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Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD.

Be careful to obey all these things I command 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.

But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city-all its spoil-you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.

The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.

Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.

The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,

refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children that he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and hardship your enemy will impose on all your cities.

the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and dire straits your enemy will impose on you in all your cities.

you children, wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water-

The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.

and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today,

Assemble the people-men, women, children, and the foreigners within your gates-so that they may listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and follow carefully all the words of this law.

Then their children who do not know the law will listen and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess."

His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.

He said: I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation-children of unfaithfulness.

Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.

Rejoice, O heavens, with Him, and let all God's angels worship Him. Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people; for He will avenge the blood of His children. He will take vengeance on His adversaries and repay those who hate Him; He will cleanse His land and His people."

he said to them, "Take to heart all these words I testify among you today, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.

"Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore arise, you and all these people, and cross over the Jordan into the land I am giving to the children of Israel.

Your wives, your young children, and your livestock may remain in the land Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan. But your fighting men must be armed for battle to cross over ahead of your brothers and help them,