedemoth to King Sihon of Heshbon with the following offer of peace:


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We will pay for the food we eat and the water we drink. All we want to do is to pass through your country,


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until we cross the Jordan River into the land that the Lord our God is giving us. The descendants of Esau, who live in Edom, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, allowed us to pass through their territory.’


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“But King Sihon would not let us pass through his country. The Lord your God had made him stubborn and rebellious, so that we could defeat him and take his territory, which we still occupy.


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“Then the Lord said to me, ‘Look, I have made King Sihon and his land helpless before you; take his land and occupy it.’


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At the same time we captured and destroyed every town, and put everyone to death, men, women, and children. We left no survivors.


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The Lord our God let us capture all the towns from Aroer, on the edge of the Arnon Valley, and the city in the middle of that valley, all the way to Gilead. No town had walls too strong for us.


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But we did not go near the territory of the Ammonites or to the banks of the Jabbok River or to the towns of the hill country or to any other place where the Lord our God had commanded us not to go.


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Israel Conquers King Og
“Next, we moved north toward the region of Bashan, and King Og came out with all his men to fight us near the town of Edrei.


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But the Lord said to me, ‘Don't be afraid of him. I am going to give him, his men, and all his territory to you. Do the same thing to him that you did to Sihon the Amorite king who ruled in Heshbon.’


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At the same time we captured all his towns—there was not one that we did not take. In all we captured sixty towns—the whole region of Argob, where King Og of Bashan ruled.


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All these towns were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars to lock the gates, and there were also many villages without walls.


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We destroyed all the towns and put to death all the men, women, and children, just as we did in the towns that belonged to King Sihon of Heshbon.


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“At that time we took from those two Amorite kings the land east of the Jordan River, from the Arnon River to Mount Hermon.


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We took all the territory of King Og of Bashan: the cities on the plateau, the regions of Gilead and of Bashan, as far east as the towns of Salecah and Edrei.”


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(King Og was the last of the Rephaim. His coffin, made of stone, was six feet wide and almost fourteen feet long, according to standard measurements. It can still be seen in the Ammonite city of Rabbah.)


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The Tribes That Settled East of the Jordan
“When we took possession of the land, I assigned to the tribes of Reuben and Gad the territory north of the town of Aroer near the Arnon River and part of the hill country of Gilead, along with its towns.


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To half the tribe of Manasseh I assigned the rest of Gilead and also all of Bashan, where Og had ruled, that is, the entire Argob region.”
(Bashan was known as the land of the Rephaim.


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Jair, from the tribe of Manasseh, took the entire region of Argob, that is, Bashan, as far as the border of Geshur and Maacah. He named the villages after himself, and they are still known as the villages of Jair.)


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And to the tribes of Reuben and Gad I assigned the territory from Gilead to the Arnon River. The middle of the river was their southern boundary, and their northern boundary was the Jabbok River, part of which formed the Ammonite border.


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On the west their territory extended to the Jordan River, from Lake Galilee in the north down to the Dead Sea in the south and to the foot of Mount Pisgah on the east.


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“At the same time, I gave them the following instructions: ‘The Lord our God has given you this land east of the Jordan to occupy. Now arm your fighting men and send them across the Jordan ahead of the other tribes of Israel, to help them occupy their land.


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Only your wives, children, and livestock—I know you have a lot of livestock—will remain behind in the towns that I have assigned to you.


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Help the other Israelites until they occupy the land that the Lord is giving them west of the Jordan and until the Lord lets them live there in peace, as he has already done here for you. After that, you may return to this land that I have assigned to you.’


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“Then I instructed Joshua: ‘You have seen all that the Lord your God did to those two kings, Sihon and Og; and he will do the same thing to everyone else whose land you invade.


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‘Sovereign Lord, I know that you have shown me only the beginning of the great and wonderful things you are going to do. There is no god in heaven or on earth who can do the mighty things that you have done!


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Let me cross the Jordan River, Lord, and see the fertile land on the other side, the beautiful hill country and the Lebanon Mountains.’


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“But because of you people the Lord was angry with me and would not listen. Instead, he said, ‘That's enough! Don't mention this again!


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Go to the peak of Mount Pisgah and look to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west. Look carefully at what you see, because you will never go across the Jordan.


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Give Joshua his instructions. Strengthen his determination, because he will lead the people across to occupy the land that you see.’


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Moses Urges Israel to Be Obedient
Then Moses said to the people, “Obey all the laws that I am teaching you, and you will live and occupy the land which the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.


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Do not add anything to what I command you, and do not take anything away. Obey the commands of the Lord your God that I have given you.


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“I have taught you all the laws, as the Lord my God told me to do. Obey them in the land that you are about to invade and occupy.


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Obey them faithfully, and this will show the people of other nations how wise you are. When they hear of all these laws, they will say, ‘What wisdom and understanding this great nation has!’


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“No other nation, no matter how great, has a god who is so near when they need him as the Lord our God is to us. He answers us whenever we call for help.


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Be on your guard! Make certain that you do not forget, as long as you live, what you have seen with your own eyes. Tell your children and your grandchildren


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about the day you stood in the presence of the Lord your God at Mount Sinai, when he said to me, ‘Assemble the people. I want them to hear what I have to say, so that they will learn to obey me as long as they live and so that they will teach their children to do the same.’


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“Tell your children how you went and stood at the foot of the mountain which was covered with thick clouds of dark smoke and fire blazing up to the sky.


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Tell them how the Lord spoke to you from the fire, how you heard him speaking but did not see him in any form at all.


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He told you what you must do to keep the covenant he made with you—you must obey the Ten Commandments, which he wrote on two stone tablets.


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The Lord told me to teach you all the laws that you are to obey in the land that you are about to invade and occupy.


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Warning against Idolatry
“When the Lord spoke to you from the fire on Mount Sinai, you did not see any form. For your own good, then, make certain


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Do not be tempted to worship and serve what you see in the sky—the sun, the moon, and the stars. The Lord your God has given these to all other peoples for them to worship.


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But you are the people he rescued from Egypt, that blazing furnace. He brought you out to make you his own people, as you are today.


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Because of you the Lord your God was angry with me and solemnly declared that I would not cross the Jordan River to enter the fertile land which he is giving you.


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I will die in this land and never cross the river, but you are about to go across and occupy that fertile land.


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Be certain that you do not forget the covenant that the Lord your God made with you. Obey his command not to make yourselves any kind of idol,


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“Even when you have been in the land a long time and have children and grandchildren, do not sin by making for yourselves an idol in any form at all. This is evil in the Lord's sight, and it will make him angry.


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I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that, if you disobey me, you will soon disappear from the land. You will not live very long in the land across the Jordan that you are about to occupy. You will be completely destroyed.


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There you will serve gods made by human hands, gods of wood and stone, gods that cannot see or hear, eat or smell.


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There you will look for the Lord your God, and if you search for him with all your heart, you will find him.


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When you are in trouble and all those things happen to you, then you will finally turn to the Lord and obey him.


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He is a merciful God. He will not abandon you or destroy you, and he will not forget the covenant that he himself made with your ancestors.


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“Search the past, the time before you were born, all the way back to the time when God created human beings on the earth. Search the entire earth. Has anything as great as this ever happened before? Has anyone ever heard of anything like this?


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Has any god ever dared to go and take a people from another nation and make them his own, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt? Before your very eyes he used his great power and strength; he brought plagues and war, worked miracles and wonders, and caused terrifying things to happen.


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He let you hear his voice from heaven so that he could instruct you; and here on earth he let you see his holy fire, and he spoke to you from it.


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Because he loved your ancestors, he chose you, and by his great power he himself brought you out of Egypt.


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As you advanced, he drove out nations greater and more powerful than you, so that he might bring you in and give you their land, the land which still belongs to you.


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Obey all his laws that I have given you today, and all will go well with you and your descendants. You will continue to live in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to be yours forever.”


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to which a man could escape and be safe if he had accidentally killed someone who had not been his enemy. He could escape to one of these cities and not be put to death.


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For the tribe of Reuben there was the city of Bezer, on the desert plateau; for the tribe of Gad there was Ramoth, in the territory of Gilead; and for the tribe of Manasseh there was Golan, in the territory of Bashan.


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Introduction to the Giving of God's Law
Moses gave God's laws and teachings to the people of Israel.


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It was after they had come out of Egypt and were in the valley east of the Jordan River, opposite the town of Bethpeor, that he gave them these laws. This was in the territory that had belonged to King Sihon of the Amorites, who had ruled in the town of Heshbon. Moses and the people of Israel defeated him when they came out of Egypt.


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They occupied his land and the land of King Og of Bashan, the other Amorite king who lived east of the Jordan.


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This land extended from the town of Aroer, on the edge of the Arnon River, all the way north to Mount Sirion, that is, Mount Hermon.


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It also included all the region east of the Jordan River as far south as the Dead Sea and east to the foot of Mount Pisgah.


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The Ten Commandments
Moses called together all the people of Israel and said to them, “People of Israel, listen to all the laws that I am giving you today. Learn them and be sure that you obey them.


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I stood between you and the Lord at that time to tell you what he said, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain.
“The Lord said,


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“‘Do not make for yourselves images of anything in heaven or on earth or in the water under the earth.


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Do not bow down to any idol or worship it, for I am the Lord your God and I tolerate no rivals. I bring punishment on those who hate me and on their descendants down to the third and fourth generation.


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“‘Do not use my name for evil purposes, for I, the Lord your God, will punish anyone who misuses my name.


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but the seventh day is a day of rest dedicated to me. On that day no one is to work—neither you, your children, your slaves, your animals, nor the foreigners who live in your country. Your slaves must rest just as you do.


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Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and that I, the Lord your God, rescued you by my great power and strength. That is why I command you to observe the Sabbath.


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“‘Respect your father and your mother, as I, the Lord your God, command you, so that all may go well with you and so that you may live a long time in the land that I am giving you.


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“‘Do not desire another man's wife; do not desire his house, his land, his slaves, his cattle, his donkeys, or anything else that he owns.’


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“These are the commandments the Lord gave to all of you when you were gathered at the mountain. When he spoke with a mighty voice from the fire and from the thick clouds, he gave these commandments and no others. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.


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The People's Fear
“When the whole mountain was on fire and you heard the voice from the darkness, your leaders and the chiefs of your tribes came to me


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and said, ‘The Lord our God showed us his greatness and his glory when we heard him speak from the fire! Today we have seen that it is possible for people to continue to live, even though God has spoken to them.


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But why should we risk death again? That terrible fire will destroy us. We are sure to die if we hear the Lord our God speak again.


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Go back, Moses, and listen to everything that the Lord our God says. Then return and tell us what he said to you. We will listen and obey.’


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If only they would always feel this way! If only they would always honor me and obey all my commands, so that everything would go well with them and their descendants forever.


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But you, Moses, stay here with me, and I will give you all my laws and commands. Teach them to the people, so that they will obey them in the land that I am giving them.’


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“People of Israel, be sure that you do everything that the Lord your God has commanded you. Do not disobey any of his laws.


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Obey them all, so that everything will go well with you and so that you will continue to live in the land that you are going to occupy.


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The Great Commandment
“These are all the laws that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you. Obey them in the land that you are about to enter and occupy.


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As long as you live, you and your descendants are to honor the Lord your God and obey all his laws that I am giving you, so that you may live in that land a long time.


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Listen to them, people of Israel, and obey them! Then all will go well with you, and you will become a mighty nation and live in that rich and fertile land, just as the Lord, the God of our ancestors, has promised.


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Teach them to your children. Repeat them when you are at home and when you are away, when you are resting and when you are working.


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Warning against Disobedience
“Just as the Lord your God promised your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, he will give you a land with large and prosperous cities which you did not build.


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The houses will be full of good things which you did not put in them, and there will be wells that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive orchards that you did not plant. When the Lord brings you into this land and you have all you want to eat,


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If you do worship other gods, the Lord's anger will come against you like fire and will destroy you completely, because the Lord your God, who is present with you, tolerates no rivals.


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Do what the Lord says is right and good, and all will go well with you. You will be able to take possession of the fertile land that the Lord promised your ancestors,


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“In times to come your children will ask you, ‘Why did the Lord our God command us to obey all these laws?’


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With our own eyes we saw him work miracles and do terrifying things to the Egyptians and to their king and to all his officials.


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He freed us from Egypt to bring us here and give us this land, as he had promised our ancestors he would.


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Then the Lord our God commanded us to obey all these laws and to honor him. If we do, he will always watch over our nation and keep it prosperous.


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The Lord's Own People
“The Lord your God will bring you into the land that you are going to occupy, and he will drive many nations out of it. As you advance, he will drive out seven nations larger and more powerful than you: the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.


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When the Lord your God places these people in your power and you defeat them, you must put them all to death. Do not make an alliance with them or show them any mercy.


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because then they would lead your children away from the Lord to worship other gods. If that happens, the Lord will be angry with you and destroy you at once.


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So then, tear down their altars, break their sacred stone pillars in pieces, cut down their symbols of the goddess Asherah, and burn their idols.


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Do this because you belong to the Lord your God. From all the peoples on earth he chose you to be his own special people.


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“The Lord did not love you and choose you because you outnumbered other peoples; you were the smallest nation on earth.


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But the Lord loved you and wanted to keep the promise that he made to your ancestors. That is why he saved you by his great might and set you free from slavery to the king of Egypt.


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Remember that the Lord your God is the only God and that he is faithful. He will keep his covenant and show his constant love to a thousand generations of those who love him and obey his commands,


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The Blessings of Obedience
“If you listen to these commands and obey them faithfully, then the Lord your God will continue to keep his covenant with you and will show you his constant love, as he promised your ancestors.


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He will love you and bless you, so that you will increase in number and have many children; he will bless your fields, so that you will have grain, wine, and olive oil; and he will bless you by giving you many cattle and sheep. He will give you all these blessings in the land that he promised your ancestors he would give to you.


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No people in the world will be as richly blessed as you. None of you nor any of your livestock will be sterile.


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The Lord will protect you from all sickness, and he will not bring on you any of the dreadful diseases that you experienced in Egypt, but he will bring them on all your enemies.


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Destroy every nation that the Lord your God places in your power, and do not show them any mercy. Do not worship their gods, for that would be fatal.


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Do not be afraid of them; remember what the Lord your God did to the king of Egypt and to all his people.


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Remember the terrible plagues that you saw with your own eyes, the miracles and wonders, and the great power and strength by which the Lord your God set you free. In the same way that he destroyed the Egyptians, he will destroy all these people that you now fear.


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So do not be afraid of these people. The Lord your God is with you; he is a great God and one to be feared.


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Little by little he will drive out these nations as you advance. You will not be able to destroy them all at once, for, if you did, the number of wild animals would increase and be a threat to you.


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He will put their kings in your power. You will kill them, and they will be forgotten. No one will be able to stop you; you will destroy everyone.


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Burn their idols. Do not desire the silver or gold that is on them, and do not take it for yourselves. If you do, that will be fatal, because the Lord hates idolatry.


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Do not bring any of these idols into your homes, or the same curse will be on you that is on them. You must hate and despise these idols, because they are under the Lord's curse.


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A Good Land to Be Possessed
“Obey faithfully all the laws that I have given you today, so that you may live, increase in number, and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors.


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Remember how the Lord your God led you on this long journey through the desert these past forty years, sending hardships to test you, so that he might know what you intended to do and whether you would obey his commands.


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He made you go hungry, and then he gave you manna to eat, food that you and your ancestors had never eaten before. He did this to teach you that you must not depend on bread alone to sustain you, but on everything that the Lord says.


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Remember that the Lord your God corrects and punishes you just as parents discipline their children.


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The Lord your God is bringing you into a fertile land—a land that has rivers and springs, and underground streams gushing out into the valleys and hills;


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There you will never go hungry or ever be in need. Its rocks have iron in them, and from its hills you can mine copper.


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You will have all you want to eat, and you will give thanks to the Lord your God for the fertile land that he has given you.


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Warnings against Forgetting the Lord
“Make certain that you do not forget the Lord your God; do not fail to obey any of his laws that I am giving you today.


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and when your cattle and sheep, your silver and gold, and all your other possessions have increased,


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be sure that you do not become proud and forget the Lord your God who rescued you from Egypt, where you were slaves.


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He led you through that vast and terrifying desert where there were poisonous snakes and scorpions. In that dry and waterless land he made water flow out of solid rock for you.


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In the desert he gave you manna to eat, food that your ancestors had never eaten. He sent hardships on you to test you, so that in the end he could bless you with good things.


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Remember that it is the Lord your God who gives you the power to become rich. He does this because he is still faithful today to the covenant that he made with your ancestors.


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Never forget the Lord your God or turn to other gods to worship and serve them. If you do, then I warn you today that you will certainly be destroyed.


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If you do not obey the Lord, then you will be destroyed just like those nations that he is going to destroy as you advance.


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The People's Disobedience
“Listen, people of Israel! Today you are about to cross the Jordan River and occupy the land belonging to nations greater and more powerful than you. Their cities are large, with walls that reach the sky.


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The people themselves are tall and strong; they are giants, and you have heard it said that no one can stand against them.


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But now you will see for yourselves that the Lord your God will go ahead of you like a raging fire. He will defeat them as you advance, so that you will drive them out and destroy them quickly, as he promised.


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“After the Lord your God has driven them out for you, do not say to yourselves that he brought you in to possess this land because you deserved it. No, the Lord is going to drive these people out for you because they are wicked.


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It is not because you are good and do what is right that the Lord is letting you take their land. He will drive them out because they are wicked and because he intends to keep the promise that he made to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.


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You can be sure that the Lord is not giving you this fertile land because you deserve it. No, you are a stubborn people.


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“Never forget how you made the Lord your God angry in the desert. From the day that you left Egypt until the day you arrived here, you have rebelled against him.


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I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets on which was written the covenant that the Lord had made with you. I stayed there forty days and nights and did not eat or drink anything.


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Then the Lord gave me the two stone tablets on which he had written with his own hand what he had said to you from the fire on the day that you were gathered there at the mountain.


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Yes, after those forty days and nights the Lord gave me the two stone tablets on which he had written the covenant.


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“Then the Lord said to me, ‘Go down the mountain at once, because your people, whom you led out of Egypt, have become corrupt and have done evil. They have already turned away from what I commanded them to do, and they have made an idol for themselves.’


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Don't try to stop me. I intend to destroy them so that no one will remember them any longer. Then I will make you the father of a nation larger and more powerful than they are.’


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“So I turned and went down the mountain, carrying the two stone tablets on which the covenant was written. Flames of fire were coming from the mountain.


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I saw that you had already disobeyed the command that the Lord your God had given you, and that you had sinned against him by making yourselves a metal idol in the form of a bull-calf.


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Then once again I lay face downward in the Lord's presence for forty days and nights and did not eat or drink anything. I did this because you had sinned against the Lord and had made him angry.


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I was afraid of the Lord's fierce anger, because he was furious enough to destroy you; but once again the Lord listened to me.


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I took that sinful thing that you had made—that metal bull-calf—and threw it into the fire. Then I broke it in pieces, ground it to dust, and threw the dust into the stream that flowed down the mountain.


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And when he sent you from Kadesh Barnea with orders to go and take possession of the land that he was giving you, you rebelled against him; you did not trust him or obey him.


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“So I lay face downward in the Lord's presence those forty days and nights, because I knew that he was determined to destroy you.


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And I prayed, ‘Sovereign Lord, don't destroy your own people, the people you rescued and brought out of Egypt by your great strength and power.


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Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and do not pay any attention to the stubbornness, wickedness, and sin of this people.


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Otherwise, the Egyptians will say that you were unable to take your people into the land that you had promised them. They will say that you took your people out into the desert to kill them, because you hated them.


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After all, these are the people whom you chose to be your own and whom you brought out of Egypt by your great power and might.’


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Moses Receives the Commandments Again
“Then the Lord said to me, ‘Cut two stone tablets like the first ones and make a wooden Box to put them in. Come up to me on the mountain,


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and I will write on those tablets what I wrote on the tablets that you broke, and then you are to put them in the Box.’


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“So I made a Box of acacia wood and cut two stone tablets like the first ones and took them up the mountain.


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Then the Lord wrote on those tablets the same words that he had written the first time, the Ten Commandments that he gave you when he spoke from the fire on the day you were gathered at the mountain. The Lord gave me the tablets,


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and I turned and went down the mountain. Then, just as the Lord had commanded, I put them in the Box that I had made—and they have been there ever since.”


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(The Israelites set out from the wells that belonged to the people of Jaakan, and went to Moserah. There Aaron died and was buried, and his son Eleazar succeeded him as priest.


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At that time the Lord appointed the men of the tribe of Levi to be in charge of the Covenant Box, to serve him as priests, and to pronounce blessings in his name. And these are still their duties.


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That is why the tribe of Levi received no land as the other tribes did; what they received was the privilege of being the Lord's priests, as the Lord your God promised.)


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“I stayed on the mountain forty days and nights, as I did the first time. The Lord listened to me once more and agreed not to destroy you.


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Then he told me to go and lead you, so that you could take possession of the land that he had promised to give to your ancestors.


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What God Demands
“Now, people of Israel, listen to what the Lord your God demands of you: Worship the Lord and do all that he commands. Love him, serve him with all your heart,


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But the Lord's love for your ancestors was so strong that he chose you instead of any other people, and you are still his chosen people.


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The Lord your God is supreme over all gods and over all powers. He is great and mighty, and he is to be obeyed. He does not show partiality, and he does not accept bribes.


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He makes sure that orphans and widows are treated fairly; he loves the foreigners who live with our people, and gives them food and clothes.


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Have reverence for the Lord your God and worship only him. Be faithful to him and make your promises in his name alone.


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Praise him—he is your God, and you have seen with your own eyes the great and astounding things that he has done for you.


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When your ancestors went to Egypt, there were only seventy of them. But now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.


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Remember today what you have learned about the Lord through your experiences with him. It was you, not your children, who had these experiences. You saw the Lord's greatness, his power, his might,


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You saw how the Lord completely wiped out the Egyptian army, along with their horses and chariots, by drowning them in the Red Sea when they were pursuing you.


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You recall what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab of the tribe of Reuben. In the sight of everyone the earth opened up and swallowed them, along with their families, their tents, and all their servants and animals.


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The Blessings of the Promised Land
“Obey everything that I have commanded you today. Then you will be able to cross the river and occupy the land that you are about to enter.


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And you will live a long time in the rich and fertile land that the Lord promised to give your ancestors and their descendants.


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The land that you are about to occupy is not like the land of Egypt, where you lived before. There, when you planted grain, you had to work hard to irrigate the fields;


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but the land that you are about to enter is a land of mountains and valleys, a land watered by rain.


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“So then, obey the commands that I have given you today; love the Lord your God and serve him with all your heart.


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If you do, he will send rain on your land when it is needed, in the autumn and in the spring, so that there will be grain, wine, and olive oil for you,


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If you do, the Lord will become angry with you. He will hold back the rain, and your ground will become too dry for crops to grow. Then you will soon die there, even though it is a good land that he is giving you.


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“Remember these commands and cherish them. Tie them on your arms and wear them on your foreheads as a reminder.


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Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you are resting and when you are working.


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Then you and your children will live a long time in the land that the Lord your God promised to give to your ancestors. You will live there as long as there is a sky above the earth.


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“Obey faithfully everything that I have commanded you: Love the Lord your God, do everything he commands, and be faithful to him.


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Then he will drive out all those nations as you advance, and you will occupy the land belonging to nations greater and more powerful than you.


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All the ground that you march over will be yours. Your territory will extend from the desert in the south to the Lebanon Mountains in the north, and from the Euphrates River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.


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Wherever you go in that land, the Lord your God will make the people fear you, as he has promised, and no one will be able to stop you.


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but a curse, if you disobey these commands and turn away to worship other gods that you have never worshiped before.


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When the Lord brings you into the land that you are going to occupy, you are to proclaim the blessing from Mount Gerizim and the curse from Mount Ebal.


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(These two mountains are west of the Jordan River in the territory of the Canaanites who live in the Jordan Valley. They are toward the west, not far from the sacred trees of Moreh near the town of Gilgal.)


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You are about to cross the Jordan River and occupy the land that the Lord your God is giving you. When you take it and settle there,


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The One Place for Worship
“Here are the laws that you are to obey as long as you live in the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you. Listen to them!


