Hi and welcome back
to His Words Are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer, and thank you
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for being with me again.
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You know, David wrote that...
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he wrote about the Word.
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He said: "Thy Word
is a lamp unto my feet
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and a light unto my path. "
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In the very first verse that we
are going to start off reading
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it says much that same thing:
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that those who keep the
Word of God walk in safety
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and dwell in safety.
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Before we start
reading, let's pray together.
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Dear Jesus, thank you so much
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that You did not leave us
here to find our way on our own
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but You sent us
a guidebook, a map.
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You sent us statutes
and laws and principles
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that teach us how to serve
You, how to serve each other,
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how to live in safety and peace.
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We can't... there's
nothing good in any of us.
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We can't even desire
to obey these statutes
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except that You
put that desire in us.
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So as we read Your words,
please give us the will to do
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and to hear... and then
to carry out all that we read
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and learn from You.
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We love You so much;
thank you for loving us. Amen.
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We are reading in
the book of Leviticus,
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and we are on chapter 25.
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When we were last together
we read part-way into verse 18.
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I am going to go back
and start at verse 18 again.
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This is the King James version.
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Wherefore ye shall do My
statutes, and keep My judgments,
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and do them; and ye shall
dwell in the land in safety.
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And the land
shall yield her fruit,
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and ye shall eat your fill,
and dwell therein in safety.
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And if ye shall say, What
shall we eat the seventh year?
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behold, we shall not sow,
nor gather in our increase:
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Then I will command My blessing
upon you in the sixth year,
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and it shall bring
forth fruit for three years.
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And ye shall sow the eighth
year, and eat yet of old fruit
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until the ninth year; until
her fruits come in ye shall eat
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of the old store. The land
shall not be sold for ever:
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for the land is Mine;
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for ye are strangers
and sojourners with Me.
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And in all the land of
your possession ye shall grant
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a redemption for the land.
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If thy brother be waxen poor,
and hath sold away some of his
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possession, and if any of
his kin come to redeem it,
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then shall he redeem
that which his brother sold.
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And if the man
have none to redeem it,
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and himself be
able to redeem it;
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Then let him count the
years of the sale thereof,
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and restore the overplus
unto the man to whom he sold it;
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that he may return
unto his possession.
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But if he be not able to restore
it to him, then that which is
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sold shall remain in the
hand of him that hath bought it
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until the year of jubilee: and
in the jubilee it shall go out,
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and he shall return
unto his possession.
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And if a man sell a
dwelling house in a walled city,
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then he may redeem it within
a whole year after it is sold;
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within a full
year may he redeem it.
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And if it be not redeemed
within the space of a full year,
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then the house that is in the
walled city shall be established
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for ever to him that bought
it throughout his generations:
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it shall not go
out in the jubilee.
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But the houses of the villages
which have no wall round about
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them shall be counted as
the fields of the country:
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they may be redeemed, and they
shall go out in the jubilee.
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Notwithstanding the
cities of the Levites,
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and the houses of the
cities of their possession,
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may the Levites
redeem at any time.
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And if a man purchase of the
Levites, then the house that was
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sold, and the city of his
possession, shall go out in the
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year of jubilee: for the houses
of the cities of the Levites
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are their possession
among the children of Israel.
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But the field of the suburbs
of their cities may not be sold;
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for it is their
perpetual possession.
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And if thy brother be
waxen poor, and fallen in decay
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with thee; then
thou shalt relieve him:
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yea, though he be a
stranger, or a sojourner;
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that he may live with thee.
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Take thou no usury of him,
or increase: but fear thy God;
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that thy brother
may live with thee.
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Thou shalt not give
him thy money upon usury,
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nor lend him thy
victuals for increase.
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I am the Lord your God, which
brought you forth out of the
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land of Egypt, to give
you the land of Canaan,
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and to be your God.
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And if thy brother that
dwelleth by thee be waxen poor,
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and be sold unto thee;
thou shalt not compel him
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to serve as a bondservant:
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But as a hired
servant, and as a sojourner,
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he shall be with thee,
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and shall serve thee
unto the year of jubilee:
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And then shall he depart from
thee, both he and his children
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with him, and shall
return unto his own family,
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and unto the possession of
his fathers shall he return.
