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Deuteronomy 30:2

The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 30:2

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And shalt return unto the Lord thy God; retrain from the worship of false gods to worship and serve Jehovah the one true God, the God of their fathers, and the God whom as a nation they had before wet-shipped (cf.

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