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et nunc Israhel audi praecepta et iudicia quae ego doceo teut faciens ea vivas et ingrediens possideas terram quam DominusDeus patrum vestrorum daturus est vobis

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non addetis ad verbum quod vobis loquor neque auferetis exeo custodite mandata Domini Dei vestri quae ego praecipio vobis

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oculi vestri viderunt omnia quae fecit Dominus contraBeelphegor quomodo contriverit omnes cultores eius de mediovestri

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vos autem qui adheretis Domino Deo vestro vivitis universiusque in praesentem diem

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scitis quod docuerim vos praecepta atque iustitias sicutmandavit mihi Dominus Deus meus sic facietis ea in terra quampossessuri estis

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et observabitis et implebitis opere haec est enim vestrasapientia et intellectus coram populis ut audientes universapraecepta haec dicant en populus sapiens et intellegens gensmagna

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nec est alia natio tam grandis quae habeat deosadpropinquantes sibi sicut Dominus Deus noster adest cunctisobsecrationibus nostris

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quae est enim alia gens sic inclita ut habeat caerimoniasiustaque iudicia et universam legem quam ego proponam hodieante oculos vestros

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custodi igitur temet ipsum et animam tuam sollicite neobliviscaris verborum quae viderunt oculi tui et ne excedant decorde tuo cunctis diebus vitae tuae docebis ea filios acnepotes tuos

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diem in quo stetisti coram Domino Deo tuo in Horeb quandoDominus locutus est mihi dicens congrega ad me populum utaudiat sermones meos et discat timere me omni tempore quo vivitin terra doceantque filios suos

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et accessistis ad radices montis qui ardebat usque adcaelum erantque in eo tenebrae nubes et caligo

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locutusque est Dominus ad vos de medio ignis vocem verborumeius audistis et formam penitus non vidistis

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et ostendit vobis pactum suum quod praecepit ut faceretiset decem verba quae scripsit in duabus tabulis lapideis

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mihique mandavit in illo tempore ut docerem vos caerimoniaset iudicia quae facere deberetis in terra quam possessuri estis

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custodite igitur sollicite animas vestras non vidistisaliquam similitudinem in die qua locutus est Dominus vobis inHoreb de medio ignis

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ne forte decepti faciatis vobis sculptam similitudinem autimaginem masculi vel feminae

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similitudinem omnium iumentorum quae sunt super terram velavium sub caelo volantium

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atque reptilium quae moventur in terra sive piscium qui subterra morantur in aquis

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ne forte oculis elevatis ad caelum videas solem et lunam etomnia astra caeli et errore deceptus adores ea et colas quaecreavit Dominus Deus tuus in ministerium cunctis gentibus quaesub caelo sunt

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vos autem tulit Dominus et eduxit de fornace ferrea Aegyptiut haberet populum hereditarium sicut est in praesenti die

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iratusque est Dominus contra me propter sermones vestros etiuravit ut non transirem Iordanem nec ingrederer terram optimamquam daturus est vobis

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ecce morior in hac humo non transibo Iordanem vostransibitis et possidebitis terram egregiam

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cave nequando obliviscaris pacti Domini Dei tui quodpepigit tecum et facias tibi sculptam similitudinem eorum quaefieri Dominus prohibuit

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quia Dominus Deus tuus ignis consumens est Deus aemulator

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si genueritis filios ac nepotes et morati fueritis in terradeceptique feceritis vobis aliquam similitudinem patrantesmalum coram Domino Deo vestro ut eum ad iracundiam provocetis

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testes invoco hodie caelum et terram cito perituros vosesse de terra quam transito Iordane possessuri estis nonhabitabitis in ea longo tempore sed delebit vos Dominus

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atque disperget in omnes gentes et remanebitis pauci innationibus ad quas vos ducturus est Dominus

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ibique servietis diis qui hominum manu fabricati sunt lignoet lapidi qui non vident non audiunt non comedunt non odorantur

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cumque quaesieris ibi Dominum Deum tuum invenies eum sitamen toto corde quaesieris et tota tribulatione animae tuae

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postquam te invenerint omnia quae praedicta sunt novissimotempore reverteris ad Dominum Deum tuum et audies vocem eius

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quia Deus misericors Dominus Deus tuus est non dimittet tenec omnino delebit neque obliviscetur pacti in quo iuravitpatribus tuis

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interroga de diebus antiquis qui fuerunt ante te ex die quocreavit Deus hominem super terram a summo caeli usque ad summumeius si facta est aliquando huiuscemodi res aut umquam cognitumest

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ut audiret populus vocem Dei loquentis de medio ignis sicuttu audisti et vixisti

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si fecit Deus ut ingrederetur et tolleret sibi gentem demedio nationum per temptationes signa atque portenta per pugnamet robustam manum extentumque brachium et horribiles visionesiuxta omnia quae fecit pro vobis Dominus Deus vester in Aegyptovidentibus oculis tuis

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ut scires quoniam Dominus ipse est Deus et non est aliuspraeter unum

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de caelo te fecit audire vocem suam ut doceret te et interra ostendit tibi ignem suum maximum et audisti verba illiusde medio ignis

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quia dilexit patres tuos et elegit semen eorum post eoseduxitque te praecedens in virtute sua magna ex Aegypto

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ut deleret nationes maximas et fortiores te in introitu tuoet introduceret te daretque tibi terram earum in possessionemsicut cernis in praesenti die

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scito ergo hodie et cogitato in corde tuo quod Dominus ipsesit Deus in caelo sursum et in terra deorsum et non sit alius

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custodi praecepta eius atque mandata quae ego praecipiotibi ut bene sit tibi et filiis tuis post te et permaneas multotempore super terram quam Dominus Deus tuus daturus est tibi

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tunc separavit Moses tres civitates trans Iordanem adorientalem plagam

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ut confugiat ad eas qui occiderit nolens proximum suum necfuerit inimicus ante unum et alterum diem et ad harum aliquamurbium possit evadere

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Bosor in solitudine quae sita est in terra campestri detribu Ruben et Ramoth in Galaad quae est in tribu Gad et Golamin Basan quae est in tribu Manasse

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ista est lex quam proposuit Moses coram filiis Israhel

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et haec testimonia et caerimoniae atque iudicia quaelocutus est ad filios Israhel quando egressi sunt de Aegypto

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trans Iordanem in valle contra fanum Phogor in terra Seonregis Amorrei qui habitavit in Esebon quem percussit Mosesfilii quoque Israhel egressi ex Aegypto

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possederunt terram eius et terram Og regis Basan duorumregum Amorreorum qui erant trans Iordanem ad solis ortum

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ab Aroer quae sita est super ripam torrentis Arnon usque admontem Sion qui est et Hermon

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omnem planitiem trans Iordanem ad orientalem plagam usquead mare Solitudinis et usque ad radices montis Phasga

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Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.

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Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

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Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.

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But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.

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Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.

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Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

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For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?

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And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

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Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;

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Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.

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And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.

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And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.

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And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

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And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.

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Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:

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Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

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The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,

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The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:

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And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

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But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.

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Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:

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But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.

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Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.

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For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

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When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:

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I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

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And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.

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And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

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But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

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When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;

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(For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.

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For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?

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Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?

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Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

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Unto thee it was showed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.

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Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he showed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.

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And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;

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To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.

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Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.

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Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.

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Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;

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That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbor unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:

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Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.

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And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:

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These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt.

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On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:

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And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;

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From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon,

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And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.

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