"The Anchor Holds In Spite of the Storm"
Pastor: Gaylen Jones
Sunday Service 10:30 A.M.
Wednesday Evening Bible Study and Prayer 7:00 P.M.
PO Box 1926
Clute, Texas 77531
[Jeremiah 31:31-34; Hebrews 8:1-13; Mathew 28:18-20; I Corinthians 10:1-33]
Pastor: Gaylen Jones
Sunday Service 10:30 A.M.
Wednesday Evening Bible Study and Prayer 7:00 P.M.
PO Box 1926
Clute, Texas 77531
[Jeremiah 31:31-34; Hebrews 8:1-13; Mathew 28:18-20; I Corinthians 10:1-33]
An Anchor, when properly placed, holds a marine vessel securely in one location and keeps it from drifting away from the captain’s desired position. Under the teachings of the Holy Spirit of God, what in Hebrew is called the Torah (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy), the Five books of Moses serve us as an Anchor to keep us from drifting away from God's good, acceptable and perfect will for our lives.
(Romans 1:1-17; Romans 5:1-2; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-8; Jeremiah 31:31-34; Hebrews 8:1-13
At the Anchor, we have come to the understanding, that the daily study of these books, along with the rest of the Scriptures, under the leadership of the Holy Spirit is the way God promised and systematically does place His Word (the oracles of God – see Romans 3:1) in our minds according to the covenant promise. As we go about practicing what He says for us to do, and not practicing what he says for us not to do, these same words become attached or grafted into our hearts. We discover that as we hear and practice doing what we hear [The shema of God - Mark 28:28:34, James 1:21-25), He becomes more and more pleased with what He does through us. Therefore to Him (יהוה) , LORD, YHVH, Yahveh, Jehovah be all the glory for the things He is doing.) As followers of Jesus the Christ (Hebrew – Yehshua Ha Mashiach), our desire is to regard the Law of God (the Torah) in the same way Jesus (Yeshua) did; when he was here. And learn to teach the same specific instructions that his disciples received from him. To continue to practice the same works that he taught them, until he returns. [I John 2:1-16] His disciples were commanded to go into all nations and make disciples. Jesus/Yeshua did not say go into all the nations and make Christians and build churches. Jesus/Yehshua said; "go and make Disciples, teaching them to do what so ever I have commanded you to do." (Mitzvot = "good works")
(Romans 1:1-17; Romans 5:1-2; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-8; Jeremiah 31:31-34; Hebrews 8:1-13
At the Anchor, we have come to the understanding, that the daily study of these books, along with the rest of the Scriptures, under the leadership of the Holy Spirit is the way God promised and systematically does place His Word (the oracles of God – see Romans 3:1) in our minds according to the covenant promise. As we go about practicing what He says for us to do, and not practicing what he says for us not to do, these same words become attached or grafted into our hearts. We discover that as we hear and practice doing what we hear [The shema of God - Mark 28:28:34, James 1:21-25), He becomes more and more pleased with what He does through us. Therefore to Him (יהוה) , LORD, YHVH, Yahveh, Jehovah be all the glory for the things He is doing.) As followers of Jesus the Christ (Hebrew – Yehshua Ha Mashiach), our desire is to regard the Law of God (the Torah) in the same way Jesus (Yeshua) did; when he was here. And learn to teach the same specific instructions that his disciples received from him. To continue to practice the same works that he taught them, until he returns. [I John 2:1-16] His disciples were commanded to go into all nations and make disciples. Jesus/Yeshua did not say go into all the nations and make Christians and build churches. Jesus/Yehshua said; "go and make Disciples, teaching them to do what so ever I have commanded you to do." (Mitzvot = "good works")
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Vayikra (Leviticus)
behar/bechukotai 25:1-27:34 |
Meaning
on mount/ my statutes |
Day One
20th day of 2nd Month 5785 18 May 2025 
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Haftara
Jeremiah 16:19-17:14 |
B'rit Hadashah
Matthew 16:20-28 |
1 Our Father, we receive Your Words and hide Your commandments with us; 2 we incline our ear unto wisdom, and apply our hearts to understanding; 3 We cry after knowledge and lift up our voices for understanding; 4 we seek it as silver; and search for it as for hidden treasures; 5 We declare that we shall understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. Declaration of Proverbs 2:1-5
Modeh Ani (ּמודה אני)
Pronounced moe-DEH ah-NEE, this Hebrew phrase literally means "I give thanks" and refers to the prayer traditionally recited upon awaking in the morning.
