DEU 1:1 These are
the words which Moses spoke to all Israel across the
Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite
Suph, between Paran and Tophel and Laban and
Hazeroth and Dizahab.
DEU 1:2 It is eleven days' {journey} from
Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.
DEU 1:3 And it came about in the fortieth
year, on the first day of the eleventh month, that
Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to
all that the Lord had commanded him {to give} to
them,
DEU 1:4 after he had defeated Sihon the king
of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the
king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei.
DEU 1:5 Across the Jordan in the land of
Moab, Moses undertook to expound this law, saying,
DEU 1:6 "The Lord our God spoke to us at
Horeb, saying, 'You have stayed long enough at this
mountain.
DEU 1:7 'Turn and set your journey, and go to
the hill country of the Amorites, and to all their
neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in
the lowland and in the Negev and by the seacoast,
the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as
the great river, the river Euphrates.
DEU 1:8 'See, I have placed the land before
you; go in and possess the land which the Lord swore
to give to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and
to Jacob, to them and their descendants after them.'
DEU 1:9 "And I spoke to you at that time,
saying, 'I am not able to bear {the burden} of you
alone.
DEU 1:10 'The Lord your God has multiplied
you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of
heaven for multitude.
DEU 1:11 'May the Lord, the God of your
fathers, increase you a thousand-fold more than you
are, and bless you, just as He has promised you!
DEU 1:12 'How can I alone bear the load and
burden of you and your strife?
DEU 1:13 'Choose wise and discerning and
experienced men from your tribes, and I will appoint
them as your heads.'
DEU 1:14 "And you answered me and said, 'The
thing which you have said to do is good.'
DEU 1:15 "So I took the heads of your tribes,
wise and experienced men, and appointed them heads
over you, leaders of thousands, and of hundreds, of
fifties and of tens, and officers for your tribes.
DEU 1:16 "Then I charged your judges at that
time, saying, 'Hear {the cases} between your fellow
countrymen, and judge righteously between a man and
his fellow countryman, or the alien who is with him.
DEU 1:17 'You shall not show partiality in
judgment; you shall hear the small and the great
alike. You shall not fear man, for the judgment is
God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you
shall bring to me, and I will hear it.'
DEU 1:18 "And I commanded you at that time
all the things that you should do.
DEU 1:19 "Then we set out from Horeb, and
went through all that great and terrible wilderness
which you saw, on the way to the hill country of the
Amorites, just as the Lord our God had commanded us;
and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
DEU 1:20 "And I said to you, 'You have come
to the hill country of the Amorites which the Lord
our God is about to give us.
DEU 1:21 'See, the Lord your God has placed
the land before you; go up, take possession, as the
Lord, the God of your fathers, has spoken to you. Do
not fear or be dismayed.'
DEU 1:22 "Then all of you approached me and
said, 'Let us send men before us, that they may
search out the land for us, and bring back to us
word of the way by which we should go up, and the
cities which we shall enter.'
DEU 1:23 "And the thing pleased me and I took
twelve of your men, one man for each tribe.
DEU 1:24 "And they turned and went up into
the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol,
and spied it out.
DEU 1:25 "Then they took {some} of the fruit
of the land in their hands and brought it down to
us; and they brought us back a report and said, 'It
is a good land which the Lord our God is about to
give us.'
DEU 1:26 "Yet you were not willing to go up,
but rebelled against the command of the Lord your
God;
DEU 1:27 and you grumbled in your tents and
said,' Because the Lord hates us, He has brought us
out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand
of the Amorites to destroy us.
DEU 1:28 'Where can we go up? Our brethren
have made our hearts melt, saying, "The people are
bigger and taller than we; the cities are large and
fortified to heaven. And besides, we saw the sons of
the Anakim there."'
DEU 1:29 "Then I said to you, 'Do not be
shocked, nor fear them.
DEU 1:30 'The Lord your God who goes before
you will Himself fight on your behalf, just as He
did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
DEU 1:31 and in the wilderness where you saw
how the Lord your God carried you, just as a man
carries his son, in all the way which you have
walked, until you came to this place.'
DEU 1:32 "But for all this, you did not trust
the Lord your God,
DEU 1:33 who goes before you on {your} way,
to seek out a place for you to encamp, in fire by
night and cloud by day, to show you the way in which
you should go.
DEU 1:34 "Then the Lord heard the sound of
your words, and He was angry and took an oath,
saying,
DEU 1:35 'Not one of these men, this evil
generation, shall see the good land which I swore to
give your fathers,
DEU 1:36 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh;
he shall see it, and to him and to his sons I will
give the land on which he has set foot, because he
has followed the Lord fully.'
