| 1:1 |
These are the words whichthat Moses spoke to all Israel across the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. |
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It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea. |
| 1:3 |
In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the childrensons of Israel, accordingin toaccordance allwith everything that the Lord had commanded him to givedeclare to them, |
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after he had defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth and in Edrei. |
| 1:5 |
Across the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses undertookbegan to expoundexplain this lawLaw, saying, |
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Turn and set out on your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the Negev, and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. |
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See, I have placed the land before you; go in and possesstake possession of the land which the Lord swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to them and their descendants after them.’ |
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“And I spoke to you at that time, saying, ‘I am not able to bearendure the burden of you alone. |
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May the Lord, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand-fold times more than you are, and bless you, just as He has promised you! |
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How can I alone bearendure the loadburden and burdenweight of you and your strife? |
| 1:13 |
ChooseObtain for yourselves men who are wise, and discerning, and experiencedinformed men from your tribes, and I will appoint them as your heads.’ |
| 1:14 |
YouAnd you answered me and said, ‘The thing which you have said to do is good.’ |
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So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experiencedinformed men, and appointed them as heads over you, leaderscommanders of thousands, and of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens, and officers for your tribes. |
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“Then I chargedordered your judges at that time, saying, ‘Hear the cases between your fellow countrymen, and judge righteously between a manperson and his fellow countryman, or the alienstranger who is with him. |
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You shallare not to show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shallare not fearto manbe afraid of any person, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too harddifficult for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’ |
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At that time I commanded you at that time all the things that you shouldwere to do. |
| 1:19 |
“Then we set out from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness whichthat you saw on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, just as the Lord our God had commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea. |
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And I said to you, ‘You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is about to give us. |
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See, the Lord your God has placed the land before you; go up, take possession, just as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has spoken to you. Do not fear or be dismayed.’ |
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“Then all of you approached me and said, ‘Let us send men beforeahead of us, so that they may searchspy out the land for us, and bring back to us word of the way by which we should go up, and the cities which we shallshould enter.’ |
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The thingplan pleased me, and I took twelve of your men, one man for each tribe. |
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TheyThen they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valleyValley of Eshcol, and spied it out. |
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ThenAnd they took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us;. andThey theyalso brought us back a report and said, ‘ItThe is a good land whichthat the Lord our God is about to give us is good.’ |
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“Yet you were notunwilling willing to go up,; butinstead you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God; |
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and you grumbled in your tents and said, ‘Because the Lord hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliverhand us intoover theto hand of the Amorites to destroy us. |
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Where can we go up? Our brethrenbrothers have made our hearts melt, by saying, “The people are bigger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we saw the sons of the Anakim there.” ’ |
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ThenBut I said to you, ‘Do not be shockedterrified, nor fear them. |
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The Lord your God, who goes before you, will Himself fight onfor your behalfyou, just as He did for you in Egypt before your eyes, |
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and in the wilderness where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, just as a man carries his son, inon all of the wayroad which you have walked until you came to this place.’ |
| 1:32 |
ButYet forin spite of all this, you did not trust the Lord your God, |
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who goes before you on your way, to seek out a place for you to encampmake camp, in the fire by night and cloud by day, to show you the way inby which you should go, and in the cloud by day. |
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“Then the Lord heard the sound of your words, and He was angry and tookswore an oath, saying, |
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except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and to his sons I will give the land on which he has set foot, and to his sons, because he has followed the Lord fully.’ |
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Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall himself enter there; encourage him, for he will causegive Israelit to inheritIsrael itas an inheritance. |
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Moreover, your little ones who, you said, would become a preyplunder, and your sons, who this day have no knowledge of good orand evil, shall enter there, and I will give it to them and they shall possesstake possession of it. |
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But as for you, turn around and set out for the wilderness by the way toof the Red Sea.’ |
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“Then you saidreplied to me, ‘We have sinned against the Lord; we ourselves will indeed go up and fight, just as the Lord our God commanded us.’ And every man of you girdedstrapped on his weapons of war, and regardedyou viewed it as easy to go up into the hill country. |
| 1:42 |
AndBut the Lord said to me, ‘Say to them, “Do not go up nor fight, for I am not among you; otherwise you will be defeated beforeby your enemies.” ’ |
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So I spoke to you, but you would not listen. Instead, you rebelled against the command of the Lord, and acted presumptuously and went up into the hill country. |
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TheAnd the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do, and crushedthey scattered you from Seir to Hormah. |
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Then you returned and wept before the Lord; but the Lord did not listen to your voice, nor givepay earattention to you. |
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So you remained inat Kadesh for many days, the days that you spent there. |
| 2:1 |
“Then we turned and set out for the wilderness by the way toof the Red Sea, as the Lord spoke to me, and we circled Mount Seir for many days. |
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and command the people, saying, “You willare going to pass through the territory of your brothers the sons of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. So be very careful; |
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do not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even as littlemuch as a footstepfootprint, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession. |
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You shallare to buy food from them with money so that you may eat, and you shall also purchase water from them with money so that you may drink. |
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For the Lord your God has blessed you in all that you have done; He has known your wanderingswandering through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have not lacked a thinganything.” ’ |
| 2:8 |
“So we passed beyond our brothers the sons of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road, away from Elath and from Ezion-geber. And we turned and passed through by the way of the wilderness of Moab. |
| 2:9 |
Then the Lord said to me, ‘Do not harassattack Moab, nor provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession, because I have given Ar to the sons of Lot as a possession.’ |
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(The Emim lived there formerlypreviously, a people as great, numerous, and tall as the Anakim. |
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Like the Anakim, they too are also regarded as Rephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim. |
| 2:12 |
The Horites formerlypreviously lived in Seir, but the sons of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them, and settled in their place,; just as Israel did to the land of their possession which the Lord gave to them.) |
| 2:13 |
‘Now arise and cross over the brookWadi Zered yourselves.’ So we crossed over the brookWadi Zered. |
| 2:14 |
Now the time that it took for us to come from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the brookWadi Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war perished from within the camp, just as the Lord had sworn to them. |
| 2:15 |
MoreoverIndeed, the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from within the camp until they all perished. |
| 2:16 |
“So it came about, when all the men of war had finally perished from among the people, |
| 2:19 |
When you come opposite the sons of Ammon, do not harassattack them nor provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the sons of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot as a possession.’ |
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(It is also regarded as the land of the Rephaim, forbecause the Rephaim formerlypreviously lived in it, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummin, |
| 2:21 |
a people as great, numerous, and tall as the Anakim,; but the Lord destroyed them before them. And they dispossessed them and settled in their place, |
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just as He did for the sons of Esau, who live in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them; they dispossessed them and settled in their place, where they remain even to this day. |
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And as for the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and lived in their place.) |
| 2:24 |
‘Arise, set out, and pass through the valleyValley of Arnon. Look! I have givenhanded over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land into your hand; beginstart totaking take possession and contendplunge into battle with him in battle. |
| 2:25 |
This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the peoplesfaces everywhereof underpeople the heavenseverywhere, who, when they hear the reportnews of you, will tremble and be in anguish because of you.’ |
| 2:27 |
‘Let me pass through your land,; I will travel only on the highway;road. I will not turn aside to the right or to the left. |
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just as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I cross over the Jordan into the land whichthat the Lord our God is giving to us.’ |
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But Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass through his land; for the Lord your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, in order to deliverhand him intoover yourto handyou, as he is today. |
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TheAnd the Lord said to me, ‘See, I have begun to deliverturn Sihon and his land over to you. Begin totaking occupypossession, so that you may possess his land.’ |
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“Then Sihon came out with all his people came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz. |
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TheAnd the Lord our God deliveredturned him over to us, and we defeated him with his sons and all his people. |
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So we captured all his cities at that time and utterly destroyed the men, women, and children of every city. We left no survivor. |
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We took only the animals as our bootyplunder, and the spoilspoils of the cities which we had captured. |
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From Aroer which is on the edge of the valleyValley of Arnon and from the city which is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was no city that was too high for us; the Lord our God deliveredturned it all over to us. |
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Only you did not go near to the land of the sons of Ammon, all along the river Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever the Lord our God had commanded us to avoid. |
| 3:1 |
“Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og, king of Bashan, came out with all his people came out to meet us in battle at Edrei. |
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But the Lord said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have deliveredhanded him and all his people and his land intoover yourto handyou; and you shall do to him just as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived atin Heshbon.’ |
| 3:3 |
So the Lord our God deliveredalso handed over to us Og also, king of Bashan, with all his people into our hand, and we smotestruck them until no survivor was left. |
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All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a great many unwalled towns. |
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We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city. |
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But all the animals and the spoilspoils of the cities we took as our bootyplunder. |
| 3:8 |
“ThusSo at that time we took the land at that time from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valleyValley of Arnon to Mount Hermon |
| 3:10 |
all the cities of the plateau, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. |
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(For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bedsteadbed was ana bed of iron bedstead; it is in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon. Its length was nine cubits, and its width four cubits by ordinarythe usual cubit.) |
| 3:12 |
“So we took possession of this land at that time. From Aroer, which is by the valleyValley of Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead and its cities I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites. |
| 3:13 |
The rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh, all the region of Argob. (concerningAs to all Bashan, it is called the land of Rephaim. |
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Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called it, that is, Bashan, and named it after his own name,: Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.) |
| 3:16 |
To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even as far as the valleyValley of Arnon, the middle of the valley as a border, and as far as the river Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon; |
| 3:18 |
“Then I commanded you at that time, saying, ‘The Lord your God has given you this land to possess it; all you valiant men shall cross over armed beforeahead of your brothers, the sons of Israel. |
| 3:19 |
ButHowever, your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock (I know that you have much livestock) shall remain in your cities which I have given you, |
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until the Lord gives rest to your fellow countrymen as to you, and they also possesstake possession of the land which the Lord your God willis givegiving them beyond the Jordan. Then you may return, everyeach man to his possession which I have given you.’ |
| 3:21 |
And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, ‘Your eyes have seen alleverything that the Lord your God has done to these two kings; so the Lord shallwill do the same to all the kingdoms into which you are about to cross. |
| 3:22 |
Do not fear them, for the Lord your God is the oneOne fighting for you.’ |
| 3:24 |
‘O Lord God, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your strong hand; for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as Yours? |
| 3:25 |
LetPlease let me, I pray, cross over and see the fairgood land that is beyond the Jordan, that good hill country, and Lebanon.’ |
| 3:26 |
But the Lord was angry with me on your account, and would not listen to me; andinstead, the Lord said to me, ‘Enough! SpeakDo not speak to Me noany more ofabout this matter. |
