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}.
Top of Page
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.
Top of Page
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.
Top of Page
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.
Top of Page
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.
Top of Page
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.
Top of Page
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.
Top of Page
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.
Top of Page
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,
saying, 'I have seen this people, and indeed, it is
a stubborn people.
DEU 9:14 'Let Me alone, that I may destroy
them and blot out their name from under heaven; and
I will make of you a nation mightier and greater
than they.'
DEU 9:15 "So I turned and came down from the
mountain while the mountain was burning with fire,
and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two
hands.
DEU 9:16 "And I saw that you had indeed
sinned against the Lord your God. You had made for
yourselves a molten calf; you had turned aside
quickly from the way which the Lord had commanded
you.
DEU 9:17 "And I took hold of the two tablets
and threw them from my hands, and smashed them
before your eyes.
DEU 9:18 "And I fell down before the Lord, as
at the first, forty days and nights; I neither ate
bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which
you had committed in doing what was evil in the
sight of the Lord to provoke Him to anger.
DEU 9:19 "For I was afraid of the anger and
hot displeasure with which the Lord was wrathful
against you in order to destroy you, but the Lord
listened to me that time also.
DEU 9:20 "And the Lord was angry enough with
Aaron to destroy him; so I also prayed for Aaron at
the same time.
DEU 9:21 "And I took your sinful {thing}, the
calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and
crushed it, grinding it very small until it was as
fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brook
that came down from the mountain.
DEU 9:22 "Again at Taberah and at Massah and
at Kibroth-hattaavah you provoked the Lord to wrath.
DEU 9:23 "And when the Lord sent you from
Kadesh-barnea, saying, 'Go up and possess the land
which I have given you,' then you rebelled against
the command of the Lord your God; you neither
believed Him nor listened to His voice.
DEU 9:24 "You have been rebellious against
the Lord from the day I knew you.
DEU 9:25 "So I fell down before the Lord the
forty days and nights, which I did because the Lord
had said He would destroy you.
DEU 9:26 "And I prayed to the Lord, and said,
'O Lord God, do not destroy Thy people, even Thine
inheritance, whom Thou hast redeemed through Thy
greatness, whom Thou hast brought out of Egypt with
a mighty hand.
DEU 9:27 'Remember Thy servants, Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob; do not look at the stubbornness of
this people or at their wickedness or their sin.
DEU 9:28 'Otherwise the land from which Thou
didst bring us may say, "Because the Lord was not
able to bring them into the land which He had
promised them and because He hated them He has
brought them out to slay them in the wilderness."
DEU 9:29 'Yet they are Thy people, even Thine
inheritance, whom Thou hast brought out by Thy great
power and Thine outstretched arm.'
Top of Page
DEU 10:1 "At that
time the Lord said to me, 'Cut out for yourself two
tablets of stone like the former ones, and come up
to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood for
yourself.
DEU 10:2 'And I will write on the tablets the
words that were on the former tablets which you
shattered, and you shall put them in the ark.'
DEU 10:3 "So I made an ark of acacia wood and
cut out two tablets of stone like the former ones,
and went up on the mountain with the two tablets in
my hand.
DEU 10:4 "And He wrote on the tablets, like
the former writing, the Ten Commandments which the
Lord had spoken to you on the mountain from the
midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and
the Lord gave them to me.
DEU 10:5 "Then I turned and came down from
the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I
had made; and there they are, as the Lord commanded
me."
DEU 10:6 (Now the sons of Israel set out from
Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died and
there he was buried and Eleazar his son ministered
as priest in his place.
DEU 10:7 From there they set out to Gudgodah;
and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of
water.
DEU 10:8 At that time the Lord set apart the
tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of
the Lord, to stand before the Lord to serve Him and
to bless in His name until this day.
DEU 10:9 Therefore, Levi does not have a
portion or inheritance with his brothers; the Lord
is his inheritance, just as the Lord your God spoke
to him.)
DEU 10:10 "I, moreover, stayed on the
mountain forty days and forty nights like the first
time, and the Lord listened to me that time also;
the Lord was not willing to destroy you.
DEU 10:11 "Then the Lord said to me, 'Arise,
proceed on your journey ahead of the people, that
they may go in and possess the land which I swore to
their fathers to give them.'
DEU 10:12 "And now, Israel, what does the
Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord
your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and
to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and
with all your soul,
DEU 10:13 {and} to keep the Lord's
commandments and His statutes which I am commanding
you today for your good?
DEU 10:14 "Behold, to the Lord your God
belong heaven and the highest heavens, the earth and
all that is in it.
DEU 10:15 "Yet on your fathers did the Lord
set His affection to love them, and He chose their
descendants after them, {even} you above all
peoples, as {it is} this day.
DEU 10:16 "Circumcise then your heart, and
stiffen your neck no more.
DEU 10:17 "For the Lord your God is the God
of gods and the Lord of lords, the great, the
mighty, and the awesome God who does not show
partiality, nor take a bribe.
DEU 10:18 "He executes justice for the orphan
and the widow, and shows His love for the alien by
giving him food and clothing.
DEU 10:19 "So show your love for the alien,
for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
DEU 10:20 "You shall fear the Lord your God;
you shall serve Him and cling to Him, and you shall
swear by His name.
DEU 10:21 "He is your praise and He is your
God, who has done these great and awesome things for
you which your eyes have seen.
DEU 10:22 "Your fathers went down to Egypt
seventy persons {in all,} and now the Lord your God
has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.
Top of Page
DEU 11:1 "You
shall therefore love the Lord your God, and always
keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and
His commandments.
DEU 11:2 "And know this day that I {am} not
{speaking} with your sons who have not known and who
have not seen the discipline of the Lord your God -
- His greatness, His mighty hand, and His
outstretched arm,
DEU 11:3 and His signs and His works which He
did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of
Egypt and to all his land;
DEU 11:4 and what He did to Egypt's army, to
its horses and its chariots, when He made the water
of the Red Sea to engulf them while they were
pursuing you, and the Lord completely destroyed
them;
DEU 11:5 and what He did to you in the
wilderness until you came to this place;
DEU 11:6 and what He did to Dathan and Abiram,
the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben, when the earth
opened its mouth and swallowed them, their
households, their tents, and every living thing that
followed them, among all Israel - -
DEU 11:7 but your own eyes have seen all the
great work of the Lord which He did.
DEU 11:8 "You shall therefore keep every
commandment which I am commanding you today, so that
you may be strong and go in and possess the land
into which you are about to cross to possess it;
DEU 11:9 so that you may prolong {your} days
on the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to
give to them and to their descendants, a land
flowing with milk and honey.
DEU 11:10 "For the land, into which you are
entering to possess it, is not like the land of
Egypt from which you came, where you used to sow
your seed and water it with your foot like a
vegetable garden.
DEU 11:11 "But the land into which you are
about to cross to possess it, a land of hills and
valleys, drinks water from the rain of heaven,
DEU 11:12 a land for which the Lord your God
cares; the eyes of the Lord your God are always on
it, from the beginning even to the end of the year.
DEU 11:13 "And it shall come about, if you
listen obediently to my commandments which I am
commanding you today, to love the Lord your God and
to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul,
DEU 11:14 that He will give the rain for your
land in its season, the early and late rain, that
you may gather in your grain and your new wine and
your oil.
DEU 11:15 "And He will give grass in your
fields for your cattle, and you shall eat and be
satisfied.
DEU 11:16 "Beware, lest your hearts be
deceived and you turn away and serve other gods and
worship them.
DEU 11:17 "Or the anger of the Lord will be
kindled against you, and He will shut up the heavens
so that there will be no rain and the ground will
not yield its fruit; and you will perish quickly
from the good land which the Lord is giving you.
DEU 11:18 "You shall therefore impress these
words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and
you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they
shall be as frontals on your forehead.
DEU 11:19 "And you shall teach them to your
sons, talking of them when you sit in your house and
when you walk along the road and when you lie down
and when you rise up.
DEU 11:20 "And you shall write them on the
doorposts of your house and on your gates,
DEU 11:21 so that your days and the days of
your sons may be multiplied on the land which the
Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as long as
the heavens {remain} above the earth.
DEU 11:22 "For if you are careful to keep all
this commandment which I am commanding you, to do
it, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His
ways and hold fast to Him;
DEU 11:23 then the Lord will drive out all
these nations from before you, and you will
dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.
DEU 11:24 "Every place on which the sole of
your foot shall tread shall be yours; your border
shall be from the wilderness to Lebanon, {and} from
the river, the river Euphrates, as far as the
western sea.
DEU 11:25 "There shall no man be able to
stand before you; the Lord your God shall lay the
dread of you and the fear of you on all the land on
which you set foot, as He has spoken to you.
DEU 11:26 "See, I am setting before you today
a blessing and a curse:
DEU 11:27 the blessing, if you listen to the
commandments of the Lord your God, which I am
commanding you today;
DEU 11:28 and the curse, if you do not listen
to the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn
aside from the way which I am commanding you today,
by following other gods which you have not known.
DEU 11:29 "And it shall come about, when the
Lord your God brings you into the land where you are
entering to possess it, that you shall place the
blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount
Ebal.
DEU 11:30 "Are they not across the Jordan,
west of the way toward the sunset, in the land of
the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite
Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?
DEU 11:31 "For you are about to cross the
Jordan to go in to possess the land which the Lord
your God is giving you, and you shall possess it and
live in it,
DEU 11:32 and you shall be careful to do all
the statutes and the judgments which I am setting
before you today.
Top of Page
DEU 12:1 "These
are the statutes and the judgments which you shall
carefully observe in the land which the Lord, the
God of your fathers, has given you to possess as
long as you live on the earth.
DEU 12:2 "You shall utterly destroy all the
places where the nations whom you shall dispossess
serve their gods, on the high mountains and on the
hills and under every green tree.
DEU 12:3 "And you shall tear down their
altars and smash their {sacred} pillars and burn
their Asherim with fire, and you shall cut down the
engraved images of their gods, and you shall
obliterate their name from that place.
DEU 12:4 "You shall not act like this toward
the Lord your God.
DEU 12:5 "But you shall seek {the} {Lord} at
the place which the Lord your God shall choose from
all your tribes, to establish His name there for His
dwelling, and there you shall come.
DEU 12:6 "And there you shall bring your
burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the
contribution of your hand, your votive offerings,
your freewill offerings, and the first-born of your
herd and of your flock.
DEU 12:7 "There also you and your households
shall eat before the Lord your God, and rejoice in
all your undertakings in which the Lord your God has
blessed you.
DEU 12:8 "You shall not do at all what we are
doing here today, every man {doing} whatever is
right in his own eyes;
DEU 12:9 for you have not as yet come to the
resting place and the inheritance which the Lord
your God is giving you.
DEU 12:10 "When you cross the Jordan and live
in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to
inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies
around {you} so that you live in security,
DEU 12:11 then it shall come about that the
place in which the Lord your God shall choose for
His name to dwell, there you shall bring all that I
command you: your burnt offerings and your
sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution of your
hand, and all your choice votive offerings which you
will vow to the Lord.
DEU 12:12 "And you shall rejoice before the
Lord your God, you and your sons and daughters, your
male and female servants, and the Levite who is
within your gates, since he has no portion or
inheritance with you.
DEU 12:13 "Be careful that you do not offer
your burnt offerings in every {cultic} place you
see,
DEU 12:14 but in the place which the Lord
chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer
your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all
that I command you.
DEU 12:15 "However, you may slaughter and eat
meat within any of your gates, whatever you desire,
according to the blessing of the Lord your God which
He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat
of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.
