| 1:1 |
These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan —in the wilderness inon the Arabahplain overopposite against Suph between Paran and Tophel Laban Haze′rothHazeroth and Di′ zahab |
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ItBy isthe elevenway daysof journeyMount fromSeir Horebit bytakes theeleven waydays ofto Mountreach Se′irKadesh tobarnea Ka′deshfrom bar′neaHoreb |
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AndIn in the fortieth year on the first day of the eleventh month Moses spoke to the peopleIsraelites ofjust Israelas according to all that the Lord had givencommanded him into commandmentspeak to them |
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This was after he had defeated King Sihon the king of the Amorites who livedreigned in Heshbon and King Og the king of Bashan who livedreigned in Ash′tarothAshtaroth and in Ed′reEdrei i |
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Beyond the Jordan in the land of Moab Moses undertook to explainexpound this law sayingas follows: |
| 1:6 |
The Lord our God saidspoke to us inat Horeb saying You have stayed long enough at this mountain; |
| 1:7 |
turnResume and take your journey and go tointo the hill country of the Amorites andas towell allas theirinto neighborsthe inneighboring regions—the Arabah in the hill country and in the lowlandShephelah and in the Negeb and by the seacoast —the land of the Canaanites and the Lebanon as far as the great river the river Euphra′tesEuphrates |
| 1:8 |
BeholdSee I have set the land before you; go in and take possession of the land whichthat theI Lord swore to your fathersancestors to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob to give to them and to their descendants after them |
| 1:9 |
At that time I said to you I am notunable ableby alonemyself to bear you; |
| 1:10 |
theThe Lord your God has multiplied you andso beholdthat today you are thisas daynumerous as the stars of heaven for multitude |
| 1:11 |
May the Lord the God of your fathersancestors makeincrease you a thousand times asmore many as you are and bless you as he has promised you |
| 1:12 |
HowBut how can I bear alone the weightheavy and burden of youyour anddisputes yourall strifeby myself |
| 1:13 |
Choose wisefor understandingeach andof experiencedyour mentribes accordingindividuals towho yourare tribeswise discerning and Ireputable willto appointbe them as your headsleaders |
| 1:14 |
AndYou you answered me The thingplan that you have spokenproposed is a good forone us to do |
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So I took the headsleaders of your tribes wise and experiencedreputable menindividuals and setinstalled them as headsleaders over you commanders of thousands commanders of hundreds commanders of fifties commanders of tens and officersofficials throughout your tribes |
| 1:16 |
And I charged your judges at that time: HearGive the casesmembers betweenof your brethrencommunity a fair hearing and judge righteouslyrightly between aone manperson and hisanother brotherwhether citizen or theresident alien that is with him |
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You shallmust not be partial in judgment;judging: youhear shallout hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraidintimidated ofby theanyone face of man for the judgment is Gods; andAny the case that is too hard for you you shall bring to me and I will hear it |
| 1:18 |
AndSo I commandedcharged you at that time with all the things that you should do |
| 1:19 |
AndThen just as the Lord our God had ordered us we set out from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness whichthat you saw on the way to the hill country of the Amorites asuntil the Lord our God commanded us; and we camereached toKadesh Ka′deshbarnea bar′nea |
| 1:20 |
And I said to you You have comereached to the hill country of the Amorites which the Lord our God givesis giving us |
| 1:21 |
BeholdSee the Lord your God has setgiven the land beforeto you; go up take possession as the Lord the God of your fathersancestors has toldpromised you; do not fear or be dismayed |
| 1:22 |
ThenAll all of you came nearto me and said Let us send men beforeahead of us thatto they may explore the land for us and bring usback worda againreport ofto us regarding the wayroute by which we mustshould go up and the cities into which we shallwill come to |
| 1:23 |
The thingplan seemed good to me and I tookselected twelve men of you one manfrom for each tribe; |
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andThey theyset turnedout and went up into the hill country and camewhen tothey reached the Valley of Eshcol andthey spied it out |
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Andand theygathered took in their hands some of the fruitlands ofproduce thewhich landthey and brought it down to us andThey brought usback worda againreport to us and said It is a good land whichthat the Lord our God givesis giving us |
| 1:26 |
YetBut you wouldwere notunwilling to go up butYou rebelled against the command of the Lord your God; |
| 1:27 |
and you murmuredgrumbled in your tents and said BecauseIt is because the Lord hatedhates us that he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt to givehand us intoover theto hand of the Amorites to destroy us |
| 1:28 |
WhitherWhere are we goingheaded up Our brethrenkindred have made our hearts melt sayingby reporting The people are greaterstronger and taller than we; the cities are greatlarge and fortified up to heaven; andWe moreoveractually wesaw havethere seen the sonsoffspring of the Anakim there |
| 1:29 |
Then I said to you DoHave notno be in dread or afraidfear of them |
| 1:30 |
The Lord your God who goes before you is the one who will himself fight for you just as he did for you in Egypt before your very eyes |
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and in the wilderness where you havesaw seen how the Lord your God borecarried you just as aone mancarries bearsa hischild son in all the way that you wenttraveled until you camereached to this place |
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YetBut in spite of this word you didhave notno believetrust in the Lord your God |
| 1:33 |
who wentgoes before you inon the way to seek you out a place tofor pitchyou yourto tentscamp in fire by night toand showin youthe cloud by whatday wayto show you shouldthe goroute andyou inshould the cloud by daytake |
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AndWhen the Lord heard your words andhe was angeredwrathful and he swore: |
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Not one of these—not menone of this evil generation —shall see the good land whichthat I swore to give to your fathersancestors |
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except Caleb the son of Jephun′neh;Jephunneh heHe shall see it and to him and to his childrendescendants I will give the land uponon which he hasset troddenfoot because heof hashis whollycomplete followedfidelity to the Lord |
| 1:37 |
TheEven with me the Lord was angry with me also on your account andsaying said You also shall not goenter in there; |
| 1:38 |
Joshua the son of Nun whoyour standsassistant before you he shall enter there; encourage him for he shallis causethe Israelone towho inheritwill secure Israels possession of it |
| 1:39 |
MoreoverAnd as for your little ones who you saidthought would become abooty prey and your children who thistoday daydo havenot noyet knowledgeknow ofright goodfrom orwrong evilthey shall goenter in there; and to them I will give it and they shall possesstake possession of it |
| 1:40 |
But as for you turnjourney andback journey into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea |
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ThenYou you answered me We have sinned against the Lord; weWe willare ready to go up and fight just as the Lord our God commanded us AndSo everyall man of you girdedstrapped on hisyour weaponsbattle ofgear war and thought it easy to go up into the hill country |
| 1:42 |
AndThe the Lord said to me Say to them Do not go up orand do not fight for I am not in the midst of you; lestotherwise you will be defeated beforeby your enemies |
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SoAlthough I spoketold to you and you would not hearken;listen butYou you rebelled against the command of the Lord and werepresumptuously presumptuous and went up into the hill country |
| 1:44 |
ThenThe the Amorites who lived in that hill country then came out against you and chased you as bees do andThey beat you down in Se′irSeir as far as Hormah |
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AndWhen you returned and wept before the Lord; but the Lord didwould notneither hearkenheed to your voice ornor givepay earyou toany you attention |
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SoAfter you remainedhad stayed at Kadesh as many days theas days that you remained theredid |
| 2:1 |
Then we turnedjourneyed andback journeyed into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea as the Lord had told me; and skirted Mount Seir for many days we went about Mount Se′ir |
| 2:2 |
Then the Lord said to me: |
| 2:3 |
You have been goingskirting about this mountainhill country long enough; turnHead northwardnorth |
| 2:4 |
Andand commandcharge the people as follows: You are about to pass through the territory of your brethrenkindred the sonsdescendants of Esau who live in Se′ir;Seir andThey they will be afraid of you Soso takebe goodvery heed;careful |
| 2:5 |
do not contendto engage in battle with them; for I will not give you anyeven of their land no not so much as fora thefoots solelength of thetheir footland tosince tread on because I have given Mount Se′irSeir to Esau as a possession |
| 2:6 |
You shall purchase food from them for money so that you may eat; and you shall also buy water offrom them for money so that you may drink |
| 2:7 |
ForSurely the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your handsundertakings; he knows your going through this great wilderness; theseThese forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing |
| 2:8 |
So we wentpassed onby away from our brethrenkin the sonsdescendants of Esau who live in Se′irSeir awayleaving frombehind the route of the Arabah roadand fromleaving behind Elath and E′zionEzion ge′bergeber AndWhen we turnedhad andheaded wentout inalong the directionroute of the wilderness of Moab |
| 2:9 |
And the Lord said to me: Do not harass Moab or contendengage with them in battle for I will not give you any of theirits land foras a possession becausesince I have given Ar as a possession to the sonsdescendants of Lot for a possession |
| 2:10 |
The Emim—a formerlylarge livedand therenumerous a people greatas and many and tall as the Anakim;—had formerly inhabited it |
| 2:11 |
likeLike the Anakim they are alsousually knownreckoned as Reph′aimRephaim butthough the Moabites call them Emim |
| 2:12 |
TheMoreover Horitesthe alsoHorim livedhad informerly Se′irinhabited formerlySeir but the sonsdescendants of Esau dispossessed them anddestroying destroyed them from before them and settledsettling in their stead;place as Israel didhas todone in the land ofthat their possession which the Lord gave to them as a possession |
| 2:13 |
Now risethen upproceed andto gocross over the brookWadi Zered So we wentcrossed over the brookWadi Zered |
| 2:14 |
And the length of time fromwe ourhad leavingtraveled Ka′deshfrom bar′neaKadesh barnea until we crossed the brookWadi Zered was thirty eight years until the entire generation that is the men of warwarriors had perished from the camp as the Lord had sworn toconcerning them |
| 2:15 |
ForIndeed indeed the handLords ofown thehand Lord was against them to destroyroot them out from the camp until theyall had perished |
| 2:16 |
SoJust whenas soon as all the menwarriors of war had perisheddied andoff were dead from among the people |
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the Lord saidspoke to me saying |
| 2:18 |
ThisToday day you are going to passcross over the boundary of Moab at Ar; |
| 2:19 |
andWhen when you approach the frontier of the sonsAmmonites of Ammon do not harass them or contendengage with them in battle for I will not give you any of the land of the sonsAmmonites ofto Ammonyou as a possession because I have given it to the sonsdescendants of Lot for a possession |
| 2:20 |
ThatIt also is knownusually reckoned as a land of Reph′aim;Rephaim Reph′aimRephaim formerly livedinhabited thereit butthough the Ammonites call them Zamzum′mimZamzummim |
| 2:21 |
a peoplestrong great and manynumerous andpeople as tall as the Anakim; butBut the Lord destroyed them from before them;the andAmmonites so that they dispossessedcould dispossess them and settledsettle in their stead;place |
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asHe he did the same for the sonsdescendants of Esau who live in Se′irSeir whenby hedestroying destroyed the HoritesHorim before them andso that they dispossessedcould dispossess them and settledsettle in their steadplace even to this day |
| 2:23 |
As for the Avvim who had lived in villagessettlements asin farthe asvicinity of Gaza the Caph′torimCaphtorim who came from Caphtor destroyed them and settled in their steadplace |
| 2:24 |
RiseProceed upon take your journey and gocross over the valleyWadi of the Arnon; beholdSee I have givenhanded intoover yourto handyou King Sihon the Amorite king of Heshbon and his land; beginBegin to take possession andby contendengaging with him in battle |
| 2:25 |
This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the peoples thateverywhere are under the whole heaven; whowhen shallthey hear the report of you andthey shallwill tremble and be in anguish because of you |
| 2:26 |
So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Ked′emothKedemoth to King Sihon the king of Heshbon with wordsthe following terms of peace: saying |
| 2:27 |
LetIf you let me pass through your land; I will gotravel only byalong the road; I will turn aside neither to the right nor to the left |
| 2:28 |
You shall sell me food for money so that I may eat and givesupply me water for money so that I may drink; onlyOnly letallow me to pass through on foot— |
| 2:29 |
just as the sonsdescendants of Esau who live in Se′irSeir have done for me and likewise the Moabites who live in Ar did for me —until I gocross over the Jordan into the land whichthat the Lord our God givesis togiving us |
| 2:30 |
But King Sihon the king of Heshbon wouldwas not willing to let us pass bythrough him; for the Lord your God had hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinatedefiant thatin heorder mightto givehand him intoover yourto handyou as athe thishas daynow done |
| 2:31 |
AndThe the Lord said to me BeholdSee I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you; beginBegin now to take possession thatof you may occupy his land |
| 2:32 |
ThenSo when Sihon came out against us he and all his people tofor battle at Jahaz |
| 2:33 |
And the Lord our God gave him over to us; and we defeatedstruck him anddown along with his sonsoffspring and all his people |
| 2:34 |
AndAt that time we captured all his citiestowns atand thatin timeeach andtown we utterly destroyed every city men women and children; weWe left nonenot remaining;a single survivor |
| 2:35 |
onlyOnly the cattlelivestock we tookkept as spoil for ourselves withas well as the bootyplunder of the citiestowns whichthat we had captured |
| 2:36 |
From Aro′erAroer which is on the edge of the valleyWadi of the Arnon andincluding from the citytown that is in the valleywadi itself as far as Gilead there was notno acitadel city too high for us; theThe Lord our God gave alleverything intoto ourus hands |
| 2:37 |
OnlyYou todid thenot landencroach ofhowever on the sonsland of Ammonthe youAmmonites didavoiding notthe drawwhole nearupper thatregion isof to all the banksWadi ofJabbok theas riverwell Jabbokas and the citiestowns of the hill country andjust whereveras the Lord our God forbadehad uscharged |
| 3:1 |
ThenWhen we turnedheaded and went up the wayroad to Bashan; andKing Og the king of Bashan came out against us he and all his people tofor battle at Ed′reEdrei i |
| 3:2 |
ButThe the Lord said to me Do not fear him; for I have givenhanded him andover allto you along with his people and his land intoDo your hand; and you shall do to him as you did to King Sihon the king of the Amorites who dweltreigned atin Heshbon |
| 3:3 |
So the Lord our God gavealso intohanded ourover handto Ogus alsoKing theOg king of Bashan and all his people; andWe westruck smote him down until nonot a single survivor was left to him |
| 3:4 |
AndAt that time we tookcaptured all his citiestowns; at that time—there was notno acitadel citythat which we did not take from them—sixty citiestowns the whole region of Argob the kingdom of Og in Bashan |
| 3:5 |
All these were citiesfortress fortifiedtowns with high walls double gates and bars besides verya great many unwalled villages |
| 3:6 |
And we utterly destroyed them as we didhad done to King Sihon the king of Heshbon destroyingin everyeach city utterly destroying men women and children |
| 3:7 |
But all the cattlelivestock and the spoilplunder of the citiestowns we tookkept as ourspoil bootyfor ourselves |
| 3:8 |
So we took the land at that time outwe oftook thefrom hand of the two kings of the Amorites whothe wereland beyond the Jordan from the valleyWadi 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 citiestowns of the tableland andthe allwhole of Gilead and all of Bashan as far as Sal′ecahSalecah and Ed′reEdrei itowns cities of theOgs kingdom of Og in Bashan |
| 3:11 |
ForNow only King Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Reph′aim;Rephaim beholdIn fact his bedsteadbed wasan airon bedsteadbed ofcan iron;still isbe itseen not in Rabbah of the Ammonites NineBy cubitsthe wascommon itscubit lengthit andis fournine cubits itslong breadthand accordingfour tocubits thewide common cubit |
| 3:12 |
WhenAs for the land that we took possession of this land at that time I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory beginningnorth atof Aro′erAroer whichthat is on the edge of the valleyWadi ofArnon theas Arnonwell andas half the hill country of Gilead with its cities;towns |
| 3:13 |
and I gave to the half tribe of Manasseh the rest of Gilead and all of Bashan theOgs kingdom ofThe Ogwhole that is all the region of Argob: Iall gavethat toportion the half tribe of Manas′sehBashan Theused wholeto ofbe that Bashan is called thea land of Reph′aimRephaim; |
| 3:14 |
Ja′irJair the Manas′siteManassite tookacquired all the whole region of Argob that is Bashan as far as the border of the Gesh′uritesGeshurites and the MaMaacathites ac′athites and calledhe thenamed villagesthem—that is Bashan—after hishimself ownHavvoth namejair Hav′voth ja′ir as it is to this day |
| 3:16 |
andAnd to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the valleyWadi of the Arnon with the middle of the valleywadi as a boundary asand farup overto as the river Jabbok the wadi being boundary of the Ammonites; |
| 3:17 |
the Arabah also with the Jordan asand theits boundarybanks from Chin′nerethChinnereth asdown farto as the sea of the Arabah the SaltDead Sea underwith the lower slopes of Pisgah on the east |
| 3:18 |
AndAt that time I commandedcharged you atas thatfollows: timeAlthough sayingthe The Lord your God has given you this land to possess;occupy all your mentroops of valor shall passcross over armed beforeas your brethren the peoplevanguard of Israelyour Israelite kin |
| 3:19 |
ButOnly your wives your littlechildren ones and your cattle livestock—I know that you have manymuch cattle livestock—shall remainstay behind in the citiestowns whichthat I have given to you |
| 3:20 |
untilWhen the Lord gives rest to your brethrenkindred as to you and they alsotoo occupyhave occupied the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving them beyond the Jordan; then each of you shallmay return every man to histhe possessionproperty whichthat I have given to you |
| 3:21 |
And I commandedcharged Joshua as well at that time saying: Your own eyes have seen alleverything that the Lord your God has done to these two kings; so will the Lord will do to all the kingdoms into which you are goingabout overto cross |
| 3:22 |
YouDo shall not fear them; for it is the Lord your God who fights for you |
| 3:23 |
AndAt that time too I besoughtentreated the Lord at that time saying: |
| 3:24 |
O Lord God thouyou hasthave only begun to show thyyour servant thyyour greatness and thyyour mighty handmight; for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can doperform suchdeeds works and mighty acts aslike thineyours |
| 3:25 |
Let me gocross over Ito pray and see the good land beyond the Jordan that goodlygood hill country and the Lebanon |
| 3:26 |
But the Lord was angry with me on your account and would not hearkenheed to me; andThe the Lord said to me LetEnough itfrom suffice you; Never speak no more to me of this matter again |
| 3:27 |
Go up to the top of Pisgah and liftlook uparound youryou eyesto westwardthe andwest northwardto andthe southwardnorth andto eastwardthe south and beholdto itthe witheast yourLook eyes;well for you shall not gocross over this Jordan |
| 3:28 |
