Deuteronomy
1:1These are the words which Moses
spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah
over against Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and
Dizahab. 1:2It is eleven days' journey
from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea. 1:3It happened
in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the
month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that
Yahweh had given him in commandment to them; 1:4after he had
struck Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the
king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei. 1:5Beyond the
Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying, 1:6Yahweh our God spoke to us in
Horeb, saying, You have lived long enough in this mountain: 1:7turn you, and take your journey,
and go to the hill-country of the Amorites, and to all the places
near thereunto, in the Arabah, in the hill-country, and in the lowland,
and in the South, and by the sea-shore, the land of the Canaanites, and
Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. 1:8Behold, I have set the land before
you: go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after
them. 1:9I spoke to you at that time,
saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: 1:10Yahweh your
God has multiplied you, and, behold, you are this day as the stars of the
sky for multitude. 1:11Yahweh, the God of your fathers,
make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has
promised you! 1:12How can I myself alone bear your
encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? 1:13Take wise
men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will
make them heads over you. 1:14You answered me, and said, The
thing which you have spoken is good for us to do. 1:15So I took the heads of your
tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of
thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains
of tens, and officers, according to your tribes. 1:16I charged
your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your
brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the
foreigner who is living with him. 1:17You shall
not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great
alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is
God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and
I will hear it. 1:18I commanded you at that time all
the things which you should do. 1:19We traveled
from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which
you saw, by the way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our God
commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea. 1:20I said to
you, You are come to the hill-country of the Amorites, which Yahweh our
God gives to us. 1:21Behold, Yahweh your God has set
the land before you: go up, take possession, as Yahweh, the God of your
fathers, has spoken to you; don't be afraid, neither be dismayed. 1:22You came near to me everyone of
you, and said, Let us send men before us, that they may search the land
for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the
cities to which we shall come. 1:23The thing pleased me well; and I
took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe: 1:24and they
turned and went up into the hill-country, and came to the valley of
Eshcol, and spied it out. 1:25They took of the fruit of the
land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us word again,
and said, It is a good land which Yahweh our God gives to us. 1:26Yet you wouldn't go up, but
rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God: 1:27and you
murmured in your tents, and said, Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought
us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the
Amorites, to destroy us. 1:28Where are we going up? our
brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, The people are greater and
taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to the sky; and
moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there. 1:29Then I said
to you, Don't dread, neither be afraid of them. 1:30Yahweh your
God who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he
did for you in Egypt before your eyes, 1:31and in the
wilderness, where you have seen how that Yahweh your God bore you, as a
man does bear his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to
this place. 1:32Yet in this thing you didn't
believe Yahweh your God, 1:33who went before you in the way,
to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show
you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day. 1:34Yahweh heard the voice of your
words, and was angry, and swore, saying, 1:35Surely
there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see the good
land, which I swore to give to your fathers, 1:36save Caleb
the son of Jephunneh: he shall see it; and to him will I give the land
that he has trodden on, and to his children, because he has wholly
followed Yahweh. 1:37Also Yahweh was angry with me for
your sakes, saying, You also shall not go in there: 1:38Joshua the
son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there: encourage you
him; for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. 1:39Moreover
your little ones, whom you said should be a prey, and your children, who
this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there, and to
them will I give it, and they shall possess it. 1:40But as for
you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the
Red Sea. 1:41Then you answered and said to me,
We have sinned against Yahweh, we will go up and fight, according to all
that Yahweh our God commanded us. You girded on every man his weapons of
war, and were forward to go up into the hill-country. 1:42Yahweh said to me, Tell them,
Don't go up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest you be struck
before your enemies. 1:43So I spoke to you, and you didn't
listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh, and were
presumptuous, and went up into the hill-country. 1:44The
Amorites, who lived in that hill-country, came out against you, and chased
you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah. 1:45You returned and wept before
Yahweh; but Yahweh didn't listen to your voice, nor gave ear to you. 1:46So you abode in Kadesh many days,
according to the days that you abode there.
2:1Then we turned, and took our
journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Yahweh spoke to
me; and we compassed Mount Seir many days. 2:2Yahweh spoke
to me, saying, 2:3You have compassed this mountain
long enough: turn you northward. 2:4Command you
the people, saying, You are to pass through the border of your brothers
the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you:
take good heed to yourselves therefore; 2:5don't
contend with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much
as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given Mount Seir
to Esau for a possession. 2:6You shall purchase food of them
for money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water of them for
money, that you may drink. 2:7For Yahweh your God has blessed
you in all the work of your hand; he has known your walking through this
great wilderness: these forty years Yahweh your God has been with you; you
have lacked nothing. 2:8So we passed by from our brothers
the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from
Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the
wilderness of Moab. 2:9Yahweh said to me, Don't bother
Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you of his
land for a possession; because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for
a possession. 2:10(The Emim lived therein before, a
people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim: 2:11these also
are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim. 2:12The Horites also lived in Seir
before, but the children of Esau succeeded them; and they destroyed them
from before them, and lived in their place; as Israel did to the land of
his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.) 2:13Now rise
up, and get you over the brook Zered. We went over the brook Zered. 2:14The days in which we came from
Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight
years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the
midst of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them. 2:15Moreover
the hand of Yahweh was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the
camp, until they were consumed. 2:16So it
happened, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the
people, 2:17that Yahweh spoke to me, saying,
2:18You are this day to pass over Ar,
the border of Moab: 2:19and when you come near over
against the children of Ammon, don't bother them, nor contend with them;
for I will not give you of the land of the children of Ammon for a
possession; because I have given it to the children of Lot for a
possession. 2:20(That also is accounted a land of
Rephaim: Rephaim lived therein before; but the Ammonites call them
Zamzummim, 2:21a people great, and many, and
tall, as the Anakim; but Yahweh destroyed them before them; and they
succeeded them, and lived in their place; 2:22as he did
for the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites
from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even
to this day: 2:23and the Avvim, who lived in
villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came forth out of Caphtor,
destroyed them, and lived in their place.) 2:24Rise up,
take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon: behold, I have
given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land;
begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle. 2:25This day
will I begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the peoples
who are under the whole sky, who shall hear the report of you, and shall
tremble, and be in anguish because of you. 2:26I sent
messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with
words of peace, saying, 2:27Let me pass through your land: I
will go along by the highway, I will turn neither to the right hand nor to
the left. 2:28You shall sell me food for money,
that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only let me
pass through on my feet, 2:29as the children of Esau who dwell
in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I shall pass
over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us. 2:30But Sihon king of Heshbon would
not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit, and made
his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as at this
day. 2:31Yahweh said to me, Behold, I have
begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before you: begin to possess, that
you may inherit his land. 2:32Then Sihon came out against us,
he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz. 2:33Yahweh our
God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, and his sons, and all
his people. 2:34We took all his cities at that
time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the
little ones; we left none remaining: 2:35only the
cattle we took for a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which
we had taken. 2:36From Aroer, which is on the edge
of the valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the
valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; Yahweh our
God delivered up all before us: 2:37only to the
land of the children of Ammon you didn't come near; all the side of the
river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill-country, and wherever Yahweh our
God forbade us.
3:1Then we turned, and went up the
way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all
his people, to battle at Edrei. 3:2Yahweh said to me, Don't fear him;
for I have delivered him, and all his people, and his land, into your
hand; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites,
who lived at Heshbon. 3:3So Yahweh our God delivered into
our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we struck
him until none was left to him remaining. 3:4We took all
his cities at that time; there was not a city which we didn't take from
them; sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
3:5All these were cities fortified
with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many.
3:6We utterly destroyed them, as we
did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city,
with the women and the little ones. 3:7But all the
cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves. 3:8We took the land at that time out
of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan,
from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon; 3:9(which Hermon the Sidonians
call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir;) 3:10all the
cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah and Edrei,
cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 3:11(For only
Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his
bedstead was a bedstead of iron; isn't it in Rabbah of the children of
Ammon? nine cubits was the length of it, and four cubits the breadth of
it, after the cubit of a man.) 3:12This land we took in possession
at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half
the hill-country of Gilead, and the cities of it, gave I to the Reubenites
and to the Gadites: 3:13and the rest of Gilead, and all
Bashan, the kingdom of Og, gave I to the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the
region of Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim.
3:14Jair the son of Manasseh took all
the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites,
and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this
day.) 3:15I gave Gilead to Machir. 3:16To the Reubenites and to the
Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of
the valley, and the border of it, even to the river Jabbok, which
is the border of the children of Ammon; 3:17the Arabah
also, and the Jordan and the border of it, from Chinnereth even to
the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.
3:18I commanded you at that time,
saying, Yahweh your God has given you this land to possess it: you shall
pass over armed before your brothers the children of Israel, all the men
of valor. 3:19But your wives, and your little
ones, and your cattle, (I know that you have much cattle), shall abide in
your cities which I have given you, 3:20until
Yahweh give rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also possess the
land which Yahweh your God gives them beyond the Jordan: then shall you
return every man to his possession, which I have given you. 3:21I commanded Joshua at that time,
saying, Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two
kings: so shall Yahweh do to all the kingdoms where you go over. 3:22You shall not fear them; for
Yahweh your God, he it is who fights for you. 3:23I begged
Yahweh at that time, saying, 3:24Lord Yahweh, you have begun to
show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand: for what god is
there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to your works, and
according to your mighty acts? 3:25Please let me go over and see the
good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon. 3:26But Yahweh was angry with me for
your sakes, and didn't listen to me; and Yahweh said to me, Let it suffice
you; speak no more to me of this matter. 3:27Go up to
the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and
southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes: for you shall not go over
this Jordan. 3:28But charge Joshua, and encourage
him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he
shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see. 3:29So we abode in the valley over
against Beth Peor.
4:1Now, Israel, listen to the
statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you
may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your
fathers, gives you. 4:2You shall not add to the word
which I command you, neither shall you diminish from it, that you may keep
the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you. 4:3Your eyes have seen what Yahweh
did because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, Yahweh
your God has destroyed them from the midst of you. 4:4But you who
did cleave to Yahweh your God are alive everyone of you this day. 4:5Behold, I have taught you statutes
and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so
in the midst of the land where you go in to possess it. 4:6Keep therefore and do them; for
this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples,
who shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a
wise and understanding people. 4:7For what great nation is there,
that has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on
him? 4:8What great nation is there, that
has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set
before you this day? 4:9Only take heed to yourself, and
keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw,
and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make
them known to your children and your children's children; 4:10the day that you stood before
Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, Assemble me the people,
and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the
days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.
