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Mark, the heavens to their uttermost reaches * to their uttermost reaches Lit. "and the heaven of heavens." belong to your God ื™ื”ื•ื”, the earth and all that is on it!
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Yet it was to your ancestors that ื™ื”ื•ื” was drawn out of love for them, so that you, their lineal descendants, were chosen from among all peoplesโ€”as is now the case.
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Cut away, therefore, the thickening about your hearts and stiffen your necks no more.
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For your God ื™ื”ื•ื” is God supreme and Lord supreme, * God supreme and Lord supreme Lit. "the god of gods and the lord of lords." Heb. 'adon ("lord") normally denotes a man in a position of authority. Here it is used to claim that Israel's God is beyond the men who sit atop the social hierarchies of rank and gender. the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who shows no favor and takes no bribe,
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but upholds the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and befriends the stranger, providing food and clothing.โ€”
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You too must befriend the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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You must revere ื™ื”ื•ื”: only your God shall you worship, to [God] shall you hold fast, and by God's name shall you swear.
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[ ื™ื”ื•ื” ] is your glory and your God, who wrought for you those marvelous, awesome deeds that you saw with your own eyes.
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Your ancestors went down to Egypt seventy persons; and now your God ื™ื”ื•ื” has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.
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Love, therefore, your God ื™ื”ื•ื”, and always keep God's charge, God's laws, God's rules, and God's commandments.
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* Syntax of Heb. uncertain. Take thought this day that it was not your children, who neither experienced nor witnessed the lesson of your God ื™ื”ื•ื” โ€”God's majesty, mighty hand, and outstretched arm;
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the signs and the deeds that [God] performed in Egypt against Pharaoh king of Egypt and all his land;
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what [God] did to Egypt's army, its horses and chariots; how ื™ื”ื•ื” rolled back upon them the waters of the Sea of Reeds when they were pursuing you, thus destroying them once and for all; * once and for all Lit. "to this day."
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what [God] did for you in the wilderness before you arrived in this place;
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and what [God] did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab son of Reuben, when the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them, along with their households, their tents, and every living thing in their train, from amidst all Israelโ€”
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but that it was you who saw with your own eyes all the marvelous deeds that ื™ื”ื•ื” performed.
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Keep, therefore, all the Instruction that I enjoin upon you today, so that you may have the strength to enter and take possession of the land that you are about to cross into and possess,
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and that you may long endure upon the soil that ื™ื”ื•ื” swore to your fathers to assign to them and to their heirs, a land flowing with milk and honey.
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For the land that you are about to enter and possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come. There the grain you sowed had to be watered by your own labors, * by your own labors Lit. "by your foot." like a vegetable garden;
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but the land you are about to cross into and possess, a land of hills and valleys, soaks up its water from the rains of heaven.
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It is a land which your God ื™ื”ื•ื” looks after, on which your God ื™ื”ื•ื” always keeps an eye, from year's beginning to year's end.
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If, then, you obey the commandments that I enjoin upon you this day, loving your God ื™ื”ื•ื” and serving [God] with all your heart and soul,
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I * I That is, ื™ื”ื•ื”; Samaritan reads "He." will grant the rain for your land in season, the early rain and the late. You shall gather in your new grain and wine and oilโ€”
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I * I See note at v. 14. will also provide grass in the fields for your cattleโ€”and thus you shall eat your fill.
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Take care not to be lured away to serve other gods and bow to them.
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For ื™ื”ื•ื”'s anger will flare up against you, shutting up the skies so that there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its produce; and you will soon perish from the good land that ื™ื”ื•ื” is assigning to you.
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Therefore impress these My words upon your very heart: * very heart Lit. "heart and self." bind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead, * symbol on your forehead See notes on 6.8.
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and teach them to your childrenโ€”reciting them when you stay at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up;
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and inscribe them on the doorposts of your house and on your gatesโ€”
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to the end that you and your children may endure, in the land that ื™ื”ื•ื” swore to your fathers to assign to them, as long as there is a heaven over the earth.
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If, then, you faithfully keep all this Instruction that I command you, loving your God ื™ื”ื•ื”, walking in all God's ways, and holding fast to [God],
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ื™ื”ื•ื” will dislodge before you all these nations: you will dispossess nations greater and more numerous than you.
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Every spot on which your foot treads shall be yours; your territory shall extend from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the Riverโ€”the Euphratesโ€”to the Western * Western I.e., Mediterranean; cf. 34.2. Sea.
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No one shall stand up to you: your God ื™ื”ื•ื” will put the dread and the fear of you over the whole land in which you set foot, as promised.
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See, this day I set before you blessing and curse:
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blessing, if you obey the commandments of your God ื™ื”ื•ื” that I enjoin upon you this day;
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and curse, if you do not obey the commandments of your God ื™ื”ื•ื”, but turn away from the path that I enjoin upon you this day and follow other gods, whom you have not experienced. * whom you have not experienced I.e., who have not proved themselves to you; cf. Hos. 13.4.
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When your God ื™ื”ื•ื” brings you into the land that you are about to enter and possess, you shall pronounce the blessing at Mount Gerizim and the curse at Mount Ebal.โ€”
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Both are on the other side of the Jordan, beyond the west road that is in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabahโ€”near Gilgal, by the terebinths of Moreh.
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For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land that your God ื™ื”ื•ื” is assigning to you. When you have occupied it and are settled in it,
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take care to observe all the laws and rules that I have set before you this day.
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These are the laws and rules that you must carefully observe in the land that ื™ื”ื•ื”, God of your ancestors, is giving you to possess, as long as you live on earth.
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You must destroy all the sites at which the nations you are to dispossess worshiped their gods, whether on lofty mountains and on hills or under any luxuriant tree.
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Tear down their altars, smash their pillars, put their sacred posts to the fire, and cut down the images of their gods, obliterating their name from that site.
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Do not worship your God ื™ื”ื•ื” in like manner,
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but look only to the site that your God ื™ื”ื•ื” will choose amidst all your tribes as God's habitation, to establish the divine name there. There you are to go,
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and there you are to bring your burnt offerings and other sacrifices, your tithes and contributions, * your โ€ฆ contributions Lit. "the contribution(s) of your hands." your votive and freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and flocks.
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Together with your households, * Together with your households Moses couches both the celebration and allocation of harvests in terms of Israelite society's basic social and economic unit. The phrasing of vv. 12, 18 conspicuously omits mention of the householder's (primary) wife. This means that she is authorized to carry out such activity in case her husband is unavailable. The wording also tacitly includes the case of a woman (typically a widow) whose household is not headed by a man. Cf. 5.14 and note at 5.6; see further the Dictionary under "house." you shall feast there before your God ื™ื”ื•ื”, happy in all the undertakings in which your God ื™ื”ื•ื” has blessed you.
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You shall not act at all as we now act here, each of us as we please,
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because you have not yet come to the allotted haven that your God ื™ื”ื•ื” is giving you.
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When you cross the Jordan and settle in the land that your God ื™ื”ื•ื” is allotting to you, and [God] grants you safety from all your enemies around you and you live in security,
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then you must bring everything that I command you to the site where your God ื™ื”ื•ื” will choose to establish the divine name: your burnt offerings and other sacrifices, your tithes and contributions, * your โ€ฆ contributions See note at v. 6. and all the choice votive offerings that you vow to ื™ื”ื•ื”.
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And you * you See note at v. 7. shall rejoice before your God ื™ื”ื•ื” with your sons and daughters and with your male and female slaves, along with the [family of the] Levite in your settlements, for he has no territorial allotment among you.
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Take care not to sacrifice your burnt offerings in any place you like,
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but only in the place that ื™ื”ื•ื” will choose in one of your tribal territories. There you * you See note at v. 7. shall sacrifice your burnt offerings and there you shall observe all that I enjoin upon you.
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But whenever you desire, you may slaughter and eat meat in any of your settlements, according to the blessing that your God ื™ื”ื•ื” has granted you. The impure and the pure alike may partake of it, as of the gazelle and the deer. * gazelle โ€ฆ deer I.e., animals that may be eaten (cf. 14.5; Lev. 11.1ff.), but not specified (Lev. 1.1ff.).
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But you must not partake of the blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.
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You may not partake in your settlements of the tithes of your new grain or wine or oil, or of the firstlings of your herds and flocks, or of any of the votive offerings that you vow, or of your freewill offerings, or of your contributions. * your contributions See note at v. 6.
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These you must consume before your God ื™ื”ื•ื” in the place that your God ื™ื”ื•ื” will chooseโ€”you * you See note at v. 7. and your sons and your daughters, your male and female slaves, and the [family of the] Levite in your settlementsโ€”happy before your God ื™ื”ื•ื” in all your undertakings.
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Be sure not to neglect the [family of the] Levite as long as you live in your land.
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When ื™ื”ื•ื” enlarges your territory, as promised, and you say, "I shall eat some meat," for you have the urge to eat meat, you may eat meat whenever you wish.
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If the place where ื™ื”ื•ื” has chosen to establish the divine name is too far from you, you may slaughter any of the cattle or sheep that ื™ื”ื•ื” gives you, as I have instructed you; and you may eat to your heart's content in your settlements.
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Eat it, however, as the gazelle and the deer are eaten: the impure may eat it together with the pure.
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But make sure that you do not partake of the blood; for the blood is the life, and you must not consume the life with the flesh.
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You must not partake of it; you must pour it out on the ground like water:
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you must not partake of it, in order that it may go well with you and with your descendants to come, for you will be doing what is right in the sight of ื™ื”ื•ื”.