But charge Joshua and encourage and strengthen him; forbecause it is he who shall gocross over at the head of this people and hewho shall putsecure themtheir in possession of the land whichthat you shallwill see |
| 3:29 |
So we remained in the valley opposite Beth pe′orpeor |
| 4:1 |
AndSo now O Israel give heed to the statutes and the ordinances whichthat I teacham teaching you andto doobserve them;so that you may live andto goenter in and takeoccupy possession of the land whichthat the Lord the God of your fathersancestors givesis giving you |
| 4:2 |
You shallmust notneither add anything to thewhat word which I command you nor take away anything from it; thatbut you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God with which I commandam charging you |
| 4:3 |
YourYou eyes have seen for yourselves what the Lord did atwith Ba′alregard pe′or;to forthe Baal of Peor—how the Lord your God destroyed from among you alleveryone the men who followed the Ba′alBaal of Pe′or;Peor |
| 4:4 |
butwhile those of you who held fast to the Lord your God are all alive this day today |
| 4:5 |
BeholdSee Ijust have taught you statutes and ordinances as the Lord my God commandedhas charged me thatI now teach you shouldstatutes doand themordinances for you to observe in the land whichthat you are enteringabout to takeenter possessionand ofoccupy it |
| 4:6 |
KeepYou themmust andobserve do them; diligently for thatthis will beshow your wisdom and yourdiscernment understandingto in the sight of the peoples who when they hear all these statutes will say Surely this great nation is a wise and understandingdiscerning people |
| 4:7 |
For what other great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is to us whenever we call uponto him |
| 4:8 |
And what other great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances soas righteousjust as all this entire law whichthat I setam setting before you this daytoday |
| 4:9 |
OnlyBut take heedcare and keepwatch youryourselves soulclosely diligentlyso lestas youneither to forget the things whichthat your eyes have seen andnor lestto theylet departthem slip from your heartmind all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your childrens children— |
| 4:10 |
how onyou theonce day that you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb when the Lord said to me GatherAssemble the people tofor me thatand I maywill let them hear my words so that they may learn to fear me allas thelong daysas that they live uponon the earth and that they may teach their children so; |
| 4:11 |
And you cameapproached near and stood at the foot of the mountain while the mountain burnedwas withblazing fireup to the heartvery ofheavens heavenshrouded wrapped in darknessdark cloudclouds and gloom |
| 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 |
AndHe he declared to you his covenant which he commandedcharged you to performobserve that is the ten commandments; and he wrote them uponon two tablesstone oftablets stone |
| 4:14 |
And the Lord commandedcharged me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances thatfor you mightto doobserve them in the land whichthat you are goingabout over to possesscross into and occupy |
| 4:15 |
Therefore take good heed to yourselves Since you saw no form onwhen the day that the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the midstfire oftake thecare fireand watch yourselves closely |
| 4:16 |
bewareso lestthat you do not act corruptly by making aan gravenidol 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 bewarewhen lest you liftlook up yourto eyesthe toheavens heaven and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars all the host of heaven youdo not be drawnled awayastray and worshipbow down to them and serve them things whichthat the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples everywhere under the whole heaven |
| 4:20 |
But the Lord has taken you and brought you forth out of the iron furnacesmelter out of Egypt to bebecome a people of his very own possession as atyou thisare day now |
| 4:21 |
FurthermoreThe the Lord was angry with me onbecause yourof accountyou and he sworevowed that I should not cross the Jordan and that I should not enter the good land whichthat the Lord your God givesis yougiving for anyour inheritancepossession |
| 4:22 |
For I mustam going to die in this land Iwithout mustcrossing not go over the Jordan; but you shallare gogoing to cross over andto take possession of that good land |
| 4:23 |
TakeSo heedbe tocareful yourselvesnot lestto you forget the covenant ofthat the Lord your God which he made with you and not to make afor gravenyourselves imagean idol in the form of anything whichthat the Lord your God has forbidden you |
| 4:25 |
When you begethave had children and childrens children and havebecome growncomplacent old in the land if you act corruptly by making aan gravenidol image in the form of anything andthus by doing what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God soand asprovoking 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 goingcrossing over the Jordan to possessoccupy; you will not live long uponon it but will be utterly destroyed |
| 4:27 |
AndThe the Lord will scatter you among the peoples; andonly a few of you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drivelead you |
| 4:28 |
AndThere there you will serve other gods ofmade woodby andhuman stonehands theobjects work of menswood handsand stone that neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell |
| 4:29 |
ButFrom from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul |
| 4:30 |
WhenIn youyour aredistress inwhen tribulation and all these things comehave uponhappened to you in thetime latterto dayscome you will return to the Lord your God and obeyheed hishim voice |
| 4:31 |
forBecause the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will notneither failabandon you ornor destroy you; orhe will not forget the covenant with your fathersancestors whichthat he swore to them |
| 4:32 |
For ask now ofabout theformer daysages thatlong arebefore pastyour whichown wereever before you since the day that God created manhuman uponbeings on the earth; and ask from one end of heaven to the other: whetherhas suchanything aso great thing as this has ever happened or washas its like ever been heard of |
| 4:33 |
DidHas any people ever hearheard the voice of a god speaking out of thea midst of the fire as you have heard and stilllived live |
| 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 byand wonders and by war by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and by greatterrifying terrorsdisplays accordingof topower allas that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes |
| 4:35 |
To you it was shown so that you mightwould knowacknowledge that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him |
| 4:36 |
OutFrom of heaven he letmade you hear his voice thatto he might discipline you; andOn on earth he letshowed you see his great fire andwhile you heard his words coming out of the midst of the fire |
| 4:37 |
And because he loved your fathersancestors andhe chose their descendants after them andHe brought you out of Egypt with his own presence by his great power |
| 4:38 |
driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves to bring you in togiving give you their land for ana inheritancepossession as atit thisis day;still today |
| 4:39 |
knowSo thereforeacknowledge thistoday day and laytake it to your heart that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other |
| 4:40 |
ThereforeKeep you shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I commandam commanding you thistoday dayfor thatyour itown may go well withbeing you and withthat of your childrendescendants after you andso that you may prolonglong yourremain days in the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you for everall time |
| 4:41 |
Then Moses set apart threeon cities in the east beyondside of the Jordan three cities |
| 4:42 |
thatto thewhich manslayera mighthomicide could flee theresomeone who unintentionally kills hisanother neighborperson unintentionallythe withouttwo beingnot having been at enmity withbefore; himthe inhomicide timecould pastflee and that by fleeing to one of these cities heand might save his lifelive: |
| 4:43 |
Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland forbelonging to the Reubenites and Ramoth in Gilead forbelonging to the Gadites and Golan in Bashan forbelonging to the Manas′sitesManassites |
| 4:44 |
This is the law whichthat Moses set before the childrenIsraelites of Israel; |
| 4:45 |
theseThese are the testimoniesdecrees and the statutes and the ordinances whichthat Moses spoke to the childrenIsraelites of Israel when they camehad come out of Egypt |
| 4:46 |
beyond the Jordan in the valley opposite Beth pe′orpeor in the land of King Sihon the king of the Amorites who livedreigned at Heshbon whom Moses and the childrenIsraelites of Israel defeated when they came out of Egypt |
| 4:47 |
AndThey theyoccupied took possession of his land and the land of King Og the king of Bashan the two kings of the Amorites whoon livedthe toeastern theside eastof beyond the Jordan;: |
| 4:48 |
from Aro′erAroer which is on the edge of the valleyWadi of the Arnon as far as Mount Si′rionSirion that is Hermon |
| 5:1 |
And Moses summonedconvened all Israel and said to them: Hear O Israel the statutes and the ordinances whichthat I speakam inaddressing yourto hearingyou thistoday; day and you shall learn them and beobserve carefulthem todiligently do them |
| 5:2 |
The Lord our God made a covenant with us inat Horeb |
| 5:3 |
Not with our fathersancestors did the Lord make this covenant but with us who are all of us here alive thistoday day |
| 5:4 |
The Lord spoke with you face to face at the mountain out of the midst of the fire |
| 5:5 |
whileAt that time I stoodwas standing between the Lord and you at that time to declare to you the wordwords of the Lord; for you were afraid because of the fire and you did not go up into the mountain HeAnd 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; |
| 5:7 |
Youyou shall have no other gods before me |
| 5:8 |
You shall not make for yourself aan gravenidol imagewhether orin anythe likenessform 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 serveworship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God visitingpunishing children for the iniquity of theparents fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hatereject me |
| 5:10 |
but showing steadfast love to thousandsthe thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments |
| 5:11 |
You shall not takemake wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God in vain: for the Lord will not holdacquit himanyone guiltless who takesmisuses his name in vain |
| 5:12 |
Observe the sabbath day toand keep it holy as the Lord your God commanded you |
| 5:13 |
Six days you shall labor and do all your work; |
| 5:14 |
butBut the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work —you or your son or your daughter or your manservantmale or yourfemale maidservantslave or your ox or your assdonkey or any of your cattlelivestock or the sojournerresident whoalien isin within your gatestowns so that your manservantmale and yourfemale maidservantslave may rest as well as you |
| 5:15 |
YouRemember 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; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day |
| 5:16 |
Honor your father and your mother as the Lord your God commanded you; so 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 |
| 5:21 |
Neither shall you covet your neighbors wife; andNeither you shall notyou desire your neighbors house hisor field or hismale manservant or hisfemale maidservantslave hisor ox or hisdonkey ass or anything that isbelongs to your neighborsneighbor |
| 5:22 |
These words the Lord spoke with a loud voice to all your whole 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 AndHe he wrote them uponon two tablesstone oftablets stone and gave them to me |
| 5:23 |
AndWhen when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness while the mountain was burning with fire you cameapproached near to me all the heads of your tribes and your elders; |
| 5:24 |
and you said BeholdLook the Lord our God has shown us his glory and greatness and we have heard his voice out of the midstfire ofToday the fire; we have thisseen daythat seen God may speak withto mansomeone and manthe person may still live |
| 5:25 |
NowSo thereforenow why should we die For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any morelonger we shall die |
| 5:26 |
For who is there of all flesh that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire as we have and hasremained stillalive lived |
| 5:27 |
Go near you yourself and hear all that the Lord our God will say; andThen speaktell to us alleverything that the Lord our God willtells speak to you; and we will hearlisten and do it |
| 5:28 |
AndThe the Lord heard your words when you spoke to me; and the Lord said to me: I have heard the words of this people which they have spoken to you; they haveare rightlyright saidin all that they have spoken |
| 5:29 |
OhIf thatonly they had such a mind as this always to fear me and to keep all my commandments always so that it might go well with them and with their children forforever ever |
| 5:30 |
Go and say to them Return to your tents |
| 5:31 |
But you stand here by me and I will tell you all the commandmentcommandments and the statutes and the ordinances whichthat you shall teach them so that they may do them in the land whichthat I giveam giving them to possess |
| 5:32 |
You shallmust therefore be careful to do therefore as the Lord your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left |
| 5:33 |
You shallmust walkfollow inexactly all the waypath whichthat the Lord your God has commanded you so that you may live and that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land whichthat you shallare to possess |
| 6:1 |
Now this is the commandment —the statutes and the ordinances—that which the Lord your God commandedcharged me to teach you thatto youobserve may do them in the land tothat which you are goingabout over to possesscross it;into and occupy |
| 6:2 |
so that you and your children and your childrens children may fear the Lord your God youall andthe yourdays sonof and your sonslife sonand bykeep keeping all his statutesdecrees and his commandments whichthat I commandam commanding you allso the days of your life; and that your days may be prolongedlong |
| 6:3 |
Hear therefore O Israel and beobserve carefulthem todiligently doso them; that it may go well with you and so that you may multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey as the Lord the God of your fathersancestors has promised you in a land flowing with milk and honey |
| 6:4 |
Hear O Israel: The Lord is our God isthe one Lord; alone |
| 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 |
AndKeep these words whichthat I commandam commanding you thistoday dayin shall be upon your heart; |
| 6:7 |
andRecite you shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk ofabout them when you sitare inat yourhome house and when you walkare byaway the way and when you lie down and when you rise |
| 6:8 |
AndBind you shall bind them as a sign uponon your hand andfix theythem shallas bean asemblem frontletson between your eyesforehead |
| 6:9 |
Andand you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates |
| 6:10 |
AndWhen when the Lord your God bringshas brought you into the land whichthat he swore to your fathersancestors to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob to give you—a land with greatfine andlarge goodly cities whichthat you did not build |
| 6:11 |
and houses fullfilled ofwith all goodsorts thingsof whichgoods that you did not fill andhewn cisterns hewnthat out which you did not hew and vineyards and olive treesgroves whichthat you did not plant —and when you eathave andeaten areyour fullfill |
| 6:12 |
then take heedcare lestthat you do not forget the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondageslavery |
| 6:13 |
YouThe shallLord fearyour theGod Lordyou yourshall Godfear; him you shall serve him and swear by his name alone you shall swear |
| 6:14 |
YouDo shall not gofollow after other gods any of the gods of the peoples who are roundall aboutaround you; |
| 6:15 |
forbecause the Lord your God inwho theis midstpresent ofwith you is a jealous God; lestThe the anger of the Lord your God would be kindled against you and he would destroy you from off the face of the earth |
| 6:16 |
YouDo shall not put the Lord your God to the test as you tested him at Massah |
| 6:17 |
You shallmust diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God and his testimoniesdecrees and his statutes whichthat he has commanded you |
| 6:18 |
AndDo you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord so that it may go well with you and so that you may go in and takeoccupy possession of the good land whichthat the Lord swore to giveyour ancestors to yourgive fathersyou |
| 6:19 |
by thrusting out all your enemies from before you as the Lord has promised |
| 6:20 |
When your sonchildren asksask you in time to come What is the meaning of the testimoniesdecrees and the statutes and the ordinances whichthat the Lord our God has commanded you |
| 6:21 |
then you shall say to your sonchildren We were Pharaohs slaves in Egypt; andbut the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand; |
| 6:22 |
andThe the Lord showeddisplayed signsbefore andour wonderseyes great and grievousawesome signs and wonders against Egypt and against Pharaoh and all his household before our eyes; |
| 6:23 |
andHe he brought us out from there thatin heorder mightto bring us in andto give us the land whichthat he sworepromised toon giveoath to our fathersancestors |
| 6:24 |
AndThen the Lord commanded us to doobserve all these statutes to fear the Lord our God for our lasting good alwaysso thatas heto mightkeep preserve us alive as atis thisnow daythe case |
| 6:25 |
AndIf it will be righteousness for us if we arediligently carefulobserve tothis doentire all this commandment before the Lord our God as he has commanded us we will be in the right |
| 7:1 |
When the Lord your God brings you into the land whichthat you are enteringabout to takeenter possessionand ofoccupy it and he 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 greatermightier and mightiermore numerous than yourselvesyou— |
| 7:2 |
and when the Lord your God gives them over to you and you defeat them; then you must utterly destroy them; youMake shall make no covenant with them and show them no mercy to them |
| 7:3 |
YouDo shall not makeintermarry marriages with them giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons |
| 7:4 |
Forfor theythat would turn away your sonschildren 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 thusthis shallis how you must deal with them: you shall break down their altars andsmash dash in pieces their pillars and hew down their Ashe′rimsacred poles and burn their gravenidols images with fire |
| 7:6 |
For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession out of all the peoples thaton areearth onto thebe facehis ofpeople thehis earthtreasured possession |
| 7:7 |
It was not because you were more innumerous number than any other people that the Lord set his loveheart uponon you and chose you —for you were the fewest of all peoples; |
| 7:8 |
butIt itwas is because the Lord lovesloved you and iskept keeping the oath whichthat he swore to your fathersancestors 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 |
| 7:9 |
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God the faithful God who keepsmaintains covenant andloyalty steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations |
| 7:10 |
and requiteswho torepays in their faceown person those who hatereject him byHe destroyingdoes them; he will not bedelay slackbut withrepays himin whotheir hatesown himperson hethose willwho requitereject him to his face |
| 7:11 |
YouTherefore shallobserve thereforediligently be careful to do the commandment and —the statutes and the ordinances—that which I commandam commanding you this daytoday |
| 7:12 |
AndIf because you hearkenheed to these ordinances andby keepdiligently andobserving do them the Lord your God will keepmaintain with you the covenant andloyalty thethat steadfast love which he swore to your fathers to keepancestors; |
| 7:13 |
he will love you bless you and multiply you; he 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 cattle and the youngissue of your flock in the land whichthat he swore to your fathersancestors to give you |
| 7:14 |
You shall be the most blessed aboveof all peoples; therewith shallneither notsterility benor malebarrenness or female barren among you or among your cattlelivestock |
| 7:15 |
AndThe the Lord will taketurn away from you allevery sicknessillness; andall none of the evildread diseases of Egypt whichthat you knewexperienced he will henot inflict uponon you but he will lay them uponon all who hate you |
| 7:16 |
AndYou you shall destroydevour all the peoples that the Lord your God willis givegiving over to you yourshowing eyethem shallno not pity them; neitheryou shall younot serve their gods for that would be a snare to you |
| 7:17 |
If you say into youryourself heart These nations are greatermore numerous than I; how can I dispossess them |