DEU 12:16 "Only you shall not eat the blood;
you are to pour it out on the ground like water.
DEU 12:17 "You are not allowed to eat within
your gates the tithe of your grain, or new wine, or
oil, or the first-born of your herd or flock, or any
of your votive offerings which you vow, or your
freewill offerings, or the contribution of your
hand.
DEU 12:18 "But you shall eat them before the
Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God
will choose, you and your son and daughter, and your
male and female servants, and the Levite who is
within your gates; and you shall rejoice before the
Lord your God in all your undertakings.
DEU 12:19 "Be careful that you do not forsake
the Levite as long as you live in your land.
DEU 12:20 "When the Lord your God extends
your border as He has promised you, and you say, 'I
will eat meat,' because you desire to eat meat,
{then} you may eat meat, whatever you desire.
DEU 12:21 "If the place which the Lord your
God chooses to put His name is too far from you,
then you may slaughter of your herd and flock which
the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you; and
you may eat within your gates whatever you desire.
DEU 12:22 "Just as a gazelle or a deer is
eaten, so you shall eat it; the unclean and the
clean alike may eat of it.
DEU 12:23 "Only be sure not to eat the blood,
for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the
life with the flesh.
DEU 12:24 "You shall not eat it; you shall
pour it out on the ground like water.
DEU 12:25 "You shall not eat it, in order
that it may be well with you and your sons after
you, for you will be doing what is right in the
sight of the Lord.
DEU 12:26 "Only your holy things which you
may have and your votive offerings, you shall take
and go to the place which the Lord chooses.
DEU 12:27 "And you shall offer your burnt
offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of
the Lord your God; and the blood of your sacrifices
shall be poured out on the altar of the Lord your
God, and you shall eat the flesh.
DEU 12:28 "Be careful to listen to all these
words which I command you, in order that it may be
well with you and your sons after you forever, for
you will be doing what is good and right in the
sight of the Lord your God.
DEU 12:29 "When the Lord your God cuts off
before you the nations which you are going in to
dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in
their land,
DEU 12:30 beware that you are not ensnared to
follow them, after they are destroyed before you,
and that you do not inquire after their gods,
saying,' How do these nations serve their gods, that
I also may do likewise?'
DEU 12:31 "You shall not behave thus toward
the Lord your God, for every abominable act which
the Lord hates they have done for their gods; for
they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire
to their gods.
DEU 12:32 "Whatever I command you, you shall
be careful to do; you shall not add to nor take away
from it.
Top of Page
DEU 13:1 "If a
prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and
gives you a sign or a wonder,
DEU 13:2 and the sign or the wonder comes
true, concerning which he spoke to you, saying,' Let
us go after other gods (whom you have not known) and
let us serve them,'
DEU 13:3 you shall not listen to the words of
that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for the Lord
your God is testing you to find out if you love the
Lord your God with all your heart and with all your
soul.
DEU 13:4 "You shall follow the Lord your God
and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments,
listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him.
DEU 13:5 "But that prophet or that dreamer of
dreams shall be put to death, because he has
counseled rebellion against the Lord your God who
brought you from the land of Egypt and redeemed you
from the house of slavery, to seduce you from the
way in which the Lord your God commanded you to
walk. So you shall purge the evil from among you.
DEU 13:6 "If your brother, your mother's son,
or your son or daughter, or the wife you cherish, or
your friend who is as your own soul, entice you
secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods'
(whom neither you nor your fathers have known,
DEU 13:7 of the gods of the peoples who are
around you, near you or far from you, from one end
of the earth to the other end),
DEU 13:8 you shall not yield to him or listen
to him; and your eye shall not pity him, nor shall
you spare or conceal him.
DEU 13:9 "But you shall surely kill him; your
hand shall be first against him to put him to death,
and afterwards the hand of all the people.
DEU 13:10 "So you shall stone him to death
because he has sought to seduce you from the Lord
your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt,
out of the house of slavery.
DEU 13:11 "Then all Israel will hear and be
afraid, and will never again do such a wicked thing
among you.
DEU 13:12 "If you hear in one of your cities,
which the Lord your God is giving you to live in,
{anyone} saying {that}
DEU 13:13 some worthless men have gone out
from among you and have seduced the inhabitants of
their city, saying,' Let us go and serve other gods'
(whom you have not known),
DEU 13:14 then you shall investigate and
search out and inquire thoroughly. And if it is true
{and} the matter established that this abomination
has been done among you,
DEU 13:15 you shall surely strike the
inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword,
utterly destroying it and all that is in it and its
cattle with the edge of the sword.
DEU 13:16 "Then you shall gather all its
booty into the middle of its open square and burn
the city and all its booty with fire as a whole
burnt offering to the Lord your God; and it shall be
a ruin forever. It shall never be rebuilt. DEU
13:17 "And nothing from that which is put under
the ban shall cling to your hand, in order that the
Lord may turn from His burning anger and show mercy
to you, and have compassion on you and make you
increase, just as He has sworn to your fathers,
DEU 13:18 if you will listen to the voice of
the Lord your God, keeping all His commandments
which I am commanding you today, and doing what is
right in the sight of the Lord your God.
Top of Page
DEU 14:1 "You are
the sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut
yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of
the dead.
DEU 14:2 "For you are a holy people to the
Lord your God; and the Lord has chosen you to be a
people for His own possession out of all the peoples
who are on the face of the earth.
DEU 14:3 "You shall not eat any detestable
thing.
DEU 14:4 "These are the animals which you may
eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
DEU 14:5 the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck,
the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the
mountain sheep.
DEU 14:6 "And any animal that divides the
hoof and has the hoof split in two {and} chews the
cud, among the animals, that you may eat.
DEU 14:7 "Nevertheless, you are not to eat of
these among those which chew the cud, or among those
that divide the hoof in two: the camel and the
rabbit and the rock-badger, for though they chew the
cud, they do not divide the hoof; they are unclean
for you.
DEU 14:8 "And the pig, because it divides the
hoof but {does} not {chew} the cud, it is unclean
for you. You shall not eat any of their flesh nor
touch their carcasses.
DEU 14:9 "These you may eat of all that are
in water: anything that has fins and scales you may
eat,
DEU 14:10 but anything that does not have
fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for
you.
DEU 14:11 "You may eat any clean bird.
DEU 14:12 "But these are the ones which you
shall not eat: the eagle and the vulture and the
buzzard,
DEU 14:13 and the red kite, the falcon, and
the kite in their kinds,
DEU 14:14 and every raven in its kind,
DEU 14:15 and the ostrich, the owl, the sea
gull, and the hawk in their kinds,
DEU 14:16 the little owl, the great owl, the
#663300 owl,
DEU 14:17 the pelican, the carrion vulture,
the cormorant,
DEU 14:18 the stork, and the heron in their
kinds, and the hoopoe and the bat.
DEU 14:19 "And all the teeming life with
wings are unclean to you; they shall not be eaten.
DEU 14:20 "You may eat any clean bird.
DEU 14:21 "You shall not eat anything which
dies {of itself.} You may give it to the alien who
is in your town, so that he may eat it, or you may
sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to
the Lord your God. You shall not boil a kid in its
mother's milk.
DEU 14:22 "You shall surely tithe all the
produce from what you sow, which comes out of the
field every year.
DEU 14:23 "And you shall eat in the presence
of the Lord your God, at the place where He chooses
to establish His name, the tithe of your grain, your
new wine, your oil, and the first-born of your herd
and your flock, in order that you may learn to fear
the Lord your God always.
DEU 14:24 "And if the distance is so great
for you that you are not able to bring {the tithe,}
since the place where the Lord your God chooses to
set His name is too far away from you when the Lord
your God blesses you,
DEU 14:25 then you shall exchange {it} for
money, and bind the money in your hand and go to the
place which the Lord your God chooses.
DEU 14:26 "And you may spend the money for
whatever your heart desires, for oxen, or sheep, or
wine, or strong drink, or whatever your heart
desires; and there you shall eat in the presence of
the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your
household.
DEU 14:27 "Also you shall not neglect the
Levite who is in your town, for he has no portion or
inheritance among you.
DEU 14:28 "At the end of every third year you
shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in
that year, and shall deposit {it} in your town.
DEU 14:29 "And the Levite, because he has no
portion or inheritance among you, and the alien, the
orphan and the widow who are in your town, shall
come and eat and be satisfied, in order that the
Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your
hand which you do.
Top of Page
DEU 15:1 "At the
end of {every} seven years you shall grant a
remission {of debts.}
DEU 15:2 "And this is the manner of
remission: every creditor shall release what he has
loaned to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his
neighbor and his brother, because the Lord's
remission has been proclaimed.
DEU 15:3 "From a foreigner you may exact
{it,} but your hand shall release whatever of yours
is with your brother.
DEU 15:4 "However, there shall be no poor
among you, since the Lord will surely bless you in
the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an
inheritance to possess,
DEU 15:5 if only you listen obediently to the
voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all
this commandment which I am commanding you today.
DEU 15:6 "For the Lord your God shall bless
you as He has promised you, and you will lend to
many nations, but you will not borrow; and you will
rule over many nations, but they will not rule over
you.
DEU 15:7 "If there is a poor man with you,
one of your brothers, in any of your towns in your
land which the Lord your God is giving you, you
shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand
from your poor brother;
DEU 15:8 but you shall freely open your hand
to him, and shall generously lend him sufficient for
his need {in} whatever he lacks.
DEU 15:9 "Beware, lest there is a base
thought in your heart, saying, 'The seventh year,
the year of remission, is near,' and your eye is
hostile toward your poor brother, and you give him
nothing; then he may cry to the Lord against you,
and it will be a sin in you.
DEU 15:10 "You shall generously give to him,
and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to
him, because for this thing the Lord your God will
bless you in all your work and in all your
undertakings.
DEU 15:11 "For the poor will never cease {to
be} in the land; therefore I command you, saying,
'You shall freely open your hand to your brother, to
your needy and poor in your land.'
DEU 15:12 "If your kinsman, a Hebrew man or
woman, is sold to you, then he shall serve you six
years, but in the seventh year you shall set him
free.
DEU 15:13 "And when you set him free, you
shall not send him away empty-handed.
DEU 15:14 "You shall furnish him liberally
from your flock and from your threshing floor and
from your wine vat; you shall give to him as the
Lord your God has blessed you.
DEU 15:15 "And you shall remember that you
were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your
God redeemed you; therefore I command you this
today.
DEU 15:16 "And it shall come about if he says
to you, 'I will not go out from you,' because he
loves you and your household, since he fares well
with you;
DEU 15:17 then you shall take an awl and
pierce it through his ear into the door, and he
shall be your servant forever. And also you shall do
likewise to your maidservant.
DEU 15:18 "It shall not seem hard to you when
you set him free, for he has given you six years
{with} double the service of a hired man; so the
Lord your God will bless you in whatever you do.
DEU 15:19 "You shall consecrate to the Lord
your God all the first-born males that are born of
your herd and of your flock; you shall not work with
the first-born of your herd, nor shear the
first-born of your flock.
DEU 15:20 "You and your household shall eat
it every year before the Lord your God in the place
which the Lord chooses.
DEU 15:21 "But if it has any defect, {such
as} lameness or blindness, {or} any serious defect,
you shall not sacrifice it to the Lord your God.
DEU 15:22 "You shall eat it within your
gates; the unclean and the clean alike {may eat it,}
as a gazelle or a deer.
DEU 15:23 "Only you shall not eat its blood;
you are to pour it out on the ground like water.
