Hi, and welcome back
to His Words Are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer, and thank you
for joining with me to read the
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wonderful word of God.
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But before we
start, let's pray together.
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Dear God, we come to You right
now and ask that in a special
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way the Holy Spirit will
give us understanding as we read
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these words that You
spoke through Moses so long ago.
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Bring them life to our lives
today, and may we serve You
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and each other better.
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We love You so much,
and thank You for loving us.
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Amen.
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When we were last together
we were reading in the book
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of Deuteronomy.
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Moses has gathered the
Israelites together and is
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reviewing with them all of God's
leading as He's brought them
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from Egypt to Canaan.
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And this is before
they've crossed over the Jordan.
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And as he's reviewing and
giving them the various laws
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and commands of the Lord.
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In this particular passage
he has just referenced the
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Ammonite's and the Moabite's,
and how they'd come to Balaam
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to have Balaam
curse the Israelites.
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We're going to pick up
now in this story as Moses is
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referencing their intention
to have the Israelites cursed.
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And I love how he shows
the power of God by saying,
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even though this was meant
as a curse to you, God turned it
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around and made it
a blessing instead.
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Let's read that now:
Deuteronomy, chapter 23:5.
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This is the King James Version.
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Nevertheless, the Lord thy God
would not hearken unto Balaam;
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but the Lord thy God turned the
curse into a blessing unto thee,
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because the Lord
thy God loved thee.
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Thou shalt not seek their peace
nor their prosperity all thy
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days for ever.
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Thou shalt not abhor an
Edomite; for he is thy brother:
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thou shalt not abhor an
Egyptian; because thou wast a
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stranger in his land.
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The children that are begotten
of them shall enter into the
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congregation of the Lord
in their third generation.
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When the host goeth
forth against thine enemies,
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then keep thee
from every wicked thing.
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If there be among you any man,
that is not clean by reason of
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uncleanness that chanceth
him by night, then shall he go
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abroad out of the camp, he
shall not come within the camp:
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But it shall be, when evening
cometh on, he shall wash himself
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with water: and when the
sun is down, he shall come into
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the camp again.
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Thou shalt have a place also
without the camp, whither thou
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shalt go forth abroad: and thou
shalt have a paddle upon thy
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weapon; and it shall be, when
thou wilt ease thyself abroad,
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thou shalt dig therewith, and
shalt turn back and cover that
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which cometh from thee: for
the Lord thy God walketh in the
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midst of thy camp, to deliver
thee, and to give up thine
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enemies before thee; therefore
shall thy camp be holy:
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that he see no unclean thing in
thee, and turn away from thee.
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Thou shalt not deliver unto
his master the servant which is
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escaped from his master unto
thee: he shall dwell with thee,
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even among you, in that place
which he shall choose in one of
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thy gates, where it
liketh him best: thou shalt
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not oppress him.
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There shall be no whore
of the daughters of Israel,
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nor a sodomite of
the sons of Israel.
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Thou shalt not bring the hire of
a whore, or the price of a dog,
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into the house of the Lord thy
God for any vow: for even both
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these are abomination
unto the Lord thy God.
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Thou shalt not lend upon usury
to thy brother; usury of money,
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usury of victuals, usury of any
thing that is lent upon usury:
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unto a stranger thou mayest lend
upon usury; but unto thy brother
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thou shalt not lend upon usury:
that the Lord thy God may bless
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thee in all that thou settest
thine hand to in the land
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whither thou
goest to possess it.
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When thou shalt vow a vow unto
the Lord thy God, thou shalt not
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slack to pay it: for the Lord
thy God will surely require it
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of thee; and it
would be sin in thee.
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But if thou shalt forbear to
vow, it shall be no sin in thee.
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That which is gone out of
thy lips thou shalt keep and
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perform; even a freewill
offering, according as thou hast
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vowed unto the Lord thy
God, which thou hast promised
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with thy mouth.
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When thou comest into
thy neighbor's vineyard,
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then thou mayest eat grapes
thy fill at thine own pleasure;
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but thou shalt not
put any in thy vessel.
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When thou comest into the
standing corn of thy neighbor,
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then thou mayest pluck the ears
with thine hand; but thou shalt
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not move a sickle unto
thy neighbor's standing corn.
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We're continuing to read
in Deuteronomy, chapter 24,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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When a man hath taken a wife,
and married her, and it come to
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pass that she find no favor in
his eyes, because he hath found
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some uncleanness in her:
then let him write her a bill of
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divorcement, and
give it in her hand,
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and send her out of his house.