Pronounced moe-DEH ah-NEE, this Hebrew phrase literally means "I give thanks" and refers to the prayer traditionally recited upon awaking in the morning.
Leviticus 25:1-22 (KJV)1
The LORD then spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai, saying, 2 "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When you come into the land which I shall give you, then the land shall have a sabbath to the LORD. 3 'Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop, 4 but during the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath rest, a sabbath to the LORD; you shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard. 5 'Your harvest's aftergrowth you shall not reap, and your grapes of untrimmed vines you shall not gather; the land shall have a sabbatical year. 6 'All of you shall have the sabbath products of the land for food; yourself, and your male and female slaves, and your hired man and your foreign resident, those who live as aliens with you. 7 'Even your cattle and the animals that are in your land shall have all its crops to eat. 8 'You are also to count off seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of the seven sabbaths of years, namely, forty-nine years. 9 'You shall then sound a ram's horn abroad on the tenth day of the seventh month ; on the day of atonement you shall sound a horn all through your land. 10 'You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family. 11 'You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow, nor reap its aftergrowth, nor gather in from its untrimmed vines. 12 'For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat its crops out of the field. 13 'On this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his own property. 14 'If you make a sale, moreover, to your friend or buy from your friend's hand, you shall not wrong one another. 15 'Corresponding to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy from your friend; he is to sell to you according to the number of years of crops. 16 'In proportion to the extent of the years you shall increase its price, and in proportion to the fewness of the years you shall diminish its price, for it is a number of crops he is selling to you. 17 'So you shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the LORD your God. 18 'You shall thus observe My statutes and keep My judgments, so as to carry them out, that you may live securely on the land. 19 'Then the land will yield its produce, so that you can eat your fill and live securely on it. 20 'But if you say, "What are we going to eat on the seventh year if we do not sow or gather in our crops?" 21 then I will so order My blessing for you in the sixth year that it will bring forth the crop for three years. 22 'When you are sowing the eighth year, you can still eat old things from the crop, eating the old until the ninth year when its crop comes in.
The day has dawned damp and clouded over. Yesterday was an extended time in bed at rest and waking to take another dose of over-the-counter pain medication to soothe the savage beast wracking that left side of my face. This morning, thankfully, was different. I intended to have another day to rest in bed, but found it rather unnecessary. God is good! I sipped my morning java without any explosion of untoward sensation, and although the weather has turned cooler and damper, I sense that it will be a good day. Some rain came last evening when I did the evening coop run, but not enough to fully clean the kennel that I set out last week. Since the hoses won't be set out until month-end, rain is my friend to help with that. Richard doesn't like to turn the water on too early to prevent the pipes from bursting if we get a late freeze. We've been warned already today that there will be freezing weather overnight. Otherwise, the power-wash with the attachment on the hose would take care of that much quicker. I was able to clean their water dispenser and lay down new bedding in the nesting boxes. I note that the bedding doesn't stay in the boxes long. The hens seem to love to kick it all out until they're nesting on the bare board. There are things I do not understand about chickens, and this is one.