Top of Page
DEU 16:1 "Observe
the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the
Lord your God, for in the month of Abib the Lord
your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
DEU 16:2 "And you shall sacrifice the
Passover to the Lord your God from the flock and the
herd, in the place where the Lord chooses to
establish His name.
DEU 16:3 "You shall not eat leavened bread
with it; seven days you shall eat with it unleavened
bread, the bread of affliction (for you came out of
the land of Egypt in haste), in order that you may
remember all the days of your life the day when you
came out of the land of Egypt.
DEU 16:4 "For seven days no leaven shall be
seen with you in all your territory, and none of the
flesh which you sacrifice on the evening of the
first day shall remain overnight until morning.
DEU 16:5 "You are not allowed to sacrifice
the Passover in any of your towns which the Lord
your God is giving you;
DEU 16:6 but at the place where the Lord your
God chooses to establish His name, you shall
sacrifice the Passover in the evening at sunset, at
the time that you came out of Egypt.
DEU 16:7 "And you shall cook and eat {it} in
the place which the Lord your God chooses. And in
the morning you are to return to your tents.
DEU 16:8 "Six days you shall eat unleavened
bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a
solemn assembly to the Lord your God; you shall do
no work {on it.}
DEU 16:9 "You shall count seven weeks for
yourself; you shall begin to count seven weeks from
the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing
grain.
DEU 16:10 "Then you shall celebrate the Feast
of Weeks to the Lord your God with a tribute of a
freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give
just as the Lord your God blesses you;
DEU 16:11 and you shall rejoice before the
Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter
and your male and female servants and the Levite who
is in your town, and the stranger and the orphan and
the widow who are in your midst, in the place where
the Lord your God chooses to establish His name.
DEU 16:12 "And you shall remember that you
were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to
observe these statutes.
DEU 16:13 "You shall celebrate the Feast of
Booths seven days after you have gathered in from
your threshing floor and your wine vat;
DEU 16:14 and you shall rejoice in your
feast, you and your son and your daughter and your
male and female servants and the Levite and the
stranger and the orphan and the widow who are in
your towns.
DEU 16:15 "Seven days you shall celebrate a
feast to the Lord your God in the place which the
Lord chooses, because the Lord your God will bless
you in all your produce and in all the work of your
hands, so that you shall be altogether joyful.
DEU 16:16 "Three times in a year all your
males shall appear before the Lord your God in the
place which He chooses, at the Feast of Unleavened
Bread and at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of
Booths, and they shall not appear before the Lord
empty-handed.
DEU 16:17 "Every man shall give as he is
able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God
which He has given you.
DEU 16:18 "You shall appoint for yourself
judges and officers in all your towns which the Lord
your God is giving you, according to your tribes,
and they shall judge the people with righteous
judgment.
DEU 16:19 "You shall not distort justice; you
shall not be partial, and you shall not take a
bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and
perverts the words of the righteous.
DEU 16:20 "Justice, {and only} justice, you
shall pursue, that you may live and possess the land
which the Lord your God is giving you.
DEU 16:21 "You shall not plant for yourself
an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of
the Lord your God, which you shall make for
yourself.
DEU 16:22 "Neither shall you set up for
yourself a {sacred} pillar which the Lord your God
hates.
Top of Page
DEU 17:1 "You
shall not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a
sheep which has a blemish or any defect, for that is
a detestable thing to the Lord your God.
DEU 17:2 "If there is found in your midst, in
any of your towns, which the Lord your God is giving
you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the
sight of the Lord your God, by transgressing His
covenant,
DEU 17:3 and has gone and served other gods
and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of
the heavenly host, which I have not commanded,
DEU 17:4 and if it is told you and you have
heard of it, then you shall inquire thoroughly. And
behold, if it is true and the thing certain that
this detestable thing has been done in Israel,
DEU 17:5 then you shall bring out that man or
that woman who has done this evil deed, to your
gates, {that is,} the man or the woman, and you
shall stone them to death.
DEU 17:6 "On the evidence of two witnesses or
three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to
death; he shall not be put to death on the evidence
of one witness.
DEU 17:7 "The hand of the witnesses shall be
first against him to put him to death, and afterward
the hand of all the people. So you shall purge the
evil from your midst.
DEU 17:8 "If any case is too difficult for
you to decide, between one kind of homicide or
another, between one kind of lawsuit or another, and
between one kind of assault or another, being cases
of dispute in your courts, then you shall arise and
go up to the place which the Lord your God chooses.
DEU 17:9 "So you shall come to the Levitical
priest or the judge who is {in office} in those
days, and you shall inquire {of them,} and they will
declare to you the verdict in the case.
DEU 17:10 "And you shall do according to the
terms of the verdict which they declare to you from
that place which the Lord chooses; and you shall be
careful to observe according to all that they teach
you.
DEU 17:11 "According to the terms of the law
which they teach you, and according to the verdict
which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not
turn aside from the word which they declare to you,
to the right or the left.
DEU 17:12 "And the man who acts
presumptuously by not listening to the priest who
stands there to serve the Lord your God, nor to the
judge, that man shall die; thus you shall purge the
evil from Israel.
DEU 17:13 "Then all the people will hear and
be afraid, and will not act presumptuously again.
DEU 17:14 "When you enter the land which the
Lord your God gives you, and you possess it and live
in it, and you say, 'I will set a king over me like
all the nations who are around me,'
DEU 17:15 you shall surely set a king over
you whom the Lord your God chooses, {one} from among
your countrymen you shall set as king over
yourselves; you may not put a foreigner over
yourselves who is not your countryman.
DEU 17:16 "Moreover, he shall not multiply
horses for himself, nor shall he cause the people to
return to Egypt to multiply horses, since the Lord
has said to you, 'You shall never again return that
way.'
DEU 17:17 "Neither shall he multiply wives
for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he
greatly increase silver and gold for himself.
DEU 17:18 "Now it shall come about when he
sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write
for himself a copy of this law on a scroll in the
presence of the Levitical priests.
DEU 17:19 "And it shall be with him, and he
shall read it all the days of his life, that he may
learn to fear the Lord his God, by carefully
observing all the words of this law and these
statutes,
DEU 17:20 that his heart may not be lifted up
above his countrymen and that he may not turn aside
from the commandment, to the right or the left; in
order that he and his sons may continue long in his
kingdom in the midst of Israel.
Top of Page
DEU 18:1 "The
Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, shall
have no portion or inheritance with Israel; they
shall eat the Lord's offerings by fire and His
portion.
DEU 18:2 "And they shall have no inheritance
among their countrymen; the Lord is their
inheritance, as He promised them.
DEU 18:3 "Now this shall be the priests' due
from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice,
either an ox or a sheep, of which they shall give to
the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the
stomach.
DEU 18:4 "You shall give him the first fruits
of your grain, your new wine, and your oil, and the
first shearing of your sheep.
DEU 18:5 "For the Lord your God has chosen
him and his sons from all your tribes, to stand and
serve in the name of the Lord forever.
DEU 18:6 "Now if a Levite comes from any of
your towns throughout Israel where he resides, and
comes whenever he desires to the place which the
Lord chooses,
DEU 18:7 then he shall serve in the name of
the Lord his God, like all his fellow Levites who
stand there before the Lord.
DEU 18:8 "They shall eat equal portions,
except {what they receive} from the sale of their
fathers' {estates.}
DEU 18:9 "When you enter the land which the
Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to
imitate the detestable things of those nations.
DEU 18:10 "There shall not be found among you
anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass
through the fire, one who uses divination, one who
practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens,
or a sorcerer,
DEU 18:11 or one who casts a spell, or a
medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the
dead.
DEU 18:12 "For whoever does these things is
detestable to the Lord; and because of these
detestable things the Lord your God will drive them
out before you.
DEU 18:13 "You shall be blameless before the
Lord your God.
DEU 18:14 "For those nations, which you shall
dispossess, listen to those who practice witchcraft
and to diviners, but as for you, the Lord your God
has not allowed you {to do} so.
DEU 18:15 "The Lord your God will raise up
for you a prophet like me from among you, from your
countrymen, you shall listen to him.
DEU 18:16 "This is according to all that you
asked of the Lord your God in Horeb on the day of
the assembly, saying, 'Let me not hear again the
voice of the Lord my God, let me not see this great
fire anymore, lest I die.'
DEU 18:17 "And the Lord said to me, 'They
have spoken well.
DEU 18:18 'I will raise up a prophet from
among their countrymen like you, and I will put My
words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all
that I command him.
DEU 18:19 'And it shall come about that
whoever will not listen to My words which he shall
speak in My name, I Myself will require {it} of him.
DEU 18:20 'But the prophet who shall speak a
word presumptuously in My name which I have not
commanded him to speak, or which he shall speak in
the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.'
DEU 18:21 "And you may say in your heart,
'How shall we know the word which the Lord has not
spoken?'
DEU 18:22 "When a prophet speaks in the name
of the Lord, if the thing does not come about or
come true, that is the thing which the Lord has not
spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously;
you shall not be afraid of him.
Top of Page
DEU 19:1 "When
the Lord your God cuts off the nations, whose land
the Lord your God gives you, and you dispossess them
and settle in their cities and in their houses,
DEU 19:2 you shall set aside three cities for
yourself in the midst of your land, which the Lord
your God gives you to possess.
DEU 19:3 "You shall prepare the roads for
yourself, and divide into three parts the territory
of your land, which the Lord your God will give you
as a possession, so that any manslayer may flee
there.
DEU 19:4 "Now this is the case of the
manslayer who may flee there and live: when he kills
his friend unintentionally, not hating him
previously - -
DEU 19:5 as when {a man} goes into the forest
with his friend to cut wood, and his hand swings the
axe to cut down the tree, and the iron {head} slips
off the handle and strikes his friend so that he
dies - - he may flee to one of these cities and
live;
DEU 19:6 lest the avenger of blood pursue the
manslayer in the heat of his anger, and overtake
him, because the way is long, and take his life,
though he was not deserving of death, since he had
not hated him previously.
DEU 19:7 "Therefore, I command you, saying,
'You shall set aside three cities for yourself.'
DEU 19:8 "And if the Lord your God enlarges
your territory, just as He has sworn to your
fathers, and gives you all the land which He
promised to give your fathers - -
DEU 19:9 if you carefully observe all this
commandment, which I command you today, to love the
Lord your God, and to walk in His ways always - -
then you shall add three more cities for yourself,
besides these three.
DEU 19:10 "So innocent blood will not be shed
in the midst of your land which the Lord your God
gives you as an inheritance, and bloodguiltiness be
on you.
DEU 19:11 "But if there is a man who hates
his neighbor and lies in wait for him and rises up
against him and strikes him so that he dies, and he
flees to one of these cities,
DEU 19:12 then the elders of his city shall
send and take him from there and deliver him into
the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
DEU 19:13 "You shall not pity him, but you
shall purge the blood of the innocent from Israel,
that it may go well with you.
DEU 19:14 "You shall not move your neighbor's
boundary mark, which the ancestors have set, in your
inheritance which you shall inherit in the land that
the Lord your God gives you to possess.
DEU 19:15 "A single witness shall not rise up
against a man on account of any iniquity or any sin
which he has committed; on the evidence of two or
three witnesses a matter shall be confirmed.
DEU 19:16 "If a malicious witness rises up
against a man to accuse him of wrongdoing,
DEU 19:17 then both the men who have the
dispute shall stand before the Lord, before the
priests and the judges who will be {in office} in
those days.