DEU 1:37 "The Lord was angry with me also on
your account, saying, 'Not even you shall enter
there.
DEU 1:38 'Joshua the son of Nun, who stands
before you, he shall enter there; encourage him, for
he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
DEU 1:39 'Moreover, your little ones who you
said would become a prey, and your sons, who this
day have no knowledge of good or evil, shall enter
there, and I will give it to them, and they shall
possess it.
DEU 1:40 'But as for you, turn around and set
out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.'
DEU 1:41 "Then you answered and said to me,
'We have sinned against the Lord; we will indeed go
up and fight, just as the Lord our God commanded
us.' And every man of you girded on his weapons of
war, and regarded it as easy to go up into the hill
country.
DEU 1:42 "And the Lord said to me, 'Say to
them," Do not go up, nor fight, for I am not among
you; lest you be defeated before your enemies."'
DEU 1:43 "So I spoke to you, but you would
not listen. Instead you rebelled against the command
of the Lord, and acted presumptuously and went up
into the hill country.
DEU 1:44 "And the Amorites who lived in that
hill country came out against you, and chased you as
bees do, and crushed you from Seir to Hormah.
DEU 1:45 "Then you returned and wept before
the Lord; but the Lord did not listen to your voice,
nor give ear to you.
DEU 1:46 "So you remained in Kadesh many
days, the days that you spent {there}.
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DEU 2:1 "Then we
turned and set out for the wilderness by the way to
the Red Sea, as the Lord spoke to me, and circled
Mount Seir for many days.
DEU 2:2 "And the Lord spoke to me, saying,
DEU 2:3 'You have circled this mountain long
enough. {Now} turn north,
DEU 2:4 and command the people, saying, "You
will pass through the territory of your brothers the
sons of Esau who live in Seir; and they will be
afraid of you. So be very careful;
DEU 2:5 do not provoke them, for I will not
give you any of their land, even {as little as} a
footstep because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as
a possession.
DEU 2:6 "You shall buy food from them with
money so that you may eat, and you shall also
purchase water from them with money so that you may
drink.
DEU 2:7 "For the Lord your God has blessed
you in all that you have done; He has known your
wanderings through this great wilderness. These
forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you
have not lacked a thing."'
DEU 2:8 "So we passed beyond our brothers the
sons of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the Arabah
road, away from Elath and from Ezion-geber. And we
turned and passed through by the way of the
wilderness of Moab.
DEU 2:9 "Then the Lord said to me, 'Do not
harass Moab, nor provoke them to war, for I will not
give you any of their land as a possession, because
I have given Ar to the sons of Lot as a possession.
DEU 2:10 (The Emim lived there formerly, a
people as great, numerous, and tall as the Anakim.
DEU 2:11 Like the Anakim, they are also
regarded as Rephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim.
DEU 2:12 The Horites formerly lived in Seir,
but the sons of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed
them from before them and settled in their place,
just as Israel did to the land of their possession
which the Lord gave to them.)
DEU 2:13 'Now arise and cross over the brook
Zered yourselves.' So we crossed over the brook
Zered.
DEU 2:14 "Now the time that it took for us to
come from Kadesh-barnea, until we crossed over the
brook Zered, was thirty-eight years; until all the
generation of the men of war perished from within
the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.
DEU 2:15 "Moreover the hand of the Lord was
against them, to destroy them from within the camp,
until they all perished.
DEU 2:16 "So it came about when all the men
of war had finally perished from among the people,
DEU 2:17 that the Lord spoke to me, saying,
DEU 2:18 'You shall cross over Ar, the border
of Moab, today.
DEU 2:19 'And when you come opposite the sons
of Ammon, do not harass them nor provoke them, for I
will not give you any of the land of the sons of
Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to
the sons of Lot as a possession.'
DEU 2:20 (It is also regarded as the land of
the Rephaim, {for} Rephaim formerly lived in it, but
the Ammonites call them Zamzummin,
DEU 2:21 a people as great, numerous, and
tall as the Anakim, but the Lord destroyed them
before them. And they dispossessed them and settled
in their place,
DEU 2:22 just as He did for the sons of Esau,
who live in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from
before them; and they dispossessed them, and settled
in their place even to this day.
DEU 2:23 And the Avvim, who lived in villages
as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim who came from Caphtor,
destroyed them and lived in their place.)
DEU 2:24 'Arise, set out, and pass through
the valley of Arnon. Look! I have given Sihon the
Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land into your
hand; begin to take possession and contend with him
in battle.
DEU 2:25 'This day I will begin to put the
dread and fear of you upon the peoples everywhere
under the heavens, who, when they hear the report of
you, shall tremble and be in anguish because of
you.'
