Hi, and welcome back
to His Words Are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer, and thank
you for joining with me today to
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read the word of God together.
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Let's pray before we start.
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Dear Jesus, thank You so much
for blessing us with the words
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that have been kept by Your
hand down through the centuries
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to bring us light and life into
what we're facing right now,
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and each of the lives of
those watching and listening.
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Please speak to our
hearts through the power of Your
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Holy Spirit, to
bear fruit for You.
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We love You.
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Amen.
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We've been reading in the book
of Deuteronomy, and when we left
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off Moses was just concluding
a whole, basically a sermon
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to the children of Israel, where
he's reviewed with them the
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history of God delivering them
out of Egypt, and he's given
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them warnings.
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He's promised them
blessings if they will remain
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faithful to the Lord.
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And now the Lord,
speaking through Moses, has told
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him to write a song
for the children of Israel.
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We're going to pick up on that
song, and that part of the story
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right now in
Deuteronomy, chapter 31,
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starting in verse 20.
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This is the King James Version.
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For when I shall have brought
them into the land which I sware
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unto their fathers, that floweth
with milk and honey; and they
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shall have eaten and filled
themselves, and waxen fat;
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then will they turn unto
other gods, and serve them,
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and provoke me,
and break my covenant.
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And it shall come to pass,
when many evils and troubles are
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befallen them, that this song
shall testify against them as a
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witness; for it shall not be
forgotten out of the mouths of
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their seed: for I know their
imagination which they go about,
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even now, before I have
brought them into the land
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which I sware.
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Moses therefore wrote this
song the same day, and taught it
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the children of Israel.
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And he gave Joshua the
son of Nun a charge, and said,
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Be strong and of a good courage:
for thou shalt bring the
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children of Israel into the
land which I sware unto them:
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and I will be with thee.
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And it came to pass, when Moses
had made an end of writing the
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words of this law in a
book, until they were finished,
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that Moses commanded the
Levites, which bare the ark of
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the covenant of the Lord,
saying, take this book of the
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law, and put it in the side of
the ark of the covenant of the
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Lord your God, that
it may be there for a
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witness against thee.
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For I know thy rebellion,
and thy stiff neck: behold,
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while I am yet alive with
you this day, ye have been
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rebellious against the
Lord; and how much more
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after my death?
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Gather unto me all the elders of
your tribes, and your officers,
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that I may speak these words in
their ears, and call heaven and
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earth to record against them.
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For I know that after my
death ye will utterly corrupt
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yourselves, and turn aside from
the way which I have commanded
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you; and evil will befall you in
the latter days; because ye will
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do evil in the sight of the
Lord, to provoke him to anger
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through the work of your hands.
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And Moses spake in the ears of
all the congregation of Israel
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the words of this
song, until they were ended.
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We're continuing in the
book of Deuteronomy, chapter 32.
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Give ear, O ye heavens, and I
will speak; and hear, O earth,
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the words of my mouth.
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My doctrine shall drop as the
rain, my speech shall distill
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as the dew, as the small rain
upon the tender herb, and as the
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showers upon the grass: because
I will publish the name of the
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Lord: ascribe ye
greatness unto our God.
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He is the Rock, his work is
perfect: for all his ways are
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judgment: a God of truth
and without iniquity, just and
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right is he.
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They have corrupted themselves,
their spot is not the spot of
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his children: they are a
perverse and crooked generation.
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Do ye thus requite the Lord,
O foolish people and unwise?
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Is not he thy father
that hath bought thee?
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Hath he not made
thee, and established thee?
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Remember the days of old,
consider the years of many
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generations: ask thy
father, and he will show thee;
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thy elders, and
they will tell thee.
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When the most High divided to
the nations their inheritance,
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when he separated the sons of
Adam, he set the bounds of the
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people according to the number
of the children of Israel.
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For the Lord's portion is
his people; Jacob is the lot
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of his inheritance.
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He found him in a desert
land, and in the waste howling
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wilderness; he led him about,
he instructed him, he kept him
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as the apple of his eye.
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As an eagle stirreth up her
nest, fluttereth over her young,
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spreadeth abroad her wings,
taketh them, beareth them on
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her wings: so the Lord alone
did lead him, and there was no
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strange god with him.
