| 1:1 |
These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness in the Arabah overopposite against Suph between Paran and Tophel Laban Haze′rothHazeroth and Di′zahab Dizahab |
| 1:2 |
It is eleven days journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Se′irSeir to Ka′deshKadesh bar′nea barnea |
| 1:3 |
AndIn in the fortieth year on the first day of the eleventh month Moses spoke to the people of Israel according to all that the Lord had given him in commandment to them |
| 1:4 |
after he had defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan who lived in Ash′tarothAshtaroth and in Ed′re i Edrei |
| 1:6 |
The Lord our God said to us in Horeb You have stayed long enough at this mountain; |
| 1:7 |
turnTurn and take 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 Negeb and by the seacoast the land of the Canaanites and Lebanon as far as the great river the river Euphra′tes Euphrates |
| 1:8 |
BeholdSee I have set the land before you; goGo in and take possession of the land whichthat the Lord swore to your fathers to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob to give to them and to their descendantsoffspring after them |
| 1:9 |
At that time I said to you I am not able alone to bear you; by myself |
| 1:10 |
theThe Lord your God has multiplied you and behold you are thistoday dayas numerous as the stars of heaven for multitude |
| 1:12 |
How can I bear aloneby myself the weight and burden of you and your strife |
| 1:13 |
Choose for your tribes wise understanding and experienced men according to your tribes and I will appoint them as your heads |
| 1:16 |
And I charged your judges at that time Hear the cases between your brethrenbrothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien thatwho is with him |
| 1:17 |
You shall not be partial in judgment; youYou shall hear the small and the great alike; youYou shall not be afraidintimidated ofby theanyone face of man for the judgment is Gods; andAnd the case that is too hard for you you shall bring to me and I will hear it |
| 1:19 |
AndThen we set out from Horeb and went through all that great and terribleterrifying wilderness whichthat you saw on the way to the hill country of the Amorites as the Lord our God commanded us; andAnd we came to Ka′deshKadesh bar′nea barnea |
| 1:20 |
And I said to you You have come to the hill country of the Amorites which the Lord our God givesis giving us |
| 1:21 |
BeholdSee the Lord your God has set the land before you; goGo up take possession as the Lord the God of your fathers has told you; doDo not fear or be dismayed |
| 1:23 |
The thing seemed good to me and I took twelve men offrom you one man forfrom each tribe; |
| 1:24 |
andAnd they turned and went up into the hill country and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied it out |
| 1:25 |
And they took in their hands some of the fruit of the land and brought it down to us and brought us word again and said It is a good land whichthat the Lord our God givesis giving us |
| 1:26 |
Yet you would not go up but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God; |
| 1:27 |
andAnd you murmured in your tents and said Because the Lord hated us he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt to give us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us |
| 1:28 |
WhitherWhere are we going up Our brethrenbrothers have made our hearts melt saying The people are greater and taller than we; theThe cities are great and fortified up to heaven; andAnd moreoverbesides we have seen the sons of the Anakim there |
| 1:31 |
and in the wilderness where you have seen how the Lord your God borecarried you as a man bearscarries his son in all the way that you went until you came to this place |
| 1:33 |
who went before you in the way to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in fire by night and in the cloud by day to show you by what way you should go and in the cloud by day |
| 1:35 |
Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land whichthat I swore to give to your fathers |
| 1:36 |
except Caleb the son of Jephun′neh;Jephunneh heHe shall see it and to him and to his children I will give the land uponon which he has trodden because he has wholly followed the Lord |
| 1:37 |
TheEven with me the Lord was angry with me also on your account and said You also shall not go in there; |
| 1:38 |
Joshua the son of Nun who stands before you he shall enter; encourageEncourage him for he shall cause Israel to inherit it |
| 1:39 |
MoreoverAnd as for your little ones who you said would become a prey and your children who thistoday day have no knowledge of good or evil they shall go in there andAnd to them I will give it and they shall possess it |
| 1:41 |
Then you answered me We have sinned against the Lord; weWe ourselves will go up and fight just as the Lord our God commanded us And every manone of you girdedfastened on his weapons of war and thought it easy to go up into the hill country |
| 1:42 |
And the Lord said to me Say to them Do not go up or fight for I am not in theyour midst of you; lest you be defeated before your enemies |
| 1:43 |
So I spoke to you and you would not hearkenlisten; but you rebelled against the command of the Lord and werepresumptuously presumptuous and went up into the hill country |
| 1:44 |
Then the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do and beat you down in Se′irSeir as far as Hormah |
| 1:45 |
And you returned and wept before the Lord; but the Lord did not hearkenlisten to your voice or give ear to you |
| 2:1 |
Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea as the Lord told me; andAnd for many days we wenttraveled aboutaround Mount Se′ir Seir |
| 2:3 |
You have been goingtraveling aboutaround this mountain country long enough; turnTurn northward |
| 2:4 |
Andand command the people You are about to pass through the territory of your brethrenbrothers the sonspeople of Esau who live in Se′irSeir; and they will be afraid of you So takebe goodvery heed; careful |
| 2:5 |
doDo not contend with them; for I will not give you any of their land no not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on because I have given Mount Se′irSeir to Esau as a possession |
| 2:6 |
You shall purchase food from them forwith money that you may eat; and you shall also buy water offrom them forwith money that you may drink |
| 2:7 |
For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands; heHe knows your going through this great wilderness; theseThese forty years the Lord your God has been with you; youYou have lacked nothing |
| 2:8 |
So we went on away from our brethrenbrothers the sonspeople of Esau who live in Se′irSeir away from the Arabah road from Elath and E′zionEzion ge′bergeber And we turned and went in the direction of the wilderness of Moab |
| 2:9 |
And the Lord said to me Do not harass Moab or contend with them in battle for I will not give you any of their land for a possession because I have given Ar to the sonspeople of Lot for a possession |
| 2:10 |
The Emim formerly lived there a people great and many and tall as the Anakim; |
| 2:11 |
likeLike the Anakim they are also knowncounted as Reph′aimRephaim but the Moabites call them Emim |
| 2:12 |
The Horites also lived in Se′irSeir formerly but the sonspeople of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their stead;place as Israel did to the land of their possession which the Lord gave to them |
| 2:14 |
And the time from our leaving Ka′deshKadesh bar′neabarnea until we crossed the brook Zered was thirty eight years until the entire generation that is the men of war had perished from the camp as the Lord had sworn to them |
| 2:16 |
So whenas soon as all the men of war had perished and were dead from among the people |
| 2:18 |
ThisToday day you are to passcross over the boundaryborder of Moab at Ar; |
| 2:19 |
andAnd when you approach the frontierterritory of the sonspeople of Ammon do not harass them or contend with them for I will not give you any of the land of the sonspeople of Ammon as a possession because I have given it to the sons of Lot for a possession |
| 2:20 |
ThatIt is also iscounted known as a land of Reph′aim;Rephaim Reph′aimRephaim formerly lived there —but the Ammonites call them Zamzum′mim Zamzummim— |
| 2:21 |
a people great and many and tall as the Anakim; but the Lord destroyed them before them;the Ammonites and they dispossessed them and settled in their stead; place |
| 2:22 |
as he did for the sonspeople of Esau who live in Se′irSeir when he destroyed the Horites before them and they dispossessed them and settled in their steadplace even to this day |
| 2:23 |
As for the Avvim who lived in villages as far as Gaza the Caph′torimCaphtorim who came from Caphtor destroyed them and settled in their stead place |
| 2:24 |
Rise up takeset out on your journey and go over the valleyValley of the Arnon; beholdBehold I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite king of Heshbon and his land; beginBegin to take possession and contend with him in battle |
| 2:25 |
This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you uponon the peoples thatwho are under the whole heaven who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you |
| 2:26 |
So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Ked′emothKedemoth to Sihon the king of Heshbon with words of peace saying |
| 2:27 |
Let me pass through your land; I will go only by the road; I will turn aside neither to the right nor to the left |
| 2:28 |
You shall sell me food for money that I may eat and give me water for money that I may drink; onlyOnly let me pass through on foot |
| 2:29 |
as the sons of Esau who live in Se′irSeir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me until I go over the Jordan into the land whichthat the Lord our God givesis giving to us |
| 2:30 |
But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for the Lord your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate that he might give him into your hand as athe is this day |
| 2:31 |
And the Lord said to me Behold I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you; beginBegin to take possession that you may occupy his land |
| 2:33 |
And the Lord our God gave him over to us; and we defeated him and his sons and all his people |
| 2:34 |
And we captured all his cities at that time and utterlydevoted destroyedto destruction every city men women and children; weWe left noneno remaining; survivors |
| 2:35 |
onlyOnly the cattlelivestock we took as spoil for ourselves with the bootyplunder of the cities whichthat we captured |
| 2:36 |
From Aro′erAroer which is on the edge of the valleyValley of the Arnon and from the city that is in the valley as far as Gilead there was not a city too high for us; theThe Lord our God gave all into our hands |
| 2:37 |
Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not draw near that is to all the banks of the river Jabbok and the cities of the hill country andwhatever wherever the Lord our God forbadehad forbidden us |
| 3:1 |
Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan; andAnd Og the king of Bashan came out against us he and all his people to battle at Ed′re i Edrei |
| 3:2 |
But the Lord said to me Do not fear him; for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hand; andAnd you shall do to him as you did to Sihon the king of the Amorites who dweltlived at Heshbon |
| 3:3 |
So the Lord our God gave into our hand Og also the king of Bashan and all his people; and we smotestruck him down until he had no survivor was left to him |
| 3:4 |
And we took all his cities at that time—there was not a city whichthat we did not take from them—sixty cities the whole region of Argob the kingdom of Og in Bashan |
| 3:6 |
And we utterlydevoted destroyed them to destruction as we did to Sihon the king of Heshbon destroyingdevoting to destruction every city men women and children |
| 3:7 |
But all the cattlelivestock and the spoil of the cities we took as our booty plunder |
| 3:8 |
So we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan from the valleyValley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon |
| 3:9 |
the Sido′niansSidonians call Hermon Si′rionSirion while the Amorites call it Senir |
| 3:10 |
all the cities of the tableland and all Gilead and all Bashan as far as Sal′ecahSalecah and Ed′reEdrei i cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan |
| 3:11 |
For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Reph′aim;Rephaim beholdBehold his bedsteadbed was a bedsteadbed of iron; isIs it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites Nine cubits was its length and four cubits its breadth according to the common cubit |
| 3:12 |
When we took possession of this land at that time I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory beginning at Aro′erAroer which is on the edge of the valleyValley of the Arnon and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities; |
| 3:13 |
theThe rest of Gilead and all Bashan the kingdom of Og that is all the region of Argob I gave to the half tribe of Manas′sehManasseh TheAll wholethat portion of that Bashan is called the land of Reph′aim Rephaim |
| 3:14 |
Ja′irJair the Manas′siteManassite took all the region of Argob that is Bashan as far as the border of the Gesh′uritesGeshurites and the MaMaacathites ac′athites and called the villages after his own name Hav′vothHavvoth ja′irjair as it is to this day |
| 3:16 |
and to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the valleyValley of the Arnon with the middle of the valley as a boundaryborder as far over as the river Jabbok the boundaryborder of the Ammonites; |
| 3:17 |
the Arabah also with the Jordan as the boundaryborder from Chin′nerethChinnereth as far as the seaSea of the Arabah the Salt Sea under the slopes of Pisgah on the east |
| 3:18 |
And I commanded you at that time saying The Lord your God has given you this land to possess; allAll your men of valor shall passcross over armed before your brethrenbrothers the people of Israel |
| 3:19 |
ButOnly your wives your little ones and your cattlelivestock I know that you have manymuch cattlelivestock shall remain in the cities whichthat I have given you |
| 3:20 |
until the Lord gives rest to your brethrenbrothers as to you and they also occupy the land whichthat the Lord your God gives them beyond the Jordan; thenThen each of you shallmay return every man to his possession which I have given you |
| 3:21 |
And I commanded Joshua at that time Your eyes have seen all that the Lord your God has done to these two kings; soSo will the Lord do to all the kingdoms into which you are going over crossing |
| 3:22 |
You shall not fear them; for it is the Lord your God who fights for you |
| 3:23 |
And I besoughtpleaded with the Lord at that time saying |
| 3:24 |
O Lord God thouyou hasthave only begun to show thyyour servant thyyour greatness and thyyour mighty hand; forFor what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as thine yours |
| 3:25 |
LetPlease let me go over I pray and see the good land beyond the Jordan that goodlygood hill country and Lebanon |
| 3:26 |
But the Lord was angry with me onbecause yourof accountyou and would not hearkenlisten to me; andAnd the Lord said to me LetEnough itfrom suffice you; speakdo nonot morespeak to me of this matter again |
| 3:27 |
Go up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward and beholdlook at it with your eyes; for you shall not go over this Jordan |
| 3:28 |
But charge Joshua and encourage and strengthen him; for he shall go over at the head of this people and he shall put them in possession of the land whichthat you shall see |
| 3:29 |
So we remained in the valley opposite Beth pe′orpeor |
| 4:1 |
And now O Israel givelisten heed to the statutes and the ordinancesrules whichthat I teacham teaching you and do them; that you may live and go in and take possession of the land whichthat the Lord the God of your fathers givesis giving you |
| 4:2 |
You shall not add to the word whichthat I command you nor take from it; that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God whichthat I command you |
| 4:3 |
Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at Ba′alBaal pe′or;peor for the Lord your God destroyed from among you all the men who followed the Ba′alBaal of Pe′or; Peor |
| 4:4 |
butBut you who held fast to the Lord your God are all alive this day today |
| 4:5 |
BeholdSee I have taught you statutes and ordinancesrules as the Lord my God commanded me that you should do them in the land whichthat you are entering to take possession of it |
| 4:6 |
Keep them and do them; for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who when they hear all these statutes will say Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people |
| 4:8 |
And what great nation is there that has statutes and ordinancesrules so righteous as all this law whichthat I set before you this daytoday |
| 4:9 |
Only take heedcare and keep your soul diligently lest you forget the things whichthat your eyes have seen and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; makeMake them known to your children and your childrens children— |
