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7 “When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land to which you go to possess, and shall root out many nations before you—the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you—
2 “and the LORD your God shall give them before you, then you shall strike them. You shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them or have compassion on them.
3 “Nor shall you make marriages with them or give your daughter to his son or take his daughter to your son.
4 ‘For they will cause your son to turn away from Me, and to serve other gods.’ Then the wrath of the LORD will grow hot against you and destroy you suddenly.
5 “But you shall deal with them like this: You shall overthrow their altars and break down their pillars. And you shall cut down their groves and burn their graven images with fire.
6 “For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a precious people to Himself, above all people who are upon the Earth.
7 “The LORD did not set His love upon you or choose you because you were more in number than any people (for you were the fewest of all people)
8 “but because the LORD loved you and because He would keep the oath which He had sworn to your fathers. The LORD has brought you out by a mighty Hand and delivered you out of the house of bondage from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt,
9 “so that you may know that the LORD your God, He is God. He is the faithful God Who keeps Covenant and mercy to those who love Him and keep His Commandments, to a thousand generations.
10 “And He rewards those who hate Him to their face, to bring them to destruction. He will not hesitate to reward him who hates Him, to his face.
11 “Therefore, keep the Commandments and the Ordinances and the Laws which I command you this day, to do them.
12 “For if you hear these Laws, and observe and do them, then the LORD your God shall keep the Covenant with you, and the mercy, which He swore to your fathers.
13 “And He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your corn and your wine, your oil, the increase of your cattle and the flocks of your sheep, in the land which He swore to give to your fathers.
14 “You shall be blessed above all people. There shall be neither male nor female barren among you, nor among your cattle.
15 “Moreover, the LORD will take away all infirmities from you, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt (which you know) upon you. But He will send them upon all who hate you.
16 “You shall, therefore, consume all people which the LORD your God shall give you. Your eye shall not spare them, nor shall you serve their gods. For that shall be your destruction.
17 “If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are more than me. How can I cast them out?’
18 “You shall not fear them. Remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.
19 “The great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs and wonders, and the mighty Hand and outstretched Arm, whereby the LORD your God brought you out. So shall the LORD your God do to all the people whose face you fear.
20 “Moreover, the LORD your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left (and hiding themselves from you) are destroyed.
21 “You shall not fear them. For the LORD your God is among you, a God mighty and revered.
22 “And the LORD your God will root out these nations before you, little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the wild animals increase upon you.
23 “But the LORD your God shall give them before you, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they are brought to nothing.
24 “And He shall deliver their kings into your hand. And you shall destroy their name from under Heaven. There shall be no man able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.
25 “You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, or take it for yourself, lest you are ensnared by it. For it is an abomination before the LORD your God.
26 “Therefore, do not bring such an abomination into your house, lest you be accursed, like it is. Utterly abhor it and count it most abominable. For it is accursed.”
8 “You shall keep all the Commandments which I command you this day, to do them, so that you may live and be multiplied and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers.
2 “And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His Commandments or not.
3 “Therefore, He humbled you and made you hungry and fed you with manna, which you did not know (nor did your fathers know it), so that He might teach you that man lived not by bread only. But by every Word that proceeds out of the Mouth of the LORD does a man live.
4 “Your clothing did not grow old upon you, nor did your foot swell, those forty years.
5 “Know, therefore, in your heart, that as a man nurtures his son, so the LORD your God nurtures you.
6 “Therefore, you shall keep the Commandments of the LORD your God, so that you may walk in His ways, and fear Him.
7 “For the LORD your God brings you into a good land, a land in which are rivers of water and fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and mountains,
8 “a land of wheat and barley and of vineyards and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of oil, olive and honey,
9 “a land in which you shall eat bread without scarcity and in which you shall lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron and out of whose mountains you shall dig brass.
10 “And when you have eaten and filled yourself, you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you.
11 “Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God, not keeping His Commandments and His Laws and His Ordinances which I command you this day.
12 “Lest when you have eaten and filled yourself and have built beautiful houses and dwelt in them
13 “and your beasts and the sheep are increased and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is increased,
14 “then your heart is lifted up and you forget the LORD your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage.
15 “He was your guide in that great and terrible wilderness, in which were serpents and scorpions and drought. There was no water. He brought forth water for you out of the rock of flint.
16 “He fed you in the wilderness with manna (which your fathers did not know) to humble you and to test you, so that He might do you good in the end,
17 “lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the strength of my own hand has prepared me for this abundance.’
18 “But remember the LORD your God. For it is He Who gives you power to get substance to establish His Covenant, which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
19 “And if you forget the LORD your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify to you this day that you shall surely perish.
20 “As the nations which the LORD destroys before you, so you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the Voice of the LORD your God.”
9 “Hear, O Israel. You shall pass over Jordan this day, to go in and to possess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and walled up to Heaven,
2 “a people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, ‘Who can stand before the children of Anak?’