DEU 19:18 "And the judges shall investigate
thoroughly; and if the witness is a false witness
{and} he has accused his brother falsely,
DEU 19:19 then you shall do to him just as he
had intended to do to his brother. Thus you shall
purge the evil from among you.
DEU 19:20 "And the rest will hear and be
afraid, and will never again do such an evil thing
among you.
DEU 19:21 "Thus you shall not show pity: life
for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for
hand, foot for foot.
Top of Page
DEU 20:1 "When
you go out to battle against your enemies and see
horses and chariots {and} people more numerous than
you, do not be afraid of them; for the Lord your
God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt, is
with you.
DEU 20:2 "Now it shall come about that when
you are approaching the battle, the priest shall
come near and speak to the people.
DEU 20:3 "And he shall say to them, 'Hear, O
Israel, you are approaching the battle against your
enemies today. Do not be fainthearted. Do not be
afraid, or panic, or tremble before them,
DEU 20:4 for the Lord your God is the one who
goes with you, to fight for you against your
enemies, to save you.'
DEU 20:5 "The officers also shall speak to
the people, saying, 'Who is the man that has built a
new house and has not dedicated it? Let him depart
and return to his house, lest he die in the battle
and another man dedicate it.
DEU 20:6 'And who is the man that has planted
a vineyard and has not begun to use its fruit? Let
him depart and return to his house, lest he die in
the battle and another man begin to use its fruit.
DEU 20:7 'And who is the man that is engaged
to a woman and has not married her? Let him depart
and return to his house, lest he die in the battle
and another man marry her.'
DEU 20:8 "Then the officers shall speak
further to the people, and they shall say, 'Who is
the man that is afraid and fainthearted? Let him
depart and return to his house, so that he might not
make his brothers' hearts melt like his heart.'
DEU 20:9 "And it shall come about that when
the officers have finished speaking to the people,
they shall appoint commanders of armies at the head
of the people.
DEU 20:10 "When you approach a city to fight
against it, you shall offer it terms of peace.
DEU 20:11 "And it shall come about, if it
agrees to make peace with you and opens to you, then
it shall be that all the people who are found in it
shall become your forced labor and shall serve you.
DEU 20:12 "However, if it does not make peace
with you, but makes war against you, then you shall
besiege it.
DEU 20:13 "When the Lord your God gives it
into your hand, you shall strike all the men in it
with the edge of the sword.
DEU 20:14 "Only the women and the children
and the animals and all that is in the city, all its
spoil, you shall take as booty for yourself; and you
shall use the spoil of your enemies which the Lord
your God has given you.
DEU 20:15 "Thus you shall do to all the
cities that are very far from you, which are not of
the cities of these nations nearby.
DEU 20:16 "Only in the cities of these
peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an
inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that
breathes.
DEU 20:17 "But you shall utterly destroy
them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and
the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as the
Lord your God has commanded you,
DEU 20:18 in order that they may not teach
you to do according to all their detestable things
which they have done for their gods, so that you
would sin against the Lord your God.
DEU 20:19 "When you besiege a city a long
time, to make war against it in order to capture it,
you shall not destroy its trees by swinging an axe
against them; for you may eat from them, and you
shall not cut them down. For is the tree of the
field a man, that it should be besieged by you?
DEU 20:20 "Only the trees which you know are
not fruit trees you shall destroy and cut down, that
you may construct siegeworks against the city that
is making war with you until it falls.
Top of Page
DEU 21:1 "If a
slain person is found lying in the open country in
the land which the Lord your God gives you to
possess, {and} it is not known who has struck him,
DEU 21:2 then your elders and your judges
shall go out and measure {the distance} to the
cities which are around the slain one.
DEU 21:3 "And it shall be that the city which
is nearest to the slain man, that is, the elders of
that city, shall take a heifer of the herd, which
has not been worked and which has not pulled in a
yoke;
DEU 21:4 and the elders of that city shall
bring the heifer down to a valley with running
water, which has not been plowed or sown, and shall
break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
DEU 21:5 "Then the priests, the sons of Levi,
shall come near, for the Lord your God has chosen
them to serve Him and to bless in the name of the
Lord; and every dispute and every assault shall be
settled by them.
DEU 21:6 "And all the elders of that city
which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their
hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the
valley;
DEU 21:7 and they shall answer and say,' Our
hands have not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see
{it.}
DEU 21:8 'Forgive Thy people Israel whom Thou
hast redeemed, O Lord, and do not place the guilt of
innocent blood in the midst of Thy people Israel.'
And the bloodguiltiness shall be forgiven them.
DEU 21:9 "So you shall remove the guilt of
innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is
right in the eyes of the Lord.
DEU 21:10 "When you go out to battle against
your enemies, and the Lord your God delivers them
into your hands, and you take them away captive,
DEU 21:11 and see among the captives a
beautiful woman, and have a desire for her and would
take her as a wife for yourself,
DEU 21:12 then you shall bring her home to
your house, and she shall shave her head and trim
her nails.
DEU 21:13 "She shall also remove the clothes
of her captivity and shall remain in your house, and
mourn her father and mother a full month; and after
that you may go in to her and be her husband and she
shall be your wife.
DEU 21:14 "And it shall be, if you are not
pleased with her, then you shall let her go wherever
she wishes; but you shall certainly not sell her for
money, you shall not mistreat her, because you have
humbled her.
DEU 21:15 "If a man has two wives, the one
loved and the other unloved, and {both} the loved
and the unloved have borne him sons, if the
first-born son belongs to the unloved,
DEU 21:16 then it shall be in the day he
wills what he has to his sons, he cannot make the
son of the loved the first-born before the son of
the unloved, who is the first-born.
DEU 21:17 "But he shall acknowledge the
first-born, the son of the unloved, by giving him a
double portion of all that he has, for he is the
beginning of his strength; to him belongs the right
of the first-born.
DEU 21:18 "If any man has a stubborn and
rebellious son who will not obey his father or his
mother, and when they chastise him, he will not even
listen to them,
DEU 21:19 then his father and mother shall
seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his
city at the gateway of his home town.
DEU 21:20 "And they shall say to the elders
of his city, 'This son of ours is stubborn and
rebellious, he will not obey us, he is a glutton and
a drunkard.'
DEU 21:21 "Then all the men of his city shall
stone him to death; so you shall remove the evil
from your midst, and all Israel shall hear {of it}
and fear.
DEU 21:22 "And if a man has committed a sin
worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you
hang him on a tree,
DEU 21:23 his corpse shall not hang all night
on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the
same day (for he who is hanged is accursed of God),
so that you do not defile your land which the Lord
your God gives you as an inheritance.
Top of Page
DEU 22:1 "You
shall not see your countryman's ox or his sheep
straying away, and pay no attention to them; you
shall certainly bring them back to your countryman.
DEU 22:2 "And if your countryman is not near
you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring
it home to your house, and it shall remain with you
until your countryman looks for it; then you shall
restore it to him.
DEU 22:3 "And thus you shall do with his
donkey, and you shall do the same with his garment,
and you shall do likewise with anything lost by your
countryman, which he has lost and you have found.
You are not allowed to neglect {them.}
DEU 22:4 "You shall not see your countryman's
donkey or his ox fallen down on the way, and pay no
attention to them; you shall certainly help him to
raise {them} up.
DEU 22:5 "A woman shall not wear man's
clothing, nor shall a man put on a woman's clothing;
for whoever does these things is an abomination to
the Lord your God.
DEU 22:6 "If you happen to come upon a bird's
nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground,
with young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting on
the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the
mother with the young;
DEU 22:7 you shall certainly let the mother
go, but the young you may take for yourself, in
order that it may be well with you, and that you may
prolong your days.
DEU 22:8 "When you build a new house, you
shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not
bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone falls from
it.
DEU 22:9 "You shall not sow your vineyard
with two kinds of seed, lest all the produce of the
seed which you have sown, and the increase of the
vineyard become defiled.
DEU 22:10 "You shall not plow with an ox and
a donkey together.
DEU 22:11 "You shall not wear a material
mixed of wool and linen together.
DEU 22:12 "You shall make yourself tassels on
the four corners of your garment with which you
cover yourself.
DEU 22:13 "If any man takes a wife and goes
in to her and {then} turns against her,
DEU 22:14 and charges her with shameful deeds
and publicly defames her, and says,' I took this
woman, {but} when I came near her, I did not find
her a virgin,'
DEU 22:15 then the girl's father and her
mother shall take and bring out the {evidence} of
the girl's virginity to the elders of the city at
the gate.
DEU 22:16 "And the girl's father shall say to
the elders, 'I gave my daughter to this man for a
wife, but he turned against her;
DEU 22:17 and behold, he has charged her with
shameful deeds, saying, "I did not find your
daughter a virgin." But this is the {evidence} of my
daughter's virginity.' And they shall spread the
garment before the elders of the city.
DEU 22:18 "So the elders of that city shall
take the man and chastise him,
DEU 22:19 and they shall fine him a hundred
{shekels} of silver and give it to the girl's
father, because he publicly defamed a virgin of
Israel. And she shall remain his wife; he cannot
divorce her all his days.
DEU 22:20 "But if this charge is true, that
the girl was not found a virgin,
DEU 22:21 then they shall bring out the girl
to the doorway of her father's house, and the men of
her city shall stone her to death because she has
committed an act of folly in Israel, by playing the
harlot in her father's house; thus you shall purge
the evil from among you.
DEU 22:22 "If a man is found lying with a
married woman, then both of them shall die, the man
who lay with the woman, and the woman; thus you
shall purge the evil from Israel.
DEU 22:23 "If there is a girl who is a virgin
engaged to a man, and {another} man finds her in the
city and lies with her,
DEU 22:24 then you shall bring them both out
to the gate of that city and you shall stone them to
death; the girl, because she did not cry out in the
city, and the man, because he has violated his
neighbor's wife. Thus you shall purge the evil from
among you.
DEU 22:25 "But if in the field the man finds
the girl who is engaged, and the man forces her and
lies with her, then only the man who lies with her
shall die.
DEU 22:26 "But you shall do nothing to the
girl; there is no sin in the girl worthy of death,
for just as a man rises against his neighbor and
murders him, so is this case.
DEU 22:27 "When he found her in the field,
the engaged girl cried out, but there was no one to
save her.
DEU 22:28 "If a man finds a girl who is a
virgin, who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies
with her and they are discovered,
DEU 22:29 then the man who lay with her shall
give to the girl's father fifty {shekels} of silver,
and she shall become his wife because he has
violated her; he cannot divorce her all his days.
DEU 22:30 "A man shall not take his father's
wife so that he shall not uncover his father's
skirt.
Top of Page
DEU 23:1 "No one
who is emasculated, or has his male organ cut off,
shall enter the assembly of the Lord.
DEU 23:2 "No one of illegitimate birth shall
enter the assembly of the Lord; none of his
{descendants,} even to the tenth generation, shall
enter the assembly of the Lord.
DEU 23:3 "No Ammonite or Moabite shall enter
the assembly of the Lord; none of their
{descendants,} even to the tenth generation, shall
ever enter the assembly of the Lord,
DEU 23:4 because they did not meet you with
food and water on the way when you came out of
Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the
son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse
you.
DEU 23:5 "Nevertheless, the Lord your God was
not willing to listen to Balaam, but the Lord your
God turned the curse into a blessing for you because
the Lord your God loves you.
DEU 23:6 "You shall never seek their peace or
their prosperity all your days.
DEU 23:7 "You shall not detest an Edomite,
for he is your brother; you shall not detest an
Egyptian, because you were an alien in his land.