Today in our journey with Moses, we're in the last double portion of Vayikra/Leviticus. Yes, next week we shall move into the fourth book of the five, Bamidbar/Numbers. But before that, we will learn all about the Sabbath Year. We've learned that God has created man, and then He separated one man from all the rest and made a covenant with him and all his descendants until the end of time as we know it. All my life, I've had the idea that men think there will be an “end of the world”, as if, someday, some global cataclysm would take place and the entire planet and all that live on it would simply blink out and that would be “the end of the world”. I wonder if it won't be quite like that. We might view it as the end of the world “as we know it”. If we're still alive and 'occupying', it will be nothing like it is now. It will all be because God initiated the covenant with the man, Abraham. Then along came Moses, and the covenant was continued and renewed. In the days of Moses, many 'new' aspects of the pact between the descendants of Abraham came to light and were set down, so to speak, by the words of Moses and also witnessed by the tablets that were later stored in the ark. We who 'occupy' here today have the benefit of The Word that is the record.
Then, in the process of time, when The Messiah, The Christ—The Anointed, fulfilled His mission on the earth, the covenant with all the descendants of Abraham was renewed again and refreshed not only for the descendants of Abraham, but enlarged to include the nations of the world. Yes, those same nations who were so unclean and rebellious that they pretended to feed their idols and acted out disgusting rituals before them. The covenant of The Creator was extended to those nations. At this point in Vayikra, we are privy to that incredible part of the covenant that God set forth that would mean Israel would work six years and then rest in the seventh. It was and is a part of the incredible lifestyle of 'sevens' that Yah set forth.
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD. 3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; 4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. 5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land. 6 And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee, 7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat. Leviticus 25:1-7.
Not only would there be a passage of weekly 'sevens' of rest for Israel, but this same sabbath rest would be applied to the land once they settled in Canaan. Wrapped up in the mystery of The Heavenly Father is the relationship between Him and ALL His creation! There is so much that mankind does not know about how God communicates with ALL His creation. We think of the land and all its vegetation as inanimate because they have no 'brain' as we understand brains. We have no idea how the animal kingdom communicates with their Creator. We are aware that they seem to have some capabilities to understand or be trained because the higher species, like our dogs and cats, can be clever enough to become big names in the movies. I'm ever so amazed when I hear the wee “woof-woofs” emitted from our homestead hound, Betty, when she dreams. Her paws will also twitch at the same time. It makes me wonder if she's dreaming of her daily activities, and that surely, that must require a certain amount of what we understand to be “brain function”.
Having attended a farming seminar in the early days of our sojourn here on the homestead, I learned about the difference between soil and plain dirt. Soil contains the basic minerals and elements to be able to support plant growth because of its ability to hold water. Dirt? It's rather pretty useless because water runs right through 'dirt'. It was a very graphic demonstration that the expert botanist did for us, as she displayed several types of soils and dirt and poured water over the specimens, describing how it filters through the earth. It was amazing how the water she poured over a container of dirt trickled right through! If all the minerals and supporting structures are not present in the soil, it is merely dirt. This is what occurs when the planting, growing, and harvesting over an extended time exhaust a plot of land. Either the plants will be substandard and very weak in potency and size, or they just will not grow! The land itself NEEDS rest! It appears that one year in seven will do it! Even more amazing is the fact that in that seventh year, when nobody cultivates anything, there will be enough in store from the sixth year, that it will be enough for that entire seventh year. Doesn't that just blow your wheels off?
Yah tells Moses that not only is there a weekly sabbath, but after that, there is a yearly sabbath. He saved some of the best for last. Israel shall also count forty-nine years. In the fiftieth year, that was a huge sabbath that eliminated debt and balanced the economy of Israel for another forty-nine years!
8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. 9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. Leviticus 25:8-9.
This special blowing of the trumpets shall announce the year of Jubilee on the tenth day of that seventh month. There were special events that occurred during that fiftieth year.
10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. Leviticus 25:10.
Like that seventh sabbath year, there was to be no work done in the fiftieth year, and whatever grew in the fields would be available to them. The huge fiftieth sabbath meant that every land holding would be returned to the one who, by necessity, had to sell it. That would ensure that a man's inheritance would stay within the family and not be lost. The Jubilee year was in every sense, “the year of return”.