| 7:18 |
youdo shall not be afraid of them butJust you shall remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt |
| 7:19 |
the great trials whichthat your eyes saw the signs theand wonders the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which the Lord your God brought you out; soThe will the Lord your God will do the same to all the peoples of whom you are afraid |
| 7:20 |
Moreover the Lord your God will send hornetsthe amongpestilence against them until thoseeven whothe aresurvivors left and hidethe themselvesfugitives from you are destroyed |
| 7:21 |
YouHave shallno not be in dread of them; for the Lord your God who is inpresent thewith midstyou ofis you a great and terribleawesome God |
| 7:22 |
The Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little; you maywill not be able to make ana quick end of them atotherwise once lest the wild beastsanimals growwould become too numerous for you |
| 7:23 |
But the Lord your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusionpanic until they are destroyed |
| 7:24 |
AndHe he will givehand their kings intoover yourto handyou and you shall makeblot out their name perish from under heaven; notno aone manwill shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them |
| 7:25 |
The graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire; youDo shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them orand take it for yourselvesyourself lestbecause you could be ensnared by it; for it is anabhorrent abomination to the Lord your God |
| 7:26 |
AndDo you shall not bring an abominableabhorrent thing into your house andor becomeyou accursedwill be set apart for destruction like it; youYou shallmust utterly detest and abhor it; for it is anset accursedapart thingfor destruction |
| 8:1 |
AllThis theentire commandment whichthat I command you thistoday day you shallmust bediligently carefulobserve toso do that you may live and multiplyincrease and go in and possessoccupy the land whichthat the Lord sworepromised toon giveoath to your fathersancestors |
| 8:2 |
AndRemember youthe shalllong remember all the way whichthat the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness thatin heorder mightto humble you testing you to know what was in your heart whether or not you would keep his commandments or not |
| 8:3 |
AndHe he humbled you andby letletting you hunger andthen fedby feeding you with manna with which neither you did not know nor did your fathersancestors know;were thatacquainted hein mightorder to make you knowunderstand that manone does not live by bread alone but thatby manevery livesword by everything that proceedscomes outfrom of the mouth of the Lord |
| 8:4 |
YourThe clothingclothes on your back did not wear out upon you and your footfeet did not swell these forty years |
| 8:5 |
Know then in your heart that as a manparent disciplines hisa sonchild so the Lord your God disciplines you |
| 8:6 |
SoTherefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him |
| 8:7 |
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land a land ofwith brooksflowing ofstreams waterwith ofsprings fountains and springsunderground flowingwaters forthwelling up in valleys and hills |
| 8:9 |
a land inwhere which you willmay eat bread without scarcity inwhere which you will lack nothing a land whose stones are iron and outfrom of whose hills you canmay digmine copper |
| 8:10 |
AndYou you shall eat andyour befill full and you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land that he has given you |
| 8:11 |
Take heedcare lestthat you do not forget the Lord your God by notfailing keepingto keep his commandments and his ordinances and his statutes which I commandam commanding you thistoday day: |
| 8:12 |
lestWhen when you have eaten andyour arefill full and have built goodlyfine houses and live in them |
| 8:13 |
and when your herds and flocks multiplyhave multiplied and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied |
| 8:14 |
then yourdo heartnot beexalt liftedyourself upforgetting and you forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondageslavery |
| 8:15 |
who led you through the great and terrible wilderness withan itsarid fierywasteland serpentswith andpoisonous scorpionssnakes and thirstyscorpions groundHe wheremade there was no water whoflow broughtfor you waterfrom outflint of the flinty rock |
| 8:16 |
whoand fed you in the wilderness with manna whichthat your fathersancestors did not know thatto he might humble you and to test you and in the end to do you good in the end |
| 8:17 |
BewareDo lestnot you say into youryourself heart My power and the might of my own hand have gotten me this wealth |
| 8:18 |
YouBut shall remember the Lord your God for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; so that he may confirm his covenant whichthat he swore to your fathersancestors as athe thisis daydoing today |
| 8:19 |
AndIf if you do forget the Lord your God and gofollow after other gods andto serve them and worship them I solemnly warn you thistoday day that you shall surely perish |
| 8:20 |
Like the nations that the Lord makesis todestroying perish before you so shall you perish because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God |
| 9:1 |
Hear O Israel; youYou are about to passcross over the Jordan thistoday day to go in toand dispossess nations greaterlarger and mightier than yourselvesyou cities great andcities fortified up to heaventhe heavens |
| 9:2 |
a peoplestrong great and tall people the sonsoffspring of the Anakim whom you know andYou of whom you have heard it said of them Who can stand beforeup to the sonsAnakim of Anak |
| 9:3 |
Know thereforethen thistoday day that hethe Lord your God is the one who goescrosses over before you as a devouring fire is the Lord your God; he will destroydefeat them and subdue them before you; so that you shallmay drivedispossess them out and makedestroy them perish quickly as the Lord has promised you |
| 9:4 |
DoWhen not say in your heart after the Lord your God hasthrusts thrust them out before you do not say to yourself It is because of my righteousness that the Lord has brought me in to possessoccupy this land; whereas it is rather because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is drivingdispossessing them out before you |
| 9:5 |
NotIt is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart arethat you are going in to possessoccupy their land; but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is drivingdispossessing them out from before you andin thatorder heto mayfulfill confirm the wordpromise whichthat the Lord sworemade on oath to your fathersancestors to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob |
| 9:6 |
Know thereforethen that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possessoccupy 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; you have been rebellious against the Lord from 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 tablesstone oftablets 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 tablesstone oftablets stone written with the finger of God; and on them were all the words whichthat the Lord had spoken withto you onat the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly |
| 9:11 |
AndAt at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me the two tablesstone oftablets stone the tablestablets of the covenant |
| 9:12 |
Then the Lord said to me AriseGet up go down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly; theyThey have turnedbeen asidequick quicklyto outturn offrom the way whichthat I commanded them; they have madecast themselvesan aimage moltenfor imagethemselves |
| 9:13 |
Furthermore the Lord said to me I have seen that this people andis beholdindeed it is a stubborn people; |
| 9:14 |
letLet me alone that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greatermore numerous than they |
| 9:15 |
So I turned and camewent down from the mountain andwhile the mountain was burning with fireablaze; and the two tablestablets of the covenant were in my two hands |
| 9:16 |
AndThen I lookedsaw andthat behold you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God; youby hadcasting madefor yourselves an image of a molten calf; you had turnedbeen asidequick quicklyto turn from the way whichthat the Lord had commanded you |
| 9:17 |
So I took hold of the two tablestablets and castflung them outfrom of my two hands andsmashing 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 which you had committed inprovoking the Lord by doing what was evil in thehis sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger |
| 9:19 |
For I was afraid ofthat the anger andthat hot displeasure which the Lord bore against you was so fierce that he waswould ready to destroy you But the Lord hearkenedlistened to me that time also |
| 9:20 |
AndThe the Lord was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him; andbut I prayedinterceded foralso on behalf of Aaron also at thethat same time |
| 9:21 |
Then I took the sinful thing the calf which you had made the calf and burned it with fire and crushed it grinding it verythoroughly small until it was asreduced fineto as dust; and I threw the dust of it into the brookstream that descendedruns outdown of 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 takeoccupy possession of the land whichthat I have given you then you rebelled against the commandmentcommand of the Lord your God andneither didtrusting not believe him ornor obeyobeying hishim voice |
| 9:24 |
You have been rebellious against the Lord fromas thelong dayas thathe Ihas knewknown you |
| 9:25 |
SoThroughout I lay prostrate before the Lord for these forty days and forty nights becausethat I lay prostrate before the Lord hadwhen saidthe heLord wouldintended to destroy you |
| 9:26 |
And I prayed to the Lord Oand said Lord God destroydo not thydestroy the people andwho thyare heritageyour very own possession whom thouyou hast redeemed throughin thyyour greatness whom thouyou hast brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand |
| 9:27 |
Remember thyyour servants Abraham Isaac and Jacob; dopay notno regardattention to the stubbornness of this people or their wickedness orand their sin |
| 9:28 |
lestotherwise the land from which thouyou didsthave bringbrought us might 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 slaylet them die in the wilderness |
| 9:29 |
For they are thythe people andof thyyour heritagevery own possession whom thouyou didstbrought bring out by thyyour great power and by thyyour outstretched arm |
| 10:1 |
At that time the Lord said to me HewCarve out two tablestablets of stone like the firstformer ones 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 firstformer tablestablets which you brokesmashed and you shall put them in the ark |
| 10:3 |
So I made an ark of acacia wood andcut hewed two tablestablets of stone like the firstformer ones and went up the mountain with the two tablestablets in my hand |
| 10:4 |
AndThen he wrote on the tablestablets asthe atsame thewords firstas writingbefore the ten commandments whichthat the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me |
| 10:5 |
ThenSo I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablestablets in the ark whichthat I had made; and there they are as the Lord commanded me |
| 10:6 |
The peopleIsraelites of Israel journeyed from BeBeeroth er′othbene Benejaakan ja′akan to Mose′rahMoserah There Aaron died and there he was buried; and his son Elea′zarEleazar ministeredsucceeded him as priest in his stead |
| 10:7 |
From there they journeyed to Gud′godahGudgodah and from Gud′godahGudgodah to Jot′bathahJotbathah a land with brooksflowing ofstreams water |
| 10:9 |
Therefore Levi has no portionallotment or inheritance with his brotherskindred; the Lord is his inheritance as the Lord your God saidpromised to him |
| 10:10 |
I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights as atI had done the first time fortyAnd daysonce andagain forty nights and the Lord hearkenedlistened to me thatThe time also; the Lord was unwilling to destroy you |
| 10:11 |
AndThe the Lord said to me AriseGet up go on your journey at the head of the people that they may go in and possessoccupy the land whichthat I swore to their fathersancestors to give them |
| 10:12 |
AndSo now O Israel what does the Lord your God require of you butOnly to fear the Lord your God to walk in all his ways to love him to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul |
| 10:13 |
and to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord whichyour God and his decrees that I commandam commanding you thistoday day for your goodown well being |
| 10:14 |
BeholdAlthough toheaven and the Lordheaven yourof Godheavens belong heavento and the heavenLord ofyour heavensGod the earth with all that is in it; |
| 10:15 |
yet the Lord set his heart in love uponon your fathersancestors alone and chose you their descendants after them youout aboveof all the peoples as atit thisis daytoday |
| 10:16 |
Circumcise thereforethen the foreskin of your heart and do not be nostubborn any longer stubborn |
| 10:17 |
For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords the great theGod mighty and theawesome terrible God who is not partial and takes no bribe |
| 10:18 |
Hewho executes justice for the fatherlessorphan and the widow and who loves the sojournerstrangers givingproviding himthem food and clothing |
| 10:19 |
LoveYou shall also love the sojournerstranger therefore; for you were sojournersstrangers in the land of Egypt |
| 10:20 |
You shall fear the Lord your God; him alone you shall serveworship; to him andyou cleaveshall tohold himfast and by his name you shall swear |
| 10:21 |
He is your praise; he is your God who has done for you these great and terribleawesome things whichthat your own eyes have seen |
| 10:22 |
Your fathersancestors went down to Egypt seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars ofin heaven for multitude |
| 11:1 |
You shall therefore love the Lord your God therefore and keep his charge his statutesdecrees his ordinances and his commandments always |
| 11:2 |
AndRemember considertoday thisthat dayit sincewas I am not speaking to your children who have not known or seen it consider the discipline of the Lord your God but it is you who must acknowledge 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 Egyptian 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 andso howthat 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 in the midst of all Israel the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up along with their households their tents and every living thingbeing that followed them in thetheir midst of all Israelcompany; |
| 11:7 |
for it is your own eyes that have seen allevery the great workdeed ofthat the Lord which he did |
| 11:8 |
YouKeep shallthen thereforethis keepentire all the commandment whichthat I commandam commanding you thistoday dayso that you may behave strongstrength andto go in and takeoccupy possession of the land whichthat you are goingcrossing over to possessoccupy |
| 11:9 |
and so that you may live long in the land whichthat the Lord swore to your fathersancestors to give to them and to their descendants a land flowing with milk and honey |
| 11:10 |
For the land whichthat you are enteringabout to takeenter possessionto ofoccupy it is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come where you sowedsow your seed and wateredirrigate itby withfoot your feet like a vegetable garden of vegetables; |
| 11:11 |
butBut the land whichthat you are goingcrossing over to possessoccupy is a land of hills and valleys whichwatered drinks water by the rain from heaventhe sky |
| 11:12 |
a land whichthat the Lord your God careslooks for;after theThe eyes of the Lord your God are always uponon it from the beginning of the year to the end of the year |
| 11:13 |
AndIf if you will obeyonly myheed commandmentshis whichevery Icommandment commandthat youI thisam daycommanding toyou lovetoday—loving the Lord your God and toserving serve him with all your heart and with all your soul— |
| 11:14 |
then he will give the rain for your land in its season the early rain and the later rain thatand you maywill gather in your grain and your wine and your oil; |
| 11:15 |
Andand he will give grass in your fields for your cattlelivestock and you shallwill eat andyour befill full |
| 11:16 |
Take heedcare lestor youryou heartwill be deceivedseduced andinto youturning turnaway asideserving and serve other gods and worshipworshiping them |
| 11:17 |
andfor then 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; andthen you will perish quickly off the good land whichthat the Lord givesis giving you |
| 11:18 |
You shall thereforeput 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 theyfix shallthem be as frontletsan betweenemblem on your eyesforehead |
| 11:19 |
AndTeach you shall teach them to your children talking ofabout them when you are sittingat inhome your house and when you are walkingaway by the way and when you lie down and when you rise |
| 11:20 |
AndWrite you shall write them uponon the doorposts of your house and uponon your gates |
| 11:21 |
so that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land whichthat the Lord swore to your fathersancestors to give them as long as the heavens are above the earth |
| 11:22 |
ForIf if you will bediligently carefulobserve tothis doentire all this commandment whichthat I commandam commanding 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 greaterlarger and mightier than yourselves |
| 11:24 |
Every place on which theyou soleset of your foot treads shall be yours; your territory shall beextend from the wilderness andto the Lebanon and from the River the river Euphra′tesEuphrates to the westernWestern seaSea |
| 11:25 |
No manone shallwill be able to stand against you; the Lord your God will layput the fear of you and the dread of you uponon all the land thaton which you shallset treadfoot 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 whichthat I commandam commanding you thistoday; day |
| 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 gofollow after other gods whichthat you have not known |
| 11:29 |
AndWhen when the Lord your God bringshas brought you into the land whichthat you are entering to takeoccupy possession of it you shall set the blessing on Mount Ger′izimGerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal |
| 11:30 |
AreAs you know they notare beyond the Jordan westsome ofdistance theto road toward the goingwest 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 |
ForWhen you arecross to pass over the Jordan to go in to takeoccupy possession of the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you; and when you possessoccupy it and live in it |
| 11:32 |
you shallmust bediligently carefulobserve to do all the statutes and the ordinances whichthat I setam setting before you this daytoday |
| 12:1 |
These are the statutes and ordinances whichthat you shallmust bediligently carefulobserve to do in the land whichthat the Lord the God of your fathersancestors has given you to possessoccupy all the days that you live uponon the earth |
| 12:2 |
You shallmust surelydemolish destroycompletely all the places where the nations whom you shallare about to dispossess served their gods uponon the highmountain mountainsheights andon upon the hills and under every greenleafy tree; |
| 12:3 |
youBreak shall tear down their altars andsmash dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Ashe′rimsacred poles with fire; youand shall hew down the gravenidols images of their gods and destroythus blot out their name outfrom oftheir thatplaces place |
| 12:4 |
You shall not doworship so to the Lord your God in such ways |
| 12:5 |
But you shall seek the place whichthat the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes toas put his namehabitation andto makeput his habitationname there; thitherYou you shall go there |
| 12:6 |
andbringing thitherthere you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices your tithes and theyour offeringdonations that you present your votive offeringsgifts your freewill offerings and the firstlings of your herdherds and offlocks your flock; |
| 12:7 |
andAnd there you shall eat beforethere in the presence of the Lord your God and you shall rejoice you and your households together rejoicing in all thatthe youundertakings undertake in which the Lord your God has blessed you |
| 12:8 |
You shall not doact accordingas to all that we are doingacting here thistoday dayall everyof manus doingaccording whateverto isour right in his own eyes;desires |
| 12:9 |
for you have not as yet come tointo the rest and to the inheritancepossession whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you |
| 12:10 |
ButWhen when you gocross over the Jordan and live in the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis youallotting to inherityou and when he gives you rest from all your enemies roundall aboutaround so that you live in safety |
| 12:11 |
then you shall bring everything that I command you to the place whichthat the Lord your God will choose toas makea dwelling for his name dwell there thither you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices your tithes and theyour offeringdonations that you present and all your choice votive offeringsgifts whichthat you vow to the Lord |
