Hello, and welcome
back to His Words are Life
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I'm Kelly Mowrer and before
we read together today, let's
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pray. Dear God, thank
your so much for your promises
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and for your protection.
Thank you for the stories of how
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you led the children of Israel
safely to the promised land
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all those thousands of
years ago. Please be with us now
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as we read them and may we learn
the lessons that apply to our
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lives today. Please send
your Holy Spirit to guide us.
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We love you and thank
you for loving us. Amen
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We're picking up the
story in Deuteronomy chapter 7,
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and I'm reading from
the King James Version
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Across the top of the
Bible the header says for me
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The Promises of God, on one page
and on the other page it says,
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the Protection of God. We're
going to pick up reading in
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verse 13, Promises
and the Protection of God.
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And he will love thee and
bless thee, and multiply thee:
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he will also bless
the fruit of thy womb,
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and the fruit of thy
land, thy corn, and thy wine,
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and thine oil, the increase
of thy kine, and the flocks
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of thy sheep, in the land
which he sware unto thy fathers
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to give thee. Thou shalt
be blessed above all people:
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there shall not be male
or female barren among you,
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or among your cattle. And the
Lord will take away from thee
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all sickness, and will put none
of the evil diseases of Egypt,
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which thou knowest, upon thee;
but will lay them upon all them
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that hate thee. And thou shalt
consume all the people which
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the Lord thy God shall deliver
thee; thine eyes shall have
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no pity upon them; neither
shalt thou serve their gods;
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for that will be a snare unto
thee. If thou shalt say in thine
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heart, These nations are more
than I; how can I dispossess
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them? Thou shalt
not be afraid of them
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but shalt well remember
what the Lord thy God did
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unto Pharaoh, and unto all
Egypt; The great temptations
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which thine eyes saw, and
the signs, and the wonders,
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and the mighty hand,
and stretched out arm,
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whereby the Lord thy
God brought thee out:
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so shall the Lord thy God
do unto all the people of whom
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thou art afraid. Moreover
the Lord thy God will send
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the hornet among them, until
they that are left, and hide
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themselves from
thee, be destroyed.
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Thou shalt not be affrighted
at them: for the Lord thy God
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is among you, a mighty God and
terrible. And the Lord thy God
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will put out those nations
before thee by little and little
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thou mayest not consume
them at once, lest the beasts
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of the field increase upon
thee. But the Lord thy God shall
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deliver them unto thee, and
shall destroy them with a mighty
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destruction,
until they be destroyed.
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And he shall deliver
their kings into thine hand,
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and thou shalt destroy
their name from under heaven:
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There shall no man be
able to stand before thee,
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until thou have destroyed them.
The graven images of their gods
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shall ye burn with fire:
thou shalt not desire the silver
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or gold that is on
them, nor take it unto thee,
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lest thou be snared therein:
for it is an abomination
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to the Lord thy God. Neither
shalt thou bring an abomination
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into thine house, lest
thou be a cursed thing like it:
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but thou shalt utterly detest it
and thou shalt utterly abhor it;
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for it is a cursed
thing. We're continuing to read
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the instructions of the
Lord through Moses to Israel
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Deuteronomy chapter 8.
This is the King James Version.
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All the commandments
which I command thee this day
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shall ye observe to do,
that ye may live, and multiply,
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and go in and possess
the land which the Lord sware
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unto your fathers. And
thou shalt remember all the way
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which the Lord thy God
led thee these forty years
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in the wilderness, to
humble thee, and to prove thee,
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to know what was in thine heart,
whether thou wouldest keep
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his commandments, or no. And
he humbled thee, and suffered
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the to hunger, and fed thee
with manna, which thou knewest
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not, neither did thy fathers
know; that he might make thee
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know that man doth not live
by bread only, but by every word
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that proceedeth out of the
mouth of the Lord doth man live.
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Thy raiment waxed not old upon
thee, neither did thy foot swell
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these forty years. Thou shalt
also consider in thine heart,
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that, as a man chasteneth
his son, so the Lord thy God
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chasteneth thee. Therefore
thou shalt keep the commandments
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of the Lord thy God, to walk
in his ways, and to fear him.