18 Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety. 19 And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. 20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase: 21 Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years. 22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store. Leviticus 25:18-22.
There is no other God like the Creator! What other small 'g' god on this planet has promised to give Israel three years' worth of food in one year? Men laugh at believers and their faith. They can't imagine such a Father God, and yet they fashion idols made of wood and metal, and then regularly mix food and then smear it on the lips of this idol and believe that they eat it and are satisfied. This is what some nations have done. The idol cannot eat it, nor can it open its mouth, and add to that, it has no means of digestion! This is a level above keeping a pet rock. And they think that believers are delusional? So, their devotees wash the faces of their gods and then leave food offerings for 'later'. (If they didn't clear it, the food would rot, so they replace it regularly.) It has been said that an idol is the projection of the person or the culture that fashioned the idol. This gives us insight into why we have never seen our Creator and Father God because He is a Spirit. There is added insight as to why Yahweh would command that no idols be made of any animal or creature in the earth, the seas, or the skies, including stars and planets. The God of creation cannot be made in man's image, or by copying those creatures that Yahweh created, but only God the Creator can make man in HIS image!
No other small 'g' god on this planet can give such miraculous and marvellous benefits as The One we know as Yahweh. He gave all these things to Israel first, and then extended such love to all nations at the cross. And even then, the “image” of THE LIVING God is not visible to the eyes of men. Men can live and have being in the very presence of all those idols of wood and metal, however, no man can exist in the very presence of THE LIVING GOD ETERNAL!
This next verse will connect today's edition to the one we shall look at tomorrow.
Today in our journey with Moses, we're in the last double portion of Vayikra/Leviticus. Yes, next week we shall move into the fourth book of the five, Bamidbar/Numbers. But before that, we will learn all about the Sabbath Year. We've learned that God has created man, and then He separated one man from all the rest and made a covenant with him and all his descendants until the end of time as we know it. All my life, I've had the idea that men think there will be an “end of the world”, as if, someday, some global cataclysm would take place and the entire planet and all that live on it would simply blink out and that would be “the end of the world”. I wonder if it won't be quite like that. We might view it as the end of the world “as we know it”. If we're still alive and 'occupying', it will be nothing like it is now. It will all be because God initiated the covenant with the man, Abraham. Then along came Moses, and the covenant was continued and renewed. In the days of Moses, many 'new' aspects of the pact between the descendants of Abraham came to light and were set down, so to speak, by the words of Moses and also witnessed by the tablets that were later stored in the ark. We who 'occupy' here today have the benefit of The Word that is the record.
Then, in the process of time, when The Messiah, The Christ—The Anointed, fulfilled His mission on the earth, the covenant with all the descendants of Abraham was renewed again and refreshed not only for the descendants of Abraham, but enlarged to include the nations of the world. Yes, those same nations who were so unclean and rebellious that they pretended to feed their idols and acted out disgusting rituals before them. The covenant of The Creator was extended to those nations. At this point in Vayikra, we are privy to that incredible part of the covenant that God set forth that would mean Israel would work six years and then rest in the seventh. It was and is a part of the incredible lifestyle of 'sevens' that Yah set forth.
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD. 3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; 4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. 5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land. 6 And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee, 7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat. Leviticus 25:1-7.
Not only would there be a passage of weekly 'sevens' of rest for Israel, but this same sabbath rest would be applied to the land once they settled in Canaan. Wrapped up in the mystery of The Heavenly Father is the relationship between Him and ALL His creation! There is so much that mankind does not know about how God communicates with ALL His creation. We think of the land and all its vegetation as inanimate because they have no 'brain' as we understand brains. We have no idea how the animal kingdom communicates with their Creator. We are aware that they seem to have some capabilities to understand or be trained because the higher species, like our dogs and cats, can be clever enough to become big names in the movies. I'm ever so amazed when I hear the wee “woof-woofs” emitted from our homestead hound, Betty, when she dreams. Her paws will also twitch at the same time. It makes me wonder if she's dreaming of her daily activities, and that surely, that must require a certain amount of what we understand to be “brain function”.
