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29 These are the words of the Covenant which the LORD Commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the Covenant which He had made with them in Horeb.
2 And Moses called all Israel, and said to them, “You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all the Earth in the land of Egypt,
3 “the great temptations which your eyes have seen, those great miracles and wonders.
4 “Yet the LORD has not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.
5 ‘And I have led you for forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old upon you, nor has your shoe grown old upon your foot.
6 ‘You have neither eaten bread nor drunk wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.’
7 “Afterward, you came to this place. And Sihon, king of Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, came out against us to battle. And we killed them
8 “and took their land and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to the half-tribe of Manasseh.
9 “Therefore, keep the words of this Covenant and do them, so that you may prosper in all that you shall do.
10 “Every one of you stands before the LORD your God this day—the heads of your tribes, your elders and your officers, all the men of Israel,
11 “your children, your wives and the stranger who is in your camp (from the hewer of your wood to the drawer of your water) —
12 “so that you could enter into the Covenant of the LORD your God and into His oath (which the LORD your God makes with you this day)
13 “to establish you this day as a people to Himself, and so that He may be to you a God, as He has said to you and as He has sworn to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
14 “Nor do I make this Covenant and this Oath with you only,
15 “but also with him who stands here with us this day before the LORD our God, as with him who is not here with us this day.
16 “For you know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the midst of the nations by which you have passed.
17 “And you have seen their abominations and their idols (wood and stone, silver and gold) which were among them,
18 “so that there should not be among you man or woman or family or tribe which should turn his heart away from the LORD our God this day — to go and serve the gods of these nations — so that there should not be a root among you who brings forth bitterness and wormwood;
19 “so that when he hears the words of this curse, he blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall have peace, although I walk according to the stubbornness of my own heart’, thus adding drunkenness to thirst.
20 “The LORD will not be merciful to him. But then the wrath of the LORD and His jealousy shall smolder against that man. And every curse that is written in this Book shall land upon him. And the LORD shall put out his name from under Heaven.
21 “And the LORD shall separate him for affliction, out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the Covenant that are written in the Book of this Law.
22 “The generation to come — your children who shall rise up after you and the stranger who shall come from a far off land — shall say, when they shall see the plagues of this land and the diseases with which the LORD shall strike it
23 “(All that land shall burn with brimstone and salt. It shall not be sown or bring forth fruit. Nor shall any grass grow in it, like as in the overthrowing of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His wrath and in His anger),
24 “then shall all nations say, ‘Why has the LORD done this to this land? How fierce is this great wrath?’
25 “And they shall answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the Covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which He had made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.
26 ‘And they went and served other gods and worshipped them, gods which they did not know, and which had given them nothing.
27 ‘Therefore the wrath of the LORD grew hot against this land, to bring upon it every curse that is written in this Book.
28 ‘And the LORD has rooted them out of their land in anger and in wrath and in great indignation, and has cast them into another land, as they are this day.’
29 “The secret things belong to the LORD our God. But the revealed things belong to us and to our children, forever, so that we may do all the words of this Law.”
30 “Now when all these things shall come upon you (the blessing or the curse which I have set before you) and you shall turn into your heart among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,
2 “and shall return to the LORD your God and obey His Voice in all that I command you this day (you and your children) with all your heart and with all your soul,
3 “then the LORD your God will cause your captives to return, and have compassion upon you, and will return to gather you out of all the people where the LORD your God has scattered you.
4 “Though you were cast to the utmost part of Heaven, from there will the LORD your God gather you. And from there will He take you.
5 “And the LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed. And you shall possess it. And He will show you favor and will multiply you above your fathers.
6 “And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, so that you may love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, so that you may live.
7 “And the LORD your God will lay all these curses upon your enemies, and on those who hate you, and who persecute you.
8 “Return, therefore, and obey the Voice of the LORD, and do all His Commandments which I command you this day.
9 “And the LORD your God will make you plenteous in every work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of the land, for your wealth. For the LORD will turn again and rejoice over you, to do you good (as He rejoiced over your fathers)
10 “because you shall obey the Voice of the LORD your God — in keeping His Commandments and His Ordinances which are written in the Book of this Law — when you shall return to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
11 “For this Commandment which I command you this day is not hidden from you, nor is it far off.
12 “It is not in Heaven, so that you should say, ‘Who shall go up for us to Heaven and bring it to us and cause us to hear it, so that we may do it?’
13 “Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you should say, ‘Who shall go over the sea for us and bring it to us and cause us to hear it, so that we may do it?’
14 “But the Word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, for you to do it.
15 “Behold, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil,
16 “in that I command you this day to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His Commandments, and His Ordinances, and His Laws, so that you may live and be multiplied, and that the LORD your God may bless you in the land to which you go to possess.