DEU 2:26 "So I sent messengers from the
wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with
words of peace, saying,
DEU 2:27 'Let me pass through your land, I
will travel only on the highway; I will not turn
aside to the right or to the left.
DEU 2:28 'You will sell me food for money so
that I may eat, and give me water for money so that
I may drink, only let me pass through on foot,
DEU 2:29 just as the sons of Esau who live in
Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me,
until I cross over the Jordan into the land which
the Lord our God is giving to us.'
DEU 2:30 "But Sihon king of Heshbon was not
willing for us to pass through his land; for the
Lord your God hardened his spirit and made his heart
obstinate, in order to deliver him into your hand,
as {he is} today.
DEU 2:31 "And the Lord said to me, 'See, I
have begun to deliver Sihon and his land over to
you. Begin to occupy, that you may possess his
land.'
DEU 2:32 "Then Sihon with all his people came
out to meet us in battle at Jahaz.
DEU 2:33 "And the Lord our God delivered him
over to us; and we defeated him with his sons and
all his people.
DEU 2:34 "So we captured all his cities at
that time, and utterly destroyed the men, women and
children of every city. We left no survivor.
DEU 2:35 "We took only the animals as our
booty and the spoil of the cities which we had
captured.
DEU 2:36 "From Aroer which is on the edge of
the valley of Arnon and {from} the city which is in
the valley, even to Gilead, there was no city that
was too high for us; the Lord our God delivered all
over to us.
DEU 2:37 "Only you did not go near to the
land of the sons of Ammon, all along the river
Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, and
wherever the Lord our God had commanded us.
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DEU 3:1 "Then we
turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og, king
of Bashan, with all his people came out to meet us
in battle at Edrei.
DEU 3:2 "But the Lord said to me, 'Do not
fear him, for I have delivered him and all his
people and his land into your hand; and you shall do
to him just as you did to Sihon king of the
Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.'
DEU 3:3 "So the Lord our God delivered Og
also, king of Bashan, with all his people into our
hand, and we smote them until no survivor was left.
DEU 3:4 "And we captured all his cities at
that time; there was not a city which we did not
take from them: sixty cities, all the region of
Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
DEU 3:5 "All these were cities fortified with
high walls, gates and bars, besides a great many
unwalled towns.
DEU 3:6 "And we utterly destroyed them, as we
did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the
men, women and children of every city.
DEU 3:7 "But all the animals and the spoil of
the cities we took as our booty.
DEU 3:8 "Thus we took the land at that time
from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who
were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of Arnon to
Mount Hermon
DEU 3:9 (Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and
the Amorites call it Senir):
DEU 3:10 all the cities of the tableland and
all Gilead and all Bashan, as far as Salecah and
Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
DEU 3:11 (For only Og king of Bashan was left
of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead
was an iron bedstead; it is in Rabbah of the sons of
Ammon. Its length was nine cubits and its width four
cubits by ordinary cubit.)
DEU 3:12 "So we took possession of this land
at that time. From Aroer, which is by the valley of
Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead and its
cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
DEU 3:13 "And the rest of Gilead, and all
Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe
of Manasseh, all the region of Argob (concerning all
Bashan, it is called the land of Rephaim.
DEU 3:14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all
the region of Argob as far as the border of the
Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called it, {that
is}, Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth-jair, {
as it is} to this day.)
DEU 3:15 "And to Machir I gave Gilead.
DEU 3:16 "And to the Reubenites and to the
Gadites, I gave from Gilead even as far as the
valley of Arnon, the middle of the valley as a
border and as far as the river Jabbok, the border of
the sons of Ammon;
DEU 3:17 the Arabah also, with the Jordan as
{a} border, from Chinnereth even as far as the sea
of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, at the foot of the
slopes of Pisgah on the east.
DEU 3:18 "Then I commanded you at that time,
saying, 'The Lord your God has given you this land
to possess it; all you valiant men shall cross over
armed before your brothers, the sons of Israel.
DEU 3:19 'But your wives and your little ones
and your livestock (I know that you have much
livestock), shall remain in your cities which I have
given you,
DEU 3:20 until the Lord gives rest to your
fellow countrymen as to you, and they also possess
the land which the Lord your God will give them
beyond the Jordan. Then you may return every man to
his possession, which I have given you.'
DEU 3:21 "And I commanded Joshua at that
time, saying, 'Your eyes have seen all that the Lord
your God has done to these two kings; so the Lord
shall do to all the kingdoms into which you are
about to cross.
DEU 3:22 'Do not fear them, for the Lord your
God is the one fighting for you.'