4:11You came near and stood under the
mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with
darkness, cloud, and thick darkness. 4:12Yahweh
spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of words,
but you saw no form; only you heard a voice. 4:13He declared
to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten
commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone. 4:14Yahweh commanded me at that time
to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land
where you go over to possess it. 4:15Take
therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no manner of form on the
day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire. 4:16Lest you corrupt yourselves, and
make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of
male or female, 4:17the likeness of any animal that
is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, 4:18the likeness of anything that
creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under
the earth; 4:19and lest you lift up your eyes to
the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the
host of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them,
which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
4:20But Yahweh has taken you, and
brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a
people of inheritance, as at this day. 4:21Furthermore
Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go
over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land, which
Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance: 4:22but I must
die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but you shall go over,
and possess that good land. 4:23Take heed to yourselves, lest you
forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make
you an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has
forbidden you. 4:24For Yahweh your God is a
devouring fire, a jealous God. 4:25When you shall father children,
and children's children, and you shall have been long in the land, and
shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of
anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God,
to provoke him to anger; 4:26I call heaven and earth to
witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off
the land whereunto you go over the Jordan to possess it; you shall not
prolong your days on it, but shall utterly be destroyed. 4:27Yahweh will scatter you among the
peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where
Yahweh shall lead you away. 4:28There you shall serve gods, the
work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat,
nor smell. 4:29But from there you shall seek
Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with
all your heart and with all your soul. 4:30When you
are in oppression, and all these things are come on you, in the latter
days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice: 4:31for Yahweh your God is a merciful
God; he will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of
your fathers which he swore to them. 4:32For ask now
of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God
created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other,
whether there has been any such thing as this great thing is, or
has been heard like it? 4:33Did ever a people hear the voice
of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
4:34Or has God tried to go and take
him a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs,
and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched
arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for
you in Egypt before your eyes? 4:35To you it was shown, that you
might know that Yahweh he is God; there is none else besides him. 4:36Out of heaven he made you to hear
his voice, that he might instruct you: and on earth he made you to see his
great fire; and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire. 4:37Because he loved your fathers,
therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out with his
presence, with his great power, out of Egypt; 4:38to drive
out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you
in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as at this day. 4:39Know therefore this day, and lay
it to your heart, that Yahweh he is God in heaven above and on the earth
beneath; there is none else. 4:40You shall keep his statutes, and
his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with
you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days
in the land, which Yahweh your God gives you, forever. 4:41Then Moses set apart three cities
beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise; 4:42that the
manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't
hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might
live: 4:43namely, Bezer in the
wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in
Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites. 4:44This is the law which Moses set
before the children of Israel: 4:45these are the testimonies, and
the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke to the children of
Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt, 4:46beyond the
Jordan, in the valley over against Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of
the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel
struck, when they came forth out of Egypt. 4:47They took
his land in possession, and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings
of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise; 4:48from Aroer, which is on the edge
of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Sion (the same is Hermon), 4:49and all the Arabah beyond the
Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
5:1Moses called to all Israel, and
said to them, Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak
in your ears this day, that you may learn them, and observe to do them. 5:2Yahweh our God made a covenant
with us in Horeb. 5:3Yahweh didn't make this covenant
with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this
day. 5:4Yahweh spoke with you face to face
on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, 5:5(I stood
between Yahweh and you at that time, to show you the word of Yahweh: for
you were afraid because of the fire, and didn't go up onto the mountain;)
saying, 5:6"I am Yahweh your God, who
brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 5:7You shall have no other gods
before me.
5:8"You shall not make an
engraved image for yourself, nor any likeness of anything
that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in
the water under the earth: 5:9you shall not bow down yourself to
them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh, your God, am a jealous God, visiting
the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and on the
fourth generation of those who hate me; 5:10and showing
loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
5:11"You shall not take the name
of Yahweh your God in vain: for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who
takes his name in vain.
5:12"Observe the Sabbath day, to
keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you. 5:13Six days
shall you labor, and do all your work; 5:14but the
seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God: in it you shall not do
any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your man-servant, nor
your maid-servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle,
nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your man-servant and your
maid-servant may rest as well as you. 5:15You shall
remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God
brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm:
therefore Yahweh your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
5:16"Honor your father and your
mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and
that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
5:17"You shall not murder.
5:18"Neither shall you commit
adultery.
5:19"Neither shall you steal.
5:20"Neither shall you give
false testimony against your neighbor.
5:21"Neither shall you covet
your neighbor's wife; neither shall you desire your neighbor's house, his
field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his donkey, or
anything that is your neighbor's."
5:22These words Yahweh spoke to all
your assembly on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud,
and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. He
wrote them on two tables of stone, and gave them to me. 5:23It happened, when you heard the
voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning
with fire, that you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes,
and your elders; 5:24and you said, Behold, Yahweh our
God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice
out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God does speak
with man, and he lives. 5:25Now therefore why should we die?
for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of Yahweh our
God any more, then we shall die. 5:26For who is
there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking
out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? 5:27Go you
near, and hear all that Yahweh our God shall say: and speak you to us all
that Yahweh our God shall speak to you; and we will hear it, and do it. 5:28Yahweh heard the voice of your
words, when you spoke to me; and Yahweh said to me, I have heard the voice
of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you: they have well
said all that they have spoken. 5:29Oh that
there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my
commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their
children forever! 5:30Go tell them, Return you to your
tents. 5:31But as for you, stand you here by
me, and I will speak to you all the commandment, and the statutes, and the
ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land
which I give them to possess it. 5:32You shall
observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you: you shall
not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 5:33You shall
walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that you may
live, and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days
in the land which you shall possess.
6:1Now this is the commandment, the
statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach
you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it;
6:2that you might fear Yahweh your
God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you,
you, and your son, and your son's son, all the days of your life; and that
your days may be prolonged. 6:3Hear therefore, Israel, and
observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase
mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a
land flowing with milk and honey. 6:4Hear,
Israel: Yahweh is our God; Yahweh is one: 6:5and you
shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,
and with all your might. 6:6These words, which I command you
this day, shall be on your heart; 6:7and you
shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when
you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie
down, and when you rise up. 6:8You shall bind them for a sign on
your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes. 6:9You shall write them on the
door-posts of your house, and on your gates. 6:10It shall
be, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land which he swore to
your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and
goodly cities, which you didn't build, 6:11and houses
full of all good things, which you didn't fill, and cisterns dug out,
which you didn't dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you didn't plant,
and you shall eat and be full; 6:12then beware lest you forget
Yahweh, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house
of bondage. 6:13You shall fear Yahweh your God;
and him shall you serve, and shall swear by his name. 6:14You shall not go after other
gods, of the gods of the peoples who are round about you; 6:15for Yahweh your God in the midst
of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled
against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth. 6:16You shall not tempt Yahweh your
God, as you tempted him in Massah. 6:17You shall
diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies,
and his statutes, which he has commanded you. 6:18You shall
do that which is right and good in the sight of Yahweh; that it may be
well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which
Yahweh swore to your fathers, 6:19to thrust out all your enemies
from before you, as Yahweh has spoken. 6:20When your
son asks you in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the
statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you? 6:21then you shall tell your son, We
were Pharaoh's bondservants in Egypt: and Yahweh brought us out of Egypt
with a mighty hand; 6:22and Yahweh shown signs and
wonders, great and sore, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house,
before our eyes; 6:23and he brought us out from there,
that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our
fathers. 6:24Yahweh commanded us to do all
these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might
preserve us alive, as at this day. 6:25It shall be
righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment before
Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.
7:1When Yahweh your God shall bring
you into the land where you go to possess it, and shall cast out many
nations before you, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and
the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven
nations greater and mightier than you; 7:2and when
Yahweh your God shall deliver them up before you, and you shall strike
them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no covenant with
them, nor show mercy to them; 7:3neither shall you make marriages
with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor his daughter
shall you take to your son. 7:4For he will turn away your son
from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of
Yahweh be kindled against you, and he will destroy you quickly. 7:5But thus shall you deal with them:
you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and
hew down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire. 7:6For you are a holy people to
Yahweh your God: Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own
possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7:7Yahweh didn't set his love on you,
nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you
were the fewest of all peoples: 7:8but because Yahweh loves you, and
because he would keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, has Yahweh
brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of
bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 7:9Know
therefore that Yahweh your God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps
covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his
commandments to a thousand generations, 7:10and repays
those who hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to
him who hates him, he will repay him to his face. 7:11You shall
therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances,
which I command you this day, to do them. 7:12It shall
happen, because you listen to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that
Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness
which he swore to your fathers: 7:13and he will
love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of
your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and
your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the
land which he swore to your fathers to give you. 7:14You shall
be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren
among you, or among your cattle. 7:15Yahweh will
take away from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt,
which you know, will he put on you, but will lay them on all those who
hate you. 7:16You shall consume all the peoples
who Yahweh your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them:
neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you. 7:17If you shall say in your heart,
These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them? 7:18you shall not be afraid of them:
you shall well remember what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh, and to all
Egypt; 7:19the great trials which your eyes
saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the
outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out: so shall
Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. 7:20Moreover Yahweh your God will
send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves,
perish from before you. 7:21You shall not be scared of them;
for Yahweh your God is in the midst of you, a great and awesome God. 7:22Yahweh your God will cast out
those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at
once, lest the animals of the field increase on you. 7:23But Yahweh
your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a
great confusion, until they be destroyed. 7:24He will
deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name to
perish from under the sky: there shall no man be able to stand before you,
until you have destroyed them. 7:25The engraved images of their gods
shall you burn with fire: you shall not covet the silver or the gold that
is on them, nor take it to you, lest you be snared therein; for it is an
abomination to Yahweh your God. 7:26You shall
not bring an abomination into your house, and become a devoted thing like
it: you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is
a devoted thing.