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He made him ride on the
high places of the earth,
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that he might eat the increase
of the fields; and he made him
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to suck honey out of the rock,
and oil out of the flinty rock;
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butter of kine, and milk
of sheep, with fat of lambs,
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and rams of the breed of Bashan,
and goats, with the fat of
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kidneys of wheat; and
thou didst drink the pure blood
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of the grape.
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But Jeshurun waxed fat,
and kicked: thou art waxen fat,
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thou art grown thick, thou art
covered with fatness; then he
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forsook God which made him,
and lightly esteemed the Rock
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of his salvation.
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They provoked him to
jealousy with strange gods,
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with abominations
provoked they him to anger.
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They sacrificed unto devils,
not to God; to gods whom they
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knew not, to new
gods that came newly up,
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whom your fathers feared not.
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Of the Rock that begat
thee thou art unmindful,
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and hast forgotten
God that formed thee.
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And when the Lord saw it, he
abhorred them, because of the
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provoking of his
sons, and of his daughters.
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And he said, I will hide my face
from them, I will see what their
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end shall be: for they
are a very forward generation,
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children in whom is no faith.
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They have moved me to jealousy
with that which is not God;
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they have provoked me to anger
with their vanities: and I will
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move them to jealousy with
those which are not a people;
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I will provoke them to
anger with a foolish nation.
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For a fire is kindled in mine
anger, and shall burn unto the
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lowest hell, and shall consume
the earth with her increase,
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and set on fire the
foundations of the mountains.
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I will heap mischief's
upon them; I will spend
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mine arrows upon them.
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They shall be burnt with hunger,
and devoured with burning heat,
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and with bitter destruction:
I will also send the teeth of
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beasts upon them, with the
poison of serpents of the dust.
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The sword without, and terror
within, shall destroy both the
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young man and the virgin,
the suckling also with the man
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of gray hairs.
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I said, I would scatter them
into corners, I would make the
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remembrance of them to cease
from among men: were it not
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that I feared the wrath of the
enemy, lest their adversaries
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should behave themselves
strangely, and lest they should
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say, Our hand is high, and
the Lord hath not done all this.
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For they are a nation void
of counsel, neither is there any
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understanding in them.
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O that they were wise, that
they understood this, that they
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consider their latter end!
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How should one chase a thousand,
and two put ten thousand to
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flight, except
their Rock had sold them,
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and the Lord had shut them up?
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For their rock is not as
our Rock, even our enemies
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themselves being judges.
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For their vine is of the vine
of Sodom, and of the fields of
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Gomorrah: their grapes are
grapes of gall, their clusters
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are bitter: their wine is the
poison of dragons, and the cruel
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venom of asps.
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Is not this laid up in store
with me, and sealed up among
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my treasures?
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To me belongeth vengeance
and recompense; their foot shall
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slide in due time: for the day
of their calamity is at hand,
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and the things that shall
come upon them make haste.
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For the Lord shall judge his
people, and repent himself for
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his servants, when he
seeth that their power is gone,
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and there is
none shut up, or left.
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And he shall say, Where are
their gods, their rock in whom
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they trusted, which did eat
the fat of their sacrifices,
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and drank the wine of their
drink offerings? let them rise
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up and help you,
and be your protection.
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See now that I, even I, am
he, and there is no god with me:
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I kill, and I make alive; I
wound, and I heal: neither is
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there any that can
deliver out of my hand.
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For I lift up my hand to heaven,
and say, I live for ever.
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If I whet my glittering sword,
and mine hand take hold on
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judgment; I will render
vengeance to mine enemies,
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and will reward
them that hate me.
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I will make mine arrows drunk
with blood, and my sword shall
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devour flesh; and that with the
blood of the slain and of the
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captives, from the beginning
of revenges upon the enemy.
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Rejoice, O ye nations, with his
people: for he will avenge the
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blood of his servants, and
will render vengeance to his
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adversaries, and will
be merciful unto his land,
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and to his people.
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And Moses came and spake all
the words of this song in the
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ears of the people, he,
and Hoshea the son of Nun.
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And Moses made an end of
speaking all these words to all
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Israel: and he said unto them,
Set your hearts unto all the
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words which I testify among you
this day, which ye shall command
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your children to observe to
do, all the words of this law.
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For it is not a vain thing for
you; because it is your life:
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and through this thing ye shall
prolong your days in the land,
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whither ye go over
Jordan to possess it.