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In the land that you are taking, destroy all the places where the people worship their gods on high mountains, on hills, and under green trees.


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Tear down their altars and smash their sacred stone pillars to pieces. Burn their symbols of the goddess Asherah and chop down their idols, so that they will never again be worshiped at those places.


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Out of the territory of all your tribes the Lord will choose the one place where the people are to come into his presence and worship him.


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There you are to offer your sacrifices that are to be burned and your other sacrifices, your tithes and your offerings, the gifts that you promise to the Lord, your freewill offerings, and the first-born of your cattle and sheep.


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There, in the presence of the Lord your God, who has blessed you, you and your families will eat and enjoy the good things that you have worked for.


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“When that time comes, you must not do as you have been doing. Until now you have all been worshiping as you please,


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because you have not yet entered the land that the Lord your God is giving you, where you can live in peace.


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When you cross the Jordan River, the Lord will let you occupy the land and live there. He will keep you safe from all your enemies, and you will live in peace.


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The Lord will choose a single place where he is to be worshiped, and there you must bring to him everything that I have commanded: your sacrifices that are to be burned and your other sacrifices, your tithes and your offerings, and those special gifts that you have promised to the Lord.


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Be joyful there in his presence, together with your children, your servants, and the Levites who live in your towns; remember that the Levites will have no land of their own.


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you must offer them only in the one place that the Lord will choose in the territory of one of your tribes. Only there are you to offer your sacrifices that are to be burned and do all the other things that I have commanded you.


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“But you are free to kill and eat your animals wherever you live. You may eat as many as the Lord gives you. All of you, whether ritually clean or unclean, may eat them, just as you would eat the meat of deer or antelope.


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Nothing that you offer to the Lord is to be eaten in the places where you live: neither the tithes of your grain, your wine, or your olive oil, nor the first-born of your cattle and sheep, the gifts that you promise to the Lord, your freewill offerings, or any other offerings.


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You and your children, together with your servants and the Levites who live in your towns, are to eat these offerings only in the presence of the Lord your God, in the one place of worship chosen by the Lord your God. And you are to be happy there over everything that you have done.


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“When the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised, you may eat meat whenever you want to.


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If the one place of worship is too far away, then, whenever you wish, you may kill any of the cattle or sheep that the Lord has given you, and you may eat the meat at home, as I have told you.


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Anyone, ritually clean or unclean, may eat that meat, just as he would eat the meat of deer or antelope.


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Only do not eat meat with blood still in it, for the life is in the blood, and you must not eat the life with the meat.


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If you obey this command, the Lord will be pleased, and all will go well for you and your descendants.


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Offer there the sacrifices which are to be completely burned on the Lord's altar. Also offer those sacrifices in which you eat the meat and pour the blood out on the altar.


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Obey faithfully everything that I have commanded you, and all will go well for you and your descendants forever, because you will be doing what is right and what pleases the Lord your God.


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Warning against Idolatry
“The Lord your God will destroy the nations as you invade their land, and you will occupy it and settle there.


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After the Lord destroys those nations, make sure that you don't follow their religious practices, because that would be fatal. Don't try to find out how they worship their gods, so that you can worship in the same way.


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Do not worship the Lord your God in the way they worship their gods, for in the worship of their gods they do all the disgusting things that the Lord hates. They even sacrifice their children in the fires on their altars.


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in order to lead you to worship and serve gods that you have not worshiped before. Even if what they promise comes true,


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do not pay any attention to them. The Lord your God is using them to test you, to see if you love the Lord with all your heart.


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But put to death any interpreters of dreams or prophets that tell you to rebel against the Lord, who rescued you from Egypt, where you were slaves. Such people are evil and are trying to lead you away from the life that the Lord has commanded you to live. They must be put to death, in order to rid yourselves of this evil.


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“Even your brother or your son or your daughter or the wife you love or your closest friend may secretly encourage you to worship other gods, gods that you and your ancestors have never worshiped.


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Some of them may encourage you to worship the gods of the people who live near you or the gods of those who live far away.


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But do not let any of them persuade you; do not even listen to them. Show them no mercy or pity, and do not protect them.


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Stone them to death! They tried to lead you away from the Lord your God, who rescued you from Egypt, where you were slaves.


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Then all the people of Israel will hear what happened; they will be afraid, and no one will ever again do such an evil thing.


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that some worthless people of your nation have misled the people of their town to worship gods that you have never worshiped before.


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If you hear such a rumor, investigate it thoroughly; and if it is true that this evil thing did happen,


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Bring together all the possessions of the people who live there and pile them up in the town square. Then burn the town and everything in it as an offering to the Lord your God. It must be left in ruins forever and never again be rebuilt.


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Do not keep for yourselves anything that was condemned to destruction, and then the Lord will turn from his fierce anger and show you mercy. He will be merciful to you and make you a numerous people, as he promised your ancestors,


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A Forbidden Mourning Practice
“You are the people of the Lord your God. So when you mourn for the dead, don't gash yourselves or shave the front of your head, as other people do.


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You belong to the Lord your God; he has chosen you to be his own people from among all the peoples who live on earth.


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But no animals may be eaten unless they have divided hoofs and also chew the cud. You may not eat camels, rabbits, or rock badgers. They must be considered unclean; they chew the cud but do not have divided hoofs.


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Do not eat pigs. They must be considered unclean; they have divided hoofs but do not chew the cud. Do not eat any of these animals or even touch their dead bodies.


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but anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales may not be eaten; it must be considered unclean.


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But these are the kinds of birds you are not to eat: eagles, owls, hawks, falcons; buzzards, vultures, crows; ostriches; seagulls, storks, herons, pelicans, cormorants; hoopoes; and bats.


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“Do not eat any animal that dies a natural death. You may let the foreigners who live among you eat it, or you may sell it to other foreigners. But you belong to the Lord your God; you are his people.
“Do not cook a young sheep or goat in its mother's milk.


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Then go to the one place where the Lord your God has chosen to be worshiped; and there in his presence eat the tithes of your grain, wine, and olive oil, and the first-born of your cattle and sheep. Do this so that you may learn to honor the Lord your God always.


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If the place of worship is too far from your home for you to carry there the tithe of the produce that the Lord has blessed you with, then do this:


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Spend it on whatever you want—beef, lamb, wine, beer—and there, in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your families are to eat and enjoy yourselves.


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This food is for the Levites, since they own no property, and for the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your towns. They are to come and get all they need. Do this, and the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.


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The Seventh Year
“At the end of every seventh year you are to cancel the debts of those who owe you money.


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This is how it is to be done. Each of you who has lent money to any Israelite is to cancel the debt; you must not try to collect the money; the Lord himself has declared the debt canceled.


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You may collect what a foreigner owes you, but you must not collect what any of your own people owe you.


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“The Lord your God will bless you in the land that he is giving you. Not one of your people will be poor


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The Lord will bless you, as he has promised. You will lend money to many nations, but you will not have to borrow from any; you will have control over many nations, but no nation will have control over you.


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“If in any of the towns in the land that the Lord your God is giving you there are Israelites in need, then do not be selfish and refuse to help them.


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Do not refuse to lend them something, just because the year when debts are canceled is near. Do not let such an evil thought enter your mind. If you refuse to make the loan, they will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be held guilty.


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There will always be some Israelites who are poor and in need, and so I command you to be generous to them.


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The Treatment of Slaves
“If any Israelites, male or female, sell themselves to you as slaves, you are to release them after they have served you for six years. When the seventh year comes, you must let them go free.


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Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the Lord your God set you free; that is why I am now giving you this command.


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Then take him to the door of your house and there pierce his ear; he will then be your slave for life. Treat your female slave in the same way.


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Do not be resentful when you set slaves free; after all, they have served you for six years at half the cost of hired servants. Do this, and the Lord your God will bless you in all that you do.


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The First-Born Cattle and Sheep
“Set aside for the Lord your God all the first-born males of your cattle and sheep; don't use any of these cattle for work and don't shear any of these sheep.


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But if there is anything wrong with the animals, if they are crippled or blind or have any other serious defect, you must not sacrifice them to the Lord your God.


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You may eat such animals at home. All of you, whether ritually clean or unclean, may eat them, just as you eat deer or antelope.


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The Passover
“Honor the Lord your God by celebrating Passover in the month of Abib; it was on a night in that month that he rescued you from Egypt.


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Go to the one place of worship and slaughter there one of your sheep or cattle for the Passover meal to honor the Lord your God.


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When you eat this meal, do not eat bread prepared with yeast. For seven days you are to eat bread prepared without yeast, as you did when you had to leave Egypt in such a hurry. Eat this bread—it will be called the bread of suffering—so that as long as you live you will remember the day you came out of Egypt, that place of suffering.


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For seven days no one in your land is to have any yeast in the house; and the meat of the animal killed on the evening of the first day must be eaten that same night.


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“Slaughter the Passover animals at the one place of worship—and nowhere else in the land that the Lord your God will give you. Do it at sunset, the time of day when you left Egypt.


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For the next six days you are to eat bread prepared without yeast, and on the seventh day assemble to worship the Lord your God, and do no work on that day.


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and then celebrate the Harvest Festival, to honor the Lord your God, by bringing him a freewill offering in proportion to the blessing he has given you.


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Be joyful in the Lord's presence, together with your children, your servants, and the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your towns. Do this at the one place of worship.


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The Festival of Shelters
“After you have threshed all your grain and pressed all your grapes, celebrate the Festival of Shelters for seven days.


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Enjoy it with your children, your servants, and the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your towns.


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Honor the Lord your God by celebrating this festival for seven days at the one place of worship. Be joyful, because the Lord has blessed your harvest and your work.


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“All the men of your nation are to come to worship the Lord three times a year at the one place of worship: at Passover, Harvest Festival, and the Festival of Shelters. Each man is to bring a gift


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The Administration of Justice
“Appoint judges and other officials in every town that the Lord your God gives you. These men are to judge the people impartially.


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They are not to be unjust or show partiality in their judgments; and they are not to accept bribes, for gifts blind the eyes even of wise and honest men, and cause them to give wrong decisions.


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Always be fair and just, so that you will occupy the land that the Lord your God is giving you and so that you will continue to live there.


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“When you make an altar for the Lord your God, do not put beside it a wooden symbol of the goddess Asherah.


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“Suppose you hear that in one of your towns some men or women have sinned against the Lord and broken his covenant


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by worshiping and serving other gods or the sun or the moon or the stars, contrary to the Lord's command.


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If you hear such a report, then investigate it thoroughly. If it is true that this evil thing has happened in Israel,


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However, they may be put to death only if two or more witnesses testify against them; they are not to be put to death if there is only one witness.


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The witnesses are to throw the first stones, and then the rest of the people are to stone them; in this way you will get rid of this evil.


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“It may be that some cases will be too difficult for the local judges to decide, such as certain cases of property rights or of bodily injury or those cases that involve a distinction between murder and manslaughter. When this happens, go to the one place of worship chosen by the Lord your God,


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and present your case to the levitical priests and to the judge who is in office at that time, and let them decide the case.


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Anyone who dares to disobey either the judge or the priest on duty is to be put to death; in this way you will remove this evil from Israel.


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Instructions concerning a King
“After you have taken possession of the land that the Lord your God is going to give you and have settled there, then you will decide you need a king like all the nations around you.


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Be sure that the man you choose to be king is the one whom the Lord has chosen. He must be one of your own people; do not make a foreigner your king.


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The king is not to have a large number of horses for his army, and he is not to send people to Egypt to buy horses, because the Lord has said that his people are never to return there.


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The king is not to have many wives, because this would make him turn away from the Lord; and he is not to make himself rich with silver and gold.


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When he becomes king, he is to have a copy of the book of God's laws and teachings made from the original copy kept by the levitical priests.


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He is to keep this book near him and read from it all his life, so that he will learn to honor the Lord and to obey faithfully everything that is commanded in it.


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This will keep him from thinking that he is better than other Israelites and from disobeying the Lord's commands in any way. Then he will reign for many years, and his descendants will rule Israel for many generations.


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The Share of the Priests
“The priestly tribe of Levi is not to receive any share of land in Israel; instead, they are to live on the offerings and other sacrifices given to the Lord.


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They are to own no land, as the other tribes do; their share is the privilege of being the Lord's priests, as the Lord has promised.


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“Whenever cattle or sheep are sacrificed, the priests are to be given the shoulder, the jaw, and the stomach.


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He is to receive the same amount of food as the other priests, and he may keep whatever his family sends him.


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Warning against Pagan Practices
“When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, don't follow the disgusting practices of the nations that are there.


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Don't sacrifice your children in the fires on your altars; and don't let your people practice divination or look for omens or use spells


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The Lord your God hates people who do these disgusting things, and that is why he is driving those nations out of the land as you advance.


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The Promise to Send a Prophet
Then Moses said, “In the land you are about to occupy, people follow the advice of those who practice divination and look for omens, but the Lord your God does not allow you to do this.


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“On the day that you were gathered at Mount Sinai, you begged not to hear the Lord speak again or to see his fiery presence any more, because you were afraid you would die.


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I will send them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will tell him what to say, and he will tell the people everything I command.


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But if any prophet dares to speak a message in my name when I did not command him to do so, he must die for it, and so must any prophet who speaks in the name of other gods.’


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If a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord and what he says does not come true, then it is not the Lord's message. That prophet has spoken on his own authority, and you are not to fear him.


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The Cities of Refuge
“After the Lord your God has destroyed the people whose land he is giving you and after you have taken their cities and houses and settled there,


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divide the territory into three parts, each with a city that can be easily reached. Then any of you that kill will be able to escape to one of them for protection.


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If you accidentally kill someone who is not your enemy, you may escape to any of these cities and be safe.


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For example, if two of you go into the forest together to cut wood and if, as one of you is chopping down a tree, the ax head comes off the handle and kills the other, you can run to one of those three cities and be safe.


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If there were only one city, the distance to it might be too great, and the relative who is responsible for taking revenge for the killing might catch you and angrily kill an innocent person. After all, it was by accident that you killed someone who was not your enemy.


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“When the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he told your ancestors he would, and gives you all the land he has promised,


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then you are to select three more cities. (He will give you this land if you do everything that I command you today and if you love the Lord your God and live according to his teachings.)


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Do this, so that innocent people will not die and so that you will not be guilty of putting them to death in the land that the Lord is giving you.


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“But suppose you deliberately murder your enemy in cold blood and then escape to one of those cities for protection.


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In that case, the leaders of your own town are to send for you and hand you over to the relative responsible for taking revenge for the murder, so that you may be put to death.


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Ancient Property Lines
“Do not move your neighbor's property line, established long ago in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.


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Concerning Witnesses
“One witness is not enough to convict someone of a crime; at least two witnesses are necessary to prove that someone is guilty.


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both of you are to go to the one place of worship and be judged by the priests and judges who are then in office.


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you are to receive the punishment the accused would have received. In this way your nation will get rid of this evil.


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Then everyone else will hear what happened; they will be afraid, and no one will ever again do such an evil thing.


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In such cases show no mercy; the punishment is to be a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, and a foot for a foot.


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Concerning War
“When you go out to fight against your enemies and you see chariots and horses and an army that outnumbers yours, do not be afraid of them. The Lord your God, who rescued you from Egypt, will be with you.


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‘Men of Israel, listen! Today you are going into battle. Do not be afraid of your enemies or lose courage or panic.


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“Then the officers will address the men and say, ‘Is there any man here who has just built a house, but has not yet dedicated it? If so, he is to go home. Otherwise, if he is killed in battle, someone else will dedicate his house.


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Is there any man here who has just planted a vineyard, but has not yet had the chance to harvest its grapes? If so, he is to go home. Otherwise, if he is killed in battle, someone else will enjoy the wine.


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Is there anyone here who is engaged to be married? If so, he is to go home. Otherwise, if he is killed in battle, someone else will marry the woman he is engaged to.’


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“The officers will also say to the men, ‘Is there any man here who has lost his nerve and is afraid? If so, he is to go home. Otherwise, he will destroy the morale of the others.’


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If they open the gates and surrender, they are all to become your slaves and do forced labor for you.


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You may, however, take for yourselves the women, the children, the livestock, and everything else in the city. You may use everything that belongs to your enemies. The Lord has given it to you.


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Completely destroy all the people: the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, as the Lord ordered you to do.


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Kill them, so that they will not make you sin against the Lord by teaching you to do all the disgusting things that they do in the worship of their gods.


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“When you are trying to capture a city, do not cut down its fruit trees, even though the siege lasts a long time. Eat the fruit, but do not destroy the trees; the trees are not your enemies.


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Concerning Unsolved Murders
“Suppose someone is found murdered in a field in the land that the Lord your God is going to give you, and you do not know who killed him.


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Your leaders and judges are to go out and measure the distance from the place where the body was found to each of the nearby towns.


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Then the leaders of the town nearest to where the body was found are to select a young cow that has never been used for work.


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They are to take it down to a spot near a stream that never runs dry and where the ground has never been plowed or planted, and there they are to break its neck.


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The levitical priests are to go there also, because they are to decide every legal case involving violence. The Lord your God has chosen them to serve him and to pronounce blessings in his name.


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Then all the leaders from the town nearest the place where the murdered person was found are to wash their hands over the cow


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Lord, forgive your people Israel, whom you rescued from Egypt. Forgive us and do not hold us responsible for the murder of an innocent person.’


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Concerning Women Prisoners of War
“When the Lord your God gives you victory in battle and you take prisoners,


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and change her clothes. She is to stay in your home and mourn for her parents for a month; after that, you may marry her.


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Later, if you no longer want her, you are to let her go free. Since you forced her to have intercourse with you, you cannot treat her as a slave and sell her.


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Concerning the First Son's Inheritance
“Suppose a man has two wives and they both bear him sons, but the first son is not the child of his favorite wife.


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When the man decides how he is going to divide his property among his children, he is not to show partiality to the son of his favorite wife by giving him the share that belongs to the first-born son.


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He is to give a double share of his possessions to his first son, even though he is not the son of his favorite wife. A man must acknowledge his first son and give him the share he is legally entitled to.


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Concerning a Disobedient Son
“Suppose someone has a son who is stubborn and rebellious, a son who will not obey his parents, even though they punish him.


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They are to say to them, ‘Our son is stubborn and rebellious and refuses to obey us; he wastes money and is a drunkard.’


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Then the men of the city are to stone him to death, and so you will get rid of this evil. Everyone in Israel will hear what has happened and be afraid.


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it is not to remain there overnight. It must be buried the same day, because a dead body hanging on a post brings God's curse on the land. Bury the body, so that you will not defile the land that the Lord your God is giving you.


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But if its owner lives a long way off or if you don't know who owns it, then take it home with you. When its owner comes looking for it, give it to him.


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Do the same thing if you find a donkey, a piece of clothing, or anything else that an Israelite may have lost.


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“If an Israelite's donkey or cow has fallen down, don't ignore it; help him get the animal to its feet again.


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“Women are not to wear men's clothing, and men are not to wear women's clothing; the Lord your God hates people who do such things.


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“If you happen to find a bird's nest in a tree or on the ground with the mother bird sitting either on the eggs or with her young, you are not to take the mother bird.


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You may take the young birds, but you must let the mother bird go, so that you will live a long and prosperous life.


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“When you build a new house, be sure to put a railing around the edge of the roof. Then you will not be responsible if someone falls off and is killed.


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“Do not plant any crop in the same field with your grapevines; if you do, you are forbidden to use either the grapes or the produce of the other crop.


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Laws concerning Sexual Purity
“Suppose a man marries a young woman and later he decides he doesn't want her.


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“If this happens, the young woman's parents are to take the blood-stained wedding sheet that proves she was a virgin, and they are to show it in court to the town leaders.


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Her father will say to them, ‘I gave my daughter to this man in marriage, and now he doesn't want her.


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He has made false charges against her, saying that she was not a virgin when he married her. But here is the proof that my daughter was a virgin; look at the bloodstains on the wedding sheet!’


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They are also to fine him a hundred pieces of silver and give the money to the young woman's father, because the man has brought disgrace on an Israelite woman. Moreover, she will continue to be his wife, and he can never divorce her as long as he lives.


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then they are to take her out to the entrance of her father's house, where the men of her city are to stone her to death. She has done a shameful thing among our people by having intercourse before she was married, while she was still living in her father's house. In this way you will get rid of this evil.


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“If a man is caught having intercourse with another man's wife, both of them are to be put to death. In this way you will get rid of this evil.


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“Suppose a man is caught in a town having intercourse with a young woman who is engaged to someone else.


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You are to take them outside the town and stone them to death. She is to die because she did not cry out for help, although she was in a town, where she could have been heard. And the man is to die because he had intercourse with someone who was engaged. In this way you will get rid of this evil.


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“Suppose a man out in the countryside rapes a young woman who is engaged to someone else. Then only the man is to be put to death;


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nothing is to be done to the woman, because she has not committed a sin worthy of death. This case is the same as when one man attacks another man and murders him.


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The man raped the engaged woman in the countryside, and although she cried for help, there was no one to help her.


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He is to pay her father the bride price of fifty pieces of silver, and she is to become his wife, because he forced her to have intercourse with him. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.


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Exclusion from the Lord's People
“No man who has been castrated or whose penis has been cut off may be included among the Lord's people.


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“No one born out of wedlock or any descendant of such a person, even in the tenth generation, may be included among the Lord's people.


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“No Ammonite or Moabite—or any of their descendants, even in the tenth generation—may be included among the Lord's people.


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They refused to provide you with food and water when you were on your way out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor, from the city of Pethor in Mesopotamia, to curse you.


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But the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam; instead he turned the curse into a blessing, because he loved you.


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“Do not despise the Edomites; they are your relatives. And do not despise the Egyptians; you once lived in their land.


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Keeping the Military Camp Clean
“When you are in camp in time of war, you are to avoid anything that would make you ritually unclean.


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If a man becomes unclean because he has had a wet dream during the night, he is to go outside the camp and stay there.


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Carry a stick as part of your equipment, so that when you have a bowel movement you can dig a hole and cover it up.


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Keep your camp ritually clean, because the Lord your God is with you in your camp to protect you and to give you victory over your enemies. Do not do anything indecent that would cause the Lord to turn his back on you.


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Various Laws
“If slaves run away from their owners and come to you for protection, do not send them back.


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Also, no money earned in this way may be brought into the house of the Lord your God in fulfillment of a vow. The Lord hates temple prostitutes.


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You may charge interest on what you lend to foreigners, but not on what you lend to Israelites. Obey this rule, and the Lord your God will bless everything you do in the land that you are going to occupy.


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“When you make a vow to the Lord your God, do not put off doing what you promised; the Lord will hold you to your vow, and it is a sin not to keep it.


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“When you walk along a path in someone else's vineyard, you may eat all the grapes you want, but you must not carry any away in a container.


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When you walk along a path in someone else's grainfield, you may eat all the grain you can pull off with your hands, but you must not cut any grain with a sickle.


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Divorce and Remarriage
“Suppose a man marries a woman and later decides that he doesn't want her, because he finds something about her that he doesn't like. So he writes out divorce papers, gives them to her, and sends her away from his home.


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and he also decides that he doesn't want her, so he also writes out divorce papers, gives them to her, and sends her away from his home. Or suppose her second husband dies.


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In either case, her first husband is not to marry her again; he is to consider her defiled. If he married her again, it would be offensive to the Lord. You are not to commit such a terrible sin in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.


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Various Laws
“When a man is newly married, he is not to be drafted into military service or any other public duty; he is to be excused from duty for one year, so that he can stay at home and make his wife happy.


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“When you lend someone something, you are not to take as security his millstones used for grinding his grain. This would take away the family's means of preparing food to stay alive.


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“If any of you kidnap Israelites and make them your slaves or sell them into slavery, you are to be put to death. In this way your nation will get rid of this evil.


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“When you are suffering from a dreaded skin disease, be sure to do exactly what the levitical priests tell you; follow the instructions that I have given them.


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“When you lend someone something, do not go into his house to get the garment he is going to give you as security;


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return it to him each evening, so that he can have it to sleep in. Then he will be grateful, and the Lord your God will be pleased with you.


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“Do not cheat poor and needy hired servants, whether they are Israelites or foreigners living in one of your towns.


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Each day before sunset pay them for that day's work; they need the money and have counted on getting it. If you do not pay them, they will cry out against you to the Lord, and you will be guilty of sin.