8:1All the commandment which I
command you this day shall you observe to do, that you may live, and
multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your
fathers. 8:2You shall remember all the way
which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness,
that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart,
whether you would keep his commandments, or not. 8:3He humbled
you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you didn't
know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man
does not live by bread only, but by everything that proceeds out of the
mouth of Yahweh does man live. 8:4Your clothing didn't grow old on
you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years. 8:5You shall
consider in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so Yahweh your God
chastens you. 8:6You shall keep the commandments of
Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. 8:7For Yahweh your God brings you
into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs and springs,
flowing forth in valleys and hills; 8:8a land of
wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of
olive trees and honey; 8:9a land in which you shall eat
bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose
stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper. 8:10You shall eat and be full, and
you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.
8:11Beware lest you forget Yahweh
your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his
statutes, which I command you this day: 8:12lest, when
you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived
therein; 8:13and when your herds and your
flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that
you have is multiplied; 8:14then your heart be lifted up, and
you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of bondage; 8:15who led you
through the great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery
serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water; who brought
you forth water out of the rock of flint; 8:16who fed you
in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn't know; that he
might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your
latter end: 8:17and lest you say in your
heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth. 8:18But you shall remember Yahweh
your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may
establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day. 8:19It shall be, if you shall forget
Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship
them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish. 8:20As the nations that Yahweh makes
to perish before you, so shall you perish; because you wouldn't listen to
the voice of Yahweh your God.
9:1Hear, Israel: you are to pass over
the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier
than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky, 9:2a people great and tall, the sons
of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, Who can
stand before the sons of Anak? 9:3Know therefore this day, that
Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire; he
will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you: so shall you
drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to
you. 9:4Don't speak in your heart, after
that Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, For my
righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land; whereas for
the wickedness of these nations Yahweh does drive them out from before
you. 9:5Not for your righteousness, or for
the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for
the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from
before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your
fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 9:6Know
therefore, that Yahweh your God doesn't give you this good land to possess
it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people. 9:7Remember, don't forget, how you
provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you
went forth out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you
have been rebellious against Yahweh. 9:8Also in
Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to
destroy you. 9:9When I was gone up onto the
mountain to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant
which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and
forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water. 9:10Yahweh delivered to me the two
tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was
written according to all the words, which Yahweh spoke with you on the
mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. 9:11It came to pass at the end of
forty days and forty nights, that Yahweh gave me the two tables of stone,
even the tables of the covenant. 9:12Yahweh said
to me, Arise, get you down quickly from hence; for your people whom you
have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they have
quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made
them a molten image. 9:13Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me,
saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people:
9:14let me alone, that I may destroy
them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a
nation mightier and greater than they. 9:15So I turned
and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire:
and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. 9:16I looked, and, behold, you had
sinned against Yahweh your God; you had made you a molten calf: you had
turned aside quickly out of the way which Yahweh had commanded you. 9:17I took hold of the two tables,
and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. 9:18I fell down before Yahweh, as at
the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink
water; because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was
evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger. 9:19For I was afraid of the anger and
hot displeasure, with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you.
But Yahweh listened to me that time also. 9:20Yahweh was
very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the
same time. 9:21I took your sin, the calf which
you had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very
small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast the dust of it into the
brook that descended out of the mountain. 9:22At Taberah,
and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath. 9:23When Yahweh sent you from
Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you;
then you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you
didn't believe him, nor listen to his voice. 9:24You have
been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you. 9:25So I fell down before Yahweh the
forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he
would destroy you. 9:26I prayed to Yahweh, and said,
Lord Yahweh, don't destroy your people and your inheritance, that you have
redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought forth out of Egypt
with a mighty hand. 9:27Remember your servants, Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob; don't look to the stubbornness of this people, nor to
their wickedness, nor to their sin, 9:28lest the
land whence you brought us out say, Because Yahweh was not able to bring
them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them,
he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness. 9:29Yet they are your people and your
inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your
outstretched arm.
10:1At that time Yahweh said to me,
Hew you two tables of stone like the first, and come up to me onto the
mountain, and make an ark of wood. 10:2I will
write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which you
broke, and you shall put them in the ark. 10:3So I made
an ark of acacia wood, and hewed two tables of stone like the first, and
went up onto the mountain, having the two tables in my hand. 10:4He wrote on the tables, according
to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on
the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and
Yahweh gave them to me. 10:5I turned and came down from the
mountain, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they
are as Yahweh commanded me. 10:6(The children of Israel traveled
from Beeroth Bene Jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was
buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his
place. 10:7From there they traveled to
Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water. 10:8At that time Yahweh set apart the
tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, to stand before
Yahweh to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day. 10:9Therefore Levi has no portion nor
inheritance with his brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance, according as
Yahweh your God spoke to him.) 10:10I stayed
on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and
Yahweh listened to me that time also; Yahweh would not destroy you. 10:11Yahweh said to me, Arise, take
your journey before the people; and they shall go in and possess the land,
which I swore to their fathers to give to them. 10:12Now,
Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your
God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your
God with all your heart and with all your soul, 10:13to keep
the commandments of Yahweh, and his statutes, which I command you this day
for your good? 10:14Behold, to Yahweh your God
belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is
therein. 10:15Only Yahweh had a delight in
your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you
above all peoples, as at this day. 10:16Circumcise
therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked. 10:17For Yahweh your God, he is God
of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome,
who doesn't regard persons, nor takes reward. 10:18He does
execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in
giving him food and clothing. 10:19Therefore love the foreigner;
for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. 10:20You shall
fear Yahweh your God; him shall you serve; and to him shall you cleave,
and by his name shall you swear. 10:21He is your
praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome
things, which your eyes have seen. 10:22Your
fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your God
has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.
11:1Therefore you shall love Yahweh
your God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and
his commandments, always. 11:2Know you this day: for I don't
speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the
chastisement of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his
outstretched arm, 11:3and his signs, and his works,
which he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to
all his land; 11:4and what he did to the army of
Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of
the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how Yahweh has
destroyed them to this day; 11:5and what he did to you in the
wilderness, until you came to this place; 11:6and what he
did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the
earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and
their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of
all Israel: 11:7but your eyes have seen all the
great work of Yahweh which he did. 11:8Therefore
shall you keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that you
may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where you go over to
possess it; 11:9and that you may prolong your
days in the land, which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and
to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey. 11:10For the
land, where you go in to possess it, isn't as the land of Egypt, from
whence you came out, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your
foot, as a garden of herbs; 11:11but the land, where you go over
to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinks water of
the rain of the sky, 11:12a land which Yahweh your God
cares for: the eyes of Yahweh your God are always on it, from the
beginning of the year even to the end of the year. 11:13It shall
happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command
you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your
heart and with all your soul, 11:14that I will give the rain of
your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may
gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil. 11:15I will give grass in your fields
for your cattle, and you shall eat and be full. 11:16Take heed
to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve
other gods, and worship them; 11:17and the anger of Yahweh be
kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no
rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from
off the good land which Yahweh gives you. 11:18Therefore
shall you lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul; and you
shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols
between your eyes. 11:19You shall teach them your
children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk
by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. 11:20You shall write them on the
door-posts of your house, and on your gates; 11:21that your
days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which
Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens
above the earth. 11:22For if you shall diligently keep
all this commandment which I command you, to do it, to love Yahweh your
God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave to him; 11:23then will
Yahweh drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall
dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. 11:24Every place whereon the sole of
your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon,
from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the hinder sea shall be your
border. 11:25There shall no man be able to
stand before you: Yahweh your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread
of you on all the land that you shall tread on, as he has spoken to you.
11:26Behold, I set before you this
day a blessing and a curse: 11:27the blessing, if you shall
listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this
day; 11:28and the curse, if you shall not
listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn aside out of the
way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have
not known. 11:29It shall happen, when Yahweh
your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, that
you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.
11:30Aren't they beyond the Jordan,
behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites
who dwell in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh? 11:31For you are to pass over the
Jordan to go in to possess the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and
you shall possess it, and dwell therein. 11:32You shall
observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you
this day.
12:1These are the statutes and the
ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God
of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live
on the earth. 12:2You shall surely destroy all the
places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods,
on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree: 12:3and you shall break down their
altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with
fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods; and you
shall destroy their name out of that place. 12:4You shall
not do so to Yahweh your God. 12:5But to the place which Yahweh
your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even
to his habitation shall you seek, and there you shall come; 12:6and there you shall bring your
burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the
heave-offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill-offerings,
and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock: 12:7and there
you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that
you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God
has blessed you. 12:8You shall not do after all the
things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right in his own
eyes; 12:9for you haven't yet come to the
rest and to the inheritance, which Yahweh your God gives you. 12:10But when you go over the Jordan,
and dwell in the land which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, and he
gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in
safety; 12:11then it shall happen that to the
place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell
there, there shall you bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings,
and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and
all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh. 12:12You shall
rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters,
and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite who is
within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you. 12:13Take heed to yourself that you
don't offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see; 12:14but in the place which Yahweh
shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt
offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you. 12:15Notwithstanding, you may kill
and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul,
according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he has given you: the
unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the
hart. 12:16Only you shall not eat the
blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water. 12:17You may
not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or
of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of
your vows which you vow, nor your freewill-offerings, nor the
heave-offering of your hand; 12:18but you shall eat them before
Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, you, and
your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant,
and the Levite who is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before
Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to. 12:19Take heed
to yourself that you don't forsake the Levite as long as you live in your
land. 12:20When Yahweh your God shall
enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat
flesh, because your soul desires to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, after
all the desire of your soul. 12:21If the place which Yahweh your
God shall choose, to put his name there, be too far from you, then you
shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as
I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the
desire of your soul. 12:22Even as the gazelle and as the
hart is eaten, so you shall eat of it: the unclean and the clean may eat
of it alike. 12:23Only be sure that you don't eat
the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with
the flesh. 12:24You shall not eat it; you shall
pour it out on the earth as water. 12:25You shall
not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after
you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh. 12:26Only your holy things which you
have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to the place which Yahweh
shall choose: 12:27and you shall offer your burnt
offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of Yahweh your God; and
the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of Yahweh
your God; and you shall eat the flesh. 12:28Observe
and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with
you, and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is
good and right in the eyes of Yahweh your God. 12:29When
Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go in
to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land; 12:30take heed to yourself that you
not be ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before
you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, How do these
nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. 12:31You shall not do so to Yahweh
your God: for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates, have they done
to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the
fire to their gods. 12:32Whatever thing I command you,
that shall you observe to do: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from
it.