| 4:10 |
how on the day that you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb the Lord said to me Gather the people to me that I may let them hear my words so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live uponon the earth and that they may teach their children so |
| 4:12 |
Then the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire; youYou heard the sound of words but saw no form; there was only a voice |
| 4:13 |
And he declared to you his covenant which he commanded you to perform that is the tenTen commandments;Commandments and he wrote them uponon two tablestablets of stone |
| 4:14 |
And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinancesrules that you might do them in the land whichthat you are going over to possess |
| 4:15 |
Therefore takewatch goodyourselves heedvery tocarefully yourselves Since you saw no form on the day that the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire |
| 4:16 |
beware lest you act corruptly by making a gravencarved image for yourselves in the form of any figure the likeness of male or female |
| 4:17 |
the likeness of any beastanimal that is on the earth the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air |
| 4:19 |
And beware lest you liftraise up your eyes to heaven and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars all the host of heaven you be drawn away and worshipbow down to them and serve them things whichthat 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 forth out of the iron furnace out of Egypt to be a people of his own possessioninheritance as atyou are this day |
| 4:21 |
Furthermore the Lord was angry with me onbecause yourof accountyou and he swore that I should not cross the Jordan and that I should not enter the good land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you for an inheritance |
| 4:22 |
For I must die in this land; I must not go over the Jordan; butBut you shall go over and take possession of that good land |
| 4:23 |
Take heedcare to yourselves lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God which he made with you and make a gravencarved image in the form of anything whichthat the Lord your God has forbidden you |
| 4:24 |
For the Lord your God is a devouringconsuming fire a jealous God |
| 4:25 |
When you begetfather children and childrens children and have grown old in the land if you act corruptly by making a gravencarved image in the form of anything and by doing what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God so as to provoke him to anger |
| 4:26 |
I call heaven and earth to witness against you thistoday day that you will soon utterly perish from the land whichthat you are going over the Jordan to possess; youYou will not live long uponin it but will be utterly destroyed |
| 4:28 |
And there you will serve gods of wood and stone the work of menshuman hands that neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell |
| 4:31 |
forFor the Lord your God is a merciful God; heHe will not failleave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers whichthat he swore to them |
| 4:32 |
For ask now of the days that are past which were before you since the day that God created man uponon the earth and ask from one end of heaven to the other whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of |
| 4:34 |
Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation by trials by signs by wonders and by war by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and by great terrorsdeeds accordingof toterror all thatof which the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes |
| 4:36 |
Out of heaven he let you hear his voice that he might discipline you; andAnd on earth he let you see his great fire and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire |
| 4:37 |
And because he loved your fathers and chose their descendantsoffspring after them and brought you out of Egypt with his own presence by his great power |
| 4:38 |
driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselvesyou to bring you in to give you their land for an inheritance as atit is this day; |
| 4:39 |
know therefore thistoday day and lay it to your heart that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other |
| 4:40 |
Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you thistoday day that it may go well with you and with your children after you and that you may prolong your days in the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you for everall time |
| 4:42 |
that the manslayer might flee there anyone who kills his neighbor unintentionally without being at enmity with him in time past; andhe thatmay byflee fleeing to one of these cities heand might save his life: |
| 4:43 |
Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland for the Reubenites and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites and Golan in Bashan for the Manas′sitesManassites |
| 4:44 |
This is the law whichthat Moses set before the childrenpeople of Israel; |
| 4:45 |
theseThese are the testimonies the statutes and the ordinancesrules which Moses spoke to the childrenpeople of Israel when they came out of Egypt |
| 4:46 |
beyond the Jordan in the valley opposite Beth pe′orpeor in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon whom Moses and the childrenpeople of Israel defeated when they came out of Egypt |
| 4:48 |
from Aro′erAroer which is on the edge of the valleyValley of the Arnon as far as Mount Si′rionSirion that is Hermon |
| 5:1 |
And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them Hear O Israel the statutes and the ordinancesrules whichthat I speak in your hearing thistoday day and you shall learn them and be careful to do them |
| 5:3 |
Not with our fathers did the Lord make this covenant but with us who are all of us here alive this day today |
| 5:5 |
while I stood between the Lord and you at that time to declare to you the word of the Lord; forFor you were afraid because of the fire and you did not go up into the mountain He said: |
| 5:6 |
I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondageslavery |
| 5:8 |
You shall not make for yourself a gravencarved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth; |
| 5:9 |
youYou shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers uponon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me |
| 5:11 |
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain |
| 5:12 |
Observe the sabbathSabbath day to keep it holy as the Lord your God commanded you |
| 5:13 |
Six days you shall labor and do all your work; |
| 5:14 |
but the seventh day is a sabbathSabbath to the Lord your God; inOn it you shall not do any work you or your son or your daughter or your manservantmale servant or your maidservantfemale servant or your ox or your assdonkey or any of your cattlelivestock or the sojourner who is within your gates that your manservantmale servant and your maidservantfemale servant may rest as well as you |
| 5:15 |
You shall remember that you were a servantslave in the land of Egypt and the Lord your God brought you out thencefrom there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; thereforeTherefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the sabbathSabbath day |
| 5:16 |
Honor your father and your mother as the Lord your God commanded you; that your days may be prolongedlong and that it may go well with you in the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you |
| 5:17 |
You shall not killmurder |
| 5:18 |
NeitherAnd you shall younot commit adultery |
| 5:19 |
NeitherAnd you shall younot steal |
| 5:20 |
NeitherAnd you shall younot bear false witness against your neighbor |
| 5:21 |
NeitherAnd you shall younot covet your neighbors wife; andAnd you shall not desire your neighbors house his field or his manservantmale servant or his maidservantfemale servant his ox or his assdonkey or anything that is your neighbors |
| 5:22 |
These words the Lord spoke to all your assembly at the mountain out of the midst of the fire the cloud and the thick darkness with a loud voice; and he added no more And he wrote them uponon two tablestablets of stone and gave them to me |
| 5:23 |
And whenas soon as you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness while the mountain was burning with fire you came near to me all the heads of your tribes and your elders; |
| 5:24 |
andAnd you said Behold the Lord our God has shown us his glory and greatness and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire; This day we have this day seen God speak with man and man still live |
| 5:25 |
Now therefore why should we die For this great fire will consume us; ifIf we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more we shall die |
| 5:27 |
Go near and hear all that the Lord our God will say; and speak to us all that the Lord our God will speak to you; and we will hear and do it |
| 5:28 |
And the Lord heard your words when you spoke to me; andAnd the Lord said to me I have heard the words of this people which they have spoken to you; theyThey haveare rightlyright saidin all that they have spoken |
| 5:29 |
Oh that they had such a mindheart as this always to fear me and to keep all my commandments that it might go well with them and with their childrendescendants for ever forever |
| 5:31 |
But you stand here by me and I will tell you all the whole commandment and the statutes and the ordinancesrules whichthat you shall teach them that they may do them in the land whichthat I giveam giving them to possess |
| 5:32 |
You shall be careful therefore to do therefore as the Lord your God has commanded you; youYou shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left |
| 5:33 |
You shall walk in all the way whichthat the Lord your God has commanded you that you may live and that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land whichthat you shall possess |
| 6:1 |
Now this is the commandment —the statutes and the ordinancesrules—that which the Lord your God commanded me to teach you that you may do them in the land to which you are going over to possess it; |
| 6:2 |
that you may fear the Lord your God you and your son and your sons son by keeping all his statutes and his commandments which I command you all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged long |
| 6:3 |
Hear therefore O Israel and be careful to do them; that it may go well with you and that you may multiply greatly 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 our God the Lord is one Lord; |
| 6:5 |
andYou you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might |
| 6:6 |
And these words whichthat I command you thistoday day shall be uponon your heart; |
| 6:7 |
andYou you shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise |
| 6:8 |
AndYou you shall bind them as a sign uponon your hand and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes |
| 6:9 |
AndYou you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates |
| 6:10 |
And when the Lord your God brings you into the land whichthat he swore to your fathers to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob to give you —with great and goodlygood cities whichthat you did not build |
| 6:11 |
and houses full of all good things whichthat you did not fill and cisterns hewnthat out which you did not hewdig and vineyards and olive trees whichthat you did not plant —and when you eat and are full |
| 6:12 |
then take heedcare lest you forget the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondage slavery |
| 6:13 |
YouIt shallis fear the Lord your God; you shall fear Him you shall serve him and swear by his name you shall swear |
| 6:14 |
You shall not go after other gods of the gods of the peoples who are roundaround about you; — |
| 6:15 |
for the Lord your God in theyour midst of you is a jealous God; —lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you and he destroy you from off the face of the earth |
| 6:18 |
And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord that it may go well with you and that you may go in and take possession of the good land whichthat the Lord swore to give to your fathers |
| 6:20 |
When your son asks you in time to come What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinancesrules whichthat the Lord our God has commanded you |
| 6:21 |
then you shall say to your son We were Pharaohs slaves in Egypt; andAnd the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand; |
| 6:22 |
andAnd the Lord showed signs and wonders great and grievous against Egypt and against Pharaoh and all his household before our eyes; |
| 6:23 |
andAnd he brought us out from there that he might bring us in and give us the land whichthat he swore to give to our fathers |
| 6:24 |
And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes to fear the Lord our God for our good always that he might preserve us alive as atwe are this day |
| 7:1 |
When the Lord your God brings you into the land whichthat you are entering to take possession of it and clears away many nations before you the Hittites the Gir′gashitesGirgashites the Amorites the Canaanites the Per′izzitesPerizzites the Hivites and the Jeb′usitesJebusites seven nations greatermore numerous and mightier than yourselves you |
| 7:2 |
and when the Lord your God gives them over to you and you defeat them; then you must utterlydevote destroy them; youto complete destruction You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them |
| 7:3 |
You shall not makeintermarry marriages with them giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons |
| 7:4 |
Forfor they would turn away your sons from following me to serve other gods; thenThen the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you and he would destroy you quickly |
| 7:5 |
But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and hewchop down their Ashe′rimAsherim and burn their gravencarved images with fire |
| 7:6 |
For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; theThe Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his owntreasured possession out of all the peoples thatwho are on the face of the earth |
| 7:7 |
It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love uponon you and chose you for you were the fewest of all peoples; |
| 7:8 |
but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath whichthat he swore to your fathers that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of bondageslavery from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt |
| 7:10 |
and requitesrepays to their face those who hate him by destroying them; heHe will not be slack with himone who hates him heHe will requiterepay him to his face |
| 7:11 |
You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the ordinancesrules whichthat I command you this daytoday |
| 7:12 |
And because you hearkenlisten to these ordinancesrules and keep and do them the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love whichthat he swore to your fathers to keep; |
| 7:13 |
heHe will love you bless you and multiply you; heHe will also bless the fruit of your bodywomb and the fruit of your ground your grain and your wine and your oil the increase of your cattleherds and the young of your flock in the land whichthat he swore to your fathers to give you |
| 7:14 |
You shall be blessed above all peoples; thereThere shall not be male or female barren among you or among your cattle livestock |
| 7:15 |
And the Lord will take away from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt which you knew will he inflict uponon you but he will lay them uponon all who hate you |
| 7:16 |
And you shall destroyconsume all the peoples that the Lord your God will give over to you yourYour eye shall not pity them; neither shall you serve their gods for that would be a snare to you |
| 7:17 |
If you say in your heart These nations are greater than I; howHow can I dispossess them |
| 7:19 |
the great trials whichthat your eyes saw the signs the wonders the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which the Lord your God brought you out; soSo will the Lord your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid |
| 7:21 |
You shall not be in dread of them; for the Lord your God is in theyour midst of you a great and terribleawesome God |
| 7:22 |
The Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little; youYou may not make an end of them at once lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you |
| 7:24 |
And he will give their kings into your hand and you shall make their name perish from under heaven; notNo aone man shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them |
| 7:25 |
The gravencarved images of their gods you shall burn with fire; youYou shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves lest you be ensnared by it; for it is an abomination to the Lord your God |
| 7:26 |
And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house and become accurseddevoted to destruction like it; youYou shall utterly detest and abhor it; for it is andevoted accursedto thingdestruction |
| 8:1 |
AllThe thewhole commandment whichthat I command you thistoday day you shall be careful to do that you may live and multiply and go in and possess the land whichthat the Lord swore to give to your fathers |