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And the Lord spake unto
Moses that selfsame day, saying,
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Get thee up into this mountain
Abarim, unto mount Nebo,
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which is in the land of Moab,
that is over against Jericho;
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and behold the land of Canaan,
which I give unto the children
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of Israel for a possession: and
die in the mount whither thou
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goest up, and be gathered unto
thy people; as Aaron thy brother
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died in mount Hor, and
was gathered unto his people:
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because ye trespassed against
me among the children of Israel
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at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh,
in the wilderness of Zin;
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because ye sanctified
me not in the midst of the
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children of Israel.
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Yet thou shalt see the land
before thee; but thou shalt not
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go thither unto the land which
I give the children of Israel.
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Continuing in Deuteronomy,
chapter 33, and this is the
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King James Version.
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And this is the blessing,
wherewith Moses the man of God
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blessed the children of
Israel before his death.
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And he said, The Lord came from
Sinai, and rose up from Seir
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unto them; he shined forth from
Mount Paran, and he came with
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ten thousands of saints:
from his right hand went a fiery
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law for them.
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Yea, he loved the people;
all his saints are in thy hand:
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and they sat down at thy
feet; every one shall receive
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of thy words.
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Moses commanded us a law,
even the inheritance of the
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congregation of Jacob.
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And he was king in Jeshurun,
when the heads of the people
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and the tribes of
Israel were gathered together.
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Let Reuben live, and not
die; and let not his men be few.
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And this is the blessing of
Judah: and he said, Hear, Lord,
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the voice of Judah, and bring
him unto his people: let his
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hands be sufficient for
him; and be thou an help to him
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from his enemies.
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And of Levi he said, Let
thy Thummim and thy Urim be with
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thy holy one, whom thou didst
prove at Massah, and with whom
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thou didst strive at the waters
of Meribah; who said unto his
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father and to his mother, I have
not seen him; neither did he
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acknowledge his brethren,
nor knew his own children:
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for they have observed thy
word, and kept thy covenant.
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They shall teach Jacob thy
judgments, and Israel thy law:
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they shall put incense before
thee, and whole burnt sacrifice
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upon thine altar.
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Bless, Lord, his substance, and
accept the work of his hands:
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smite through the loins of
them that rise against him,
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and of them that hate
him, that they rise not again.
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And of Benjamin he said, The
beloved of the Lord shall dwell
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in safety by him; and the
Lord shall cover him all the day
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long, and he shall
dwell between his shoulders.
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And of Joseph he said, Blessed
of the Lord be his land, for the
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precious things of heaven, for
the dew, and for the deep that
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coucheth beneath, and for the
precious fruits brought forth by
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the sun, and for the precious
things put forth by the moon,
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and for the chief things of the
ancient mountains, and for the
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precious things of the lasting
hills, and for the precious
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things of the earth and fullness
thereof, and for the good
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will of him that dwelt in
the bush: let the blessing come
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upon the head of Joseph, and
upon the top of the head of him
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that was
separated from his brethren.
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His glory is like the firstling
of his bullock, and his horns
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are like the horns of unicorns:
with them he shall push the
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people together to the ends
of the earth: and they are the
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ten thousands of Ephraim,
and they are the thousands
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of Manasseh.
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And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice,
Zebulun, in thy going out;
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and, Issachar, in thy tents.
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They shall call the people unto
the mountain; there they shall
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offer sacrifices of
righteousness: for they shall
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suck of the abundance of
the seas, and of treasures
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hid in the sand.
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And of Gad he said, Blessed
be he that enlargeth Gad:
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he dwelleth as a lion,
and teareth the arm with the
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crown of the head.
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And he provided the first
part for himself, because there,
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in a portion of the lawgiver,
was he seated; and he came with
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the heads of the people,
he executed the justice of the
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Lord, and his
judgments with Israel.
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And of Dan he said, Dan is
a lion's whelp: he shall leap
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from Bashan.
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And of Naphtali he said, O
Naphtali, satisfied with favor,
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and full with the blessing
of the Lord: possess thou the
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west and the south.
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And of Asher he said, Let
Asher be blessed with children;
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let him be acceptable to his
brethren, and let him dip his
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foot in oil.
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Thy shoes shall be iron and
brass; and as thy days, so shall
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thy strength be.
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Until we come together
again, may you go forward
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in God's strength.
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Goodbye.
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