For if the word (A)spoken through angels proved steadfast, and (B)every transgression and disobedience received a just [a]reward,

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  1. Hebrews 2:2 retribution or penalty

53 (A)who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it.

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Purpose of the Law

19 What purpose then does the law serve? (A)It was added because of transgressions, till the (B)Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was (C)appointed through angels by the hand (D)of a mediator.

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28 Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three (A)witnesses.

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35 Therefore do not cast away your confidence, (A)which has great reward.

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26 (A)‘Cursed is the one who does not confirm all the words of this law by observing them.’

“And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’ ”

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26 esteeming (A)the [a]reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures [b]in Egypt; for he looked to the (B)reward.

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  1. Hebrews 11:26 reviling because of
  2. Hebrews 11:26 NU, M of

12 Now (A)the man who acts presumptuously and will not heed the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall put away the evil from Israel.

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Old and New Apostates

But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that (A)the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

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But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

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then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has committed that wicked thing, and (A)shall stone (B)to death that man or woman with stones.

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(A)“If there is found among you, within any of your [a]gates which the Lord your God gives you, a man or a woman who has been wicked in the sight of the Lord your God, (B)in transgressing His covenant,

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  1. Deuteronomy 17:2 towns

Law Concerning Presumptuous Sin

30 (A)‘But the person who does anything [a]presumptuously, whether he is native-born or a stranger, that one [b]brings reproach on the Lord, and he shall be [c]cut off from among his people. 31 Because he has (B)despised the word of the Lord, and has broken His commandment, that person shall be completely cut off; his [d]guilt shall be upon him.’ ”

Penalty for Violating the Sabbath(C)

32 Now while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, (D)they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. 33 And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation. 34 They put him (E)under guard, because it had not been explained what should be done to him.

35 Then the Lord said to Moses, (F)“The man must surely be put to death; all the congregation shall (G)stone him with stones outside the camp.” 36 So, as the Lord commanded Moses, all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones, and he died.

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  1. Numbers 15:30 defiantly, lit. with a high hand
  2. Numbers 15:30 blasphemes
  3. Numbers 15:30 Put to death
  4. Numbers 15:31 iniquity

God’s Supreme Revelation(A)

God, who [a]at various times and (B)in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets,

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  1. Hebrews 1:1 Or in many portions

But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies (A)were scattered in the wilderness.

Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as (B)they also lusted. (C)And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, (D)“The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.” (E)Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as (F)some of them did, and (G)in one day twenty-three thousand fell; nor let us [a]tempt Christ, as (H)some of them also tempted, and (I)were destroyed by serpents; 10 nor complain, as (J)some of them also complained, and (K)were destroyed by (L)the destroyer. 11 Now [b]all these things happened to them as examples, and (M)they were written for our [c]admonition, (N)upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

12 Therefore (O)let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 10:9 test
  2. 1 Corinthians 10:11 NU omits all
  3. 1 Corinthians 10:11 instruction

17 (A)The chariots of God are twenty thousand,
Even thousands of thousands;
The Lord is among them as in Sinai, in the Holy Place.

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Let (A)my [a]teaching drop as the rain,
My speech distill as the dew,
(B)As raindrops on the tender herb,
And as showers on the grass.

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  1. Deuteronomy 32:2 doctrine

Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at (A)Baal Peor; for the Lord your God has destroyed from among you all the men who followed Baal of Peor. But you who held fast to the Lord your God are alive today, every one of you.

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And (A)those who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.

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So (A)the Lord sent (B)fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many of the people of Israel died.

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11 Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; (A)and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank.

12 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because (B)you did not believe Me, to (C)hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”

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49 Now those who died in the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died in the Korah incident.

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31 (A)Now it came to pass, as he finished speaking all these words, that the ground split apart under them, 32 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and (B)all the men with Korah, with all their goods. 33 So they and all those with them went down alive into the pit; the earth closed over them, and they perished from among the assembly. 34 Then all Israel who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up also!

35 And (C)a fire came out from the Lord and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering incense.

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28 Say to them, (A)‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: 29 The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, (B)all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above. 30 (C)Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I [a]swore I would make you dwell in. 31 (D)But your little ones, whom you said would be victims, I will bring in, and they shall [b]know the land which (E)you have despised. 32 But as for you, (F)your[c] carcasses shall fall in this wilderness. 33 And your sons shall (G)be [d]shepherds in the wilderness (H)forty years, and (I)bear the brunt of your infidelity, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness. 34 (J)According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, (K)forty days, for each day you shall bear your [e]guilt one year, namely forty years, (L)and you shall know My [f]rejection. 35 (M)I the Lord have spoken this. I will surely do so to all (N)this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.’ ”

36 Now the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation complain against him by bringing a bad report of the land, 37 those very men who brought the evil report about the land, (O)died by the plague before the Lord.

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  1. Numbers 14:30 solemnly promised
  2. Numbers 14:31 be acquainted with
  3. Numbers 14:32 You shall die.
  4. Numbers 14:33 Vg. wanderers
  5. Numbers 14:34 iniquity
  6. Numbers 14:34 opposition

33 But while the (A)meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was aroused against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague.

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