13:1If there arise in the midst of
you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give you a sign or a wonder,
13:2and the sign or the wonder come
to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, Let us go after other gods,
which you have not known, and let us serve them; 13:3you shall
not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams: for
Yahweh your God proves you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with
all your heart and with all your soul. 13:4You shall
walk after Yahweh your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and
obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cleave to him. 13:5That prophet, or that dreamer of
dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against
Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed
you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which
Yahweh your God commanded you to walk in. So shall you put away the evil
from the midst of you.
13:6If your brother, the son of your
mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your
friend, who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go
and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers; 13:7of the gods of the peoples who
are round about you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of
the earth even to the other end of the earth; 13:8you shall
not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him,
neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him: 13:9but you shall surely kill him;
your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the
hand of all the people. 13:10You shall stone him to death
with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Yahweh your God,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 13:11All Israel shall hear, and fear,
and shall not do any more such wickedness as this is in the midst of you.
13:12If you shall hear tell
concerning one of your cities, which Yahweh your God gives you to dwell
there, saying, 13:13Certain base fellows are gone
out from the midst of you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their
city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known; 13:14then shall you inquire, and make
search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing
certain, that such abomination is done in the midst of you, 13:15you shall surely strike the
inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it
utterly, and all that is therein and the cattle of it, with the edge of
the sword. 13:16You shall gather all the spoil
of it into the midst of the street of it, and shall burn with fire the
city, and all the spoil of it every whit, to Yahweh your God: and it shall
be a heap forever; it shall not be built again. 13:17There
shall cleave nothing of the devoted thing to your hand; that Yahweh may
turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have
compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers; 13:18when you shall listen to the
voice of Yahweh your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you
this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.
14:1You are the children of Yahweh
your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your
eyes for the dead. 14:2For you are a holy people to
Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own
possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth. 14:3You shall not eat any abominable
thing. 14:4These are the animals which you
may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 14:5the hart,
and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the ibex, and the
antelope, and the chamois. 14:6Every animal that parts the hoof,
and has the hoof cloven in two, and chews the cud, among the
animals, that may you eat. 14:7Nevertheless these you shall not
eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof cloven: the
camel, and the hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the cud but don't
part the hoof, they are unclean to you. 14:8The pig,
because it has a split hoof but doesn't chew the cud, is unclean to you:
of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.
14:9These you may eat of all that are
in the waters: whatever has fins and scales may you eat; 14:10and whatever doesn't have fins
and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you. 14:11Of all
clean birds you may eat. 14:12But these are they of which you
shall not eat: the eagle, and the gier-eagle, and the ospray, 14:13and the red kite, and the
falcon, and the kite after its kind, 14:14and every
raven after its kind, 14:15and the ostrich, and the
night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind, 14:16the little owl, and the great
owl, and the horned owl, 14:17and the pelican, and the
vulture, and the cormorant, 14:18and the stork, and the heron
after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat. 14:19All winged
creeping things are unclean to you: they shall not be eaten. 14:20Of all clean birds you may eat.
14:21You shall not eat of anything
that dies of itself: you may give it to the foreigner living among you who
is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a
foreigner: for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not
boil a kid in its mother's milk. 14:22You shall
surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes forth from
the field year by year. 14:23You shall eat before Yahweh your
God, in the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there,
the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the
firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear
Yahweh your God always. 14:24If the way be too long for you,
so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from
you, which Yahweh your God shall choose, to set his name there, when
Yahweh your God shall bless you; 14:25then shall
you turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go
to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose: 14:26and you
shall bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for oxen, or for
sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of
you; and you shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall
rejoice, you and your household. 14:27The Levite
who is within your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion
nor inheritance with you. 14:28At the end of every three years
you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and
shall lay it up within your gates: 14:29and the
Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the
foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are
within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh
your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
15:1At the end of every seven years
you shall make a release. 15:2This is the manner of the
release: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his
neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because
Yahweh's release has been proclaimed. 15:3Of a
foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is with your brother your
hand shall release. 15:4However there shall be no poor
with you; (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your
God gives you for an inheritance to possess it;) 15:5if only you
diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all
this commandment which I command you this day. 15:6For Yahweh
your God will bless you, as he promised you: and you shall lend to many
nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations,
but they shall not rule over you. 15:7If there be
with you a poor man, one of your brothers, within any of your gates in
your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your
heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother; 15:8but you
shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient
for his need in that which he wants. 15:9Beware that
there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, The seventh year, the
year of release, is at hand; and your eye be evil against your poor
brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and
it be sin to you. 15:10You shall surely give him, and
your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for
this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all
that you put your hand to. 15:11For the poor will never cease
out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open
your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
15:12If your brother, a Hebrew man,
or a Hebrew woman, be sold to you, and serve you six years; then in the
seventh year you shall let him go free from you. 15:13When you
let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty: 15:14you shall furnish him liberally
out of your flock, and out of your threshing floor, and out of your
winepress; as Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. 15:15You shall remember that you were
a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you:
therefore I command you this thing today. 15:16It shall
be, if he tell you, I will not go out from you; because he loves you and
your house, because he is well with you; 15:17then you
shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall
be your servant forever. Also to your maid-servant you shall do likewise.
15:18It shall not seem hard to you,
when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a
hireling has he served you six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you
in all that you do. 15:19All the firstborn males that are
born of your herd and of your flock you shall sanctify to Yahweh your God:
you shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the
firstborn of your flock. 15:20You shall eat it before Yahweh
your God year by year in the place which Yahweh shall choose, you and your
household. 15:21If it have any blemish, as if
it be lame or blind, any ill blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice
it to Yahweh your God. 15:22You shall eat it within your
gates: the unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the
gazelle, and as the hart. 15:23Only you shall not eat its
blood; you shall pour it out on the ground as water.
16:1Observe the month of Abib, and
keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your
God brought you forth out of Egypt by night. 16:2You shall
sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd, in
the place which Yahweh shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there. 16:3You shall eat no leavened bread
with it; seven days shall you eat unleavened bread therewith, even the
bread of affliction; for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste:
that you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt
all the days of your life. 16:4There shall be no yeast seen with
you in all your borders seven days; neither shall any of the flesh, which
you sacrifice the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.
16:5You may not sacrifice the
Passover within any of your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you; 16:6but at the place which Yahweh
your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall
sacrifice the Passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the
season that you came forth out of Egypt. 16:7You shall
roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose: and you
shall turn in the morning, and go to your tents. 16:8Six days
you shall eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day shall be a solemn
assembly to Yahweh your God; you shall do no work therein. 16:9Seven weeks shall you number to
you: from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain shall
you begin to number seven weeks. 16:10You shall
keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a
freewill-offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as Yahweh
your God blesses you: 16:11and you shall rejoice before
Yahweh your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your
man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite who is within your
gates, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in
the midst of you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to
cause his name to dwell there. 16:12You shall
remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt: and you shall observe and
do these statutes. 16:13You shall keep the feast of
tents seven days, after that you have gathered in from your threshing
floor and from your winepress: 16:14and you
shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and
your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite, and the
foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.
16:15Seven days shall you keep a
feast to Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh shall choose; because
Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase, and in all the work
of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful. 16:16Three
times in a year shall all your males appear before Yahweh your God in the
place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the
feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents; and they shall not appear
before Yahweh empty: 16:17every man shall give as he is
able, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he has given you.
16:18Judges and officers shall you
make you in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to
your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. 16:19You shall not wrest justice: you
shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe
does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
16:20That which is altogether just
shall you follow, that you may live, and inherit the land which Yahweh
your God gives you. 16:21You shall not plant you an
Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which you
shall make you. 16:22Neither shall you set yourself
up a pillar; which Yahweh your God hates.
17:1You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh
your God an ox, or a sheep, in which is a blemish, or anything
evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God. 17:2If there be
found in the midst of you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God
gives you, man or woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of
Yahweh your God, in transgressing his covenant, 17:3and has
gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon,
or any of the host of the sky, which I have not commanded; 17:4and it be told you, and you have
heard of it, then shall you inquire diligently; and, behold, if it be
true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel, 17:5then shall you bring forth that
man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to your gates, even the
man or the woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones. 17:6At the mouth of two witnesses, or
three witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to death; at the mouth of
one witness he shall not be put to death. 17:7The hand of
the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the
hand of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of
you. 17:8If there arise a matter too hard
for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and
between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates;
then shall you arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God shall
choose; 17:9and you shall come to the priests
the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days: and you shall
inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of judgment. 17:10You shall do according to the
tenor of the sentence which they shall show you from that place which
Yahweh shall choose; and you shall observe to do according to all that
they shall teach you: 17:11according to the tenor of the
law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they
shall tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the sentence
which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left. 17:12The man who does presumptuously,
in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh
your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put away
the evil from Israel. 17:13All the people shall hear, and
fear, and do no more presumptuously. 17:14When you
are come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and shall possess
it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say, I will set a king over me,
like all the nations that are round about me; 17:15you shall
surely set him king over you, whom Yahweh your God shall choose: one from
among your brothers shall you set king over you; you may not put a
foreigner over you, who is not your brother. 17:16Only he
shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to
Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to
you, You shall henceforth return no more that way. 17:17Neither
shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away: neither
shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. 17:18It shall be, when he sits on the
throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a
book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites: 17:19and it shall be with him, and he
shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear
Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to
do them; 17:20that his heart not be lifted up
above his brothers, and that he not turn aside from the commandment, to
the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in
his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel.
