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10-11 (A) Moses told these priests and leaders:

Each year the Israelites must come together to celebrate the Festival of Shelters at the place where the Lord chooses to be worshiped. You must read these laws and teachings to the people at the festival every seventh year, the year when loans do not need to be repaid.[a] 12-13 Everyone must come—men, women, children, and even the foreigners who live in your towns. And each new generation will listen and learn to worship the Lord their God with fear and trembling and to do exactly what is said in God's Law.

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  1. 31.10,11 every seventh year … repaid: See 15.1,2 and the note there.

11 when all Israel comes to appear(A) before the Lord your God at the place he will choose,(B) you shall read this law(C) before them in their hearing. 12 Assemble the people—men, women and children, and the foreigners residing in your towns—so they can listen and learn(D) to fear(E) the Lord your God and follow carefully all the words of this law. 13 Their children,(F) who do not know this law, must hear it and learn to fear the Lord your God as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

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