| 8:2 |
And you shall remember all the whole way whichthat the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness that he might humble you testing you to know what was in your heart whether you would keep his commandments or not |
| 8:3 |
And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone but that man lives by everythingevery word that proceedscomes outfrom of the mouth of the Lord |
| 8:4 |
Your clothing did not wear out uponon you and your foot did not swell these forty years |
| 8:7 |
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land a land of brooks of water of fountains and springs flowing forthout in the valleys and hills |
| 8:11 |
Take heedcare lest you forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments and his ordinancesrules and his statutes which I command you this day: today |
| 8:12 |
lest when you have eaten and are full and have built goodlygood houses and live in them |
| 8:14 |
then your heart be lifted up and you forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondage slavery |
| 8:15 |
who led you through the great and terribleterrifying wilderness with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water who brought you water out of the flinty rock |
| 8:16 |
who fed you in the wilderness with manna whichthat your fathers did not know that he might humble you and test you to do you good in the end |
| 8:18 |
You shall remember the Lord your God for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may confirm his covenant whichthat he swore to your fathers as atit is this day |
| 8:19 |
And if you forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them I solemnly warn you thistoday day that you shall surely perish |
| 9:1 |
Hear O Israel;: you are to passcross over the Jordan thistoday day to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselvesyou cities great and fortified up to heaven |
| 9:3 |
Know therefore thistoday day that he who goes over before you as a devouringconsuming fire is the Lord your God; heHe will destroy them and subdue them before you; soSo you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly as the Lord has promised you |
| 9:4 |
Do not say in your heart after the Lord your God has thrust them out before you It is because of my righteousness that the Lord has brought me in to possess this land; whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out before you |
| 9:5 |
Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land; but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you and that he may confirm the word whichthat the Lord swore to your fathers to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob |
| 9:6 |
Know therefore that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness; for you are a stubborn people |
| 9:7 |
Remember and do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness; fromFrom the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place you have been rebellious against the Lord |
| 9:9 |
When I went up the mountain to receive the tablestablets of stone the tablestablets of the covenant whichthat the Lord made with you I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water |
| 9:10 |
And the Lord gave me the two tablestablets of stone written with the finger of God; and on them were all the words whichthat the Lord had spoken with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly |
| 9:11 |
And at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me the two tablestablets of stone the tablestablets of the covenant |
| 9:12 |
Then the Lord said to me Arise go down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly; theyThey have turned aside quickly out of the way whichthat I commanded them; they have made themselves a moltenmetal image |
| 9:13 |
Furthermore the Lord said to me I have seen this people and behold it is a stubborn people; |
| 9:14 |
letLet me alone that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; andAnd I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they |
| 9:15 |
So I turned and came down from the mountain and the mountain was burning with fire; andAnd the two tablestablets of the covenant were in my two hands |
| 9:16 |
And I looked and behold you had sinned against the Lord your God; youYou had made yourselves a moltengolden calf; youYou had turned aside quickly from the way whichthat the Lord had commanded you |
| 9:17 |
So I took hold of the two tablestablets and castthrew them out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes |
| 9:18 |
Then I lay prostrate before the Lord as before forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water because of all the sin whichthat you had committed in 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 hot displeasure whichthat the Lord bore against you so that he was ready to destroy you But the Lord hearkenedlistened to me that time also |
| 9:20 |
And the Lord was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him; andAnd I prayed for Aaron also at the same time |
| 9:21 |
Then I took the sinful thing the calf whichthat you had made and burned it with fire and crushed it grinding it very small until it was as fine as dust; andAnd I threw the dust of it into the brook that descendedran outdown offrom the mountain |
| 9:22 |
At Tab′erahTaberah also and at Massah and at Kib′rothKibroth hatta′avahhattaavah you provoked the Lord to wrath |
| 9:23 |
And when the Lord sent you from Ka′deshKadesh bar′neabarnea saying Go up and take possession of the land whichthat I have given you then you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God and did not believe him or obey his voice |
| 9:26 |
And I prayed to the Lord O Lord God destroydo not thydestroy your people and thyyour heritage whom thouyou hasthave redeemed through thyyour greatness whom thouyou hasthave brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand |
| 9:27 |
Remember thyyour servants Abraham Isaac and Jacob; doDo not regard the stubbornness of this people or their wickedness or their sin |
| 9:28 |
lest the land from which thouyou didstbrought bring us say Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land whichthat he promised them and because he hated them he has brought them out to slayput them to death in the wilderness |
| 9:29 |
For they are thyyour people and thyyour heritage whom thouyou didstbrought bring out by thyyour great power and by thyyour outstretched arm |
| 10:1 |
At that time the Lord said to me HewCut for yourself two tablestablets of stone like the first and come up to me on the mountain and make an ark of wood |
| 10:2 |
And I will write on the tablestablets the words that were on the first tablestablets whichthat you broke and you shall put them in the ark |
| 10:3 |
So I made an ark of acacia wood and hewedcut two tablestablets of stone like the first and went up the mountain with the two tablestablets in my hand |
| 10:4 |
And he wrote on the tablestablets asin at the firstsame writing as before the tenTen commandmentsCommandments whichthat the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; andAnd the Lord gave them to me |
| 10:5 |
Then I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablestablets in the ark whichthat I had made; andAnd there they are as the Lord commanded me |
| 10:6 |
The people of Israel journeyed from BeBeeroth er′oth Bene ja′akanjaakan to Mose′rahMoserah There Aaron died and there he was buried; andAnd his son Elea′zarEleazar ministered as priest in his stead place |
| 10:7 |
From there they journeyed to Gud′godahGudgodah and from Gud′godahGudgodah to Jot′bathahJotbathah a land with brooks of water |
| 10:9 |
Therefore Levi has no portion or inheritance with his brothers; theThe Lord is his inheritance as the Lord your God said to him |
| 10:10 |
I myself stayed on the mountain as at the first time forty days and forty nights and the Lord hearkenedlistened to me that time also; theThe Lord was unwilling to destroy you |
| 10:11 |
And the Lord said to me Arise go on your journey at the head of the people so that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them |
| 10:13 |
and to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord which I commandam commanding you thistoday day for your good |
| 10:14 |
Behold to the Lord your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens the earth with all that is in it; |
| 10:15 |
yetYet the Lord set his heart in love uponon your fathers and chose their descendantsoffspring after them you above all peoples as atyou are this day |
| 10:17 |
For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords the great the mighty and the terribleawesome God who is not partial and takes no bribe |
| 10:19 |
Love the sojourner therefore; for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt |
| 10:20 |
You shall fear the Lord your God; youYou shall serve him and cleavehold fast to him and by his name you shall swear |
| 10:21 |
He is your praise; heHe is your God who has done for you these great and terribleterrifying things whichthat your eyes have seen |
| 10:22 |
Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven for multitude |
| 11:1 |
You shall therefore love the Lord your God and keep his charge his statutes his ordinancesrules and his commandments always |
| 11:2 |
And consider thistoday day since I am not speaking to your children who have not known or seen it consider the discipline of the Lord your God his greatness his mighty hand and his outstretched arm |
| 11:3 |
his signs and his deeds whichthat he did in Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land; |
| 11:4 |
and what he did to the army of Egypt to their horses and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea overflowflow over them as they pursued after you and how the Lord has destroyed them to this day; |
| 11:5 |
and what he did to you in the wilderness until you came to this place; |
| 11:6 |
and what he did to Dathan and Abi′ramAbiram the sons of Eli′abEliab son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households their tents and every living thing that followed them in the midst of all Israel; |
| 11:7 |
forFor your eyes have seen all the great work of the Lord whichthat he did |
| 11:8 |
You shall therefore keep all the whole commandment whichthat I command you thistoday day that you may be strong and go in and take possession of the land whichthat you are going over to possess |
| 11:9 |
and that you may live long in the land whichthat the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendantsoffspring a land flowing with milk and honey |
| 11:10 |
For the land whichthat you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come where you sowed your seed and wateredirrigated it with your feet like a garden of vegetables; |
| 11:11 |
butBut the land whichthat you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water by the rain from heaven |
| 11:12 |
a land whichthat the Lord your God cares for; theThe eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it from the beginning of the year to the end of the year |
| 11:13 |
And if you will indeed obey my commandments whichthat I command you thistoday day to love the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul |
| 11:15 |
And he will give grass in your fields for your cattlelivestock and you shall eat and be full |
| 11:16 |
Take heedcare lest your heart be deceived and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them ; |
| 11:17 |
andthen the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you and he will shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain and the land will yield no fruit and you will perish quickly off the good land whichthat the Lord givesis giving you |
| 11:18 |
You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign uponon your hand and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes |
| 11:19 |
AndYou you shall teach them to your children talking of them when you are sitting in your house and when you are walking by the way and when you lie down and when you rise |
| 11:20 |
AndYou you shall write them uponon the doorposts of your house and uponon your gates |
| 11:21 |
that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land whichthat the Lord swore to your fathers to give them as long as the heavens are above the earth |
| 11:22 |
For if you will be careful to do all this commandment whichthat I command you to do loving the Lord your God walking in all his ways and cleavingholding fast to him |
| 11:23 |
then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves you |
| 11:24 |
Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours; yourYour territory shall be from the wilderness andto the Lebanon and from the River the river Euphra′tesEuphrates to the western sea |
| 11:25 |
No manone shall be able to stand against you; theThe Lord your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you uponon all the land that you shall tread as he promised you |
| 11:26 |
BeholdSee I setam setting before you thistoday day a blessing and a curse: |
| 11:27 |
the blessing if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you this day today |
| 11:28 |
and the curse if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God but turn aside from the way whichthat I commandam commanding you thistoday day to go after other gods whichthat you have not known |
| 11:29 |
And when the Lord your God brings you into the land whichthat you are entering to take possession of it you shall set the blessing on Mount Ger′izimGerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal |
| 11:30 |
Are they not beyond the Jordan west of the road toward the going down of the sun in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah overopposite against Gilgal beside the oak of Moreh |
| 11:31 |
For you are to passcross over the Jordan to go in to take possession of the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you; andAnd when you possess it and live in it |
| 11:32 |
you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the ordinancesrules whichthat I setam setting before you this daytoday |
| 12:1 |
These are the statutes and ordinancesrules whichthat you shall be careful to do in the land whichthat the Lord the God of your fathers has given you to possess all the days that you live uponon the earth |
| 12:2 |
You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods uponon the high mountains and uponon the hills and under every green tree; |
| 12:3 |
youYou shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Ashe′rimAsherim with fire; youYou shall hewchop down the gravencarved images of their gods and destroy their name out of that place |
| 12:4 |
You shall not doworship so to the Lord your God in that way |
| 12:5 |
But you shall seek the place whichthat the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there; thitherThere you shall go |
| 12:6 |
and thitherthere you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices your tithes and the offeringcontribution that you present your votivevow offerings your freewill offerings and the firstlingsfirstborn of your herd and of your flock; |
| 12:7 |
andAnd there you shall eat before the Lord your God and you shall rejoice you and your households in all that you undertake in which the Lord your God has blessed you |
| 12:8 |
You shall not do according to all that we are doing here thistoday dayeveryone every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes; |
| 12:9 |
for you have not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you |
| 12:10 |
But when you go over the Jordan and live in the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you to inherit and when he gives you rest from all your enemies roundaround about so that you live in safety |
| 12:11 |
then to the place whichthat the Lord your God will choose to make his name dwell there thitherthere you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices your tithes and the offeringcontribution that you present and all your votivefinest vow offerings whichthat you vow to the Lord |
| 12:12 |
And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God you and your sons and your daughters your menservantsmale servants and your maidservantsfemale servants and the Levite that is within your towns since he has no portion or inheritance with you |
| 12:13 |
Take heedcare that you do not offer your burnt offerings at everyany place that you see; |
| 12:14 |
but at the place whichthat the Lord will choose in one of your tribes there you shall offer your burnt offerings and there you shall do all that I am commanding you |
| 12:15 |
However you may slaughter and eat fleshmeat within any of your towns as much as you desire according to the blessing of the Lord your God whichthat he has given you; theThe unclean and the clean may eat of it as of the gazelle and as of the hart deer |
| 12:16 |
Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out uponon the earth like water |
| 12:17 |
You may not eat within your towns the tithe of your grain or of your wine or of your oil or the firstlingsfirstborn of your herd or of your flock or any of your votivevow offerings whichthat you vow or your freewill offerings or the offeringcontribution that you present; |
