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Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're taking this journey together to read the Bible

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in a year.

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Today's reading is from Deuteronomy chapters 12 to 14.

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Chapter 12 These are the statutes and judgments which

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you shall be careful to observe in the land which the Lord God of your fathers is giving

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you to possess all the days that you live on earth.

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You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you shall dispossess serve

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their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.

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And you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars and burn their wooden

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images with fire.

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You shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place.

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You shall not worship the Lord your God with such things.

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But you shall seek the place where the Lord your God chooses, out of all your tribes,

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to put His name for His dwelling place and there you shall go.

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There you shall take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithe, the heath offerings

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of your hand, your vowed offerings, your free will offerings and the firstborn of your herds

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and flocks.

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And there you shall eat before the Lord your God and you shall rejoice in all to which

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you have put your hand, you and your households in which the Lord your God has blessed you.

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You shall not at all do as we are doing here today, every man doing whatever is right in

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his own eyes, for as yet you have not come to the rest and the inheritance which the

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Lord your God is giving you.

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But when you cross over the Jordan and dwell in the land which the Lord your God is giving

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you to inherit and He gives you rest from all your enemies round about so that you dwell

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in safety, then there will be the place where the Lord your God chooses to make His name

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abide.

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There you shall bring all that I command you, your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your

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tithe, the heath offerings of your hand and all your choice offerings which you vow to

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the Lord.

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And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters,

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your male and female servants and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no

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portion nor inheritance with you.

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Take heed to yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you

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see but in the place which the Lord chooses, in one of your tribes.

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There you shall offer your burnt offerings and there you shall do all that I command

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you.

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However you may slaughter and eat meat within all your gates, whatever your heart desires,

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according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you.

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The unclean and the clean you may eat of it, of the gazelle and the deer alike.

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Only you shall not eat the blood, you shall pour it on the earth like water.

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You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or your new wine or your oil,

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of the firstborn of your herd or your flock, of any of your offerings which you vow, of

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your free will offerings or of the heath offering of your hand.

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But you must eat them before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God chooses,

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you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant and the Levite

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who is within your gates.

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And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all to which you put your hands.

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Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

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When the Lord your God enlarges your border as He has promised you and you say, let me

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eat meat, because you long to eat meat, you may eat as much meat as your heart desires.

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If the place where the Lord your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, then you

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may slaughter from your herd and from your flock which the Lord has given you just as

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I have commanded you, and you may eat within your gates as much as your heart desires.

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Just as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you may eat them.

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The unclean and the clean alike, you may eat them.

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Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life.

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You may not eat the life with the meat, you shall not eat it, you shall pour it on the

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earth like water.

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You shall not eat it that it may go well with you and your children after you.

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When you do what is right in the sight of the Lord, only the holy things which you have

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and your vowed offerings you shall take and go to the place which the Lord chooses, and

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you shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on the altar of the Lord

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your God.

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And the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the Lord your God

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and you shall eat the meat.

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Observe and obey all these words which I command you that it may go well with you and your

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children after you forever.

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When you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.

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When the Lord your God cuts off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess

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and you displace them and dwell in their land, take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared

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to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you and that you do not inquire after

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their gods saying how did these nations serve their gods.

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I also will do likewise, you shall not worship the Lord your God in that way.

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For every abomination to the Lord which he hates they have done to their gods, for they

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burn even their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

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Whatever I command you be careful to observe it, you shall not add to it nor take away

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from it.

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Chapter 13 If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer

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of dreams and he gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes to pass of

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which he spoke to you saying let us go after other gods which you have not known and let

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us serve them, you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams,

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for the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all

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your heart and with all your soul.

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You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey

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his voice.

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You shall serve him and hold fast to him.

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But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death because he has spoken

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in order to turn you away from the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt

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and redeemed you from the house of bondage.

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To entice you from the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk, so you shall

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put away the evil from your midst.