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“Parents are not to be put to death for crimes committed by their children, and children are not to be put to death for crimes committed by their parents; people are to be put to death only for a crime they themselves have committed.


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“Do not deprive foreigners and orphans of their rights; and do not take a widow's garment as security for a loan.


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Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the Lord your God set you free; that is why I have given you this command.


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“When you gather your crops and fail to bring in some of the grain that you have cut, do not go back for it; it is to be left for the foreigners, orphans, and widows, so that the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.


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When you have picked your olives once, do not go back and get those that are left; they are for the foreigners, orphans, and widows.


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When you have gathered your grapes once, do not go back over the vines a second time; the grapes that are left are for the foreigners, orphans, and widows.


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“Suppose two Israelites go to court to settle a dispute, and one is declared innocent and the other guilty.


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If the guilty one is sentenced to be beaten, the judge is to make him lie face downward and have him whipped. The number of lashes will depend on the crime he has committed.


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Duty to a Dead Brother
“If two brothers live on the same property and one of them dies, leaving no son, then his widow is not to be married to someone outside the family; it is the duty of the dead man's brother to marry her.


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The first son that they have will be considered the son of the dead man, so that his family line will continue in Israel.


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But if the dead man's brother does not want to marry her, she is to go before the town leaders and say, ‘My husband's brother will not do his duty; he refuses to give his brother a descendant among the people of Israel.’


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his brother's widow is to go up to him in the presence of the town leaders, take off one of his sandals, spit in his face, and say, ‘This is what happens to the man who refuses to give his brother a descendant.’


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Other Laws
“If two men are having a fight and the wife of one tries to help her husband by grabbing hold of the other man's genitals,


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Use true and honest weights and measures, so that you may live a long time in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.


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The Command to Kill the Amalekites
“Remember what the Amalekites did to you as you were coming from Egypt.


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They had no fear of God, and so they attacked you from the rear when you were tired and exhausted, and killed all who were straggling behind.


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So then, when the Lord your God has given you the land and made you safe from all your enemies who live around you, be sure to kill all the Amalekites, so that no one will remember them any longer. Do not forget!


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Harvest Offerings
“After you have occupied the land that the Lord your God is giving you and have settled there,


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each of you must place in a basket the first part of each crop that you harvest and you must take it with you to the one place of worship.


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Go to the priest in charge at that time and say to him, ‘I now acknowledge to the Lord my God that I have entered the land that he promised our ancestors to give us.’


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Then, in the Lord's presence you will recite these words: ‘My ancestor was a wandering Aramean, who took his family to Egypt to live. They were few in number when they went there, but they became a large and powerful nation.


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Then we cried out for help to the Lord, the God of our ancestors. He heard us and saw our suffering, hardship, and misery.


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By his great power and strength he rescued us from Egypt. He worked miracles and wonders, and caused terrifying things to happen.


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So now I bring to the Lord the first part of the harvest that he has given me.’
“Then set the basket down in the Lord's presence and worship there.


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Be grateful for the good things that the Lord your God has given you and your family; and let the Levites and the foreigners who live among you join in the celebration.


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“Every third year give the tithe—a tenth of your crops—to the Levites, the foreigners, the orphans, and the widows, so that in every community they will have all they need to eat. When you have done this,


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say to the Lord, ‘None of the sacred tithe is left in my house; I have given it to the Levites, the foreigners, the orphans, and the widows, as you commanded me to do. I have not disobeyed or forgotten any of your commands concerning the tithe.


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I have not eaten any of it when I was mourning; I have not taken any of it out of my house when I was ritually unclean; and I have not given any of it as an offering for the dead. I have obeyed you, O Lord; I have done everything you commanded concerning the tithe.


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Look down from your holy place in heaven and bless your people Israel; bless also the rich and fertile land that you have given us, as you promised our ancestors.’


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The Lord's Own People
“Today the Lord your God commands you to obey all his laws; so obey them faithfully with all your heart.


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Today you have acknowledged the Lord as your God; you have promised to obey him, to keep all his laws, and to do all that he commands.


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Today the Lord has accepted you as his own people, as he promised you; and he commands you to obey all his laws.


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He will make you greater than any other nation that he has created, and you will bring praise and honor to his name. You will be his own people, as he promised.”


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God's Laws Written on Stones
Then Moses, together with the leaders of Israel, said to the people, “Obey all the instructions that I am giving you today.


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On the day you cross the Jordan River and enter the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you are to set up some large stones, cover them with plaster,


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and write on them all these laws and teachings. When you have entered the rich and fertile land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you,


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and you are on the other side of the Jordan, set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I am instructing you today, and cover them with plaster.


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because any altar you build for the Lord your God must be made of uncut stones. There you are to offer the sacrifices that are to be burned,


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and there you are to sacrifice and eat your fellowship offerings and be grateful in the presence of the Lord your God.


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Then Moses, together with the levitical priests, said to all the people of Israel, “Give me your attention, people of Israel, and listen to me. Today you have become the people of the Lord your God;


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“After you have crossed the Jordan, the following tribes are to stand on Mount Gerizim when the blessings are pronounced on the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.


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And the following tribes will stand on Mount Ebal when the curses are pronounced: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.


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“‘God's curse on anyone who makes an idol of stone, wood, or metal and secretly worships it; the Lord hates idolatry.’
“And all the people will answer, ‘Amen!’


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“‘God's curse on anyone who dishonors his father or mother.’
“And all the people will answer, ‘Amen!’


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“‘God's curse on anyone who moves a neighbor's property line.’
“And all the people will answer, ‘Amen!’


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“‘God's curse on anyone who leads a blind person in the wrong direction.’
“And all the people will answer, ‘Amen!’


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“‘God's curse on anyone who deprives foreigners, orphans, and widows of their rights.’
“And all the people will answer, ‘Amen!’


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“‘God's curse on anyone who disgraces his father by having intercourse with any of his father's wives.’
“And all the people will answer, ‘Amen!’


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“‘God's curse on anyone who has sexual relations with an animal.’
“And all the people will answer, ‘Amen!’


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“‘God's curse on anyone who has intercourse with his sister or half sister.’
“And all the people will answer, ‘Amen!’


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“‘God's curse on anyone who has intercourse with his mother-in-law.’
“And all the people will answer, ‘Amen!’


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“‘God's curse on anyone who accepts money to murder an innocent person.’
“And all the people will answer, ‘Amen!’


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“‘God's curse on anyone who does not obey all of God's laws and teachings.’
“And all the people will answer, ‘Amen!’


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The Blessings of Obedience
“If you obey the Lord your God and faithfully keep all his commands that I am giving you today, he will make you greater than any other nation on earth.


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“The Lord will defeat your enemies when they attack you. They will attack from one direction, but they will run from you in all directions.


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“The Lord your God will bless your work and fill your barns with grain. He will bless you in the land that he is giving you.


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“If you obey the Lord your God and do everything he commands, he will make you his own people, as he has promised.


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Then all the peoples on earth will see that the Lord has chosen you to be his own people, and they will be afraid of you.


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The Lord will give you many children, many cattle, and abundant crops in the land that he promised your ancestors to give you.


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He will send rain in season from his rich storehouse in the sky and bless all your work, so that you will lend to many nations, but you will not have to borrow from any.


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The Lord your God will make you the leader among the nations and not a follower; you will always prosper and never fail if you obey faithfully all his commands that I am giving you today.


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The Consequences of Disobedience
“But if you disobey the Lord your God and do not faithfully keep all his commands and laws that I am giving you today, all these evil things will happen to you:


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“If you do evil and reject the Lord, he will bring on you disaster, confusion, and trouble in everything you do, until you are quickly and completely destroyed.


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He will send disease after disease on you until there is not one of you left in the land that you are about to occupy.


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The Lord will strike you with infectious diseases, with swelling and fever; he will send drought and scorching winds to destroy your crops. These disasters will be with you until you die.


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“The Lord will give your enemies victory over you. You will attack them from one direction, but you will run from them in all directions, and all the people on earth will be terrified when they see what happens to you.


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When you die, birds and wild animals will come and eat your bodies, and there will be no one to scare them off.


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The Lord will send boils on you, as he did on the Egyptians. He will make your bodies break out with sores. You will be covered with scabs, and you will itch, but there will be no cure.


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You will grope about in broad daylight like someone blind, and you will not be able to find your way. You will not prosper in anything you do. You will be constantly oppressed and robbed, and there will be no one to help you.


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“You will be engaged to a young woman—but someone else will marry her. You will build a house—but never live in it. You will plant a vineyard—but never eat its grapes.


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Your cattle will be butchered before your very eyes, but you will not eat any of the meat. Your donkeys will be dragged away while you look on, and they will not be given back to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and there will be no one to help you.


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Your sons and daughters will be given as slaves to foreigners while you look on. Every day you will strain your eyes, looking in vain for your children to return.


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A foreign nation will take all the crops that you have worked so hard to grow, while you receive nothing but constant oppression and harsh treatment.


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The Lord will cover your legs with incurable, painful sores; boils will cover you from head to foot.


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“The Lord will take you and your king away to a foreign land, where neither you nor your ancestors ever lived before; there you will serve gods made of wood and stone.


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In the countries to which the Lord will scatter you, the people will be shocked at what has happened to you; they will make fun of you and ridicule you.


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“You will plant plenty of seed, but reap only a small harvest, because the locusts will eat your crops.


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You will plant vineyards and take care of them, but you will not gather their grapes or drink wine from them, because worms will eat the vines.


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Olive trees will grow everywhere in your land, but you will not have any olive oil, because the olives will drop off.


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You will have sons and daughters, but you will lose them, because they will be taken away as prisoners of war.


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They will have money to lend you, but you will have none to lend them. In the end they will be your rulers.


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“All these disasters will come on you, and they will be with you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God and keep all the laws that he gave you.


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So then, you will serve the enemies that the Lord is going to send against you. You will be hungry, thirsty, and naked—in need of everything. The Lord will oppress you harshly until you are destroyed.


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The Lord will bring against you a nation from the ends of the earth, a nation whose language you do not know. They will swoop down on you like an eagle.


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They will eat your livestock and your crops, and you will starve to death. They will not leave you any grain, wine, olive oil, cattle, or sheep; and you will die.


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They will attack every town in the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and the high, fortified walls in which you trust will fall.


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“When your enemies are besieging your towns, you will become so desperate for food that you will even eat the children that the Lord your God has given you.


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Even the most refined man of noble birth will become so desperate during the siege that he will eat some of his own children because he has no other food. He will not even give any to his brother or to the wife he loves or to any of his children who are left.


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Even the most refined woman of noble birth, so rich that she has never had to walk anywhere, will behave in the same way. When the enemy besieges her town, she will become so desperate for food that she will secretly eat her newborn child and the afterbirth as well. She will not share them with the husband she loves or with any of her children.


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“If you do not obey faithfully all of God's teachings that are written in this book and if you do not honor the wonderful and awesome name of the Lord your God,


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he will send on you and on your descendants incurable diseases and horrible epidemics that can never be stopped.


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He will bring on you once again all the dreadful diseases you experienced in Egypt, and you will never recover.


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He will also send all kinds of diseases and epidemics that are not mentioned in this book of God's laws and teachings, and you will be destroyed.


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Although you become as numerous as the stars in the sky, only a few of you will survive, because you did not obey the Lord your God.


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Just as the Lord took delight in making you prosper and in making you increase in number, so he will take delight in destroying you and in bringing ruin on you. You will be uprooted from the land that you are about to occupy.


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“The Lord will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve gods made of wood and stone, gods that neither you nor your ancestors have ever worshiped before.


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You will find no peace anywhere, no place to call your own; the Lord will overwhelm you with anxiety, hopelessness, and despair.


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Your life will always be in danger. Day and night you will be filled with terror, and you will live in constant fear of death.


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Your hearts will pound with fear at everything you see. Every morning you will wish for evening; every evening you will wish for morning.


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The Lord will send you back to Egypt in ships, even though he said that you would never have to go there again. There you will try to sell yourselves to your enemies as slaves, but no one will want to buy you.”


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The Lord's Covenant with Israel in the Land of Moab
These are the terms of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab; all this was in addition to the covenant which the Lord had made with them at Mount Sinai.


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Moses called together all the people of Israel and said to them, “You saw for yourselves what the Lord did to the king of Egypt, to his officials, and to his entire country.


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You did not have bread to eat or wine or beer to drink, but the Lord provided for your needs in order to teach you that he is your God.


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And when we came to this place, King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to fight against us. But we defeated them,


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Obey faithfully all the terms of this covenant, so that you will be successful in everything you do.


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“Today you are standing in the presence of the Lord your God, all of you—your leaders and officials, your men,


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You are here today to enter into this covenant that the Lord your God is making with you and to accept its obligations,


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so that the Lord may now confirm you as his people and be your God, as he promised you and your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.


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He is making it with all of us who stand here in his presence today and also with our descendants who are not yet born.


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“You remember what life was like in Egypt and what it was like to travel through the territory of other nations.


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Make sure that no man, woman, family, or tribe standing here today turns from the Lord our God to worship the gods of other nations. This would be like a root that grows to be a bitter and poisonous plant.


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Make sure that there is no one here today who hears these solemn demands and yet convinces himself that all will be well with him, even if he stubbornly goes his own way. That would destroy all of you, good and evil alike.


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The Lord will not forgive such a man. Instead, the Lord's burning anger will flame up against him, and all the disasters written in this book will fall on him until the Lord has destroyed him completely.


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The Lord will make an example of him before all the tribes of Israel and will bring disaster on him in accordance with all the curses listed in the covenant that is written in this book of the Lord's teachings.


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“In future generations your descendants and foreigners from distant lands will see the disasters and sufferings that the Lord has brought on your land.


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The fields will be a barren waste, covered with sulfur and salt; nothing will be planted, and not even weeds will grow there. Your land will be like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, of Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed when he was furiously angry.


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Then the whole world will ask, ‘Why did the Lord do this to their land? What was the reason for his fierce anger?’


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And the answer will be, ‘It is because the Lord's people broke the covenant they had made with him, the God of their ancestors, when he brought them out of Egypt.


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They served other gods that they had never worshiped before, gods that the Lord had forbidden them to worship.


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And so the Lord became angry with his people and brought on their land all the disasters written in this book.


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The Lord became furiously angry, and in his great anger he uprooted them from their land and threw them into a foreign land, and there they are today.’


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“There are some things that the Lord our God has kept secret; but he has revealed his Law, and we and our descendants are to obey it forever.


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Conditions for Restoration and Blessing
“I have now given you a choice between a blessing and a curse. When all these things have happened to you, and you are living among the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you, you will remember the choice I gave you.


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If you and your descendants will turn back to the Lord and with all your heart obey his commands that I am giving you today,


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then the Lord your God will have mercy on you. He will bring you back from the nations where he has scattered you, and he will make you prosperous again.


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Even if you are scattered to the farthest corners of the earth, the Lord your God will gather you together and bring you back,


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so that you may again take possession of the land where your ancestors once lived. And he will make you more prosperous and more numerous than your ancestors ever were.


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The Lord your God will give you and your descendants obedient hearts, so that you will love him with all your heart, and you will continue to live in that land.


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The Lord will make you prosperous in all that you do; you will have many children and a lot of livestock, and your fields will produce abundant crops. He will be as glad to make you prosperous as he was to make your ancestors prosperous,


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but you will have to obey him and keep all his laws that are written in this book of his teachings. You will have to turn to him with all your heart.


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It is not up in the sky. You do not have to ask, ‘Who will go up and bring it down for us, so that we can hear it and obey it?’


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Nor is it on the other side of the ocean. You do not have to ask, ‘Who will go across the ocean and bring it to us, so that we may hear it and obey it?’


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If you obey the commands of the Lord your God, which I give you today, if you love him, obey him, and keep all his laws, then you will prosper and become a nation of many people. The Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are about to occupy.


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you will be destroyed—I warn you here and now. You will not live long in that land across the Jordan that you are about to occupy.


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I am now giving you the choice between life and death, between God's blessing and God's curse, and I call heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Choose life.


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Love the Lord your God, obey him and be faithful to him, and then you and your descendants will live long in the land that he promised to give your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”


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and said, “I am now a hundred and twenty years old and am no longer able to be your leader. And besides this, the Lord has told me that I will not cross the Jordan.


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The Lord your God himself will go before you and destroy the nations living there, so that you can occupy their land; and Joshua will be your leader, as the Lord has said.


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The Lord will destroy those people, just as he defeated Sihon and Og, kings of the Amorites, and destroyed their country.


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Be determined and confident. Do not be afraid of them. Your God, the Lord himself, will be with you. He will not fail you or abandon you.”


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Then Moses called Joshua and said to him in the presence of all the people of Israel, “Be determined and confident; you are the one who will lead these people to occupy the land that the Lord promised to their ancestors.


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The Lord himself will lead you and be with you. He will not fail you or abandon you, so do not lose courage or be afraid.”


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The Law Is to Be Read Every Seven Years
So Moses wrote down God's Law and gave it to the levitical priests, who were in charge of the Lord's Covenant Box, and to the leaders of Israel.


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He commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, when the year that debts are canceled comes around, read this aloud at the Festival of Shelters.


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Read it to the people of Israel when they come to worship the Lord your God at the one place of worship.


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Call together all the men, women, and children, and the foreigners who live in your towns, so that everyone may hear it and learn to honor the Lord your God and to obey his teachings faithfully.


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In this way your descendants who have never heard the Law of the Lord your God will hear it. And so they will learn to obey him as long as they live in the land that you are about to occupy across the Jordan.”


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The Lord's Last Instructions to Moses
Then the Lord said to Moses, “You do not have much longer to live. Call Joshua and bring him to the Tent, so that I may give him his instructions.” Moses and Joshua went to the Tent,


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The Lord said to Moses, “You will soon die, and after your death the people will become unfaithful to me and break the covenant that I made with them. They will abandon me and worship the pagan gods of the land they are about to enter.


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When that happens, I will become angry with them; I will abandon them, and they will be destroyed. Many terrible disasters will come upon them, and then they will realize that these things are happening to them because I, their God, am no longer with them.


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“Now, write down this song. Teach it to the people of Israel, so that it will stand as evidence against them.


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I will take them into this rich and fertile land, as I promised their ancestors. There they will have all the food they want, and they will live comfortably. But they will turn away and worship other gods. They will reject me and break my covenant,


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and many terrible disasters will come on them. But this song will still be sung, and it will stand as evidence against them. Even now, before I take them into the land that I promised to give them, I know what they are thinking.”


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Then the Lord spoke to Joshua son of Nun and told him, “Be confident and determined. You will lead the people of Israel into the land that I promised them, and I will be with you.”


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“Take this book of God's Law and place it beside the Covenant Box of the Lord your God, so that it will remain there as a witness against his people.


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I know how stubborn and rebellious they are. They have rebelled against the Lord during my lifetime, and they will rebel even more after I am dead.


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Assemble all your tribal leaders and officials before me, so that I can tell them these things; I will call heaven and earth to be my witnesses against them.


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I know that after my death the people will become wicked and reject what I have taught them. And in time to come they will meet with disaster, because they will have made the Lord angry by doing what he has forbidden.”


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My teaching will fall like drops of rain
and form on the earth like dew.
My words will fall like showers on young plants,
like gentle rain on tender grass.


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“The Lord is your mighty defender,
perfect and just in all his ways;
Your God is faithful and true;
he does what is right and fair.


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Is this the way you should treat the Lord,
you foolish, senseless people?
He is your father, your Creator,
he made you into a nation.


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“Think of the past, of the time long ago;
ask your parents to tell you what happened,
ask the old people to tell of the past.


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The Most High assigned nations their lands;
he determined where peoples should live.
He assigned to each nation a heavenly being,


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“He found them wandering through the desert,
a desolate, wind-swept wilderness.
He protected them and cared for them,
as he would protect himself.


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Like an eagle teaching its young to fly,
catching them safely on its spreading wings,
the Lord kept Israel from falling.


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“He let them rule the highlands,
and they ate what grew in the fields.
They found wild honey among the rocks;
their olive trees flourished in stony ground.


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Their cows and goats gave plenty of milk;
they had the best sheep, goats, and cattle,
the finest wheat, and the choicest wine.


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“The Lord's people grew rich, but rebellious;
they were fat and stuffed with food.
They abandoned God their Creator
and rejected their mighty savior.


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They sacrificed to gods that are not real,
new gods their ancestors had never known,
gods that Israel had never obeyed.


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‘I will no longer help them,’ he said;
‘then I will see what happens to them,
those stubborn, unfaithful people.


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With their idols they have made me angry,
jealous with their so-called gods,
gods that are really not gods.
So I will use a so-called nation to make them angry;
I will make them jealous with a nation of fools.


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My anger will flame up like fire
and burn everything on earth.
It will reach to the world below
and consume the roots of the mountains.


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They will die from hunger and fever;
they will die from terrible diseases.
I will send wild animals to attack them,
and poisonous snakes to bite them.


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War will bring death in the streets;
terrors will strike in the homes.
Young men and young women will die;
neither babies nor old people will be spared.


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But I could not let their enemies boast
that they had defeated my people,
when it was I myself who had crushed them.’


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Why were a thousand defeated by one,
and ten thousand by only two?
The Lord, their God, had abandoned them;
their mighty God had given them up.


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The Lord will take revenge and punish them;
the time will come when they will fall;
the day of their doom is near.


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The Lord will rescue his people
when he sees that their strength is gone.
He will have mercy on those who serve him,
when he sees how helpless they are.


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You fed them the fat of your sacrifices
and offered them wine to drink.
Let them come and help you now;
let them run to your rescue.


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“‘I, and I alone, am God;
no other god is real.
I kill and I give life, I wound and I heal,
and no one can oppose what I do.


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;that I will sharpen my flashing sword
and see that justice is done.
I will take revenge on my enemies
and punish those who hate me.


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My arrows will drip with their blood,
and my sword will kill all who oppose me.
I will spare no one who fights against me;
even the wounded and prisoners will die.’


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“Nations, you must praise the Lord's people—
he punishes all who kill them.
He takes revenge on his enemies
and forgives the sins of his people.”


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he said, “Be sure to obey all these commands that I have given you today. Repeat them to your children, so that they may faithfully obey all of God's teachings.


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These teachings are not empty words; they are your very life. Obey them and you will live long in that land across the Jordan that you are about to occupy.”


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“Go to the Abarim Mountains in the land of Moab opposite the city of Jericho; climb Mount Nebo and look at the land of Canaan that I am about to give the people of Israel.


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because both of you were unfaithful to me in the presence of the people of Israel. When you were at the waters of Meribah, near the town of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, you dishonored me in the presence of the people.


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You will look at the land from a distance, but you will not enter the land that I am giving the people of Israel.”


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Moses Blesses the Tribes of Israel
These are the blessings that Moses, the man of God, pronounced on the people of Israel before he died.


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The Lord came from Mount Sinai;
he rose like the sun over Edom
and shone on his people from Mount Paran.
Ten thousand angels were with him,
a flaming fire at his right hand.


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The Lord loves his people
and protects those who belong to him.
So we bow at his feet
and obey his commands.


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About the tribe of Judah he said:
“Lord, listen to their cry for help;
Unite them again with the other tribes.
Fight for them, Lord,
And help them against their enemies.”


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About the tribe of Levi he said:
“You, Lord, reveal your will by the Urim and Thummim
Through your faithful servants, the Levites;
You put them to the test at Massah
And proved them true at the waters of Meribah.


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They showed greater loyalty to you
Than to parents, brothers, or children.
They obeyed your commands
And were faithful to your covenant.


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Lord, help their tribe to grow strong;
Be pleased with what they do.
Crush all their enemies;
Let them never rise again.”


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About the tribe of Benjamin he said:
“This is the tribe the Lord loves and protects;
He guards them all the day long,
And he dwells in their midst.”


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About the tribe of Joseph he said:
“May the Lord bless their land with rain
And with water from under the earth.


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May their land be filled with all that is good,
Blessed by the goodness of the Lord,
Who spoke from the burning bush.
May these blessings come to the tribe of Joseph,
Because he was the leader among his brothers.


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Joseph has the strength of a bull,
The horns of a wild ox.
His horns are Manasseh's thousands
And Ephraim's ten thousands.
With them he gores the nations
And pushes them to the ends of the earth.”