DEU 23:8 "The sons of the third generation
who are born to them may enter the assembly of the
Lord.
DEU 23:9 "When you go out as an army against
your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from
every evil thing.
DEU 23:10 "If there is among you any man who
is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he
must go outside the camp; he may not reenter the
camp.
DEU 23:11 "But it shall be when evening
approaches, he shall bathe himself with water, and
at sundown he may reenter the camp.
DEU 23:12 "You shall also have a place
outside the camp and go out there,
DEU 23:13 and you shall have a spade among
your tools, and it shall be when you sit down
outside, you shall dig with it and shall turn to
cover up your excrement.
DEU 23:14 "Since the Lord your God walks in
the midst of your camp to deliver you and to defeat
your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be
holy; and He must not see anything indecent among
you lest He turn away from you.
DEU 23:15 "You shall not hand over to his
master a slave who has escaped from his master to
you.
DEU 23:16 "He shall live with you in your
midst, in the place which he shall choose in one of
your towns where it pleases him; you shall not
mistreat him.
DEU 23:17 "None of the daughters of Israel
shall be a cult prostitute, nor shall any of the
sons of Israel be a cult prostitute.
DEU 23:18 "You shall not bring the hire of a
harlot or the wages of a dog into the house of the
Lord your God for any votive offering, for both of
these are an abomination to the Lord your God.
DEU 23:19 "You shall not charge interest to
your countrymen: interest on money, food, {or}
anything that may be loaned at interest.
DEU 23:20 "You may charge interest to a
foreigner, but to your countryman you shall not
charge interest, so that the Lord your God may bless
you in all that you undertake in the land which you
are about to enter to possess.
DEU 23:21 "When you make a vow to the Lord
your God, you shall not delay to pay it, for it
would be sin in you, and the Lord your God will
surely require it of you.
DEU 23:22 "However, if you refrain from
vowing, it would not be sin in you.
DEU 23:23 "You shall be careful to perform
what goes out from your lips, just as you have
voluntarily vowed to the Lord your God, what you
have promised.
DEU 23:24 "When you enter your neighbor's
vineyard, then you may eat grapes until you are
fully satisfied, but you shall not put any in your
basket.
DEU 23:25 "When you enter your neighbor's
standing grain, then you may pluck the heads with
your hand, but you shall not wield a sickle in your
neighbor's standing grain.
Top of Page
DEU 24:1 "When a
man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens
that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has
found some indecency in her, and he writes her a
certificate of divorce and puts {it} in her hand and
sends her out from his house,
DEU 24:2 and she leaves his house and goes
and becomes another man's {wife,}
DEU 24:3 and if the latter husband turns
against her and writes her a certificate of divorce
and puts {it} in her hand and sends her out of his
house, or if the latter husband dies who took her to
be his wife,
DEU 24:4 {then} her former husband who sent
her away is not allowed to take her again to be his
wife, since she has been defiled; for that is an
abomination before the Lord, and you shall not bring
sin on the land which the Lord your God gives you as
an inheritance.
DEU 24:5 "When a man takes a new wife, he
shall not go out with the army, nor be charged with
any duty; he shall be free at home one year and
shall give happiness to his wife whom he has taken.
DEU 24:6 "No one shall take a handmill or an
upper millstone in pledge, for he would be taking a
life in pledge.
DEU 24:7 "If a man is caught kidnapping any
of his countrymen of the sons of Israel, and he
deals with him violently, or sells him, then that
thief shall die; so you shall purge the evil from
among you.
DEU 24:8 "Be careful against an infection of
leprosy, that you diligently observe and do
according to all that the Levitical priests shall
teach you; as I have commanded them, so you shall be
careful to do.
DEU 24:9 "Remember what the Lord your God did
to Miriam on the way as you came out of Egypt.
DEU 24:10 "When you make your neighbor a loan
of any sort, you shall not enter his house to take
his pledge.
DEU 24:11 "You shall remain outside, and the
man to whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge
out to you.
DEU 24:12 "And if he is a poor man, you shall
not sleep with his pledge.
DEU 24:13 "When the sun goes down you shall
surely return the pledge to him, that he may sleep
in his cloak and bless you; and it will be
righteousness for you before the Lord your God.
DEU 24:14 "You shall not oppress a hired
servant {who is} poor and needy, whether {he is} one
of your countrymen or one of your aliens who is in
your land in your towns.
DEU 24:15 "You shall give him his wages on
his day before the sun sets, for he is poor and sets
his heart on it; so that he may not cry against you
to the Lord and it become sin in you.
DEU 24:16 "Fathers shall not be put to death
for {their} sons, nor shall sons be put to death for
{their} fathers; everyone shall be put to death for
his own sin.
DEU 24:17 "You shall not pervert the justice
due an alien {or} an orphan, nor take a widow's
garment in pledge.
DEU 24:18 "But you shall remember that you
were a slave in Egypt, and that the Lord your God
redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding
you to do this thing.
DEU 24:19 "When you reap your harvest in your
field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you
shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the
alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, in order
that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work
of your hands.
DEU 24:20 "When you beat your olive tree, you
shall not go over the boughs again; it shall be for
the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.
DEU 24:21 "When you gather the grapes of your
vineyard, you shall not go over it again; it shall
be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.
DEU 24:22 "And you shall remember that you
were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I am
commanding you to do this thing.
Top of Page
DEU 25:1 "If
there is a dispute between men and they go to court,
and the judges decide their case, and they justify
the righteous and condemn the wicked,
DEU 25:2 then it shall be if the wicked man
deserves to be beaten, the judge shall then make him
lie down and be beaten in his presence with the
number of stripes according to his guilt.
DEU 25:3 "He may beat him forty times {but}
no more, lest he beat him with many more stripes
than these, and your brother be degraded in your
eyes.
DEU 25:4 "You shall not muzzle the ox while
he is threshing.
DEU 25:5 "When brothers live together and one
of them dies and has no son, the wife of the
deceased shall not be {married} outside {the family}
to a strange man. Her husband's brother shall go in
to her and take her to himself as wife and perform
the duty of a husband's brother to her.
DEU 25:6 "And it shall be that the first-born
whom she bears shall assume the name of his dead
brother, that his name may not be blotted out from
Israel.
DEU 25:7 "But if the man does not desire 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 establish a name for
his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform
the duty of a husband's brother to me.'
DEU 25:8 "Then the elders of his city shall
summon him and speak to him. And {if} he persists
and says, 'I do not desire to take her,'
DEU 25:9 then his brother's wife shall come
to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his
sandal off his foot and spit in his face; and she
shall declare,' Thus it is done to the man who does
not build up his brother's house.'
DEU 25:10 "And in Israel his name shall be
called, 'The house of him whose sandal is removed.'
DEU 25:11 "If {two} men, a man and his
countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of
one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand
of the one who is striking him, and puts out her
hand and seizes his genitals,
DEU 25:12 then you shall cut off her hand;
you shall not show pity.
DEU 25:13 "You shall not have in your bag
differing weights, a large and a small.
DEU 25:14 "You shall not have in your house
differing measures, a large and a small.
DEU 25:15 "You shall have a full and just
weight; you shall have a full and just measure, that
your days may be prolonged in the land which the
Lord your God gives you.
DEU 25:16 "For everyone who does these
things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination
to the Lord your God.
DEU 25:17 "Remember what Amalek did to you
along the way when you came out from Egypt,
DEU 25:18 how he met you along the way and
attacked among you all the stragglers at your rear
when you were faint and weary; and he did not fear
God.
DEU 25:19 "Therefore it shall come about when
the Lord your God has given you rest from all your
surrounding enemies, in the land which the Lord your
God gives you as an inheritance to possess, you
shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under
heaven; you must not forget.
Top of Page
DEU 26:1 "Then it
shall be, when you enter the land which the Lord
your God gives you as an inheritance, and you
possess it and live in it,
DEU 26:2 that you shall take some of the
first of all the produce of the ground which you
shall bring in from your land that the Lord your God
gives you, and you shall put {it} in a basket and go
to the place where the Lord your God chooses to
establish His name.
DEU 26:3 "And you shall go to the priest who
is in office at that time, and say to him, 'I
declare this day to the Lord my God that I have
entered the land which the Lord swore to our fathers
to give us.'
DEU 26:4 "Then the priest shall take the
basket from your hand and set it down before the
altar of the Lord your God.
DEU 26:5 "And you shall answer and say before
the Lord your God, 'My father was a wandering
Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and sojourned
there, few in number; but there he became a great,
mighty and populous nation.
DEU 26:6 'And the Egyptians treated us
harshly and afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on
us.
DEU 26:7 'Then we cried to the Lord, the God
of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw
our affliction and our toil and our oppression;
DEU 26:8 and the Lord brought us out of Egypt
with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with
great terror and with signs and wonders;
DEU 26:9 and He has brought us to this place,
and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk
and honey.
DEU 26:10 'And now behold, I have brought the
first of the produce of the ground which Thou, O
Lord hast given me.' And you shall set it down
before the Lord your God, and worship before the
Lord your God;
DEU 26:11 and you and the Levite and the
alien who is among you shall rejoice in all the good
which the Lord your God has given you and your
household.
DEU 26:12 "When you have finished paying all
the tithe of your increase in the third year, the
year of tithing, then you shall give it to the
Levite, to the stranger, to the orphan and to the
widow, that they may eat in your towns, and be
satisfied.
DEU 26:13 "And you shall say before the Lord
your God, 'I have removed the sacred {portion} from
{my} house, and also have given it to the Levite and
the alien, the orphan and the widow, according to
all Thy commandments which Thou hast commanded me; I
have not transgressed or forgotten any of Thy
commandments.
DEU 26:14 'I have not eaten of it while
mourning, nor have I removed any of it while I was
unclean, nor offered any of it to the dead. I have
listened to the voice of the Lord my God; I have
done according to all that Thou hast commanded me.
DEU 26:15 'Look down from Thy holy
habitation, from heaven, and bless Thy people
Israel, and the ground which Thou hast given us, a
land flowing with milk and honey, as Thou didst
swear to our fathers.'
DEU 26:16 "This day the Lord your God
commands you to do these statutes and ordinances.
You shall therefore be careful to do them with all
your heart and with all your soul.
DEU 26:17 "You have today declared the Lord
to be your God, and that you would walk in His ways
and keep His statutes, His commandments and His
ordinances, and listen to His voice.
DEU 26:18 "And the Lord has today declared
you to be His people, a treasured possession, as He
promised you, and that you should keep all His
commandments;
DEU 26:19 and that He shall set you high
above all nations which He has made, for praise,
fame, and honor; and that you shall be a consecrated
people to the Lord your God, as He has spoken."
Top of Page
DEU 27:1 Then
Moses and the elders of Israel charged the people,
saying, "Keep all the commandments which I command
you today.
DEU 27:2 "So it shall be on the day when you
shall cross the Jordan to the land which the Lord
your God gives you, that you shall set up for
yourself large stones, and coat them with lime
DEU 27:3 and write on them all the words of
this law, when you cross over, in order that you may
enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, a
land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the
God of your fathers, promised you.
DEU 27:4 "So it shall be when you cross the
Jordan, you shall set up on Mount Ebal, these
stones, as I am commanding you today, and you shall
coat them with lime.
DEU 27:5 "Moreover, you shall build there an
altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones; you
shall not wield an iron {tool} on them.
DEU 27:6 "You shall build the altar of the
Lord your God of uncut stones; and you shall offer
on it burnt offerings to the Lord your God;
DEU 27:7 and you shall sacrifice peace
offerings and eat there, and you shall rejoice
before the Lord your God.