| 12:12 |
And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God you andtogether with your sons and your daughters your menservantsmale and yourfemale maidservantsslaves and the LeviteLevites thatwho isreside withinin your towns since hethey hashave no portionallotment or inheritance with you |
| 12:13 |
Take heedcare that you do not offer your burnt offerings at everyany place that you happen to see; |
| 12:14 |
butBut only 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 alleverything that I amcommand commanding you |
| 12:15 |
HoweverYet whenever you desire you may slaughter and eat fleshmeat within any of your towns as much as you desire according to the blessing ofthat the Lord your God which he has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it as they would of the gazelle andor asdeer of the hart |
| 12:16 |
OnlyThe blood however you shallmust not eat the blood; you shall pour it out uponon the earthground like water |
| 12:17 |
YouNor may notyou eat within your towns the tithe of your grain or of your wine orand of your oil or the firstlings of your herdherds orand of your flockflocks or any of your votive offeringsgifts whichthat you vow or your freewill offerings or theyour offering that you presentdonations; |
| 12:18 |
butthese you shall eat themin beforethe presence of the Lord your God inat the place whichthat the Lord your God will choose you andtogether with your son and your daughter your manservantmale and yourfemale maidservantslaves and the LeviteLevites whoresident isin within your towns; andrejoicing youin shallthe rejoicepresence beforeof the Lord your God in all thatyour youundertakings 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 willam going to eat fleshsome meat because you cravewish fleshto eat meat you may eat asmeat muchwhenever fleshyou ashave youthe desire |
| 12:21 |
If the place whichwhere the Lord your God will choose to put his name there is too far from you thenand you mayslaughter killas I have commanded you any of your herd or your flock whichthat the Lord has given you asthen I have commanded you; and you may eat within your towns aswhenever much as you desire |
| 12:22 |
JustIndeed just as the gazelle or thedeer hart is eaten so you may eat of it; the 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 fleshmeat |
| 12:24 |
YouDo shall not eat it; you shall pour it out uponon the earthground like water |
| 12:25 |
YouDo shall not eat it; so that all may go well with you and with your children after you whenbecause you do what is right in the sight of the Lord |
| 12:26 |
But the holysacred thingsdonations whichthat are due from you and your votive offeringsgifts you shall takebring and you shall go to the place whichthat the Lord will choose |
| 12:27 |
andYou offershall present your burnt offerings both the fleshmeat and the blood on the altar of the Lord your God; the blood of your other sacrifices shall be poured out onbeside the altar of the Lord your God but the fleshmeat you may eat |
| 12:28 |
Be careful to heedobey all these words whichthat I command you today so that it may go well with you and with your children after you forforever everbecause when you dowill be doing what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God |
| 12:29 |
When the Lord your God cutshas cut off before you the nations whom you goare inabout to enter to dispossess andthem when you dispossesshave dispossessed them and dwelllive in their land |
| 12:30 |
take heedcare that you beare not ensnaredsnared tointo followimitating them after they have been destroyed before you: and that you do not inquire aboutconcerning their gods saying How did these nations serveworship their gods—that I also maywant to do likewisethe same |
| 12:31 |
You shallmust not do sothe tosame for the Lord your God; forbecause every abominableabhorrent thing whichthat the Lord hates they have done for their gods; forThey theywould even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods |
| 12:32 |
EverythingYou must diligently observe everything that I command you; you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to it or take anything from it |
| 13:1 |
If aprophets prophetor arisesthose amongwho youdivine orby adreams dreamerappear ofamong dreamsyou and givespromise you aomens sign or aportents wonder |
| 13:2 |
and the signomens or wonderthe whichportents hedeclared tellsby youthem comestake toplace pass and ifthey hesay says Let us gofollow after other gods whichwhom you have not known and let us serve them |
| 13:3 |
you shallmust not listenheed to the words of thatthose prophetprophets or tothose thatwho dreamerdivine ofby dreams; for the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you indeed love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul |
| 13:4 |
YouThe shall walk after the Lord your God andyou fearshall follow him andalone keepyou shall fear his commandments andyou obeyshall keep his voice andyou shall obey him you shall serve him and cleave to him you shall hold fast |
| 13:5 |
But thatthose prophetprophets or thatthose dreamerwho ofdivine by dreams shall be put to death becausefor hehaving hasspoken taughttreason rebellion against the Lord your God —who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you outfrom of the house of bondage slavery—to maketurn you leavefrom 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 anyone secretly entices you—even if it is your brother theyour fathers son ofor your mothermothers son or your own son or your daughter or the wife ofyou yourembrace bosom or your friendmost whointimate is as your own soul entices you secretly friend—saying Let us go andworship serve other gods whichwhom neither you nor your fathersancestors have known |
| 13:7 |
someany of the gods of the peoples that are roundaround about you whether near you or far offaway from you from the one end of the earth to the other |
| 13:8 |
you shallmust not yield to him or listenheed toany himsuch norpersons shallShow yourthem eyeno pity himor norcompassion shalland youdo sparenot himshield northem shall you conceal him; |
| 13:9 |
butBut you shall surely kill himthem; your own hand shall be first against himthem to putexecute himthem to death and afterwards the hand of all the people |
| 13:10 |
YouStone shallthem stone him to death withfor stonestrying because he sought to drawturn you away from the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondageslavery |
| 13:11 |
AndThen all Israel shall hear and fearbe afraid and never again do any such wickedness as this among you |
| 13:12 |
If you hear init said about one of yourthe citiestowns whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you to dwelllive therein |
| 13:13 |
that certainscoundrels basefrom fellowsamong you have gone out among you and haveled drawn away the inhabitants of the citytown astray saying Let us go and serveworship other gods whichwhom you have not known |
| 13:14 |
then you shall inquire and make searcha andthorough askinvestigation diligently;If andthe beholdcharge ifis itestablished be true and certain that such an abominableabhorrent thing has been done among you |
| 13:15 |
you shall surely put the inhabitants of that citytown to the sword utterly destroying it utterlyand alleverything who are in it—even andputting its cattlelivestock withto the edge of the sword |
| 13:16 |
YouAll shallof gather all its spoil intoyou theshall midstgather ofinto its openpublic square; andthen burn the citytown and all its spoil with fire as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God; itIt shall beremain a heapperpetual forruin evernever itto shall not be builtrebuilt again |
| 13:17 |
NoneDo ofnot thelet anything devoted thingsto shalldestruction cleavestick to your hand; so that the Lord may turn from thehis fiercenessfierce of his anger and show you mercycompassion and havein his compassion on you and multiply you as he swore to your fathersancestors |
| 13:18 |
if you obey the voice of the Lord your God by 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 thechildren sons of the Lord your God; youYou shallmust not cutlacerate yourselves or makeshave any baldness on your foreheadsforelocks for the dead |
| 14:2 |
For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; andit is you the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his own possession out of all the peoples thaton areearth onto thebe facehis ofpeople thehis earthtreasured possession |
| 14:3 |
You shall not eat any abominableabhorrent thing |
| 14:5 |
the hartdeer the gazelle the roebuck the wild goat the ibex the antelope and the mountain sheep |
| 14:6 |
EveryAny animal that partsdivides the hoof and has the hoof clovencleft in two and chews the cud among the animals you may eat |
| 14:7 |
Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof clovencleft you shall not eat these: Thethe camel the hare and the rock badger because they chew the cud but do not partdivide the hoof; they are unclean for you |
| 14:8 |
And the swinepig because it partsdivides the hoof but does not chew the cud is unclean for you TheirYou flesh you shall not eat and their carcasesmeat and you shall not touch their carcasses |
| 14:9 |
Of all that arelive in thewater waters you may eat these: Whateverwhatever has fins and scales you may eat |
| 14:11 |
You may eat allany clean birds |
| 14:12 |
But these are the ones whichthat you shall not eat: the eagle the vulture the osprey |
| 14:13 |
the buzzard the kite 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 great owl the water hen |
| 14:17 |
and the pelicandesert owl the carrion vulture and the cormorant |
| 14:18 |
the stork the heron afterof theirany kindskind; the hoopoe and the bat |
| 14:20 |
AllYou cleanmay wingedeat thingsany youclean maywinged eatcreature |
| 14:21 |
You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to thealiens alienresiding whoin is within your towns thatfor hethem mayto 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 kid in its mothers milk |
| 14:22 |
YouSet shallapart a tithe of all the yield of your seed whichthat comesis forthbrought in yearly from the field year by year |
| 14:23 |
AndIn beforethe presence of the Lord your God in the place whichthat he will choose toas makea dwelling for his name dwell there you shall eat the tithe of your grain of your wine and of your oil andas well as the firstlings of your herd and flock; so that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always |
| 14:24 |
AndBut if when the wayLord isyour tooGod longhas forblessed you the distance is so great that you are notunable able to bringtransport it because the titheplace whenwhere the Lord your God blesseswill youchoose becauseto theset placehis name is too far away from you which the Lord your God chooses to set his name there |
| 14:25 |
then you shallmay turn it into money andWith bind up the money secure in your hand and go to the place whichthat the Lord your God chooseswill choose; |
| 14:26 |
and spend the money for whatever you desire wish—oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink or whatever youryou appetitedesire craves;And and you shall eat there beforein the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice you and your household rejoicing together |
| 14:27 |
AndAs youfor shallthe notLevites forsakeresident thein Leviteyour whotowns isdo withinnot yourneglect townsthem forbecause hethey hashave no portionallotment or inheritance with you |
| 14:28 |
AtEvery thethird endyear of every three years you shall bring forthout all the full tithe of your produce infor thethat same year and laystore it up within your towns; |
| 14:29 |
and the LeviteLevites because hethey hashave no portionallotment or inheritance with you andas well as the sojournerresident aliens the fatherlessorphans and the widowwidows whoin are within your towns shallmay come and eat andtheir befill filled;so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you doundertake |
| 15:1 |
AtEvery theseventh endyear of every seven years you shall grant a releaseremission of debts |
| 15:2 |
And this is the manner of the releaseremission: every creditor shall releaseremit whatthe heclaim hasthat lentis toheld hisagainst a neighbor; he shall not exactexacting it of hisa neighbor hiswho brotheris a member of the community because the Lords releaseremission has been proclaimed |
| 15:3 |
Of a foreigner you may exact it; but whateveryou ofmust yoursremit isyour withclaim youron brotherwhatever any member of your handcommunity shallowes releaseyou |
| 15:4 |
ButThere there will however be no poorone in need among you forbecause the Lord willis sure to bless you in the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you foras ana inheritancepossession to possessoccupy |
| 15:5 |
if only you will obey the voice of the Lord your God beingby carefuldiligently toobserving dothis allentire this commandment whichthat I command you thistoday day |
| 15:6 |
ForWhen the Lord your God willhas blessblessed you as he promised you and you shallwill lend to many nations but you shallwill not borrow; and you shallwill rule over many nations but they shallwill not rule over you |
| 15:7 |
If there is among you aanyone poorin manneed onea member of your brethrencommunity in any of your towns within yourthe land whichthat the Lord your God givesis yougiving you shalldo not hardenbe yourhard hearthearted or shuttight yourfisted handtoward against your poorneedy brotherneighbor |
| 15:8 |
butYou youshould shallrather open your hand towillingly himlending andenough lendto himmeet sufficientthe for his need whatever it may be |
| 15:9 |
TakeBe heedcareful lestthat thereyou bedo not entertain a basemean thought inthinking your heart and you say The seventh year the year of releaseremission is near and yourtherefore eyeview beyour hostileneedy toneighbor yourwith poorhostility brother and you give him nothing; andyour heneighbor might cry to the Lord against you and ityou bewould sinincur inguilt you |
| 15:10 |
YouGive shallliberally give to him freely and your heart shall not be grudgingungrudging when you givedo toso him;for becauseon for this account the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake |
| 15:11 |
ForSince thethere poor will never cease outto ofbe some in need on the land;earth I therefore I command you YouOpen shall open wide your hand to your brother to the needypoor and toneedy theneighbor poor in theyour land |
| 15:12 |
If a member of your brothercommunity whether a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman is sold to you heand shallworks servefor you six years and in the seventh year you shall letset himthat goperson free from you |
| 15:13 |
And when you letsend hima gomale freeslave out from you a free person you shall not letsend him goout empty handed; |
| 15:14 |
youProvide shall furnish him liberally out of your flock out of your threshing floor and out of your wine press; asthus giving to him some of the bounty with which the Lord your God has blessed you you shall give to him |
| 15:15 |
YouRemember shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you; thereforefor this reason I lay this command upon you this today |
| 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 thrust it through his earearlobe into the door and he shall be your bondmanslave forforever everYou Andshall todo yourthe bondwomansame youwith shallregard doto likewiseyour female slave |
| 15:18 |
ItDo shall not seemconsider hardit toa youhardship when you letsend himthem goout free from you; free persons because for atsix halfyears thethey costhave ofgiven ayou hiredservices servantworth hethe haswages servedof youhired sixlaborers; yearsand So the Lord your God will bless you in all that you do |
| 15:19 |
AllEvery the firstling malesmale that are born of your herd and flock you shall consecrate to the Lord your God; you shall not do no work with theyour firstling ofox your herd nor shear the firstling of your flock |
| 15:20 |
You shall eat it you andtogether with your household beforein the presence of the Lord your God year by year at the place whichthat the Lord will choose |
| 15:21 |
But if it has any blemishdefect—any ifserious itdefect issuch lameas orlameness blind or has any serious blemish whatever blindness—you shall not sacrifice it to the Lord your God; |
| 15:22 |
Youwithin shallyour eattowns ityou withinmay youreat towns;it the unclean and the clean alike may eat it as thoughyou itwould were a gazelle or adeer hart |
| 15:23 |
OnlyIts blood however you shallmust not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water |
| 16:1 |
Observe the month of Abib andby keepkeeping the passover tofor the Lord your God; for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night |
| 16:2 |
AndYou you shall offer the passover sacrifice tofor the Lord your God from the flock orand the herd at the place whichthat the Lord will choose toas makea dwelling for his name dwell there |
| 16:3 |
You shallmust not eat nowith leavenedit breadanything withleavened it;For seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread with it—the bread of affliction—forbecause you came out of the land of Egypt in hurriedgreat flight—haste so that all the days of your life you may remember the day whenof youyour camedeparture outfrom of the land of Egypt |
| 16:4 |
No leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory for seven days; norand shallnone any of the fleshmeat whichof what you sacrificeslaughter on the evening of the first day shall remain all night until morning |
| 16:5 |
You mayare not permitted to offer the passover sacrifice within any of your towns whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you; |
| 16:6 |
butBut at the place whichthat the Lord your God will choose toas makea dwelling for his name dwellonly inthere itshall there you shall offer the passover sacrifice in the evening at sunset the goingtime down of theday sunwhen at the time you camedeparted outfrom of Egypt |
| 16:7 |
AndYou you shall boilcook it and eat it at the place whichthat the Lord your God will choose; andthe innext the morning you shallmay turngo andback go to your tents |
| 16:8 |
For six days you shall continue to eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly tofor the Lord your God; when you shall do no work on it |
| 16:9 |
You shall count seven weeks; begin 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 feastfestival of weeks tofor the Lord your God withcontributing the tribute of a freewill offering fromin yourproportion handto whichthe blessing that you shallhave givereceived asfrom the Lord your God blesses you; |
| 16:11 |
andRejoice you shall rejoice before the Lord your God —you and your sonsons and your daughterdaughters your manservantmale and yourfemale maidservantslaves the LeviteLevites whoresident isin within your towns as well as the sojournerstrangers the fatherlessorphans and the widowwidows who are among you —at the place whichthat the Lord your God will choose toas makea dwelling for his name dwell there |
| 16:12 |
YouRemember shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and youdiligently shall be careful to observe these statutes |
| 16:13 |
You shall keep the feastfestival of booths for seven days when you makehave yourgathered ingatheringin the produce from your threshing floor and your wine press; |
| 16:14 |
youRejoice shallduring rejoice in your feastfestival you and your sonsons and your daughterdaughters your manservantmale and yourfemale maidservantslaves as well as the LeviteLevites the sojournerstrangers the fatherlessorphans and the widowwidows whoresident arein within your towns |
| 16:15 |
ForSeven seven days you shall keep the feastfestival tofor the Lord your God at the place whichthat the Lord will choose; becausefor the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your handsundertakings soand that you willshall besurely altogether joyfulcelebrate |
| 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 feastfestival of unleavened bread at the feastfestival of weeks and at the feastfestival of booths They shall not appear before the Lord empty handed; |
| 16:17 |
everyall man shall give as hethey isare able according to the blessing of the Lord your God whichthat he has given you |
| 16:18 |
You shall appoint judges and officersofficials throughout your tribes in all your towns whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you according to your tribes; and they shall judgerender thejust peopledecisions withfor righteousthe judgmentpeople |
| 16:19 |
You shallmust not pervertdistort justice; you shallmust not show partiality; and you shallmust not takeaccept abribes bribe for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of those who are in the righteousright |
| 16:20 |
Justice and only justice you shall followpursue so that you may live and inheritoccupy the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you |
| 16:21 |
You shall not plant any tree as ana Ashe′rahsacred pole beside the altar ofthat you make for the Lord your God; which you shall make |
| 16:22 |
Andnor you shall notyou set up a stone pillar—things whichthat the Lord your God hates |
| 17:1 |
You shallmust not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep inthat whichhas is a blemishdefect anyanything defectseriously whateverwrong; for that is anabhorrent abomination to the Lord your God |