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Go up to the top of Pisgah and liftraise up your eyes to the west, andthe north, andthe south, and the east, and see it with your eyes,; for you shall not cross over this Jordan. |
| 3:28 |
But chargecommission Joshua and encourage him and strengthen him, for he shall go across atleading the head of this people, and he will give to them, as an inheritance, the land which you will see.’ |
| 4:1 |
“Now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which I am teaching you to perform, so that you maywill live and go in and take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you. |
| 4:2 |
You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I commandam commanding you. |
| 4:4 |
But you who heldclung fast to the Lord your God are alive today, every one of you. |
| 4:5 |
“See, I have taught you statutes and judgments just as the Lord my God commanded me, that you shouldare to do thusthese things in the land where you are entering to possesstake possession of it. |
| 4:8 |
Or what great nation is there that has statutes and judgments as righteous as this whole lawLaw which I am setting before you today? |
| 4:9 |
“Only givebe heedcareful tofor yourself and keepwatch over your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your sons and your grandsons. |
| 4:10 |
Remember the day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, when the Lord said to me, ‘Assemble the people to Me, that I may lethave them hear My words so that they may learn to fear Me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.’ |
| 4:11 |
You came nearforward and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain burnedwas burning with fire to the very heart of the heavens: darkness, cloud, and thick gloom. |
| 4:12 |
Then the Lord spoke to you from the midst of the fire; you heard the sound of words, but you saw no form—there was only a voice. |
| 4:14 |
The Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, so that you mightwould perform them in the land where you are going over to possesstake possession of it. |
| 4:15 |
“So watchbe very careful yourselves carefully, since you did not see any form on the day the Lord spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire, |
| 4:16 |
so that you do not act corruptly and make a gravencarved image for yourselves in the form of any figure, thea likenessrepresentation of male or female, |
| 4:17 |
thea likenessrepresentation of any animal that is on the earth, thea likenessrepresentation of any winged bird that flies in the sky, |
| 4:18 |
thea likenessrepresentation of anything that creepscrawls on the ground, theor likenessa representation of any fish that is in the water below the earth. |
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And bewarebe careful not to liftraise up your eyes to heaven and seelook at the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the hostheavenly of heavenlights, and allow yourself to be drawn away and worship them and serve them, thosethings which the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven. |
| 4:20 |
But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be a people forof His own possession, as today. |
| 4:21 |
“Now the Lord was angry with me on your account, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordan, and that I would not enter the good land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance. |
| 4:22 |
For I willam going to die in this land,; I shallam not crosscrossing the Jordan, but you shallare going to cross, and you will take possession of this good land. |
| 4:23 |
So watchbe careful yourselves, that you do not forget the covenant of the Lord your God which He made with you, and make for yourselves a gravencarved image in the form of anything against which the Lord your God has commanded you. |
| 4:25 |
“When you become the father of children and children’shave childrengrandchildren, and haveyou remainedgrow longold in the land, and you act corruptly, and make an idol in the form of anything, and do thatwhat which is evil in the sight of the Lord your God so as to provoke Him to anger, |
| 4:26 |
I call heaven and earth toas witnesswitnesses against you today, that you will surelycertainly perish quickly from the land where you are going over the Jordan to possesstake possession of it. You shallwill not live long on it, but will be utterly destroyed. |
| 4:28 |
There you will serve gods, the work of man’shuman hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear, nor eat nor smell anything. |
| 4:30 |
When you are in distress and all these things havehappen cometo upon you, in the latter days you will return to the Lord your God and listen to His voice. |
| 4:31 |
For the Lord your God is a compassionate God; He will not failabandon you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant with your fathers which He swore to them. |
| 4:32 |
“Indeed, ask now concerningabout the formerearlier days whichthat were before youyour time, since the day that God created manmankind on the earth, and inquire from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything been done like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it? |
| 4:34 |
Or has a god triedventured to go to take for himself a nation from within another nation by trials, by signs and wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, just as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? |
| 4:35 |
ToYou youwere itshown wasthese shownthings so that you might know that the Lord, He is God; there is no other besides Him. |
| 4:37 |
Because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them. And He personally brought you from Egypt by His great power, |
| 4:38 |
driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and to give you their land foras an inheritance, as it is today. |
| 4:39 |
KnowTherefore thereforeknow today, and take it to your heart, that the Lord, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other. |
| 4:40 |
So you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I am giving you today, so that it may go well withfor you and withfor your children after you, and that you may live long on the land which the Lord your God is giving you for all time.” |
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thatfor aone manslayerto might flee there, who unintentionally slewkilled his neighbor, without having enmityhatred towardfor him in time past; and by fleeing to one of these cities he might live: |
| 4:43 |
Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau for the Reubenites, and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites. |
| 4:44 |
Now this is the lawLaw which Moses set before the sons of Israel; |
| 4:45 |
these are the testimonies and the statutes, and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, when they came out fromof Egypt, |
| 4:46 |
across the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites who lived atin Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel defeated when they came out fromof Egypt. |
| 4:47 |
TheyAnd they took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were across the Jordan to the east, |
| 4:48 |
from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valleyValley of Arnon, even as far as Mount Sion (that is, Hermon), |
| 5:1 |
ThenNow Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: “HearListen, O Israel, to the statutes and the ordinances which I am speaking today infor youryou hearingto hear, so that you may learn them and observebe careful to do them carefully. |
| 5:3 |
The Lord did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, with all those of us who are alive here today. |
| 5:4 |
The Lord spoke towith you face to face at the mountain from the midst of the fire, |
| 5:5 |
while I was standing between the Lord and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the Lord; for you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up on the mountain. He said, |
| 5:7 |
‘You shall have no other gods beforebesides Me. |
| 5:8 |
‘You shall not make for yourself ana idolcarved image, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. |
| 5:9 |
You shall not worship them ornor serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visitinginflicting the iniquitypunishment of the fathers on the children, andeven on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, |
| 5:10 |
but showing lovingkindnessfavor to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. |
| 5:11 |
‘You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not leave him unpunished the one who takes His name in vain. |
| 5:12 |
‘ObserveKeep the sabbathSabbath day to keeptreat it as holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. |
| 5:13 |
SixFor six days you shall labor and do all your work, |
| 5:14 |
but the seventh day is a sabbathSabbath of the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work that day, you or your son or your daughter, or your male servantslave or your female servantslave, or your ox, or your donkey, or any of your cattle, or your sojournerresident who stays with you, so that your male servantslave and your female servantslave may rest as well as you. |
| 5:15 |
YouAnd you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to observecelebrate the sabbathSabbath day. |
| 5:16 |
‘Honor your father and your mother, just as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well withfor you on the land which the Lord your God givesis giving you. |
| 5:20 |
‘You shall not beargive false witnesstestimony against your neighbor. |
| 5:21 |
‘You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, andnor you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servantslave or his female servantslave, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.’ |
| 5:22 |
“These words the Lord spoke to all your whole assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire, offrom the cloud, and offrom the thick gloomdarkness, with a great voice, and He added nonothing more. He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me. |
| 5:23 |
And when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you cameapproached near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders. |
| 5:24 |
You said, ‘Behold, the Lord our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire; we have seen today that God speaks with manmankind, yet he lives. |
| 5:25 |
Now then, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any longer, then we will die.! |
| 5:26 |
For who is there of allhumanity flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? |
| 5:27 |
Go near and hearlisten allto everything that the Lord our God says; then speak to us alleverything that the Lord our God speaks to you, and we will hearlisten and do it.’ |
| 5:28 |
“TheNow the Lord heard the voicesound of your words when you spoke to me, and the Lord said to me, ‘I have heard the voicesound of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken. |
| 5:29 |
OhIf thatonly they had such a heart in them, thatto they would fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it maywould bego well with them and with their sons forever! |
| 5:31 |
But as for you, stand here by Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments which you shall teach them, so that they may observefollow them in the land which I giveam giving them to possess.’ |
| 5:32 |
So you shall observebe careful to do just as the Lord your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right or to the left. |
| 5:33 |
You shall walk entirely in all the way which the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live and that it may be well withfor you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you will possess. |
| 6:1 |
“Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which the Lord your God has commanded me to teach you, so that you mightmay do them in the land where you are going over to possesstake possession of it, |
| 6:2 |
so that you, and your son, and your grandson mightwill fear the Lord your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged. |
| 6:3 |
ONow Israel, you shouldshall listen and be careful to do itthem, so that it may bego well withfor you and that you may multiplyincrease greatly, just as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. |
| 6:4 |
“Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one! |
| 6:5 |
YouAnd you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mightstrength. |
| 6:7 |
YouAnd you shall teachrepeat them diligently to your sons and shallspeak talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk byon the wayroad, and when you lie down, and when you riseget up. |
| 6:8 |
You shall bindalso tie them as a sign onto your hand, and they shall be as frontalsfrontlets on your forehead. |
| 6:9 |
You shall also write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. |
| 6:10 |
“Then it shall come about when the Lord your God brings you into the land whichthat He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you, great and splendid cities which you did not build, |
| 6:11 |
and houses full of all good things which you did not fill, and hewncarved cisterns which you did not digcarve out, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and you eat and are satisfied, |
| 6:12 |
thenbe watchcareful yourself, that you do not forget the Lord who brought you fromout of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. |
| 6:15 |
for the Lord your God who is in the midst of you is a jealous God; otherwiseso follow Him, or else the anger of the Lord your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth. |
| 6:17 |
You shouldshall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and His testimoniesprovisions and His statutes which He has commanded you. |
| 6:18 |
You shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord, so that it may bego well withfor you and that you may go in and possesstake possession of the good land which the Lord swore to give your fathers, |
| 6:19 |
by driving out all your enemies from before you, as the Lord has spoken. |
| 6:20 |
“When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What do the testimoniesprovisions and the statutes and the judgments mean which the Lord our God commanded you?’ |
| 6:21 |
then you shall say to your son, ‘We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and the Lord brought us fromout of Egypt with a mighty hand. |
| 6:22 |
Moreover, the Lord showedprovided great and distressingterrible signs and wonders before our eyes against Egypt, Pharaoh, and all his household; |
| 6:23 |
He brought us out fromof there in order to bring us in, to give us the land which He had sworn to our fathers.’ |
| 6:24 |
So the Lord commanded us to observefollow all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God for our own good always and for our survival, as it is today. |
| 6:25 |
ItAnd it will be righteousness for us if we are careful to observefollow all this commandment before the Lord our God, just as He commanded us. |
| 7:1 |
“When the Lord your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possesstake possession of it, and clearsHe drives away many nations from before you, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and strongermightier than you, |
| 7:2 |
and when the Lord your God deliversturns them beforeover to you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall not make noa covenant with them andnor showbe nogracious favor to them. |
| 7:3 |
Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them;: you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons. |
| 7:4 |
For they will turn your sons away from following Me, toand they will serve other gods; then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you and He will quickly destroy you. |
| 7:5 |
But thusthis is what you shall do to them: you shall tear down their altars, and smash their sacredmemorial pillarsstones, andcut hewtheir downAsherim theirto Asherimpieces, and burn their gravencarved images within the fire. |
| 7:6 |
For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His ownpersonal possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. |
| 7:7 |
“The Lord did not setmake you His lovebeloved on you nor choose you because you were moregreater in number than any of the peoples, forsince you were the fewest of all peoples, |
| 7:9 |
Know therefore that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindnessfaithfulness to a thousandththousand generationgenerations withfor those who love Him and keep His commandments; |
| 7:10 |
but He repays those who hate Him to their faces, to destroyeliminate them; He will not delayhesitate withtoward him who hates Him, He will repay him to his face. |
| 7:11 |
Therefore, you shall keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them. |
| 7:12 |
“Then it shall come about, because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep His covenant with you His covenant and His lovingkindnessfaithfulness which He swore to your forefathers. |
| 7:13 |
And He will love you, and bless you, and multiplymake you numerous; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain, and your new wine, and your oil, the increasenewborn of your herdcattle and the youngoffspring of your flock, in the land which He swore to your forefathers to give you. |
| 7:14 |
You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no sterile male or infertile female barren among you or among your cattle. |
| 7:15 |
TheAnd the Lord will remove from you all sickness; and He will not putinflict onupon you any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but He will laygive them onto all who hate you. |
| 7:16 |
You shall consume all the peoples whom the Lord your God will deliverturn over to you; your eye shall not pity them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you. |
| 7:17 |
“If you should say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?’ |
| 7:18 |
you shallare not to be afraid of them; you shall remember well remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt: |
| 7:19 |
