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and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?
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He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing.
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Observe therefore all the commands I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and take over the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,
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So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving 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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Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and he will shut up the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the Lord is giving you.
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If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow—to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him and to hold fast to him—
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the blessing if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today;
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You are about to cross the Jordan to enter and take possession of the land the Lord your God is giving you. When you have taken it over and are living there,
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since you have not yet reached the resting place and the inheritance the Lord your God is giving you.
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But you will cross the Jordan and settle in the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and he will give you rest from all your enemies around you so that you will live in safety.
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Be careful to obey all these regulations I am giving you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God.
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If you hear it said about one of the towns the Lord your God is giving you to live in
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because you obey the Lord your God by keeping all his commands that I am giving you today and doing what is right in his eyes.
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However, there need be no poor people among you, for in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess as your inheritance, he will richly bless you,
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if only you fully obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow all these commands I am giving you today.
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If anyone is poor among your fellow Israelites in any of the towns of the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward them.
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Then celebrate the Festival of Weeks to the Lord your God by giving a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings the Lord your God has given you.
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Judges
Appoint judges and officials for each of your tribes in every town the Lord your God is giving you, and they shall judge the people fairly.
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Follow justice and justice alone, so that you may live and possess the land the Lord your God is giving you.
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The King
When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”
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Occult Practices
When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.
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Cities of Refuge
When the Lord your God has destroyed the nations whose land he is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their towns and houses,
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then set aside for yourselves three cities in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
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Determine the distances involved and divide into three parts the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that a person who kills someone may flee for refuge to one of these cities.
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Do this so that innocent blood will not be shed in your land, which the Lord your God is giving you as your inheritance, and so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.