| 17:2 |
If there is found among you withinin anyone 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 inand transgressingtransgresses his covenant |
| 17:3 |
andby hasgoing goneto andserve served other gods and worshipedworshiping them—whether or the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven which I have forbidden— |
| 17:4 |
and if it is toldreported to you andor you hear of it; thenand you shallmake inquirea diligentlythorough inquiry and ifthe itcharge is proved true and certain that such an abominableabhorrent thing has beenoccurred done in Israel |
| 17:5 |
then you shall bring forthout to your gates that man or that woman who has donecommitted this evilcrime thing and you shall stone thatthe man or woman to death with stones |
| 17:6 |
On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses hethe thatdeath issentence to die shall be put to deathexecuted; a person shallmust not be put to death on the evidence of only one witness |
| 17:7 |
The handhands of the witnesses shall be the first raised against himthe person to putexecute himthe to death penalty and afterward the handhands of all the people So you shall purge the evil from theyour midst of you |
| 17:8 |
If anya casejudicial arisesdecision requiringis decisiontoo difficult for you to make between one kind of homicidebloodshed and another one kind of legal right and another or one kind of assault and another —any casesuch withinmatters yourof townsdispute whichin isyour too difficult for you towns—then you shall ariseimmediately and go up to the place whichthat the Lord your God will choose |
| 17:9 |
andwhere comingyou toshall consult with the Leviticallevitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days; you shall consult them and they shall declareannounce to you the decision in the case |
| 17:10 |
ThenCarry youout shallexactly dothe accordingdecision tothat what they declareannounce to you from thatthe place whichthat the Lord will choose; anddiligently youobserving shalleverything be careful to do according to all that they directinstruct you; |
| 17:11 |
accordingYou tomust carry out fully the instructionslaw whichthat they giveinterpret for you andor according to the decisionruling whichthat they pronounceannounce to you; you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the verdictdecision whichthat they declareannounce to you either to the right hand or to the left |
| 17:12 |
TheAs manfor anyone who actspresumes presumptuouslyto bydisobey not obeying the priest whoappointed stands to minister there beforeto the Lord your God or the judge that manperson shall die; soSo you shall purge the evil from Israel |
| 17:13 |
AndAll all the people shallwill hear and fearbe afraid and will not act presumptuously again |
| 17:14 |
When you have come tointo the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you and youhave possesstaken possession of it and dwellsettled in it and thenyou say I will set a king over me like all the nations that are roundaround about me; |
| 17:15 |
you may indeed set as king over you hima king whom the Lord your God will choose One fromof among your brethrenown community you shallmay set as king over you; you mayare not permitted to put a foreigner over you who is not of your brotherown community |
| 17:16 |
OnlyEven so he must not multiplyacquire many horses for himself or causereturn the people to return to Egypt in order to multiplyacquire more horses since the Lord has said to you You shallmust never return that way again |
| 17:17 |
And he shallmust not multiplyacquire many wives for himself lestor else his heart will turn away; noralso shallsilver and gold he greatlymust multiplynot acquire in great quantity for himself silver and gold |
| 17:18 |
AndWhen when he sitshas ontaken the throne of his kingdom he shall writehave for himself in a book a copy of this law fromwritten thatfor whichhim is in chargethe presence of the Leviticallevitical priests; |
| 17:19 |
andIt it shall beremain with him and he shall read in it all the days of his life so that he may learn to fear the Lord his God bydiligently keepingobserving all the words of this law and these statutes and doing them; |
| 17:20 |
thatneither hisexalting hearthimself may not be lifted up above hisother brethrenmembers andof thatthe hecommunity maynor notturning turn aside from the commandment either to the right hand or to the left; so that he and his descendants may continuereign long inover his kingdom he and his children in Israel |
| 18:1 |
The Leviticallevitical priests thatthe iswhole all the tribe of Levi shall have no portionallotment or inheritance withwithin Israel; theyThey shallmay eat the offeringssacrifices bythat fireare to the LordLords andportion his rightful dues |
| 18:2 |
Theybut they shall have no inheritance among theirthe brethrenother members of the community; the Lord is their inheritance as he promised them |
| 18:3 |
AndThis 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 cheeksjowls and the stomach |
| 18:4 |
The first fruits of your grain of your wine and of your oil andas well as the first of the fleece of your sheep you shall give him |
| 18:5 |
For the Lord your God has chosen himLevi out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the name of the Lord him and his sons for everall time |
| 18:6 |
AndIf if a Levite comesleaves from any of your towns outfrom ofwherever allhe Israelhas wherebeen heresiding lives—andin heIsrael mayand comecomes when he desires—to the place whichthat the Lord will choose and he may come whenever he wishes |
| 18:8 |
They shall have equal portions to eat besideseven whatthough hethey receiveshave income from the sale of hisfamily patrimonypossessions |
| 18:9 |
When you come into the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you you shallmust not learn to followimitate the abominableabhorrent practices of those nations |
| 18:10 |
ThereNo one shall not be found among you any one who burnsmakes hisa son or his daughter aspass anthrough offeringfire anyor one who practices divination or is a soothsayer or an augur or a sorcerer |
| 18:11 |
or aone charmerwho casts spells or awho mediumconsults ghosts or aspirits wizard or awho necromancerseeks oracles from the dead |
| 18:12 |
For whoever does these things is anabhorrent abomination to the Lord; andit is because of thesesuch abominableabhorrent practices that the Lord your God is driving them out before you |
| 18:13 |
You shallmust beremain blamelesscompletely beforeloyal to the Lord your God |
| 18:14 |
ForAlthough these nations whichthat you are about to dispossess do give heed to soothsayers and to diviners; but as for you the Lord your God hasdoes not allowedpermit you so to do so |
| 18:15 |
The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among youyour fromown yourpeople; brethren—him you shall heed— such a prophet |
| 18:16 |
justThis asis what you desiredrequested of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said: LetIf meI not hear again the voice of the Lord my God any more or ever again see this great fire anyI morewill lest I die |
| 18:17 |
AndThen the Lord saidreplied to me: They haveare rightlyright saidin allwhat that they have spokensaid |
| 18:18 |
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brethrenown people; and I will put my words in histhe mouth andof hethe prophet who shall speak to them alleverything that I command him |
| 18:19 |
AndAnyone whoeverwho willdoes not give heed tothe my words whichthat hethe prophet shall speak in my name I myself will requirehold itaccountable of him |
| 18:20 |
But theany prophet who presumesspeaks to speak a word in mythe name whichof Iother havegods notor commandedwho himpresumes to speak orin whomy speaksname ina theword namethat ofI otherhave godsnot thatcommanded samethe prophet to speak—that prophet shall die |
| 18:21 |
AndYou ifmay you say into youryourself heart How maycan we knowrecognize thea word whichthat the Lord has not spoken— |
| 18:22 |
whenIf a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord ifbut the wordthing does not cometake toplace pass or comeprove true thatit is a word whichthat the Lord has not spoken; theThe prophet has spoken it presumptuously; youdo need not be afraidfrightened ofby himit |
| 19:1 |
When the Lord your God cutshas cut off the nations whose land the Lord your God givesis giving you and you dispossesshave dispossessed them and dwellsettled in their citiestowns and in their houses |
| 19:2 |
you shall set apart three cities for you in the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you to possess |
| 19:3 |
You shall preparecalculate the roadsdistances and divide into three partsregions the area of the land whichthat the Lord your God gives you as a possession so that any manslayerhomicide can flee to one of them |
| 19:4 |
ThisNow this is the provisioncase forof thea manslayerhomicide who bymight fleeingflee there mayand savelive histhat lifeis Ifsomeone anywho onehas killskilled hisanother neighborperson unintentionally withoutwhen havingthe two had not been at enmity withbefore: him in time past— |
| 19:5 |
asSuppose whensomeone a man goes into the forest with hisanother neighbor to cut wood and hiswhen handone of them swings the axeax to cut down a tree and the head slips from the handle and strikes histhe neighborother soperson thatwho hethen dies—he; the killer may flee to one of these cities and savelive his life; |
| 19:6 |
lestBut if the distance is too great the avenger of blood in hot anger might pursue the manslayer and overtake himand becauseput the waykiller isto longdeath andalthough wounda himdeath mortallysentence thoughwas the man did not deservedeserved tosince diethe sincetwo hehad was not been at enmity withbefore his neighbor in time past |
| 19:7 |
Therefore I command you: You shall set apart three cities |
| 19:8 |
AndIf if the Lord your God enlarges your borderterritory as he hasswore sworn to your fathers ancestors—and giveshe will give you all the land whichthat he promised toyour giveancestors to yourgive fathers—you |
| 19:9 |
provided you arediligently carefulobserve tothis keepentire all this commandment whichthat I command you thistoday day by loving the Lord your God and by walking everalways in his ways—then you shall add three othermore cities to these three |
| 19:10 |
lestso innocentthat the blood of an innocent person may not be shed in yourthe land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you foras an inheritance andthereby sobringing thebloodguilt guilt of bloodshed be upon you |
| 19:11 |
But if anysomeone manat hatesenmity hiswith neighboranother and lies in wait for him and attacks him and woundstakes himthe mortallylife soof that heperson dies and the man flees into one of these cities |
| 19:12 |
then the elders of histhe killers city shall send andto fetchhave himthe culprit taken from there and handhanded him over to the avenger of blood soto thatbe heput mayto diedeath |
| 19:13 |
YourShow eyeno shall not pity; him but you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel so that it may bego well with you |
| 19:14 |
InYou themust inheritancenot whichmove youyour willneighbors holdboundary inmarker theset landup thatby former generations on the Lordproperty yourthat Godwill givesbe youallotted to possess you shallin notthe removeland yourthat neighborsthe landmarkLord whichyour theGod menis ofgiving oldyou haveto setpossess |
| 19:15 |
A single witness shall not prevailsuffice againstto convict a manperson forof any crime or forwrongdoing any wrong in connection with any offense that hemay hasbe committed; onlyOnly on the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall a charge be sustained |
| 19:16 |
If a malicious witness risescomes againstforward any man to accuse himsomeone 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 |
and the judges shall inquiremake diligentlya andthorough ifinquiry If the witness is a false witness andhaving hastestified accusedfalsely hisagainst brotheranother falsely |
| 19:19 |
then you shall do to himthe false witness just as hethe false witness had meant to do to histhe brother;other soSo you shall purge the evil from theyour midst of you |
| 19:20 |
AndThe the rest shall hear and fearbe afraid and a crime such as this shall never again commitbe anycommitted such evil among you |
| 19:21 |
YourShow eyeno shall not pity;: it 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 outfrom of the land of Egypt |
| 20:2 |
AndBefore when you drawengage nearin to the battle the priest shall come forward and speak to the peopletroops |
| 20:3 |
and shall say to them: Hear O Israel Today you draware drawing near thisto daydo to battle against your enemies: letDo not yourlose heart faint;or dobe notafraid fear or tremblepanic or be in dread of them; |
| 20:4 |
for it is the Lord your God iswho he that goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you the victory |
| 20:5 |
Then the officersofficials shall speakaddress to the peopletroops saying WhatHas mananyone is there that has built a new house andbut has not dedicated it LetHe himshould go back to his house lestor he might die in the battle and another man dedicate it |
| 20:6 |
AndHas whatanyone man is there that has planted a vineyard andbut has not yet enjoyed its fruit LetHe himshould go back to his house lestor he might die in the battle and another manbe first to enjoy its fruit |
| 20:7 |
AndHas whatanyone manbecome isengaged thereto that has betrothed a wifewoman andbut has not takenyet married her LetHe himshould go back to his house lestor he might die in the battle and another manmarry take her |
| 20:8 |
AndThe theofficials officers shall speakcontinue further to address the peopletroops andsaying sayIs Whatanyone manafraid isor theredisheartened thatHe isshould fearful and fainthearted Let him go back to his house lestor he might cause the heart of his fellowscomrades to melt aslike his heartown |
| 20:9 |
AndWhen when the officersofficials have madefinished anaddressing endthe oftroops speakingthen to the people then commanders shall betake appointedcharge at the head of the peoplethem |
| 20:10 |
When you draw near to a citytown to fight against it offer it terms of peace to it |
| 20:11 |
AndIf ifit itsaccepts answeryour toterms youof is peace and itsurrenders opens to you then all the people who are found in it shall doserve forced labor for you andat shallforced servelabor you |
| 20:12 |
ButIf if it makesdoes nonot peacesubmit withto you peacefully but makes war against you then you shall besiege it; |
| 20:14 |
butYou themay womenhowever andtake theas littleyour onesbooty the cattlewomen the children livestock and everything else in the citytown all its spoil youYou shallmay take as booty for yourselves; and you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies which the Lord your God has given you |
| 20:15 |
Thus you shall dotreat to all the citiestowns whichthat are very far from you which are not citiestowns of the nations here |
| 20:16 |
But inas for the citiestowns of these peoples that the Lord your God givesis giving you foras an inheritance you shallmust savenot alivelet nothinganything that breathes remain alive |
| 20:17 |
butYou you shall utterlyannihilate destroy them —the Hittites and the Amorites the Canaanites and the Per′izzitesPerizzites the Hivites and the Jeb′usitesJebusites—just as the Lord your God has commanded; |
| 20:18 |
so that they may not teach you to do according to all theirthe abominableabhorrent practicesthings whichthat they havedo donefor in the service of their gods and soyou tothus sin against the Lord your God |
| 20:19 |
WhenIf you besiege a citytown for a long time making war against it in order to take it you shallmust not destroy its trees by wielding an axeax against them; forAlthough you may eattake offood from them but you shallmust not cut them down Are the trees in the field menhuman beings that they should become besiegedunder bysiege from you |
| 20:20 |
OnlyYou may destroy only the trees whichthat you know aredo not treesproduce for food; you may destroycut andthem cut down thatfor youuse mayin buildbuilding siegeworks against the citytown that makes war with you until it falls |
| 21:1 |
If in the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you to possess anya onebody is found slain lying in the open country and it is not known who killedstruck himthe person down |
| 21:2 |
then your elders and your judges shall come forthout andto they shall measure the distancedistances to the citiestowns whichthat are aroundnear himthe thatbody is slain; |
| 21:3 |
andThe the elders of the citytown which is nearest to the slainbody man shall take a heifer whichthat has never been worked andone whichthat has not pulled in the yoke; |
| 21:4 |
And the elders of that citytown shall bring the heifer down to a valleywadi with running water which is neither plowed nor sown and shall break the heifers neck there in the valleywadi |
| 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 blesspronounce blessings in the name of the Lord and by their worddecision everyall cases of dispute and every assault shall be settled |
| 21:6 |
AndAll all the elders of that citytown nearest to the slainbody man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;wadi |
| 21:7 |
and they shall testifydeclare: Our hands did not shed this blood neithernor didwere ourwe eyeswitnesses seeto it shed |
| 21:8 |
ForgiveAbsolve O Lord thyyour people Israel whom thouyou hast redeemed; anddo set not let the guilt of innocent blood remain in the midst of thyyour people Israel; butThen letthey thewill guiltbe absolved of bloodbloodguilt be forgiven them |
| 21:9 |
So you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst whenbecause you must do what is right in the sight of the Lord |
| 21:10 |
When you go forthout to war against your enemies and the Lord your God giveshands them intoover yourto handsyou and you take them captive |
| 21:11 |
andsuppose you see among the captives a beautiful woman andwhom you have desire for her and wouldwant taketo hermarry for yourself as wife |
| 21:12 |
thenand so you shall bring her home to your house: and she shall shave her head and pare her nails |
| 21:13 |
Anddiscard she shall put off her captives garb and shall remain in your house anda bewailfull month mourning for her father and her mother a full month; after that you may go in to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife |
| 21:14 |
ThenBut if you haveare nonot delightsatisfied inwith her you shall let her go wherefree sheand will; but you shall not sell her for money youYou shallmust not treat her as a slave since you have humiliateddishonored her |
| 21:15 |
If a man has two wives the one of them loved and the other disliked and theyif have borne him children both the loved and the disliked andhave ifborne him sons the firstfirstborn bornbeing the son isof hersthe thatone who is disliked |
| 21:16 |
then on the day when he assignswills his possessions as an inheritance to his sons he mayis not permitted to treat the son of the loved as the firstfirstborn born in preference to the son of the disliked who is the firstfirstborn born |
| 21:17 |
butHe hemust shall acknowledge theas firstfirstborn born the son of the one who is disliked by giving him a double portion of all that he has; forsince he is the first issue of his strength;virility the right of the firstfirstborn born is his |
| 21:18 |
If asomeone man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father orand themother voicewho ofdoes hisnot motherheed andthem thoughwhen they chastisediscipline him will not give heed to them |
| 21:19 |
then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his citytown at the gate of thethat place where he lives |
| 21:20 |
andThey they shall say to the elders of his citytown This our son of ours is stubborn and rebellious heHe will not obey ourus voice;He he is a glutton and a drunkard |
| 21:21 |
Then all the men of the citytown shall stone him to death withSo stones; so you shall purge the evil from your midst; and all Israel shallwill hear and fearbe afraid |
| 21:22 |
AndWhen ifsomeone ais manconvicted hasof committed a crime punishable by death and he is putexecuted to death and you hang him on a tree |
| 21:23 |
his bodycorpse shallmust not remain all night upon the tree; but you shall bury him thethat same day for anyone hung on a hangedtree man is accursedunder byGods God;curse youYou shallmust not defile yourthe land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you for an inheritancepossession |
| 22:1 |
You shall not seewatch your brothersneighbors ox or his sheep gostraying astrayaway and withholdignore your help from them; you shall take them back to yourtheir brotherowner |
| 22:2 |
AndIf ifthe heowner isdoes not reside near you or if you do not know himwho the owner is you shall bring it home to your own house and it shall beremain with you until yourthe brotherowner seeksclaims it; then you shall restorereturn it to him |
| 22:3 |
AndYou so you shall do the same with hisa assneighbors donkey; so you shall do the same with hisa neighbors garment; soand you shall do the same with anyanything lostelse thingthat of your brothersneighbor which he loses and you find; youYou may not withhold your help |
| 22:4 |
You shall not see your brothersneighbors assdonkey or his ox fallen downon by the wayroad and withholdignore your help from themit; you shall help him to lift themit up again |