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About the tribes of Zebulun and Issachar he said:
“May Zebulun be prosperous in their trade on the sea,
And may Issachar's wealth increase at home.


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They invite foreigners to their mountain
And offer the right sacrifices there.
They get their wealth from the sea
And from the sand along the shore.”


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About the tribe of Gad he said:
“Praise God, who made their territory large.
Gad waits like a lion
To tear off an arm or a scalp.


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They took the best of the land for themselves;
A leader's share was assigned to them.
They obeyed the Lord's commands and laws
When the leaders of Israel were gathered together.”


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About the tribe of Naphtali he said:
“Naphtali is richly blessed by the Lord's good favor;
Their land reaches to the south from Lake Galilee.”


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About the tribe of Asher he said:
“Asher is blessed more than the other tribes.
May he be the favorite of his brothers,
And may his land be rich with olive trees.


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People of Israel, no god is like your God,
riding in splendor across the sky,
riding through the clouds to come to your aid.


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God has always been your defense;
his eternal arms are your support.
He drove out your enemies as you advanced,
and told you to destroy them all.


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So Jacob's descendants live in peace,
secure in a land full of grain and wine,
where dew from the sky waters the ground.


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Israel, how happy you are!
There is no one like you,
a nation saved by the Lord.
The Lord himself is your shield and your sword,
to defend you and give you victory.
Your enemies will come begging for mercy,
and you will trample them down.


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The Death of Moses
Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Mount Pisgah east of Jericho, and there the Lord showed him the whole land: the territory of Gilead as far north as the town of Dan;


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the entire territory of Naphtali; the territories of Ephraim and Manasseh; the territory of Judah as far west as the Mediterranean Sea;


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the southern part of Judah; and the plain that reaches from Zoar to Jericho, the city of palm trees.


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Then the Lord said to Moses, “This is the land that I promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob I would give to their descendants. I have let you see it, but I will not let you go there.”


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The Lord buried him in a valley in Moab, opposite the town of Bethpeor, but to this day no one knows the exact place of his burial.


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Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; he was as strong as ever, and his eyesight was still good.


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Joshua son of Nun was filled with wisdom, because Moses had appointed him to be his successor. The people of Israel obeyed Joshua and kept the commands that the Lord had given them through Moses.


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No other prophet has ever done miracles and wonders like those that the Lord sent Moses to perform against the king of Egypt, his officials, and the entire country.


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No other prophet has been able to do the great and terrifying things that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.


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God Commands Joshua to Conquer Canaan
After the death of the Lord's servant Moses, the Lord spoke to Moses' helper, Joshua son of Nun.


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He said, “My servant Moses is dead. Get ready now, you and all the people of Israel, and cross the Jordan River into the land that I am giving them.


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Your borders will reach from the desert in the south to the Lebanon Mountains in the north; from the great Euphrates River in the east, through the Hittite country, to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.


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Joshua, no one will be able to defeat you as long as you live. I will be with you as I was with Moses. I will always be with you; I will never abandon you.


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Be determined and confident, for you will be the leader of these people as they occupy this land which I promised their ancestors.


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Just be determined, be confident; and make sure that you obey the whole Law that my servant Moses gave you. Do not neglect any part of it and you will succeed wherever you go.


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Be sure that the book of the Law is always read in your worship. Study it day and night, and make sure that you obey everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.


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Remember that I have commanded you to be determined and confident! Do not be afraid or discouraged, for I, the Lord your God, am with you wherever you go.”


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go through the camp and say to the people, “Get some food ready, because in three days you are going to cross the Jordan River to occupy the land that the Lord your God is giving you.”


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“Remember how the Lord's servant Moses told you that the Lord your God would give you this land on the east side of the Jordan as your home.


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Your wives, your children, and your livestock will stay here, but your soldiers, armed for battle, will cross over ahead of the other Israelites in order to help them


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until they have occupied the land west of the Jordan that the Lord your God has given them. When he has given safety to all the tribes of Israel, then you may come back and settle here in your own land east of the Jordan, which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave to you.”


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We will obey you, just as we always obeyed Moses, and may the Lord your God be with you as he was with Moses!


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Whoever questions your authority or disobeys any of your orders will be put to death. Be determined and confident!”


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Joshua Sends Spies into Jericho
Then Joshua sent two spies from the camp at Acacia with orders to go and secretly explore the land of Canaan, especially the city of Jericho. When they came to the city, they went to spend the night in the house of a prostitute named Rahab.


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so he sent word to Rahab: “The men in your house have come to spy out the whole country! Bring them out!”


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“Some men did come to my house,” she answered, “but I don't know where they were from. They left at sundown before the city gate was closed. I didn't find out where they were going, but if you start after them quickly, you can catch them.” (Now Rahab had taken the two spies up on the roof and hidden them under some stalks of flax that she had put there.)


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The king's men left the city, and then the gate was shut. They went looking for the Israelite spies as far as the place where the road crosses the Jordan.


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and said to them, “I know that the Lord has given you this land. Everyone in the country is terrified of you.


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We have heard how the Lord dried up the Red Sea in front of you when you were leaving Egypt. We have also heard how you killed Sihon and Og, the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan.


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We were afraid as soon as we heard about it; we have all lost our courage because of you. The Lord your God is God in heaven above and here on earth.


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Now swear by him that you will treat my family as kindly as I have treated you, and give me some sign that I can trust you.


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Promise me that you will save my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all their families! Don't let us be killed!”


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The men said to her, “May God take our lives if we don't do as we say! If you do not tell anyone what we have been doing, we promise you that when the Lord gives us this land, we will treat you well.”


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“Go into the hill country,” she said, “or the king's men will find you. Hide there for three days until they come back. After that, you can go on your way.”


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This is what you must do. When we invade your land, tie this red cord to the window you let us down from. Get your father and mother, your brothers, and all your father's family together in your house.


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If anyone goes out of the house, his death will be his own fault, and we will not be responsible; but if anyone in the house with you is harmed, then we will be responsible.


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However, if you tell anyone what we have been doing, then we will not have to keep our promise which you have made us give you.”


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The spies went into the hills and hid. The king's men looked for them all over the countryside for three days, but they did not find them, so they returned to Jericho.


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Then the two spies came down from the hills, crossed the river, and went back to Joshua. They told him everything that had happened,


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and then said, “We are sure that the Lord has given us the whole country. All the people there are terrified of us.”


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The People of Israel Cross the Jordan
The next morning Joshua and all the people of Israel got up early, left the camp at Acacia, and went to the Jordan, where they camped while waiting to cross it.


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and told the people, “When you see the priests carrying the Covenant Box of the Lord your God, break camp and follow them.


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You have never been here before, so they will show you the way to go. But do not get near the Covenant Box; stay about half a mile behind it.”


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Joshua told the people, “Purify yourselves, because tomorrow the Lord will perform miracles among you.”


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Then he told the priests to take the Covenant Box and go with it ahead of the people. They did as he said.


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The Lord said to Joshua, “What I do today will make all the people of Israel begin to honor you as a great man, and they will realize that I am with you as I was with Moses.


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Tell the priests carrying the Covenant Box that when they reach the river, they must wade in and stand near the bank.”


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As you advance, he will surely drive out the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites. You will know that the living God is among you


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When the priests who carry the Covenant Box of the Lord of all the earth put their feet in the water, the Jordan will stop flowing, and the water coming downstream will pile up in one place.”


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It was harvest time, and the river was in flood.
When the people left the camp to cross the Jordan, the priests went ahead of them, carrying the Covenant Box. As soon as the priests stepped into the river,


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the water stopped flowing and piled up, far upstream at Adam, the city beside Zarethan. The flow downstream to the Dead Sea was completely cut off, and the people were able to cross over near Jericho.


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While the people walked across on dry ground, the priests carrying the Lord's Covenant Box stood on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan until all the people had crossed over.


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and command them to take twelve stones out of the middle of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests were standing. Tell them to carry these stones with them and to put them down where you camp tonight.”


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and he told them, “Go into the Jordan ahead of the Covenant Box of the Lord your God. Each one of you take a stone on your shoulder, one for each of the tribes of Israel.


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These stones will remind the people of what the Lord has done. In the future, when your children ask what these stones mean to you,


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you will tell them that the water of the Jordan stopped flowing when the Lord's Covenant Box crossed the river. These stones will always remind the people of Israel of what happened here.”


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The men followed Joshua's orders. As the Lord had commanded Joshua, they took twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, one for each of the tribes of Israel, carried them to the camping place, and put them down there.


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Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, where the priests carrying the Covenant Box had stood. (Those stones are still there.)


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The priests stood in the middle of the Jordan until everything had been done that the Lord ordered Joshua to tell the people to do. This is what Moses had commanded.
The people hurried across the river.


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When they were all on the other side, the priests with the Lord's Covenant Box went on ahead of the people.


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The men of the tribes of Reuben and Gad and of half the tribe of Manasseh, ready for battle, crossed ahead of the rest of the people, as Moses had told them to do.


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In the presence of the Lord about forty thousand men ready for war crossed over to the plain near Jericho.


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What the Lord did that day made the people of Israel consider Joshua a great man. They honored him all his life, just as they had honored Moses.


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and when the priests reached the riverbank, the river began flowing once more and flooded its banks again.


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The people crossed the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month and camped at Gilgal, east of Jericho.


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And he said to the people of Israel, “In the future, when your children ask you what these stones mean,


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Tell them that the Lord your God dried up the water of the Jordan for you until you had crossed, just as he dried up the Red Sea for us.


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Because of this everyone on earth will know how great the Lord's power is, and you will honor the Lord your God forever.”


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All the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the Mediterranean Sea heard that the Lord had dried up the Jordan until the people of Israel had crossed it. They became afraid and lost their courage because of the Israelites.


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The Circumcision at Gilgal
Then the Lord told Joshua, “Make some knives out of flint and circumcise the Israelites.”


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So Joshua did as the Lord had commanded, and he circumcised the Israelites at a place called Circumcision Hill.


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When the people of Israel left Egypt, all the males were already circumcised. However, during the forty years the people spent crossing the desert, none of the baby boys had been circumcised. Also, by the end of that time all the men who were of fighting age when they left Egypt had died because they had disobeyed the Lord. Just as he had sworn, they were not allowed to see the rich and fertile land that he had promised their ancestors.


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The sons of these men had never been circumcised, and it was this new generation that Joshua circumcised.


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After the circumcision was completed, the whole nation stayed in the camp until the wounds had healed.


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The Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have removed from you the disgrace of being slaves in Egypt.” That is why the place was named Gilgal, the name it still has.


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While the Israelites were camping at Gilgal on the plain near Jericho, they observed Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month.


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The next day was the first time they ate food grown in Canaan: roasted grain and bread made without yeast.


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The manna stopped falling then, and the Israelites no longer had any. From that time on they ate food grown in Canaan.


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Joshua and the Man with a Sword
While Joshua was near Jericho, he suddenly saw a man standing in front of him, holding a sword. Joshua went up to him and asked, “Are you one of our soldiers, or an enemy?”


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“Neither,” the man answered. “I am here as the commander of the Lord's army.”
Joshua threw himself on the ground in worship and said, “I am your servant, sir. What do you want me to do?”


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And the commander of the Lord's army told him, “Take your sandals off; you are standing on holy ground.” And Joshua did as he was told.


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The Fall of Jericho
The gates of Jericho were kept shut and guarded to keep the Israelites out. No one could enter or leave the city.


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The Lord said to Joshua, “I am putting into your hands Jericho, with its king and all its brave soldiers.


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Seven priests, each carrying a trumpet, are to go in front of the Covenant Box. On the seventh day you and your soldiers are to march around the city seven times while the priests blow the trumpets.


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Then they are to sound one long note. As soon as you hear it, all the people are to give a loud shout, and the city walls will collapse. Then the whole army will go straight into the city.”


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Joshua called the priests and told them, “Take the Covenant Box, and seven of you go in front of it, carrying trumpets.”


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Then he ordered the people to start marching around the city, with an advance guard going on ahead of the Lord's Covenant Box.


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So, just as Joshua had ordered, an advance guard started out ahead of the priests who were blowing trumpets; behind these came the priests who were carrying the Covenant Box, followed by a rear guard. All this time the trumpets were sounding.


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So he had this group of men take the Lord's Covenant Box around the city one time. Then they came back to camp and spent the night there.


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Joshua got up early the next morning, and for the second time the priests and soldiers marched around the city in the same order as the day before: first, the advance guard; next, the seven priests blowing the seven trumpets; then, the priests carrying the Lord's Covenant Box; and finally, the rear guard. All this time the trumpets were sounding.


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On this second day they again marched around the city one time and then returned to camp. They did this for six days.


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On the seventh day they got up at daybreak and marched seven times around the city in the same way—this was the only day that they marched around it seven times.


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The seventh time around, when the priests were about to sound the trumpets, Joshua ordered the people to shout, and he said, “The Lord has given you the city!


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The city and everything in it must be totally destroyed as an offering to the Lord. Only the prostitute Rahab and her household will be spared, because she hid our spies.


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But you are not to take anything that is to be destroyed; if you do, you will bring trouble and destruction on the Israelite camp.


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Everything made of silver, gold, bronze, or iron is set apart for the Lord. It is to be put in the Lord's treasury.”


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So the priests blew the trumpets. As soon as the people heard it, they gave a loud shout, and the walls collapsed. Then all the army went straight up the hill into the city and captured it.


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With their swords they killed everyone in the city, men and women, young and old. They also killed the cattle, sheep, and donkeys.


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Joshua then told the two men who had served as spies, “Go into the prostitute's house, and bring her and her family out, as you promised her.”


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So they went and brought Rahab out, along with her father and mother, her brothers, and the rest of her family. They took them all, family and slaves, to safety near the Israelite camp.


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Then they set fire to the city and burned it to the ground, along with everything in it, except the things made of gold, silver, bronze, and iron, which they took and put in the Lord's treasury.


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But Joshua spared the lives of the prostitute Rahab and all her relatives, because she had hidden the two spies that he had sent to Jericho. (Her descendants have lived in Israel to this day.)


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At this time Joshua issued a solemn warning: “Anyone who tries to rebuild the city of Jericho will be under the Lord's curse.
Whoever lays the foundation will lose his oldest son;
Whoever builds the gates will lose his youngest.”


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Achan's Sin
The Lord's command to Israel not to take from Jericho anything that was to be destroyed was not obeyed. A man named Achan disobeyed that order, and so the Lord was furious with the Israelites. (Achan was the son of Carmi and grandson of Zabdi, and belonged to the clan of Zerah, a part of the tribe of Judah.)


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Joshua sent some men from Jericho to Ai, a city east of Bethel, near Bethaven, with orders to go and explore the land. When they had done so,


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they reported back to Joshua: “There is no need for everyone to attack Ai. Send only about two or three thousand men. Don't send the whole army up there to fight; it is not a large city.”


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The men of Ai chased them from the city gate as far as some quarries and killed about thirty-six of them on the way down the hill. Then the Israelites lost their courage and were afraid.


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Joshua and the leaders of Israel tore their clothes in grief, threw themselves to the ground before the Lord's Covenant Box, and lay there till evening, with dust on their heads to show their sorrow.


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And Joshua said, “Sovereign Lord! Why did you bring us across the Jordan at all? To turn us over to the Amorites? To destroy us? Why didn't we just stay on the other side of the Jordan?


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The Canaanites and everyone else in the country will hear about it. They will surround us and kill every one of us! And then what will you do to protect your honor?”


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Israel has sinned! They have broken the agreement with me that I ordered them to keep. They have taken some of the things condemned to destruction. They stole them, lied about it, and put them with their own things.


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This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They retreat from them because they themselves have now been condemned to destruction! I will not stay with you any longer unless you destroy the things you were ordered not to take!


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Get up! Purify the people and get them ready to come before me. Tell them to be ready tomorrow, because I, the Lord God of Israel, have this to say: ‘Israel, you have in your possession some things that I ordered you to destroy! You cannot stand against your enemies until you get rid of these things!’


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So tell them that in the morning they will be brought forward, tribe by tribe. The tribe that I pick out will then come forward, clan by clan. The clan that I pick out will come forward, family by family. The family that I pick out will come forward, one by one.


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The one who is then picked out and found with the condemned goods will be burned, along with his family and everything he owns, for he has brought terrible shame on Israel and has broken my covenant.”


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Early the next morning Joshua brought Israel forward, tribe by tribe, and the tribe of Judah was picked out.


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He brought the tribe of Judah forward, clan by clan, and the clan of Zerah was picked out. Then he brought the clan of Zerah forward, family by family, and the family of Zabdi was picked out.


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He then brought Zabdi's family forward, one by one, and Achan, the son of Carmi and grandson of Zabdi, was picked out.


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Joshua said to him, “My son, tell the truth here before the Lord, the God of Israel, and confess. Tell me now what you have done. Don't try to hide it from me.”


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Among the things we seized I saw a beautiful Babylonian cloak, about five pounds of silver, and a bar of gold weighing over one pound. I wanted them so much that I took them. You will find them buried inside my tent, with the silver at the bottom.”


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So Joshua sent some men, who ran to the tent and found that the condemned things really were buried there, with the silver at the bottom.


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They brought them out of the tent, took them to Joshua and all the Israelites, and laid them down in the presence of the Lord.


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Joshua, along with all the people of Israel, seized Achan, the silver, the cloak, the bar of gold, together with Achan's sons and daughters, his cattle, donkeys, and sheep, his tent, and everything else he owned; and they took them to Trouble Valley.


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And Joshua said, “Why have you brought such trouble on us? The Lord will now bring trouble on you!” All the people then stoned Achan to death; they also stoned and burned his family and possessions.


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They put a huge pile of stones over him, which is there to this day. That is why that place is still called Trouble Valley.
Then the Lord was no longer furious.


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The Capture and Destruction of Ai
The Lord said to Joshua, “Take all the soldiers with you and go on up to Ai. Don't be afraid or discouraged. I will give you victory over the king of Ai; his people, city, and land will be yours.


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You are to do to Ai and its king what you did to Jericho and its king, but this time you may keep its goods and livestock for yourselves. Prepare to attack the city by surprise from the rear.”


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So Joshua got ready to go to Ai with all his soldiers. He picked out thirty thousand of his best troops and sent them out at night


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with these orders: “Hide on the other side of the city, but not too far away from it; be ready to attack.


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My men and I will approach the city. When the men of Ai come out against us, we will turn and run, just as we did the first time.


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They will pursue us until we have led them away from the city. They will think that we are running from them, as we did before.


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After you have taken the city, set it on fire, just as the Lord has commanded. These are your orders.”


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So Joshua sent them out, and they went to their hiding place and waited there, west of Ai, between Ai and Bethel. Joshua spent the night in camp.


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Early in the morning Joshua got up and called the soldiers together. Then he and the leaders of Israel led them to Ai.


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The soldiers with him went toward the main entrance to the city and set up camp on the north side, with a valley between themselves and Ai.


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The soldiers were arranged for battle with the main camp north of the city and the rest of the men to the west. Joshua spent the night in the valley.


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When the king of Ai saw Joshua's men, he acted quickly. He and all his men went out toward the Jordan Valley to fight the Israelites at the same place as before, not knowing that he was about to be attacked from the rear.


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All the men in the city had been called together to go after them, and as they pursued Joshua, they kept getting farther away from the city.


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Every man in Ai went after the Israelites, and the city was left wide open, with no one to defend it.


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Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Point your spear at Ai; I am giving it to you.” Joshua did as he was told,


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and as soon as he lifted his hand, the men who had been hiding got up quickly, ran into the city and captured it. They immediately set the city on fire.


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When the men of Ai looked back, they saw the smoke rising to the sky. There was no way for them to escape, because the Israelites who had run toward the barren country now turned around to attack them.


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When Joshua and his men saw that the others had taken the city and that it was on fire, they turned around and began killing the men of Ai.


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The Israelites in the city now came down to join the battle. So the men of Ai found themselves completely surrounded by Israelites, and they were all killed. No one got away, and no one lived through it


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The Israelites killed every one of the enemy in the barren country where they had chased them. Then they went back to Ai and killed everyone there.


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Joshua kept his spear pointed at Ai and did not put it down until every person there had been killed. The whole population of Ai was killed that day—twelve thousand men and women.


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The Israelites kept for themselves the livestock and goods captured in the city, as the Lord had told Joshua.


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He hanged the king of Ai from a tree and left his body there until evening. At sundown Joshua gave orders for the body to be removed, and it was thrown down at the entrance to the city gate. They covered it with a huge pile of stones, which is still there today.


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The Law Is Read at Mount Ebal
Then Joshua built on Mount Ebal an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel.


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He made it according to the instructions that Moses, the Lord's servant, had given the Israelites, as it says in the Law of Moses: “an altar made of stones which have not been cut with iron tools.” On it they offered burnt sacrifices to the Lord, and they also presented their fellowship offerings.


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There, with the Israelites looking on, Joshua made on the stones a copy of the Law which Moses had written.


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The Israelites, with their leaders, officers, and judges, as well as the foreigners among them, stood on two sides of the Lord's Covenant Box, facing the levitical priests who carried it. Half of the people stood with their backs to Mount Gerizim and the other half with their backs to Mount Ebal. The Lord's servant Moses had commanded them to do this when the time came for them to receive the blessing.


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Joshua then read aloud the whole Law, including the blessings and the curses, just as they are written in the book of the Law.


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Every one of the commandments of Moses was read by Joshua to the whole gathering, which included women and children, as well as the foreigners living among them.


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The Gibeonites Deceive Joshua
The victories of Israel became known to all the kings west of the Jordan—in the hills, in the foothills, and all along the coastal plain of the Mediterranean Sea as far north as Lebanon; these were the kings of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.


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and they decided to deceive him. They went and got some food and loaded their donkeys with worn-out sacks and patched-up wineskins.


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They put on ragged clothes and worn-out sandals that had been mended. The bread they took with them was dry and moldy.


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Then they went to the camp at Gilgal and said to Joshua and the Israelites, “We have come from a distant land. We want you to make a treaty with us.”


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They said to Joshua, “We are at your service.”
Joshua asked them, “Who are you? Where do you come from?”


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Then they told him this story: “We have come from a very distant land, sir, because we have heard of the Lord your God. We have heard about everything that he did in Egypt


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and what he did to the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan: King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth.


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Our leaders and all the people that live in our land told us to get some food ready for a trip and to go and meet you. We were told to put ourselves at your service and ask you to make a treaty with us.


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Look at our bread. When we left home with it and started out to meet you, it was still warm. But look! Now it is dry and moldy.


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When we filled these wineskins, they were new, but look! They are torn. Our clothes and sandals are worn out from the long trip.”


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Joshua made a treaty of friendship with the people of Gibeon and allowed them to live. The leaders of the community of Israel gave their solemn promise to keep the treaty.


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Three days after the treaty had been made, the Israelites learned that these people did indeed live nearby.


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So the people of Israel started out and three days later arrived at the cities where these people lived: Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.


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But the Israelites could not kill them, because their leaders had made a solemn promise to them in the name of the Lord, Israel's God. All the people complained to the leaders about this,


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but they answered, “We have made our solemn promise to them in the name of the Lord God of Israel. Now we cannot harm them.


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Let them live, but they will have to cut wood and carry water for us.” This was what the leaders suggested.


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Joshua ordered the people of Gibeon to be brought to him, and he asked them, “Why did you deceive us and tell us that you were from far away, when you live right here?


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Because you did this, God has condemned you. Your people will always be slaves, cutting wood and carrying water for the sanctuary of my God.”


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They answered, “We did it, sir, because we learned that it was really true that the Lord your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you the whole land and to kill the people living in it as you advanced. We did it because we were terrified of you; we were in fear of our lives.


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But at the same time he made them slaves, to cut wood and carry water for the people of Israel and for the Lord's altar. To this day they have continued to do this work in the place where the Lord has chosen to be worshiped.


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The Amorites Are Defeated
Adonizedek, the king of Jerusalem, heard that Joshua had captured and totally destroyed Ai and had killed its king, just as he had done to Jericho and its king. He also heard that the people of Gibeon had made peace with the Israelites and were living among them.


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The people of Jerusalem were greatly alarmed at this because Gibeon was as large as any of the cities that had a king; it was larger than Ai, and its men were good fighters.