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If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, the wife of your bosom

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or your friend who is as your own soul secretly entices you saying let us go and serve other

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gods which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers, of the gods of the people

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which are all around you, near to you or far off from you, from one end of the earth to

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the other end of the earth, you shall not consent to him or listen to him, nor shall

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your eye pity him nor shall you spare him or conceal him, but you shall surely kill

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him, your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand

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of all the people.

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And you shall stone him with stones until he dies, because he sought to entice you away

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from the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage,

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so all Israel shall hear and fear and not again do such wickedness as this among you.

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If you hear someone in one of your cities which the Lord your God gives you to dwell

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in saying corrupt men have gone out from among you and enticed the inhabitants of their city

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saying let us go and serve other gods which you have not known, then you shall inquire,

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search out and ask diligently, and if it is indeed true and certain that such an abomination

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was committed among you, you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the

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edge of the sword utterly destroying it, all that is in it and its livestock with the edge

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of the sword, and you shall gather all its plunder into the midst of the street and completely

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burn with fire the city and all its plunder for the Lord your God.

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It shall be a heap forever, it shall not be built again, so none of the accursed things

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shall remain in your hand.

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That the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy, have compassion

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on you and multiply you just as he swore to your fathers, because you have listened to

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the voice of the Lord your God to keep all his commandments which I command you today

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to do what is right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

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Chapter 14 You are the children of the Lord your God.

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You shall not cut yourselves, nor shave the front of your head for the dead.

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For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people

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for himself a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

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You shall not eat any detestable thing.

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These are the animals which you may eat, the ox, the sheep, the goat, the deer, the gazelle,

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the roe deer, the wild goat, the mountain goat, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

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You may eat every animal with cloven hooves, having the hooves split into two parts, and

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that chews the cud among the animals.

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Nevertheless, of those that chew the cud, or have cloven hooves, you shall not eat such

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as these, the camel, the hare, the rock hyrax, for they chew the cud but do not have cloven

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hooves.

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They are unclean for you.

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Also the swine is unclean for you, because it has cloven hooves, yet does not chew the

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cud.

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You shall not eat their flesh or touch their dead carcasses.

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These you may eat of all that are in the waters.

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You may eat all that have fins and scales, and whatever does not have fins and scales

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you shall not eat, it is unclean for you.

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All clean birds you may eat.

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But these you shall not eat, the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard, the red kite, the falcon,

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and the kite after their kinds.

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The wee raven after its kind, the ostrich, the short-eared owl, the seagull, and the

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hawk after their kinds.

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The little owl, the screech owl, the white owl, the jagdaw, the carrion vulture, the

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fisher owl, the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hopo and the bat.

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Also every creeping thing that flies is unclean for you.

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They shall not be eaten.

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You may eat all clean birds.

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You shall not eat anything that dies of itself.

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You may give it to the alien who is within your gates that he may eat it.

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Or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to the Lord your God.

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You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

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You shall surely tithe all the increase of your grain that the field produces year by

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year.

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And you shall eat before the Lord your God in the place where he chooses to make his

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name abide.

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The tithe of your grain and your new wine and your oil of the firstborn of your herds

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and your flocks that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always.

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But if the journey is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe,

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or if the place where the Lord your God chooses to put his name is too far from you, when

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the Lord your God has blessed you, then you shall exchange it for money.

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Take the money in your hand and go to the place which the Lord your God chooses.

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And you shall spend that money for whatever your heart desires, for oxen or sheep, for

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wine or similar drink, for whatever your heart desires.

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You shall eat there before the Lord your God and you shall rejoice you and your household.

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You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no part nor inheritance

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with you.

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At the end of every third year you shall bring out the tithe of your produce of that year

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and store it up within your gates.

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And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the stranger

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and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates, may come and eat and be satisfied

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that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

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I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did and I look forward to seeing you

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again tomorrow to continue on our journey.

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God bless you and have a great day.