3 “Understand, therefore, that this day, the LORD your God is He Who goes over before you, a consuming fire. He shall destroy them and He shall bring them down before your face. So you shall cast them out and destroy them suddenly, as the LORD has said to you.
4 “After the LORD your God has cast them out before you, do not speak in your heart, saying ‘Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.’ Rather, for the wickedness of these nations, the LORD has cast them out before you.
5 “For it is not because of your righteousness, or for their upright heart, that you inherit their land. But it is because of the wickedness of those nations that the LORD your God casts them out before you, and so that He might perform the Word which the LORD your God swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
6 “Understand, therefore, that the LORD your God does not give you this good land to possess it because of your righteousness. For you are a stiff-necked people.
7 “Remember. Do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to anger in the wilderness. Since the day that you departed out of the land of Egypt, until you came into this place, you have rebelled against the LORD.
8 “Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to anger, so that the LORD was angry with you, to destroy you,
9 “when I had gone up into the mount, to receive the Tablets of stone, the Tablets of the Covenant which the LORD made with you. And I stayed on the mount for forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.
10 “Then the LORD delivered me two Tablets of stone, written with the Finger of God. And on them were all the words which the LORD had said to you on the mount, out of the midst of the fire, on the day of the assembly.
11 “And when the forty days and forty nights had ended, the LORD gave me the two Tablets of stone, the Tablets of the Covenant.
12 “And the LORD said to me, ‘Arise. Get down quickly from here. For your people, which you have brought out of Egypt, are corrupt. They have quickly turned out of the way which I Commanded them. They have made themselves a molten image.’
13 “Furthermore, the LORD spoke to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
14 ‘Leave me alone, so that I may destroy them and put out their name from under Heaven. And I will make from you a mighty Nation, and greater than they are.’
15 “So I returned and came down from the mount. And the mount burnt with fire, and the two Tablets of the Covenant were in my two hands.
16 “Then I looked. And behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God. You had made yourself a molten calf, had turned quickly out of the way which the LORD had Commanded you.
17 “Therefore, I took the two Tablets and cast them out of my two hands and broke them, before your eyes.
18 “And I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as before. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sins which you had committed, doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to wrath.
19 “For I was afraid of the wrath and indignation with which the LORD was moved against you, to destroy you. Yet, the LORD also heard me at that time.
20 “Likewise the LORD was very angry with Aaron, to destroy him. But at that time, I also prayed for Aaron.
21 “And I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt him with fire and stamped him and ground him small, even to very dust. And I cast its dust into the river that descended out of the mount.
22 “Also in Taberah, and in Massah, and in Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked the LORD to anger.
23 “Likewise, when the LORD sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, ‘Go up and possess the land which I have given you’, you rebelled against the Commandment of the LORD your God, and did not believe Him. Nor did you listen to His Voice.
24 “You have been rebellious to the LORD since the day that I knew you.
25 “Then I fell down before the LORD. For forty days and forty nights I fell down, because the LORD had said that He would destroy you.
26 “And I prayed to the LORD, and said, ‘O LORD God, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance, which You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt by a mighty Hand.
27 ‘Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not look to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin,
28 ‘lest the country from where you brought them, say, “Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which He promised them”, or “Because He hated them, He carried them out to kill them in the wilderness”.
29 ‘Yet, they are Your people and Your inheritance, which You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched Arm.’”
19 But when evening came, Jesus went out of the city.
20 And in the morning, as they journeyed together, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
21 Then Peter remembered and said to Him, “Master, behold, the fig tree which You cursed is withered.”
22 And Jesus answered, and said to them, “Have the faith of God.
23 “For truly I say to you, that whoever shall say to this mountain, ‘Be taken away and cast into the sea’, and shall not waver in his heart but shall believe that those things which he says shall happen, whatever he says shall be done to you.
24 “Therefore I say to you, whatever you desire when you pray, believe that you shall have it and it shall be done to you.
25 “But when you shall stand and pray, forgive (if you have anything against anyone) that your Father also, Who is in Heaven, may forgive you your trespasses.
26 “For if you will not forgive, your Father Who is in Heaven will not pardon you your trespasses.”
27 Then they came to Jerusalem again. And as He walked in the Temple, the chief priests came to Him, and the scribes and the elders,
28 and said to Him, “By what authority do You do these things? And who gave You this authority, that You should do these things?”
29 Then Jesus answered, and said to them, “I will also ask you a certain thing. Answer Me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.
30 “The baptism of John, was it from Heaven, or from man? answer Me.”
31 And they thought amongst themselves, saying, “If we shall say, ‘From Heaven’, He will say, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’
32 “But if we say, ‘From man’, we fear the people.” For all men counted John as a Prophet, indeed.
33 Then they answered, and said to Jesus, “We cannot tell.” And Jesus answered, and said to them, “Nor will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”
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