Daniel 9:11
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Jeremiah 8:5-10
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5 Why then has this people (A)turned away
in perpetual (B)backsliding?
(C)They hold fast to deceit;
they refuse to return.
6 (D)I have paid attention and listened,
but they have not spoken rightly;
no man relents of his evil,
saying, ‘What have I done?’
Everyone turns to his own course,
(E)like a horse plunging headlong into battle.
7 Even the stork in the heavens
knows her times,
and (F)the turtledove, (G)swallow, and crane[a]
keep the time of their coming,
(H)but my people know not
the rules[b] of the Lord.
8 (I)“How can you say, ‘We are wise,
and the law of the Lord is with us’?
But behold, the lying pen of the scribes
has made it into a lie.
9 (J)The wise men shall be put to shame;
they shall be dismayed (K)and taken;
behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord,
so what wisdom is in them?
10 (L)Therefore I will give their wives to others
and their fields to conquerors,
because from the least to the greatest
everyone (M)is greedy for unjust gain;
from prophet to priest,
everyone deals falsely.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 8:7 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
- Jeremiah 8:7 Or just decrees
Isaiah 1:4-6
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4 Ah, sinful nation,
a people laden with iniquity,
(A)offspring of evildoers,
children who deal corruptly!
They have forsaken the Lord,
they have (B)despised (C)the Holy One of Israel,
they are utterly (D)estranged.
5 Why will you still be (E)struck down?
Why will you (F)continue to rebel?
The whole head is sick,
and the whole heart faint.
6 (G)From the sole of the foot even to the head,
there is no soundness in it,
but bruises and sores
and raw wounds;
they are (H)not pressed out or bound up
or softened with oil.
Deuteronomy 28:15-68
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Curses for Disobedience
15 “But (A)if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and (B)overtake you. 16 Cursed shall you be (C)in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. 19 Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.
20 “The Lord (D)will send on you curses, confusion, and (E)frustration in all that you undertake to do, (F)until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me. 21 The Lord will make (G)the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 22 (H)The Lord will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought[a] and with (I)blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish. 23 And (J)the heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron. 24 The Lord will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
25 (K)“The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you (L)shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 And (M)your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and (N)there shall be no one to frighten them away. 27 The Lord will strike you (O)with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and (P)scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed. 28 The Lord will strike you with (Q)madness and blindness and confusion of mind, 29 and you shall (R)grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways.[b] And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you. 30 (S)You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. (T)You shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. (U)You shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit. 31 Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat any of it. Your donkey shall be seized before your face, but shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies, but there shall be no one to help you. 32 (V)Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, (W)but you shall be helpless. 33 A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually, 34 so that you are driven mad (X)by the sights that your eyes see. 35 The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs (Y)with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
36 “The Lord will (Z)bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you (AA)nor your fathers have known. And (AB)there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone. 37 And you shall become (AC)a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away. 38 (AD)You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for (AE)the locust shall consume it. 39 (AF)You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them. 40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you (AG)shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off. 41 You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for (AH)they shall go into captivity. 42 (AI)The cricket[c] shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground. 43 (AJ)The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44 (AK)He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. (AL)He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
45 (AM)“All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you. 46 They shall be (AN)a sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever. 47 (AO)Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, 48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he (AP)will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you. 49 (AQ)The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, (AR)swooping down like the eagle, a nation (AS)whose language you do not understand, 50 a hard-faced nation (AT)who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young. 51 It shall (AU)eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
52 “They shall (AV)besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the Lord your God has given you. 53 And (AW)you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, (AX)in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. 54 The man who is the most tender and refined among you will (AY)begrudge food to his brother, to (AZ)the wife he embraces,[d] and to the last of the children whom he has left, 55 so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, (BA)in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns. 56 (BB)The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces,[e] to her son and to her daughter, 57 her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, (BC)in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.