DEU 3:23 "I also pleaded with the Lord at
that time, saying,
DEU 3:24 'O Lord God, Thou hast begun to show
Thy servant Thy greatness and Thy strong hand; for
what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do
such works and mighty acts as Thine?
DEU 3:25 'Let me, I pray, cross over and see
the fair land that is beyond the Jordan, that good
hill country and Lebanon.'
DEU 3:26 "But the Lord was angry with me on
your account, and would not listen to me; and the
Lord said to me, 'Enough! Speak to Me no more of
this matter.
DEU 3:27 'Go up to the top of Pisgah and lift
up your eyes to the west and north and south and
east, and see {it} with your eyes, for you shall not
cross over this Jordan.
DEU 3:28 'But charge Joshua and encourage him
and strengthen him; for he shall go across at the
head of this people, and he shall give them as an
inheritance the land which you will see.'
DEU 3:29 "So we remained in the valley
opposite Beth-peor.
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DEU 4:1 "And now,
O Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments
which I am teaching you to perform, in order that
you may live and go in and take possession of the
land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is
giving you.
DEU 4:2 "You shall not add to the word which
I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you
may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which
I command you.
DEU 4:3 "Your eyes have seen what the Lord
has done in the case of Baal-peor, for all the men
who followed Baal-peor, the Lord your God has
destroyed them from among you.
DEU 4:4 "But you who held fast to the Lord
your God are alive today, every one of you.
DEU 4:5 "See, I have taught you statutes and
judgments just as the Lord my God commanded me, that
you should do thus in the land where you are
entering to possess it.
DEU 4:6 "So keep and do {them}, for that is
your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of
the peoples who will hear all these statutes and
say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and
understanding people.'
DEU 4:7 "For what great nation is there that
has a god so near to it as is the Lord our God
whenever we call on Him?
DEU 4:8 "Or what great nation is there that
has statutes and judgments as righteous as this
whole law which I am setting before you today?
DEU 4:9 "Only give heed to yourself and keep
your soul diligently, lest you forget the things
which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from
your heart all the days of your life; but make them
known to your sons and your grandsons.
DEU 4:10 "{Remember} the day you stood before
the Lord your God at Horeb, when the Lord said to
me, 'Assemble the people to Me, that I may let them
hear My words so they may learn to fear Me all the
days they live on the earth, and that they may teach
their children.'
DEU 4:11 "And you came near and stood at the
foot of the mountain, and the mountain burned with
fire to the {very} heart of the heavens: darkness,
cloud and thick gloom.
DEU 4:12 "Then the Lord spoke to you from the
midst of the fire; you heard the sound of words, but
you saw no form - - only a voice.
DEU 4:13 "So He declared to you His covenant
which He commanded you to perform, {that is,} the
Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets
of stone.
DEU 4:14 "And the Lord commanded me at that
time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you
might perform them in the land where you are going
over to possess it.
DEU 4:15 "So watch yourselves carefully,
since you did not see any form on the day the Lord
spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire,
DEU 4:16 lest you act corruptly and make a
graven image for yourselves in the form of any
figure, the likeness of male or female,
DEU 4:17 the likeness of any animal that is
on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that
flies in the sky,
DEU 4:18 the likeness of anything that creeps
on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in
the water below the earth.
DEU 4:19 "And {beware,} lest you lift up your
eyes to heaven and see the sun and the moon and the
stars, all the host of heaven, and be drawn away and
worship them and serve them, those which the Lord
your God has allotted to all the peoples under the
whole heaven.
DEU 4:20 "But the Lord has taken you and
brought you out of the iron furnace, from Egypt, to
be a people for His own possession, as today.
DEU 4:21 "Now the Lord was angry with me on
your account, and swore that I should not cross the
Jordan, and that I should not enter the good land
which the Lord your God is giving you as an
inheritance.
DEU 4:22 "For I shall die in this land, I
shall not cross the Jordan, but you shall cross and
take possession of this good land.
DEU 4:23 "So watch yourselves, lest you
forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which He
made with you, and make for yourselves a graven
image in the form of anything {against} which the
Lord your God has commanded you.
DEU 4:24 "For the Lord your God is a
consuming fire, a jealous God.
DEU 4:25 "When you become the father of
children and children's children and have remained
long in the land, and act corruptly, and make an
idol in the form of anything, and do that which is
evil in the sight of the Lord your God {so as} to
provoke Him to anger,
DEU 4:26 I call heaven and earth to witness
against you today, that you shall surely perish
quickly from the land where you are going over the
Jordan to possess it. You shall not live long on it,
but shall be utterly destroyed.
