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Hello, this is Father Paul and I am glad we are taking this journey together to read the

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Bible in a year.

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Today's reading is from Deuteronomy chapters 15 to 18.

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Chapter 15 At the end of every seven years you shall

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grant a release of debts, and this is the form of the release.

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Every creditor who has lent anything to his neighbour shall release it.

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He shall not require it of his neighbour or his brother, because it is called the Lord's

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release.

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As a governor you may require it, but you shall give up your claim to what is owed by

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your brother.

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Accept when there may be no poor among you, for the Lord will greatly bless you in the

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land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance.

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Only if you carefully obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe with care all these

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commandments which I command you today.

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For the Lord your God will bless you just as He promised you.

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You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

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You shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over you.

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If there is among you a poor man of your brethren, within any of the gates in your land which

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the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from

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your poor brother, but you shall open your hand wide to him and willingly lend him sufficient

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for his need whatever he needs.

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Beware lest there be a wicked thought in your heart saying, The seventh year, the year of

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release is at hand.

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And your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing.

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And he cry out to the Lord against you, and it becomes sin among you.

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You shall surely give to him, and your heart should not be grieved when you give to him.

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Because for this thing the Lord your God will bless you in all your works and in all to

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which you put your hand.

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For the poor will never cease from the land.

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Therefore I command you saying, You shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your

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poor and your needy in your land.

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If your brother a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman is sold to you and serves you six years, then

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in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

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And when you send him away free from you, you shall not let him go away empty handed.

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You shall supply him liberally from your flock, from your threshing floor, and from your wine

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press.

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From what the Lord your God has blessed you with you shall give to him.

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You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed

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you.

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Therefore I command you this thing today.

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And if it happens that he says to you, I will not go away from you, because he loves you

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and your house since he prospers with you, then you shall take an owl and thrust it through

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his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever.

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Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.

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It shall not seem hard to you when you send him away free from you, for he has been worth

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a double hired servant in serving you six years.

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Then the Lord your God will bless you in all that you do.

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All the firstborn males that come from your herd and your flock you shall sanctify to

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the Lord your God.

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You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your

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flock.

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You and your household shall eat it before the Lord your God year by year in the place

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which the Lord chooses.

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But if there is a defect in it, if it is lame or blind, or has any serious defect, you shall

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not sacrifice it to the Lord your God.

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You may eat it within your gates, the unclean and the clean person alike may eat it, as

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if it were a gazelle or a deer.

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Only you shall not eat its blood.

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You shall pour it on the ground like water.

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Chapter 16 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover

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to the Lord your God.

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For in the month of Abib, the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

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Therefore you shall sacrifice the Passover to the Lord your God, from the flock and the

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herd, in the place where the Lord chooses to put his name.

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You shall eat no leavened bread with it.

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Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, that is the bread of affliction,

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for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste, that you may remember the day in which

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you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

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And no leaven shall be seen among you in all your territory for seven days, nor shall any

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of the mead which you sacrificed the first day at twilight remain overnight until morning.

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You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which the Lord your God

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gives you, but at the place where the Lord your God chooses to make his name abide.

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There you shall sacrifice the Passover at twilight, at the going down of the sun at

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the time you came out of Egypt.

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Then you shall roast and eat it in the place which the Lord your God chooses, and in the

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morning you shall turn and go to your tents.

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Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a sacred

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assembly to the Lord your God.

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You shall do no work on it.

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You shall count seven weeks for yourself, begin to count the seven weeks from the time

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you begin to put the sickle to the grain.

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Then you shall keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God with the tribute of a freewill

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offering from your hand, which you shall give as the Lord your God blesses you.

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You shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male

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servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the stranger and

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the fatherless and the widow who are among you, at the place where the Lord your God

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chooses to make his name abide.

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And you shall remember that you are a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to observe

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these statutes.

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You shall observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, when you have gathered from your

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threshing floor and from your winepress.

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And you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant

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and your female servant, and the Levite, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow

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who are within your gates.

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Seven days you shall keep a sacred feast to the Lord your God in the place which the Lord

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chooses, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work

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of your hands, so that you surely rejoice.

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Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God in the place which

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he chooses, at the feast of unleavened bread, at the feast of weeks, and at the feast of

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tabernacles.

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And they shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed.

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Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which

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he has given you.

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You shall appoint judges and officers in all your gates, which the Lord your God gives

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you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

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You shall not pervert justice, you shall not show partiality, nor take a bribe, for a bribe

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blinds the eyes of the wise, and twists the words of the righteous.