18:1The priests the Levites,
even all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance
with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and his
inheritance. 18:2They shall have no inheritance
among their brothers: Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to
them. 18:3This shall be the priests' due
from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or
sheep, that they shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the two
cheeks, and the maw. 18:4The first fruits of your grain,
of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your
sheep, shall you give him. 18:5For Yahweh your God has chosen
him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh,
him and his sons for ever. 18:6If a Levite comes from any of
your gates out of all Israel, where he lives as a foreigner, and comes
with all the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose; 18:7then he shall minister in the
name of Yahweh his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand
there before Yahweh. 18:8They shall have like portions to
eat, besides that which comes of the sale of his patrimony. 18:9When you are come into the land
which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the
abominations of those nations. 18:10There
shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to
pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices sorcery,
or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, 18:11or a
charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a
necromancer. 18:12For whoever does these things is
an abomination to Yahweh: and because of these abominations Yahweh your
God does drive them out from before you. 18:13You shall
be perfect with Yahweh your God. 18:14For these
nations, that you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice sorcery,
and to diviners; but as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you so to
do. 18:15Yahweh your God will raise up to
you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me; to him you
shall listen; 18:16according to all that you
desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying,
Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see this
great fire any more, that I not die. 18:17Yahweh
said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken. 18:18I will raise them up a prophet
from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth,
and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him. 18:19It shall happen, that whoever
will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will
require it of him. 18:20But the prophet, who shall speak
a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak,
or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.
18:21If you say in your heart, How
shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken? 18:22when a
prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh, if the thing doesn't follow, nor
happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken: the prophet has
spoken it presumptuously, you shall not be afraid of him.
19:1When Yahweh your God shall cut
off the nations, whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed
them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses; 19:2you shall set apart three cities
for you in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to
possess it. 19:3You shall prepare you the way,
and divide the borders of your land, which Yahweh your God causes you to
inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee there. 19:4This is the case of the
manslayer, that shall flee there and live: whoever kills his neighbor
unawares, and didn't hate him in time past; 19:5as when a
man goes into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand
fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips
from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall
flee to one of these cities and live: 19:6lest the
avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and
overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he
was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past. 19:7Therefore I command you, saying,
You shall set apart three cities for you. 19:8If Yahweh
your God enlarge your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and give
you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers; 19:9if you shall keep all this
commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your
God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shall you add three cities more
for you, besides these three: 19:10that innocent blood not be shed
in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an
inheritance, and so blood be on you. 19:11But if any
man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him,
and strike him mortally so that he dies, and he flee into one of these
cities; 19:12then the elders of his city
shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the
avenger of blood, that he may die. 19:13Your eye
shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel,
that it may go well with you. 19:14You shall not remove your
neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance
which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to
possess it. 19:15One witness shall not rise up
against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins:
at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a
matter be established. 19:16If an unrighteous witness rise
up against any man to testify against him of wrong-doing, 19:17then both the men, between whom
the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the
judges who shall be in those days; 19:18and the
judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a
false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother; 19:19then shall you do to him, as he
had thought to do to his brother: so shall you put away the evil from the
midst of you. 19:20Those who remain shall hear, and
fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of
you. 19:21Your eyes shall not pity; life
shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand,
foot for foot.
20:1When you go forth to battle
against your enemies, and see horses, and chariots, and a people
more than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is
with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. 20:2It shall be, when you draw near
to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people, 20:3and shall tell them, Hear,
Israel, you draw near this day to battle against your enemies: don't let
your heart faint; don't be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;
20:4for Yahweh your God is he who
goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you. 20:5The officers shall speak to the
people, saying, What man is there who has built a new house, and has not
dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the
battle, and another man dedicate it. 20:6What man is
there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used the fruit of it? let
him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man
use the fruit of it. 20:7What man is there who has pledged
to be married a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his
house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her. 20:8The officers shall speak further
to the people, and they shall say, What man is there who is fearful and
faint-hearted? let him go and return to his house, lest his brother's
heart melt as his heart. 20:9It shall be, when the officers
have made an end of speaking to the people, that they shall appoint
captains of hosts at the head of the people. 20:10When you
draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it. 20:11It shall be, if it make you
answer of peace, and open to you, then it shall be, that all the people
who are found therein shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you.
20:12If it will make no peace with
you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it: 20:13and when Yahweh your God
delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the
edge of the sword: 20:14but the women, and the little
ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil of
it, shall you take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of
your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you. 20:15Thus shall
you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of
the cities of these nations. 20:16But of the cities of these
peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save
alive nothing that breathes; 20:17but you shall utterly destroy
them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the
Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you; 20:18that they not teach you to do
after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would
you sin against Yahweh your God. 20:19When you
shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you
shall not destroy the trees of it by wielding an axe against them; for you
may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the
field man, that it should be besieged of you? 20:20Only the
trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall
destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city
that makes war with you, until it fall.
21:1If one be found slain in the land
which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it
isn't known who has struck him; 21:2then your
elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the
cities which are round about him who is slain: 21:3and it
shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain man, even the elders
of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn't been worked
with, and which has not drawn in the yoke; 21:4and the
elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a valley with running
water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck
there in the valley. 21:5The priests the sons of Levi
shall come near; for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him,
and to bless in the name of Yahweh; and according to their word shall
every controversy and every stroke be. 21:6All the
elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man, shall wash their
hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley; 21:7and they shall answer and say,
Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. 21:8Forgive, Yahweh, your people
Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don't allow innocent blood to
remain in the midst of your people Israel. The blood shall be forgiven
them. 21:9So shall you put away the
innocent blood from the midst of you, when you shall do that which is
right in the eyes of Yahweh. 21:10When you go forth to battle
against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands,
and you carry them away captive, 21:11and see
among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and
would take her to you as wife; 21:12then you
shall bring her home to your house; and she shall shave her head, and pare
her nails; 21:13and she shall put the clothing
of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in your house, and bewail
her father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to
her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. 21:14It shall be, if you have no
delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall
not sell her at all for money, you shall not deal with her as a slave,
because you have humbled her. 21:15If a man have two wives, the one
beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the
beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers who was hated; 21:16then it shall be, in the day
that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make
the son of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is
the firstborn: 21:17but he shall acknowledge the
firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all
that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the
firstborn is his. 21:18If a man have a stubborn and
rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of
his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them; 21:19then shall his father and his
mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and
to the gate of his place; 21:20and they shall tell the elders
of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our
voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. 21:21All the
men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so shall you put
away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
21:22If a man have committed a sin
worthy of death, and he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree; 21:23his body shall not remain all
night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who
is hanged is accursed of God; that you don't defile your land which Yahweh
your God gives you for an inheritance.
22:1You shall not see your brother's
ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely
bring them again to your brother. 22:2If your
brother isn't near to you, or if you don't know him, then you shall bring
it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother seek
after it, and you shall restore it to him. 22:3So shall
you do with his donkey; and so shall you do with his garment; and so shall
you do with every lost thing of your brother's, which he has lost, and you
have found: you may not hide yourself. 22:4You shall
not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide
yourself from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again. 22:5A woman shall not wear men's
clothing, neither shall a man put on women's clothing; for whoever does
these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God. 22:6If a bird's
nest chance to be before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground,
with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs,
you shall not take the hen with the young: 22:7you shall
surely let the hen go, but the young you may take to yourself; that it may
be well with you, and that you may prolong your days. 22:8When you build a new house, then
you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you don't bring blood on
your house, if any man fall from there. 22:9You shall
not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be
forfeited, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.
22:10You shall not plow with an ox
and a donkey together. 22:11You shall not wear a mixed
stuff, wool and linen together. 22:12You shall
make you fringes on the four borders of your cloak, with which you cover
yourself. 22:13If any man take a wife, and go
in to her, and hate her, 22:14and lay shameful things to her
charge, and bring up an evil name on her, and say, I took this woman, and
when I came near to her, I didn't find in her the tokens of virginity; 22:15then shall the father of the
young lady, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the young
lady's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate; 22:16and the young lady's father
shall tell the elders, I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he
hates her; 22:17and, behold, he has laid
shameful things to her charge, saying, I didn't find in your
daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my
daughter's virginity. They shall spread the garment before the elders of
the city. 22:18The elders of that city shall
take the man and chastise him; 22:19and they
shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the
father of the young lady, because he has brought up an evil name on a
virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all
his days. 22:20But if this thing be true, that
the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady; 22:21then they shall bring out the
young lady to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city
shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in
Israel, to play the prostitute in her father's house: so shall you put
away the evil from the midst of you. 22:22If a man
be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of
them die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman: so shall you put
away the evil from Israel. 22:23If there be a young lady who is
a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the
city, and lie with her; 22:24then you shall bring them both
out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with
stones; the lady, because she didn't cry, being in the city; and the man,
because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil
from the midst of you. 22:25But if the man find the lady who
is pledged to be married in the field, and the man force her, and lie with
her; then the man only who lay with her shall die: 22:26but to the
lady you shall do nothing; there is in the lady no sin worthy of death:
for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and kills him, even so is
this matter; 22:27for he found her in the field,
the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was none to save her. 22:28If a man find a lady who is a
virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and lie
with her, and they be found; 22:29then the man who lay with her
shall give to the lady's father fifty shekels of silver, and she
shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he may not put her away all
his days. 22:30A man shall not take his
father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
23:1He who is wounded in the stones,
or has his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of
Yahweh. 23:2A bastard shall not enter into
the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none of his
enter into the assembly of Yahweh. 23:3An Ammonite
or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the
tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into the assembly of
Yahweh forever: 23:4because they didn't meet you with
bread and with water in the way, when you came forth out of Egypt, and
because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of
Mesopotamia, to curse you. 23:5Nevertheless Yahweh your God
wouldn't listen to Balaam; but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a
blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you. 23:6You shall
not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever. 23:7You shall not abhor an Edomite;
for he is your brother: you shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived
as a foreigner in his land. 23:8The children of the third
generation who are born to them shall enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
23:9When you go forth in camp against
your enemies, then you shall keep you from every evil thing. 23:10If there be among you any man,
who is not clean by reason of that which happens him by night, then shall
he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp: 23:11but it shall be, when evening
comes on, he shall bathe himself in water; and when the sun is down, he
shall come within the camp. 23:12You shall have a place also
outside of the camp, where you shall go forth abroad: 23:13and you shall have a paddle
among your weapons; and it shall be, when you sit down abroad, you shall
dig therewith, and shall turn back and cover that which comes from you: 23:14for Yahweh your God walks in the
midst of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before
you; therefore shall your camp be holy, that he may not see an unclean
thing in you, and turn away from you. 23:15You shall
not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped from his master to you:
23:16he shall dwell with you, in the
midst of you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates,
where it pleases him best: you shall not oppress him. 23:17There shall be no prostitute of
the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of
Israel. 23:18You shall not bring the hire of
a prostitute, or the wages of a dog, into the house of Yahweh your God for
any vow: for even both these are an abomination to Yahweh your God. 23:19You shall not lend on interest
to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything
that is lent on interest: 23:20to a foreigner you may lend on
interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that Yahweh
your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where
you go in to possess it. 23:21When you shall vow a vow to
Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it: for Yahweh your God
will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you. 23:22But if you shall forbear to vow,
it shall be no sin in you. 23:23That which is gone out of your
lips you shall observe and do; according as you have vowed to Yahweh your
God, a freewill-offering, which you have promised with your mouth. 23:24When you come into your
neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat of grapes your fill at your own
pleasure; but you shall not put any in your vessel. 23:25When you
come into your neighbor's standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with
your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor's standing
grain.