DEU 4:27 "And the Lord will scatter you among
the peoples, and you shall be left few in number
among the nations, where the Lord shall drive you.
DEU 4:28 "And there you will serve gods, the
work of man's hands, wood and stone, which neither
see nor hear nor eat nor smell.
DEU 4:29 "But from there you will seek the
Lord your God, and you will find {Him} if you search
for Him with all your heart and all your soul.
DEU 4:30 "When you are in distress and all
these things have come upon you, in the latter days,
you will return to the Lord your God and listen to
His voice.
DEU 4:31 "For the Lord your God is a
compassionate God; He will not fail you nor destroy
you nor forget the covenant with your fathers which
He swore to them.
DEU 4:32 "Indeed, ask now concerning the
former days which were before you, since the day
that God created man on the earth, and {inquire}
from one end of the heavens to the other. Has
{anything} been done like this great thing, or has
{anything} been heard like it?
DEU 4:33 "Has {any} people heard the voice of
God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have
heard {it}, and survived?
DEU 4:34 "Or has a god tried to go to take
for himself a nation from within {another} nation by
trials, by signs and wonders and by war and by a
mighty hand and by an outstretched arm and by great
terrors, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt
before your eyes?
DEU 4:35 "To you it was shown that you might
know that the Lord, He is God; there is no other
besides Him.
DEU 4:36 "Out of the heavens He let you hear
His voice to discipline you; and on earth He let you
see His great fire, and you heard His words from the
midst of the fire.
DEU 4:37 "Because He loved your fathers,
therefore He chose their descendants after them. And
He personally brought you from Egypt by His great
power,
DEU 4:38 driving out from before you nations
greater and mightier than you, to bring you in {and}
to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is
today.
DEU 4:39 "Know therefore today, and take it
to your heart, that the Lord, He is God in heaven
above and on the earth below; there is no other.
DEU 4:40 "So you shall keep His statutes and
His commandments which I am giving you today, that
it may go well with you and with your children after
you, and that you may live long on the land which
the Lord your God is giving you for all time."
DEU 4:41 Then Moses set apart three cities
across the Jordan to the east,
DEU 4:42 that a manslayer might flee there,
who unintentionally slew his neighbor without having
enmity toward him in time past; and by fleeing to
one of these cities he might live:
DEU 4:43 Bezer in the wilderness on the
plateau for the Reubenites, and Ramoth in Gilead for
the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.
DEU 4:44 Now this is the law which Moses set
before the sons of Israel;
DEU 4:45 these are the testimonies and the
statutes and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the
sons of Israel, when they came out from Egypt,
DEU 4:46 across the Jordan, in the valley
opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the
Amorites who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the
sons of Israel defeated when they came out from
Egypt.
DEU 4:47 And they took possession of his land
and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of
the Amorites, {who were} across the Jordan to the
east,
DEU 4:48 from Aroer, which is on the edge of
the valley of Arnon, even as far as Mount Sion (that
is, Hermon),
DEU 4:49 with all the Arabah across the
Jordan to the east, even as far as the sea of the
Arabah, at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah.
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DEU 5:1 Then
Moses summoned all Israel, and said to them, "Hear,
O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I am
speaking today in your hearing, that you may learn
them and observe them carefully.
DEU 5:2 "The Lord our God made a covenant
with us at Horeb.
DEU 5:3 "The Lord did not make this covenant
with our fathers, but with us, {with} all those of
us alive here today.
DEU 5:4 "The Lord spoke to you face to face
at the mountain from the midst of the fire,
DEU 5:5 {while} I was standing between the
Lord and you at that time, to declare to you the
word of the Lord; for you were afraid because of the
fire and did not go up the mountain. He said,
DEU 5:6 'I am the Lord your God, who brought
you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
slavery.
DEU 5:7 'You shall have no other gods before
Me.
DEU 5:8 'You shall not make for yourself an
idol, {or} any likeness {of} what is in heaven above
or on the earth beneath or in the water under the
earth.
DEU 5:9 'You shall not worship them or serve
them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the
children, and on the third and the fourth
{generations} of those who hate Me,
DEU 5:10 but showing lovingkindness to
thousands, to those who love Me and keep My
commandments.
DEU 5:11 'You shall not take the name of the
Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not leave
him unpunished who takes His name in vain.
DEU 5:12 'Observe the sabbath day to keep it
holy, as the Lord your God commanded you.
DEU 5:13 'Six days you shall labor and do all
your work,
DEU 5:14 but the seventh day is a sabbath of
the Lord your God; {in it} you shall not do any
work, you or your son or your daughter or your male
servant or your female servant or your ox or your
donkey or any of your cattle or your sojourner who
stays with you, so that your male servant and your
female servant may rest as well as you.
