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Deuteronomy chapter 10

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"Then the LORD said to me, 'Cut two stone tablets like the first ones and make a wooden Box to put them in. Come up to me on the mountain,
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and I will write on those tablets what I wrote on the tablets that you broke, and then you are to put them in the Box.'
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"So I made a Box of acacia wood and cut two stone tablets like the first ones and took them up the mountain.
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Then the LORD wrote on those tablets the same words that he had written the first time, the Ten Commandments that he gave you when he spoke from the fire on the day you were gathered at the mountain. The LORD gave me the tablets,
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and I turned and went down the mountain. Then, just as the LORD had commanded, I put them in the Box that I had made---and they have been there ever since."
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(The Israelites set out from the wells that belonged to the people of Jaakan, and went to Moserah. There Aaron died and was buried, and his son Eleazar succeeded him as priest.
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From there they went to Gudgodah and then on to Jotbathah, a well-watered place.
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At the mountain the LORD appointed the men of the tribe of Levi to be in charge of the Covenant Box, to serve him as priests, and to pronounce blessings in his name. And these are still their duties.
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That is why the tribe of Levi received no land as the other tribes did; what they received was the privilege of being the LORD's priests, as the LORD your God promised.)
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"I stayed on the mountain forty days and nights, as I did the first time. The LORD listened to me once more and agreed not to destroy you.
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Then he told me to go and lead you, so that you could take possession of the land that he had promised to give to your ancestors.
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"Now, people of Israel, listen to what the LORD your God demands of you: Worship the LORD and do all that he commands. Love him, serve him with all your heart,
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and obey all his laws. I am giving them to you today for your benefit.
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To the LORD belong even the highest heavens; the earth is his also, and everything on it.
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But the LORD's love for your ancestors was so strong that he chose you instead of any other people, and you are still his chosen people.
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So then, from now on be obedient to the LORD and stop being stubborn.
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The LORD your God is supreme over all gods and over all powers. He is great and mighty, and he is to be obeyed. He does not show partiality, and he does not accept bribes.
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He makes sure that orphans and widows are treated fairly; he loves the foreigners who live with our people, and gives them food and clothes.
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So then, show love for those foreigners, because you were once foreigners in Egypt.
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Have reverence for the LORD your God and worship only him. Be faithful to him and make your promises in his name alone.
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Praise him---he is your God, and you have seen with your own eyes the great and astounding things that he has done for you.
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When your ancestors went to Egypt, there were only seventy of them. But now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Deuteronomy chapter 11

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"Love the LORD your God and always obey all his laws.
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Remember today what you have learned about the LORD through your experiences with him. It was you, not your children, who had these experiences. You saw the LORD's greatness, his power, his might,
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and his miracles. You saw what he did to the king of Egypt and to his entire country.
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You saw how the LORD completely wiped out the Egyptian army, along with their horses and chariots, by drowning them in the Red Sea when they were pursuing you.
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You know what the LORD did for you in the desert before you arrived here.
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You recall what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab of the tribe of Reuben. In the sight of everyone the earth opened up and swallowed them, along with their families, their tents, and all their servants and animals.
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Yes, you are the ones who have seen all these great things that the LORD has done.
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"Obey everything that I have commanded you today. Then you will be able to cross the river and occupy the land that you are about to enter.
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And you will live a long time in the rich and fertile land that the LORD promised to give your ancestors and their descendants.
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The land that you are about to occupy is not like the land of Egypt, where you lived before. There, when you planted grain, you had to work hard to irrigate the fields;
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but the land that you are about to enter is a land of mountains and valleys, a land watered by rain.
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The LORD your God takes care of this land and watches over it throughout the year.
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"So then, obey the commands that I have given you today; love the LORD your God and serve him with all your heart.
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If you do, he will send rain on your land when it is needed, in the autumn and in the spring, so that there will be grain, wine, and olive oil for you,
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and grass for your livestock. You will have all the food you want.
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Do not let yourselves be led away from the LORD to worship and serve other gods.
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If you do, the LORD will become angry with you. He will hold back the rain, and your ground will become too dry for crops to grow. Then you will soon die there, even though it is a good land that he is giving you.
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"Remember these commands and cherish them. Tie them on your arms and wear them on your foreheads as a reminder.
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Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you are resting and when you are working.
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Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.
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Then you and your children will live a long time in the land that the LORD your God promised to give to your ancestors. You will live there as long as there is a sky above the earth.
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"Obey faithfully everything that I have commanded you: Love the LORD your God, do everything he commands, and be faithful to him.
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Then he will drive out all those nations as you advance, and you will occupy the land belonging to nations greater and more powerful than you.
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All the ground that you march over will be yours. Your territory will extend from the desert in the south to the Lebanon Mountains in the north, and from the Euphrates River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.
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Wherever you go in that land, the LORD your God will make the people fear you, as he has promised, and no one will be able to stop you.
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"Today I am giving you the choice between a blessing and a curse---
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a blessing, if you obey the commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you today;
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but a curse, if you disobey these commands and turn away to worship other gods that you have never worshiped before.
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When the LORD brings you into the land that you are going to occupy, you are to proclaim the blessing from Mount Gerizim and the curse from Mount Ebal.
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(These two mountains are west of the Jordan River in the territory of the Canaanites who live in the Jordan Valley. They are toward the west, not far from the sacred trees of Moreh near the town of Gilgal.)
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You are about to cross the Jordan River and occupy the land that the LORD your God is giving you. When you take it and settle there,
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be sure to obey all the laws that I am giving you today.