| 12:18 |
but you shall eat them before the Lord your God in the place whichthat the Lord your God will choose you and your son and your daughter your manservantmale servant and your maidservantfemale servant and the Levite who is within your towns; andAnd you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all that you undertake |
| 12:19 |
Take heedcare that you do not forsakeneglect the Levite as long as you live in your land |
| 12:20 |
When the Lord your God enlarges your territory as he has promised you and you say I will eat fleshmeat because you crave fleshmeat you may eat asmeat muchwhenever flesh as you desire |
| 12:21 |
If the place whichthat the Lord your God will choose to put his name there is too far from you then you may kill any of your herd or your flock which the Lord has given you as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your towns aswhenever much as you desire |
| 12:22 |
Just as the gazelle or the hartdeer is eaten so you may eat of it; theThe unclean and the clean alike may eat of it |
| 12:23 |
Only be sure that you do not eat the blood; for the blood is the life and you shall not eat the life with the flesh |
| 12:24 |
You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out uponon the earth like water |
| 12:25 |
You shall not eat it; that all may go well with you and with your children after you when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord |
| 12:26 |
But the holy things whichthat are due from you and your votivevow offerings you shall take and you shall go to the place whichthat the Lord will choose |
| 12:27 |
and offer your burnt offerings the flesh and the blood on the altar of the Lord your God; theThe blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the Lord your God but the flesh you may eat |
| 12:28 |
Be careful to heedobey all these words whichthat I command you that it may go well with you and with your children after you forforever ever when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God |
| 12:30 |
take heedcare that you be not ensnared to follow them after they have been destroyed before you and that you do not inquire about their gods saying How did these nations serve their gods—that I also may do likewisethe same |
| 12:31 |
You shall not doworship so to the Lord your God; in that way for every abominable thing whichthat the Lord hates they have done for their gods; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods |
| 12:32 |
Everything that I command you you shall be careful to do; youYou shall not add to it or take from it |
| 13:1 |
If a prophet arises among you or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder |
| 13:2 |
and the sign or wonder whichthat he tells you comes to pass and if he says Let us go after other gods which you have not known and let us serve them |
| 13:3 |
you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams; forFor the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul |
| 13:4 |
You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice and you shall serve him and cleavehold fast to him |
| 13:5 |
But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of bondageslavery to make you leave the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk So you shall purge the evil from theyour midst of you |
| 13:6 |
If your brother the son of your mother or your son or your daughter or the wife ofyou yourembrace bosom or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly saying Let us go and serve other gods which neither you nor your fathers have known |
| 13:7 |
some of the gods of the peoples thatwho are roundaround about you whether near you or far off from you from the one end of the earth to the other |
| 13:8 |
you shall not yield to him or listen to him nor shall your eye pity him nor shall you spare him nor shall you conceal him; |
| 13:9 |
butBut you shall kill him; yourYour hand shall be first against him to put him to death and afterwardsafterward the hand of all the people |
| 13:10 |
You shall stone him to death with stones because he sought to draw you away from the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondage slavery |
| 13:12 |
If you hear in one of your cities which the Lord your God givesis giving you to dwell there |
| 13:13 |
that certain baseworthless fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of thetheir city saying Let us go and serve other gods which you have not known |
| 13:14 |
then you shall inquire and make search and ask diligently; andAnd behold if it be true and certain that such an abominableabomination thing has been done among you |
| 13:15 |
you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword destroyingdevoting it utterlyto destruction all who are in it and its cattle with the edge of the sword |
| 13:16 |
You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square and burn the city and all its spoil with fire as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God; itIt shall be a heap forforever everIt it shall not be built again |
| 13:17 |
None of the devoted things shall cleavestick to your hand; that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy and have compassion on you and multiply you as he swore to your fathers |
| 13:18 |
if you obey the voice of the Lord your God keeping all his commandments whichthat I commandam commanding you thistoday day and doing what is right in the sight of the Lord your God |
| 14:1 |
You are the sons of the Lord your God; youYou shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead |
| 14:2 |
For you are a people holy to the Lord your God and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his owntreasured possession out of all the peoples thatwho are on the face of the earth |
| 14:3 |
You shall not eat any abominable thing abomination |
| 14:5 |
the hartdeer the gazelle the roebuck the wild goat the ibex the antelope and the mountain sheep |
| 14:7 |
Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cloven you shall not eat these: Thethe camel the hare and the rock badger because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof are unclean for you |
| 14:8 |
And the swinepig because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud is unclean for you Their flesh you shall not eat and their carcasescarcasses you shall not touch |
| 14:9 |
Of all that are in the waters you may eat these: Whateverwhatever has fins and scales you may eat |
| 14:12 |
But these are the ones whichthat you shall not eat: the eagle the bearded vulture the ospreyblack vulture |
| 14:13 |
the buzzardkite the kitefalcon afterof theirany kindskind; |
| 14:14 |
every raven afterof itsany kind; |
| 14:15 |
the ostrich the nighthawk the sea gull the hawk afterof theirany kindskind; |
| 14:16 |
the litlelittle owl and the greatshort eared owl the waterbarn hen owl |
| 14:17 |
and the pelicantawny owl the carrion vulture and the cormorant |
| 14:18 |
the stork the heron afterof theirany kindskind; the hoopoe and the bat |
| 14:21 |
You shall not eat anything that dieshas ofdied itself;naturally youYou may give it to the aliensojourner who is within your towns that he may eat it or you may sell it to a foreigner; forFor you are a people holy to the Lord your God You shall not boil a kidyoung goat in its mothers milk |
| 14:22 |
You shall tithe all the yield of your seed whichthat comes forth from the field year by year |
| 14:23 |
And before the Lord your God in the place whichthat he will choose to make his name dwell there you shall eat the tithe of your grain of your wine and of your oil and the firstlingsfirstborn of your herd and flock; that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always |
| 14:24 |
And if the way is too long for you so that you are not able to bringcarry the tithe when the Lord your God blesses you because the place is too far from you which the Lord your God chooses to set his name there |
| 14:25 |
then you shall turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and go to the place whichthat the Lord your God chooses |
| 14:26 |
and spend the money for whatever you desire —oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink whatever your appetite craves; andAnd you shall eat there before the Lord your God and rejoice you and your household |
| 14:27 |
And you shall not forsakeneglect the Levite who is within your towns for he has no portion or inheritance with you |
| 14:28 |
At the end of every three years you shall bring forthout all the tithe of your produce in the same year and lay it up within your towns; |
| 14:29 |
andAnd the Levite because he has no portion or inheritance with you and the sojourner the fatherless and the widow who are within your towns shall come and eat and be filled; that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do |
| 15:2 |
And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor; heHe shall not exact it of his neighbor his brother because the Lords release has been proclaimed |
| 15:3 |
Of a foreigner you may exact it; but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand shall release |
| 15:4 |
But there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will bless you in the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you for an inheritance to possess — |
| 15:5 |
if only you will strictly obey the voice of the Lord your God being careful to do all this commandment whichthat I command you this day today |
| 15:6 |
For the Lord your God will bless you as he promised you and you shall lend to many nations but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations but they shall not rule over you |
| 15:7 |
If there is among you a poor man one of your brethrenbrothers should become poor in any of your towns within your land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother |
| 15:9 |
Take heedcare lest there be aan baseunworthy thought in your heart and you say The seventh year the year of release is near and your eye belook hostilegrudgingly toon your poor brother and you give him nothing and he cry to the Lord against you and ityou be singuilty inof you sin |
| 15:10 |
You shall give to him freely and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him; because for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake |
| 15:11 |
For thethere poor will never cease outto ofbe poor in the land; thereforeTherefore I command you You shall open wide your hand to your brother to the needy and to the poor in theyour land |
| 15:13 |
And when you let him go free from you you shall not let him go empty handed; |
| 15:14 |
youYou shall furnish him liberally out of your flock out of your threshing floor and out of your winewinepress press;As as the Lord your God has blessed you you shall give to him |
| 15:16 |
But if he says to you I will not go out from you because he loves you and your household since he faresis well off with you |
| 15:17 |
then you shall take an awl and thrustput it through his ear into the door and he shall be your bondmanslave forforever ever And to your bondwomanfemale slave you shall do likewisethe same |
| 15:18 |
It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you; for at half the cost of a hired servantworker he has served you six years So the Lord your God will bless you in all that you do |
| 15:19 |
All the firstlingfirstborn males that are born of your herd and flock you shall consecratededicate to the Lord your God; youYou shall do no work with the firstlingfirstborn of your herd nor shear the firstlingfirstborn of your flock |
| 15:20 |
You shall eat it you and your household before the Lord your God year by year at the place whichthat the Lord will choose |
| 15:22 |
You shall eat it within your towns; theThe unclean and the clean alike may eat it as though it were a gazelle or a hart deer |
| 16:1 |
Observe the month of Abib and keep the passoverPassover to the Lord your God; for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night |
| 16:2 |
And you shall offer the passoverPassover sacrifice to the Lord your God from the flock or the herd at the place whichthat the Lord will choose to make his name dwell there |
| 16:3 |
You shall eat no leavened bread with it; sevenSeven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread the bread of affliction—for you came out of the land of Egypt in hurried flighthaste—that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt |
| 16:4 |
No leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory for seven days; nor shall any of the flesh whichthat you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain all night until morning |
| 16:5 |
You may not offer the passoverPassover sacrifice within any of your towns whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you; |
| 16:6 |
but at the place whichthat the Lord your God will choose to make his name dwell in it there you shall offer the passoverPassover sacrifice in the evening at thesunset going down of the sun at the time you came out of Egypt |
| 16:7 |
And you shall boilcook it and eat it at the place whichthat the Lord your God will choose; andAnd in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents |
| 16:8 |
For six days you shall eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord your God; youYou shall do no work on it |
| 16:9 |
You shall count seven weeks; beginBegin to count the seven weeks from the time youthe sickle is first put the sickle to the standing grain |
| 16:10 |
Then you shall keep the feastFeast of weeksWeeks to the Lord your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand which you shall give as the Lord your God blesses you; |
| 16:11 |
andAnd you shall rejoice before the Lord your God you and your son and your daughter your manservantmale servant and your maidservantfemale servant the Levite who is within your towns the sojourner the fatherless and the widow who are among you at the place whichthat the Lord your God will choose to make his name dwell there |
| 16:13 |
You shall keep the feastFeast of boothsBooths seven days when you makehave yourgathered ingatheringin the produce from your threshing floor and your wine press; winepress |
| 16:14 |
youYou shall rejoice in your feast you and your son and your daughter your manservantmale servant and your maidservantfemale servant the Levite the sojourner the fatherless and the widow who are within your towns |
| 16:15 |
For seven days you shall keep the feast to the Lord your God at the place whichthat the Lord will choose; 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 a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God at the place whichthat he will choose: at the feastFeast of unleavenedUnleavened breadBread at the feastFeast of weeksWeeks and at the feastFeast of boothsBooths They shall not appear before the Lord empty handed; |
| 16:17 |
everyEvery man shall give as he is able according to the blessing of the Lord your God whichthat he has given you |
| 16:18 |
You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment |
| 16:19 |
You shall not pervert justice; youYou shall not show partiality; and you shall not takeaccept a bribe for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous |
| 16:20 |
Justice and only justice you shall follow that you may live and inherit the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you |
| 16:21 |
You shall not plant any tree as an Ashe′rahAsherah beside the altar of the Lord your God whichthat you shall make |
| 17:1 |
You shall not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep in which is a blemish any defect whatever; for that is an abomination to the Lord your God |
| 17:2 |
If there is found among you within any of your towns whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God in transgressing his covenant |
| 17:4 |
and it is told you and you hear of it; then you shall inquire diligently and if it is true and certain that such an abominableabomination thing has been done in Israel |
| 17:5 |
then you shall bring forthout to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing and you shall stone that man or woman to death with stones |
| 17:6 |
On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses hethe thatone who is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness |
| 17:7 |
The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death and afterward the hand of all the people So you shall purge the evil from theyour midst of you |
| 17:8 |
If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another one kind of legal right and another or one kind of assault and another any case within your towns whichthat is too difficult for you then you shall arise and go up to the place whichthat the Lord your God will choose |
| 17:9 |
andAnd comingyou shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days and you shall consult them and they shall declare to you the decision |
| 17:10 |
Then you shall do according to what they declare to you from that place whichthat the Lord will choose; andAnd you shall be careful to do according to all that they direct you; |
| 17:11 |