DEU 27:8 "And you shall write on the stones
all the words of this law very distinctly."
DEU 27:9 Then Moses and the Levitical priests
spoke to all Israel, saying, "Be silent and listen,
O Israel! This day you have become a people for the
Lord your God.
DEU 27:10 "You shall therefore obey the Lord
your God, and do His commandments and His statutes
which I command you today."
DEU 27:11 Moses also charged the people on
that day, saying,
DEU 27:12 "When you cross the Jordan, these
shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people:
Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
DEU 27:13 "And for the curse, these shall
stand on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun,
Dan, and Naphtali.
DEU 27:14 "The Levites shall then answer and
say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice,
DEU 27:15 'Cursed is the man who makes an
idol or a molten image, an abomination to the Lord,
the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets
{it} up in secret.' And all the people shall answer
and say,' Amen.'
DEU 27:16 'Cursed is he who dishonors his
father or mother.' And all the people shall say,'
Amen.'
DEU 27:17 'Cursed is he who moves his
neighbor's boundary mark.' And all the people shall
say,' Amen.'
DEU 27:18 'Cursed is he who misleads a blind
{person} on the road.' And all the people shall
say,' Amen.'
DEU 27:19 'Cursed is he who distorts the
justice due an alien, orphan, and widow.' And all
the people shall say,' Amen.'
DEU 27:20 'Cursed is he who lies with his
father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's
skirt.' And all the people shall say,' Amen.'
DEU 27:21 'Cursed is he who lies with any
animal.' And all the people shall say,' Amen.'
DEU 27:22 'Cursed is he who lies with his
sister, the daughter of his father or of his
mother.' And all the people shall say,' Amen.'
DEU 27:23 'Cursed is he who lies with his
mother-in-law.' And all the people shall say,'
Amen.'
DEU 27:24 'Cursed is he who strikes his
neighbor in secret.' And all the people shall say,'
Amen.'
DEU 27:25 'Cursed is he who accepts a bribe
to strike down an innocent person.' And all the
people shall say,' Amen.'
DEU 27:26 'Cursed is he who does not confirm
the words of this law by doing them.' And all the
people shall say,' Amen.'
Top of Page
DEU 28:1 "Now it
shall be, if you will diligently obey the Lord your
God, being careful to do all His commandments which
I command you today, the Lord your God will set you
high above all the nations of the earth.
DEU 28:2 "And all these blessings shall come
upon you and overtake you, if you will obey the Lord
your God.
DEU 28:3 "Blessed {shall} you {be} in the
city, and blessed {shall} you {be} in the country.
DEU 28:4 "Blessed {shall be} the offspring of
your body and the produce of your ground and the
offspring of your beasts, the increase of your herd
and the young of your flock.
DEU 28:5 "Blessed {shall be} your basket and
your kneading bowl.
DEU 28:6 "Blessed {shall} you {be} when you
come in, and blessed {shall} you {be} when you go
out.
DEU 28:7 "The Lord will cause your enemies
who rise up against you to be defeated before you;
they shall come out against you one way and shall
flee before you seven ways.
DEU 28:8 "The Lord will command the blessing
upon you in your barns and in all that you put your
hand to, and He will bless you in the land which the
Lord your God gives you.
DEU 28:9 "The Lord will establish you as a
holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you
will keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and
walk in His ways.
DEU 28:10 "So all the peoples of the earth
shall see that you are called by the name of the
Lord; and they shall be afraid of you.
DEU 28:11 "And the Lord will make you abound
in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in
the offspring of your beast and in the produce of
your ground, in the land which the Lord swore to
your fathers to give you.
DEU 28:12 "The Lord will open for you His
good storehouse, the heavens, to give rain to your
land in its season and to bless all the work of your
hand; and you shall lend to many nations, but you
shall not borrow.
DEU 28:13 "And the Lord shall make you the
head and not the tail, and you only shall be above,
and you shall not be underneath, if you will listen
to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I
charge you today, to observe { them} carefully,
DEU 28:14 and do not turn aside from any of
the words which I command you today, to the right or
to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
DEU 28:15 "But it shall come about, if you
will not obey the Lord your God, to observe to do
all His commandments and His statutes with which I
charge you today, that all these curses shall come
upon you and overtake you.
DEU 28:16 "Cursed {shall} you {be} in the
city, and cursed {shall} you {be} in the country.
DEU 28:17 "Cursed {shall be} your basket and
your kneading bowl.
DEU 28:18 "Cursed {shall be} the offspring of
your body and the produce of your ground, the
increase of your herd and the young of your flock.
DEU 28:19 "Cursed {shall} you {be} when you
come in, and cursed {shall} you {be} when you go
out.
DEU 28:20 "The Lord will send upon you
curses, confusion, and rebuke, in all you undertake
to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish
quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds,
because you have forsaken Me.
DEU 28:21 "The Lord will make the pestilence
cling to you until He has consumed you from the
land, where you are entering to possess it.
DEU 28:22 "The Lord will smite you with
consumption and with fever and with inflammation and
with fiery heat and with the sword and with blight
and with mildew, and they shall pursue you until you
perish.
DEU 28:23 "And the heaven which is over your
head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under
you, iron.
DEU 28:24 "The Lord will make the rain of
your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come
down on you until you are destroyed.
DEU 28:25 "The Lord will cause you to be
defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one
way against them, but you shall flee seven ways
before them, and you shall be {an example of} terror
to all the kingdoms of the earth.
DEU 28:26 "And your carcasses shall be food
to all birds of the sky and to the beasts of the
earth, and there shall be no one to frighten {them}
away.
DEU 28:27 "The Lord will smite you with the
boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scab and
with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.
DEU 28:28 "The Lord will smite you with
madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of
heart;
DEU 28:29 and you shall grope at noon, as the
blind man gropes in darkness, and you shall not
prosper in your ways; but you shall only be
oppressed and robbed continually, with none to save
you.
DEU 28:30 "You shall betroth a wife, but
another man shall violate her; you shall build a
house, but you shall not live in it; you shall plant
a vineyard, but you shall not use its fruit.
DEU 28:31 "Your ox shall be slaughtered
before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it; your
donkey shall be torn away from you, and shall not be
restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your
enemies, and you shall have none to save you.
DEU 28:32 "Your sons and your daughters shall
be given to another people, while your eyes shall
look on and yearn for them continually; but there
shall be nothing you can do.
DEU 28:33 "A people whom you do not know
shall eat up the produce of your ground and all your
labors, and you shall never be anything but
oppressed and crushed continually.
DEU 28:34 "And you shall be driven mad by the
sight of what you see.
DEU 28:35 "The Lord will strike you on the
knees and legs with sore boils, from which you
cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the
crown of your head.
DEU 28:36 "The Lord will bring you and your
king, whom you shall set over you, to a nation which
neither you nor your fathers have known, and there
you shall serve other gods, wood and stone.
DEU 28:37 "And you shall become a horror, a
proverb, and a taunt among all the people where the
Lord will drive you.
DEU 28:38 "You shall bring out much seed to
the field but you shall gather in little, for the
locust shall consume it.
DEU 28:39 "You shall plant and cultivate
vineyards, but you shall neither drink of the wine
nor gather {the grapes,} for the worm shall devour
them.
DEU 28:40 "You shall have olive trees
throughout your territory but you shall not anoint
yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop
off.
DEU 28:41 "You shall have sons and daughters
but they shall not be yours, for they shall go into
captivity.
DEU 28:42 "The cricket shall possess all your
trees and the produce of your ground.
DEU 28:43 "The alien who is among you shall
rise above you higher and higher, but you shall go
down lower and lower.
DEU 28:44 "He shall lend to you, but you
shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you
shall be the tail.
DEU 28:45 "So all these curses shall come on
you and pursue you and overtake you until you are
destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your
God by keeping His commandments and His statutes
which He commanded you.
DEU 28:46 "And they shall become a sign and a
wonder on you and your descendants forever.
DEU 28:47 "Because you did not serve the Lord
your God with joy and a glad heart, for the
abundance of all things;
DEU 28:48 therefore you shall serve your
enemies whom the Lord shall send against you, in
hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of
all things; and He will put an iron yoke on your
neck until He has destroyed you.
DEU 28:49 "The Lord will bring a nation
against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as
the eagle swoops down, a nation whose language you
shall not understand,
DEU 28:50 a nation of fierce countenance who
shall have no respect for the old, nor show favor to
the young.
DEU 28:51 "Moreover, it shall eat the
offspring of your herd and the produce of your
ground until you are destroyed, who also leaves you
no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the increase of your
herd or the young of your flock until they have
caused you to perish.
DEU 28:52 "And it shall besiege you in all
your towns until your high and fortified walls in
which you trusted come down throughout your land,
and it shall besiege you in all your towns
throughout your land which the Lord your God has
given you.
DEU 28:53 "Then you shall eat the offspring
of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your
daughters whom the Lord your God has given you,
during the siege and the distress by which your
enemy shall oppress you.
DEU 28:54 "The man who is refined and very
delicate among you shall be hostile toward his
brother and toward the wife he cherishes and toward
the rest of his children who remain,
DEU 28:55 so that he will not give {even} one
of them any of the flesh of his children which he
shall eat, since he has nothing {else} left, during
the siege and the distress by which your enemy shall
oppress you in all your towns.
DEU 28:56 "The refined and delicate woman
among you, who would not venture to set the sole of
her foot on the ground for delicateness and
refinement, shall be hostile toward the husband she
cherishes and toward her son and daughter,
DEU 28:57 and toward her afterbirth which
issues from between her legs and toward her children
whom she bears; for she shall eat them secretly for
lack of anything {else,} during the siege and the
distress by which your enemy shall oppress you in
your towns.
DEU 28:58 "If you are not careful to observe
all the words of this law which are written in this
book, to fear this honored and awesome name, the
Lord your God,
DEU 28:59 then the Lord will bring
extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants,
even severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and
chronic sicknesses.
DEU 28:60 "And He will bring back on you all
the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and
they shall cling to you.
DEU 28:61 "Also every sickness and every
plague which, not written in the book of this law,
the Lord will bring on you until you are destroyed.
DEU 28:62 "Then you shall be left few in
number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven for
multitude, because you did not obey the Lord your
God.
DEU 28:63 "And it shall come about that as
the Lord delighted over you to prosper you, and
multiply you, so the Lord will delight over you to
make you perish and destroy you; and you shall be
torn from the land where you are entering to possess
it.
DEU 28:64 "Moreover, the Lord will scatter
you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to
the other end of the earth; and there you shall
serve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your
fathers have not known.
DEU 28:65 "And among those nations you shall
find no rest, and there shall be no resting place
for the sole of your foot; but there the Lord will
give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and
despair of soul.
DEU 28:66 "So your life shall hang in doubt
before you; and you shall be in dread night and day,
and shall have no assurance of your life.
DEU 28:67 "In the morning you shall say,
'Would that it were evening!' And at evening you
shall say, 'Would that it were morning!' because of
the dread of your heart which you dread, and for the
sight of your eyes which you shall see.
DEU 28:68 "And the Lord will bring you back
to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I spoke to
you, 'You will never see it again!' And there you
shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as
male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer."
Top of Page
DEU 29:1 These
are the words of the covenant which the Lord
commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in
the land of Moab, besides the covenant which He had
made with them at Horeb.
DEU 29:2 And Moses summoned all Israel and
said to them, "You have seen all that the Lord did
before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and
all his servants and all his land;
DEU 29:3 the great trials which your eyes
have seen, those great signs and wonders.
