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5.   "If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the widow of the dead man shall not be married to a stranger outside the family ; her husband’s brother shall go in to her, take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. 6.   "And it shall be that the firstborn son which she bears will succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel. 7.   "But if the man does not want to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to raise up a name to his brother in Israel; he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother.’ 8.   "Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him. But if he stands firm and says, ‘I do not want to take her,’ 9.   "then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, spit in his face, and answer and say, ‘So shall it be done to the man who will not build up his brother’s house.’ 10.   "And his name shall be called in Israel, ‘The house of him who had his sandal removed.’ 11.   "If two men fight together, and the wife of one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one attacking him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the genitals, 12.   "then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not pity her . 13.   "You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light. 14.   "You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. 15.   "You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God is giving you. 16.   "For all who do such things, all who behave unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God. 17.   "Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt, 18.   "how he met you on the way and attacked your rear ranks, all the stragglers at your rear, when you were tired and weary; and he did not fear God. 19.   "Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest from your enemies all around, in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, that you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. You shall not forget.

1.   "And it shall be, when you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you possess it and dwell in it, 2.   "that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground, which you shall bring from your land that the LORD your God is giving you, and put it in a basket and go to the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide. 3.   "And you shall go to the one who is priest in those days, and say to him, ‘I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come to the country which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.’ 4.   "Then the priest shall take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God. 5.   "And you shall answer and say before the LORD your God: ‘My father was a Syrian, about to perish, and he went down to Egypt and dwelt there, few in number; and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous. 6.   ‘But the Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and laid hard bondage on us. 7.   ‘Then we cried out to the LORD God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and looked on our affliction and our labor and our oppression. 8.   ‘So the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm, with great terror and with signs and wonders. 9.   ‘He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, "a land flowing with milk and honey"; 10.   ‘and now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land which you, O LORD, have given me.’ Then you shall set it before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God. 11.   "So you shall rejoice in every good thing which the LORD your God has given to you and your house, you and the Levite and the stranger who is among you. 12.   "When you have finished laying aside all the tithe of your increase in the third year––the year of tithing––and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your gates and be filled, 13.   "then you shall say before the LORD your God: ‘I have removed the holy tithe from my house, and also have given them to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me; I have not transgressed Your commandments, nor have I forgotten them . 14.   ‘I have not eaten any of it when in mourning, nor have I removed any of it for an unclean use , nor given any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that You have commanded me. 15.   ‘Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land which You have given us, just as You swore to our fathers, "a land flowing with milk and honey."’ 16.   "This day the LORD your God commands you to observe these statutes and judgments; therefore you shall be careful to observe them with all your heart and with all your soul. 17.   "Today you have proclaimed the LORD to be your God, and that you will walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and that you will obey His voice. 18.   "Also today the LORD has proclaimed you to be His special people, just as He promised you, that you should keep all His commandments, 19.   "and that He will set you high above all nations which He has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be a holy people to the LORD your God, just as He has spoken."

1.   Now it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but could not prevail against it. 2.   And it was told to the house of David, saying, "Syria’s forces are deployed in Ephraim." So his heart and the heart of his people were moved as the trees of the woods are moved with the wind. 3.   Then the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and Shear–Jashub your son, at the end of the aqueduct from the upper pool, on the highway to the Fuller’s Field, 4.   "and say to him: ‘Take heed, and be quiet; do not fear or be fainthearted for these two stubs of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and the son of Remaliah. 5.   ‘Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have plotted evil against you, saying, 6.   "Let us go up against Judah and trouble it, and let us make a gap in its wall for ourselves, and set a king over them, the son of Tabel" –– 7.   ‘thus says the Lord GOD: "It shall not stand, Nor shall it come to pass. 8.   For the head of Syria is Damascus, And the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty–five years Ephraim will be broken, So that it will not be a people. 9.   The head of Ephraim is Samaria, And the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, Surely you shall not be established."’" 10.   Moreover the LORD spoke again to Ahaz, saying, 11.   "Ask a sign for yourself from the LORD your God; ask it either in the depth or in the height above." 12.   But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, nor will I test the LORD!" 13.   Then he said, "Hear now, O house of David! Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also? 14.   "Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel. 15.   "Curds and honey He shall eat, that He may know to refuse the evil and choose the good. 16.   "For before the Child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that you dread will be forsaken by both her kings. 17.   "The LORD will bring the king of Assyria upon you and your people and your father’s house––days that have not come since the day that Ephraim departed from Judah." 18.   And it shall come to pass in that day That the LORD will whistle for the fly That is in the farthest part of the rivers of Egypt, And for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19.   They will come, and all of them will rest In the desolate valleys and in the clefts of the rocks, And on all thorns and in all pastures. 20.   In the same day the Lord will shave with a hired razor, With those from beyond the River, with the king of Assyria, The head and the hair of the legs, And will also remove the beard. 21.   It shall be in that day That a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep; 22.   So it shall be, from the abundance of milk they give, That he will eat curds; For curds and honey everyone will eat who is left in the land. 23.   It shall happen in that day, That wherever there could be a thousand vines Worth a thousand shekels of silver, It will be for briers and thorns. 24.   With arrows and bows men will come there, Because all the land will become briers and thorns. 25.   And to any hill which could be dug with the hoe, You will not go there for fear of briers and thorns; But it will become a range for oxen And a place for sheep to roam.

22.   Then He came to Bethsaida; and they brought a blind man to Him, and begged Him to touch him. 23.   So He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the town. And when He had spit on his eyes and put His hands on him, He asked him if he saw anything. 24.   And he looked up and said, "I see men like trees, walking." 25.   Then He put His hands on his eyes again and made him look up. And he was restored and saw everyone clearly. 26.   Then He sent him away to his house, saying, "Neither go into the town, nor tell anyone in the town." 27.   Now Jesus and His disciples went out to the towns of Caesarea Philippi; and on the road He asked His disciples, saying to them, "Who do men say that I am?" 28.   So they answered, "John the Baptist; but some say , Elijah; and others, one of the prophets." 29.   He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered and said to Him, "You are the Christ." 30.   Then He strictly warned them that they should tell no one about Him. 31.   And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32.   He spoke this word openly. And Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him. 33.   But when He had turned around and looked at His disciples, He rebuked Peter, saying, "Get behind Me, Satan! For you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men." 34.   When He had called the people to Himself , with His disciples also, He said to them, "Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. 35.   "For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it. 36.   "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? 37.   "Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? 38.   "For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels."