“When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and live in it,
“When you come to the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, ‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,’
“When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.
But you shall kill him. Your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people.
“If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder,
“When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you,
“Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long. Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you the whole commandment and the statutes and the rules that you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.’
“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land to which I bring you
“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving you,
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