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So Adonizedek sent the following message to King Hoham of Hebron, King Piram of Jarmuth, King Japhia of Lachish, and to King Debir of Eglon:


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“Come and help me attack Gibeon, because its people have made peace with Joshua and the Israelites.”


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These five Amorite kings, the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon, joined forces, surrounded Gibeon, and attacked it.


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The men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal: “Do not abandon us, sir! Come at once and help us! Save us! All the Amorite kings in the hill country have joined forces and have attacked us!”


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The Lord said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them. I have already given you the victory. Not one of them will be able to stand against you.”


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All night Joshua and his army marched from Gilgal to Gibeon, and they made a surprise attack on the Amorites.


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The Lord made the Amorites panic at the sight of Israel's army. The Israelites slaughtered them at Gibeon and pursued them down the mountain pass at Beth Horon, keeping up the attack as far south as Azekah and Makkedah.


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While the Amorites were running down the pass from the Israelite army, the Lord made large hailstones fall down on them all the way to Azekah. More were killed by the hailstones than by the Israelites.


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On the day that the Lord gave the men of Israel victory over the Amorites, Joshua spoke to the Lord. In the presence of the Israelites he said,
“Sun, stand still over Gibeon;
Moon, stop over Aijalon Valley.”


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The sun stood still and the moon did not move until the nation had conquered its enemies. This is written in the Book of Jashar. The sun stood still in the middle of the sky and did not go down for a whole day.


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Never before, and never since, has there been a day like it, when the Lord obeyed a human being. The Lord fought on Israel's side!


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Joshua Captures the Five Amorite Kings
The five Amorite kings, however, had escaped and were hiding in the cave at Makkedah.


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but don't stay there yourselves. Keep on after the enemy and attack them from the rear; don't let them get to their cities! The Lord your God has given you victory over them.”


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Joshua and the men of Israel slaughtered them, although some managed to find safety inside their city walls and were not killed.


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Then all of Joshua's men came back safe to him at the camp at Makkedah.
No one in the land dared even to speak against the Israelites.


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So the cave was opened, and the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon were brought out


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and taken to Joshua. Joshua then called all the men of Israel to him and ordered the officers who had gone with him to come and put their feet on the necks of the kings. They did so.


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Then Joshua said to his officers, “Don't be afraid or discouraged. Be determined and confident because this is what the Lord is going to do to all your enemies.”


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Then Joshua killed the kings and hanged them on five trees, where their bodies stayed until evening.


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At sundown Joshua gave orders, and their bodies were taken down and thrown into the same cave where they had hidden earlier. Large stones were placed at the entrance to the cave, and they are still there.


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Joshua Captures More Amorite Territory
Joshua attacked and captured Makkedah and its king that day. He put everyone in the city to death; no one was left alive. He did to the king of Makkedah what he had done to the king of Jericho.


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The Lord also gave the Israelites victory over this city and its king. They spared no one, but killed every person in it. They did to the king what they had done to the king of Jericho.


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The Lord gave the Israelites victory over Lachish on the second day of the battle. Just as they had done at Libnah, they spared no one, but killed every person in the city.


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King Horam of Gezer came to the aid of Lachish, but Joshua defeated him and his army and left none of them alive.


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and captured it. They killed the king and everyone else in the city as well as in the nearby towns. Joshua condemned the city to total destruction, just as he had done to Eglon. No one in it was left alive.


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He captured it, with its king and all the nearby towns. They put everyone there to death. Joshua did to Debir and its king what he had done to Hebron and to Libnah and its king.


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Joshua conquered the whole land. He defeated the kings of the hill country, the eastern slopes, and the western foothills, as well as those of the dry country in the south. He spared no one; everyone was put to death. This was what the Lord God of Israel had commanded.


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Joshua's campaign took him from Kadesh Barnea in the south to Gaza near the coast, including all the area of Goshen, and as far north as Gibeon.


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Joshua conquered all these kings and their territory in one campaign because the Lord, Israel's God, was fighting for Israel.


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Joshua Defeats Jabin and His Allies
When the news of Israel's victories reached King Jabin of Hazor, he sent word to King Jobab of Madon, to the kings of Shimron and Achshaph,


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and to the kings in the hill country in the north, in the Jordan Valley south of Lake Galilee, in the foothills, and on the coast near Dor.


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He also sent word to the Canaanites on both sides of the Jordan, to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill country, as well as to the Hivites who lived at the foot of Mount Hermon in the land of Mizpah.


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They came with all their soldiers—an army with as many men as there are grains of sand on the seashore. They also had many horses and chariots.


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All of these kings joined forces and came together and set up camp at Merom Brook to fight against Israel.


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The Lord said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them. By this time tomorrow I will have killed all of them for Israel. You are to cripple their horses and burn their chariots.”


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The Lord gave the Israelites victory over them; the Israelites attacked and pursued them as far north as Misrephoth Maim and Sidon, and as far east as the valley of Mizpah. The fight continued until none of the enemy was left alive.


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Joshua then turned back, captured Hazor and killed its king. (At that time Hazor was the most powerful of all those kingdoms.)


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Joshua captured all these cities and their kings, putting everyone to death, just as Moses, the Lord's servant, had commanded.


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However, the Israelites did not burn any of the cities built on mounds, except Hazor, which Joshua did burn.


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The people of Israel took all the valuables and livestock from these cities and kept them for themselves. But they put every person to death; no one was left alive.


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The Lord had given his commands to his servant Moses, Moses had given them to Joshua, and Joshua obeyed them. He did everything that the Lord had commanded Moses.


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The Territory Taken by Joshua
Joshua captured all the land—the hill country and foothills, both north and south, all the area of Goshen and the dry country south of it, as well as the Jordan Valley.


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The territory extended from Mount Halak in the south near Edom, as far as Baalgad in the north, in the valley of Lebanon south of Mount Hermon. Joshua was at war with the kings of this territory for a long time, but he captured them all and put them to death.


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The only city that made peace with the people of Israel was Gibeon, where some of the Hivites lived. All the others were conquered in battle.


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The Lord had made them determined to fight the Israelites, so that they would be condemned to total destruction and all be killed without mercy. This was what the Lord had commanded Moses.


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At this time Joshua went and destroyed the race of giants called the Anakim who lived in the hill country—in Hebron, Debir, Anab, and in all the hill country of Judah and Israel. Joshua completely destroyed them and their cities.


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None of the Anakim were left in the land of Israel; a few, however, were left in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod.


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Joshua captured the whole land, as the Lord had commanded Moses. Joshua gave it to the Israelites as their own and divided it into portions, one for each tribe.
So the people rested from war.


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The Kings Defeated by Moses
The people of Israel had already conquered and occupied the land east of the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley up the Jordan Valley and as far north as Mount Hermon. They defeated two kings.


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One was Sihon, the Amorite king who ruled at Heshbon. His kingdom included half of Gilead: from Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon Valley) and from the city in the middle of that valley, as far as the Jabbok River, the border of Ammon;


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it included the Jordan Valley from Lake Galilee south to Beth Jeshimoth (east of the Dead Sea) and on toward the foot of Mount Pisgah.


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They also defeated King Og of Bashan, who was one of the last of the Rephaim; he ruled at Ashtaroth and Edrei.


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His kingdom included Mount Hermon, Salecah, and all of Bashan as far as the boundaries of Geshur and Maacah, as well as half of Gilead, as far as the territory of King Sihon of Heshbon.


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These two kings were defeated by Moses and the people of Israel. Moses, the Lord's servant, gave their land to the tribes of Reuben and Gad and to half the tribe of Manasseh, to be their possession.


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The Kings Defeated by Joshua
Joshua and the people of Israel defeated all the kings in the territory west of the Jordan, from Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak in the south near Edom. Joshua divided this land among the tribes and gave it to them as a permanent possession.


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This portion included the hill country, the western foothills, the Jordan Valley and its foothills, the eastern slopes, and the dry country in the south. This land had been the home of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.


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The Land Still to Be Taken
Joshua was now very old. The Lord said to him, “You are very old, but there is still much land to be taken:


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as well as all the territory of the Avvim to the south. (The land from the stream Shihor, at the Egyptian border, as far north as the border of Ekron was considered Canaanite; the kings of the Philistines lived at Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron.)


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There is still all the Canaanite country, and Mearah (which belonged to the Sidonians), as far as Aphek, at the Amorite border;


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the land of the Gebalites; all of Lebanon to the east, from Baalgad, which is south of Mount Hermon, to Hamath Pass.


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This includes all the territory of the Sidonians, who live in the hill country between the Lebanon Mountains and Misrephoth Maim. I will drive all these peoples out as the people of Israel advance. You must divide the land among the Israelites, just as I have commanded you to do.


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Now then, divide this land among the other nine tribes and half of the tribe of Manasseh, for them to possess as their own.”


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The Division of the Territory East of the Jordan
The tribes of Reuben and Gad and the other half of the tribe of Manasseh had already received the land that Moses, the Lord's servant, had given them; it was on the east side of the Jordan River.


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Their territory extended to Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon Valley) and the city in the middle of that valley and included all of the plateau from Medeba to Dibon.


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It went as far as the border of Ammon and included all the cities that had been ruled by the Amorite king Sihon, who had ruled at Heshbon.


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It included Gilead, the regions of Geshur and Maacah, all of Mount Hermon, and all of Bashan as far as Salecah.


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It included the kingdom of Og, the last of the Rephaim, who had ruled at Ashtaroth and Edrei. Moses had defeated these people and driven them out.


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However, the Israelites did not drive out the people of Geshur and Maacah; they still live in Israel.


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Moses had given no land to the tribe of Levi. As the Lord had told Moses, they were to receive as their possession a share of the sacrifices burned on the altar to the Lord God of Israel.


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The Territory Assigned to Reuben
Moses had given a part of the land to the families of the tribe of Reuben as their possession.


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Their territory extended to Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon Valley) and the city in the middle of that valley and included all the plateau around Medeba.


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It included all the cities of the plateau and the whole kingdom of the Amorite king Sihon, who had ruled at Heshbon. Moses defeated him, as well as the rulers of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba. All of them had ruled the land for King Sihon.


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The Jordan was the western border of the tribe of Reuben. These were the cities and towns given to the families of the tribe of Reuben as their possession.


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The Territory Assigned to Gad
Moses had also given a part of the land to the families of the tribe of Gad as their possession.


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Their territory included Jazer and all the cities of Gilead, half the land of Ammon as far as Aroer, which is east of Rabbah;


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their land extended from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh and Betonim, from Mahanaim to the border of Lodebar.


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In the Jordan Valley it included Beth Haram, Bethnimrah, Sukkoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of King Sihon of Heshbon. Their western border was the Jordan River as far north as Lake Galilee.


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The Territory Assigned to East Manasseh
Moses had given a part of the land to the families of half the tribe of Manasseh as their possession.


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Their territory extended to Mahanaim and included all of Bashan—the whole kingdom of Og, the king of Bashan, as well as all sixty of the villages of Jair in Bashan.


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It included half of Gilead, as well as Ashtaroth and Edrei, the capital cities of Og's kingdom in Bashan. All this was given to half the families descended from Machir son of Manasseh.


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This is how Moses divided the land east of Jericho and the Jordan when he was in the plains of Moab.


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But Moses did not assign any land to the tribe of Levi. He told them that their possession was to be a share of the offerings to the Lord God of Israel.


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The Division of the Territory West of the Jordan
What follows is an account of how the land of Canaan west of the Jordan was divided among the people of Israel. Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders of the families of the Israelite tribes divided it among the population.


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As the Lord had commanded Moses, the territories of the nine and one-half tribes west of the Jordan were determined by drawing lots.


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Moses had already assigned the land east of the Jordan to the other two and one-half tribes. (The descendants of Joseph were divided into two tribes: Manasseh and Ephraim.) However, Moses gave the Levites no portion of the territory. Instead, they received cities to live in, with fields for their cattle and flocks.


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Hebron Is Given to Caleb
One day some people from the tribe of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. One of them, Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, said to him, “You know what the Lord said in Kadesh Barnea about you and me to Moses, the man of God.


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I was forty years old when the Lord's servant Moses sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out this land. I brought an honest report back to him.


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Because I did, Moses promised me that my children and I would certainly receive as our possession the land which I walked over.


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But now, look. It has been forty-five years since the Lord said that to Moses. That was when Israel was going through the desert, and the Lord, as he promised, has kept me alive ever since. Look at me! I am eighty-five years old


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and am just as strong today as I was when Moses sent me out. I am still strong enough for war or for anything else.


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Now then, give me the hill country that the Lord promised me on that day when my men and I reported. We told you then that the race of giants called the Anakim were there in large walled cities. Maybe the Lord will be with me, and I will drive them out, just as the Lord said.”


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Hebron still belongs to the descendants of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, because he faithfully obeyed the Lord, the God of Israel.


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Before this, Hebron was called the city of Arba. (Arba had been the greatest of the Anakim.)
There was now peace in the land.


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The Territory Assigned to Judah
The families of the tribe of Judah received a part of the land described as follows:
The land reached south to the southernmost point of the wilderness of Zin, at the border of Edom.


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went southward from the Akrabbim Pass and on to Zin. It ran south of Kadesh Barnea, past Hezron and up to Addar, turned toward Karka,


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went on to Azmon, and followed the stream on the border of Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea, where the border ended. That was the southern border of Judah.


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The eastern border was the Dead Sea, all the way up to the inlet where the Jordan empties into it.
The northern border began there,


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extended up to Beth Hoglah, and went north of the ridge overlooking the Jordan Valley. Then it went up to the Stone of Bohan (Bohan was a son of Reuben),


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from Trouble Valley up to Debir, and then turned north toward Gilgal, which faces Adummim Pass on the south side of the valley. It then went on to the springs of Enshemesh, out to Enrogel,


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and up through Hinnom Valley on the south side of the hill where the Jebusite city of Jerusalem was located. The border then proceeded up to the top of the hill on the west side of Hinnom Valley, at the northern end of Rephaim Valley.


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From there it went to the Springs of Nephtoah and out to the cities near Mount Ephron. There it turned toward Baalah (or Kiriath Jearim),


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where it circled west of Baalah toward the hill country of Edom, went on the north side of Mount Jearim (or Chesalon), down to Beth Shemesh, and on past Timnah.


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The border then went out to the hill north of Ekron, turned toward Shikkeron, past Mount Baalah, and on to Jamnia. It ended at the Mediterranean Sea,


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Caleb Conquers Hebron and Debir
As the Lord commanded Joshua, part of the territory of Judah was given to Caleb son of Jephunneh, from the tribe of Judah. He received Hebron, the city belonging to Arba, father of Anak.


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From there he went to attack the people living in Debir. (This city used to be called Kiriath Sepher.)


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Caleb said, “I will give my daughter Achsah in marriage to the man who succeeds in capturing Kiriath Sepher.”


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Othniel, the son of Caleb's brother Kenaz, captured the city, so Caleb gave him his daughter Achsah in marriage.


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On the wedding day Othniel urged her to ask her father for a field. She got down from her donkey, and Caleb asked her what she wanted.


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She answered, “I want some water holes. The land you have given me is in the dry country.” So Caleb gave her the upper and lower springs.


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The Cities of Judah
This is the land that the families of the tribe of Judah received as their possession.


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The cities farthest south that belonged to them, those that were near the border of Edom, were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,


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There were Ashdod and Gaza, with their towns and villages, reaching to the stream on the border of Egypt and the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.


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There were Kiriath Baal (or Kiriath Jearim) and Rabbah: two cities, along with the towns around them.


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But the people of Judah were not able to drive out the Jebusites, who lived in Jerusalem. The Jebusites still live there with the people of Judah.


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The Territory Assigned to Ephraim and West Manasseh
The southern boundary of the land assigned to the descendants of Joseph started from the Jordan near Jericho, at a point east of the springs of Jericho, and went into the desert. It went from Jericho up into the hill country as far as Bethel.


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It then went west to the area of the Japhletites, as far as the area of Lower Beth Horon. It went on from there to Gezer and ended at the Mediterranean Sea.


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The descendants of Joseph, the tribes of Ephraim and West Manasseh, received this land as their possession.


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Ephraim
This was the territory of the Ephraimite families: their border ran from Ataroth Addar eastward to Upper Beth Horon,


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and from there to the Mediterranean Sea. Michmethath was on their north. East of there the border bent toward Taanath Shiloh and went past it on the east to Janoah.


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The border went west from Tappuah to the stream Kanah and ended at the Mediterranean Sea. This was the land given to the families of the tribe of Ephraim as their possession,


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along with some towns and villages that were within the borders of Manasseh, but given to the Ephraimites.


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But they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived among the Ephraimites to this day, but they have been forced to work as slaves.


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West Manasseh
A part of the land west of the Jordan was assigned to some of the families descended from Joseph's older son Manasseh. Machir, the father of Gilead, was Manasseh's oldest son and a military hero, so Gilead and Bashan, east of the Jordan, were assigned to him.


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Land west of the Jordan was assigned to the rest of the families of Manasseh: Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These were male descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and they were heads of families.


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Zelophehad, son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, did not have any sons, but only daughters. Their names were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.


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They went to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua son of Nun and to the leaders, and said, “The Lord commanded Moses to give us, as well as our male relatives, a part of the land to possess.” So, as the Lord had commanded, they were given land along with their male relatives.


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This is why Manasseh received ten shares in addition to Gilead and Bashan on the east side of the Jordan,


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since his female descendants as well as his male descendants were assigned land. The land of Gilead was assigned to the rest of the descendants of Manasseh.


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The territory of Manasseh reached from Asher to Michmethath, east of Shechem. The border then went south to include the people of Entappuah.


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The land around Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but the town of Tappuah, on the border, belonged to the descendants of Ephraim.


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The border then went down to the stream Kanah. The cities south of the stream belonged to Ephraim, even though they were in the territory of Manasseh. The border of Manasseh proceeded along the north side of the stream and ended at the Mediterranean Sea.


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Ephraim was to the south, and Manasseh was to the north, with the Mediterranean Sea as their western border. Asher was to the northwest, and Issachar to the northeast.


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Within the territories of Issachar and Asher, Manasseh possessed Beth Shan and Ibleam, along with their surrounding towns, as well as Dor (the one on the coast), Endor, Taanach, Megiddo, and their surrounding towns.


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The people of Manasseh, however, were not able to drive out the people living in those cities, so the Canaanites continued to live there.


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Even when the Israelites became stronger, they did not drive out all the Canaanites, but they did force them to work for them.


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Ephraim and West Manasseh Request More Land
The descendants of Joseph said to Joshua, “Why have you given us only one part of the land to possess as our own? There are very many of us because the Lord has blessed us.”


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Joshua answered, “If there are so many of you and the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you, then go into the forests and clear ground for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim.”


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They replied, “The hill country is not big enough for us, but the Canaanites in the plains have iron chariots, both those who live in Beth Shan and its surrounding towns and those who live in Jezreel Valley.”


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Joshua said to the tribes of Ephraim and West Manasseh, “There are indeed many of you, and you are very powerful. You shall have more than one share.


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The hill country will be yours. Even though it is a forest, you will clear it and take possession of it from one end to the other. As for the Canaanites, you will drive them out, even though they do have iron chariots and are a strong people.”


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The Division of the Rest of the Land
After they had conquered the land, the entire community of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the Tent of the Lord's presence.


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There were still seven tribes of the people of Israel who had not yet been assigned their share of the land.


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So Joshua said to the people of Israel, “How long are you going to wait before you go in and take the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has given you?


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Let me have three men from each tribe. I will send them out over the whole country to map out the territory that they would like to have as their possession. Then they are to come back to me.


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The land will be divided among them in seven parts; Judah will stay in its territory in the south, and Joseph in its territory in the north.


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Write down a description of these seven divisions and bring it to me. Then I will draw lots to consult the Lord our God for you.


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The Levites, however, will not receive a share of the land with the rest of you, because their share is to serve as the Lord's priests. And of course, the tribes of Gad, Reuben, and East Manasseh have already received their land east of the Jordan, which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave to them.”


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The men went on their way to map out the land after Joshua had given them these instructions: “Go all over the land and map it out, and come back to me. And then here in Shiloh I will consult the Lord for you by drawing lots.”


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So the men went all over the land and set down in writing how they divided it into seven parts, making a list of the towns. Then they went back to Joshua in the camp at Shiloh.


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Joshua drew lots to consult the Lord for them, and assigned each of the remaining tribes of Israel a certain part of the land.


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The Territory Assigned to Benjamin
The territory belonging to the families of the tribe of Benjamin was the first to be assigned. Their land lay between the tribes of Judah and Joseph.


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On the north their border began at the Jordan and then went up the slope north of Jericho and westward through the hill country as far as the desert of Bethaven.


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The border then went to the slope on the south side of Luz (also called Bethel), then down to Ataroth Addar, on the mountain south of Lower Beth Horon.


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The border then went in another direction, turning south from the western side of this mountain and going to Kiriath Baal (or Kiriath Jearim), which belongs to the tribe of Judah. This was the western border.


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It then went down to the foot of the mountain that overlooks Hinnom Valley, at the north end of Rephaim Valley. It then went south through Hinnom Valley, south of the Jebusite ridge, toward Enrogel.


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It then turned north to Enshemesh and then on to Geliloth, opposite Adummim Pass. The border then went down to the Stone of Bohan (Bohan was a son of Reuben)


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passing north of the ridge of Beth Hoglah, and ended at the northern inlet on the Dead Sea, where the Jordan River empties into it. This was the southern border.


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The Jordan was the eastern border. These were the borders of the land which the families of the tribe of Benjamin received as their possession.


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The cities belonging to the families of the tribe of Benjamin were Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz,


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Zela, Haeleph, Jebus (or Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath Jearim: fourteen cities, along with the towns around them. This is the land which the families of the tribe of Benjamin received as their possession.


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The Territory Assigned to Simeon
The second assignment made was for the families of the tribe of Simeon. Its territory extended into the land assigned to the tribe of Judah.


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This included all the towns around these cities as far as Baalath Beer (or Ramah), in the south. This was the land which the families of the tribe of Simeon received as their possession.


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Since Judah's assignment was larger than was needed, part of its territory was given to the tribe of Simeon.


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The Territory Assigned to Zebulun
The third assignment made was for the families of the tribe of Zebulun. The land which they received reached as far as Sarid.


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On the other side of Sarid it went east to the border of Chisloth Tabor, then to Daberath and up to Japhia.


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It continued east from there to Gath Hepher and Ethkazin, turning in the direction of Neah on the way to Rimmon.


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It included Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities, along with the towns around them.


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These cities and their towns were in the land which the families of the tribe of Zebulun received as their possession.


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The Territory Assigned to Issachar
The fourth assignment made was for the families of the tribe of Issachar.


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The border also touched Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh, ending at the Jordan. It included sixteen cities along with the towns around them.


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These cities and their towns were in the land which the families of the tribe of Issachar received as their possession.


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The Territory Assigned to Asher
The fifth assignment made was for the families of the tribe of Asher.


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As it turned east, the border went to Bethdagon, touching Zebulun and Iphtahel Valley on the way north to Bethemek and Neiel. It continued north to Cabul,


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The border then turned to Ramah, reaching the fortified city of Tyre; then it turned to Hosah and ended at the Mediterranean Sea. It included Mahalab, Achzib,


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These cities and their towns were in the land which the families of the tribe of Asher received as their possession.


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The Territory Assigned to Naphtali
The sixth assignment made was for the families of the tribe of Naphtali.


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Its border went from Heleph to the oak in Zaanannim, on to Adaminekeb and to Jamnia, as far as Lakkum, and ended at the Jordan.


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There the border turned west to Aznoth Tabor, from there to Hukkok, touching Zebulun on the south, Asher on the west, and the Jordan on the east.


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Yiron, Migdalel, Horem, Bethanath, and Beth Shemesh: nineteen cities, along with the towns around them.


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These cities and their towns were in the land which the families of the tribe of Naphtali received as their possession.


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When the people of Dan lost their land, they went to Laish and attacked it. They captured it, killed its people, and claimed it for themselves. They settled there and changed the name of the city from Laish to Dan, naming it after their ancestor Dan.


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These cities and their towns were in the land which the families of the tribe of Dan received as their possession.


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The Final Assignment of the Land
When the people of Israel finished dividing up the land, they gave Joshua son of Nun a part of the land as his own.


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As the Lord had commanded, they gave him the city he asked for: Timnath Serah, in the hill country of Ephraim. He rebuilt the city and settled there.


