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And I went down on my face before the Lord, as at the first, for forty days and forty nights, without taking food or drinking water, because of all your sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord and moving him to wrath.

For I was full of fear because of the wrath of the Lord which was burning against you, with your destruction in view. But again the Lord's ear was open to my prayer.

And the Lord, in his wrath, would have put Aaron to death: and I made prayer for Aaron at the same time.

So I went down on my face in prayer before the Lord for forty days and forty nights as I did at first; because the Lord had said that he would put an end to you.

Or it may be said in the land from which you have taken them, Because the Lord was not able to take them into the land which he said he would give them, and because of his hate for them, he has taken them out to put them to death in the waste land.

For this reason Levi has no part or heritage for himself among his brothers: the Lord is his heritage, as the Lord your God said to him.)

And I was in the mountain, as at the first time, for forty days and forty nights; and again the ears of the Lord were open to my prayer, and he did not send destruction on you.

Doing the orders of the Lord and keeping his laws which I give you this day for your good?

But the Lord had delight in your fathers and love for them, marking out for himself their seed after them, even you, from all peoples, as at this day.

For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, strong in power and greatly to be feared, who has no respect for any man's position and takes no rewards:

So be kind to the man from a strange country who is living among you, for you yourselves were living in a strange country in the land of Egypt.

He is your God, the God of your praise, your God who has done for you all these works of power which your eyes have seen.

So have love for the Lord your God, and give him worship, and keep his laws and his decisions and his orders at all times.

And be certain in your minds this day; for these words are not said to your children, who have had no experience of the training of the Lord your God, and who have not seen his great power or his strong hand and his stretched-out arm,

And what he did for you in the waste land, till you came to this place;

For the land where you are going is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you put in your seeds, watering them with your foot, like a planted garden:

A land cared for by the Lord your God: the eyes of the Lord your God are on it at all times from one end of the year to the other.

And I will give grass in your fields for your cattle, so that you may have food in full measure.

For if you do so, the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, and the heaven will be shut up so that there is no rain and the land will give no fruit; and in a very little time you will be cut off from the good land which the Lord is giving you.

So keep these words deep in your heart and in your soul, and have them fixed on your hand for a sign and marked on your brow;