DEU 5:15 'And you shall remember that you
were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your
God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by
an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God
commanded you to observe the sabbath day.
DEU 5:16 'Honor your father and your mother,
as the Lord your God has commanded you, that your
days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with
you on the land which the Lord your God gives you.
DEU 5:17 'You shall not murder.
DEU 5:18 'You shall not commit adultery.
DEU 5:19 'You shall not steal.
DEU 5:20 'You shall not bear false witness
against your neighbor.
DEU 5:21 'You shall not covet your neighbor's
wife, and you shall not desire your neighbor's
house, his field or his male servant or his female
servant, his ox or his donkey or anything that
belongs to your neighbor.'
DEU 5:22 "These words the Lord spoke to all
your assembly at the mountain from the midst of the
fire, {of} the cloud and {of} the thick gloom, with
a great voice, and He added no more. And He wrote
them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
DEU 5:23 "And it came about, when you heard
the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the
mountain was burning with fire, that you came near
to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders.
DEU 5:24 "And you said, 'Behold, the Lord our
God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we
have heard His voice from the midst of the fire; we
have seen today that God speaks with man, yet he
lives.
DEU 5:25 'Now then why should we die? For
this great fire will consume us; if we hear the
voice of the Lord our God any longer, then we shall
die.
DEU 5:26 'For who is there of all flesh, who
has heard the voice of the living God speaking from
the midst of the fire, as we {have}, and lived?
DEU 5:27 'Go near and hear all that the Lord
our God says; then speak to us all that the Lord our
God will speak to you, and we will hear and do
{it.}'
DEU 5:28 "And the Lord heard the voice of
your words when you spoke to me, and the Lord said
to me, 'I have heard the voice of the words of this
people which they have spoken to you. They have done
well in all that they have spoken.
DEU 5:29 'Oh that they had such a heart in
them, that they would fear Me, and keep all My
commandments always, that it may be well with them
and with their sons forever!
DEU 5:30 'Go, say to them, "Return to your
tents."
DEU 5:31 'But as for you, stand here by Me,
that I may speak to you all the commandments and the
statutes and the judgments which you shall teach
them, that they may observe {them} in the land which
I give them to possess.'
DEU 5:32 "So you shall observe to do just as
the Lord your God has commanded you; you shall not
turn aside to the right or to the left.
DEU 5:33 "You shall walk in all the way which
the Lord 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.
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DEU 6:1 "Now this
is the commandment, the statutes and the judgments
which the Lord your God has commanded {me} to teach
you, that you might do {them} in the land where you
are going over to possess it,
DEU 6:2 so that you and your son and your
grandson might fear the Lord your God, to keep all
His statutes and His commandments, which I command
you, all the days of your life, and that your days
may be prolonged.
DEU 6:3 "O Israel, you should listen and be
careful to do {it}, that it may be well with you and
that you may multiply greatly, just as the Lord, the
God of your fathers, has promised you, {in} a land
flowing with milk and honey.
DEU 6:4 "Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God,
the Lord is one!
DEU 6:5 "And you shall love the Lord your God
with all your heart and with all your soul and with
all your might.
DEU 6:6 "And these words, which I am
commanding you today, shall be on your heart;
DEU 6:7 and you shall teach them diligently
to your sons 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.
DEU 6:8 "And you shall bind them as a sign on
your hand and they shall be as frontals on your
forehead.
DEU 6:9 "And you shall write them on the
doorposts of your house and on your gates.
DEU 6:10 "Then it shall come about when the
Lord your God brings you into the land which He
swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to
give you, great and splendid cities which you did
not build,
DEU 6:11 and houses full of all good things
which you did not fill, and hewn cisterns which you
did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did
not plant, and you shall eat and be satisfied,
DEU 6:12 then watch yourself, lest you forget
the Lord who brought you from the land of Egypt, out
of the house of slavery.
DEU 6:13 "You shall fear {only} the Lord your
God; and you shall worship Him, and swear by His
name.
DEU 6:14 "You shall not follow other gods,
any of the gods of the peoples who surround you,
DEU 6:15 for the Lord your God in the midst
of you is a jealous God; otherwise the anger of the
Lord your God will be kindled against you, and He
will wipe you off the face of the earth.
DEU 6:16 "You shall not put the Lord your God
to the test, as you tested {Him} at Massah.
DEU 6:17 "You should diligently keep the
commandments of the Lord your God, and His
testimonies and His statutes which He has commanded
you.
