Chapter 16


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And it came to pass that יהוה (YHVH) did speak again unto Moses, saying: Behold, thou shalt leave this people;

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And it shall come to pass that these people will rise up in adultery and go a whoring after the elohim of the strangers of the land, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

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And then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them.

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And they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day:

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Are not these evils come upon us because our Elohim is not among us?

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¶ And so it shall be that I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto the elohim of man.

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Now, therefore, write ye this song for you 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 shall have brought them into the land which I swore unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey,

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And they shall have eaten and filled themselves and waxen fat, then will they turn unto other elohim, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.

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¶ And it shall come to pass that when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness;

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For it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed;

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For I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.