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Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.

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He said to them, "I am one hundred twenty years old today. I can no more go out and come in. the LORD has said to me, 'You shall not go over this Jordan.'

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The LORD your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua will go over before you, as the LORD has spoken.

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The LORD will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed.

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The LORD will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.

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Be strong and courageous. Don't be afraid or scared of them; for the LORD your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you."

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Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it.

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The LORD himself is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don't be afraid. Don't be discouraged."

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Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of The LORD's covenant, and to all the elders of Israel.

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Moses commanded them, saying, "At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tents,

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when all Israel has come to appear before the LORD your God in the place which he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

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Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and the foreigners who are within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law;

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and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it."

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The LORD said to Moses, "Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him."Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.

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The LORD appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood over the Tent's door.

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The LORD said to Moses, "Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

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Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, 'Haven't these evils come on us because our God is not among us?'

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I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they have done, in that they have turned to other gods.

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"Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.

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For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.

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It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing today, before I have brought them into the land which I swore."

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So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.

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He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun, and said, "Be strong and courageous; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them. I will be with you."

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When Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,

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Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of The LORD's covenant, saying,

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"Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of The LORD's covenant your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.

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For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious against The LORD. How much more after my death?

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Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

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For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in The LORD's sight, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands."

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Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished.

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Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak.Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

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My doctrine will drop as the rain.My speech will condense as the dew,as the misty rain on the tender grass,as the showers on the herb.

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For I will proclaim The LORD's name.Ascribe greatness to our God!

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The Rock, his work is perfect,for all his ways are just.A God of faithfulness who does no wrong,just and right is he.

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They have dealt corruptly with him.They are not his children, because of their defect.They are a perverse and crooked generation.

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Is this the way you repay The LORD,foolish and unwise people?Isn't he your father who has bought you?He has made you and established you.

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Remember the days of old.Consider the years of many generations.Ask your father, and he will show you;your elders, and they will tell you.

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When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,when he separated the children of men,he set the bounds of the peoplesaccording to the number of the children of Israel.

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For The LORD's portion is his people.Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

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He found him in a desert land,in the waste howling wilderness.He surrounded him.He cared for him.He kept him as the apple of his eye.

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As an eagle that stirs up her nest,that flutters over her young,he spread abroad his wings,he took them,he bore them on his feathers.

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The LORD alone led him.There was no foreign god with him.

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He made him ride on the high places of the earth.He ate the increase of the field.He caused him to suck honey out of the rock,oil out of the flinty rock;

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butter from the herd, and milk from the flock,with fat of lambs,rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,with the finest of the wheat.From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.

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But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked.You have grown fat.You have grown thick.You have become sleek.Then he abandoned God who made him,and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

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They moved him to jealousy with strange gods.They provoked him to anger with abominations.

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They sacrificed to demons, not God,to gods that they didn't know,to new gods that came up recently,which your fathers didn't dread.

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Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful,and have forgotten God who gave you birth.

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The LORD saw and abhorred,because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

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He said, "I will hide my face from them.I will see what their end will be;for they are a very perverse generation,children in whom is no faithfulness.

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They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God.They have provoked me to anger with their vanities.I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people.I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

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For a fire is kindled in my anger,that burns to the lowest Sheol,devours the earth with its increase,and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

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"I will heap evils on them.I will spend my arrows on them.

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They shall be wasted with hunger,and devoured with burning heatand bitter destruction.I will send the teeth of animals on them,with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.

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Outside the sword will bereave,and in the rooms, terror;on both young man and virgin,the nursing infant with the gray-haired man.

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I said that I would scatter them afar.I would make their memory to cease from among men;

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were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy,lest their adversaries should judge wrongly,lest they should say, 'Our hand is exalted,The LORD has not done all this.'"

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For they are a nation void of counsel.There is no understanding in them.

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Oh that they were wise, that they understood this,that they would consider their latter end!

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How could one chase a thousand,and two put ten thousand to flight,unless their Rock had sold them,and the LORD had delivered them up?

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For their rock is not as our Rock,even our enemies themselves concede.

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For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,of the fields of Gomorrah.Their grapes are poison grapes.Their clusters are bitter.

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Their wine is the poison of serpents,the cruel venom of asps.

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"Isn't this laid up in store with me,sealed up among my treasures?

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Vengeance is mine, and recompense,at the time when their foot slides;for the day of their calamity is at hand.Their doom rushes at them."

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For the LORD will judge his people,and have compassion on his servants,when he sees that their power is gone;that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.

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He will say, "Where are their gods,the rock in which they took refuge;

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which 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.