DEU 6:18 "And you shall do what is right and
good in the sight of the Lord, that it may be well
with you and that you may go in and possess the good
land which the Lord swore to {give} your fathers,
DEU 6:19 by driving out all your enemies from
before you, as the Lord has spoken.
DEU 6:20 "When your son asks you in time to
come, saying, 'What {do} the testimonies and the
statutes and the judgments {mean} which the Lord our
God commanded you?'
DEU 6:21 then you shall say to your son,' We
were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt; and the Lord
brought us from Egypt with a mighty hand.
DEU 6:22 'Moreover, the Lord showed great and
distressing signs and wonders before our eyes
against Egypt, Pharaoh and all his household;
DEU 6:23 and He brought us out from there in
order to bring us in, to give us the land which He
had sworn to our fathers.'
DEU 6:24 "So the Lord commanded us to observe
all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God for our
good always and for our survival, as {it is} today.
DEU 6:25 "And it will be righteousness for us
if we are careful to observe all this commandment
before the Lord our God, just as He commanded us.
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DEU 7:1 "When the
Lord your God shall bring you into the land where
you are entering to possess it, and shall clear away
many nations before you, the Hittites and the
Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and
the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites,
seven nations greater and stronger than you,
DEU 7:2 and when the Lord your God shall
deliver them before you, and you shall defeat them,
then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make
no covenant with them and show no favor to them.
DEU 7:3 "Furthermore, you shall not
intermarry with them; you shall not give your
daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their
daughters for your sons.
DEU 7:4 "For they will turn your sons away
from following Me to serve other gods; then the
anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and
He will quickly destroy you.
DEU 7:5 "But thus you shall do to them: you
shall tear down their altars, and smash their
{sacred} pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and
burn their graven images with fire.
DEU 7:6 "For you are a holy people to the
Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to
be a people for His own possession out of all the
peoples who are on the face of the earth.
DEU 7:7 "The Lord did not set His love on you
nor choose you because you were more in number than
any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all
peoples,
DEU 7:8 but because the Lord loved you and
kept the oath which He swore to your forefathers,
the Lord brought you out by a mighty hand, and
redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the
hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
DEU 7:9 "Know therefore that the Lord your
God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His
covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousandth
generation with those who love Him and keep His
commandments;
DEU 7:10 but repays those who hate Him to
their faces, to destroy them; He will not delay with
him who hates Him, He will repay him to his face.
DEU 7:11 "Therefore, you shall keep the
commandment and the statutes and the judgments which
I am commanding you today, to do them.
DEU 7:12 "Then it shall come about, because
you listen to these judgments and keep and do them,
that the Lord your God will keep with you His
covenant and His lovingkindness which He swore to
your forefathers.
DEU 7:13 "And He will love you and bless you
and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of
your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain
and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your
herd and the young of your flock, in the land which
He swore to your forefathers to give you.
DEU 7:14 "You shall be blessed above all
peoples; there shall be no male or female barren
among you or among your cattle.
DEU 7:15 "And the Lord will remove from you
all sickness; and He will not put on you any of the
harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but
He will lay them on all who hate you.
DEU 7:16 "And you shall consume all the
peoples whom the Lord your God will deliver to you;
your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you
serve their gods, for that {would be} a snare to
you.
DEU 7:17 "If you should say in your heart,
'These nations are greater than I; how can I
dispossess them?'
DEU 7:18 you shall not be afraid of them; you
shall well remember what the Lord your God did to
Pharaoh and to all Egypt:
DEU 7:19 the great trials which your eyes saw
and the signs and the wonders and the mighty hand
and the outstretched arm by which the Lord your God
brought you out. So shall the Lord your God do to
all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
DEU 7:20 "Moreover, the Lord your God will
send the hornet against them, until those who are
left and hide themselves from you perish.
DEU 7:21 "You shall not dread them, for the
Lord your God is in your midst, a great and awesome
God.
DEU 7:22 "And the Lord your God will clear
away these nations before you little by little; you
will not be able to put an end to them quickly, lest
the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.
DEU 7:23 "But the Lord your God shall deliver
them before you, and will throw them into great
confusion until they are destroyed.
DEU 7:24 "And He will deliver their kings
into your hand so that you shall make their name
perish from under heaven; no man will be able to
stand before you until you have destroyed them.
DEU 7:25 "The graven images of their gods you
are to burn with fire; you shall not covet the
silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for
yourselves, lest you be snared by it, for it is an
abomination to the Lord your God.
DEU 7:26 "And you shall not bring an
abomination into your house, and like it come under
the ban; you shall utterly detest it and you shall
utterly abhor it, for it is something banned.
