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Today's Bible Reading :: Deuteronomy 11 - 13 (ESV)

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Deuteronomy 11

Love and Serve the Lord

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:1 - “You shall therefore love the LORD your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:2 - And consider today (since I am not speaking to your children who have not known or seen it), consider the discipline[fn] of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:3 - his signs and his deeds that he did in Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:4 - and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots, how he made the water of the Red Sea flow over them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD has destroyed them to this day,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:5 - and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:6 - and what he did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:7 - For your eyes have seen all the great work of the LORD that he did.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:8 - “You shall therefore keep the whole commandment that I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and take possession of the land that you are going over to possess,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:9 - and that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:10 - For the land that you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated it,[fn] like a garden of vegetables.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:11 - But the land that you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:12 - a land that the LORD your God cares for. The eyes of the LORD your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:13 - “And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:14 - he[fn] will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:15 - And he will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:16 - Take care lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:17 - then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and you will perish quickly off the good land that the LORD is giving you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:18 - “You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:19 - You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:20 - You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:21 - that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:22 - For if you will be careful to do all this commandment that I command you to do, loving the LORD your God, walking in all his ways, and holding fast to him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:23 - then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:24 - Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Your territory shall be from the wilderness to[fn] the Lebanon, and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:25 - No one shall be able to stand against you. The LORD your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread, as he promised you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:26 - “See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:27 - the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:28 - and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:29 - And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:30 - Are they not beyond the Jordan, west of the road, toward the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oak[fn] of Moreh?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:31 - For you are to cross over the Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving you. And when you possess it and live in it,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:32

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:32 - you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the rules that I am setting before you today.
ESV Footnotes
Or instruction
Hebrew watered it with your feet
Samaritan, Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew I; also verse 15
Hebrew and
Septuagint, Syriac; see Genesis 12:6. Hebrew oaks, or terebinths

Deuteronomy 12

The Lord’s Chosen Place of Worship

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:1 - “These are the statutes and rules that you shall be careful to do in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:2 - You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:3 - You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and destroy their name out of that place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:4 - You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:5 - But you shall seek the place that the LORD your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation[fn] there. There you shall go,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:6 - and there you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you present, your vow offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:7 - And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:8 - “You shall not do according to all that we are doing here today, everyone doing whatever is right in his own eyes,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:9 - for you have not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:10 - But when you go over the Jordan and live in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies around, so that you live in safety,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:11 - then to the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make his name dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you present, and all your finest vow offerings that you vow to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:12 - And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male servants and your female servants, and the Levite that is within your towns, since he has no portion or inheritance with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:13 - Take care that you do not offer your burnt offerings at any place that you see,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:14 - but at the place that the LORD will choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I am commanding you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:15 - “However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the deer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:16 - Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:17 - You may not eat within your towns the tithe of your grain or of your wine or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, or any of your vow offerings that you vow, or your freewill offerings or the contribution that you present,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:18 - but you shall eat them before the LORD your God in the place that the LORD your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your towns. And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you undertake.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:19 - Take care that you do not neglect the Levite as long as you live in your land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:20 - “When the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised you, and you say, ‘I will eat meat,’ because you crave meat, you may eat meat whenever you desire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:21 - If the place that the LORD your God will choose to put his name there is too far from you, then you may kill any of your herd or your flock, which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat within your towns whenever you desire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:22 - Just as the gazelle or the deer is eaten, so you may eat of it. The unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:23 - Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:24 - You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:25 - You shall not eat it, that all may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:26 - But the holy things that are due from you, and your vow offerings, you shall take, and you shall go to the place that the LORD will choose,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:27 - and offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God. The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, but the flesh you may eat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:28 - Be careful to obey all these words that I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.

Warning Against Idolatry

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:29 - “When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:30 - take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods?—that I also may do the same.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:31 - You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the LORD hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:32

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:32 - [fn] “Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it.
ESV Footnotes
Or name as its habitation
Ch 13:1 in Hebrew

Deuteronomy 13

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:1 - “If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:2 - and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:3 - you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:4 - You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:5 - But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil[fn] from your midst.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:6 - “If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace[fn] or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which neither you nor your fathers have known,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:7 - some of the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:8 - you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:9 - But you shall kill him. Your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:10 - You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:11 - And all Israel shall hear and fear and never again do any such wickedness as this among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:12 - “If you hear in one of your cities, which the LORD your God is giving you to dwell there,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:13 - that certain worthless fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:14 - then you shall inquire and make search and ask diligently. And behold, if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:15 - you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, devoting it to destruction,[fn] all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:16 - You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square and burn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. It shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:17 - None of the devoted things shall stick to your hand, that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy and have compassion on you and multiply you, as he swore to your fathers,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:18 - if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, keeping all his commandments that I am commanding you today, and doing what is right in the sight of the LORD your God.
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ESV Footnotes
Or evil person
Hebrew the wife of your bosom
That is, setting apart (devoting) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)
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