24:1When a man takes a wife, and
marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because
he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of
divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. 24:2When she is departed out of his
house, she may go and be another man's wife. 24:3If the
latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it in
her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who
took her to be his wife; 24:4her former husband, who sent her
away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled;
for that is abomination before Yahweh: and you shall not cause the land to
sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance. 24:5When a man takes a new wife, he
shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any
business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom
he has taken. 24:6No man shall take the mill or the
upper millstone to pledge; for he takes a man's life to pledge. 24:7If a man be found stealing any of
his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave,
or sell him; then that thief shall die: so shall you put away the evil
from the midst of you. 24:8Take heed in the plague of
leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the
priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall
observe to do. 24:9Remember what Yahweh your God did
to Miriam, by the way as you came forth out of Egypt. 24:10When you do lend your neighbor
any manner of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge. 24:11You shall stand outside, and the
man to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to you. 24:12If he be a poor man, you shall
not sleep with his pledge; 24:13you shall surely restore to him
the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and
bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God. 24:14You shall not oppress a hired
servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your
foreigners who are in your land within your gates: 24:15in his day
you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he
is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and
it be sin to you. 24:16The fathers shall not be put to
death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the
fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. 24:17You shall not wrest the justice
due to the foreigner, or to the fatherless, nor take the
widow's clothing to pledge; 24:18but you shall remember that you
were a bondservant in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there:
therefore I command you to do this thing. 24:19When you
reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you
shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner, for the
fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all
the work of your hands. 24:20When you beat your olive tree,
you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for
the fatherless, and for the widow. 24:21When you
gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it after
you: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
24:22You shall remember that you were
a bondservant in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this
thing.
25:1If there be a controversy between
men, and they come to judgment, and the judges judge them; then
they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked; 25:2and it shall be, if the wicked
man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down,
and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.
25:3Forty stripes he may give him, he
shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with
many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you. 25:4You shall not muzzle the ox when
he treads out the grain. 25:5If brothers
dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead
shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go
in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a
husband's brother to her. 25:6It shall be, that the firstborn
whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that
his name not be blotted out of Israel. 25:7If the man
doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go
up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuses to
raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of
a husband's brother to me. 25:8Then the elders of his city shall
call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, I don't want to take
her; 25:9then his brother's wife shall
come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his
foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, So shall it be
done to the man who does not build up his brother's house. 25:10His name shall be called in
Israel, The house of him who has his shoe untied. 25:11When men
strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to
deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth
her hand, and takes him by the secrets; 25:12then you
shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity. 25:13You shall not have in your bag
diverse weights, a great and a small. 25:14You shall
not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small. 25:15A perfect and just weight shall
you have; a perfect and just measure shall you have: that your days may be
long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you. 25:16For all
who do such things, even all who do unrighteously, are an
abomination to Yahweh your God. 25:17Remember
what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt; 25:18how he met you by the way, and
struck the hindmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were
faint and weary; and he didn't fear God. 25:19Therefore
it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies
round about, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an
inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek
from under the sky; you shall not forget.
26:1It shall be, when you are come in
to the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and
possess it, and dwell therein, 26:2that you shall take of the first
of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land
that Yahweh your God gives you; and you shall put it in a basket, and
shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his
name to dwell there. 26:3You shall come to the priest who
shall be in those days, and tell him, I profess this day to Yahweh your
God, that I am come to the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give
us. 26:4The priest shall take the basket
out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of Yahweh your God. 26:5You shall answer and say before
Yahweh your God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down
into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a
nation, great, mighty, and populous. 26:6The
Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on us hard
bondage: 26:7and we cried to Yahweh, the God
of our fathers, and Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and
our toil, and our oppression; 26:8and Yahweh brought us forth out
of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great
terror, and with signs, and with wonders; 26:9and he has
brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing
with milk and honey. 26:10Now, behold, I have brought the
first of the fruit of the ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me. You
shall set it down before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your
God: 26:11and you shall rejoice in all the
good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and
the Levite, and the foreigner who is in the midst of you. 26:12When you have made an end of
tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the
year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner,
to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates,
and be filled. 26:13You shall say before Yahweh your
God, I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given
them to the Levite, and to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the
widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me: I
have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten
them: 26:14I have not eaten of it in my
mourning, neither have I put away of it, being unclean, nor given of it
for the dead: I have listened to the voice of Yahweh my God; I have done
according to all that you have commanded me. 26:15Look down
from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and
the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land
flowing with milk and honey. 26:16This day Yahweh your God
commands you to do these statutes and ordinances: you shall therefore keep
and do them with all your heart, and with all your soul. 26:17You have declared Yahweh this
day to be your God, and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his
statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his
voice: 26:18and Yahweh has declared you this
day to be a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and
that you should keep all his commandments; 26:19and to
make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, and in name,
and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he
has spoken.
27:1Moses and the elders of Israel
commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandment which I command you
this day. 27:2It shall be on the day when you
shall pass over the Jordan to the land which Yahweh your God gives you,
that you shall set yourself up great stones, and plaster them with
plaster: 27:3and you shall write on them all
the words of this law, when you are passed over; that you may go in to the
land which Yahweh your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey,
as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you. 27:4It shall be, when you are passed
over the Jordan, that you shall set up these stones, which I command you
this day, in Mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster. 27:5There shall you build an altar to
Yahweh your God, an altar of stones: you shall lift up no iron tool
on them. 27:6You shall build the altar of
Yahweh your God of uncut stones; and you shall offer burnt offerings
thereon to Yahweh your God: 27:7and you shall sacrifice
peace-offerings, and shall eat there; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh
your God. 27:8You shall write on the stones all
the words of this law very plainly. 27:9Moses and
the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, Keep silence, and
listen, Israel: this day you are become the people of Yahweh your God. 27:10You shall therefore obey the
voice of Yahweh your God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which
I command you this day. 27:11Moses charged the people the
same day, saying, 27:12These shall stand on Mount
Gerizim to bless the people, when you are passed over the Jordan: Simeon,
and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin. 27:13These shall stand on Mount Ebal
for the curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. 27:14The Levites shall answer, and
tell all the men of Israel with a loud voice, 27:15Cursed be
the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh,
the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. All the
people shall answer and say, Amen. 27:16Cursed be
he who sets light by his father or his mother. All the people shall say,
Amen. 27:17Cursed be he who removes his
neighbor's landmark. All the people shall say, Amen. 27:18Cursed be he who makes the blind
to wander out of the way. All the people shall say, Amen. 27:19Cursed be he who wrests the
justice due to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow. All the people
shall say, Amen. 27:20Cursed be he who lies with his
father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt. All the people
shall say, Amen. 27:21Cursed be he who lies with any
manner of animal. All the people shall say, Amen. 27:22Cursed be
he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter
of his mother. All the people shall say, Amen. 27:23Cursed be
he who lies with his mother-in-law. All the people shall say, Amen. 27:24Cursed be he who strikes his
neighbor in secret. All the people shall say, Amen. 27:25Cursed be
he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person. All the people shall say,
Amen. 27:26Cursed be he who doesn't confirm
the words of this law to do them. All the people shall say, Amen.
28:1It shall happen, if you shall
listen diligently to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all
his commandments which I command you this day, who Yahweh your God will
set you on high above all the nations of the earth: 28:2and all
these blessings shall come on you, and overtake you, if you shall listen
to the voice of Yahweh your God. 28:3Blessed
shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. 28:4Blessed shall be the fruit of
your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your animals,
the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock. 28:5Blessed shall be your basket and
your kneading-trough. 28:6Blessed shall you be when you
come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out. 28:7Yahweh will
cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you: they
shall come out against you one way, and shall flee before you seven ways.
28:8Yahweh will command the blessing
on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to; and he will
bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you. 28:9Yahweh will establish you for a
holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you; if you shall keep the
commandments of Yahweh your God, and walk in his ways. 28:10All the peoples of the earth
shall see that you are called by the name of Yahweh; and they shall be
afraid of you. 28:11Yahweh will make you plenteous
for good, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and
in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your
fathers to give you. 28:12Yahweh will open to you his good
treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to
bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend to many nations, and
you shall not borrow. 28:13Yahweh will make you the head,
and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be
beneath; if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which
I command you this day, to observe and to do them, 28:14and shall not turn aside from
any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to
the left, to go after other gods to serve them. 28:15But it
shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of Yahweh your
God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I
command you this day, that all these curses shall come on you, and
overtake you. 28:16Cursed shall you be in the city,
and cursed shall you be in the field. 28:17Cursed
shall be your basket and your kneading-trough. 28:18Cursed
shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, the
increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock. 28:19Cursed shall you be when you
come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out. 28:20Yahweh
will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your
hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because
of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me. 28:21Yahweh will make the pestilence
cleave to you, until he have consumed you from off the land, where you go
in to possess it. 28:22Yahweh will strike you with
consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat,
and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall
pursue you until you perish. 28:23Your sky that is over your head
shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron. 28:24Yahweh will make the rain of
your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it come down on you, until
you are destroyed. 28:25Yahweh will cause you to be
struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and
shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth
among all the kingdoms of the earth. 28:26Your dead
body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the
earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away. 28:27Yahweh will strike you with the
boil of Egypt, and with the tumors, and with the scurvy, and with the
itch, of which you can not be healed. 28:28Yahweh
will strike you with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of
heart; 28:29and you shall grope at noonday,
as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways:
and you shall be only oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none
to save you. 28:30You shall betroth a wife, and
another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not
dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use the fruit of
it. 28:31Your ox shall be slain before
your eyes, and you shall not eat of it: your donkey shall be violently
taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your
sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have none to save you.