DEU 29:4 "Yet to this day the Lord has not
given you a heart to know, nor eyes to see, nor ears
to hear.
DEU 29:5 "And I have led you forty years in
the wilderness; your clothes have not worn out on
you, and your sandal has not worn out on your foot.
DEU 29:6 "You have not eaten bread, nor have
you drunk wine or strong drink, in order that you
might know that I am the Lord your God.
DEU 29:7 "When you reached this place, Sihon
the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came
out to meet us for battle, but we defeated them;
DEU 29:8 and we took their land and gave it
as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites,
and the half-tribe of the Manassites.
DEU 29:9 "So keep the words of this covenant
to do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
DEU 29:10 "You stand today, all of you,
before the Lord your God: your chiefs, your tribes,
your elders and your officers, {even} all the men of
Israel,
DEU 29:11 your little ones, your wives, and
the alien who is within your camps, from the one who
chops your wood to the one who draws your water,
DEU 29:12 that you may enter into the
covenant with the Lord your God, and into His oath
which the Lord your God is making with you today,
DEU 29:13 in order that He may establish you
today as His people and that He may be your God,
just as He spoke to you and as He swore to your
fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
DEU 29:14 "Now not with you alone am I making
this covenant and this oath,
DEU 29:15 but both with those who stand here
with us today in the presence of the Lord our God
and with those who are not with us here today
DEU 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.
DEU 29:17 "Moreover, you have seen their
abominations and their idols {of} wood, stone,
silver, and gold, which {they had} with them);
DEU 29:18 lest there shall be among you a man
or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away
today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the
gods of those nations; lest there shall be among you
a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.
DEU 29:19 "And it shall be when he hears the
words of this curse, that he will boast, saying, 'I
have peace though I walk in the stubbornness of my
heart in order to destroy the watered {land} with
the dry.'
DEU 29:20 "The Lord shall never be willing to
forgive him, but rather the anger of the Lord and
His jealousy will burn against that man, and every
curse which is written in this book will rest on
him, and the Lord will blot out his name from under
heaven.
DEU 29:21 "Then the Lord will single him out
for adversity from all the tribes of Israel,
according to all the curses of the covenant which
are written in this book of the law.
DEU 29:22 "Now the generation to come, your
sons who rise up after you and the foreigner who
comes from a distant land, when they see the plagues
of the land and the diseases with which the Lord has
afflicted it, will say,
DEU 29:23 'All its land is brimstone and
salt, a burning waste, unsown and unproductive, and
no grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom
and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord
overthrew in His anger and in His wrath.'
DEU 29:24 "And all the nations shall say,
'Why has the Lord done thus to this land? Why this
great outburst of anger?'
DEU 29:25 "Then {men} shall say, 'Because
they forsook the covenant of the Lord, the God of
their fathers, which He made with them when He
brought them out of the land of Egypt.
DEU 29:26 'And they went and served other
gods and worshiped them, gods whom they have not
known and whom He had not allotted to them.
DEU 29:27 'Therefore, the anger of the Lord
burned against that land, to bring upon it every
curse which is written in this book;
DEU 29:28 and the Lord uprooted them from
their land in anger and in fury and in great wrath,
and cast them into another land, as {it is} this
day.'
DEU 29:29 "The secret things belong to the
Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us
and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the
words of this law.
Top of Page
DEU 30:1 "So it
shall be when all of these things have come upon
you, the blessing and the curse which I have set
before you, and you call {them} to mind in all
nations where the Lord your God has banished you,
DEU 30:2 and you return to the Lord your God
and obey Him with all your heart and soul according
to all that I command you today, you and your sons,
DEU 30:3 then the Lord your God will restore
you from captivity, and have compassion on you, and
will gather you again from all the peoples where the
Lord your God has scattered you.
DEU 30:4 "If your outcasts are at the ends of
the earth, from there the Lord your God will gather
you, and from there He will bring you back.
DEU 30:5 "And the Lord your God will bring
you into the land which your fathers possessed, and
you shall possess it; and He will prosper you and
multiply you more than your fathers.
DEU 30:6 "Moreover the Lord your God will
circumcise your heart and the heart of your
descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your
heart and with all your soul, in order that you may
live.
DEU 30:7 "And the Lord your God will inflict
all these curses on your enemies and on those who
hate you, who persecuted you.
DEU 30:8 "And you shall again obey the Lord,
and observe all His commandments which I command you
today.
DEU 30:9 "Then the Lord your God will prosper
you abundantly in all the work of your hand, in the
offspring of your body and in the offspring of your
cattle and in the produce of your ground, for the
Lord will again rejoice over you for good, just as
He rejoiced over your fathers;
DEU 30:10 if you obey the Lord your God to
keep His commandments and His statutes which are
written in this book of the law, if you turn to the
Lord your God with all your heart and soul.
DEU 30:11 "For this commandment which I
command you today is not too difficult for you, nor
is it out of reach.
DEU 30:12 "It is not in heaven, that you
should say, 'Who will go up to heaven for us to get
it for us and make us hear it, that we may observe
it?'
DEU 30:13 "Nor is it beyond the sea, that you
should say, 'Who will cross the sea for us to get it
for us and make us hear it, that we may observe it?'
DEU 30:14 "But the word is very near you, in
your mouth and in your heart, that you may observe
it.
DEU 30:15 "See, I have set before you today
life and prosperity, and death and adversity;
DEU 30:16 in that I command you today to love
the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to keep
His commandments and His statutes and His judgments,
that you may live and multiply, and that the Lord
your God may bless you in the land where you are
entering to possess it.
DEU 30:17 "But if your heart turns away and
you will not obey, but are drawn away and worship
other gods and serve them,
DEU 30:18 I declare to you today that you
shall surely perish. You shall not prolong {your}
days in the land where you are crossing the Jordan
to enter and possess it.
DEU 30:19 "I call heaven and earth to witness
against you today, that I have set before you life
and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose
life in order that you may live, you and your
descendants,
DEU 30:20 by loving the Lord your God, by
obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for
this is your life and the length of your days, that
you may live in the land which the Lord swore to
your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give
them."
Top of Page
DEU 31:1 So Moses
went and spoke these words to all Israel.
DEU 31:2 And he said to them, "I am a hundred
and twenty years old today; I am no longer able to
come and go, and the Lord has said to me, 'You shall
not cross this Jordan.'
DEU 31:3 "It is the Lord your God who will
cross ahead of you; He will destroy these nations
before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua is
the one who will cross ahead of you, just as the
Lord has spoken.
DEU 31:4 "And the Lord will do to them just
as He did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the
Amorites, and to their land, when He destroyed them.
DEU 31:5 "And the Lord will deliver them up
before you, and you shall do to them according to
all the commandments which I have commanded you.
DEU 31:6 "Be strong and courageous, do not be
afraid or tremble at them, for the Lord your God is
the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or
forsake you."
DEU 31:7 Then Moses called to Joshua and said
to him in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and
courageous, for you shall go with this people into
the land which the Lord has sworn to their fathers
to give them, and you shall give it to them as an
inheritance.
DEU 31:8 "And the Lord is the one who goes
ahead of you; He will be with you. He will not fail
you or forsake you. Do not fear, or be dismayed."
DEU 31:9 So Moses wrote this law and gave it
to the priests, the sons of Levi who carried the ark
of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders
of Israel.
DEU 31:10 Then Moses commanded them, saying,
"At the end of {every} seven years, at the time of
the year of remission of debts, at the Feast of
Booths,
DEU 31:11 when all Israel comes to appear
before the Lord your God at the place which He will
choose, you shall read this law in front of all
Israel in their hearing.
DEU 31:12 "Assemble the people, the men and
the women and children and the alien who is in your
town, in order that they may hear and learn and fear
the Lord your God, and be careful to observe all the
words of this law.
DEU 31:13 "And their children, who have not
known, will hear and learn to fear the Lord your
God, as long as you live on the land which you are
about to cross the Jordan to possess."
DEU 31:14 Then the Lord said to Moses,
"Behold, the time for you to die is near; call
Joshua, and present yourselves at the tent of
meeting, that I may commission him." So Moses and
Joshua went and presented themselves at the tent of
meeting.
DEU 31:15 And the Lord appeared in the tent
in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood
at the doorway of the tent.
DEU 31:16 And the Lord said to Moses,
"Behold, you are about to lie down with your
fathers; and this people will arise and play the
harlot with the strange gods of the land, into the
midst of which they are going, and will forsake Me
and break My covenant which I have made with them.
DEU 31:17 "Then My anger will be kindled
against them in that day, and I will forsake them
and hide My face from them, and they shall be
consumed, and many evils and troubles shall come
upon them; so that they will say in that day, 'Is it
not because our God is not among us that these evils
have come upon us?'
DEU 31:18 "But I will surely hide My face in
that day because of all the evil which they will do,
for they will turn to other gods.
DEU 31:19 "Now therefore, write this song for
yourselves, and teach it to the sons of Israel; put
it on their lips, in order that this song may be a
witness for Me against the sons of Israel.
DEU 31:20 "For when I bring them into the
land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to
their fathers, and they have eaten and are satisfied
and become prosperous, then they will turn to other
gods and serve them, and spurn Me and break My
covenant.
DEU 31:21 "Then it shall come about, when
many evils and troubles have come upon them, that
this song will testify before them as a witness (for
it shall not be forgotten from the lips of their
descendants); for I know their intent which they are
developing today, before I have brought them into
the land which I swore."
DEU 31:22 So Moses wrote this song the same
day, and taught it to the sons of Israel.
DEU 31:23 Then He commissioned Joshua the son
of Nun, and said, "Be strong and courageous, for you
shall bring the sons of Israel into the land which I
swore to them, and I will be with you."
DEU 31:24 And it came about, when Moses
finished writing the words of this law in a book
until they were complete,
DEU 31:25 that Moses commanded the Levites
who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord,
saying,
DEU 31:26 "Take this book of the law and
place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord
your God, that it may remain there as a witness
against you.
DEU 31:27 "For I know your rebellion and your
stubbornness; behold, while I am still alive with
you today, you have been rebellious against the
Lord; how much more, then, after my death?
DEU 31:28 "Assemble to me all the elders of
your tribes and your officers, that I may speak
these words in their hearing and call the heavens
and the earth to witness against them.
DEU 31:29 "For I know that after my death you
will act corruptly and turn from the way which I
have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the
latter days, for you will do that which is evil in
the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger with
the work of your hands."
DEU 31:30 Then Moses spoke in the hearing of
all the assembly of Israel the words of this song,
until they were complete:
Top of Page
DEU 32:1 "Give
ear, O heavens, and let me speak; And let the earth
hear the words of my mouth.
DEU 32:2 "Let my teaching drop as the rain,
My speech distill as the dew, As the droplets on the
fresh grass And as the showers on the herb.
DEU 32:3 "For I proclaim the name of the
Lord; Ascribe greatness to our God!
DEU 32:4 "The Rock! His work is perfect, For
all His ways are just; A God of faithfulness and
without injustice, Righteous and upright is He.
DEU 32:5 "They have acted corruptly toward
Him, {They are} not His children, because of their
defect; {But are} a perverse and crooked generation.
DEU 32:6 "Do you thus repay the Lord, O
foolish and unwise people? Is not He your Father who
has bought you? He has made you and established you.
DEU 32:7 "Remember the days of old, Consider
the years of all generations. Ask your father, and
he will inform you, Your elders, and they will tell
you.