accordingAccording to the instructions whichthat they give you and according to the decision which they pronounce to you you shall do; youYou shall not turn aside from the verdict whichthat they declare to you either to the right hand or to the left |
| 17:12 |
The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God or the judge that man shall die; soSo you shall purge the evil from Israel |
| 17:14 |
When you come to the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you and you possess it and dwell in it and then say I will set a king over me like all the nations that are roundaround about me; |
| 17:15 |
you may indeed set asa king over you him whom the Lord your God will choose One from among your brethrenbrothers you shall set as king over you; youYou may not put a foreigner over you who is not your brother |
| 17:16 |
Only he must not multiplyacquire many horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to multiplyacquire many horses since the Lord has said to you You shall never return that way again |
| 17:17 |
And he shall not multiplyacquire many wives for himself lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatlyacquire multiply for himself excessive silver and gold |
| 17:18 |
And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law fromapproved thatby which is in charge of the Levitical priests; |
| 17:19 |
andAnd it shall be with him and he shall read in it all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the Lord his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes and doing them; |
| 17:20 |
that his heart may not be lifted up above his brethrenbrothers and that he may not turn aside from the commandment either to the right hand or to the left; so that he may continue long in his kingdom he and his children in Israel |
| 18:1 |
The Levitical priests that is all the tribe of Levi shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel; theyThey shall eat the offeringsLords byfood fireofferings toas thetheir Lord and his rightful dues inheritance |
| 18:2 |
They shall have no inheritance among their brethrenbrothers; the Lord is their inheritance as he promised them |
| 18:3 |
And this shall be the priests due from the people from those offering a sacrifice whether itan be ox or a sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach |
| 18:4 |
The firstfirstfruits fruits of your grain of your wine and of your oil and the first of the fleece of your sheep you shall give him |
| 18:5 |
For the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the name of the Lord him and his sons for everall time |
| 18:6 |
And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel where he lives—and he may come when he desires—to the place whichthat the Lord will choose |
| 18:7 |
thenand heministers may minister in the name of the Lord his God like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the Lord |
| 18:8 |
Theythen shallhe may have equal portions to eat besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony |
| 18:9 |
When you come into the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations |
| 18:10 |
There shall not be found among you anyanyone one who burns his son or his daughter as an offering anyanyone one who practices divination aor soothsayertells fortunes or aninterprets auguromens or a sorcerer |
| 18:11 |
or a charmer or a medium or a wizardnecromancer or aone necromancerwho inquires of the dead |
| 18:12 |
Forfor whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord; andAnd because of these abominableabominations practices the Lord your God is driving them out before you |
| 18:14 |
Forfor these nations which you are about to dispossess givelisten heed to soothsayersfortune tellers and to diviners; butBut as for you the Lord your God has not allowed you so to do this |
| 18:15 |
The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you from your brethrenbrothers—it is to him you shall heedlisten— |
| 18:17 |
And the Lord said to me They haveare rightlyright saidin allwhat that they have spoken |
| 18:18 |
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brethren;brothers andAnd I will put my words in his mouth and he shall speak to them all that I command him |
| 18:19 |
And whoever will not givelisten heed to my words whichthat he shall speak in my name I myself will require it of him |
| 18:20 |
But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name whichthat I have not commanded him to speak or who speaks in the name of other gods that same prophet shall die |
| 18:21 |
And if you say in your heart How may we know the word whichthat the Lord has not spoken— |
| 18:22 |
when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord if the word does not come to pass or come true that is a word whichthat the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously youYou need not 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 dwell in their cities and in their houses |
| 19:2 |
you shall set apart three cities for youyourselves in the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you to possess |
| 19:3 |
You shall preparemeasure the roadsdistances and divide into three parts the area of the land whichthat the Lord your God gives you as a possession so that any manslayer can flee to them |
| 19:4 |
This is the provision for the manslayer who by fleeing there may save his life If anyanyone one kills his neighbor unintentionally without having beenhated at enmity with him in timethe past— |
| 19:5 |
as when asomeone man goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and save his life; live |
| 19:6 |
lest the avenger of blood in hot anger pursue the manslayer and overtake him because the way is long and woundstrike him mortallyfatally though the man did not deserve to die since he washad not athated enmity with his neighbor in timethe past |
| 19:8 |
And if the Lord your God enlarges your borderterritory as he has sworn to your fathers and gives you all the land whichthat he promised to give to your fathers— |
| 19:9 |
provided you are careful to keep all this commandment which I command you thistoday day by loving the Lord your God and by walking ever in his ways—then you shall add three other cities to these three |
| 19:10 |
lest innocent blood be shed in your land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you for an inheritance and so the guilt of bloodshed be upon you |
| 19:11 |
But if anyanyone man hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and attacks him and woundsstrikes him mortallyfatally so that he dies and thehe man flees into one of these cities |
| 19:12 |
then the elders of his city shall send and fetchtake him from there and hand him over to the avenger of blood so that he may die |
| 19:14 |
InYou shall not move your neighbors landmark which the men of old have set in the inheritance whichthat you will hold in the land that the Lord your God givesis giving you to possess you shall not remove your neighbors landmark which the men of old have set |
| 19:15 |
A single witness shall not prevailsuffice against a manperson for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed; onlyOnly on the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall a charge be sustained established |
| 19:16 |
If a malicious witness risesarises against any man to accuse hima person of wrongdoing |
| 19:17 |
then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the Lord before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days; |
| 19:18 |
theThe judges shall inquire diligently and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely |
| 19:19 |
then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother; soSo you shall purge the evil from theyour midst of you |
| 19:21 |
Your eye shall not pity; itIt shall be life for life eye for eye tooth for tooth hand for hand foot for foot |
| 20:1 |
When you go forthout to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army larger than your own you shall not be afraid of them; for the Lord your God is with you who brought you up out of the land of Egypt |
| 20:3 |
and shall say to them Hear O Israel today you draware drawing near thisfor day to battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint; doDo not fear or tremblepanic or be in dread of them; |
| 20:4 |
for the Lord your God is he thatwho goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you the victory |
| 20:5 |
Then the officers shall speak to the people saying WhatIs manthere isany thereman thatwho has built a new house and has not dedicated it Let him go back to his house lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it |
| 20:6 |
And what man is there thatany man who has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed its fruit Let him go back to his house lest he die in the battle and another man enjoy its fruit |
| 20:7 |
And what man is there thatany man who has betrothed a wife and has not taken her Let him go back to his house lest he die in the battle and another man take her |
| 20:8 |
And the officers shall speak further to the people and say WhatIs manthere isany thereman thatwho is fearful and fainthearted Let him go back to his house lest he make the heart of his fellows melt aslike his heart own |
| 20:9 |
And when the officers have madefinished an end of speaking to the people then commanders shall be appointed at the head of the people |
| 20:11 |
And if itsit answerresponds to you ispeaceably peace and it opens to you then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you |
| 20:12 |
But if it makes no peace with you but makes war against you then you shall besiege it; |
| 20:13 |
andAnd when the Lord your God gives it into your hand you shall put all its males to the sword |
| 20:14 |
but the women and the little ones the cattlelivestock and everything else in the city all its spoil you shall take as bootyplunder for yourselves; andAnd you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies which the Lord your God has given you |
| 20:15 |
Thus you shall do to all the cities whichthat are very far from you which are not cities of the nations here |
| 20:16 |
But in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God givesis giving you for an inheritance you shall save alive nothing that breathes |
| 20:17 |
but you shall utterlydevote destroy them to complete destruction the Hittites and the Amorites the Canaanites and the Per′izzitesPerizzites the Hivites and the Jeb′usitesJebusites as the Lord your God has commanded; |
| 20:18 |
that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices whichthat they have done infor the service of their gods and so toyou sin against the Lord your God |
| 20:19 |
When you besiege a city for a long time making war against it in order to take it you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them; forYou you may eat offrom them but you shall not cut them down Are the trees in the field menhuman that they should be besieged by you |
| 20:20 |
Only the trees whichthat you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down that you may build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you until it falls |
| 21:1 |
If in the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you to possess anysomeone one is found slain lying in the open country and it is not known who killed him |
| 21:2 |
then your elders and your judges shall come forthout and they shall measure the distance to the surrounding cities which are around him that is slain; |
| 21:3 |
andAnd the elders of the city whichthat is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer whichthat has never been worked and whichthat has not pulled in thea yoke |
| 21:5 |
AndThen the priests the sons of Levi shall come forward for the Lord your God has chosen them to minister to him and to bless in the name of the Lord and by their word every dispute and every assault shall be settled |
| 21:6 |
And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley; |
| 21:7 |
and they shall testify Our hands did not shed this blood neithernor did our eyes see it shed |
| 21:8 |
ForgiveAccept atonement O Lord thyfor your people Israel whom thouyou hasthave redeemed and setdo not set the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of thyyour people Israel; butso letthat thetheir blood guilt of blood be forgivenatoned them for |
| 21:10 |
When you go forthout to war against your enemies and the Lord your God gives them into your handshand and you take them captive |
| 21:11 |
and you see among the captives a beautiful woman and you have desire forto her and would take her forto yourselfbe asyour wife |
| 21:12 |
thenand you shall bring her home to your house and she shall shave her head and pare her nails |
| 21:13 |
And she shall puttake off herthe captivesclothes garbin which she was captured and shall remain in your house and bewaillament her father and her mother a full month; afterAfter that you may go in to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife |
| 21:14 |
ThenBut if you have no longer delight in her you shall let her go where she will;wants butBut you shall not sell her for money younor shall notyou treat her as a slave since you have humiliated her |
| 21:15 |
If a man has two wives the one loved and the other dislikedunloved and they have borne him children both the loved and the dislikedunloved have borne him children and if the firstfirstborn born son isbelongs hersto thatthe is disliked unloved |
| 21:16 |
then on the day when he assigns his possessions as an inheritance to his sons he may not treat the son of the loved as the firstfirstborn born in preference to the son of the dislikedunloved who is the first born firstborn |
| 21:17 |
but he shall acknowledge the firstfirstborn born the son of the dislikedunloved by giving him a double portion of all that he has for he is the firstfirstfruits issue of his strength; theThe right of the firstfirstborn born is his |
| 21:18 |
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother and though they chastisediscipline him will not givelisten heed to them |
| 21:20 |
and they shall say to the elders of his city This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard |
| 21:21 |
Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones; soSo you shall purge the evil from your midst; and all Israel shall hear and fear |
| 21:23 |
his body shall not remain all night uponon the tree but you shall bury him the same day for a hanged man is accursedcursed by God; youYou shall not defile your land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you for an inheritance |
| 22:1 |
You shall not see your brothers ox or his sheep gogoing astray and withholdignore your help from them; youYou shall take them back to your brother |
| 22:2 |
And if he isdoes not live near you orand if you do not know himwho he is you shall bring it home to your house and it shall bestay with you until your brother seeks it; thenThen you shall restore it to him |
| 22:3 |
And so you shall do the same with his ass;donkey soor you shall do with his garment; soor you shall do with any lost thing of your brothers which he loses and you find; you may not withholdignore your help it |
| 22:4 |
You shall not see your brothers assdonkey or his ox fallen down by the way and withholdignore your help from them; youYou shall help him to lift them up again |
| 22:5 |
A woman shall not wear anythinga thatmans pertainsgarment to a man nor shall a man put on a womans garment;cloak for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God |
| 22:6 |
If you chance to come uponacross a birds nest in any tree or on the ground with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting uponon the young or uponon the eggs you shall not take the mother with the young; |
| 22:7 |
youYou shall let the mother go but the young you may take tofor yourself; that it may go well with you and that you may live long |
| 22:8 |
When you build a new house you shall make a parapet for your roof that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house if anyanyone oneshould fall from it |
| 22:9 |
You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed lest the whole yield be forfeited to the sanctuary the crop whichthat you have sown and the yield of the vineyard |
| 22:10 |
You shall not plow with an ox and ana assdonkey together |
| 22:11 |
You shall not wear acloth mingledof stuff wool and linen mixed together |
| 22:12 |
You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of yourthe cloakgarment with which you cover yourself |
| 22:13 |
If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then spurnshates her |
| 22:14 |
and chargesaccuses her withof shamefulmisconduct conduct and brings ana evilbad name upon her saying I took this woman and when I came near her I did not find in her theevidence tokens of virginity |
| 22:15 |
then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the tokensevidence of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate; |
| 22:16 |
andAnd the father of the young woman shall say to the elders I gave my daughter to this man to wifemarry and he spurnshates her; |
| 22:17 |