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For the Lord thy God bringeth
thee into a good land, a land
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of brooks of water, of fountains
and depths that spring out of
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valleys and hills; a land of
wheat, and barley, and vines,
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and fig trees, and pomegranates;
a land of oil of olive and honey
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A land wherein thou shalt
eat bread with out scarceness,
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thou shalt not lack any thing in
it; a land whose stones are iron
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and out of whose
hills thou mayest dig brass.
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When thou has eaten and
art full then thou shalt bless
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the Lord thy God for the good
land which he hath given thee.
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Beware that thou
forget not the Lord thy God,
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in not keeping his
commandments, and his judgments,
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and his statutes, which
I command thee this day:
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Lest when thou hast eaten and
art full, and hast built goodly
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houses, and dwelt therein; and
when thy herds and thy flocks
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multiply and thy silver
and thy gold is multiplied,
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and all that thou hast is
multiplied; Then thine heart
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be lifted up and thou
forget the Lord thy God,
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which brought thee forth
out of the land of Egypt,
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and the house of bondage; who
led thee through that great and
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terrible wilderness,
wherein were fiery serpents,
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and scorpions, and drought,
where there was no water;
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who brought thee forth
water out of the rock of flint;
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who fed thee in the wilderness
with manna, which thy fathers
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knew not, that he might humble
thee, and that he might prove
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thee, to do thee
good at thy latter end;
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And thou say in thine heart,
My power and the might of mine
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hand hath gotten me this
wealth, But thou shalt remember
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the Lord thy God: for it
is He that giveth thee power
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to get wealth, that He
may establish his covenant
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which he sware unto thy
fathers, as it is this day.
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And if shall be, if thou do
at all forget the Lord thy God,
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and walk after other gods,
and serve them and worship them,
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I testify against you this
day that ye shall surely perish.
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As the nations which the Lord
destroyeth before your face,
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so shall ye perish;
because ye would not be obedient
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unto the voice of
the Lord your God.
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We're continuing to read
in the King James Version,
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Deuteronomy, chapter 9.
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Hear, O Israel, thou art
to pass over Jordan this day
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to go in to possess
nations greater and mightier
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than thyself, cities
great and fenced up to heaven,
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A people great and tall,
the children of the Anakims,
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whom thou knowest, and
of whom thou hast heard say,
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Who can stand before
the children of Anak!
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Understand therefore this
day, that the Lord thy God is he
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which goeth over before
thee; as a consuming fire
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he shall destroy them,
and he shall bring them down
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before thy face: so shalt
thou drive them out, and destroy
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them quickly, as the
Lord hath said unto thee.
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Speak not thou in thine heart,
after that the Lord thy God
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hath cast them out
from before thee, saying,
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For my righteousness the Lord
has brought me in to possess
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this land: but for the
wickedness of the nations
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the Lord doth drive
them out from before thee.
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Not for thy righteousness
or for the uprightness
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of thine heart, dost
thou go to possess their land:
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but for the wickedness of
these nations the Lord thy God
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doth drive them out from before
thee, and that he may perform
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the word which the Lord
sware unto thy fathers, Abraham,
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Isaac, and Jacob. Understand
therefore that the Lord thy God
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giveth thee not this
good land to possess it
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for thy righteousness; for
thou art a stiff-necked people.
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Remember, and forget not, how
thou provokedst the Lord thy God
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to wrath in the wilderness:
from the day that thou didst
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depart out of the land of Egypt,
until ye came unto this place,
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ye have been rebellious
against the Lord. Also in Horeb
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ye provoked the Lord to wrath,
so that the Lord was angry
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with you to have destroyed you.
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When I was gone up into the
mount to receive the tables of
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stone, even the tables of
the covenant which the Lord made
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with you, then I abode in
the mount 40 days and 40 nights,
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I neither did eat
bread nor drink water;
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And the Lord delivered unto me
two tables of stone written with
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with the finger of God; and
on them was written according
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to all the words, which the Lord
spake with you in the mount.
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out of the midst of the
fire in the day of the assembly.
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And it came to pass at the
end of 40 days and 40 nights,
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that the Lord gave me the two
tables of stone, even the tables
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of the covenant. And the Lord
said unto me, Arise, get thee
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down quickly from hence;
for thy people which thou hast
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brought forth out of
Egypt have corrupted themselves;
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they are quickly turned
aside out of the way which I
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commanded them; they
have made them a molten image.