DEU 32:8 "When the Most High gave the nations
their inheritance, When He separated the sons of
man, He set the boundaries of the peoples According
to the number of the sons of Israel.
DEU 32:9 "For the Lord's portion is His
people; Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.
DEU 32:10 "He found him in a desert land, And
in the howling waste of a wilderness; He encircled
him, He cared for him, He guarded him as the pupil
of His eye.
DEU 32:11 "Like an eagle that stirs up its
nest, That hovers over its young, He spread His
wings and caught them, He carried them on His
pinions.
DEU 32:12 "The Lord alone guided him, And
there was no foreign god with him.
DEU 32:13 "He made him ride on the high
places of the earth, And he ate the produce of the
field; And He made him suck honey from the rock, And
oil from the flinty rock,
DEU 32:14 Curds of cows, and milk of the
flock, With fat of lambs, And rams, the breed of
Bashan, and goats, With the finest of the wheat - -
And of the blood of grapes you drank wine.
DEU 32:15 "But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked -
- You are grown fat, thick, and sleek - - Then he
forsook God who made him, And scorned the Rock of
his salvation.
DEU 32:16 "They made Him jealous with strange
{gods;} With abominations they provoked Him to
anger.
DEU 32:17 "They sacrificed to demons who were
not God, To gods whom they have not known, New
{gods} who came lately, Whom your fathers did not
dread.
DEU 32:18 "You neglected the Rock who begot
you, And forgot the God who gave you birth.
DEU 32:19 "And the Lord saw {this,} and
spurned {them} Because of the provocation of His
sons and daughters.
DEU 32:20 "Then He said, 'I will hide My face
from them, I will see what their end {shall be;} For
they are a perverse generation, Sons in whom is no
faithfulness.
DEU 32:21 'They have made Me jealous with
{what} is not God; They have provoked Me to anger
with their idols. So I will make them jealous with
{those who} are not a people; I will provoke them to
anger with a foolish nation,
DEU 32:22 For a fire is kindled in My anger,
And burns to the lowest part of Sheol, And consumes
the earth with its yield, And sets on fire the
foundations of the mountains.
DEU 32:23 'I will heap misfortunes on them; I
will use My arrows on them.
DEU 32:24 '{They shall be} wasted by famine,
and consumed by plague And bitter destruction; And
the teeth of beasts I will send upon them, With the
venom of crawling things of the dust.
DEU 32:25 'Outside the sword shall bereave,
And inside terror - - Both young man and virgin, The
nursling with the man of gray hair.
DEU 32:26 'I would have said, "I will cut
them to pieces, I will remove the memory of them
from men,"
DEU 32:27 Had I not feared the provocation by
the enemy, Lest their adversaries should misjudge,
Lest they should say, "Our hand is triumphant, And
the Lord has not done all this."'
DEU 32:28 "For they are a nation lacking in
counsel, And there is no understanding in them.
DEU 32:29 "Would that they were wise, that
they understood this, That they would discern their
future!
DEU 32:30 "How could one chase a thousand,
And two put ten thousand to flight, Unless their
Rock had sold them, And the Lord had given them up?
DEU 32:31 "Indeed their rock is not like our
Rock, Even our enemies themselves judge this.
DEU 32:32 "For their vine is from the vine of
Sodom, And from the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes
are grapes of poison, Their clusters, bitter.
DEU 32:33 "Their wine is the venom of
serpents, And the deadly poison of cobras.
DEU 32:34 'Is it not laid up in store with
Me, Sealed up in My treasuries?
DEU 32:35 'Vengeance is Mine, and
retribution, In due time their foot will slip; For
the day of their calamity is near, And the impending
things are hastening upon them.'
DEU 32:36 "For the Lord will vindicate His
people, And will have compassion on His servants;
When He sees that {their} strength is gone, And
there is none {remaining,} bond or free.
DEU 32:37 "And He will say, 'Where are their
gods, The rock in which they sought refuge?
DEU 32:38 'Who ate the fat of their
sacrifices, {And} drank the wine of their libation?
Let them rise up and help you, Let them be your
hiding place!
DEU 32:39 'See now that I, I am He, And there
is no god besides Me; It is I who put to death and
give life. I have wounded, and it is I who heal; And
there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
DEU 32:40 'Indeed, I lift up My hand to
heaven, And say, as I live forever,
DEU 32:41 If I sharpen My flashing sword, And
My hand takes hold on justice, I will render
vengeance on My adversaries, And I will repay those
who hate Me.
DEU 32:42 'I will make My arrows drunk with
blood, And My sword shall devour flesh, With the
blood of the slain and the captives, From the
long-haired leaders of the enemy.'
DEU 32:43 "Rejoice, O nations, {with} His
people; For He will avenge the blood of His
servants, And will render vengeance on His
adversaries, And will atone for His land {and} His
people."
DEU 32:44 Then Moses came and spoke all the
words of this song in the hearing of the people, he,
with Joshua the son of Nun.
DEU 32:45 When Moses had finished speaking
all these words to all Israel,
DEU 32:46 he said to them, "Take to your
heart all the words with which I am warning you
today, which you shall command your sons to observe
carefully, {even} all the words of this law.
DEU 32:47 "For it is not an idle word for
you; indeed it is your life. And by this word you
shall prolong your days in the land, which you are
about to cross the Jordan to possess."
DEU 32:48 And the Lord spoke to Moses that
very same day, saying,
DEU 32:49 "Go up to this mountain of the
Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab
opposite Jericho, and look at the land of Canaan,
which I am giving to the sons of Israel for a
possession.
DEU 32:50 "Then die on the mountain where you
ascend, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron
your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to
his people,
DEU 32:51 because you broke faith with Me in
the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of
Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, because
you did not treat Me as holy in the midst of the
sons of Israel.
DEU 32:52 "For you shall see the land at a
distance, but you shall not go there, into the land
which I am giving the sons of Israel."
Top of Page
DEU 33:1 Now this
is the blessing with which Moses the man of God
blessed the sons of Israel before his death.
DEU 33:2 And he said, "The Lord came from
Sinai, And dawned on them from Seir; He shone forth
from Mount Paran, And He came from the midst of ten
thousand holy ones; At His right hand there was
flashing lightning for them.
DEU 33:3 "Indeed, He loves the people; All
Thy holy ones are in Thy hand, And they followed in
Thy steps; {Everyone} receives of Thy words.
DEU 33:4 "Moses charged us with a law, A
possession for the assembly of Jacob.
DEU 33:5 "And He was king in Jeshurun, When
the heads of the people were gathered, The tribes of
Israel together.
DEU 33:6 "May Reuben live and not die, Nor
his men be few."
DEU 33:7 And this regarding Judah; so he
said, "Hear, O Lord, the voice of Judah, And bring
him to his people. With his hands he contended for
them; And mayest Thou be a help against his
adversaries."
DEU 33:8 And of Levi he said, "{Let} Thy
Thummim and Thy Urim {belong} to Thy godly man, Whom
Thou didst prove at Massah, With whom Thou didst
contend at the waters of Meribah;
DEU 33:9 Who said of his father and his
mother,' I did not consider them'; And he did not
acknowledge his brothers, Nor did he regard his own
sons, For they observed Thy word, And kept Thy
covenant.
DEU 33:10 "They shall teach Thine ordinances
to Jacob, And Thy law to Israel. They shall put
incense before Thee, And whole burnt offerings on
Thine altar.
DEU 33:11 "O Lord, bless his substance, And
accept the work of his hands; Shatter the loins of
those who rise up against him, And those who hate
him, so that they may not rise {again.}"
DEU 33:12 Of Benjamin he said, "May the
beloved of the Lord dwell in security by Him, Who
shields him all the day, And he dwells between His
shoulders."
DEU 33:13 And of Joseph he said, "Blessed of
the Lord {be} his land, With the choice things of
heaven, with the dew, And from the deep lying
beneath,
DEU 33:14 And with the choice yield of the
sun, And with the choice produce of the months.
DEU 33:15 "And with the best things of the
ancient mountains, And with the choice things of the
everlasting hills,
DEU 33:16 And with the choice things of the
earth and its fulness, And the favor of Him who
dwelt in the bush. Let it come to the head of
Joseph, And to the crown of the head of the one
distinguished among his brothers.
DEU 33:17 "As the first-born of his ox,
majesty is his, And his horns are the horns of the
wild ox; With them he shall push the peoples, All at
once, {to} the ends of the earth. And those are the
ten thousands of Ephraim, And those are the
thousands of Manasseh."
DEU 33:18 And of Zebulun he said, "Rejoice,
Zebulun, in your going forth, And, Issachar, in your
tents.
DEU 33:19 "They shall call peoples {to} the
mountain; There they shall offer righteous
sacrifices; For they shall draw out the abundance of
the seas, And the hidden treasures of the sand."
DEU 33:20 And of Gad he said, "Blessed is the
one who enlarges Gad; He lies down as a lion, And
tears the arm, also the crown of the head.
DEU 33:21 "Then he provided the first {part}
for himself, For there the ruler's portion was
reserved; And he came {with} the leaders of the
people; He executed the justice of the Lord, And His
ordinances with Israel."
DEU 33:22 And of Dan he said, "Dan is a
lion's whelp, That leaps forth from Bashan."
DEU 33:23 And of Naphtali he said, "O
Naphtali, satisfied with favor, And full of the
blessing of the Lord, Take possession of the sea and
the south."
DEU 33:24 And of Asher he said, "More blessed
than sons is Asher; May he be favored by his
brothers, And may he dip his foot in oil.
DEU 33:25 "Your locks shall be iron and
bronze, And according to your days, so shall your
leisurely walk be.
DEU 33:26 "There is none like the God of
Jeshurun, Who rides the heavens to your help, And
through the skies in His majesty.
DEU 33:27 "The eternal God is a dwelling
place, And underneath are the everlasting arms; And
He drove out the enemy from before you, And said,
'Destroy!'
DEU 33:28 "So Israel dwells in security, The
fountain of Jacob secluded, In a land of grain and
new wine; His heavens also drop down dew.
DEU 33:29 "Blessed are you, O Israel; Who is
like you, a people saved by the Lord, Who is the
shield of your help, And the sword of your majesty!
So your enemies shall cringe before you, And you
shall tread upon their high places."
Top of Page
DEU 34:1 Now
Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo,
to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And
the Lord showed him all the land, Gilead as far as
Dan,
DEU 34:2 and all Naphtali and the land of
Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah as
far as the western sea,
DEU 34:3 and the Negev and the plain in the
valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, as far as
Zoar.
DEU 34:4 Then the Lord said to him, "This is
the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
saying, 'I will give it to your descendants'; I have
let you see {it} with your eyes, but you shall not
go over there."
DEU 34:5 So Moses the servant of the Lord
died there in the land of Moab, according to the
word of the Lord.
DEU 34:6 And He buried him in the valley in
the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor; but no man
knows his burial place to this day.
DEU 34:7 Although Moses was one hundred and
twenty years old when he died, his eye was not dim,
nor his vigor abated.
DEU 34:8 So the sons of Israel wept for Moses
in the plains of Moab thirty days; then the days of
weeping {and} mourning for Moses came to an end.
DEU 34:9 Now Joshua the son of Nun was filled
with the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his
hands on him; and the sons of Israel listened to him
and did as the Lord had commanded Moses.
DEU 34:10 Since then no prophet has risen in
Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face,
DEU 34:11 for all the signs and wonders which
the Lord sent him to perform in the land of Egypt
against Pharaoh, all his servants, and all his land,
DEU 34:12 and for all the mighty power and
for all the great terror which Moses performed in
the sight of all Israel.