| 22:5 |
A woman shall not wear anythinga thatmans pertainsapparel to a man nor shall a man put on a womans garment; for whoever does thesesuch things is anabhorrent abomination to the Lord your God |
| 22:6 |
If you chance to come uponon a birds nest in any tree or on the ground with youngfledglings ones or eggs andwith the mother sitting uponon the youngfledglings or uponon the eggs you shall not take the mother with the young; |
| 22:7 |
youLet shall let the mother go buttaking only the young youfor mayyourself takein toorder 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; thatotherwise you maymight nothave bringbloodguilt theon guilt of blood upon your house if anyanyone oneshould fall from it |
| 22:9 |
You shall not sow your vineyard with twoa kindssecond kind of seed lestor the whole yield bewill forfeitedhave to thebe sanctuaryforfeited both the crop whichthat you have sown and the yield of the vineyard itself |
| 22:10 |
You shall not plow with an ox and ana assdonkey yoked together |
| 22:11 |
You shall not wear aclothes mingledmade stuffof wool and linen woven together |
| 22:12 |
You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of yourthe cloak with which you cover yourself |
| 22:13 |
IfSuppose anya man takesmarries a wifewoman andbut goesafter going in to her andhe thendislikes spurns her |
| 22:14 |
and chargesmakes herup withcharges shamefulagainst conducther andslandering bringsher anby evil name upon her saying I tookmarried this woman; andbut when I camelay nearwith her I did not find inevidence of her the tokens of virginity |
| 22:15 |
thenThe the father of the young woman and her mother shall takethen andsubmit bringthe outevidence of the tokensyoung ofwomans her virginity to the elders of the city inat the gate; |
| 22:16 |
andThe the father of the young woman shall say to the elders: I gave my daughter in marriage to this man tobut wife and he spurnsdislikes her; |
| 22:17 |
andnow lo he has made shamefulup charges against her saying I did not find inevidence of your daughterdaughters the tokens of virginity AndBut yethere theseis are the tokensevidence of my daughters virginity AndThen they shall spread out the garmentcloth before the elders of the citytown |
| 22:18 |
ThenThe the elders of that citytown shall take the man and whippunish him; |
| 22:19 |
and they shall fine him aone hundred shekels of silver andwhich they shall give them to the fatheryoung ofwomans thefather young woman because he has broughtslandered an evil name upon a virgin of Israel; andShe she shall beremain his wife; he mayshall not putbe permitted to divorce her awayas alllong hisas dayshe lives |
| 22:20 |
ButIf ifhowever thethis thingcharge is true that evidence of the tokensyoung ofwomans virginity werewas not found in the young woman |
| 22:21 |
then they shall bring out the young woman out to the doorentrance of her fathers house and the men of her citytown shall stone her to death with stones because she hascommitted wroughta follydisgraceful act in Israel by playingprostituting theherself harlot in her fathers house; soSo you shall purge the evil from theyour midst of you |
| 22:22 |
If a man is foundcaught lying with the wife of another man both of them shall die the man who lay with the woman andas well as the woman; soSo you shall purge the evil from Israel |
| 22:23 |
If there is a betrothedyoung woman a virgin already engaged to be married and a man meets her in the citytown and lies with her |
| 22:24 |
then you shall bring them both outof them to the gate of that citytown and you shall stone them to death with stones the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the citytown and the man because he violated his neighbors wife; soSo you shall purge the evil from theyour midst of you |
| 22:25 |
But if in the open country a man meets athe youngengaged woman whoin isthe betrothedopen country and the man seizes her and lies with her then only the man who lay with her shall die |
| 22:26 |
ButYou shall do nothing to the young woman you shall do nothing; in the young woman therehas isnot nocommitted an offense punishable by death forbecause this case is like that of asomeone manwho attackingattacks and murderingmurders hisa neighbor; |
| 22:27 |
becauseSince he camefound upon her in the open country andthe thoughengaged thewoman betrothedmay younghave woman cried for help but there was no one to rescue her |
| 22:28 |
If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothedengaged and seizes her and lies with her and they are foundcaught in the act |
| 22:29 |
then the man who lay with her shall give tofifty theshekels father of silver to the young womanwomans fiftyfather shekels of silver and she shall bebecome his wife becauseBecause he has violated her; he mayshall not putbe permitted to divorce her awayas alllong hisas dayshe lives |
| 22:30 |
A man shall not takemarry his fathers wife northereby shallviolating he uncover her who is his fathers rights |
| 23:1 |
HeNo one whose testicles are crushed or whose malepenis member is cut off shall notbe enteradmitted to the assembly of the Lord |
| 23:2 |
NoThose bastardborn of an illicit union shall enternot be admitted to the assembly of the Lord; evenEven to the tenth generation none of histheir descendants shall enterbe admitted to the assembly of the Lord |
| 23:3 |
No Ammonite or Moabite shall enterbe admitted to the assembly of the Lord; evenEven to the tenth generation none belongingof totheir themdescendants shall enterbe admitted to the assembly of the Lord for ever; |
| 23:4 |
because they did not meet you with breadfood and with water on theyour wayjourney 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 |
NeverthelessYet the Lord your God wouldrefused notto hearkenheed to Balaam; but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God loved you |
| 23:6 |
You shall notnever seekpromote their peacewelfare or their prosperity allas yourlong daysas foryou everlive |
| 23:7 |
You shall not abhor anany E′domiteof the Edomites for hethey isare your brother;kin youYou shall not abhor anany Egyptianof the Egyptians because you were aan sojourneralien residing in histheir land |
| 23:8 |
The children of the third generation that are born to them may enterbe admitted to the assembly of the Lord |
| 23:9 |
When you goare forthencamped against your enemies and are in camp then you shall keepguard yourselfagainst fromany every evil thingimpropriety |
| 23:10 |
If thereone isof among you anybecomes manunclean whobecause is not clean by reason of whata chancesnocturnal toemission him by night then he shall go outside the camp; he shallmust not come within the camp; |
| 23:11 |
butWhen when evening comes on he shall bathewash himself inwith water and when the sun ishas downset he may come withinback into the camp |
| 23:12 |
You shall have a placedesignated area outside the camp andto which you shall go out to it; |
| 23:13 |
andWith your utensils you shall have a stick with your weaponstrowel; and when you sitrelieve downyourself outside you shall dig a hole with it and turnthen back and cover up your excrement |
| 23:14 |
Because the Lord your God walkstravels inalong thewith midst of your camp to save you and to givehand upover your enemies beforeto you therefore your camp must be holy so that he may not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you |
| 23:15 |
YouSlaves shallwho nothave giveescaped up to hisyou masterfrom atheir slaveowners whoshall hasnot escapedbe fromgiven hisback master to you;them |
| 23:16 |
heThey shall dwellreside with you in your midst in theany place whichthey hechoose shallin chooseany within one of your towns wherewherever itthey pleases him bestplease; you shall not oppress himthem |
| 23:17 |
ThereNone shall be no cult prostitute of the daughters of Israel neither shall there be a culttemple prostitute; none of the sons of Israel shall be a temple prostitute |
| 23:18 |
You shall not bring the hirefee of a harlotprostitute or the wages of a dogmale prostitute into the house of the Lord your God in payment for any vow; for both of these are anabhorrent abomination to the Lord your God |
| 23:19 |
You shall not lendcharge upon interest on loans to youranother brotherIsraelite interest on money interest on victualsprovisions interest on anything that is lent for interest |
| 23:20 |
ToOn loans to a foreigner you may lendcharge upon interest but on loans to youranother brotherIsraelite you shallmay not lendcharge upon interest; so that the Lord your God may bless you in all thatyour youundertakings undertake in the land whichthat you are enteringabout to takeenter possessionand of itpossess |
| 23:21 |
WhenIf you make a vow to the Lord your God youdo shall not bepostpone slackfulfilling to pay it; for the Lord your God will surely require it of you and ityou would beincur singuilt in you |
| 23:22 |
But if you refrain from vowing ityou shallwill benot noincur singuilt in you |
| 23:23 |
YouWhatever shallyour belips carefulutter toyou performmust whatdiligently hasperform passedjust youras lips for you have voluntarilyfreely vowed to the Lord your God what you have promised with your own 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 youra vessel container |
| 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 |
WhenSuppose a man takesenters ainto wifemarriage andwith marriesa herwoman ifbut then she findsdoes nonot favorplease inhim his eyes because he hasfinds foundsomething someobjectionable indecencyabout in her and so he writes her a billcertificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house; and she departsthen outleaves of his house |
| 24:2 |
and ifgoes sheoff goesto andbecome becomes another mans wife |
| 24:3 |
andThen suppose the lattersecond husbandman dislikes her and writes her a bill of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house or if the lattersecond husbandman dies who tookmarried her todies; be his wife |
| 24:4 |
then her formerfirst husband who sent her away mayis not permitted to take her again to be his wife after she has been defiled; for that iswould anbe abominationabhorrent beforeto the Lord and you shall not bring guilt uponon the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you foras ana inheritancepossession |
| 24:5 |
When a man is newly married he shall not go out with the army or be charged with any business;related heduty He shall be free at home one year to be happy with histhe wife whom he has takenmarried |
| 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 asomeone man is foundcaught stealingkidnaping oneanother ofIsraelite hisenslaving brethrenor selling the peopleIsraelite of Israel and if he treats him as a slave or sells him then that thiefkidnaper shall die; soSo you shall purge the evil from theyour midst of you |
| 24:8 |
TakeGuard heedagainst in an attackoutbreak of leprosya toleprous beskin disease by being very careful; toyou doshall accordingcarefully toobserve allwhatever that the Leviticallevitical priests shallinstruct direct you; just as I have commanded them so you shall be careful to do |
| 24:9 |
Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam on theyour wayjourney as you came forth out of Egypt |
| 24:10 |
When you make your neighbor a loan of any sortkind you shall not go into histhe house to fetchtake histhe pledge |
| 24:11 |
You shall standwait outside andwhile the manperson to whom you makeare making the loan shallbrings bring the pledge out to you |
| 24:12 |
AndIf ifthe heperson is a poor man you shall not sleep in histhe garment given you as the pledge; |
| 24:13 |
whenYou theshall sungive goesthe downpledge youback shallby restoresunset toso himthat theyour pledgeneighbor that he may sleep in histhe cloak and bless you; and it shallwill be righteousness to youyour credit before the Lord your God |
| 24:14 |
You shall not oppresswithhold athe hiredwages servantof who is poor and needy laborers whether heother isIsraelites one of your brethren or onealiens of the sojourners who arereside in your land withinin one of your towns; |
| 24:15 |
youYou shall givepay himthem histheir hirewages ondaily the day he earns it before thesunset sunbecause goesthey downare for he is poor and setstheir hislivelihood heartdepends uponon itthem; lestotherwise hethey might cry against you to the Lord against you and ityou bewould sinincur in youguilt |
| 24:16 |
TheParents fathers shall not be put to death for thetheir children nor shall the children be put to death for thetheir fathersparents; everyonly manfor shalltheir own crimes may persons be put to death for his own sin |
| 24:17 |
You shall not pervertdeprive thea justiceresident duealien toor thean sojournerorphan orof tojustice; theyou fatherlessshall ornot take a widows garment in pledge; |
| 24:18 |
butRemember you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this |
| 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; it shall be left for the sojourneralien the fatherlessorphan and the widow; so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your handsundertakings |
| 24:20 |
When you beat your olive trees youdo shall not gostrip overwhat theis boughs againleft; it shall be for the sojourneralien the fatherlessorphan and the widow |
| 24:21 |
When you gather the grapes of your vineyard youdo shall not glean itwhat afterwardis left; it shall be for the sojourneralien the fatherlessorphan and the widow |
| 24:22 |
YouRemember shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I commandam commanding you to do this |
| 25:1 |
IfSuppose theretwo ispersons have a dispute between men and theyenter come into courtlitigation and the judges decide between them acquittingdeclaring one to be in the innocentright and condemningthe other to be in the guiltywrong |
| 25:2 |
thenIf ifthe one in the guiltywrong man deserves to be beatenflogged the judge shall causemake himthat toperson lie down and be beaten in his presence with athe number of stripeslashes inproportionate proportion to histhe offense |
| 25:3 |
Forty stripeslashes may be given him but not more; lest if one should go on to beat him with more stripeslashes than these are given your brotherneighbor will be degraded in your sight |
| 25:4 |
You shall not muzzle an ox whenwhile it treadsis treading out the grain |
| 25:5 |
IfWhen brothers dwellreside together and one of them dies and has no son the wife of the deaddeceased shall not be married outside the family to a stranger; herHer husbands brother shall go in to her andtaking take her asin hismarriage wife and performperforming the duty of a husbands brother to her |
| 25:6 |
Andand the firstfirstborn son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of histhe deceased brother whoso is dead that his name may not be blotted out of Israel |
| 25:7 |
AndBut if the man doeshas notno wishdesire to takemarry his brothers wifewidow then his brothers wifewidow shall go up to the gateelders toat the eldersgate and say My husbands brother refuses to perpetuate his brothers name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husbands brother to me |
| 25:8 |
Then the elders of his citytown shall callsummon him and speak to him: andIf if he persists saying I dohave notno wishdesire to takemarry 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; and shedeclare shallThis answeris andwhat sayis So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brothers house |
| 25:10 |
AndThroughout theIsrael name of his housefamily shall be calledknown inas Israelthe The house of him thatwhose hadsandal hiswas sandal pulled off |
| 25:11 |
WhenIf men get into a fight with one another and the wife of the one drawsintervenes near to rescue her husband from the handgrip of himhis whoopponent isby beatingreaching him and puts out her hand and seizesseizing himhis bygenitals the private parts |
| 25:12 |
then you shall cut off her hand; yourshow eye shall have no pity |
| 25:13 |
You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights a large and a small |
| 25:14 |
You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures a large and a small |
| 25:15 |
AYou shall have only a full and justhonest weight; you shall have only a full and justhonest measure youso shall have; that your days may be prolongedlong in the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you |
| 25:16 |
For all who do such things all who act dishonestly are anabhorrent abomination to the Lord your God |
| 25:17 |
Remember what Am′alekAmalek did to you on theyour wayjourney as you came out of Egypt |
| 25:18 |
how he attacked you on the way when you were faint and weary and cutstruck offdown at your rear all who lagged behind you; and he did not fear God |
| 25:19 |
Therefore when the Lord your God has given you rest from all your enemies roundon aboutevery hand in the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you foras an inheritance to possess you shall blot out the remembrance of Am′alekAmalek from under heaven; youdo shall not forget |
| 26:1 |
When you have come into the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you foras an inheritance andto havepossess takenand possessionyou ofpossess it and livesettle in it |
| 26:2 |
you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground which you harvest from yourthe 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 toas makea dwelling for his name to dwell there |
| 26:3 |
AndYou you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him Today I declare this day to the Lord your God that I have come into the land whichthat the Lord swore to our fathersancestors to give us |
| 26:4 |
ThenWhen the priest shalltakes take the basket from your hand and setsets it down before the altar of the Lord your God |
| 26:5 |
And you shall make this response before the Lord your God: A wandering Aramean was my fatherancestor; and he went down into Egypt and sojournedlived there as an alien few in number; and there he became a great nation great mighty and populous |
| 26:6 |
AndWhen the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us andby laidimposing uponhard uslabor hardon bondageus |
| 26:7 |
Then we cried to the Lord the God of our fathersancestors; and the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction our toil and our oppression; |
| 26:8 |
andThe the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm with greata terrorterrifying display of power and with signs and wonders; |
| 26:10 |
AndSo behold now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground whichthat thouyou O Lord hasthave given me AndYou you shall set it down before the Lord your God and worshipbow down before the Lord your God; |
| 26:11 |
Then you together with the Levites and the aliens who reside among you shall rejoicecelebrate inwith all the goodbounty 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 tithingthe tithe giving it to the LeviteLevites the sojourneraliens the fatherlessorphans and the widowwidows so that they may eat their fill within your towns and be filled |
| 26:13 |
then you shall say before the Lord your God: I have removed the sacred portion outfrom ofthe my house and moreover I have given it to the LeviteLevites the sojournerresident aliens the fatherlessorphans and the widowwidows accordingin toaccordance allwith thyyour entire commandment whichthat thouyou hast commanded me; I have notneither transgressed nor forgotten any of thyyour commandments: neither have I forgotten them; |
| 26:14 |
I have not eaten of theit tithe while in mourning; I washave mourningnot or removed any of it while I was unclean; orand I have not offered any of it to the dead; I have obeyed the voice of the Lord my God Idoing havejust doneas accordingyou to all that thou hast 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 ancestors—a land flowing with milk and honey |
| 26:16 |
This very day the Lord your God commandsis commanding you to doobserve these statutes and ordinances; youso shallobserve thereforethem bediligently careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul |
| 26:17 |
YouToday you have declaredobtained this day concerning the LordLords thatagreement: heto isbe your God; and thatfor you willto walk in his ways andto keep his statutes and his commandments and his ordinances and willto obey hishim voice; |
| 26:18 |
andToday the Lord has declaredobtained thisyour dayagreement: concerningto yoube thathis youtreasured are a people for his own possession as he has promised you and that you are to keep all his commandments; |
| 26:19 |
thatfor hehim willto set you high above all nations that he has made in praise and in fame and in honor; and thatfor you shallto be a people holy to the Lord your God as he has spokenpromised |
| 27:1 |
NowThen Moses and the elders of Israel commandedcharged all the people sayingas follows: Keep all the entire commandment whichthat I commandam commanding you thistoday day |
| 27:2 |
AndOn on the day that you passcross over the Jordan tointo the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you you shall set up large stones and plastercover them with plaster; |
| 27:3 |
andYou you shall write uponon them all the words of this law when you passhave crossed 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 fathersancestors has promised you |
| 27:4 |