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Furthermore, the Lord spake
unto me, saying, I have seen
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this people, and behold, it
is a stiff-necked people. Let me
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alone that I may destroy
them, and blot out their name
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from under heaven: and I will
make of thee a nation, mightier
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and greater than they.
So I turned and came down
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from the mount, and
the mount burned with fire:
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and the two tables of the
covenant were in my two hands.
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and I looked, and, behold,
ye had sinned against the Lord
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your God, and had made you a
molten calf: ye had turned aside
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quickly out of the way which
the Lord had commanded you.
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And I took the two tables, and
cast them out of my two hands,
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and brake them before your eyes.
And I fell down before the Lord,
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as at the first, 40 days and 40
nights: I did neither eat bread
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nor drink water because of
all your sins which ye sinned,
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in doing wickedly in the sight
of the Lord, to provoke him
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to anger. For I was afraid of
the anger and hot displeasure,
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wherewith the Lord was wroth
against you to destroy you.
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But the Lord hearkened
unto me at that time also.
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And the Lord was very angry
with Aaron to have destroyed him
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and I prayed for Aaron also
at the same time. And I took
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your sin, the calf which ye had
made, and burnt it with fire,
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and stamped it, and ground it
very small even until it was as
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small as dust and I cast
the dust thereof into the brook
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that descended out of the mount.
And at Taberah, and at Massah,
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and at Kibrothhatavah, ye
provoked the Lord to wrath.
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Likewise when the Lord sent
you from Kadeshbarnea, saying,
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Go up and possess the
land which I have given you;
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then ye rebelled against the
commandment of the Lord your God
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and ye believed him not,
nor hearkened to his voice.
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Ye have been rebellious against
the Lord from the day that
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I knew you. Thus I fell
down before the Lord 40 days
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and 40 nights, as I fell down
at the first; because the Lord
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had said he would destroy you.
I prayed therefore unto the Lord
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and said, O Lord God,
destroy not thy people
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and thine inheritance,
which thou hast redeemed
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through thy greatness, which
thou has brought forth out of
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Egypt with a mighty
hand. Remember thy servants,
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Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob;
look not unto the stubbornness
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of this people, nor to their
wickedness nor to their sin:
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lest the land whence
thou broughtest us out say,
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Because the Lord was not
able to bring them into the land
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which he promised them,
and because he hated them,
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he hath brought them out to
slay them in the wilderness.
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Yet they are thy
people and thine inheritance,
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which thou broughtest out
by thy mighty power and by thy
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stretched out arm.
Continuing to read in
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Deuteronomy, chapter 10
At that time the Lord said
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unto me, Hew thee two tables
of stone like unto the first,
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and come up unto me into
the mount, and make thee an ark
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of wood. And I will write on
the tables the words that were
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in the first tables which thou
brakest, and thou shalt put them
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in the ark. And I made an
ark of shittim wood, and hewed
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two tables of stone like unto
the first, and went up into the
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mount, having the
two tables in mine hand.
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And he wrote on the tables,
according to the first writing,
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the Ten Commandments, which
the Lord spake unto you in the
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mount out of the midst of the
fire in the day of the assembly:
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And the Lord gave them unto
me. And I turned myself and came
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down form the mount, and
put the tables in the ark
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which I had made and there they
be, as the Lord commanded me.
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And the children of Israel
took their journey from Beeroth
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the children of Jaakan
to Mosera: there Aaron died,
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and there he was buried;
and Eleazar his son ministered
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in the priest's
office in his stead.
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>From thence they journeyed
unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah
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to Jotbath, a land of rivers
of waters. At that time the Lord
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separated the tribe of Levi,
to bear the ark of the covenant
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of the Lord, to stand before
the Lord to minister unto him,
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and to bless in his name, unto
this day. Wherefore Levi hath
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no part nor
inheritance with his brethren;
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the Lord is his inheritance,
according as the Lord thy God
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promised him. And I
stayed in mount, according to
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the first time, 40 days
and 40 nights; and the Lord
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hearkened unto me at that time
also, and the Lord would not
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destroy thee. And the Lord said
unto me, Arise, take thy journey
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before the people, that they
may go in and possess the land,
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which I sware unto their
fathers to give unto them.
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And now, Israel, what doth the
Lord thy God require of thee,
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but to fear the Lord thy God, to
walk in all his ways and to love
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him, and to
serve the Lord thy God
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with all thy heart
and with all thy soul.
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