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Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders of the families of the tribes of Israel assigned these parts of the land by drawing lots to consult the Lord at Shiloh, at the entrance of the Tent of the Lord's presence. In this way they finished dividing the land.


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If any of you accidentally kills someone, you can go there and escape the one who is looking for revenge.


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You can run away to one of these cities, go to the place of judgment at the entrance to the city, and explain to the leaders what happened. Then they will let you into the city and give you a place to live in, so that you can stay there.


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If the one looking for revenge follows you there, the people of the city must not hand you over to that one. They must protect you because you killed the person accidentally and not out of anger.


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You may stay in the city until you have received a public trial and until the death of the man who is then the High Priest. Then you may go back home to your own town, from which you had run away.”


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So, on the west side of the Jordan they set aside Kedesh in Galilee, in the hill country of Naphtali; Shechem, in the hill country of Ephraim; and Hebron, in the hill country of Judah.


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East of the Jordan, on the desert plateau east of Jericho, they chose Bezer in the territory of Reuben; Ramoth in Gilead, in the territory of Gad; and Golan in Bashan, in the territory of Manasseh.


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These were the cities of refuge chosen for all the people of Israel and for any foreigner living among them. Any who killed a person accidentally could find protection there from the one looking for revenge; they could not be killed unless they had first received a public trial.


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The Cities of the Levites
The leaders of the Levite families went to Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and to the heads of the families of all the tribes of Israel.


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There at Shiloh in the land of Canaan they said to them, “The Lord commanded through Moses that we were to be given cities to live in, as well as pasture land around them for our livestock.”


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So in accordance with the Lord's command the people of Israel gave the Levites certain cities and pasture lands out of their own territories.


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The families of the Levite clan of Kohath were the first to be assigned cities. The families who were descended from Aaron the priest were assigned thirteen cities from the territories of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.


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The rest of the clan of Kohath was assigned ten cities from the territories of Ephraim, Dan, and West Manasseh.


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The clan of Gershon was assigned thirteen cities from the territories of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and East Manasseh.


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The families of the clan of Merari were assigned twelve cities from the territories of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.


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By drawing lots, the people of Israel assigned these cities and their pasture lands to the Levites, as the Lord had commanded through Moses.


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to the descendants of Aaron who were of the clan of Kohath, which was descended from Levi. Their assignment was the first to be made.


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They were given the city of Arba (Arba was Anak's father), now called Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with the pasture land surrounding it.


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However, the fields of the city, as well as its towns, had already been given to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession.


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In addition to Hebron (one of the cities of refuge), the following cities were assigned to the descendants of Aaron the priest: Libnah,


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Ain, Juttah, and Beth Shemesh, with their pasture lands: nine cities from the tribes of Judah and Simeon.


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Thirteen cities in all, with their pasture lands, were given to the priests, the descendants of Aaron.


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The other families of the Levite clan of Kohath were assigned some cities from the territory of Ephraim.


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They were given four cities: Shechem and its pasture lands in the hill country of Ephraim (one of the cities of refuge), Gezer,


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From the territory of West Manasseh they were given two cities: Taanach and Gathrimmon, with their pasture lands.


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Another group of Levites, the clan of Gershon, received from the territory of East Manasseh two cities: Golan in Bashan (one of the cities of refuge) and Beeshterah, with their pasture lands.


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From the territory of Naphtali they received three cities: Kedesh in Galilee, with its pasture lands (one of the cities of refuge), Hammoth Dor, and Kartan, with their pasture lands.


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The various families of the clan of Gershon received a total of thirteen cities with their pasture lands.


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The rest of the Levites, the clan of Merari, received from the territory of Zebulun four cities: Jokneam, Kartah,


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From the tribe of Gad they received four cities: Ramoth in Gilead, with its pasture lands (one of the cities of refuge), Mahanaim,


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From the land that the people of Israel possessed, a total of forty-eight cities, with the pasture lands around them, was given to the Levites.


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Israel Takes Possession of the Land
So the Lord gave to Israel all the land that he had solemnly promised their ancestors he would give them. When they had taken possession of it, they settled down there.


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The Lord gave them peace throughout the land, just as he had promised their ancestors. Not one of all their enemies had been able to stand against them, because the Lord gave the Israelites the victory over all their enemies.


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Joshua Sends the Eastern Tribes Home
Then Joshua called together the people of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh.


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He said to them, “You have done everything that Moses the Lord's servant ordered you to do, and you have obeyed all my commands.


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All this time you have never once deserted the other Israelites. You have been careful to obey the commands of the Lord your God.


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Now, as he promised, the Lord your God has given the other Israelites peace. So go back home to the land which you claimed for your own, the land on the east side of the Jordan, that Moses, the Lord's servant, gave you.


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Make sure you obey the law that Moses commanded you: love the Lord your God, do his will, obey his commandments, be faithful to him, and serve him with all your heart and soul.”


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Joshua sent them home with his blessing and with these words: “You are going back home very rich, with a lot of livestock, silver, gold, bronze, iron, and many clothes. Share with your fellow tribesmen what you took from your enemies.” Then they left for home.
Moses had given land east of the Jordan to one half of the tribe of Manasseh, but to the other half Joshua had given land west of the Jordan, along with the other tribes.


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So the people of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh went back home. They left the rest of the people of Israel at Shiloh in the land of Canaan and started out for their own land, the land of Gilead, which they had taken as the Lord had commanded them through Moses.


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The Altar by the Jordan
When the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh arrived at Geliloth, still on the west side of the Jordan, they built a large, impressive altar there by the river.


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The rest of the people of Israel were told, “Listen! The people of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh have built an altar at Geliloth, on our side of the Jordan!”


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When the people of Israel heard this, the whole community came together at Shiloh to go to war against the eastern tribes.


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Then the people of Israel sent Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, to the people of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh in the land of Gilead.


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Ten leading men went with Phinehas, one from each of the western tribes and each one the head of a family among the clans.


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and speaking for the whole community of the Lord, they said to them, “Why have you done this evil thing against the God of Israel? You have rebelled against the Lord by building this altar for yourselves! You are no longer following him!


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Remember our sin at Peor, when the Lord punished his own people with an epidemic? We are still suffering because of that. Wasn't that sin enough?


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Are you going to refuse to follow him now? If you rebel against the Lord today, he will be angry with everyone in Israel tomorrow.


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Now then, if your land is not fit to worship in, come over into the Lord's land, where his Tent is. Claim some land among us. But don't rebel against the Lord or make rebels out of us by building an altar in addition to the altar of the Lord our God.


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Remember how Achan son of Zerah refused to obey the command about the things condemned to destruction; the whole community of Israel was punished for that. Achan was not the only one who died because of his sin.”


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The people of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh answered the heads of the families of the western tribes:


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“The Mighty One is God! He is the Lord! The Mighty One is God! He is the Lord! He knows why we did this, and we want you to know too! If we rebelled and did not keep faith with the Lord, do not let us live any longer!


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If we disobeyed the Lord and built our own altar to burn sacrifices on or to use for grain offerings or fellowship offerings, let the Lord himself punish us.


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No! We did it because we were afraid that in the future your descendants would say to ours, ‘What do you have to do with the Lord, the God of Israel?


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He made the Jordan a boundary between us and you people of Reuben and Gad. You have nothing to do with the Lord.’ Then your descendants might make our descendants stop worshiping the Lord.


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but instead, as a sign for our people and yours, and for the generations after us, that we do indeed worship the Lord before his sacred Tent with our offerings to be burned and with sacrifices and fellowship offerings. This was to keep your descendants from saying that ours have nothing to do with the Lord.


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It was our idea that, if this should ever happen, our descendants could say, ‘Look! Our ancestors made an altar just like the Lord's altar. It was not for burning offerings or for sacrifice, but as a sign for our people and yours.’


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We would certainly not rebel against the Lord or stop following him now by building an altar to burn offerings on or for grain offerings or sacrifices. We would not build any other altar than the altar of the Lord our God that stands in front of the Tent of his presence.”


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Phinehas the priest and the ten leading men of the community who were with him, the heads of families of the western tribes, heard what the people of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh had to say, and they were satisfied.


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Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, said to them, “Now we know that the Lord is with us. You have not rebelled against him, and so you have saved the people of Israel from the Lord's punishment.”


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Then Phinehas and the leaders left the people of Reuben and Gad in the land of Gilead and went back to Canaan, to the people of Israel, and reported to them.


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The Israelites were satisfied and praised God. They no longer talked about going to war to devastate the land where the people of Reuben and Gad had settled.


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The people of Reuben and Gad said, “This altar is a witness to all of us that the Lord is God.” And so they named it “Witness.”


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Joshua's Farewell Address
Much later the Lord gave Israel security from their enemies around them. By that time Joshua was very old,


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so he called all Israel, the elders, leaders, judges, and officers of the people, and said, “I am very old now.


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You have seen everything that the Lord your God has done to all these nations because of you. The Lord your God has been fighting for you.


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I have assigned as the possession of your tribes the land of the nations that are still left, as well as of all the nations that I have already conquered, from the Jordan River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.


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The Lord your God will make them retreat from you, and he will drive them away as you advance. You shall have their land, as the Lord your God has promised you.


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So be careful to obey and do everything that is written in the book of the Law of Moses. Do not neglect any part of it,


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and then you will not associate with these peoples left among you or speak the names of their gods or use those names in taking vows or worship those gods or bow down to them.


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The Lord has driven great and powerful nations out as you advanced, and no one has ever been able to stand against you.


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Any one of you can make a thousand men run away, because the Lord your God is fighting for you, just as he promised.


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If you are disloyal and join with the nations that are still left among you and intermarry with them,


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you may be sure that the Lord your God will no longer drive these nations out as you advance. Rather, they will be as dangerous for you as a trap or a pit and as painful as a whip on your back or thorns in your eyes. And this will last until none of you are left in this good land which the Lord your God has given you.


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“Now my time has come to die. Every one of you knows in his heart and soul that the Lord your God has given you all the good things that he promised. Every promise he made has been kept; not one has failed.


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If you do not keep the covenant which the Lord your God commanded you to keep and if you serve and worship other gods, then in his anger he will punish you, and soon none of you will be left in this good land that he has given you.”


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Joshua Speaks to the People at Shechem
Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem. He called the elders, the leaders, the judges, and the officers of Israel, and they came into the presence of God.


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Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has to say: ‘Long ago your ancestors lived on the other side of the Euphrates River and worshiped other gods. One of those ancestors was Terah, the father of Abraham and Nahor.


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Then I took Abraham, your ancestor, from the land across the Euphrates and led him through the whole land of Canaan. I gave him many descendants. I gave him Isaac,


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and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau the hill country of Edom as his possession, but your ancestor Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.


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I brought your ancestors out of Egypt, and the Egyptians pursued them with chariots and cavalry. But when your ancestors got to the Red Sea


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they cried out to me for help, and I put darkness between them and the Egyptians. I made the sea come rolling over the Egyptians and drown them. You know what I did to Egypt.
“‘You lived in the desert a long time.


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Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites, who lived on the east side of the Jordan. They fought you, but I gave you victory over them. You took their land, and I destroyed them as you advanced.


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Then the king of Moab, Balak son of Zippor, fought against you. He sent word to Balaam son of Beor and asked him to put a curse on you.


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You crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The men of Jericho fought you, as did the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. But I gave you victory over them all.


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As you advanced, I threw them into panic in order to drive out the two Amorite kings. Your swords and bows had nothing to do with it.


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I gave you a land that you had never worked and cities that you had not built. Now you are living there and eating grapes from vines that you did not plant, and olives from trees that you did not plant.’


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“Now then,” Joshua continued, “honor the Lord and serve him sincerely and faithfully. Get rid of the gods which your ancestors used to worship in Mesopotamia and in Egypt, and serve only the Lord.


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If you are not willing to serve him, decide today whom you will serve, the gods your ancestors worshiped in Mesopotamia or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living. As for my family and me, we will serve the Lord.”


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The Lord our God brought our fathers and us out of slavery in Egypt, and we saw the miracles that he performed. He kept us safe wherever we went among all the nations through which we passed.


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As we advanced into this land, the Lord drove out all the Amorites who lived here. So we also will serve the Lord; he is our God.”


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Joshua said to the people, “But you may not be able to serve the Lord. He is a holy God and will not forgive your sins. He will tolerate no rivals,


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and if you leave him to serve foreign gods, he will turn against you and punish you. He will destroy you, even though he was good to you before.”


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Joshua told them, “You are your own witnesses to the fact that you have chosen to serve the Lord.”
“Yes,” they said, “we are witnesses.”


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“Then get rid of those foreign gods that you have,” he demanded, “and pledge your loyalty to the Lord, the God of Israel.”


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So Joshua made a covenant for the people that day, and there at Shechem he gave them laws and rules to follow.


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Joshua wrote these commands in the book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up under the oak tree in the Lord's sanctuary.


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He said to all the people, “This stone will be our witness. It has heard all the words that the Lord has spoken to us. So it will be a witness against you, to keep you from rebelling against your God.”


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Joshua and Eleazar Die
After that, the Lord's servant Joshua son of Nun died at the age of a hundred and ten.


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They buried him on his own land at Timnath Serah in the hill country of Ephraim north of Mount Gaash.


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As long as Joshua lived, the people of Israel served the Lord, and after his death they continued to do so as long as those leaders were alive who had seen for themselves everything that the Lord had done for Israel.


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The body of Joseph, which the people of Israel had brought from Egypt, was buried at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred pieces of silver. This land was inherited by Joseph's descendants.


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Eleazar son of Aaron died and was buried at Gibeah, the town in the hill country of Ephraim which had been given to his son Phinehas.


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The Tribes of Judah and Simeon Capture Adonibezek
After Joshua's death the people of Israel asked the Lord, “Which of our tribes should be the first to go and attack the Canaanites?”


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The people of Judah said to the people of Simeon, “Go with us into the territory assigned to us, and we will fight the Canaanites together. Then we will go with you into the territory assigned to you.” So the tribes of Simeon


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and Judah went into battle together. The Lord gave them victory over the Canaanites and the Perizzites, and they defeated ten thousand men at Bezek.


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Adonibezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have picked up scraps under my table. God has now done to me what I did to them.” He was taken to Jerusalem, where he died.


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The Tribe of Judah Conquers Jerusalem and Hebron
The people of Judah attacked Jerusalem and captured it. They killed its people and set fire to the city.


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After this they went on to fight the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, in the foothills, and in the dry country to the south.


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They marched against the Canaanites living in the city of Hebron, which used to be called Kiriath Arba. There they defeated the clans of Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.


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Othniel Conquers the City of Debir
From there the men of Judah marched against the city of Debir, at that time called Kiriath Sepher.


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One of them, called Caleb, said, “I will give my daughter Achsah in marriage to the man who succeeds in capturing Kiriath Sepher.”


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Othniel, the son of Caleb's younger brother Kenaz, captured the city, so Caleb gave him his daughter Achsah in marriage.


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The Victories of the Tribes of Judah and Benjamin
The descendants of Moses' father-in-law, the Kenite, went on with the people of Judah from Jericho, the city of palm trees, into the barren country south of Arad in Judah. There they settled among the Amalekites.


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The people of Judah went with the people of Simeon, and together they defeated the Canaanites who lived in the city of Zephath. They put a curse on the city, destroyed it, and named it Hormah.


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The Lord helped the people of Judah, and they took possession of the hill country. But they did not capture Gaza, Ashkelon, or Ekron, with their surrounding territories. These people living along the coast had iron chariots, and so the people of Judah were not able to drive them out.


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As Moses had commanded, Hebron was given to Caleb, who drove out of the city the three clans descended from Anak.


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But the people of the tribe of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem, and the Jebusites have continued to live there with the people of Benjamin ever since.


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The Tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh Conquer Bethel
The tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh went to attack the city of Bethel, at that time called Luz. The Lord helped them. They sent spies to the city,


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So he showed them, and the people of Ephraim and Manasseh killed everyone in the city, except this man and his family.


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He later went to the land of the Hittites, built a city there, and named it Luz, which is still its name.


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People Who Were Not Driven Out by the Israelites
The tribe of Manasseh did not drive out the people living in the cities of Beth Shan, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam, Megiddo, and the nearby towns; the Canaanites continued to live there.


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When the Israelites became stronger, they forced the Canaanites to work for them, but still they did not drive them all out.


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The tribe of Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanites living in the city of Gezer, and so the Canaanites continued to live there with them.


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The tribe of Zebulun did not drive out the people living in the cities of Kitron and Nahalal, and so the Canaanites continued to live there with them and were forced to work for them.


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The tribe of Asher did not drive out the people living in the cities of Acco, Sidon, Ahlab, Achzib, Helbah, Aphek, and Rehob.


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The tribe of Naphtali did not drive out the people living in the cities of Beth Shemesh and Bethanath. The people of Naphtali lived with the local Canaanites, but forced them to work for them.


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The Amorites forced the people of the tribe of Dan into the hill country and did not let them come down to the plain.


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The Amorites continued to live at Aijalon, Shaalbim, and Mount Heres, but the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh kept them under their rule and forced them to work for them.


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The Angel of the Lord at Bochim
The angel of the Lord went from Gilgal to Bochim and said to the Israelites, “I took you out of Egypt and brought you to the land that I promised to your ancestors. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you.


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You must not make any covenant with the people who live in this land. You must tear down their altars.’ But you have not done what I told you. You have done just the opposite!


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So I tell you now that I will not drive these people out as you advance. They will be your enemies, and you will be trapped by the worship of their gods.”


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The Death of Joshua
Joshua sent the people of Israel on their way, and each man went to take possession of his own share of the land.


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As long as Joshua lived, the people of Israel served the Lord, and even after his death they continued to do so as long as the leaders were alive who had seen for themselves all the great things that the Lord had done for Israel.


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He was buried in his own part of the land at Timnath Serah in the hill country of Ephraim north of Mount Gaash.


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That whole generation also died, and the next generation forgot the Lord and what he had done for Israel.


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Israel Stops Worshiping the Lord
Then the people of Israel sinned against the Lord and began to serve the Baals.


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They stopped worshiping the Lord, the God of their ancestors, the God who had brought them out of Egypt, and they began to worship other gods, the gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and made the Lord angry.


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And so the Lord became furious with Israel and let raiders attack and rob them. He let the enemies all around overpower them, and the Israelites could no longer protect themselves.


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Every time they would go into battle, the Lord was against them, just as he had said he would be. They were in great distress.


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But the Israelites paid no attention to their leaders. Israel was unfaithful to the Lord and worshiped other gods. Their fathers had obeyed the Lord's commands, but this new generation soon stopped doing so.


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Whenever the Lord gave Israel a leader, the Lord would help that leader and would save the people from their enemies as long as that leader lived. The Lord would have mercy on them because they groaned under their suffering and oppression.


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But when the leader died, the people would return to the old ways and behave worse than the previous generation. They would serve and worship other gods, and stubbornly continue their own evil ways.


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Then the Lord would become furious with Israel and say, “This nation has broken the covenant that I commanded their ancestors to keep. Because they have not obeyed me,


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I will use them to find out whether or not these Israelites will follow my ways, as their ancestors did.”


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So the Lord allowed these nations to remain in the land; he did not give Joshua victory over them, nor did he drive them out soon after Joshua's death.


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The Nations Remaining in the Land
So then, the Lord left some nations in the land to test the Israelites who had not been through the wars in Canaan.


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He did this only in order to teach each generation of Israelites about war, especially those who had never been in battle before.


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Those left in the land were the five Philistine cities, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the Lebanon Mountains from Mount Baal Hermon as far as Hamath Pass.


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They were to be a test for Israel, to find out whether or not the Israelites would obey the commands that the Lord had given their ancestors through Moses.


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And so the people of Israel settled down among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.


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Othniel
The people of Israel forgot the Lord their God; they sinned against him and worshiped the idols of Baal and Asherah.


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So the Lord became angry with Israel and let King Cushan Rishathaim of Mesopotamia conquer them. They were subject to him for eight years.


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Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord, and he sent someone to free them. This was Othniel, the son of Caleb's younger brother Kenaz.


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The spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he became Israel's leader. Othniel went to war, and the Lord gave him the victory over the king of Mesopotamia.


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Ehud
The people of Israel sinned against the Lord again. Because of this the Lord made King Eglon of Moab stronger than Israel.


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Eglon joined the Ammonites and the Amalekites; they defeated Israel and captured Jericho, the city of palm trees.


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Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord, and he sent someone to free them. This was Ehud, a left-handed man, who was the son of Gera, from the tribe of Benjamin. The people of Israel sent Ehud to King Eglon of Moab with gifts for him.


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Ehud had made himself a double-edged sword about a foot and a half long. He had it fastened on his right side under his clothes.


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But Ehud himself turned back at the carved stones near Gilgal, went back to Eglon, and said, “Your Majesty, I have a secret message for you.”
So the king ordered his servants, “Leave us alone!” And they all went out.


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Then, as the king was sitting there alone in his cool room on the roof, Ehud went over to him and said, “I have a message from God for you.” The king stood up.


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The whole sword went in, handle and all, and the fat covered it up. Ehud did not pull it out of the king's belly, and it stuck out behind, between his legs.


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and left. The servants came and saw that the doors were locked, but they only thought that the king was inside, relieving himself.


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They waited as long as they thought they should, but when he still did not open the door, they took the key and opened it. And there was their master, lying dead on the floor.


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When he arrived there in the hill country of Ephraim, he blew a trumpet to call the people of Israel to battle; then he led them down from the hills.


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He told them, “Follow me! The Lord has given you victory over your enemies, the Moabites.” So they followed Ehud down and captured the place where the Moabites were to cross the Jordan; they did not allow anyone to cross.


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Shamgar
The next leader was Shamgar son of Anath. He too rescued Israel, and did so by killing six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad.


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So the Lord let them be conquered by Jabin, a Canaanite king who ruled in the city of Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived at Harosheth-of-the-Gentiles.


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Jabin had nine hundred iron chariots, and he ruled the people of Israel with cruelty and violence for twenty years. Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord for help.


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Now Deborah, the wife of Lappidoth, was a prophet, and she was serving as a judge for the Israelites at that time.


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She would sit under a certain palm tree between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel would go there for her decisions.


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One day she sent for Barak son of Abinoam from the city of Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “The Lord, the God of Israel, has given you this command: ‘Take ten thousand men from the tribes of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead them to Mount Tabor.


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I will bring Sisera, the commander of Jabin's army, to fight you at the Kishon River. He will have his chariots and soldiers, but I will give you victory over him.’”


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She answered, “All right, I will go with you, but you won't get any credit for the victory, because the Lord will hand Sisera over to a woman.” So Deborah set off for Kedesh with Barak.


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Barak called the tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh, and ten thousand men followed him. Deborah went with him.


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In the meantime Heber the Kenite had set up his tent close to Kedesh near the oak tree at Zaanannim. He had moved away from the other Kenites, the descendants of Hobab, the brother-in-law of Moses.


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he called out his nine hundred iron chariots and all his men, and sent them from Harosheth-of-the-Gentiles to the Kishon River.


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Then Deborah said to Barak, “Go! The Lord is leading you! Today he has given you victory over Sisera.” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with his ten thousand men.


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When Barak attacked with his army, the Lord threw Sisera into confusion together with all his chariots and men. Sisera got down from his chariot and fled on foot.


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Barak pursued the chariots and the army to Harosheth-of-the-Gentiles, and Sisera's whole army was killed. Not a man was left.


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Sisera ran away to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because King Jabin of Hazor was at peace with Heber's family.


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Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, “Come in, sir; come into my tent. Don't be afraid.” So he went in, and she hid him behind a curtain.


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He said to her, “Please give me a drink of water; I'm thirsty.” She opened a leather bag of milk, gave him a drink, and hid him again.


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Then he told her, “Stand at the door of the tent, and if anyone comes and asks you if anyone is here, say no.”


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Sisera was so tired that he fell sound asleep. Then Jael took a hammer and a tent peg, quietly went up to him, and killed him by driving the peg right through the side of his head and into the ground.


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When Barak came looking for Sisera, Jael went out to meet him and said to him, “Come here! I'll show you the man you're looking for.” So he went in with her, and there was Sisera on the ground, dead, with the tent peg through his head.


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Lord, when you left the mountains of Seir,
when you came out of the region of Edom,
the earth shook, and rain fell from the sky.
Yes, water poured down from the clouds.