the great trials which your eyes saw and the signs and the wonders, and the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which the Lord your God brought you out. SoThe shall the Lord your God will do the same to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. |
| 7:20 |
MoreoverIndeed, the Lord your God will send the hornet against them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you perish. |
| 7:21 |
You shallare not dreadto be terrified of them, forbecause the Lord your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God. |
| 7:22 |
TheAnd the Lord your God will cleardrive away these nations beforefrom you little by little; you will not be able to put an end to them quickly, forotherwise the wild beastsanimals would growbecome too numerous for you. |
| 7:23 |
But the Lord your God will deliverturn them beforeover to you, and will throw them into great confusion until they are destroyed. |
| 7:24 |
And He will deliverhand over their kings intoto youryou, hand so that you will makeeliminate their name perish from under heaven; no manone will be able to stand beforeagainst you until you have destroyed them. |
| 7:25 |
The gravencarved images of their gods you are to burn with fire; you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, or you will be snaredtrapped by it,; for it is an abomination to the Lord your God. |
| 7:26 |
YouAnd you shall not bring an abomination into your house, and likebecome itdesignated comefor underdestruction, thelike banit; you shallare to utterly detest it, and you shallare to utterly abhorloathe it, for it is something banneddesignated for destruction. |
| 8:1 |
“All the commandments that I am commanding you today you shall be careful to do, so that you may live and multiplyincrease, and go in and possesstake possession of the land which the Lord swore to give to your forefathers. |
| 8:2 |
YouAnd you shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, thatin Heorder mightto humble you, testingputting you to the test, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. |
| 8:3 |
And He humbled you and let you bego hungry, and fed you with the manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, thatin Heorder mightto make you understand that man doesshall not live byon bread alone, but man livesshall bylive on everything that proceedscomes out of the mouth of the Lord. |
| 8:5 |
ThusSo you are to know in your heart that the Lord your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son. |
| 8:7 |
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooksstreams of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forthout in valleys and hills; |
| 8:8 |
a land of wheat and barley, of vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; |
| 8:9 |
a land where you will eat food without scarcityshortage, in which you will not lack anything; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper. |
| 8:11 |
“BewareBe careful that you do not forget the Lord your God by notfailing keepingto keep His commandments, and His ordinances, and His statutes which I am commanding you today; |
| 8:12 |
otherwise, when you haveeat eaten and are satisfied, and haveyou builtbuild good houses and livedlive in them, |
| 8:13 |
and when your herds and your flocks multiplyincrease, and your silver and gold multiplyincrease, and alleverything that you have multipliesincreases, |
| 8:14 |
then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God who brought you out fromof the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.; |
| 8:15 |
He who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions, and its thirsty ground where there was no water; He who brought water for you out of the rock of flint. |
| 8:16 |
In the wilderness it was He who fed you manna which your fathers did not know, thatin Heorder mightto humble you and thatin Heorder mightto testput you to the test, to do good for you in the end. |
| 8:18 |
But you shallare to remember the Lord your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, thatin Heorder mayto confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. |
| 8:19 |
ItAnd it shall come about, if you ever forget the Lord your God and gofollow after other gods and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you will surelycertainly perish. |
| 8:20 |
Like the nations that the Lord makeseliminates tofrom perish before you, so you shall perish;, because you would not listen to the voice of the Lord your God. |
| 9:1 |
“Hear, O Israel! You are crossing over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, cities that are great citiesand fortified to heaven, |
| 9:2 |
a people who are great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know and of whom you have heard it said, ‘Who can stand beforeagainst the sons of Anak?’ |
| 9:3 |
KnowSo thereforebe aware today that it is the Lord your God who is crossing over beforeahead of you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them and He will subdue them before you, so that you may drive them out and destroyeliminate them quickly, just as the Lord has spoken to you. |
| 9:4 |
“Do not say in your heart when the Lord your God has driven them outaway beforefrom you, ‘Because of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possesstake possession of this land,’.’ butRather, it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is dispossessing them before you. |
| 9:5 |
It is not forbecause of your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to possesstake possession of their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and in order to confirm the oath which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. |
| 9:6 |
“Know, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stubborn people. |
| 9:7 |
Remember, do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrathanger in the wilderness; from the day that you left the land of Egypt until you arrived at this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord. |
| 9:8 |
Even at Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrathanger, and the Lord was so angry with you that He would have destroyed you. |
| 9:9 |
When I went up to the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord had made with you, then I remained on the mountain for forty days and nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water. |
| 9:12 |
Then the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, go down from here quickly, forbecause your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have actedbehaved corruptly. They have quickly turned aside from the way whichthat I commanded them; they have made a moltencast metal image for themselves.’ |
| 9:13 |
The Lord spokealso furthersaid to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed, it is a stubborn people. |
| 9:14 |
LetLeave Me alone, that I may destroy them and blotwipe out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’ |
| 9:16 |
And I saw that you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God. You had made for yourselves a moltencast metal image of a calf; you had quickly turned aside quickly from the way whichthat the Lord had commanded you. |
| 9:17 |
So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my two hands, and smashed them to pieces before your eyes.! |
| 9:18 |
Then I fell down before the Lord, aslike at the first time, for forty days and nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you had committed inby doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. |
| 9:19 |
For I was afraid of the anger and hotthe displeasurerage with which the Lord was wrathfulangry againstwith you inso orderas to destroy you,; but the Lord listened to me that time alsoas well. |
| 9:20 |
The Lord was also angry enough with Aaron to destroy him; so I also prayed for Aaron at the same time. |
| 9:21 |
And I took your sinful thing, the calf which you had made, the calf, and burned it within the fire and crushed it, grinding it verythoroughly small until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brookstream that came down from the mountain. |
| 9:22 |
“AgainThen at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah you provokedkept provoking the Lord to wrathanger. |
| 9:23 |
WhenAnd when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Go up and possesstake possession of the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God; you neither believedtrusted Him nor listened to His voice. |
| 9:24 |
You have been rebellious againsttoward the Lord fromsince the day I knew you. |
| 9:25 |
“So I fell down before the Lord for the forty days and nights, which I did because the Lord had said He would destroy you. |
| 9:26 |
And I prayed to the Lord and said, ‘O Lord God, do not destroy Your people, even Your inheritance, whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.! |
| 9:27 |
Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not lookturn atYour attention to the stubbornness of this people, or atto their wickedness, or their sin. |
| 9:28 |
Otherwise, the people of the land from which You brought us maywill say, “BecauseSince the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which He had promised them, and becausesince He hated them, He has brought them out to slaykill them in the wilderness.”!” |
| 9:29 |
Yet they are Your people, evenand Your inheritance, whom You have brought out by Your great power and Your outstretched arm.’ |
| 10:1 |
“At that time the Lord said to me, ‘Cut out for yourself two tablets of stone like the formerfirst onestwo, and come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood for yourself. |
| 10:2 |
Then I will write on the tablets the words that were on the formerfirst tablets which you shatteredsmashed to pieces, and you shall put them in the ark.’ |
| 10:3 |
So I made an ark of acacia wood and cut out two tablets of stone like the formerfirst onestwo, and I went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hand. |
| 10:4 |
Then He wrote on the tablets, like the formerfirst writing, the Ten Commandments which the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me. |
| 10:5 |
Then I turned and came down from the mountain, and I put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are there, just as the Lord commanded me.” |
| 10:6 |
(Now the sons of Israel set out from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died and there he was buried, and Eleazar his son ministeredEleazar served as priest in his place. |
| 10:7 |
From there they set out to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooksstreams of water. |
| 10:8 |
At that time the Lord setsingled apartout the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to serve Him and to bless in His name, until this day. |
| 10:10 |
“I, moreover, stayed on the mountain for forty days and forty nights like the first time, and the Lord listened to me that time also; the Lord was not willing to destroy you. |
| 10:11 |
Then the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, proceed on your journey ahead of the people, so that they may go in and possesstake possession of the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.’ |
| 10:12 |
“NowAnd now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require fromof you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, |
| 10:15 |
Yet on your fathers did the Lord set His affection on your fathers, to love them, and He chose their descendants after them, even you aboveover all the other peoples, as it is this day. |
| 10:16 |
So circumcise your heart, and do not stiffen your neck noany longer. |
| 10:17 |
For the Lord your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who does not show partiality, nor take a bribe. |
| 10:18 |
He executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and shows His love for the alienstranger by giving him food and clothing. |
| 10:19 |
So show your love for the alienstranger, for you were aliensstrangers in the land of Egypt. |
| 10:20 |
You shall fear the Lord your God; you shall serve Him, and cling to Him, and you shall swear by His name. |
| 10:21 |
He is your praiseglory and He is your God, who has done these great and awesome things for you which your eyes have seen. |
| 11:1 |
“You shall therefore love the Lord your God, and always keep His chargedirective, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments. |
| 11:2 |
Know this day that I am not speaking with your sons who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of the Lord your God—His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm, |
| 11:4 |
and what He did to Egypt’s army, to its horses and its chariots, when He made the water of the Red Sea to engulf them while they were pursuing you, and the Lord completely destroyedeliminated them; |
| 11:5 |
and what He did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place; |
| 11:8 |
“You shall therefore keep every commandment which I am commanding you today, so that you may be strong and go in and possesstake possession of the land into which you are about to cross to possess it; |
| 11:9 |
and so that you may prolong your days on the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey. |
| 11:10 |
For the land, into which you are entering to possess it, is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, where you used to sow your seed and water it withby your foot like a vegetable garden. |
| 11:12 |
a land for which the Lord your God cares; the eyes of the Lord your God are alwayscontinually on it, from the beginning even to the end of the year. |
| 11:13 |
“ItAnd it shall come about, if you listen obediently to my commandments which I am commanding you today, to love the Lord your God and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul, |
| 11:14 |
that He will giveprovide the rain for your land in its season, the early and late rain, so that you may gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil. |
| 11:15 |
He will givealso provide grass in your fieldsfield for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied. |
| 11:16 |
Beware that your hearts are not easily deceived, and that you do not turn away and serve other gods, and worship them. |
| 11:17 |
OrOtherwise, the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and He will shut up the heavenssky so that there will be no rain, and the ground will not yield its fruitproduce; andthen you will quickly perish quickly from the good land which the Lord is giving you. |
| 11:18 |
“You shall therefore impresstake these words of mine onto your heart and onto your soul; and you shall bindtie them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontalsfrontlets on your forehead. |
| 11:19 |
You shall also teach them to your sons, talkingspeaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk along the road, and when you lie down, and when you riseget up. |
| 11:20 |
YouAnd you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, |
| 11:21 |
so that your days and the days of your sons may be multipliedincreased on the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens remainare above the earth. |
| 11:22 |
For if you are careful to keep all of this commandment which I am commanding you to do, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and holdcling fast to Him, |
| 11:23 |
then the Lord will drivedispossess out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you. |
| 11:24 |
Every place on which the sole of your foot treadssteps shall be yours; your border will be from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the river, the river Euphrates, as far as the western sea. |
| 11:25 |
No manone will be able to stand beforeagainst you; the Lord your God will layinstill the dread of you and the fear of you onin all the land on which you set foot, just as He has spoken to you. |
| 11:26 |
“See, I am settingplacing before you today a blessing and a curse: |
| 11:29 |
“ItAnd it shall come about, when the Lord your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, that you shall place the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. |
| 11:30 |
Are they not across the Jordan, west of the wayroad toward the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh? |
| 11:31 |
For you are about to cross the Jordan to go in to possesstake possession of the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and you shall possess it and live in it, |
| 11:32 |
and you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the judgments which I am settingplacing before you today. |
| 12:1 |
“These are the statutes and the judgments which you shall carefully observefollow in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess as long as you live on the earth. |
| 12:2 |
You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shallare going to dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every greenleafy tree. |
| 12:3 |
YouAnd you shall tear down their altars and smash their sacredmemorial pillarsstones to pieces, and burn their Asherim within the fire, and youcut shallto cutpieces down the engravedcarved images of their gods; and obliterateyou shall eliminate their name from that place. |
| 12:4 |
You shall not act like this way toward the Lord your God. |
| 12:5 |
But you shall seek the Lord at the place which the Lord your God will choose from all your tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and there you shall come there. |
| 12:6 |
ThereYou you shall bring there your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the contribution of your hand, your votivevowed offerings, your freewillvoluntary offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock. |
| 12:7 |
There also you and your households shall eat before the Lord your God, and rejoice in all your undertakings in which the Lord your God has blessed you. |
| 12:8 |
“You shall not do at all what we are doing here today, everyeveryone man doing whatever is right in his own eyes; |
| 12:10 |
When you cross the Jordan and live in the land which the Lord your God is giving you toas inheritan inheritance, and He gives you rest from all your enemies around you so that you live in security, |
| 12:11 |