28:32Your sons and your daughters
shall be given to another people; and your eyes shall look, and fail with
longing for them all the day: and there shall be nothing in the power of
your hand. 28:33The fruit of your ground, and
all your labors, shall a nation which you don't know eat up; and you shall
be only oppressed and crushed always; 28:34so that
you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see. 28:35Yahweh will strike you in the
knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed,
from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head. 28:36Yahweh will bring you, and your
king whom you shall set over you, to a nation that you have not known, you
nor your fathers; and there shall you serve other gods, wood and stone. 28:37You shall become an
astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where Yahweh
shall lead you away. 28:38You shall carry much seed out
into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume
it. 28:39You shall plant vineyards and
dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather the
grapes; for the worm shall eat them. 28:40You shall
have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you shall not anoint
yourself with the oil; for your olive shall cast its fruit. 28:41You shall father sons and
daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.
28:42All your trees and the fruit of
your ground shall the locust possess. 28:43The
foreigner who is in the midst of you shall mount up above you higher and
higher; and you shall come down lower and lower. 28:44He shall
lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall be the head, and you
shall be the tail. 28:45All these curses shall come on
you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed;
because you didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his
commandments and his statutes which he commanded you: 28:46and they shall be on you for a
sign and for a wonder, and on your seed forever. 28:47Because
you didn't serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of
heart, by reason of the abundance of all things; 28:48therefore
shall you serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send against you, in
hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he
shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he have destroyed you. 28:49Yahweh will bring a nation
against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a
nation whose language you shall not understand; 28:50a nation
of fierce facial expressions, that shall not regard the person of the old,
nor show favor to the young, 28:51and shall eat the fruit of your
cattle, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also
shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle,
or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish. 28:52They shall besiege you in all
your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you
trusted, throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your
gates throughout all your land, which Yahweh your God has given you. 28:53You shall eat the fruit of your
own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your
God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your
enemies shall distress you. 28:54The man who is tender among you,
and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward
the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has
remaining; 28:55so that he will not give to any
of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has
nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy
shall distress you in all your gates. 28:56The tender
and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of
her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be
evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her
daughter, 28:57and toward her young one who
comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall
bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege
and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your
gates. 28:58If you will not observe to do
all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear
this glorious and fearful name, YAHWEH YOUR GOD; 28:59then
Yahweh will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed,
even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of
long continuance. 28:60He will bring on you again all
the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they shall cleave to
you. 28:61Also every sickness, and every
plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will Yahweh
bring on you, until you are destroyed. 28:62You shall
be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the sky for
multitude; because you didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your God. 28:63It shall happen that as Yahweh
rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will
rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall
be plucked from off the land where you go in to possess it. 28:64Yahweh will scatter you among
all peoples, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the
earth; and there you shall serve other gods, which you have not known, you
nor your fathers, even wood and stone. 28:65Among
these nations shall you find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the
sole of your foot: but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, and
failing of eyes, and pining of soul; 28:66and your
life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear night and day, and
shall have no assurance of your life. 28:67In the
morning you shall say, Would it were even! and at even you shall say,
Would it were morning! for the fear of your heart which you shall fear,
and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see. 28:68Yahweh
will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said to
you, You shall see it no more again: and there you shall sell yourselves
to your enemies for bondservants and for bondmaids, and no man shall buy
you.
29:1These are the words of the
covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel
in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in
Horeb. 29:2Moses called to all Israel, and
said to them, You have seen all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the
land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land; 29:3the great trials which your eyes
saw, the signs, and those great wonders: 29:4but Yahweh
has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to
this day. 29:5I have led you forty years in the
wilderness: your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoe has not
grown old on your foot. 29:6You have not eaten bread, neither
have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am Yahweh
your God. 29:7When you came to this place,
Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us
to battle, and we struck them: 29:8and we took their land, and gave
it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the
half-tribe of the Manassites. 29:9Keep therefore the words of this
covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do. 29:10You stand this day all of you
before Yahweh your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your
officers, even all the men of Israel, 29:11your
little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the midst of your
camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water; 29:12that you may enter into the
covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God
makes with you this day; 29:13that he may establish you this
day to himself for a people, and that he may be to you a God, as he spoke
to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob. 29:14Neither with you only do I make
this covenant and this oath, 29:15but with him who stands here
with us this day before Yahweh our God, and also with him who is not here
with us this day 29:16(for you know how we lived in
the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations
through which you passed; 29:17and you have seen their
abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were
among them); 29:18lest there should be among you
man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from
Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there
should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood; 29:19and it happen, when he hears the
words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall
have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the
moist with the dry. 29:20Yahweh will not pardon him, but
then the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and
all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh
will blot out his name from under the sky. 29:21Yahweh
will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to
all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law. 29:22The generation to come, your
children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come
from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and
the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick; 29:23and
that the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, and a burning,
that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like
the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh
overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 29:24even all
the nations shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? what means
the heat of this great anger? 29:25Then men shall say, Because they
forsook the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made
with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, 29:26and went and served other gods,
and worshiped them, gods that they didn't know, and that he had not given
to them: 29:27therefore the anger of Yahweh
was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curse that is
written in this book; 29:28and Yahweh rooted them out of
their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them
into another land, as at this day. 29:29The secret
things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong
to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this
law.
30:1It shall happen, when all these
things are come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set
before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where
Yahweh your God has driven you, 30:2and shall
return to Yahweh your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that
I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and
with all your soul; 30:3that then Yahweh your God will
turn your captivity, and have compassion on you, and will return and
gather you from all the peoples, where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
30:4If any of your outcasts
are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there will Yahweh your God
gather you, and from there will he bring you back: 30:5and Yahweh
your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and
you shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your
fathers. 30:6Yahweh your God will circumcise
your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love Yahweh your God with all
your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live. 30:7Yahweh your God will put all
these curses on your enemies, and on those who hate you, who persecuted
you. 30:8You shall return and obey the
voice of Yahweh, and do all his commandments which I command you this day.
30:9Yahweh your God will make you
plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in
the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, for good: for
Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your
fathers; 30:10if you shall obey the voice of
Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are
written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all
your heart, and with all your soul. 30:11For this
commandment which I command you this day, it is not too hard for you,
neither is it far off. 30:12It is not in heaven, that you
should say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, and make
us to hear it, that we may do it? 30:13Neither is
it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who shall go over the sea for us,
and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it? 30:14But the word is very near to
you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it. 30:15Behold, I have set before you
this day life and good, and death and evil; 30:16in that I
command you this day to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to
keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that you may
live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land
where you go in to possess it. 30:17But if
your heart turn away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and
worship other gods, and serve them; 30:18I denounce
to you this day, that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your
days in the land, where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it.
30:19I call heaven and earth to
witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death,
the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you
and your seed; 30:20to love Yahweh your God, to obey
his voice, and to cleave to him; for he is your life, and the length of
your days; that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your
fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
31:1Moses went and spoke these words
to all Israel. 31:2He said to them, I am one hundred
twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: and Yahweh
has said to me, You shall not go over this Jordan. 31:3Yahweh your
God, he will go over before you; he will destroy these nations from before
you, and you shall dispossess them: and Joshua, he shall go over
before you, as Yahweh has spoken. 31:4Yahweh will
do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to
their land; whom he destroyed. 31:5Yahweh will deliver them up
before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment
which I have commanded you. 31:6Be strong and of good courage,
don't be afraid, nor be scared of them: for Yahweh your God, he it is who
does go with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you. 31:7Moses called to Joshua, and said
to him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of good courage: for you
shall go with this people into the land which Yahweh has sworn to their
fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it. 31:8Yahweh, he it is who does go
before you; he will be with you, he will not fail you, neither forsake
you: don't be afraid, neither be dismayed. 31:9Moses wrote
this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the
ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and to all the elders of Israel. 31:10Moses commanded them, saying, At
the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of
release, in the feast of tents, 31:11when all
Israel is come to appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he
shall choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
31:12Assemble the people, the men and
the women and the little ones, and your foreigner who is within your
gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Yahweh your
God, and observe to do all the words of this law; 31:13and that
their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Yahweh
your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to
possess it. 31:14Yahweh said to Moses, Behold,
your days approach that you must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves
in the tent of meeting, that I may give him a charge. Moses and Joshua
went, and presented themselves in the tent of meeting. 31:15Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a
pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.
31:16Yahweh said to Moses, Behold,
you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play
the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be
among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made
with them. 31:17Then my anger shall be kindled
against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face
from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall
come on them; so that they will say in that day, Haven't these evils come
on us because our God is not among us? 31:18I will
surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they shall have
worked, in that they are turned to other gods. 31:19Now
therefore write you this song for you, and teach you it the children of
Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me
against the children of Israel. 31:20For when I
shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers,
flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled
themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve
them, and despise me, and break my covenant. 31:21It shall
happen, when many evils and troubles are come on them, that this song
shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out
of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame
this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore. 31:22So Moses wrote this song the
same day, and taught it the children of Israel. 31:23He gave
Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of good courage;
for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to
them: and I will be with you. 31:24It happened, when Moses had made
an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were
finished, 31:25that Moses commanded the
Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, saying, 31:26Take this book of the law, and
put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, that it
may be there for a witness against you. 31:27For I know
your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you
this day, you have been rebellious against Yahweh; and how much more after
my death? 31:28Assemble to me all the elders of
your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their
ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them. 31:29For I know that after my death
you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I
have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days;
because you will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke
him to anger through the work of your hands. 31:30Moses
spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song,
until they were finished.