AndSo when you have passedcrossed over the Jordan you shall set up these stones concerningabout which I commandam commanding you thistoday day on Mount Ebal and you shall plastercover them with plaster |
| 27:5 |
And there you shall build an altar there to the Lord your God an altar of stones; on which you shallhave liftnot upused noan iron tool upon them |
| 27:6 |
You shallmust build anthe altar toof the Lord your God of unhewn stones; andThen youoffer shallup offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God; |
| 27:7 |
andmake yousacrifices shallof sacrificewell peacebeing offerings and shall eat them there; andrejoicing you shall rejoice before the Lord your God |
| 27:8 |
AndYou you shall write uponon the stones all the words of this law very plainlyclearly |
| 27:9 |
AndThen Moses and the Leviticallevitical priests saidspoke to all Israel saying: Keep silence and hear O Israel: thisThis very day you have become the people of the Lord your God |
| 27:10 |
YouTherefore shall therefore obey the voice of the Lord your God keepingobserving his commandments and his statutes whichthat I commandam commanding you this daytoday |
| 27:11 |
AndThe same day Moses charged the people theas samefollows: day saying |
| 27:12 |
When you have passedcrossed over the Jordan these shall stand uponon Mount Ger′izimGerizim tofor blessthe blessing of 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′taliNaphtali |
| 27:14 |
AndThen the Levites shall declare toin alla theloud menvoice ofto Israelall withthe a loud voiceIsraelites: |
| 27:15 |
Cursed be theanyone man who makes aan gravenidol or moltencasts an image ananything abominationabhorrent to the Lord a thing made by the handswork of aan craftsmanartisan and sets it up in secret AndAll all the people shall answerrespond andsaying say Amen |
| 27:16 |
Cursed be heanyone who dishonors his father or his mother AndAll all the people shall say Amen |
| 27:17 |
Cursed be heanyone who removesmoves hisa neighbors landmarkboundary Andmarker allAll the people shall say Amen |
| 27:18 |
Cursed be heanyone who misleads a blind manperson on the road AndAll all the people shall say Amen |
| 27:19 |
Cursed be heanyone who pervertsdeprives the justicealien due to the sojournerorphan the fatherless and the widow Andof alljustice All the people shall say Amen |
| 27:20 |
Cursed be heanyone who lies with his fathers wife because he has uncoveredviolated her who is his fathers Andrights allAll the people shall say Amen |
| 27:21 |
Cursed be heanyone who lies with any kindanimal ofAll beast 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 AndAll all the people shall say Amen |
| 27:23 |
Cursed be heanyone who lies with his mother in law AndAll all the people shall say Amen |
| 27:24 |
Cursed be heanyone who slaysstrikes hisdown a neighbor in secret AndAll all the people shall say Amen |
| 27:25 |
Cursed be heanyone who takes a bribe to slayshed an innocent personblood AndAll all the people shall say Amen |
| 27:26 |
Cursed be heanyone who does not confirmuphold the words of this law by doingobserving them AndAll all the people shall say Amen |
| 28:1 |
AndIf if you obeywill theonly voiceobey of the Lord your God beingby carefuldiligently toobserving do all his commandments whichthat I commandam commanding you thistoday day the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth; |
| 28:2 |
And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you if you obey the voice of the Lord your God : |
| 28:4 |
Blessed shall be the fruit of your bodywomb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your beastslivestock both the increase of your cattle and the youngissue of your flock |
| 28:5 |
Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading trough bowl |
| 28:8 |
The Lord will command the blessing upon you in your barns and in all that you undertake; and he will bless you in the land whichthat the Lord your God givesis giving you |
| 28:9 |
The Lord will establish you as ahis people holy topeople himself as he has sworn to you if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in his ways |
| 28:10 |
AndAll 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 |
AndThe 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 withinin the land whichthat the Lord swore to your fathersancestors to give you |
| 28:12 |
The Lord will open tofor you his goodrich treasurystorehouse the heavens to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands;undertakings andYou youwill shall lend to many nations but you shallwill not borrow |
| 28:13 |
AndThe the Lord will make you the head and not the tail; and you shall tendbe upward only at the top and not downward;at the bottom—if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I commandam commanding you thistoday dayby beingdiligently carefulobserving to do them |
| 28:14 |
and if you do not turn aside from any of the words whichthat I commandam commanding you thistoday dayeither to the right hand or to the left tofollowing go after other gods to serve them |
| 28:15 |
But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God orby bediligently carefulobserving to do all his commandments and hisdecrees statutes which I commandam commanding 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 cattle and the youngissue of your flock |
| 28:20 |
The Lord will send upon you cursesdisaster confusionpanic and frustration in alleverything that you undertakeattempt 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 cleavecling to you until heit has consumed you off the land whichthat you are entering to takepossess possession of it |
| 28:22 |
The Lord will smiteafflict you with consumption and with fever inflammation andwith fiery heat and with drought and with blastingblight and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish |
| 28:23 |
AndThe thesky heavens over your head shall be brassbronze and the earth under you shall be iron |
| 28:24 |
The Lord will makechange the rain of your land into powder and only dust; from heaven it shall come down upon you from the sky until you are destroyed |
| 28:25 |
The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out against them one way against them and flee before them seven ways beforeYou them;shall andbecome youan shallobject beof a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth |
| 28:26 |
AndYour yourcorpses dead body shall be food for allevery birdsbird of the air and foranimal the beasts of the earth; and there shall be no one to frighten them away |
| 28:27 |
The Lord will smiteafflict you with the boils of Egypt and with the ulcers and the scurvy and the itch of which you cannot be healed |
| 28:28 |
The Lord will smiteafflict you with madness and blindness and confusion of mind; |
| 28:29 |
and you shall grope about at noondaynoon as the blind people grope in darkness andbut you shall notbe prosperunable into find your waysway; and you shall be onlycontinually oppressedabused and robbed continuallywithout andanyone there shall be no one to help you |
| 28:30 |
You shall betrothbecome engaged to a wifewoman andbut another man shall lie with her; youYou shall build a house andbut you shall not dwelllive in it; youYou shall plant a vineyard andbut you shall not useenjoy theits fruit of it |
| 28:31 |
Your ox shall be slainbutchered before your eyes andbut you shall not eat of it; yourYour assdonkey shall be violentlystolen takenin awayfront beforeof youryou face and shall not be restored to you; yourYour sheep shall be given to your enemies andwithout thereanyone shall be no one to help you |
| 28:32 |
Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people while youryou eyes look on; andyou failwill withstrain longingyour eyes looking for them all the day; andbut it shall not be inpowerless the power of your hand to preventdo itanything |
| 28:33 |
A nationpeople whichwhom you havedo not knownknow shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors; and you shall be onlycontinually oppressedabused and crushed continually; |
| 28:34 |
soand that you shall be driven mad by the sight 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 yourthe king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathersancestors have known; andwhere there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone |
| 28:37 |
AndYou you shall become aan object of horror a proverb and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away |
| 28:38 |
You shall carry much seed into the field andbut shall gather 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 begethave sons and daughters but they shall not beremain yours; for they shall go into captivity |
| 28:42 |
All your trees and the fruit of your ground the locustcicada shall possesstake over |
| 28:43 |
TheAliens sojournerresiding who is among you shall mountascend above you higher and higher; andwhile you shall comedescend down lower and lower |
| 28:44 |
HeThey shall lend to you andbut you shall not lend to himthem; hethey shall be the head and you shall be the tail |
| 28:45 |
All these curses shall come upon you andpursuing pursue you and overtakeovertaking you tilluntil you are destroyed because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God toby keepobserving histhe commandments and histhe statutesdecrees whichthat he commanded you |
| 28:46 |
They shall be uponamong you and your descendants as a sign and a wonderportent and upon your descendants for everforever |
| 28:47 |
Because you did not serve the Lord your God withjoyfully joyfulness and with gladness of heart byfor reason of the abundance of alleverything things |
| 28:48 |
therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you in hunger and thirst in nakedness and inlack want of alleverything things;He and he will put aan iron yoke ofon iron upon your neck until he has destroyed you |
| 28:49 |
The Lord will bring a nation againstfrom youfar fromaway afar from the end of the earth asto swiftswoop asdown theon you like an eagle flies a nation whose language you do not understand |
| 28:50 |
a nationgrim offaced sternnation countenanceshowing whono shallrespect notto regard the person of the old or show favor to the young |
| 28:51 |
andIt shall eatconsume the offspringfruit of your cattlelivestock and the fruit of your ground until you are destroyed; wholeaving alsoyou shallneither not leave you grain wine orand oil nor the increase of your cattle orand the youngissue of your flock until theyit havehas causedmade you to perish |
| 28:52 |
TheyIt shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout all your land; andit they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout allthe your land whichthat the Lord your God has given you |
| 28:53 |
AndIn the desperate straits to which the enemy siege reduces you shallyou will eat the offspringfruit of your ownwomb body the flesh of your own 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 |
TheEven man who is the most tenderrefined and delicatelygentle bredof men among you will grudgebegrudge food to his own brother to the wife ofwhom hishe bosomembraces and to the last of thehis remaining children who remain to him; |
| 28:55 |
sogiving that he will not give to anynone of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating because henothing haselse nothingremains leftto him in the siegedesperate andstraits into the distress with which yourthe enemy shallsiege distresswill reduce you in all your towns |
| 28:56 |
TheShe who is the most tenderrefined and delicatelygentle bred woman among you whoso wouldgentle and refined that she does not venture to set the sole of her foot uponon the ground becausewill shebegrudge isfood so delicate and tender will grudge to the husband ofwhom hershe bosomembraces to her own son and to her own daughter |
| 28:57 |
herbegrudging even the afterbirth that comes out from between her feetthighs and herthe children whomthat she bears because she willis eateating them secretlyin secret for wantlack of allanything thingselse in the siegedesperate andstraits into the distress with which yourthe enemy shallsiege distresswill reduce you in your towns |
| 28:58 |
If you aredo not carefuldiligently toobserve do all the words of this law whichthat are written in this book thatfearing you may fear this glorious and awfulawesome name the Lord your God |
| 28:59 |
then the Lord will bringoverwhelm onboth you and your offspring extraordinarywith afflictions afflictions severe and lasting afflictions and sicknesses grievous and lasting maladies |
| 28:60 |
AndHe he will bring back upon you again all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraidin of;dread and they shall cleavecling to you |
| 28:61 |
Every sicknessother alsomalady and every affliction whicheven isthough not recorded in the book of this law the Lord will bringinflict uponon you until you are destroyed |
| 28:62 |
WhereasAlthough once you were as numerous as the stars ofin 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 just as the Lord took delight in doingmaking you goodprosperous and multiplyingnumerous you so the Lord will take delight in bringing ruinyou uponto youruin and destroying youdestruction; and you shall be plucked off the land whichthat you are entering to takepossess possession of it |
| 28:64 |
AndThe 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 fathersancestors have known |
| 28:65 |
AndAmong amongthose these nations you shall find no ease andno thereresting shallplace be no rest for the sole of your foot; butThere the Lord will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and a languishing soul;spirit |
| 28:66 |
yourYour life shall hang in doubt before you; night and day you shall be in dread andwith 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 |
AndThe the Lord will bring you back in ships to Egypt by a journeyroute whichthat I promised that you shouldwould never makesee 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 peopleIsraelites of Israel in the land of Moab besidesin addition to the covenant whichthat he had made with them at Horeb |
| 29:2 |
And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land |
| 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 mind to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear |
| 29:5 |
I have led you forty years in the wilderness; yourThe clothes on your back have not worn out uponand youthe andsandals on your sandalsfeet have not worn off your feetout; |
| 29:6 |
you have not eaten bread and you have not drunk wine or strong drink;—so that you may know that I am the Lord your God |
| 29:7 |
AndWhen when you came to this place King Sihon the king of Heshbon and King Og the king of Bashan came out against us tofor battle but we defeated them; |
| 29:8 |
weWe took their land and gave it foras an inheritance to the Reubenites the Gadites and the half tribe of theManasseh Manas′sites |
| 29:9 |
Therefore bediligently carefulobserve to do the words of this covenant in order that you may prospersucceed in alleverything that you do |
| 29:10 |
You stand thisassembled daytoday all of you before the Lord your God; —the headsleaders of your tribes your elders and your officersofficials all the men of Israel |
| 29:11 |
your littlechildren ones your wiveswomen and the sojourneraliens who isare in your camp both hethose who hewscut your wood and hethose who drawsdraw your water— |
| 29:12 |
thatto you may enter into the sworn covenant of the Lord your God sworn by an oath which the Lord your God makesis making with you this daytoday; |
| 29:13 |
in order 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 fathersancestors to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob |
| 29:14 |
NorI isam itmaking this covenant sworn by an oath not only with you onlywho thatstand Ihere makewith thisus sworntoday covenantbefore the Lord our God |
| 29:15 |
but also with himthose who isare not here with us thistoday day as well as with him who stands here with us this day before the Lord our God |
| 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 |
andYou you have seen their detestable things theirthe filthy idols of wood and stone of silver and gold whichthat were among them |
| 29:18 |
BewareIt lestmay be that there beis among you a man or woman or a family or tribe whose heart turnsis awayalready thisturning dayaway from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of those nations; lestIt theremay be that there is among you a root bearingsprouting poisonous and bitter fruitgrowth |
| 29:19 |
oneAll who whenhear he hears the words of this swornoath covenantand blessesbless himselfthemselves thinking in histheir hearthearts sayingWe Iare shallsafe beeven safe though Iwe walkgo inour theown stubbornnessstubborn ofways mythus heartbringing Thisdisaster wouldon lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike — |
| 29:20 |
Thethe Lord wouldwill notbe unwilling to pardon himthem butfor rather the Lords anger of the Lord and hispassion jealousywill would smoke against thatthem manAll and the curses written in this book wouldwill settledescend uponon himthem and the Lord wouldwill blot out histheir namenames from under heaven |
| 29:21 |
AndThe the Lord wouldwill single himthem out from all the tribes of Israel for calamity in accordance with all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law |
| 29:22 |
AndThe thenext generation to come your children who rise up after you andas well as the foreigner who comes from a fardistant landcountry wouldwill say when they see the afflictionsdevastation of that land and the sicknessesafflictions with which the Lord has madeafflicted it sick— |
| 29:23 |
theall wholeits landsoil brimstoneburned and salt and a burnt out wasteby unsownsulfur and growingsalt nothing whereplanted nonothing grasssprouting canunable sproutto ansupport overthrowany vegetation like thatthe destruction of Sodom and Gomor′rahGomorrah Admah and Zeboi′imZeboiim which the Lord overthrewdestroyed in his fierce anger and wrath— |
| 29:24 |
yeathey and indeed all the nations wouldwill saywonder Why has the Lord done thus to this land What meanscaused thethis heatgreat display of this great anger |
| 29:25 |
ThenThey menwill wouldconclude say It is because they forsookabandoned the covenant of the Lord the God of their fathersancestors which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt |
| 29:26 |
andThey wentturned and served other gods andworshiping worshiped them gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them; |
| 29:27 |
thereforeso the anger of the Lord was kindled against thisthat land bringing uponon it allevery thecurse curses written in this book; |
| 29:28 |
andThe the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath and cast them into another land as atis thisnow daythe case |
| 29:29 |
The secret things belong to the Lord our God; but the revealed things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forforever everto thatobserve we may do all the words of this law |
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AndWhen when all these things comehave uponhappened to you the blessingblessings and the cursecurses whichthat I have set before you andif you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you |
| 30:2 |
and return to the Lord your God and you and your children and obey hishim voice in all that I command you this day with all your heart and with all your soul; just as I am commanding you today |
| 30:3 |
then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion uponon you andgathering he will gather you again from all the peoples whereamong whom the Lord your God has scattered you |
| 30:4 |
IfEven yourif outcastsyou are inexiled to the uttermostends parts of heaventhe world from there the Lord your God will gather you and from there he will fetchbring you; back |
| 30:5 |
andThe the Lord your God will bring you into the land whichthat your fathersancestors possessed thatand you maywill possess it; and he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers ancestors |
| 30:6 |
AndMoreover the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspringdescendants so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul in order that you may live |
| 30:7 |
AndThe the Lord your God will put all these curses uponon your foesenemies and enemieson the adversaries who persecutedtook advantage of you |
| 30:8 |
AndThen you shall again obey the voice of the Lord andobserving keep all his commandments whichthat I commandam commanding you thistoday day |
| 30:9 |
Theand the Lord your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your handundertakings in the fruit of your body and in the fruit of your cattlelivestock and in the fruit of your ground;soil forFor the Lord will again take delight in prospering you just as he tookdelighted delight in prospering your fathersancestors |
| 30:10 |
ifwhen you obey the voice of the Lord your God toby keepobserving his commandments and hisdecrees statutesthat which are written in this book of the law ifbecause you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul |
| 30:11 |
ForSurely this commandment whichthat I commandam commanding you thistoday day is not too hard for you neithernor is it too far offaway |
| 30:12 |
It is not in heaven that you should say Who will go up to heaven for us to heaven and bringget it tofor us so that we may hear it and doobserve it |
| 30:13 |
Neither is it beyond the sea that you should say Who will gocross overto the other side of the sea for us and bringget it tofor us so that we may hear it and doobserve it |