58 “If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, (BD)the Lord your God, 59 then the Lord will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting. 60 And he will bring upon you again all (BE)the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. 61 Every sickness also and every affliction that is not recorded in the book of this law, the Lord will bring upon you, until you are destroyed. 62 Whereas (BF)you were as numerous (BG)as the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God. 63 And as the Lord (BH)took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the Lord will (BI)take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you. And you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
64 “And the Lord (BJ)will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and (BK)there you shall serve other gods (BL)of wood and stone, (BM)which neither you nor your fathers have known. 65 And (BN)among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but (BO)the Lord will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and (BP)a languishing soul. 66 Your life shall hang in doubt before you. Night and day you shall be in dread and have no assurance of your life. 67 (BQ)In the morning you shall say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and at evening you shall say, ‘If only it were morning!’ because of the dread that your heart shall feel, and (BR)the sights that your eyes shall see. 68 And the Lord (BS)will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that (BT)you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”
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- Deuteronomy 28:22 Or sword
- Deuteronomy 28:29 Or shall not succeed in finding your ways
- Deuteronomy 28:42 Identity uncertain
- Deuteronomy 28:54 Hebrew the wife of his bosom
- Deuteronomy 28:56 Hebrew the husband of her bosom
Deuteronomy 27:15-26
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15 (A)“‘Cursed be the man who makes a carved or cast metal image, an abomination to the Lord, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ (B)And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’
16 (C)“‘Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
17 (D)“‘Cursed be anyone who moves his neighbor's landmark.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
18 (E)“‘Cursed be anyone who misleads a blind man on the road.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
19 (F)“‘Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
20 (G)“‘Cursed be anyone who lies with his father's wife, because he has (H)uncovered his father's nakedness.’[a] And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
21 (I)“‘Cursed be anyone who lies with any kind of animal.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
22 (J)“‘Cursed be anyone who lies with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
23 (K)“‘Cursed be anyone who lies with his mother-in-law.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
24 (L)“‘Cursed be anyone who strikes down his neighbor in secret.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
25 (M)“‘Cursed be anyone who takes a bribe to shed innocent blood.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
26 (N)“‘Cursed be anyone who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
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- Deuteronomy 27:20 Hebrew uncovered his father's skirt
Ezekiel 22:26-31
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26 (A)Her priests (B)have done violence to my law and (C)have profaned my holy things. (D)They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and (E)they have disregarded my Sabbaths, (F)so that I am profaned among them. 27 (G)Her princes in her midst are like wolves (H)tearing the prey, (I)shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain. 28 And (J)her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, (K)seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord has not spoken. 29 The people of the land (L)have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and (M)have extorted from the sojourner without justice. 30 (N)And I sought for a man among them (O)who should build up the wall (P)and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none. 31 Therefore (Q)I have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have returned (R)their way upon their heads, declares the Lord God.”
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Jeremiah 9:26
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26 (A)Egypt, Judah, Edom, the sons of Ammon, Moab, and (B)all who dwell in the desert who cut the corners of their hair, for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are (C)uncircumcised in heart.”
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2 Kings 17:18-23
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18 Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but (A)the tribe of Judah only.
19 (B)Judah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced. 20 And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them (C)and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
21 (D)When he had torn Israel from the house of David, (E)they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. And Jeroboam drove Israel from following the Lord (F)and made them commit great sin. 22 The people of Israel walked in all the sins that Jeroboam did. They did not depart from them, 23 until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, (G)as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. (H)So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.
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Deuteronomy 32:19-42
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19 (A)“The Lord saw it and spurned them,
because of the provocation of (B)his sons and his daughters.
20 And he said, (C)‘I will hide my face from them;
I will see what their end will be,
for they are a perverse generation,
children in whom is no faithfulness.
21 (D)They have made me jealous with what is no god;
they have provoked me to anger (E)with their idols.
So (F)I will make them jealous with those who are no people;
I will provoke them to anger with (G)a foolish nation.
22 For (H)a fire is kindled by my anger,
and it burns to (I)the depths of Sheol,
devours the earth and its increase,
and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23 “‘And I will heap disasters upon them;
(J)I will spend my arrows on them;
24 they shall be wasted with hunger,
and devoured by plague
and poisonous pestilence;
I will send (K)the teeth of beasts against them,
with the venom of (L)things that crawl in the dust.
25 (M)Outdoors the sword shall bereave,
and indoors terror,
for young man and woman alike,
the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
26 (N)I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces;
(O)I will wipe them from human memory,”
27 had I not feared provocation by the enemy,
lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
lest they should say, (P)“Our hand is triumphant,
it was not the Lord who did all this.”’
28 “For they are a nation void of counsel,
and there is (Q)no understanding in them.
29 (R)If they were wise, they would understand this;
they would (S)discern their latter end!
30 How could (T)one have chased a thousand,
and two have put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock (U)had sold them,
and the Lord had given them up?
31 For (V)their rock is not as our Rock;
(W)our enemies are by themselves.
32 For their vine (X)comes from the vine of Sodom
and from the fields of Gomorrah;
their grapes are grapes of (Y)poison;
their clusters are bitter;
33 their wine is the poison of (Z)serpents
and the cruel venom of asps.
34 “‘Is not this laid up in store with me,
(AA)sealed up in my treasuries?