then it shall come about that the place in which the Lord your God will choose for His name to dwell, there you shall bring alleverything that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution of your hand, and all your choice votivevowed offerings which you will vow to the Lord. |
| 12:12 |
And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your sons and daughters, your male and female servantsslaves, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance with you. |
| 12:13 |
“Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in everyany cultic place that you see, |
| 12:14 |
but only in the place which the Lord chooses in one of your tribes,: there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do alleverything that I command you. |
| 12:15 |
“However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, whatever you desire, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer. |
| 12:17 |
You are not allowed to eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or new wine, or oil, or the firstborn of your herd or flock, or any of your votivevowed offerings which you vow, or your freewillvoluntary offerings, or the contribution of your hand. |
| 12:18 |
But you shall eat them before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God will choose, you and your son and daughter, and your male and female servantsslaves, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all your undertakings. |
| 12:19 |
Be careful that you do not forsakeabandon the Levite as long as you live in your land. |
| 12:21 |
If the place whichwhere the Lord your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, then you may slaughter ofanimals from your herd and flock which the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates whatever you desire. |
| 12:22 |
Just as a gazelle or a deer is eaten, so you willmay eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it. |
| 12:25 |
You shall not eat it, so that it may bego well withfor you and your sons after you, forsince you will be doing what is right in the sight of the Lord. |
| 12:26 |
Only your holy things which you may have and your votivevowed offerings, you shall take and go to the place which the Lord chooses. |
| 12:28 |
“Be careful toand listen to all these words which I commandam commanding you, so that it may bego well withfor you and your sons after you forever, for you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God. |
| 12:29 |
“When the Lord your God cuts off beforefrom you the nations which you are going in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwelllive in their land, |
| 12:30 |
bewarebe careful that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed beforefrom youyour presence, and that you do not inquire afterabout their gods, saying, ‘How do these nations serve their gods, that I also may do likewise?’ |
| 12:31 |
You shall not behave thusthis way toward the Lord your God, forbecause every abominable act which the Lord hates, they have done for their gods; for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire tofor their gods. |
| 12:32 |
“Whatever I command you, you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to nor take anything away from it. |
| 13:2 |
and the sign or the wonder comes true, concerningof which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let’s usfollow go after other gods (whom you have not known) and let’s us serve them,’ |
| 13:3 |
you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for the Lord your God is testing you to find out ifwhether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. |
| 13:5 |
But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has counseledspoken rebellionfalsely against the Lord your God who brought you fromout of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, to seducedrive you from the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purgeeliminate the evil from among you. |
| 13:6 |
“If your brother, your mother’s son, or your son or daughter, or the wife you cherish, or your friend who is aslike your own soul, enticeentices you secretly, saying, ‘Let’s us go and serve other gods’ (whom neither you nor your fathers have known, |
| 13:7 |
of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near you, or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end), |
| 13:8 |
you shall not yieldconsent to him or listen to him; and your eye shall not pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him. |
| 13:9 |
ButInstead, you shall surelymost certainly kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterwardsafterward the hand of all the people. |
| 13:10 |
So you shall stone him to death, because he has soughtattempted to seducedrive you away from the Lord your God who brought you out fromof the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. |
| 13:11 |
Then all Israel will hear about it and be afraid, and will nevernot again do such a wicked thing among you again. |
| 13:13 |
some worthless men have gone out from among you and have seduced the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘Let’s us go and serve other gods’ (whom you have not known), |
| 13:14 |
then you shall investigate, and search out, and inquire thoroughly. IfAnd if it is true and the matter establishedis certain that this abomination has been donecommitted among you, |
| 13:15 |
you shall surelymost certainly strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword,. utterlyUtterly destroyingdestroy it and all thatwho isare in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword. |
| 13:16 |
Then you shall gather all its bootyplunder into the middle of its openpublic square, and burn the city and all its bootyplunder with fire as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God; and it shall be a ruin forever. It shall never be rebuilt. |
| 13:17 |
Nothing at all from thatwhat which is putdesignated underfor thedestruction banis shallto cling to your hand, in order that the Lord may turn from His burning anger and show mercy to you, and have compassion on you and make you increase, just as He has sworn to your fathers, |
| 14:1 |
“You are the sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave a bald spot above your forehead for the sake of the dead. |
| 14:2 |
For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for His ownpersonal possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. |
| 14:4 |
These are the animals whichthat you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, |
| 14:5 |
the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. |
| 14:6 |
AnyAnd any animal that divideshas thea divided hoof and has theits hoofhoofs split in two, and chews the cud, among the animals, that animal you may eat. |
| 14:7 |
NeverthelessHowever, you are not to eat of these among thosethe whichones that chew the cud, or among those that dividehave the hoof divided in two: the camel, and the rabbit, and the shaphanrock hyrax, for though they chew the cud, they do not dividehave thea divided hoof; they are unclean forto you. |
| 14:8 |
TheAnd the pig, because it divideshas thea divided hoof but does not chew the cud, it is unclean for you. You shall not eat any of their flesh, nor touch their carcasses. |
| 14:9 |
“These you may eat of alleverything that areis in the water: anything that has fins and scales you may eat, |
| 14:10 |
but anything that does not have fins and scales, you shall not eat; it is unclean for you. |
| 14:12 |
But these are the ones whichthat you shall not eat: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard, |
| 14:15 |
and the ostrich, the owl, the sea gullseagull, and the hawk in their kinds, |
| 14:19 |
And all the teemingswarming lifeinsects with wings are unclean to you; they shall not be eaten. |
| 14:21 |
“You shall not eat anything which dies of itself. You may give it to the alienstranger who is in your town, so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner,stranger; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. |
| 14:22 |
“You shall surelycertainly tithe all the produce from what you sow, which comes outfrom of the field every year. |
| 14:24 |
IfBut if the distance is so great for you that you are not able to bring the tithe, since the place where the Lord your God chooses to set His name is too far away from you when the Lord your God blesses you, |
| 14:26 |
YouAnd you may spend the money foron whatever your heart desires: foron oxen, or sheep, or wine, orother strong drink, or whatever your heart desires; and there you shall eat in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your household. |
| 14:28 |
“At the end of every third year you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in that year, and you shall deposit it in your town. |
| 14:29 |
TheAnd the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance among you, and the alienstranger, the orphan, and the widow who are in your town, shall come and eat and be satisfied, in order that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do. |
| 15:1 |
“At the end of every seven years you shall grant a remissionrelease of debts. |
| 15:2 |
ThisAnd this is the mannerregulation for the release of remissiondebts: every creditor shallis releaseto forgive what he has loaned to his neighbor; he shall not exactrequire it of his neighbor and his brother, because the Lord’s remissionrelease has been proclaimed. |
| 15:3 |
From a foreigner you may exactrequire it, but your hand shall releaseforgive whatever of yours is with your brother. |
| 15:4 |
However, there will be no poor among you, since the Lord will surelycertainly bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, |
| 15:5 |
if only you listen obediently to the voice of the Lord your God, to observefollow carefully all this commandment which I am commanding you today. |
| 15:6 |
For the Lord your God will blesshave blessed you just as He has promised you, and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow; and you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you. |
| 15:7 |
“If there is a poor manperson withamong you, one of your brothers, in any of your towns in your land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand from your poor brother; |
| 15:8 |
but you shall freelyfully open your hand to him, and shall generously lend him sufficientenough for his need in whatever he lacks. |
| 15:9 |
BewareBe careful that there is no basemean-spirited thought in your heart, sayingsuch as, ‘The seventh year, the year of remissionrelease of debts, is near,’ and your eye is hostilemalicious toward your poor brother, and you give him nothing; then he may cry out to the Lord against you, and it will be a sin in you. |
| 15:10 |
You shall generously give to him, and your heart shall not be grievedgrudging when you give to him, because for this thing the Lord your God will bless you in all your work, and in all your undertakings. |
| 15:11 |
For the poor will nevernot cease to beexist in the land; therefore I commandam commanding you, saying, ‘You shall freelyfully open your hand to your brother, to your needy and poor in your land.’ |
| 15:12 |
“If your kinsmanfellow countryman, a Hebrew man or woman, is sold to you, then he shall serve you for six years, but in the seventh year you shall set him free. |
| 15:13 |
WhenAnd when you set him free, you shall not send him away empty-handed. |
| 15:14 |
You shall furnishgive generously to him liberally from your flock, and from your threshing floor, and from your wine vat; you shall give to him as the Lord your God has blessed you. |
| 15:15 |
YouAnd shallyou are to remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore I commandam youcommanding this of you today. |
| 15:16 |
ItBut it shall come about, if he says to you, ‘I will not goleave out from you,’ because he loves you and your household, since he faresis doing well with you;, |
| 15:17 |
then you shall take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your servant foreverpermanently. AlsoYou you shall also do likewisethe same to your maidservantfemale slave. |
| 15:18 |
“It shall not seem harddifficult tofor you when you set him free, forbecause he has given you six years with double the service of a hired manworker; so the Lord your God will bless you in whatever you do. |
| 15:19 |
“You shall consecrate to the Lord your God all the firstborn males that are born ofin your herd and ofin your flock; you shall not work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock. |
| 15:21 |
But if it has any defectimpairment, such as lamenessa limp, or blindness, or any serious defectimpairment, you shall not sacrifice it to the Lord your God. |
| 16:3 |
You shall not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in hastea hurry), so that you maywill remember all the days of your life the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life. |
| 16:4 |
For seven days no leaven shall be seen with you in all your entire territory, and none of the fleshmeat which you sacrifice on the evening of the first day shall remainbe left overnight until the morning. |
| 16:6 |
but only at the place where the Lord your God chooses to establish His name, you shall sacrifice the Passover in the evening at sunset, at the time that you came out of Egypt. |
| 16:8 |
SixFor six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a solemnfestive assembly to the Lord your God; you shall do no work on it. |
| 16:10 |
Then you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with a tributevoluntary offering of ayour freewillhand offeringin ofa yourproportional handamount, which you shall give just as the Lord your God blesses you; |
| 16:11 |
and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you, and your son and your daughter, and your male and female servantsslaves, and the Levite who is in your town, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow who are in your midst, inat the place where the Lord your God chooses to establish His name. |
| 16:12 |
You shall also remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful toand observecomply with these statutes. |
| 16:13 |
“You shall celebrate the Feast of Booths for seven days afterwhen you have gathered in from your threshing floor and your wine vat; |
| 16:14 |
and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son and your daughter, and your male and female servantsslaves, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow who are in your towns. |
| 16:15 |
SevenFor seven days you shall celebrate a feast to the Lord your God in the place which the Lord chooses, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful. |
| 16:16 |
“Three times in a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God inat the place which He chooses,: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths,; and they shallare not to appear before the Lord empty-handed. |
| 16:17 |
EveryEveryone man shall give as he is able, accordingin toaccordance with the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you. |
| 16:19 |
You shall not distort justice;, you shall not beshow partial,partiality; and you shall not takeaccept a bribe, forbecause a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and pervertsdistorts the words of the righteous. |
| 16:20 |
Justice, and only justice, you shall pursue, so that you may live and possess the land which the Lord your God is giving you. |
| 16:22 |
YouAnd you shall not set up for yourself a sacredmemorial pillarstone, which the Lord your God hates. |
| 17:2 |
“If there is found in your midst, in any of your towns, which the Lord your God is giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, by transgressingviolating His covenant, |
| 17:3 |
and that person has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the heavenly hostlights, which I have commanded not commandedto do, |
| 17:4 |
and if it is toldreported to you and you have heard ofabout it, then you shall inquireinvestigate thoroughly. Behold,And if it is true and the thingreport certainis trustworthy that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, |
| 17:5 |
then you shallare to bring out to your gates that man or that woman who has done this evil deed to your gates, that is, the man or the woman, and you shall stone them to death. |
| 17:6 |
On the evidencetestimony of two witnesses or three witnesses, hethe whocondemned is to die shall be put to death; he shall not be put to death on the evidencetestimony of only one witness. |
| 17:7 |
The handhands of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the handhands of all the people. So you shall purgeeliminate the evil from your midst. |
| 17:8 |
“If anya case is too difficult for you to decide, between one kind of homicide or another, between one kind of lawsuit or another, and between one kind of assault or another, beingthat are cases of dispute in your courts, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the Lord your God chooses. |
| 17:9 |
So you shall come to the Levitical priestpriests or the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall inquire of them and they will declare to you the verdict in the case. |
| 17:10 |
YouThen you shall doact accordingin toaccordance with the terms of the verdict which they declare to you from that place which the Lord chooses; and you shall be careful to observeact accordingin toaccordance allwith everything that they teachinstruct you to do. |
| 17:11 |
AccordingIn toaccordance with the terms of the law about which they teachinstruct you, and accordingin toaccordance with the verdict which they tell you, you shall doact; you shall not turn aside from the word which they declare to you, to the right or the left. |
| 17:12 |
TheBut manthe person who acts presumptuouslyinsolently by not listening to the priest who stands there to serve the Lord your God, nor to the judge, that manperson shall die; thusso you shall purgeeliminate the evil from Israel. |
| 17:13 |
Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and will not act presumptuouslyinsolently again. |
| 17:14 |