17 “But if your heart turns away, so that you will not obey but shall be seduced and worship other gods and serve them,
18 “I pronounce to you this day that you shall surely perish. You shall not prolong your days in the land which you pass over Jordan to possess.
19 “I call Heaven and Earth to record this day against you that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore, choose life, so that you and your seed may live
20 “by loving the LORD your God, by obeying His Voice, and by clinging to Him. For He is your life, and the length of your days, so that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give them.”
37 And as He spoke, a certain Pharisee asked Him to dine with him. And He went in and sat down at the table.
38 And when the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that He had not first washed before dinner.
39 And the Lord said to him, “Indeed you Pharisees make the outside of the cup and the platter clean, but the inward part is full of plundering and wickedness.
40 “You fools. Did not He Who made that which is outside also make that which is inside?
41 “Therefore, give alms from those things which you have. And behold, all things shall be clean to you.
42 “But woe to you, Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and all kinds of herbs but pass over judgment and the love of God. These you ought to have done while not leaving the other undone.
43 “Woe to you, Pharisees! For you love the uppermost seats in the synagogues and greetings in the markets.
44 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees! Hypocrites! For you are as unseen graves, and the men who walk over them are unaware.”
45 Then one of the lawyers answered, and said to Him, “Master, by saying this, You insult us also.”
46 And He said, “Woe to you also, you lawyers! For you load man with heavy burdens to bear. And you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.
47 “Woe to you! For you build the sepulchers of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
48 “Truly you bear witness and approve the deeds of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their sepulchers.
49 “Therefore the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles. And of them they shall kill and persecute,’
50 “so that the blood of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation,
51 “from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah (who was killed between the altar and the Temple) truly I say to you, it shall be required of this generation.
52 “Woe to you, lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and those who came in you hindered.”
53 And as He said these things to them, the scribes and Pharisees began to plead with Him angrily, and to provoke Him to speak of many things,
54 lying in wait for Him, seeking to catch something from His mouth by which they might accuse Him.
12 In the meantime, there gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, so that they trampled one another. And He began to say to His disciples first, “Beware the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
2 “For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed or hidden that shall not be known.
3 “Therefore, whatever you have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light. And that which you have spoken in the ear, in secret places, shall be preached on the houses.
4 “And I say to you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but after that are not able to do anymore.
5 “But I will forewarn you of Whom you shall fear. Fear Him Who, after He has killed, has power to cast into Hell. Yes, I say to you, fear Him.
6 “Are not five sparrows bought for two assaria? Yet not one of them is forgotten before God.
7 “Yes, and all the hairs of your head are numbered. Therefore, do not fear. You are of more value than many sparrows.
78 Hear my doctrine, O my people. Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in a parable. I will declare high sentences of old
3 which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
4 We will not hide them from their children; but to the generation to come we will show the praise of the LORD, His power also, and His wonderful works that He has done.
5 How He established a testimony in Jacob and ordained a Law in Israel. Which He commanded our fathers that they should teach their children,
6 so that the posterity might know it and the children which should be born should stand up and declare it to their children.
7 So that they might set their hope on God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His Commandments.
8 So that they not be as their fathers (a disobedient and rebellious generation, a generation that did not set their heart aright, and whose spirit was not faithful to God).
9 The children of Ephraim, being armed and shooting with the bow, turned back on the day of battle.
10 They did not keep the Covenant of God, but refused to walk in His Law,
11 and forgot His acts and His wonderful works that He had shown them.
12 He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt (in the field of Zoan).
13 He divided the sea and led them through. He also made the waters to stand as a heap.
14 Also, in the daytime, He led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
15 He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink, as with the great depths.
16 He also brought floods out of the stony rock, making the waters descend like the rivers.
17 But, they still sinned against Him and provoked the Highest in the wilderness
18 and tempted God in their hearts, requiring food for their lust.
19 They also spoke against God, saying, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
20 “Behold, He struck the rock so that the water gushed out and the streams overflowed. Can He also give bread, or prepare flesh for His people?”
21 Therefore, the LORD heard and was angry, and the fire was kindled in Jacob; and wrath also came upon Israel
22 because they did not believe in God and did not trust in His help.
23 Still, He had commanded the clouds above, and had opened the doors of Heaven,
24 and had rained down manna upon them to eat and had given them of the wheat of Heaven.
25 Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food enough.
26 He caused the east wind to pass in the sky; and through His power He brought in the south wind.
27 He also rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowl as the sand of the sea.
28 And He made it fall in the midst of their camp, all around their habitations.
29 So they ate and were well-filled; for He gave them their desire.
30 They were not turned from their lusts. The food was still in their mouths
31 when the wrath of God came upon them and slew the strongest of them and struck down the chosen men of Israel.
19 The lip of truth shall be stable forever. But a lying tongue varies incontinently.
20 Deceit is in the heart of those who imagine evil. But to the counselors of peace shall be joy.
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