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"See now that I myself am he.There is no god with me.I kill and I make alive.I wound and I heal.There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

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For I lift up my hand to heaven and declare,as I live forever,

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if I sharpen my glittering sword,my hand grasps it in judgment;I will take vengeance on my adversaries,and will repay those who hate me.

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I will make my arrows drunk with blood.My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives,from the head of the leaders of the enemy."

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Rejoice, you nations, with his people,for he will avenge the blood of his servants.He will take vengeance on his adversaries,and will make atonement for his land and for his people.

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Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.

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Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel.

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He said to them, "Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

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For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it."

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The LORD spoke to Moses that same day, saying,

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"Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is across from Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession.

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Die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people;

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because you trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn't uphold my holiness among the children of Israel.

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For you shall see the land from a distance; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel."

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This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

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He said,"The LORD came from Sinai,and rose from Seir to them.He shone from Mount Paran.He came from the ten thousands of holy ones.At his right hand was a fiery law for them.

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Yes, he loves the people.All his saints are in your hand.They sat down at your feet.Each receives your words.

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Moses commanded us a law,an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.

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He was king in Jeshurun,when the heads of the people were gathered,all the tribes of Israel together.

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"Let Reuben live, and not die;Nor let his men be few."

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This is for Judah. He said,"Hear, The LORD, the voice of Judah.Bring him in to his people.With his hands he contended for himself.You shall be a help against his adversaries."

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About Levi he said,"Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one,whom you proved at Massah,with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah.

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He said of his father, and of his mother, 'I have not seen him.'He didn't acknowledge his brothers,nor did he know his own children;for they have observed your word,and keep your covenant.

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They shall teach Jacob your ordinances,and Israel your law.They shall put incense before you,and whole burnt offering on your altar.

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The LORD, bless his skills.Accept the work of his hands.Strike through the hips of those who rise up against him,of those who hate him, that they not rise again."

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About Benjamin he said,"The beloved of the LORD will dwell in safety by him.He covers him all day long.He dwells between his shoulders."

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About Joseph he said,"His land is blessed by The LORD,for the precious things of the heavens, for the dew,for the deep that couches beneath,

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for the precious things of the fruits of the sun,for the precious things that the moon can yield,

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for the best things of the ancient mountains,for the precious things of the everlasting hills,

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for the precious things of the earth and its fullness,the good will of him who lived in the bush.Exodus 3:3-4.Let this come on the head of Joseph,on the crown of the head of him who was separated from his brothers.

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The firstborn of his herd, majesty is his.His horns are the horns of the wild ox.With them he will push all the peoples, to the ends of the earth.They are the ten thousands of Ephraim.They are the thousands of Manasseh."

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About Zebulun he said,"Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out;and Issachar, in your tents.

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They will call the peoples to the mountain.There they will offer sacrifices of righteousness,for they will draw out the abundance of the seas,the hidden treasures of the sand."

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About Gad he said,"He who enlarges Gad is blessed.He dwells as a lioness,and tears the arm, yes, the crown of the head.

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He provided the first part for himself,for the lawgiver's portion reserved was reserved for him.He came with the heads of the people.He executed the righteousness of The LORD,His ordinances with Israel."

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About Dan he said,"Dan is a lion's cubthat leaps out of Bashan."

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About Naphtali he said,"Naphtali, satisfied with favor,full of The LORD's blessing,Possess the west and the south."

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About Asher he said,"Asher is blessed with children.Let him be acceptable to his brothers.Let him dip his foot in oil.

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Your bars will be iron and brass.As your days, so your strength will be.

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"There is no one like God, Jeshurun,who rides on the heavens for your help,in his excellency on the skies.

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The eternal God is your dwelling place.Underneath are the everlasting arms.He thrust out the enemy from before you,and said, 'Destroy!'

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Israel dwells in safety;the fountain of Jacob alone,In a land of grain and new wine.Yes, his heavens drop down dew.

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You are happy, Israel!Who is like you, a people saved by The LORD,the shield of your help,the sword of your excellency?Your enemies will submit themselves to you.You will tread on their high places."

1 

Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. the LORD showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan,

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and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the western sea,

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and the south, and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, to Zoar.

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The LORD said to him, "This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your offspring.' I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there."

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So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to The LORD's word.

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He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor, but no man knows where his tomb is to this day.

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Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone.

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The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.

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Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands on him. The children of Israel listened to him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Since then, there has not arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,

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in all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,

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and in all the mighty hand, and in all the awesome deeds, which Moses did in the sight of all Israel.