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But such sacred and votive donations as you may have shall be taken by you * shall be taken by you Lit. "you shall pick up and come." to the site that ื™ื”ื•ื” will choose.
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You * You See note at v. 7. shall offer your burnt offerings, both the flesh and the blood, on the altar of your God ื™ื”ื•ื”; and of your other sacrifices, the blood shall be poured out on the altar of your God ื™ื”ื•ื”, and you shall eat the flesh.
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Be careful to heed all these commandments that I enjoin upon you; thus it will go well with you and with your descendants after you forever, for you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of your God ื™ื”ื•ื”.
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When your God ื™ื”ื•ื” has cut down before you the nations that you are about to enter and dispossess, and you have dispossessed them and settled in their land,
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beware of being lured into their ways after they have been wiped out before you! Do not inquire about their gods, saying, "How did those nations worship their gods? I too will follow those practices."
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You shall not act thus toward your God ื™ื”ื•ื”, for they perform for their gods every abhorrent act that ื™ื”ื•ื” detests; they even offer up their sons and daughters in fire to their gods.
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* This verse constitutes 12.32 in some editions, so that chapter 13 starts with the next verse. Be careful to observe only that which I enjoin upon you: neither add to it nor take away from it.
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If there appears among you a prophet or a dream-diviner, who gives you a sign or a portent,
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saying, "Let us follow and worship another god"โ€”whom you have not experienced * whom you have not experienced See note at 11.28. โ€”even if the sign or portent named to you comes true,
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do not heed the words of that prophet or that dream-diviner. For your God ื™ื”ื•ื” is testing you to see whether you really love your God ื™ื”ื•ื” with all your heart and soul.
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It is your God ื™ื”ื•ื” alone whom you should follow, whom you should revere, whose commandments you should observe, whose orders you should heed, whom you should worship, and to whom you should hold fast.
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As for that prophet or dream-diviner, such a one shall be put to death for having urged disloyalty to your God ื™ื”ื•ื” โ€”who freed you from the land of Egypt and who redeemed you from the house of bondageโ€”to make you stray from the path that your God ื™ื”ื•ื” commanded you to follow. Thus you will sweep out evil from your midst.
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If your brother, your own mother's son, * your own mother's son Samaritan reads, "the son of your father or the son of your mother." or your son or daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your closest friend * closest friend Lit. "friend who is as yourself." entices you in secret, saying, "Come let us worship other gods"โ€”whom neither you nor your ancestors have experienced * whom neither you nor your ancestors have experienced See note at 11.28. โ€”
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from among the gods of the peoples around you, either near to you or distant, anywhere from one end of the earth to the other:
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do not assent or give heed to any of them. Show no pity or compassion, and do not cover up the matter;
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but take that person's life. Let your hand be the first to put that person to death, followed by the hand of the rest of the people.
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Stone that person to death for having sought to make you stray from your God ื™ื”ื•ื”, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
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Thus all Israel will hear and be afraid, and such evil things will not be done again in your midst.
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If you hear it said, of one of the towns that your God ื™ื”ื•ื” is giving you to dwell in,
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that some scoundrels from among you have gone and subverted the inhabitants of their town, saying, "Come let us worship other gods"โ€”whom you have not experiencedโ€”
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you shall investigate and inquire and interrogate thoroughly. If it is true, the fact is establishedโ€”that abhorrent thing was perpetrated in your midstโ€”
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put the inhabitants of that town to the sword and put its cattle to the sword. Doom it and all that is in it to destruction:
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gather all its spoil into the open square, and burn the town and all its spoil as a holocaust to your God ื™ื”ื•ื”. And it shall remain an everlasting ruin, never to be rebuilt.
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Let nothing that has been doomed stick to your hand, in order that ื™ื”ื•ื” may turn from a blazing anger and show you compassion, and in compassion increase you as promised on oath to your fathersโ€”
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for you will be heeding your God ื™ื”ื•ื”, obeying all the divine commandments that I enjoin upon you this day, doing what is right in the sight of your God ื™ื”ื•ื”.
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You are children of your God ื™ื”ื•ื”. You shall not gash yourselves or shave the front of your heads because of the dead.
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For you are a people consecrated to your God ื™ื”ื•ื”: your God ื™ื”ื•ื” chose you from among all other peoples on earth to be a treasured people.
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You shall not eat anything abhorrent.
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These are the animals that you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;
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* A number of these creatures cannot be identified with certainty. the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, the mountain sheep,
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and any other animal that has true hoofs which are cleft in two and brings up the cudโ€”such you may eat.
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But the following, which do bring up the cud or have true hoofs which are cleft through, you may not eat: the camel, the hare, and the damanโ€”for although they bring up the cud, they have no true hoofsโ€”they are impure for you;
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also the swineโ€”for although it has true hoofs, it does not bring up the cudโ€”is impure for you. You shall not eat of their flesh or touch their carcasses.
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These you may eat of all that live in water: you may eat anything that has fins and scales.
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