“When you enter the land which the Lord your God givesis giving you, and you possesstake possession of it and live in it, and you say, ‘I will setappoint a king over me like all the nations who are around me,’ |
| 17:15 |
you shall surelyin setfact appoint a king over you whom the Lord your God chooses,. oneOne from among your countrymen you shall setappoint as king over yourselves; you may not put a foreigner over yourselves, anyone who is not your countryman. |
| 17:16 |
MoreoverIn any case, he shallis not multiplyto acquire many horses for himself, nor shall he causemake the people to return to Egypt in order to multiplyacquire many horses, since the Lord has said to you, ‘You shall never again return that way.’ |
| 17:17 |
HeAnd he shall not multiplyacquire many wives for himself, orso elsethat his heart willdoes not turn away; nor shall he greatly increase silver and gold for himself. |
| 17:18 |
“Now it shall come about, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this lawLaw on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests. |
| 17:19 |
ItAnd it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, so that he maywill learn to fear the Lord his God, by carefully observingfollowing all the words of this lawLaw and these statutes, |
| 17:20 |
so that his heart maywill not be liftedhaughty uptoward above his countrymen, and that he maywill not turn asideaway from the commandment, to the right or the left, so that he and his sons may continuelive long in his kingdom in the midst of Israel. |
| 18:1 |
“The Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, shall not have noa portion or inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the Lord’s offerings by fire and His portionproperty. |
| 18:2 |
They shall not have noan inheritance among their countrymen; the Lord is their inheritance, as He promised them. |
| 18:3 |
“Now this shall be the priests’ dueportion from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, either an ox or a sheep,: of which they shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the stomach. |
| 18:4 |
You shall give him the first fruits of your grain, your new wine, and your oil, and the first shearingfleece of your sheep. |
| 18:5 |
For the Lord your God has chosen him and his sons from all your tribes, to stand andto serve in the name of the Lord foreveralways. |
| 18:6 |
“Now if a Levite comes from any of your towns throughout Israel where he resides, and he comes whenever he desires to the place which the Lord chooses, |
| 18:8 |
They shall eat equal portions, except for what they receive from the sale of their fathers’ estates. |
| 18:9 |
“When you enter the land which the Lord your God givesis giving you, you shall not learn to imitate the detestable things of those nations. |
| 18:10 |
There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, onea who practices witchcraftsoothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, |
| 18:11 |
or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who callsconsults up the dead. |
| 18:12 |
For whoever does these things is detestable to the Lord; and because of these detestable things the Lord your God willis going to drive them out before you. |
| 18:13 |
You shallare to be blameless before the Lord your God. |
| 18:14 |
For thosethese nations, which you shallare going to dispossess, listen to thosesoothsayers who practice witchcraft and to diviners, but as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do so. |
| 18:15 |
“The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen,; to him you shall listen to him. |
| 18:16 |
This is accordingin toaccordance allwith everything that you asked of the Lord your God inat Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, ‘LetDo not let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God again, and do not let me not see this great fire anymore, or I will die.’!’ |
| 18:17 |
TheAnd the Lord said to me, ‘They have spoken well. |
| 18:18 |
I will raise up for them a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them alleverything that I command him. |
| 18:19 |
ItAnd it shall come about that whoever willdoes not listen to My words which he shallspeaks speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him. |
| 18:20 |
But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name, a word which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’ |
| 18:21 |
YouAnd mayif you say in your heart, ‘How will we knowrecognize the word which the Lord has not spoken?’ |
| 18:22 |
When athe prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, ifand the thing does not comehappen about or come true, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shallare not to be afraid of him. |
| 19:1 |
“When the Lord your God cuts off the nations, whose land the Lord your God givesis giving you, and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and in their houses, |
| 19:2 |
you shall set aside for yourself three cities for yourself in the midst of your land, which the Lord your God givesis giving you to possess. |
| 19:3 |
You shall prepare the roads for yourself, and divide into three partsregions the territory of your land which the Lord your God will give you as aan possessioninheritance, so that anyanyone manslayerwho commits manslaughter may flee there. |
| 19:4 |
“Now this is the case of the manslayerone who commits manslaughter, who may flee there and live: when he kills his friend unintentionally, not hating him previously— |
| 19:5 |
as when a manperson goes into the forest with his friend to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron head slips off the handle and strikes his friend so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and live;. |
| 19:6 |
otherwiseOtherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue thehim manslayer in the heat of his anger, and overtake him, because the way is long, and take his life, though he was not deservingsentenced ofto death, since he had not hated him previously. |
| 19:7 |
Therefore, I command you, saying, ‘You shall set aside for yourself three cities for yourself.’ |
| 19:8 |
“IfAnd if the Lord your God enlarges your territory, just as He has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land whichthat He promised to give your fathers— |
| 19:9 |
if you carefully observefollow all of this commandment which I commandam commanding you today, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in His ways always—then you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three. |
| 19:10 |
So innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land which the Lord your God givesis giving you as an inheritance, and bloodguiltinessguilt for bloodshed will not be on you. |
| 19:11 |
“But if there is a manperson who hates his neighbor, and lieswaits in waitambush for him and rises up against him and strikes him so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities, |
| 19:12 |
then the elders of his city shall send men and take him from there, and deliverhand him intoover theto hand of the avenger of blood, so that he may die. |
| 19:13 |
You shall not pity him, but you shall purgeeliminate the bloodguilt for the bloodshed of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well withfor you. |
| 19:14 |
“You shall not movedisplace your neighbor’s boundary markmarker, which the ancestors have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the Lord your God givesis giving you to possess. |
| 19:15 |
“A single witness shall not rise up against a manperson onregarding account of any iniquitywrongdoing or any sin whichthat he has committedcommits; on the evidencetestimony of two or three witnesses a matter shall be confirmed. |
| 19:16 |
If a malicious witness rises up against a manperson to accusetestify against him of wrongdoing, |
| 19:17 |
then both thepeople men who have the dispute shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who will be in office in those days. |
| 19:18 |
TheAnd the judges shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is a false witness and he has accusedtestified against his brother falsely, |
| 19:19 |
then you shall do to him just as he had intendedplanned to do to his brother. ThusSo you shall purgeeliminate the evil from among you. |
| 19:20 |
TheAnd the rest of the people will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such an evil thing among you. |
| 19:21 |
ThusSo you shall not show pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot. |
| 20:1 |
“When you go out to battle against your enemies and see horses, and chariots, and people more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them; for the Lord your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt, is with you. |
| 20:2 |
When you are approaching the battle, the priest shall come nearforward and speak to the people. |
| 20:3 |
He shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Israel, you are approaching the battle against your enemies today. Do not be fainthearted. Do not be afraid, or panic, or tremblebe beforeterrified by them, |
| 20:4 |
for the Lord your God is the oneOne who goesis going with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’ |
| 20:5 |
The officers also shall speak to the people, saying, ‘Who is the man that has built a new house andbut has not dedicated it? Let him departgo and return to his house, otherwise he might die in the battle and another man would dedicate it. |
| 20:6 |
WhoAnd who is the man that has planted a vineyard andbut has not begunput it to use its fruit? Let him departgo and return to his house, otherwise he might die in the battle and another man would beginput it to use its fruit. |
| 20:7 |
And who is the man that is engagedbetrothed to a woman and has not married her? Let him departgo and return to his house, otherwise he might die in the battle and another man would marry her.’ |
| 20:8 |
Then the officers shall speak further to the people and say, ‘Who is the man that is afraid and fainthearted? Let him departgo and return to his house, so that he mightdoes not make his brothers’ hearts melt like his heart.’!’ |
| 20:9 |
WhenAnd when the officers have finished speaking to the people, they shall appoint commanders of armies at the head of the people. |
| 20:11 |
IfAnd if it agrees to make peace with you and opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall become your forced labor and shall serve you. |
| 20:14 |
OnlyHowever, the women, and the children, and the animals, and alleverything that is in the city, all of its spoilspoils, you shall take as bootyplunder for yourself; and you shall use the spoilspoils of your enemies which the Lord your God has given you. |
| 20:15 |
ThusThis is what you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations nearby. |
| 20:16 |
Only in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes alive. |
| 20:17 |
ButInstead, you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as the Lord your God has commanded you, |
| 20:18 |
so that they maywill not teach you to do accordingall tothe allsame their detestable thingspractices of theirs which they have done for their gods, soby thatwhich you would sin against the Lord your God. |
| 20:19 |
“When you besiege a city for a long time, to make war against it in order to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by swinging an axe against them; for you may eat from them, andso you shall not cut them down. For is the tree of the field a manhuman, that it should be besieged by you? |
| 20:20 |
Only the trees whichthat you know are not fruit trees you shall destroy and cut down, so that you may construct siegeworks against the city that is making war withagainst you until it falls. |
| 21:1 |
“If a slain person who has been killed by someone is found lying in the open country in the land which the Lord your God givesis giving you to possess, and it is not known who has struck him, |
| 21:2 |
then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure the distance to the cities which are around the slainone onewho was killed. |
| 21:3 |
ItAnd it shall be that the city which is nearest to the slainperson mankilled, that is, that the elders of that city, shall take a heifer of the herd, whichthat has not been worked and which has not pulled in a yoke; |
| 21:4 |
and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which has not been plowed or sown, and they shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley. |
| 21:5 |
Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come nearforward, forbecause the Lord your God has chosen them to serve Him and to bless in the name of the Lord; and every dispute and everyviolent assaultcrime shall be settled by them. |
| 21:6 |
AllAnd all the elders of that city which is nearest to the slainperson mankilled shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley; |
| 21:7 |
and they shall answerrespond and say, ‘Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see itwho did. |
| 21:8 |
Forgive Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, O Lord, and do not place the guilt offor innocent blood in the midst of Your people Israel.’ And the bloodguiltinessguilt for bloodshed shall be forgiven them. |
| 21:9 |
So you shall remove the guilt offor innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord. |
| 21:10 |
“When you go out to battle against your enemies, and the Lord your God delivershands them intoover yourto handsyou and you take them away captive, |
| 21:11 |
and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and haveare astrongly desireattracted forto her and would take her as a wife for yourself, |
| 21:12 |
then you shall bring her homeinto to your househome, and she shall shave her head and trim her nails. |
| 21:13 |
She shall also remove the clothes of her captivity and shall remain in your house, and mournweep for her father and mother a full month; and after that you may gohave inrelations towith her and bebecome her husband and she shall be your wife. |
| 21:14 |
ItBut it shall be, if you are not pleased with her, then you shall let her go wherever she wishes; butand you certainly shall certainly not sell her for money, you shall not mistreattreat her as merchandise, becausesince you have humbledhumiliated her. |
| 21:15 |
“If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him sons, ifand the firstborn son belongs to the unloved, |
| 21:16 |
then it shall be inon the day that he wills what he hasowns as an inheritance to his sons, he cannotis makenot allowed to treat the son of the loved wife as the firstborn, beforeat the expense of the son of the unloved, who actually is the firstborn son. |
| 21:17 |
ButOn the contrary, he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved wife, by giving him a double portion of alleverything that he hasowns, for he iswas the beginning of his strength; to him belongs the right of the firstborn. |
| 21:18 |
“If any manperson has a stubborn and rebellious son who willdoes not obey his father or his mother, and when they chastisediscipline him, he willdoes not even listen to them, |
| 21:20 |
TheyAnd they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious,; he willdoes not obey us, he is athoughtless glutton and agiven drunkardto drinking.’ |
| 21:21 |
Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death; so you shall removeeliminate the evil from your midst, and all Israel will hear ofabout it and fear. |
| 21:22 |
“IfNow if a manperson has committed a sin worthycarrying a sentence of death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, |
| 21:23 |
his corpsebody shallis not hangto allbe nightleft overnight on the tree, but you shall surelycertainly bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is accursedcursed of God), so that you do not defile your land which the Lord your God givesis giving you as an inheritance. |
| 22:1 |
“You shall not see your countryman’s ox or his sheep straying away, and payavoid no attention to them; you shall certainly bring them back to your countryman. |
| 22:2 |
IfAnd if your countryman is not near you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall remain with you until your countryman looks for it; then you shall restore it to him. |
| 22:3 |
ThusYou you shall also do this with his donkey, and you shall do the same with his garment, and you shall do likewise with anythingany lost byproperty of your countryman, which he has been lost by him and you have found. You are not allowed to neglectavoid them. |
| 22:4 |
You shall not see your countryman’s donkey or his ox fallen down on the wayroad, and payavoid no attention to them; you shall certainly help him to raise them up. |
| 22:5 |
“A woman shall not wear a man’s clothing, nor shall a man put on a woman’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God. |
| 22:6 |
“If you happen to come upon a bird’s nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs in it, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young; |
| 22:7 |
you shall certainly let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, in order that it may bego well withfor you and that you may prolong your days. |
| 22:8 |
“When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguiltguilt for bloodshed on your house if anyone falls from it. |
| 22:9 |
“You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, orotherwise all the produce of the seed which you have sown and the increaseyield of the vineyard will becomebe defiledforfeited to the sanctuary. |
| 22:11 |
“You shall not wear a material mixed of wool and linen combined together. |
| 22:14 |
and he charges her with shameful deedsbehavior and publicly defames her, and says, ‘I took this woman, but when I came near her, I did not find her ato virginhave evidence of virginity,’ |
| 22:16 |
TheAnd the girl’s father shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man foras a wife, but he turned against her; |
| 22:17 |
and behold, he has charged her with shameful deedsbehavior, saying, “I did not find your daughter ato virginhave evidence of virginity.” But this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread out the garment before the elders of the city. |
| 22:18 |
SoThen the elders of that city shall take the man and chastiserebuke him, |
