Baruch 4:1-7
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1 This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that endureth for ever: all they that keep it shall come to life; but such as leave it shall die.
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2 Turn thee, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk in the presence of the light thereof, that thou mayest be illuminated.
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3 Give not thine honour to another, nor the things that are profitable unto thee to a strange nation.
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4 O Israel, happy are we: for things that are pleasing to God are made known unto us.
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5 Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel.
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6 Ye were sold to the nations, not for [your] destruction: but because ye moved God to wrath, ye were delivered unto the enemies.
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7 For ye provoked him that made you by sacrificing unto devils, and not to God.