and lobehold he has madeaccused shamefulher chargesof againstmisconduct her saying I did not find in your daughter theevidence tokens of virginity And yet thesethis areis the tokensevidence of my daughters virginity And they shall spread the garmentcloak before the elders of the city |
| 22:18 |
Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip him; |
| 22:19 |
and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman because he has brought ana evilbad name upon a virgin of Israel; andAnd she shall be his wife; heHe may not putdivorce her away all his days |
| 22:20 |
But if the thing is true that theevidence tokens of virginity werewas not found in the young woman |
| 22:21 |
then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her fathers house and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones because she has wroughtdone follyan outrageous thing in Israel by playingwhoring the harlot in her fathers house; soSo you shall purge the evil from theyour midst of you |
| 22:22 |
If a man is found lying with the wife of another man both of them shall die the man who lay with the woman and the woman; soSo you shall purge the evil from Israel |
| 22:24 |
then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city and you shall stone them to death with stones the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city and the man because he violated his neighbors wife; soSo you shall purge the evil from theyour midst of you |
| 22:26 |
But to the young woman you shall do nothing; into the young woman; thereshe ishas committed no offense punishable by death forFor this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor; |
| 22:27 |
because he camemet upon her in the open country and though the betrothed young woman cried for help there was no one to rescue her |
| 22:29 |
then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver and she shall be his wife because he has violated her; heHe may not putdivorce her away all his days |
| 22:30 |
A man shall not take his fathers wife norso shallthat he uncoverdoes hernot whouncover is his fathers nakedness |
| 23:1 |
HeNo one whose testicles are crushed or whose male memberorgan is cut off shall not enter the assembly of the Lord |
| 23:2 |
No bastardone shallborn of a forbidden union may enter the assembly of the Lord; evenEven to the tenth generation none of his descendants shallmay enter the assembly of the Lord |
| 23:3 |
No Ammonite or Moabite shallmay enter the assembly of the Lord; evenEven to the tenth generation none belongingof to them shallmay enter the assembly of the Lord for ever; forever |
| 23:4 |
because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way when you came forth out of Egypt and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Be′orBeor from Pethor of Mesopota′miaMesopotamia to curse you |
| 23:5 |
NeverthelessBut the Lord your God would not hearkenlisten to Balaam; butinstead the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God loved you |
| 23:6 |
You shall not seek their peace or their prosperity all your days for everforever |
| 23:7 |
You shall not abhor an E′domiteEdomite for he is your brother; youYou shall not abhor an Egyptian because you were a sojourner in his land |
| 23:8 |
TheChildren childrenborn ofto them in the third generation that are born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord |
| 23:9 |
When you goare forthencamped against your enemies and are in camp then you shall keep yourself from every evil thing |
| 23:10 |
If thereany isman among you anybecomes manunclean whobecause is not clean by reason of whata chancesnocturnal toemission him by night then he shall go outside the camp heHe shall not come withininside the camp; |
| 23:11 |
but when evening comes on he shall bathe himself in water and whenas the sun issets down he may come withininside the camp |
| 23:12 |
You shall have a place outside the camp and you shall go out to it; |
| 23:13 |
andAnd you shall have a sticktrowel with your weapons;tools and when you sit down outside you shall dig a hole with it and turn back and cover up your excrement |
| 23:14 |
Because the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp to savedeliver you and to give up your enemies before you therefore your camp must be holy so that he may not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you |
| 23:15 |
You shall not give up to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you; |
| 23:16 |
heHe shall dwell with you in your midst in the place whichthat he shall choose within one of your towns wherewherever it pleasessuits him best;You you shall not oppresswrong him |
| 23:17 |
ThereNone shall be no cult prostitute of the daughters of Israel neither shall there be a cult prostitute and none of the sons of Israel shall be a cult prostitute |
| 23:18 |
You shall not bring the hirefee of a harlotprostitute or the wages of a dog into the house of the Lord your God in payment for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to the Lord your God |
| 23:19 |
You shall not lendcharge upon interest on loans to your brother interest on money interest on victualsfood interest on anything that is lent for interest |
| 23:20 |
ToYou may charge a foreigner you may lend upon interest but to your brother you shallmay not lendcharge uponyour brother interest; that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land whichthat you are entering to take possession of it |
| 23:21 |
WhenIf you make a vow to the Lord your God you shall not bedelay slackfulfilling to pay it; for the Lord your God will surely require it of you and ityou wouldwill be singuilty inof you sin |
| 23:22 |
But if you refrain from vowing ityou shallwill not be noguilty of sin in you |
| 23:23 |
You shall be careful to performdo what has passed your lips for you have voluntarily vowed to the Lord your God what you have promised with your mouth |
| 23:24 |
WhenIf you go into your neighbors vineyard you may eat your fill of grapes as many as you wish but you shall not put any in your vessel bag |
| 23:25 |
WhenIf you go into your neighbors standing grain you may pluck the ears with your hand but you shall not put a sickle to your neighbors standing grain |
| 24:1 |
When a man takes a wife and marries her if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her and he writes her a billcertificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house and she departs out of his house |
| 24:3 |
and the latter husbandman dislikeshates her and writes her a billcertificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house or if the latter husbandman dies who took her to be his wife |
| 24:4 |
then her former husband who sent her away may not take her again to be his wife after she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the Lord andAnd you shall not bring guiltsin upon the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you for an inheritance |
| 24:5 |
When a man is newly married he shall not go out with the army or be chargedliable withfor any business;other hepublic duty He shall be free at home one year to be happy with his wife whom he has taken |
| 24:6 |
No manone shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge; for hethat would be taking a life in pledge |
| 24:7 |
If a man is found stealing one of his brethrenbrothers of the people of Israel and if he treats him as a slave or sells him then that thief shall die; soSo you shall purge the evil from theyour midst of you |
| 24:8 |
Take heedcare in ana attackcase of leprosyleprous disease to be very careful to do according to all that the Levitical priests shall direct you; asAs I commanded them so you shall be careful to do |
| 24:9 |
Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam on the way as you came forth out of Egypt |
| 24:10 |
When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort you shall not go into his house to fetchcollect his pledge |
| 24:12 |
And if he is a poor man you shall not sleep in his pledge; |
| 24:13 |
whenYou the sun goes down you shall restore to him the pledge as the sun sets that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you; andAnd it shall be righteousness tofor you before the Lord your God |
| 24:14 |
You shall not oppress a hired servantworker who is poor and needy whether he is one of your brethrenbrothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns; |
| 24:15 |
youYou shall give him his hirewages on the same day he earns it before the sun goessets down for he is poor and setscounts hison heart upon it; lest he cry against you to the Lord and ityou be singuilty inof yousin |
| 24:16 |
TheFathers fathers shall not be put to death forbecause theof their children nor shall the children be put to death forbecause theof their fathers; everyEach manone shall be put to death for his own sin |
| 24:17 |
You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless or take a widows garment in pledge; |
| 24:19 |
When you reap your harvest in your field and haveforget forgotten a sheaf in the field you shall not go back to get it; itIt shall be for the sojourner the fatherless and the widow; that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands |
| 24:20 |
When you beat your olive trees you shall not go over thethem boughs again; itIt shall be for the sojourner the fatherless and the widow |
| 24:21 |
When you gather the grapes of your vineyard you shall not gleanstrip it afterward; itIt shall be for the sojourner the fatherless and the widow |
| 25:3 |
Forty stripes may be given him but not more; lest if one should go on to beat him with more stripes than these your brother be degraded in your sight |
| 25:4 |
You shall not muzzle an ox when it treadsis treading out the grain |
| 25:5 |
If brothers dwell together and one of them dies and has no son the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger; herHer husbands brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husbands brother to her |
| 25:6 |
And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his dead brother who is dead that his name may not be blotted out of Israel |
| 25:8 |
Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him: and if he persists saying I do not wish to take her |
| 25:9 |
then his brothers wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face; andAnd she shall answer and say So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brothers house |
| 25:10 |
And the name of his house shall be called in Israel The house of him thatwho had his sandal pulled off |
| 25:12 |
then you shall cut off her hand; yourYour eye shall have no pity |
| 25:15 |
A full and justfair weight you shall have a full and justfair measure you shall have; that your days may be prolongedlong in the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you |
| 25:17 |
Remember what Am′alekAmalek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt |
| 25:18 |
how he attacked you on the way when you were faint and weary and cut off at your reartail allthose who laggedwere lagging behind you; and he did not fear God |
| 25:19 |
Therefore when the Lord your God has given you rest from all your enemies roundaround aboutyou in the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you for an inheritance to possess you shall blot out the remembrancememory of Am′alekAmalek from under heaven; you shall not forget |
| 26:1 |
When you come into the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and live in it |
| 26:2 |
you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground which you harvest from your land that the Lord your God givesis giving you and you shall put it in a basket and you shall go to the place whichthat the Lord your God will choose to make his name to dwell there |
| 26:3 |
And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him I declare thistoday day to the Lord your God that I have come into the land whichthat the Lord swore to our fathers to give us |
| 26:5 |
And you shall make response before the Lord your God A wandering Aramean was my father; andAnd he went down into Egypt and sojourned there few in number; and there he became a nation great mighty and populous |
| 26:6 |
And the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflictedhumiliated us and laid uponon us hard bondage labor |
| 26:7 |
Then we cried to the Lord the God of our fathers and the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction our toil and our oppression; |
| 26:8 |
andAnd the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm with great deeds of terror with signs and wonders; |
| 26:9 |
andAnd he brought us into this place and gave us this land a land flowing with milk and honey |
| 26:10 |
And behold now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground which thouyou O Lord hasthave given me And you shall set it down before the Lord your God and worship before the Lord your God; |
| 26:11 |
andAnd you shall rejoice in all the good whichthat the Lord your God has given to you and to your house you and the Levite and the sojourner who is among you |
| 26:12 |
When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce in the third year which is the year of tithing giving it to the Levite the sojourner the fatherless and the widow so that they may eat within your towns and be filled |
| 26:13 |
then you shall say before the Lord your God I have removed the sacred portion out of my house and moreover I have given it to the Levite the sojourner the fatherless and the widow according to all thyyour commandment whichthat thouyou hasthave commanded me; I have not transgressed any of thyyour commandments neithernor have I forgotten them; |
| 26:14 |
I have not eaten of the tithe while I was mourning or removed any of it while I was unclean or offered any of it to the dead; I have obeyed the voice of the Lord my God I have done according to all that thouyou hasthave commanded me |
| 26:15 |
Look down from thyyour holy habitation from heaven and bless thyyour people Israel and the ground whichthat thouyou hasthave given us as thouyou didstswore swear to our fathers a land flowing with milk and honey |
| 26:16 |
This day the Lord your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances;rules youYou shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul |
| 26:17 |
You have declared thistoday daythat concerning the Lord that he is your God and that you will walk in his ways and keep his statutes and his commandments and his ordinancesrules and will obey his voice; |
| 26:18 |
andAnd the Lord has declared thistoday day concerning you that you are a people for his owntreasured possession as he has promised you and that you are to keep all his commandments |
| 26:19 |
and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made in praise and in fame and in honor and that you shall be a people holy to the Lord your God as he has spokenpromised |
| 27:1 |
Now Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people saying Keep all the whole commandment whichthat I command you this day today |
| 27:2 |
And on the day you passcross over the Jordan to the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you you shall set up large stones and plaster them with plaster; |
| 27:3 |
andAnd you shall write uponon them all the words of this law when you passcross over to enter the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you a land flowing with milk and honey as the Lord the God of your fathers has promised you |
| 27:4 |
And when you have passedcrossed over the Jordan you shall set up these stones concerning which I command you thistoday day on Mount Ebal and you shall plaster them with plaster |
| 27:5 |
And there you shall build an altar to the Lord your God an altar of stones; youYou shall liftwield up no iron tool uponon them ; |
| 27:6 |
Youyou shall build an altar to the Lord your God of unhewnuncut stones; andAnd you shall offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God; |
| 27:7 |
and you shall sacrifice peace offerings and shall eat there; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God |
| 27:8 |
And you shall write uponon the stones all the words of this law very plainly |
| 27:9 |
AndThen Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel Keep silence and hear O Israel: this day you have become the people of the Lord your God |
| 27:10 |
You shall therefore obey the voice of the Lord your God keeping his commandments and his statutes which I command you this daytoday |
| 27:11 |
AndThat day Moses charged the people the same day saying |
| 27:12 |
When you have passedcrossed over the Jordan these shall stand uponon Mount Ger′izimGerizim to bless the people: Simeon Levi Judah Is′sacharIssachar Joseph and Benjamin |
| 27:13 |
And these shall stand uponon Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben Gad Asher Zeb′ulunZebulun Dan and Naph′tali Naphtali |
| 27:14 |
And the Levites shall declare to all the men of Israel within a loud voice: |
| 27:15 |
Cursed be the man who makes a gravencarved or moltencast metal image an abomination to the Lord a thing made by the hands of a craftsman and sets it up in secret And all the people shall answer and say Amen |
| 27:16 |
Cursed be heanyone who dishonors his father or his mother And all the people shall say Amen |