32:1Give ear, you heavens, and I will
speak;
Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
32:2My doctrine shall drop as the
rain;
My speech shall condense as the dew,
As the small rain on the tender grass,
As the showers on the herb.
32:3For I will proclaim the name of
Yahweh:
Ascribe greatness to our God.
32:4The Rock, his work is perfect;
For all his ways are justice:
A God of faithfulness and without iniquity,
Just and right is he.
32:5They have dealt corruptly with
him, they are not his children, it is their blemish;
They are a perverse and crooked generation.
32:6Do you thus requite Yahweh,
Foolish people and unwise?
Isn't he your father who has bought you?
He has made you, and established you.
32:7Remember the days of old,
Consider the years of many generations:
Ask your father, and he will show you;
Your elders, and they will tell you.
32:8When the Most High gave to the
nations their inheritance,
When he separated the children of men,
He set the bounds of the peoples
According to the number of the children of Israel.
32:9For Yahweh's portion is his
people;
Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
32:10He found him in a desert land,
In the waste howling wilderness;
He compassed him about, he cared for him,
He kept him as the apple of his eye.
32:11As an eagle that stirs up her
nest,
That flutters over her young,
He spread abroad his wings, he took them,
He bore them on his feathers.
32:12Yahweh alone did lead him,
There was no foreign god with him.
32:13He made him ride on the high
places of the earth,
He ate the increase of the field;
He made him to suck honey out of the rock,
Oil out of the flinty rock;
32:14Butter of the herd, and milk of
the flock,
With fat of lambs,
Rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,
With the finest of the wheat;
Of the blood of the grape you drank wine.
32:15But Jeshurun grew fat, and
kicked:
You have grown fat, you are grown thick, you are become sleek;
Then he forsook God who made him,
Lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
32:16They moved him to jealousy with
strange gods;
With abominations provoked they him to anger.
32:17They sacrificed to demons,
which were no God,
To gods that they didn't know,
To new gods that came up of late,
Which your fathers didn't dread.
32:18Of the Rock that became your
father, you are unmindful,
Have forgotten God who gave you birth.
32:19Yahweh saw it, and
abhorred them,
Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
32:20He said, I will hide my face
from them,
I will see what their end shall be:
For they are a very perverse generation,
Children in whom is no faithfulness.
32:21They have moved me to jealousy
with that which is not God;
They have provoked me to anger with their vanities:
I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people;
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
32:22For a fire is kindled in my
anger,
Burns to the lowest Sheol,
Devours the earth with its increase,
Sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
32:23I will heap evils on them;
I will spend my arrows on them:
32:24They shall be wasted with
hunger, and devoured with burning heat
Bitter destruction;
The teeth of animals will I send on them,
With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
32:25Outside shall the sword bereave,
In the chambers terror;
It shall destroy both young man and virgin,
The suckling with the man of gray hairs.
32:26I said, I would scatter them
afar,
I would make the memory of them to cease from among men;
32:27Were it not that I feared the
provocation of the enemy,
Lest their adversaries should judge wrongly,
Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted,
Yahweh has not done all this.
32:28For they are a nation void of
counsel,
There is no understanding in them.
32:29Oh that they were wise, that
they understood this,
That they would consider their latter end!
32:30How should one chase a thousand,
Two put ten thousand to flight,
Except their Rock had sold them,
Yahweh had delivered them up?
32:31For their rock is not as our
Rock,
Even our enemies themselves being judges.
32:32For their vine is of the vine of
Sodom,
Of the fields of Gomorrah:
Their grapes are grapes of gall,
Their clusters are bitter:
32:33Their wine is the poison of
serpents,
The cruel venom of asps.
32:34Isn't this laid up in store with
me,
Sealed up among my treasures?
32:35Vengeance is mine, and
recompense,
At the time when their foot shall slide:
For the day of their calamity is at hand,
The things that are to come on them shall make haste.
32:36For Yahweh will judge his people,
Repent himself for his servants;
When he sees that their power is gone,
There is none remaining, shut up or left at large.
32:37He will say, Where are their
gods,
The rock in which they took refuge;
32:38Which ate the fat of their
sacrifices,
And drank the wine of their drink-offering?
Let them rise up and help you,
Let them be your protection.
32:39See now that I, even I, am he,
There is no god with me:
I kill, and I make alive;
I wound, and I heal;
There is none who can deliver out of my hand.
32:40For I lift up my hand to heaven,
And say, As I live forever,
32:41If I whet my glittering sword,
My hand take hold on judgment;
I will render vengeance to my adversaries,
Will recompense those who hate me.
32:42I will make my arrows drunk with
blood,
My sword shall devour flesh;
With the blood of the slain and the captives,
From the head of the leaders of the enemy.
32:43Rejoice, you nations,
with his people:
For he will avenge the blood of his servants,
Will render vengeance to his adversaries,
Will make expiation for his land, for his people.
32:44Moses came and spoke all the
words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of
Nun. 32:45Moses made an end of speaking
all these words to all Israel; 32:46He said to
them, Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you this day,
which you shall command your children to observe to do, even all
the words of this law. 32:47For it is no vain thing for you;
because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your
days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it. 32:48Yahweh spoke to Moses that same
day, saying, 32:49Go up into this mountain of
Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against
Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of
Israel for a possession; 32:50and die on the mountain where
you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on
Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people: 32:51because
you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the
waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn't
sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel. 32:52For you
shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there into the land
which I give the children of Israel.
33:1This is the blessing, with which
Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. 33:2He said,
Yahweh came from Sinai,
Rose from Seir to them;
He shined forth from Mount Paran,
He came from the ten thousands of holy ones:
At his right hand was a fiery law for them.
33:3Yes, he loves the people;
All his saints are in your hand:
They sat down at your feet;
Everyone shall receive of your words.
33:4Moses commanded us a law,
An inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.
33:5He was king in Jeshurun,
When the heads of the people were gathered,
All the tribes of Israel together.
33:6Let Reuben live, and not die;
Nor let his men be few.
33:7This is the blessing of
Judah: and he said,
Hear, Yahweh, the voice of Judah,
Bring him in to his people.
With his hands he contended for himself;
You shall be a help against his adversaries.
33:8Of Levi he said,
Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one,
Whom you did prove at Massah,
With whom you did strive at the waters of Meribah;
33:9Who said of his father, and of
his mother, I have not seen him;
Neither did he acknowledge his brothers,
Nor knew he his own children:
For they have observed your word,
Keep your covenant.
33:10They shall teach Jacob your
ordinances,
Israel your law:
They shall put incense before you,
Whole burnt offering on your altar.
33:11Bless, Yahweh, his substance,
Accept the work of his hands:
Smite through the loins of those who rise up against him,
Of those who hate him, that they not rise again.
33:12Of Benjamin he said,
The beloved of Yahweh shall dwell in safety by him;
He covers him all the day long,
He dwells between his shoulders.
33:13Of Joseph he said,
Blessed of Yahweh be his land,
For the precious things of the heavens, for the dew,
For the deep that couches beneath,
33:14For the precious things of the
fruits of the sun,
For the precious things of the growth of the moons,
33:15For the chief things of the
ancient mountains,
For the precious things of the everlasting hills,
33:16For the precious things of the
earth and the fullness of it,
The good will of him who lived in the bush.
Let the blessing come on the head of Joseph,
On the crown of the head of him who was separate from his
brothers.
33:17The firstborn of his herd,
majesty is his;
His horns are the horns of the wild-ox:
With them he shall push the peoples all of them, even the
ends of the earth:
They are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
They are the thousands of Manasseh.
33:18Of Zebulun he said,
Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out;
Issachar, in your tents.
33:19They shall call the peoples to
the mountain;
There shall they offer sacrifices of righteousness:
For they shall suck the abundance of the seas,
The hidden treasures of the sand.
33:20Of Gad he said,
Blessed be he who enlarges Gad:
He dwells as a lioness,
Tears the arm, yes, the crown of the head.
33:21He provided the first part for
himself,
For there was the lawgiver's portion reserved;
He came with the heads of the people;
He executed the righteousness of Yahweh,
His ordinances with Israel.
33:22Of Dan he said,
Dan is a lion's cub,
That leaps forth from Bashan.
33:23Of Naphtali he said,
Naphtali, satisfied with favor,
Full with the blessing of Yahweh,
Possess you the west and the south.
33:24Of Asher he said,
Blessed be Asher with children;
Let him be acceptable to his brothers,
Let him dip his foot in oil.
33:25Your bars shall be iron and
brass;
As your days, so shall your strength be.
33:26There is none like God, Jeshurun,
Who rides on the heavens for your help,
In his excellency on the skies.
33:27The eternal God is your
dwelling-place,
Underneath are the everlasting arms.
He thrust out the enemy from before you,
Said, Destroy.
33:28Israel dwells in safety,
The fountain of Jacob alone,
In a land of grain and new wine;
Yes, his heavens drop down dew.
33:29Happy are you, Israel:
Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh,
The shield of your help,
The sword of your excellency!
Your enemies shall submit themselves to you;
You shall tread on their high places.
34:1Moses went up from the plains of
Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho.
Yahweh shown him all the land of Gilead, to Dan, 34:2and all
Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah,
to the hinder sea, 34:3and the South, and the Plain of
the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, to Zoar. 34:4Yahweh said to him, This is the
land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, I will give
it to your seed: I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall
not go over there. 34:5So Moses the servant of Yahweh
died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of Yahweh. 34:6He buried him in the valley in
the land of Moab over against Beth Peor: but no man knows of his tomb to
this day. 34:7Moses was one hundred twenty
years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
34:8The children of Israel wept for
Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping in the
mourning for Moses were ended. 34:9Joshua the son of Nun was full of
the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands on him: and the
children of Israel listened to him, and did as Yahweh commanded Moses. 34:10There has not arisen a prophet
since in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face, 34:11in all the signs and the
wonders, which Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and
to all his servants, and to all his land, 34:12and in all
the mighty hand, and in all the great terror, which Moses worked in the
sight of all Israel.
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