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In the days of Shamgar son of Anath,
in the days of Jael,
caravans no longer went through the land,
and travelers used the back roads.


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The towns of Israel stood abandoned, Deborah;
they stood empty until you came,
came like a mother for Israel.


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Then there was war in the land
when the Israelites chose new gods.
Of the forty thousand men in Israel,
did anyone carry shield or spear?


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Tell of it, you that ride on white donkeys,
sitting on saddles,
and you that must walk wherever you go.


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Listen! The noisy crowds around the wells
are telling of the Lord's victories,
the victories of Israel's people!
Then the Lord's people marched down from their cities.


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Lead on, Deborah, lead on!
Lead on! Sing a song! Lead on!
Forward, Barak son of Abinoam,
lead your captives away!


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They came from Ephraim into the valley,
behind the tribe of Benjamin and its people.
The commanders came down from Machir,
the officers down from Zebulun.


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The leaders of Issachar came with Deborah;
yes, Issachar came and Barak too,
and they followed him into the valley.
But the tribe of Reuben was divided;
they could not decide to come.


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Why did they stay behind with the sheep?
To listen to shepherds calling the flocks?
Yes, the tribe of Reuben was divided;
they could not decide to come.


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The tribe of Gad stayed east of the Jordan,
and the tribe of Dan remained by the ships.
The tribe of Asher stayed by the seacoast;
they remained along the shore.


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At Taanach, by the stream of Megiddo,
the kings came and fought;
the kings of Canaan fought,
but they took no silver away.


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A flood in the Kishon swept them away—
the onrushing Kishon River.
I shall march, march on, with strength!


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“Put a curse on Meroz,” says the angel of the Lord,
“a curse, a curse on those who live there.
They did not come to help the Lord,
come as soldiers to fight for him.”


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The most fortunate of women is Jael,
the wife of Heber the Kenite—
the most fortunate of women who live in tents.


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She took a tent peg in one hand,
a worker's hammer in the other;
she struck Sisera and crushed his skull;
she pierced him through the head.


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He sank to his knees,
fell down and lay still at her feet.
At her feet he sank to his knees and fell;
he fell to the ground, dead.


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Sisera's mother looked out of the window;
she gazed from behind the lattice.
“Why is his chariot so late in coming?” she asked.
“Why are his horses so slow to return?”


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“They are only finding things to capture and divide,
a woman or two for every soldier,
rich cloth for Sisera,
embroidered pieces for the neck of the queen.”


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So may all your enemies die like that, O Lord,
but may your friends shine like the rising sun!
And there was peace in the land for forty years.


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Gideon
Once again the people of Israel sinned against the Lord, so he let the people of Midian rule them for seven years.


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The Midianites were stronger than Israel, and the people of Israel hid from them in caves and other safe places in the hills.


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Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites would come with the Amalekites and the desert tribes and attack them.


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They would camp on the land and destroy the crops as far south as the area around Gaza. They would take all the sheep, cattle, and donkeys, and leave nothing for the Israelites to live on.


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They would come with their livestock and tents, as thick as locusts. They and their camels were too many to count. They came and devastated the land,


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and he sent them a prophet who brought them this message from the Lord, the God of Israel: “I brought you out of slavery in Egypt.


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I rescued you from the Egyptians and from the people who fought you here in this land. I drove them out as you advanced, and I gave you their land.


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I told you that I am the Lord your God and that you should not worship the gods of the Amorites, whose land you are now living in. But you have not listened to me.”


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Then the Lord's angel came to the village of Ophrah and sat under the oak tree that belonged to Joash, a man of the clan of Abiezer. His son Gideon was threshing some wheat secretly in a wine press, so that the Midianites would not see him.


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Gideon said to him, “If I may ask, sir, why has all this happened to us if the Lord is with us? What happened to all the wonderful things that our fathers told us the Lord used to do—how he brought them out of Egypt? The Lord has abandoned us and left us to the mercy of the Midianites.”


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Then the Lord ordered him, “Go with all your great strength and rescue Israel from the Midianites. I myself am sending you.”


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Gideon replied, “But Lord, how can I rescue Israel? My clan is the weakest in the tribe of Manasseh, and I am the least important member of my family.”


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The Lord answered, “You can do it because I will help you. You will crush the Midianites as easily as if they were only one man.”


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Please do not leave until I bring you an offering of food.”
He said, “I will stay until you come back.”


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So Gideon went into his house and cooked a young goat and used a bushel of flour to make bread without any yeast. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot, brought them to the Lord's angel under the oak tree, and gave them to him.


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The angel told him, “Put the meat and the bread on this rock, and pour the broth over them.” Gideon did so.


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Then the Lord's angel reached out and touched the meat and the bread with the end of the stick he was holding. Fire came out of the rock and burned up the meat and the bread. Then the angel disappeared.


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Gideon then realized that it was the Lord's angel he had seen, and he said in terror, “Sovereign Lord! I have seen your angel face-to-face!”


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Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and named it “The Lord is Peace.” (It is still standing at Ophrah, which belongs to the clan of Abiezer.)


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That night the Lord told Gideon, “Take your father's bull and another bull seven years old, tear down your father's altar to Baal, and cut down the symbol of the goddess Asherah, which is beside it.


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Build a well-constructed altar to the Lord your God on top of this mound. Then take the second bull and burn it whole as an offering, using for firewood the symbol of Asherah you have cut down.”


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So Gideon took ten of his servants and did what the Lord had told him. He was too afraid of his family and the people in town to do it by day, so he did it at night.


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When the people in town got up early the next morning, they found that the altar to Baal and the symbol of Asherah had been cut down, and that the second bull had been burned on the altar that had been built there.


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They asked each other, “Who did this?” They investigated and found out that Gideon son of Joash had done it.


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Then they said to Joash, “Bring your son out here, so that we can kill him! He tore down the altar to Baal and cut down the symbol of Asherah beside it.”


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But Joash said to all those who confronted him, “Are you arguing for Baal? Are you defending him? Anyone who argues for him will be killed before morning. If Baal is a god, let him defend himself. It is his altar that was torn down.”


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From then on Gideon was known as Jerubbaal, because Joash said, “Let Baal defend himself; it is his altar that was torn down.”


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Then all the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the desert tribes assembled, crossed the Jordan River, and camped in Jezreel Valley.


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The spirit of the Lord took control of Gideon, and he blew a trumpet to call the men of the clan of Abiezer to follow him.


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He sent messengers throughout the territory of both parts of Manasseh to call them to follow him. He sent messengers to the tribes of Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, and they also came to join him.


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Well, I am putting some wool on the ground where we thresh the wheat. If in the morning there is dew only on the wool but not on the ground, then I will know that you are going to use me to rescue Israel.”


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That is exactly what happened. When Gideon got up early the next morning, he squeezed the wool and wrung enough dew out of it to fill a bowl with water.


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Then Gideon said to God, “Don't be angry with me; let me speak just once more. Please let me make one more test with the wool. This time let the wool be dry, and the ground be wet.”


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That night God did that very thing. The next morning the wool was dry, but the ground was wet with dew.


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Gideon Defeats the Midianites
One day Gideon and all his men got up early and camped beside Harod Spring. The Midianite camp was in the valley to the north of them by Moreh Hill.


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The Lord said to Gideon, “The men you have are too many for me to give them victory over the Midianites. They might think that they had won by themselves, and so give me no credit.


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Announce to the people, ‘Anyone who is afraid should go back home, and we will stay here at Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand went back, but ten thousand stayed.


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Then the Lord said to Gideon, “You still have too many men. Take them down to the water, and I will separate them for you there. If I tell you a man should go with you, he will go. If I tell you a man should not go with you, he will not go.”


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Gideon took the men down to the water, and the Lord told him, “Separate everyone who laps up the water with his tongue like a dog, from everyone who gets down on his knees to drink.”


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There were three hundred men who scooped up water in their hands and lapped it; all the others got down on their knees to drink.


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The Lord said to Gideon, “I will rescue you and give you victory over the Midianites with the three hundred men who lapped the water. Tell everyone else to go home.”


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So Gideon sent all the Israelites home, except the three hundred, who kept all the supplies and trumpets. The Midianite camp was below them in the valley.


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You will hear what they are saying, and then you will have the courage to attack.” So Gideon and his servant Purah went down to the edge of the enemy camp.


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The Midianites, the Amalekites, and the desert tribesmen were spread out in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and they had as many camels as there are grains of sand on the seashore.


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When Gideon arrived, he heard a man telling a friend about a dream. He was saying, “I dreamed that a loaf of barley bread rolled into our camp and hit a tent. The tent collapsed and lay flat on the ground.”


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His friend replied, “It's the sword of the Israelite, Gideon son of Joash! It can't mean anything else! God has given him victory over Midian and our whole army!”


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When Gideon heard about the man's dream and what it meant, he fell to his knees and worshiped the Lord. Then he went back to the Israelite camp and said, “Get up! The Lord is giving you victory over the Midianite army!”


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He divided his three hundred men into three groups and gave each man a trumpet and a jar with a torch inside it.


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When my group and I blow our trumpets, then you blow yours all around the camp and shout, ‘For the Lord and for Gideon!’”


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Gideon and his one hundred men came to the edge of the camp a while before midnight, just after the guard had been changed. Then they blew the trumpets and broke the jars they were holding,


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and the other two groups did the same. They all held the torches in their left hands, the trumpets in their right, and shouted, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!”


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While Gideon's men were blowing their trumpets, the Lord made the enemy troops attack each other with their swords. They ran toward Zarethan as far as Beth Shittah, as far as the town of Abel Meholah near Tabbath.


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Then men from the tribes of Naphtali, Asher, and both parts of Manasseh were called out, and they pursued the Midianites.


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Gideon sent messengers through all the hill country of Ephraim to say, “Come down and fight the Midianites. Hold the Jordan River and the streams as far as Bethbarah, to keep the Midianites from crossing them.” The men of Ephraim were called together, and they held the Jordan River and the streams as far as Bethbarah.


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They captured the two Midianite chiefs, Oreb and Zeeb; they killed Oreb at Oreb Rock, and Zeeb at the Winepress of Zeeb. They continued to pursue the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was now east of the Jordan.


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The Final Defeat of the Midianites
Then the people of Ephraim said to Gideon, “Why didn't you call us when you went to fight the Midianites? Why did you treat us like this?” They complained bitterly about it.


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But he told them, “What I was able to do is nothing compared with what you have done. Even the little that you people of Ephraim did is worth more than what my whole clan has done.


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After all, through the power of God you killed the two Midianite chiefs, Oreb and Zeeb. What have I done to compare with that?” When he said this, they were no longer so angry.


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By this time Gideon and his three hundred men had come to the Jordan River and had crossed it. They were exhausted, but were still pursuing the enemy.


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When they arrived at Sukkoth, he said to the men of the town, “Please give my men some loaves of bread. They are exhausted, and I am chasing Zebah and Zalmunna, the Midianite kings.”


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But the leaders of Sukkoth said, “Why should we give your army any food? You haven't captured Zebah and Zalmunna yet.”


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So Gideon said, “All right! When the Lord has handed Zebah and Zalmunna over to me, I will beat you with thorns and briers from the desert!”


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Gideon went on to Penuel and made the same request of the people there, but the men of Penuel gave the same answer as the men of Sukkoth.


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So he said to them, “I am going to come back safe and sound, and when I do, I will tear this tower down!”


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Zebah and Zalmunna were at Karkor with their army. Of the whole army of desert tribesmen, only about 15,000 were left; 120,000 soldiers had been killed.


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Gideon went on the road along the edge of the desert, east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and attacked the army by surprise.


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The two Midianite kings, Zebah and Zalmunna, ran away, but he pursued them and captured them, and caused their whole army to panic.


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he captured a young man from Sukkoth and questioned him. The young man wrote down for Gideon the names of the seventy-seven leading men of Sukkoth.


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Then Gideon went to the men of Sukkoth and said, “Remember when you refused to help me? You said that you couldn't give any food to my exhausted army because I hadn't captured Zebah and Zalmunna yet. Well, here they are!”


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Then Gideon asked Zebah and Zalmunna, “What about the men you killed at Tabor?”
They answered, “They looked like you—every one of them like the son of a king.”


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Gideon said, “They were my brothers, my own mother's sons. I solemnly swear that if you had not killed them, I would not kill you.”


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Then he said to Jether, his oldest son, “Go ahead, kill them!” But the boy did not draw his sword. He hesitated, because he was still only a boy.


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Then Zebah and Zalmunna said to Gideon, “Come on, kill us yourself. It takes a man to do a man's job.” So Gideon killed them and took the ornaments that were on the necks of their camels.


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After that, the Israelites said to Gideon, “Be our ruler—you and your descendants after you. You have saved us from the Midianites.”


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But he went on to say, “Let me ask one thing of you. Every one of you give me the earrings you took.” (The Midianites, like other desert people, wore gold earrings.)


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The people answered, “We'll be glad to give them to you.” They spread out a cloth, and everyone put on it the earrings that he had taken.


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The gold earrings that Gideon got weighed over forty pounds, and this did not include the ornaments, necklaces, and purple clothes that the kings of Midian wore, nor the collars that were around the necks of their camels.


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Gideon made an idol from the gold and put it in his hometown, Ophrah. All the Israelites abandoned God and went there to worship the idol. It was a trap for Gideon and his family.


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So Midian was defeated by the Israelites and was no longer a threat. The land was at peace for forty years, until Gideon died.


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Gideon son of Joash died at a ripe old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash, at Ophrah, the town of the clan of Abiezer.


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After Gideon's death the people of Israel were unfaithful to God again and worshiped the Baals. They made Baal-of-the-Covenant their god,


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Abimelech
Gideon's son Abimelech went to the town of Shechem, where all his mother's relatives lived, and told them


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to ask the men of Shechem, “Which would you prefer? To have all seventy of Gideon's sons govern you or to have just one man? Remember that Abimelech is your own flesh and blood.”


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His mother's relatives talked to the men of Shechem about this for him, and the men of Shechem decided to follow Abimelech because he was their relative.


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They gave him seventy pieces of silver from the temple of Baal-of-the-Covenant, and with this money he hired a bunch of worthless scoundrels to join him.


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He went to his father's house at Ophrah, and there on top of a single stone he killed his seventy brothers, Gideon's sons. But Jotham, Gideon's youngest son, hid and was not killed.


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Then all the men of Shechem and Bethmillo got together and went to the sacred oak tree at Shechem, where they made Abimelech king.


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When Jotham heard about this, he went and stood on top of Mount Gerizim and shouted out to them, “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, and God may listen to you!


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Once upon a time the trees went out to choose a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Be our king.’


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The olive tree answered, ‘In order to govern you, I would have to stop producing my oil, which is used to honor gods and human beings.’


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But the fig tree answered, ‘In order to govern you, I would have to stop producing my good sweet fruit.’


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But the vine answered, ‘In order to govern you, I would have to stop producing my wine, that makes gods and human beings happy.’


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The thorn bush answered, ‘If you really want to make me your king, then come and take shelter in my shade. If you don't, fire will blaze out of my thorny branches and burn up the cedars of Lebanon.’


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“Now then,” Jotham continued, “were you really honest and sincere when you made Abimelech king? Did you respect Gideon's memory and treat his family properly, as his actions deserved?


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But today you turned against my father's family. You killed his sons—seventy men on a single stone—and just because Abimelech, his son by his servant woman, is your relative, you have made him king of Shechem.


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Now then, if what you did today to Gideon and his family was sincere and honest, then be happy with Abimelech and let him be happy with you.


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But if not, may fire blaze out from Abimelech and burn up the men of Shechem and Bethmillo. May fire blaze out from the men of Shechem and Bethmillo and burn Abimelech up.”


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Then God made Abimelech and the men of Shechem hostile to each other, and they rebelled against Abimelech.


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This happened so that Abimelech and the men of Shechem, who encouraged him to murder Gideon's seventy sons, would pay for their crime.


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The men of Shechem put men in ambush against Abimelech on the mountaintops, and they robbed everyone who passed their way. Abimelech was told about this.


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Then Gaal son of Ebed came to Shechem with his brothers, and the men of Shechem put their confidence in him.


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They all went out into their vineyards and picked the grapes, made wine from them, and held a festival. They went into the temple of their god, where they ate and drank and made fun of Abimelech.


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Gaal said, “What kind of men are we in Shechem? Why are we serving Abimelech? Who is he, anyway? The son of Gideon! And Zebul takes orders from him, but why should we serve him? Be loyal to your ancestor Hamor, who founded your clan!


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I wish I were leading this people! I would get rid of Abimelech! I would tell him, ‘Reinforce your army, come on out and fight!’”


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He sent messengers to Abimelech at Arumah to say, “Gaal son of Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem, and they are not going to let you into the city.


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Get up tomorrow morning at sunrise and make a sudden attack on the city. Then when Gaal and his men come out against you, hit them with all you've got!”


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When Abimelech and his men saw Gaal come out and stand at the city gate, they got up from their hiding places.


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Gaal saw them and said to Zebul, “Look! There are men coming down from the mountaintops!”
“Those are not men,” Zebul answered. “They are just shadows on the mountains.”


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Gaal said again, “Look! There are men coming down the crest of the mountain and one group is coming along the road from the oak tree of the fortunetellers!”


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Then Zebul said to him, “Where is all your big talk now? You were the one who asked why we should serve this man Abimelech. These are the men you were making fun of. Go on out now and fight them.”


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Abimelech lived in Arumah, and Zebul drove Gaal and his brothers out of Shechem, so that they could no longer live there.


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The next day Abimelech found out that the people of Shechem were planning to go out into the fields,


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so he took his men, divided them into three groups, and hid in the fields, waiting. When he saw the people coming out of the city, he came out of hiding to kill them.


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While Abimelech and his group hurried forward to guard the city gate, the other two companies attacked the people in the fields and killed them all.


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The fighting continued all day long. Abimelech captured the city, killed its people, tore it down, and covered the ground with salt.


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When all the leading men in the fort at Shechem heard about this, they sought safety in the stronghold of the temple of Baal-of-the-Covenant.


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so he went up to Mount Zalmon with his men. There he took an ax, cut a limb off a tree, and put it on his shoulder. He told his men to hurry and do the same thing.


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So everyone cut off a tree limb; then they followed Abimelech and piled the wood up against the stronghold. They set it on fire, with the people inside, and all the people of the fort died—about a thousand men and women.


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There was a strong tower there, and every man and woman in the city, including the leaders, ran to it. They locked themselves in and went up to the roof.


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Then he quickly called the young man who was carrying his weapons and told him, “Draw your sword and kill me. I don't want it said that a woman killed me.” So the young man ran him through, and he died.


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And so it was that God paid Abimelech back for the crime that he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers.


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God also made the men of Shechem suffer for their wickedness, just as Jotham, Gideon's son, said they would when he cursed them.


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Tola
After Abimelech's death Tola, the son of Puah and grandson of Dodo, came to free Israel. He was from the tribe of Issachar and lived at Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.


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He had thirty sons who rode thirty donkeys. They had thirty cities in the land of Gilead, which are still called the villages of Jair.


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Jephthah
Once again the Israelites sinned against the Lord by worshiping the Baals and the Astartes, as well as the gods of Syria, of Sidon, of Moab, of Ammon, and of Philistia. They abandoned the Lord and stopped worshiping him.


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So the Lord became angry with the Israelites, and let the Philistines and the Ammonites conquer them.


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For eighteen years they oppressed and persecuted all the Israelites who lived in Amorite country east of the Jordan River in Gilead.


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The Ammonites even crossed the Jordan to fight the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim. Israel was in great distress.


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Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord and said, “We have sinned against you, for we left you, our God, and worshiped the Baals.”


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the Sidonians, the Amalekites, and the Maonites oppressed you in the past, and you cried out to me. Did I not save you from them?


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But the people of Israel said to the Lord, “We have sinned. Do whatever you like, but please, save us today.”


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So they got rid of their foreign gods and worshiped the Lord; and he became troubled over Israel's distress.


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Then the Ammonite army prepared for battle and camped in Gilead. The people of Israel came together and camped at Mizpah in Gilead.


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There the people and the leaders of the Israelite tribes asked one another, “Who will lead the fight against the Ammonites? Whoever does will be the leader of everyone in Gilead.”


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had other sons by his wife, and when they grew up, they forced Jephthah to leave home. They told him, “You will not inherit anything from our father; you are the son of another woman.”


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Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. There he attracted a group of worthless men, and they went around with him.


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But Jephthah answered, “You hated me so much that you forced me to leave my father's house. Why come to me now that you're in trouble?”


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They said to Jephthah, “We are turning to you now because we want you to go with us and fight the Ammonites and lead all the people of Gilead.”


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Jephthah said to them, “If you take me back home to fight the Ammonites and the Lord gives me victory, I will be your ruler.”


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So Jephthah went with the leaders of Gilead, and the people made him their ruler and leader. Jephthah stated his terms at Mizpah in the presence of the Lord.


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Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of Ammon to say, “What is your quarrel with us? Why have you invaded our country?”


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The king of Ammon answered Jephthah's messengers, “When the Israelites came out of Egypt, they took away my land from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River and the Jordan River. Now you must give it back peacefully.”


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This is what happened: when the Israelites left Egypt, they went through the desert to the Gulf of Aqaba and came to Kadesh.


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Then they sent messengers to the king of Edom to ask permission to go through his land. But the king of Edom would not let them. They also asked the king of Moab, but neither would he let them go through his land. So the Israelites stayed at Kadesh.


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Then they went on through the desert, going around the land of Edom and the land of Moab until they came to the east side of Moab, on the other side of the Arnon River. They camped there, but they did not cross the Arnon because it was the boundary of Moab.


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Then the Israelites sent messengers to Sihon, the Amorite king of Heshbon, and asked him for permission to go through his country to their own land.


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But Sihon would not let Israel do it. He brought his whole army together, camped at Jahaz, and attacked Israel.


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But the Lord, the God of Israel, gave the Israelites victory over Sihon and his army. So the Israelites took possession of all the territory of the Amorites who lived in that country.


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They occupied all the Amorite territory from the Arnon in the south to the Jabbok in the north and from the desert on the east to the Jordan on the west.


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Are you going to try to take it back? You can keep whatever your god Chemosh has given you. But we are going to keep everything that the Lord, our God, has taken for us.


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Do you think you are any better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? He never challenged Israel, did he? Did he ever go to war against us?


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For three hundred years Israel has occupied Heshbon and Aroer, and the towns around them, and all the cities on the banks of the Arnon River. Why haven't you taken them back in all this time?


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No, I have not done you any wrong. You are doing wrong by making war on me. The Lord is the judge. He will decide today between the Israelites and the Ammonites.”


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Then the spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah. He went through Gilead and Manasseh and returned to Mizpah in Gilead and went on to Ammon.


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I will burn as an offering the first person that comes out of my house to meet me, when I come back from the victory. I will offer that person to you as a sacrifice.”


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He struck at them from Aroer to the area around Minnith, twenty cities in all, and as far as Abel Keramim. There was a great slaughter, and the Ammonites were defeated by Israel.


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Jephthah's Daughter
When Jephthah went back home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him, dancing and playing the tambourine. She was his only child.


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When he saw her, he tore his clothes in sorrow and said, “Oh, my daughter! You are breaking my heart! Why must it be you that causes me pain? I have made a solemn promise to the Lord, and I cannot take it back!”


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She told him, “If you have made a promise to the Lord, do what you said you would do to me, since the Lord has given you revenge on your enemies, the Ammonites.”


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But she asked her father, “Do this one thing for me. Leave me alone for two months, so that I can go with my friends to wander in the mountains and grieve that I must die a virgin.”


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He told her to go and sent her away for two months. She and her friends went up into the mountains and grieved because she was going to die unmarried and childless.


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After two months she came back to her father. He did what he had promised the Lord, and she died still a virgin.
This was the origin of the custom in Israel


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that the Israelite women would go out for four days every year to grieve for the daughter of Jephthah of Gilead.


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Jephthah and the Ephraimites
The men of Ephraim prepared for battle; they crossed the Jordan River to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, “Why did you cross the border to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We'll burn the house down over your head!”


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But Jephthah told them, “My people and I had a serious quarrel with the Ammonites. I did call you, but you would not rescue me from them.