| 27:17 |
Cursed be heanyone who removesmoves his neighbors landmark And all the people shall say Amen |
| 27:18 |
Cursed be heanyone who misleads a blind man on the road And all the people shall say Amen |
| 27:19 |
Cursed be heanyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner the fatherless and the widow And all the people shall say Amen |
| 27:20 |
Cursed be heanyone who lies with his fathers wife because he has uncovered her who is his fathers nakedness And all the people shall say Amen |
| 27:21 |
Cursed be heanyone who lies with any kind of beastanimal And all the people shall say Amen |
| 27:22 |
Cursed be heanyone who lies with his sister whether the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother And all the people shall say Amen |
| 27:23 |
Cursed be heanyone who lies with his mother in law And all the people shall say Amen |
| 27:24 |
Cursed be heanyone who slaysstrikes down his neighbor in secret And all the people shall say Amen |
| 27:25 |
Cursed be heanyone who takes a bribe to slayshed an innocent personblood And all the people shall say Amen |
| 27:26 |
Cursed be heanyone who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them And all the people shall say Amen |
| 28:1 |
And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God being careful to do all his commandments whichthat I command you thistoday day the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth |
| 28:4 |
Blessed shall be the fruit of your bodywomb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your beastscattle the increase of your cattleherds and the young of your flock |
| 28:5 |
Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading trough bowl |
| 28:7 |
The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you; theyThey shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways |
| 28:8 |
The Lord will command the blessing uponon you in your barns and in all that you undertake; andAnd he will bless you in the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you |
| 28:10 |
And all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of you |
| 28:11 |
And the Lord will make you abound in prosperity in the fruit of your bodywomb and in the fruit of your cattlelivestock and in the fruit of your ground within the land whichthat the Lord swore to your fathers to give you |
| 28:12 |
The Lord will open to you his good treasury the heavens to give the rain ofto your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands; andAnd you shall lend to many nations but you shall not borrow |
| 28:13 |
And the Lord will make you the head and not the tail; and you shall tendonly upwardgo onlyup and not downward;down if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you thistoday day being careful to do them |
| 28:14 |
and if you do not turn aside from any of the words whichthat I command you thistoday day to the right hand or to the left to go after other gods to serve them |
| 28:15 |
But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes whichthat I command you thistoday day then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you |
| 28:17 |
Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading trough bowl |
| 28:18 |
Cursed shall be the fruit of your bodywomb and the fruit of your ground the increase of your cattleherds and the young of your flock |
| 28:20 |
The Lord will send uponon you curses confusion and frustration in all that you undertake to do until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your doingsdeeds because you have forsaken me |
| 28:21 |
The Lord will make the pestilence cleavestick to you until he has consumed you off the land whichthat you are entering to take possession of it |
| 28:22 |
The Lord will smitestrike you with consumptionwasting disease and with fever inflammation and fiery heat and with drought and with blastingblight and with mildew; theyThey shall pursue you until you perish |
| 28:23 |
And the heavens over your head shall be brassbronze and the earth under you shall be iron |
| 28:24 |
The Lord will make the rain of your land powder andFrom dust; from heaven itdust shall come down uponon you until you are destroyed |
| 28:25 |
The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; youYou shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them; andAnd you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth |
| 28:26 |
And your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth; and there shall be no one to frighten them away |
| 28:27 |
The Lord will smitestrike you with the boils of Egypt and with thetumors ulcers and thescabs scurvy and the itch of which you cannot be healed |
| 28:28 |
The Lord will smitestrike you with madness and blindness and confusion of mind; |
| 28:29 |
and you shall grope at noonday as the blind grope in darkness and you shall not prosper in your ways; andAnd you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually and there shall be no one to help you |
| 28:30 |
You shall betroth a wife andbut another man shall lieravish with her; youYou shall build a house andbut you shall not dwell in it; youYou shall plant a vineyard andbut you shall not useenjoy theits fruit of it |
| 28:31 |
Your ox shall be slainslaughtered before your eyes andbut you shall not eat any of it; yourYour assdonkey shall be violentlyseized taken away before your face andbut shall not be restored to you; yourYour sheep shall be given to your enemies andbut there shall be no one to help you |
| 28:32 |
Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all the day; andlong itbut you shall not be in the power of your hand to prevent it helpless |
| 28:33 |
A nation whichthat you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually; |
| 28:34 |
so that you shallare be driven mad by the sightsights whichthat your eyes shall see |
| 28:35 |
The Lord will smitestrike you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head |
| 28:36 |
The Lord will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known; andAnd there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone |
| 28:38 |
You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little in; for the locust shall consume it |
| 28:39 |
You shall plant vineyards and dress them but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes; for the worm shall eat them |
| 28:40 |
You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off |
| 28:41 |
You shall begetfather sons and daughters but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity |
| 28:42 |
AllThe cricket shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground the locust shall possess |
| 28:43 |
The sojourner who is among you shall mountrise above you higher and higher; above you and you shall come down lower and lower |
| 28:44 |
He shall lend to you and you shall not lend to him; heHe shall be the head and you shall be the tail |
| 28:45 |
All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God to keep his commandments and his statutes whichthat he commanded you |
| 28:46 |
They shall be upon you as a sign and a wonder against you and upon your descendantsoffspring for everforever |
| 28:47 |
Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart bybecause reason of the abundance of all things |
| 28:48 |
therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you in hunger and thirst in nakedness and inlacking wanteverything ofAnd all things; and he will put a yoke of iron uponon 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 asswooping swiftdown aslike the eagle flies a nation whose language you do not understand |
| 28:50 |
a nationhard offaced sternnation countenance who shall not regardrespect the person of the old or show favormercy to the young |
| 28:51 |
andIt shall eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground until you are destroyed; whoit also shall not leave you grain wine or oil the increase of your cattleherds or the young of your flock until they have caused you to perish |
| 28:52 |
They shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout all your land; andAnd they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land which the Lord your God has given you |
| 28:53 |
And you shall eat the offspringfruit of your ownwomb body the flesh of your sons and daughters whom the Lord your God has given you in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you |
| 28:54 |
The man who is the most tender and delicatelyrefined bred among you will grudgebegrudge food to his brother to the wife ofhe hisembraces bosom and to the last of the children whowhom remainhe tohas him; left |
| 28:55 |
so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating because he has nothing else left him in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns |
| 28:56 |
The most tender and delicatelyrefined bred woman among you who would not venture to set the sole of her foot uponon the ground because she is so delicate and tender will grudgebegrudge to the husband ofshe herembraces bosom to her son and to her daughter |
| 28:57 |
her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears because lacking everything she will eat them secretly for want of all things in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns |
| 28:58 |
If you are not careful to do all the words of this law whichthat are written in this book that you may fear this glorious and awfulawesome name the Lord your God |
| 28:60 |
And he will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid of; and they shall cleavecling to you |
| 28:61 |
Every sickness also and every affliction whichthat is not recorded in the book of this law the Lord will bring upon you until you are destroyed |
| 28:62 |
Whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven for multitude you shall be left few in number; because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God |
| 28:63 |
And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and multiplying you so the Lord will take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you; andAnd you shall be plucked off the land whichthat you are entering to take possession of it |
| 28:64 |
And the Lord will scatter you among all peoples from one end of the earth to the other; and there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone which neither you nor your fathers have known |
| 28:65 |
And among these nations you shall find no easerespite and there shall be no restresting place for the sole of your foot; but the Lord will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and a languishing soul; |
| 28:66 |
yourYour life shall hang in doubt before you; nightNight and day you shall be in dread and have no assurance of your life |
| 28:67 |
In the morning you shall say WouldIf only it were evening and at evening you shall say WouldIf only it were morning because of the dread whichthat your heart shall fearfeel and the sights whichthat your eyes shall see |
| 28:68 |
And the Lord will bring you back in ships to Egypt a journey whichthat I promised that you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves but nothere man will buybe youno buyer |
| 29:1 |
These are the words of the covenant whichthat the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab besides the covenant whichthat he had made with them at Horeb |
| 29:3 |
the great trials whichthat your eyes saw the signs and those great wonders; |
| 29:4 |
butBut to this day the Lord has not given you a mindheart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear |
| 29:5 |
I have led you forty years in the wilderness; yourYour clothes have not worn out uponon you and your sandals have not worn off your feet; |
| 29:6 |
youYou have not eaten bread and you have not drunk wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am the Lord your God |
| 29:7 |
And when you came to this place Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us to battle but we defeated them; |
| 29:8 |
weWe took their land and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites the Gadites and the half tribe of the Manas′sites Manassites |
| 29:9 |
Therefore bekeep careful to do the words of this covenant and do them that you may prosper in all that you do |
| 29:10 |
You standare thisstanding daytoday all of you before the Lord your God;: the heads of your tribes your elders and your officers all the men of Israel |
| 29:11 |
your little ones your wives and the sojourner who is in your camp bothfrom hethe one who hewschops your wood andto hethe one who draws your water |
| 29:12 |
so that you may enter into the sworn covenant of the Lord your God which the Lord your God makesis making with you this day; today |
| 29:13 |
that he may establish you thistoday day as his people and that he may be your God as he promised you and as he swore to your fathers to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob |
| 29:14 |
NorIt is itnot with you onlyalone that I makeam making this sworn covenant |
| 29:15 |
but with himwhoever who is notstanding here with us thistoday daybefore asthe wellLord asour God and with himwhoever whois standsnot here with us this day before the Lord our Godtoday |
| 29:16 |
You know how we dweltlived in the land of Egypt and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed; |
| 29:17 |
andAnd you have seen their detestable things their idols of wood and stone of silver and gold which were among them |
| 29:18 |
Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or familyclan or tribe whose heart turnsis turning away thistoday day from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of those nations; Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit |
| 29:19 |
one who when he hears the words of this sworn covenant blesses himself in his heart saying I shall be safe though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart This wouldwill lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike |
| 29:20 |
The Lord wouldwill not pardonbe willing to forgive him but rather the anger of the Lord and his jealousy wouldwill smoke against that man and the curses written in this book wouldwill settle upon him and the Lord wouldwill blot out his name from under heaven |
| 29:21 |
And the Lord wouldwill single him out from all the tribes of Israel for calamity in accordance with all the curses of the covenant written in this bookBook of the law Law |
| 29:22 |
And the next generation to come your children who rise up after you and the foreigner who comes from a far land wouldwill say when they see the afflictions of that land and the sicknesses with which the Lord has made it sick— |
| 29:23 |
the whole land burned out with brimstone and salt andnothing asown burntand outnothing waste unsown and growing nothing where no grassplant can sprout an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomor′rahGomorrah Admah and Zeboi′imZeboiim which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath— |
| 29:24 |
yea all the nations wouldwill say Why has the Lord done thus to this land What meanscaused the heat of this great anger |
| 29:25 |
Then menpeople wouldwill say It 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 |
and went and served other gods and worshiped them gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them; |
| 29:27 |
thereforeTherefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land bringing upon it all the curses written in this book; |
| 29:28 |
and the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath and cast them into another land as atthey are this day |
| 29:29 |
The secret things belong to the Lord our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forforever ever that we may do all the words of this law |
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and return to the Lord your God you and your children and obey his voice in all that I command you thistoday day with all your heart and with all your soul; |
| 30:3 |
then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have compassionmercy uponon you and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you |
| 30:4 |
If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven from there the Lord your God will gather you and from there he will fetchtake you; |
| 30:5 |
andAnd the Lord your God will bring you into the land whichthat your fathers possessed that you may possess it; andAnd he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers |
| 30:7 |
And the Lord your God will put all these curses uponon your foes and enemies who persecuted you |
| 30:8 |
And you shall again obey the voice of the Lord and keep all his commandments whichthat I command you this day today |
| 30:9 |
The Lord your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand in the fruit of your bodywomb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground; forFor the Lord will again take delight in prospering you as he took delight in your fathers |
| 30:10 |
ifwhen you obey the voice of the Lord your God to keep his commandments and his statutes whichthat are written in this bookBook of the lawLaw ifwhen you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul |
| 30:11 |
For this commandment whichthat I command you thistoday day is not too hard for you neither is it far off |