| 22:19 |
and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give it to the girl’s father, because he publicly defamed a virgin of Israel. And she shall remain his wife; he cannotis not allowed to divorce her all his days. |
| 22:20 |
“But if this charge is true, thatand they did not find the girl wasto nothave foundevidence aof virginvirginity, |
| 22:21 |
then they shall bring out the girl out to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death, because she has committed ana actdisgraceful ofsin folly in Israel by playing the harlotprostitute in her father’s house; thusso you shall purgeeliminate the evil from among you. |
| 22:22 |
“If a man is found lyingsleeping with a married woman, then both of them shall die, the man who layslept with the woman, and the woman; thusso you shall purgeeliminate the evil from Israel. |
| 22:23 |
“If there is a girl who is a virgin engagedbetrothed to a man, and another man finds her in the city and liessleeps with her, |
| 22:24 |
then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city and you shall stone them to death;: the girl, because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man, because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. ThusSo you shall purgeeliminate the evil from among you. |
| 22:25 |
“But if in the field the man finds the girl who is engagedbetrothed in the field, and the man forcesseizes her and liesrapes with her, then only the man who liesraped with her shall die. |
| 22:26 |
ButAnd you shallare not to do nothinganything to the girl; there is no sin in the girl worthy of death, for just as a man rises against his neighbor and murders him, so is this case. |
| 22:27 |
When he found her in the field, the engagedbetrothed girl cried out, but there was no one to save her. |
| 22:28 |
“If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not engagedbetrothed, and he seizes her and lieshas sexual relations with her, and they are discovered, |
| 22:29 |
then the man who layhad sexual relations with her shall give to the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife, because he has violated her; he cannotis not allowed to divorce her all his days. |
| 22:30 |
“A man shall not take his father’s wife in marriage, so that he willdoes not uncover his father’s skirtgarment. |
| 23:1 |
“No one who is emasculated or has his male organ cut off shallmay enter the assembly of the Lord. |
| 23:2 |
No one of illegitimate birth shallmay enter the assembly of the Lord; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, shallmay enter the assembly of the Lord. |
| 23:3 |
No Ammonite or Moabite shallmay enter the assembly of the Lord; none of their descendants, even to the tenth generation, shallmay ever enter the assembly of the Lord, |
| 23:5 |
Nevertheless, the Lord your God was notunwilling willing to listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God loves you. |
| 23:7 |
“You shall not detestloathe an Edomite, for he is your brother; you shall not detestloathe an Egyptian, because you were ana alienstranger in his land. |
| 23:9 |
“When you go out as an army against your enemies, you shall keepbe yourselfon fromguard against every evil thing. |
| 23:11 |
But it shall be when evening approaches, he shall bathe himself with water, and at sundown he may reenter the camp. |
| 23:12 |
“You shall also have a place allocated outside the camp, andso that you may go out there to relieve yourself, |
| 23:13 |
and you shall have a spade among your tools, and it shall be when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and shall turn toand cover up your excrement. |
| 23:14 |
Since the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp to deliversave you and to defeat your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy; andso He must not see anything indecent among you or He will turn away from you. |
| 23:16 |
He shall live with you in your midst, in the place whichthat he shallchooses choose in one of your towns where it pleases him; you shall not mistreat him. |
| 23:18 |
You shall not bring the hireearnings of a harlotprostitute or the wagesmoney offor a dog into the house of the Lord your God as payment for any votivevowed offering, forbecause both of these are an abomination to the Lord your God. |
| 23:19 |
“You shallare not to charge interest to your countrymen: interest on money, food, or anything that may be loaned aton interest. |
| 23:21 |
“When you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not delay to pay it, for it would be sin in you, and the Lord your God will surelycertainly require it of you, and it will be a sin for you. |
| 23:22 |
However, if you refrain from vowingmaking vows, it wouldwill not be a sin infor you. |
| 23:23 |
You shall be careful toand perform what goes out fromof your lips, justsince asin fact you have voluntarily vowed a voluntary offering to the Lord your God, whatwhatever you have promised. |
| 23:24 |
“When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat grapes until you are fully satisfied,; but you shallare not to put any in your basket. |
| 23:25 |
“When you enter your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you shallare not wieldto use a sickle inon your neighbor’s standing grain. |
| 24:1 |
“When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens, thatif she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, andthat he writes her a certificate of divorce, and puts it in her hand, and sends her outaway from his house, |
| 24:3 |
and if the latter husband turns against her, and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand, and sends her outaway offrom his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife dies, |
| 24:4 |
then her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, sinceafter she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the Lord, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the Lord your God givesis giving you as an inheritance. |
| 24:5 |
“When a man takes a new wife, he shallis not to go out with the army, nor be chargedassigned with any duty; he shall be free at home for one year and shall givemake happiness to his wife whom he has taken happy. |
| 24:6 |
“No one shall takeseize a handmill or an upper millstone inas a pledge, for a loan, since he would be takingseizing athe debtor’s means of life inas a pledge. |
| 24:7 |
“If asomeone man is caught kidnapping any of his countrymen of the sons of Israel, and he dealstreats with him violentlyas ormerchandise and sells him, then that thief shall die; so you shall purgeeliminate the evil from among you. |
| 24:8 |
“Be careful againstabout an infectioninfestation of leprosy, that you diligentlyare observevery attentive and doact accordingin toaccordance allwith everything that the Levitical priests teach you; just as I have commanded them, so you shall be careful to doact. |
| 24:10 |
“When you make your neighbor a loan of any sortkind, you shall not enter his house to take his pledge. |
| 24:11 |
You shall remainstand outside, and the manperson to whom you makeare making the loan shall bring the pledge outoutside to you. |
| 24:12 |
IfAnd if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge. |
| 24:13 |
When the sun goes down you shall surelycertainly return the pledge to him, so that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you; and it will be righteousness for you before the Lord your God. |
| 24:14 |
“You shall not oppressexploit a hired servantworker who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your countrymen or one of your aliensstrangers who isare in your land in your towns. |
| 24:15 |
You shall give him his wages on his day before the sun sets, —for he is poor and sets his heart on it; —so that he willdoes not cry out against you to the Lord, and it becomebecomes a sin in you. |
| 24:16 |
“Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin alone. |
| 24:17 |
“You shall not pervert the justice due ana alienstranger or an orphan, nor takeseize a widow’s garment inas a pledge. |
| 24:18 |
But you shallare to remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and that the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing. |
| 24:19 |
“When you reap your harvest in your field and haveforget forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shallare not to go back to get it; it shall bebelong forto the alienstranger, for the orphan, and forto the widow, in order that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. |
| 24:20 |
When you beat the olives off your olive tree, you shallare not goto oversearch through the boughsbranches again; itthat shall be left for the alienstranger, for the orphan, and for the widow. |
| 24:21 |
“When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shallare not to go over it again; itthat shall be left for the alienstranger, for the orphan, and for the widow. |
| 24:22 |
YouAnd you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing. |
| 25:1 |
“If there is a dispute between menpeople and they go to court, and the judges decide their case, and they justifydeclare the righteous innocent and condemnpronounce the wicked guilty, |
| 25:2 |
then it shall be if the wicked manperson deserves to be beaten, the judge shall then make him lie down and behave him beaten in his presence with the number of stripeslashes according to his guiltwrongful act. |
| 25:3 |
He may beathave him beaten forty times, but nonot more, so that he does not beathave him beaten with many more stripeslashes than these, and that your brother isdoes not degradedbecome contemptible in your eyes. |
| 25:4 |
“You shall not muzzle the ox while heit is threshing. |
| 25:5 |
“When brothers live together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. Her husband’s brother shall gohave inrelations towith her and take her to himself as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. |
| 25:6 |
It shall then be that the firstborn to whom she bearsgives birth shall assume the name of his deadfather’s deceased brother, so that his name will not be blottedwiped out from Israel. |
| 25:7 |
But if the man does not desire to take his brother’s wifewidow, then his brother’s wifewidow shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to establish a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’ |
| 25:9 |
then his brother’s wifewidow shall come up to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face; and she shall declare, ‘ThusThis itis what is done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.’!’ |
| 25:10 |
InAnd in Israel his namefamily shall be called by the name, ‘The house of him whose sandal iswas removed.’ |
| 25:11 |
“If two men, a man and his countryman, arehave strugglinga togetherfight with each other, and the wife of one comes nearup to deliversave her husband from the hand of the one who is strikinghitting him, and putsshe reaches out with her hand and seizesgrasps histhat man’s genitals, |
| 25:15 |
You shall have a fullcorrect and justhonest weight; you shall have a fullcorrect and justhonest measure, so that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God givesis giving you. |
| 25:17 |
“Remember what Amalek did to you alongon the way when you came out fromof Egypt, |
| 25:18 |
how he metconfronted you alongon the way and attacked among you all the stragglers at your rear when you were fainttired and weary; and he did not fear God. |
| 25:19 |
ThereforeSo it shall come about, when the Lord your God has given you rest from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which the Lord your God givesis giving you as an inheritance to possess, that you shall blotwipe out the memorymention of the name Amalek from under heaven; you must not forget. |
| 26:1 |
“Then it shall be, when you enter the land which the Lord your God givesis giving you as an inheritance, and you possesstake possession of it and live in it, |
| 26:3 |
YouAnd you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, ‘I declare thistoday day to the Lord my God that I have entered the land which the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.’ |
| 26:4 |
Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the Lord your God. |
| 26:5 |
YouAnd you shall answerrespond and say before the Lord your God, ‘My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and sojournedresided there, few in number; but there he became a great, mighty, and populous nation. |
| 26:6 |
And the Egyptians treated us harshlybadly and afflictedoppressed us, and imposed hard labor on us. |
| 26:7 |
Then we cried out to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our afflictionwretched andcondition, our toiltrouble, and our oppression; |
| 26:8 |
and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and an outstretched arm, and with great terror, and with signs and wonders; |
| 26:9 |
and He has brought us to this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. |
| 26:10 |
NowAnd now behold, I have brought the first of the produce of the ground which You, O Lord have given me.’ AndThen you shall set it down before the Lord your God, and worship before the Lord your God; |
| 26:11 |
and you, and the Levite, and the alienstranger who is among you shall rejoice in all the good which the Lord your God has given you and your household. |
| 26:12 |
“When you have finished paying all the tithe of your increaseproduce in the third year, the year of tithingthe tithe, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the stranger, to the orphan, and to the widow, so that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied. |
| 26:13 |
YouAnd you shall say before the Lord your God, ‘I have removed the sacred portion from my house, and have also have given it to the Levite, and the alienstranger, the orphan, and the widow, accordingin toaccordance with all Your commandments which You have commanded me; I have not transgressedviolated or forgotten any of Your commandments. |
| 26:14 |
I have not eaten of it while mourning, nor have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor offered any of it to the dead. I have listened to the voice of the Lord my God; I have doneacted accordingin toaccordance allwith everything that You have commanded me. |
| 26:15 |
Look down from Your holy habitationdwelling place, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel, and the ground which You have given us, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as You swore to our fathers.’ |
| 26:16 |
“This day the Lord your God commands you to doperform these statutes and ordinances. YouTherefore you shall therefore be careful to doperform them with all your heart and with all your soul. |
| 26:17 |
YouToday you have today declared the Lord to be your God, and that you wouldwill walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His ordinances, and listen to His voice. |
| 26:18 |
TheAnd the Lord has today declared you to be His people, aHis treasuredpersonal possession, just as He promised you, and that you shouldare to keep all His commandments; |
| 26:19 |
and that He will setput you high above all the nations which He has made, for praiseglory, fame, and honor; and that you shall be a consecrated people to the Lord your God, just as He has spoken.” |
| 27:1 |
Then Moses and the elders of Israel chargedcommanded the people, saying, “Keep all the commandments which I commandam commanding you today. |
| 27:2 |
So it shall be on the day when you cross the Jordan to the land which the Lord your God givesis giving you, that you shall set up for yourself large stones and coat them with lime |
| 27:3 |
and write on them all the words of this lawLaw, when you cross over, so that you may enter the land which the Lord your God givesis giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your fathers, promised you. |
| 27:4 |
So it shall be when you cross the Jordan, you shall set up these stones on Mount Ebal, these stones, as I am commanding you today, and you shall coat them with lime. |
| 27:8 |
You shall write on the stones all the words of this lawLaw very distinctlyclearly.” |
| 27:9 |
Then Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel, saying, “Be silent and listen, O Israel! This day you have become a people for the Lord your God. |
| 27:10 |
YouSo you shall therefore obey the Lord your God, and do His commandments and His statutes which I commandam commanding you today.” |
| 27:11 |
Moses also chargedcommanded the people on that day, saying, |
| 27:12 |
“When you cross the Jordan, these tribes shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin. |
| 27:13 |
For the curse, these tribes shall stand on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. |
| 27:14 |
The Levites shall then answerrespond and say to all the menpeople of Israel with a loud voice, |
| 27:15 |
‘Cursed is the manperson who makes ana idolcarved image or acast moltenmetal image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of thea craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ And all the people shall answerreply and say, ‘Amen.’ |
| 27:16 |
‘Cursed is heone who dishonorstreats his father or mother contemptuously.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ |
| 27:17 |
‘Cursed is heone who movesdisplaces his neighbor’s boundary markmarker.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ |
| 27:18 |
‘Cursed is heone who misleads a person who is blind person on the road.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ |
| 27:19 |
‘Cursed is heone who distorts the justice due ana alienstranger, an orphan, andor a widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ |
| 27:20 |
‘Cursed is he who liessleeps with his father’s wife, because he has uncovered his father’s skirtgarment.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ |
| 27:21 |
‘Cursed is heone who lieshas sexual intercourse with any animal.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ |
| 27:22 |
‘Cursed is he who liessleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or of his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ |
| 27:23 |
