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for the widowe. 22 And remember that thou the Lord thy God. 17 Remember what Amalek did
wast a seruant in the land of Egypt: therefore I vnto thee by the way, when ye were come out of
command thee to doe this thing. Egypt: 18 How he met thee by ye way, and smote
ye hindmost of you, all that were feeble behind
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1 When there shall be strife betweene men, and feared not God. 19 Therefore, when the Lord thy
they shall come vnto iudgement, and sentence God hath giuen thee rest from all thine enemies
shall be giuen vpon them, and the righteous shall round about in the land, which the Lord thy God
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be iustified, and the wicked condemned, Then giueth thee for an inheritance to possesse it, then
if so be the wicked be worthy to bee beaten, the thou shalt put out the remembrance of Amalek
iudge shall cause him to lie downe, and to be from vnder heauen: forget not.
beaten before his face, according to his trespasse,
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cause him to haue and not past, lest if he should 1 Also when thou shalt come into the lande
exceede and beate him aboue that with many which the Lord thy God giueth thee for inheri-
stripes, thy brother should appeare despised in tance, and shalt possesse it, and dwell therein,
thy sight. 4 Thou shalt not mousell the oxe 2 Then shalt thou take of the first of all the fruite
that treadeth out the corne. 5 If brethren dwell of the earth, and bring it out of the lande that
together, and one of them dye and haue no sonne, the Lord thy God giueth thee, and put it in a
the wife of the dead shall not marry without: that basket, and goe vnto the place, which the Lord
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is, vnto a stranger, but his kinseman shall goe thyGodshallchosetoplacehisNamethere. And
in vnto her, and take her to wife, and doe the thou shalt come vnto the Priest, that shall be in
kinsemans office to her. 6 And the first borne those dayes, and say vnto him, I acknowledge
which she beareth, shall succeede in the name of this day vnto the Lord thy God, that I am come
his brother which is dead, that his name be not vnto the countrey which the Lord sware vnto
put out of Israel. 7 And if the man will not take our fathers for to giue vs. 4 Then the Priest
his kinsewoman, then let his kinsewoman goe vp shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it
to the gate vnto the Elders, and say, My kinsman downe before the altar of the Lord thy God. And
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refuseth to rayse vp vnto his brother a name in thou shalt answere and say before the Lord thy
Israel: hee will not doe the office of a kinsman God, A Syrian was my father, who being ready
vnto me. 8 Then the Elders of his citie shall call to perish for hunger, went downe into Egypt,
him, and commune with him: if he stand and say, and soiourned there with a small company, and
I wil not take her, 9 Then shall his kinswoman
come vnto him in the presence of the Elders, and grew there vnto a nation great, mightie and full
loose his shooe from his foote, and spit in his face, of people. 6 And the Egyptians vexed vs, and
and answere, and say, So shall it be done vnto troubled vs, and laded vs with cruell bondage.
that man, that will not buylde vp his brothers 7 But when we cried vnto the Lord God of our
house. 10 And his name shall be called in Israel, fathers, the Lord heard our voyce, and looked on
The house of him whose shooe is put off. 11 When our aduersitie, and on our labour, and on our
oppression.
And the Lord brought vs out of
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men striue together, one with another, if the wife Egypt in a mightie hande, and a stretched out
of the one come neere, for to ridde her husband
out of the handes of him that smiteth him, and arme, with great terriblenesse, both in signes
putfoorthherhand, andtakehimbyhispriuities, and wonders. 9 And he hath brought vs into
12 Then thou shalt cut off her hande: thine eye this place, and hath giuen vs this land, euen a
shall not spare her. 13 Thou shalt not haue in thy lande that floweth with milke and hony. 10 And
bagge two maner of weightes, a great and a small, now, lo, I haue brought ye first fruites of the
14 Neither shalt thou haue in thine house diuers land which thou, O Lord, hast giuen me, and
measures, a great and a small: 15 But thou shalt thou shalt set it before the Lord thy God, and
haue a right and iust weight: a perfite and a iust worship before the Lord thy God: 11 And thou
measure shalt thou haue, that thy dayes may be shalt reioyce in all the good things which the
lengthened in the land, which the Lord thy God Lord thy God hath giuen vnto thee and to thine
giueth thee. 16 For all that doe such things, and houshold, thou and the Leuite, and the stranger
all that doe vnrighteously, are abomination vnto that is among you. 12 When thou hast made an