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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData These are the statutes and the ordinances which ye shall observe to do in the land which Jehovah, the God of thy fathers, hath given thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Ye shall surely destroy all the places wherein the nations that ye shall dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData and ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods; and ye shall destroy their name out of that place. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Ye shall not do so unto Jehovah your God. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData But unto the place which Jehovah your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come; |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData and thither ye shall bring your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill-offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock: |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData and there ye shall eat before Jehovah your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes; |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData for ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData But when ye go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which Jehovah your God causeth you to inherit, and he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety; |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData then it shall come to pass that to the place which Jehovah your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, thither shall ye bring all that I command you: your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto Jehovah. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And ye shall rejoice before Jehovah your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite that is within your gates, forasmuch as he hath no portion nor inheritance with you. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest; |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData but in the place which Jehovah shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Notwithstanding, thou mayest kill and eat flesh within all thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul, according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy grain, or of thy new wine, or of thine oil, or the firstlings of thy herd or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill-offerings, nor the heave-offering of thy hand; |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData but thou shalt eat them before Jehovah thy God in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God in all that thou puttest thy hand unto. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest in thy land. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData When Jehovah thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul desireth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, after all the desire of thy soul. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData If the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to put his name there, be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which Jehovah hath given thee, as I have commanded thee; and thou mayest eat within thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof alike. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which Jehovah shall choose: |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData and thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of Jehovah thy God; and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of Jehovah thy God; and thou shalt eat the flesh. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the eyes of Jehovah thy God. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData When Jehovah thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest in to dispossess them, and thou dispossessest them, and dwellest in their land; |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData take heed to thyself that thou be not ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Thou shalt not do so unto Jehovah thy God: for every abomination to Jehovah, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData What thing soever I command you, that shall ye observe to do: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it. |