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And when she is departed out
of his house, she may go and be
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another man's wife.
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And if the latter husband hate
her, and write her a bill of
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divorcement, and giveth it
in her hand, and sendeth her out
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of his house; or if the latter
husband die, which took her
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to be his wife; her former
husband, which sent her away,
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may not take her again to
be his wife, after that she is
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defiled; for that is abomination
before the Lord: and thou shalt
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not cause the land to sin, which
the Lord thy God giveth thee
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for an inheritance.
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When a man hath taken a new
wife, he shall not go out to
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war, neither shall he be charged
with any business: but he shall
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be free at home one year, and
shall cheer up his wife which
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he hath taken.
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No man shall take the nether or
the upper millstone to pledge:
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for he taketh a
man's life to pledge.
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If a man be found stealing any
of his brethren of the children
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of Israel, and
maketh merchandise of him,
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or selleth him; then that thief
shall die; and thou shalt put
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evil away from among you.
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Take heed in the plague
of leprosy, that thou observe
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diligently, and do according to
all that the priests the Levites
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shall teach you: as I commanded
them, so ye shall observe to do.
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Remember what the Lord thy
God did unto Miriam by the way,
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after that ye were
come forth out of Egypt.
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When thou dost lend thy brother
any thing, thou shalt not go
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into his house
to fetch his pledge.
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Thou shalt stand abroad, and the
man to whom thou dost lend shall
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bring out the
pledge abroad unto thee.
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And if the man be poor, thou
shalt not sleep with his pledge:
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In any case thou shalt deliver
him the pledge again when the
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sun goeth down, that he
may sleep in his own raiment,
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and bless thee: and it shall be
righteousness unto thee before
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the Lord thy God.
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Thou shalt not oppress an hired
servant that is poor and needy,
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whether he be of thy brethren,
or of thy strangers that are in
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thy land within thy gates: at
his day thou shalt give him his
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hire, neither shall the sun
go down upon it; for he is poor,
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and setteth his heart upon it:
lest he cry against thee unto
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the Lord, and it
be sin unto thee.
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The fathers shall not be
put to death for the children,
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neither shall the children
be put to death for the fathers:
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every man shall be put
to death for his own sin.
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Thou shalt not pervert
the judgment of the stranger,
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nor of the fatherless; nor take
a widow's raiment to pledge:
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But thou shalt remember that
thou wast a bondman in Egypt,
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and the Lord thy God redeemed
thee thence: therefore I
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command thee to do this thing.
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When thou cuttest down
thine harvest in thy field,
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and hast forgot a sheaf in the
field, thou shalt not go again
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to fetch it: it
shall be for the stranger,
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for the fatherless, and for
the widow: that the Lord thy God
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may bless thee in all
the work of thine hands.
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When thou beatest thine olive
tree, thou shalt not go over the
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boughs again: it
shall be for the stranger,
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for the
fatherless, and for the widow.
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When thou gatherest the grapes
of thy vineyard, thou shalt not
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glean it afterward: it
shall be for the stranger,
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for the
fatherless, and for the widow.
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And thou shalt remember that
thou wast a bondman in the land
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of Egypt: therefore I
command thee to do this thing.
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We're continuing to read
in Deuteronomy, chapter 25.
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This is the King James Version.
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If there be a controversy
between men, and thy come unto
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judgment, that the judges
may judge them; then they shall
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justify the righteous,
and condemn the wicked.
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And it shall be, if the wicked
man be worthy to be beaten,
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that the judge shall cause him
to lie down, and to be beaten
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before his face, according to
his fault, by a certain number.
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Forty stripes he may give
him, and not exceed: lest,
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if he should exceed, and
beat him above these with many
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stripes, then thy brother
should seem vile unto thee.
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Thou shalt not muzzle the ox
when he treadeth out the corn.
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If brethren dwell together,
and one of them die, and have no
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child, the wife of the dead
shall not marry without unto a
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stranger: her husband's brother
shall go in unto her, and take
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her to him to wife,
and perform the duty
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of a husband's brother unto her.
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And it shall be, that the
firstborn which she beareth
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shall succeed in the name
of his brother which is dead,
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that his name be
not put out of Israel.
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And if the man like not to take
his brother's wife, then let his
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brother's wife go up to the
gate unto the elders, and say,
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My husband's brother refuseth to
raise up unto his brother a name
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in Israel, he will
not perform the duty of my
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husband's brother.
