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9 “Hear, O Israel. You shall pass over Jordan this day, to go in and to possess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and walled up to Heaven,
2 “a people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, ‘Who can stand before the children of Anak?’
3 “Understand, therefore, that this day, the LORD your God is He Who goes over before you, a consuming fire. He shall destroy them and He shall bring them down before your face. So you shall cast them out and destroy them suddenly, as the LORD has said to you.
4 “After the LORD your God has cast them out before you, do not speak in your heart, saying ‘Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.’ Rather, for the wickedness of these nations, the LORD has cast them out before you.
5 “For it is not because of your righteousness, or for their upright heart, that you inherit their land. But it is because of the wickedness of those nations that the LORD your God casts them out before you, and so that He might perform the Word which the LORD your God swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
6 “Understand, therefore, that the LORD your God does not give you this good land to possess it because of your righteousness. For you are a stiff-necked people.
7 “Remember. Do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to anger in the wilderness. Since the day that you departed out of the land of Egypt, until you came into this place, you have rebelled against the LORD.
8 “Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to anger, so that the LORD was angry with you, to destroy you,
9 “when I had gone up into the mount, to receive the Tablets of stone, the Tablets of the Covenant which the LORD made with you. And I stayed on the mount for forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.
10 “Then the LORD delivered me two Tablets of stone, written with the Finger of God. And on them were all the words which the LORD had said to you on the mount, out of the midst of the fire, on the day of the assembly.
11 “And when the forty days and forty nights had ended, the LORD gave me the two Tablets of stone, the Tablets of the Covenant.
12 “And the LORD said to me, ‘Arise. Get down quickly from here. For your people, which you have brought out of Egypt, are corrupt. They have quickly turned out of the way which I Commanded them. They have made themselves a molten image.’
13 “Furthermore, the LORD spoke to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
14 ‘Leave me alone, so that I may destroy them and put out their name from under Heaven. And I will make from you a mighty Nation, and greater than they are.’
15 “So I returned and came down from the mount. And the mount burnt with fire, and the two Tablets of the Covenant were in my two hands.
16 “Then I looked. And behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God. You had made yourself a molten calf, had turned quickly out of the way which the LORD had Commanded you.
17 “Therefore, I took the two Tablets and cast them out of my two hands and broke them, before your eyes.
18 “And I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as before. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sins which you had committed, doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to wrath.
19 “For I was afraid of the wrath and indignation with which the LORD was moved against you, to destroy you. Yet, the LORD also heard me at that time.
20 “Likewise the LORD was very angry with Aaron, to destroy him. But at that time, I also prayed for Aaron.
21 “And I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt him with fire and stamped him and ground him small, even to very dust. And I cast its dust into the river that descended out of the mount.
22 “Also in Taberah, and in Massah, and in Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked the LORD to anger.
23 “Likewise, when the LORD sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, ‘Go up and possess the land which I have given you’, you rebelled against the Commandment of the LORD your God, and did not believe Him. Nor did you listen to His Voice.
24 “You have been rebellious to the LORD since the day that I knew you.
25 “Then I fell down before the LORD. For forty days and forty nights I fell down, because the LORD had said that He would destroy you.
26 “And I prayed to the LORD, and said, ‘O LORD God, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance, which You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt by a mighty Hand.
27 ‘Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not look to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin,
28 ‘lest the country from where you brought them, say, “Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which He promised them”, or “Because He hated them, He carried them out to kill them in the wilderness”.
29 ‘Yet, they are Your people and Your inheritance, which You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched Arm.’”
10 “At the same time, the LORD said to me, ‘Hew for yourself two tablets of stone, just like the first, and come up to Me onto the mount. And make yourself an ark of wood.
2 ‘And I will write upon the tablets the words that were upon the first Tablets, which you broke. And you shall put them in the ark.
3 “And I made an ark out of shittim wood and hewed two tablets of stone, just like the first, and went up onto the mountain. And the two tablets were in my hand.
4 “Then He wrote upon the Tablets, according to the first writing (the Ten Commandments, which the LORD spoke to you on the mount, out of the midst of the fire, on the day of the assembly). And the LORD gave them to me.
5 “And I departed and came down from the mount and put the Tablets in the Ark, which I had made. And there they are, as the LORD Commanded me.
6 “And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth (of the children of Jaakan) to Moserah, where Aaron died and was buried. And Eleazar, his son, became Priest in his place.
7 “From there they departed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of running waters.
8 “At the same time, the LORD separated the tribe of Levi to bear the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD, to minister to Him, and to bless in His Name, to this day.
9 “Therefore, Levi does not have the same inheritance as his brothers. The LORD is his inheritance, as the LORD your God has promised him.