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For they are My servants,
which I brought forth out of the
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land of Egypt: they
shall not be sold as bondsmen.
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Thou shalt not rule
over him with rigor;
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but shalt fear thy God.
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Both thy bondmen, and thy bond-
maids, which thou shalt have,
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shall be of the heathen
that are round about you;
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of them shall ye buy
bondmen and bondmaids.
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Moreover of the children of
the strangers that do sojourn
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among you, of them shall ye buy,
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and of their families that
are with you, which they begat
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in your land: and they
shall be your possession.
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And ye shall take them as an
inheritance for your children
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after you, to inherit
them for a possession;
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they shall be
your bondmen for ever:
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but over your brethren
the children of Israel,
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ye shall not rule one
over another with rigor.
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And if a sojourner or
stranger wax rich by thee,
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and thy brother that
dwelleth by them wax poor,
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and sell himself unto the
stranger or sojourner by thee,
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or to the stock of
the stranger's family:
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After that he is sold
he may be redeemed again;
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one of his
brethren may redeem him:
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Either his uncle, or his
uncle's son, may redeem him,
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or any that is nigh of
kin unto him of his family
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may redeem him; or if he be
able, he may redeem himself.
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And he shall reckon with him
that bought him from the year
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that he was sold to him
unto the year of jubilee:
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and the price of his sale shall
be according unto the number
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of years, according to
the time of a hired servant
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shall it be with him.
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If there be yet many years
behind, according unto them
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he shall give again
the price of his redemption
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out of the money
that he was bought for.
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And if there remain but few
years unto the year of jubilee,
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then he shall count with him,
and according unto his years
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shall he give him again
the price of his redemption.
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And as a yearly hired
servant shall he be with him:
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and the other shall not
rule with rigor over him
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in thy sight.
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And if he be not
redeemed in these years,
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then he shall got out
in the year of jubilee,
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both he, and his
children with him.
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For unto Me the
children of Israel are servants;
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they are My
servants whom I brought forth
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out of the land of
Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
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We are continuing to read
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in the book of Leviticus.
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This is chapter 26, and I am
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reading from the
King James version.
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Ye shall make you no
idols nor graven image,
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neither rear you
up a standing image,
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neither shall ye set up any
image of stone in your land,
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to bow down unto it:
for I am the Lord your God.
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Ye shall keep My Sabbaths,
and reverence My sanctuary:
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I am the Lord.
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If ye walk in My statutes,
and keep My commandments,
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and do them; Then I will
give you rain in due season,
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and the land shall yield her
increase, and the trees of the
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field shall yield their fruit.
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And your threshing
shall reach unto the vintage,
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and the vintage shall
reach unto the sowing time:
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and ye shall eat
your bread to the full,
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and dwell in your land safely.
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And I will give peace in
the land, and ye shall lie down,
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and none shall make you afraid:
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and I will rid evil
beasts out of the land,
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neither shall the
sword go through your land.
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And ye shall chase your enemies,
and they shall fall before you
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by the sword. And five of
you shall chase a hundred,
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and a hundred of you shall
put ten thousand to flight:
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and your enemies shall
fall before you by the sword.
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For I will have respect
unto you, and make you fruitful,
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and multiply you, and
establish My covenant with you.
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And ye shall eat old store,
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and bring forth the
old because of the new.
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And I will set My
tabernacle among you:
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and My soul shalt not abhor you.
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And I will walk among
you, and will be your God,
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and ye shall be My people.
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I am the Lord your God,
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which brought you forth
out of the land of Egypt,
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that ye should
not be their bondmen;
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and I have broken
the bands of your yoke,
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and made you to go upright.
But if you will not hearken
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unto Me, and will not
do all these commandments;
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And if ye shall despise My
statutes, or if your soul abhor
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My judgments, so that ye
will not do all My commandments,
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but that ye break My covenant:
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I also will do this unto you;
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I will even appoint
over you terror, consumption,
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and the burning ague,
that shall consume the eyes,
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and cause sorrow of heart:
and ye shall sow your seed
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in vain, for your
enemies shall eat it.
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And I will set My face against
you, and you shall be slain
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before your enemies: they that
hate you shall reign over you;
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and you shall flee
when none pursueth you.
