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Deuteronomy 6:1 148 Deuteronomy 7:8
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1 These now are the commandements, ordi- that good land which the Lord sware vnto thy
nances, and lawes, which the Lord your God fathers, 19 To cast out all thine enemies before
commanded me to teach you, that ye might doe thee, as the Lord hath sayd. 20 When thy sonne
them in the land whither ye go to possesse it: shall aske thee in time to come, saying, What
2 That thou mightest feare the Lord thy God, meane these testimonies, and ordinances, and
and keepe all his ordinances, and his comman- Lawes, which the Lord our God hath commanded
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dements which I commaund thee, thou, and thy you? Then shalt thou say vnto thy sonne, We
sonne, and thy sonnes sonne all the dayes of were Pharaohs bondmen in Egypt: but the Lord
thy life, euen that thy dayes may be prolonged. brought vs out of Egypt with a mightie hand.
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3 Heare therefore, O Israel, and take heede to doe And the Lord shewed signes and wonders great
it, that it may go well with thee, and that ye may and euill vpon Egypt, vpon Pharaoh, and vpon all
increase mightily in the land that floweth with his housholde, before our eyes, 23 And brought
milke and hony, as the Lord God of thy fathers vs out from thence, to bring vs in, and to giue
hath promised thee. 4 Heare, O Israel, The Lord vs the land which he sware vnto our fathers.
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Therefore the Lord hath commanded vs, to
our God is Lord onely, And thou shalt loue the doe all these ordinances, and to feare the Lord
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Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all our God, that it may goe euer well with vs, and
thy soule, and with all thy might. 6 And these that he may preserue vs aliue as at this present.
wordes which I commaund thee this day, shalbe 25 Moreouer, this shall be our righteousnes before
in thine heart. 7 And thou shalt rehearse them the Lord our God, if we take heede to keepe all
continually vnto thy children, and shalt talke of these commandements, as he hath commanded
them when thou tariest in thine house, and as vs.
thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest
downe, and when thou risest vp: And thou shalt 7
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binde them for a signe vpon thine hand, and they 1 When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into
shalbe as frontlets betweene thine eyes. 9 Also the land whither thou goest to possesse it, and
thou shalt write them vpon ye postes of thine shall roote out many nations before thee: the
house, and vpon thy gates. 10 And when the Lord Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites,
thy God hath brought thee into the land, which and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the
he sware vnto thy fathers, Abraham, Izhak, and Hiuites, and the Iebusites, seuen nations greater
Iaakob, to giue to thee, with great and goodly and mightier then thou, And the Lord thy God
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cities which thou buildedst not, And houses full shall giue them before thee, then thou shalt smite
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of all maner of goods which thou filledst not, and them: thou shalt vtterly destroy them: thou
welles digged which thou diggedst not, vineyards shalt make no couenant with them, nor haue
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and oliue trees which thou plantedst not, and compassion on them, Neither shalt thou make
when thou hast eaten and art full, 12 Beware least marriages with them, neither giue thy daughter
thou forget the Lord, which brought thee out of vnto his sonne, nor take his daughter vnto thy
the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. sonne. 4 For they wil cause thy sonne to turne
13 Thou shalt feare the Lord thy God, and serue away from me, and to serue other gods: then
him, and shalt sweare by his Name. 14 Ye shall will the wrath of the Lord waxe hote against you
not walke after other gods, after any of the gods and destroy thee suddenly. 5 But thus ye shall
of the people which are round about you, 15 (For deale with them, Ye shall ouerthrowe their altars,
the Lord thy God is a ielous God among you:) and breake downe their pillars, and ye shall
least the wrath of the Lord thy God be kindled cut downe their groues, and burne their grauen
against thee, and destroy thee from the face of images with fire. 6 For thou art an holy people
the earth. 16 Ye shall not tempt the Lord your vnto the Lord thy God, the Lord thy God hath
God, as ye did tempt him in Massah: 17 But chosen thee, to be a precious people vnto him-
ye shall keepe diligently the commandements selfe, aboue all people that are vpon the earth.
of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and 7 The Lord did not set his loue vpon you, nor
his ordinances which he hath commanded thee, chose you, because ye were more in number then
18 And thou shalt doe that which is right and any people: for ye were the fewest of all people:
good in the sight of the Lord: that thou mayest 8 But because the Lord loued you, and because