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When I saw that you were not going to, I risked my life and crossed the border to fight them, and the Lord gave me victory over them. So why are you coming up to fight me now?”


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Then Jephthah brought all the men of Gilead together, fought the men of Ephraim and defeated them. (The Ephraimites had said, “You Gileadites in Ephraim and Manasseh, you are deserters from Ephraim!”)


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In order to keep the Ephraimites from escaping, the Gileadites captured the places where the Jordan could be crossed. When any Ephraimite who was trying to escape would ask permission to cross, the men of Gilead would ask, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No,”


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they would tell him to say “Shibboleth.” But he would say “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce it correctly. Then they would grab him and kill him there at one of the Jordan River crossings. At that time forty-two thousand of the Ephraimites were killed.


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He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He gave his daughters in marriage outside the clan and brought thirty young women from outside the clan for his sons to marry. Ibzan led Israel for seven years,


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He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. Abdon led Israel for eight years,


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then he died and was buried at Pirathon in the territory of Ephraim in the hill country of the Amalekites.


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The Birth of Samson
The Israelites sinned against the Lord again, and he let the Philistines rule them for forty years.


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At that time there was a man named Manoah from the town of Zorah. He was a member of the tribe of Dan. His wife had never been able to have children.


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The Lord's angel appeared to her and said, “You have never been able to have children, but you will soon be pregnant and have a son.


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and after your son is born, you must never cut his hair, because from the day of his birth he will be dedicated to God as a nazirite. He will begin the work of rescuing Israel from the Philistines.”


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Then the woman went and told her husband, “A man of God has come to me, and he looked as frightening as the angel of God. I didn't ask him where he came from, and he didn't tell me his name.


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But he did tell me that I would become pregnant and have a son. He told me not to drink any wine or beer, or eat any forbidden food, because the boy is to be dedicated to God as a nazirite as long as he lives.”


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Then Manoah prayed to the Lord, “Please, Lord, let the man of God that you sent come back to us and tell us what we must do with the boy when he is born.”


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God did what Manoah asked, and his angel came back to the woman while she was sitting in the field. Her husband Manoah was not with her,


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so she ran at once and told him, “Look! The man who came to me the other day has appeared to me again.”


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Manoah got up and followed his wife. He went to the man and asked, “Are you the man who talked to my wife?”
“Yes,” he answered.


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Then Manoah said, “Now then, when your words come true, what must the boy do? What kind of a life must he lead?”


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She must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine; she must not drink any wine or beer, or eat any forbidden food. She must do everything that I have told her.”


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Not knowing that it was the Lord's angel, Manoah said to him, “Please do not go yet. Let us cook a young goat for you.”
But the angel said, “If I do stay, I will not eat your food. But if you want to prepare it, burn it as an offering to the Lord.”


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So Manoah took a young goat and some grain, and offered them on the rock altar to the Lord who works wonders.


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While the flames were going up from the altar, Manoah and his wife saw the Lord's angel go up toward heaven in the flames. Manoah realized then that the man had been the Lord's angel, and he and his wife threw themselves face downward on the ground. They never saw the angel again.


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But his wife answered, “If the Lord had wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted our offerings; he would not have shown us all this or told us such things at this time.”


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And the Lord's power began to strengthen him while he was between Zorah and Eshtaol in the Camp of Dan.


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Samson and the Woman from Timnah
One day Samson went down to Timnah, where he noticed a certain young Philistine woman.


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He went back home and told his father and mother, “There is a Philistine woman down at Timnah who caught my attention. Get her for me; I want to marry her.”


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But his father and mother asked him, “Why do you have to go to those heathen Philistines to get a wife? Can't you find someone in our own clan, among all our people?”
But Samson told his father, “She is the one I want you to get for me. I like her.”


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His parents did not know that it was the Lord who was leading Samson to do this, for the Lord was looking for a chance to fight the Philistines. At this time the Philistines were ruling Israel.


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So Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother. As they were going through the vineyards there, he heard a young lion roaring.


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Suddenly the power of the Lord made Samson strong, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands, as if it were a young goat. But he did not tell his parents what he had done.


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A few days later Samson went back to marry her. On the way he left the road to look at the lion he had killed, and he was surprised to find a swarm of bees and some honey inside the dead body.


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He scraped the honey out into his hands and ate it as he walked along. Then he went to his father and mother and gave them some. They ate it, but Samson did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the dead body of a lion.


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His father went to the woman's house, and Samson gave a banquet there. This was a custom among the young men.


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Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle. I'll bet each one of you a piece of fine linen and a change of fine clothes that you can't tell me its meaning before the seven days of the wedding feast are over.”
“Tell us your riddle,” they said. “Let's hear it.”


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He said,
“Out of the eater came something to eat;
Out of the strong came something sweet.”
Three days later they had still not figured out what the riddle meant.


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On the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, “Trick your husband into telling us what the riddle means. If you don't, we'll set fire to your father's house and burn you with it. You two invited us so that you could rob us, didn't you?”


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So Samson's wife went to him in tears and said, “You don't love me! You just hate me! You told my friends a riddle and didn't tell me what it means!”
He said, “Look, I haven't even told my father and mother. Why should I tell you?”


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She cried about it for the whole seven days of the feast. But on the seventh day he told her what the riddle meant, for she nagged him so about it. Then she told the Philistines.


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So on the seventh day, before Samson went into the bedroom, the men of the city said to him,
“What could be sweeter than honey?
What could be stronger than a lion?”
Samson replied,
“If you hadn't been plowing with my cow,
You wouldn't know the answer now.”


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Suddenly the power of the Lord made him strong, and he went down to Ashkelon, where he killed thirty men, stripped them, and gave their fine clothes to the men who had solved the riddle. After that, he went back home, furious about what had happened,


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Some time later Samson went to visit his wife during the wheat harvest and took her a young goat. He told her father, “I want to go to my wife's room.”
But he wouldn't let him go in.


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He told Samson, “I really thought that you hated her, so I gave her to your friend. But her younger sister is prettier, anyway. You can have her, instead.”


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So he went and caught three hundred foxes. Two at a time, he tied their tails together and put torches in the knots.


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Then he set fire to the torches and turned the foxes loose in the Philistine wheat fields. In this way he burned up not only the wheat that had been harvested but also the wheat that was still in the fields. The olive orchards were also burned.


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When the Philistines asked who had done this, they learned that Samson had done it because his father-in-law, a man from Timnah, had given Samson's wife to a friend of Samson's. So the Philistines went and burned the woman to death and burned down her father's house.


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He attacked them fiercely and killed many of them. Then he went and stayed in the cave in the cliff at Etam.


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Samson Defeats the Philistines
The Philistines came and camped in Judah, and attacked the town of Lehi.


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The men of Judah asked them, “Why are you attacking us?”
They answered, “We came to take Samson prisoner and to treat him as he treated us.”


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So these three thousand men of Judah went to the cave in the cliff at Etam and said to Samson, “Don't you know that the Philistines are our rulers? What have you done to us?”
He answered, “I did to them just what they did to me.”


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They told him, “We have come here to tie you up, so we can hand you over to them.”
Samson said, “Give me your word that you won't kill me yourselves.”


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“All right,” they said, “we are only going to tie you up and hand you over to them. We won't kill you.” So they tied him up with two new ropes and brought him back from the cliff.


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When he got to Lehi, the Philistines came running toward him, shouting at him. Suddenly the power of the Lord made him strong, and he broke the ropes around his arms and hands as if they were burnt thread.


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Then he found a jawbone of a donkey that had recently died. He reached down and picked it up, and killed a thousand men with it.


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So Samson sang,
“With the jawbone of a donkey I killed a thousand men;
With the jawbone of a donkey I piled them up in piles.”


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Then Samson became very thirsty, so he called to the Lord and said, “You gave me this great victory; am I now going to die of thirst and be captured by these heathen Philistines?”


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Then God opened a hollow place in the ground there at Lehi, and water came out of it. Samson drank it and began to feel much better. So the spring was named Hakkore; it is still there at Lehi.


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Samson at Gaza
One day Samson went to the Philistine city of Gaza, where he met a prostitute and went to bed with her.


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The people of Gaza found out that Samson was there, so they surrounded the place and waited for him all night long at the city gate. They were quiet all night, thinking to themselves, “We'll wait until daybreak, and then we'll kill him.”


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But Samson stayed in bed only until midnight. Then he got up and took hold of the city gate and pulled it up—doors, posts, lock, and all. He put them on his shoulders and carried them far off to the top of the hill overlooking Hebron.


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Samson and Delilah
After this, Samson fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in Sorek Valley.


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The five Philistine kings went to her and said, “Trick Samson into telling you why he is so strong and how we can overpower him, tie him up, and make him helpless. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”


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So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me what makes you so strong. If someone wanted to tie you up and make you helpless, how could he do it?”


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Samson answered, “If they tie me up with seven new bowstrings that are not dried out, I'll be as weak as anybody else.”


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So the Philistine kings brought Delilah seven new bowstrings that were not dried out, and she tied Samson up.


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She had some men waiting in another room, so she shouted, “Samson! The Philistines are coming!” But he snapped the bowstrings just as thread breaks when fire touches it. So they still did not know the secret of his strength.


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Delilah told Samson, “Look, you've been making a fool of me and not telling me the truth. Please tell me how someone could tie you up.”


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He told her, “If they tie me with new ropes that have never been used, I'll be as weak as anybody else.”


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So Delilah got some new ropes and tied him up. Then she shouted, “Samson! The Philistines are coming!” The men were waiting in another room. But he snapped the ropes off his arms like thread.


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Delilah said to Samson, “You're still making a fool of me and not telling me the truth. Tell me how someone could tie you up.”
He told her, “If you weave my seven locks of hair into a loom, and make it tight with a peg, I'll be as weak as anybody else.”


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Delilah then lulled him to sleep, took his seven locks of hair, and wove them into the loom. She made it tight with a peg and shouted, “Samson! The Philistines are coming!” But he woke up and pulled his hair loose from the loom.


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So she said to him, “How can you say you love me, when you don't mean it? You've made a fool of me three times, and you still haven't told me what makes you so strong.”


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that he finally told her the truth. “My hair has never been cut,” he said. “I have been dedicated to God as a nazirite from the time I was born. If my hair were cut, I would lose my strength and be as weak as anybody else.”


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When Delilah realized that he had told her the truth, she sent a message to the Philistine kings and said, “Come back one more time. He has told me the truth.” Then they came and brought the money with them.


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Delilah lulled Samson to sleep in her lap and then called a man, who cut off Samson's seven locks of hair. Then she began to torment him, for he had lost his strength.


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Then she shouted, “Samson! The Philistines are coming!” He woke up and thought, “I'll get loose and go free, as always.” He did not know that the Lord had left him.


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The Philistines captured him and put his eyes out. They took him to Gaza, chained him with bronze chains, and put him to work grinding at the mill in the prison.


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The Death of Samson
The Philistine kings met together to celebrate and offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They sang, “Our god has given us victory over our enemy Samson!”


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They were enjoying themselves, and so they said, “Call Samson, and let's make him entertain us!” When they brought Samson out of the prison, they made him entertain them and made him stand between the columns. When the people saw him, they sang praise to their god: “Our god has given us victory over our enemy, who devastated our land and killed so many of us!”


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Samson said to the boy who was leading him by the hand, “Let me touch the columns that hold up the building. I want to lean on them.”


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The building was crowded with men and women. All five Philistine kings were there, and there were about three thousand men and women on the roof, watching Samson entertain them.


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Then Samson prayed, “Sovereign Lord, please remember me; please, God, give me my strength just this one time more, so that with this one blow I can get even with the Philistines for putting out my two eyes.”


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So Samson took hold of the two middle columns holding up the building. Putting one hand on each column, he pushed against them


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and shouted, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He pushed with all his might, and the building fell down on the five kings and everyone else. Samson killed more people at his death than he had killed during his life.


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His brothers and the rest of his family came down to get his body. They took him back and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. He had been Israel's leader for twenty years.


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He told his mother, “When someone stole those eleven hundred pieces of silver from you, you put a curse on the robber. I heard you do it. Look, I have the money. I am the one who took it.”
His mother said, “May the Lord bless you, my son!”


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He gave the money back to his mother, and she said, “To keep the curse from falling on my son, I myself am solemnly dedicating the silver to the Lord. It will be used to make a wooden idol covered with silver. So now I will give the pieces of silver back to you.”


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Then he gave them back to his mother. She took two hundred of the pieces of silver and gave them to a metalworker, who made an idol, carving it from wood and covering it with the silver. It was placed in Micah's house.


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This man Micah had his own place of worship. He made some idols and an ephod, and appointed one of his sons as his priest.


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He left Bethlehem to find another place to live. While he was traveling, he came to Micah's house in the hill country of Ephraim.


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Micah asked him, “Where do you come from?”
He answered, “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah. I am looking for a place to live.”


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Micah said, “Stay with me. Be my adviser and priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, some clothes, and your food.”


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Micah said, “Now that I have a Levite as my priest, I know that the Lord will make things go well for me.”


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Micah and the Tribe of Dan
There was no king in Israel at that time. In those days the tribe of Dan was looking for territory to claim and settle in because they had not yet received any land of their own among the tribes of Israel.


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So the people of Dan chose five qualified men out of all the families in the tribe and sent them from the towns of Zorah and Eshtaol with instructions to explore the land and spy on it. When they arrived in the hill country of Ephraim, they stayed at Micah's house.


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While they were there, they recognized the accent of the young Levite, so they went up to him and asked, “What are you doing here? Who brought you here?”


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The priest answered, “You have nothing to worry about. The Lord is taking care of you on this trip.”


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So the five men left and went to the town of Laish. They saw how the people there lived in security like the Sidonians. They were a peaceful, quiet people, with no argument with anyone; they had all they needed. They lived far away from the Sidonians and had no dealings with any other people.


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“Come on,” they replied. “Let's attack Laish. We saw the land, and it's very good. Don't stay here doing nothing; hurry! Go on in and take it over!


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When you get there, you will find that the people don't suspect a thing. It is a big country; it has everything a person could want, and God has given it to you.”


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They went up and camped west of Kiriath Jearim in Judah. That is why the place is still called Camp of Dan.


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Then the five men who had gone to spy on the country around Laish said to their companions, “Did you know that here in one of these houses there is a wooden idol covered with silver? There are also other idols and an ephod. What do you think we should do?”


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So they went into Micah's house, where the young Levite lived, and asked the Levite how he was getting along.


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The five spies went straight on into the house and took the wooden idol covered with silver, the other idols, and the ephod, while the priest stayed at the gate with the six hundred armed men.


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When the men went into Micah's house and took the sacred objects, the priest asked them, “What are you doing?”


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They told him, “Keep quiet. Don't say a word. Come with us and be our priest and adviser. Wouldn't you rather be a priest for a whole Israelite tribe than for the family of one man?”


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They turned around and started off, with their children, their livestock, and their belongings going ahead.


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They had traveled a good distance from the house when Micah called his neighbors out for battle. They caught up with the Danites


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and shouted at them. The Danites turned around and asked Micah, “What's the matter? Why all this mob?”


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Micah answered, “What do you mean, ‘What's the matter?’ You take my priest and the gods that I made, and walk off What have I got left?”


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The Danites told him, “You had better not say anything else unless you want these men to get angry and attack you. You and your whole family would die.”


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Then the Danites went on. Micah saw that they were too strong for him, so he turned and went back home.


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After the Danites had taken the priest and the things that Micah had made, they went and attacked Laish, that town of peaceful, quiet people which was in the same valley as Bethrehob. They killed the inhabitants and burned the town. There was no one to save them, because Laish was a long way from Sidon, and they had no dealings with any other people. The Danites rebuilt the town and settled down there.


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The Danites set up the idol to be worshiped, and Jonathan, the son of Gershom and grandson of Moses, served as a priest for the Danites, and his descendants served as their priests until the people were taken away into exile.


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The Levite and His Concubine
In those days before Israel had a king, there was a Levite living far back in the hill country of Ephraim. He took a young woman from Bethlehem in Judah to be his concubine.


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But she became angry with him, went back to her father's house in Bethlehem, and stayed there four months.


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Then the man decided to go after her and try to persuade her to return to him. He took his servant and two donkeys with him. The woman showed the Levite into the house, and when her father saw him, he gave him a hearty greeting.


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The father insisted that he stay, and so he stayed for three days. The couple had their meals and spent the nights there.


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On the morning of the fourth day they woke up early and got ready to go. But the woman's father said to the Levite, “Have something to eat first. You'll feel better. You can go later.”


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So the two men sat down and ate and drank together. Then the woman's father told him, “Please spend the night and enjoy yourself.”


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Early in the morning of the fifth day he started to leave, but the woman's father said, “Eat something, please. Wait until later in the day.” So the two men ate together.


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When the man, his concubine, and the servant once more started to leave, the father said, “Look, it's almost evening now; you might as well stay all night. It will be dark soon; stay here and have a good time. Tomorrow you can get up early for the trip and go home.”


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But the man did not want to spend another night there, so he and his concubine started on their way, with their servant and two donkeys with pack saddles. It was late in the day when they came near Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), so the servant said to his master, “Why don't we stop and spend the night here in this Jebusite city?”


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But his master said, “We're not going to stop in a city where the people are not Israelites. We'll pass on by and go a little farther and spend the night at Gibeah or Ramah.”


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So they passed by Jebus and continued on their way. It was sunset when they came to Gibeah in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin.


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They turned off the road to go and spend the night there. They went into town and sat down in the city square, but no one offered to take them home for the night.


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While they were there, an old man came by at the end of a day's work on the farm. He was originally from the hill country of Ephraim, but he was now living in Gibeah. (The other people there were from the tribe of Benjamin.)


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The old man noticed the traveler in the city square and asked him, “Where do you come from? Where are you going?”


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The Levite answered, “We have been in Bethlehem in Judah, and now we are on our way home deep in the hill country of Ephraim. No one will put us up for the night,


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even though we have fodder and straw for our donkeys, as well as bread and wine for my concubine and me and for my servant. We have everything we need.”


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The old man said, “You are welcome in my home! I'll take care of you; you don't have to spend the night in the square.”


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They were enjoying themselves when all of a sudden some sexual perverts from the town surrounded the house and started beating on the door. They said to the old man, “Bring out that man that came home with you! We want to have sex with him!”


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But the old man went outside and said to them, “No, my friends! Please! Don't do such an evil, immoral thing! This man is my guest.


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Look! Here is his concubine and my own virgin daughter. I'll bring them out now, and you can have them. Do whatever you want to with them. But don't do such an awful thing to this man!”


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But the men would not listen to him. So the Levite took his concubine and put her outside with them. They raped her and abused her all night long and didn't stop until morning.


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At dawn the woman came and fell down at the door of the old man's house, where her husband was. She was still there when daylight came.


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Her husband got up that morning, and when he opened the door to go on his way, he found his concubine lying in front of the house with her hands reaching for the door.


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He said, “Get up. Let's go.” But there was no answer. So he put her body across the donkey and started on his way home.


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When he arrived, he went in the house and got a knife. He took his concubine's body, cut it into twelve pieces, and sent one piece to each of the twelve tribes of Israel.


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Everyone who saw it said, “We have never heard of such a thing! Nothing like this has ever happened since the Israelites left Egypt! We have to do something about this! What will it be?”


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Israel Prepares for War
All the people of Israel from Dan in the north to Beersheba in the south, as well as from the land of Gilead in the east, answered the call. They gathered in one body in the Lord's presence at Mizpah.


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The leaders of all the tribes of Israel were present at this gathering of God's people, and there were 400,000 foot soldiers.


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Meanwhile the people of Benjamin heard that all the other Israelites had gathered at Mizpah.
The Israelites asked, “Tell us, how was this crime committed?”


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The Levite whose concubine had been murdered answered, “My concubine and I went to Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin to spend the night.


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The men of Gibeah came to get me and surrounded the house at night. They intended to kill me; instead they raped my concubine, and she died.


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I took her body, cut it in pieces, and sent one piece to each of the twelve tribes of Israel. These people have committed an evil and immoral act among us.


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All the people stood up together and said, “None of us, whether he lives in a tent or in a house, will go home.


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One tenth of the men in Israel will provide food for the army, and the others will go and punish Gibeah for this immoral act that they have committed in Israel.”


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The Israelite tribes sent messengers all through the territory of the tribe of Benjamin to say, “What is this crime that you have committed?


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Now hand over those perverts in Gibeah, so that we can kill them and remove this evil from Israel.” But the people of Benjamin paid no attention to the other Israelites.


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They called out twenty-six thousand soldiers from their cities that day. Besides these, the citizens of Gibeah gathered seven hundred specially chosen men who were left-handed. Every one of them could sling a stone at a strand of hair and never miss.


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The War against the Benjaminites
The Israelites went to the place of worship at Bethel, and there they asked God, “Which tribe should attack the Benjaminites first?”
The Lord answered, “The tribe of Judah.”


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The army of Benjamin came out of the city, and before the day was over they had killed twenty-two thousand Israelite soldiers.


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Then the Israelites went to the place of worship and mourned in the presence of the Lord until evening. They asked him, “Should we go again into battle against our brothers the Benjaminites?”
The Lord answered, “Yes.”
So the Israelite army was encouraged, and they placed their soldiers in position again, where they had been the day before.


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And for the second time the Benjaminites came out of Gibeah, and this time they killed eighteen thousand trained Israelite soldiers.


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Then all the people of Israel went up to Bethel and mourned. They sat there in the Lord's presence and did not eat until evening. They offered fellowship sacrifices and burned some sacrifices whole—all in the presence of the Lord.


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God's Covenant Box was there at Bethel in those days, and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron, was in charge of it. The people asked the Lord, “Should we go out to fight our brothers the Benjaminites again, or should we give up?”
The Lord answered, “Fight. Tomorrow I will give you victory over them.”


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Then for the third straight day they marched against the army of Benjamin and placed their soldiers in battle position facing Gibeah, as they had done before.


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The Benjaminites came out to fight and were led away from the city. As they had before, they began killing some Israelites in the open country, on the road to Bethel and on the road to Gibeah. They killed about thirty Israelites.


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The Benjaminites said, “We've beaten them just as before.”
But the Israelites had planned to retreat and lead them away from the city onto the roads.


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So when the main army of the Israelites pulled back and regrouped at Baaltamar, the men surrounding Gibeah suddenly rushed out of their hiding places in the rocky country around the city.


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Ten thousand men, specially chosen out of all Israel, attacked Gibeah, and the fighting was hard. The Benjaminites had not realized that they were about to be destroyed.


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The Lord gave Israel victory over the army of Benjamin. The Israelites killed 25,100 of the enemy that day,


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and the Benjaminites realized they were defeated.
How the Israelites Won
The main body of the Israelite army had retreated from the Benjaminites because they were relying on the men that they had put in hiding around Gibeah.


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The main Israelite army and the men in hiding had arranged a signal. When they saw a big cloud of smoke going up from the town,


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the Israelites out on the battlefield were to turn around. By this time the Benjaminites had already killed the thirty Israelites. They told themselves, “Yes, we've beaten them just as before.”


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Then the signal appeared; a cloud of smoke began to go up from the town. The Benjaminites looked behind them and were amazed to see the whole city going up in flames.


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Then the Israelites turned around, and the Benjaminites were thrown into panic because they realized that they were about to be destroyed.


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They retreated from the Israelites and ran toward the open country, but they could not escape. They were caught between the main army and the men who were now coming out of the city, and they were destroyed.


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The Israelites had the enemy trapped, and without stopping they pursued them as far as a point east of Gibeah, killing them as they went.


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The others turned and ran toward the open country to Rimmon Rock. Five thousand of them were killed on the roads. The Israelites continued to pursue the rest to Gidom, killing two thousand.


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But six hundred men were able to escape to the open country to Rimmon Rock, and they stayed there four months.


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The Israelites turned back against the rest of the Benjaminites and killed them all—men, women, and children, and animals as well. They burned every town in the area.


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Wives for the Tribe of Benjamin
When the Israelites had gathered at Mizpah, they had made a solemn promise to the Lord: “None of us will allow a Benjaminite to marry a daughter of ours.”


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So now the people of Israel went to Bethel and sat there in the presence of God until evening. Loudly and bitterly they mourned:


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“Lord God of Israel, why has this happened? Why is the tribe of Benjamin about to disappear from Israel?”