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You shall follow what is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which

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the Lord your God is giving you.

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You shall not plant for yourself any tree as a wooden image near the altar which you

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built for yourself to the Lord your God.

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You shall not set up a sacred pillar which the Lord your God hates.

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Chapter 17 You shall not sacrifice to the Lord your

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God a bull or sheep, which has any blemish or defect, for that is an abomination to the

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Lord your God.

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If there is found among you, within any of your gates, which the Lord your God gives

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you, a man or a woman who has been wicked in the sight of the Lord your God in transgressing

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his covenant, who has gone and served other gods and worshipped them, either the sun or

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moon or any of the hosts of heaven, which I have not commanded, and it is told you, and

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you hear of it, then you shall inquire diligently.

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And if it is indeed true and certain that such an abomination has been committed in

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Israel, then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has committed that wicked

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thing and shall stone to death that man or woman with stones.

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Whoever is deserving of death shall be put to death on the testimony of two or three

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witnesses.

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He shall not be put to death on the testimony of one witness.

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The hands of the witnesses shall be the first against him to put him to death, and afterward

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the hands of all the people.

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So you shall put away the evil from among you.

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If a matter arises which is too hard for you to judge, between degrees of guilt for bloodshed,

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between one judgment or another, or between one punishment or another, matters of controversy

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within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the Lord your God

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chooses.

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And you shall come to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge there in those days, and

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inquire of them.

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They shall pronounce upon you the sentence of judgment.

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You shall do according to the sentence which they pronounce upon you in that place which

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the Lord chooses.

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And you shall be careful to do according to all that they order you, according to the

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sentence of the law in which they instruct you, according to the judgment which they

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tell you.

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You shall do.

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You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left from the sentence which they

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pronounce upon you.

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Now the man who acts presumptuously and will not heed the priest who stands to minister

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there before the Lord your God or the judge, that man shall die.

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So you shall put away the evil from Israel.

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And all the people shall hear and fear, and no longer act presumptuously.

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When you come to the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and possess it and dwell

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in it, and say, I will set a king over me like all the nations that are around me, you

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shall surely set a king over you whom the Lord your God chooses.

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One from among your brethren you shall set as king over you.

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You may not set a foreigner over you who is not your brother.

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But he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt to

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multiply horses, for the Lord has said to you, you shall not return that way again.

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Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he greatly

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multiply silver and gold for himself.

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Also it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself

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a copy of this law in a book, from the one before the priests, the Levites.

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And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn

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to fear the Lord his God, and be careful to observe all the words of this law and these

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statutes, that his heart may not be lifted above his brethren, that he may not turn aside

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from the commandment to the right hand or to the left, and that he may prolong his days

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in his kingdom, he and his children in the midst of Israel.

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Chapter 18 The priests, the Levites, all the tribe of

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Levi shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel.

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They shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire and his portion.

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For they shall have no inheritance among their brethren.

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The Lord is their inheritance, as he said to them.

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And this shall be the priests do from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice,

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whether it is bull or sheep.

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They shall give to the priest the shoulder, the cheeks, and the stomach, the first fruits

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of your grain and your new wine and your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep,

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you shall give him.

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For the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to minister in the

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name of the Lord, him and his sons, forever.

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So if a Levite comes from any of your gates, from where he dwells among all Israel, and

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comes with all the desire of his mind to the place which the Lord chooses, then he may

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serve in the name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand

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there before the Lord.

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They shall have equal portions to eat, besides what comes from the sale of his inheritance.

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When you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn

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to follow the abominations of those nations.

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There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through

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the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens

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or a sorcerer, or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls

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up the dead.

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For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations

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the Lord your God drives them out from before you.

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You shall be blameless before the Lord your God.

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For these nations which you will dispossess, listen to soothsayers and diviners.

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But as for you the Lord your God has not appointed such for you.

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The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your midst, from your

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brethren.

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Him you shall hear, according to all you desired of the Lord your God in Horeb, in the day

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of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, nor let me see

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this great fire any more lest I die.

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And the Lord said to me, What they have spoken is good.

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I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put my

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words in his mouth.

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And he shall speak to them all that I command him.

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And it shall be that whoever will not hear my words, which he speaks in my name, I will

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require it of him.

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But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him

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to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.

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And if you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?

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When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not happen or come to pass,

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that is, the thing which the Lord has not spoken, the prophet has spoken it presumptuously.

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You shall not be afraid of him.

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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.