| 30:12 |
It is not in heaven that you should say Who will goascend upto heaven for us to heaven and bring it to us that we may hear it and do it |
| 30:14 |
But the word is very near you; itIt is in your mouth and in your heart so that you can do it |
| 30:15 |
See I have set before you thistoday day life and good death and evil |
| 30:16 |
If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God whichthat I command you thistoday day by loving the Lord your God by walking in his ways and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his ordinancesrules then you shall live and multiply and the Lord your God will bless you in the land whichthat you are entering to take possession of it |
| 30:18 |
I declare to you thistoday day that you shall surely perish; youYou shall not live long in the land whichthat you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess |
| 30:19 |
I call heaven and earth to witness against you thistoday day that I have set before you life and death blessing and curse; thereforeTherefore choose life that you and your descendantsoffspring may live |
| 30:20 |
loving the Lord your God obeying his voice and cleavingholding fast to him; for thathe meansis your life to you and length of days that you may dwell in the land whichthat the Lord swore to your fathers to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob to give them |
| 31:2 |
And he said to them I am a120 hundred and twenty years old thistoday day; I am no longer able to go out and come in The Lord has said to me You shall not go over this Jordan |
| 31:3 |
The Lord your God himself will go over before you; heHe will destroy these nations before you so that you shall dispossess them; and Joshua will go over at your head as the Lord has spoken |
| 31:5 |
And the Lord will give them over to you and you shall do to them according to all the whole commandment whichthat I have commanded you |
| 31:6 |
Be strong and ofcourageous goodDo courage do not fear or be in dread of them: for it is the Lord your God who goes with you; heHe will not failleave you or forsake you |
| 31:7 |
Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel Be strong and ofcourageous good courage; for you shall go with this people into the land whichthat the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall put them in possession of it |
| 31:8 |
It is the Lord who goes before you; heHe will be with you; he will not failleave you or forsake you; doDo not fear or be dismayed |
| 31:9 |
AndThen Moses wrote this law 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 |
And Moses commanded them At the end of every seven years at the set time ofin the year of release at the feastFeast of booths Booths |
| 31:11 |
when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God at the place whichthat he will choose you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing |
| 31:13 |
and that their children who have not known it may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God as long as you live in the land whichthat you are going over the Jordan to possess |
| 31:14 |
And the Lord said to Moses Behold the days approach when you must die; callCall Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of meeting that I may commission him And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tent of meeting |
| 31:15 |
And the Lord appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud; andAnd the pillar of cloud stood byover the doorentrance of the tent |
| 31:16 |
And the Lord said to Moses Behold you are about to sleeplie down with your fathers; thenThen this people will rise and playwhore the harlot after the strangeforeign gods ofamong them in the land wherethat they goare toentering be among them and they will forsake me and break my covenant whichthat I have made with them |
| 31:17 |
Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day and I will forsake them and hide my face from them and they will be devoured; andAnd many evils and troubles will come upon them so that they will say in that day Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us |
| 31:18 |
And I will surely hide my face in that day onbecause account of all the evil whichthat they have done because they have turned to other gods |
| 31:19 |
Now therefore write this song and teach it to the people of Israel; putPut it in their mouths that this song may be a witness for me against the people of Israel |
| 31:21 |
And when many evils and troubles have come upon them this song shall confront them as a witness for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their descendants;offspring forFor I know thewhat purposes which they are alreadyinclined formingto do even today before I have brought them into the land that I swore to give |
| 31:23 |
And the Lord commissioned Joshua the son of Nun and said Be strong and ofcourageous good courage; for you shall bring the childrenpeople of Israel into the land whichthat I swore to give them: I will be with you |
| 31:26 |
Take this bookBook of the lawLaw and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God that it may be there for a witness against you |
| 31:27 |
For I know how rebellious and stubborn you are; beholdBehold even today while I am yet alive with you today you have been rebellious against the Lord; howHow much more after my death |
| 31:29 |
For I know that after my death you will surely act corruptly and turn aside from the way whichthat I have commanded you; andAnd in the days to come evil will befall you because you will do what is evil in the sight of the Lord provoking him to anger through the work of your hands |
| 32:1 |
Give ear O heavens and I will speak; and let the earth hear the words of my mouth |
| 32:2 |
May my teaching drop as the rain my speech distildistill as the dew aslike the gentle rain upon the tender grass and aslike the showers upon the herb |
| 32:3 |
For I will proclaim the name of the Lord; Ascribeascribe greatness to our God |
| 32:4 |
The Rock his work is perfect; for all his ways are justice A God of faithfulness and without iniquity just and rightupright is he |
| 32:5 |
They have dealt corruptly with him; they are no longer his children because ofthey theirare blemishblemished; they are a perversecrooked and crookedtwisted generation |
| 32:6 |
Do you thus requiterepay the Lord you foolish and senseless people Is not he your father who created you who made you and established you |
| 32:7 |
Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father and he will show you; your elders and they will tell you |
| 32:8 |
When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance when he separateddivided themankind sons of men he fixed the boundsborders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God |
| 32:9 |
ForBut the Lords portion is his people Jacob his allotted heritage |
| 32:12 |
the Lord alone didguided lead him and there was no foreign god was with him |
| 32:13 |
He made him ride on the high places of the earthland and he ate the produce of the field; and he madesuckled him suckwith honey out of the rock and oil out of the flinty rock |
| 32:14 |
Curds from the herd and milk from the flock with fat of lambs and rams herds of Bashan and goats with the very finest of the wheat— and ofyou drank foaming wine made from the blood of the grape you drank wine |
| 32:15 |
But Jesh′urunJeshurun waxedgrew fat and kicked; you waxedgrew fat youstout grewand thick you became sleek; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation |
| 32:16 |
They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominableabominations practices they provoked him to anger |
| 32:17 |
They sacrificed to demons whichthat were no gods to gods they had never known to new gods that had come inrecently of late whom your fathers had never dreaded |
| 32:18 |
You were unmindful of the Rock that begotbore you and you forgot the God who gave you birth |
| 32:20 |
And he said I will hide my face from them; I will see what their end will be Forfor they are a perverse generation children in whom is no faithfulness |
| 32:21 |
They have stirredmade me tojealous jealousy with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols So I will stirmake them tojealous jealousy with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation |
| 32:23 |
And I will heap evilsdisasters upon them; I will spend my arrows uponon them; |
| 32:24 |
they shall be wasted with hunger and devoured withby burningplague heat and poisonous pestilence; and I will send the teeth of beasts against them with the venom of crawling things ofthat crawl in the dust |
| 32:25 |
InOutdoors the open the sword shall bereave and inindoors the chambers shall be terror destroyingfor both young man and virginwoman alike the suckingnursing child with the man of gray hairs |
| 32:26 |
I would have said I will scattercut them afarto pieces; I will makewipe the remembrance of them cease from amonghuman menmemory |
| 32:27 |
had I not feared provocation by the enemy lest their adversaries should judgemisunderstand amiss lest they should say Our hand is triumphant it was not the Lord haswho notdid wrought all this |
| 32:29 |
If they were wise they would understand this; they would discern their latter end |
| 32:30 |
How shouldcould one chasehave chased a thousand and two have put ten thousand to flight unless their Rock had sold them and the Lord had given them up |
| 32:31 |
For their rock is not as our Rock; even our enemies themselvesare beingby judgesthemselves |
| 32:32 |
For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomor′rahGomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison; their clusters are bitter; |
| 32:38 |
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 protection |
| 32:40 |
For I lift up my hand to heaven and swear As I live for everforever |
| 32:41 |
if I whetsharpen my glitteringflashing sword and my hand takes hold on judgment I will take vengeance on my adversaries and will requiterepay those who hate me |
| 32:43 |
PraiseRejoice hiswith peoplehim O you nationsheavens; bow down to him all gods for he avenges the blood of his servantschildren and takes vengeance on his adversaries andHe makesrepays expiationthose forwho thehate landhim ofand cleanses his peoplepeoples land |
| 32:46 |
he said to them LayTake to heart all the words by which I enjoinam uponwarning you thistoday day that you may command them to your children that they may be careful to do all the words of this law |
| 32:47 |
For it is no trifleempty word for you but ityour isvery your life and therebyby this word you shall live long in the land whichthat you are going over the Jordan to possess |
| 32:48 |
AndThat very day the Lord saidspoke to Moses that very day |
| 32:49 |
AscendGo up this mountain of the Ab′arimAbarim Mount Nebo which is in the land of Moab opposite Jericho; and view the land of Canaan which I giveam giving to the people of Israel for a possession; |
| 32:50 |
andAnd die on the mountain which you ascendgo up and be gathered to your people as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people; |
| 32:51 |
because you broke faith with me in the midst of the people of Israel at the waters of Mer′iMeribah bathkadesh ka′desh in the wilderness of Zin; and because you did not reveretreat me as holy in the midst of the people of Israel |
| 32:52 |
For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there into the land whichthat I giveam giving to the people of Israel |
| 33:1 |
This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the childrenpeople of Israel before his death |
| 33:2 |
He said The Lord came from Sinai and dawned from Se′irSeir upon us; he shone forth from Mount Paran; he came from the ten thousands of holy ones with flaming fire at his right hand |
| 33:3 |
YeaYes he loved his people; all thosehis consecratedholy toones him were in his hand; so they followed in thyyour steps receiving direction from theeyou |
| 33:5 |
Thus the Lord became king in Jesh′urunJeshurun when the heads of the people were gathered all the tribes of Israel together |
| 33:6 |
Let Reuben live and not die norbut let his men be few |
| 33:7 |
And this he said of Judah: Hear O Lord the voice of Judah and bring him in to his people With thyyour hands contend for him and be a help against his adversaries |
| 33:8 |
And of Levi he said Give to Levi thyyour Thummim and thyyour Urim to thyyour godly one whom thouyou didsttested test at Massah with whom thouyou didstquarreled strive at the waters of Mer′ibahMeribah; |
| 33:9 |
who said of his father and mother I regard them not; he disowned his brothers and ignored his children For they observed thyyour word and kept thyyour covenant |
| 33:10 |
They shall teach Jacob thyyour ordinancesrules and Israel thyyour law; they shall put incense before theeyou and whole burnt offeringofferings uponon thyyour altar |
| 33:11 |
Bless O Lord his substance and accept the work of his hands; crush the loins of his adversaries of those thatwho hate him that they rise not again |
| 33:12 |
Of Benjamin he said The beloved of the Lord he dwells in safety byThe him;High heGod encompassessurrounds him all the day long and makesdwells his dwelling between his shoulders |
| 33:13 |
And of Joseph he said Blessed by the Lord be his land with the choicest gifts of heaven above and of the deep that couchescrouches beneath |
| 33:16 |
with the best gifts of the earth and its fulnessfullness and the favor of him thatwho dweltdwells in the bush LetMay these comerest uponon the head of Joseph andon upon the crownpate of the head of him thatwho is prince among his brothers |
| 33:17 |
HisA firstlingfirstborn bull—he has majesty and his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he shall pushgore the peoples all of them to the ends of the earth; suchthey are the ten thousands of E′phraimEphraim and suchthey are the thousands of Manas′sehManasseh |
| 33:18 |
And of Zeb′ulunZebulun he said Rejoice Zeb′ulunZebulun in your going out; and Is′sacharIssachar in your tents |
| 33:19 |
They shall call peoples to their mountain; there they offer right sacrifices; for they suckdraw from the affluenceabundance of the seas and the hidden treasures of the sand |
| 33:20 |
And of Gad he said Blessed be he who enlarges Gad Gad couchescrouches like a lion; he tears theoff arm and the crown of the headscalp |
| 33:21 |
He chose the best of the land for himself for there a commanders portion was reserved; and he came towith the heads of the people with Israel he executed the commandsjustice of the Lord and justhis decreesjudgments offor the LordIsrael |
| 33:22 |
And of Dan he said Dan is a lions whelpcub that leaps forth from Bashan |
| 33:23 |
And of Naph′taliNaphtali he said O Naph′taliNaphtali satisfiedsated with favor and full of the blessing of the Lord possess the lake and the south |
| 33:24 |
And of Asher he said BlessedMost aboveblessed of sons be Asher; let him be the favorite of his brothers and let him dip his foot in oil |
| 33:25 |
Your bars shall be iron and bronze; and as your days so shall your strength be |
| 33:26 |
There is none like God O Jesh′urunJeshurun who rides through the heavens to your help andthrough the skies in his majesty through the skies |
| 33:28 |
So Israel dweltlived in safety theJacob fountainlived of Jacob alone in a land of grain and wine; yeawhose his heavens drop down dew |
| 33:29 |
Happy are you O Israel Who is like you a people saved by the Lord the shield of your help and the sword of your triumph Your enemies shall come fawning to you; and you shall tread upon their high placesbacks |
| 34:1 |
AndThen Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo to the top of Pisgah which is opposite Jericho And the Lord showed him all the land Gilead as far as Dan |
| 34:2 |
all Naph′taliNaphtali the land of E′phraimEphraim and Manas′sehManasseh all the land of Judah as far as the western sea |
| 34:3 |
the Negeb and the Plain that is the valleyValley of Jericho the city of palm trees as far as Zo′ar Zoar |
| 34:4 |
And the Lord said to him This is the land of which I swore to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob I will give it to your descendantsoffspring I have let you see it with your eyes but you shall not go over there |
| 34:6 |
and he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth pe′orpeor; but no manone knows the place of his burial to this day |
| 34:7 |
Moses was a120 hundred and twenty years old when he died; hisHis eye was notundimmed dimand nor his naturalvigor force abated unabated |
| 34:8 |
And the people of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; thenThen the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended |
| 34:9 |
And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom for Moses had laid his hands uponon him; soSo the people of Israel obeyed him and did as the Lord had commanded Moses |
| 34:11 |
none like him for all the signs and the wonders whichthat the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land |
| 34:12 |
and for all the mighty power and all the great anddeeds terribleof deedsterror whichthat Moses wroughtdid in the sight of all Israel |