35 (AB)Vengeance is mine, and recompense,[a]
(AC)for the time when their foot shall slip;
for (AD)the day of their calamity is at hand,
and their doom comes swiftly.’
36 For (AE)the Lord will vindicate[b] his people
(AF)and have compassion on his servants,
when he sees that their power is gone
and there is none remaining, (AG)bond or free.
37 Then he will say, (AH)‘Where are their gods,
(AI)the rock in which they took refuge,
38 who ate the fat of their sacrifices
and drank the wine of their drink offering?
Let them rise up and help you;
let them be your protection!
39 “‘See now that (AJ)I, even I, am he,
and there is no god beside me;
(AK)I kill and I make alive;
(AL)I wound and I heal;
and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
40 For (AM)I lift up my hand to heaven
and swear, As I live forever,
41 if I (AN)sharpen my flashing sword[c]
and my hand takes hold on judgment,
I will take vengeance on my adversaries
and will repay those who hate me.
42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
and (AO)my sword shall devour flesh—
with the blood of the slain and the captives,
from the (AP)long-haired heads of the enemy.’
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 32:35 Septuagint and I will repay
- Deuteronomy 32:36 Septuagint judge
- Deuteronomy 32:41 Hebrew the lightning of my sword
Deuteronomy 31:17-18
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17 Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and (A)I will forsake them and (B)hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, (C)‘Have not these evils come upon us because (D)our God is not among us?’ 18 And I will surely hide my face in that day because of all the evil that they have done, because (E)they have turned to other gods.
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Deuteronomy 30:17-19
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17 But if (A)your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, 18 (B)I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, (C)blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,
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Deuteronomy 29:20-29
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20 The Lord will not be willing to forgive him, but rather (A)the anger of the Lord and (B)his jealousy will smoke against that man, and the curses written in this book will settle upon him, and the Lord (C)will blot out his name from under heaven. 21 And the Lord will single him out from all the tribes of Israel for calamity, in accordance with all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law. 22 And the next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, (D)will say, when they see the afflictions of that land and the sicknesses with which the Lord has made it sick— 23 the whole land burned out with brimstone and (E)salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, (F)an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, (G)Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath— 24 all the nations (H)will say, (I)‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?’ 25 Then people will say, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, 26 and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them. 27 Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, (J)bringing upon it all the curses written in this book, 28 and the Lord (K)uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and (L)cast them into another land, as they are this day.’
29 “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
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Leviticus 26:14-46
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Punishment for Disobedience
14 (A)“But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments, 15 if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but (B)break my covenant, 16 then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with (C)wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And (D)you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 I will (E)set my face against you, and (F)you shall be struck down before your enemies. (G)Those who hate you shall rule over you, and (H)you shall flee when none pursues you. 18 And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again (I)sevenfold for your sins, 19 and I will break (J)the pride of your power, and I (K)will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. 20 And (L)your strength shall be spent in vain, for (M)your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
21 (N)“Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins. 22 And (O)I will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that (P)your roads shall be deserted.
23 “And (Q)if by this discipline you are not turned to me (R)but walk contrary to me, 24 (S)then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins. 25 And (T)I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, (U)I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26 (V)When I break your supply[a] of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and (W)you shall eat and not be satisfied.
27 “But (X)if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me, 28 then I will walk contrary to you (Y)in fury, and I myself will discipline you (Z)sevenfold for your sins. 29 (AA)You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters. 30 And (AB)I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and (AC)cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you. 31 And I will (AD)lay your cities waste and will (AE)make your sanctuaries desolate, and (AF)I will not smell your pleasing aromas. 32 And (AG)I myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be (AH)appalled at it. 33 And (AI)I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
34 (AJ)“Then the land shall enjoy[b] its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies' land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths. 35 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, the rest that it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling in it. 36 And as for those of you who are left, (AK)I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The (AL)sound of a (AM)driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues. 37 They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And (AN)you shall have no power to stand before your enemies. 38 And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 39 And those of you who are left shall (AO)rot away in your enemies' lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.
40 “But if (AP)they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they (AQ)committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me, 41 so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their (AR)uncircumcised heart is (AS)humbled and they make amends for their iniquity, 42 then I will (AT)remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will (AU)remember the land. 43 But (AV)the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes. 44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, (AW)I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and (AX)break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God. 45 But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, (AY)whom I brought out of the land of Egypt (AZ)in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.”
46 (BA)These are the statutes and rules and laws that the Lord made between himself and the people of Israel through Moses (BB)on Mount Sinai.
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- Leviticus 26:26 Hebrew staff
- Leviticus 26:34 Or pay for; twice in this verse; also verse 43
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