10 “And I stayed on the mount, as at the first time, for forty days and forty nights. And the LORD also heard me at that time. The LORD would not destroy you.
11 “But the LORD said to me, ‘Arise. Go forth in the journey, before the people, so that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers, to give to them.
12 “And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you but to fear the LORD your God—to walk in all His ways and to love Him and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul—
13 “so that you keep the Commandments of the LORD and His Ordinances, which I command you this day, for your good?
14 “Behold, Heaven—the Heaven of heavens—and the Earth, with all that therein is, are the LORD your God’s,
15 “Notwithstanding, the LORD set His delight in your fathers, to love them. And He chose their seed after them, you above all people, as it is this day.
16 “Therefore, circumcise the foreskin of your heart. And harden your necks no more.
17 “For the LORD your God is God of gods and LORD of Lords—a great God, mighty and terrible—Who accepts no persons, nor takes bribes,
18 “Who does right to the fatherless and widow and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.
19 “Therefore, love the stranger. For you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
20 “You shall fear the LORD your God. You shall serve Him. And you shall cling to Him and shall swear by His Name.
21 “He is your praise. And He is your God, Who has done for you these great and terrible things, which your eyes have seen.
22 “Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy people. And now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of the heaven in multitude.”
4 Now when many people had gathered together and come to Him out of all the cities, He spoke a parable.
5 “A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell by the wayside. And it was trampled underfoot, and the birds of heaven devoured it.
6 “And some fell on the stones. And after it sprang up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.
7 “And some fell among thorns. And the thorns sprang up with it and choked it.
8 “And some fell on good ground. And it sprang up and bore fruit, a hundredfold.” And as He said these things, He cried, “The one who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
9 Then His disciples asked Him what parable that was.
10 And He said, “To you it is given to know the secrets of the Kingdom of God. But to others they come in parables. So that when they see, they will not see. And when they hear, they will not understand.
11 “The parable is this: The seed is the Word of God.
12 “And that which are along the way are those who hear, but afterward the devil comes and takes away the Word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
13 “But the ones on the stones are those who, when they have heard the Word, receive it with joy. But they have no roots. So, for a while they believe, but in the time of temptation they go away.
14 “And that which fell among thorns are those who have heard, but after their departure are choked with cares and riches and the pursuit of pleasure. And they bring forth no fruit.
15 “But that which fell in good ground are those who hear the Word with an honest and good heart, and keep it, and bring forth fruit through patience.
16 “No one, when he lights a candle, hides it under a vessel, or puts it under the bed. But he sets it on a candlestick, so that those who enter may see the light.
17 “For nothing is secret that shall not be evident. Nor is anything hidden that shall not be known, and come to light.
18 “Therefore, watch how you hear. For whoever has, to him shall be given. And whoever has not, even that which he seems to have shall be taken from him.
19 Then his mother and his brothers came to Him. And they could not come near to Him because of the crowd.
20 And someone said to Him, “Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, and wish see You.”
21 But He answered, and said to them, “My mother and My brothers are those who hear the Word of God and do it.”
19 You have known my reproach and my shame and my dishonor. All my adversaries are before You.
20 Rebuke has broken my heart and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to have pity, but there was no one; and for comforters, but I found none.
21 For they gave Me gall in My food; and in My thirst they gave Me vinegar to drink.
22 Let their table be a snare before them, and their prosperity their ruin.
23 Let their eyes be blinded, so that they do not see; and make their loins tremble always.
24 Pour out Your anger upon them, and let Your wrathful displeasure take them.
25 Let their habitation be desolate; let no one dwell in their tents.
26 For they persecute him whom You have stricken; and they add to the sorrow of those whom You have wounded.
27 Lay iniquity upon their iniquity; and do not let them come into Your righteousness.
28 Let them be put out of the Book of Life. Do not let them be written with the righteous.
29 When I am poor and in heaviness, Your help, O God, shall exalt me.
30 I will praise the Name of God with a song and magnify Him with thanksgiving.
31 This also shall please the LORD better than a young bullock that has horns and hoofs.
32 The humble shall see this; and those who seek God shall be glad; and Your heart shall live.
33 For the LORD hears the poor and does not despise prisoners.
34 Let Heaven and Earth praise Him; the seas and all that moves in them!
35 For God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah, so that men may dwell there and possess it.
36 Also, the seed of His servants shall inherit it; and those who love His Name shall dwell therein. To him who excels: A Psalm of David, to put in remembrance
2 A good man gets favor from the LORD. But the man of wicked imaginations He will condemn.
3 A man cannot be established by wickedness. But the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
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