Having attended a farming seminar in the early days of our sojourn here on the homestead, I learned about the difference between soil and plain dirt. Soil contains the basic minerals and elements to be able to support plant growth because of its ability to hold water. Dirt? It's rather pretty useless because water runs right through 'dirt'. It was a very graphic demonstration that the expert botanist did for us, as she displayed several types of soils and dirt and poured water over the specimens, describing how it filters through the earth. It was amazing how the water she poured over a container of dirt trickled right through! If all the minerals and supporting structures are not present in the soil, it is merely dirt. This is what occurs when the planting, growing, and harvesting over an extended time exhaust a plot of land. Either the plants will be substandard and very weak in potency and size, or they just will not grow! The land itself NEEDS rest! It appears that one year in seven will do it! Even more amazing is the fact that in that seventh year, when nobody cultivates anything, there will be enough in store from the sixth year, that it will be enough for that entire seventh year. Doesn't that just blow your wheels off?
Yah tells Moses that not only is there a weekly sabbath, but after that, there is a yearly sabbath. He saved some of the best for last. Israel shall also count forty-nine years. In the fiftieth year, that was a huge sabbath that eliminated debt and balanced the economy of Israel for another forty-nine years!
8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. 9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. Leviticus 25:8-9.
This special blowing of the trumpets shall announce the year of Jubilee on the tenth day of that seventh month. There were special events that occurred during that fiftieth year.
10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. Leviticus 25:10.
Like that seventh sabbath year, there was to be no work done in the fiftieth year, and whatever grew in the fields would be available to them. The huge fiftieth sabbath meant that every land holding would be returned to the one who, by necessity, had to sell it. That would ensure that a man's inheritance would stay within the family and not be lost. The Jubilee year was in every sense, “the year of return”.
18 Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety. 19 And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. 20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase: 21 Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years. 22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store. Leviticus 25:18-22.
There is no other God like the Creator! What other small 'g' god on this planet has promised to give Israel three years' worth of food in one year? Men laugh at believers and their faith. They can't imagine such a Father God, and yet they fashion idols made of wood and metal, and then regularly mix food and then smear it on the lips of this idol and believe that they eat it and are satisfied. This is what some nations have done. The idol cannot eat it, nor can it open its mouth, and add to that, it has no means of digestion! This is a level above keeping a pet rock. And they think that believers are delusional? So, their devotees wash the faces of their gods and then leave food offerings for 'later'. (If they didn't clear it, the food would rot, so they replace it regularly.) It has been said that an idol is the projection of the person or the culture that fashioned the idol. This gives us insight into why we have never seen our Creator and Father God because He is a Spirit. There is added insight as to why Yahweh would command that no idols be made of any animal or creature in the earth, the seas, or the skies, including stars and planets. The God of creation cannot be made in man's image, or by copying those creatures that Yahweh created, but only God the Creator can make man in HIS image!
No other small 'g' god on this planet can give such miraculous and marvellous benefits as The One we know as Yahweh. He gave all these things to Israel first, and then extended such love to all nations at the cross. And even then, the “image” of THE LIVING God is not visible to the eyes of men. Men can live and have being in the very presence of all those idols of wood and metal, however, no man can exist in the very presence of THE LIVING GOD ETERNAL!
This next verse will connect today's edition to the one we shall look at tomorrow.
23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me. Leviticus 25:23.
1 NASB www.lockman.org for daily reading and KJV in commentary unless otherwise stated.
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“Vehalachta Bidrachav—you shall walk in His ways!”
Ten Commandments
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2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
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4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
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7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
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8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
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12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
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13 Thou shalt not kill.
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14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
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15 Thou shalt not steal.
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16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
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16 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Ten Commandments
1
2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
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4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
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7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
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8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
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12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
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13 Thou shalt not kill.
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14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
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15 Thou shalt not steal.
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16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
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16 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.