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Then the elders of his city
shall call him, and speak unto
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him: and if he stand to it,
and say, I like not to take her;
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then shall his brother's wife
come unto him in the presence of
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the elders, and loose his shoe
from off his foot, and spit in
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his face, and shall answer and
say, So shall it be done unto
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that man that will not
build up his brother's house.
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And his name shall be called
in Israel, The house of him
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that hath his shoe loosed.
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When men strive together one
with another, and the wife of
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the one draweth near for to
deliver her husband out of the
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hand of him that smiteth
him, and putteth forth her hand,
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and taketh him by
the secrets: then thou
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shalt cut off her hand,
thine eye shall not pity her.
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Thou shalt not have in
thy bag divers weights,
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a great and a small.
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Thou shalt not have in
thine house divers measures,
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a great and a small.
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But thou shalt have a perfect
and just weight, a perfect and
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just measure shalt thou have:
that thy days may be lengthened
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in the land which the
Lord thy God giveth thee.
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For all that do such things,
and all that do unrighteously,
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are an abomination
unto the Lord thy God.
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Remember what Amalek did unto
thee by the way, when ye were
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come forth out of Egypt;
how he met thee by the way,
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and smote the hindmost of thee,
even all that were feeble behind
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thee, when thou wast faint and
weary; and he feared not God.
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Therefore it shall be, when
the Lord thy God hath given thee
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rest from all thine enemies
round about, in the land which
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the Lord thy God giveth thee for
an inheritance to possess it,
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that thou shalt blot out the
remembrance of Amalek from under
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heaven; thou
shalt not forget it.
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We're reading in Deuteronomy.
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This is chapter 26.
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And it shall be, when thou art
come in unto the land which the
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Lord thy God giveth thee for an
inheritance, and possessest it,
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and dwellest therein; that thou
shalt take of the first of all
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the fruit of the earth, which
thou shalt bring of thy land
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that the Lord thy God giveth
thee, and shalt put it in a
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basket, and shalt go unto
the place which the Lord thy God
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shall choose to
place his name there.
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And thou shalt go unto the
priest that shall be in those
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days, and say unto him, I
profess this day unto the Lord
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thy God, that I am come unto
the country which the Lord sware
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unto our fathers for to give us.
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And the priest shall take
the basket out of thine hand,
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and set it down before
the altar of the Lord thy God.
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And thou shalt speak and
say before the Lord thy God,
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A Syrian ready to perish was
my father; and he went down unto
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Egypt, and sojourned there
with a few, and became there a
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nation, great, mighty, and
populous: and the Egyptians
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evil entreated us, and afflicted
us, and laid upon us hard
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bondage: and when we
cried unto the Lord God of our
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fathers, the Lord heard
our voice, and looked on our
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affliction, and our labor,
and our oppression: and the Lord
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brought us forth out of
Egypt with a mighty hand,
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and with an outstretched arm,
and with great terribleness,
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and with signs, and with
wonders: and he hath brought us
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into this place, and hath given
us this land, even a land that
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floweth with milk and honey.
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And now, behold, I have brought
the firstfruits of the land,
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which thou, O
Lord, hast given me.
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And thou shalt set it before the
Lord thy God, and worship before
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the Lord thy God: and thou
shalt rejoice in every good
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thing which the Lord thy God
hath given unto thee, and unto
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thine house, thou, and
the Levite, and the stranger
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that is among you.
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When thou hast made an end of
tithing all the tithes of thine
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increase the third year, which
is the year of tithing, and hast
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given it unto the Levite,
the stranger, the fatherless,
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and the widow, that they
may eat within thy gates,
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and be filled; then thou shalt
say before the Lord thy God,
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I have brought away the hallowed
things out of mine house,
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and also have given them
unto the Levite, and unto the
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stranger, to the fatherless, and
to the widow, according to all
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thy commandments which thou
hast commanded me: I have not
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transgressed thy commandments,
neither have I forgotten them:
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I have not eaten thereof in my
mourning, neither have I taken
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away aught thereof for any
unclean use, nor given aught
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thereof for the dead: but I
have hearkened to the voice of
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the Lord my God, and have done
according to all that thou hast
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commanded me.
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Look down from thy holy
habitation, from heaven,
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and bless thy people Israel, and
the land which thou hast given
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us, as thou swarest unto
our fathers, a land that floweth
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with milk and honey.
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Please join me again
next time to read the word
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of God together.
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Goodbye.
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