‘Cursed is he who liessleeps with his mother-in-law.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ |
| 27:24 |
‘Cursed is he who strikesattacks his neighbor in secret.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ |
| 27:25 |
‘Cursed is he who accepts a bribe to strikeattack down an innocent person.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ |
| 27:26 |
‘Cursed is heanyone who does not confirmfulfill the words of this lawLaw by doing them.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ |
| 28:1 |
“Now it shall be, if you diligently obey the Lord your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I commandam commanding you today, that the Lord your God will setput you high above all the nations of the earth. |
| 28:2 |
AllAnd all these blessings will come uponto you and overtakereach you if you obey the Lord your God: |
| 28:3 |
“Blessed shallwill you be in the city, and blessed shallwill you be in the country. |
| 28:4 |
“Blessed shallwill be the offspringchildren of your bodywomb, and the produce of your ground, and the offspring of your beasts,animals: the increasenewborn of your herd and the young of your flock. |
| 28:5 |
“Blessed shallwill be your basket and your kneading bowl. |
| 28:6 |
“Blessed shallwill you be when you come in, and blessed shallwill you be when you go out. |
| 28:7 |
“The Lord shallwill cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated beforeby you; they will comego out against you one way and will flee beforeat youyour presence seven ways. |
| 28:8 |
The Lord will command the blessing uponfor you in your barns and in alleverything that you put your hand to, and He will bless you in the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you. |
| 28:11 |
TheAnd the Lord will makegive you aboundmore inthan enough prosperity, in the offspringchildren of your bodywomb, and in the offspring of your beastlivestock, and in the produce of your ground, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. |
| 28:12 |
The Lord will open for you His good storehouse, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless allevery the work of your hand; and you shallwill lend to many nations, but you shallwill not borrow. |
| 28:13 |
TheAnd the Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you will only will be above, and you will not be underneath, if you listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I chargeam commanding you today, to observefollow them carefully, |
| 28:14 |
and do not turn aside from any of the words which I commandam commanding you today, to the right or to the left, to gopursue after other gods to serve them. |
| 28:15 |
“But it shall come about, if you do not obey the Lord your God, to observebe careful to dofollow all His commandments and His statutes with which I chargeam commanding you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: |
| 28:16 |
“Cursed shallwill you be in the city, and cursed shallwill you be in the country. |
| 28:17 |
“Cursed shallwill be your basket and your kneading bowl. |
| 28:18 |
“Cursed shallwill be the offspringchildren of your bodywomb, and the produce of your ground, the increasenewborn of your herd, and the youngoffspring of your flock. |
| 28:19 |
“Cursed shallwill you be when you come in, and cursed shallwill you be when you go out. |
| 28:20 |
“The Lord will send uponagainst you curses, confusionpanic, and rebuke, in alleverything you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsakenabandoned Me. |
| 28:21 |
The Lord will make the pestilenceplague cling to you until He has consumedeliminated you from the land where you are entering to possesstake possession of it. |
| 28:22 |
The Lord will smitestrike you with consumption, andinflammation, with fever, andfeverish with inflammation and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew, and they will pursue you until you perish. |
| 28:25 |
“The Lord shallwill cause you to be defeated beforeby your enemies; you will go out one way against them, but you will flee seven ways beforefrom themtheir presence, and you will be an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth. |
| 28:26 |
Your carcassesdead bodies will beserve as food tofor all birds of the sky and tofor the beastsanimals of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away. |
| 28:27 |
“The Lord will smitestrike you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, andthe withfestering therash, scab and with the itchscabies, from which you cannot be healed. |
| 28:28 |
The Lord will smitestrike you with madnessinsanity, and with blindness, and with bewildermentconfusion of heartmind; |
| 28:29 |
and you will gropebe groping about at noon, just as thea person who is blind man gropes in the darkness, and you will not prosperbe successful in your ways; but you shallwill only be oppressed and robbed continuallyall the time, with noneno one to save you. |
| 28:30 |
You shallwill betroth a wifewoman, but another man will violate her; you shallwill build a house, but you will not live in it; you shallwill plant a vineyard, but you will not make use of its fruit. |
| 28:31 |
Your ox shallwill be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat of it; your donkey shallwill be tornsnatched away from you, and will not be restored to you; your sheep shallwill be given to your enemies, and you will have noneno one to save you. |
| 28:32 |
Your sons and your daughters shallwill be given to another people, while your eyes look on and yearnlong for them continuallyconstantly; but there will be nothing you can do. |
| 28:33 |
A people whom you do not know shallwill eat up the produce of your ground and allevery product of your laborslabor, and you will never be anything but oppressed and crushedmistreated continually. |
| 28:34 |
You shallwill also be driven madinsane by the sight of what you see. |
| 28:35 |
The Lord will strike you on the knees and legsthighs with soresevere boils, from which you cannot be healed, and strike you from the sole of your foot to the crowntop of your head. |
| 28:36 |
The Lord will bring you and your king, whom you setappoint over you, to a nation whichthat neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods, made of wood and stone. |
| 28:37 |
YouAnd shallyou will become aan object of horror, a proverbsong of mockery, and aan tauntobject of taunting among all the peoplepeoples where the Lord drives you. |
| 28:38 |
“You shallwill bring out mucha great amount of seed to the field, but you will gather in little, forbecause the locust will consumedevour it. |
| 28:39 |
You shallwill plant and cultivate vineyards, but you will neither drink of the wine nor gatherbring in the grapesharvest, forbecause the worm will devoureat themit. |
| 28:40 |
You shallwill have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, forbecause your olives will drop off prematurely. |
| 28:41 |
You shallwill havefather sons and daughters but they will not beremain yours, forbecause they will go into captivity. |
| 28:42 |
The cricket shallwill possesstake possession of all your trees and the produce of your ground. |
| 28:43 |
The alienstranger who is among you shallwill rise above you higher and higher, butand you will go down lower and lower. |
| 28:44 |
He shallwill lend to you, but you will not lend to him; he shallwill be the head, and you will be the tail. |
| 28:45 |
“So all these curses shall come onupon you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. |
| 28:46 |
TheyAnd shallthey will become a sign and a wonder onagainst you and your descendants forever. |
| 28:47 |
“BecauseSince you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and a gladcheerful heart, in gratitude for the abundance of all things;, |
| 28:48 |
therefore you shallwill serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and indevoid the lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you. |
| 28:49 |
“The Lord will bring a nation against you from afarfar away, from the end of the earth, as the eagle swoops down,; a nation whose language you shallwill not understand, |
| 28:50 |
a nation ofwith fiercea countenancedefiant attitude, who will have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young. |
| 28:51 |
MoreoverFurthermore, it shallwill eat the offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed,; whoa alsonation leavesthat will leave you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the increasenewborn of your herdcattle or the young of your flock, until they have causedeliminated you to perish. |
| 28:52 |
ItAnd shallit will besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land, and it shallwill besiege you in all your towns throughout your land which the Lord your God has given you. |
| 28:53 |
Then you shallwill eat the offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, during the siege and the distresshardship by which your enemy will oppress you. |
| 28:54 |
The man who is refined and very delicate among you shallwill be hostile toward his brother, and toward the wife he cherishes, and toward the rest of his children who remainare left, |
| 28:55 |
so that he will not give even one of them any of the flesh of his children which he will eat, since he has nothing else left, during the siege and the distresshardship by which your enemy will oppress you in all your towns. |
| 28:56 |
The refined and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground forbecause of her delicateness and refinementtenderness, shallwill be hostile toward the husband she cherishes and toward her son and daughter, |
| 28:57 |
and toward her afterbirth whichthat issuescomes from between her legs, and toward her children to whom she bears;gives forbirth, because she will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the distresshardship bywith which your enemy will oppress you in your towns. |
| 28:58 |
“If you are not careful to observefollow all the words of this lawLaw whichthat are written in this book, to fear this honored and awesome name, the Lord your God, |
| 28:59 |
then the Lord will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, even severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses. |
| 28:60 |
And He will bring back on you allevery thedisease diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you. |
| 28:61 |
Also every sickness and every plague, which, are not written in the book of this lawLaw, the Lord will bring on you until you are destroyed. |
| 28:62 |
Then you shallwill be left few in number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not obey the Lord your God. |
| 28:63 |
ItAnd shallit will come about that, just as the Lord delightedrejoiced over you to prosperbe good to you, and multiplymake you numerous, so will the Lord willrejoice delight over you to makewipe you perishout and destroy you; and you will be torn away from the land wherewhich you are entering to possess it. |
| 28:64 |
MoreoverFurthermore, the Lord will scatter you among all the peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shallwill serve other gods, made of wood and stone, which you orand your fathers have not known. |
| 28:65 |
Among those nations you shallwill find no restpeace, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul. |
| 28:66 |
So your lifelives shallwill hangbe hanging in doubt before you; and you will be interrified dread night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life. |
| 28:67 |
In the morning you shallwill say, ‘WouldIf thatonly it were evening!’ And at evening you shallwill say, ‘WouldIf thatonly it were morning!’ because of the dreadterror of your heart which you dreadfear, and for the sight of your eyes which you will see. |
| 28:68 |
TheAnd the Lord will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I spokesaid to you, ‘You will never see it again!’ And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.” |
| 29:1 |
These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which He had made with them at Horeb. |
| 29:2 |
And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and all his servants, and to all his land; |
| 29:5 |
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness for forty years; your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandal has not worn out on your foot. |
| 29:6 |
You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or other strong drink, in order that you might know that I am the Lord your God. |
| 29:9 |
So you will keep the words of this covenant toand do them, in order that you may prosperbe successful in alleverything that you do. |
| 29:10 |
“You stand today, all of you, before the Lord your God: your chiefsheads, your tribes, your elders and your officers, eventhat is, all the men of Israel, |
| 29:11 |
your little ones, your wives, and the alienstranger who is within your camps, from the one who chopsgathers your woodfirewood to the one who draws your water, |
| 29:12 |
so that you may enter into the covenant with the Lord your God, and into His oath which the Lord your God is making with you today, |
| 29:13 |
in order that He may establish you today as His people, and that He may be your God, just as He spoke to you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. |
| 29:14 |
“Now it is not with you alone amthat I am making this covenant and this oath, |
| 29:15 |
but both with those who stand here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God, and with those who are not with us here today |
| 29:16 |
(for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we camepassed through the midst of the nations through which you passed; |
| 29:17 |
moreover, you have seen their abominations and their idols made of wood, and stone, silver, and gold, which they had with them); |
| 29:18 |
so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go andto serve the gods of those nations; that there will not be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood. |
| 29:19 |
ItAnd it shall be when he hears the words of this curse, that he will boastconsider himself fortunate in his heart, saying, ‘I havewill peacedo well though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart in order to destroy the watered land along with the dry.’ |
| 29:20 |
The Lord shallwill nevernot be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the Lord and His jealousywrath will burn against that manperson, and every curse whichthat is written in this book will restlie onupon him, and the Lord will blotwipe out his name from under heaven. |
| 29:21 |
Then the Lord will single him out for adversitydisaster from all the tribes of Israel, accordingin toaccordance with all the curses of the covenant which areis written in this bookBook of the lawLaw. |
| 29:22 |
“Now the future generation to come, your sons who rise up after you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, when they see the plagues of thethat land and the diseases with which the Lord has afflicted it, will say, |
| 29:23 |
‘All its land is brimstone and salt, aburned burning wastedebris, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows inon it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and in His wrath.’ |
| 29:24 |
All the nations will say, ‘Why has the Lord done thusall this to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’ |
| 29:25 |
Then menpeople will say, ‘BecauseIt is because they forsookabandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt. |
| 29:26 |
TheyAnd they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whomthat they have not known and whom He had not allottedassigned to them. |
| 29:28 |
and the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath, and casthurled them into another land, as it is this day.’ |
| 29:29 |
“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, so that we may observefollow all the words of this lawLaw. |
| 30:1 |
“So it shallwill be when all of these things have come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have setplaced before you, and you call them to mind in all the nations where the Lord your God has banishedscattered you, |
| 30:2 |
and you return to the Lord your God and obey Him with all your heart and soul accordingin toaccordance allwith everything that I commandam commanding you today, you and your sons, |
| 30:4 |
If any of your outcastsscattered countrymen are at the ends of the earth, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you back. |
| 30:5 |
The Lord your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will prosperbe good to you and multiplymake you more numerous than your fathers. |
| 30:6 |
“Moreover, the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the hearthearts of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live. |
| 30:7 |
TheAnd the Lord your God will inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you. |
| 30:8 |
And you shallwill again obey the Lord, and observefollow all His commandments which I commandam commanding you today. |
| 30:9 |
Then the Lord your God will prosper you abundantly in allevery the work of your hand, in the offspringchildren of your bodywomb, and in the offspring of your cattle, and in the produce of your ground, for the Lord will again rejoice over you for good, just as He rejoiced over your fathers; |
| 30:10 |
if you obey the Lord your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this bookBook of the lawLaw, if you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and soul. |
| 30:11 |
“For this commandment which I commandam commanding you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it outfar of reachaway. |
| 30:12 |
It is not in heaven, that you shouldcould say, ‘Who will go up to heaven for us toand get it for us, and makeproclaim usit hearto itus, so that we may observefollow it?’ |
| 30:13 |
Nor is it beyond the sea, that you shouldcould say, ‘Who will cross the sea for us toand get it for us and makeproclaim usit hearto itus, so that we may observefollow it?’ |
| 30:14 |
ButOn the contrary, the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may observefollow it. |
| 30:15 |
“See, I have setplaced before you today life and prosperityhappiness, and death and adversity;, |
| 30:16 |