Deuteronomy chapter 12

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"Here are the laws that you are to obey as long as you live in the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is giving you. Listen to them!
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In the land that you are taking, destroy all the places where the people worship their gods on high mountains, on hills, and under green trees.
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Tear down their altars and smash their sacred stone pillars to pieces. Burn their symbols of the goddess Asherah and chop down their idols, so that they will never again be worshiped at those places.
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"Do not worship the LORD your God in the way that these people worship their gods.
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Out of the territory of all your tribes the LORD will choose the one place where the people are to come into his presence and worship him.
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There you are to offer your sacrifices that are to be burned and your other sacrifices, your tithes and your offerings, the gifts that you promise to the LORD, your freewill offerings, and the first-born of your cattle and sheep.
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There, in the presence of the LORD your God, who has blessed you, you and your families will eat and enjoy the good things that you have worked for.
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"When that time comes, you must not do as you have been doing. Until now you have all been worshiping as you please,
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because you have not yet entered the land that the LORD your God is giving you, where you can live in peace.
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When you cross the Jordan River, the LORD will let you occupy the land and live there. He will keep you safe from all your enemies, and you will live in peace.
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The LORD will choose a single place where he is to be worshiped, and there you must bring to him everything that I have commanded: your sacrifices that are to be burned and your other sacrifices, your tithes and your offerings, and those special gifts that you have promised to the LORD.
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Be joyful there in his presence, together with your children, your servants, and the Levites who live in your towns; remember that the Levites will have no land of their own.
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You are not to offer your sacrifices wherever you choose;
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you must offer them only in the one place that the LORD will choose in the territory of one of your tribes. Only there are you to offer your sacrifices that are to be burned and do all the other things that I have commanded you.
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"But you are free to kill and eat your animals wherever you live. You may eat as many as the LORD gives you. All of you, whether ritually clean or unclean, may eat them, just as you would eat the meat of deer or antelope.
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But you must not eat their blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.
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Nothing that you offer to the LORD is to be eaten in the places where you live: neither the tithes of your grain, your wine, or your olive oil, nor the first-born of your cattle and sheep, the gifts that you promise to the LORD, your freewill offerings, or any other offerings.
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You and your children, together with your servants and the Levites who live in your towns, are to eat these offerings only in the presence of the LORD your God, in the one place of worship chosen by the LORD your God. And you are to be happy there over everything that you have done.
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Be sure, also, not to neglect the Levites, as long as you live in your land.
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"When the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised, you may eat meat whenever you want to.
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If the one place of worship is too far away, then, whenever you wish, you may kill any of the cattle or sheep that the LORD has given you, and you may eat the meat at home, as I have told you.
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Anyone, ritually clean or unclean, may eat that meat, just as he would eat the meat of deer or antelope.
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Only do not eat meat with blood still in it, for the life is in the blood, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
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Do not use the blood for food; instead, pour it out on the ground like water.
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If you obey this command, the LORD will be pleased, and all will go well for you and your descendants.
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Take to the one place of worship your offerings and the gifts that you have promised the LORD.
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Offer there the sacrifices which are to be completely burned on the LORD's altar. Also offer those sacrifices in which you eat the meat and pour the blood out on the altar.
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Obey faithfully everything that I have commanded you, and all will go well for you and your descendants forever, because you will be doing what is right and what pleases the LORD your God.
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"The LORD your God will destroy the nations as you invade their land, and you will occupy it and settle there.
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After the LORD destroys those nations, make sure that you don't follow their religious practices, because that would be fatal. Don't try to find out how they worship their gods, so that you can worship in the same way.
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Do not worship the LORD your God in the way they worship their gods, for in the worship of their gods they do all the disgusting things that the LORD hates. They even sacrifice their children in the fires on their altars.
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"Do everything that I have commanded you; do not add anything to it or take anything from it.

Mark chapter 16

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After the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices to go and anoint the body of Jesus.
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Very early on Sunday morning, at sunrise, they went to the tomb.
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On the way they said to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?" (It was a very large stone.) Then they looked up and saw that the stone had already been rolled back.
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(SEE 16:3)
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So they entered the tomb, where they saw a young man sitting at the right, wearing a white robe---and they were alarmed.
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"Don't be alarmed," he said. "I know you are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He is not here---he has been raised! Look, here is the place where he was placed.
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Now go and give this message to his disciples, including Peter: 'He is going to Galilee ahead of you; there you will see him, just as he told you.' "
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So they went out and ran from the tomb, distressed and terrified. They said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.
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[After Jesus rose from death early on Sunday, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had driven out seven demons.
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She went and told his companions. They were mourning and crying;
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and when they heard her say that Jesus was alive and that she had seen him, they did not believe her.
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After this, Jesus appeared in a different manner to two of them while they were on their way to the country.
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They returned and told the others, but these would not believe it.
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Last of all, Jesus appeared to the eleven disciples as they were eating. He scolded them, because they did not have faith and because they were too stubborn to believe those who had seen him alive.
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He said to them, "Go throughout the whole world and preach the gospel to all people.
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Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned.
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Believers will be given the power to perform miracles: they will drive out demons in my name; they will speak in strange tongues;
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if they pick up snakes or drink any poison, they will not be harmed; they will place their hands on sick people, and these will get well."
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After the Lord Jesus had talked with them, he was taken up to heaven and sat at the right side of God.
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The disciples went and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and proved that their preaching was true by the miracles that were performed.]

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