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DEU 8:1 "All the
commandments that I am commanding you today you
shall be careful to do, that you may live and
multiply, and go in and possess the land which the
Lord swore {to give} to your forefathers.
DEU 8:2 "And you shall remember all the way
which the Lord your God has led you in the
wilderness these forty years, that He might humble
you, testing you, to know what was in your heart,
whether you would keep His commandments or not.
DEU 8:3 "And He humbled you and let you be
hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not
know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make
you understand that man does not live by bread
alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out
of the mouth of the Lord.
DEU 8:4 "Your clothing did not wear out on
you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.
DEU 8:5 "Thus you are to know in your heart
that the Lord your God was disciplining you just as
a man disciplines his son.
DEU 8:6 "Therefore, you shall keep the
commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His
ways and to fear Him.
DEU 8:7 "For the Lord your God is bringing
you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of
fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and
hills;
DEU 8:8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines
and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil
and honey;
DEU 8:9 a land where you shall eat food
without scarcity, in which you shall not lack
anything; a land whose stones are iron, and out of
whose hills you can dig copper.
DEU 8:10 "When you have eaten and are
satisfied, you shall bless the Lord your God for the
good land which He has given you.
DEU 8:11 "Beware lest you forget the Lord
your God by not keeping His commandments and His
ordinances and His statutes which I am commanding
you today;
DEU 8:12 lest, when you have eaten and are
satisfied, and have built good houses and lived {in
them},
DEU 8:13 and when your herds and your flocks
multiply, and your silver and gold multiply, and all
that you have multiplies,
DEU 8:14 then your heart becomes proud, and
you forget the Lord your God who brought you out
from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
DEU 8:15 "He led you through the great and
terrible wilderness, {with its} fiery serpents and
scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no
water; He brought water for you out of the rock of
flint.
DEU 8:16 "In the wilderness He fed you manna
which your fathers did not know, that He might
humble you and that He might test you, to do good
for you in the end.
DEU 8:17 "Otherwise, you may say in your
heart, 'My power and the strength of my hand made me
this wealth.'
DEU 8:18 "But you shall remember the Lord
your God, for it is He who is giving you power to
make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which
He swore to your fathers, as {it is} this day.
DEU 8:19 "And it shall come about if you ever
forget the Lord your God, and go after other gods
and serve them and worship them, I testify against
you today that you shall surely perish.
DEU 8:20 "Like the nations that the Lord
makes to perish before you, so you shall perish;
because you would not listen to the voice of the
Lord your God.
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DEU 9:1 "Hear, O
Israel! You are crossing over the Jordan today to go
in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than
you, great cities fortified to heaven,
DEU 9:2 a people great and tall, the sons of
the Anakim, whom you know and of whom you have heard
{it said},' Who can stand before the sons of Anak?'
DEU 9:3 "Know therefore today that it is the
Lord your God who is crossing over before you as a
consuming fire. He will destroy them and He will
subdue them before you, so that you may drive them
out and destroy them quickly, just as the Lord has
spoken to you.
DEU 9:4 "Do not say in your heart when the
Lord your God has driven them out before you,
'Because of my righteousness the Lord has brought me
in to possess this land,' but {it is} because of the
wickedness of these nations {that} the Lord is
dispossessing them before you.
DEU 9:5 "It is not for your righteousness or
for the uprightness of your heart that you are going
to possess their land, but {it is} because of the
wickedness of these nations {that} the Lord your God
is driving them out before you, in order to confirm
the oath which the Lord swore to your fathers, to
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
DEU 9:6 "Know, then, {it is} not because of
your righteousness {that} the Lord your God is
giving you this good land to possess, for you are a
stubborn people.
DEU 9:7 "Remember, do not forget how you
provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the
wilderness; from the day that you left the land of
Egypt until you arrived at this place, you have been
rebellious against the Lord.
DEU 9:8 "Even at Horeb you provoked the Lord
to wrath, and the Lord was so angry with you that He
would have destroyed you.
DEU 9:9 "When I went up to the mountain to
receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the
covenant which the Lord had made with you, then I
remained on the mountain forty days and nights; I
neither ate bread nor drank water.
DEU 9:10 "And the Lord gave me the two
tablets of stone written by the finger of God; and
on them {were} all the words which the Lord had
spoken with you at the mountain from the midst of
the fire on the day of the assembly.
DEU 9:11 "And it came about at the end of
forty days and nights that the Lord gave me the two
tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.
DEU 9:12 "Then the Lord said to me, 'Arise,
go down from here quickly, for your people whom you
brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They have
quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded
them; they have made a molten image for themselves.'
DEU 9:13 "The Lord spoke further to me,