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And if ye will not yet
for all this hearken unto Me,
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then I will punish you
seven times more for your sins.
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And I will break
the pride of your power;
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and I will make your heaven as
iron, and your earth as brass:
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And your strength
shall be spent in vain:
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for your land shall
not yield her increase,
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neither shall the trees of
the land yield their fruits.
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And if ye walk contrary unto Me,
and will not hearken unto Me;
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I will bring seven
times more plagues upon you
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according to your sins.
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I will also send
wild beasts among you,
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which shall rob you of
your children, and destroy your
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cattle, and make
you few in number,
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and your high
ways shall be desolate.
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And if ye will not be
reformed by Me by these things,
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but will walk contrary unto Me;
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Then will I also walk contrary
unto you, and will punish you
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yet seven times for your sins.
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And I will bring a sword
upon you, that shall avenge
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the quarrel of My covenant:
and when ye are gathered
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together within your cities,
I will send the pestilence among
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you; and ye shall be delivered
into the hand of the enemy.
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And when I have broken
the staff of your bread,
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ten women shall bake
your bread in one oven,
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and they shall deliver you
your bread again by weight:
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and you shall eat,
and not be satisfied.
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And if you will not for
all this hearken unto Me,
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but walk contrary unto
Me; Then I will walk contrary
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unto you also in
fury; and I, even I,
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will chastise you
seven times for your sins.
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And you shall eat
the flesh of your sons,
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and the flesh of your
daughters shall you eat.
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And I will
destroy your high places,
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and cut down your images,
and cast your carcasses upon the
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carcasses of your idols,
and My soul shall abhor you.
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And I will make
your cities waste,
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and bring your
sanctuaries unto desolation,
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and I will not smell the
savor of your sweet odors.
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And I will bring the
land into desolation:
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and your enemies
which dwell therein
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shall be astonished at it.
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And I will scatter
you among the heathen,
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and will draw out
a sword after you:
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and your land shall be
desolate, and your cities waste.
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Then shall the
land enjoy her Sabbaths,
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as long as it lieth desolate,
and ye be in your enemies' land;
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even then shall the land
rest, and enjoy her Sabbaths.
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As long as it lieth desolate it
shall rest; because it did not
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rest in your
Sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
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And upon them that are
left alive of you I will send
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a faintness into their hearts
in the lands of their enemies;
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and the sound of a
shaken leaf shall chase them;
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and they shall flee,
as fleeing from a sword;
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and they shall
fall when none pursueth.
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And they shall fall
one upon another as it were
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before a sword, when none
pursueth: and ye shall have
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no power to stand
before your enemies.
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And ye shall perish among the
heathen, and the land of your
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enemies shall eat you up.
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And they that are left of
you shall pine away in their
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iniquity in your enemies' lands;
and also in the iniquities
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of their fathers shall
they pine away with them.
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If they shall confess
their iniquity and the iniquity
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of their fathers, with their
trespass which they trespassed
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against Me, and that also they
have walked contrary unto Me;
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And that I also have
walked contrary unto them,
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and have brought them
into the land of their enemies;
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if then their
uncircumcised hearts be humbled,
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and they then accept of the
punishment of their iniquity:
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Then will I remember
My covenant with Jacob,
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and also My covenant with Isaac,
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and also my covenant
with Abraham will I remember;
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and I will remember the land.
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The land also shall be left
of them, and shall enjoy her
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Sabbaths, while she
lieth desolate without them:
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and they shall accept of the
punishment of their iniquity:
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because, even because
they despised My judgments,
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and because their
soul abhorred My statutes.
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And yet for all that, when they
be in the land of their enemies,
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I will not cast them
away, neither will I abhor them,
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to destroy them utterly, and
to break My covenant with them:
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for I am the Lord their God.
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But I will for their sakes
remember the covenant of their
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ancestors, whom I brought
forth out of the land of Egypt
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in the sight of the heathen,
that I might be their God:
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I am the Lord.
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These are the statutes
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and judgments and laws,
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which the Lord made between
Him and the children of Israel
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in mount Sinai by
the hand of Moses.
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Thank you for joining with me.
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Please come again next
time to read the Word of God.
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Goodbye.
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