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neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall you take to your son.

For you are a holy people to the LORD your God: the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the eretz.

The LORD didn't set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:

Know therefore that the LORD your God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and lovingkindness with them who love him and keep his mitzvot to a thousand generations,

and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him who hates him, he will repay him to his face.

You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his mitzvot, or not.

You shall consider in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the LORD your God chastens you.

You shall keep the mitzvot of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

Beware lest you forget the LORD your God, in not keeping his mitzvot, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you this day:

But you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day.

When the LORD sent you from Kadesh-Barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then you rebelled against the mitzvah of the LORD your God, and you didn't believe him, nor listen to his voice.

(The children of Yisra'el journeyed from Be'erot Bene-Ya`akan to Moserah. There Aharon died, and there he was buried; and El`azar his son ministered in the Kohen's office in his place.

At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.

Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD your God spoke to him.)

Now, Yisra'el, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

to keep the mitzvot of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command you this day for your good?

You shall fear the LORD your God; him shall you serve; and to him shall you cleave, and by his name shall you swear.

Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his mitzvot, always.

Know you this day: for I don't speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm,

and his signs, and his works, which he did in the midst of Mitzrayim to Par`oh the king of Mitzrayim, and to all his land;