| 30:14 |
ButNo the word is very near to you; it is in your mouth and in your heart sofor that you canto do itobserve |
| 30:15 |
See I have set before you thistoday day life and goodprosperity death and eviladversity |
| 30:16 |
If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God whichthat I commandam commanding you thistoday day by loving the Lord your God by walking in his ways and byobserving keeping his commandments anddecrees his statutes and his ordinances then you shall live and multiplybecome numerous and the Lord your God will bless you in the land whichthat you are entering to takepossess possession of it |
| 30:17 |
But if your heart turns away and you willdo not hear but are drawnled awayastray to worshipbow down to other gods and serve them |
| 30:18 |
I declare to you thistoday day that you shall perish; you shall not live long in the land whichthat you are goingcrossing 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 blessingblessings and curse;curses thereforeChoose choose life so that you and your descendants may live |
| 30:20 |
loving the Lord your God obeying hishim voice and cleavingholding fast to him; for that means life to you and length of days so that you may dwelllive in the land whichthat the Lord swore to give to your fathersancestors to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob to give them |
| 31:1 |
SoWhen Moses continuedhad tofinished speakspeaking all these words to all Israel |
| 31:2 |
And he said to them: I am anow one hundred and twenty years old this day; I am no longer able to goget outabout and comethe in The Lord has saidtold to me You shall not gocross over this Jordan |
| 31:3 |
The Lord your God himself will gocross over before you; heHe will destroy these nations before you soand that you shall dispossess them; and Joshua also will gocross over atbefore youryou head as the Lord haspromised spoken |
| 31:4 |
AndThe the Lord will do to them as he did to Sihon and Og the kings of the Amorites and to their land when he destroyed them |
| 31:5 |
AndThe the Lord will give them over to you and you shall dodeal towith them accordingin tofull allaccord with the commandmentcommand whichthat I have commandedgiven to you |
| 31:6 |
Be strong and ofbold; goodhave courageno do not fear or be in dread of them: forbecause it is the Lord your God who goes with you; he will not fail you or forsake you |
| 31:7 |
Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel: Be strong and ofbold good courage; for you shallare the one who will go with this people into the land whichthat the Lord has sworn to their fathersancestors to give them; and you shallwill put them in possession of it |
| 31:8 |
It is the Lord who goes before you; heHe will be with you; he will not fail you or forsake you; doDo not fear or be dismayed |
| 31:9 |
AndThen Moses wrote down 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: AtEvery theseventh endyear ofin every seven years at the setscheduled time of the year of releaseremission atduring the feastfestival of 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 |
| 31:12 |
Assemble the people —men women and littlechildren onesas andwell as the sojourneraliens withinresiding in your towns—so that they may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God and beto carefulobserve todiligently do all the words of this law |
| 31:13 |
and so 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 goingcrossing over the Jordan to possess |
| 31:14 |
AndThe the Lord said to Moses BeholdYour thetime daysto approachdie whenis you must dienear; call Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of meeting so that I may commission him AndSo Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tent of meeting |
| 31:15 |
Andand the Lord appeared inat the tent in a pillar of cloud; and the pillar of cloud stood byat the doorentrance ofto the tent |
| 31:16 |
AndThe the Lord said to Moses BeholdSoon you arewill aboutlie todown sleep with your fathers;ancestors thenThen this people will risebegin andto playprostitute themselves to the harlotforeign aftergods in their midst the strange gods of the land whereinto which they goare togoing; be among them and they will forsake me andbreaking break my covenant whichthat I have made with them |
| 31:17 |
ThenMy my anger will be kindled against them in that day and I will forsake them and hide my face from them; and they will bebecome devoured;easy prey and many evilsterrible and troubles will come upon them soIn that day they will say in that day Have not these evilstroubles come upon us because our God is not amongin usour midst |
| 31:18 |
AndOn that day I will surely hide my face in that day on account of all the evil which they have done becauseby theyturning have turned to other gods |
| 31:19 |
Now therefore write this song and teach it to the people of IsraelIsraelites; put it in their mouths in order that this song may be a witness for me against the peopleIsraelites of Israel |
| 31:20 |
For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey which I sworepromised toon giveoath to their fathersancestors and they have eaten andtheir arefill full and grown fat they will turn to other gods and serve them anddespising despise me and breakbreaking my covenant |
| 31:21 |
And when many evilsterrible and troubles have come upon them this song shallwill confront them as a witness forbecause it will livenot unforgottenbe inlost from the mouths of their descendants; forFor I know thewhat purposes which they are alreadyinclined formingto do even now before I have brought them into the land that I sworepromised tothem giveon oath |
| 31:22 |
SoThat very day Moses wrote this song the same day and taught it to the people of IsraelIsraelites |
| 31:23 |
AndThen the Lord commissioned Joshua the son of Nun and said Be strong and ofbold good courage; for you shall bring the childrenIsraelites of Israel into the land whichthat I sworepromised to give them:; I will be with you |
| 31:24 |
When Moses had finished writing down in a book the words of this law in a book to the very end |
| 31:25 |
Moses commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord saying |
| 31:26 |
Take this book of the law and put it bybeside the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God; thatlet it mayremain be there foras a witness against you |
| 31:27 |
For I know well how rebellious and stubborn you are; beholdIf whileyou Ialready amhave yetbeen aliveso withrebellious youtoward todaythe youLord havewhile beenI rebelliousam againststill thealive Lord;among you how much more after my death |
| 31:28 |
Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officersofficials so that I may speakrecite these words in their earshearing and call heaven and earth to witness against them |
| 31:29 |
For I know that after my death you will surely act corruptly andturning turn aside from the way whichthat I have commanded you; andIn intime the days to come eviltrouble 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 |
| 31:30 |
Then Moses spokerecited the words of this song untilto theythe werevery finishedend in the earshearing of all the whole assembly of Israel: |
| 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 aslike the rain my speech distilcondense aslike the dew; aslike the gentle rain uponon the tender grass andlike as the showers uponon thenew herbgrowth |
| 32:3 |
For I will proclaim the name of the Lord; Ascribeascribe greatness to our God |
| 32:4 |
The Rock his work is perfect; forand all his ways are justicejust A faithful God of faithfulness and without iniquitydeceit just and rightupright is he; |
| 32:5 |
Theyyet his degenerate children have dealt corruptlyfalsely with him they are no longer his children because of their blemish; they are a perverse and crooked generation |
| 32:6 |
Do you thus requiterepay the Lord youO 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 oflong many generationspast; ask your father and he will showinform you; your elders and they will tell you |
| 32:8 |
When the Most High gaveapportioned to the nations their inheritance when he separateddivided thehumankind sons of men he fixed the boundsboundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Godgods; |
| 32:9 |
For the Lords own portion iswas his people Jacob his allotted heritageshare |
| 32:10 |
He foundsustained him in a desert land and in thea howling wilderness waste of the wilderness; he encircledshielded him he cared for him heguarded kept him as the apple of his eye |
| 32:11 |
LikeAs an eagle that stirs up its nest thatand fluttershovers over its young; spreadingas outit spreads its wings catchingtakes them bearingup and bears them aloft on its pinions |
| 32:12 |
the Lord alone didguided lead him; and there was no foreign god was with him |
| 32:13 |
He madeset him rideatop on the highheights places of the earthland and hefed atehim thewith produce of the field; and he madenursed him suckwith honey outfrom of the rockcrags andwith oil outfrom of the flinty rock; |
| 32:14 |
Curdscurds from the herd and milk from the flock with fat of lambs and rams; herdsBashan ofbulls Bashan and goats together with the finestchoicest of the wheat— andyou ofdrank thefine bloodwine offrom the grapeblood youof drank winegrapes |
| 32:15 |
ButJacob Jesh′urunate waxedhis fill; Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; youYou waxedgrew fat youbloated grewand thickgorged youHe becameabandoned sleek; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation |
| 32:16 |
They stirredmade him tojealous jealousy with strange gods; with abominableabhorrent practicesthings they provoked him to anger |
| 32:17 |
They sacrificed to demons whichnot wereGod no gods to godsdeities they had never known to new godsones thatrecently hadarrived come in of late whom your fathersancestors had nevernot dreadedfeared |
| 32:18 |
You were unmindful of the Rock that begotbore you; and you forgot the God who gave you birth |
| 32:19 |
The Lord saw it and spurnedwas themjealous becausehe ofspurned the provocation of his sons and his daughters |
| 32:20 |
AndHe 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 there is no faithfulness |
| 32:21 |
They havemade stirred me tojealous jealousy with what is no god; they have provoked me with their idols So I will stirmake them tojealous jealousy with thosewhat whois are no people; I will provoke them with a foolish nation |
| 32:22 |
For a fire is kindled by my anger and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it devours the earth and its increase and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains |
| 32:23 |
And I will heap evilsdisasters upon them; I will spend my arrows uponagainst them;: |
| 32:24 |
theywasting shall be wasted with hunger andburning devouredconsumption withbitter burningpestilence heatThe andteeth poisonousof pestilence;beasts and I will send the teeth of beasts against them with venom of things crawling thingsin of the dust |
| 32:25 |
In the openstreet the sword shall bereave and in the chambers shall be terror destroyingfor both young man and virginwoman thealike suckingnursing child withand theold man of gray hairshead |
| 32:26 |
I wouldthought haveto said I will scatter them afarand Iblot willout make the remembrancememory of them cease from among menhumankind; |
| 32:27 |
hadbut I not feared provocation by the enemy lestfor their adversaries shouldmight judgemisunderstand amissand lest they should say Our hand is triumphant; it was not the Lord haswho notdid wrought all this |
| 32:28 |
ForThey they are a nation void of counselsense; and there is no understanding in them |
| 32:29 |
If they were wise they would understand this; they would discern theirwhat latterthe end would be |
| 32:30 |
How shouldcould one chasehave routed a thousand and two put tena thousandmyriad to flight unless their Rock had sold them and the Lord had given them up |
| 32:31 |
ForIndeed their rock is not aslike our Rock; even our enemies themselvesare being judgesfools |
| 32:32 |
ForTheir their vine comes from the vinevinestock of Sodom and from the fieldsvineyards of Gomor′rahGomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison their clusters are bitter; |
| 32:33 |
their wine is the poison of serpents and the cruel venom of asps |
| 32:35 |
Vengeance is mine and recompense for the time when their foot shall slip; forbecause the day of their calamity is at hand and their doom comes swiftly |
| 32:36 |
ForIndeed the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants when he sees that their power is gone andneither therebond isnor nonefree remaining bond or free |
| 32:37 |
Then he will say: Where are their gods the rock in which they took refuge |
| 32:38 |
who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drinklibations offering Let them rise up and help you let them be your protection |
| 32:39 |
See now that I even I am he; and there is no god besidebesides me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and thereno isone none that can deliver outfrom of my hand |
| 32:40 |
For I lift up my hand to heaven and swear: As I live for everforever |
| 32:41 |
ifwhen I whet my glitteringflashing sword and my hand takes hold on judgment; I will take vengeance on my adversaries and will requiterepay those who hate me |
| 32:42 |
I will make my arrows drunk with blood and my sword shall devour flesh— with the blood of the slain and the captives from the long haired heads of the enemy |
| 32:43 |
Praise O heavens his people Oworship him all you nations;gods forFor he avengeswill avenge the blood of his servantschildren and takestake vengeance on his adversaries; andhe makeswill expiationrepay forthose who hate him and cleanse the land offor his people |
| 32:44 |
Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people he and Joshua the son of Nun |
| 32:45 |
AndWhen when Moses had finished speakingreciting all these words to all Israel |
| 32:46 |
he said to them: LayTake to heart all the words whichthat I enjoinam upongiving in witness against you thistoday; daygive thatthem youas maya command them to your children so that they may bediligently carefulobserve to do all the words of this law |
| 32:47 |
ForThis it is no trifletrifling matter for you but itrather is your very life; andthrough therebyit you shallmay live long in the land whichthat you are goingcrossing over the Jordan to possess |
| 32:48 |
AndOn that very day the Lord saidaddressed to Moses thatas veryfollows: day |
| 32:49 |
Ascend this mountain of the Ab′arimAbarim Mount Nebo which is in the land of Moab oppositeacross from Jericho; and view the land of Canaan which I giveam giving to the peopleIsraelites of Israel for a possession; |
| 32:50 |
andyou shall die there on the mountain whichthat you ascend and shall be gathered to your peoplekin as Aaron your brother Aaron died inon Mount Hor and was gathered to his peoplekin; |
| 32:51 |
because both of you broke faith with me inamong the midstIsraelites of the people of Israel at the waters of Mer′iMeribath bathkadesh ka′desh in the wilderness of Zin; becauseby youfailing didto notmaintain reveremy meholiness asamong holy in the midstIsraelites of the people of Israel |
| 32:52 |
ForAlthough you shallmay seeview the land beforefrom you;a butdistance you shall not goenter there into it—the land whichthat I giveam giving to the people of IsraelIsraelites |
| 33:1 |
This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the childrenIsraelites 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 heWith camehim fromwere themyriads ten thousands of holy ones; withat flaminghis fireright ata host of his right handown |
| 33:3 |
YeaIndeed heO lovedfavorite hisamong people;peoples all thosehis consecratedholy toones him were in hisyour handcharge; so they followedmarched inat thyyour stepsheels receivingaccepted direction from theeyou |
| 33:4 |
when Moses commandedcharged us awith the law as a possession for the assembly of Jacob |
| 33:5 |
ThusThere thearose Lorda became king in Jesh′urunJeshurun when the headsleaders of the people wereassembled— gatheredthe allunited the tribes of Israel together |
| 33:6 |
LetMay Reuben live and not die norout leteven though his mennumbers beare few |
| 33:7 |
And this he said of Judah: Hear O Lord thegive voiceheed ofto Judah and bring him in to his people; Withstrengthen thyhis 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 godlyloyal one whom thouyou didsttested test at Massah with whom thouyou didstcontended strive at the waters of Mer′ibahMeribah; |
| 33:9 |
who said of his father and mother I regard them not; he disownedignored his brotherskin and ignoreddid not acknowledge his children For they observed thyyour word and kept thyyour covenant |
| 33:10 |
They shall teach Jacob thyyour ordinances and Israel thyyour law; they shallplace 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 that hate him so that they risedo not rise again |
| 33:12 |
Of Benjamin he said: The beloved of the Lord herests dwells in safety— bythe him;High heGod encompassessurrounds him all the day long— andthe makesbeloved hisrests dwelling between his shoulders |
| 33:13 |
And of Joseph he said: Blessed by the Lord be his land with the choicestchoice gifts of heaven above and of the deep that coucheslies beneath; |
| 33:14 |
with the choicestchoice fruits of the sun and the rich yield of the months; |
| 33:15 |
with the finest produce of the ancient mountains and the abundance of the everlasting hills; |
| 33:16 |
with the bestchoice gifts of the earth and its fulnessfullness and the favor of himthe thatone dweltwho indwells theon bushSinai Let these come uponon the head of Joseph andon upon the crownbrow of the head of him that is prince among his brothers |
| 33:17 |
HisA firstlingfirstborn bull has —majesty andis his His horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he shallgores push the peoples alldriving of them to the ends of the earth; such are the tenmyriads thousands of E′phraimEphraim and such 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 theirthe mountain; there they offer the right sacrifices; for they suck the affluence of the seas and the hidden treasures of the sand |
| 33:20 |
And of Gad he said: Blessed be hethe whoenlargement enlargesof Gad Gad coucheslives like a lion; he tears theat arm and the crown of the headscalp |
| 33:21 |
He chose the best of the land for himself for there a commanders portionallotment was reserved; and he came toat the headshead of the people with Israel he executed the commandsjustice of the Lord and justhis decreesordinances offor the LordIsrael |
| 33:22 |
And of Dan he said: Dan is a lions whelp 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 lakewest and the south |
| 33:24 |
And of Asher he said: BlessedMost aboveblessed of sons be Asher; letmay himhe be the favorite of his brothers and letmay himhe dip his foot in oil |
| 33:25 |
Your bars shallare be iron and bronze; and as your days so shallis your strength be |
| 33:26 |
There is none like God O Jesh′urunJeshurun who rides through the heavens to your help andmajestic in his majesty through the skies |
| 33:27 |
TheHe eternalsubdues Godthe isancient yourgods dwellingshatters place and underneath are the everlastingforces armsof Andold; he thrustdrove out the enemy before you and said Destroy |
| 33:28 |
So Israel dweltlives in safety theuntroubled fountainis ofJacobs Jacobabode alone in a land of grain and wine; yeawhere histhe 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 uponon 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 Andand the Lord showed him all the whole 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 westernWestern seaSea |
| 34:3 |
the Negeb and the Plain —that is the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees —as far as Zo′arZoar |
| 34:4 |
AndThe the Lord said to him This is the land of which I swore to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob saying I will give it to your descendants; I have let you see it with your eyes but you shall not gocross over there |
| 34:5 |
SoThen Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab accordingat to the wordLords ofcommand the Lord |
| 34:6 |
andHe hewas buried him in thea valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth pe′or;peor but no manone knows the place of his burial place to this day |
| 34:7 |
Moses was aone hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eyesight was notunimpaired dimand nor his naturalvigor forcehad not abated |
| 34:8 |
AndThe theIsraelites people of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; then the daysperiod of weeping and mourning for Moses werewas ended |
| 34:9 |
And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom forbecause Moses had laid his hands uponon him; soand the peopleIsraelites of Israel obeyed him anddoing did as the Lord had commanded Moses |
| 34:10 |
AndNever theresince has notthere arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses whom the Lord knew face to face |
| 34:11 |
noneHe likewas himunequaled for all the signs and the wonders whichthat the Lord sent him to doperform in the land of Egypt toagainst Pharaoh and to all his servants and tohis allentire his land |
| 34:12 |
and for all the mighty powerdeeds and all the greatterrifying anddisplays terribleof deedspower whichthat Moses wroughtperformed in the sight of all Israel |