in that I commandam commanding you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments, and His statutes, and His judgments, so that you may live and multiplybecome numerous, and that the Lord your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to possesstake possession of it. |
| 30:17 |
But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but areallow drawnyourself awayto be led astray and you worship other gods and serve them, |
| 30:18 |
I declare to you today that you shallwill surelycertainly perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possesstake possession of it. |
| 30:19 |
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have setplaced before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants, |
| 30:20 |
by loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fastclose to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days, so that you may live in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.” |
| 31:2 |
And he said to them, “I am a120 hundred and twenty years old today; I am no longer able to comego out and gocome in, and the Lord has saidtold to me, ‘You shall not cross this Jordan.’ |
| 31:3 |
It is the Lord your God who willis going to cross ahead of you; He Himself will destroy these nations before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua is the one who willis going to cross ahead of you, just as the Lord has spoken. |
| 31:4 |
TheAnd the Lord will do to them just as He did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when He destroyed them. |
| 31:5 |
The Lord will deliverturn them upover beforeto you, and you shallwill do to them accordingin toaccordance with all the commandments which I have commanded you. |
| 31:6 |
Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremblein atdread of them, for the Lord your God is the oneOne who goesis going with you. He will not faildesert you or forsakeabandon you.” |
| 31:7 |
Then Moses called to Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you shallwill go with this people into the land which the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shallwill give it to them as an inheritance. |
| 31:8 |
TheAnd the Lord is the one who goesis going ahead of you; He will be with you. He will not faildesert you or forsakeabandon you. Do not fear orand do not be dismayed.” |
| 31:9 |
So Moses wrote this lawLaw and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel. |
| 31:10 |
Then Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of every seven years, at the time of the year of remissionthe release of debts, at the Feast of Booths, |
| 31:11 |
when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God at the place which He will choose, you shall read this lawLaw inbefore front of all Israel inso theirthat hearingthey hear it. |
| 31:12 |
Assemble the people, the men, and the women, andthe children, and the alienstranger who is in your town, so that they may hear and learn and fear the Lord your God, and be careful to observefollow all the words of this lawLaw. |
| 31:13 |
TheirAnd their children, who have not known, will hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as you live on the land which you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.” |
| 31:14 |
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, the time for you to die is near; call Joshua, and present yourselves at the tent of meeting, thatand I maywill commission him.” So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves at the tent of meeting. |
| 31:15 |
TheAnd the Lord appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood at the doorwayentrance of the tent. |
| 31:16 |
The Lord said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers; and this people will arise and play the harlotprostitute with the strangeforeign gods of the land, into the midst of which they are going, and they will forsakeabandon Me and break My covenant which I have made with them. |
| 31:17 |
Then My anger will be kindled against them inon that day, and I will forsakeabandon them and hide My face from them, and they will be consumed, and many evils and troubles will comefind upon them; so that they will say inon that day, ‘Is it not because our God is not among us that these evils have comefound upon us?’ |
| 31:18 |
But I will surelyassuredly hide My face inon that day because of all the evil whichthat they will dohave done, for they will turnhave turned away to other gods. |
| 31:19 |
“Now thereforethen, write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the sons of Israel; put it on their lips, so that this song may be a witness for Me against the sons of Israel. |
| 31:20 |
For when I bring them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to their fathers, and they haveeat eaten and are satisfied and become prosperous, then they will turn to other gods and serve them, and spurn Me and break My covenant. |
| 31:21 |
Then it shallwill come about, when many evils and troubles havefind come upon them, that this song will testify before them as a witness (for it shall not be forgotten from the lipsmouth of their descendants); for I know their intentinclination which they are developing today, before I havebring brought them into the land which I swore.” |
| 31:22 |
So Moses wrote down this song on the same day, and taught it to the sons of Israel. |
| 31:23 |
Then He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun, and said, “Be strong and courageous, for you shallwill bring the sons of Israel into the land which I swore to them, and I will be with you.” |
| 31:24 |
It came about, when Moses finished writing the words of this lawLaw in a book until they were complete, |
| 31:26 |
“Take this bookBook of the lawLaw and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, so that it may remain there as a witness against you. |
| 31:27 |
For I know your rebellion and your stubbornness; behold, whileas long as I amhave stillbeen alive with you until today, you have been rebellious against the Lord; how much more, then, after my death? |
| 31:28 |
Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their hearing and call the heavens and the earth toas witnesswitnesses against them. |
| 31:29 |
For I know that after my death you will actbehave very corruptly and turn from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befallconfront you in the latter days, forbecause you will do that which is evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger with the work of your hands.” |
| 32:1 |
“Give earListen, Oyou heavens, and letI mewill speak; And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.! |
| 32:2 |
LetMay my teaching dropdrip as the rain, My speech distilltrickle as the dew, As the droplets on the fresh grass, And as the showers on the herbvegetation. |
| 32:4 |
The Rock! His work is perfect, For all His ways are just; A God of faithfulness and without injustice, Righteous and uprightjust is He. |
| 32:5 |
They have acted corruptly towardagainst Him, They are not His children, because of their defect; But are a perverse and crooked generation. |
| 32:6 |
Do Is this what you thusdo repayto the Lord, OYou foolish and unwise people? Is He not He your Father who has boughtpurchased you? He has made you and established you. |
| 32:7 |
Remember the days of old, Consider the years of all generations. Ask your father, and he will inform you, Your elders, and they will tell you. |
| 32:8 |
When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, When He separated the sons of manmankind, He set the boundaries of the peoples According to the number of the sons of Israel. |
| 32:10 |
He found him in a desert land, And in the howling wastewasteland of a wilderness; He encircled him, He cared for him, He guarded him as the pupilapple of His eye. |
| 32:11 |
LikeAs an eagle that stirs up its nest, ThatAnd hovers over its young, He spread His wings, andHe caught them, He carried them on His pinions. |
| 32:13 |
He madehad him ride on the high places of the earth, And he ate the produce of the field; And He madehad him suck honey from the rock, And oil from the flinty rock, |
| 32:14 |
Curds of cowsthe herd, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, And rams, the breed of Bashan, and of goats, With the finestbest of the wheat—; And you drank wine of the blood of grapes you drank wine. |
| 32:15 |
“But Jeshurun grewbecame fat and kicked— You arehave grownbecome fat, thick, and sleekobstinate— Then he forsookabandoned God who made him, And scornedrejected the Rock of his salvation. |
| 32:17 |
They sacrificed to demons, who were not God, To gods whom they have not known, New gods who came lately, Whom your fathers did not dreadknow. |
| 32:18 |
You neglectedforgot the Rock who begotfathered you, And forgot the God who gave you birth. |
| 32:19 |
“The Lord saw this, and spurned them Because of the provocation ofby His sons and daughters. |
| 32:20 |
Then He said, ‘I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end shallwill be; For they are a perverse generation, Sons in whom there is no faithfulness. |
| 32:22 |
For a fire ishas kindledflared in My anger, And it burns to the lowest part of Sheol, And consumesdevours the earth with its yield, And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains. |
| 32:23 |
‘I will heapadd misfortunes onto them; I will use up My arrows on them. |
| 32:24 |
They will be wasted by famine, and consumedemaciated by plague And a bitter destructionepidemic; And the teeth of beasts I will send uponagainst them, With the venom of crawling things of the dust. |
| 32:25 |
Outside the sword will bereavemake them childless, And inside, terror— Both young man and virgin, The nurslingnursing child with the man of gray hair. |
| 32:26 |
I would have said, “I will cutwipe them to piecesout, I will remove the memorymention of themtheir name from menhumanity,” |
| 32:27 |
Had I not feared the provocation by the enemy, That their adversaries would misjudge, That they would say, “Our hand is triumphant, And the Lord has not doneperformed all this.” ’ |
| 32:28 |
“For they are a nation lackingdestitute inof counsel, And there is no understanding in them. |
| 32:29 |
WouldIf thatonly they were wise, thatand they understood this,; ThatIf only they would discern their future! |
| 32:31 |
Indeed, their rock is not like our Rock,; Even our enemies themselves judge this. |
| 32:33 |
Their wine is the venom of serpents, And the deadly poison of cobrasvipers. |
| 32:34 |
‘Is it not laidstored up in store with Me, Sealed up in My treasuries? |
| 32:35 |
Vengeance is Mine, and retribution,; In due time their foot will slip;. For the day of their calamitydisaster is near, And the impending things are hasteninghurrying uponto them.’ |
| 32:37 |
And He will say, ‘Where are their gods, The rock in which they soughttook refuge? |
| 32:38 |
WhoThose who ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you, Let them be your hiding placeprotection! |
| 32:39 |
See now that I, I am He, And there is no god besides Me; It is I who put to death and give life. I have wounded and it is I who heal, And there is no one who can deliversave anyone from My hand. |
| 32:40 |
Indeed, I liftraise up My hand to heaven, And say, as I live forever, |
| 32:41 |
If I sharpenhave sharpened My flashing sword, And My hand takeshas taken hold onof justice, I will renderreturn vengeance on My adversaries, And I will repay those who hate Me. |
| 32:43 |
Rejoice, Oyou nations, with His people; For He will avenge the blood of His servants, And will renderreturn vengeance on His adversaries, And will atone for His land and His people.” |
| 32:46 |
he said to them, “Take to your heart all the words with which I am warning you today, which you shallwill command your sons to observefollow carefully, even all the words of this lawLaw. |
| 32:47 |
For it is not ana idletrivial wordmatter for you; indeed it is your life. And by this word you will prolong your days in the land, which you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.” |
| 32:48 |
TheNow the Lord spoke to Moses that very same day, saying, |
| 32:49 |
“Go up to this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab opposite Jericho, and look at the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel foras a possession. |
| 32:50 |
Then you are to die on the mountain where you ascend, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people, |
| 32:52 |
For you shallwill see the land at a distance, but you shallwill not go there, into the land which I am giving the sons of Israel.” |
| 33:2 |
He said, “The Lord came from Sinai, And dawned on them from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran, And He came from the midst of tenmyriads thousandof holy ones; At His right hand there was flashing lightning for them. |
| 33:3 |
Indeed, He loves the people; All Your holy ones are in Your hand, And they followed in Your steps; Everyone receivestakes of Your words. |
| 33:4 |
Moses chargedissued to us withthe a lawLaw, A possession for the assembly of Jacob. |
| 33:5 |
And He was king in Jeshurun, When the heads of the people were gathered, The tribes of Israel together. |
| 33:6 |
“May Reuben live and not die, Nor may his menpeople be few.” |
| 33:7 |
And this was regarding Judah; so he said,: “Hear, O Lord, the voice of Judah, And bring him to his people. With his hands he contended for them, And may You be a help against his adversaries.” |
| 33:8 |
Of Levi he said, “Let Your Thummim and Your Urim belong to Your godly man, Whom You provedtested at Massah, With whom You contended at the waters of Meribah; |
| 33:9 |
Who said of his father and his mother, ‘I did not consider them’; And he did not acknowledge his brothers, Nor did he regard his own sons, For they observedkept Your word, And keptcomplied with Your covenant. |
| 33:10 |
They shallwill teach Your ordinances to Jacob, And Your lawLaw to Israel. They shall put incense before You, And whole burnt offerings on Your altar. |
| 33:11 |
O Lord, bless his substancestrength, And accept the work of his hands; ShatterSmash the loinships of those who rise up against him, And those who hate him, so that they willdo not rise again.” |
| 33:12 |
Of Benjamin he said, “May the beloved of the Lord dwelllive in security bybeside Him, Who shields him all the day long, And he dwellslives between His shoulders.” |
| 33:13 |
Of Joseph he said, “Blessed of the Lord be his land, With the choice things of heaven, with the dew, And from the deep waters lying beneath, |
| 33:14 |
And with the choice yield of the sun, And with the choice produce of the months.; |
| 33:15 |
And with the best things of the ancient mountains, AndWith with the choice things of the everlasting hills, |
| 33:16 |
And with the choice things of the earth and its fullness, And the favor of Him who dwelt in the bush. Let it come to the head of Joseph, And to the crowntop of the head of the one distinguishedwho was prince among his brothers. |
| 33:17 |
As the firstborn of his ox, majesty is his, And his horns are the horns of the wild ox; With them he will pushgore the peoples, All at once, to the ends of the earth. And those are the ten thousands of Ephraim, And those are the thousands of Manasseh.” |
| 33:18 |
Of Zebulun he said, “Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going forthout, And, Issachar, in your tents. |
| 33:21 |
Then he providedselected the firstchoicest part for himself, For there the ruler’s portion was reserved; And he came with the leaders of the people; He executed the justice of the Lord, And His ordinances with Israel.” |
| 33:22 |
Of Dan he said, “Dan is a lion’s whelp,cub; ThatHe leaps forthout from Bashan.” |
| 33:23 |
Of Naphtali he said, “O Naphtali, satisfied with favor, And full of the blessing of the Lord, Take possession of the sea and the south.” |
| 33:24 |
Of Asher he said, “More blessed than sons is Asher; May he be favored by his brothers, And may he dip his foot in olive oil. |
| 33:25 |
Your locksbars will be iron and bronze, And accordingas to your days, so will your leisurelystrength walk be. |
| 33:26 |
“There is noneno one like the God of Jeshurun, Who rides the heavens to your help, And through the skiesclouds in His majesty. |
| 33:27 |
The eternal God is a dwellinghiding place, And underneath are the everlasting arms; And He drove out the enemy from before you, And said, ‘Destroy!’ |
| 33:28 |
So Israel dwellslives in security, The fountain of Jacob secluded, In a land of grain and new wine; His heavens also dropdrip down dew. |
| 33:29 |
Blessed are you, O Israel; Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord, WhoThe is the shield of your help, And He who is the sword of your majesty! So your enemies will cringe before you, And you will treadtrample uponon their high places.” |
| 34:3 |
and the Negev and the plainterritory in the valleyValley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar. |
| 34:4 |
Then the Lord said to him, “This is the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants’; I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shallwill not go over there.” |
| 34:5 |
So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, accordingin toaccordance with the word of the Lord. |
| 34:6 |
And He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor; but no manone knows his burial place to this day. |
| 34:7 |
Although Moses was one120 hundred and twenty years old when he died, his eyeeyesight was not dim, nor had his vigor abatedleft him. |
| 34:8 |
So the sons of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab for thirty days; then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end. |
| 34:9 |
Now Joshua the son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom, forbecause Moses had laid his hands on him; and the sons of Israel listened to him and did as the Lord had commanded Moses. |
| 34:11 |
for all the signs and wonders which the Lord sent him to perform in the land of Egypt against Pharaoh, all his servants, and all his land,— |
| 34:12 |
and for all the mighty power and for all the great terror which Moses performed in the sight of all Israel. |